Speaker 1: Man, Chabot Shaloon, Friends, Shabat Shaloon, and welcome back to
Speaker 1: New Robots Who podcast. Mama, what's the reason I'm saying
Speaker 1: Shabat shalom to all of our friends out there?
Speaker 2: We have been having a massive discussion this week about
Speaker 2: observing the Sabbath and keeping it holy.
Speaker 1: We've touched upon this before, and we said that we
Speaker 1: were going to implement this for the new year of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. It is now March and it is
Speaker 1: still not happening.
Speaker 2: Well, we hadn't talked about Actually we talked about taking
Speaker 2: more time off, but we've never talked about actually observing
Speaker 2: a week.
Speaker 1: I talked about it.
Speaker 2: A day every week. We've talked about it full turn
Speaker 2: everything off. I mean, yes, but we didn't call.
Speaker 1: It that correct, right, So what prompted all of that
Speaker 1: this week?
Speaker 2: Okay, this is going to make one particular person really angry.
Speaker 2: So last week I made a joke about Cana's owens
Speaker 2: and then this one gal got really mad and she's like,
Speaker 2: can you ever do an episode and not talk about
Speaker 2: Canda's owens.
Speaker 1: She's doing it again.
Speaker 2: No, So she released new shirt this week that says
Speaker 2: Daddy's Home Shabat Shalom, and essentially it's making fun of
Speaker 2: Erica Kirk saying that Charlie Kirk would say that every Friday.
Speaker 1: We're not going to spend so much time on this.
Speaker 3: I promise I'm not. So I thought, that's weird.
Speaker 2: Did he say it, because like I remember him saying
Speaker 2: it on a podcast. I used to watch all his podcasts,
Speaker 2: And then Navea said no. At Young Women's Leadership when
Speaker 2: I was there for Turning Point this last summer, he
Speaker 2: gave a whole speech about the importance of the Sabbath
Speaker 2: and observing the Sabbath with your family and why he
Speaker 2: does it, and so.
Speaker 3: I thought, yeah, that's what I thought.
Speaker 2: So I kind of went down this little rabbit hole
Speaker 2: trying to find him actually saying it, which I found
Speaker 2: five different places in like five minutes.
Speaker 3: It's very easy to verify.
Speaker 2: But then I went a little deeper down the rabbit
Speaker 2: hole and I thought.
Speaker 3: He's onto something. This sounds like a great thing for
Speaker 3: our family.
Speaker 1: Look, it felt like he came up with it.
Speaker 2: So I would just like to thank Candace Owens for
Speaker 2: creating her I mean hearted shirt, which is leading me
Speaker 2: to really investigate observing a sabbath for our family and
Speaker 2: doing this every week, this is going to bring.
Speaker 1: About a whole It has the potential to bring about
Speaker 1: an entire discussion. Yes, about people in this industry, however
Speaker 1: you want to refer to or think of this industry,
Speaker 1: That will maybe table for now, because I don't want
Speaker 1: to go off on something negative here to start. So
Speaker 1: the primary motivation I think for us doing this is
Speaker 1: somewhat of a mental health crisis. Can I call it that?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 1: I was listening to Tony Robbins just coincidentally. It's not
Speaker 1: like I sought this out. It popped up in my
Speaker 1: algorithm and it was attention grabbing clip and I listened
Speaker 1: to it, and he basically addressed how all of these
Speaker 1: conferences that he does, how he can very easily determine
Speaker 1: that about ninety percent of the people in the room
Speaker 1: are are suffering from some sort of a mental health
Speaker 1: crisis that is being brought about primarily because of time
Speaker 1: or just life stress. And I definitely think that we
Speaker 1: fall into that category. And he explained that basically, so
Speaker 1: many of us are experiencing this same mental anguish, but
Speaker 1: we do such a great job of masking it right
Speaker 1: when it comes to these face to face interactions that
Speaker 1: we have with other people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, mind that the reports are that somewhere around
Speaker 2: thirty percent of Americans, okay, are in a mental health crisis.
Speaker 3: Now I think it's probably higher than that.
Speaker 2: We just call it stress, or we call it depression,
Speaker 2: or we call it being overstimulated or overwhelmed, or not
Speaker 2: liking our job. There's different things that we call it
Speaker 2: or label it, and really what it is is just
Speaker 2: like the whole world crashing down on you and never
Speaker 2: feeling like you can get ahead. And it's because we
Speaker 2: have so many distractions and we never quit. I think
Speaker 2: in America we just go, go, go, go go, especially
Speaker 2: if you own your own business, anyone that owns their
Speaker 2: own business, it just goes seven days a week because
Speaker 2: you can never shut it off. And we're doing it
Speaker 2: to our children. We're overbooking our kids. They go from
Speaker 2: they get up at six o'clock in the morning and
Speaker 2: it's go, go go. I mean I remember school mornings.
Speaker 2: They were stressful and you were in a hurry and
Speaker 2: you were trying to catch the bus and you were
Speaker 2: trying to Mom was yelling it. You get your stuff,
Speaker 2: get do you have your homework.
Speaker 1: Okay, but we have avoided that. Yes, given how it
Speaker 1: is that we have chosen to live. However, I would
Speaker 1: still say that we suffer from the same affliction, right,
Speaker 1: So why is that?
Speaker 2: Because we work for ourselves and there's always something that
Speaker 2: we can be doing, So we're always doing something and.
Speaker 3: It has to do with the way we live.
Speaker 2: Also, when you live on twenty acres and you have
Speaker 2: a farm property, there's always something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that keeps you busy, for sure, but that doesn't
Speaker 1: have to co mingle with what it is that you
Speaker 1: consider work. That's just your to do list, that those
Speaker 1: are chores. I don't think of it the same way.
Speaker 2: For if you're a blogger, you have made your life,
Speaker 2: your content and your work.
Speaker 1: A big part of my frustration, which is this entire concept,
Speaker 1: is the fact that I will hold off on things
Speaker 1: that I would like to get done around here because
Speaker 1: everything does have the potential for us to record it
Speaker 1: and turn it into a segment for our vlog channel,
Speaker 1: Good Simple Living. And this is something that came up
Speaker 1: in a discussion that you and I had of going
Speaker 1: back a few days ago. Because most of the books,
Speaker 1: everything it is that you guys see for us with
Speaker 1: regard to running our own business, I guess you could say.
Speaker 1: And in the latter part of last year, prior to
Speaker 1: the new year, we had a discussion on here with
Speaker 1: you guys about how we're going to take more time
Speaker 1: off devote ourselves a family, and I was like, where's
Speaker 1: the time off right, Which is a little awkward to
Speaker 1: bring up on camera, but I've just been feeling like
Speaker 1: this overwhelming sense lately of time slipping through my grasp.
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of us feel that way,
Speaker 1: especially the age that we are, but with having the
Speaker 1: kids and having them get older. You know, I took
Speaker 1: my money in for his driver's ed drive this morning.
Speaker 1: It's what we had to devote pretty much like the
Speaker 1: first half of our days year. And while I'm like
Speaker 1: extatic and super happy and excited for him, I can't
Speaker 1: help but at the same time, I feel as though,
Speaker 1: like I can't I can't believe this is happening again,
Speaker 1: Like this is so bizarre that our kids are growing
Speaker 1: up in that we could potentially not only have him
Speaker 1: for another couple of years before he decides.
Speaker 2: To And then Baby Kira, and you've always called.
Speaker 3: Her baby Kira, and all she's not a baby anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's like a Midlight Prices type
Speaker 1: of thing, or it's just it's you have a different
Speaker 1: comprehension of time the older you get, and you know
Speaker 1: how quickly you know everything moves along.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think our kids are feeling in a
Speaker 2: little bit too, like they're falling into the feeling overwhelmed.
Speaker 2: And when you go seven days a week, you get
Speaker 2: overwhelmed and it never ends, and you feel like you're
Speaker 2: on this vicious cycle that just keeps going. Even if
Speaker 2: you work Monday through Friday and you do have your
Speaker 2: weekends off. Weekends are for catching up on laundry, cleaning
Speaker 2: the house, getting grocery shopping, planning the kids for the
Speaker 2: next week of school. I think anybody can relate to.
Speaker 2: If you work for the weekend, your weekend isn't just free.
Speaker 2: That's when you catch up and then Monday morning comes around.
Speaker 1: That by itself is a lot. And to you that
Speaker 1: analogy that we've applied to like our parenting in the
Speaker 1: past is like, what it's it like having five kids?
Speaker 1: Will picture your drowning. This is all a joke. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then someone hands you a baby. I feel like
Speaker 1: our life has just become like this conveyor belt of
Speaker 1: things that need to get done. And that's great, don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong. Like I'm not trying to come on
Speaker 1: here and to gripe and complain. We're so incredibly fortunate
Speaker 1: to be able to do what it is that we do,
Speaker 1: and we have all of you out there to thank
Speaker 1: for that opportunity. But there are times where it just
Speaker 1: does become a lot, you know what I mean. It
Speaker 1: feels like there's never a break. It is NonStop, and
Speaker 1: it is so incredibly overwhelming.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that a lot of people that have
Speaker 2: watched YouTube for a while, or watch the Internet for
Speaker 2: a while are starting to see the creators that have
Speaker 2: been around for a long time starting to step back
Speaker 2: and starting to take massive breaks.
Speaker 1: Yeah. For I'm sure a number of different reasons. But
Speaker 1: every time I do see that and somebody I respect
Speaker 1: it so much because.
Speaker 2: They say they're going to and then they don't because
Speaker 2: they can't get off the hamster.
Speaker 3: It feels uncomfortable to step back.
Speaker 1: What is your why? What is your motivation for? Because
Speaker 1: you're somebody and I've referenced this on here before, is
Speaker 1: you're somebody that's really hard to keep up with. You
Speaker 1: are always looking ahead to the next thing, the next thing,
Speaker 1: the next thing. I think, and this isn't a knock
Speaker 1: on you. I think I'm somebody who's far more present.
Speaker 1: Is that fair to say? Of like the here and now,
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to worry so much about the future.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I feel like when we're in the
Speaker 3: here and now now, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I feel like you worry about the future far more
Speaker 2: like you almost dread the future.
Speaker 1: I do have anxiety about the uncertainty of the future,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, just because of that uncertainty,
Speaker 1: I want to try to appreciate the present as much
Speaker 1: as I possibly can, and that's always been really difficult
Speaker 1: to do when I, like I said, you have that
Speaker 1: conveyor belt of never ending to do's.
Speaker 3: Okay, so hear me out on that go ahead.
Speaker 2: I feel like I might be a little more here
Speaker 2: and now present intentionally, And that's why I don't feel
Speaker 2: as much stress as you, because I do enjoy today,
Speaker 2: and I feel like you feel guilt about looking towards
Speaker 2: the future and you're mad that you're not enjoying today.
Speaker 3: You want to, but you're not.
Speaker 1: I think I have a lot of like present day
Speaker 1: stress because I feel like something's off. I feel like
Speaker 1: there should be like our priorities should remain to where
Speaker 1: we are maximizing the amount of time we possibly can,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to the kids. When I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, something is interfering with that, I just become
Speaker 1: very conflicted and even frustrated at times.
Speaker 3: Yes, so you have brought up I want to.
Speaker 1: Turn this into like like marriage therapy because it's sounding
Speaker 1: that way.
Speaker 2: Welcome to our therapy session. So you have on multiple
Speaker 2: occasions brought up. We live somewhere where there's beautiful hikes.
Speaker 2: Why don't we go hiking. I want to go fishing
Speaker 2: with the kids. I want to go hunting with the kids.
Speaker 2: I want to go boating more, I want to go
Speaker 2: do you know all these things? And so I said, yeah,
Speaker 2: we have to have a designated day for this, and
Speaker 2: then Candice made her shirt. Then I dug down the
Speaker 2: rabbit hole and I went, we need a shabbot.
Speaker 1: Okay, there we go. That's how we got to where
Speaker 1: it is that we are.
Speaker 2: We need an intentional day off where we focus on
Speaker 2: God and our family. And I think in focusing on
Speaker 2: your family and focusing on your kids and our relationship
Speaker 2: with one another.
Speaker 3: You are honoring God.
Speaker 2: That is focusing on God because he wants you to
Speaker 2: focus on your little family and what's important and what
Speaker 2: he's blessed you with.
Speaker 1: And work is important. Yeah, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 3: You work.
Speaker 2: You shall work for six days and you shall rest
Speaker 2: on the seventh.
Speaker 1: But you can work eighteen hours a day if you
Speaker 1: choose to do so. This is kind of my point.
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, let's be reasonable all about this, and again,
Speaker 1: how can we just maximize our time? And when I
Speaker 1: feel like we are allocating in our time in a
Speaker 1: way that doesn't necessarily jive with my genuine, my true desires,
Speaker 1: it again, it just creates some internal conflict.
Speaker 2: So when we're talking about what we want to do
Speaker 2: with taking a day of rest, a true day of rest,
Speaker 2: it is turning off the router. No, because the big thing,
Speaker 2: the big thing that drains your time is these freaking phones.
Speaker 3: And those freaking routers and the stud WiFi.
Speaker 2: It is the worst thing to happen to humanity and
Speaker 2: the nuclear family and relationships. Husbands and wives just sit
Speaker 2: there staring down at their screens.
Speaker 3: You' all do it, you know you do, and then
Speaker 3: your kids do it.
Speaker 2: And then your kids come up to you and they
Speaker 2: have something to show you or tell you.
Speaker 3: And they have done studies where they hook up.
Speaker 2: The brain with the little stickers and they will show
Speaker 2: parents doom scrolling and they will show their kids come
Speaker 2: up to them, and the anxiety and the annoyance levels
Speaker 2: go up when your child approaches you. And then they
Speaker 2: have parents just sitting on the couch having a conversation
Speaker 2: or just you know, sitting there and their kids come
Speaker 2: up to them and endorphins light up. They're happy to
Speaker 2: see their children when they come up to them, but
Speaker 2: when they're doom scrolling on their stupid phone, their annoyance
Speaker 2: goes up. The problem is not with the child. The
Speaker 2: problem is with the evil device.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not just that. And I think that's something that,
Speaker 1: like Melissa alludes to you, I think most of was
Speaker 1: probably experienced that. Alwise you wouldn't be here watching us.
Speaker 1: But I think it is all amplified when you operate
Speaker 1: in the world that we have elected to operate and
Speaker 1: to where you feel like you need to be up
Speaker 1: on stuff, you need to be constantly checking, and you
Speaker 1: don't refreshing and checking the status of things. And even
Speaker 1: with this entire concept and idea of implementing this Sabbath
Speaker 1: day with you and I were trying to establish when
Speaker 1: it is that we could take this twenty four hour
Speaker 1: period so to turn off the Wi fi everything aside,
Speaker 1: and that was like we couldn't come up with.
Speaker 2: It, Like, wait a minute, because we want to do
Speaker 2: it on Saturday. I want to do it on the
Speaker 2: day that got intended. I want to do it on
Speaker 2: the last day of the weekend. And I'll get into why,
Speaker 2: because I know Sunday is a traditional day of worship
Speaker 2: for Christians, but to me, it's important to do it
Speaker 2: on the day that God said to do it on
Speaker 2: because I feel like his timing fright. I feel like
Speaker 2: his map for humanity is correct. And I understand that
Speaker 2: it was a covenant between God and the Jew and
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to step on those toes at all.
Speaker 3: But I don't, you.
Speaker 2: Know, I don't believe that we're under the law anymore.
Speaker 2: So I think you can take your Sabbath on a Monday,
Speaker 2: you can take your Sabbath on a Friday, you can
Speaker 2: take your sabbath not at all we're not mandated to
Speaker 2: take a sabbath, but are there still benefits to it?
Speaker 1: Absolutely sure, which is why I'm completely in favor of it.
Speaker 1: But with establishing Saturday, you know, that's the day that
Speaker 1: we post on goods and living for those of you
Speaker 1: who watch us over there, and releasing a video on YouTube,
Speaker 1: at least for us, isn't as simple as just hitting
Speaker 1: publish and or you know, public or whatever it is
Speaker 1: and having the video go live. It's sitting there monitoring things,
Speaker 1: tracking how a video is doing, having discussions before then
Speaker 1: now we need to tweak something to make it perform better.
Speaker 2: And talking back and forth with our audience too, if
Speaker 2: you guys have questions or like what's the code for that?
Speaker 3: Or why do you do this?
Speaker 2: Like? We like to be there and be present and
Speaker 2: be able to respond to you guys.
Speaker 1: So generally we release at eight am Pacific standard time,
Speaker 1: but we are sitting at our computer or we are
Speaker 1: on the phone, trying to answer comments, monitor how the
Speaker 1: video is doing for at least a few hours. Generally
Speaker 1: I try to walk away from it by like ten
Speaker 1: and that's not because of any of you out there,
Speaker 1: So apologies if you are somebody who happens to watch
Speaker 1: and common a couple hours after we release, because at
Speaker 1: that point I just try to move on with my
Speaker 1: day for my own health.
Speaker 2: And Saturday, Yeah, so what we decided was we would
Speaker 2: were going to continue posting on Saturday. So we'll post
Speaker 2: at eight o'clock am Pacific Standard time on Saturday. We
Speaker 2: will monitor it for two hours, and then ten am
Speaker 2: Saturday morning, our.
Speaker 3: Shabbot starts our day of rest.
Speaker 2: And then Sunday at ten am, we will turn the
Speaker 2: Wi Fi rider back on and then we'll you know,
Speaker 2: I'll probably answer questions and things like that, I'll scroll
Speaker 2: through and we'll be back with you. But for twenty
Speaker 2: four hours, we are going to take time to be
Speaker 2: with God and with our family and be intentional about
Speaker 2: rest because rest is so important for everybody.
Speaker 3: Everyone needs rest.
Speaker 2: And if you're not intentional about it with Wi Fi
Speaker 2: in your life, if Wi Fi streams through your home,
Speaker 2: are not intentional about it, you're going to get distracted
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Speaker 1: New World. Also podcast. What qualifies as rest to you?
Speaker 1: Because rest and respite to me just means stepping away
Speaker 1: from everything it is that we would ordinarily do. So
Speaker 1: if I go outside and I help on the track,
Speaker 1: or I help on my lawn mower, or I decide
Speaker 1: to take the kids for a hike, is that acceptable?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So I think so.
Speaker 2: I have been trying to figure out what is an appropriate.
Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk said, if I can walk into your.
Speaker 2: Home on your sabbath and it looks like any other day,
Speaker 2: then you're not doing it right.
Speaker 1: Agreed, That's what he did.
Speaker 2: Set it young women's leadership that Noville was listening to, and.
Speaker 3: I agree with that. But also there is times in
Speaker 3: the Bible where.
Speaker 2: Jesus even corrected the Pharisees because the Pharisees took the
Speaker 2: fourth commandment, you shall keep the sabbath and keep it holy, right,
Speaker 2: that was the fourth commandment, and they were very.
Speaker 3: Strict about it.
Speaker 2: But they became so strict about it they became like
Speaker 2: militant about it.
Speaker 3: You have to do all of these things, and you
Speaker 3: can't do that.
Speaker 2: And if you're if if you even hit a grain
Speaker 2: of you know, wheat, and the grain falls to the
Speaker 2: ground and plants itself, you have you have failed.
Speaker 3: And so Jesus came back.
Speaker 2: Not to abolish the sabbath, not to say this is
Speaker 2: no longer important, this no longer benefits mankind.
Speaker 3: He came back to clarify its intent.
Speaker 2: So there's there's all these laws that you know, got
Speaker 2: more and more and more strict, and it became a
Speaker 2: source of judgment against the people you're doing this wrong.
Speaker 2: And so he intentionally healed somebody on the Sabbath. His
Speaker 2: disciples were criticized and shamed for grabbing some wheat and
Speaker 2: eating it. Yeah, like you can't do that. You have
Speaker 2: to have all your meals prepared and everything. Sabbath was
Speaker 2: meant to bring peace and rest and family time. I think, like,
Speaker 2: you weren't even supposed to leave your place of dwelling
Speaker 2: on the Sabbath. You were supposed to stay home and
Speaker 2: be with your family and reconnect with God.
Speaker 3: And I think that's cool. But I we're not under
Speaker 3: the law.
Speaker 1: The law was the same time, I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: it should be some you know, like it shouldn't be
Speaker 1: so stringent. But if I decided to take the kids
Speaker 1: to go do something, or if I you know, like
Speaker 1: we're going to hike, or if I use the example
Speaker 1: I just throw out there, if I hop on the
Speaker 1: tractor and I project that I just wanted to do
Speaker 1: off camera, or I want to whatever it is is
Speaker 1: work in the garden.
Speaker 3: Does that bring you peace and rest?
Speaker 1: It does. At the same time, I would say that
Speaker 1: it's honoring God.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2: So, I mean it's very important that we don't judge
Speaker 2: people like us. Taking a Sabbath doesn't make us holier.
Speaker 3: It's not.
Speaker 2: We're not going to stand before God and he's going
Speaker 2: to say you honored the Sabbath. Therefore, this this merit
Speaker 2: based you get to go to this higher level of heaven,
Speaker 2: or you're you're holier, or you did better because you
Speaker 2: observe the Sabbath with your family. We are no longer
Speaker 2: under that, We're no longer under dietary laws or anything
Speaker 2: like that. If you choose to eat kosher, if you
Speaker 2: choose to honor a Sabbath, if you choose to to
Speaker 2: continue on with these traditions, you are free to do so.
Speaker 2: But you are not free to judge others that don't.
Speaker 2: And you're not mandated to which means you're not under
Speaker 2: the strict laws that once exists.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this isn't about judgment or comparison. I'm not doing
Speaker 1: this for any other purpose than trying to honor God
Speaker 1: in my own way, to devote myself to my family,
Speaker 1: which in the you know, I think the also honors God.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So we said that our Sabbath was going to be
Speaker 2: when we went out on the boat with our kids,
Speaker 2: and when we take them out fishing for a whole day.
Speaker 3: When we go out and.
Speaker 2: We do every hike that's an Idaho because we live
Speaker 2: there are so many waterfall hikes. Like, we want to
Speaker 2: go out and hike in nature, not record it, and
Speaker 2: just be with our family, pack sandwiches and have an
Speaker 2: amazing day. And then I want to have a Shabbat
Speaker 2: dinner and so and not in the traditional sense. We're
Speaker 2: not going to have you know what people of the
Speaker 2: Jewish faith would eat first Sabbath. We're going to have
Speaker 2: pizza night, or we're going to or Kimani is going
Speaker 2: to cook.
Speaker 3: Kimoni's a really tremendous.
Speaker 2: Cook and he loves to cook, but he needs like
Speaker 2: a little bit of help still.
Speaker 1: And everything he's made so far has been so good,
Speaker 1: by far, the best meals that we we share it together.
Speaker 2: Like crazy recipes. And then he gives me this list, right, and.
Speaker 1: I encourage him, like it's such a cool thing for
Speaker 1: him to tackle and take on it at fifteen years old.
Speaker 1: It's so incredibly impressive what he's able to do already.
Speaker 2: He read that of all the of the of all
Speaker 2: the things that women find most attractive, it's being good
Speaker 2: with kids and knowing how to cook.
Speaker 1: He coverage.
Speaker 2: He's like spending all this time with Micah and then.
Speaker 3: He's learning how to cook really really good food.
Speaker 1: He's good to Micah. He's so good, He's so sweet.
Speaker 2: He's going to be the best. He's going to be
Speaker 2: like the best little I'm going to be so protective.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I'm going to need a shabbot just
Speaker 2: to be nice to any girl that comes along to
Speaker 2: steal my little boy's heart, because oh gosh, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be so hard.
Speaker 1: I'll be part of. This has me questioning what again,
Speaker 1: our motivations are? What motivates you to continue on? Like
Speaker 1: we've been on this treadmill for years now, what is
Speaker 1: it that has kept you going? You're always looking ahead?
Speaker 1: Like I said, whether it be like, hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: write another book this year, Like every time we think
Speaker 1: like our plate is full, Melissa's like not, I can
Speaker 1: fit more on there. Let's do this this year. How
Speaker 1: about we we grow and expand and try to do
Speaker 1: this And like I get that, you know you're trying
Speaker 1: to balance on the opportunity that would have been blessed with,
Speaker 1: but really, really is your your incentive. What is your
Speaker 1: motivation here?
Speaker 2: I enjoy it. It makes me excited to get up
Speaker 2: in the morning. I'm somebody who really needs something to
Speaker 2: do and something to work towards. And I don't like
Speaker 2: the feeling of completion. I like having something that that
Speaker 2: makes me excited to put my feet on the ground
Speaker 2: that I'm working towards.
Speaker 3: That's hard.
Speaker 1: I would say we differ in that way. Would you agree? Yes?
Speaker 1: What do you think my motivation is at this point
Speaker 1: the stage?
Speaker 2: I think you want to live the life you imagined
Speaker 2: and you feel like you've worked, You've worked up to
Speaker 2: that point, and now you want to sit and be
Speaker 2: in that.
Speaker 1: I don't just want to sit, It's not like but
Speaker 1: I mean you want to.
Speaker 3: You want to immerse yourself in that light that you dreamed.
Speaker 1: About, for sure. But it's time more than any.
Speaker 3: Yeah, time is about time.
Speaker 1: For me.
Speaker 3: Time is so important, value time more than anything else.
Speaker 2: So I have I mean, I have a couple things,
Speaker 2: like I do like to be working towards something. I
Speaker 2: like to inspire the kids. And I think that we
Speaker 2: have definitely done that writing a just writing a children's book,
Speaker 2: and then like now I'm going to be writing a
Speaker 2: second book. It's I like to show the kids that
Speaker 2: they can do things that people don't really think they
Speaker 2: can do. I never thought that I could actually write
Speaker 2: a book. I always wanted to, but it's like, well, no,
Speaker 2: only authors, right, I'm.
Speaker 1: With you on that and all this is beyond my
Speaker 1: wild the dreams, believe me. Yeah, everything it is that
Speaker 1: we've managed to do over the past few years. However,
Speaker 1: at the same time, I think that there is value
Speaker 1: to come along with with prioritizing the things that I'm
Speaker 1: speaking on as well that can serve as motivation or
Speaker 1: an example to them when they are older and they
Speaker 1: have their families of their own.
Speaker 2: So things are going to start looking a little bit different.
Speaker 2: We've decided that we're going to be taking a week
Speaker 2: off a lot of months, maybe not every month. We
Speaker 2: didn't take a week off in February or March, but
Speaker 2: in April, in May, in June and July and August,
Speaker 2: definitely over the holidays. We're going to be taking a
Speaker 2: week off a month. So there might be three videos
Speaker 2: instead of four because we want.
Speaker 3: A block of time.
Speaker 2: And in addition to that, we're going to be taking
Speaker 2: every Saturday off. So if you try to reach us
Speaker 2: on a Saturday. We are having our Shabbat and we
Speaker 2: will get back.
Speaker 3: To you on Sunday. It's just very important.
Speaker 2: It's important for our marriage because we've kind of been
Speaker 2: you want me to slow down.
Speaker 3: I want you to catch up. And so we've had this.
Speaker 2: Little battle where I think this is going to be
Speaker 2: good for all of us, and our kids seem excited
Speaker 2: about it too. At first, I thought they'd be resistant,
Speaker 2: and when I first brought it up, they were like,
Speaker 2: no Wi Fi twenty four hours mom, And it's like
Speaker 2: I just started posting videos like I have to edit,
Speaker 2: I have to end.
Speaker 3: Every went oh wow, like that's going to be hard.
Speaker 2: And then the more we talked about it, the more
Speaker 2: they were all like, well, what day, what hours? Okay,
Speaker 2: this is going to be They see the value in it,
Speaker 2: and I think if we can instill that in them
Speaker 2: when they're young, that rest and time with God and
Speaker 2: prioritizing their family and knowing when to stop. Like, if
Speaker 2: we can instill that in them WHI when they're young,
Speaker 2: it will hopefully carry on because I told them I
Speaker 2: have this dream that we continue this as a family.
Speaker 3: If you move away, it's your.
Speaker 2: Choice to continue it or not the Saturday tradition of rest,
Speaker 2: because how cool would it be if.
Speaker 3: We actually end up.
Speaker 2: I know it's more work building that outdoor pizza of
Speaker 2: and I've been talking about and every Saturday for Shabat dinner,
Speaker 2: our kids and our grandkids come over and we have
Speaker 2: pizza and we do a Bible study and it's just
Speaker 2: the day that our family gets together.
Speaker 1: That sounds great and we can get there, but there's
Speaker 1: no there's not that same sense of urgency with me
Speaker 1: in my mind. I'm like, no, we'll get there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's not a matter of
Speaker 1: that it needs to be balls of the wall as
Speaker 1: it has been for the last six years.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: I want to have this rest time too, and I
Speaker 2: think it's going to be really good for our family.
Speaker 2: It's going to intentionally give us that time to go
Speaker 2: do those hikes that we've been talking about, to take
Speaker 2: those family walks, to ride horses in.
Speaker 1: Blessing that is, we have afforded ourselves that opportunity. What
Speaker 1: good is it if you don't take advantage of it.
Speaker 2: And it's God's design And I think he rested on
Speaker 2: the seventh Day, but I think he knew that the
Speaker 2: nature of man was always going to be more. It's
Speaker 2: part of our fallen nature to always want more, to
Speaker 2: always strive for more. And it's not necessarily a good thing,
Speaker 2: and so he mandated, but he made it the law
Speaker 2: that the Jewish people rested because he saw the importance
Speaker 2: of it. He knew, this is so important that you
Speaker 2: have this time to reconnect with me, to reconnect with
Speaker 2: your family, and to find peace and then get back
Speaker 2: to work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because everything else is a distraction.
Speaker 2: Right, And everybody that I hear, I mean, if you
Speaker 2: actually Charlie kirkch just wrote a book, well, he wrote
Speaker 2: a book. He was talking about it in July and
Speaker 2: it came out of Christmas time, after he had passed away.
Speaker 3: And it's called Stop in the Name of God.
Speaker 2: And I want to order it on Amazon and read
Speaker 2: it because I know it's going to make me even
Speaker 2: more excited about it. I haven't read the book. I
Speaker 2: don't know if any of you guys have read the book.
Speaker 2: But he said that it changed his family and his
Speaker 2: life and his stress level so much by taking an
Speaker 2: intentional day turning everything off that he would literally take
Speaker 2: his phone put it in the junk drawer and say
Speaker 2: he would walk through the door, tell his daughter daddy's
Speaker 2: home Shabat shalom. And then at the end of his
Speaker 2: podcast on Friday, you can go watch his Friday podcast,
Speaker 2: he'd go, Shabat shaloon. Everyone, go turn your phones off,
Speaker 2: go spend time with God and family, enjoy your weekend.
Speaker 2: We'll see you back on Monday. And he was excited,
Speaker 2: you could tell, like he was so excited for that
Speaker 2: time on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I admire it so much, between him serving as
Speaker 1: an example and people like bench Perils telling you about
Speaker 1: how he and everything he does and is.
Speaker 3: Jewish breaker off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have no power even in their house. But
Speaker 1: he was explaining how even you know, when he just
Speaker 1: takes a sip of his water or tea or whatever
Speaker 1: beverage he's enjoying, he takes a second to thank God
Speaker 1: for his now and for that drink. And like, I
Speaker 1: admire that tremendously because you're keeping God at the forefront.
Speaker 1: And like I said, we're bombarded constantly, NonStop with distractions,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to things like our phones, and
Speaker 1: so to cast all this hide it's something that I
Speaker 1: just I'm a yearn for it, all.
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Speaker 2: of course the Easter Buddy. Now, these are all really
Speaker 2: fun traditions, but they can also overshadow the true meaning
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Speaker 2: So Sunday would have been the obvious day because we're
Speaker 2: Christians and that's the Christian day of worship. So that
Speaker 2: led me down another rabbit hole of like, why do
Speaker 2: Christian celebrate on Sunday instead of Saturday? And was it
Speaker 2: literally just because well, and then I heard a lot
Speaker 2: of Jewish people onlan say Christian should not be taking
Speaker 2: a sabbath on Saturday. That was a covenant between God
Speaker 2: and Jews, and they believe that covenant is still in place,
Speaker 2: and so that's why they still observe the Sabbath and
Speaker 2: they're still do it with all of the rituals and
Speaker 2: the traditions, and I mean, I would argue that that
Speaker 2: Sabbath and rest is for mankind. God created all of us,
Speaker 2: and yes, it was a covenant, but once Jesus rose again,
Speaker 2: like we're you know, the law was fulfilled. Now if
Speaker 2: you're of the Jewish faith, that you don't believe that obviously,
Speaker 2: and that's fine. I'm not here to debate Judaism versus Christianity.
Speaker 2: But it kind of led me down this, like, so
Speaker 2: why is it that the Christian celebrates Sunday. And then
Speaker 2: it all started like a very long time ago, where
Speaker 2: like the Roman Empire Constantine or the Roman Emperor Constantine,
Speaker 2: he used to worship the Son. He was a son worshiper,
Speaker 2: and that was like a pagan religion in Rome. And
Speaker 2: then in three twenty one AD, well a few years
Speaker 2: before that, he converted to Christianity, and so the Roman
Speaker 2: Empire were still Pagans, but then he was a Christian
Speaker 2: and he was watching Christians be persecuted and literally thrown
Speaker 2: into the arena to be killed because that's what they
Speaker 2: did with a lot of Christians and slaves to entertain them.
Speaker 2: And so to try to kind of marry the pagan
Speaker 2: religion to the Christian religion and have peace in his empire.
Speaker 2: He said, Sunday is the day of worship. So whether
Speaker 2: you worship the Sun, the sun God Sunday the day
Speaker 2: of the Sun, or you worship Christ. Because the Christians
Speaker 2: were all worshiping Christ on Sunday, this is going to
Speaker 2: be this day of worship. Shops will be closed, and
Speaker 2: you can't persecute anyone.
Speaker 3: Nobody can.
Speaker 2: So like you kind of was like pardoning Christians, like,
Speaker 2: we can't persecute Christians on this day, it's their day
Speaker 2: of worship. But really what he was doing was trying
Speaker 2: to be friendly with the Christians because he was.
Speaker 1: Convert my little historical bride here. So I just I.
Speaker 3: Dove down rabbit holes this week, okay. But then it
Speaker 3: became a persecution against the Jews.
Speaker 2: So then it became okay, if you're not celebrating on
Speaker 2: Sunday and you're celebrating on.
Speaker 3: Saturday, oh, those are the Jewish people.
Speaker 2: And then they started to persecute Jews that celebrated on
Speaker 2: Saturday and force them to celebrate on Sunday. So they
Speaker 2: literally have now gone back to a Saturday Sabbath. But
Speaker 2: they were celebrating on Sunday because they were persecuted or
Speaker 2: excommunicated out of Rome if they tried to celebrate on
Speaker 2: the Jewish tradition of Saturday.
Speaker 1: Doesn't really matter. There's seven days in a week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I feel like, do we want to
Speaker 2: be traditional with doing Saturday the last day of the week.
Speaker 2: It's God intended he rested on the seventh day. I
Speaker 2: feel like God's timing is always perfect. So I've been
Speaker 2: tortured all week with this. But then it's like, but
Speaker 2: if you go back two hundred years earlier, there was
Speaker 2: somebody just just in Martyr and wonder what his parents,
Speaker 2: what happened to his parents. I'm not having the last
Speaker 2: name of martyr back then. So this is like one
Speaker 2: hundred years after Christ died. He wrote that he noticed
Speaker 2: Christians were celebrating on Sunday because it was Resurrection Day,
Speaker 2: it was the.
Speaker 3: Day of our Lord.
Speaker 2: So long before Constantine said we have to celebrate on Sunday,
Speaker 2: Christians were already celebrating on Sunday. So I feel like
Speaker 2: you could do it Saturday or Sunday. There is no
Speaker 2: right or wrong answer, because we're not under the law,
Speaker 2: we're not under the Jewish tradition. Do it for peace,
Speaker 2: do it for God, do it for your family, or
Speaker 2: don't do it because you don't have to agree.
Speaker 1: Are you disturbed as I am that it was so
Speaker 1: difficult for us to find a twenty four hour period,
Speaker 1: like a Saturday sun up to sundown to implement all this.
Speaker 2: Because we're so busy and we do we work seven
Speaker 2: days a week that we had to shuffle stuff in
Speaker 2: different directions. Okay on Saturday, this can go on Friday,
Speaker 2: and then this can extend to Sunday and then this
Speaker 2: will just not do anymore. And you know, so we
Speaker 2: had to like we had to clean the slate and
Speaker 2: move stuff, and it was very difficult. And I think
Speaker 2: anyone's going to find that difficult. Like people could be
Speaker 2: listening to this, going, I work Monday through Friday, Saturday,
Speaker 2: I go grocery shopping, I catch up on all my laundry.
Speaker 2: I you know, I do all the stuff. Or her
Speaker 2: guys might be going, I'm not doing.
Speaker 1: Sunday, We're on laundry or any of the things that
Speaker 1: you're laying out here ever, right, which which again is
Speaker 1: part of the problem. We can't find the time to
Speaker 1: do even these very basic things.
Speaker 2: So you have to say, Okay, if I do all
Speaker 2: my laundry on Saturday, can I do it on Sunday?
Speaker 3: Or can I do a load on Friday and a
Speaker 3: load on Sunday.
Speaker 1: First world problems.
Speaker 3: But I'm just saying, like, you have to like squish
Speaker 3: it out.
Speaker 2: You have to get rid of the stuff that's work,
Speaker 2: and you have to only keep the stuff that brings
Speaker 2: you have to Maria Condo, your Saturday you have.
Speaker 3: If it doesn't bring you peace, you got it, you
Speaker 3: got to give it to the thrift store.
Speaker 1: Now I'm looking forward to it. Though you have more
Speaker 1: on the historian front there on the.
Speaker 2: Paper, and I could go on and on all It's
Speaker 2: just a lot of people will argue when they hear
Speaker 2: this podcast that the Sabbath is no longer biblical because
Speaker 2: when Jesus died, the law was fulfilled and we don't
Speaker 2: need to practice it anymore.
Speaker 3: I will argue that all.
Speaker 2: Of the apostles still observed the Sabbath after Christ's resurrection
Speaker 2: and the apostle Paul, who knew that Christ was the Christ,
Speaker 2: he knew that he was resurrected. He was literally the
Speaker 2: apostle to the gentile, still observed the Sabbath after so
Speaker 2: he knew that the law had been fulfilled, but he
Speaker 2: still saw the importance in it. So I don't think
Speaker 2: that Christ came to abolish the Sabbath.
Speaker 3: I mean you could.
Speaker 2: Say, like, oh, we're not damned by the law anymore,
Speaker 2: but does that make it no longer important? I mean,
Speaker 2: you can't just go out there and lie, cheat, steel, murder,
Speaker 2: covet and then take your you know, take your neighbor's
Speaker 2: wife and his sports car because Christ died.
Speaker 1: And I just felt the degree to it. Like I
Speaker 1: told you, there was an analogy that was made about
Speaker 1: people and how we're all so internally conflicted, and that
Speaker 1: happiness resides somewhere in between what it is that we
Speaker 1: say we would like to do, or ideally what it
Speaker 1: is we would like to be doing, with how it
Speaker 1: does that we spend and redeem our time versus what
Speaker 1: it is that we actually do. And so few of
Speaker 1: us actually live out our lives the way that we
Speaker 1: ideally would like to. And I don't know what the
Speaker 1: reasoning for that is, whether it be laziness or just distractions.
Speaker 1: But I'm trying to make that discrepancy as little as
Speaker 1: I possibly can, because every time we seem to take
Speaker 1: on more, like I spend a second ago, the broader
Speaker 1: that discrepancy becomes, it just serves more so as a
Speaker 1: recipe for not misery, but just some mense and emotional anguish,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Again, I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: be too heavy handed with like I'm I'm not complaining.
Speaker 1: I'm very grateful for everything it is that we have
Speaker 1: in our life, but it doesn't mean that you can't
Speaker 1: also improve upon things, right.
Speaker 2: I think, Yeah, I think anybody can improve on their
Speaker 2: schedule and on their priority life, and on their time
Speaker 2: with their family, and on their marriage, and on their
Speaker 2: time with their aging parents. There is always somewhere where
Speaker 2: you can improve. And so I love that we're going
Speaker 2: to do this. We're going to stick to it, and
Speaker 2: it's going to be very easy in the beginning before
Speaker 2: it becomes a habit, because it takes a long time
Speaker 2: to form a new habit.
Speaker 1: Note, what fears do you have going into this?
Speaker 2: Do you have any my fear going into it is
Speaker 2: that we're going to be tempted to.
Speaker 3: Put stuff in there that we.
Speaker 2: Go, well, this doesn't really work or it's okay, or
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, something major.
Speaker 3: Happen, Like we have to monitor this.
Speaker 2: Like so, my fear is before it becomes a true
Speaker 2: habit and we see the fruits of it in our lives,
Speaker 2: that we're going to be tempted to cheat or justify how.
Speaker 1: About it qualifying our schedule? Are you afraid of like
Speaker 1: falling behind, not not just for ourselves and our level
Speaker 1: of expectation, but with the drawing comparison to others and
Speaker 1: this feeling of competitiveness. I read through a comment thread
Speaker 1: on another video that I don't want to res directly about,
Speaker 1: somebody sort of tried to explain what the experience is
Speaker 1: of being a quote unquote YouTuber or an influencer and
Speaker 1: having these feelings of competitiveness in your niche and the
Speaker 1: audience struck me as being completely oblivious to that fact.
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Speaker 3: I don't think the audience cares.
Speaker 2: I think content creators care far more about who's getting
Speaker 2: more views and oh my gosh, we released at the
Speaker 2: same time and they have fifty you about what yours.
Speaker 1: Are and following feelings and having these feelings as though
Speaker 1: you were falling behind, when when really they're completely illogical
Speaker 1: because the reality of it is, regardless of how drastic
Speaker 1: a downturn might be, we're still gonna be okay, We're
Speaker 1: gonna be just fine.
Speaker 2: Also, what you gain is so much more valuable. There's
Speaker 2: no point, there's no dollar sign on time.
Speaker 1: This is my pa.
Speaker 2: You can't buy more time. You can't buy time, really
Speaker 2: and you definitely can't buy more time.
Speaker 1: That's why time is more valuable.
Speaker 2: Yes, And so I would say that you just have
Speaker 2: to be at peace with that. You don't you can't
Speaker 2: compare yourself to someone doing more than you.
Speaker 1: I was struck by it, I guess because it's it's
Speaker 1: a very it's a thing like competition in any space,
Speaker 1: in any industry.
Speaker 3: Yes, sports are like that.
Speaker 1: It serves as a like driving force of motivation, so
Speaker 1: oftentimes for people.
Speaker 2: In US restaurants, so like, that's why restaurants used to
Speaker 2: close on Sunday. Shops used to close on Sunday, but
Speaker 2: then it became, oh well, Joe across the street stays
Speaker 2: open on Sunday, so we need to stay open on Sunday.
Speaker 1: But I think because in the online world, you don't
Speaker 1: have anything tangible, it's not like a brick and mortar
Speaker 1: type of location. I think people are just kind of
Speaker 1: oblivious to that. But it is a highly competitive space,
Speaker 1: and that brings about the worst in people. A lot
Speaker 1: of times it brings up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it brings about the worst in people. And I
Speaker 3: mean it.
Speaker 1: This is why we don't. We don't. We just do
Speaker 1: our own thing. We don't. I don't. I don't. I
Speaker 1: said this on here before, Like I don't follow any
Speaker 1: anyone else or anything else in the broader space that
Speaker 1: we sort of operate in. And the reason for that
Speaker 1: is I just don't. I really don't care all that much.
Speaker 1: It's not like it's not I don't. It's not important
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you can rattle yourself up, and it can
Speaker 2: bring about the worst in you because you're like, you know,
Speaker 2: you're trying to keep up with the joneses and that
Speaker 2: that matters with cars and yards and the way you
Speaker 2: people look and the way that people's children look, and
Speaker 2: who's the smartest kid and who's the best kid on
Speaker 2: the team?
Speaker 3: Am I doing something? This person outside?
Speaker 1: That's a slippery slope as well.
Speaker 2: And you see that, and it will make you not
Speaker 2: want to take a day of rest because you'll feel
Speaker 2: like you're you're falling behind the day, but you're not.
Speaker 2: You're gaining so much more. And if you gain peace
Speaker 2: and you gain time and you have these amazing memories
Speaker 2: that don't involve any distractions. When was the last time
Speaker 2: you made a memory with kids, grandkids, is your spouse
Speaker 2: that didn't involve anybody looking at their phone or anything
Speaker 2: like that. It's been a while, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like just no phones. You go out to eat, nobody,
Speaker 2: you don't order, and then as you're waiting for your food,
Speaker 2: you pull your phone out. And this need to be
Speaker 2: constantly entertained is stressing us all out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we all feel it. You and I were talking
Speaker 1: about the passage of time, and how it all seems
Speaker 1: to be so like it seems to have gone relatively
Speaker 1: quickly over the past couple of decades. At the very least,
Speaker 1: it seems like time is sped up. And I don't
Speaker 1: think that's just an aging thing, because you know that
Speaker 1: as a natural byproduct of getting older, time becomes very relative,
Speaker 1: doesn't it? For me personally? I referenced it to you
Speaker 1: before we hopped on camera here is that ever since
Speaker 1: like September eleventh, like time has just been at a
Speaker 1: warp speeds where you can't comprehend it. When we were
Speaker 1: in high school in the nineties, you think back to
Speaker 1: the seventies as being like, oh, this retro thing, like
Speaker 1: you know, way back in the seventies, twenty years prior
Speaker 1: to when years we were in high school, and now
Speaker 1: you have this entire movement I see or even the
Speaker 1: kids talk about it all. I like about the nineties,
Speaker 1: and I see all these damn reels about you know, people,
Speaker 1: what were you like in the nineties or you like
Speaker 1: in two thousands, and we just had the nineties and
Speaker 1: two thousands, when in reality that was the same amount
Speaker 1: of amount of time as it was for us back
Speaker 1: in the nineties when we were referencing the seventies and
Speaker 1: the sixties, Right, it just seems like time has sped
Speaker 1: up tremendously.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the Internet has wasted a tremendous amount
Speaker 2: of brain space.
Speaker 1: I do think that is a massive part of it.
Speaker 2: We are just literally being lulled through our days and
Speaker 2: through our lives and through our lives. Yes, doom scrolling
Speaker 2: reels reels are just oh my gosh, like you could
Speaker 2: just scroll and scroll and scroll and like.
Speaker 1: And how will pass by? And you're like, what happened?
Speaker 3: What happened?
Speaker 2: And your kids came up and they said stuff to you,
Speaker 2: or maybe they tried to come up to you, or
Speaker 2: maybe they went to approach you and they turned around
Speaker 2: and walked away.
Speaker 1: I was watching long I was watching long care reels,
Speaker 1: and after the twentieth one, I'm like, what am I doing?
Speaker 1: What you need to know about when I need to
Speaker 1: thatch my lawn or airate and what the best means
Speaker 1: of a fertilization, Like it such a waste as of.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm getting now shabbatchalomreeles.
Speaker 1: Because I went down this thanks.
Speaker 3: It was very helpful. So I think this is going
Speaker 3: to be good.
Speaker 2: I really really hope and pray that we stick to
Speaker 2: it until it becomes a habit. I hope it becomes
Speaker 2: a lifelong tradition for us and our children, and then
Speaker 2: it brings us peace and meaning, It brings us closer
Speaker 2: to God and closer to one another.
Speaker 3: I'm very excited about it.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to provide us so many days
Speaker 2: of hiking and fishing and boating and making pizza, and.
Speaker 1: It's making memories and cherishing the time it is that
Speaker 1: we have with our kids and each other.
Speaker 2: And so I have a little challenge for you guys.
Speaker 2: Try try to see if you can find a day.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what day. It doesn't need to be
Speaker 2: the seventh day, just a day where you're honoring your family,
Speaker 2: your peace, your mental health, your God, and you're turning
Speaker 2: off these horrible things.
Speaker 3: I mean, like turning them off, turn your router off.
Speaker 2: If somebody you can have your neighbors over for dinner,
Speaker 2: like like, oh, we've been meaning to have those people
Speaker 2: for dinner. If you have a day of the week
Speaker 2: every week where you're not distracted and you're not toiling
Speaker 2: over something, you can start to piece back together those
Speaker 2: friendships and those relationships with your family, and I just
Speaker 2: think this could.
Speaker 3: Benefit so many people. So I want to hear if
Speaker 3: any of you guys are going to try it, We're
Speaker 3: going to do it.
Speaker 2: We're going to go for it. We're going to report
Speaker 2: back here, you know, after a couple of weeks and
Speaker 2: see how it's going. But I think it's going to
Speaker 2: be good. I mean, I can't imagine that it's not
Speaker 2: going to be a massive blessing.
Speaker 3: I don't know why we haven't done this sooner.
Speaker 1: So starting this Saturday.
Speaker 2: Starting this Saturday, ten am, So if you have a question,
Speaker 2: ask me before ten am, because then it is.
Speaker 3: But we are turning off we let's just say.
Speaker 1: Get rid of your WiFi and your cell phones, but
Speaker 1: watch us on and living.
Speaker 2: So watch before ten am and then turn that off
Speaker 2: and we'll see you again on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Whatever you choose for yourself, whatever is good for you.
Speaker 1: I like, I love the message, and yeah, I would
Speaker 1: encourage anyone out there kind of having the same feelings
Speaker 1: and desires that we're expressing here on the podcast to
Speaker 1: at least consider this. Yeah, I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a good thing, and I'm glad that we're putting it
Speaker 1: out there publicly. Please hold us accountable.
Speaker 2: We'll report back if you see us online on like
Speaker 2: a Saturday at eleven or something. If I reply to
Speaker 2: some especially if I'm if I'm like firing off and
Speaker 2: someone I have broken.
Speaker 1: Shabbat going to be out of control now between Saturday
Speaker 1: and if you want.
Speaker 3: To say something real, mean, that's your window.
Speaker 1: Because we won't see it all right, Do you have
Speaker 1: anything else you want to squeeze in?
Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. I think that's it.
Speaker 1: I hope we didn't come across like two marriage couples
Speaker 1: therapy ISHU.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean we've we've been having a
Speaker 3: lot of discussions.
Speaker 1: It's been a thing in our household. Like I said,
Speaker 1: it's been bugging me for quite a while now, being
Speaker 1: totally honest, So hopefully this will maybe just you know,
Speaker 1: we can talk this LF as an improvement moving in
Speaker 1: the right direction. And in the meantime, Yeah, just still
Speaker 1: incredibly grateful to all of you out there, blessed to
Speaker 1: have this opportunity. So I don't want to come on
Speaker 1: here and complain. I just want to be to.
Speaker 3: Make sure that yeah, keeping it real.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well, we will see you next week here
Speaker 1: correct ye On that note, you guys take care of
Speaker 1: a blast week. We'll see you Wednesday.