WHOA That's Good Podcast - Hot Takes on What’s Worth Watching & Reading (and Skipping) | Sadie Robertson Huff & Korie Robertson

Episode Date: August 27, 2025

Sadie and her mom, Korie Robertson, are spilling all their current obsessions: from books to binge-worthy TV shows to movies they can’t stop talking about. When they recorded this, Sadie was gearing up for maternity leave and reminiscing about the last two newborn seasons — a.k.a. nonstop baby snuggles mixed with binge-watch marathons. So … what’s on her list this time around?  Korie, the ultimate bookworm, kicks things off by reading a favorite passage from one of her go-to fiction picks. Then, she and Sadie rewind to the shows they were obsessed with before "Duck Dynasty" ever hit TV and chat about how being in the entertainment world has totally reshaped what they’re cool watching — and what’s a hard pass. This episode is real, funny, a little emotional, and basically like getting recs from your BFFs. Let us know any of your favorites in the comments too!  This Episode of WHOA That's Good is Sponsored By: https://covenanteyes.com/sadie — Visit the website to learn more and start your journey toward a healthier, stronger marriage today. https://drinklmnt.com/whoa — Get a free LMNT Sample Pack with any purchase! https://sadiepens.com — Get 10% off my favorite supplies and journaling Bible when you use the code SADIE10 when checking out! Chapters:  00:00 Korie's favorite book passage 05:00 Favorite books 13:00 What's impacted us from the Bible 15:22 Sadie's three favorite books 21:33 Currently reading 29:10 Favorite TV shows 40:45 Favorite movies - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And so I'm a little emotional because my first grandson just graduated from. And so I wanted to pull up, this is my favorite, like, I think probably from all the literature, my favorite, like passage, my literature, and I pulled it up to read it. And I got, sorry, I got a little emotional, so bear with me. If I make it through it, we'll see. This is from gentlemen in Moscow. God, this is so, okay, one does not fulfill one's potential by listening to, oh shoot, I don't know how to say this, one does not fulfill one's potential by listen to Scheherazade in a gilded hall or by reading the odyssey in one's den. One does so by setting forth into the vast unknown, just like Marco Polo when he traveled to China or Columbus when he traveled to America.

Sophia nodded in understanding. The count continued. I've had countless reasons to be proud of you. And certainly one of them, one of the greatest was the night at the, oh, shoot, okay. I've had countless reasons to be proud of you. And certainly one of the greatest was the night of the conservatory competition. But in the moment I felt that pride was not when you and Anna brought home news of your victory. It was earlier in the evening when I watched you heading out of the hotel doors on the way to the hall.

For what matters in life is not when we receive a round of applause. What matters is whether we have the courage to venture forth despite the uncertainty of the acclaim. If I'm to play in Paris, said Sophia after a moment, I only wish that you could be there in the audience to hear me. The Count smiled. I assure you, my dear. Were you to play a chord on the moon, I would hear every chord. Isn't that so beautiful? So sweet. I know.

Mom, you're literally crying. It's the best, like, description of a parent, like, how you feel as a parent. It's so sweet. You're so proud of your kids, and it's not that, like, they want. win the award or they get the applause. It's just that they like go forth and do it. That's so sweet, Mom. This is supposed to be our fun podcast, and where are you crying? That was so sweet. That shows you the impact that books can have and movies can have and certain wording and phrasing that just hits you to your core on the human level.

So I asked mom to do this podcast because mom is the biggest lover of books ever, as you can tell. I'm sure there's other bigger lovers of books. Well, that I know. I don't know anyone besides John Luke. True. That loves books like you love books. You're constantly reading. Like, I love to.

I'm like, how do you, like, when do you all do that? I don't even know when you'll read that much, but you do. You're always reading something. You're always learning something. And you remember, like you recall. a lot of things like, oh, I read this in this book, or that's like a lot of where y'all's good advice comes from and whatnot. It's kind of bad, though, because it's like whatever I'm into and reading is the thing I'm

talking about all the time. And so I'm like, oh, I'll learn this, I read this or whatever. Yeah, that's so true. Yeah, when you got on the Jordan B. Peterson, Kate, it was always talking about everything was Jordan B. Peterson. That's true. So today, welcome to the podcast, we are going to be talking about what books have impacted us the most, what TV shows we love the most, what we're currently reading or watching, because,

you know, this podcast we were recording way before I have the baby, but by the time you guys listening to it, I will have had the baby, which is so crazy. And one of the things I was thinking recently was like, what am I going to watch whenever, you know, have baby, what am I going to read? Because you have so much time, you know, to just kind of sit there and you're feeding and you're watching and you're just chilling. I mean, I guess it is different now that I have little ones running around and will be as chill as it was like the first time yeah you don't get to just like sit and you don't get to yeah quite as much when you have two toddlers yes that is very true uh with the C-section you kind of have to sit for a little while so you do kind of like

help take care of the older too so you can do that a little bit um but it's so funny because I was thinking back and this is like not a TV show or anything but because I had both the girls in May it just so happened like right after was the college baseball world series which is like something I typically would not be interested in. But, you know, my brother-in-law plays baseball. So I kind of got into it with him because he went to Omaha and their team won. So I was like, oh, this is so fun. Then whenever I had honey, I was like, oh, this is so great.

I get to watch this. I watch the whole thing. And I, like, was so excited having Haven and May because I got to watch the whole thing. That's fun. And then this time, I'm doing August. So I'm like, oh, I'm not going to have the College World Series to watch. So what am I going to watch? So that kind of got me thinking about.

what I'm watching, what we're reading, and you always have good recommendations. You just shared your favorite book quote that you could think of of all time. It literally made you cry, which was really beautiful and really sweet. That's from Gentleman in Voskow. Is that one of your favorites? It's one of my favorite books for sure. If you haven't read that, read it. And I'm going to tell you, it's a big book.

And so when you start, it's a little slow to begin with. It's kind of this slow, like, beautiful book that you have to just stick with. And by the end, you just love the characters. much. And I mean, I made me cry and you just connect. I think that's one thing that I think is so beautiful about reading and reading. I like to read a lot of memoirs and I like to read a lot of fiction too. And I think reading fiction and memoirs, you put yourself in those positions, it just gave you this greater capacity to like understand other people, have compassion for other people. And you feel like you kind of get to like walk in their shoes for that little

bit. So I think not only do I just love to read, I actually think it's really important and good work. It's true. Okay, so what are some of your favorite books of all time and why? Favorite books of all time? Okay, I actually have a little list. I made a list too. You made a list? Good. I did not make this today. I have, I have this on my phone, so I was going to go back and look. One, so my favorite like childhood book and I haven't read this in a long time um was um the secret garden I love that book I think it's another one that's kind of just like slow and beautiful but just has a lot of like depth and meaning in it and I can't even honestly remember exactly what I love about it but I loved it as a kid and I love it I've read it you know as an adult and was like oh this is a good book

it was like verified it's a good one oh it really is like yeah so that's that That's one of my favorite kind of, like, childhood books, so I recommend everybody to read. And then impacting me kind of like, I feel like, you know, different books impact you different stages of life. So I was like, wanted to pull this out and think about one that, I know you started to read recently, but you were like, oh, it might be a little bit too hard and too heavy. I'm still reading it. Angela's Ashes. Oh, no, I didn't. I quit on that one.

That was too sad. Angel's Ashes and Tiz were two that were like, I think that was probably one of my early, like, memoirs, and I was like, whoa, it just just gave you a different appreciation and helped you. I remember there was one moment in that book that impacted me where he grew up in this, like, really kind of poor environment, and it was very, had a very difficult life, and he's going out, he's going to go out, I think he's going to, that's when he's going to go to America. and he comes back and everyone treats him differently and is like not very nice to him and he was like I'm still the same person but they saw him differently and they it's almost like they kind of wanted to pull him back to be like them and it was it was this I don't know I felt like I learned something in that moment about human nature about like sometimes we like want people to say the same yeah so we try to pull them back so they say the same and what

Rather than allow them to grow and change, or we treat them like they've changed whenever they really haven't changed. They're still the same person. They're just doing something different. So I think things like that kind of teach you stuff about human nature. That's so true. Was that Angel's ashes? Uh-huh. Okay.

Yeah. Well, it was like really sad at the beginning and it had something to do with pregnancy or a baby. Yeah. And I was like just finding out we were pregnant and I was like, this is a little too much right now. Yeah. But I might return to it later. Angel's ashes and Tiz. They're both his memoir and ones in continuation.

of the others. I can't remember which one kind of delves into that. But anyway, I'm still reading infidel. Oh, that was so powerful. Very intense. Okay, I actually have said this before on this podcast. I almost brought that book up and I didn't because I was like, I don't know, like I feel like it needs a disclaimer

if I recommend it. And so now I can get my disclaimer recommendation since we're doing a whole podcast on book recommendations and movie and TV show. I think that it is so powerful. But disclaimer, it's very hard to listen to. I'm listening to it.

I mean, read or listen to it. Not because it's hard to understand her, but because it's a very hard story and reality of what a lot of people are currently living. I mean, we got to go to Mogadishu Somalia and see kind of the lifestyle of a lot of the people. And this girl, Ion Hersia Ali, is kind of telling about her life growing up. in Somalia, but then also they moved a lot. And Muslim culture and growing up with her mom being very strict Muslim. And it's just a very intense book.

And I'm not to like the break free part yet. So I'm still in like the intense moment because it's really, really long. I think I've listened for like seven hours and I'm still like in the hard part. It's so good. But it's so good. And you recommend it. Yeah. Yeah.

Very important. And she wrote another one too. I was thinking about, oh, yeah, her second one's so good, too. She's amazing. Yeah, she's incredible. And she's recently come to Christianity and come to faith. So her whole story is really, you should, y'all should just look her up, like, YouTube, her on, Hersie Ali. And her debate with Richard Dawkins.

Amazing. And when you listen to the book, she wasn't a Christian yet. You didn't start listening because she was a believer. You heard her speak somewhere. Yeah, I think it's important to, like, it doesn't, you know, I'm not like discriminatory. I only read things that are from people who think like I do or whatever. I think you can learn from different people. All right, y'all know how it goes.

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does have some language, but it's great. And also listen to Greenlight, which is Matthew McCona. Which is so good to listen to it because his voice too. But it was like so funny because Christian was listening with me one day. He didn't know what I was listening to. And Matthew McConaughey is a little rough around the edges. And he was saying something crazy. And Christian was like, what are you listening to?

I was like, this is Matthew McConaughey's memoir. He's like, I would never think you would listen to anything like that. And like, it's just to me, like, I don't like watching inappropriate shows or anything like that. but if it's someone's life story and you're hearing of it, you learn so much, like, where they were at, why they did it, the context they were living in, like, you just have such an understanding for what people go through. Yeah. So, memoirs is my favorite type of book as well.

It's so true. Taking that to, like, the Bible, and we were, I think we were going to talk about, like, what has been impacted us in the Bible lately. Now that you say that, thinking about that, like, sometimes when you read the Bible, it's particularly like the Old Testament, some of the people who are like, he was a faith, have very complicated life stories. You're like, whoa, like, that is not what you would think. Like, a man of God would do.

I struggle with David, yeah. David, yes, Abraham, like, all these things that you read, when you read in the scripture of, like, their stories, you're like, whoa, that's not what I've expected someone who, like, God chose to, like, be his person, you know? So you understand that, like, oh, it's not just the perfect person that God chooses. He chooses flawed people, broken people, people who make mistake and bad decisions. And so the point of the, you know, of the Bible is God's love for us, not our perfect, like, actions towards him. It's his perfect love towards us.

Yeah. You know, it's so cool with David because I've been reading through Psalms lately. I'm on 70, which there's a lot of Psalms, so I have a lot more to go. But I started a couple weeks ago, and it's just been great for me. It's been so good for my soul and just giving me words to pray and how to process things. But what's so cool is I've gotten more of an understanding on David because I, you know, you read David's story and it's like, oh man, like he just falls and he falls hard. And so when people are affected by it.

And then yet he's like a man after God's own heart. It's like who he's known as, you know. And the New Testament talks about David like legend, you know, it's not like the bad parts. Then when I've been reading through the Psalms, I'm like, man, I see why he's a man after God's own heart because his heart. because his heart for the Lord was like constantly, like God was everything to him. Like God was everything. God was who he went to to rant. God was when he went to to cry.

God was who he went to to laugh. God was who he went to rejoice. Like, God was everything to him. And he was like constantly repenting, constantly turning, constantly asking God to help him. The ways that he even talked to God about his enemies just showed like the intimacy he had with God to be so real about people who he struggled with. He was not polished. He was not perfect.

but he was like a real man pursuing the Lord in like the complexities of life and like okay that's why he's a man after God's a heart which is so encouraging because it's like might not all pan out perfect probably won't but like how is your heart responding to life yeah towards God so I love that my three favorite books I wrote down are the God smuggler it's my favorite book that's good that's a memoir it is the coolest book ever yes it is um I was like like truly on the edge of my seat the whole time. And I listen to all my books. I don't really read the papers, I have to say,

because that's just not how I learned the best. That's right. But I listened, and I was like, could not get enough of it. And I remember after I read that, I was like, I'm going to listen to this book every single year. And I haven't. But I need to because it was like such good perspective on what it really looks like to really believe the Bible.

Like, do you believe it enough to like take out of his word and like want to give the word? And the way him and his wife believed so much, like, they sold their house just to have enough money to get more Bibles to print. Like, that's wild. Yeah. And you know, it's so crazy. I was listening to the hiding place recently. And was it, wait, was it the hiding place?

Wait, Coritaine Boone. Yeah, it was. And in her introduction, she talks about meeting brother Andrew, who was the god smuggler. Really? Like, she heard him speak or something. Wow. And he had like a significant, I think he helped her get her book published. It was some connection like that.

I was like, that's crazy. I never knew that. The hiding place. If that's not on my list, I'm going to add that to it because that's one of the hiding place. Yeah. That's such a good one. Which I'm glad I said that because I need to circle back. I don't think I finished it.

I've read it before, but I was rereading it. My other two favorites are actually fiction books, which is funny because I'm not really a fiction person, but they're like fiction based off of truth. um becoming mrs lewis i love that book i was going to bring up c s louis in this conversation because anything by c s louis really but that one's not written by him that's about their story his life story and her him falling in love with his wife yes and it's like it's kind of like historical fiction based off of truth because they have like so many of their letters they wrote to each other and so they use their letters in the book and then they like fill in the gaps for what was maybe

they were thinking or being said in the middle of their letter writing It's just so sweet, and I loved it so much. And then redeeming love, that book just got me. I actually did read that paper, and I could not put that book down. I was like at Christian's Family's House, and I was towards the end of it, and I never can do this. But for some reason, I could be in the middle of everyone in the living room, and I would just be reading that book and, like, tears. I was, like, lost in that book. It was just so beautifully written and powerful.

another really, really hard story with serious content, but very beautiful. Yeah, that's so good. You have any more on your top faves that you want to share? Well, I was thinking about C.S. Lewis, and I was going to say, bring up mere Christianity. I think that's a really important book for everybody to read. C.S. Lewis is so, I think a lot of his stuff is so valuable because he came from this perspective. He didn't have any belief in God, and he came to his faith later in life. And he, so he comes, I love to read from, or like, learn from people like that because it just comes from such a different perspective.

I grew up having parents of faith. And so it's kind of just what always was for me. So whenever you come to it from a whole different, like, to where you had no belief to this, you see things differently. And I just love how he writes about that, about God and about faith and mere Christianity, I think, is a really important one. That's one of my favorites. It's good. I was thinking about two that impacted me. um not that long ago so during kind of like the duck dynasty time periods one was loved us

you know bob goff sent us his book and he sent it to us um kind of at the height of dick dynasty everything was happening it was crazy and um we got it in the mail and i opened it and read it and john luke read it and we both were just so impacted by it and we were like everybody has to read this book and just that life of like saying like i'm not going to just talk about love of my neighbor but I'm really going to love my neighbor. And the way Bob wrote, each chapter starts with like, I used to think this, but now I know this. It's kind of this like humility of like, I used to, I used to think this was the way,

but now I've come to learn or whatever. And I just love the way he approached things and just told. And he has had a life of really, you know, putting love into action. So that one. And I read these two kind of together. Don Miller's A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. I think that's the way it goes, something like that. It's always get those confused.

Like, it's a thousand miles. Anyway, I think it's a million miles in a thousand years. But the beginning of his book, I'll never forget the very beginning. It starts off. It's like a good story is not a man works his whole life. And at the end of it, he has a white picket fence in a Volvo. It's kind of like, that doesn't make for a good story. So it also doesn't really make for a good life.

like your life is not about just like working for a thing like that like thing that you think might be materially valuable or whatever and he kind of talks about what makes a good life and tells a lot of his own life story and so I thought that was a really good one and I remember just that intro and being like okay I'm here for this you always talk about that intro you've said it before like even whenever um I've written books over the past few years you're like okay let's think about how he did that intro yeah what gripped me about that intro yes i need to read it i've actually never read that one great one um i was thinking about one of the most impactful books for me in leadership was daring no sorry dare to lead during greatly

was great too but dare to lead was really good for me um especially like stepping into leadership by a young age yeah that just gave me a lot of clarity and confidence and a lot of really good advice So Brunee Brown is a great writer. That was really good. Okay, what are you currently reading? Currently, well, you said Jordan Peterson. I've been reading when he wrestled with God. Ever since the beginning of this year, it's kind of like my morning.

You know. It's a long one, too. It's a long one. And I'm, you know, like 20 minutes in the morning reading. And it's really good because he's another one that didn't necessarily like always have faith. And so this is about the biblical truth. throughout the Bible. And so he starts in Genesis. And you just go through and he's talking about the biblical stories. And it opens you up to a whole new perspective. And the one that like you

might not have thought of before. And it's making me go back and kind of dive into those early, you know, early stories in the Bible, Abraham and Isaac and all of those early stories, Joseph. And look at them in a new way. Really cool. So this is so fun, like this whole story about why me and Christian are reading the book that we just started reading. But Ms. Tara, so she's been on the podcast for, and we actually talked about this a little bit when she was on. We did, like, a counseling session with her recently because she came in town and did the podcast. We're like, oh, let's meet with you while you're here.

She's been Christianized counselor since pre-marriage. Like, she did our premarital counseling. It always just been like a voice to go to, which is so cool because she's been with us for like, I guess, six years. now so she's just really tracked with us and uh she was like this is so crazy she was pulling out she always like grabs books that she feels like the lord leads her to to study before she talks to us like if she can give any advice or like point us anything and she like was going to tuck all her books book in and one was like sticking out with a little note and so she was like going to put it back and then she saw it was love and respect that book called love and respect who wrote it it was love and

respect and so she pulls it out she was like oh this is such a great one opens it and it was addressed to me and christian like she has no idea no memory she had at her house at her office and we never got it she was like i have no idea why i have this it was like to christian and sadie it was a note from him oh my goodness and wishing all the happiest marriage we never got it and this is five and a half years later she gives it to us and she was like i just feel like the lord like obviously put this on my like in my hands to give to y'all to read right now and so I just started that which is Dr. Emerson Egerick yes he and his wife they're the sweetest couple it's one of those like you want to follow and listen to people that you know yes that is showing in their life

like this is like I actually respect what you have to say because it's shown in your life and they are those people so I think that book is really cool really good one Willie and I read that years and years ago. That's cool. We just started it, so early into it, but even, like, the first piece of advice I've gotten, it was saying, like, you, I'm going to botched this. It's not exactly how he said it, but it's like, you can be right, but at the wrong tone. So basically, like, you're saying, what you're saying is right, but you're saying it was

such a rude tone that I can't receive it, so it's wrong. And I was like, that is really good advice because I can so see myself doing that. Like, I have something good to say, but I didn't say it their best way, so you didn't even hear it, you know? Um, so that one, um, okay, infidel, which is taking me forever. So slow, it's slow fade. And then I will say one that I tried to get into, but I just can't get into the Nightingale, which y'all love so much. I loved it. I know. I'm struggling. You just have to get back to it. Okay. Which I love all of those books. Nightingale is one from like World War II, um, era and era of the Holocaust, which is such a hard time period. I do love listening to. Oh. I didn't even talk about torture for Christ, too. I haven't read that one. I'm a favorite ever. Tattoists of Auschwitz is in that category, Nightingale.

Those are all so good. The Zookeeper's Wife from that time period. I've seen the movie. Beautiful. Yeah. Those are all really powerful books that are hard, you know, hard to read. And so it was such a terrible, terrible time in our world. But important for us to not forget.

Yeah. What did I just read? Hold on. Why am I not thinking of it? Oh my gosh. This was like the best book ever. This might be my favorite book ever. The happiest man on earth.

Oh, that's so good. That was so good. Did I give that to y'all? You did, but then I ended up listening to it. Okay, good. And that was incredible. Yeah, Mom gives us a book every Christmas. And it's like a book that impacted to you.

Try to do a book that impacted me like that year. Yeah. And that was one. That book got me. Oh, my gosh. It's such a good story. and highly recommend it. I was like, why can I not think of it?

But torture for Christ is, like, very impactful, really tough. I cried a lot during that one. Happy is my earth, very tough, but like, like, you're like, you feel like this is amazing. Meaning, there's meaning in life, you can do anything. There's any hope, you know, and just the will to live is wild through that whole story. And how he, like, even survives at the very end. I think they said whenever he was, like, captured, like caught by the, the Americans to kind of get back better.

He weighed like 83 pounds. Wow. Unbroken. Oh, yeah. That one is so powerful. There's a movie about it. And the movie's good, but not close to the book. You got to read the book, yes.

The book is so good. I love those just powerful stories of, you know, people who survive things that you think you can't, you think you could never live through. And you hear people live through that. And you realize, like, okay, we're actually a lot stronger than we think. So true. There's one called Where the Wind League. that I love.

I want to make into a movie someday if anybody hears this that's on my list. So like I want to make that into a movie. It's about this family that escapes from Vietnam during a very hard time

there and just what they survived is miraculous. Wow. That's so cool. Okay, so now let's get into TV shows, which I will say our books

are a lot more intentional than probably our TV shows. It's the will to live. It's the inspiration. It changes your life. And they were like TV shows, let me tell you about Friday Night Lights. That's one of my favorites. That's on my list.

That is so good. I remember specifically, remember this. I was in high school and we all started getting obsessed to Friday Night Lights. And Toomama got so obsessed with that show. That we were in New York. And I was sleeping, like we were sharing a room. And I woke up and Two Mama was under the sheets with her phone watching Friday Night Lights. I was like, oh my gosh.

We love that. I did. It was actually after I had my hysterectomy that I watched it. And I was like, after the surgeries. The surgery. When you go down, you don't have anything to do. I was obsessed. Yeah.

That was a good show. I thought that might have been my first, like, binge watch show because you can, we could not stop. I don't know. That was become a thing. To me, that was around the binge era. Yeah, probably said. High school, and maybe that's just high school, but it was like grazing out of me. And these shows are not shows I'm recommending.

I'm just saying this is what we watched. One Tree Hill drama. It was bad. I look back at that and I'm like, oh my gosh. If Honey was watching that in high school, I'd be like, no, ma'am. We all did. We've got a lot more serious about what we watch. Well, I think actually part of that was doing that Dynasty made a more sense

about we watched because we like saw the power of entertainment and how our show was shaping people, then you're like, oh, if like our show is impacting people in that way, How much is, like, entertainment impacting us in a negative way or in a way that with our values or whatever that we don't really want? So I think that actually made us a little bit more, like, discerning about the things that we watched in our house because we weren't super careful about that. And I think that there's a hard and balance. That is that it's just, you know, allowing freedom to learn and grow in those kind of things. It's not like hard and fast rules or whatever.

I think is, you know, that's how we always did it. Everybody's house is different, but we always kind of kept things loose. We didn't have like hard and fast rolls about, like, what you could watch or anything like that. We just tried to use wisdom and discern it as we grew. We changed. Which I think like that also goes to show, like sometimes, I mean, when you grow in your faith, the growing up in the relationship with the Lord, the Holy Spirit can convict you in ways that you didn't feel conviction before. Like, I didn't feel bad for watching Grace and Abby before.

and now I literally as an older adult could not watch it the way I watched it then because I actually feel like no I don't want to actually see that you know which is so crazy and I'm glad for that like yeah I don't shame myself or say oh I watch that I'm just like yeah I'm glad I grew in that you know and I am more picky on the shows that I watch but I do kind of have this hard balance with shows because I'm like or not even a balance it's more just like an annoyance with shows out there because I'm like I want to watch a funny show but funny shows oftentimes are not like very appropriate

and then I'll be like asking other friends who you know have like a stricter I don't know conviction when it comes to what they watch I'm like what are you watching and it's always like these cheese ball shows like that are not you know you're like this is just

not really entertaining so I just typically go for more things like Survivor a Shark Tank American Idol like real life things but family feud always and every night go to. But a couple shows that I loved, Crash Landing on You, my all-time favorite show,

because it was so clean, it was so good. It was really sweet. My mom said it is like a literal cheese tray. It's so cheesy. But I said it's not normal cheese. It's sharp cheddar. One time, Sadie was saying that it was not cheesy. I was like, it is no, it is a little cheese tray.

But it is clever. It's cheesy, but not like sweet magnolia cheesy, not like, you know. It's clever and funny and all those things, but it is cheesy. It is. Not Virgin River cheese. Virgin River's pretty cheesy, but I love Virgin River too. I do love Virgin River, but it got a little too dramatic. Like, the first season I loved.

And then it was like every bad thing. Like, if that person's getting into the car, they're having a wreck. If they get on a plane, it's crashing. If she's sick, she has cancer. It's never like. chill. It's always the worst-case scenario. It is true. I'm like, dang, does everything bad happen in this town?

Parenthood. I love parenthood. I feel like I want to watch that one again. That's probably my favorite ever. I remember watching the first episode and being like I don't know if I'm going to like this because the kids, the teenagers were like so mean to their mom in that very first episode and I was like I don't want to watch kids being like

disrespectful to their parents or whatever. I remember thinking that when I first watched it. But then I stuck with it and I loved I love parenthood so much it's so good you love all the people and then like the theme song it just gives you all the feels I need to rewatch that one yeah it's time too because I've forgotten yeah back on the train of things that we I don't know if we should recommend or not but it was such a good one Jane the Virgin I didn't like that one what I wanted to because y'all thought it was it's so hilarious it's so clever and so funny it was too much for me it was that was too much Oh, my gosh, I was obsessed with Jane the Virgin.

I loved it. We were, like, doing our little, what character are you on Jane the Virgin? You love Jane the Virgin. Bella and I were so obsessed with it. I know, y'all were. It was so good. And, of course, it got ridiculous. It got ridiculous.

It did get ridiculous. First seasons are, like, the best, typically, of those type of shows. I mean, a good show that keeps getting better. But it was meant to be ridiculous. Like, that's the point of it. Which now our new show is going to be out. So, you know, we'll have, you'll have the dynasty. to watch, you know, if you need a little stupidity, a little...

By the time I had this baby, the first season will be over. Oh, that's true. Yeah. Wow. It'll be just in time for... You can go with three bands. You can go with the stars. My fall shows.

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of an emotional commitment, but this is us. Oh, that was great. Fantastic show. Like, if you haven't watched this as us, you know, I never, I don't think I ever watched the very last season. I got a little annoyed with it at the end. During 2020, it got annoying. That was rough because there was so much heaviness going on in the world.

And instead of like, you know, just being a show you can go to and not think about the heaviness, they played into the heaviness. So they like went through COVID-2 and went through all the things on the show. So it was just, like, sad. Yeah. And I felt like, I felt like a lot of people tapped out there. Mm-hmm. It got really, really sad.

Yeah. And then it ended great. I don't think of that. I was a lot. Okay. Oh, my gosh. It was so good. But the beginning, like, that first season is probably one of the best.

It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. That first episode, I think I re-watched, like, three times with different people because I wanted to see at the end. You did. You had already watched it when you watched it with me.

Yes. The song, too, that always comes on. I love when. shows do that. Crash Landing on You does us and This Is Us. It has the same song, like the emotional moments. Yes. I love when shows do that.

I know. I try to do that for our show. Shout out Donna Stewart. She wrote us a song about our family that I tried to get. I keep trying to get like on our show. But there is a song that's in our show that. But that one was really good. I know it was.

Maybe next season. Yeah. We'll get it in. I am hoping to maybe restart parenthood because that was a really, really good one. I'm not in one right now that I'm like watching but Dad and I've kind of been into watching like some documentaries lately we watch me too

we watch the biggest little farm if you haven't seen that it's so good the Martha Stewart documentary oh that was good that was sad it was good it was me that was really sad because I felt really sad for her I actually started praying for her after saying that and I've had dreams I had a dream Martha Stewart, if she sees this, I kind of hope she doesn't.

She'll come on your podcast. I was a surprise. I had a dream. I sat beside her at an award show. Oh, cool. And we got into the best conversation. That's so cool. That's awesome.

I was like, Lord, let it be. We watched one about a cult recently that was like, ooh, it was good. I can't remember what it was, though. I can't remember. I know the name of it. You and Dad watch a lot of shows together. No, you know, that, okay, there is hope in your life. If you are a person that's married and you and your spouse does not have things that they watch together.

It's me right now. Give me hope. Okay. I'm trying to give you hope because, like, we did not. Like, Willie always, he watched all the sports and he watches, like, date line and stuff like that. And he doesn't really like, he doesn't get an American Idol or Survivor or some of those other shows. So we never really had like our shows until the last few years. It's been fun.

That's sweet. Maybe you should do both a lot of, like, Survivor in America. Yeah, y'all have some things. Like, series. Like he does not care to watch the good place with me He watched Virgin River with you He loved Virgin River, but that was after I had Haven So it was like he was with him

Yeah, yeah But then hold out hope someday there might be things And then I don't really like his shows Like they're too like intense Oh we just watched House of David Yeah If you haven't watched that I definitely go watch that

I'm going to watch House of David Maybe that will be my show House of David That is a good one Okay what about movies All Time favorite movies What movie just struck you? Favorite movies?

Okay, I actually have a list of this from, I made this a long time ago. Let me look at my notes in my phone when I made this. When I made my favorite movies list, it was probably so long ago, there's no telling what I said. You know what? I wish your notes and your phone wouldn't, like, update to the date that you changed it. I know, I hate that. I kept it when you wrote it from the first place.

Really because of that? Yeah, I was going to look and tell you when I actually made this list. It was a long time ago. Oh, mine is way outdated. Oh, this is 2016. I'm like, when did I like this? This is when I graduated at high school, no wonder. What did you like?

What was your favorite movie then? This is the most random list. My list is super random, too. Tell me. Okay. I wrote The Blind Side, which I still love the Blind Side. It's a great movie. The help, still love the help.

Okay, it's about to go a little bit random up in here. Mama Mia, that's pretty good. Went in Rome, so random. That was a good movie, that was a long time. That was my favorite movie. good, like not worthy to you. I'm like that one. The intern, that is a great movie. Oh, yeah, and Hathaway. Yeah, that was good. Uh-huh. Hot Pursuit. You and I love that maybe together. I saw Reese Witherspoon in that movie and thought I could have been her. Like, that

character she played, I could play that character. That was so funny. I still quote that actually often, things she said. That was a great one. Okay, Prince's Diaries because I have preached on so many times. I wrote Ramona and Beezes, which I don't even remember now. Yeah. That's a good movie. I know, but I don't even like...

Yes, and I wrote her as someone I love being in movies. I wrote like some of my favorite actresses. And I said my favorite motherly figures in movies, Sandra Bullock and Jennifer Garner. I was like very specific. My favorite actress is Emma Stone and Reese Wetherspoon, comedians, Melissa McCarthy. I was like, I don't know how I got on this kick.

But my current favorite movie, movie is Top Gun 1 and 2. Oh, yeah. Those are great. Those are so good. Yes. Those are just power house. Great movies.

Those are great. That's so funny. Okay, my list is hilarious, too. Like, I obviously write this when y'all were kids because it's all kids' movies. Right. That's my favorite movies. Y'all know how August feels. You know, some are technically still here, but the calendar is already jam-pat.

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and great movie. I love that. Nanny McPhee. I love Nany McPhee. This is like kids movies. Percy Jackson. Remember that very first Percy Jackson? That was so good. That was really good. This is all kids ones. And then I had Aristocats and Robin Hood. Those are like... I cannot get the girls to like Aristocats. I know. I think it's because the cartoon is so old. It's so different. But they love like Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, but the Aristocrat is a little bit too. It was such a cute one. Okay. And then I love the new Cinderella. The live action Cinderella? Because it says strong and kind. It does. Yeah, it's something like strong and kind. It's almost the same thing. Yeah. Take courage and be kind. Something like that. Something like that. Have courage and be kind. Have courage and be kind. Yeah. That's it. That was so good. A more adult one that I liked about love was that maybe about time. Oh, yeah. That's good. It's really good movie. It has a great message. Really. I love that movie. There's a quote from that. movie that I love that I can't remember at the moment but there is a quote from that movie that's

so good um oh brother were art thou hilarious I remember whenever dad and I watched that movie for the first time that was one we went back to the theater because we wanted other people to see it because we thought it was so good and we loved it yes we love the soundtrack we listen soundtrack we love that movie um is that where I went down to the river to the river to pray we'd seen that all the time so good okay favorite very comedy. Besides over the world, that was a comedy too,

kind of. But dumb and dumber. Dumb and Dumber was our family movie. We loved Dumb and Dumber. That was so funny. Series movies, Zookeeper's wife

and Goodwill Hunting. Those are both. Oh, my gosh. Goodwill hunting is rough the language, but one of the best ways ever. Really great movie. Oh, and then this is back to kids

maybe was Babe. Oh, babe. Babe. So, sweet, I love that. So this is, like, super random. It's like kids, obviously, I wrote it a long time ago. Well, my favorite movie, if we were talking about right now, it would be like Moana. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, but I did love Top Gun 1 and 2 because it was like core memory. We, when Top Gun 2 was coming out, that was like right when everyone was like starting to get out more after the pandemic. And I had never seen Top Gun 1. So me and Christian watched it. And then we went to the theater to see Top Gun 2.

And it was packed here. and then everyone like clapped at the end it was like nostalgia I feel like yeah when Tufton 2 came out that was just such the perfect time everyone needed like feel good movie

they needed to go to the theaters and that was some of the best movie theater moments also Spider-Man 3 or something came out and it was like homecoming when all the Spider-Man and that was right out to the pandemic

and everyone was like I love that movie I like all the Marvel movies too like I love all of those as Will and I always, I love to get to those. You know, okay, also the Mr. Rogers, the one that was the kind of documentary, the documentary one, I remember that was really powerful. After it was over, like, we were all, like, just crying in the theater and didn't want to get up. It was so good.

I actually went back to that and took a notebook. Yeah. And, like, actually, like, made notes. And then I bought the Mr. Rogers Effect book. Like, I was all in. I was like, I'm totally all in. whenever the Infinity Wars

the Marvel one came out was Infinity Wars Endgame I can't remember I think it was end game and me and Christian went to like the midnight premiere and it was so funny

because we were running late and we had bought our tickets while of course someone took our seats and they were like good oh shoot so then we got stuck on the front row

so we're like front row midnight premiere and it was so funny ended up being like the best blessing of this guys because we had the funniest guys behind us Gomorra comes out, she's green.

And someone's like, dang, Gomorrah looking good. And we, like, still talk about that. That's so funny. So I would always take Will to the midnight showing. Like, and John Luke, you know, John Luke and Will, we'd always go to the midnight showing the night before or whatever. And I remember whenever they got old enough to, like, drive themselves.

And I didn't have to take them to the midnight showing. I remember being like, okay, this is like, I'm okay with this as a mom. It's kind of sad because it was so. was like special I got to do that with them and I mean they still obviously let me go with them but it was like they don't need me to take them to the movie anymore it's like that ride of passage like in the day it was weird how like midnight premieres I would never forget like when twilight era was happening oh twilight we love twilight would be down the like outside it would that's true I remember one direction too when the one direction um I don't know what his

documentary came out it was like crazy movie or something packed. I don't remember seeing that one. I remember the Justin Bieber one. It was just packed. These are so fun. I loved all those like Twilight, Divergent, Hunger Games, that whole little grouping. One thing I've never seen is I've never seen the Lord of the Rings. I've never seen the Harry Potter's. I've only seen certain Star Wars and every time I always tell Christian like, should we watch Lord of the Rings? He's like, no. Like should we watch, I want to see him. I have to confess this about Lord of the Rings. Like, I want to love it, but I go to sleep in it every time.

Like, I've never made it through. I know, but something, but like those are ones that are like, John Luke loves all those things in the fantasy realm, and I've tried to read, like, I love the Harry Potter movies, and I read those books, but like J.R. Tolkien is like on the realm of CS Lewis. They were friends, so like I want to love his writing too, but I just, I just can't get into it. I start to read them and then I don't get them.

That's like John Luke recommends all these. fantasy books to me. And I'm like, I have such a hard time because I already have a hard time with words. And these are made up words. His fantasy books are like so long. I imagine. There's nothing to imagine in my head. There's one. Oh, I'll tell you when you should do that. This is like intro into fantasy world that you will love. It's short. It's so good. John Luke gave it to me. It's called The Slow Regard for Silent Things. Actually, having on my list is one of my favorite books. Really? It is just really just different and it's beautiful. And I think you will love Okay. I'm going to do it. If it's short, I can do it.

Short. It's short. Okay. It's like an odd book, but. Well, Joliet doesn't recommend very normal things. Yes, true. If it's a journal recommendation, it might be a little odd, and that's okay. This is so, like, fun. I love hearing all of the recommendations. Well, try to make a little list for y'all at some point, or maybe AI can do that for us?

Yeah. Can you make a little list? Can you make this into a PDF for our listeners to download? but I hope this gave you some inspo for some fall shows to watch or some books to read, some movies to watch. As we kind of said, some of them are not recommendations. It might need a messy conversation about what we watch. I know. I mean, we've kind of talked about that a lot

because I'm like, I am actually very careful with what I watch because we do believe entertainment not only has the power to shape us, it does shape us. It is shaping us. And so always, you know approach what you watch with intentionality always approach what you read with intentionality even like mom said um angeles ashes is a great book and it's something i want to read but at the time it was making me feel like anxiety because of the just state i was in and so i think that you

whether it's even a good book or a good meaning book or a good meaning show uh you do need to be intentional with where your spirit's at and that's always something to do with wisdom and guidance and, you know, everyone's going to fall under a little bit different boundary lines, and that's okay, respect people for where they're at and let them be where they're at. I remember whenever all my best friends were watching a show and I decided to tap out, and I was like, I hate that because I want to be in, like, the conversation. But it's always worth it to go in peace and live in peace. And so I hope this gave you some good recommendations to fill in some of that free time in your life.

Oh, yeah.