January 28, 2025 • 35 mins
Join us as we unpack provocative questions and explore the complex relationships between personal faith, self-worth, and overcoming life's hurdles. We kick off with a touch of humor inspired by Wayne's World, setting the stage for a lively discussion about the power of asking the right questions in relationships. Get ready to discover ten insightful questions that can deepen your connection with your partner and foster enduring love.
Our journey continues as we reflect on the timeless story of Joseph from the Book of Genesis. We draw inspiration from his resilience and unwavering faith, even in the face of betrayal and hardship, and how this mirrors our own paths in life's unpredictable journey. One of us shares a deeply personal moment of committing to follow Jesus, a decision that marked a pivotal turning point akin to Joseph's ultimate redemption. This chapter is a heartfelt reminder of the transformative power of faith and perseverance, offering encouragement to those seeking spiritual strength.
Parenting challenges and dreams of financial freedom paint the final strokes of our conversation. We share the joys of watching our children thrive and the unexpected delight of seeing them succeed in roles like public speaking. As we dream about owning the Boston Red Sox and living a life of generosity, we reflect on the shift from personal indulgence to community impact. Closing with a heartfelt prayer for success, we express our gratitude for the opportunity to share our journey, hoping our message inspires and uplifts in equal measure.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Because you've been dealt some difficult cards
health-wise, especially over thelast few years, and this is the
last 12, 18 months especially.
You're going to make me cry.
I'm sorry, I don't mean to makeyou cry.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I don't like crying in public.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
But I definitely admire how you've handled it and
what you're doing with it.
You're not letting it stop youat all.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
It's that moment where you realize that there is
this heaviness just lifted offof you.
It's the moment where you wereokay with lifting your hands to
worship.
None of the people around youmatter.
It doesn't matter where yourhands are and it doesn't matter
(00:46):
what they think, because it'sjust you and God.
It's you and it's vertical.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Through it all, you're still good enough.
I think is the biggest thing,because I think it's something
all everyone and men strugglewith that, whether they want to
admit it or not.
Men struggle with this idea amI really good enough?
Do I deserve what I have?
Am I good enough to be yourhusband?
Am I good enough to be a fatherto my children?
(01:14):
Am I going to screw this up andthe enemy will quickly tell you
no, you're not good enough.
No, someone else should be goodenough.
You fail too many times.
You let too many people down,and just especially in the
younger years of ourrelationship and marriage.
Hey, you're good enough andit's all going to work out,
(01:38):
because there are definitelytimes where you didn't think
that, I didn't think it would.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Here's a question for you Is marriage overrated?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Why aren't people getting married anymore?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
A new Pew Research poll found that two in five
young adults think marriage isan outdated tradition.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Marriage rates are at their lowest right now.
Is marriage really even worthit?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
more than half of marriages end in divorce if you
get married, you have to bestuck with this person for the
rest of your life, right?
That's why you get married, sothat's why it's declining.
Why would you get married ifyou don't?
If you want to have just onepartner when you can?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
have multiple Marriage is stupid.
Ready In five, four, three.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Wayne's World, wayne's.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
World Party time Excellent.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Welcome to the Married AF Podcast, where
Matthew thinks it's theself-proclaimed greatest podcast
in the world.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I am one of your hosts, monica powers, with my
handsome husband I prefer thisintro over any other intro that
we could ever do.
We're gonna start every episodeas if it's wayne's world.
Wayne's world, party time.
Excellent, hey, baby I just didmy impression of you I thought
(03:15):
it was a decent impression but Icouldn't say I was you no, no,
I think people would get veryconfused with that.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And you always say my beautiful wife.
So I had to think of somethingquick.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I mean, I call you handsome.
I think you crushed it.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You absolutely crushed it.
So thank you for that intro.
We're going to have to do thatevery single time we do this.
Welcome to the show, everybody,it's Wayne's World slash,
married AF.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
No, it's not Wayne's World.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
No, it's not going to be Wayne's World at all, but
it's going to be good though,because we got 10 questions I
think every couple should knowabout each other, and maybe
questions you need tocontinually ask each other,
because it just opens up allsorts of fun, interesting,
awesome conversation.
But before that happens, whenthis airs, you're going to be
(04:07):
married to an old man.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
An older.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Older man, that's right.
For nine months, for ninemonths, and then we'll be the
same age.
Yes, I'll be a year older whenthis airs on Tuesday and we
record on a Friday night.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Straight from softball practice Rushed home
Ate dinner.
And we record on a Friday nightStraight from softball practice
Rush home ate dinner.
Have the wind burn.
Look on my face because thewind was howling or snuggie at
practice and it's so freakingcold, I'm so ready for warm
weather.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I'm not built for the cold.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I think that's just the thing for old people.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well, listen, I'm older tomorrow and in a couple
of days.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Are guys afraid to tell other people about their
age?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
No, I'll be 42.
I don't care anything about it.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I don't care to tell people how it's like so rude to
tell a girl's real age.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I mean that's stupid.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Some people I can understand.
They have maybe really hardlife and they age faster than
most people.
They don't want to tell.
But when you age very well andyou don't really look your age,
you definitely want to tell.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
You're right, you're right.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
So maybe that's why it makes it weird.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Maybe, so I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I'm not sure either.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
But I don't mind telling my age at all.
I don't either, and no oneshould Be proud of your age.
Be where you are.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I mean, there's an alternative.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
You've made it this far.
Celebrate that, celebrate thatand be happy about that.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, God's not done with you yet.
No, not at all Not one bit,especially if you still have air
in your lungs.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
He ain't finished yet , which is why you need to ask
your spouse these questionsbefore time runs out.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I don't even know what I'm asking you, because I
literally opened this file thatyou sent me.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Saying you're asking the odd, I'm asking the even.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
And bam, so run it from the top.
What you got.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
But my favorite was baby.
Are you going to ask me thefirst question or do you want me
to ask?
Listen, you can mix it up.
You want me to ask you the odds?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I'm aware that it starts with the number one.
I'm glad you are, which is anodd number.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That's why I'm asking you the odd questions.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I'm just saying you can mix it up a little bit if
you wanted to mix it up.
That's all I got.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I'm asking you the odd questions.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yes, get us started.
Woman, all right, golly Ooh.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I feel like I've answered this question in a
pageant before question in apageant before.
It's definitely a pageantquestion, but I think it's a
good question.
If you could invite anyone todinner past present, either one,
who would it be?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
you know, um boy, it'd be a whole lot of people if
possible, but I had to do justone mm-hmm just one, and this
could probably vary day to day,but I think right now I would
invite Joseph from the OldTestament and want to talk to
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him.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Why.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I love his story so much as far as a person in the
Bible outside of Jesus.
I love Joseph's story so much.
Because, he's the young brotherwhich I don't relate to.
I'm the oldest brother, buthe's the young brother who the
Lord has given him this visionand led him to a path that this
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is what you're going to be, andeveryone hated him for it, and
he gets sold into slavery.
After one brother, thank thegoodness, was like, hey, let's
not kill him, but let's sellgoing to be, and everyone hated
him for it.
And he gets sold into slavery.
After one brother, thank thegoodness, was like, hey, let's
not kill him, but let's sell himto slavery.
That's a great idea.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Let's just make this clear for the people that don't
necessarily know the Bible.
We're not talking about that.
Joseph, not Jesus' earthlydaddy, not Jesus' earthly father
.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yes, no, this is Joseph Way back when.
This is Genesis Joseph.
But he was sold into slaveryand he was with Potiphar.
And then he gets thrown in jailbecause Potiphar's wife thought
he was really good looking.
And he gets thrown in jailbecause he wouldn't sleep with
her.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
He wouldn't have sex with her Because he honors the.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Lord and she turned that around on him.
But anyway, his story and howit goes, and he's thrown into
jail and then he's withpharaoh's two of his pharaoh's
main guys, and they, heinterprets a dream for him.
They're like I'm gonna get youout of here and they don't.
And he's let down yet again.
And then he goes to pharaohbecause oh ding, ding, ding ding
.
Two years later this guyremembers.
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Oh, joseph, he can interpretdreams, let's bring that guy.
And he ends up being over theentire kingdom and you see his
brothers come to him in a timeof need.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And they don't even recognize him.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Don't even recognize him, and just the whole story of
everything that Joseph wentthrough.
He was given this dream.
He was given this dream, he wasgiven this vision from God of
this is what you're going to do.
You're going to lead nationsand to go down the path that he
did for us.
We would quit day one Long timeago.
But to see his faithfulness inthe Lord, even when it looked
(09:20):
impossible.
I would want to know firsthandlike I need more.
Give me more.
Let me hear more about thestory.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I think this is a great example of why we don't
know how everything ends.
Like we don't know the exactpath that we're supposed to take
, like we have to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
It doesn't just.
Hey, this is what's going tohappen to you, Because if
anybody were to be told you'regoing to be sold into slavery,
you would not.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You're going to do anything and everything to get
out of that situation.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Well, even if it's like the greatest destination
ever, if we knew what it was,we're going to screw it up.
Yeah, that's just, that's theway we're all through, um, the
way we're made.
We just we mess it up um, butthat that's, if anyone that's a
good that would be the one.
All right, so you so far.
What has been the highlight ofyour life?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
oh, I've had a half.
A highlight reel is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
It is.
I mean, you've you'veexperienced some amazing things,
but if you had to pick one like, what is number one on the
sports center Top 10.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Ooh, man, it has to be the day that we both
committed I would agree withthat to 100 follow jesus.
This wasn't.
Hey, we're, we're in collegeand we're giving our lives to
(10:59):
christ, because we did on thesame day and we didn't even know
it had no clue, because it wasone of those close your eyes,
raise your hand type things, andwe're the people that really
close our eyes yes, yes, knowingthat nobody actually does that,
everyone wants to look around.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Who did it?
Who did it?
Who raised their hand?
Who got their?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
hands up, sometimes, like I used to be the person
that did not close my eyes,because when I don't trust the
places that I go, I know, majorissues, but I wanted to see if
they were actually telling thetruth.
When you hear them with youreyes closed, I see your.
I see your hand.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Thank you, are they really there?
Yes, are they really there?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Are there that many people saying yes, but we were
those people who closed our eyeson that day?
Sure did Both raised our handsgot baptized on the same day,
but then we're both a year intocollege or you're two years in.
I'm a year in and we're buckwild.
(11:56):
Yeah, we completely lost it.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
We were totally in on Savior Jesus, but it was years
later and years and years later,uh, where we learned what it
was to have Lord of your life,jesus.
And I agree, I mean that thatchanged, changed at all.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
So so that would probably be the highlight,
because the things that happenedafter that are just
unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I agree.
I mean it is.
It put us on a trajectory thatwho would have ever thought to
be where we are today and whoknows where we'll be 10 years
from now as long as we justfollow what the Lord directs us
to do.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Okay, this one's kind of good, kind of scared.
What trait in others do youadmire the most?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Now, this is kind of a open question, because it
could totally be.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I feel like that should be more of a spouse kind
of situation.
Well, and that's the direction.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
That's the direction I'm going to go.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I don't know a lot of people that well.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Well, no, but the direction I'm going to go is
definitely in you, and the traitI admire the most is really to
watch your perseverance You'vebeen dealt some difficult cards
lately, yeah and to see yourstrength and your faith as you
walk through.
That.
It is something I very muchadmire and wish that I had some
(13:35):
of that perseverance in my ownlife at certain times, because
you've been dealt some difficultcards, health wise, especially
over the last few years, and sothe last 12, 18 months
especially.
I'm sorry, I don't mean to makeyou cry- I don't like crying in
public.
But you know, I definitelyadmire how you handled it and
(13:58):
what you're doing with it,because you're not letting it
stop you at all.
So I won't make you cry anymore, I'll ask you the next one.
Baby, if you wrote a book, whatwould it be about?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I would probably write the book that I've been
asking you to write for severalyears.
Just put your name on it andmake you go do all the book
signings and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
That'd be jacked up.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
That would be so fantastic.
I guess that's the only way I'mgoing to actually get it done.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Maybe I can be okay with that plan.
You're a ghostwriter.
Yeah sure it's perfect.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I've been wanting you to write a book about being a
husband for years.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I know.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Upon years.
I told you to do that insteadof this podcast, and here we are
.
We still have no book.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Still have no book, but you never know what the Lord
will do.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
That's the book I would write.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I think it would be great, because it's true, you
don't?
I think it's something everyoneneeds to be all in on all the
time and just have trust.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
But I'm actually writing my own book.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You are.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
And I don't know that I want to say anything out loud
or give anybody any kind ofinformation, because I haven't
wrote anything down in a while,because I've been dealt cards,
tell you what you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
That's enough right there, just let it happen it's
got a great title though it does.
Next question.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Next question uh, if you could write a letter to your
younger self, what advice wouldyou include?
I feel like this is a doc brownsituation, where marty's
wanting to go back and tell doc,where you can't be here, you're
.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
This is gonna happen and libyans yeah, they're gonna
shoot you he doesn't want.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Doc doesn't want to know he gets mad.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
He rips the letter up and then marty goes back to the
future and doc pulls open hischest after being shot and he's
got the bulletproof f2.
Oh my gosh, it was great I lovethat movie.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Um, I feel like that's the situation right now.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
It is uh, if I could give my younger self, write a
letter to my younger self andgive myself advice um one.
No, you're not gonna screw itup that is so perfect for you
like, listen, you're not goingto totally burn this to the
ground.
Um, I think that and and hey,through it all, you're still
(16:34):
good enough.
I, I think, is the biggestthing, because I think it's
something all everyone and menstruggle with, that, whether
they want to admit it or not,men struggle with this idea Am I
really good enough?
Do I deserve what I have?
Do I deserve, am I good enoughto be your husband?
Am I good enough to be a fatherto my children?
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Am I going to screw this up?
And there's that the enemy willquickly tell you no, you're not
good enough.
No, someone else should be goodenough.
You fail too many times, youlet too many people down and
just especially in the youngeryears of our relationship and
marriage, hey, you're goodenough and it's all going to
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work out, because there aredefinitely times where you
didn't think that, I didn'tthink it would.
So probably that just to beable to have some strength to
keep going.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
That would be something that you could just
pull out and read all the time.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
No, you would have to , you'd absolutely have to.
Ok, next one what you wouldhave to, you'd absolutely have
to.
Okay, next one.
What makes you feel pure joy?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Oh my, does it have to just be one thing?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
No.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Okay, there's probably three things.
All right's hear them worshipwhy, because that is my time
with the three in one can youexplain what that feels like?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I know it's impossible to be able to explain
that, but can you for peoplewho are listening, who
especially just they're notthere, or maybe they're starting
to get there and they justdon't understand Can you explain
just that feeling and whatthat's like?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
There is probably nothing like it ever, period.
I mean, it is better than sexand that's probably the only
thing that's better than sex.
It's that moment where yourealize that there is this
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heaviness just lifted off of you.
It's the moment where you wereokay with lifting your hands to
worship.
None of the people around youmatter, it doesn't matter where
your hands are and it doesn'tmatter what they think, because
it's just you and God.
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It's you and it's vertical.
I feel like it's a star trekmoment where it's like bimmy up
scotty, where the beam it's just, that's it, no one else matters
.
I worship really big yes, you doand we even have a night of
worship coming up, because it'sthe end of our fasting, and
(19:28):
every time we have a night ofworship I have to make sure we
get there early, because I needto get the front row, because
there's just a little bit morespace between the two.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
You got to have your space.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Okay, who am I going to be by?
If we bump into each other,it's not going to matter.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
It's going to be cool .
Yeah, it'll just be.
Oh, we're going to grab eachother's hand and then we're the
hands.
I always think of a, of when,when you're a parent and you
have young children and yourchildren, they, they want you,
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um, you know, I think of both ofour children especially, but
they, what do they do, daddy?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
daddy, daddy.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I mean they lift their arms to their dad, saying,
hey dad, pick me up up.
Hey dad, I need you, I need tofeel comfort from you, I need to
feel love from you.
And what's it's raising theirarms to their dad.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
That's the best explanation.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
It's the exact same thing that we get to do.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
The other one is getting to have a front row view
and listen to you speak on aSunday morning, give a message.
I don't know.
I just have this little giddyschool girl butterfly in my
stomach.
The moment you start to speakit's like the lights are out and
I'm always going to be frontrow.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You are.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Because I have to be right there and watching every
second.
Most of the time I get lost inyour eyes, because when the
light hits you're just the.
The blue is amazing, but youjust growing in the gift God
gave you that no one would haveever guessed Never in a million
years.
Because nobody in your familydoes anything like this.
No, no, and I never wanted todo anything like this and the
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other would be watching ourchildren serve on a Sunday
morning, serving without beingscheduled to serve.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
No, they now.
If they're not scheduled toserve one, they get a little
bummed out.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
More than likely.
They're scheduled for one time.
Yes likely they're scheduled forone time.
Yes, so if we're at ouralabaster campus, we have three
experiences and they get oneexperience to serve, one
experience to go in.
So we're going to be there allthree, so they will find
somewhere to serve in the onethat they're not scheduled to
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serve, that they're not going infor.
So it's just unbelievable tosee that, like we're not forcing
them to go in.
This is not a parent you goserve, or telling them to serve.
They do this on their own.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
No, they look for it, they look for opportunities and
they now know the people.
You know they will go tocertain people hey, can I serve
here?
Hey, do you need help here?
Hey, is there anything that youneed me to do?
Um, it is, it's very, it'srewarding as a parent, um, and
it makes you feel like, okay,well, I've done something right
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at least.
Um, I, I would totally agreewith those doesn't my, my pure
joy.
I can totally get on board withthat.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Oh, your question.
If you had more than enoughmoney, what kind of life would
you live?
Now, more than enough money tome, we call a few money.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
A few money People, you'll kind of know what that
means.
All right, you got so muchmoney you're.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
You'll kind of know what that means all right, you
got so much money, you're justit don't matter no more.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Um, I've had more money than I knew what to do
with.
What kind of life would I live,you know?
Ask me on.
It probably changes day to daysometimes.
Um, I would have loved to buythe boston red socks.
Run them the way they should berun, go and get the Spend the
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money we need to spend.
To get the pitching, we needMoney to go get the players that
you need Now.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I want you to have that kind of money so we can
make that happen.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I would buy the Boston Red Sox and I would do
what needs to be done to bringWorld Series to.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Boston, we would take a loss in the money.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
But if I got, more money than more than enough,
then it would be fine.
That would always be a dream,of course, but realistically To
live in Boston six months out ofthe year.
What a dream Every game in thebox.
Maybe I am changing my mind.
Listen my mind.
Maybe that is no box watchingbaseball.
I'm gonna be on the fieldthat's fine, I'm gonna be in the
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dugout.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Hey, alex, come on, let's, let's make this call as
long as I can make sure that Iget one of those hoodies we good
, but I.
That would be awesome you know,I hope that happens.
That would be great.
That would happen for me tooyou know used to be.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I would say it would be something along the lines of
that and big, extravagantMansion houses all over the
place, vacations everywhere, allof the stuff.
But I think as we've gottenolder and we've grown more in
our faith, I mean, yeah, youwant to be comfortable and you
want to enjoy life.
More in our faith I mean, yeah,you want to be comfortable and
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you want to have enjoy life.
I think more so now would be avery generous life is.
Let me where, where, where I'vebeen blessed with this money
somehow, how can I move thatonto someone else to bless
someone else or help makesomeone else's situation or some
community or organizationsituation better, else's
situation or some community ororganization situation better.
And if I can do that, thenthat's what I would do, along
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with by the Boston.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Red Sox, but that's always what we talk about.
If, what are we going to dowhen we win the lottery?
When we, when it hits thebillion dollars, we're going to
win the jackpot, we spend thatmoney, but it's mostly of OK,
we're going to give this amountto these people.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
We're going to give these people this amount.
It's definitely shifted overthe years because every time the
lottery gets big.
And don't act like people,don't do you?
I mean everyone listening andwatching you all do this when
the lottery gets high before you, everyone plays the game like
you know what?
Someone's gotta win.
What if it is us?
Man, if we did, we would dothis and we'd do this, and hey,
this would be fun and everyoneplays that game.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
But if is a big word for two letters it most
certainly is.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
But if that happened, buy the Red Sox and be just
overly generous with the rest ofit.
I like it All right.
What would your dream day looklike?
My dream day your dream day,the perfect day.
If you could script out any daypossible, what exactly might
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that look like?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Wow, nothing's off limits.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Nothing's off limits.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I would have a hair and makeup person daily.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Okay, go back to my last one with the money.
You said dream okay.
You didn't say reality.
You're right, your dream day.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Because I don't know what I'm doing with makeup and I
don't know what I'm doing withhair.
It just happens.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
And then, once I'm all fixed up that hopefully
wouldn't take half the day,maybe an hour we would get to go
to Fenway Park.
Just walk out, look at thefield.
You'd have your cup of coffeeand I'd have my hot tea.
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Just look around.
It's going to be a good day.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh man, so far, so good.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Pick up the dirt, see if the wind blows it.
It's blowing out today.
It's a good day, good day to beon the monster.
You know something like that, Idon't know.
Have some really good sushi fordinner All Maybe for lunch and
dinner and just be with you thewhole day.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Sounds good to me, sign me up.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
To just go out on the field in the morning.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
This is great.
I mean, yeah, sign me up.
That sounds pretty good to me,I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I know people are probably like, oh my God, that's
the dumbest thing.
But if we were all the same,this place would be so boring.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
It's great that we're different and we have different
opinions and different thoughts, and it's healthy when we can
talk about things.
I love it, that's.
I think that's a great dreamday.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
All right, okay, this is the last one for you.
Oh boy, okay, I have an answerto this question that I want you
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to okay how is your answer?
But I'm sure it's not going tobe it.
If you could master any skillovernight, what would it be?
Speaker 1 (28:27):
any skill overnight nunchuck skills, bow hunting
skills If I could master any,skill Computer hacking skills
Computer hacking skills.
Oh man, If I could master anyskill overnight, I would love to
be able to play some sort ofmusical instrument.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I knew that would be it.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Because I've tried, I would love to, but my hands
don't don't do that, they don'twork they don't work that at all
or opposite of your feet listen, I would love to play drums.
I think I could be a greatdrummer if it were just my hands
.
But because you got to get yourfeet involved, my, my, my hands
and my feet do not operateindependently from each other at
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all.
They have to be doing the samething.
So if I can master any skillovernight, that would clearly be
the one.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You know, that's close to what I was going to say
.
I would want yours to be.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Clap on beat.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I mean it's rhythm, so I mean we'll put it in the
same category I'll be honest,clapping on beat is not really a
skill at all.
It's just something I do nothave.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Obviously it has to be because not many people can
do it.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Well, listen.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Because I seriously walked into the Second
Experience Sunday this pastSunday and it was a Charlie Fox
track going on in there.
It was some word over here on abeat and some over there on a
beat and somebody in the middlewas on their own beat and I'm
seriously starting to clapwalking up to the front because
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somebody's got to help.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Let's all get on the same page here, people.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I've requested for a designated clapper from the
worship team be in theauditorium Every experience, so
we can all make sure you turnaround and you're the clapper
from the worship team.
Be in the auditorium everyexperience, so we can all make
sure you turn around and you'rethe clapper.
You're getting everyone on clapduty yeah, I would be able to
do that all right.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Last one for you okay what is the most challenging
decision you have ever made?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
there's a lot of those.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
But what's the most challenging decision?
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I don't know that it was challenging.
Yeah, it was very challenging,but it was probably one of the
better decisions I've ever made,when we both got our dream jobs
within a week of each other,and I knew that my dream job
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would not last very long andwould probably end a divorce
where yours had longevity and itwas not on a time crunch for
you to make sure that you got itat this certain time.
So, for me, saying no to WWE in2011 and giving you the
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opportunity to run your familybusiness, it was hard because
that's all I wanted.
That was my next goal for me toget.
I was going to be a diva andthere it was.
I just needed to go to St Louisto Smackdown, to sign all the
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things the next month and byGeorge, if we're not in
California and your dad says,hey, I want you to do this and
we're already ready moving toTampa to develop mental stuff
and I'm just wait what you aretaking this job and I am calling
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them right now and telling themno, because the week before is
when I got all the stuff and Ijust called them and I thought I
was gonna get cussed out leftand right, up and down, ever,
ever be able to step foot in aring again.
Not that I cared to, because Iknew what the long term was for
you or us, and I think I pickedand made the best decision.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I think so and I agree.
I think that's the.
What an incredibly harddecision.
Here's your dream and you'rejust going to say no.
I mean, that's a moment of whoknew then what the Lord was
working in that moment?
But when you look back, it hashis hands written all over it
Again.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
if I would have known I would have screwed it all up.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Yeah, that's good, that's really good, that's a
perfect way to end baby.
But I think questions, thesetypes of questions, these are
great questions to be able totalk to your spouse about.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Scary.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
in a way it can be scary, but, man, it opens up
dialogue, it opens up thoughts.
You can reminisce, you canreflect back.
I think it's very, veryimportant for everyone listening
.
Have these conversations withyour spouse.
You don't have to do it likethis, but, man, when you're
sitting on the couch hanging outnot doing anything, tv's on in
the background.
You've been watching previewsand trailers for two hours.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Oh my God, that's, like every.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
At least once every few weeks.
It's like what do we want towatch?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
We've watched everything, and then we try to
watch, try to find something towatch, and all we do is watch
trailers watch trailers.
That's that's add that to thewatch list.
Oh, add that to the watch thatwe're never gonna watch it
happens.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
So, uh, do this with your spouse.
It's a lot of fun.
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Any final thoughts?
Beautiful.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I love you.
Let's get out of here, god.
We love you so much.
We are so thankful for whatyou're doing.
We're thankful for thisplatform and what you have given
to us and, god, just pray thatwe will.
We will do what you want withit.
We trust you.
God, I pray that this willreach ears that need to hear it
in the moments that they need tohear it.
Uh, transform lives and heartstowards you.
And, god, we just hope we canpoint to you throughout it all,
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even in the fun and the silly.
God, let you be the light thatshines through it all.
Lord, we love you and we are sothankful for you.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Amen Play ball.
Because you've been dealt some difficult cards
health-wise, especially over thelast few years, and this is the
last 12, 18 months especially.
You're going to make me cry.
I'm sorry, I don't mean to makeyou cry.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I don't like crying in public.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
But I definitely admire how you've handled it and
what you're doing with it.
You're not letting it stop youat all.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
It's that moment where you realize that there is
this heaviness just lifted offof you.
It's the moment where you wereokay with lifting your hands to
worship.
None of the people around youmatter.
It doesn't matter where yourhands are and it doesn't matter
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what they think, because it'sjust you and God.
It's you and it's vertical.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Through it all, you're still good enough.
I think is the biggest thing,because I think it's something
all everyone and men strugglewith that, whether they want to
admit it or not.
Men struggle with this idea amI really good enough?
Do I deserve what I have?
Am I good enough to be yourhusband?
Am I good enough to be a fatherto my children?
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Am I going to screw this up andthe enemy will quickly tell you
no, you're not good enough.
No, someone else should be goodenough.
You fail too many times.
You let too many people down,and just especially in the
younger years of ourrelationship and marriage.
Hey, you're good enough andit's all going to work out,
(01:38):
because there are definitelytimes where you didn't think
that, I didn't think it would.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Here's a question for you Is marriage overrated?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Why aren't people getting married anymore?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
A new Pew Research poll found that two in five
young adults think marriage isan outdated tradition.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Marriage rates are at their lowest right now.
Is marriage really even worthit?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
more than half of marriages end in divorce if you
get married, you have to bestuck with this person for the
rest of your life, right?
That's why you get married, sothat's why it's declining.
Why would you get married ifyou don't?
If you want to have just onepartner when you can?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
have multiple Marriage is stupid.
Ready In five, four, three.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Wayne's World, wayne's.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
World Party time Excellent.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Welcome to the Married AF Podcast, where
Matthew thinks it's theself-proclaimed greatest podcast
in the world.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I am one of your hosts, monica powers, with my
handsome husband I prefer thisintro over any other intro that
we could ever do.
We're gonna start every episodeas if it's wayne's world.
Wayne's world, party time.
Excellent, hey, baby I just didmy impression of you I thought
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it was a decent impression but Icouldn't say I was you no, no,
I think people would get veryconfused with that.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And you always say my beautiful wife.
So I had to think of somethingquick.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I mean, I call you handsome.
I think you crushed it.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You absolutely crushed it.
So thank you for that intro.
We're going to have to do thatevery single time we do this.
Welcome to the show, everybody,it's Wayne's World slash,
married AF.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
No, it's not Wayne's World.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
No, it's not going to be Wayne's World at all, but
it's going to be good though,because we got 10 questions I
think every couple should knowabout each other, and maybe
questions you need tocontinually ask each other,
because it just opens up allsorts of fun, interesting,
awesome conversation.
But before that happens, whenthis airs, you're going to be
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married to an old man.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
An older.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Older man, that's right.
For nine months, for ninemonths, and then we'll be the
same age.
Yes, I'll be a year older whenthis airs on Tuesday and we
record on a Friday night.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Straight from softball practice Rushed home
Ate dinner.
And we record on a Friday nightStraight from softball practice
Rush home ate dinner.
Have the wind burn.
Look on my face because thewind was howling or snuggie at
practice and it's so freakingcold, I'm so ready for warm
weather.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I'm not built for the cold.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I think that's just the thing for old people.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well, listen, I'm older tomorrow and in a couple
of days.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Are guys afraid to tell other people about their
age?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
No, I'll be 42.
I don't care anything about it.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I don't care to tell people how it's like so rude to
tell a girl's real age.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I mean that's stupid.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Some people I can understand.
They have maybe really hardlife and they age faster than
most people.
They don't want to tell.
But when you age very well andyou don't really look your age,
you definitely want to tell.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
You're right, you're right.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
So maybe that's why it makes it weird.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Maybe, so I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I'm not sure either.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
But I don't mind telling my age at all.
I don't either, and no oneshould Be proud of your age.
Be where you are.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I mean, there's an alternative.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
You've made it this far.
Celebrate that, celebrate thatand be happy about that.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, God's not done with you yet.
No, not at all Not one bit,especially if you still have air
in your lungs.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
He ain't finished yet , which is why you need to ask
your spouse these questionsbefore time runs out.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I don't even know what I'm asking you, because I
literally opened this file thatyou sent me.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Saying you're asking the odd, I'm asking the even.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
And bam, so run it from the top.
What you got.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
But my favorite was baby.
Are you going to ask me thefirst question or do you want me
to ask?
Listen, you can mix it up.
You want me to ask you the odds?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I'm aware that it starts with the number one.
I'm glad you are, which is anodd number.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That's why I'm asking you the odd questions.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I'm just saying you can mix it up a little bit if
you wanted to mix it up.
That's all I got.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I'm asking you the odd questions.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yes, get us started.
Woman, all right, golly Ooh.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I feel like I've answered this question in a
pageant before question in apageant before.
It's definitely a pageantquestion, but I think it's a
good question.
If you could invite anyone todinner past present, either one,
who would it be?
Speaker 1 (06:54):
you know, um boy, it'd be a whole lot of people if
possible, but I had to do justone mm-hmm just one, and this
could probably vary day to day,but I think right now I would
invite Joseph from the OldTestament and want to talk to
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him.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Why.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I love his story so much as far as a person in the
Bible outside of Jesus.
I love Joseph's story so much.
Because, he's the young brotherwhich I don't relate to.
I'm the oldest brother, buthe's the young brother who the
Lord has given him this visionand led him to a path that this
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is what you're going to be, andeveryone hated him for it, and
he gets sold into slavery.
After one brother, thank thegoodness, was like, hey, let's
not kill him, but let's sellgoing to be, and everyone hated
him for it.
And he gets sold into slavery.
After one brother, thank thegoodness, was like, hey, let's
not kill him, but let's sell himto slavery.
That's a great idea.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Let's just make this clear for the people that don't
necessarily know the Bible.
We're not talking about that.
Joseph, not Jesus' earthlydaddy, not Jesus' earthly father
.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yes, no, this is Joseph Way back when.
This is Genesis Joseph.
But he was sold into slaveryand he was with Potiphar.
And then he gets thrown in jailbecause Potiphar's wife thought
he was really good looking.
And he gets thrown in jailbecause he wouldn't sleep with
her.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
He wouldn't have sex with her Because he honors the.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Lord and she turned that around on him.
But anyway, his story and howit goes, and he's thrown into
jail and then he's withpharaoh's two of his pharaoh's
main guys, and they, heinterprets a dream for him.
They're like I'm gonna get youout of here and they don't.
And he's let down yet again.
And then he goes to pharaohbecause oh ding, ding, ding ding
.
Two years later this guyremembers.
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Oh, joseph, he can interpretdreams, let's bring that guy.
And he ends up being over theentire kingdom and you see his
brothers come to him in a timeof need.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And they don't even recognize him.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Don't even recognize him, and just the whole story of
everything that Joseph wentthrough.
He was given this dream.
He was given this dream, he wasgiven this vision from God of
this is what you're going to do.
You're going to lead nationsand to go down the path that he
did for us.
We would quit day one Long timeago.
But to see his faithfulness inthe Lord, even when it looked
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impossible.
I would want to know firsthandlike I need more.
Give me more.
Let me hear more about thestory.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I think this is a great example of why we don't
know how everything ends.
Like we don't know the exactpath that we're supposed to take
, like we have to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
It doesn't just.
Hey, this is what's going tohappen to you, Because if
anybody were to be told you'regoing to be sold into slavery,
you would not.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You're going to do anything and everything to get
out of that situation.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Well, even if it's like the greatest destination
ever, if we knew what it was,we're going to screw it up.
Yeah, that's just, that's theway we're all through, um, the
way we're made.
We just we mess it up um, butthat that's, if anyone that's a
good that would be the one.
All right, so you so far.
What has been the highlight ofyour life?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
oh, I've had a half.
A highlight reel is pretty good.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
It is.
I mean, you've you'veexperienced some amazing things,
but if you had to pick one like, what is number one on the
sports center Top 10.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Ooh, man, it has to be the day that we both
committed I would agree withthat to 100 follow jesus.
This wasn't.
Hey, we're, we're in collegeand we're giving our lives to
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christ, because we did on thesame day and we didn't even know
it had no clue, because it wasone of those close your eyes,
raise your hand type things, andwe're the people that really
close our eyes yes, yes, knowingthat nobody actually does that,
everyone wants to look around.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Who did it?
Who did it?
Who raised their hand?
Who got their?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
hands up, sometimes, like I used to be the person
that did not close my eyes,because when I don't trust the
places that I go, I know, majorissues, but I wanted to see if
they were actually telling thetruth.
When you hear them with youreyes closed, I see your.
I see your hand.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Thank you, are they really there?
Yes, are they really there?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Are there that many people saying yes, but we were
those people who closed our eyeson that day?
Sure did Both raised our handsgot baptized on the same day,
but then we're both a year intocollege or you're two years in.
I'm a year in and we're buckwild.
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Yeah, we completely lost it.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
We were totally in on Savior Jesus, but it was years
later and years and years later,uh, where we learned what it
was to have Lord of your life,jesus.
And I agree, I mean that thatchanged, changed at all.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
So so that would probably be the highlight,
because the things that happenedafter that are just
unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I agree.
I mean it is.
It put us on a trajectory thatwho would have ever thought to
be where we are today and whoknows where we'll be 10 years
from now as long as we justfollow what the Lord directs us
to do.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Okay, this one's kind of good, kind of scared.
What trait in others do youadmire the most?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Now, this is kind of a open question, because it
could totally be.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I feel like that should be more of a spouse kind
of situation.
Well, and that's the direction.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
That's the direction I'm going to go.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I don't know a lot of people that well.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Well, no, but the direction I'm going to go is
definitely in you, and the traitI admire the most is really to
watch your perseverance You'vebeen dealt some difficult cards
lately, yeah and to see yourstrength and your faith as you
walk through.
That.
It is something I very muchadmire and wish that I had some
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of that perseverance in my ownlife at certain times, because
you've been dealt some difficultcards, health wise, especially
over the last few years, and sothe last 12, 18 months
especially.
I'm sorry, I don't mean to makeyou cry- I don't like crying in
public.
But you know, I definitelyadmire how you handled it and
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what you're doing with it,because you're not letting it
stop you at all.
So I won't make you cry anymore, I'll ask you the next one.
Baby, if you wrote a book, whatwould it be about?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I would probably write the book that I've been
asking you to write for severalyears.
Just put your name on it andmake you go do all the book
signings and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
That'd be jacked up.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
That would be so fantastic.
I guess that's the only way I'mgoing to actually get it done.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Maybe I can be okay with that plan.
You're a ghostwriter.
Yeah sure it's perfect.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I've been wanting you to write a book about being a
husband for years.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
I know.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Upon years.
I told you to do that insteadof this podcast, and here we are
.
We still have no book.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Still have no book, but you never know what the Lord
will do.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
That's the book I would write.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I think it would be great, because it's true, you
don't?
I think it's something everyoneneeds to be all in on all the
time and just have trust.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
But I'm actually writing my own book.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You are.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
And I don't know that I want to say anything out loud
or give anybody any kind ofinformation, because I haven't
wrote anything down in a while,because I've been dealt cards,
tell you what you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
That's enough right there, just let it happen it's
got a great title though it does.
Next question.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Next question uh, if you could write a letter to your
younger self, what advice wouldyou include?
I feel like this is a doc brownsituation, where marty's
wanting to go back and tell doc,where you can't be here, you're
.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
This is gonna happen and libyans yeah, they're gonna
shoot you he doesn't want.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Doc doesn't want to know he gets mad.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
He rips the letter up and then marty goes back to the
future and doc pulls open hischest after being shot and he's
got the bulletproof f2.
Oh my gosh, it was great I lovethat movie.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Um, I feel like that's the situation right now.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
It is uh, if I could give my younger self, write a
letter to my younger self andgive myself advice um one.
No, you're not gonna screw itup that is so perfect for you
like, listen, you're not goingto totally burn this to the
ground.
Um, I think that and and hey,through it all, you're still
(16:34):
good enough.
I, I think, is the biggestthing, because I think it's
something all everyone and menstruggle with, that, whether
they want to admit it or not,men struggle with this idea Am I
really good enough?
Do I deserve what I have?
Do I deserve, am I good enoughto be your husband?
Am I good enough to be a fatherto my children?
(16:54):
Am I going to screw this up?
And there's that the enemy willquickly tell you no, you're not
good enough.
No, someone else should be goodenough.
You fail too many times, youlet too many people down and
just especially in the youngeryears of our relationship and
marriage, hey, you're goodenough and it's all going to
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work out, because there aredefinitely times where you
didn't think that, I didn'tthink it would.
So probably that just to beable to have some strength to
keep going.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
That would be something that you could just
pull out and read all the time.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
No, you would have to , you'd absolutely have to.
Ok, next one what you wouldhave to, you'd absolutely have
to.
Okay, next one.
What makes you feel pure joy?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Oh my, does it have to just be one thing?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
No.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Okay, there's probably three things.
All right's hear them worshipwhy, because that is my time
with the three in one can youexplain what that feels like?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I know it's impossible to be able to explain
that, but can you for peoplewho are listening, who
especially just they're notthere, or maybe they're starting
to get there and they justdon't understand Can you explain
just that feeling and whatthat's like?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
There is probably nothing like it ever, period.
I mean, it is better than sexand that's probably the only
thing that's better than sex.
It's that moment where yourealize that there is this
(18:47):
heaviness just lifted off of you.
It's the moment where you wereokay with lifting your hands to
worship.
None of the people around youmatter, it doesn't matter where
your hands are and it doesn'tmatter what they think, because
it's just you and God.
(19:07):
It's you and it's vertical.
I feel like it's a star trekmoment where it's like bimmy up
scotty, where the beam it's just, that's it, no one else matters
.
I worship really big yes, you doand we even have a night of
worship coming up, because it'sthe end of our fasting, and
(19:28):
every time we have a night ofworship I have to make sure we
get there early, because I needto get the front row, because
there's just a little bit morespace between the two.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
You got to have your space.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Okay, who am I going to be by?
If we bump into each other,it's not going to matter.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
It's going to be cool .
Yeah, it'll just be.
Oh, we're going to grab eachother's hand and then we're the
hands.
I always think of a, of when,when you're a parent and you
have young children and yourchildren, they, they want you,
(20:02):
um, you know, I think of both ofour children especially, but
they, what do they do, daddy?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
daddy, daddy.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I mean they lift their arms to their dad, saying,
hey dad, pick me up up.
Hey dad, I need you, I need tofeel comfort from you, I need to
feel love from you.
And what's it's raising theirarms to their dad.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
That's the best explanation.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
It's the exact same thing that we get to do.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
The other one is getting to have a front row view
and listen to you speak on aSunday morning, give a message.
I don't know.
I just have this little giddyschool girl butterfly in my
stomach.
The moment you start to speakit's like the lights are out and
I'm always going to be frontrow.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You are.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Because I have to be right there and watching every
second.
Most of the time I get lost inyour eyes, because when the
light hits you're just the.
The blue is amazing, but youjust growing in the gift God
gave you that no one would haveever guessed Never in a million
years.
Because nobody in your familydoes anything like this.
No, no, and I never wanted todo anything like this and the
(21:11):
other would be watching ourchildren serve on a Sunday
morning, serving without beingscheduled to serve.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
No, they now.
If they're not scheduled toserve one, they get a little
bummed out.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
More than likely.
They're scheduled for one time.
Yes likely they're scheduled forone time.
Yes, so if we're at ouralabaster campus, we have three
experiences and they get oneexperience to serve, one
experience to go in.
So we're going to be there allthree, so they will find
somewhere to serve in the onethat they're not scheduled to
(21:52):
serve, that they're not going infor.
So it's just unbelievable tosee that, like we're not forcing
them to go in.
This is not a parent you goserve, or telling them to serve.
They do this on their own.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
No, they look for it, they look for opportunities and
they now know the people.
You know they will go tocertain people hey, can I serve
here?
Hey, do you need help here?
Hey, is there anything that youneed me to do?
Um, it is, it's very, it'srewarding as a parent, um, and
it makes you feel like, okay,well, I've done something right
(22:27):
at least.
Um, I, I would totally agreewith those doesn't my, my pure
joy.
I can totally get on board withthat.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Oh, your question.
If you had more than enoughmoney, what kind of life would
you live?
Now, more than enough money tome, we call a few money.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
A few money People, you'll kind of know what that
means.
All right, you got so muchmoney you're.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
You'll kind of know what that means all right, you
got so much money, you're justit don't matter no more.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Um, I've had more money than I knew what to do
with.
What kind of life would I live,you know?
Ask me on.
It probably changes day to daysometimes.
Um, I would have loved to buythe boston red socks.
Run them the way they should berun, go and get the Spend the
(23:18):
money we need to spend.
To get the pitching, we needMoney to go get the players that
you need Now.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I want you to have that kind of money so we can
make that happen.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I would buy the Boston Red Sox and I would do
what needs to be done to bringWorld Series to.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Boston, we would take a loss in the money.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
But if I got, more money than more than enough,
then it would be fine.
That would always be a dream,of course, but realistically To
live in Boston six months out ofthe year.
What a dream Every game in thebox.
Maybe I am changing my mind.
Listen my mind.
Maybe that is no box watchingbaseball.
I'm gonna be on the fieldthat's fine, I'm gonna be in the
(23:57):
dugout.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Hey, alex, come on, let's, let's make this call as
long as I can make sure that Iget one of those hoodies we good
, but I.
That would be awesome you know,I hope that happens.
That would be great.
That would happen for me tooyou know used to be.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I would say it would be something along the lines of
that and big, extravagantMansion houses all over the
place, vacations everywhere, allof the stuff.
But I think as we've gottenolder and we've grown more in
our faith, I mean, yeah, youwant to be comfortable and you
want to enjoy life.
More in our faith I mean, yeah,you want to be comfortable and
(24:37):
you want to have enjoy life.
I think more so now would be avery generous life is.
Let me where, where, where I'vebeen blessed with this money
somehow, how can I move thatonto someone else to bless
someone else or help makesomeone else's situation or some
community or organizationsituation better, else's
situation or some community ororganization situation better.
And if I can do that, thenthat's what I would do, along
(24:57):
with by the Boston.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Red Sox, but that's always what we talk about.
If, what are we going to dowhen we win the lottery?
When we, when it hits thebillion dollars, we're going to
win the jackpot, we spend thatmoney, but it's mostly of OK,
we're going to give this amountto these people.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
We're going to give these people this amount.
It's definitely shifted overthe years because every time the
lottery gets big.
And don't act like people,don't do you?
I mean everyone listening andwatching you all do this when
the lottery gets high before you, everyone plays the game like
you know what?
Someone's gotta win.
What if it is us?
Man, if we did, we would dothis and we'd do this, and hey,
this would be fun and everyoneplays that game.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
But if is a big word for two letters it most
certainly is.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
But if that happened, buy the Red Sox and be just
overly generous with the rest ofit.
I like it All right.
What would your dream day looklike?
My dream day your dream day,the perfect day.
If you could script out any daypossible, what exactly might
(26:02):
that look like?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Wow, nothing's off limits.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Nothing's off limits.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I would have a hair and makeup person daily.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Okay, go back to my last one with the money.
You said dream okay.
You didn't say reality.
You're right, your dream day.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Because I don't know what I'm doing with makeup and I
don't know what I'm doing withhair.
It just happens.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I like it.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
And then, once I'm all fixed up that hopefully
wouldn't take half the day,maybe an hour we would get to go
to Fenway Park.
Just walk out, look at thefield.
You'd have your cup of coffeeand I'd have my hot tea.
(26:51):
Just look around.
It's going to be a good day.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh man, so far, so good.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Pick up the dirt, see if the wind blows it.
It's blowing out today.
It's a good day, good day to beon the monster.
You know something like that, Idon't know.
Have some really good sushi fordinner All Maybe for lunch and
dinner and just be with you thewhole day.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Sounds good to me, sign me up.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
To just go out on the field in the morning.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
This is great.
I mean, yeah, sign me up.
That sounds pretty good to me,I'll take it.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
I know people are probably like, oh my God, that's
the dumbest thing.
But if we were all the same,this place would be so boring.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
It's great that we're different and we have different
opinions and different thoughts, and it's healthy when we can
talk about things.
I love it, that's.
I think that's a great dreamday.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
All right, okay, this is the last one for you.
Oh boy, okay, I have an answerto this question that I want you
(28:13):
to okay how is your answer?
But I'm sure it's not going tobe it.
If you could master any skillovernight, what would it be?
Speaker 1 (28:27):
any skill overnight nunchuck skills, bow hunting
skills If I could master any,skill Computer hacking skills
Computer hacking skills.
Oh man, If I could master anyskill overnight, I would love to
be able to play some sort ofmusical instrument.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I knew that would be it.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Because I've tried, I would love to, but my hands
don't don't do that, they don'twork they don't work that at all
or opposite of your feet listen, I would love to play drums.
I think I could be a greatdrummer if it were just my hands
.
But because you got to get yourfeet involved, my, my, my hands
and my feet do not operateindependently from each other at
(29:10):
all.
They have to be doing the samething.
So if I can master any skillovernight, that would clearly be
the one.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You know, that's close to what I was going to say
.
I would want yours to be.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Clap on beat.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I mean it's rhythm, so I mean we'll put it in the
same category I'll be honest,clapping on beat is not really a
skill at all.
It's just something I do nothave.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Obviously it has to be because not many people can
do it.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Well, listen.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Because I seriously walked into the Second
Experience Sunday this pastSunday and it was a Charlie Fox
track going on in there.
It was some word over here on abeat and some over there on a
beat and somebody in the middlewas on their own beat and I'm
seriously starting to clapwalking up to the front because
(30:02):
somebody's got to help.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Let's all get on the same page here, people.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I've requested for a designated clapper from the
worship team be in theauditorium Every experience, so
we can all make sure you turnaround and you're the clapper
from the worship team.
Be in the auditorium everyexperience, so we can all make
sure you turn around and you'rethe clapper.
You're getting everyone on clapduty yeah, I would be able to
do that all right.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Last one for you okay what is the most challenging
decision you have ever made?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
there's a lot of those.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
But what's the most challenging decision?
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I don't know that it was challenging.
Yeah, it was very challenging,but it was probably one of the
better decisions I've ever made,when we both got our dream jobs
within a week of each other,and I knew that my dream job
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would not last very long andwould probably end a divorce
where yours had longevity and itwas not on a time crunch for
you to make sure that you got itat this certain time.
So, for me, saying no to WWE in2011 and giving you the
(31:31):
opportunity to run your familybusiness, it was hard because
that's all I wanted.
That was my next goal for me toget.
I was going to be a diva andthere it was.
I just needed to go to St Louisto Smackdown, to sign all the
(31:53):
things the next month and byGeorge, if we're not in
California and your dad says,hey, I want you to do this and
we're already ready moving toTampa to develop mental stuff
and I'm just wait what you aretaking this job and I am calling
(32:17):
them right now and telling themno, because the week before is
when I got all the stuff and Ijust called them and I thought I
was gonna get cussed out leftand right, up and down, ever,
ever be able to step foot in aring again.
Not that I cared to, because Iknew what the long term was for
you or us, and I think I pickedand made the best decision.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I think so and I agree.
I think that's the.
What an incredibly harddecision.
Here's your dream and you'rejust going to say no.
I mean, that's a moment of whoknew then what the Lord was
working in that moment?
But when you look back, it hashis hands written all over it
Again.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
if I would have known I would have screwed it all up.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Yeah, that's good, that's really good, that's a
perfect way to end baby.
But I think questions, thesetypes of questions, these are
great questions to be able totalk to your spouse about.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Scary.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
in a way it can be scary, but, man, it opens up
dialogue, it opens up thoughts.
You can reminisce, you canreflect back.
I think it's very, veryimportant for everyone listening
.
Have these conversations withyour spouse.
You don't have to do it likethis, but, man, when you're
sitting on the couch hanging outnot doing anything, tv's on in
the background.
You've been watching previewsand trailers for two hours.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Oh my God, that's, like every.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
At least once every few weeks.
It's like what do we want towatch?
Speaker 2 (33:46):
We've watched everything, and then we try to
watch, try to find something towatch, and all we do is watch
trailers watch trailers.
That's that's add that to thewatch list.
Oh, add that to the watch thatwe're never gonna watch it
happens.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
So, uh, do this with your spouse.
It's a lot of fun.
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Any final thoughts?
Beautiful.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
I love you.
Let's get out of here, god.
We love you so much.
We are so thankful for whatyou're doing.
We're thankful for thisplatform and what you have given
to us and, god, just pray thatwe will.
We will do what you want withit.
We trust you.
God, I pray that this willreach ears that need to hear it
in the moments that they need tohear it.
Uh, transform lives and heartstowards you.
And, god, we just hope we canpoint to you throughout it all,
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even in the fun and the silly.
God, let you be the light thatshines through it all.
Lord, we love you and we are sothankful for you.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Amen Play ball.
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