Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: This is the Morning Journey. Rewind with Mark and Brittany. Never miss a moment.
[00:00:04] Speaker B: This week on the Morning Journey podcast, Mark and Brittany talk all things fall, including pumpkin spice. Have you signed up your office for Tuesday tasty treats? And did you know that the grocery store can be the biggest source of anxiety? Also, would you try the new social media trend of towel stripping? And did you know that when we don't respond in anger, we're actually rewiring our brains?
[00:00:27] Speaker C: Last week, Brittany was looking all over the stores for Count Chocula cereal. And then on Friday morning, one of our listeners showed up and she had a box of the cereal. So did you get to eat any of it over the weekend?
[00:00:39] Speaker B: I did, yeah. Thank you so much to Carrie. And then yesterday when I went to church, my friend Don actually bought me another box. So now I have two giant family size boxes of Count Chocula. I am so excited. I look forward to this every year and it's hard to find and I. I haven't been able to find it in the store yet. It's like looking for like a golden goose egg or something. Like, I haven't seen it. But thanks to some generous people, I now have two boxes.
[00:01:02] Speaker C: So now will the two boxes get you through the fall?
[00:01:06] Speaker B: I think so, but Stella likes it too, my daughter. And so she's been just eating it even without milk. But then she just picks the marshmallows out. So I will probably have a lot of just plain chocolate cereal here in a while because she's eating all my marshmallows.
[00:01:19] Speaker A: Your day starts with encouragement. The morning journey with Mark and Brittani.
[00:01:24] Speaker B: Well, Duck Donuts is doing something fun for the month of October. Mark, do you want to know what your spooky name is?
[00:01:29] Speaker C: My spooky name?
[00:01:30] Speaker B: Spooky name, yes. So when is your birthday?
[00:01:33] Speaker C: March 9th.
[00:01:33] Speaker B: Okay, so March, your first part of your spooky name is strawberry.
[00:01:38] Speaker C: What?
[00:01:39] Speaker B: Oh. And then the ninth. Okay, so your name is Strawberry Powdered Sugar.
[00:01:43] Speaker C: That's not spooky.
[00:01:44] Speaker B: Which is not spooky at all.
[00:01:46] Speaker C: I don't like that.
I don't think I like strawberry powdered sugar.
[00:01:50] Speaker B: Would you eat a strawberry powdered sugar donut?
[00:01:53] Speaker C: No, because I don't like powdered sugar.
[00:01:56] Speaker B: You don't like powdered sugar?
[00:01:57] Speaker C: No.
[00:01:58] Speaker B: Who doesn't like powdered sugar?
[00:01:59] Speaker C: I will eat it if it's on something, but it's not my. Not my favorite.
[00:02:03] Speaker B: You get like French toast out. You're like, send it back. There's powdered sugar on this?
[00:02:05] Speaker C: Yeah, I get choked on it.
[00:02:08] Speaker B: That's true. That can happen. So mine is my birthday is May so marshmallow. And my birthday is the second so marshmallow. Halloween bats.
[00:02:17] Speaker C: Those aren't spooky.
[00:02:19] Speaker B: Not really. No. They are.
[00:02:20] Speaker C: I guess I think of spooky as scary, right?
[00:02:22] Speaker B: They're like flavors and types of donuts. It is duck donuts after all. They're just trying to get you to get your birthday donut. They're not trying to get you to be scared.
[00:02:29] Speaker C: I just kind of channel surfing through the radio.
[00:02:32] Speaker A: Families are catching on and I'm like, wow, this is pretty cool to the best way.
[00:02:35] Speaker C: But now this is the only thing.
[00:02:36] Speaker A: I listen to now to wake up.
[00:02:38] Speaker B: My style of everything has started and changed.
[00:02:40] Speaker A: It's the Morning Journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:02:43] Speaker C: Family did something for the first time. Camped out in the backyard. It was the tent, the sleeping bag, the bug spray, the whole deal.
[00:02:50] Speaker B: Oh yeah.
[00:02:50] Speaker C: So how did it go?
[00:02:51] Speaker B: Yeah, Stella's first time camping. We used to go camping all the time with our friends, but since Stella's been born, we haven't gone. And so we figured we'd try it out in the yard and see how it goes. She did great. It was hard to put her to bed while we were like trying to wait for the fire to die out because she knew we were still out there waiting for the fire to die out. But once she got to sleep, we hung out for a little while. And then she did pretty good overnight. She woke up once and asked for her little light to be her little lantern to be turned on. So I turned and then at 6:40 in the morning, she woke up and was like, take me to the potty. And so we were up at 6:40. We were out of the tent and it was very dewy. The cool part about it though is the moon on Saturday night was like beautiful. It almost was so bright. It was like daytime. So overall I say it went well.
[00:03:39] Speaker C: So you would recommend that for people maybe who haven't tried that before?
[00:03:42] Speaker B: I would. And in the yard, it's like so non committal. There's a bathroom right up at the house so we could go in. We tried really hard not to, unless we absolutely had to, to make it more authentic. And we did s', mores, which was probably her favorite part.
[00:03:56] Speaker A: Start on a positive note. You're on the Morning Journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:04:02] Speaker C: So I bought some ice cream at the store yesterday. I thought I bought chocolate chip until I got home and realized it was coffee chocolate chip. So we'll see if that is A yes or no. But Brittany, you had pumpkin ice cream over the weekend?
[00:04:14] Speaker B: Yeah. There's this food truck at a place that we went and they were selling desserts. And so I got a pumpkin like cookie with cream in the midd.
It was so good. And then we got pumpkin ice cream for my daughter because that's what she wanted. And I tasted was something. I mean, it was good. It had like caramel and whipped cream and pecans on top. So very folly. But it tasted more like pumpkin pie. And I don't like pumpkin pie.
[00:04:38] Speaker C: You don't like pumpkin pie.
[00:04:39] Speaker B: Right.
[00:04:39] Speaker C: So pumpkin pie I like. I'll eat that. But I'm not big on like the pumpkin spice and coffee. All the other flavor type stuff.
[00:04:47] Speaker B: No pumpkin flavored things. Not your thing. Yeah. So the cookie was really good. The ice cream, I'll give it kind of like a five out of. But she loved it, like ate the whole thing. Phil loved it. They both were like, this is great. Better than the cookie. And I said the cookie was better. But either way, we got dessert and it was pumpkin flavored.
[00:05:02] Speaker C: So there you go.
[00:05:03] Speaker B: It was fun.
[00:05:04] Speaker A: You're on. The morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:05:07] Speaker C: Is that time of the year pumpkin picking?
[00:05:10] Speaker B: It is. Yeah. We went and picked our pumpkins at the pumpkin patch yesterday. And it's funny because me and my husband always like, try to find some big ones. And Stella, we normally get her like a small, smaller one, just like slightly smaller because we still want to carve it and everything.
Well, she decides that she wants a giant one too. And we're like, okay, that's fine, you know, yeah, whatever. But she picks a white one with bumps all over it, like one of those, like gnarly, like bumpy just pumpkins. Then we go to check out and we find out that hers is technically, I guess, considered like decorative.
So it is more per pound than ours.
[00:05:52] Speaker C: She bought the expensive bumpy pumpkin.
[00:05:55] Speaker B: The ugly pumpkin is worth more than the others, apparently.
[00:05:59] Speaker A: From the alarm to the workplace, helping you start your day.
[00:06:03] Speaker C: I'm on my way to work.
[00:06:04] Speaker A: It's the morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:06:06] Speaker C: Well, this is the time of year when pumpkin spice is everywhere.
Now, including your cleaning supplies, there is actually a Mr. Clean Pumpkin Spice. It is called, I believe, fall scent. So you can clean your whole house have the smell of pumpkin spice. So Brittany, as somebody who loves all things fall, is this something that you would use to clean your house?
[00:06:30] Speaker B: I don't know.
So normally I would say yes because I like the smell of like pumpkin spice things. But we have, like, those wall scents that, like, plug in that already smell like that. And sometimes you want, like, cleaning supplies to smell fresh and clean, like, cleaning supplies and not necessarily, like, baked goods.
[00:06:49] Speaker C: So I. I think it's too much. Yeah, I mean, I. I get it, but I think it. I think it's. It's too much. So on the bottom, the bottle, Mr. Clean is wearing a. A beanie.
[00:07:02] Speaker B: Oh, gotta keep that head warm.
[00:07:03] Speaker C: Brown, you know, beanie. It's kind of an odd look for Mr. Clean.
[00:07:07] Speaker B: It is. Normally you're used to seeing that shiny head. So I'm also the type of person that, like, I would have to smell it first. And so if you ever see me in a store, like, testing out the Febreze, like, I will spray, like, the little price area in the store.
[00:07:20] Speaker C: Do you really? Yeah.
[00:07:22] Speaker B: Or I'll, like, spray it in the air and, like, kind of sniff at it. Like, I'd have to smell it before I said yes or no.
[00:07:28] Speaker C: Well, you can look for your Mr. Clean Spiced Harvest or look for me.
[00:07:32] Speaker B: In the grocery store.
[00:07:33] Speaker A: Spraying good company makes for a great day. The morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:07:39] Speaker C: Well, we gave out our first Tuesday tasty treats at the end of September, and now it's time to get your office signed up for the opportunity to have the journey deliver the delicious treats to your office here in October.
[00:07:51] Speaker B: Yeah. Our first winner was Diane with Blue Eagle Credit Union winning treats from Sweet Indulgence Bakery for her office. And you could be next myjourneyfm.com for all the details. You just might win, and we'll be delivering treats again in just a couple of weeks.
[00:08:05] Speaker A: Your day starts with encouragement. The morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:08:10] Speaker C: Decisions, decisions. I didn't realize that we make about 50 decisions every day. 1.5 million decisions over our lifetime.
[00:08:19] Speaker B: That blows my mind. I mean, you got. You think about it, though. You make a decision of what you eat, when you eat, what you wear.
[00:08:25] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:08:25] Speaker B: I mean, how you drive to work, like, what you do at work. I mean, there's so many things I think about, like when it comes to making decisions that a lot of decisions we make subconsciously, and we don't even think about what goes into that decision. But some. Some situations are a little more stressful.
[00:08:39] Speaker C: So the grocery store, when it comes to anxiety about our decisions, that seems to be the big trigger. Yeah.
41% of our decisions in the stores, we second guess the grocery store.
[00:08:54] Speaker B: I get that because that can be overwhelming because there's so many options. I think that's when you just make a list and then you get the things on the list and you don't have to think about what you're going to eat when you're in the store because you've already got a list of it and that makes it easier.
[00:09:08] Speaker C: So in this study that we're talking about, the average person spends about four minutes deciding each item. I don't think I've ever, I don't do that. I tend to buy the same thing all the time.
[00:09:19] Speaker B: So I think it goes back to making the list because if it's on the list, you're going to just grab it and go. You're not going to stand there for four minutes and be like, should I get this? Should I not? Could I use this in a meal? Could I not? Because we plan out our meals, then we plan out the list and then I stick to the list. My husband, he goes rogue a lot and let's my daughter Stella pick out whatever she wants. A bunch of random stuff anytime they go to the store together. That makes me anxious when they go together.
[00:09:43] Speaker C: I know when my dad, my mom has told me this, when my dad shops, he goes up and down every single aisle.
[00:09:49] Speaker B: Oh no, he does that.
[00:09:50] Speaker C: And some people do.
[00:09:51] Speaker B: I do my best to avoid a whole aisle if I can. If I'm like, oh, let me look at the list. Oh, I don't need anything down that aisle. Woohoo.
The biggest anxiety for me in the grocery store, we were talking about it earlier, comes to picking the line, like the checkout line. Because I always pick the wrong line.
Like I'm like, oh, that person only has two items but then they like need a price check on something and then it turns into a whole thing. So yeah, my anxiety comes from picking the line, not the items.
[00:10:15] Speaker C: Four minutes, deciding each item.
[00:10:17] Speaker B: Four minutes.
[00:10:18] Speaker C: My goal is to get out of the store in four minutes.
[00:10:21] Speaker B: Right.
[00:10:22] Speaker C: I just kind of channel surfing through the radio.
[00:10:24] Speaker A: Families are catching on and I'm like.
[00:10:26] Speaker C: Wow, this is pretty cool.
[00:10:27] Speaker A: To the best way.
[00:10:28] Speaker C: So now this is the only thing.
[00:10:29] Speaker A: I listen to now to wake up.
[00:10:30] Speaker B: My style of everything has started and changed.
[00:10:33] Speaker A: It's the morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:10:35] Speaker C: There is this new thing out on social media. It is called towel stripping. This is when you take your bath towels and soak them in a tub with a combination of cleaners and the results are surprising and disgusting.
[00:10:50] Speaker B: Yeah, washing towels is one thing, but Jared and Ashley took it a whole step further and they decided that they were going to strip their towels. So they put all their towels that were clean, they had been washed in a tub overnight with arm and hammer, baking soda, borax, oxiclean, and hot water.
And the next morning, they were shocked because the tub was almost black.
[00:11:11] Speaker C: They posted a video or a picture of this. It is unbelievable.
[00:11:15] Speaker B: It is so gross.
[00:11:15] Speaker C: But. And these were freshly washed towels, right?
[00:11:18] Speaker B: I can't say I've ever stripped a towel. I'm guessing you haven't either.
[00:11:21] Speaker C: I don't. Yeah, I've never done that.
[00:11:23] Speaker B: I wash our towels, but I've never stripped them before.
[00:11:25] Speaker C: So apparently what happens is that over the years, these.
These microscopic amounts of soap and detergent get locked into the fiber of the towels, and then that causes dirt and grime to attach to the fibers, even after going through the washing machine.
[00:11:40] Speaker B: That's gross.
[00:11:41] Speaker C: Does it make you want to now strip your towels?
[00:11:43] Speaker B: It makes me want to just throw all my towels away and buy new ones.
[00:11:47] Speaker A: Good company makes for a great day. You're on the morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:11:52] Speaker C: I will admit it. I will raise my hand that sometimes when I am in traffic, I get very frustrated with the cars in front of me.
[00:12:00] Speaker B: For me, it's the grocery store.
[00:12:01] Speaker C: Is that what it is? Yep. Yeah. That line.
[00:12:03] Speaker B: Anytime somebody pulls out a bunch of coupons, I'm like, come on.
I'm a terrible line picker. So for me, it's the grocery store.
[00:12:10] Speaker C: Yeah. So Diana says that she was behind an older SUV and she noticed in the rear window a sign that said learning stick. Sorry for any delay. Yeah, the driver was learning to drive on a stick shift. She wondered if she would have been patient had she not seen that sign and admitted, probably, like a lot of us, no, she wouldn't have been.
But the experience, she says, taught her this, that we don't wear signs explaining what we're going through. We don't have a sign on that says, I'm going through a divorce or I've lost a child, or I'm feeling depressed.
[00:12:43] Speaker B: It's so true. When I see that at the grocery store, and sometimes it's not even, like, the coupons. It's just them talking to the cash, like, the cashier. And they're just talking and talking, and I'm like, okay, I'm trying to go. But that might be the only person that they come in contact with. It might have taken them everything they have in them to just get out and go to the store and get the groceries that they need. They might be battling depression, and we don't wear those signs. So let's think about that today as we go out. Let's choose to love each other, to be patient with each other, to show grace to each other, and to remember we don't know what anyone else is going through. And maybe we can be the smile or the comfort or the peace that they need today.
[00:13:20] Speaker A: Uplifting and encouraging because you need it now more than ever.
[00:13:24] Speaker C: You betcha.
[00:13:25] Speaker A: The Morning Journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:13:28] Speaker C: Well, if you haven't checked our podcast lineup out lately, you can do that@myjourney fm.com we've got shows and features that go beyond the music, like Diary of the Mom Squad, that's hosted by Brittany and Kate.
[00:13:39] Speaker B: Yeah, we have a new episode of that coming out tomorrow. Also, if you ever miss anything with me and Mark, we have the Morning Journey Rewind. We also will feature our artist interviews there as well, so you can catch up on those. Then we have the Hometown Journal that's hosted by Mark, and that's a great community program that we have if you want to learn about things that are going on in the community and nonprofit organizations as well. Well, so check it out. Myjourneyfm.com There's a hope cast there from Laura, who does afternoons also, and so you can really catch up and go behind the scenes of everything that's happening here on the journey.
[00:14:10] Speaker C: One of the Journey podcasts is Diary of the Mom Squad, that's hosted by Brittany and Kate And Brittany. The latest edition is out. And you guys had an author on the show?
[00:14:21] Speaker B: We did, yeah. Christine Tate. She's written several Bible studies. Her and her friends were basically looking for one that helped them get to know each other and didn't have a ton of homework and she couldn't find one. And so she wrote one and that created so many other Bible studies. And then she wrote an actual book called Mental Donuts, which she's very excited to share with us about. And so if you'd like to hear from Christine and learn more about her and her book, the podcast is out. Now all you have to do is search Diary of the Mom Squad wherever you get your podcast.
[00:14:51] Speaker A: Thanks for catching up on the Morning Journey Rewind podcast with Mark and Brittany.
