*** Warning ***
This episode is kinda blunt. This is how we talk in real life. You’ve been warned.
I’m getting over being pretty sick. Peaches is not sympathetic because she’s pretty hard-hearted. She brags about not puking for decades. Whoopie doo! Then we talk about girls who are stupid. Once again, we hint at how great the Patriarchy is. Wisdom is hard to get. And then we construct a totally fictional scenario that absolutely has nothing to do with people we know in real life. Our fictional girl is stupid too…
To accompany our discussion, Emmi bangs my merchandise against a floor lamp.
It’s decided that drugs and criminal incarceration impact families negatively. BUT WE’RE NOT JUDGING! (Hypothetically). Â Then we talk about how sex confuses everybody but not enough to give us a moment’s pause before engaging in it. Sometimes, church folks don’t say things that should be said. And what is compassion? Â Really. Â What the heck is compassion??! Sometimes babies take hostages. Strength is what Dad needs to stand against the wrath of his daughter. Then, “IT’S CLOBBER VERSE TIME!” Â We decide there’s a difference between lust and love. And I review the movie “Brokeback Mountain” (finally!)
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I started listening to the podcast after I heard you on Poddy Break. And I would say that this episode brings together everything that I love about your podcast! You (and Peaches) are not afraid to have real talk about topics that many people won’t or don’t address in real way. Keep up the good work!
I really enjoyed listening to the podcast. I’m a little behind, so I’m just catching up to it now.
I was almost a Carlo myself. My wife and I have been dating quite extensively for several months when we decided to let our “wants” get the better of us. That one time, resulted in the birth of my first daughter. Now, I told myself that I would not be one of those people to get married just because of a child, that it would have to be for a better family outlook, especially since I did not love the woman I was with.
I’m glad that I had a pastor who was blunt enough with me to point me to God’s Word and to encourage me to spend quite some time in prayer to find out exactly What God would want me to do in the situation. A week later, God had given me the answer. He told me that it wasn’t going to be easy. He told me that because I skipped the guidelines that He had laid out, things were going to be more difficult, but He also told me that if I would honor him with marriage, he would honor me in that marriage.
In October, we will be celebrating our 10th anniversary. I can tell you that I love, cherish, and adore the woman that I’m married to. Things have not always been easy, but we knew that going in.
Commitment is difficult, but we only fail when we give up.
This is the single most encouraging thing I’ve read all month, Carl. 🙂
Thanks for being willing to “pretend” while your feelings get in line. (Your babies will thank you someday, too.)
And THANKS for listening to our messy little conversations!
I just love you guys 🙂
“And as He said these things to them, the scribes and the pharisees began to assail Him vehemently, and to cross-examine Him about many things, lying in wait for Him, and seeking to catch Him in something that He might say, that they might accuse Him. In the meantime, when an innumerable multitude of people had gathered together, so that they trampled one another, He began to say to His disciples first of all, ‘Beware of the leaven of the pharisees, which is hypocrisy. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear in inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops’ .” Luke 11:53-54; 12:1-3
I love this podcast but it will of course keep you in hot water. So soak it up. Maybe put some bath salt in it and relax.
I am carl
Only hypothetical people will be upset.