Bring An Extra Roll of Toilet Paper Own Your Own Wake-Up Call

What if the most powerful shift you make today is the one no one sees? We start with radical ownership—calling out the “but” excuses that keep us from getting out of bed, off the couch, and into the work we’re made to do. From there, we turn the camera toward home, where tone becomes legacy. Your words at bedtime and breakfast can become your child’s inner voice. Choose life, courage, and truth, and you plant resilience that lasts.

We then open Philippians 4 and sit with a promise our restless world keeps forgetting: peace that guards hearts and minds. Anxiety pushes us to fix, distract, or numb, but prayer with gratitude reorders the mind. Gratitude is not pretending everything is fine; it’s training the eye to find what is true, noble, and lovely while we ask for help. That inner steadiness changes how we lead ourselves, our families, and our communities. It also sharpens our discernment when culture runs wild.

Case in point: the 1973 toilet paper panic, sparked by a late-night joke. One quip, nationwide hoarding. It’s a cautionary tale about herd behavior, anxious narratives, and why we must check sources before we stampede. We connect that lesson to hard truths about honoring marriage and resisting the urge to label self-driven decisions as God’s will. Integrity thrives when our peace is rooted deeper than public opinion.

We close with a meditation on trials that train us: storms that teach calm, struggles that forge strength, mountains that build endurance. Self-compassion becomes the starting point for loving our neighbors well, and courage grows when we trust that our destiny is held by God, not hype. And like the woman who touched the hem of Jesus’ garment, we remember that healing flows through faith more than formula. If this resonates, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs calm today, and leave a review to help more people find a hopeful way forward.

Chapters

• 1:44 Radical Ownership And Motivation
• 5:15 Breaking Generational Patterns At Home
• 6:19 Welcome And Scripture From Philippians 4
• 8:02 Joy, Prayer, And Peace Explained
• 10:49 Gratitude As An Antidote To Anxiety
• 13:47 Hard Truths On Marriage And Responsibility
• 14:57 The 1973 Toilet Paper Panic
• 18:36 Trials That Train Strength And Endurance
• 21:17 Loving Yourself To Love Your Neighbor
• 22:06 Courage, Calling, And Destiny
• 22:31 Faith That Heals: The Hem Of His Garment

Transcript

SPEAKER_14: 1:08

What gets you out of bed? What gets you off the couch? What gets you in the gym? It's not your alarm. It's not your parents. It's not your friends. It's you. The only one that can make it happen for you is you.

SPEAKER_02: 1:31

It's really hard to be led by your butt. But I'm not qualified. But I'm not good enough. But I'm not smart enough. But I didn't go to the right school. But I don't have enough money. But but but but but if you're ever gonna step into your future, if you're ever gonna step into your destiny, you're gonna have to get a both for your buttons.

SPEAKER_12: 4:40

It's a break generational curses. Quit yelling at your kids before they go to bed, inspect and sleep. Quit yelling at your kids in the morning right after they wake up before a school inspect and have a good day. You set the tone for your children. Set the tone for you set the tone for your voice that we're always remembering their head. You become the inner voice. Don't be the inner critic. Speak life, speak love, speak bravery, kindness and hope, speak wisdom and truth. Most of all, listen to your children. I never had none of that. I get at mind. And that's my number one priority. That's how I follow that. That's how I break it. And um, and I do it, I live it. I live it. You know, that narrative shit. That's what they never wanted to pick up.

SPEAKER_08: 5:44

Hey guys, it's B Rob, it's the Food for Thaw Faith Cast, and it is a beautiful day. I just wanted to come to you today. Um got some scriptures to read from you from Philippians four from verse Excuse me, chapter four. We're gonna start with uh verse four. Rejoice in the Lord always again and I will say rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand, be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be known to God, and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there are any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things. The things which you have learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and God of peace will be with you. That is Philippians chapter four, verses four through nine. You see, Paul had a very close relationship with a lot of the Philippian believers. Many of them had worked together with him to share the good news about Jesus. Two women were having a disagreement. Paul walked over, urged them to continue to work together. What would make this possible was the truth that they all belong to the Lord. That is what Paul meant about the book of life. Earlier in Philippians, Paul told the Philippian believers to think and act as Jesus did. That's Philippians chapter two verse five. Let this mind be in you which also is in Christ Jesus. That's where Paul told the Philippian believers to think and act as Jesus did earlier. Here he explained that this includes being full of joy and praying about everything. It also includes thinking about what is true, what is noble, and what is lovely. Doing these things and thinking about these things leads to having a God's peace in your life. This helps many believers in a lot of areas in their lives that they may need help with. And I was doing a devotional on this earlier. You've got Philippians in chapter four. I read more of uh I think it was two through nine. But this devotion, what I was doing was Philippians four, six through seven, and basically it says, Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your request to God, and the peace of God, which transcends all understandings, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. And that that's a very, very popular verse. It's very loved because it offers hope. It offers that little uh that hope, that hold on pain ends. Um it offers hope to people. That's what it does. And um people who live with worry, stress, it points to a way of finding peace that doesn't depend on life being perfect because nobody's life is perfect, but the world wants you to think that people's lives are perfect, being bought and sold all day as the American dream, right? Um give you a little explanation of the verse. When you feel anxious, what's the first thing you think to do? Most of us try to fix it, distract ourselves or bottle it up, right? Um Paul suggests a little something different. Bring your anxiety, bring your worries, bring everything in petition to God in prayer is what Paul says. Bring it all to the foot of the cross. He says to pray with gratitude, which doesn't mean pretending that everything's fine. It means taking time to thank God for the good and the bad in your life, even while you ask him for help. Gratitude shifts our perspective, our mindset, and it reminds us that we are not alone in the situation that we have Jesus. Paul's promise is that God can give us peace, but it doesn't always make sense, if that makes sense. It's not about the outcome magically changing, but it's about experiencing calm or stillness in the middle of the storm or in the middle of chaos. So if there's worry, if there's anxiety, if there's anything weighing you down, bring it to God, bring it to the foot of the cross, bring it to Jesus, pray about it. You know what I'm saying? You may find that a little prayer, a little peace might go deeper for your own circumstances. But don't forget mix in that gratitude with that prayer. Bring that petition to God, lay it at the foot of the cross. He's there for you. God loves you, Jesus loves you. It's the Food for Thought Faith Cast. My name's B. Rob. I love you as well.

SPEAKER_01: 13:10

Now I'm gonna tell you something. If I hear one more person come up to me and say, you know, they're going through a divorce, they had an affair. Because people come up to me and just start talking, because I talk about the Bible and I'm unashamed of my faith, and whether it's in an airport, and they'll tell me a sad story. This just happens over and over. And they'll say, you know, I'm just not figuring out what God's trying to tell me. I know you're not figuring it out. Do you need some more information? Let me get my Bible. What is this? And you say, What do you mean? Well, God told me to do this. No, he didn't tell you to do this. How many times have you all heard that? Well, God told me that I needed to leave and uh make a wreck of my family. Maybe that wasn't God telling you that. Even in Hebrews chapter 13, before what I just read, you know what it says in verse 4? There's some lightning rod things here. Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept pure. You want to know the foundation for any society? The family. You break it down and chaos encease.

SPEAKER_08: 14:21

Guys, I I don't know if you know this or not, but back in 1973-74, there was a thing called the Great American Toilet Paper Famine. Yes. The Great American Toilet Paper Famine, I did say that correctly. Um and it was caused entirely by a late night talk show host who supposedly was just cracking a joke. Apparently on uh December 19th, 17, uh 1973. December 19th, 1973, Johnny Carson opened the tonight show with his usual monologue. One of the bits he mentioned that he had heard there was going to be a shortage of toilet paper because of the problems with the paper industry tied to an ongoing oil embargo and some real but minor supply issues with commercial tissue for businesses. It was a throwaway gag. He literally said it to be a joke. He said it as a joke, the audience laughed, and they moved on. But I guess overnight America heard toilet paper shortage, and immediately they lost their mind. The next day people flooded supermarkets and started panic buying toilet paper like it was the last roll on earth before nuclear winter. Housewives were filling shopping carts to the brim, stores sold out in hours. Chains imposed limits like four rolls per customer, which only made people more convinced the apocalypse was coming. By the end of the week, the entire states had bare shelves of nothing. Fights broke out in Isles. Some stores hired armed guards to protect Charmin. You believe that? And this was in the 70s, guys. This is the early 70s. Wow. I mean we've been sheep for a long, long time, huh? And it's just stupid stuff like this. This is how they test uh the real stuff. They do it through culture. Stupid American history culture. As pointed out by the Food for Tall Faith cast. And B Rob, which is me, and your host, you know what I'm saying? But I mean it's crazy. Fights broke out. Uh we see that on Black Black Friday every year. You see? How it gets worse and worse and worse and worse and worse. And it's like they they tested they tested it out. They did they proof proofran it way before 1973. Yeah. Working perfectly in 2026. So basically, Johnny Carson had to come back on a few nights later and basically say, Calm down, calm down, everybody's got toilet paper. There's no need to it was a joke. He was kidding, please stop hoarding. So it lasted about a year, apparently. Uh Congress actually held hearings about it, and newspapers ran front page stories with photos of empty shelves and headlines called the Wipeout. All because the king of a late night TV show made a 15-second quip. Peaked 1970s America, gas lines, inflation, watergate, the entire nation ready to throw hands over some tupla. All because Johnny Carson said so. Absolutely brain dead beautiful, stupid American history. Brought to you by Food for Thought Faith Cast and your host, B-rob. Food for Thought, babies.

SPEAKER_10: 19:20

I asked God for love. He broke my relationship. Angry, I said, Why? He replied, Because I saw their heart and I heard what they whispered against you behind closed doors. I asked for peace. He sent me storms. I cried, Why? He said, Storms will teach you how to command your calm in chaos. I asked for strength, he gave me struggle. Frustrated, I said, Why? He answered, struggles aren't punishment. They're the fire that unleashes the power inside you. I asked for the easy road. He gave me mountains. Weak, I whispered, why? He said, Because climbing builds the strength you'll need for the future I've prepared. I didn't get what I asked for. I got what I needed. Because elevation doesn't come through ease, it comes through endurance.

SPEAKER_07: 20:16

Sometimes. For some people.

SPEAKER_00: 20:32

But you know the toughest thing is to love somebody who has done something mean to you. Especially when that somebody has been yourself. Have you ever done anything mean to yourself? Well, it's very important to look inside yourself and find that loving part of you. That's the part that you must take good care of and never be mean to. Because that's the part of you that allows you to love your neighbor. And your neighbor is anyone you happen to be with at any time of your life. Respecting and loving your neighbor can give everybody a good feeling.

SPEAKER_11: 21:30

A lot of people are scared to say what they have to say when it's time to say it because they're scared of what's gonna happen. But I know God controls my destiny. So I just say it. I just feel like, yo, this whole superstar thing, all this is not like real, like the heating waste. So I feel like I deserve to win the Grammys. And if y'all don't feel that way, what whatever, this is not real anyway. I asked the question Who touched me?

SPEAKER_13: 21:54

It was me. Just the fringe of your garment, only the edge. I promise. You're not unclean.

SPEAKER_07: 22:03

Why my garment?

SPEAKER_13: 22:05

I'm sorry. I know I should have asked. I was sick. I bled and no one could stop it. But but I believed if I could just touch a piece of your garment. I was right.

SPEAKER_09: 22:20

My daughter.

SPEAKER_13: 22:23

I'm no one's daughter anymore.

SPEAKER_09: 22:26

Daughter. It wasn't my piece of clothing that healed you.

SPEAKER_13: 22:35

But it was instant. I felt it right away.

SPEAKER_09: 22:37

I know, but it wasn't this. It was your faith.