Good Words Podcast

Tim and Becca, parents of toddlers, are making some strange decisions. Sometimes they talk about marriage and life. Somtimes about movies and books. Follow along on their world travels.

68: The Chore Draft

That’s What She Said

A Spoon that Conveys the Meaning of Love

“The consolation of fairy stories…” Tolkien

“The secret is not to fight what really intrigues, fascinates, and compels us…”

What’s Better about Being an Adult

Review of The Rise of Skywalker

67: Due to Major Safety Issues

Mistakes Were Made

•    Hold on, mom,.I’m conducting an experiment.
•    Domino’s Pizza won’t deliver to us anymore.

Movie Review(s)

•    Marry Poppins
•    Mary Poppins Returns

Amazon Reviews

•    A tiny plastic kids slide
•    Energy Bars

Respond to My Quote

•    being negative about Hellen Keller is not OK
•    my greatest mission field is You, but I haven’t changed you yet 

66: What Bird Do You Wish You Could Be?

Amazon Reviews

Snow Dogs review from 2002

Bounty Paper-towels (Probably Counterfeit)

Quote Response

The sort-of light-hearted feminist aggression I can get behind.

It’s totally normal to be like “raawrrr I just bit the head off of something, I’m a monster!”

On average, Colorado is higher than any other state.

Ways that it’s better to be an adult:

  • Quantifying the world and understanding numbers
  • Getting basic things done isn’t traumatic anymore

Review of The Mandalorian on Disney+

Rebecca is the only monster who doesn’t love BB-8.

65: Finger-Hands

Mistakes Were Made

  • Starbucks upsells - and what is Wednesday, after all?
  • Christmas Amazon Order Mixups

Movie Review

The Force Awakens

Ridiculous Amazon Reviews

64: Your Little Emotional Slave

Furbo Dog Treat Launcher

The “leafy” Bath Bombs

63: The Reboot

Where Tim and Rebecca reboot the show after a year break.

Amazon Reviews

Owleez

Hans Christian Anderson

Quotes

“Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” — Rilke

“You are what your record says you are.” – Bill Parcells

Movie this Month

Jo Jo Rabbit

Better as an Adult

  • No random rule-makers
  • Knowing when to not say things out-loud

62: It’s Colder Than a Banana Out There

Trivia
It’s colder than a banana out there, you monkey!
Juries and best guesses
We’re just a cliché factory
It seems like you’re a little uncomfortable talking about concentration camps
Using fiction as a coping mechanism
Man’s Search for Meaning
His thesis- a person needing to pursue a meaningful life
How do you experience the rest of life after undergoing the most excruciating trial in your life
If you’re focusing on your circumstances you’re missing out on the meaning of what your reaction to the circumstances are
Jesus has a name for us- Revelation 2:17
Our choice to worship God has a meaning amplified by the circumstances
Even if you can’t do anything you still have a choice to be spiritually above your circumstances
The purpose isn’t about judging yourself based on what you achieve
It’s about the choices you make despite the lack of physical evidence
What apathy is- The cost of being apathetic your life and the life of your friends
Save the Cat
“Loglines”
American Christianity- Is it harmful to consider ourselves alien?
The effects of shame on our faith
What’s the most stressful part of your day

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Parenting ideas take high creative energy with little time payoff

61: Tasers Are Just Sad

With Special Guest Adriana

  • What is a Portmanteau?
  • Crochet Fashion Show
  • Adriana’s Book: The Storyweaver Chronicles
  • With photos by “Harrier Bogbean”.
  • Building off of classic old fairy-tales.
  • Save the Cat
  • Everyone is the hero of their own story. The villain doesn’t see themselves as evil
  • Unless it sounds like a lot of fun to become an evil villain to you.
  • Time Travel Book
  • Inventing our own Languages
  • A sample of Penelope and the Hob King
  • Inspiration
  • Fairy Tales and Accents
  • Bohemian Rhapsody (The Movie)
  • Margaret Atwood’s Office
  • Vermeer - The Girl with the Pearl Earring
  • Meow Woof (Santa Fe)
  • A Whole Side Topic about meat packing
  • Career Advice
  • Most Embarrassing Phobia
  • Tim Finds a Fellow Ocean-Hater
  • Tornados
  • Babies, eating anything
  • If you could program a robotic arm to do one child-care activity what would it be?
  • Tasers are Just Sad
  • And Tim is the Evil Villain yet again
  • The Daddy-Long-Legs
  • How many joints should a spider have anyway?
  • AdrianaCarlson.com

60: Hipsters With a Sense of Humor Invade the Government

  • Nebraska’s new slogan- passive aggressive or just aggressive?
  • Hipsters with a sense of humor invade the government
  • The pumpkin patch plot thickens…
  • Menagerie of personality
  • Gandolph the Grey is an otter
  • I’ve been hit about by the wet slimy paw of you
  • Lions are all psychopaths!
  • Trivia- Halloween edition
  • Amazon remaking Lord of the Rings
  • Chickerella
  • Perelandra
  • Painting a picture of where your actions are taking you
  • Trying to make the price tag of sin small
  • The importance of being around people going through serious stuff
  • Sleep study time
  • Does research help or hinder anxiety?
  • If there’s one thing people don’t understand about you what is it?
  • If you could ask anyone to be on your personal board of directors who would you chose?
  • No one will ask me to mentor them until I’m a ghost
  • The annoyance of Kindle samples
  • New Kindle and Fitbit reviews
  • The recipe for the Sweet Potato Soup
    • Don’t put peas in this soup unless your spouse is psychopath
  • InstaCart App

59: A Whole New World With You

  • Pumpkin Patches
  • Male newscaster make-up
  • Guyliner
  • Quiz-yes
  • Email in and Tim will eat whatever ocean creature you want live
  • Do cannibals eat live people?
  • New premarital question: Would you let your future spouse eat part of you to keep them alive?
  • A musical paradoy about gastroporesis
  • Bitter resentments about not getting to see Hamilton
  • What’s your favorite quote
  • Up thought us whimsy conquers all
  • Is doing something for God that’s not a part of your natural strengths or passions right to do?
  • Experiencing God
  • There is going to be bleed through of our own passions and flesh when we talk to God
  • Is the pure form of communicating with God completely ridding myself of self
  • Missions
  • My trade is being an alien and stranger in this world :)
  • Is the ultimate calling to be weird
  • Worrying about every word that’s said and leaving awkward messages
  • If you’re going to be weird, it might as well be about God
  • I was trying to think about how to be more offensive
  • Do we have to move every few months to be alien?
  • Our house is telling us to go to bed. Help!
  • Why is our smart home so creepy?
  • Tim has a dream to create an artificial intelligence to control our home…for our good
  • Why do we believe our kids will like something if we act super excited

The Lyrics

I can show you my world
Cramping, Fainting and hurling
Tell me, listener, now when did
You last turn our podcast on?
I can’t focus my eyes
Unless I take 10 kinds of medicine
Over the counter and prescription
On a drug addled mind
A whole new life
A terrible disaster with each meal
My stomach tells me no
Is it time to go?
I eat steak only when I’m dreaming
Gastroporesis
Kills your appetite
We cannot tell what will
Make me ill
That now I’m in a whole new world with you
That now I’m in a whole new world with you!
Every meal a surprise
Please don’t trust your eyes
Bubbling, grumbling, nauseating
Through an endless nightmare ride