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Love this email from Kim. She said, hi, I appreciate you both so much. Thank you for what you do. Being a stay-at-home mom can be lonely at times. I've been incredibly grateful to listen as I do laundry and other tasks around the house. I love that. Anyway, I passed along some of the wisdom I've gained from you to my kids, and this happened as a result. I was asking my two sons about their school

song and if they knew it, my nine-year-old said, there's a terrible part of the school song.

How old? Nine. He's nine. He said, it says to follow your heart wherever it desires.

And he knows. And he called it out. Yeah. Yeah. So that's pretty awesome. There you go, Uncle Brent. She said, I laughed pretty hard. It was because of your segment you did on quotes that sound wise, but really aren't about follow your heart. That's awesome. Hey, if you're expecting right now and you're expecting a boy. Uh-huh. Can you do us a favor and go ahead and name him Josh? And why is that? It's people stop naming kids Josh. They did. I know so many Joshes. We do, right? Yeah, right. It's just what I mean. But like they're looking at the baby name thing and it just stopped. Josh just fell off. Just hit a wall. Okay. I wonder why. So, yeah, I was just, if you're like, I don't like your name, Josh, like, just take, just do it. Just do it, please. You'll grow to like it, I promise. I've never heard an audible voice of God. Like, that I can just go, okay, that's God's audible voice. I just never have. I do think God speaks to us, though. I know he does. The problem, though, maybe if we're like, no, he's, he wouldn't, he's not, he doesn't ever, well, there are radio waves bouncing all over the place right by our heads. But you don't hear it.

You can be like, no, there aren't because I don't hear anything.

Well, no, they're still there.

And God is close by.

And he may have something to say to us, but I got to be listening.

I'd have to be listening.

People out there getting engaged, I guess. I saw celebrity engagement.

Yep. Big. Big to do. Although I thought it's funny. I read, was it Babylon B or somebody said it was overruled because his knee wasn't all the way down.

Yeah. If I want to be here, somebody said it was overruled because his knee wasn't all the way down. They watched the replay. I'm sorry, no, his knee wasn't, yeah.

So if you know anything about me, I'm not a big celebrity guy, not a big celebrity person.

But I'm rooting for people. I'm rooting for people. I'm rooting for them,

rooting for people. And getting married is such a beautiful thing. And I am hoping that this

makes people think about marriage and see the poetry of it rather than just the negative stuff

that's constant. And then also to think, okay, what is marriage for?

Because a lot of people can't answer that question.

They've got opinions on about what it, you know, they've got opinions on it.

Yeah.

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