Too Busy to Flush

JR & Molly
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One couple's slightly irreverent musings on faith, family, food and...marriage www.toobusytoflush.com

  1. Jul 24

    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 discussion around framing relationships with opposite sexes and how to point to examples of character traits that are worth pursuing in a person. We’d love to have you join us around our digital table this week! Show Notes Intro: Travel, difficult people, lots of travel, keeping in touch with the family. 6:00: People are weird and hard and dumb. J.R. recaps his summer touring and J.R. made progress on Molly’s [not that] big to-do list. 12:40: Molly tries a TikTok recipe trend: Boursin cheese sauce for pasta 18:30: What J.R.’s been eating while away, store bought eggshells are a lot thicker than backyard chickens. 20:40: How many songs did Fanny Crosby write? 24:15: What does “Jesus is mine” mean? 27:41: Seeing flaming gaps as a parent because of your weaknesses. 29:18: How to see the goal, not just the rules and conversations with our kids 33:55: Molly really likes @PleaseDontMarryALoser’s content when it comes to developing relationships as a teenager. 39:36: Teenage crushes, squashing them appropriately and pointing out good qualities in a person worth pursuing. 45:35: Setting the tone for future potential guys by being a good husband and father. 50:45: Doing sports with kids vs. putting them in traditional sports. 57:02: J.R.’s most rewarding moment while touring and living in Nashville (it involved a couple big deal songwriters.) 1:04:35: Show Close Canavox Pique Tea - Referral Link (it’s super-delicious and healthy) Wealthfront Referral Link Molly’s preferred Stone Heating Pad Incogni (data removal and internet anonymizer) Get full access to Too Busy to Flush at www.toobusytoflush.com/subscribe

    Ep. 221: What Does "Jesus is Mine" Mean?, Teenage Crushes, & Setting the Standard for Future Spouses

  2. Jun 19

    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 overreaction to trans-ideologies? 23:33: Humanity is like a drunk person on a horse- Insights from Carl Trueman and Friedrich Nietzsche. 33:13: How to inoculate our children against unhealthy trends. 35:44: Molly’s deadhorse 3: Objectification and what it means to be human. 38:05: Baking soda biohack. 39:54: Social influence pushing women to get divorced: men can’t handle successful wives or something else? 47:40: What women are specifically designed to do and feel satisfaction and joy. The real goal as a husband and father and not letting careers take precedence over family. 52:43: Critical ages to be at home with your kids. 55:41: GK Chesterton (https://www.online-literature.com/chesterton/wrong-with-the-world/18/), drudgery, the problem with men and women and what’s wrong with the world. 57:56: Molly’s message to women to be successful but not wreck your family. 59:50: Show Close -------------------------------------------- Canavox Pique Tea - Referral Link (it's super-delicious and healthy) Wealthfront Referral Link Molly’s preferred Stone Heating Pad Incogni (data removal and internet anonymizer) Get full access to Too Busy to Flush at www.toobusytoflush.com/subscribe

    Ep. 220: Looksmaxxing, Successful Wives Divorcing, & How Not To Wreck Your Family

  3. Jun 12

    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 youth group at a different church and in-breeding. 25:52: Christian liberty and soft and hard lines. 34:22: Drawing lines based on a family vision statement. 39:03: Kids going to camps and multiple rededications. 43:53: Our family vision statement. 47:35: Molly discovers something legendary at church. 53:51: The only thing Molly actually planned on saying this episode: Insights into the disciple Andrew. 56:19: Examples from Ray Boltz. 1:01:17: Low key, long term faithfulness. 1:05:30: Show Close -------------------------------------------- Canavox Pique Tea - Referral Link (it's super-delicious and healthy) Wealthfront Referral Link Molly’s preferred Stone Heating Pad Incogni (data removal and internet anonymizer) Get full access to Too Busy to Flush at www.toobusytoflush.com/subscribe

    Ep. 219: Drawing Lines, Family Vision Statements, & Low Key, Long Term Faithfulness

  4. May 29

    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 feminism. Rachel Wilson and Joe Rogan and women voting. 19:00: Men and women: Carrying each other’s burdens, time with kids at bedtime. 25:16: Mary Queen of Scots and religious persecution. 33:06: Good, true, and beautiful, Theo of Golden, JR has deja vú. 38:38: JR asks about visiting people in June/July. Molly says “no” to bringing kids down. 41:57 Eugene Peterson and accepting the terms of creation, The Desecration of Man. 47:20: A story about a neighbor and having a moral basis for outrage at a school shooting. 54:45 Part of being human is recognizing our limits, obligations, and…something else 😝, and the  connection to Natural Law, our limitations are a feature, not a bug and it is good. 1:01:44: It’s a progression of growth and parenting as such younger sets the tone for later.  1:08:00: Dropping the ball with the youngest kids. 1:10:05: Titus’s performance and dedication as a Judo kata partner, raising your children in the way the should go, not the way they will go. 1:18:06: Show Close ----------------------------------- Canavox Pique Tea - Referral Link (it's super-delicious and healthy) Wealthfront Referral Link Molly’s preferred Stone Heating Pad Incogni (data removal and internet anonymizer) Get full access to Too Busy to Flush at www.toobusytoflush.com/subscribe

    Ep. 218: First Wave Feminism, Limitations Are Good, & Other Truths

  5. May 22

    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 easier to turn in a relationship to an animal vs. another human. What does it mean to be human? Vice Regents of the created order. 37:35: Once you unmoor humanity from who is God, there’s no stopping where it goes. 38:54: The book of Daniel and the more prideful we are, the more susceptible to idols and the more disconnected from our humanity we are. 48:22: Molly’s hot take: Climbing Mt. Everest is dumb. 57:40: Show Close Canavox Pique Tea - Referral Link (it's super-delicious and healthy) Wealthfront Referral Link Molly’s preferred Stone Heating Pad Incogni (data removal and internet anonymizer) Get full access to Too Busy to Flush at www.toobusytoflush.com/subscribe

    Hobby Farms, Furries, & To Be Human

  6. May 15

    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 with those of other generations. 28:00: Everyone has to wrestle with what it means to be human. 33:01: The Desecration of Man and What We Can’t Not Talk About 36:50: The spiritual side of desecration and abortion as a sacrament. 39:36: Consecration, liturgies and church practices 44:26: Things in our lives that shape our worship, cathedrals of consumerism and You Are What You Worship. 47:20: Truman on the attraction of tradition and orthodoxy 49:37: Holy Spirit leading people in heresy. “That’s modalism Patrick!” 52:37: LISTENER REQUEST! 55:56: The Abolition of Man and other edifying historical documents to understand the historical roots of the Christian faith. 59:01: Musings about the value of university and higher education and one of our kids is a natural academic. 1:06:17: IQ vs. EQ  1:03:55: Show Close Get full access to Too Busy to Flush at www.toobusytoflush.com/subscribe

    Ep. 216: Ben Sasse, The Desecration of Man, & The Value of Church Tradition

  7. Mar 27

    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 unbidden. Abiding City - YouTube Adorning the Dark 30:43: New World Watch feature and the importance of kids learning Apologetics. 35:54: Wes Huff in Diary of a CEO. Keller’s cultural moment is over. 41:38: Living an apologetic lifestyle and consistency with kids. 48:10: The fear of losing your sense of confidence in knowledge and truth. 52:40: Molly’s habit of Jane Austen night: Mansfield Park, J.R.’s review of latest Brandon Sanderson series he’s reading, book adaptations, and the problem of building out old stories. 1:01:33: Show Close  Get full access to Too Busy to Flush at www.toobusytoflush.com/subscribe

    Ep. 215: God Calling Kids and Living an Apologetics Lifestyle

  8. Feb 27

    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 Sensibility and loves how great Jane Austen writes. 29:53: Olympics, paedo-president’s day rant. 33:22: Hormonal birth control and its correlation to anxiety disorders. 34:56: Johnny Gaudreau's kids and Olympic moments. 38:00: Molly’s amusement with Sam "Moose" Morse and terrible ski racing culture. 43:52: Olympian Caesar Salad rater. 44:40: Molly’s etomologies of the week: tempura and semitic languages 48:43: Lack of sleep and picking up kid woes. 53:02: Show Close ______________________________ Canavox Pique Tea - Referral Link (it's super-delicious and healthy) Wealthfront Referral Link Molly’s preferred Stone Heating Pad Incogni (data removal and internet anonymizer) Get full access to Too Busy to Flush at www.toobusytoflush.com/subscribe

    Ep. 214: Concerts, Jane Austen, & Olympic Moments
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One couple's slightly irreverent musings on faith, family, food and...marriage www.toobusytoflush.com

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  • Creator
    JR & Molly
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    221
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