The Great Fry Debate

We turn a fast food hot take into a full-on fry debate, dodge giant spiders lurking in our kitchens, chuckle (and feel guilty) about falling asleep in chapel, and laugh about Hannah's cat being more famous than her.

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Transcript

Cold Open And The Toilet Room

SPEAKER_06 0:00

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

SPEAKER_02 0:04

The toilet room.

SPEAKER_06 0:05

Just trying to describe the set and I don't remember why.

SPEAKER_02 0:10

You can only get away with that if you have a British accent. If you're gonna call it the toilet room, you have to say it like a British. I know, but we're gonna sit here until you do it, little lady.

SPEAKER_01 0:21

No, absolutely not.

SPEAKER_02 0:26

Thanks for listening in on this podcast. You can find so many more when you go to riveradio.com and click on demand. Hannah, I don't think we've talked about this, but we spent a lot of time this week on the show talking about your pregnancy and my son graduating and a birthday and all this. So we're on like either end of the spectrum, and I there's there's a hole in my heart. Oh only you can fill it.

SPEAKER_06 0:48

Why? What?

SPEAKER_02 0:49

I haven't gotten to hold a baby in a long time. When you visit the station with this little man, may I please hold him?

SPEAKER_06 0:57

For like two hours. I'll probably like need a break.

SPEAKER_02 1:04

This is a station for hard-hitting news. Massive debates on all sides, the issues everyone cares about.

SPEAKER_06 1:13

Yeah, totally. That's that's totally

Chick-fil-A Versus McDonald’s Fries

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what we're about. We do that all the time.

SPEAKER_02 1:16

So I heard someone say this, and I need you to pick a side, Hannah, because I think you're gonna pick a side, and I think you're gonna be wrong. Great. Okay, bring it on. Chick-fil-A is the Lord's chicken. Yeah. But McDonald's French fries are manna from heaven.

SPEAKER_06 1:30

No! No? No. I knew it! Absolutely not. What? You like the waffle fries? I don't like them. I love them.

SPEAKER_02 1:38

Oh, I see. I love them. I had them yesterday. I I don't I don't understand the waffle fry.

SPEAKER_06 1:43

What is there not to understand? And what do you and how would you rank McDonald's ahead of them?

SPEAKER_02 1:49

Because, I mean, there's the original. Like, it's the OG.

SPEAKER_06 1:52

They're not salty enough and they get cold the second you take them out of the bag.

SPEAKER_02 1:56

You don't eat fast enough. You you apparently don't like them, so it takes longer.

SPEAKER_06 2:03

Not enjoying not inhaling. Well, I'm a guy. Don't inhale it. How do you even taste it? That just made your point moot. It's a moot point.

SPEAKER_02 2:11

It's moo. It's like a cow's opinion. Great. Thanks, Joey. So I like a French fry that I can dip into like the little dip container because all about my condiments.

SPEAKER_06 2:25

In what way can you not do that with a waffle fry?

SPEAKER_02 2:27

The big ones are the you can't get them in. You just like-fold it.

SPEAKER_06 2:31

You just fold it. And then it's perfect because it's kind of like a taco when you do this scoop move.

SPEAKER_02 2:35

I don't need my French fries to become a ketchup taco.

SPEAKER_06 2:38

But you just said you're a condiment catch.

SPEAKER_02 2:40

I am, but I don't want to do it like that. I don't need a gravy boat coming to my mouth full of ketchup.

SPEAKER_06 2:45

One, yes you do. Two. I don't. Two. Gravy boat. That got me for a second. Two. You're talking about the sauce now and not the flavor of the actual fry. But so you think that the flavor of a McDonald's French fry is superior to the flavor of a Chick-fil-A waffle fry. I got him. His eyes are like confused and lost.

SPEAKER_02 3:12

Dog on you.

SPEAKER_06 3:13

Because come on, the flavor is what we're going for here.

SPEAKER_02 3:16

Chick-fil-A will always win. But it it's more than the flavor, though, because it's it's the package that it is packaged in. It's a waffle. It's too big. No. It's too big.

SPEAKER_06 3:27

That is the saddest thing I've ever heard. We are in America. There's no such thing. And also, I want that massive waffle fry because it it holds all the condiments that you hold dear. This is redundant at this point. I know that I win.

SPEAKER_02 3:39

So I don't think you do so. Anyway, back to breaking hard-hitting news and debate shows. The River Morning Show. It is at a stalemate. And so you can vote with your feet. Or something. I don't know. Anyway, vote with your Go to the polls, which is your phone.

SPEAKER_05 3:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:56

Call or text 800-609-1049. Breaking news, the hard-hitting evidence continues to come. The debate show that is the River Morning Show. So here it is in full force because we're always about hot takes.

SPEAKER_06 4:11

Always, yeah, that's what you think of with this show.

SPEAKER_02 4:14

This is the first time listening to the show. We're never about any of those things. But anyway, it's kind of funny this morning because I heard somebody say that yes, Chick-fil-A is the Lord's chicken, but McDonald's fries are his manna from heaven, and I just wondered if it would turn into an argument, and it did.

SPEAKER_06 4:30

Because it's absolutely ridiculous. Well, I don't know why that's ridiculous. McDonald's fries are the OG. Just because they came first doesn't mean they're better. Yah. No.

SPEAKER_02 4:42

Yes, huh? They made the entire like industry. Like they they're the ones that everyone bases it on.

SPEAKER_06 4:48

We're talking about which one's better. And when it comes to flavor, Chick-fil-A waffle fries reign supreme. Absolutely. I do. There's no question.

SPEAKER_02 4:58

I like I like dips, okay? So don't tell me that I'm covering the flavor of the fry because that's not what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_06 5:05

No, I like all the Chick-fil-A sauce. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_02 5:07

So I like the dips. I like one fry going in the dip. I get more dipping.

SPEAKER_06 5:12

No, we already talked about this. The French, the the the waffle fry becomes like a taco, and it's like you get to scoop a huge dollop of Chick-fil-A sauce. They're Polynesian. Every sauce at Chick-fil-A is also better than every sauce at McDonald's. So everything you're saying, garbage. Trash. Garbage. Everything you say is garbage. I'm so sorry. Thank you. Matter of the truth.

SPEAKER_02 5:41

Alright, fine. Not just us, though, on this debate. Hi, The River, what's your name?

SPEAKER_04 5:46

Carrie.

SPEAKER_02 5:47

Carrie, would you like fries with that?

SPEAKER_04 5:51

Always?

SPEAKER_02 5:53

But the question is, which fries do you want?

SPEAKER_04 5:56

100%. I'm on Team Hannah. Yes. Waffle fries all the way. Amen. She's 100% right. As soon as you take the McDonald's fries out of the bag, they're cold. They last about eight seconds of being a good French fry, and then they're done. The waffle fries at Chick-fil-A, you can only eat them by like dunking them directly into the Chick-fil-A sauce. Preach. Like that right there, heaven. It really is. God's gonna be a little bit all the way.

SPEAKER_06 6:31

I think he knows that we need little glimpses of heaven, and part of that is Chick-fil-a.

SPEAKER_02 6:36

Little glimpses you can peek through every little hole in the waffle fry. Look at that.

SPEAKER_06 6:42

Bless you, friend. Thank you for your sanity and also for your sermon this morning. Sanity. I feel seen. You're welcome. Good word has been heard.

Summer Parenting And Safe Homes

SPEAKER_02 6:56

Summer is a time for a break, right? Everything changes. Things start to slow down a little bit. Vacations happen, swimming pool trips, sweet tea on the front porch. I love this. Well, if you've got like a swing somewhere or a hammock, it is your time. It is your season. But coupled with all the I know, sorry. But coupled with all that is the fact that the kids are out of school too. Which increases the stress a bit, right? Especially depending on how old your kids are. Like my kids are all in their mid to late teens. And so I don't really see them much. That's a different kind of stress. But I saw this on Facebook and it really hit me. So please keep this in mind, especially if you are parents or a caretaker of a younger child. Your child's loud singing and talking aren't just noise, they are signs of a happy heart and feeling safe. Yeah. Yeah. It reminds me too of an observation I've made during my 21 years of parenting. I am by no means an expert, but I know a thing or two because I've seen a thing or two. When the kids act out at home, they push boundaries and buttons, they pick at their siblings, but their friend's parents say how much of an angel they are when they go visit, and they're like, why don't I get to see that version of the kid? It's because they feel safe at home. They can push and prod and get on your last nerve because they trust you. They know you're not going to stop loving them. They know you will never leave. You've given them security. They repay it by driving you nuts. But good on you, Mom. Good on you, Dad. The way they act in public and at their friends' house is the way you've trained them to be. When they come home, that's their safe space to go absolutely insane. And they do. And they do. But you're doing great, mom and dad. Keep it up. Summer's just starting, and it's gonna be amazing.

Accents And Chapel Snoring Confession

SPEAKER_02 9:07

Part of friendship is calling out your friends when something happens. Hannah. You didn't do anything morally wrong.

SPEAKER_05 9:15

What?

SPEAKER_02 9:16

But this is so wrong. We were at that radio conference last week.

SPEAKER_06 9:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:20

And you called part of your hotel room the toilet room.

SPEAKER_06 9:28

I did, and there's a reason for that. Okay. Yeah, give me the reason for that. Toilet room? Okay, okay, this hotel in particular. So they have the the sink where you wash your hands in the mirror in one section.

SPEAKER_03 9:50

Right.

SPEAKER_06 9:50

And then there's a door that then opens to the toilet in the shower.

SPEAKER_01 9:56

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_06 9:57

And so I all together that's the bathroom. But in the room, but but I was trying to denote not the side with the mirror in the sink, but the side with the toilet. So the toilet room.

SPEAKER_02 10:10

Do you have any idea how bad the shower feels that you've left him out?

unknown 10:14

It's fine.

SPEAKER_02 10:15

The toilet room. You can only get away with that if you have a British accent. They don't call it that. But it sounds like it should be right. So you have to say, if you're gonna call it the toilet room, you have to say it like a bridge. I know, but we're gonna sit here until you do it, little lady.

SPEAKER_06 10:35

I can't do accents at all. Um, I need an example first. What do they say over there? Give me a sentence.

SPEAKER_02 10:42

I just need you to say toilet room with an accent. Toilet room.

unknown 10:45

No!

SPEAKER_02 10:47

Absolutely not. Stop overthinking it. These thoughts of an overthinker brought to you by sheer exhaustion. Okay. Because the telltale sign is snoring.

SPEAKER_06 11:00

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 11:01

At a quiet point in River Chapel prayer time. I might have dozed off.

SPEAKER_06 11:07

No, you didn't. No, you didn't.

SPEAKER_02 11:11

And woke myself up with like that. No! I tried to cover it up. So I was like leaning forward, so it looked like I was praying. Because I was supposed to be. I tried to cover it up by snorting as if I was clearing my sinuses.

SPEAKER_03 11:29

Like doing that. But I mean I missed it.

SPEAKER_02 11:36

Uh the thing is, I don't know if anybody heard me.

SPEAKER_05 11:39

Oh, that's so good.

SPEAKER_02 11:40

Like, did I do it only once and I'm in the clear or a bunch of times? And before I woke myself up, everyone's just like looking at me.

SPEAKER_06 11:47

This is hilarious.

SPEAKER_02 11:49

How can I find out, too? Is what I want to know, because I gotta know. I mean, I was sitting next to an intern for crying out loud. No one's going to tell me.

SPEAKER_06 11:58

Here's the thing.

SPEAKER_02 11:59

I felt so guilty. Like, I apologize to Jesus so many times. Yeah. Like, yikes. And because I am the way I am with this overthinking, I have to know. So I spill the beans to the first person I see who is also in chapel. Uh-huh. My boss. My boss. The one who could be like, yeah, we never do that, and I did it and get myself in trouble. But I have to. I can't help myself. And so my self-conscious guilty question turns into a confession all at once. Amazing. He laughed and he said, I didn't notice at all. Okay. I didn't hear anything.

SPEAKER_06 12:37

You're in the clear.

SPEAKER_02 12:37

It's likely nobody did, but this is why I'm a rule follower, because if I ever break a rule, I will out myself so fast. Be like, did I do the wrong thing? Because here's what I did.

SPEAKER_06 12:47

You were just sleepy. It happens. You are sleepy.

SPEAKER_02 12:49

I mean the the moral of the the moral of this of the stories. So

Wild Reasons People Are Late

SPEAKER_02 13:01

there's there's traffic, there's car problems, there's missing the alarm, and then there's your outlandish reason you were late to work.

SPEAKER_03 13:08

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_02 13:09

Would love to hear all about that. The excuse you either came up with or the one that was real. I'm talking about the one that was real, but it was just wow. Call or text 800-609-1049 because mine happened this morning. I was low getting in this morning, and there is a good reason why. Bring it on. I was minding my own business, getting the creamer for my coffee, ready to head out the door. And there, on the refrigerator handle, was the largest spider I have ever seen. It was looking at me and laughing.

SPEAKER_06 13:51

Okay, give us a little bit of context. Like, is it the size of a quarter? Like, uh, or are we talking like a trash can lid? Okay, well, where is this?

SPEAKER_02 14:00

It's not like a horseshoe crab. Jeez. Uh so no, it was big. Like, it was if I had stepped on it, let's say, it it the legs were the palm of my hand.

SPEAKER_06 14:11

The palm of your hand?

SPEAKER_02 14:13

Yeah, it was big.

SPEAKER_06 14:14

That's huge!

SPEAKER_02 14:15

I could see it from across the room.

SPEAKER_06 14:16

And it was blocking you from your coffee creamer.

SPEAKER_02 14:19

The most terrifying thing, Hannah, is that I didn't see it until after I grabbed the handle.

SPEAKER_06 14:24

So you were you either touched it or were like neighbors to it for a second.

SPEAKER_02 14:28

I moved in real quick. And then I You have not seen a man dance at 4 a.m., but there I was. So um you had asked earlier what had happened, and I only gave you this much that I encountered a spider. Here's what I did. Well, first of all, I stood there for 10 minutes deciding what I was gonna do. That's why I was late. Yeah, I'm just gonna do it. Because I'm like I and you can see I was in a hostage situation. Go to the River Morning Show uh with Josh and Hannah, the morning show group on Facebook. You'll see it. Uh, because I took a video of the spider. I kicked at it.

SPEAKER_05 15:06

You kicked at it. No.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

And so it went onto the floor. And I'm like, okay, please don't scurry across because this is gonna be bad. So it's underneath our cupboard, but there's a little wood thing there, so it couldn't go all the way under the side. Okay, okay. I'm taking this floor mat and banging it against the wall, hoping that maybe I'll be right back.

SPEAKER_06 15:27

You're just making it angry, it's gonna hulk out and turn green.

SPEAKER_02 15:30

So, right, yeah. So he was all curled up in a ball, and I finally was able to like injure him to where he slunk out, and then I finished the job.

SPEAKER_06 15:38

Oh well, now I'm a little sad.

SPEAKER_02 15:39

No, I'm not sad at all. I didn't ask for this roommate, and he was big enough to be paying rent.

SPEAKER_06 15:44

He needs to stay outside.

SPEAKER_02 15:45

Like that guy. Alright, so anyway, that's why I was late to work today. Why were you late to work that one time? Call or text 800-609-1049. Your story is your story. You're sticking to it, but all your boss hears is excuses.

unknown 16:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:06

I'd like to hear those excuses too. Why were you late to work? The most outlandish reason, because this morning I was held hostage by a spider. A big one. It was a big one. And it was in a place that I couldn't just leave it. And I am a leave a spider guy, but this one was so large. My wife would have had a heart attack, and it was on the refrigerator handle.

SPEAKER_06 16:27

It was in between you and your coffee creamer. And if you know Josh and his coffee period, listen. You will go through anything. That's why the spider's dead now. The other one. No, don't know. No, I mean, the second he comes into your territory, it that's just what he risks. But I didn't feel a little bad. He was big enough to have a passport. Okay, like Australia where he came from.

SPEAKER_01 16:56

G'day, mate! Get out of here!

SPEAKER_02 17:00

What's your most outlandish reason for being late to work? Call or text 800-609-1049.

SPEAKER_06 17:08

Okay, so I I almost made it to work. Almost. Well, when was this? This was like last week, sometime, maybe two weeks ago at most. You kept telling me all throughout the show, this was this kind of started with you. Leading up to this moment, so my back faces the outside window. I never get to see the outside during the show.

SPEAKER_03 17:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 17:31

But multiple days in a row, you say, you miss the kitty cat again. That's right. The kitty cat again.

SPEAKER_02 17:37

There is a cat nearby.

SPEAKER_06 17:38

There's this cute orange cat that keeps walking up to the river's front steps that are right behind me. Wow. And I never get to see him. I turn around and he's already gone. Right. So this one morning, I get out of my car to walk in for the show, and there in the bushes is the cute orange kitty cat. And so instead of taking the two steps to walk into the door and be there on time, I sit myself on the command. You scream down.

SPEAKER_05 18:07

And I was trying to get the kitty cat to come hang out with me. Were you doing the saying, hey baby, come here. Come here.

SPEAKER_06 18:17

Okay. And he never came. But just know sad. I totally did. Just know if you have a cute orange cat that hangs out by the river. He has a collar, so I know he has a home. If you don't see him for a minute, he just might be in the station. If he comes back, I am bringing him inside to show him around to all of his new friends. All right. No, just let it be known. But that's why I was late to work. I was sitting on the sidewalk trying to befriend a cat.

SPEAKER_02 18:45

You can uh share your story too. We did have one person text in.

SPEAKER_06 18:49

Yeah, Selena in Grove City said that she was late to work because she put her daughter in the car, and as she put her in her car seat, she had a blowout. I know. So she don't worry. She took her inside. She got her all cleaned up. She put her back in the car. Yeah. And she had another blowout. No! She probably was like, no, golly, why the sound effect? Just so everyone knows what spirit is and whatever that was this morning.

SPEAKER_02 19:22

Everybody's got their reasons. Everybody has their excuse as to why they were late to work. Mine was eight legs and eight eyes. And it was guarding my coffee, and I wasn't about to have that. Unwell. So yeah, this morning you can see the video because this thing, if I had shown a light on it, the eyes would have glistened back at me. It was massive.

SPEAKER_06 19:46

It probably had a name. Hmm. We'll call him George.

SPEAKER_02 19:49

We will not call him anything except Dead Night. Oh, George. So sorry. Bye-bye. Um, it and it took me about 10 minutes to work up the gumption to attack it. Yeah. Which is why I was late. Um, you can see the video on the River Morning Show Facebook group. Just search River Morning Show with Josh and Hannah. You will see it there, and you will have the squeamies the rest of the day.

SPEAKER_06 20:11

Yeah, yeah, you really, really will.

SPEAKER_02 20:14

So uh you can call or text with your reason for being late to work. Uh 800-609-1049.

SPEAKER_06 20:20

So Marsha texted and she was sharing that she had one morning that was actually going really well. Everything was going to plan, timing was going perfectly. She went to open her front door, and there, staring up at her, was a skunk.

unknown 20:36

No!

SPEAKER_06 20:36

No! Just looking her in the eyes. Which is better. Yeah, that's right. You know, you actually I'd rather look at a skunk in the eyes. You want the other way. And it just wouldn't leave. So she had to call her supervisor and let him know that she was being held hostage by a skunk. And that is better than a dog at your homework because you do not want to look at the wrong side of a skunk. You stay inside, friend.

SPEAKER_02 21:03

And hopefully, Mr. Boss Man or Mrs. Boss Woman were like, yep, you stay home. You stay home. Work from home. Yes. All right, your story is up next. Call or text 800-609-1049. Uh, Bob, why were you late to work?

SPEAKER_00 21:18

I switched jobs, and my first day at the new job, I drove to my old job, pulled in, looked at the building, and thought, why am I here? And I had to think, where am I supposed to be? Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 21:33

Oh no. How late were you to the new job?

SPEAKER_00 21:37

Uh, 15 minutes. At one traffic light, I normally drive straight through. I had to make a right hand turn. Well, autopilot straight through at once.

SPEAKER_02 21:48

Yep. Mm-hmm. I've autopiloted my way to a lot of wrong spots before. Absolutely. How did I end up in my child my childhood home?

SPEAKER_06 21:57

Is how I always end up at a coffee shop? That's not a mistake.

SPEAKER_05 22:01

Oops.

Social Media And The Viral Cat

SPEAKER_06 22:05

Social media is a dumpster fire that don't make no sense.

SPEAKER_02 22:11

That is correct. Let's play the song.

SPEAKER_06 22:12

Yeah, you already know this.

SPEAKER_02 22:14

Just go on.

SPEAKER_06 22:15

Sometimes it just smacks me in the face sometimes.

SPEAKER_02 22:18

Well, and you're you're like good at social media.

SPEAKER_06 22:20

I'm on Instagram. I enjoy the creativity of it, and I try to post encouraging faith-based content or art, like river artists and worship and some fun stuff too.

SPEAKER_02 22:33

It's everything.

SPEAKER_06 22:34

Yeah, like it's it's a hodgepodge of things. I have fun doing it. And you know, those posts, they get some likes, they get some interaction, like 2,000-ish views, not a huge amount, but that's okay. Yeah, that's great. I've really just come to a place that it doesn't matter how many people engage with it, as long as I enjoy making it and I feel like it's putting something good out there.

SPEAKER_02 22:55

You're going to let God do the extra work. Whoever sees it sees it. That's up to him.

SPEAKER_06 22:59

That's fine. I'm just enjoying the process.

SPEAKER_02 23:01

It's a great attitude to have.

SPEAKER_06 23:03

Well, occasionally, I will make a post that includes my cat. You know, his name is Fish.

SPEAKER_02 23:10

Oh my fish.

SPEAKER_06 23:11

He's my fishers. Oh my shirt's kitty cat. I just love him so much.

SPEAKER_02 23:16

You do, you really do. You kind of talk about him a lot.

SPEAKER_06 23:19

I know.

SPEAKER_02 23:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 23:20

And poor bear, my dog. But I love him so much too. But Fish is just my man. And Fish makes random appearances. And I posted one last year about Fish. And it has 18.7 million views.

SPEAKER_02 23:39

This is the definition of viral.

SPEAKER_06 23:41

It's insane.

SPEAKER_02 23:42

Hannah's cat has an agent now.

SPEAKER_06 23:44

He is wild. People just loved fish last year. And I thought, you know, it's it's been a minute. Like, I haven't posted fish for a while. Because again, I'm trying to put more Jesus or Ohio things out there.

SPEAKER_02 23:58

You're not a cat account.

SPEAKER_06 24:00

Not a cat account. I just occasionally fish makes an appearance. But apparently the world does not want to be encouraged. They do not want to learn about what's happening in Ohio.

SPEAKER_03 24:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 24:09

They want to watch my cat making biscuits with his back feet. Because I just posted Fish this week doing some backwards biscuit making, and it already has 400,000 views.

SPEAKER_02 24:26

I am so happy about this right now.

SPEAKER_06 24:30

It's just insane. And like that's the type of content that takes me.0001 seconds to make because I'm like, huh, my cat's funny. And I assume I put my phone down, I look back later, and I'm like, what in the world is going on?

SPEAKER_02 24:43

I think it's the specialty because I've not seen a cat make backward biscuits before.

SPEAKER_06 24:48

I don't know where that came from. He does make backward biscuits.

SPEAKER_02 24:51

Alright, that's cool.

SPEAKER_06 24:52

But it just goes to show that social media is ridiculous. Uh-huh. But if you want to see it, more power to you.

SPEAKER_02 25:00

Yeah, where do people go to find all this um encouraging uh Christian Jesus-loving content? Thank you. And also Fierce.

SPEAKER_06 25:08

And also Fishers.

SPEAKER_02 25:09

You know, the fish, fierce the cat.

SPEAKER_06 25:11

Go check him out. It's Hannah on the radio. It's just on Instagram, Hannah on the Radio. And there's Fishers making biscuits.

SPEAKER_02 25:18

You know, if you gave him his own account, I cannot. No one would know who you are.

SPEAKER_06 25:23

No. I cannot just lean into it. I mean, the world already says that the internet's for cat videos. I can't just keep leaning into it.

SPEAKER_02 25:31

It's the River Morning Show with Josh and Fish's mom.

Be A Friend To Yourself

SPEAKER_02 25:37

You've heard this before. If you want a friend, you've got to be a friend, right? So here's something I heard recently. Three okay, this is three things to do. To show somebody you love them. Okay, are you ready for this? Here we go. Number one, check on them.

SPEAKER_06 25:55

Well, sure. That's a good one. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 25:58

You can't be a friend if you don't ever talk.

SPEAKER_06 26:00

No. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:01

Just check on them. Number two, believe what they say.

SPEAKER_06 26:05

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 26:06

So if they're like, I'm doing all right, believe that because they're lying. You know what I believe the tone. Believe the tone of what they said. I see. I see. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 26:15

I was like, wait. So like trust but verify. Yeah, right, right, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 26:19

And if they're like, it's been it's been a rough week, believe them and then ask further. Yes. You know, and really sit there and be there and listen to what they say. And third, share words of encouragement with them. Don't just leave them in a lurch. Try to build them up and maybe build a ladder for them to climb out of the hole. That sort of thing. Now, now do these things for yourself.

SPEAKER_06 26:46

Aww.

SPEAKER_02 26:47

I know. Quite a twist, right? Do these things for you. Jesus told people to love others as they love themselves, but we can be so mean to us.

SPEAKER_06 26:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:00

I can't remember the last time I checked on myself, believed what I said. Like, man, this really stinks. Well, just buck up and move along. No, like if something's tough, let it be tough. And then share words of encouragement with me. Yeah, I don't do that.

SPEAKER_03 27:17

I don't do that at all.

SPEAKER_02 27:18

I'm really hard on me. I expect a lot out of myself, and I don't have a whole lot of leeway to just be human.

SPEAKER_06 27:24

Oh, give yourself some grace. Right?

SPEAKER_02 27:27

Exactly. So I have to I have to quit it. I would never speak to another person the way I speak to myself. Today, check in on your mental and emotional and spiritual health. Just take a second, ask yourself the question, how am I? Really? Then believe your answer. And it is okay if you're not okay. Finally, be kind to yourself with how you respond to you. Offer words of encouragement. Remember, God is with you. Rest in his love. If you want a friend, be a friend to you.

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