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 1

Here'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 3

Thanks 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 2

Okay, absolutely. What are you most?

Speaker 3

looking forward to. Oh goodness, there's so much I know there is so much.

Speaker 1

We 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 3

I know what you're talking about, yep.

Speaker 1

So 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 3

Europe. You've already started packing, haven't you?

Accidental Daily Routines

Speaker 1

Yeah, 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 3

They'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 1

I'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 3

Says it the same way, the same way.

Speaker 1

Every 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 3

And you will do it every day and so.

Speaker 1

I looked at him expectantly.

Speaker 2

Yeah.

Speaker 1

And 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 3

For 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 3

Much 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 1

That's a sweet one.

Speaker 3

Yeah, that's ours.

Speaker 1

So 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 3

Yeah, because still newlyweds here, what? Six months in Almost seven?

Speaker 1

Yes, okay, you knew that faster than I did, Thank you. Josh.

Speaker 6

Sure.

Speaker 1

And 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 5

Yeah.

Speaker 1

And 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 2

I know.

Speaker 1

I 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 5

Oh, oh, and so.

Speaker 1

I'm looking at him, I'm glaring at him.

Speaker 4

How dare he Uh huh.

Speaker 5

Like so upset.

Speaker 1

And 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 2

I 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 1

Sprinkles included, I know, so I had to take my foot out of my mouth in that moment.

Speaker 3

Did 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 1

Nobody 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 7

Rhonda, 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 1

Rhonda, 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 2

Yeah.

Speaker 1

Oh, 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 3

Well 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 3

I 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 1

look 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 3

Yeah.

Speaker 2

What 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 1

And 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 3

No, I don't know that you should I don't know when did this rule become a

Speaker 1

thing, no, no peeping at the dinner table and we're joined by producer Mike as well.

Speaker 3

Growing up, mike, what was a rule an oddly specific rule you guys had in your house for you and your sister?

Speaker 6

So 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 1

Yeah, 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 5

lady, you've always been an old lady.

Speaker 2

What is this? It's the middle of the night, don't bury the lead.

Speaker 3

His 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 1

No beeping at the dinner table.

Speaker 3

And you can figure out what that meant.

Speaker 7

That was for Hannah's family growing up.

Speaker 3

What 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 1

On guard.

Speaker 3

If 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 1

Is that like a vitamin C thing? I'm trying to remember what's in that one.

Speaker 3

No, there's. No, it doesn't smell citrusy at all. My wife is the genius, I just am like okay.

Speaker 1

Do they actually follow through? Do they do it?

Speaker 3

most nights, the person who forgets the most. Hi Ooh guilty.

Speaker 1

Yeah, guilty as charged and so she'll come in.

Speaker 3

She'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 4

growing 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 1

Oh my goodness, wow that was some strict rules there.

Speaker 4

Yeah, 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 3

Your oddly specific rules caused you to learn long division and how to read a clock.

Speaker 4

Absolutely, 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 3

Always with the latest of what's happening. Oh, do we? In case you're first listening to the show, that is farce.

Speaker 4

We are not announcing news.

Speaker 3

But 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 1

so they're making like brussels sprouts sound fun.

Speaker 3

Yeah, 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 1

It's a carrot.

Speaker 2

That's right.

Speaker 3

Wouldn't you want to?

Speaker 1

eat nature's lightning bolt Okay.

Speaker 3

Wow. 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 3

So 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 1

Yeah, 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 3

You're one of those people in the coffee shop with a Bible.

Speaker 1

Yeah.

Speaker 3

Absolutely so good. That's a great way to share. You're a morning DJ on the river.

Speaker 3

Christian 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 2

First 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 3

So what is yours?

Speaker 6

call or text 800-609-1049 talita texted in and said I turn amen moments into content. You can double tap.

Speaker 3

Double tap, that's social media.

Speaker 1

At a church Because she said amen moments.

Speaker 2

Okay, Mike Producer.

Speaker 3

Mike, 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 2

Good job. Two, three, two, let's go Rock and roll. I love it.

Speaker 3

You're two for two, I'm one for two.

Speaker 1

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not a competition, it's a competition.

Speaker 3

Yeah, 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 7

I help people who don't want other people's help.

Speaker 1

Ooh.

Speaker 4

Wow.

Speaker 1

Help people who don't want other people's help.

Speaker 3

Want other people's help. You're an extrovert.

Speaker 4

Yeah.

Speaker 7

Well, that's true, I am, but no, that's not the answer.

Speaker 1

Were you a therapist.

Speaker 7

No, okay.

Speaker 6

No no.

Speaker 3

I 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 4

I worked at Walmart. I was a self-checkout, that's amazing.

Speaker 7

They 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 3

They didn't want you. Oh, it's amazing.

Speaker 1

It's great because it's on the nose, but we just were on a whole different face.

Speaker 3

I'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 1

How can living by godly?

Speaker 3

wisdom affect those around you.

Speaker 1

I think it's contagious. I think that when they see that positive influence, of that wisdom. They say something's different about you.

Speaker 5

Yeah good.

Speaker 1

And they ask questions. Yeah, there you go and hopefully it then, you know, pours over into their lives.

Speaker 3

That'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 5

It's.

Speaker 3

Jesus 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 3

Bingo, 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 2

That wasn't. That wasn't on my bingo.

Speaker 3

Yeah, you remember this, yeah it wasn't on my bingo card.

Speaker 3

I 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 1

He looked me up and he came up to me and he said is your wife, jennifer?

Speaker 3

Yes, 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 7

Bingo.

Speaker 3

What 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 6

I'm young. I'm 24 years old, but you'd think I'd have gotten past the child lock stage Right.

Speaker 2

Yeah, I can't wait, but you'd think I'd have gotten past the child lock stage right.

Speaker 6

Yeah, 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 3

Oh, no so each time that the car stopped, my mom had to come and open the door.

Speaker 6

So I was like I just got to embrace this and pretend like I'm being chauffeured around by my mom.

Speaker 3

Did 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 1

Well, 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 1

my 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 3

Facebook group See the picture she's hiding.

Speaker 1

I'm hiding behind the stand. I usually come out and give people a hug. I'm sorry. I'm standing behind this sign.

Speaker 3

It was very interesting to see you almost acting like an introvert.

Speaker 2

He 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 7

Call 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 3

Good times Come on.

Speaker 5

How old are you?

Signs You're Getting Older

Speaker 3

I'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 1

Oh no. What is it today?

Speaker 3

The 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 1

Turn that infernal music down? What's that racket?

Speaker 3

they 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 1

Josh, it was me. I was that guy. You were at a stadium.

Speaker 3

Yeah.

Speaker 1

It was a sporting event. Of course they're going to be blasting loud music.

Speaker 2

Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1

You weren't in the library.

Speaker 3

I didn't like it. It got worse when I realized I was on their lawn, so I couldn't say anything.

Speaker 2

It was me getting off of theirs.

Speaker 3

Oh, 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 5

800-609-1049 how old are you?

Speaker 3

I'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 1

You were in a stadium.

Speaker 3

I know.

Speaker 1

There's going to be loud music.

Speaker 3

It was even an outdoor thing, yeah, still. So, hannah, you're next.

Speaker 1

I 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 3

I like hit a nerve or something. I watched you freeze. I'm like uh-oh, I couldn't turn left.

Speaker 1

My neck couldn't look the other way, and I've had that before, but they were rare Now they're becoming more frequent.

Speaker 2

You seem pretty fluid today. Are you moving?

Speaker 1

around.

Speaker 3

I'm fine right now.

Speaker 1

But now I'm scared to do one of those big stretches.

Speaker 3

I've been scarred. Steve, how did you know you were getting old?

Speaker 5

Back 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 3

You'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 2

So I.

Speaker 3

I am staring at the phone right now, through progressive lenses, so I feel your pain.

Speaker 2

Hey, you're invited to listen to the recording of this podcast live. How, where it's simple, you can share every weekday morning with Josh and Hannah on 104.9 the River in Columbus, ohio, or online at RiverRadiocom.

Speaker 3

It was a journey, but we've made it together. Thanks for listening to this episode of the River Morning Show weekly podcast.

Speaker 1

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Speaker 2

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Speaker 3

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Speaker 1

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