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Too Busy to Flush
by JR & Molly
One couple's slightly irreverent musings on faith, family, food and...marriage www.toobusytoflush.com
Episodes
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Ep. 222: Marriage, Midlife, & The Spirit of The Age
We’re back for the next season and we jump right with several very compelling subjects including Lindsey Clancy, Gray Divorce and our bodies breaking down. How do we maintain faithfulness to God and our calling to our family when everything around us is clamoring for self-indulgence? Join us…
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Ep. 221: What Does "Jesus is Mine" Mean?, Teenage Crushes, & Setting the Standard for Future Spouses
It’s been over a month since our last episode, J.R. is back from his extended stay in Nashville touring and Molly wants has so many things to say! Not really, but she did have an interesting conversation with our youngest about a line in a classic, hymn, we have teenagers with crushes which means...
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Ep. 220: Looksmaxxing, Successful Wives Divorcing, & How Not To Wreck Your Family
Intro: Our rabbit loses his tail, loud chickens, making the kids upset. 8:27: The hardest parts about J.R. being gone, Molly bags up and tosses a bunch of Faith’s clothes. 12:18 JR’s clock and evening phone habits, our dog takes my place on the bed when I’m gone. 15:50: Looksmaxxing: an...
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Ep. 219: Drawing Lines, Family Vision Statements, & Low Key, Long Term Faithfulness
Intro: Music mixing, emotional manipulation of music, worship music, secular music, composition and considerations. 13:50: We’ve changed over 6 years of podcasting and Angel Studios’ David movie shows a bit of this. 19:00: Peeing into a watering can. 19:58: Back to David… 21:52: Sending kids to...
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Ep. 218: First Wave Feminism, Limitations Are Good, & Other Truths
Intro: Sickness over the holiday weekend, I stink at archery (hunting). 6:45: Brocasts, Ancient Nashville, conspiracy theories and parental moderating. 11:25: Humility vs. skepticism when it comes to what we understand about history. 14:52: The waves of feminism. A new take on first wave…
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Hobby Farms, Furries, & To Be Human
Intro: coffee for fun, end of school, small talk, 6:00: Garden, chicken coop and huge new builds, sprinkler systems killed it. 18:53: Do we need to take Furries seriously? Virtual reality, the loneliness epidemic, and lack of interpersonal skills. 24:45: A chicken rabbit trail. 31:04: It is much...
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Ep. 216: Ben Sasse, The Desecration of Man, & The Value of Church Tradition
Intro: Life updates: touring, gardens, chickens, JR’s bald again, update on injured house chicken. 13:35: Ben Sasse’s podcast, Not Dead Yet 20:54: AI and degradation of humanity, The Way of Medicine, and conversations around difficult conversations. 24:20: Observations on difficult conversations...
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Ep. 215: God Calling Kids and Living an Apologetics Lifestyle
Intro: Spirit week, Guinness chocolate sourdough bread, making Turkish Delight was not fun and Lemon Angel Pie. 14:24: New garden plans, a new chicken coop, new chicks, and another injured chicken. 23:53: A definition of faith: longing for a better city, and when your kids do things of the Lord...
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Ep. 214: Concerts, Jane Austen, & Olympic Moments
ntro: Jesus-y sayings, studies in Revelation, Brian’s sermon series in Revelation. 12:15: Recap from JR’s first arena mix in San Antonio with Terri Clark. 20:00: Molly recaps her substitute teaching on Monday and all the first graders fall apart about death. 22:30: Molly finishes Sense and...
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Ep. 213: The Collapse of Civilization: AI, Human Laziness or Door Dash?
Intro: Ash Wednesday, Lent, and Mardi Gras. 17:04: An update on AI since last week and Cheney’s commentary. 21:05: AI crushes a medical diagnosis. 26:47: The average person’s Door Dash budget and the short line between Door Dash and collapse of civilization. 32:46: Humanity wants the bare…
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Epstein, AI, & Living A Quiet Life
Intro: The basics and some comments on our very early history during COVID. 3:30: Molly’s afternoon substituting for a sick teacher at the girls’ school, what a daughter was supposed to be doing last year, a student tries to run things, and boredom for an hour. 12:30:Jesus to the elite, Isaiah 2...
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Ep. 211: Ranking Qualities of a Good Life Partner...er, Spouse.
Intro: Tea, coffee, bone broth, and driver’s ed tests 5:48: Conflict in marriage Canavox session development. 10:20: The Forever Factor: qualities of a partner. Molly lobs new stuff for J.R. To react to… 13:05: The importance of emotional resiliency in a relationship. 17:34: The solar sales guy,...
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Ep. 210: AWFUL, Mental Disconnects, & Functioning in Reality
Ep. 210 Intro: Molly’s sourdough hustle, a desire for a blind cc text solution, shout out to me for repairing things when we got back from vacation. 15:26: Sourdough is so great; great bacteria in the colon sent to the baby through breast milk. 20:03: JR’s highlight from our vacation to the...
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Ep. 209: Christmas Reads, Deconstruction, & Certainty That Leads Others Astray
Intro: Christmas break, board gaming. 14:06: Books J.R. read over Christmas 19:10: Mission Impossible series over the break 21:31: Molly’s 1st time LOTR reading 29:07: Lili’s reading the entire Jane Austin series and Austin’s tongue-in-cheek humor 34:37: Brief note about getting sick over the...
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Ep. 208: When Transgenderism Faces Your Kids & Take Heed Lest You Stumble
Intro: Elk hunting, elk tallow hand lotion, raw dog food, processing wild game. 16:32: Nashville trip for Behold The Lamb of God live. A new recipe for jerky we’re going to try. 23:00: Bone Broth, Costco Next. 28:05: Giving Molly props for making a fresh, homemade, pizza for Titus’ lunch. 31:37:...
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Ep. 207: Tom Bombadil, Being vs. Doing, & The Power of Community
Ep. 207: Intro: Show premise, violin practice, candles, local vintage markets. 9:33: Tom Bombadil in The Culturist. 16:54: As a mom: creating an environment of contented being. 19:06: Contented being vs. laziness. 21:06: The dangers of not having any drive or draw to anything. 23:26: A pattern of...
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Ep. 206: Parenting, Elk, & Everything We Do is Theological
Intro: We harvested chickens, daylight savings. 11:27: Titus takes a bull. 14:13: Molly’s musing: The hunting culture and healthy rights of passage. 18:06: JR’s response: Fatherhood, sons leveling up. 21:55: Age ranges for parenting and windows of opportunity. 24:40: Passing the mantle and…
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Ep. 205: DEI, Trust and Freedom in Christ
Intro: Hunting season, memes about the Louvre robbery, Coldplay family fallout. 6:45: DEI and being hired for something other than merit. 12:09: Molly’s belief on women in the military and law enforcement 14:00: Origins of DEI, affirmative action, feminism and transgenderism. 17:59: What makes...
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Ep. 204: Dogs vs. Chickens, Paranormal Convos with Kids, & Actually Health Safe Spaces
Intro: Dog attacks chickens! Product referral code updates.8:23: JR tries Liquid Death Killer Cola. Sparkling water, and a brief kinda-ad break/explanation of referral codes in the show notes.15:43: Molly updates you on the new milk frother.18:15: A note about Skinwalkers (JR’s reading the book),...
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Ep. 203: A Post-Religious Right, Biological Bewilderment, & Tips For A Lasting Marriage
Intro: Broccoli in colder climates, garden updates 6:00: Post-religious right, post-Charlie Kirk right. 10:10: Boldness and the generational attraction. 14:17: Alisa Childers, Derek Webb and those that didn’t deconstruct. 19:07: Okay, one traumatizing youth group game. 21:28: Back to Childers and...
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Ep. 202: Welcoming the LGBT Community to Church
4:00: Life Update: enrolling our girls in the youth orchestra. Putting in the work for the future reward. 12:10: JR’s life update: going out on tour. 18:40: Background: What do you say to LGBT folks who know what the church stands for but feel drawn to the church anyway? 21:39: The Telegram chat...
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Ep. 201: Schedules, Top 3s, & Apple Butter
Intro: schedules, taglines, girls back at school 4:14: Transhumanism and a 6 minute John Stonestreet Breakpoint episode. 7:40: Molly’s top 3 thoughts of the summer: thought number 1: our oldest two kids are really enjoyable. 11:19: Thought number 2: lower your expectations of people. The Future…
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Ep. 200: Moms vs. Dads When Instilling Confidence In Kids
Intro: Trips, Grand Canyon, Kids’ reports, anticipation dopamine and a guy named John Wesley. 12:18: Going back to the “what to do about judo” question and a tournament recap. 15:35: The one who freaks out actually competed! 19:31: The other kids’ results. 22:35: Dad is not at competitions: an...
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Ep. 199: Are Our Current Activities Serving Our Family Well?
ntro: Dude Perfect, kids finding new music, behind the scenes on music licensing and coffee consumption. 10:07: Speaking of aging, Bryan Johnson isn’t sharing the negative side effects of being the most measured man on Earth. 12:40: Waxing philosophical about times changing and the benefits of...
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Ep. 198: Cycles of Life, Growing in Experience, & Wrecking A Garage Door
Intro: Month days on your knuckles, black chicken, and pterodactyls had feathers. 8:05: Mercury retrograde, systems we don’t understand at work around us, and eating seasonally. 13:08: The Bethlehem star and astrology. 15:38: Molly started listening to the Allie Stuckey, Nicole Shanahan…
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Ep. 197: Chickens, Dancing & A Reawakening of Religiosity
Intro: More chickens, God’s ordained order for the world, scouting and prepping chicken deliveries. 14:09: Still talking about chickens lol: chick deaths, early learning experiences, chick show and tell. 25:21: Brief housekeeping on our upcoming show schedule. 26:50: BLVDS shows this weekend, the...
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Ep. 196: Faith Through Generations, Celebrity Conversions, & Healthy vs. More Citizens
Intro: Skiing, digging holes, judo and kids aren’t like chickens. 15:00: 90s youth group culture, deconstructing 19:55: God is still so much on the move - people whom God has called are encouraging. 22:18: God moving through family generations, Molly’s parents are new, my parents are the result…
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Ep. 195: Don't Shrink Your Brain! & Empathy in Children
Intro: Inexpensive tea and microplastics on cutting boards 5:12: Complaining shrinks your brain 9:40: Characteristics of depression and bad therapy, complaining is contagious. 12:00: What was designed to help us, now makes things works. So much of it is backwards; the internet, technology, etc....
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Ep. 194: Healthy Relationships Between Parents & Children
Intro: Tea, mold in coffee, Revel Coffee. 10:05: A giant cookie win: double chocolate chip. 14:07: A interesting thought about whey protein and a reflection about God’s design for fossil fuels. 22:08: Conflict with kids, the law of human nature and mom guilt. 26:10: Qualities of relationships…
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Ep. 193: Bryan Johnson, Living Forever, & The Great Deception
Intro: Bitter cold and snow, stupid drivers and having a fun activity during winter months. 10:28: Biology and weather acclimation. 13:12: Leia is not molting and Lewis and Clark are not as exploratory (Chickens). 15:57: Bari Weiss with Bryan Johnson, Blueprint and living forever. 23:23: Where...
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Ep. 192: Truth of Scripture, Deconstruction, & Political Overlap
Intro: Daughter’s writing struggles and JRs parallel at work. 9:04: The discouragement of varsity level sanctification and God’s mercy. 13:35: Chatter on Telegram about Molly’s frustration with people last week. 15:36: Wesley Huff and how do I know the Bible is true. 18:09: The question as…
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Ep. 191: Nonsense, Schmucks and Kids
Intro: reminiscing about the start of TB2F, random bits and pieces. 4:50: Molly’s theme for the day: no capacity for nonsense from people. 15:04: JR’s world was upset too, and not just the water heater! 21:50: Molly determines these OT “heros” are just a bunch of schmucks! 25:53: Molly watched…
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Ep. 190: New Year, New Us...not really
Intro: Holidays, winter, skiing, life updates. Shameless self-promotion: BLVDS music group. 8:43: A skating rink adventure, devotions and Bible reading plans: The Bible Recap, 16:45: Molly’s purging cleanse. 18:45: JR’s Bible reading: Be Thou My Vision. 22:17: JR and Molly’s top books for the…
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Ep. 189: Shelaborating, Work, & The Interdependency Of All Living Things
Intro: Last show of 2024, what JR’s going to read over the break, a trip for last minute grain. 9:45: Shelaborating. 10:50: David Bahnsen’s Full-Time is less about retirement than it is about a false teaching of sacred and secular distinctions. 13:53: God’s sacred plan for our lives, work and...
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Ep. 188: Kamut, AI, & The Black, White, and Gray of Real Life
Intro: Notes for chores, changing your brain, lockdowns changed teenagers’ brains. 6:15: Becoming more black and white, shared bathrooms. 17:20: Life feels more gray though: a church leadership example. 19:05: Being in relationship with people who seem to be in perpetual brokenness and what God...
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Ep. 187: Death, Wonder, & Guiltless Joy
Intro: Chicken pox, vaccines, related randomness. 9:30: We attended an amazing funeral. 15:58: Having a joy for life that comes from a true understanding of what life is. 17:46: The 30 minute version of Molly’s devotion for the ladies’ Christmas brunch this weekend. 22:58: Obtaining guiltless...
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Ep. 186: An Episode to Offend You
Intro: Broccoli in the cold, scheduling, 5:20: Molly’s return trip book recap of Stanley Tucci’s What I Ate in a Year and the theme of death. 13:30: How long until we move to Europe 15:51: Tucci is an example of Ecclesiastes without God. 20:45: If he had the Christian framework about death and...
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Ep. 185: Molly's Bad Day, Moral Clarity, & What Constitutes Sin?
Intro: election recap, the Tuttle Twins on why printing money for the Ukraine causes your grocery bill to go up. 7:55: Molly’s really cold, no good, very bad day 13:22: Kid’s math tests and Halloween Candy 22:00: Kids’ learning styles 24:50: The sermon you must drop everything and listen to right...
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Ep. 184: Vapor & Sandcastles: Thoughts on Ecclesiastes
Intro: Life challenges of growing up, maturing and some things just can’t be fixed. 9:37: Ecclesiastes, Living Life Backward, “Accepting your death is the first step towards living.” 11:05: David Gibson’s Youtube Series. 15:55: Poetic Onomatopoeia 17:30: Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies and school...
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Ep. 183: Weariness & The Joy of a Long LIfe
Intro: Book recommendations, buttery pull-apart bread recommendation! 8:40: 12yo birthday parties and southern-style chili. 14:31: Ecclesiastes: it’s a wonderful [brief] life; contentment = reality - your expectations. 20:48: This music trio is not comprised of spring chickens! 27:30: There is so...
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Ep. 182: "Go Touch Some Dirt," Perceptions of Reality, & Cat Purrs
Intro: A new milk frother and ball gowns, health, fasting, and tea. 10:40: The glycemic index level of homemade sourdough bread and the deep impact of metabolic efficiency. 14:20: Parent-teacher meeting results, school lunch ingredients. 19:00: Pumpkin Gingerbread Apple Muffin recipe. 21:40: A…
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Ep. 181: Everything is Fine. The World is Burning but...Everything is Fine.
Intro: Last week’s events, touring. 6:04: Titus’s boot size, lemon trees, indoor plants. 9:44: Composting is wild, peach pits, apple cores and wheelbarrow trees. 14:59: Our chickens are molting and it looks like a pillow fight. 17:53: Monster cookie bars, S’mores Cookie Bars, Mel’s giant…
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Eating Caterpillars, Steven Lawson, & The Spectrum of Sin
7:15: Telegram, Praying Mantises, Lady Bug insect kits. 11:20: Molly eats caterpillars for dinner, Molly gets a tension headache. 15:48: Being shocked by someone’s sin and Stephen Lawson 20:25: Idols of the Heart and flattening out the spectrum of sin 22:27: Ed Welch and leftover halloween candy...
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Molly Returns to a School Board Meeting & Hymns of Glory
Intro: Money spending, electric rates. 6:14: Engines, different perspectives on energy development. 10:45: There’s no money in people being healthy, large companies that feed on each other. 15:41: Molly’s second school board meeting was very eye-opening. 23:30: Dark and oppressive feelings,...
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Serving Your Family & Conquering Fear
Show Open 6:25: The first week of school! A recap of why we put three of our kids in a hybrid school. 11:00 Titus’ curriculum this year. 12:35: The girls’ first week so far (including Molly)… 16:00: Winding up the cats. 18:00: Moving to in to new models and philosophies 20:00: Making decisions…
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Molly Goes To A School Board Meeting
Intro: Sheep, goats, and Molly hitting them in the head with apples. 5:30: Molly gives testimony at a school board meeting about prurient books in school libraries. 14:30: [Story Pause] Some info about pornography that Molly learned while prepping. 18:11: Creating an on ramp addiction and fueling...
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Eye Health, Public Testimony, & The Intersexed
Show open: Cousins are in town, phone/watch usage for kids, eyeglasses. 13:27: Feeling the onset of age through eyes and considering regular health checks 17:45: Eye exercises and muscular eye health 26:48: Less controversial: theological contemplations on death to sin so don’t sin and three...
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Ep. 175: Intuition, Deceitfulness of the Heart, & a New Favorite Book
Intro: Drinking glassware quirks, open house happy hours, updates from the last three weeks. 8:45 Jesus juking, waves of exhausting heat, and Faith is outraged at Rapunzel’s hair cutting in Tangled. 14:02: The verses Molly’s been working on with the kids and a philosophy of intuition 17:03: JR...
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Parenting Dilemmas: Sheltering vs. Exposure & Discussion
Show open, Delicious recipes like these cinnamon knots! 5:09: Roasted cauliflower, chicken shwarma. 7:55: A recipe Molly did NOT like. 15:41: Simple syrup disaster. 18:38: More Disney things. 21:01: Molly’s parenting moral crises. 29:28: Parenting wisdom: sheltering vs. exposing and discussing....
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More Than or Less Than...What?
Intro: Gauging how you’re doing, resilience and banjos at church. 8:06: Product Rec: Cooking From Scratch for Teens, and completely vapid Disney movies with our girls. 15:19: Titus bakes himself a pizza and meatball subs. 19:04: Making yourself less when feel more and more when feeling less.…
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One couple's slightly irreverent musings on faith, family, food and...marriage www.toobusytoflush.com
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