Your Comments, Our Answers! | Season 27

0:04 [SPEAKER_02]: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Home Maker Sheek. [SPEAKER_02]: Fadcast, this is the podcast where we are rescuing the art of home making from the daily grind. [SPEAKER_02]: And I know we tend to say this, but let me tell you, there was some grind in this week. [SPEAKER_02]: Angela, I've done but ground down, I've done and ground down.

0:23 [SPEAKER_02]: I am Shailia of the ElliotHomes.com, joined by Angela Raid of Buresian Farmgirl.com, and we sit with you here every Monday to remind you that you are not alone, and I love it. [SPEAKER_02]: We've been going through the comments the last couple of seasons, and a lot of you will share. [SPEAKER_02]: what you're doing when you're listening or something that's happened while you're listening and you start laughing or you start crying.

0:48 [SPEAKER_02]: It's so special because that's exactly what we hope for. [SPEAKER_02]: We hope to be in your ears while you're just doing the daily grind just to remind you that it's valuable work and that you're not alone. [SPEAKER_00]: Hmm, yeah, I'm feeling like a mere pulp pulp at this point. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, what?

1:06 [SPEAKER_00]: A mere pulp. [SPEAKER_00]: What's been ground down? [SPEAKER_00]: Like, just ground, pulp. [SPEAKER_00]: See, you told me to get closer to my mic and now on my teeth are going to be like, I don't care. [SPEAKER_00]: Attach it. [SPEAKER_00]: Talk louder. [SPEAKER_00]: I, you guys can believe me.

1:17 [SPEAKER_02]: Um, maybe I can turn my headphones up. [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe that. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, that didn't work. [SPEAKER_00]: We don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't get it. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm super loud in my ears. [SPEAKER_02]: It's all right. [SPEAKER_02]: Here we are. [SPEAKER_02]: Here we are.

1:30 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm glad to be here with you all today. [SPEAKER_02]: I had a terrible week. [SPEAKER_00]: shade. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so if you've been listening for a long time, you know that February is she's favorite time of the year. [SPEAKER_00]: And I was giving her a hard time in January because she reached out with the February desperation call.

1:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, in January, 30 days, rot raw, 30 days ahead of schedule. [SPEAKER_02]: I was trying to explain just to where Stewart is very just, just so incredibly steady. [SPEAKER_02]: He is not an emotional roller coaster. [SPEAKER_02]: You don't have to learn how to ride the waves, okay? [SPEAKER_02]: That is not a spiritual gift, then I am going to get it.

2:31 [SPEAKER_02]: at all and you know I know there are some people they I don't remember thinking about it growing up I don't remember thinking oh mentors for heart or cold or I don't like them. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't remember having a single thought like that. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't either. [SPEAKER_00]: No I lack of self-awareness.

2:53 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: Well I mean I mean I that's interesting because it doesn't mean it didn't happen. [SPEAKER_00]: um, because my kids do complain to me. [SPEAKER_00]: I can't take it any longer. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, really? [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's going to be 43 this weekend and the mantra in the house is, let's go, streaking.

3:12 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's like every, but the joke is just like everybody's so jazzed. [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to have just this blur of 43. [SPEAKER_00]: And if you think about it, with the windshield and the cold temperatures, we [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that'll do it. [SPEAKER_02]: No, that'll do it.

3:35 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I was actually, we've just had this absolutely freakish winter here. [SPEAKER_02]: So I didn't expect the season all blues to be so bad because we didn't get any snow, which is the first time in my entire life I can remember this happening. [SPEAKER_02]: And I thought, well, maybe it is the snow.

3:54 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, you got to get the gear on in the boots on and plowing the driveway and pulling water to the animals and it just creates all this kind of friction. [SPEAKER_02]: And I thought, well, maybe it'll be okay. [SPEAKER_02]: But I think that's not true. [SPEAKER_02]: Obviously, Angela knows.

4:11 [SPEAKER_02]: I think I don't know four or five crying phone calls later. [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe it's the, maybe it's the lack of light, right? [SPEAKER_02]: Your body needs, your body needs things and whatever. [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, I was able to actually go outside and guard it. [SPEAKER_00]: That's crazy this week is the ground.

4:30 [SPEAKER_02]: It's not frozen at all. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't understand now. [SPEAKER_02]: It's wild. [SPEAKER_02]: It's wild. [SPEAKER_00]: I do have a question and not like it's this panacea. [SPEAKER_00]: Like that's the right word, isn't it? [SPEAKER_00]: Like fix it all. [SPEAKER_00]: But have you been using your red light this winter?

4:46 [SPEAKER_02]: Not consistently. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Do you know why? [SPEAKER_02]: Because you got to sit in front of it without close on so your skin can absorb it. [SPEAKER_02]: And it's I don't think you do. [SPEAKER_02]: You can say everything. [SPEAKER_02]: It goes through your clothes.

4:58 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [UNKNOWN]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I've been looking at my body under this. [SPEAKER_00]: You're awesome. [SPEAKER_01]: And most do not look good under the red light. [SPEAKER_01]: It looks good under the red stretch marks. [SPEAKER_00]: It's not a good look. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, is that, can we look that up?

5:17 [SPEAKER_00]: I, no, I've listened to enough dire Viseo podcasts. [SPEAKER_00]: I swear you don't have to, you, you don't have to be. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that changes quite a bit. [SPEAKER_00]: I, I used my every morning when I work out. [SPEAKER_00]: I have it propped up next to the tonal. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

5:30 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's shining on me. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, see, I thought it won't go through my workout close. [SPEAKER_02]: So what's the point? [SPEAKER_00]: No. [SPEAKER_00]: I, no, I think that's more like a room where it starts. [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, if you want your lady bits to get the red light.

5:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, wow. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think, maybe that's how you started that or something. [SPEAKER_02]: That's that for some digital modesty. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, well, I'm going to look into that. [SPEAKER_02]: That's interesting. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: No, but you know when you're like, you know when you have the flu and when my kids have the flu, I'm like, I got the garlic salve and the echinacea tincture and the tea and the broth and the little warming socks and here's a little movie and a little cozy blanket and etc.

6:12 [SPEAKER_02]: etc. [SPEAKER_02]: When I'm sick, I'm like, I guess I'll just die. [SPEAKER_02]: like I find it genuinely difficult to take care of myself. [SPEAKER_00]: But I think that's how you feel and good. [SPEAKER_00]: But I think winter you have to have like all if you're prone to it. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I'm seriously prone to it.

6:30 [SPEAKER_00]: You have to have like all the accoutrement going on the red light and the waking up at a certain time. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, but doing your makeup and look, I don't know because like what's this is so hard. [SPEAKER_01]: This is a lot of work just to stay happy. [SPEAKER_02]: I, and I, yeah, I kind of don't believe anything anymore.

6:53 [SPEAKER_02]: She's got it bad, yo. [SPEAKER_02]: It's bad. [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I mean, when they're like, oh, this will help, and you're like, that's not going to help. [SPEAKER_02]: This will, are you taking my time to work? [SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm not taking vitamin D. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that is a big bleep deal.

7:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Shay, red light, and 5,000 I use or whatever. [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to know what is true anymore. [SPEAKER_02]: Because I feel like it's true. [SPEAKER_00]: Don't be stubborn. [SPEAKER_02]: That is true. [SPEAKER_02]: Article on vitamin D. There's like seven that are just like no or no way.

7:26 [SPEAKER_02]: Wrong form or whatever. [SPEAKER_02]: So help me out, guys. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm kidding. [SPEAKER_02]: It's fine. [SPEAKER_00]: I just, it's so funny because I just talked to my mom yesterday and I said the opposite to her. [SPEAKER_00]: I said I feel like finally, with, um, I don't know whatever you want to call it, biohacking or whatever.

7:46 [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like finally all the information I'm getting. [SPEAKER_00]: matches up. [SPEAKER_00]: It's not like the old days where it was like, oh, I mean, okay, let's put it like under the what to eat category. [SPEAKER_00]: It's not like, oh, carbs are bad. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, just eat, but whatever, what did people used to do?

8:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Like South Beach, or I feel like finally all these, you know what I'm saying? [SPEAKER_00]: I do. [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I feel like all these doctors are finally sinking up on what they say. [SPEAKER_00]: Really? [SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes I listen to a [SPEAKER_00]: what got expert diary of a CEO or just it's just kind of all just kind of all smear to get there you have somebody who's podcasting English isn't their first language what that just sounded like [SPEAKER_02]: You know, you know, you know, I was like a lady who confessed we get when people speak like that.

8:46 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like a nun C.A. [SPEAKER_02]: what is your problem? [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_02]: I listened to a gut expert on the podcast diary of a CEO. [SPEAKER_02]: Diary boss of a CEO. [SPEAKER_02]: Yep, boss. [SPEAKER_02]: And he was basically still going back to the like, hey, [SPEAKER_02]: I was like, oh, I'm still having that conversation.

9:08 [SPEAKER_02]: And so much of what he said was very, very good. [SPEAKER_02]: But there's, you know, there's just pieces of stuff where, okay, well, that is sad. [SPEAKER_00]: But if you think about it, how many times have you heard like in the last year, 30 different vegetables and fruits and vegetables throughout the week for your microbiome?

9:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, they need that variety. [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I've heard that over and over and over again. [SPEAKER_00]: I just feel like there's a lot of things that are actually syncing up. [SPEAKER_00]: out there where people are saying the same thing and that intrigues me. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'm not doing the things that I'm supposed to be doing.

9:43 [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm struggling. [SPEAKER_02]: So don't do as I do. [SPEAKER_02]: Do what Andrew let us. [SPEAKER_02]: Let her lead you. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, wise ones. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: No, if there's always just a, there's always just a bit of a slog. [SPEAKER_02]: I do think a big piece of it is just not being able to be outside in the [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

10:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god. [SPEAKER_02]: People are like go skig that no. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, but no. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I don't want to break my ankle or I like skiing. [SPEAKER_00]: If I wasn't so afraid of cracking a bone. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not being able to go on my trips.

10:17 [SPEAKER_00]: I do really like skiing. [SPEAKER_00]: I wish it was like a part of my. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_02]: People ski here. [SPEAKER_02]: We're big skiing place. [SPEAKER_02]: We're to big skiing community. [SPEAKER_02]: I kids love to ski. [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, here we are blah, blah, blah, blah.

10:35 [SPEAKER_02]: Hope this podcast finds you in a better spot. [SPEAKER_00]: I do miss being outside though. [SPEAKER_00]: I just, you know, when it's the minute spring hits, I mean, I'm out. [SPEAKER_00]: I move the kids like, go school outside. [SPEAKER_00]: I just, I'm out hours and hours a day. [SPEAKER_00]: I would love it.

10:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: I went out yesterday for a couple of hours. [SPEAKER_02]: I had so much to do inside. [SPEAKER_02]: And I just was like, this is going to be better for you. [SPEAKER_02]: I like the productivity. [SPEAKER_02]: I like the way that your mind processes thought. [SPEAKER_02]: I like the fresh air.

11:06 [SPEAKER_02]: there's just, there's so much benefit that comes from gardening beyond getting flowers. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah, you know, we're not there yet, but the closer we get to spring, there are so many different smells that you just don't get to participate in during the winter. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, spring has a very specific smell.

11:31 [SPEAKER_00]: You have that cool thing that happens. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't remember what it's called right before it rains. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there's just so much [SPEAKER_00]: a pleasure. [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: There's so much pleasure. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: I think that's kind of where things get a bit boggy in the winter time is when you take real pleasure in the outdoors, I use that word and we think of that as like hiking or something.

11:58 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean just being in my gardens. [SPEAKER_02]: You miss it. [SPEAKER_02]: It's almost like this season of mourning a little bit, where you like, my room, but I don't know what's happening. [SPEAKER_02]: It's February, what a middle of February. [SPEAKER_02]: My little roubar is starting to come up.

12:18 [SPEAKER_02]: It's starting to peek up, and I'm like, my friend, I haven't seen you in months. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Hello. [SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_02]: Hello. [SPEAKER_02]: It's just a, it's just a really special thing. [SPEAKER_02]: If you listen to this and you don't guard in, while you're wrong and you should, I'm just kidding.

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15:58 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I can't see myself, but from what I can see, I look weird. [SPEAKER_00]: She's a little blind. [SPEAKER_00]: She's getting you. [SPEAKER_02]: She's training her brain to some new contacts, some new little bifocal contacts. [SPEAKER_02]: And she's having some issues. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you ladies have gone through this.

16:14 [SPEAKER_00]: So they're telling me this can take. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, like worst case scenario up to two months all, but I got these, they gave me the trial pair 10 pair to wear when I got home and they had dilated my eyes. [SPEAKER_00]: So I was really blurry and I was waiting all day earlier this week for the blurryness to go away.

16:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, finally did dissipate. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but now I can barely see my computer screen. [SPEAKER_00]: I can't read. [SPEAKER_00]: They're not doing me anything. [SPEAKER_00]: And I've had extensive phone calls with them where they're assuring me. [SPEAKER_00]: You see, we don't brain.

16:48 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I could take a while for your brain to catch up. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, funny, my brain doesn't have to catch up when I put on my TJ Maxx readers. [SPEAKER_00]: That's different. [SPEAKER_00]: So apparently, I have to wear these things for a minimum of four hours a day for the next week, I've already had a few days in.

17:07 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's not fun. [SPEAKER_00]: Let me tell you. [SPEAKER_00]: It's painful. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's, and it's very overstimulating. [SPEAKER_00]: So I don't do well with overstimulation. [SPEAKER_00]: So yesterday during the home school day, I was snapping at kids. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because it was just latency.

17:26 [SPEAKER_00]: It was so much. [SPEAKER_00]: Everything's just so blurry. [SPEAKER_00]: And so You're thinking all the time there's all this extra Thought process going on and yeah, I hope it works because I don't I don't need to wear glasses all the time But I don't want to switch from like Readers my whatever, I don't know what they're called.

17:45 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm such a kid child [SPEAKER_01]: Is it far-sighted, near-sighted? [SPEAKER_02]: Well, helps me with the horizon. [SPEAKER_02]: So if you're excited, you can't see things far away. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so I'm very, very, very slightly near-sighted. [SPEAKER_00]: So it's nice at night. [SPEAKER_00]: I have a bit of a stigmatism, like the Starburst had lights.

18:04 [SPEAKER_00]: It's nice at night. [SPEAKER_00]: It crisps up the street signs and whatever, but I definitely can't see my food when I'm eating dinner. [SPEAKER_00]: Just really irritating, you know, painting my nails is not happening. [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to read the comments today. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, I've got them blown up, but I could try one.

18:24 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: We saw that ad went. [SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, we just thought today we would hang out with you. [SPEAKER_02]: No agenda other than just reading through your comments which I literally screen shot it and upload it into our document. [SPEAKER_02]: So I haven't actually proved these.

18:42 [SPEAKER_00]: So okay, and I've enlarged [SPEAKER_00]: so bad. [SPEAKER_00]: So do leave comments this week. [SPEAKER_00]: Let me know if my eyes are going to adjust. [SPEAKER_00]: I know it will never be as great as when I wear the glasses. [SPEAKER_00]: I've been told that, but like to not be able to see my computer, which was never a problem, is super irritating.

19:10 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Onward with this [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: This is from McGuire. [SPEAKER_02]: So these comments are submitted over on Spotify. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for you guys have left some very kind reviews and you can also leave comments there. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for that.

19:33 [SPEAKER_02]: This is from McGuire. [SPEAKER_02]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_02]: How about good to know? [SPEAKER_02]: That's great to know. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, I just got my as a order, not speak, which is a bummer, because now I want to try it. [SPEAKER_02]: But thank you for that. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I appreciate that.

19:58 [SPEAKER_02]: I will give that a try. [SPEAKER_02]: Is that palm fruit shortening? [SPEAKER_02]: What is that? [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_02]: Does that in the palm oil family is it? [SPEAKER_02]: I was funny I was talking to a friend of Georgia's and she said, you know, you could have tried my mom's cookies there at the past.

20:17 [SPEAKER_02]: Did we talk about this on the podcast? [SPEAKER_02]: We did. [SPEAKER_02]: Earlier at the Buster Flavor and Chris go and I'm like, man, that's what I think of when I think of shortening. [SPEAKER_02]: So now I'm in need to go and Google this. [SPEAKER_02]: to make sure it's something that I want to eat first.

20:29 [SPEAKER_02]: But then I will try. [SPEAKER_02]: So long as it has to test. [SPEAKER_02]: OK. Can you read? [SPEAKER_02]: Sure. [SPEAKER_00]: Such a good episode. [SPEAKER_00]: This is from Vanille Thomas. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_00]: Since day one, Shay, I would recommend getting more familiar with being an online shoppers.

20:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Since you don't have many stores nearby. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm plus sized, so shopping in person is [SPEAKER_00]: very difficult. [SPEAKER_00]: I've had no choice but to shop online. [SPEAKER_00]: If you know your measurements, and your style, it's really doable. [SPEAKER_00]: I like thread up for online thrift.

20:59 [SPEAKER_00]: You might try that and be pleasantly surprised by what you can get second hand from your favorite brands. [SPEAKER_02]: Good, thread up. [SPEAKER_02]: I haven't thought about that place in a long time. [SPEAKER_02]: That kind of got overshadowed by Poshmark, didn't it? [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe, I think it's a little bit, you know, sometimes it's more ups.

21:19 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's nicer, thread up, I think so. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's the problem. [SPEAKER_02]: I've been having with poshmark. [SPEAKER_02]: I know friends who shop a lot of poshmark, but I'm looking at this stuff. [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like, I don't want your used vlouse for three dollars off the retail price.

21:35 [SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_02]: That's not super helpful, but thread up. [SPEAKER_02]: I haven't checked that out in a long time. [SPEAKER_02]: And you should do that. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, Natalie, I was feeling really proud of myself because in a moment of weakness or clarity, I'm not sure, but I just went online.

21:53 [SPEAKER_02]: And I did end up buying myself a couple of new sports bras, new workout pants, a new package of underwear, and some new pajamas. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I did it. [SPEAKER_02]: So I felt quite proud of myself. [SPEAKER_02]: I still don't necessarily have something to wear on Tuesday afternoon, but at least my gym pants smell nice.

22:17 [SPEAKER_00]: I have a child that's like that. [SPEAKER_00]: And I've had to say absolutely no more active wear. [SPEAKER_00]: I just, you know, so prone to be. [SPEAKER_00]: So popular with young girls right now that's what they want to wear. [SPEAKER_00]: But enough already. [SPEAKER_02]: Actually, don't buy it.

22:36 [SPEAKER_02]: I've seen the active wear trend, okay. [SPEAKER_02]: I've seen it among the slim women are age for sure. [SPEAKER_00]: The hoodies and the, okay, well, there's a lot of it. [SPEAKER_00]: And then even, you know, even if you just go to Target and look, there's just, it's all hoodies and, [SPEAKER_00]: It's all hoodies.

22:57 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no like outfits for kids. [SPEAKER_00]: There's cute stuff for babies. [SPEAKER_00]: I like you want to have a babies. [SPEAKER_00]: I want to. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like the gash. [SPEAKER_00]: I know I thought that a few months ago. [SPEAKER_02]: I was like, oh, I saw a pan of babies commercial the other day.

23:09 [SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, or just do what they mean. [SPEAKER_02]: Like that's doing it for y'all. [SPEAKER_02]: It's like, oh, big time. [SPEAKER_02]: I want to squeeze that little baby. [SPEAKER_01]: Right. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh, she died. [SPEAKER_02]: If you have a little baby, squish it for me.

23:24 [SPEAKER_02]: Squish their little salio light eyes when they're a little t-shirts or too short and they're like pulled up on their tummy You're a little on tummy. [SPEAKER_02]: So cute. [SPEAKER_02]: Can you just hear it? [SPEAKER_02]: You're like oh Like on their tummy like I can drum poorly feel it and see it and yeah, I can't believe I got to race for babies Okay, I was talking to my cooking community about this [SPEAKER_02]: we were encouraged, I've been thinking about how to reach the next generation of home cooks and trying to make something like cooking from scratch accessible to this next generation [SPEAKER_02]: The temptation is to sort of match where they're at and say, hey, here's a 15 second reel of whatever this chicken.

24:28 [SPEAKER_02]: And trying to make it as accessible to them as possible with where they're at. [SPEAKER_02]: And part of you's like, that makes complete sense. [SPEAKER_02]: Got to meet people where they're at, go where they are, et cetera. [SPEAKER_02]: I was talking to my cooking, my kind of veteran cooking community members about this.

24:47 [SPEAKER_02]: But they were saying, the problem with that is it's kind of a lie. [SPEAKER_02]: Because cooking from scratch takes devotion, it takes forethought, it takes time. [SPEAKER_02]: And so you can maybe give them a recipe or two where they'll feel really proud of themselves. [SPEAKER_02]: And but at some point down the line, that means like actually putting TikTok away and just like remembering to pull out some meat or being willing to chop an onion.

25:16 [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I've seen a lot of trends come through that are like, I hate when people say, this is my, this is my go-to meal when I don't feel like cooking and then they start chopping an onion. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, we are talking about that is a very light lift to put a meal on the table, okay?

25:32 [SPEAKER_02]: So, part of me just wants to say, you need to change your life actually. [SPEAKER_02]: You need to be willing to change fundamentally how you're thinking about this. [SPEAKER_02]: Where I'm going with this is addressing. [SPEAKER_02]: And so my, where am I cooking community? [SPEAKER_02]: And I got to was like literally, you have to be the change that you want to see.

25:56 [SPEAKER_02]: Homecooked, healthy food on your table. [SPEAKER_02]: Guess what? [SPEAKER_02]: You're going to actually have to do some work to make that happen. [SPEAKER_02]: The same is true for feeling good in your skin, for looking good, for having a collection of clothes, for not just romping around in your yoga pants.

26:12 [SPEAKER_02]: That actually takes effort. [SPEAKER_00]: And we did thought, I mean, remember we did a whole season. [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't about clothing, the whole thing, but it was called it doesn't just happen. [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't just happen. [SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't just happen. [SPEAKER_02]: And so part of me just, that's what I want to say, which as I tell my cooking community, that doesn't look good into bikini.

26:32 [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, you actually need to change your priorities so that you do have 30 minutes. [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, oh, what? [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so Darla did this real a few weeks ago. [SPEAKER_00]: And it was so good. [SPEAKER_00]: And I thought, dang, did you just challenge people because the just of the real was, is it overwhelm?

26:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Or is it just overwhelm? [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: It was so good and she low key called people out. [SPEAKER_00]: She's like, maybe you need to just like level up a little bit. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's what I'm saying. [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe you just need to really interesting. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, for it to hear a therapist say, you don't just get to always be overwhelmed.

27:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe the calls coming from inside the house and you need some better skills for life. [SPEAKER_02]: To put what in my favorite movie really. [SPEAKER_00]: That's um, [SPEAKER_00]: That's all, you know, we don't talk that way to each other. [SPEAKER_00]: We should. [SPEAKER_02]: But well, that's just it.

27:23 [SPEAKER_02]: That's exactly it. [SPEAKER_02]: It's if you don't have time to brush your teeth. [SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_02]: You might need to level up a little bit. [SPEAKER_00]: So I've just, you know, I have a pretty high threshold. [SPEAKER_00]: It takes me a long time. [SPEAKER_00]: There's got to be a lot of hits to me as the punching bag to get to the overwhelmed point.

27:42 [SPEAKER_00]: But I have been asking myself that question, since I watched that real, is it overwhelmed? [SPEAKER_00]: Or is it justwhelmed? [SPEAKER_00]: What role am I playing in how I feel right now? [SPEAKER_00]: I would love it. [SPEAKER_02]: Stephen, I've been talking about this a lot because there's not a ton of capacity right now.

28:07 [SPEAKER_02]: Nothing is wrong. [SPEAKER_02]: Nothing is wrong and yet here we are because when you take a step back and you look at where we are we are in I just keep using the word thick like this is a very thick and dense part of life. [SPEAKER_02]: It was so much more packageable and manageable when the kids were a little or [SPEAKER_02]: That's hindsight.

28:42 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it's absolutely high in sync. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: It's like, it's like, it is, like, strength training, where you were just like, oh, you're learning your forms and you're learning. [SPEAKER_02]: And it's like, kind of delightful. [SPEAKER_02]: And then there are times when you're, like, dead lifting and you're like, I don't know if I can do this.

28:56 [SPEAKER_02]: And it's just, like, almost physically heavier to make it through this particular phase of things, you know. [SPEAKER_02]: And I imagine that you get used to bearing that weight. [SPEAKER_02]: You know, you have a almost 21-year-old now. [SPEAKER_02]: So you've kind of gotten, you've had a lot more years of practice of being in that, hey, here's this like independent person, that's not just cute and following you around and hanging on your every word and unfortunately, [SPEAKER_02]: being sweet.

29:32 [SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't hang on my every word, but yeah, I like that. [SPEAKER_02]: I think that's actually helpful. [SPEAKER_02]: What I was going to say is there's this great line and 10 things I hate about you and this this girl says, I know you can be overwhelmed and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be well and her friend says, I think you can and you're up.

29:57 [SPEAKER_02]: That's just awesome. [SPEAKER_02]: It's just one of those silly lines. [SPEAKER_00]: It's great. [SPEAKER_00]: We have conversitely. [SPEAKER_00]: Like, what do we talk all the time about? [SPEAKER_00]: We say nonchalant. [SPEAKER_00]: Nonchalant. [SPEAKER_00]: And this house all the time.

30:09 [SPEAKER_00]: There is no chalant. [SPEAKER_00]: Did you know that? [SPEAKER_00]: There's just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just non-just

30:31 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, go for it. [SPEAKER_00]: Or do you want to try zoos? [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, go ahead. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: I love this. [SPEAKER_00]: Emily says, you guys talking about your dingy pajamas and sweatpants had me chuckling out loud. [SPEAKER_00]: My fifth baby is almost a year now.

30:45 [SPEAKER_00]: That's so beautiful. [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm currently rotating between two nasty nursing bras with holes in them and stretched out breast milk stained nightgowns with half of the button's missing. [SPEAKER_00]: I can also wear my gosh. [SPEAKER_00]: I also wear this nasty cookie monster blue fuzzy grandma robe my sister thrifted for me every night before bed But my legs are always shaved [SPEAKER_00]: definitely going to have to invest in some new jammies.

31:13 [SPEAKER_00]: So in our house we call that a pollution, which is like French for stuffed animal. [SPEAKER_00]: We don't, we don't ever say stuffed animal in this house, it's just pollution. [SPEAKER_00]: So there's, there is this like, trying to like sweatshirts and robes and everything that are like, they look like shag carpeting.

31:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god. [SPEAKER_02]: You're a walking pollution monster. [SPEAKER_02]: Blue fuzzy grandma robe. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, Emily, let me encourage you. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you have five babies, so it's obviously not a problem. [SPEAKER_02]: But I did, I'm going to say this comment with Digital Monty.

31:45 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I did put on my new pajamas that were not stained, that had all the buttons, that were stylish. [SPEAKER_02]: Of course, they had jag wires on them, because I now have three, four pairs of jag wire pajama. [SPEAKER_02]: But, um, [SPEAKER_02]: It was welcome. [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe you should just stop there.

32:04 [SPEAKER_01]: Q the crickets. [SPEAKER_01]: Super crickets. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's so good. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, hopefully we've encouraged you. [SPEAKER_02]: I did it. [SPEAKER_02]: You can do it, too. [SPEAKER_02]: I remember those days when I was nursing, which was so many years, it felt like, and I had to sleep in some kind of like, [SPEAKER_02]: little top because you're milk, which is sometimes it would just, right, wake up in a puddle.

32:30 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: And so I always wanted to have something that would catch it before it would start like getting on my sheets and mattresses and stuff was funny. [SPEAKER_02]: The things you don't really remember until afterwards. [SPEAKER_02]: But yes, I remember that. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, here's one from Sarah.

32:45 [SPEAKER_02]: Day one, listener, ooh, I love that. [SPEAKER_02]: I've never commented before, but the matching socks comment is what made me decide to comment. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for giving me permission to wear mismatch socks. [SPEAKER_02]: I did not give you permission, Sarah. [SPEAKER_00]: I did.

32:56 [SPEAKER_00]: I did. [SPEAKER_02]: I did. [SPEAKER_02]: You're welcome. [SPEAKER_02]: I get so much grief for this, but who has the time to search for matching socks? [SPEAKER_02]: I adore you guys and when I'm puttering on the house, I think what did Cheyenne Angela say about this? [SPEAKER_02]: this episode had me inspired to continue trying to take care of myself.

33:13 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's so great. [SPEAKER_02]: That was the point, Sarah. [SPEAKER_02]: I love that. [SPEAKER_02]: Sounds like that was kind of the point for Emily too. [SPEAKER_00]: I will clarify the sock has to be of matching thickness. [SPEAKER_00]: I am two type A, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a [SPEAKER_02]: If I'm like come to me and she can do it.

33:52 [SPEAKER_00]: I talk to myself. [SPEAKER_02]: Left and leg first. [SPEAKER_02]: Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh- [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that makes me feel so much better because I do sometimes I challenge myself and like you can do hard things could put your lies a left sock first loser.

34:23 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't I totally get that. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what that is, but it's it's real. [SPEAKER_02]: It's it is real. [SPEAKER_02]: Sarah, let me encourage you. [SPEAKER_02]: You can match your socks. [SPEAKER_02]: You can do it. [SPEAKER_02]: You can do it. [SPEAKER_02]: Marie Kondo, she talks not just like folding them, you know?

34:47 [SPEAKER_02]: And it's like, it's like, it's a pleasure point. [SPEAKER_02]: You and you open your drawer and you just, there's like this little full of the little envelope of matching socks. [SPEAKER_02]: It's really delightful. [SPEAKER_02]: This is coming from somebody who just converted like two years ago because my friend Sarah was like, get your life together.

35:06 [SPEAKER_02]: Get your life together, match your socks. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, it's possible. [SPEAKER_02]: D-Bo-R-O-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W-A-D-W [SPEAKER_02]: steak and tartar.

35:28 [SPEAKER_02]: I made this another day and everyone really loved it. [SPEAKER_02]: Allison remains steak like tartar. [SPEAKER_02]: It's rare steak topped with the sauce of all the tartar fixens. [SPEAKER_02]: Shall we keep her parsley a bit of acid olive oil, Worcestershire sauce and chowies? [SPEAKER_02]: Chives, if you have them, almost the texture of salsa Verde so good.

35:46 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, let's talk about this because we record these on Friday. [SPEAKER_02]: Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, and we are in the thick dense forest of life, and our friends are, a lot of our friends are too. [SPEAKER_02]: And so I had this thought a few weeks ago, like wouldn't it be nice to do a Valentine's party?

36:07 [SPEAKER_02]: for a few friends of ours who are in the real thick of it right now. [SPEAKER_02]: Like, this would be a blessing to them where there husbands don't have to plan something. [SPEAKER_02]: They can just come over and partake of something really delightful. [SPEAKER_02]: And so I am making steak tartar, but I'm actually not searing it.

36:26 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going the full monti rare tenderloin. [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm really looking forward to it. [SPEAKER_02]: And we call these, I wrote a, not a podcast, a sub stack on this this week. [SPEAKER_02]: And we call these unnecessary, which fills very Angela read love. [SPEAKER_02]: A swaray for no reason, very unnecessary, but we bust out like our formal wear.

36:51 [SPEAKER_02]: One of our guests always comes in a tuxedo. [SPEAKER_02]: It's like weak flowers, lighting, candles, the good bottles of wine, China, all the, I'm wearing my great-grandmother's jewelry tomorrow. [SPEAKER_02]: Like, we'll go have fun. [SPEAKER_02]: We bust it out. [SPEAKER_02]: And so, the menu, since you asked.

37:20 [SPEAKER_02]: I'm making chocolates, a lemon sorbet. [SPEAKER_02]: Chocolate Afelgato, which is like an espresso shum, like a short over, so that's dessert, right? [SPEAKER_02]: And then I'm doing shrimp cocktail and steak tartar and grilled flank steak, because there are a few guests that won't eat the tartar.

37:42 [SPEAKER_02]: And there will be stuffed mushrooms, wedge salads, chicken liver paté, [SPEAKER_02]: and then a barata roasted beet salad and in a root list. [SPEAKER_02]: So it's like appetizery stuff and people have all the people to bring the different dishes and we just pile them all together and make it fabulous.

38:06 [SPEAKER_02]: And I love it. [SPEAKER_02]: Can you hear that kid screaming? [SPEAKER_02]: Nope. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Nope, great, I can't, good news. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, here is a comment from Rachel, hold away. [SPEAKER_02]: This is funny. [SPEAKER_02]: Did we mention being people being listener since the beginning because a lot of these comments start with day one listener?

38:29 [SPEAKER_02]: I don't remember what was a said something. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, she says listener since the beginning and I never miss an episode. [SPEAKER_02]: You have helped me level up as a homemaker and develop my heart in the process. [SPEAKER_02]: Little did I know that [SPEAKER_02]: I would come to need these skills desperately when last year my husband was suddenly diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.

38:48 [SPEAKER_02]: Now that I am juggling home making a motherhood caregiving, schoolwork, and working, these skills I have cleaned from this podcast are helping more than ever. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for all the wisdom and fun you bring to the world. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, Rachel, thank you for these kind words.

39:03 [SPEAKER_02]: What a, what a hard providence, [SPEAKER_02]: That's very, that's very special and kind of you to say. [SPEAKER_02]: So we'll be praying for for your family. [SPEAKER_02]: Put it what a difficult, what a difficult road to travel. [SPEAKER_02]: What a difficult, difficult road. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Rachel, if you want to email me, I'll make sure to put our emails in the on the show notes and we can reach out to you individually and pray with you and pray for you.

39:41 [SPEAKER_02]: I love that. [SPEAKER_02]: It's funny where this podcast finds people, all different people. [SPEAKER_02]: They're all walking through so many different things. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_02]: Goodness. [SPEAKER_02]: Do what we need to read you a, and maybe not so nice one?

39:57 [SPEAKER_02]: Sure. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I guess we don't get to be very often. [SPEAKER_02]: You guys are awesome. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, this from Kelly. [SPEAKER_02]: This philosophy leaves men completely out of the experience of home making. [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe it's not the stereotype for men to want to nurture their families and run a household, but that doesn't mean they all want to be completely left out of the process and spend their whole lives in a never-ending emotionless quest for money until they die ten years before their wives.

40:26 [SPEAKER_02]: I can just see your brain. [SPEAKER_02]: Any more than women want to give up their dreams to take care of everyone else. [SPEAKER_02]: Hmm. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Life experience shouldn't be bifurcated by biology. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, it's two women hosting a show on home making.

40:49 [SPEAKER_00]: So if it was like two women in a guy, then we would talk about how men contribute to home making. [SPEAKER_00]: But it's not. [SPEAKER_00]: And we do [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I'm not quite sure what philosophy in particular we're referencing, but it is two girlfriends talking about taking care of their homes.

41:14 [SPEAKER_00]: So I don't think there's much more that needs to be read it into that. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, okay, tell you what, after this week, I thought, thank goodness, I am not in any kind of position. [SPEAKER_02]: They're right. [SPEAKER_02]: We're just gonna leave it there. [SPEAKER_02]: We're just gonna leave it there.

41:39 [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, here's a question for you. [SPEAKER_00]: Men take care of the home, too. [SPEAKER_00]: That's not what the show's about though. [SPEAKER_00]: That's not what we're talking about. [SPEAKER_00]: What? [SPEAKER_00]: That I said men take care of the home, too.

41:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: And should absolutely, as we say in this house, absolutely contribute. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: But that's not so. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank God, I'm taking care of other people and not just myself because the navel gazing. [SPEAKER_02]: Let me give up my, let me just look at my dreams as if they're going to fulfill me in some kind of meaningful way.

42:07 [SPEAKER_02]: It's one of those weird paradoxes you really can't explain. [SPEAKER_02]: where, how can you pour out your life and give up your dreams and give up your life and give up your career and give up all these things to take care of your family in a meaningful way? [SPEAKER_02]: How do you explain to somebody that like, and then the Lord seven folds, 70 folds, 700 times folds, that goodness and fulfillment and joy and pleasure and love in your family.

42:37 [SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean? [SPEAKER_00]: That's a whole. [SPEAKER_02]: That's a whole thing. [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_00]: That comments a whole show. [SPEAKER_00]: I'll pass. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I told you I would read some of the ones. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: So here we go. [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway.

42:47 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Audrey Klein's. [SPEAKER_02]: Again, long time listeners, since 2020, when the world started ending, I love how we can leave comments. [SPEAKER_02]: Now, I have a question for Angela and Shea for Angela the skincare queen. [SPEAKER_02]: If you had a tight budget and could only prioritize two skincare products, which would you choose and how would you use them?

43:05 [SPEAKER_02]: And Shea, if you had a tight budget, these are all pretty safe. [SPEAKER_02]: You can use a bunch of summer could only purchase one protein or meat product. [SPEAKER_02]: to make a variety of meats for your family. [SPEAKER_02]: Which would you prioritize? [SPEAKER_02]: Love that question, Audrey.

43:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: Let me think. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: My knee-jerk reaction is, I'm going to do some sort of a vitamin C serum. [SPEAKER_00]: So I know ironically, I just mentioned that with tubes, but I'm going to do some okay vitamin C serum. [SPEAKER_00]: And then, because I do, I do like an oily and I do think vitamin C, there's, it's kind of, it's not new and up in coming, but I think they're learning a lot more about how vitamin C affects the skin, okay, um, topical that is, yeah, and then I'm going to do some goopy cream, I'm going to do some heavy night cream to go on top, okay.

43:57 [SPEAKER_00]: So whether that's tubes is a talo frankincense or one of the French brands I love like a codely Grand crew night cream. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to do a vitamin C serum and something just beyond my age requirements. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so I've always approached my skin care beyond what my skin needed if that makes sense.

44:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_00]: So in high school, I was using stuff for my 20s and my 20s. [SPEAKER_00]: I was using stuff for to that women typically use in their late 30s. [SPEAKER_00]: Like I'm always eventually that'll run out. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'll hit my ceiling, right? [SPEAKER_00]: You know, but starts what they're making.

44:42 [SPEAKER_00]: But that's [SPEAKER_00]: Like I started using I cream at 17, right? [SPEAKER_00]: Like that's so I've always kind of jumped up ahead But that's my answer a vitamin C serum nice and oily and Or you know like um yeah, oily consistency and then something goby and strong because you can use if you Like for a daytime moisturizer you could use just use less of that if you only have two products to use Okay, that was that for decisive [SPEAKER_00]: What are you laughing at?

45:16 [SPEAKER_02]: What are you thinking? [SPEAKER_02]: I creep at 17, and I'm like drinking Spodium. [SPEAKER_01]: You're doing what? [SPEAKER_01]: What? [SPEAKER_01]: Drinking Spodium out of a bathtub. [SPEAKER_00]: What the heck is Spodium? [SPEAKER_00]: I can't even know what that is. [SPEAKER_01]: That's another episode.

45:38 [SPEAKER_00]: You drank something out of a bathtub? [SPEAKER_00]: What are you talking about? [SPEAKER_02]: Or are you a little party or she? [SPEAKER_02]: As we say in my family, much better now. [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I think I agree. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, okay, but that's not like, look, my grandma was a farmer's wife and she got in with one of the, like a, like, not Mary K but the other one back at the time it was called Beauty Control.

46:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, okay, and like it was crazy because like this lady and Mary Kay like went to the same church in Texas and like this couple started this company. [SPEAKER_00]: Well my sweet grandma who's my bestie The one I'm always going to see she about this woman at the mall and my grandmother had only ever used like maybe Ponds or something.

46:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, she never worn makeup. [SPEAKER_00]: She was a farmer's wife never worn makeup never did nothing beautiful woman [SPEAKER_00]: but didn't know how. [SPEAKER_00]: So she learned how to do her eyeshadow and take care of her skin from this lady and then one weekend at the farm, she had like this clinic and we all learned and I was 12 and like my mom, like it's not like my mom didn't wear makeup and stuff.

47:00 [SPEAKER_00]: My mom was like using amwear. [SPEAKER_00]: We were from [SPEAKER_00]: Michigan and white eyeshadow was really big and stuff, but like that was kind of like this family vibe We're all the women were learning how to take care of their skin and stuff and I was coming into adolescence So I was just in that.

47:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that was I was just in that space. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was fun. [SPEAKER_00]: My grandma always had like Shelves of it. [SPEAKER_00]: She was totally into it. [SPEAKER_00]: It was so fun. [SPEAKER_00]: So [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, when we used to have sleepovers as young girls and like drink from a band Oh, yeah, I mean, you know, we would like do each other's hair and do each other's makeup like just have fun.

47:37 [SPEAKER_02]: I remember us like smearing our faces full of ponds face cream before but okay. [SPEAKER_02]: like, you know, thick jokes. [SPEAKER_02]: Why I don't know, we were 13, like, with me wrinkles, that's what my mom had to slather it all on. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, that's funny. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, for my part of the question, if I could only purchase one protein or meat product, I'd love this.

48:04 [SPEAKER_02]: question, Audra. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: So, what I would choose for me personally would be a really inexpensive tough cut of some sort of red meat on the bone. [SPEAKER_02]: So. [UNKNOWN]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: You know, I think Chuck Rose would probably be the most like traditional example that people would be familiar with, but there are others.

48:26 [SPEAKER_02]: I really like shoulder roasts and that could be like it could be venison. [SPEAKER_02]: It could be elk. [SPEAKER_02]: It could be beef. [SPEAKER_02]: It could be lamb. [SPEAKER_02]: Some sort of red meat. [SPEAKER_02]: I find cooking I'm actually working on a class about this right this moment, but [SPEAKER_02]: It's when you can learn how to cook something low and slow, it can be so economical because you can get really expensive cuts or inexpensive cuts, rather, that are tough.

48:54 [SPEAKER_02]: So they're from areas that the animal uses a lot, like their shoulders, like their neck, neck roasts are fantastic and very inexpensive. [SPEAKER_02]: you can put them in a pot and cook them really low and slow, and then not only do you get all this beautiful pull-up part incredibly well-flavored meat, but then you also get the residual broth that's left over that I'll just quickly strain, pour some pasta in or pour some veggies in or put some of that meat back into.

49:28 [SPEAKER_02]: So [SPEAKER_02]: If I had to just like go to a grocery store and buy a piece of meat, I would buy a bone and cherries or a bone and cherries of red meat. [SPEAKER_02]: I also have a blood type that does really, like I need red meat. [SPEAKER_02]: Some people, they don't feel that way. [SPEAKER_02]: I feel that way.

49:49 [SPEAKER_02]: I think if I don't have it, I really start to feel poor. [SPEAKER_02]: So no chicken breasts here. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_02]: Mm. [SPEAKER_02]: Charlie, okay. [SPEAKER_02]: That was a great question. [SPEAKER_02]: That is a great question. [SPEAKER_02]: That is a great question.

50:08 [SPEAKER_02]: Um, okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Tyler North asked us if we have any favorite Christian books. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm also curious if you guys do audio or physical books. [SPEAKER_02]: I can hear Stewart in my mind saying, all books are Christian books. [SPEAKER_02]: All great stories are Christian stories because they all follow the story arc of fallen and redemption ultimately.

50:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Like are we talking like, I don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: Novels? [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_02]: I have to, the rings is a Christian book. [SPEAKER_00]: But not because it, yeah, yeah, like if we're going to talk like romancey like girly books, like I'm not talking about, you know, see us a little bit, sir, anything.

51:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, high level. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, well, that's okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Is that what she does? [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, not like fiction, like B treats? [SPEAKER_00]: No. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, like, [SPEAKER_00]: or like devotionals like or like what is she I don't think she doesn't say.

51:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, my mind is getting to give to for fun because because we have like, okay, this is for fun. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: And I grew up reading these books. [SPEAKER_00]: My mom and I loved them. [SPEAKER_00]: There were this old because we used to have a zandervan.

51:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, I'm from Grand Rapids, right? [SPEAKER_00]: So we had a zandervan books. [SPEAKER_00]: We would go all the time. [SPEAKER_00]: There was this series called Stone Wick and that's probably what started my like Scotland [SPEAKER_00]: fascination. [SPEAKER_00]: It was so good and it spanned from, I don't know, the 17 or 1800s into modern times and there were a lot of them.

51:55 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm trying to think of how to spell it, but those were excellent and they're, you know, not inappropriate. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Stone W. Y. C. K. E. I think the Stone Wick series [SPEAKER_00]: maybe it started with like the Zion trilogy and that was a really a great story about a woman who was forced by the Nazis to be prostitute in the camps and then ends up in Israel as it's becoming a nation and all the struggles there really great series started with the Zion trilogy and then expanded into more as well.

52:38 [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: So those are just like fun, if you want, like, fun, beat you up. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think I've had Christian category. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Like explicitly Christian fiction. [SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, mere Christianity. [SPEAKER_02]: That's, mere Christianity is like right.

52:54 [SPEAKER_02]: Like at that, like, the Tom on, it's the TV to be down. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, this is, this one doesn't look good in a bikini, but a book that really shaped how I saw the world was called Reform Theology by R.C. [SPEAKER_02]: and I've read it many, many times over the years and I still just find it so good.

53:15 [SPEAKER_00]: He has another good one that we use with the, it's called truth sweeper a fast. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Truth sweep confess and it's just kind of as like one pageers concept versus like it's just like one or two pages per, per concept, per truth. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, our sea sprawl changed my life.

53:35 [SPEAKER_02]: He, [SPEAKER_02]: I cannot wait until the day I get to meet him in glory. [SPEAKER_02]: His work is just phenomenal. [SPEAKER_02]: His consequence of ideas is spectacular. [SPEAKER_02]: He does a lot of great ones, but honestly, [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to, I'm going to plug Stu here. [SPEAKER_02]: If you guys are interested in reading through Lord of the Rings and seeing what I'm talking about, Stu is going to walk his newsletter subscribers because he's actually teaching it to Owen our 13-year-old.

54:11 [SPEAKER_02]: He's teaching it to his class and so he's just going to share his lectures and the material and some of this through a guided kind of walk through the Lord of the Rings. [SPEAKER_02]: So I'll put, I'll put that in the show notes. [SPEAKER_02]: But, um, [SPEAKER_02]: the incredible character of Ergon in the Lord of the Rings.

54:33 [SPEAKER_02]: The Christ like journey of him being this righteous king who can't yet fulfill its spectacular. [SPEAKER_02]: I love these books and I love how it's [SPEAKER_02]: It's Christian themes, but it's woven into a story that anybody can enjoy, whether or not they see it in that capacity or not Tolken was obviously a varied about Catholic.

55:04 [SPEAKER_02]: And so he most certainly wrote it with particular themes. [SPEAKER_02]: But anyway, those are some of my favorites. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm reading the great Gatsby right now. [SPEAKER_02]: So fun and particular and lovely. [SPEAKER_02]: finished Robertson gruesome. [SPEAKER_02]: So, that was, that was another one.

55:27 [SPEAKER_02]: So, let, let girl are continues. [SPEAKER_02]: So, if you guys have any more narration, recommendations, then them my way for sure. [SPEAKER_02]: I love that. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: We've got one more. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: You do one more. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

55:36 [SPEAKER_00]: Sure. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: This is from Jeannie. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Ladies. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my gosh. [SPEAKER_00]: Stop. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm scrubbing my sink, crying laughing at paramedics. [SPEAKER_00]: Let me die. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my clothes.

55:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that. [SPEAKER_00]: over the underwear status to funny and true life is just too much sometimes you both make it more bearable and hang in there, say this to show pass with kids growing older and breaking your mama heart minor 34 and 36. [SPEAKER_00]: I also thought I may not make it through life is good and all things come full circle.

56:08 [SPEAKER_00]: It's nice way to end. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they, oh, man, I trying to kind of rev up my spirits a little bit this week. [SPEAKER_02]: I went back through old photographs, which I shared on our subject today, last Friday. [SPEAKER_02]: And I just put together pictures of beautiful things that lifted my spirits from all over the years.

56:32 [SPEAKER_02]: And I found some of when the kids were were little. [SPEAKER_02]: And, oh, my [SPEAKER_02]: don't sometimes you just feel so lucky that you got to be the one beside them. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh, I can't even. [SPEAKER_00]: I, yes, I just think they're so amazing and I got to be with them.

57:01 [SPEAKER_00]: I got to be their [SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh, she's almost 10. [SPEAKER_02]: My baby is almost 10. [SPEAKER_02]: And I picked her up from a friend's house last night. [SPEAKER_02]: And I hadn't seen her during the day because she'd been at co-op with Stewart and then she went over to a friend's house.

57:21 [SPEAKER_02]: So I didn't see her all day. [SPEAKER_02]: And I picked her up and she like just nestled into me and she literally then she pulls back and she grabs my face and she just kisses me all over my face. [SPEAKER_02]: And she's like, I missed you so much. [SPEAKER_02]: And also, just thinking, hey, there's not that many more times where I get to enjoy her like for breath.

57:44 [SPEAKER_02]: And she's just like, all of my own. [SPEAKER_02]: Just but I can't believe that I get to be the person who your affection is geared towards in such a way. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, my youngest is like a so affectionate to me. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: It's overwhelmed. [SPEAKER_00]: It's so it's like a gift a hundred times a day.

58:06 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: It really is. [SPEAKER_02]: It's it's one of those just like who am I. [SPEAKER_02]: Who am I that that you're that you're love when. [SPEAKER_02]: Especially when you just sometimes when you just have bad days and bad weeks and you're like, I'm not worthy of anybody's love.

58:25 [SPEAKER_02]: I barely making it through right now. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: So what a sweet way to end to love that. [SPEAKER_02]: Ladies, we hope you have a great week. [SPEAKER_02]: the end. [SPEAKER_02]: No. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for your confidence. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sharing them. [SPEAKER_02]: As always, you can find the information for ways you can support the podcast, ways you can go to Paris with Angela, ways you could come to Italy with me, ways you can read through Lord of the Rings with Stewart, and support the advertisers of the podcast, all of those those links and then all that information will be in the show notes.

59:00 [SPEAKER_02]: So you can find it there. [SPEAKER_02]: We appreciate you. [SPEAKER_01]: I give a Paris plug really quick. [SPEAKER_00]: Can I give a Paris book? [SPEAKER_01]: Really quick? [SPEAKER_00]: Ladies, if you would like to come, I have a roommate who needs a buddy. [SPEAKER_00]: It's the last spot for 2026.

59:14 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the four days in Paris, four days in advance. [SPEAKER_00]: And so it's a double occupancy, so it's a little bit less than the single occupancy, and I have this beautiful woman who's been on the trips before and she needs a roomy. [SPEAKER_00]: So if you want to come, there's maybe one spot if it's right for you.

59:33 [SPEAKER_02]: There you go. [SPEAKER_02]: Then you can just linger in Paris a little bit longer because that's in September, right? [SPEAKER_02]: Or yours is in October. [SPEAKER_00]: Mine's September 23rd to October 1st. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, so you can come to Italy with me, fill up on pasta and then go walk off all your calories in Paris with Angela.

59:52 [SPEAKER_02]: Cool. [SPEAKER_02]: One is yours. [SPEAKER_02]: So we're September 7th through September 13th and it will be Stuart and I taken you on a culinary journey through Umbrea through biodynamic gardens and truffle hunting and pasta making and wine tasting and what Italy does. [SPEAKER_02]: On a truffle hunt with very, very, very best.

1:00:13 [SPEAKER_02]: We'll come with me. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh, that sounds lovely. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, okay, onward and upward ladies, next week we'll be almost the last week of February so we're good. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, we'll see you next week. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, cheers. [SPEAKER_01]: Cheers.