[00:00:00] Speaker A: This is the Morning Journey Rewind with Mark and Brittany. Never miss a moment.
[00:00:05] Speaker B: This week on the Morning Journey Rewind, Mark and Brittany get ready for Valentine's Day. They tell you what time is the best time to watch a movie. And what would your exhibit be in? A museum of failure. Also, Brittany makes play. D'oh. Jelly roll gives an amazing speech at the Grammys. And balancing on one leg might help you live longer.
[00:00:22] Speaker C: Looking for the most creative Valentine's poem. This is for our Valentine's Day giveaway.
[00:00:28] Speaker B: And.
[00:00:28] Speaker C: And you have now less than a week to enter your poem.
[00:00:31] Speaker B: You have a chance to win a gift card to Fleming Mountain Grill and some roses as well. So make sure you get signed
[email protected] I like this one. Hint, hint, wink, wink. Just a poem to make you think love is hugs and kisses too. Chocolate and flowers will certainly do. But you know what really takes the cake? Letting me sleep in and hot coffee when I wake.
[00:00:51] Speaker C: I like that.
[00:00:52] Speaker B: That was a really good one. Yeah. So you still have time to get your entries in.
[email protected] perhaps you are thinking about, what.
[00:00:59] Speaker C: Are you going to do for Valentine's Day? Roses are always the, I guess one of the go tos that you can get a dozen roses. Brittany got a dozen roses last year and then they had to put them together.
[00:01:12] Speaker B: Roses that never die. That's the one thing about flowers. I love flowers, and they're so beautiful, but they do die. And so my husband bought me Lego flowers, but he gave them to me on Valentine's Day last year. Okay, so, like, what am I gonna do with them this year? Like, you know, so I finally said, okay, well, I'll wait and I'll put them together before Valentine's Day. There'll be a decoration for Valentine's Day next year. So we finally sat down and I made him help me put them together. I was like, thanks for the present, but you're gonna help me.
[00:01:36] Speaker C: How many pieces?
[00:01:38] Speaker B: It was like, over 800 pieces.
[00:01:39] Speaker C: Okay. Because I'm looking at a picture of them right now, and it. I mean, it looks like a project. It was, I mean, 822 pieces actually is what it says on the.
[00:01:47] Speaker B: See? And there was like. I think they look good, though. A dozen roses and then like the baby's breath that, like, goes with it. And we got a vase out. And so they're on display in our house now. So I have a little Valentine's decoration. So I'm excited. They're really cute and they won't Ever die.
[00:02:01] Speaker C: Valentine's Day is coming up, so Brittany and I have put together some ideas for things you can do as couples in February. These are some date nights that really won't hurt the budget too much.
[00:02:13] Speaker B: Yes. Things that you can do pretty simply, actually. And I love these because we're all trying to, you know, a little bit budget conscious this year. So you can go ice skating in a public rink. Now, that one might cost you a little bit, but normally ice skating's not too, too bad. I like this one. Cook a new recipe together because then you get food out of it too.
[00:02:30] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly. I would say that's for married couples or couples that have been together for a little while so that you. You kind of know what each other likes. I wouldn't try that on a first date.
[00:02:38] Speaker B: Probably not. It could create some tension, that's for sure.
[00:02:41] Speaker C: What do you think about this one? It's called the thrift store challenge dinner. So each person gets $10 and 20 minutes to buy an outfit for the other person. Then you have to go to dinner wearing the outfit. That sounds like something that Brittany and Phil would do.
[00:02:55] Speaker B: We have done it actually, and it actually is pretty fun. And people give you some weird looks. And so we felt like we needed to over explain what we were doing because we picked some pretty ridiculous outfits for each other. So that one's a lot of fun. You can also do this one, which we've done a lot. Build a fire and just stargaze. So if you have like a fire pit in your backyard, just go out there, hang out, and build a fire.
[00:03:16] Speaker C: The other one have a board game or puzzle marathon. So if you both like games, this is a great night. It's inexpensive, it's super easy to do.
[00:03:24] Speaker B: You can do it from the comfort of your own home. You can also take a winter hike, pack some, like, Campbell soup so you stay warm. I don't really want to be out in this cold, so that one's not for me. I do love hiking, don't get me wrong. But not in the wintertime.
[00:03:38] Speaker C: So just some ideas there of idea things that you can do during February.
[00:03:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Be checking too, if you're looking for an indoor activity. A lot of museums do, like a free admission day as well, and so find something like that near you. But there are a lot of options to keep you occupied during this cold, cold weather.
[00:03:54] Speaker A: Your day starts with encouragement. The morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:03:58] Speaker C: Brittany, do you have a favorite movie time? A time that works best for your family?
[00:04:03] Speaker B: Hmm. I feel like if My daughter is involved then like anytime during the day is probably good, but maybe like for lunch, like early, like 10am ish. So that when we're done we can eat lunch and stuff. And then if she's not involved, my favorite time is probably like 6:30 or 7 because you can eat dinner beforehand, go see the movie and when the movie's over it's time for bed. Okay, so that's probably my two depending on child.
[00:04:25] Speaker C: It used to be probably I would say evenings for me if I was going to go see a movie, like I'd like to go like in that seven o', clock, you know, especially if.
[00:04:33] Speaker B: You'Re going to the theater.
[00:04:34] Speaker C: I would say though now with having to get up early, probably my favorite time is like 3 o' clock on a Saturday.
[00:04:41] Speaker B: 3 o' clock on a Saturday?
[00:04:43] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:04:43] Speaker B: Well, you could even do 3 o' clock on a weekday because then by the time you're done watching it, it's dinner time and then you can still go to bed early to get up for the, for the morning show. Yeah, if I have to watch it on a week and I could, seven's pushing it. Especially if it's like a two and a half hour movie. Two hours, nine o', clock, I'm asleep. I try to go to bed by nine. So. Yeah, but what is your favorite movie watching time? We're going to post this on our Facebook page, let us know what, what it is and why.
[00:05:07] Speaker C: We were talking about the favorite time to watch movies. I said three o' clock on a Saturday was my, my best time to watch a movie. That's when I'm, I'm alert on the weekend.
[00:05:16] Speaker B: Yeah, I said 6:30 to 7:00pm I think that goes for weekends for me as well. Like week, weekdays probably earlier would be better, but weekends, that sounds about good. Now Greta Gerwig, she's an actress and a screenwriter. She says 10am and 4pm are the two optimal times for watching a movie. She said 10am is great because it's early in the morning, the rest of the day ahead of you and you can go to lunch afterwards and talk about it and you're already pretty awake from the morning. It's not like right when you first wake up and then she kind of said 4pm for the same reason. Like you can go to dinner afterwards and talk about it and then you're not going to be up late. If you go at 4, it'll probably be over by 6, 6:30, dinner and then home for bed.
[00:05:55] Speaker C: I don't know that I've ever watched a movie at 10am I probably have.
[00:05:59] Speaker B: Just because of my daughter. Like, we'll get up on some Saturdays and watch a movie early as a family.
Um, 4:00pm Seems a little early because it seems like dinner time, but then you'll be watching movie during dinner time. So I think I'd be too hungry to watch one that early. But I get what she's saying. But we're gonna post this on our Facebook page. MyJourney FM on Facebook. You can also give us a call if you didn't know that. You can always call and be a part of the morning show at 800-424-9594. I just kind of channel surfing through the radio.
[00:06:28] Speaker A: Families are catching on.
[00:06:29] Speaker B: They're like, wow, this is pretty cool.
[00:06:30] Speaker A: To the best way.
[00:06:31] Speaker B: So now this is the only thing I listen to now to wake up. My style of everything has started in channel.
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[00:06:39] Speaker C: Well, we all have them. Those moments when we were not at our best. Those attempts that failed miserably.
And now there is an exhibit called the Museum of Personal Failures. This is in Vancouver.
[00:06:53] Speaker B: I absolutely love this. Evan Collins decided, you know what, why not put those failures on display? He's got a whole wall called the Failures wanted headline. And it just has like people's like rejection letters from their jobs and jobs they didn't get and things like that. One girl submitted her wedding dress. She said they are together, but it's just about like how their life has changed and like their ideas of marriage have kind of failed. But it's grown into something better. I have one that I would probably put on display. It would be my.
It was a sweater, it was white and now it's blue. So I would put that one on display. The first time I did laundry in college, I washed a brand new pair of jeans with my white sweater.
And so the jeans are blue and the dye from the jeans dyed my sweater blue. So that would be my display in the Museum of Failure.
[00:07:38] Speaker C: Mine would be as a teenager, my early attempts at taking care of the yard.
I cut a cord to the outside. The air conditioning unit.
[00:07:50] Speaker B: No.
[00:07:51] Speaker C: Yes. That was a rather expensive failure. And then after that we had a. It was one of the electrical trimmers. So it's got cord. And I cut the cord to the trimmer.
[00:08:03] Speaker B: So Mark's display would be two frayed cords, one for the AC unit and one for the trimmer.
[00:08:08] Speaker C: So the idea of the Wall of Failure is that you are personal. The Museum of Personal Failures Is how did you grow from that? So in college, I actually worked for a landscaping company and mowed lawn.
[00:08:20] Speaker B: Look at you.
[00:08:21] Speaker C: And had no problems.
[00:08:22] Speaker B: So much growth. I guess I've grown because I do laundry now all the time, and I haven't dyed any color since that one time. So we're growing from our failures. What a good lesson.
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[00:08:37] Speaker C: So last week, Brittany was getting ready to make some Play DOH for Stella. How did that go?
[00:08:44] Speaker B: You see my finger?
Does it look pink to you? Yes, it does. It actually went better than I thought it would. We had to mix 4 cups of flour, 2 cups of salt, cream of tartar oil, and water all together, and it, like, supposedly turns into Play Doh with, like, food coloring to dye it pink because it's, you know, February pink, Valentine's Day, and it had to be edible.
[00:09:05] Speaker C: Not that they were going to eat it, but it had to be eating right.
[00:09:07] Speaker B: They're not telling the kids to eat it, but they are three years old, so in case someone sticks it in their mouth, they prefer it to be homemade with stuff that can be eaten. And so we first got it all in there, and sure enough, it thickened up really quick. And my husband used the exact, like, perfect amount of food coloring on the first try, so it was pink. And then we. We dumped it into a baking tray to, like, kind of knead it and mix it all together. And I got a little arm workout. It was kind of hard to do, and it was very hot. So at first we started mixing it because we're trying to get the clumps of flour out. And I was, like, burning my fingers because it was sticking to them and it was burning. And I was like, okay, let's not do that. But then eventually, the more we, like, stirred it together and, like, smushed it around, the thicker it got. So it's Play Doh consistency, but I think the salt makes it a little grainy. I think you can still kind of feel the salt inside because, like, salt doesn't really dissolve.
[00:09:53] Speaker C: So does it stay together, though?
[00:09:55] Speaker B: Like, it does, yeah. It stays together. Like Play doh. It's just like a big, round, pink ball. And we sent it to school with her today. So, yeah, they're back in school, surprisingly. But hopefully they get a kick out of it and they have a lot of fun. So we did it. We made Play DOH uplifting and encouraging.
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[00:10:13] Speaker C: You betcha.
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[00:10:16] Speaker C: One of the acceptance speeches from the Grammy Sunday night that everybody is talking about is that of Jelly rolls. He used the opportunity to give all thanks and praise to God.
[00:10:27] Speaker B: Yeah, he won best Contemporary country album and really just kind of shared his story on the stage. Here's a little bit of his acceptance speech.
[00:10:34] Speaker D: There was a time in my life, y', all, that I was. I was broken. That's why I wrote this album. I didn't think I had a chance, y'.
[00:10:41] Speaker C: All.
[00:10:41] Speaker D: There was days that I thought the darkest things. I was a horrible human. There was a moment in my life that all I had was a Bible this big and a radio the same size and a 6 by 8 foot cell. And I believe that those two things could change my life. I believe that music had the power to change my life, and God had the power to change my life. And I want to tell y' all right now, Jesus is for everybody. Jesus is not owned by one political party. Jesus is not owned by no music label. Jesus is Jesus, and anybody can have a relationship with him. I love you, Lord.
[00:11:12] Speaker B: Yeah, great reminder there. And I love what he said, too. He had a Bible and a radio, and music changed his life. That is the power of songs and the Bible. And so just great to see him, you know, continuing to live out his faith in the biggest moments in his career. And so it's really cool to see.
[00:11:28] Speaker C: Yeah, it was powerful. And to hear him give a little bit of his story and then, like we said, give all the praise to God. And we know that's true when he was talking about the radio, because here at the Journey, we have received emails from people that are incarcerated. The Journey reaches in into jail cells and into prisons. And so what he says there is true. But that was powerful.
[00:11:48] Speaker B: Yes. Yes.
[00:11:49] Speaker A: It was some great music. The Morning Journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:11:53] Speaker C: It seems like there's more and more information out there about the importance of maintaining the strength and the balance. Balance in your legs as you age. I didn't know this. By the time you're 30 years old, you lose muscle mass at a rate of up to 8% per decade.
[00:12:10] Speaker B: Wow. Yeah. And the older you get, the more dangerous it is. If you do fall, you could break a hip. You could end up in assisted living. That's what happened to my grandma. I mean, the older you get, the worse your balance gets. And so it's helpful to practice as you age, and training yourself to do so can actually not only make you stronger, but it can boost your memory and keep your brain healthier. As well. They say to do it while you're like cooking or performing a task, you're more likely to like engage that frontal lobe.
[00:12:36] Speaker C: You could do it while you're mowing the lawn.
[00:12:38] Speaker B: What would I hop while I push the lawnmower? I don't think that's gonna work out so much. Let's see if we can do this. Okay. I'm gonna stand on our leg for the rest of the break. It says if you can hold a single leg, stand for more than 10 seconds, then you're gonna live longer. If you cannot, then you're 84% more likely to pass away. Okay, that's kind of dramatic. A little bit.
[00:12:58] Speaker C: Let's see. Let's see if we could do it here.
[00:13:00] Speaker B: I think we could do it for a long time. I think the only thing with me doing it now. Yeah, me too. I think the only thing is that eventually the leg you're standing on will get sore because your whole body weight is on that one leg.
More so than me losing my balance. I think I'm just gonna like fatigue on the one side.
[00:13:16] Speaker C: Maybe you should like alternate throughout the day.
[00:13:18] Speaker B: I think so. So if you do your first task on your left leg, then do your second test, like task of the day on your right leg.
[00:13:26] Speaker C: Are you still doing it?
[00:13:27] Speaker B: Yeah. Folding laundry, cooking. I mean, maybe if you have one of those stand up desk while you're writing emails.
[00:13:32] Speaker C: There you go.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, I could do this the rest of the show and just alternate legs. Everybody.
[00:13:36] Speaker C: All right, well there.
[00:13:37] Speaker B: I don't really want to, but I could. So I think we're okay. I think so. I think we're good at balancing. I think we're gonna be all right at least for the next decade.
[00:13:46] Speaker C: We're just gonna worship, we're gonna be.
[00:13:49] Speaker B: Encouraged and we're just gonna be together.
[00:13:52] Speaker A: That's the idea. You're on the morning Journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:13:56] Speaker C: You can see the top songs, you can listen to samples of the songs, and you can vote on your favorite songs. When you get signed up for the Journey music crew, the next email is.
[00:14:05] Speaker B: Going to go out on Wednesday, next week, the 11th, and this time you'll be entered in to win a chance to see Stephen Curtis chapman. He's coming February 28th in Roanoke. So make sure you get signed up before next Wednesday. We give you one email a month. You get to vote for your favorite songs. And when you fill out those surveys by Sundays at midnight, you're automatically entered in to win a prize. And this time it's tickets to see.
[00:14:26] Speaker A: Steve and Curtis Chapman start on a positive note. You're on the Morning Journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:14:33] Speaker C: Well, there is the traditional way of landing a job, and that is you send out your resumes, you go on job interviews hoping to get a job. And then there are the more unusual ways.
[00:14:45] Speaker B: Yeah, and sometimes it's a little more aggressive. You make cold calls or you go door to door. But I've never seen anybody do it quite like Susan. She's 53 years old. She's got a cleaning business and she said, guess what? I'm going to break into people's home, clean them, and then leave them notes with a phone number demanding $75 for my service.
[00:15:07] Speaker C: She cleaned the houses spotless and then left them an invoice. Look at this.
[00:15:11] Speaker B: She washed coffee mugs, took out the trash, vacuumed the carpet. The cleaning ferry is what she was calling herself. And she was just randomly picking houses. One homeowner actually had their 19 year old daughter at home sleeping. She just assumed mom hired a cleaner. So there you go.
Now, let's say this did not actually work. So maybe don't do this as your marketing strategy. She actually got arrested for burglary, but the judge gave her probation.
[00:15:37] Speaker C: Better ways to maybe get a land those people as your clients to clean their houses.
[00:15:42] Speaker B: Yes, there are ways to get a job and ways not to get a job. And you know, good job, Susan, for trying, but that's not the way to do it.
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[00:15:54] Speaker C: If you've been working on your family budget and you're wondering, where's my money going, might want to check your refrigerator. The refrigerator is costing us on average $762 a year.
But it's really not the refrigerator's fault. It's what's in the refrigerator that we are letting expire.
[00:16:12] Speaker B: Yeah, we know groceries are expensive, but that's just the money we spend on wasted food every year. That's food we're not even eating, which is almost $1,000, which is crazy to me. But when I sit back and thinking about it, sometimes you buy like a sauce and you use it like for one time in a recipe and it only calls for a cup and then it just sits in your refrigerator. And then for me, the hard thing is like, my daughter loves fruit, but fruit does not last. It goes so quick. And so, I mean, she eats it every day and still by the end of the week, there's like half of a thing of strawberries I have to throw out because they're, like, starting to mold.
[00:16:45] Speaker C: Same here. Like, that's probably what expires the fastest in my house.
People are also confused by the labels on, like, the deli meat or, like, on the produce. So best if used by or before sell by and then use by and people get confused by those. So sometimes they'll throw it out before.
[00:17:06] Speaker B: It'S really expired, depending on what it is. If it's fruit, I don't even, like, look at the date. I look at the fruit itself and see if it's, like, molded or starting to turn into color. It's not supposed to be.
When it comes to, like, sauces and stuff, I pretty much stick to, like, the best buy date because, you know, I guess it's old after that. I don't know.
[00:17:26] Speaker C: So best if used by indicates when a product will be at its best flavor or quality. It is not a safety date.
[00:17:34] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:17:34] Speaker C: Yeah. So then sell by is a date intended for the store inventory management only.
[00:17:39] Speaker B: Right.
[00:17:39] Speaker C: Okay. And then used by is the last date that you should be eating.
[00:17:43] Speaker B: Okay. So use by is the one we really need to be paying attention to. So we don't, like, poison ourselves.
[00:17:48] Speaker C: See, right there. So you just save.
[00:17:50] Speaker B: There you go. Now, you know, maybe you can save more than $700 this year.
[00:17:55] Speaker A: Thanks for catching up on the morning Journey Rewind podcast with Mark and Brittany.
