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.

58: Go Sports Team

Thank you for opening your mind to us and putting down the welcome mat in your brains cape
Thunderstorm music
Trivia- They are a sport team!
Irony- being annoyed when others talked about kids when we didn’t have them
Would being famous make you happier?
Swings and roundabouts
Fire station open house
Spider friendship necklaces
Making an office in your master closet
Walmart has skylights?!?!
Repentance- an overused term? Perhaps, the Coming Clean Club
What are you holding onto that comes before God?
Believing that doing spiritual things won’t be a net negative on our days
I guess it’s not helpful visualizing hitting my head on the cement
I’m scared of being fearful
When you’re praying more do life circumstances get harder?
Master Class
Excellent recipe made by Tim- Check!
Making a historical timeline for a character- Check! Well Check-ish!
How we look at and collaborate with our art
Getting drones stuck
Doing hobbies at a social event
Writing as wet cement
Editing podcasts

57: Hootenanny

  • Tim’s sanity is questioned.
  • Attack or Intervention?
  • Having a go bag, who can get out first?
  • How often do you know you’re right, but “let it go” to avoid an argument?
  • “Do you want to be right or in relationship?” You want to both, I want to be neither.
  • Knowing your own opinion, in public, can be difficult.
  • Tim bits (thoughts that graced Tim’s brain this week)
  • How God speaks- Numbers?!?!
  • Experiencing God
  • The idea that God is in everything- the grid lines in an Excel sheet, He is the surface on which the Universe is built.
  • Trivia Question
  • Quebec nationalism
  • It would be easy to use powers of mental anguish against your spouse
  • Taking Master Classes
  • Do you do things just for the pleasure or for ambition?
  • We went to a hootenanny.
  • Spaghetti Westerns vs. Singing Cowboys

What would you title a spaghetti-western/musical?

56: Have You Ever Tried to Eat With Your Feet?

  • Trivia
  • Have you ever tried to eat with your feet?
  • Visually showing others how we feel
  • Having higher functionality with other people
  • Being social with goggles on
  • Thirty second vacations…where have you gone today?
  • Optimal brain functionality
  • Frozen Indian Cuisine
  • Once you break it down to the molecular level it doesn’t matter
  • We finally finished Wild Things!
  • Rituals
  • Leveling up in life
  • Master Classes
  • Immersing yourself in a subject
  • How do we do a ritual for our kids without them?
  • Telling the kids the story of their lives
  • Do you tell them verbally, visually, pictures of the kid that year?
  • How do you help your children reflect on their lives without making it narcasstic
  • Trying to not talk negatively about ourselves in front of our kids
  • Dino Trucks…are you serious?
  • Parent guilt…ug
  • What’s the best piece of marital advice ever given to you?
  • If you started hearing a voice in your head in what accent would you like it to speak?
  • Writing a description of your business
  • We’re in phase zero people
  • Little kid’s seem so smart until you realize they literally can’t feed themselves

55: Moths vs. Humans

Becca is tired and is developmentally comparable to a 3-year-old
Moth’s-3; Human’s-0
Trivia
TV giving a sense of a regular schedule
Tim rolls his rrrr’s
Oh we have advice for you
Wild Things
We see ourselves in our boys more than is healthly
We have to deal with our own childhoods when we have kids
Marriages tend to get harder when we have kids, maybe because we are dealing with our pasts instead of just being busy
Dredging the muck up in our marriages time and time again when we go through life crises
All this today if you’re going through a marital crises you’re not alone
No matter what we think or story we’ve told ourselves about our childhood there are things in that are going to leave marks where we’ve destroyed some part of our selves in order to make it or get by
Males make vows to never have emotions that leave them vulnerable
Sometimes it speaks to our worth when others are able to show “perfect” emotions
Being embarrassed of your son having a huge emotional swing
Trying to stop our kids negative emotions rather then entering into it
The lie of what will get your kids friends
Put your thinking cap on
Stethoscope check
Staying relaxed with our kids when talking about the most important things to us
The Industrial Revolution and the change it brought to parenting
Telling our kids it’s ok to want time with dad

54: Snow Dogs

  • Whose fault is it?
  • Tim doesn’t need a mic
  • Wild Things
  • “Names” we pronounce over our kids
  • Setting realistic expectations for our kids
  • It feels so unnatural to expect feelings
  • Buying into our kids dreams, and experiencing their disappointments with them
  • Not forcing our kids or ourselves into more “realistic” goals
  • Shutting off dreams can limit our ability to connect with those around us
  • Snow Dogs - a metaphor for this podcast
  • Meeting your teenage boys where they are at - through movies
  • The importance of comfort and ease between family members
  • Observing our kids
  • When they struggle, they are rough gems that are being refined
  • An animated gif of Cuba Gooding Jr eating blue cheese? No. But I did find this
  • The difficulty of pharmaceuticals
  • Trivia
  • Are headphones a metaphor for our relationship?

53: There Are Allegations Against You

  • We threw in the towel and then we used that towel to wipe the pee off the floor
  • Potty training- a topic we are so sorry to talk about (don’t worry it’s brief)
  • He’s sweet, he’s got that going for him
  • Listeners who rated the show - thank you!
  • The Google Search completion game
  • A song by “The Sesame Street”
  • Some Follow-up
  • William Shatner’s “Rocket Man”
  • Shadowbox Photos
  • Phone Call Scammers
  • The 12 Week Year
  • Seeing job or goal changes as failures or a closed door
  • Does it take courage to call things failures? Or is it not acknowledging all that was gleaned form an experience?
  • Emotions come ten times faster then the logical side of your brain
  • Were you made for joy?
  • Is joy relational?
  • How have you been living more joyfully lately?
  • The courage of putting a goal down- risking failure
  • Breaking goals down day by day
  • Smiling awkwardly at someone verses talking
  • Skyscraper
    skyscraper poster
  • Some people’s “skyscraper” is to climb a burning building, for other’s it is learning how to restart a phone

52: The Extravaganza

  • Things you never thought you’d have to childproof
  • The knife shape of the Apple computer
  • Do you look more often for the tragedy in comedy or the comedy in the tragedy
  • Comedians in Cars getting Coffee

  • Thank you to the awesome listeners who have already left reviews - Link to review in iTunes

  • Who Let the A out..ah, ah, ah, ah

  • STILL making fun of our local paper
  • Protecting endangered mice
  • Tim’s mice killing habits
  • How often do you think about germs?
  • New spot: Is this gross or not?
  • Parenting is like a chemistry experiment
  • Stopping counting to five with the boys
  • Emotional processing tactics with the kids
  • Hugging in the major leagues
  • Cave rescue in Thailand
  • The untold stories
  • Putting the best people in for the job in the Christian community
  • Moth balls are terrible
  • Influencing just a few people
  • Chewbaca vs. Leia vs. Lando vs. Millinium Falcon
  • It’s not feminism it’s “falconism”
  • Would you buy wookie conditioner?

51: Buttons: Music; Fear and Punctuation

  • That Whistling Song
  • Pen Pineapple App Pen Song

  • More headlines from the local paper

  • Tim has no sense of humor in the morning… ugh
  • We aren’t communicating well
  • Also we can’t remember which month comes before May.
  • Is it a semi-colon or a colon?
  • Safe Salads?
  • Bugs and Children at the Same Place, No Thanks!
  • No more picnics.
  • Button-making?
  • You’re going to get several ideas before the obvious one
  • Please, stop crushing me.
  • Abandon any rooms that have dead spiders in them.
  • Trivia: Project Dulcimer
  • A trip is fun, but it’s not as much fun as owning a gadget
  • Tell us what your first iPod was.
  • The problem with listening to music in the past
  • Oh no, we still haven’t repaired those headphones
  • Why do children love terrible things?
  • Sharing Becca’s creative output
  • Play Therapy - sounds awesome for Adults
  • Poor “rage”, I’ve abused you a lot in my life.
  • I’m supposed to be modeling it; Ahh – and you’re supposed to be modeling it too! – unhhh
  • Fear Factor
  • An Abrupt ending due to running out of space on our hard-drive.

50: Rompers for Men

Trivia…It’s quite popular with its added ideas and all!

Becca’s preferred version of Cinderella is Free on Amazon Prime

Also, this is a thing - Cinderfella

Rompers for men, a vision in pastel.
The breathable jumpsuit…

like these fashionable guys

You could buy them directly from China as a joke of course.

You’ll take my polar fleece out of my cold dead hands

Freelance work pricing based on the need for the product -
value base pricing guy.

The appendices of The Five Love Languages— musicals and personality tests

Books that can be boiled down into a pamphlet.

Wild Things

  • Checking in on grades regularly with your child
  • Containing consequences into a short-term time frame
  • Praying for failure for your kids
  • Going out of your comfort zone for service
  • Male depression
  • Taking a look at what emotions you’re uncomfortable with

We made it to 50!

It’s our golden anniversary! A look back at what we’ve learned about podcasting

49: Folk Heroes

Our Community News

Our DJ career

Children’s music, such as “Rocket Man”

Solo: A Star Wars Story
Tim was right- the Millennium Falcon is a character! Personality imbued…Check!

Trivia question. 2/2, that’s the fraction we chose?!?!?
The “texting subculture”
Have you ever turned down an opportunity because of fear?

The Disney Shorts Collection at Netflix

Making it through the mountain or burning out?
What makes a folk hero so inspiring?
Milkshake duck … could a folk hero even exist today?

Home remodeling

Silence

Of nail guns and staple guns

The absurdity of Eenie-meenie-miney-mo

Everyone knows the 52nd anniversary is the important one

feedback@terribleaudio.com … respond or we will attack you with a staple gun