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Farting in Bed? Why Humor is Essential for a Healthy Marriage

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What if the secret to a stronger marriage was as simple as laughing together more often? In this refreshingly candid episode, we dive into the surprising power of humor in relationships—including those awkward bedroom moments that couples rarely discuss publicly.

Marriage shouldn't feel like a business arrangement where two people fulfill assigned roles without joy or genuine connection. Yet many couples fall into exactly this pattern, maintaining careful facades and losing the playfulness that initially drew them together. We explore how breaking down these barriers through shared laughter creates deeper intimacy and resilience through life's challenges.

Drawing from both scientific research and biblical wisdom, we examine how humor physiologically changes our brain chemistry—reducing stress hormones and increasing feel-good neurotransmitters that strengthen our bonds. As Voltaire noted and Scripture confirms, "a cheerful heart is good medicine," offering couples a powerful tool for diffusing tension and gaining perspective during disagreements.

Through personal stories of financial hardship, loss, and everyday frustrations, we demonstrate how maintaining a sense of humor proved essential for our own relationship survival. When the enemy seeks to steal our joy and destroy our marriages through constant stress and distraction, intentional laughter becomes an act of spiritual warfare.

With your days numbered by God before birth, why spend them in needless misery? Tonight, do something unexpected to make your spouse laugh. Your marriage—and your testimony—will be stronger for it. Questions about strengthening your relationship? Reach out to us at info@missioncent.org or find us on social media.


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Do You Fart in Bed?

Speaker 1

Alright, on this episode of Faith, family and Fishing, we are headed to a place that I don't think many family podcasts get to. So let me ask you this do you fart in bed? So this episode I'm not going to lie, lie could be a little embarrassing. Actually. For you it's gonna be a lot embarrassing for me. For me, it's not as embarrassing nothing embarrasses you not just that, it's social stigma, right.

Speaker 1

So we're in this how-to series. We're looking at how to strengthen marriages, how to strengthen families, how to get back to what God designed this for, because God designed family with a very specific task of handling all of the different emotional support and just being the first place where you're discipled. So in this how-to like last week, we looked at how-to anger, right.

Speaker 2

Yes.

Speaker 1

Okay, well, not last week, two weeks ago.

Speaker 2

Our last episode.

Speaker 1

This one Mm-hmm. Okay, I'm not going to just shoot out with what it is, because I think the best way to do this is you like to build anticipation? It's not just building anticipation. You got to put it in context, like everything is in context right, like when, even if we look at like biblical study, exegesis versus eisegesis.

Speaker 2

Right.

Speaker 1

When we're, we're putting ourself into context or we're trying to, you know, pull out the context of a scriptural text.

Speaker 2

Where exegesis is. You're reading it exactly how it was written.

Speaker 1

You're extracting no, no you're, you're pulling out of what was in there in eisegesis.

Speaker 1

You're putting yourself yourself in your david your problems are goliath right as matt chamler famously said, that is not the case, so I need to put this into context before we get into the how-to. Here's the deal when people look at us, like people look at me and you, all right, and you can go on social media and see a picture of me and debbie all day long uh, youtube, like it is all over the place. If there was a strange smell, oh god. Like, let's say, hypothetically speaking, we're at lowe's, okay, and it's me, you and the kids, we're at the cash register, and all of the sudden, it's just you and the cashier in this like strange thick smell and you're nowhere to be found.

Speaker 2

You've left it there for me to be embarrassed and to be looked at like what is wrong with this one, but automatically.

Speaker 1

What is everyone going to think?

Speaker 2

right, god, did she just pass gas?

Speaker 1

no, they're not even gonna think, did she. They're gonna look at me and go. He farted and walked away right well, because you're laughing as you walk away but regardless, even if I wasn't, even if I'm just like stone-faced, they're still gonna look at and go. He farted and walked away, right, I think that. I think that is an unfair assessment.

Speaker 2

How is that unfair. It's accurate.

Speaker 1

Here's why In our household, okay. The title of the episode is is do you fart in bed? Oh okay, so gosh. So in our house, serious in our household, oh my jesus, people would look at me and go he's the stinky one right like what did I just exegete from what you just said?

Speaker 1

I'm just saying like in society in general, men are looked at like you're the stinky, unhygienic ones, and women are looked at like you're the clean. Like never, far like never, like none of that. And I'm just saying that that may or may not be true in our household.

Speaker 2

Okay, saying that that may or may not be true in our household. Okay, I want you to think very about what you're saying and how you're saying it.

Speaker 1

We have been married for 20 plus years so far I'm not saying that you are in any way dirty and not hygienic. You were probably air on the the side of overly clean. What I'm saying is, sometimes that smell isn't me, is what I'm getting at see people don't realize very natural. Not in that way, not in that way. What?

Speaker 2

is wrong with you.

Speaker 1

You eat a lot of like fresh, good food, like produce and vegetables, and all of that and a natural process of all of that is is going to break down into gas, right? No one ever looks at a woman, though, and goes she farts. Why are you staring at me? It should not shock anyone listening to this podcast that you have gas. If you are listening to this podcast, you fart oh my god. Is that not true?

Speaker 2

it's like our first episode the whole. Do you pray when you poop?

Speaker 1

is it true that everyone farts? Yes, you die okay, if you didn't thank you, because it build up of gas. Gas will bust an iron pipe. It sure will pressure now.

Speaker 2

Now, why I bring this up is because title is I want you to know the way you prefaced it made it sound like I'm walking around, like I stink no not at all, not at all.

Speaker 1

That is not at all how I was trying to mean anything or anything like that. What I'm saying, though because the title of the episode is Do you Fart in Bed, or something along those lines, because I'm going to let AI pick the title, but it definitely deals with a lot of Gas. So you need all of that background information that we just discussed.

Speaker 2

Okay.

Speaker 1

In order to understand.

Speaker 2

Where we're going, what this episode actually is.

The Importance of Play in Marriage

Speaker 1

Because that's what this episode was actually built out of. Because if you look at most people, most people treat life like like a business. I guess is the easiest way to say it. They treat what like that life okay like in your marriage is no different. You have your roles, I have my roles. As long as everybody's meeting their roles, everything's all good right right so in fighting shadows, one of the things.

Speaker 1

Fighting shadows yes, in the book fighting shadows, um, one of the things that not just me reading, okay it's, it's the men of the church, um, one of the things that they, they were talking about last week. We, we looked at futility, right and, and just it gets very easy, um, to look at life and go what's what's the point, Like you know, and it kind of plays into the apathy thing that we're going into right now, but one of the things to battle futility is to play, okay, and and I'm gonna say this, I get to use the word caveat again.

Speaker 1

With this caveat, I love that word you should not be 30 years old still playing video games, and that is your life. Okay, okay so when I use the word play. That's not what I'm talking about Right, right, right.

Speaker 1

I'm not saying that you should never if that's who you are like play video games. I don't. I fish, you know I get outside, hence the fishing episode. Like I mean, that's what I'm going to spend my spare time doing. Now, what that word play means is sometimes you have to disconnect from life and you got to live somewhere else in this world, right?

Speaker 2

OK.

Speaker 1

So, like last night, we took an hour, hour and a half, something like that Drove out to the beach, did some fishing, got some tournament entries, stopped and had some tacos on the way home. Got home, took showers, went to bed.

Speaker 2

Right.

Speaker 1

For those, and I think you know it wasn't just an hour and a half- we were fishing for an hour and a half at the beach. We were out for about three, three and a half four hours.

Speaker 2

Kids got to swim, they got to see the you know they got to swim with sea turtles.

Speaker 1

You know I got to catch some fish. You know me and you got to just hang out, that is play. Too many of us do not play in our marriage.

Speaker 2

Right.

Speaker 1

Everything is just like.

Speaker 2

Serious and business.

Speaker 1

You have your things, I have my things, I sit here and go, do you fart in?

Speaker 2

bed, because if you answer no, you're boring, well you, this bores me not just that yes, you are boring, though but more importantly, why?

Speaker 1

why don't you? Are you still trying to put a facade on? Because, like I remember, like when we first started dating, I wouldn't even use the bathroom at your parents' house? That is true, I would leave that If I had to go, and I'm pretty good at holding it. But if I had to go, I got to run up to the store real quick. I got to get out of here.

Speaker 2

That's the facade you're putting up right, Because you facade you're putting up right because you don't want anyone to look at you a certain kind of way, you don't want to leave the bathroom.

Speaker 1

Oh my god, you don't want to get enough of that you don't want to leave the bathroom in that kind of shape right or smell, and then you know people look at you like did you do that? Got some gi issues going on, huh. So we put this facade on.

Speaker 1

But a lot of us carry that facade throughout our whole marriage too that's true and and we never get to the point where we're just free yeah, we never get to the point where there's any kind of playing, where there's inside jokes and there's laughing and and all of this and and that is like incredibly detrimental to your marriage If there is no fun in your marriage.

Speaker 2

Right.

Speaker 1

It's like a business relationship, it's a job.

Speaker 2

Right, like you're with a coworker.

Speaker 1

Right, you got a roommate.

Speaker 2

Right.

Speaker 1

Hey, you guys sleep in the same bed.

Speaker 2

Right, maybe you pay bills together, maybe, maybe, and that's a that. Hey, you guys sleep in the same bed, right?

Speaker 1

you pay bills together, maybe, maybe and even and and that's a different podcast paying bills together because I go.

Speaker 2

We had the same bank account from when we were still dating, um, not that long either, and I'm not saying I recommend that for everybody. I mean it worked. Or did you get with me for my?

Speaker 1

millions? I did not. I mean it worked for us. Nor did you get with me for my millions. I did not. The joke would have been on you. But I go something like this and hopefully you guys I mean that laughing during the intro of this that's real laughs, right, because farts they're funny.

Laughter as Medicine

Speaker 1

I mean, no matter what the situation is, Josh is cracking up A well-placed fart will diffuse any situation, like I could be like yelling at the kids, like just irate blood boiling mad, and if one of them just like it, just you're immediately laughing. And what happens when you laugh?

Speaker 2

well, your serotonin goes up, your dopamine goes up, your cortisol goes down. You literally have a physiological reaction in your body that starts decompressing you from the inside out.

Speaker 1

Voltaire. Okay, just because you kept looking, yeah and focus on the family. That had this great write-up about bringing humor into your marriage. Right and seriously. You know, since 2020 ish, I don't know why it just seems like there's nothing funny anymore, like like life is just serious and that's it. Don't play with anything.

Speaker 2

Right.

Speaker 1

But it it starts with this the more you laugh together, the more you love your spouse. And and I go, I agree with that. Right, like you are my best friend, why would we not have jokes? Why would we not play around with each other? Why would we not make each other laugh? Some of the best dates we've ever been on have been in our room.

Speaker 1

You know, just laughing, just talking and laughing and joking, maybe watching, you know, a funny movie or something on something funny that happened farting right in the bed I mean I I will never pass up that opportunity that is true like if, if I can, I'm dutch ovening all day like just throwing them blankets over Debbie's head and let's let it go and not even saying a word. Well, I think, if you say it, though, it ruins the joke.

Speaker 2

It does ruin the joke.

Speaker 1

The ambiance is you can't bask in the ambiance, then you know. But it also says the most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Speaker 2

Yes, I agree with that, and I go.

Speaker 1

There's just so much that laughter brings to any relationship you have. We're going to look specifically at your marriage, but any relationship, um, and what I was going to say is voltaire said that, um, and you got to give me a second to find it. I'm not the quickest reader. The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. And it's funny because modern research indicates that people with a sense of humor have fewer symptoms of physical illness than those who are less humorous.

Speaker 2

That's interesting.

Speaker 1

The Bible even tells us a cheerful heart is good medicine.

Speaker 2

Yeah, that's true. I love a good laugh too, and you know that I love seeing people laugh. I like hearing kids laugh. I love, love laughter.

Speaker 1

But everywhere you look, right Everywhere, whether it's psychology, whether it's history, whether it's biblically, everywhere you look there's laughter, there's joy, there's all of these things, because it's impossible to be mad and laughing at the same time.

Speaker 2

Right, right right. Unless you're Joker Well then that's a whole different.

Speaker 1

But even then, I don think the joker's like mad. I just think he's chaos, like I just think he's chaotic okay you know, I don't think he's like angry.

Speaker 1

I don't think he's sitting here, you know, going. I have this vendetta. I just think he's sitting here, going. I want to burn it all down. Right, of course you would laugh and I go, but it's the same thing, right? Everyone's heard from the time you were little laughter is the best medicine. That's why I think about it like something traumatic happens in our life and and I'll be the first one to admit there have been times I I err more on the times of that was an inappropriate time to make a joke. You know, you, you get terrible news or something of that we had to put our dog down yep right and I don't know.

Speaker 1

It's been a couple of weeks it was not a couple of weeks, it might have been a couple of weeks a week, and you know, we're driving home from work and I'm like, hey, when we get home, don't forget, let the dog out. Yep, you know, and for the kids, like they're like a state of shock at well no, because it took them a minute first to realize oh there, we can't let him out, he's right, he's gone, and then it's like daddy, and then you know the laughing comes in why?

Speaker 1

because laughter helps you cope with that right. Laughter helps you get through those very stressful, very like like I've been accused of not taking things serious enough and and and I think there is a line on that side, right, I think time and place, right, you know you should know. Okay, now is not the time or the place to to drop that.

Speaker 2

Right. Um whether it's passing gas or no there's never.

Speaker 1

There's never, not a time for that, but when, honestly, like if you sit down and you think of your relationship with your spouse, when was the last time you guys just sat down and laughed right like when was the last time you just went like hey, like I heard this knock, knock who's there? Oh, I don't actually have one, but when was the last time you, you know, I heard this joke. I heard, you know.

Speaker 2

Whatever the case may be, send each other funny memes, funny little shorts or because what if one of you isn't on social media?

Speaker 1

right and then you just get funny memes sent to you. That's true.

Speaker 2

I do sometimes send them to JT to show you if you guys are together, because I know you won't go on there.

Speaker 1

But I go think about it. It is very, very hard to remain angry at someone.

Speaker 2

If you're laughing.

Speaker 1

Jay Leno said that.

Breaking Tension with Humor

Speaker 2

Right, and you're not saying every situation needs to be just thrown under the rug because there's laughter. But if you're in a relationship and you I mean you're with your spouse and laugh with your kids too, have jokes with them pull the mic a little right here. There you go laugh with your kids. You know, everything doesn't have to be so serious and stern, and I've had to learn that over the years that I can laugh at stuff.

Speaker 1

I can laugh at myself so there's a movie that came back out in the early maybe late 90s, early 2000s, somewhere there and the main character and and you know what, if you're gonna google who said this and and you're gonna find the movie that way, I mean more power to you. Um, I'm not going to say the name of the movie because I don't want to seem like I'm endorsing it, because it's not a movie you should sit down and watch. It's not a terrible movie. It was Van Wilder. Okay, let's just go through it, I said it anyway.

Speaker 1

Definitely slapstick humor very low-hanging fruit jokes, but he does. Ryan Reynolds has a line in that in which he says don't worry too much about life, You'll never make it out alive.

Speaker 2

And that's true.

Speaker 1

And maybe someone said that line before him, but that's where I know it from and I go. That's the problem. It's true. Think about the things that we have stressed about throughout our life. And I mean and there's been a ton of them.

Speaker 2

Oh yeah.

Speaker 1

Um, you know, if we go back, you know 2008 to 2012 rough like I was seriously, I was hoping that the Mayan calendar was correct and that the world was going to end in 2012.

Speaker 2

Because I was. I was like. You know.

Speaker 1

I'm done with this Like this sucks. It was exhausting, um, we both lost our jobs. I mean, we were homeless for a minute, like you know literally lost.

Speaker 2

When we say lost everything, not like, oh, we only had a few hundred dollars in the account, we literally had zero right and and if it wasn't negative and if it wasn't for a family, um, I don't know how that they would have looked completely different than what it did.

Speaker 1

Um, you know, and, and you know, by God's grace, you know, we came through the other side, but, like I remember, during even those times where it was like man, you didn't even want to put one foot in front of the other because you'd lost any sense of hope any sense of joy, any sense of and, and you know, like I said, I was looking at this going.

Speaker 1

Hey, they said december 21st 2012 is the end of the world. Like, bring it, bring it. Like let's go and I go. How do you get at that point? You stop laughing yep, because you go this is life-changing and therefore cannot be humorous in any way, shape or form. And on the other side of that, I mean, here we are 13 years later, on the other side of that, looking back, we can look at it and go man, how much time did we waste not enjoying moments, the moments that God had given us to begin with.

Speaker 2

And we can look back now at situations and kind of giggle at them. You know laughing at literally selling shoes so we can go to the gas station and get the kids slurpees. You know going to certain stores to sell some whatever we had, having garage sales that people stole from just walking around Lowe's and making mental list of hey you know, maybe one day we can get this van.

Speaker 2

Maybe one day we can, you know, laughing with the kids when you would, you know, tell their little stories underneath the blanket and they're you know giggling and laughing making forts. You know, thankfully God was gracious in you know putting us together Because I had a really hard time and you always kept, especially at the end of the day, when I was just done. You always kept that going, especially for the kids where they had that opportunity to just giggle and laugh when I was completely done.

Speaker 1

I'm not saying that there's never a time to take yourself seriously. I'm not saying that there's never a time to you know, put aside jokes and stuff.

Speaker 2

Sure, yeah.

Speaker 1

I am saying that those times should be further.

Speaker 2

And few between.

Speaker 1

Than most of us take it Right. Most of us, I mean, we stress about everything.

Speaker 2

Everything.

Speaker 1

Matthew 6. That's what Jesus is talking about, right? Why be be anxious for tomorrow? Tomorrow has its own worries, yep, and, and that's what it is like it's sitting here putting into perspective, right. Humor helps us cope, humor helps us de-stress, humor helps us to be able to disconnect from reality and and in and in doing so, it allows us the opportunity now to look at it and go okay, hold on, let me see this for what it really is is this something that is really life-altering?

Speaker 2

and does it need to consume every waking moment right?

Speaker 1

because, honestly, if the devil can get you to sit there and just fixate on something, and get you to sit here and go, well, what about this?

Speaker 2

What about that?

Speaker 1

Seriously. If the devil can steal your joy, he will if you let him and then you're going to be a miserable human being that nobody wants to be around. And you don't want to be around anyone.

Speaker 2

And I, uh, I read this thing and said if you know, the devil knows he can't have you because you already belong to God, but if he can keep you distracted, he will.

Speaker 1

Yeah.

Speaker 2

And so, no, you know, no one can take my children from me, but, you know, keep them distracted. That's the same thing the devil does to us.

Finding Joy Amid Life's Struggles

Speaker 1

But even if we look at like Philippians, 4.13, right, one of the most famous verses in the Bible. Thanks, Tim Tebow, you know you know, I can do all things through christ, who gives me strength, but if you back up before that, and read why he's paul, sitting here and going hey, I have found the secret of being content. I know what it's like to have a little. I know what it's like to have a lot. I know what it's like to starve.

Speaker 1

I know what it's like to feast right, but I'm convinced of this, that I can do all things through christ, who gives me strength? Right, it's sitting here going hey, like at the end of the day I mean, and again with paul, you got to look at him and go, hey, he has this mentality of sitting here going. You know what are you gonna do to me? Philippians, one right, three chapters before this. He sits here and goes for me to live as christ, to die as gain.

Speaker 1

There's nothing you can do to someone like that right like oh okay, you know I'm gonna put you in jail, cool right because I'm gonna preach to people in jail preach the walls off literally, I have a prison ministry, all right, well, we're gonna, you know behead you.

Speaker 2

Well, the world's gonna know that I died for jesus you know, and, and so I go it.

Speaker 1

But we get stuck in these rap, uh, not routes ruts our lives and like the happiness is just gone, and that's not. The joy is just gone, the smiles are just gone.

Speaker 2

Things aren't going to go wrong and things aren't going wrong, but no, they will. But they're, but they're wrong anyway.

Speaker 1

So why not take some time to enjoy some laughs and giggles and, you know, watch funny videos, talk about funny things that happened, you know, and honestly something honestly, it's a cycle right Because the more you laugh the more the the cortisol in your your body, your stress hormone is going to be suppressed, the the more your dopamine and your serotonin, the feel good hormones, are going to increase, and and so the more you do it, the more you're going to want to do it. The more you do it, the more you're going to want to do it. The more you do it, the more you're going to want right, you see how there's a cycle.

Speaker 2

You know, good or bad, it's a cycle right and and I go.

Speaker 1

So when it comes to your marriage, you know it ain't always easy. No, but I'll tell you right now. There have been plenty of times where me and debbie are in like a heated discussion, also known as a argument. Sure, she says something or does something, and you just bust out laughing to laugh. And I'm not talking about that weird, oh slain in the spirit laughing thing no, like laughing at me, I'm not talking about that.

Speaker 1

I'm sitting here going like she makes a face or she said she messes up on a word or something like that and immediately just starts laughing. I'm just laughing and, and I know, nine times out of ten at that point, that argument, that heated discussion, that, however you word it, it does take a turn. Yeah, one out of ten times it's, it's gonna take a turn for the worse and you know the other person's gonna be like you, son of a yep, how dare you laugh at me kind of thing, but even which has happened before, and even that I'm gonna be like, yeah, but here's why, right, it was funny.

Speaker 1

And then normally that that's followed within another sentence or two. It's normally something along the lines of this is stupid.

Speaker 2

What are we even doing here? Yep why?

Speaker 1

because I broke that cycle and that tension and, and I broke that, oh, I have to be right, or or whatever the case may be, and it it's turned into, is this really worth it? Right is this worth the 15, 20, 30 minutes an hour? Whatever is this worth? You know the the feelings. Do you have hills to die on? Sure, so do I, but at the end of the day, everything's not a hill to die on right, and I go and and so a lot of us.

Speaker 1

we just force ourselves to be completely miserable because everything's become a hill to die on and everything is serious and everything and it's like, but it's not.

Speaker 2

It's not right.

Speaker 1

At the end of the day, it's not.

Speaker 2

There are hills to die on sure.

Speaker 1

Yeah, but I go. The reason why, going back to Matthew 6, jesus can sit here and say do not be anxious. In Matthew 6, jesus can sit here and say do not be anxious, it's because, at the end of the day, do I trust that he holds everything in his hand, that he's in complete control of all of this Right, because if I do, that gives me the opportunity now to just kind of sit back and relax and laugh Because, like the Bible says, he came to steal, kill and destroy. The thief.

Creating a Legacy of Laughter

Speaker 2

The thief came to steal, kill and thief. The thief came to steal, kill and destroy. You know. Steal your joy, destroy your marriage. Yeah, you know. Kill your hopes and dreams. It's not just people. I know that verse used to be used out of context. He's gonna murder you, he's gonna end your life, which might happen, but that's, that's not what. That's not what we're talking about here. It's if he can just keep you stirred up enough to keep you busy, miserable, you're going to destroy your relationship and you're also not going to be able to be a witness for the gospel. You're not gonna be able to be a witness for the gospel. You know. You're not going to be able to share. You know how God has used your life and you know point people to jesus exactly.

Speaker 1

If you're always talking about your problem, you're not talking about jesus well and, like I said, at a certain point you have to just laugh. Yeah, you have to like. At a certain point you have to realize you only got a certain number of these.

Speaker 2

Even in dealing in situations with our kids or or kids. You know your kids in general. Whatever a situation happens after the third time you're like, okay, it was a joke, right, like we're doing this again.

Speaker 1

Well, I go like think about it.

Speaker 2

Psalm 139, right Before me were each of my days that you have numbered right. You have you only have a certain number of heartbeats you only have a certain number of breaths and days and yep and, and I don't know what that number is no you know, it could be a hundred thousand my grandmother was 98 when she died. What is that?

Speaker 1

I have no idea do you hear that? I do I. I don't know if they'll hear. It sounds like something outside I think it is outside but anyway sorry there was music.

Speaker 2

We were like what in the world is that?

Speaker 1

but anyway, like you, you do you only have a certain number of days.

Speaker 2

And you don't want to spend them miserable and, honestly, you don't want your legacy for people. You're gone and people go, you know. Yeah, I mean they were here, but man, they were miserable all the time. There are people now that you know you have to take a deep breath before you have a conversation with, Because you're like, okay, okay, here we go. I know it's gonna be bad they're gonna be angry.

Speaker 1

There are phone calls. I get where I go.

Speaker 2

I gotta go outside yes, or you look at the phone and go I gotta call back. I can't, I don't have it in me right now to have this conversation, not because of any other reason. Where you go, they're literally just it's gonna the entire time is just gonna be miserable. Are you that person that calls people and they're like, oh god but I want to keep it in context of the family at least your spouse.

Speaker 2

Your spouse calls you and you go. I know it's gonna be something negative, and that's where I go don't be that person fart and bet, like tonight, like tonight. Go out of your way, like you were listening to this. They're going to be people that have accidents, you know what? Because they're like I'm trying so hard. I'm just sitting here saying but you got to tell Josh, if you do, because honestly he loves a good, good fart story.

Speaker 1

A funny one. No, I don't like the disgusting stuff Like a funny fart story.

Speaker 2

Like when someone goes. Can you bring me a change of?

Speaker 1

clothes. That's a good one.

Speaker 2

That's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1

Oops.

Speaker 2

Josh, I tried so hard to toot in bed, but that's what I mean.

Speaker 1

I mean, I don't.

Speaker 2

More than I bargained for.

Speaker 1

Jesus says I came so that you may have life, and have life abundantly.

Speaker 2

Right, enjoy it, bargain for it. Jesus says I came so that you may have life, and have life abundantly right. Enjoy, not miserably like enjoy it, you're gonna have troubles. The bible says you will have troubles but jesus redeemed creation. When he said it is finished, he meant it yes, and I go like watch a funny show together with your spouse, something that you both enjoy, that you both can laugh at.

Speaker 1

That's what she said.

Speaker 2

Hey.

Speaker 1

Like you. I'm just saying like you know.

Speaker 2

Have inside jokes with each other.

Speaker 1

So tonight.

Speaker 2

Tickle until you fart.

Speaker 1

It was a loud car that just.

Speaker 2

What on earth is happening out there? I don't know.

Speaker 1

It's like we live Not live because we're at work, but are we in a war zone like what? Is this it?

Speaker 2

was terrible but anyway.

Speaker 1

So as we wrap it up, that's it. Man just laugh yeah if you're sitting here going, I'm not funny fart you'll be funny, and if you're, like my spouse, because I do know there are a lot of people that like just can't stand that, do it and just go.

Speaker 2

Crap happens like and then walk away.

Speaker 1

We're doing at the grocery store but laugh, enjoy and, and you know, get to know each other on a different level and and there are people that are going through stressful times right now and that will help.

Speaker 2

It sucks.

Speaker 1

Yes, I'm not making light of your situation. No, I'm giving you a way to help cope with your situation Right, trust in Jesus and laugh, so until we talk again in our how-to. If you have something that you're sitting here going like, I don't know.

Speaker 2

I struggle with this, or what about that or how do I do this?

Speaker 1

like you can always hit us up on social media. You can always email info at missioncentorg. You can always hit us up on the world wide web at missioncentorg but, until next time. We thank you. Please make sure you share the episode. We love you and we can't wait to talk with you again all right.

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