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The River Morning Show Weekly Podcast
The River Morning Show Weekly Podcast | EP 138 | SEP 13 2025
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We explore the unplanned routines we've created in our lives and the oddly specific family rules that shaped our childhoods, plus share embarrassing moments that weren't on our bingo cards this week.
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Europe Trip Excitement
Speaker 1Here's what to expect on this week's episode of the River Morning Show Weekly Podcast. My foundation spilled all over the front of my white pants, so we're standing at this booth and the entire time I'm hiding behind our chaplain sign. You need prayer, well, I need prayer that you don't see that I have a brown stain all over my pants.
Speaker 3Thanks for pressing play on this podcast. You can find all the episodes and more podcasts at RiverRadiocom. Obviously, click the podcast link. Hannah, you are now, as of this recording, just about a week away from launching yourself eastward to Europe. Yes, all right, I'm so excited. You are a planner. Do you have every moment of this two week trip planned, down to the second?
Speaker 2Okay, absolutely. What are you most?
Speaker 3looking forward to. Oh goodness, there's so much I know there is so much.
Speaker 1We are taking multiple vehicle types into the Alps. So, one full day. We'll take a gondola, a ski lift type thing, then you take a boat across the water. I don't even remember what they called it, but it's basically like a mini train cabbie up the side of the hillside.
Speaker 3I know what you're talking about, yep.
Speaker 1So I think just seeing the Alps from that perspective and getting to ride these really cool vehicles that I never would get here in the States, I'm just pumped to see it and to take in God's beauty and to be in.
Speaker 3Europe. You've already started packing, haven't you?
Accidental Daily Routines
Speaker 1Yeah, actually I have. Yes, You've been doing the same thing every day without even thinking about it, like always grabbing the same mug for coffee or taking the long way home, just because, and suddenly it's officially a part of your routine. What is that thing? That routine? You didn't mean to create Some people.
Speaker 3They'll be like I'm going to change this and that's going to be the daily. That's an on purpose routine You're talking about. You just woke up people. They'll be like I'm going to change this and that's going to be the daily. Sure, that's an on purpose routine You're talking about. You just woke up one day and you're like I haven't changed this in five months.
Speaker 1I've been doing this for the past 12 years type thing. Call or text to share 800-609-1049. This is on my mind because the other day I realized a routine my husband and I created without even realizing it. So every evening he'll be out like working on the yard or working on the house in some way it's a project, and so I'll make dinner and whenever I'm done I'll yell to him or go to him and say, hey, dinner's ready. And he always looks up and says the exact same thing Supper. Every time Supper.
Speaker 3Says it the same way, the same way.
Speaker 1Every single time. And then he comes, you know, walking into the kitchen and I have a plate ready for him. And I noticed, because he didn't say it one day. Oh, Otherwise I don't think it would have triggered my brain to be like, oh, we've been doing this every single day.
Speaker 3And you will do it every day and so.
Speaker 1I looked at him expectantly.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And I was like, go on, he goes. What I was like, do it Light bulb moment he goes, suffer. But it was a routine we didn't mean to create. Josh, what is that for you?
Speaker 3For us this was. My wife started it and I don't remember where. But we're a family who always says I love you. We have no problem saying that in front of people, to our family, even to our friends at times, but it has become the phrase we say upon leaving, Even in texts much love.
Speaker 3Much love it just just covers everything that's cute, and so I noticed that it became a thing when our kids started saying oh, my daughter in particular, she will just you know, she'll come in late at night just to let us know she's home and then she'll be walking towards the bedroom door. Much love it's just what she said on the way out, so we didn't intend it, but I love it.
Speaker 1That's a sweet one.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's ours.
Speaker 1So what's that family routine? What's that routine for you that you didn't mean to create? But now you can't go a day without it. Call or text to share 800-609-1049. You start doing something once, then twice, and before you know it it's just what you do now. Congratulations, you accidentally created a whole new routine. What is that routine? You didn't mean to create? You can call or text to share 800-609-1049. My husband and I have started noticing the routines that we've kind of stumbled into since getting married.
Speaker 3Yeah, because still newlyweds here, what? Six months in Almost seven?
Speaker 1Yes, okay, you knew that faster than I did, Thank you. Josh.
Speaker 6Sure.
Speaker 1And one that I almost got not almost, I got really mad about was every single night, chris will make me a Greek yogurt bowl.
Speaker 5Yeah.
Speaker 1And he'll put fruit. And then my favorite thing is he puts colorful sprinkles on top, he puts sprinkles on your yogurt To balance. You know it's like healthy and fun Okay.
Speaker 2I know.
Speaker 1I know, but one day I was like cleaning one of the rooms and he was sitting on the couch eating his yogurt bowl and I walked past and I was distraught. I was so mad because he's sitting there eating his yogurt bowl and he didn't make me one.
Speaker 5Oh, oh, and so.
Speaker 1I'm looking at him, I'm glaring at him.
Speaker 4How dare he Uh huh.
Speaker 5Like so upset.
Speaker 1And he goes will you grab me a water out of the fridge? I'm like the audacity of this man. He doesn't make me a yogurt bowl. He I'm like the audacity of this man. He doesn't make me a yogurt bowl. He's asking for a water out of the fridge.
Speaker 2I go open it and there's the Greek yogurt bowl. Oh, he did it and he sent you to find it. Oh, what a guy.
Speaker 1Sprinkles included, I know, so I had to take my foot out of my mouth in that moment.
Speaker 3Did he know you were upset and did you have to apologize? Oh yeah, I was glaring at him. Okay, great, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sure he picked up on that.
Speaker 1Nobody has to question the emotions I'm feeling at any time, that's a good point actually. But you can call and share. What's that routine you stumbled into? You didn't even mean to make it Call or text 800-609-1049.
Speaker 7Rhonda, what's that for you? So it's kind of funny. But ever since my fiance and I have been dating, whenever we kiss we always kiss three times, like three quick smooches. Yes, and it's just become a strange thing that we've done. And somebody commented on it one day and she goes I hope you guys never stop doing that. Yeah, and I don't even think we realized that we were doing it. But it's one of those things where if we go to kiss each other and we don't huge three times, I'm like no, you didn't do it right.
Speaker 1Rhonda, I love this because you're not alone. My husband and I do the same thing Really. Yes, because it'll be like if, if I go to leave and I go to kiss him goodbye, if it's not three times, it's like are you mad at me?
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Oh, no Right, that's hilarious. I never even would have thought about it. But also, I'm so glad we're not the only ones.
Family's Oddly Specific Rules
Speaker 3Well geez, I like the idea of this. I'm going to introduce to my wife the idea of three kisses for one. I'm in. I'm going to introduce to my wife the idea of three kisses for one I'm in. There's a word from our teenage years that strikes fear into our hearts or makes us roll our eyes. Oh, boy, or both. It's the word curfew. Oh.
Speaker 3I mean, but we get it right, like even as kids, we got it Like. The whole concept is pretty understandable. Right now, I have a 20-year, 20 year old and I've got three teenage boys, and so curfew is a thing we talk about and a thing we enforce. Beyond that, though, it seems like each family growing up, we have a certain set, or maybe maybe just one really oddly specific rule to just our family. Yeah, and Hannah, as you have talked about your family and your upbringing, I am very interested to hear where your mind goes before you share, as you're listening to this and you're thinking of that oddly specific rule that you had growing up or that you've set up for your kids. Now call or text it in 800-609-1049, hannah, what's yours and what's that?
Speaker 1look on your face because it just came immediately to mind, immediately, yes, here, uh. So I think I've shared before that we had a very specific way to talk about um, passing gas, tootsies, tootsies.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2What did you call it? We called them beeps. That's what a car does. It's a beep, it's a beep, it's not a beep.
Speaker 1And so an oddly specific rule for our family was there was no beeping at the dinner table. What happened if you did no beeping? Oh, you got kicked out. I mean, you got got. Yeah, you were scolded. But I just can't remember if this was a preventative measure or a solution to a problem. You know, that's what I'm not sure of. Wow, I need to text my dad.
Speaker 3No, I don't know that you should I don't know when did this rule become a
Speaker 1thing, no, no peeping at the dinner table and we're joined by producer Mike as well.
Speaker 3Growing up, mike, what was a rule an oddly specific rule you guys had in your house for you and your sister?
Speaker 6So when I was growing up, my parents, they waited a long time before they let me have a cell phone. Smart I was 15, 16, something like that. So the rule with me getting this new phone was that I couldn't have it in my room past 10, 15 every night, so I had a phone curfew where I had to put my phone out in the hallway every night to charge. I think that's wise.
Speaker 1Yeah, but I also question you were up till 10, 15?. Oh yeah, I went to bed so early Still do? You're an old?
Speaker 5lady, you've always been an old lady.
Speaker 2What is this? It's the middle of the night, don't bury the lead.
Speaker 3His phone had a curfew which I think is kind of amazing. Call or text with your oddly specific rule growing up, or that you've got for your kids now 800-609-1049. From a curfew for your phone, that's what producer Mike had growing up to no beeping at the table.
Speaker 1No beeping at the dinner table.
Speaker 3And you can figure out what that meant.
Speaker 7That was for Hannah's family growing up.
Speaker 3What was the oddly specific rule in your house growing up, or maybe one that you have right now? My wife and I, we have a rule for our kids that we used to do when they were younger. Now they have to do themselves, and it's simply on guard, on guard.
Speaker 1On guard.
Speaker 3If you are not in the world of essential oils you don't know what on guard is. But if you are a doTERRA person you are well aware. It is an essential oil blend. It's supposed to help with health and those kinds of things and I will say we're a pretty healthy family. You got to dab a little on your finger. Put it on the back of your neck before you go to bed every night. That's a rule.
Speaker 1Is that like a vitamin C thing? I'm trying to remember what's in that one.
Speaker 3No, there's. No, it doesn't smell citrusy at all. My wife is the genius, I just am like okay.
Speaker 1Do they actually follow through? Do they do it?
Speaker 3most nights, the person who forgets the most. Hi Ooh guilty.
Speaker 1Yeah, guilty as charged and so she'll come in.
Speaker 3She'll ask me did you on guard? I'm like no. And I'm sure she's got to be like every night man. But then she'll come in, she'll put some on my neck and it's kind of I get a neck rub out of it so maybe subconsciously. That's why I'm forgetting all about it. Yeah, share yours an oddly specific rule you had growing up, or one you have now for your kids 800-609-1049. Jody, what was yours, what's your story?
Speaker 4growing up, we were always taught to work and earn what we what we got, and dad always said that we had to pay a percentage of what we made for rent. Oh, wow. Right. So at 18, I'm paying $50 a month for rent. But here's the kicker If I wasn't home by midnight, the door got locked and I'd sleep in my car.
Speaker 1Oh my goodness, wow that was some strict rules there.
Speaker 4Yeah, so I come home and it was two minutes after midnight, dad's standing on the other side of the door and he locked it and he said sorry, I had to sleep in my 1974 Gremlin. It was cold outside.
Speaker 3Your oddly specific rules caused you to learn long division and how to read a clock.
Speaker 4Absolutely, it was amazing. But yeah, he was a blessing for sure. God has been wonderful for me, so yeah, here at the show we have a nose for news.
Speaker 3Always with the latest of what's happening. Oh, do we? In case you're first listening to the show, that is farce.
Speaker 4We are not announcing news.
Speaker 3But an experiment found this out the number of people willing to eat vegetables goes way up if the vegetables are described in an interesting and exciting way no, doesn't that make sense?
Speaker 1so they're making like brussels sprouts sound fun.
Speaker 3Yeah, like with the way they've been prepared or whatever, so I I went to chat GPT and I was like, well, what's an exciting way to see if you can figure out what vegetable this is Nature's orange lightning bolt Crisp, sweet, earthy and bursting with snap. The second you bite in it has to be a carrot.
Speaker 1It's a carrot.
Speaker 2That's right.
Speaker 3Wouldn't you want to?
Speaker 1eat nature's lightning bolt Okay.
Speaker 3Wow. So let's turn it to you and me, and you, as you are listening, describe what you do in an exciting way we're gonna see if we can guess it we would love to see if we can figure out what you do when you describe it in the most positive, exciting way.
Speaker 3So call or text 800-609-1049, 800-609-1049. And so, for example, hannah, you've been working over there on this Uh-huh, yep. How would you describe what you do in an exciting way without giving it away? And obviously we all know what she does, so we're going kind of backwards here.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yeah, but this is the example. Okay, I start my day before the sun armed with coffee and stories. I get to make people laugh, share the hope of Jesus and have friends all around the state of Ohio, all without ever leaving my chair.
Speaker 3You're one of those people in the coffee shop with a Bible.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3Absolutely so good. That's a great way to share. You're a morning DJ on the river.
Speaker 3Christian music radio station. That's fantastic. It's your turn now. Call or text with an exciting explanation of what you do on a daily basis. We'll see if we can guess the career. 800-609-1049. Let's have some fun with this. 600-609-1049. Let's have some fun with this. I promise this is not scary, but I let people into other people's houses. What am I? And so someone texted. The show we're talking this morning about describe your job in an exciting way, and that's what somebody said. We'll try to figure out what it is. I let people into other people's houses.
Speaker 2First of all, I was like you're a jailbird because that's where you belong, but she's a realtor, hannah got it right, yay.
Speaker 3So what is yours?
Speaker 6call or text 800-609-1049 talita texted in and said I turn amen moments into content. You can double tap.
Speaker 3Double tap, that's social media.
Speaker 1At a church Because she said amen moments.
Speaker 2Okay, Mike Producer.
Speaker 3Mike, send that back, see if we're going to get that right. And remember you can call too, we can have that conversation 800-609-1049. You know what you guys got it Unbelievable.
Speaker 2Good job. Two, three, two, let's go Rock and roll. I love it.
Speaker 3You're two for two, I'm one for two.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not a competition, it's a competition.
Speaker 3Yeah, rocky, describe what you do or did because you're retired. So describe what you did in an exciting way. We'll see if we can guess it.
Speaker 7I help people who don't want other people's help.
Speaker 1Ooh.
Speaker 4Wow.
Speaker 1Help people who don't want other people's help.
Speaker 3Want other people's help. You're an extrovert.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 7Well, that's true, I am, but no, that's not the answer.
Speaker 1Were you a therapist.
Speaker 7No, okay.
Speaker 6No no.
Speaker 3I don't know man, I would have thought therapist as well, like a counselor or something. But if that's not it, Rocky, you're going to have to tell us what it is.
Speaker 4I worked at Walmart. I was a self-checkout, that's amazing.
Speaker 7They don't want to come with cash here, but I help them because it messes up and they need help because they're buying alcohol.
Speaker 3They didn't want you. Oh, it's amazing.
Speaker 1It's great because it's on the nose, but we just were on a whole different face.
Speaker 3I've got a question for you, hannah. This is one that I posed in the teens Sunday school class. We've been going over godly wisdom versus worldly wisdom, and so I want to get your answer before we get to the teen's answer. I'm kind of nervous. Okay, so how can living by godly wisdom affect those around you?
Speaker 1How can living by godly?
Speaker 3wisdom affect those around you.
Speaker 1I think it's contagious. I think that when they see that positive influence, of that wisdom. They say something's different about you.
Speaker 5Yeah good.
Speaker 1And they ask questions. Yeah, there you go and hopefully it then, you know, pours over into their lives.
Speaker 3That's exactly what I talked about. Nice, you know saying even in the Old Testament, you know, with King Solomon and Israel and all of these things, people wanted to know what's different about Israel, and it wasn't that Israel was great people. It's because their God is the only God. You know, and so everything that they were being blessed with had pointed to God, and so that that was an amazing thing. The same thing can happen to us, that, uh, that they do see the difference and we could say it's not, it's not me.
Speaker 5It's.
Speaker 3Jesus in me. Let me introduce you to him. So that's that's a great thing. The way that my 18 year old son drew answered it, though yeah, um. So again. Again, here's the question how can living a god, how can living by godly wisdom, affect those around you? He said after some thought he goes since and I'll try to say it like he said it since your life isn't cooked, you can help others lives not be cooked stop it, you know, somehow I think Gen Z is going to be just okay.
This Week's Unexpected Moments
Speaker 3Bingo, it's been a week. A few unexpected things likely have happened to you that bring back a fond memory, or maybe terrify you, so what? Wasn't on your bingo card this week. You can call or text 800-609-1049. Mine happened at the Waynene county fair while we were there I got facebook stalked.
Speaker 2That wasn't. That wasn't on my bingo.
Speaker 3Yeah, you remember this, yeah it wasn't on my bingo card.
Speaker 3I mentioned that we were going to the wayne county fair and my wife graduated in 1997 from triway which is a school district in wayne county and one of the first things when we were engaged or even dating, she told me the Wayne County fair is no joke, it's a place to be. Yeah, and I was like, ha ha, county fair. She said no, you don't understand. And she was right. So this guy was listening and he was like, well, I taught at triway in 1997.
Speaker 1He looked me up and he came up to me and he said is your wife, jennifer?
Speaker 3Yes, the sleuthing was sleuthing, so we took a picture together. I showed my wife. She was like ah, that's so funny, it was amazing. But I can't remember the last time I was Facebook stalked because typically, sir, people don't say so.
Speaker 7Bingo.
Speaker 3What wasn't on your bingo card this week that made you smile? Maybe something that made you a little disturbed? But it'll be a funny memory after you move away from the moment a little bit. Producer. Mike is here. Mike, what was not on your bingo card this week? So I know.
Speaker 6I'm young. I'm 24 years old, but you'd think I'd have gotten past the child lock stage Right.
Speaker 2Yeah, I can't wait, but you'd think I'd have gotten past the child lock stage right.
Speaker 6Yeah, I can't wait, go on. So my mom and sister came to visit me from back in Virginia and I was riding along in my mom's car. One of her doors just has a permanent child lock set on it and that's where I was sitting. The rest of the car was so full with stuff that I couldn't get out the other side.
Speaker 3Oh, no so each time that the car stopped, my mom had to come and open the door.
Speaker 6So I was like I just got to embrace this and pretend like I'm being chauffeured around by my mom.
Speaker 3Did she at least give you some crackers, like back in the day when you were in the car seat? Yes an apple. Bad Hannah, what was not on your bingo card? Oh, man.
Speaker 1Well, you and I were at the Wayne County Fair Amazing and loved meeting so many incredible people from the River family. What each one of those people did not know is that on my drive there, I was being super responsible and doing my makeup. I'm naturally tan.
Speaker 1my foundation spilled all over the front of my white pants yeah yeah, so we're standing at this booth and the entire time I'm hiding behind our chaplain sign. You need prayer? Well, I need prayer that you don't see that I have a brown stain, all over my pants, go to the River Morning Show.
Speaker 3Facebook group See the picture she's hiding.
Speaker 1I'm hiding behind the stand. I usually come out and give people a hug. I'm sorry. I'm standing behind this sign.
Speaker 3It was very interesting to see you almost acting like an introvert.
Speaker 2He was like this is my space. He was like don't look at me, don't come closer you can share what was not on your bingo card.
Speaker 7Call or text 800-609-1049 lisa, go ahead I happen to be super incredibly busy at work this week and losing power one and a half hours before it was time to leave, so we got to leave early, so that wasn't on my bingo card, that's never a bad thing Celebrate.
Speaker 3Good times Come on.
Speaker 5How old are you?
Signs You're Getting Older
Speaker 3I'm not telling. How did you know you were getting old Call or text to share? So this old man doesn't feel alone.
Speaker 1Oh no. What is it today?
Speaker 3The number to call or text is 800-609-1049 To share. When you realized you were getting old for me, we were minding our own business, hannah, okay, waiting for my son's soccer game to start. They're doing warm-ups and all this thing. I'm sitting with my family in the bleachers trying to have a conversation, but I could not hear myself think In my head no lie. These words shot through my brain.
Speaker 1Turn that infernal music down? What's that racket?
Speaker 3they were playing songs that were fine, but it was too loud. I couldn't understand what the artist was saying or singing and I literally was like can we just turn that off? Oh, my word, turn it off.
Speaker 1Josh, it was me. I was that guy. You were at a stadium.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1It was a sporting event. Of course they're going to be blasting loud music.
Speaker 2Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1You weren't in the library.
Speaker 3I didn't like it. It got worse when I realized I was on their lawn, so I couldn't say anything.
Speaker 2It was me getting off of theirs.
Speaker 3Oh, I'm on, so I couldn't say yeah, it was me getting off of there, so I'm so sorry. I was that guy shaking my fist at the speakers, dad gum, so how did you know you were getting old?
Speaker 5800-609-1049 how old are you?
Speaker 3I'm not telling I put myself out there. I'm hoping there'll be others to come along, because misery loves company. Found out. Found out when I was getting old, waiting for my son's soccer game to start and they were playing music over the loudspeakers and they were too loud. I couldn't hear myself, think I couldn't hear my wife talking to me, so I just quietly shook my fist and gave a disappointed look towards the press box Wow. Come on, you guys.
Speaker 1You were in a stadium.
Speaker 3I know.
Speaker 1There's going to be loud music.
Speaker 3It was even an outdoor thing, yeah, still. So, hannah, you're next.
Speaker 1I know Because I am getting old, Josh, and you witnessed it. You were here for it. The other day here in the studio, I went to do a big stretch. You know a big morning, big old stretch, yeah, and I got a zinger through my neck.
Speaker 3I like hit a nerve or something. I watched you freeze. I'm like uh-oh, I couldn't turn left.
Speaker 1My neck couldn't look the other way, and I've had that before, but they were rare Now they're becoming more frequent.
Speaker 2You seem pretty fluid today. Are you moving?
Speaker 1around.
Speaker 3I'm fine right now.
Speaker 1But now I'm scared to do one of those big stretches.
Speaker 3I've been scarred. Steve, how did you know you were getting old?
Speaker 5Back when I was 48, my brother and I were doing a car rally and we were driving along and I knew I was probably going to need reading glasses at some point because I was holding books farther and farther away. But as we were looking for the next turn on the rally route, I saw a sign coming up and my brother said that's it. And I couldn't even tell how many letters were on the sign yet, so I knew I was going to need bifocals at that point.
Speaker 3You're like that's what. That's fuzzy Like. All I see is hair. I am staring at the phone right now through progressive lenses.
Speaker 2So I.
Speaker 3I am staring at the phone right now, through progressive lenses, so I feel your pain.
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