At Home With the Cabantacs - Thomas & Jenny Cabantac | Justin & Emily Free

Welcome to the Stronger Families Podcast!

What does it actually take to build a family culture where kids actually want to hang out? In this episode, hosts Justin and Emily Free kick off a brand-new series, "At Home with the Cabantacs," sitting down with Thomas and Jenny Cabantac to pull back the curtain on their everyday family rhythms.

With three daughters navigating the transition into young adulthood and college, Thomas and Jenny share real, practical wisdom on creating a home filled with laughter, open communication, and deep connection. They open up about shifting from a strict upbringing to an intentional, grace-filled environment, how the oldest sibling shapes the world the younger ones grow up in, and why keeping the spark alive in your marriage is the ultimate prep for the empty nest season.

This isn't about arriving or having a perfect, conflict-free home. It's about fighting for intentionality, letting out the rope as your kids grow, and keeping fun at the very center of your family identity.

Weekly Challenge: Identify one specific way you can inject intentional fun or laughter into your home this week—whether that's a spontaneous game, a shared joke, or a dedicated date night.

Whether you're in a season of joy or struggle, this podcast is for families who want more — more richness, more delight, more of what God designed family to be.

Let's build stronger families together.

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SPEAKER_02 0:00

Nothing I don't think has ever been more true. And this person said the youngest kid in your class in your home is as old as the oldest kid in your home. And it has always been true. So you know, your oldest kid is what you're navigating everything through. But like whatever they're bringing into your home as an eight-year-old, your five-year-old lives in that world.

SPEAKER_05 0:23

Welcome to the Stronger Families Podcast. My name is Justin Free, and I'm one of your hosts. We'll hear from real people with real stories and God-centered wisdom to help strengthen families. Whatever season you find yourself in, whether joy, struggle, we hope that this is encouraging and equipping for you. So let's build stronger families together. Welcome back to the Stronger Families Podcast. My name is Justin. This is Emily. Emily, my watch.

SPEAKER_03 0:50

Emily and Elizabeth Lee and Lowry Free, the full name.

SPEAKER_05 0:54

Oh, the government name. Wow.

SPEAKER_03 0:55

It's a lot of names. Wow. It's a lot of names.

SPEAKER_05 0:57

Okay. And we have today the Comet Talks. The Common Talks.

SPEAKER_03 1:04

Happy to be here.

SPEAKER_05 1:06

Glad to have enough for real. I love it.

SPEAKER_03 1:08

So glad.

SPEAKER_05 1:08

This is their first podcast in the in the whole world. In every time. And so if you get any bookings after this, somebody gets out of here. Yeah. Shout out. Today's going to be a special episode. We're starting a new series where it's at home with the Common Talks. And what we're going to do is we have a series of questions that we're going to ask this family. They're going to uh update us on the questions, what they do uh day in, day out, important things that's happened, and then we're going to have a lightning round.

SPEAKER_04 1:40

Oh. It sounds way more dramatic than it will be.

SPEAKER_05 1:43

Special. We're looking forward to it. Yes. So what do y'all what do y'all do? Tell us a little bit about yourself. What do you do for work?

SPEAKER_01 1:50

Yeah. Well, um, I am a veterinarian. We own our own veterinary clinic, and my wife is our practice manager. Oh, is she the boss? She's a boss. Oh, 100%. She's the boss at home and she's the boss at work.

SPEAKER_02 2:05

I'm an RN by my background. Yeah, you're right. So I still keep my license, but and I like mostly in the last few years I've used it for church stuff. Like I was a nurse at Kid Left Camp for like 800 years in a row. Anyway, I run our own. Still accounting. Well, last year was the first year I didn't. Oh wow. I know. Thanks for bringing that up. Sorry to hammer. Yeah, literally.

SPEAKER_05 2:24

Does she know you? Finding out right now.

SPEAKER_02 2:28

But I love her so much and I love Kid Left Camp so much. Shut up. Find your kids up. Yeah. So we work together. We joke about it. People are like, how does it work? Like you work together all day long. And I'm like, it works better because we don't do the same job. Like a joke, if we were both vets, I'd probably be like, You're doing it. I would have done this. He's happy for me to handle all the things I handle. Yes. He does the main thing. We love it actually.

SPEAKER_01 2:52

We both get to do the fun stuff. I feel like I do the more fun thing. Maybe so. Probably so. There are times when Jenny last we come in the office and she said, I need advice on this. I'm like, oh I don't know. I don't know. Now you want to go talk about Fifi the dog? I'm like, oh yeah, it's easy.

SPEAKER_03 3:09

That's really easy. Yeah. Yeah. But it works here for enjoying.

SPEAKER_01 3:12

Fifi can be my favorite.

SPEAKER_03 3:14

Fifi. Shout out to Fifi.

SPEAKER_01 3:16

Good job, Fifi.

SPEAKER_03 3:17

Way to go. And how many kids do you all have? Three. Three girls.

SPEAKER_02 3:21

What are their ages?

SPEAKER_01 3:22

19, 17, and 15.

unknown 3:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:25

Well, Quinn will be 15 tomorrow. Puppy. Well, I guess it won't be whenever we launch a 15. It'll be a long time. Matt in London will be. Who knows? 35 now. Have 17 grandchildren. That's it. Amen. That's the goal. Someone wants a grandkid tomorrow. I would take a grandma. You would take a baby tomorrow, but I'm like, no, sir. I do sometimes.

SPEAKER_03 3:57

Yeah, you do.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

Well, when people present it like that, I'm like, mmm, I'm okay.

SPEAKER_03 4:03

Your own. Your own.

SPEAKER_01 4:04

I think that's why it means grandkids would be more fitting now. Assuming it would be Madden in about two or three years, I'd be like, yeah, sure. Come on over to the code. So when you hear this Madden, no pressure, but she's the one who's been saying it to us. So she's the one who's saying that. Yeah, she is. She'll be ready when it's time. She'll be ready. Amen.

SPEAKER_02 4:24

She loved those babies.

SPEAKER_01 4:25

Same.

SPEAKER_03 4:25

Okay. Give us a snapshot of where your family is right now. What does it look like? Where is everybody? What did y'all's life look like?

SPEAKER_01 4:34

I feel like it's less chaotic now, but it's just a different season, right?

SPEAKER_03 4:39

So Madden Less chaotic than probably three.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

Yes, yes. Madden is about to start her second year in college. London is about to start her first year at college, and then Quinn is going into ninth.

SPEAKER_02 4:55

Madden doesn't live with us anymore. That's the biggest thing. And it's still weird. She's close, right? She's at UCA, so I mean, I don't feel like I can even talk about it like compared to people whose kids move far. But she still doesn't live with us. And it's weird. But we see her. We see her a couple times a week, at least. But it's a total different vibe. And now back to back, they're back-to-back years, we're losing London, and she's not gonna live with us, and it's gonna be real.

SPEAKER_01 5:21

She's going to the dorms.

SPEAKER_02 5:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:23

Um again, it's not like they've gone, you know, across state lines. I mean, but still they're out of the house.

SPEAKER_02 5:30

And I I don't really like that.

SPEAKER_01 5:32

But tis life.

SPEAKER_02 5:33

But they're doing awesome. They're doing what they're supposed to be doing.

SPEAKER_05 5:35

How how many days of the of a week are they at your house though?

SPEAKER_02 5:40

So London still lives there. She's leaving in a few months. Madden, it just depends. That girl ain't missing a meal. So if she's free, if we're going out somewhere, she's gonna pop in. If I'm cooking, it may just be 20 or 30 minutes, but she's probably coming to eat while I'm cooking. Um say you stay cooking. Yeah, happy to. Happy to anytime means I get to see that girl. So funny story's friends.

SPEAKER_01 6:02

Jenny and I were out on a date at Pasta Grill, and Madden calls her, texts Jenny, what are y'all doing? And Jenny's like, we're having a date night. She's like, Oh. Well, she hinted that she was right across down the street at the coffee shop. Um like, how'd you find us, little 360? So we're like, come on, just come on. So anyway, so she didn't really crash our date night, but we I mean we love it when they come anyway.

SPEAKER_03 6:27

Yeah, what in the world? How did you guys Mr. Booty and Dark Two Person booth? Your college age daughter is crashing your date night because she wants to spend time with the city.

SPEAKER_01 6:38

I know that's that's wild. I love it, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:41

I feel like that is counter counter-cultural. People are fleeing the nest and they're going and they're like, I'm doing my own thing, but we'll take it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We love that they're close. What do you let's dive in there? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 6:53

What do you think it is that has created this? Because I would say all of your girls probably feel the same way. Yeah. Uh your house is the house that people want to be at. Uh do you think it's just because most people I think would say, well, we gotta have the pool, we gotta have the game room, we gotta have all the amenities that the kids want to be engaged with. Is that it? Or is there more to this this idea that we want to create an environment and a culture where our kids do want to be around and involved in what we're doing?

SPEAKER_02 7:20

I think it's both. Like they have somewhere to hang out, but you know, like we don't have a game room or a bonus room. We do have a pool. Um, but you know, they haven't always had a pool. So when they were little, it was just we were always willing to be the house. Like I'm like, they can come anytime. I will have the food, we will have the drinks. Like your friends are welcome here all the time, you know, and um that was just important for us that they knew they could do that and bring their people and that we would welcome their people, but also just I think our family has had a somewhat easy camaraderie. Like your kids aren't gonna want to hang out at your house if home's like a tense place to be, and there's yeah, you know, if anybody's walking on eggshells, or we're not sure at what moment if this person's in a good mood or a bad nude, or you know, how can we handle that? So it wasn't perfect at all. But you know, that you try to make that the frequency of your home, I think really matters.

SPEAKER_05 8:11

What do you feel like built that because what you just said, I th what I heard was we have a safe environment, but also a vulnerable but yet not non-confrontational, uh maybe open. Like what what are things that you would say you've fought for that have helped create that environment at your home?

SPEAKER_02 8:33

We laugh all the time. Y'all probably if you know us, you know that. Like all the time. I mean, just anything can make us laugh. Anything, it's like a competition, who's the funniest? Like, if you can be the one to make everybody laugh. Um, that's important to us. Like, that's one of our family values. Like, we're just gonna have fun. Like, whether we are on a volleyball trip, because our kids did travel volleyball, we're all together. Like, that was a big thing at our house. Like, we're gonna be together as much as we can be. And of course, that looks so different now than it did two years ago, four years ago, six years ago, because it just the seasons of life changed, and yeah, your kids and you know that rope that ties you to them gets a little longer every year, you know, and so things change. But um, we did as much together as we could. Like, we're like, if someone has something, we're all gonna go. You know what I mean? Like, that's just gonna be the norm at our house that we're gonna be together if we can be um we're gonna have a lot of fun, we're gonna be really open communication. Like, I'm the mom with three girls, so of course a lot of that happened with me, but like we can talk about anything. Right. I mean, they knew early on. I'm like, if you have a question, you come to me, I will give you a straight answer 100% of the time. Yeah, you know, it's not gonna be embarrassing. Like that was just the dynamic from early, early on with our girls. Yeah, that's really cool. And I do think that helped. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 9:48

Is that how you both were raised or no?

SPEAKER_01 9:51

Um I I personally was not. Um our house was more strict. My mom's gonna see this. Um it's not a knock against the Cobb-Talk uh household, it was just the way that we were raised, right? So we get home, we do homework, we do dinner at about 7 30, 8 o'clock at night, because my parents worked admin at a hospital, so they would get home late. But when it came to friends coming over, it was a very few and far between. I feel like I had a good group of friends, a good four or five. But uh even going to their houses, it was um it was a really strict household, so it was like, oh, where are you going? Probably not a good idea. Why don't you stay home? Yeah, you know what? You can probably go mow the lawn, right? It wasn't a strict thing, it just wasn't it wasn't like what we have now, and it's again not a knock against what I grew up with. I just wanted to make sure we did something different, not necessarily totally different, but different from it. And so I was raised different. Yeah, that's good. Thank you for sharing that.

SPEAKER_02 10:54

No, I mean I my home was very open. I'm very close to my parents. So I would say pretty similar, but still just different dynamics. I mean, the world is very different, very different now than it was even you know when we were growing up. There's so many generations we have to navigate, like so many things, even just your 15-year-old to when your other kids were 15. I mean, it just is changing all the time. We gotta be on our feet, you guys as parents. Like there's just so much coming at us and coming at our kids. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 11:21

So what is we're gonna dive into some of the other questions?

SPEAKER_03 11:24

Okay, okay. What is something that you learned from someone else that has impacted you, your marriage, or your parenting or all of the other?

SPEAKER_01 11:34

I'll I'll go first just because Jenny halfway mentioned it. Um and uh I don't know if we've talked about this in a while, but there was one day we were sitting with Trey and Tammy McClurkin. I think we were at Conway Crocs, I think we were at a swim, yeah. But Tammy was talking about her kids and her oldest one and how you loosen up the rope so that uh they can go and and do some stuff. Not independently, but you can go do some stuff. And when they mess up, then you kind of tighten the rope back up. Okay, we're gonna give you a little bit. I I that was just a little conversation we had at a swim meet, but I'm I'm telling you, it actually stuck with me, so kudos to Tamin McClurkin on that one.

SPEAKER_02 12:19

But I have one too that I heard when our kids were really, really, really little, and it has nothing may have nothing I don't think has ever been more true. And this person said the uh youngest kid in your class in your home is as old as the oldest kid in your home. And it has always been true. And so, you know, your oldest kid is what you're navigating everything through, but like whatever they're bringing into your home as an eight-year-old, your five-year-old lives in that world. Wow, and as a 10-year-old, you know, your seven-year-old lives in that world. And so when it's teenagers and the things they're bringing home and the conversations they're having, like we're gonna have those as a family, we're talking about them around the dinner table. So the conversations look really different for my youngest kid and the things she's hearing. And I don't think it's been a negative. Yeah, it's just very different, and it's something to be mindful of as you have little biddies and you have older kids because the world they're growing up in, the things they're surrounded in, look really different. You know, we used to joke, like Madden, our oldest, was I mean, she could have been three, I don't know, maybe, maybe two, before like she probably ever watched TV. Like, yeah, I was just like, My kid's not gonna why would they ever be on screens? Like, that's so silly. And then Quinn at two, she's like in the car with the movie screens because I have a six and a five-year-old who, like, if we go on a trip and it's just so funny, you almost can feel like a hypocrite in a way, but like you're doing what's best in that moment for that kid, and it's not that I didn't agree with it then, it's like the world looks a little bit different. Yeah, and I don't think it's horrible for my five-year-old to watch a 20-minute show. Yeah, but yeah, my two-year-old sitting here too, or whatever. There's like one silly example. It's just there's so many things like that, and it's been so true, especially in the teenage years, because they're just bringing home big conversations and big things, or they're navigating boys, or they're doing it in front of the kid that's five years younger. That was not the dynamic. So it was just it's always stuck with me, and I've always been aware of it. Yeah, I have never thought about it.

SPEAKER_03 14:13

That's so good.

SPEAKER_05 14:14

I feel like we could dive into that so much.

SPEAKER_03 14:16

Oh, yeah. Both of those questions.

SPEAKER_05 14:18

Um What is one habit that helps you stay connected as husband and wife while raising uh your family?

SPEAKER_01 14:28

The easy one. Making out in the church parking. That's right. That's right. Making out as often as you can, as many places as you can with it. Okay, so let's dive into that one real quick. Date nights are we try. It probably sounds cliche, but truly it's like the connection point. If we don't try, then because it was so easy when you were dating, you couldn't you couldn't get enough of each other, right? And so now that we're home and we're we're raising this family and taking care of the house and work and church and dogs, um, time alone. Just to yeah, just to just to not talk about some of those things is really key for us and just getting away from it. I mean, we're we're closer to being an empty nester than we were last year, right? So making sure that we're still in love with each other. Yeah. Um so so simple as date nights, right? That's that would be one key. That's probably the biggest one.

SPEAKER_02 15:26

Again, it feels like cliche, but like so important, just taking that time and you know, as your kids get older again. I'm so much further on that end than the little bitty stage. It's like sometimes you have to do that just to talk about the things without like ears around you. Like when they're little, your kids go to bed by seven and you have a few hours together. But like that is not the dynamic as they start getting bigger, and it's wild. It's now it's like, I want to go to bed and you're not even home yet. Like, I need to get to bed. You know, it's just it's just so different. So not really. So different. So it's like letting that rope out at some point. You're like, we've gotta let them stay out past nine. I mean, they're you know about to be like independent adults, you know. So it's just it all changes and it takes a lot of wisdom. Yeah. And each kid's different.

SPEAKER_05 16:06

Well, it sounds so elementary, but it's also so avoided. Or it's uh not avoided, it's so easy to just like it just didn't happen. It didn't happen this week, it didn't happen this week.

SPEAKER_03 16:18

With several things that we've talked about on the podcast, it it most of them all go back to intentionality. And when there's a loss of intentionality, there's a drift that happens, and then you look up and you're five years later and you haven't had a date night or a vacation together. And so I think uh it just points back to that intentionality.

SPEAKER_05 16:40

It's even such a good um maybe even that's a different topic for another day, but as you ent enter that emptiness stage of life, how you still are in love with one another. And that's not just like, all right, both our kid all of our kids are gone, let's start to date again. That is kept more than for years. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:01

Because if everything you've ever done together have been about this activity or this activity for this kid, it would be really easy, I think, to turn around and be like, Oh, you are who are you, not the dad? Who am I not just the mom?

SPEAKER_01 17:14

We've had so much travel volleyball over the years where at one point we had three kids and we're in St. Louis, Memphis, Las Vegas, Dallas, we're all over the place, right? Well, then now two of them don't play, and so we're down to one. We're down with Quinn. So we are we're seeing the picture of well, what what happens after volleyball is done, right? We've done so much travel. Right. And which does give us a chance for Jinny and I to hang out while we're driving, while we're sitting on by the court and Quinn's playing or Quinn's doing whatever. Lots of together time. Lots of together time. But after that, so we got three more years of travel volleyball. Well, then what, right? It's that whole empty nest, or you look up and you're like, uh one sky to me.

SPEAKER_02 17:55

Yeah, that's what we're doing. Yeah, right, really? I don't know. I would love it. Me, I would love to. Yeah, just make sure our we love adventure.

SPEAKER_01 18:03

We love any of our will, it's really oh, we're all about adventure.

SPEAKER_05 18:07

It's responsible adult right there. Yeah, right, right, right.

SPEAKER_03 18:09

Oh man.

SPEAKER_05 18:10

It's gonna be crazy, but first that's just the will and trust. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 18:15

That's right. Okay. Do you know any public notaries? Uh all right. What is something in your family life that's harder than you expected in this season?

SPEAKER_02 18:26

Okay, in this current season, probably just trying to be all together. Because there's, you know, Madden is an adult. I mean, she's about, they're really about to be 20, about to be 18, and then 15. So I mean, they're just that sounds so old. That's wild. But you know, so I mean, she's got her own schedule, you know, London. So again, we have a birthday coming up tomorrow, and we're trying to have a family birthday dinner, and it's like we're looking and it's like, okay, this person is this, this person is this, this person has this. So to get all five of us, you know, in the same room somewhere. I mean, we do it, but or for more than 20 minutes or 30 minutes. So that part may be harder than we expected. I mean, some of it you expect, but probably.

SPEAKER_01 19:03

I I didn't see it coming. Maybe that. I thought it would be a lot easier, especially since you would be at UCA, but but again, it's just the way the stars align and the way things happen.

SPEAKER_02 19:13

I mean, like, oh, I'm working, you know, we're at a 12-hour shift. Like Mad Morse at the hospital. It's like she's like doing like big grown-up things, you know, and I'm like, well, wait, you're supposed to be at my beck and colour. You know, it just it's just it changes. It is it looks different.

SPEAKER_01 19:25

Yeah, it's hard when you when I think of we're we're trying to raise these these human beings and to be responsible adults and go chase your dreams and go find your go find your man and go start a family, but then you blink and you're like, Well, there's they're have hardly any time for us. Well, I mean, we're trying to champion them on, but then I'm like, well, leave some for me. But again, it's not like they're not trying to leave us out. It's just the way life is. Yeah, it's just how it is.

SPEAKER_05 19:53

You have to be really secure in allowing that to happen.

SPEAKER_00 19:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 19:57

Because if you're if your identity is built upon your kids, that's destruction waiting to happen.

SPEAKER_02 20:03

Well, and if you don't remember, that's what's been the whole point of this. Yeah. Like, what is the whole point of this, right? Not that they live with us till they're 40. You know, like that we raise these beautiful, strong women who love the Lord so much and go and create their own family that they love and serve the world. Like that's what we've been doing all this for. So to sabotage that in some way would be foolish. Yeah. You know, it'd be tough to remember that perspective. That's good.

SPEAKER_05 20:26

Great.

SPEAKER_02 20:26

That's good.

SPEAKER_05 20:27

All right, let's ask the last question, then we're gonna do a lightning round. Uh last one. When your kids are grown, uh, what do you hope they remember most about your so good?

SPEAKER_02 20:41

Okay. I hope they remember that we loved really, really big at all times. Like no matter what. Through the things they did right and through the things when we had to correct and you know, give correction. I hope they remember that we laughed a lot.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

One word that comes from me is refuge, just a safe place, that they grew up in a safe place, that they could talk openly with Jenny, because they definitely talk more with Jenny on the personal things, right? Which is perfectly fine with me. But just thinking back and they're like, Yeah, we were able to vent emotions when they needed to, that they could bring their friends over, um, that we would cheer them on, that we love on them, that they never had to worry about food or clothing. Like that that they felt blessed, right? I mean, hindsight's 2020, but that's how I like to think of even my parents back in the day when they came to watch all of my sports stuff. It was just a thing. But when I really look back, I'm like, wow, like they really devoted their time to come watch me do say right, that's right, that's right. So refuge would be my description. It's really good.

SPEAKER_03 21:48

I'm like tearing up over here. Oh my goodness. That's so good. Y'all are amazing.

SPEAKER_05 21:56

It is it is sweet to think about that. I mean, there's gonna be Day where our kids are not only not at home, but yours day is close. Yeah. Within three years you get and two of them are within weeks of happening. And so it's just it is good to have an eternal mindset. Like it is good to have a hey, this season is not forever. How am I gonna impact my kids' lives now? That's right. So that they're ready for the moment that y'all are ultimately living right now, which is hard and good all at the same time. So you want to lead the lightning round? Yeah, lightning round.

SPEAKER_03 22:29

Okay, so this is gonna be fast. Oh boy. Just on your feet. Ready? Who is most likely in your family to start the dance party? Madden.

SPEAKER_01 22:38

Madden.

SPEAKER_03 22:39

Madden. 100%.

SPEAKER_01 22:40

Easily Madden. Dancing already. She's currently in any place at any time.

SPEAKER_03 22:45

Okay, what phrase gets said in your house almost daily?

SPEAKER_01 22:50

We're the boys. Those are all the things. Where the boys are the girls. I was like, wow. Not from a dating point of view. No, we're the boys.

SPEAKER_02 23:01

We have three dogs, they're all boys, because he's like, Yeah, we're dogged. Oh, we have our girls. But there's three of them, so it's like, where's the boys? Where's the boy? Do we have a number of the boys on the box?

SPEAKER_01 23:09

Yeah, because I mean, are they upstairs? Are they downstairs? Are they chewing in something? Did they pee in the corner? Are they still?

SPEAKER_03 23:14

Do you guys want another boy dog? No. You know, we're okay. No. We're good.

SPEAKER_01 23:18

I feel like three is a lot for us.

SPEAKER_03 23:20

That is a lot. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:21

Well, our dog only has three teeth, so. Okay. Okay, that's the same.

SPEAKER_04 23:27

That's okay.

SPEAKER_01 23:27

We're past. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 23:31

Um, what is one rule in your home that everyone knows?

SPEAKER_01 23:37

Um, I mean, from a personal one, it has to do with the razorbacks. Anything razor backs. So if there's a razorback baseball game on, dad's watching. If there's a basketball game on, dad's watching. Football game. And then also, if the friends are around and they know the score, my kids are in charge of telling it, don't tell them the story. I just get in the mood.

SPEAKER_02 24:00

If we're somewhere, I mean, if we're somewhere and he can't watch, it's fine. If we're having dinner, he's not watching. But like he's gonna watch it later, do not give him the score. Now the score that would have been really different in a million other years of all our seasons of life, but like right now, it's like yeah. I love that. That is that's a good thing. There's Reservoir Sport on. He's probably watching it. We'll pay. Don't tell him the score. Go hogs.

SPEAKER_03 24:20

Okay, what's one thing in your family? Wait, what's one thing your family is unnecessarily competitive about?

SPEAKER_02 24:27

Maybe who's the funniest.

SPEAKER_03 24:30

Unnecessarily competitive about who's the funniest.

SPEAKER_01 24:32

Someone sending a TikTok video of a dog doing a silly thing and trying to see who can get the most laughs out of it and mentions it the most.

SPEAKER_02 24:41

Or just, you know, getting up and I don't know, doing crazy dance moves like in the middle of dinner table. I don't know. Yeah, but that's so funny. Yeah, they all want to be. They all want to be funny. Like if someone came home and was like, someone told them that day they were the funniest, like they would be so happy to like any of them would just be like you guys need like a board, like point on the board for funny today. I don't think I really ever get that, get voted that, but it's okay. I'm okay with it.

SPEAKER_01 25:06

You you get a point here or there. There we go. There we go. I'm not okay.

SPEAKER_02 25:10

I own it. I'm comfortable with that.

SPEAKER_01 25:11

You're just not on the leaderboard. That's right. I'm not you're on the board. You're on the board. That's right. Mama's team, you're on the 135.

SPEAKER_03 25:19

Um, okay. Favorite family meal.

SPEAKER_02 25:24

I think every I know everybody's favorite, but I don't know that we have one that's everybody's all together. Like if I'm fair, I know exactly what Madden would say she looks like in London. That's fairness, but I don't know if we have just one. Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:36

That's fair. But if if it was mine, it'd be breakfast burritos. Bacon. That's my favorite. Breakfast burritos made by Ginny.

SPEAKER_03 25:43

That sounds delicious. That would be a good thing. Okay, we'll be over tomorrow night for breakfast.

SPEAKER_05 25:48

Next podcast in the kitchen. Uh in the kitchen. We can do it.

SPEAKER_03 25:51

We can do it. Okay, last but not least, beach or mountain vacation beach. Beach. Beach. The whole family. Always. Yeah. That's good.

SPEAKER_02 25:58

We have three girls I want to lay out. Yeah. They're happy to do that. I'll find an umbrella to get under. Yeah, he didn't. That's my boy right there.

SPEAKER_01 26:04

He's not really wanting the sum, but yeah, I got none to prove. I'm good.

SPEAKER_02 26:08

When you're Filipino, live to prove.

SPEAKER_01 26:12

I'm self-tanner over. I'm kidding. I do not wear I'm thinking more like coconut.

SPEAKER_05 26:20

Brought to you by Tropaz. That's our view. Oh wow. Is that it?

SPEAKER_03 26:25

What?

SPEAKER_05 26:25

Is that the self-tanner?

SPEAKER_03 26:26

You definitely felt something in your teeth. I love you. We'll get it later. Shout out.

SPEAKER_05 26:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 26:33

Thank you for being the lightning round.

SPEAKER_05 26:35

Hey, Common Talks, thank y'all so much. Thanks for having us. Our next episode will be with the Common Talks as well. But thank you for having us. Thank you for having us. Yeah. Yeah, thank you for having us to your studio. Thanks for joining us. See ya. Thank you for joining us on the Stronger Families Podcast. If today's conversations encouraged you, helped you, equipped you, we would love it if you shared it with another family. We look forward to seeing you again soon. And remember, let's build stronger families together.