Shakespeare or King James Bible?

In honor of National Talk Like Shakespeare Day this week, Josh and Hannah face off in a Shakespeare Line or Bible Verse showdown! 

You're invited to listen to the recording of this podcast live! You can share every weekday morning with Josh and Hannah on 104.9 The River in Columbus, Ohio, or online at riveradio.com. 

Thanks for listening!

-Josh & Hannah

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Transcript

Quick Tease And Weekly Setup

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

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People under the age of 30 have weaker grips than they used to. Seems to start with millennials.

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Well, stop looking at me like that. I know you're over 30. Yeah. How dare you? I'm not.

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This whole story was just so I could say Hannah's over 30.

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It's the whole reason.

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Thanks for listening in on this podcast. You can find more when you click on demand at riveradio.com. And amongst other things, you'll find in this podcast. Hannah, are you ready? Okay. There's a lot that happened this week on the show.

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Oh my gosh. It was up and down all around.

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Including the eternal destination of both Hannah and myself. You'll find it. Keep listening.

Backyard Ducks And Spring Drama

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What's happening outside? Tons of natural light and wild animals.

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You love them. They are a part of God's artistry and handiwork. But sometimes they scare you.

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Well, sometimes they break your heart. There's that word wild in wild animals.

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Wild animals. The scary part. The ones that are the most like break your heart, those are the domesticated ones. But regardless.

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No, no, just wait. I got a story for you. But you can share your wild animal encounter when you text or call 800-609-1049. Alright, what happened? So my husband and I learned last spring that there's a pair of ducks that comes back every spring to our house. Oh. I know. Our neighbors told us that they're a husband and wife duck, and they love hanging out in our backyard, and then both our neighbor to our left and our right backyard.

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Do you guys have water nearby?

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We we have water that shouldn't be in our yard. It just accumulates. So they find it very cozy. We find it very inconvenient, but we love the ducks.

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Okay.

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They're really sweet wherever wifey duck goes, hubby duck follows. Last year we looked it up and we realized we could feed them veggies and fruit. Oh wow. And they didn't they didn't eat right from our hands, but they got pretty close. That's cool. We felt a kin kinship with them, you know, a friendship. Well, last week we realized they had returned for spring, and we were so excited. They were nestled into the grass, but but something wasn't quite right.

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Oh no, what?

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Hubby Duck went to stand up, and his his little foot's a little wonky this year. He has a wonky foot. He can't walk on it. He keeps stumbling, trying to keep up with his gal. Oh no! Oh no! Oh, sure. It gets worse. My husband called me while I was at work and goes, There's another man moving into Donald's territory. I was like, who is Donald? Because it's the hubby duck. I was like, okay, that's terrible. Someone is moving in on Daisy.

SPEAKER_06 2:55

Alright, so Dwayne the Duck needs to back up.

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Yes, you guys, Ohio Wildlife has been called, but they need to save not only his foot, but his marriage. Who knew Dwayne was a homebreaker? Come on! I know. My heart couldn't handle it. So we're still waiting for Ohio Wildlife. We need our little friend to feel better. Oh goodness. And our little duck friends to be happy and forever, forever, just happily ever after.

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Okay, so how did the wildlife in your backyard end up on a daytime talk show? I guess is the question.

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Call or text with your story. 800-609-1049.

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What's happening outside? Tons of natural life. Um wild animals.

A Raccoon Sneaks Into The House

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You love them, you fear them, and sometimes they get a little too close. Those are wild animals, God's creation. You have a story of your run-in with them. Call or text to share 800-609-1049.

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Tanya, you have a story? A couple years ago, my dog was going crazy, wanted to get outside. So I let her outside and she went tearing around the side of the house. And I was afraid she was chasing a skunk. So I ran out after her, and as I was running out after her chasing her, a raccoon got inside my house. And I so I'm looking up to my front of the house, not knowing for sure. I knew an animal had gotten in. I could see the shadow, but I wasn't sure if it was like under under dining room cables and behind couches, not knowing where this animal is. And I hear this awful, awful cracking sound, and I go upstairs, and then it is climbing up my wooden line, and it was sitting on top of my um my curtain line. Strong, healthy raccoon. So I go left here and I'm like, oh honey, are you scared? Like I'm talking to it might get Bandy or something. You know, because I've seen so many Disney movies over the years I expected to converse with me. And um, long story short, we had to actually call someone from the wild preserves or something to come and get it. Oh, it was quite uh quite a mess by the time it was all said and done. It wasn't too happy with us.

Being A Very Small Helper

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Yeah, but I think I have your your Disney film title. Oh, okay. It's gonna be The Princess and the Trash Panda. You hold a lot of titles in your life. Maybe mom or dad, friend, spouse, boss, employee. Lots on your name tag. One of my favorite titles is a little helper.

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Just a little helper.

SPEAKER_03 5:59

My husband is a handyman and he is renovating our home top to bottom.

SPEAKER_06 6:06

Oh, I see.

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He's doing a great job. He's torn down all the damaged walls in the basement. Jackhammered the concrete floors. He's simultaneously building a new fire pit patio in the backyard and lifting these crazy heavy slate rocks. And look, I don't mean to pat myself on the back here.

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Oh gosh.

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But I'm doing a great job too as the little helper.

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Uh, explain yourself because I don't know if I believe you.

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This weekend I pointed at which rocks I liked.

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Okay.

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One time I even held the level straight for a good minute or so.

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Oh, congratulations. I know, I know. That's worse than planking.

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Tonight I get to decide which heavy rocks he should place where for the patio. And I get to hold a lemonade the whole time while I'm doing it.

SPEAKER_06 6:57

This makes a lot of sense, because when you guys bought this house, you didn't know how to use a shovel.

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That it's not that you didn't know how, it's that I can't get the the lever system down.

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Could you get anything on the shovel?

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No, I could not. You could not. No. Look, as far as little helper goes, you don't have to use the word hero, but you know, you could.

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I want to know, like, out with it. What happened? Share your greatest workplace mishap. Because I just experienced one. I don't want to stand alone. You don't need to stand alone either. We can stand or sit together in our misery. Call or text 800-609-1049. I spilled coffee. Wait. And while that's not an abnormal thing, I spilled pre-coffee.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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And I spilled it on the hallway floor, and I couldn't find a vacuum.

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Well, it was cracking me up.

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Stayed there.

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Because I didn't I didn't witness it happen. I didn't hear you like, you know, yell or be frustrated, anything. I just turned the corner. There's no Josh. But the only reason there would ever be an abundance of coffee crowns all over the floor. I was like, what happened here? Oh, I know.

SPEAKER_06 8:16

Uh huh.

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Where's Josh and what happened to him?

SPEAKER_06 8:19

Grind my beans. I'm a bougie coffee drinker. Yes, you are. And what happened was I was walking down the hallway with my, you know, like the Chemex or whatever.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And I almost dropped it. And so you jerk to catch it, and it all went everywhere.

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That was quite the jerk. Because I mean, it was, it wasn't just a little spot of coffee ground. It was all of it.

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I spilled all of it.

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It looked like you were trying to soak something up with the coffee ground.

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That's why I put, we have like those uh wet floor caution yellow things. I put one of those over there, and then I wanted to put a sign because because it looked like I was trying to soak something up, I didn't want somebody getting elementary school hallway vibes where a kid yaked and they put like the sawdust over it. Uh-huh. You know, I didn't want people to think that somebody vomit commed right in the hallway.

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All right.

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So I just I put a sign, I printed a sign that said, it's just dry coffee grounds. I can't find a vacuum. I've looked everywhere.

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You can see his face and reaction and this sign that he created when you go to the River Morning Show Facebook group. Yeah. The second I saw him with that, I had to snap a photo. You were like, sick. I was like, I was like, you need we need evidence that this has happened. So go go check it out on Facebook.

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And what is your workplace mishap? Call or text 800-609-1049. It's just one simple question. What did you do?

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Oh no.

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What did you do?

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So intimidating.

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Yeah, this is uh this is a place, a safe place, believe it or not, where you can share your workplace mishap.

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Because we all go through something happened.

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I just spilled all of my coffee grounds, my dry coffee grounds, in a massive pile on the floor. I had to put like one of those caution things around it because I couldn't find a vacuum, and then I heard someone vacuuming it later because the vacuum was hidden. I looked and looked and looked.

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It honestly looked like the way this pile was just spread across the floor. It looked like you had to have face planted as they fell.

SPEAKER_06 10:28

So I have to explain again. Like, so what I did, because I mentioned earlier I almost dropped it, but I'm carrying two things. I know. One, it's fine. One is uh for the hot water, and so it's like one of those measuring cups, and the other is my coffee thing. I almost dropped the measuring cup one, which is what made my entire body jerk to try to catch that, and then all of the coffee went everywhere. Uh producer Mike is here. We've got uh we've got a text on the line, so to speak.

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Trisha said, I teach preschool, and it was my turn to pass out the snack. And that day, it was chips and nacho cheese. Oh, nice snack. As I was pouring the melted cheese into a cup for one of the kids, the lid fell off and cheese went everywhere. And that includes all over my shoes. But I didn't have any backup shoes. Oh I had to wear and smell nacho cheese for the rest of the day, and now every time we have the snack, I have a flashback of the cheese squishing in my shoes.

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I mean, definitely gross texture, but you could smell worse. Definitely working with kids. That's foot cheese.

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That's foot cheese! Come on!

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That's not good.

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She ruined nacho cheese. Oh, you just called it foot cheese. She put it on her feet.

SPEAKER_06 11:43

Anyway, Hannah, what did you do? Because I know you did it.

SPEAKER_03 11:45

Uh I mean, yeah. My first job out of college, I was an admissions counselor for the college that I graduated from, Taylor University. And so I would be driving all across Ohio and Indiana and Michigan, Wisconsin, all over the place to visit high schoolers and, you know, try to get them to come to Taylor. And I remember one of my first times on the road, I had just crossed over into Michigan, and of course, this happens in Michigan, and I hit the biggest pothole you have ever seen in your entire life, and the entire wheel just immediately pops.

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Oh no, you're driving the company car.

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I'm in the company car that says Taylor University across the side of it. Yep. I completely miss the high school college fair. Miss it. There was no reason for me to like not be in the office that day because I'm just sitting on the side of the road. And of course, there's expenses that come with getting that replaced. I don't have to pay for them, but yeah, I got made fun of, and every single time I went to get on the road again, they were like, don't pop your tire.

Shakespeare Or King James Showdown

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Don't pop your tire. It is talk like Shakespeare Day, and so we're gonna play a game. Producer Mike has been uh hard at work on the internet, and so uh let's let's describe the game, get things ready. It's Hannah versus Josh this morning.

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So today we're going to play a little game called Shakespeare or the King James Bible.

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Oh no. Oh no. Okay. I'm okay. It takes me like 30 seconds just to process what I've read or heard from both versions.

SPEAKER_06 13:23

Okay, well, you need to figure out what your buzzer is.

SPEAKER_03 13:25

Oh mine is hark! Um, I can't think of another Shakespearean.

SPEAKER_06 13:31

Um A lot of people died in the medieval times. You should get stabbed by something.

SPEAKER_03 14:07

No! I'm just gonna say ding. Okay, that's fine.

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Hark and ding. Okay. Alright. Art thou prepared to partake in Shakespeare or the King James Bible. No, but we're doing it anyway. Yes. Alright. Starting with number one. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasten to the place where he arose. Hark! Oh that's the Bible. That is the Bible.

SPEAKER_06 14:35

Yeah!

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Woo!

SPEAKER_06 14:37

It's Ecclesiastes 1 5. That's what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_03 14:40

Oh, this is I'm gonna have a delayed reaction. I'm like, okay, the sun harketh. What? Okay, go on, go on.

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Alright, number two. We've got love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. I don't know. Dang. Wow.

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You sound so confident. Do wrong to none. Trust a few. I'm gonna say Shakespeare. That is. Good job.

SPEAKER_07 15:07

Good nice. Alright, it's tied one-to-one. Number three. By the way, we're playing Shakespeare or King James Bible for talk like Shakespeare today.

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This is bad. It's tied one-one.

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Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon. Oh, Hannah!

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Shakespeare.

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That's it. You got it!

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Yay! Nice. That's right.

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Okay, sure it is. Alright. And number four. He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down and without walls. Hark! Josh. That's the Bible. That is the Bible. Nice.

SPEAKER_03 15:41

I'm sad that you're getting all the Bible ones and I'm getting Shakespeare. This should be I should know more of the Bible. It's fine.

SPEAKER_06 15:47

You're very cultured. I'm going to heaven. Go on, Mike. That's round one. Okay, so that's round one. It's tied two two.

SPEAKER_02 16:01

How dare you?

SPEAKER_06 16:03

Alright, so uh next round coming. Six minutes. Uh stay here. It is Talk Like Shakespeare Day. It's the game Shakespeare or King James Bible. We are in the throes of a game.

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Uh-huh.

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A challenge. A joust duel. And so far it's tied two to two. Between Hannah and myself, producer Mike is our game show host. Art thou prepared to resume Shakespeare or the King James Bible?

SPEAKER_02 16:29

Again, no. But we're doing it anyway.

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And so my buzzing in to answer is hark!

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And mine is ding.

SPEAKER_06 16:36

Yeah, it's not very medieval of you. I know. It just is what it is. I wanted Hannah to pretend she was getting stabbed by a javelin or something. But no. That'd be accurate, like Julius Caesar. Yeah, what's me? Yeah. It's like you could have got like two brute!

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I'm sticking with things.

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Alright, fine.

SPEAKER_07 16:55

Here we go. Alright. Here we go. The better part of valor is discretion.

SPEAKER_08 17:01

Oh!

SPEAKER_07 17:04

Alright, Josh. Shakespeare.

SPEAKER_06 17:06

That is Shakespeare.

SPEAKER_03 17:07

Wow, you got a Shakespeare one.

SPEAKER_06 17:09

Yeah, I did get a Shakespeare. Look at me being all cultured. Wow.

SPEAKER_07 17:13

And I'm wearing my knickers over here. Josh takes a three to two lead. Okay, here we go. Alright. My wounds stinketh and are corrupt. What? Say it again.

SPEAKER_03 17:25

My wounds stinketh and are corrupt. Trying to think how the message Bible would translate that. Oh no. Um, dang. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 17:37

Alright, Hannah.

SPEAKER_03 17:38

I think I'm going Shakespeare again.

SPEAKER_07 17:40

No.

SPEAKER_08 17:41

Goodness! No! Where is that in?

SPEAKER_07 17:44

In the word of God. Psalm 38.5. Say it. My wounds. My wounds stinketh and are corrupt. My wounds. What was David talking about? What's going on? I'm almost afraid to look at more content.

SPEAKER_02 17:59

Oh no.

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Okay, so this is Hannah's chance to either tie or I win. Okay. Alright, last one. Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. Harding. Ooh. That's Shakespeare. From the merchant of Venice. You know what?

SPEAKER_03 18:20

You weren't far more into this than so I am fine with this outcome.

SPEAKER_06 18:26

Listen, just because you're okay with losing doesn't make it any worse that I beat you.

SPEAKER_03 18:31

What?

Adulting Hits Gen Z Hard

SPEAKER_06 18:32

Not sure. That was neither Shakespeare nor Scripture. You know this, the world is fraught with tests and trials and tribulations, and it happens especially when you become an adult.

SPEAKER_03 18:45

Oh, it's hard.

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When you're a child, you're like, I want all of those things that adults get. And then when adults are there, you're like, can someone please give me a snack and a nap?

SPEAKER_03 18:54

And rewind the clock. Tell me to hush.

SPEAKER_06 18:56

I would love to. Producer Mike is our resident Gen Z who is now in this world of adulthood. How goes it, dear friend?

SPEAKER_07 19:05

It's not always easy. I'll be the first to tell you. See, that's what I'm talking about. What's the latest? Well, I felt like back when I lived with my parents, I had everything I needed for every situation. Of course. I'd be like, Mom, this happened to me. This injury or this sickness is going on. What should I do? And she'd have the perfect remedy for it every time.

SPEAKER_06 19:24

Well, and still as an adult, you have that connection because the last time you had to go to the doctor, you called your mom first.

SPEAKER_08 19:29

Yeah.

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If you had to call your mom for whatever this is, we're gonna have a problem.

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It's baby steps into adulthood. Emphasis on baby.

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But what's the new thing? This time I tried to fix the problem myself. Okay, good. So I'm taking steps forward. Yes, those baby steps.

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Excellent.

SPEAKER_07 19:47

Uh so I got a hornet sting the other day. Oh, that was a bad thing. I had one crawl into my shoe. I slipped it right on. Oh yikes. Ouch. Nightmare. So I got home after that. And I was like, okay, I'm gonna be responsible. I'm gonna ice it. I'm gonna elevate it. And I look all over for an ice pack. I look in my freezer. There's no ice pack there.

SPEAKER_06 20:08

Did you do you have ice packs and they were missing, or you didn't know you didn't have ice packs?

SPEAKER_07 20:12

I didn't have ice packs.

SPEAKER_03 20:14

Okay, yeah. One thing to restock at Walmart. Yep.

SPEAKER_07 20:18

Yeah. And so what I ended up doing was I ended up elevating the foot on a giant stuffed animal that I had. Okay. And I used a bag of frozen French fries as an ice pack. Yeah, Joe!

SPEAKER_03 20:30

That's absolutely the greatest! Frozen veggies, frozen anything is always a great go-to. I'm just loving that it's on a stuffed animal.

SPEAKER_06 20:39

You do what you gotta do. I'm proud of you for this because even as adults married with children, my wife and I, we have given our son like the California blend. Like, here, just put this put this on it. Here is a bag of peas frozen. Use this. You're doing it, man. Yeah, frozen pork chop. Nice job.

SPEAKER_07 20:58

That was not the reaction I was expecting. I'll be completely honest. But I'm glad to know I got the approval of you two. So let's go. I'm becoming an adult, but it did actually work really well. Okay. And I also just discovered that it's another great way potatoes can be used.

Hair In Food And The Ick

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It's a question that will immediately give you the ick, but one that you have to take a side on. Okay. What do you do when there is hair in your food? And I know it's early. Sorry about your breakfast. Some people will immediately tell their server and be done with that restaurant for life. And others will tug it out and resume eating like nothing happened.

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Hi, that's me.

SPEAKER_03 21:44

I am primarily on the side that my food is ruined. But Josh, you're you're okay with just taking the hair out and moving forward.

SPEAKER_06 21:52

A singular hair. If we have a lock of hair, if we have that better never happened. If we have multiple hairs, then something else is going on back there. I don't want to know about. Like, are you scratching your head over my entrepreneurs?

SPEAKER_03 22:04

Yeah, this is it is early. So sorry.

SPEAKER_06 22:06

One hair. I'm not saying anything.

SPEAKER_03 22:08

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So this week I was really craving fried rice. So my husband, Chris, and I went to this Asian fast food place right around the corner from us. And I had never been, but I guess Chris went a lot back in high school. And he said it was great.

SPEAKER_08 22:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:25

So we're sitting in the booth eating these giant fried rice bowls, and Chris Just houses his, like gone in 60 seconds.

SPEAKER_06 22:34

Isn't that a movie? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:36

I eat half, feel like a beached whale, and figured I would save the rest for later. Well, I grab the lid to my bowl, and there, sticking to the lid, is a long brown hair.

SPEAKER_06 22:54

On the lid though.

SPEAKER_03 22:55

On the lid, and I know, I know, it's on the lid, and I know it's not mine.

SPEAKER_05 23:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:02

Because it's it's under the order sticker. So between the plastic lid and the piece of paper that's worker hair. There's a worker hair just like long and curled up underneath there. But it's on the lid. Yeah, but it was like forever memorialized, like the mosquito stuck in amber from Jurassic Park. You know what I'm talking about? You know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_06 23:24

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 23:25

Here's the thing. Chris was appalled. He is like, that's a hard no-go. Your hair shouldn't leave your body when you're in the kitchen. He's like, no, no, no. You should see Josh's face right here.

SPEAKER_06 23:37

Does he have some ability the rest of us don't?

SPEAKER_03 23:39

No, but there's such a thing as like hair nets.

SPEAKER_06 23:41

He's like, what are you doing clenching like that? I'm holding my hair. I'm holding my hairs in.

SPEAKER_03 23:46

Each following. He's like, there's such things as hair nuts and cleanliness. I don't know. So he has forever sworn off that place. So he's not going back. He won't ever go back. And I know. I know. It was weird for me. I had to kind of like get past it for a second. But the food was so good. Yeah, see? The food was so good. Anna's gone back. I just swapped my lid for Chris's lid. Yes, yes. And those leftovers of my lunch today. Woo woo hoo!

Grip Strength Decline Under 30

SPEAKER_06 24:18

News that'll make you go.

SPEAKER_03 24:20

Whee, wee wait. What? Josh, what in this wild world did you find today?

SPEAKER_06 24:25

Okay. Um, you know the term get a grip?

SPEAKER_03 24:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 24:28

It's an epidemic, apparently. Okay. People under the age of 30 have weaker grips than they used to.

SPEAKER_03 24:34

Really? Yeah. That that seems opposite because I feel like we're gripping our cell phones all the time. But okay.

SPEAKER_06 24:41

We have stronger thumbs because we're playing video games and tapity-tap-tap-tap on the phone. This is because there's less manual labor than in previous generations.

SPEAKER_02 24:49

And particularly the weakness seems to start with millennials. Well, stop looking at me like that. I know you're over 30. Yeah. How dare you?

SPEAKER_03 25:01

This whole story was just so I could say Hannah's over 30.

SPEAKER_04 25:04

It's the whole reason.

SPEAKER_03 25:08

Consider how valuable your soul must be. That both God and the devil are after it.

SPEAKER_06 25:17

Ooh. I feel better about me already.

SPEAKER_03 25:19

Right? That truth puts everything into perspective. Your soul is not something small or neutral, it is something deeply valuable. So valuable that it's being pursued from two very different directions. The devil pursues your soul to steal from you, to slowly pull you away from life and peace and truth. His goal is always distance from God. But God pursues your soul too, completely differently. He pursues you to restore you, to heal you, to bring you back to life.

SPEAKER_06 25:59

Uh opposites much?

SPEAKER_03 26:01

Yes. His goal is always closeness and wholeness and a love that doesn't give up on you. One pursuit leads to death, and the other leads to life.

SPEAKER_06 26:12

This is interesting too, because I never thought about it this way, but God is willing to die for you.

SPEAKER_03 26:17

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 26:18

Satan will kill for you. Absolutely. That's not a good thing. It's different.

SPEAKER_03 26:22

It's very different. In the Bible, in the book of Luke, it says, For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. Pay attention to which voice is leading you where.

SPEAKER_08 26:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:35

It's important. Because you are not ignored, you are not forgotten, you are pursued. And God's pursuit is always for your good.

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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 1049 The River in Columbus, Ohio, or online at riveradio.com.

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