The River Morning Show Weekly Podcast | EP 139 | SEP 20 2025

We have a friendly debate about watching football on TV versus experiencing it live in a stadium, and share our most embarrassing "autopilot brain fails" when our minds check out during routine activities.

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Transcript

Morning Show Introduction

Speaker 1 0:00

Here's what to expect on this week's episode of the River Morning Show. Weekly Podcast.

Speaker 2 0:04

This is the brief conversation my son and I had. I said, drew, you got a letter from Yale. Oh, I never got a letter from Yale. And he pipes up and says, well, did they send letters back? Then? I said, dude, I graduated in 1998, not 1798. Thanks for pressing play on this podcast. When you click the On Demand button at RiverRad river radiocom, you're going to find plenty more. So thanks for listening, and I have two words for you funko pop funko, pop those little toy things.

Speaker 1 0:35

Yes, okay what about them.

Speaker 2 0:37

I own one uh-huh, and this is the time of year I get to finally display it. It's snoopyopy laying on a jack-o'-lantern.

Speaker 1 0:47

Okay. Well, this is officially Josh's season. We're getting into fall. I'm so sorry Hannah's sad because she likes it to be 190 degrees on a beach somewhere I do 100%. Why do we have to say goodbye to it? Because fall means winter is coming, I know.

Speaker 2 1:05

No.

Speaker 1 1:07

No Josh.

Speaker 2 1:10

When we first met him, I didn't pick him as a guy who would be the pot stirrer. But I'd like to introduce you to producer Mike, who wants Hannah and I and you to fight.

Speaker 4 1:19

Would you rather?

Speaker 3 1:22

I feel like being a menace.

Speaker 1 1:23

All right, so here's the question.

Speaker 3 1:25

rather, I feel like being a menace. Alright. Here's the question Would you rather watch a football game on TV or in person?

Speaker 2 1:34

Oh, that's easy On TV.

Speaker 1 1:36

What Are you crazy?

Speaker 2 1:38

What are you crazy?

Speaker 1 1:40

You wouldn't rather be in the stadium? No?

Speaker 2 1:43

What? You don't get all the camera angles. You don't get the commentary telling you what in the world?

Speaker 1 1:49

is going on. You don't need to, you're just staring directly at it in person, but you know as well as I do all the replays.

Speaker 2 1:55

You don't hear even that a replay is going on until five minutes after, when the official is like we've been replaying this and it, you don't get all the fandom, the energy, the chicken fingers it's in the stadium. I have a family of six. That's all the fandom I need, and I can get chicken fingers from the frozen food section at Kroger. Not as good?

Speaker 1 2:13

No, it's not as good, unless you're in a thousands of people stadium with the hype and the towels and the chaos and Brutus, or even the Browns games, they're just as good even when they lose.

Speaker 2 2:28

Yeah, well, yeah, you of all people in this room hate cold weather and football's a cold weather sport.

Speaker 1 2:35

No, it's not cold right now. Not right now, but it's gonna be. I will go all the way through mid-November.

Speaker 2 2:40

And then you'll start watching them at home in the comfort under a blanket on your TV, but if I could choose, I would be at a warm weather football game. No, no no, you can't. Would you like to go to a warm, perfect weather game outside, or would you like to stay inside? That's not what he asked. Mike, is that what you asked?

Speaker 1 2:57

He asked if I'd rather go to the game or watch it on TV. I would rather be at the game.

Speaker 2 3:01

Is that what you asked, Mike? About weather Did you ask about?

Speaker 3 3:04

that. So that wasn't really in consideration.

Speaker 1 3:07

See Fair. I think, that that is a not even part of the factor.

Speaker 2 3:12

You just made it part of the factor.

Speaker 5 3:13

If I was sitting at home.

Speaker 1 3:15

would I rather be at the game? Yes, I will bundle up. I will even bundle up. I think it is so boring to sit at home. I end up reading on my phone at the same time.

Speaker 2 3:26

You can't do that at the game, can you?

Speaker 1 3:27

I can't, and it's great. I don't want to at the game. That's the point. At the game, I'm in it, I'm here for it.

Speaker 2 3:33

I'm on my couch and that's a win.

Speaker 3 3:43

That's all there is to it. All right, I'm having a lot of fun with this. I'm just watching it all with my popcorn here.

Speaker 2 3:49

Call or text 800-609-1049. Would you rather football in person or at home? Blame producer Mike, would you rather? When we got Mike as part of the show, we didn't think he would be the instigator.

Speaker 1 4:05

Here I am.

Speaker 2 4:06

Pot stirrer. But here we are. Yeah, so Mike started a fight. It's a friendly fight, because Hannah and I are still friends. What was the question, mike.

Speaker 3 4:16

So the question is would you rather watch a football game in person or on TV On?

Speaker 2 4:22

TV. That's insane 100 out of 100 times.

Speaker 1 4:25

I don't understand that whatsoever.

Speaker 2 4:27

I've been to Buckeye games and NFL games in Cleveland and I don't know what's going on.

Speaker 1 4:33

So here's my question to you Somebody hands you a free pair of tickets to a Buckeye game. You're going to say no because you'd rather watch it on TV.

Speaker 2 4:42

Well, there is the cost part. If it's free, I'm a little more interested.

Speaker 1 4:45

So it's all about the cost? No, it's not all about it. So you would deny going to the game.

Speaker 2 4:51

Not every time, huh, hannah okay, fine, Hannah. How about if someone said you can go to the Buckeyes game? Tickets are $1.50 each?

Speaker 1 5:00

I'm probably going to pay it.

Speaker 2 5:01

Look, it's not a wise decision, but I love going to a Buckeye game. I like understanding every little nuance of the game, and so it's one of those rare circumstances. If this was baseball, I would go to baseball all the time.

Speaker 1 5:18

I'm just sad. I'm just sad, Josh.

Speaker 2 5:19

That's all.

Speaker 1 5:20

You can be disappointed. I'm absolutely going to the game every single time, if I can.

Speaker 2 5:24

So this is 1v1. What else has anyone chimed in yet?

Speaker 3 5:27

Anybody, yeah, so we do have some more people who wanted to get in on this Rebecca from Worthington said it definitely matters where you sit and the stadium that you are at but, I choose stadium.

Speaker 2 5:39

All right.

Speaker 3 5:39

Rebecca, let's go. That's one for Hannah here for it. Pablo from Worcester said I go to about one game a year and it absolutely rules Okay.

Speaker 2 5:48

Yes.

Speaker 3 5:49

Come on people. Don't worry, connie's on your side, okay.

Speaker 2 5:53

No, I got it.

Speaker 3 5:54

In terms of understanding what's going on in the game, TV is way better.

Speaker 2 5:59

Yeah, see, that's what I'm talking about Understanding what's going on in the game, this fight Okay, what's going on in the game, this fight? Okay, it's a fight again. I don't get that.

Speaker 1 6:05

You can see it all happening. It's unfolding in front of your eyeballs.

Speaker 2 6:07

When, you're there, you don't get the replays, you don't get the angles you do on the big screen, sometimes Not all of them. Yeah, see, sometimes Sometimes.

Speaker 3 6:15

And Bo said it's definitely better to be at the game. Yes, Bo family has had Brown season tickets since 99 and he thinks he's been to more games in person than he's watched on TV.

Speaker 1 6:28

I love it.

Speaker 3 6:29

He also said he had some good like evangelistic stories at the stadium. It's hard to argue with that.

Speaker 2 6:35

You're going to Jesus.

Speaker 1 6:36

Joke me dude. Well, you know, at a Browns game people are really sad. You got to point them to the joy of Jesus.

Speaker 2 6:45

It works for a Boeing 747, but not so much with your brain. Autopilot when was your auto and what was your autopilot? Brain fail.

Speaker 3 6:57

Call or text 800-609-1049.

Speaker 1 7:00

Hannah, you get to go first, that's fine, because I hate to admit that this has happened multiple times. So every Saturday morning I go to admit that this has happened multiple times. So every Saturday morning I go to a Bible study at about 730. Yeah, and I get in my car, I start driving and I start driving here to the river. It's on the wrong side of town. The river is on the east side. I need to be like on the west side of Columbus, I think everyone has done that.

Speaker 2 7:26

My wife has looked at me several times.

Speaker 4 7:27

She's like where are you going?

Speaker 2 7:28

And I'm like I'm going to church, I'm going to my parents' house, I'm picking the kids up from school and they're all home.

Speaker 1 7:33

And it is really hard to turn around on a highway. I'll tell you that it's the worst. It's happened so many times, so often.

Speaker 2 7:42

Producer Mike, what was your autopilot brain?

Speaker 3 7:45

fail. So I made myself a sandwich one day. It had been a long day, I was tired and I decided to just grab some lunch meat, make myself a ham sandwich. As one does Put everything away. Sat down, enjoyed my lunch. A couple hours later it was time for dinner. I look in the pantry. There's the lunch meat.

Speaker 1 8:05

You put the lunch meat. Look in the pantry, there's the lunch meat you put the lunch meat back in the pantry.

Speaker 3 8:09

I was like there's no way that this is still edible.

Speaker 1 8:13

I tried to make myself feel better and put it back in the fridge and be like, and then I threw it away. I was like we're not eating this. Come on, guys, there's so many preservatives in there, it would have been just fine.

Speaker 2 8:26

I don't know, I'll risk it. All that's coming out is the preservatives left over. What was your autopilot brain fail? Call or text 800-609-1049. You could say certain things in your sleep like that, like I could say the intro to the show in my sleep If I did my wife would be like. You need vacation.

Speaker 1 8:44

Yes, I understand that, but there are some things that just happen.

Speaker 2 8:47

Your brain is off and you don't realize really what's going on but you're continuing to be active and sometimes it doesn't work out for you. What is your autopilot brain fail? Call or text 800-609-1049.

Speaker 3 9:01

Bridget texted the morning show and said on my way home from work one day I pulled into a Dollar General, no idea why.

Speaker 2 9:11

I can understand why there's one on every corner.

Speaker 1 9:13

They're everywhere and they've got great holiday festive fall things there.

Speaker 3 9:19

She said, once she parked. I sat there wondering why I even pulled in and then turned around and went home.

Speaker 2 9:25

At least she was willing to admit it to herself not go in and spend money. She wasn't planning on, Brittany. What was your autopilot brain fail?

Speaker 5 9:35

Well, I named all of my kids with J names after listening to my mamaw, who named all of her kids with D names, struggled through it, and so mamaw would always like try to call out one of the names of her kids and she'd go Dale, david, donna, dana, donna, donna, donna, and I would kind of like make fun of it. You know like, oh, mamaw, you know why'd you do that to yourself? And then I named my kids Juliet, jude and Jack, and I am constantly saying the wrong names and so it's just the autopilot of, like you know, it's going to be one of them. I'm just going to.

Speaker 1 10:10

I guess I'll just say them all Brittany, please tell Juliet, jude and Jack that we say hi, I sure will you guys have a great day.

Speaker 5 10:17

Have a great day Bye.

Mindfulness Color Walk Technique

Speaker 1 10:21

You know how sometimes your brain just won't stop spinning.

Speaker 1 10:25

Oh geez, every day I know, thinking about the to-do list, the laundry, the emails you haven't responded to. It can be a lot, but I saw this trick on Instagram that I really want to try. Okay, curious if anyone else has tried it or if you're willing to. Basically, next time you go for a walk, you pick a color and it could be any color red, yellow, teal, whatever and then, as you walk, you just point it out or mentally note it every time you see that color and I know that sounds silly, but I was watching this gal on Instagram do it and she picked lavender of all colors.

Speaker 1 11:01

And I was like you're not going to find that there's like the flower and that's about it. She would show what she's pointing at. There was way more than you'd expect, and even just watching her do it it kind of relaxed me just a little bit. So it's a way she was saying that, it's a way that you can kind of break that spiral mode you're in. Is it a solo walk thing?

Speaker 1 11:26

It can be either Really so, if you're going on a walk and you're by yourself. It's a way to make sure that your mind isn't focused on the things about your day or your week. It's just go out, experience nature in your walk and make sure your brain cuts away from the spiral.

Speaker 2 11:42

It's another way to unplug? Yes, okay.

Speaker 1 11:44

And then if you're with your family or your kiddos, how fun. It's basically like that I spy game you played growing up. You just do it together and that way you have an activity as you're walking and you're not focusing on what's next. You're in the moment.

Speaker 2 11:57

I love this. It's a great idea.

Speaker 1 12:00

Just a really sweet, easy way to calm your mind and to connect with the people you love.

Unanswerable Kid Questions

Speaker 2 12:06

What do you do with this? When a kid asks you an unanswerable question, I mean, they just come at you and it's like it can be really deep, it can be spiritual, and then it could also be something like this question my four-year-old at the time he's 18 now, but my four-year-old drew asked me this question. I learned this from my Facebook memories. The other day he had asked what would you do if your face was a cookie, and I ate it?

Speaker 1 12:35

Wait, yes, in theory it's unanswerable, but I know you had to say something. Well, I mean.

Speaker 2 12:42

I wouldn't have blamed him had he eaten my face if it was a cookie. But also I'm your dad. Don't you want me to keep my face? Wow, and that's a deep question.

Speaker 5 12:54

It, is that really?

Speaker 2 12:55

has no good answer, because if he leaves my face, he gets no dessert.

Speaker 1 13:01

Can we find cookies elsewhere? Apparently not. Does it have to be the face cookie? It is. He's looking at me. What would you do?

Speaker 2 13:08

if your face was a cookie and I ate it. That's so cute yeah, it's adorable, but it's disturbing and I want to know what hilarious off the wall question your kids have asked. Or maybe you overheard some poor parent being hosed with some sort of if I eat your head because it's an apple, what would you do? 800-609-1049. My son, when he was four, asked me what would you do if your face was a cookie and I ate it?

Speaker 1 13:39

Did he say if it was chocolate chip, if it was oatmeal raisin?

Speaker 5 13:43

sugar cookie.

Speaker 2 13:44

It doesn't matter, it's a cookie, he's going to eat it and I'm like I would sleep with one eye open, that's what I would do. Or one chocolate chip open, I guess, as it were.

Speaker 1 13:53

I would have even more questions.

Speaker 2 13:55

Something like that. There are those impossible-to-answer hilarious kid questions. You can call or text 800-609-1049. Producer Mike is here.

Speaker 3 14:05

Dana in Zanesville said that one time her little one asked if butterflies remember being caterpillars.

Speaker 1 14:13

Oh wow, that's a mind warp, I don't know.

Speaker 2 14:16

That's also a really sweet question, if you think about it, and it's unanswerable.

Speaker 1 14:21

Very unanswerable. I have no idea. You can't ask them. Put that one on the list to ask Jesus someday. Yeah right, yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 14:34

Natasha said that her little one asked if God rides a skateboard. He's just out there skating around heaven doing ollies.

Speaker 1 14:42

I mean, he can do everything. So.

Speaker 2 14:43

I'm going to assume. Yes, I want to know. Do you sit there silent or are you a clock-watching toe-tapper, or do you just get up and leave? What do you do if the meeting runs long? Because if it's supposed to go, let's say, from 3 to 3 30, you get to 3 30, they're still going, and you realize 3 30 is an arbitrary number to these people, but to you, who follow a clock, perhaps, what? What do you do? I'm going to bring producer Mike in here as well, because this is a scenario that you just lived.

Speaker 3 15:19

Yeah.

Speaker 2 15:19

Right, you were just dealing with this. So what happened and what did you do?

Speaker 3 15:22

So I was at my Bible study last week for my church and we went way longer than usual. And we went way longer than usual. Usually we are done by around like 8.30 at night or so this one went to 9 and we hadn't even taken prayer requests yet.

Speaker 2 15:39

Yeah, so you still had some more time to go.

Speaker 3 15:41

Yeah, and with getting up as early as I do, I'm like I need to get out of here. And so I forgive me, Lord, but I contemplated leaving before the prayer oh my whoa, but whoa. I just couldn't do it.

Speaker 2 15:59

So are you typically a guy that'll just sit through it and be like come on, come on, but you stay there yeah, I really.

Speaker 3 16:06

Just I sit through it. Sometimes I try and like make a subtle hint that no one sees.

Speaker 1 16:12

I'll like sit up in my chair. Too subtle.

Speaker 3 16:15

I like look around, sit up in my chair, maybe check out like a watch that I don't have on right now.

Speaker 2 16:21

That's the worst, Hannah. What do you do? The meeting is over at 3.30, let's say, and you've got to be somewhere.

Speaker 1 16:27

Oh, yeah, even though I don't necessarily have to be somewhere, she gone, we've got to be somewhere.

Speaker 2 16:31

Oh yeah, Even though I don't necessarily have to be somewhere.

Speaker 1 16:32

She gone, you just get up and go.

Speaker 2 16:33

I have a mental list of things going on.

Speaker 1 16:34

I've got a whole calendar in my head, whether it involves somewhere I actually have to be or not. So if a meeting runs late, I just have to get up, excuse myself and go.

Speaker 2 16:44

Interesting.

Speaker 1 16:45

Yeah, I'm not willing to stay. I'm more mean than Mike.

Speaker 2 16:49

Sorry, I would love to hear for you if you are more like producer Mike, if you're more like Hannah or like myself, because I'm in between the two of you. What would you do. I will say something to try to spur on the end of the meeting. Not like guys were supposed to be done, but something like so next steps, and then that starts to wrap things up?

Speaker 1 17:11

Yeah, but I don't know if it does, because often people are like well, what does a next step truly feel like? Could there be these next three to five?

Speaker 3 17:19

steps.

Speaker 2 17:20

Who's going to?

Speaker 1 17:21

own these steps.

When Meetings Run Too Long

Speaker 2 17:21

If they start talking about the emotional equivalent of next steps, then I do have a problem there. Who are you most like? How do you handle it when the meeting just won't end? 800-609-1049. Maybe it depends on how you were raised, but in my house the clock is king, and if something is supposed to happen by a certain time, it better happen. Workplaces are different. What do you do if the meeting's supposed to end at, let's say, 3.30, and that bad boy just keeps going? People are gabbing, people are talking and you're not getting things done. We've asked the question, some people have responded. You can, too, call or text 800-609-1049. Producer Mike, what do you got?

Speaker 3 18:09

We heard from Will, from Columbus, who said that he starts tapping his foot. Oh, no.

Speaker 1 18:15

A dreaded foot tap.

Speaker 3 18:16

Especially if he has something else planned, and then also the meeting usually feels longer than it actually is and of course it does.

Speaker 2 18:24

It always feels like it goes on so much longer than it really is. 1,000% Mary, what do you do if a meeting is going longer than it is supposed to be going?

Speaker 4 18:35

Oh, I have a horrible confession to make. I'm the one that makes the meetings run long. Oh, no, oh Mary, yes, and people would always say is Mary coming to the meeting? No, she has to be here?

Speaker 1 18:48

Do you just love being with your people?

Speaker 4 18:49

and, gavin, I just feel like it brings camaraderie and everybody's clear on what's happening and I want all the answers. Like I don't want anything when I get up, I don't want anything left wondering, I want all the answers. So it's kind of a notorious laughing thing. They're like well, if it's supposed to end at 3.30, it'll be 4.30 if Mary's coming. Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 2 19:15

So what you're saying?

Speaker 4 19:16

is you're one of those people. I am. I'm definitely one of those people.

Speaker 5 19:22

How old are you?

Signs You're Getting Older

Speaker 2 19:23

I'm not telling. Actually, I am going to tell. And I'd like you to tell too, so I don't feel old and alone. Oh, josh, call or text 800-609-1049 when you knew you were getting old. My son is a senior. He's 18. He's getting all the letters from all the colleges because he's got all the talent but so exciting one letter in particular got my attention.

Speaker 2 19:48

this is the brief conversation my son and I had. He said Drew, you got a letter from Yale. Oh, I never got a letter from Yale, Wow. And he pipes up and says well, did they send letters back then? Did they send letters back then? I said, dude, I graduated in 1998, not 1798. Even then, what did he think happened before letters? So he was thinking Carrier pigeons. No, he was thinking that maybe colleges didn't send as many letters to everybody.

Speaker 1 20:21

The delivery was interesting Back in my day. Yes.

Speaker 2 20:24

I had visions of pterodactyls in my head and I really I could have done without it. At that point you can share how you felt and found you were getting old. Call or text 800-609-1049. How old are you? I'm not telling. It happens to the young of us when we become the old of us. When did you realize you were getting old? Call or text 800-609-1049. Producer Mike on the text line.

Speaker 3 20:53

Angela said my husband and I both felt old when our daughter and son-in-law picked us up at the entrance of the zoo because his ankle hurt and it was hard for him to walk a long way. Oh, no, I'm sorry, that's so she did say it was a good payback for all the times that they had to pick up their daughter and drive her places.

Speaker 1 21:12

And I will say that Columbus Zoo parking lot is massive.

Speaker 3 21:15

Yeah, it's a long way, so I want picked up from the front too. Dean said when I sit down or stand up, I sound like a famous cereal. Oh, snap, trackle pop Same.

Speaker 1 21:26

Same. I wish that didn't hit so hard Grant.

Speaker 2 21:32

how about you? How did you know you were getting old?

Speaker 5 21:34

I knew I was getting old when I had to turn down the radio, so I could see where I was trying to find some directions.

Speaker 2 21:40

Is that an? Old thing dude, I've been doing that since I was a driver.

Speaker 5 21:45

I remember my dad used to do it. I'm like, wait a minute, I'm turning down the radio so I can see this place I'm trying to find.

Speaker 1 21:50

That is the same when. I'm reading the menu at a fast food drive-thru? Yes, if the air is too loud. If the radio is too loud, I'm not talking to the person yet I'm just trying to read.

Driving Pet Peeves

Speaker 2 22:06

We're about to have ourselves a conversation we want you to join in to. Everyone has a chance to say something. God tells us to love everyone. We ain't got to like everything they do. So I want to go around the room here. What is your travel pet peeve? Because we've all got one. And listen the person you're about to think of or talk about. They are loved by Jesus and loved by us. But my word, why are they behind the wheel? Uh-huh, so I'll go first. Listen. The Lord moves in mysterious ways, but you don't have to Use your turn signal.

Speaker 1 22:46

Use it, use your turn signal. Use it, use your turn signal. I meant to that Use it.

Speaker 2 22:51

There's no need to just whip around through traffic. You've got these flashy lights on either side of your vehicle. Let me know where you'd like to go. I'll make sure there's room for you. Or if you're going to be going some other road, also, let me know that so I can prepare and be sure I'm not in your way or I am traveling at an appropriate rate of speed. Use your turn signal. Producer, mike, what's your?

Speaker 3 23:22

travel pet peeve Mine, honestly can sometimes be combined with yours. It's when somebody comes to a complete stop before they turn, and they turn really slowly.

Speaker 2 23:33

And there's no need for it. There's no stoplight, no stop sign.

Speaker 1 23:36

Okay as. I say, if you're at a stoplight you're supposed to come to a complete stop, but you just mean if they're turning into a neighborhood off of a road or something, yeah, if they're taking another street, somewhere, there's no light, there's no stop sign and they stop.

Speaker 3 23:49

They slow down to five miles an hour on a 55 mile an hour road. Oh, that's no good man especially when they don't use their turn signal. Oh yes, the double down is crazy. You've got places to go.

Speaker 1 23:56

Mm-hmm. I can't stand that moment when you're at a four-way stop, like with stop signs, and everyone's trying to be too nice.

Speaker 2 24:07

No, you go ahead, no, you go ahead.

Speaker 1 24:09

It's like no, either go to the right, go in the circle from the right and then, if you got there first, it's you. You just go Like, take initiative.

Speaker 2 24:18

Please Get her done. Feel free. I know Ohio is the site for a lot of superhero movie. Like filming.

Speaker 1 24:26

Yeah, yeah. You don't have to do the Spider-Man meme at each and every four-way stop, with everyone pointing at each other.

Speaker 2 24:33

If you've got a traffic pet peeve you want to get off your chest. That's fine. We love the people who do it, but we don't love what they do. 800-609-1049. Call or text.

Speaker 1 24:43

Sometimes life just feels heavy. You're doing everything you can to keep it together, and I I've been there too, those days when it feels like the weight of the world is sitting right on your chest and you don't know how you're going to make it through.

Speaker 2 24:59

It's one of those things, too, where it's like I wish someone would know and ask me, but I don't know what to say. But you know, it's just, you feel alone, even in a crowd, because of pressure like that.

Speaker 1 25:08

Absolutely. And then I heard this really needed reminder at Bible study. God is infinitely powerful and intimately personal. God is infinitely powerful and intimately personal and if you just think about it, the God who spoke the entire universe into existence, who carved out mountains and told the oceans where to stop, who counts every single star in the sky, that same God is right here with you.

Speaker 1 25:42

He knows your name, your fears, your dreams and even the thoughts you haven't said out loud yet. In the Bible, in the book of Psalms, it says he counts the stars and he calls them each by name. So if he knows every star, trillions of them.

Speaker 2 25:58

I mean trillions times trillions.

Speaker 1 26:00

Numbers that I can't even comprehend.

Speaker 2 26:01

Oh, my word yeah.

Speaker 1 26:03

How much more does he know and love you and me, the ones he sent his son to die for. So when life feels overwhelming, I have to remind myself, and maybe remind you today too, to just take a breath. The same God who keeps the stars in place is keeping you steady too, because he is infinitely powerful and intimately personal.

Speaker 2 26:32

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

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