Episode Transcript
[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, Mark and Brittany try warheads. The sour candy encourage you to sit with a stranger and tell you the physical ailments that come with scrolling on your phone all the time. Also, do you want to smell like candy corn? Or maybe sometimes you struggle to understand what the Lord is doing in your life. And have you ever found an overdue library book?
[00:00:22] Speaker C: So the other day, Brittany and I were talking about sour candy, and Brittany said, have you ever tried warheads?
I had not.
[00:00:32] Speaker D: Yeah, so these are, like, my favorite growing up. My daughter loves sour candy, and I haven't given her one yet, but I might have to give her one. So they're, like, probably the most sour candy that I've ever had. And I found some, and I brought them in, and there's a bunch of different flavors, so I'm gonna let you pick your flavor. There's blue, raspberry, watermelon, cherry, apple, and lemon.
[00:00:51] Speaker C: All right, I will try the cherry.
[00:00:53] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:00:53] Speaker D: I will tell you that the actual candy itself tastes good afterwards. So if you can get past the initial sourness, the candy itself isn't bad. So we'll let you try one and see what you think. I'm glad you didn't pick lemon, because lemon doesn't ever not get sour. Like, when the coating comes off, it's still sour.
[00:01:12] Speaker C: All right, we're gonna dive into the warheads.
Sour candy.
[00:01:17] Speaker D: My mouth is like, my jaw. I have, like, memories of this as a kid. My jaw is already locking up, and my mouth is already watering because I've always thought that warheads are, like, the most sour candy. The good thing is they actually taste good afterwards.
[00:01:30] Speaker C: Afterward.
[00:01:31] Speaker D: Yeah, after you get past the sour part.
[00:01:33] Speaker C: All right, so I've never.
[00:01:34] Speaker D: It's, like, coating on the outside. Yeah. Mark's never had a warhead before, so
[00:01:38] Speaker C: these came out in.
[00:01:39] Speaker D: Welcome to my childhood.
[00:01:40] Speaker C: They've been around in the US since 93.
[00:01:43] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:01:43] Speaker C: So I was past my.
[00:01:45] Speaker D: I guess your candy phase.
You can't even get yours stuck to the package.
There we go. Just don't drop it.
[00:01:56] Speaker C: All right, here we go.
[00:01:57] Speaker D: Ready?
[00:02:08] Speaker C: Yeah. I'm not. I would not be eating these.
You say it gets better. Oh, once the Mine is black cherry.
[00:02:21] Speaker D: Mine's blue raspberry. Like, my eyes are watering. Once the sour coating does it taste like.
Does eventually, once you get the sour coating off of it.
[00:02:31] Speaker C: There we go.
[00:02:32] Speaker D: Then it starts starting to come in
[00:02:33] Speaker C: a little bit of a cherry taste.
[00:02:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:35] Speaker D: Start to taste like the candy.
[00:02:37] Speaker E: Wow.
[00:02:38] Speaker C: That might have been my. My only one and only one and only attempt of.
[00:02:43] Speaker D: Not a fan, huh?
[00:02:44] Speaker C: Of the warheads?
[00:02:45] Speaker D: No, thank you.
Well, now that you suck the sour part off, it'll get better, I promise. It'll start tasting like candy here in a minute. Now we know Mark is not a fan of the warhead that is sour.
[00:02:59] Speaker C: Well, yesterday on the show, we tried the warheads candy. Now, I had never had these before. Have you had.
[00:03:05] Speaker D: Yes, I grew up with these. These are probably the most sour candy I ever remember as a child. And so it's rare when you can find them. But I was, like, determined to make sure you tried them. And then I had to make sure my daughter tried them. Now, she's only four, but she loves sour candy.
[00:03:20] Speaker C: So how did it go?
[00:03:21] Speaker D: Not well, surprisingly. I really thought she would like it, but the initial, like, she licked it first and really was, like, hesitant to even put it in her mouth. And then she put it in her mouth. I took a video and she was. She was not about it not having it. I thought once she got the outer coating off, you know, it tastes like candy.
[00:03:37] Speaker C: It does.
[00:03:38] Speaker D: She spit it out. Nope, she couldn't even get that far. She was like, no, no, thank you.
[00:03:42] Speaker C: Yeah, I kept mine. I kept mine in my mouth for a little while and then I couldn't finish it.
[00:03:47] Speaker D: Yeah, I spit mine out after all the sour coating went off of it. I only like the sour part after that. It's kind of like, nah, it's just a candy after that. It's like a cough drop, basically.
So you're not alone, Mark. Stella didn't like it either.
[00:04:00] Speaker A: Uplifting and encouraging because you need it now more than ever.
[00:04:05] Speaker C: You betcha.
[00:04:05] Speaker A: The morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:04:08] Speaker C: I did not know this was a thing. Today is national sit with a stranger day. It's a day to get outside of your comfort zone and engage in friendly conversations with someone you do not know. Brittany, are you in or out?
[00:04:22] Speaker D: I'm out.
I will say I thought about this and I thought about walking down to, like, a coffee shop and just asking someone sitting alone, like, can I sit with you? And just seeing what happens. But this also sounds like my worst nightmare.
Like, I don't think I can do this, but it would definitely push me out of my comfort zone. What about you?
[00:04:40] Speaker C: I don't think so.
[00:04:41] Speaker D: You're not going to do this either?
[00:04:42] Speaker C: Probably not.
[00:04:44] Speaker D: If you decide to sit with a stranger today, please call us and tell us.
[00:04:47] Speaker C: Yeah, let us know if you're going to do that. And if you do it this morning, you can tell us how it went.
[00:04:53] Speaker D: Call us with the stranger. Actually, if you, like, go do this this morning, like, if you go to a coffee shop and sit down with
[00:04:58] Speaker C: somebody, really get outside of your comfort zone.
[00:05:01] Speaker D: Be like, hey, can I sit with you? And then be like, want to call a radio station and talk about how we just met? We would love that. 800-424-9594. But it is national sit with a stranger day. So Sit with a stranger day. Yes, I almost said stranger danger, but that's a whole other thing.
[00:05:16] Speaker C: That's a whole nother day.
[00:05:17] Speaker D: That's what we teach our kids.
All right, so if you sit with a stranger today, let us know. Step outside that comfort zone and meet someone new.
[00:05:24] Speaker E: I just kind of channel surfing through the radio.
[00:05:27] Speaker A: Families are catching on and I'm like,
[00:05:29] Speaker E: wow, this is pretty cool.
[00:05:30] Speaker A: To the best way.
[00:05:30] Speaker E: So now this is the only thing I listen to now to wake up. My style of everything has started and changed.
[00:05:35] Speaker A: It's the morning journey with Mark and Britney.
[00:05:38] Speaker C: Well, I'm sure a lot of us are scrolling, maybe more than we probably realize. And there are some physical signs that could point to the fact that you may be scrolling too much. Number one, your neck and shoulders take most of the load when scrolling.
[00:05:54] Speaker D: If your neck and shoulders hurt, that might be a sign you're scrolling too much. Or if your thumbs hurt.
[00:05:59] Speaker C: Yeah, your. Your thumb and your wrist absorb thousands of repetitive, repetitive taps.
If your eyes blink far less than they should when scrolling, that means your eyes are drying out.
[00:06:11] Speaker D: I don't know how you like because you can't see yourself blink. And I don't really, like, consciously think about blinking. So I don't know if I do that or not, actually.
[00:06:20] Speaker C: And then scrolling into the night means that you may not be getting enough sleep.
[00:06:24] Speaker D: Now, see this I don't do. Like, I leave my phone, it is on my nightstand charging overnight, but I do not pick it up. Like, I will read before bed sometimes, but I will not scroll on my phone and beg.
[00:06:35] Speaker C: Not in the middle of the night.
[00:06:36] Speaker D: Even when I wake up in the middle of the night, I won't pick up my phone. Now, my husband is the opposite. Like, if he wakes up in the middle of the night, I'll see him over there, like, scrolling. I'm like that. Like, I don't know how that helps you go back to sleep. I feel like that makes it worse.
[00:06:48] Speaker C: I used to do that. I'm much better now at just When I go to bed, putting it on the nightstand and not picking it up until I. I wake up, it's so
[00:06:56] Speaker D: crazy because, you know, 20 plus years ago, we didn't even, like, have cell phones. So now, like, you go anywhere. Like, people can't wait in line at a store without being on their phone. It's crazy to see. Sometimes I'll be, like, in line at a store, checking out, and the people behind me will be, like, scrolling on their phones in the middle of the store. So, yeah, take a break. Take a break from some screen time. Get out today. It's a nice day. Get some walks in. Get out in nature. Do something to get away from the screen.
[00:07:22] Speaker C: We're just gonna worship, we're gonna be
[00:07:25] Speaker B: encouraged, and we're just gonna be together.
[00:07:28] Speaker A: That's the idea. You're on the morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:07:32] Speaker C: Well, beginning next week, you can be a part of smelling like fall. On September 22, the first day of fall, you'll be able to purchase Ode to Candy Corn.
[00:07:43] Speaker D: Look, not even, like, smelling like fall. Fall to me smells like cinnamon and apple picking and things like that. It does not smell like candy corn.
Candy corn smells like candy. I don't want people to, like, think of candy when they smell me. Like, that's weird.
[00:07:59] Speaker C: For $22, you can get your own bottle of Ode to Candy Corn and smell like the fall candy.
[00:08:08] Speaker D: No, thank you.
[00:08:09] Speaker C: No. You're not into this?
[00:08:10] Speaker D: I don't think so. I don't even like to eat candy corn.
[00:08:13] Speaker C: I had some over the weekend. It was. I don't. And I don't usually eat candy.
[00:08:16] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:08:16] Speaker C: But it was not bad.
[00:08:18] Speaker D: It's okay. It's not something that I'm like, let's get candy corn.
[00:08:22] Speaker C: Let's smell like candy corn.
[00:08:23] Speaker D: I've never, like, what is it? What does candy corn even smell like?
I'm gonna have to go smell it when I get home and see, so
[00:08:30] Speaker C: it has, let's see, notes of creamy vanilla sponge, sugar, and honey.
[00:08:36] Speaker D: Mm.
So you're probably just gonna smell like vanilla. Yeah, I guess there could be worse things to smell like. I turn y' all on in the morning when I get in my truck.
[00:08:45] Speaker E: It's helpful.
[00:08:45] Speaker D: I'm taking the kids to school. Here we go.
[00:08:48] Speaker A: It's the Morning Journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:08:51] Speaker C: Well, if we live long enough, hopefully we realize that some of the best things that God has done in our lives started in places we didn't even understand at the time. Maybe it's a door that remained closed. A change of plans or a prayer that wasn't answered the way we wanted.
[00:09:05] Speaker D: Yeah, sometimes it's a season that just doesn't make any sense when you're walking through it. But as time goes on, you have a different way of looking at it. You look back and you realize that God wasn't ignoring you. He was guiding you and protecting you and preparing you for things you couldn't yet see. So maybe we need to take back, take a step back and learn not to judge what God is doing by what we can see today. Because there's always more to the story. So if right now you're in something that really doesn't make sense or you're trying to figure out your faith, keep walking, keep praying, keep trusting. Because one day you're going to look back and you're going to realize God's hand in every moment, in every aspect of your life. It really is his story.
[00:09:42] Speaker A: Start on a positive note. You're on the morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:09:48] Speaker C: Well, we've all been there, forgetting to return something on borrowed time. But this one, maybe one of the longest in history. In Concord, New Hampshire, a man returned a magazine that was 132 years overdue at the public library. The magazine was first published in 1894.
[00:10:08] Speaker D: Now, the man himself is not that old. He says that the magazine's been in his house since he's owned the house and had no idea how it got there. So he decided he was going to turn it in. I don't know if I would even like bother trying to take it back, honestly, but. But he said he was gonna try and turn it in. And the fee for that, well, let's just say it was quite a bit of money. A fee for a book that has been out of the library for that long is $12,000.
Now, lucky for him, the library decided that they had just launched a one year freeze on fines.
So thankfully he did not have to pay the fine.
[00:10:40] Speaker C: Can you imagine having to pay that?
[00:10:42] Speaker D: I don't know of any library that would.
[00:10:44] Speaker C: I don't think they would have find
[00:10:45] Speaker D: it care that much for a magazine that was that far checked out. But yeah, that's a long time to have a book at your house. So make sure you double check and make sure. I always separate. Like when we go to the library with my daughter, I separate the library books from her books so that this doesn't happen to me because so easily they can all get mixed in together. But yeah, 134 years past due.
[00:11:08] Speaker A: Goodness, a great way to start Your day, the Morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:11:14] Speaker C: The power of PB and J. The sandwich has been around now for 125 years. That's how long it's been since. Since the first known recipe was written and published.
[00:11:25] Speaker D: I've still only had the one that you made me.
[00:11:28] Speaker C: I cannot believe that.
[00:11:29] Speaker D: It's crazy too, because I make them every single day for my daughter and I cut them in half and I just save the other half for the next day. It's not like I eat the other half. I just give it back to her.
[00:11:39] Speaker C: I didn't know that the sandwich, which remains a staple of school lunches, but the first recipe called for the sandwich to be used as a fancy snack food for the wealthy.
[00:11:49] Speaker D: Right. And then it became just like an everyday food for every probably elementary school kid ever. Except for me. I had turkey and mustard, so did not do the peanut butter and jelly. The thing that frustrates me is my daughter loves them. But when you, like, go to a restaurant and they have that on the kids menu, they always try to like make it fancier. They always like either like toast it or grill it or try to like do something weird with it. And I'm like, just put it on some bread and give it to her so she'll eat it.
[00:12:13] Speaker C: That's what kids want.
[00:12:14] Speaker D: Yeah, exactly. Keep it simple. She does love the fluffer dutter, which is like peanut butter and marshmallow too. Yeah. So that I have tried and that's pretty good. I prefer peanut butter banana. If I'm gonna do like a peanut butter sandwich, it's peanut butter and banana.
[00:12:28] Speaker C: Now. I had not ever had. I had never had a peanut butter and banana sandwich until the day that you brought them in.
[00:12:33] Speaker D: Yeah. When we did our little topsies.
[00:12:35] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:12:36] Speaker D: So yeah, peanut butter and jelly staple for many, just not for me.
[00:12:42] Speaker A: Start on a positive note. You're on the Morning Journey with mark
[00:12:46] Speaker C: and Brittany seven minutes after 7:00'. Clock. Mark and Brittany with you. Hey, be sure and check out some of the Journey podcast. We have Diary of the Mom Squad hosted by Brittany and Kate. Noble Pursuit with Landry Coleman. And then Laura has an encouraging podcast
[00:13:02] Speaker D: and Mark and me have the Morning journey rewind. So if you ever miss anything from us, you can always catch that there as well. Just search my Journey FM and click under our podcast. We also have a new Diary of the Mom Squad coming this month. It's very exciting. Me and Kate are joined by Becky and Deborah here at the office to talk about all things postpartum and how that's going for me. And so just a real honest conversation there. And yeah, we would love for you to check out our podcast. You can go to myjourney fm.com for all the details.
[00:13:28] Speaker A: We just wanted to say thanks for making us part of your day. It's the morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:13:34] Speaker C: Well, 11 year old Brooke Sumter learned to sew at the age of four. And now she is a fashion prodigy earning recognition for her American Girl doll collections. I guess these showed at New York Fashion Week.
[00:13:47] Speaker D: This is so cool. I can't believe she learned how to sew at 4. I still to this day don't know how to sew. She's super impressive.
[00:13:54] Speaker C: She's what, 11 now?
[00:13:55] Speaker D: Now she's 11. Yeah. Designed a whole American Girl doll collection. So if you don't know, American Girl dolls are like these dolls that are like really fancy and they have, some of them have books that go with them which makes them more expensive. Like you can find some like in the $30 range, but most of them are like 100 plus dollars.
[00:14:11] Speaker C: Wow. Did you ever have one?
[00:14:13] Speaker D: I did not. Now I've read one of the books and I wanted one that went with the books, but instead I got a porcelain doll made out of porcelain that looked like me. Like, looked just like me.
[00:14:24] Speaker C: It's not an American Girl doll.
[00:14:25] Speaker D: It's not an American. It's a Britney doll. And it's one of a kind and you can't play with it because it was porcelain. So. Yeah, no, that thing was terrifying. It just, it sat up in our attic, honestly. And every time you open the attic, it was just sitting there. I asked my mom, I was like, I don't even know if we still have that actually. But yeah, so, no, but this collection, it looks really cool. It was inspired by cherry blossoms and she said that she wants to come up with some more collections. But yeah, being honored in fashion week at 11, amazing. Learning to sew at 7. She credits her grandma for her skills. And pretty cool to have a talent like that so young.
[00:14:58] Speaker A: Turn on hope and encouragement. It's the morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:15:05] Speaker C: Well, we mentioned this, I think earlier a couple weeks ago that Stella, Brittany's daughter, decided to play soccer again this year.
[00:15:12] Speaker D: Yeah. Which if you ask her, she's like, I love soccer. I love playing soccer. But if you go and watch her play soccer, it does not look like that. There is a meltdown every single week when we go. And last night we tried. We were like, we're going to practice in the yard, get her used to it a little bit. And she played for about 10 minutes and then was like, look at me. I can jump off this rock. Look at me. I have an acorn. Look at me. I have a leaf.
So I don't know if soccer is her thing or if she just gets bored, like, halfway through.
[00:15:37] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:15:38] Speaker D: But we would be, like, on the sidelines yelling, like, where's the ball? And she was, like, just sitting. And then it kicked her in the leg at one point, and she didn't even, like, acknowledge.
[00:15:46] Speaker C: Didn't phase her.
[00:15:46] Speaker D: And I was like, okay, so still
[00:15:49] Speaker C: got to learn the basics.
[00:15:50] Speaker D: But every time I ask her if she loves playing and wants to keep playing, she says yes. So we're doing it. I don't know how good it is,
[00:15:57] Speaker C: but it's a work in progress.
[00:15:58] Speaker D: It's happening.
[00:15:59] Speaker C: It's.
[00:15:59] Speaker D: It's still happening.
[00:16:03] Speaker A: Thanks for catching up on the morning Journey Rewind podcast with Mark and Brittany.
