The Story Behind These (Knee) Scars

We bounce from laugh-out-loud aging moments to the surprisingly meaningful stories our bodies and memories carry. Along the way, we share scar tales, discuss one-sentence wisdom we can pass to our kids, and so much more!

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Transcript

Cold Open And What To Expect

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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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What about the story behind your scars?

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So here we are doing this family bike ride. I go flipping over the handlebars. I hit glass. Which was really fun when you're halfway through a 10-mile bike ride. But I like what you said earlier about yours, Josh. You said your knee scars now no longer grow hair. That's true.

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Neither does mine.com.

Producer Mike Explains The Vibe

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I'm producer Mike. I'm the producer of the podcast. And you might be thinking, okay, I know Josh and Hannah are pretty fun. Are they actually like this in real life? Let me tell you, one of the things that I do almost every day is sit in the studio with them. They are just like this in real life. They're just this fun, and they are so honest with where they're at in their lives, which I think is awesome. So if you feel like you've become friends with them just from listening to the podcast, it's because yeah, you have been getting to know them at their true selves. So thank you so much for listening. Hope you enjoy the podcast.

You Know You’re Getting Old

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How old are you? I'm not telling.

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You know you're getting old when you can fill in the blank, please do, so I don't stand by myself here. Call or text 800-609-1049. You know you're getting old when coffee drinks don't make any sense anymore. You guys will remember this. I uh was looking at the this coffee menu last week, and uh Hannah and producer Mike, you guys like different stuff uh than I do. You use and drink words I don't use and drink. Sure. Um so I saw something new and different. I asked out loud, chocolate protein matcha cold brew?

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Right.

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You remember this?

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Yes, because ew.

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Okay, I was that had not a thing. I didn't know. I didn't know. So matcha, Mike, you're you're like the matcha guy. Hannah, you are too. Really? Mike, matcha doesn't go in coffee? Like, what's what's the wrong thing here?

SPEAKER_07 2:16

I am not a coffee guy, right? But I was thinking, like, something doesn't add up there. I was like, something about chocolate with matcha. So those does not.

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Well, matcha is very grassy flavored. I love matcha. That's probably my go-to drink, and it's very earthy. So to put that with a chocolate protein cold brew makes zero sense whatsoever.

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So now we come full circle to the me being old part. It's just because I can't read.

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Yeah. We just had to look over your shoulder.

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It was chocolate protein mocha.

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Mocha cold brew.

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I think both Mike and I were like, oh, the light bulb moment went off after that. I've had these progressive lenses in my glasses for a long time now. I still do not know how to use them.

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But you know why I was proud of you? You asked us if you should try it before you even realized it was mocha. You were like, should I try this chocolate protein matcha cold brew? You should have seen it. We were like, that's disgusting. But like, kudos on you for trying something wild.

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This is why I don't try things new, because I'm willing to do insanity like that that doesn't even exist. How did you know you were getting old? Call or text 800-609-1049.

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How old are you? I'm not telling.

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I knew I was getting old when I couldn't read.

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Oh, yeah.

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And I thought it said chocolate protein matcha cold brew.

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Which would have been disgusting.

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I don't drink matcha. You guys do, so I asked, and you adequately and accurately ridiculed me.

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Well, that was before we actually saw the menu item, and we were very concerned that this thing even existed. But then when we realized it was just your bifocals or whatever, mugs. Then the ridicule happened.

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Progressive lenses.

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And I have regressed because of my progressive lenses.

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Yeah, you can call or text how you knew you were getting old. Uh, misery and agedness loves company. Call or text 800-609-1049. Producer

Listener Signs Of Aging

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Mike, who do we got on text?

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Gina in Westerville said, I just said at dinner last night that I know I'm getting old because I actually like coleslaw now. I've always liked coleslaw.

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I love coleslaw, Gina. If that's a sign of age, then I was like 80 when I was four.

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Punching is saying. Yeah. Karen in Zanesville said, I knew I was getting old when you walk down the hallway and you hear your knee go snap, crackle, pop. Yeah, for real.

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One of the best cereals. You can do so much with it. It really is.

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Barb and Carol said, I knew I was old when I am so excited to go to bed at night. Every day. The more I listen to this, you and I are old.

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Look, that's fine. I have accepted the gray hairs and all.

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

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Well, I'm still old-fashioned and I believe in praying on my knees. And younger in my life, I would finish the prayer, say amen, and jump right up and go about my day. Uh-oh. Well, now I've got older, I really appreciate the coffee table and the end table to give me support. There you go.

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For me, it'd be like stop, drop, and roll. And just wherever you end up, say your prayer and then call for help.

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Yes. Exactly. Yeah. Can't do it without the coffee table and in table. That's how I know I'm getting older.

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Paul, keep praying. Keep hitting your knees, man. Wear out the floor, dude. You got it. And everybody's

The Stories Behind Our Scars

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got them. I want to know the story behind your scars. And it could be a heartfelt kind of thing, but I'm actually talking about skin blemishes.

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Oh.

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Like uh, you know, old war stories here. Um I've had two knee reconstructions.

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Oh my goodness.

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I know.

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Those were those high school?

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One was high school, one was ten years later. Uh one was playing soccer for a good team in high school. One was playing Church League softball.

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No, no. That'll get you every time. It's so competitive out there.

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Well, I was going too far and I tried to stop and I didn't stop. Anyway, my kids, when I when they were little, my kids loved playing with those scars because if you smushed them just right, they look like little worms. They like push on it. And they're super smooth because when they healed, you know, there's like no hair on them on my knees. Yeah. So anyway.

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I I really thought I would be fine with this conversation.

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You're not, are you?

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That that made my tummy turn a little bit. Alright, so sorry.

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Pivoting over to producer Mike, what scars do you have? When I was a teenager, I made the decision to ride down a wet hill on my razor scooter. Oh shit.

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Oh, those razor scooters! Ooh, they hurt your ankles every time. But what'd you do?

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I hurt my elbows and my knees. So I hit all four of them. Yeah. And I was at my grandparents' house, and so I had to walk down the street a little ways. And as I was walking back, I was obviously in pain. Oh yeah. And this older gentleman looks at me and is like, ah, sometimes you just get in pain, kid.

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He's like, Welcome to life.

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Thanks for nothing. Thanks for nothing.

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Alright, I'm gonna hear about your scars. Mainly talking about the physical ones on your body. Call or text 800-609-1049. You're gonna share those old war stories. And they also might get the opportunity to share about that one scar they've got that no one's ever asked about.

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Because everybody wants that moment.

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I kind of do. I kind of I don't wear shorts anymore. I'm that guy. And so no one can see my enormous knee scars. I had two reconstructive knee surgeries because at one point I was an athlete.

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Yeah.

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I am no longer an athlete.

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At one point in days past.

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Yeah, it really is because it really is. The first one I did 30 years ago. Now.

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Do they ever like, can you tell when it's gonna rain? Can you tell when the snow's coming?

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I'm old enough now that just kind of always hurt. Oh goodness. I'm on my way to knee replacement, but we won't worry about that at least for now. So those are my scars. Uh producer Mike decided to go all fours, elbows, knees, going down a hill on a razor scooter. Yeah, that wasn't fun. Nice job.

SPEAKER_05 8:29

I'm just impressed that that's what got hurt because it was always the ankles growing up with those razor scooters every single time. And somehow you got more creative.

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There are plenty of moments of the ankles, too, but that was the highlight. All right, so last but not least, Hannah, what um are your scars?

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Well, I hate to to pee back off of you, but mine is also a knee scar. What happened? Well, so it's either on the Soyota Trail or there's one like called the Lakota, I believe, closer to Cincinnati. Yep. We I was probably nine years old. And let me start with this. I have never been, and I'm still not, a confident cyclist. Okay. And I admit that fully. Bikes and me do not get along. I can do it, but if you try to wave at me, you don't expect to wave back. I am, I have to focus.

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So you're not gonna be one of those look mom no hands.

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No, not at all. So here we are doing this family bike ride. We're nowhere near our vehicle because we're, I don't know, trying to go 10 miles, let's say. And we're halfway through, and I'm getting a little wobbly, and there's this divot in the path. And my front wheel hits the divot with enough chaos and lack of confidence as a cyclist. I go flipping over the handlebars. Ah, yikes! And this is where I plead you, friends, do not litter. Please do not be kind to our earth and to my knees because I hit glass. Which was really fun when you're halfway through a 10-mile bike ride.

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Well, and also when you are flying through the air and landing on it.

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Yes. That's worse. So, big chunk of the knee, just totally scarred. But I like what you said earlier about yours, Josh. Because you said your knee scars now no longer grow hair. That's true. Neither does mine.

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Being thoughtful

One Sentence You Never Forgot

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is a really good trait. Uh, being overthoughtful can be a real burden. I have to deal with that sometimes as an overthinker. But even overthinking thoughtful members of society need a hand in the thinking department sometimes. That hurt my brain. I've thought about this a lot. Um, so I am up to over a hundred entries in the journal I'm keeping for my kids. I call it thoughts, prayers, and observations. So great. Usually I'll I'll kind of share something that I've noticed or a prayer that I've prayed or a thing that I really want my kids to get. But I'm enlisting you to help out because even thinkers need help in thinking. What is a one-sentence phrase somebody said to you you have always remembered? Because it's not just about, you know, air quotes my wisdom or my observations. I'm pulling things from other people for this too. And we all can learn a little bit from the experiences we've had. So, Hannah, like, what's a a one-sentence phrase that means something to you?

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My dad growing up always said a done run is a good run. Oh, you athletes. I well, so here's the thing. Yes, it was encouraging us to just go out and do the thing to finish it, but he meant like just finish the race in front of you. It doesn't have to look pretty, and that applied to anything. Just get the job done however you can.

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A done run is a good run. Yeah. So you just finish. Finish. Whatever it is, finish. I've seen some others things like don't tell them your plans, show them your results.

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Yeah.

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Because words don't carry a lot of weight if you're not going to do anything. Um, the version of me you created in your mind is not my responsibility.

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So true. That's potent. Right. Wow.

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Wow. I know. And then this is one also from my dad. He's he's got a fuse long enough to fill this room. There are two times I've seen him upset in my life.

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Wow.

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Yeah, like I know, right? Uh so my kids don't get that luxury at all. But he told me I was upset after a soccer practice one day, and I slammed my soccer bag through the car to the other side in the backseat, and he was upset. Didn't raise his voice, didn't do anything to me except he said, It's not that you're angry. It's what you do with your anger. Oh, that's responsibility.

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I know.

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I know. So those are some phrases. And I can add the one, Hannah, that you said. I can add that to my list. We can add that to the lexicon in all of our minds. But how about you? What's a one-sentence phrase that somebody said to you sometime? And it really is stuck with you. 800-609-1049. We can learn a little bit from each other. Overthinkers sometimes need help thinking. Thinking is a good pastime. Just the other day, I was telling my son, take the headphones off, because he's always listening to his music, whatever. It's like, and he said, and and do what? I said, sit there and think.

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You know you're talking to like a Gen Zier, right? I know. Not saying they can't think.

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He's Gen Alpha afternoon. He's Gen Alpha? Yeah, he's Alpha, so there's so there's that. But uh, I I've put so many thoughts, prayers, and observations down in this journal I'm keeping. I share them with uh the family here at the river, and I my hope is that they're in encouragement. I need the lesson that I'm trying to teach my kids, so maybe somebody else does too. But we can all help each other with this sort of thing. Hannah, you had a great one-sentence phrase from your dad.

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Yeah, he always says a done run is a good run, which basically just means finish whatever that thing is in front of you. We get it done.

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We have uh often ascribed to that as well, but it's not a school of phrase. It's just like finish what you start.

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Yes.

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You know, whatever it is. Like if you're in the middle of a sports season at school and you hate it. Sorry, you gotta finish that. Yeah. You know, uh, you're in band. You're finishing, you're not going to drop it and get a study.

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You might not look pretty, but finish the job.

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Yeah. So what's a one-sentence phrase that meant something to you? Praise, thanks for calling. What is it for you?

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Um, one sentence that my mom used to say, most of the time, when I'm going through like challenges or difficult times, then she'll go like, this one two shall pass.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. She's just letting you know that whatever you're going through is just like temporary. So it will also pass, and that has also stuck with me.

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I've also seen a phrase similar to that. It says, This too shall pass. It may pass like a kidney stone, but it'll pass. Donna, what's a one-sentence phrase that means something to you?

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Misery is optional.

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Misery is optional. Wow. That puts the responsibility back on me, Donna. I don't like it.

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So who told you that one? Actually, I used to tell that to my kids.

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We have found the originator of misery is optional.

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Just when raising the kids that they would get upset over whatever their situation was or a chap that they were set to. You have to do this anyway. So don't be miserable doing it. Do it with joy. Do it to the Lord. Misery is optional. Stop overthinking it.

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These thoughts of an overthinker brought to you by my personal record.

Overthinking And Finger Crack Math

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Oh no. 42. 42. 42. That's the highest number of finger cracks I've gotten in one session.

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Why? Ugh. Why are you counting these? And that's a lot.

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I have an hour-long drive to and from the river, and I have a lot of time on my heads.

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And why why is this something you're overthinking?

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Well, okay, so here, let me let me do the math. On average, that's 4.2 cracks per finger per phalange. I'm worried that number isn't legit, though, because my right pointer finger, when I do like this, it's like the the Khmer, you know, like that finger curl. It'll it'll crack multiple times, and I think I'm cheating myself.

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Oh.

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I'm a little worried about it.

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But so you're just worried that your own counting is wrong?

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Well, it's like that. 42 is not legit.

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And that is an issue to the world. Well, it's that's an issue concern.

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It's an issue because I need to be integritous. I need to like am I robbing myself of legitimacy in the name of reaching a higher number? Like it's a stats age. How many home runs you got, man? Like, that's all we care about, and I'm just going for 42. Let's shoot for 40 cracking. Yeah, with finger cracking to reach higher heights, to give me way to achieve more than ever before. Maybe the other side of this is maybe God made me specifically with this little snappy finger so that I can keep reaching new levels. Maybe. That doesn't sound healthy. The moral of the story is kind of along those lines, Hannah. It has nothing to do with stats or numbers. Okay. Anybody right now who's thinking you're giving yourself arthritis, it's not. That's an old wives' tale. Go away. Producer

Struggle Meals We’ve All Eaten

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Mike is here today. And we all know this lunch is everybody's favorite subject in school.

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Absolutely.

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When you become an adult, though, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Hashtag bills, y'all. For real.

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I've learned that the hard way the past couple years.

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And because of that, you described your lunch how the other day? A struggle meal. A struggle meal. Explain struggle meal because this is genius.

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So I pretty much had no food in my house. I have been putting off going to the grocery store for a long time. And so I just had to make do with what I had and what I was able to put together. I found some ramen that had been in my cabinet for about two months. Okay. Uh, my last string cheese. Uh, that was the last one in the bag in my fridge. This is it, and a tiny little pack of peanut MMs.

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Unbelievable, you are the hero we all need. Describing this as a struggle meal because we have all done this. Oh yeah. Sifting through the pantry, going, what am I gonna make? Just last night, my wife called me with this exact problem. She's like, we have 15 minutes where everyone's gonna be home. What do we do for dinner? So we didn't we didn't cobble something together. We went to subway. But anyway, so that's not what we're talking about. Your struggle meal. What is it? Call or text 800-609-1049. I've done this, I'll share mine, want you to share yours too. 800-609-1049. Producer Mike has introduced a brand new concept that we all have done, and I love it. It's called the struggle meal. Explain yourself.

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Sometimes the struggle is real, and you've gotta find something. Like you don't have food, or you're just like, I don't feel like making food, and you just throw something together and it gets the job done.

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In our house, we've done this. We call it usually Fend for Yourself. Eat what you can find, that sort of thing. But the combinations are epic. Uh, folks are texting, you can text or call with yours 800-609-1049.

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Sonia texted in and said, ramen with tuna fish.

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Oh gross! Oh, ugh, oh Sonia, no, no, don't do it.

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Hold on, okay, okay, move on next. We heard from Brandon in Lancaster who said a ketchup sandwich, just bread and ketchup.

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Yeah. I could see, like, I wouldn't want to do that, but I would.

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If I try it. Yeah, sure. Yeah. It's all I had. And then another friend said, Pinto beans and plain macaroni with yellow mustard.

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Who hurt you as a child? I don't like that. Say it again.

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Pinto beans and plain macaroni with yellow mustard. That is a struggle meal for real. I feel like it's just like a random wheel got spotted and landed on things.

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It's the Wheel of Wonder Wonder Blunder lunch edition. Yeah. I have I have done this recently. I generally have a can of soup each day because it's portion controlled, it's calorie controlled. I like it. It's easy to heat up, whatever. But I don't want chicken noodle because my wife will make that a lot, so I'm not gonna get Campbell's chicken noodle. However, one day it's all we had. And I didn't have time to like go out for lunch on a given day, so I grabbed a can of chicken noodle soup and a cucumber. That's like a whole cucumber. And it was big. It was as big as my forearm. It was huge, it looked like an eggplant. Like it was massive. And so I was at the end of that meal, I was very full and very disappointed. I was unsatisfied all at once.

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Sometimes

When The Dog Goes Boom

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your dog goes woof or park. That's that's what they do. And other times, they go boom!

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Ah, do they jump from somewhere? No. And land on the ground with it. If only if only what happened.

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This weekend our puppy bear went through it. And thus we went through it. For two and a half days, this poor boy was Niagara Falls out the back end. No, no! It's awful. Awful. You can't talk about this anymore! Well, here's well, I have to. I just I need you to be in this pain with me. I am. You'd hear it before it happened. It was like in cartoons when they light the stick of dynamite and you hear it sizzling, you know, as the lead into that before the bang. You would know. You would hear the stomach gurgle.

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You cannot be serious. Yes, that was.

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Every like both nights. So Frida uh Friday night, Saturday night, we were up every single hour because we'd hear it. Which was kind of nice. You'd hear the sizzle. Yeah, the shit. And then we'd go sprinting outside for the bang. Don't call it that. What happened? Which is like a Yeah! And then he would make this whine noise. Like he's a poor boy. It's terrible. This poor boy, praise God. He's doing so much better now.

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Good, okay.

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But we don't we still don't really know what caused it. His tests at the vet all came back clear.

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Of course they did.

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It could be that he eats these red huckleberries in our yard, like candy. Oh wow. And they're they're okay. They're like, they're kind of like eating blueberries, but like to that amount.

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If humans eat too much of that, your sizzle banging. Boom.

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Or the vet said at six months is when they start to develop food allergies. So we don't know yet. We have to see, we have to wait for his stomach to fully kind of settle down. We don't know. What I do know is that you know he's a giant breed, is what they're called. He's a big dog. Yeah. And a giant breed's tummy ache is not just an oh no, he had a little accident. No, this pup had a bare explosion.

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Producer Mike has been on this journey in front of all of us.

Downtown Parking Survival Tips

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Assimilating to Ohio. Now that's one thing, but also trying to learn how to live in the big city at the same time. And it comes with the challenge dun dun dun of parking downtown.

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Ooh, oh, I can't wait to hear about that.

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How's it going, bruh? I can't say it's been easy. Um, I tried to go downtown last week. I was gonna hang out with a friend, and I was like, okay, parking. Where do I go? So they recommended me a lot to go to, and I was like, okay, this'll be easy. Turns out that was a business lot. Uh yeah. I'm not getting towed. Time to start looking around. And so I started circling the building. Oh, I did a big square multiple times. There's construction everywhere. I don't know which way's a one-way street, which way is not.

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Because you're giving me anxiety right now. And I'm not the one driving.

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So you can understand how I felt in that moment. And then I was like, okay, I think I see some street parking. Let's go over there. Uh-huh. So I find a spot. It's handicapped.

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Yeah. Yeah. So close.

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And then quickly, I'm like, looking around. Does anybody see me? Is anybody watching me? You're not gonna park in the handicap spot, are you? No, okay. I wasn't that desperate, thank you. Stop this conversation right now. But you know what I did do is I just put it in reverse and kept moving backwards on like alongside the street until I was out of the handicap section and then parked.

SPEAKER_05 24:54

Okay, so you've just gone a little too far.

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What we learned here. You were in the right spot, but the wrong part of the right spot.

SPEAKER_05 25:01

Look, something like this. It is not easy to park downtown. I lived downtown for probably nine years, and it never got easier. But there are there are tricks and tips to parking downtown.

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Please educate me.

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Okay, first of all, if you're not living down there and you just want to go visit, go on a Sunday because it's free parking. So go on a Sunday. Second of all, there are a lot of garages that you cannot see from High Street or the main road. So you just have to go one or two streets over.

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Okay, that's good to know.

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And the more you get into the neighborhood areas, like so for Columbus, it's Italian Village, it's Victorian Village, it's Grandview. There are more mass parking lots like at a CVS or a giant eagle. Yeah, okay. But you have to be willing to go off of High Street, which is normally where people are going for brunch. So you either have to be willing to walk. Like if you go to Good Ale Park, there's in the park itself free parking, not around it, but everyone wants to park around the park. Here's a question.

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Just a question I have. Mike, do you have Life 360? I do not. Okay, it's time to get it, and you need to make Hannah your mom.

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I just text you. No, that's not the spot. Is that real? True story. True story? You've

Elijah’s Miracle And God Doing More

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probably heard the story in the New Testament about Jesus feeding thousands with just a few loaves of bread and some fish.

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It's one of my favorite stories because hashtag nom nom.

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Yeah.

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Well, here's a little fun fact: God had done a miracle like that long before, and it involves one of the Old Testament's most famous prophets, Elijah.

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Okay, I'm trying to put this together. Go on.

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So Elijah was a prophet in Israel, kind of like God's personal guide for the people, showing them how to trust him, helping those in need, performing miracles. One day, a man brought him 20 loaves of barley bread and some grain. So very normal food, nothing fancy, and asked Elijah to feed about a hundred men. Now, mathematically, that seems a little rough. They're not in great shape.

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Like in Bible times, too, like the loaf wasn't a big loaf of bread either. These are more like dinner rolls.

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Yeah, it's not just giant baggage. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nothing like that. But Elijah didn't freak out. He prayed, he blessed the food, and he handled it, handed it out. And what's crazy is everyone ate, everyone was full, and there were even leftovers. This is what God does. Brain explosion. Like what? Long before Jesus walked on water or multiplied those fish and loaves, God was already showing that He can take a little and make it go a really long way. And it's not just about food. It's a reminder that God can take the small, ordinary things in your life and do something amazing with them too. And that's a true

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