Why is There a Nerf Gun in Your Go Bag?

We start with the Nerf gun hospital go bag trend and end up swapping helpful packing ideas that real parents actually use. Along the way we argue about roller coasters, laugh at goofy wedding registry items, and feel our knees aging in real time.

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Nerf Gun Hospital Bag Trend

SPEAKER_07 0:00

Here's what to expect on this week's episode of the River Morning Show weekly podcast. There is a trend on Instagram of expecting moms packing their hospital go bag and bringing nerf guns so that when their husband falls asleep on that sad hospital chair or couch, they can just nerf them awake.

SPEAKER_05 0:24

Thanks for pressing play on this podcast. You can find more when you click on demand at riveradio.com. Haina, we are one week as of this recording away from Mother's Day. And I know you are Prego.

SPEAKER_06 0:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 0:38

Congratulations again. Um eventually your son is going to walk into the house with a fistful of dandelions and want you to put them in a water cup and put them on the table.

SPEAKER_07 0:49

Yeah. Look, when that happens, I will genuinely sneeze, and those dandelions will be gone quite quickly. I just want to themselves. You gotta be prepared and ready to go with your comfy pajamas, your snacks, your laptop and phone charger, and of course, your handy dandy nerf gun.

SPEAKER_05 1:19

For a minute I thought it was a road trip. Then the music started, and I know where we're going, but a nerf gun? A Nerf gun.

SPEAKER_07 1:25

I don't know if you've seen this, but there is a trend on Instagram of expecting moms packing their hospital go bag and bringing Nerf guns with them.

SPEAKER_00 1:36

Is that allowed?

What Else Goes In The Bag

SPEAKER_07 1:37

Yeah, I guess. But they're so that when their husband falls asleep on that sad hospital chair or couch, they can just nerf them awake. It's so funny to see these dad's reactions. As the husband, I would have been okay with this. You know. Like, yeah. I know. The videos are pretty funny, and I post I posted one on the River Morning Show Facebook group, so you can go take a take a look and get a good laugh. But it got me thinking, what other unexpected treasures should be packed in the hospital bag?

SPEAKER_05 2:12

Oh, yeah, especially because you you've got to get one ready before too long.

SPEAKER_07 2:16

Yes. I mean that I think 14 weeks away at most, right? Oh gosh. So, what was your most used item or something you wish you would have brought along with you in your hospital bag? Call or text 800-609-1049. Nerf gun. It's great. I have a friend who she and her husband brought their Nintendo Switch. No way! Yeah, and not just like the handheld, but like the TV adapter and controllers so they could play while they waited. Which of course. I know. And look, I'm a 90s kid and I grew up playing Pokemon, and I heard there's a new Pokemon game out on Switch 2. Wow. But my husband Chris said he refuses to buy me the new Switch because I said I'd play the first one that we own.

SPEAKER_06 3:01

You didn't?

SPEAKER_07 3:01

Well, I started to. We have Animal Crossing, but I don't know if you've played Animal Crossing. When you don't play it for a long time and you sign back in, your whole town gets covered in cobwebs and your animals will starve. So he said, no, until you don't take care of your animals, you don't get a switch to.

SPEAKER_05 3:20

He's gonna be a great dad.

SPEAKER_06 3:22

I know.

SPEAKER_07 3:25

There's a funny trend going around on Instagram where expecting mamas are packing their hospital go bags with Nerf guns to wake up their sleeping hubbies when they pass out on that hospital chair couch.

SPEAKER_05 3:43

As the sleeping hubby, uh-huh, I approve this message. I think it's great.

SPEAKER_07 3:48

The videos are hilarious. I posted one on the River Morning Show Facebook group. Go check it out. Let us know what you think. But it got me thinking: what other unexpected but super useful things did you pack in your hospital bag, or do you wish you would have had?

SPEAKER_05 4:03

Well, plus, you've got to do this, like in mere words.

SPEAKER_07 4:06

Yes, we're not too far out. Josh, do you remember? You've had four kiddos.

SPEAKER_05 4:11

I don't remember what we brought for our first baby, but every subsequent baby. What a weird phrase. Um, we had like um like little coloring books or little little books for the kids when they came to visit. Yeah. So they weren't just like there and you know jumping up and down. They get to see the baby, they want to climb on mom and she had C-section. So that's it. We can't do that. We can't do that. And so we needed to occupy them somehow, but we didn't want them to come for two minutes and then leave.

SPEAKER_07 4:39

Do you remember if they colored in photos for that new baby? We might have said this is for the clay. Do it for clay. Draw a little picture for clay. Just be quiet.

SPEAKER_05 4:49

Thanks for coming. Don't destroy this room. But that's a good idea. Yeah, something like that.

SPEAKER_07 4:55

Yeah, I feel like my nieces and nephews will probably visit. So maybe that's what I'll pack that away for them.

SPEAKER_05 5:00

Make sure you have enough crayons because they'll bite them.

Texts With Practical Go Bag Tips

SPEAKER_07 5:02

You can call or text to share what go bag items you packed. 800-609-1049. Producer Mike, I know we have a few text messages coming in. Anything, anything real sticky? What's what's the funny stuff?

SPEAKER_04 5:16

Mandy said, don't forget your toothbrush. Yeah, that's true. That's for everybody else, really.

SPEAKER_07 5:24

Oh, well, which I mean, yeah, you would hope that a giant hospital has some for you.

SPEAKER_05 5:29

But still, then you've got to like ask, and you have to like ask with your hand over here.

SPEAKER_07 5:33

No, that's a good one. That's good with me. Yeah, yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_04 5:35

Brianna said, I brought some cheap flip-flops.

SPEAKER_07 5:39

Well, that you do have to shower while you're there, so that makes sense. I don't want to, but I I'm gonna go with sandals. I don't I don't like the flip flop, flip-flop. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 5:48

Okay, good. Then Trina said, bring some size zero to three clothes, not just the newborn size, just in case he chonky.

SPEAKER_07 5:56

No, no, don't speak that over me. Here wrong.

SPEAKER_05 6:04

One man's trash is another man's treasure. Hello, I'm Josh. That's Hannah. And that over there is Producer Mike. Hi. You're about to find out who has the trash and who has the treasure. One thing you need to know about Producer Mike is he is obsessed with roller coasters. And I mean capital UB, capital cessed. Okay? So just fill fill us in on what that means.

SPEAKER_04 6:29

It means that I've ridden nearly 300 different roller coasters throughout the US, and then most of my free time is taken up by going to amusement parks.

SPEAKER_05 6:37

And also hashtag spreadsheets.

SPEAKER_04 6:39

Yes, I have an entire spreadsheet of every single one I've ridden it, how many times I've ridden it, and about every piece of information you can imagine.

SPEAKER_05 6:46

And you rate them, right?

SPEAKER_04 6:48

You got a rating system?

SPEAKER_05 6:49

Yep, they're all ranged from worst to best.

SPEAKER_06 6:52

You're crazy!

SPEAKER_05 6:53

So maybe a little. You just visited an old friend at King's Island, the Beast. Oh yeah. And you've been like on Cloud Nine since then. What is it about this ride?

SPEAKER_04 7:04

So the awesome thing about the Beast is it's known for its legendary night rides because it's back in the woods. You can't see anything when it's dark out there. And I went last week. We did the last ride of the night on the beast. It was pitch black, and when we got in line, it started roaring. Like, is this a good story? Oh, just you wait. We got on the ride. We were soaked before we went up the lift hill. Yeah! And the beast is a long ride. The longest wooden coaster in the world. Yeah, yeah. It felt like ice bullets as we were. My goodness. Hannah, he's smiling. It was going way faster than it should have. The coaster was rattling around like crazy. The brakes were not slowing it down. I couldn't keep my eyes open. I couldn't see anything. I came back feeling like I survived something. I was having the time of my life.

SPEAKER_05 7:59

I don't understand.

SPEAKER_04 8:01

So treasure.

SPEAKER_05 8:02

So treasure is so much fun. May I explain to you, please, how the beast is trash for me.

SPEAKER_06 8:08

Please, you have the floor.

SPEAKER_05 8:11

When I was in high school, I've been to King's Island one time in my life. When I was in high school, yeah, that's it. You're missing out. Well, I lived closer to Cedar Point. I went there all time.

SPEAKER_07 8:19

That's true.

SPEAKER_05 8:20

I had a girlfriend. We were going to King's Island, and we were gonna ride the beast. Because that's what you do. We get there, and she decides then to tell me, Oh, I had a dream last night that we died.

SPEAKER_07 8:35

Oh no.

SPEAKER_05 8:36

Riding the beast.

SPEAKER_07 8:37

Oh goodness.

Wild Wedding Registry Requests

SPEAKER_05 8:39

Did she still want to ride it? Of course she did. So did we still ride it? Of course we did. And everything you just said, minus the rain, the longest wooden roller coaster, jerking me around, the brakes. Slow us down. I'm like, this was a prophecy. We're gonna die. Isn't that part of the fun? No! That is not part of the fun, you lunatic! So anyway, moving forward. Now, this is a long time ago. It's not happened since then, but this is the deal. Moving forward, if I'm going to an amusement park and someone dreams we die there, I'm tapping you in so you can be my stunt double to check that everything is safe. You're like the king's cup bearer. Test this first. It could be anything simple like juice glasses or um a yo-yo we just heard about. It could be something a little more um expensive and uh and pristine, and I can't think of anything because there was nothing like that on our wedding registry. Call or text with maybe the craziest or the most fun item you had on your registry or one that somebody got for you or you've seen. Call or text 800-609-1049. And I also know, too, wedding registries in the grand scheme of time are a fairly new invention.

SPEAKER_07 9:57

That's true. I mean, you think about like the internet isn't that old. It really isn't. Yeah. So to have these wedding registry websites, they're younger than the internet that isn't that old.

SPEAKER_05 10:09

That's wow, you just somehow took what I was saying and you made me feel terrible about it. Why? Because I'm old. Because I'm just that old.

SPEAKER_07 10:16

No, no, the internet's not that old though. That's the point.

SPEAKER_05 10:18

Yeah, I guess. This is somehow twisted. All right. Judy, what was on your wedding registry or what comes to mind here?

SPEAKER_02 10:26

Well, I've been married 45 years. Back then in 1980, they had no bridal registries. So what my husband and I got were six crock pots.

SPEAKER_07 10:37

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_05 10:39

My my brother-in-law got married in the era of wedding registries, and they got three magic bullets.

SPEAKER_02 10:47

Oh my goodness! I should have traded three for three or something.

SPEAKER_05 10:52

Well, they he saw me eyeballing them, and he's like, You uh you want one of those? I was like, I mean, if you're getting rid of them, sure. So I scored big.

SPEAKER_02 11:00

Yeah. Yeah. Well, we had some good writing gifts to give away for about six years. Oh, that's hilarious.

SPEAKER_05 11:08

You want to start your relationship on the right foot. And I don't want to say it's up to other people, but they better get you the right stuff off your registry.

SPEAKER_04 11:17

Wow.

SPEAKER_05 11:18

Pressure's on the ball. No, this is my understanding. This is my understanding of things. Um, so the craziest thing or the most unique thing maybe you had on your registry, or something you've seen, call or text 800-609-1049. And Hannah, you just got married. Yeah. You guys had to have something off the wall.

SPEAKER_07 11:35

We're a little over a year in, and so I had to go back and look. I was like, what was weird on our registry? Um, I forgot I got made fun of for this one. I had a LED teeth whitener kit on mine. Because I get it, I get it. Because my bridal shower was a few months before the wedding, and I was like, perfect. I can whiten my teeth for the wedding. And I got it, and I got it from my best friend, and every night I wore it, I would send her a Snapchat and say, thanks for the whitening. Did it work? I think so. The issue is when you drink as much coffee as I do, plus that, they kind of start to fight each other. I'm not gonna but it was better than it could have been.

SPEAKER_05 12:20

Now that you mentioned that, and I drink more coffee than you do, I know I'm gonna try to talk without showing my cheek the rest of today.

SPEAKER_07 12:28

I know, and I don't know why I stopped using it after the wedding. That just reminded me I need to go back and start using it throughout the week. I think so. Hopefully, I have a pearly white smile by this time next week. Let's do an everyday picture and then we can do a flip book. Absolutely not. Nobody needs to see that. I'd be so embarrassed.

SPEAKER_05 12:45

Also, you just ate spinach. I can see some right there. Producer Mike, we've got texts coming in for this as well. Sue said we asked for a wheelbarrow for yard work.

SPEAKER_06 12:55

That's cheesy. Oh yeah, that's pretty good.

SPEAKER_04 12:57

Super practical. Did she say they got it? Yeah. Oh, that's that's awesome. Yeah, that's a good one. Delaney said, we wanted reflective rainbow dog coats.

SPEAKER_07 13:08

Oh, for a nightwalk. We had a bunch of dog stuff on our registry, so that that doesn't seem that weird.

SPEAKER_04 13:45

Amber said, We wanted a bee house, like a bird house, but bees. Oh, yeah. I've seen those.

SPEAKER_07 13:51

Yeah, not my thing, but that's I I just am afraid of bees. So good, good on you.

SPEAKER_05 13:56

Let the bees live, Hannah.

SPEAKER_07 13:58

And they might say they can.

How You Know You Are Old

SPEAKER_05 14:00

You want to live in your yard, come on. How old are you? I'm not telling. You can please fill in the blank when you call or text how you knew you were getting old. 800-609-1049. And I wouldn't ask you to do something I'm not willing to do. Okay. And so, you know you're getting old when your lone thought as you go down the bleachers at a track meet is don't fall, don't fall, don't fall. Oh no. Don't fall. My knees hurt.

SPEAKER_07 14:27

They are pretty steep, though.

SPEAKER_05 14:28

I'll give that to you. I've had surgeries and things. Yeah. I'm packing a few extra pounds on these bad boys. You know, hey, it is what it is. And as I'm going down, normally I would like kind of jog or maybe like weave my way. There's a lot of people, you know.

SPEAKER_07 14:44

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 14:45

Not these days. No way. I am not about to face plant in front of 50 people.

SPEAKER_07 14:49

Well, but I'm with you because I feel like somehow the stairs at Nationwide Arena and um the shot are getting narrower and narrower. I keep looking down, going, my foot doesn't fit here. Yeah, thank you. You're not alone.

SPEAKER_05 15:03

I appreciate that. But at the same time, it's actually, now that I think of it, it's worse coming up. Because you can't bound up the stairs like you used to, you know?

SPEAKER_07 15:14

No, it takes a little grunt.

SPEAKER_05 15:16

Yeah, I he's only 41. I'm older than him, but I heard LeBron after one of his playoff games in a press conference get up and he did the Oh, see, that just makes the world feel a little better.

SPEAKER_07 15:29

Even the professional athlete has to do the dad grunt.

SPEAKER_05 15:32

Fill in the blank, my knees hurt. Um, call or text. How you knew you were getting old. 800-609-1049. How old are you? I'm not telling. Oh, someone come here and lay under this bus with me. How did you know you were getting old? Call or text. If you're willing to fill in the blank, please do. 800-609-1049. I think I talked last week about now I'm getting a patch of gray in my beard.

SPEAKER_07 16:00

Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_05 16:01

As Hannah likes to say, my chin is getting wizened.

SPEAKER_07 16:04

It is.

SPEAKER_05 16:04

I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_07 16:06

It's just a sign of wisdom earned.

SPEAKER_05 16:09

Great. Um mirror says otherwise. Now I'm trying to go up and down the bleachers at track meets and soccer games. My knees hurt and I don't want to fall. Try not to face plant. I'm too young for that, but I'm not, apparently. Dutch, how about you? Thanks for calling. How did you know you were getting old?

SPEAKER_01 16:25

You know, I'd be telling a story and I stopped several times for insignificant details.

SPEAKER_06 16:31

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:32

Okay. Well, we were going down to Cincinnati. Well, no, wait, it was Fairborne.

SPEAKER_06 16:36

Yeah. Or was it?

SPEAKER_01 16:39

We were going down and we were on the way down there, and this truck, well, was it a truck or was it a picture? Yeah. Seems to have nothing to do with the point you're trying to talk about. And for some reason your mind says, well, that's not quite right. Like, they will never know.

SPEAKER_05 17:00

News that'll make you go.

Cars Without CD Players

SPEAKER_07 17:02

Will we? What? Josh, what in this wacky world did you find today?

SPEAKER_05 17:06

Answering with a question: what year is your car?

SPEAKER_07 17:09

A 2019.

SPEAKER_05 17:11

Uh, producer Mike, what year is your car? 2015. Mine's a 2017. Look at us! 15, 17, 19. Buddies. Do either of your cars have a CD player?

SPEAKER_07 17:23

I don't think it does. I had to think about it for a second.

SPEAKER_05 17:26

Producer Mike, how about yours? I don't think so. Okay, mine's a 17. It also does not have a CD player. It appears there are no new vehicles being made anymore with CD players anywhere.

SPEAKER_07 17:39

Yeah, I mean, it's kind of a dying breed.

SPEAKER_05 17:42

On the other end of the spectrum, the last car to be made in the US with a cassette player was in 2010. It was a Lexus.

SPEAKER_07 17:52

Really?

SPEAKER_05 17:53

I've never heard of it. The Lexus C uh SC430. Sounds like an airplane. No idea in an airplane. Yeah. Like uh, so here's the thing. If you're in a car with a CD player, good on you. Congratulations. It's a relic now. If you don't have any other way to play music outside of the radio. So this is the radio station. So here's the deal. So keep the river going. And even if you find yourself somehow outside of the river radio frequencies in Ohio, you can get the mobile app and keep it going that way. There it is. Just search River Radio in your app store. Yes, it's a shameless plug, but it works, I think.

Naomi Ruth And Bitter To Hope

SPEAKER_07 18:34

Is that real? True story. True story. There's this woman in the Bible named Naomi. And her story starts off pretty well. Most people would say, okay, things are going fine. She's married. She has two sons. They move to a new land because of a famine back home. But then life just unravels. Her husband dies, then both of her sons pass away. And suddenly Naomi is standing there with nothing familiar left. No husband, no kids, and to her, no hope. So she decides to head back home. And on the way, she tells people, don't call me Naomi anymore, because Naomi means pleasant. She's like, no, that's not me. Call me Mara, which means bitter. Basically, call me bitter because that's what life has made me. What a change. Yeah, and honestly, you can probably feel that. I feel like we've all had our own bitter moments. But the story doesn't end there because alongside her is her daughter-in-law named Ruth, who refuses to leave her. Naomi thinks she's coming home empty-handed and finished. Her story's done. But God is already working behind the scenes. Ruth ends up in a field owned by Boaz, a man who shows her unexpected kindness and protection. And that one quote unquote random field turns into provision for both of them.

SPEAKER_05 20:05

Incredible.

SPEAKER_07 20:05

And before Naomi even has time to process it, God takes what she thought was completely lost, her family line, her security, any future legacy, and quietly starts rebuilding her life through a story she never saw coming. And that's a true story.

Graduation Tweets Of The Week

SPEAKER_05 20:23

You can hear so many more of these too, by the way. Hannah's got a brand new podcast, and that's a true story. Click on demand at riverradio.com for more true stories. And from this, which might put a single tear down your face, to Tweets of the Week. Graduate edition. Alright, here we go. From Travis. I'm excited to announce I've landed the lead role in a new TV spin-off. They're calling it Game of Loans.

SPEAKER_07 20:51

Oh no. Worst TV spin-off ever.

SPEAKER_05 20:55

From Melissa, we get to decorate our graduation cap for the ceremony. I'm putting on a picture of Dory because I already forgot everything. That's smart. Yeah. That's absolutely smart. I like it. Uh, this is uh tweets of the week graduate edition from Erica. She said, our class valedictorian literally just said this about our future college professors or bosses. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, imagine what they can make out of you.

SPEAKER_07 21:20

That's somehow encouraging. Somehow. Yeah.

unknown 21:23

Somehow.

SPEAKER_05 21:24

Hey, as a student who's in the middle of the road just graduated, thank the laude.

SPEAKER_06 21:28

Uh-huh. Uh-huh. You feel that.

SPEAKER_05 21:30

I do. From Lauren Tweets of the Week Graduates Edition. My mom ordered a graduation cake with a cap drawn on the picture. A quick aside. You know, it looks like they printed the picture on the cake, like that sort of thing. They wanted her them to draw a cap.

SPEAKER_07 21:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 21:44

They misheard and they drew a cat.

SPEAKER_07 21:47

I like that even more. I'd be so excited.

SPEAKER_05 21:51

All right. And then last but not least from William Tweets of the Week, Graduates Edition, the most valuable lesson I learned at school. If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything. And this may also help you, just a place to lean for something to help you smile. The River Morning Show, we are Josh and Hannah.

SPEAKER_07 22:11

And here's a happy heart story for you. There's this Ohio couple. They are in their 90s, and every single Monday at 11 30, they have a standing lunch date at Skyline Chili. Oh, one of my favorites. And I mean every Monday for 36. Years they've been doing this. I know.

SPEAKER_05 22:34

I am so proud and so hungry.

SPEAKER_07 22:36

I know. And it hasn't just stayed the two of them. Their kids started joining, then the grandkids, they even now have great grandkiddos to show up.

SPEAKER_05 22:45

Do they like rent out the whole restaurant?

SPEAKER_07 22:46

You would think, right? They said that sometimes it's six people that join, and other weeks it's like 26 people showing up. Four generations all sitting around the table together. And I love this. They said that anyone is welcome. So if you're working on their house, like trimming trees, mowing the grass, if it's Monday, you're coming to lunch.

SPEAKER_05 23:05

She said anyone, and they're in Ohio a couple weeks.

SPEAKER_07 23:08

Where? I know. It's closer to Cincy. I'm sorry. But you can go down to Cincinnati. Maybe. Because here's the thing, too, that might be worth it. Every week without fail, they pick up the tab. Does their way. Have you seen the gas prices?

SPEAKER_05 23:23

Free lunch is so important now.

SPEAKER_07 23:25

Does their way on loving on their family and their community? And that's a happy heart story for you.

SPEAKER_05 23:33

Hannah, do you know the Berdodo kid?

SPEAKER_07 23:36

The Brid Berdodo?

SPEAKER_05 23:37

Berdodo kid.

SPEAKER_07 23:38

No, should I?

SPEAKER_05 23:39

You don't know. It's like the do you know the muffin man? Do you know the Berdotto kid? You're gonna know the Berdodo kid.

SPEAKER_03 23:46

Kiddlingo.

SPEAKER_05 23:48

The Berdodo kid is going viral. Uh-huh. This is what he said. Let's see if you can figure it out.

SPEAKER_03 23:57

Berdodo. Can you say it one more time? Have Berdodo. Have Berdodo.

SPEAKER_07 24:09

Bridodo. Berdodo. Berdodo. Um. I do not know how to translate this one.

SPEAKER_05 24:15

Neither did his mother. He he asked, he's asking have Berdodo. He's asking for Berdodo. He asked for a month, and his mom could not figure it out until she kept asking clarifying question after clarifying question. And she discovered it's a food.

SPEAKER_07 24:32

Berdodo.

SPEAKER_05 24:33

Berdodo.

SPEAKER_07 24:34

Berdodo. Um, burger, no, birdo.

SPEAKER_05 24:38

Berdodo.

SPEAKER_07 24:38

I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 24:39

It's a burrito.

SPEAKER_07 24:41

A burrito.

SPEAKER_05 24:43

Blue-eyed, blonde hair, innocent, sweet little boy. He just kept asking his mama, can I have a burrito?

SPEAKER_07 24:49

I he just sounds even too little to have a burrito. The burrito is probably the size of him.

Church Versus A Church

SPEAKER_05 24:54

So the last part of their video was him in his car seat with a burrito. And of course, he said, good taco. So I need to look this up. That's cute. So it's kiddo lingo. You can share what your kid or a kid in your life has said. Hannah and I will try to translate. Oh boy. Both of us were way off on this one. When I heard him first say birdoto, I'm like, oh, you poor sweet baby. I want to give you whatever it is you want. Yes. And then, of course, as soon as mom found out, she took him directly to a Taco Bell drive-thru. It's like, this kid needs a birdoto. Call or text with your kiddo lingo 800-609-1049. Question: What is a church? Ooh, the church?

SPEAKER_07 25:42

That's a big question.

SPEAKER_05 25:43

That right there is the big differentiator. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 25:47

What did we learn?

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At church, the message was all about just that. What is a church and what is the church? I don't want to get too like I'm not trying to get theological or super deep or anything, but it's an important distinction. Like it really, really matters. The bottom line is this the church is a picture of the body of Christ. Yes. It's the literal hands and feet of Jesus. The church, you and me, it's how the world sees him. A church is typically a building where the church meets. Okay, so we can see the difference there. When we say we're going to church, to be technical, we should probably say we're going to a church. Because we always are the church. That doesn't just happen on Sunday mornings or Saturday nights or whenever the services are. That's the life we live as a follower of Jesus. And you and I have a role to play in the local church at a local church. The body of Jesus doesn't work when the parts are missing, and that those parts are you and me. So just an encouragement to go on Sundays or whenever the service is to your church. If you're, you know, once a month or whatever, double it up. Go twice. If you're just two times a month, let's make it three. Okay? Because those people need you. And you need those people. I know it's it's true for me. So go when the services are. If you don't have a place to go, get in touch with the river chaplains and they can point you in the direction of some amazing local churches right near where you are. So you don't have to drive 20 or 30 minutes. You're gonna pass 15 churches on the way. Go someplace local, someplace right there to meet up with who will become your friends and family. To get in touch with chaplains and they'll point you in the right direction, click connect at riveradio.com. 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. 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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