Picky Eaters and Dirty Curds

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Transcript

Cold Open: Trash Box Cheese Curds

SPEAKER_06 0:00

Here's what to expect on this week's episode of the River Morning Show Weekly Podcast. My husband he ordered some cheese curds. And so he he you know tried to cut himself off again and walked by the trash and he did not grabbed one more little cheese curd. But it was in a box. It's a box.

Weather Setup And Show Welcome

SPEAKER_04 0:19

That's a that's a drive-by. It's a drive-by on dirty curves, Hannah! Thanks for pressing play on this podcast. You can find more to encourage you when you go to riveradio.com and click on demand. As of this recording in this moment, we are staring down the barrel of Snowmageddon 2026. Whatever. Like we're supposed to get anywhere from six to twelve inches of snow or more. Now, wherever you're listening, maybe it's better than that. Congratulations. Pat yourself on the back. There's currently one county in the entire state of Ohio that doesn't have some kind of weather advisory. So if you are in Williams County and you've been praying real hard, congratulations. God heard you. You, of all people, should be good. Everybody else, here we go.

SPEAKER_06 1:07

You won't even consider it. You won't go near it. It's that food that a long time ago you said, no way, Jose. Yep. I'm not gonna touch it. What is that food that others consider you a picky eater because of it?

SPEAKER_04 1:24

Okay, so because of that, you're considered a picky eater. What if there are things you won't eat, but you're not a picky eater?

SPEAKER_06 1:30

You can still share that, but there are just humans in your life, or maybe it's you yourself, and people consider you a picky eater. And I want to talk to you. I want to understand your brain a little bit.

SPEAKER_04 1:42

Yeah, because I'm I have to tap out of this because I'm a garbage disposal. So am I.

SPEAKER_06 1:45

So that's why I'm curious.

SPEAKER_04 1:46

Okay.

Producer Mike Vs Coffee And Ground Beef

SPEAKER_06 1:47

What is that thing you won't eat and why you can call and share? 800-609-1049. This is on my mind because our very own producer Mike, I've been learning a lot about him in the last one. This is probably like I knew one thing, but I learned something that blew my mind like a week or two ago. First of all, I knew this. You don't like coffee.

SPEAKER_02 2:10

I do not, no.

SPEAKER_06 2:11

And but you hadn't tried it in a very long time.

SPEAKER_02 2:15

It had been a while. It had been at least a year since the last time I had it.

SPEAKER_06 2:18

And but you haven't gone and tried other flavors, you haven't expanded your palate a little bit, like seen what else is out there, right? Like you just were like, that's a no-go for me.

SPEAKER_02 2:27

Yeah, I just could I couldn't get over the taste, the smell.

SPEAKER_06 2:30

Which that happens, but the thing that absolutely just blew up my brain was you said the other day that you don't eat ground beef.

SPEAKER_02 2:40

I do not. I don't like it. Except for hamburgers. What's wrong with that? Well, see, that doesn't make sense, though. That doesn't make sense. What who hurt you as a child?

SPEAKER_04 2:48

Like what happened?

SPEAKER_06 2:49

And here's the thing I'm not talking intolerances. I'm not talking like you're not a vegetarian or uh it's not an allergic thing. Like that, those things I understand and I highly respect. It's it's the I need to understand the you just will never try it again.

SPEAKER_04 3:07

Right now, no, no ground beef thing. That's that's but you eat hamburger.

SPEAKER_06 3:12

So my brain just isn't computing. So I need you to defend yourself a little bit here. Why a hamburger, but no other ground beef?

SPEAKER_02 3:18

Okay, but so when I was a kid, my mom would make she'd make meatloaf, she'd make meatballs, like every good mom does. And I tried to like it, but I just couldn't get over the texture. It was just it was really crumbly, and I couldn't get over it. And she would make me sit at the table and sit there until I had eaten enough bites of it. And so that was a bit scarring to me, too.

SPEAKER_06 3:41

So you have scars from it, but then I questioned, so that was when you know you were in probably high school and below, right? Yeah. So then you did four years of college, a year out of college, plus some, and you never went back and tried ground beef in a different setting?

SPEAKER_02 3:56

I did occasionally, like maybe once every five years or so. I still didn't like it.

SPEAKER_06 4:02

And then, I know I'm just not done. I just need to understand more. We had our chili cook-off here at the station last week. You tried the ground beef chili.

SPEAKER_02 4:12

I did.

SPEAKER_06 4:13

Which I was very proud of you for. I loved that.

Listener Stories: Bananas, Seafood, Celery, Cheese

SPEAKER_02 4:17

Standing ovation.

SPEAKER_06 4:18

But where do you stand now with ground beef after trying it in chili?

SPEAKER_02 4:22

It's still not a great relationship as well with you.

SPEAKER_06 4:25

I just don't get it. What about ground turkey?

SPEAKER_02 4:28

Not ground turkey. So it's just like it's the texture.

SPEAKER_06 4:31

It's just so interesting, but then if you mush it together, you're fine with it in a hamburger, but you're not fine with it mushed together in meatloaf.

SPEAKER_02 4:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 4:39

So that's where my brain just breaks. So I want to understand logic. I know. I want to understand picky eaters. I genuinely do. So call and share. What is that thing that people consider you a picky eater because you won't go near it or touch it? And and help me help my brain understand.

SPEAKER_04 4:57

It's counseling. In a weird way, it's counseling for Hannah this morning, I think.

SPEAKER_06 5:01

It's helping me let go. It is. Call and share 800-609-1049. Picky eaters always have a line they refuse to cross. There's one food that made the no-fly list and never earned a second chance. And if that's you, I want to understand and to hear your story. Because I am a human garbage disposer.

SPEAKER_04 5:26

Both Hannah and I will eat pretty much everything. Like, I won't eat beets, but I'm not a picky eater. That's like the only thing don't come over here with that.

SPEAKER_06 5:34

But if a beet touched your salad, it wouldn't make an impact. Like I would not, you know, wouldn't throw a fit, but my twin brother will not eat something that has been in the same room as an onion.

SPEAKER_04 5:47

Interesting.

SPEAKER_06 5:47

He just he swears he can taste an onion from a mile away.

SPEAKER_04 5:51

That's a toughie.

SPEAKER_06 5:52

That is a toughie. Because it's put in everything and it adds so much flavor.

SPEAKER_04 5:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 5:57

I finally just got my husband, like, he he said he didn't like onions and then I started hiding them and everything. And now he's liking them. So I don't know if that's evil or not, but now I can cook with onions. Uh producer Mike here has said no way to coffee and ground beef, which I think is crazy.

SPEAKER_04 6:16

Is it things that are ground? Because coffee is ground beef. I know. Oh, seriously. You know, maybe that is the logic behind it. I just didn't know.

SPEAKER_06 6:22

It's not logical though, Mike.

SPEAKER_04 6:23

I don't like stuff that's put in like this turnstile thing, it comes out the sound effects. Sorry.

SPEAKER_06 6:30

We posted this question on the River Morning Show Facebook group. Uh, what's the word, Mike? What's going on?

SPEAKER_02 6:36

Jenny said that she doesn't like bananas. She said bananas? When she was young, she had to take an antibiotic liquid that was banana flavored, and it was the worst stuff ever. Yeah, okay. And so now when she smells bananas or even sees someone eating one, it takes her back to the medicine and makes her cringe. I've heard that with cherries with some people.

SPEAKER_06 6:57

That's just I so I had cherry-flavored medicine growing up, and now all like I love real fresh cherries. I love a cherry pie. Try again, Jenny. Just try again.

SPEAKER_02 7:07

Bananas are so good. Stacy said seafood. Oh. When she was younger, she got sick after eating fish, so now she won't touch it. She's tried other types of seafood and just can't get past the taste or the texture. Love me some crustaceans. Come on.

SPEAKER_06 7:22

Getting sick from a food does give it a whole new, like, no way jose moment.

SPEAKER_04 7:27

I've had that for, but it's a short period of time. Like I love bologna sandwiches. I got sick after eating bologna one time. It was six months, but then I've been back.

SPEAKER_06 7:35

In fact, we've been back with bologna. I love a good bologna and mustard sandwich. You fry the bologna? No.

SPEAKER_04 7:41

Oh.

SPEAKER_06 7:42

I want it straight from that Oscar Meyer pack.

SPEAKER_04 7:45

All that bologna is, it's just a quick aside, all bologna is is a massive hot dog.

SPEAKER_06 7:49

Just cut the other way. So honestly, it's kind of gross, but I love bologna.

SPEAKER_04 7:54

If you cut a loaf of bread down the middle and put a loaf of bologna in it, then it's a happy time for Hannah and me.

SPEAKER_06 8:00

See, we'll eat anything. We just will. Anyone else chiming in, Mike?

SPEAKER_02 8:04

Jayne said that she doesn't like celery. She can't stand the taste or the smell.

SPEAKER_06 8:09

What in the world? It doesn't have either of those. There is no taste and smell.

SPEAKER_02 8:14

Is there? Do you not taste anything when you're not?

SPEAKER_06 8:16

I mean, it tastes like maybe like water with a hint of it's veggie water. Yeah, it's veggie water. There's just not much to it. Celery is a vehicle for my ranch or my peanut butter. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 8:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 8:28

So I all I taste is the ranch or the peanut butter.

SPEAKER_02 8:31

100%. You can hide it enough. But Jane said that she told her husband, you know, I really love you if I will clean celery for you. And it does need to clean.

SPEAKER_05 8:41

It's nasty.

SPEAKER_06 8:42

But you can call and share what is that food that makes others call you picky, a picky eater. 800-609-1049. Lynn, what is that for you?

SPEAKER_00 9:23

Well, this one's called Blow Your Mind. I don't like cheese. What? Lynn!

SPEAKER_04 9:29

Listen, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You are our friend. You are worthy of God's love and ours.

SPEAKER_06 9:34

That is so true.

SPEAKER_04 9:35

Now, what is wrong with you?

SPEAKER_00 9:37

I just don't like cheese. I just don't like the smell of it. I don't like the texture of it. I don't like anything about it. And do you know how many foods have cheese in it?

SPEAKER_04 9:49

It's like trying to be non-berry. It's impossible.

SPEAKER_00 9:52

Yeah, I went to special events, you know, and I've got my plate. I walked around the table and put my plate down because everything is cheese.

SPEAKER_05 10:01

Oh no.

SPEAKER_06 10:02

So you don't like it in any form. So it can't be melted, dipped, it can't be a slice on a sandwich. There's not one version of cheese that you're like, yeah, it's okay.

Trash Can Temptations And Drive‑By Curds

SPEAKER_00 10:11

I can eat mozzarella because it has no taste.

unknown 10:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:15

There you go. I don't know why. I don't know why they made mozzarella cheese to become a smart cheese because I finally found one person who don't like cheese chew, and that was the attic company event. And somebody said, How do you two not like cheese? And we both said at the same time, but we can eat mozzarella.

SPEAKER_06 10:35

Oh, you found a forever friend. I did. I did. You have definitely stared at something in the trash and regretted throwing away that last slice of pizza. Oh. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Those last few mozzarella sticks.

SPEAKER_04 10:56

I was thinking maybe like I always regret throwing away the box of mac and cheese and then have to go back and look at the instructions.

SPEAKER_06 11:01

But you're talking the food out. That last little snack.

SPEAKER_04 11:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 11:07

Well, maybe, maybe the trash can didn't stop you. And yeah. And you plucked it right out and thought, yay, snack time.

SPEAKER_05 11:18

What? What did you just do? I didn't. I didn't do anything. Who did what? Okay. Hear me out here. So my husband. I'm not putting him on blast. Sorry, I'm putting him on blast. Yes, you are! Don't be listening right now.

Things You Didn’t Know You Should Do

SPEAKER_06 11:33

No, no, no, no, no. But wait, wait, wait. There are there are parameters. I would say once a weekend, we will get carryout of some sort. Normally it's Sunday night pizza, and we like the appetizers too. And he tries really hard to cut himself off. He'll be like, okay, we're done. And he puts the pizza box or the mozzarella sticks, whatever it may be. He puts the box, the box, in the trash can to stop himself.

SPEAKER_04 12:01

He's trying to be a good boy.

SPEAKER_06 12:02

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 12:03

Because for the last hour of pizza eating, he's been a bad boy.

SPEAKER_06 12:06

Yeah, he's like, I've eaten too much. Cut me off. I'm just gonna put it in the trash. However, we need to come up with a new system because the trash can doesn't stop him.

SPEAKER_04 12:16

Oh my word.

SPEAKER_06 12:19

Lift the lid. And then that that pizza is still in the pizza box and it's like on top.

SPEAKER_04 12:25

It does not matter.

SPEAKER_06 12:26

It's on top of the trash, it's still in the box, and he'll be like, okay, one more slice.

SPEAKER_04 12:30

And he'll It's gone over the horizon, Hannah. It's done for. The germs have climbed into the box. What is going on? You need to give me his contact. Right now, I need his number. Stop it.

SPEAKER_06 12:45

He was a little surprising when we first got married. I was like, okay, okay, this is okay. It's not like it's touched anything else. It's it's on top. The trees are still in the box.

SPEAKER_04 12:55

No, it's uh uh. No, it's off limits.

SPEAKER_06 12:59

What about so that just this past weekend, he ordered some cheese curds, and so he he, you know, love me some cheese curds. Tried to cut himself off again, and he walked walked by the trash and he didn't grabbed one more little cheese curd. But it was in a box. It was in a box that's in the trash can.

SPEAKER_04 13:16

That's a that's a drive-by. It's a drive-by on dirty curds, Hannah.

SPEAKER_06 13:21

You have been living your life slightly wrong, and no one has told you.

SPEAKER_04 13:28

Are you gonna tell me now? No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_06 13:30

No, I'm curious what that thing is for you. Because here's the thing River artist Riley Clemens just went through this. She posted on Instagram that she thought you were supposed to change the oil in your car every couple of years. What? Years has she gone through? She's 26 years old. So let's say she got her license at 16. It's been a decade of her not changing the oil in her car. I've seen some of those.

SPEAKER_04 13:59

I've seen some of those videos where like the the guys are videoing underneath and they take the shield thing off the engine, and it's just a jelly. Oh, it's like a mold inside that engine. I don't know how they're still working.

SPEAKER_06 14:10

I don't know either. She said that her fans just jumped in immediately in the comments saying, like, Riley, no! And telling her what to do, and that she immediately went and got an oil change.

SPEAKER_02 14:21

That's good.

SPEAKER_06 14:21

And it just got me thinking, there are so many things that I and maybe you didn't know you were supposed to do. And I'm curious what that thing is for you. Call or text 800-609-1049. I found these, and I'm curious, Josh, if if you knew you were supposed to do each one of these things.

SPEAKER_04 14:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 14:41

This one hurts. Wash your water bottle daily.

SPEAKER_04 14:46

Yeah, I don't do that.

SPEAKER_06 14:47

Did you know you were supposed to? Well, of course.

SPEAKER_04 14:49

Yeah, but I don't.

SPEAKER_06 14:50

I thought it could at least go two days, but it says every sip puts bacteria back into it.

SPEAKER_04 14:55

Yeah, but it's my own.

SPEAKER_06 14:57

I don't do that with my coffee cups either. So you well, I knew that. But you knew you were supposed to. Yeah, yeah. All right. What about flip or rotate your mattress every three to six months?

SPEAKER_04 15:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 15:07

You knew that? I didn't know that. I knew you were supposed to flip it every so often, but that that doesn't that's a short amount of time.

SPEAKER_04 15:14

Yeah, we don't do that either.

SPEAKER_06 15:15

No, I don't do that. I don't do that, but so that it doesn't mold to your body shape.

SPEAKER_04 15:19

So far, there are things that I knew I was supposed to do, but I don't know. You just ignore them. I don't care yet.

SPEAKER_06 15:23

Okay. How about clean out your dryer vent after every single use? You mean like the pull-out part?

SPEAKER_04 15:32

Well, yeah, you better do that. Or otherwise it's not.

SPEAKER_06 15:35

My hand, it's not every dry. No. Like I just wait, I'll pull it out and be like, no, it's still okay. Hashtag if you're already pulling it out, just take the lintels. Yeah, I just do a little peep.

SPEAKER_04 15:46

Hashtag firehazard.

SPEAKER_06 15:48

I know, I know. Okay. So I do know that, so I need to be better about it. But I'm impressed that you knew all three of these things, but you you ignore two out of the three.

SPEAKER_04 15:56

I've been an adult longer than you. I'm still too much of an adult to not know these things. But I'm also a dude, so I don't care.

SPEAKER_06 16:04

Uh that's fair. So, what is that thing for you? The thing that you didn't know you were supposed to do. 800-609-1049. There are things you have been doing wrong or not been doing at all your entire life.

SPEAKER_04 16:23

Hannah's been very finger waggy this morning.

SPEAKER_06 16:25

No, no, this isn't finger waggy because this is at me too. I've I've been like in shock this morning of like, I'm supposed to do that. This came to mind because River Artist Riley Clemens just learned, uh, she posted on social media that she didn't realize you're supposed to get your oil changed every few months.

SPEAKER_04 16:43

Well, every 3,000 miles, generally speaking.

SPEAKER_06 16:46

She's been going every few years, though. Gosh. To get her oil changed. I don't know how she's had the same car. Riley, there's an expiration date on that. But I'm not even making fun of her because then there are things I didn't know either. I just read that your like tomatoes are more flavorful if you don't put them in the fridge. Did you know that? Yeah, we Why do you know all the things? I have a wife. I'm supposed to be a wife. I don't know these things.

SPEAKER_04 17:11

She's lived more life than you. Okay. We we will finish ripening our tomatoes in the windowsill so the sun hits them.

Points Game For Marriage Connection

SPEAKER_06 17:18

I just put them in the f I just buy them from the store and then put them in the fridge. Nope. Okay. Or like you already knew that you should be uh flipping your mattress every three to six months.

SPEAKER_04 17:28

We've stopped doing that, but we know it would be good if we did.

SPEAKER_06 17:32

I didn't know you were supposed to do these things. So Riley and I are in the same camp of just like, what is life? How do you do it? This adulting thing. It's over my head. I feel too old to be in this place, but I keep being surprised. So, what is that thing for you? That thing you didn't know you were supposed to do. Call or text 800-609-1049. Haley, what came to mind for you?

SPEAKER_01 17:58

I've did not know for like three years of living in the apartment that I needed to put like the water softener, uh, salt into the machine to like soften the water, so I never did it ever, and it ended up tasting and smelling horrible to me. No, no one ever told me that I had to do that. I just like there was zero salt left, and it I just ran like that for probably a year.

SPEAKER_04 18:21

Oh my goodness, it died in a water pipe.

SPEAKER_01 18:26

I know. That's why I thought the um, you know, as a landlord, you'd think you would tell me that because I didn't own the house. So I'm renting, you know, so I just went about my day, you know, day to day, and I was like, something's wrong with the water. And she was like, have you ever put water softener in like the salt? And I was like, no, where do you even do that at? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 18:42

So I'm gonna be honest with you, I have never done that.

SPEAKER_04 18:46

So do you guys have a water softener? I don't know. Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_06 18:49

So if if we do, my husband's taking care of it because I have never done that.

SPEAKER_01 18:53

See? That's what it's just like I don't, that's an adult thing that you should learn, but I guess, you know, I never did.

SPEAKER_04 19:00

And it's not a New Year's resolution check-in. It's more like, hey, this has been fun. I want to tell you about it. Okay. So something that my wife and I are doing. We're keeping track of points.

SPEAKER_06 19:09

Yeah, I hear you talk about this.

Takis Chief Intensity Officer News

SPEAKER_04 19:11

It's not Weight Watcher's points for anyone who's like, oh, okay, no, it's not that at all. Here's a simple example of what we're doing. Just today, I sent her a text. It said, I had to get gas this morning. It's two degrees. Minus 20 points. Oh, that's that's a big deduction. Right, it is. And so I've started the day in the negatives. And so hopefully today it's it's it's the points don't matter, but it's all made up. It is, it's a completely made up. She has sent me things uh so far like my tea wasn't too hot, plus 10. Perfect. Had dinner ready in the freezer to go in the crock pot, plus 30.

SPEAKER_06 19:47

Aww.

SPEAKER_04 19:47

The boys ate all the granola bars I bought just yesterday, minus 45.

SPEAKER_06 19:51

And I know the points don't matter, they're all made up, but I love how it helps you guys connect throughout the day.

SPEAKER_04 19:56

That's the thing. Like so sweet. It's a way for us to tell each other about our day in a fun way. And like I can just see her face when she usually when we do the negative numbers, it's something funny. Sure. You know, so like the granola bars being gone all in less than 12 hours, that sort of thing. And also, she's much like you, Hannah. She enjoys warmth and sunshine. So there was one day uh late last week, she said the sun is shining plus 20. It's so it's so adorable. I've sent her things like chili cook-off today at work plus 10. Uh-huh. Chili cook-off today at work, minus 10.

SPEAKER_06 20:30

You guys are so sappy. Yeah, right. It's so cute. It's gross.

SPEAKER_04 20:33

And it's I'm the opposite, and it was snowing one day, and I'm like, it's snowing plus 50. Let's go. No, no, no. So she it was like the whole thing was her idea. She is so fun, and I'm gonna tell her that today. Plus 100. News that'll make you go.

SPEAKER_06 20:50

Whee, wee wee. What? Josh, what in this wacky world did you find today? Do you like Takis? Um, I don't actually know if I've had one.

SPEAKER_04 20:59

I like Takis.

SPEAKER_06 21:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 21:00

They're super spicy and they're super flavorful. The question is, though, how intensely does one like Takis? Huh. Because Takis has launched a nationwide search for its first ever chief intensity officer. It's a paid it's a paid brand ambassador position. So applicants have to send in a 60-second video showing how they embody Takis Tak Takis level intensity.

SPEAKER_06 21:23

So, but should that person also be able to eat really spicy food? Like the spiciest of spiciest of takes Takis don't have that much spice. I see, I avoided them because I'm not great with spice, so I wasn't sure.

SPEAKER_04 21:36

An internal panel and public voting will narrow the entries to a top 20, then a final four, and those four will pitch creative ideas in a public Zoom interview.

SPEAKER_05 21:46

Oh my.

SPEAKER_04 21:47

Yeah. Doesn't sound fun. Well, the winner, this is the fun part. The winner gets$30,000.

SPEAKER_06 21:55

All right. I could do a Zoom interview for that.

Faith Segment: Be Still And Keep Moving

SPEAKER_04 21:57

And the other three finalists get$1,000 each.

SPEAKER_06 22:01

Still pretty good.

SPEAKER_04 22:02

So I'm thinking of applying. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 22:05

Do you have to come up with a new flavor? Is that no?

SPEAKER_04 22:08

No, you have to, it's like marketing. You have to figure out how to brand ambassador. I mean, you you've got this could be fun. You're an influencer, Hannah on the radio.

SPEAKER_06 22:18

My cat is the influencer.

SPEAKER_04 22:20

Okay. Don't let your cat try Takis. All of a sudden it's going to be like, where's Fish the cat?

SPEAKER_06 22:26

Oh no.

SPEAKER_04 22:29

And you know this, we talk about it, some. You know, you're supposed to share your story. Uh share what God is teaching you, share what we're experiencing all of us together. Well, I found this from Terry, and I'm really glad that she shared it. It hit me, and I want to share it with you. Here's what she said. When God says be still, he doesn't mean don't move. A lot of times, I think like be still, if you take it literally, you're like, I'm going to sit here until God reveals his truth to me or whatever.

SPEAKER_06 22:59

Like you're supposed to sit in pure quiet and prayer time. Right. It's like just don't move.

SPEAKER_04 23:04

It's the same thing with when you pray, it's like, I need to fold my hands, close my eyes, bow my head. No, that's what we tell children, so they'll stop messing with stuff. You can pray doing anything, anywhere, anytime. Yeah. Eyes open and all that. But Terry said, stillness looks like praying, preparing, and planning for the promise God has for you while developing trust in the waiting.

SPEAKER_06 23:26

I love that. And you know, I'm I'm I'm a big fan of an alliteration. So say the peas again.

SPEAKER_04 23:30

Yeah, right. I didn't even notice. Uh praying, preparing, and planning for the promise that God has for you. Faith doesn't just wait, it prepares. There's some activity to be done. Terry said, when God says be still, he means to be still internally, to keep moving forward while being patient and calm, knowing he's working everything together for your good and his glory. It's a trust thing.

SPEAKER_06 23:57

And I think sometimes it just takes a deep breath because I know that the lack of stillness is the anxiety inside.

SPEAKER_04 24:03

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_06 24:03

And that's just my mind and my heart working too fast.

Happy Heart: Rotisserie Chicken Kindness

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Well, we're just ready to swipe to the next reel in our life. Like, okay, next. Next. And I like this. She said it can be hard to shift the way we think or move, especially when our enemy is filling us up with fear and doubt. But we'll never truly grow in faith until we let go of the need to know and control everything. That's tough. I know. Right between the eyes. And she finishes with this it's that kind of reliance on God you'll need in order to step into the blessing or the assignment he has waiting for you. So next time he asks you to be still, it's an inside thing. Keep moving, keep working while you're waiting.

SPEAKER_06 24:51

And here's a happy heart story for you. Kendra was at Sam's Club on Saturday. Already a bold bold choice there.

SPEAKER_04 24:58

Yeah, no kidding.

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Just trying to grab a rotisserie chicken and get out of there. But when she got there, there were no chickens. Just, I don't know, just a line of people. She hears it'll be 10 more minutes till there's a fresh batch. So she waits. She's second to last in line.

SPEAKER_04 25:16

A batch of chickens?

SPEAKER_06 25:17

I don't know. You know, they bring out the whole thing. Sorry, the whole fresh what would you call it?

SPEAKER_04 25:23

I don't know. I wouldn't call it. Anyway, move on. Okay, go ahead.

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She's second to last with an older gentleman gentleman right behind her. When the chickens finally come out, people start acting like animals, grabbing them with pure chaos in their eyes. Some taking two or more, and it's looking like she might miss out. But then the woman in front of her quietly tells her husband, hey, we need three, but let's just take two. And that last chicken was left for Kendra. But remember, there was an older gentleman right behind her, but somebody else heard that woman and her husband give up their chicken and decided to walk back and hand the older gentleman their second chicken.

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We're just passing chickens around.

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I know, I know. It's such a funny happy heart story today, but it was kindness that was contagious and delicious. And so truly, that is a happy heart story for you.

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