Ohio Bucket List Confessions

We trade Ohio bucket list confessions, from the Mansfield Reformatory to Put-in-Bay, and ask what fellow Ohio-ans keep putting off even when it’s right down the road. We bounce from dating app “kittenfishing” to horrifying food stories, embarrassing moments, and a real reminder that God stays constant even when life changes.

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Transcript

Quick Tease And Welcome

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Here's what to expect on this week's episode of the River Morning Show weekly podcast. Well, this horse-sized dog has learned that he can hurdle the couch and he lands on the couch.

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On the cushions.

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And most recently, on me. No, no, come on. Luckily, it was just luckily. It was my shoulders and head. Luckily. So not my pregnant belly.

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Right there on you.

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Thank you for pressing clay on this podcast. You can find more when you click on demand, riverradio.com.

Double Rainbow And A Promise

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Always be on the lookout for those moments when God's gonna show up. Hopefully he does it in this podcast. No guarantees, though. Because the show with Hannah and I can get pretty ridiculous.

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Sometimes too much fun.

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Just a couple of days ago, walk outside of the studio, and there's the most beautiful double rainbow. It was like half of the entire circle across the horizon. Amazing. And Hannah said it in a goofy way, but she's right. God's remembering to never flood the earth.

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Amen.

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I do find it ironic that he promised that, but you need rain in order to see a rainbow.

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And it was sprinkling. And I was a little concerned.

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We got kind of nervous, but he's faithful.

The Ohio Bucket List Challenge

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And it is time to cross it off the list. Okay, here's what I mean. I realize summer's not officially here until June 20th. Sure. Summer's here.

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It is.

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Okay, summer is here, and there are things you should have done because even though you've lived here forever, you've never done blank. I will put myself at the top of this list. And this summer needs to be the summer where you and I don't do my thing together. That would be awkward if like you're listening to the radio. I mean, for you, you've lived here forever. What is the thing you haven't done? I have never gone to the Mansfield Reformatory.

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What?

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The old school castle-looking one where they filmed a bunch of movies. I've never taken a tour. I've never done like the scary stuff at Halloween. I don't like that.

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Yeah, well, I get that. I've never been terrifying.

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I have never been on the grounds. I've never been to the parking lot. I've never been in the building.

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Why that's so shocking? Because, you know, living in Ohio, that's that's not too crazy. Like it's not easy for everyone to get to. It's crazy.

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Yeah, I live and have always lived in Mansfield. Yes, this is where this thing is.

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It's confusing that you have not been to that. You live in the same town.

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I love Shawshank. I love that movie. I liked Air Force One. They filmed part of that there. Yeah, they did.

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I did not know that.

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And so, like, even and I like film and history and these kinds of things. I like these things. And I have never gone. So that's it for me. What is it for you? I know Hannah's wheels are spinning and you've spent most of your life in Ohio. So put a pin in that. You can share yours. Hannah's gonna share hers. What are you crossing off the list this year? Because you've been here forever and you haven't done blank. Call or text 800-609-1049. Alright, it's time to cross it off the list. You've lived in Ohio forever. You don't have to be from here, but you've been here for a minute, and there is still like that thing near you you've never done. Fill in the blank and let's get plans to do it this summer. Call or text what it is, 800-609-1049. I mentioned for me, I've lived in Mansfield nearly my entire life. I have never been to the reformatory. And I love history, cinema. It's all of that stuff. Yeah. I don't even mind escape rooms. They have those too. So I've never done it. Gotta take my family this year. My kids have done like this the scary stuff.

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No, I can't do that.

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Which I'm just like, y'all are weird. Um I've never scared I've never been to it, so I need to I need to go to it this year. Hannah, you've lived in Ohio most of your life. Yeah. What's something you should do you've never done?

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So I'm a little salty about it today. It's top of mind because I've never been to an Ohio baseball game, so the Reds or the Guardians.

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Well, you've been to the Clippers, right?

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I've been to the Clippers.

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But you're talking the professional, like the major leagues. You've not been to Progressive Field, you've not been to Great American ballpark. No.

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And I'm salty about it because my husband, my dad, my brother, and brother-in-law are going up today. Oh, the Yankees! To go see the Yankees versus the Guardians. I don't really follow baseball, but I like Cracker Jacks. You know? I'll eat nachos. I could have a lemonade, some Cracker Jacks, do the whatever inning stretch.

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Progressive Field has really good chicken fingers.

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Chicken fingers!

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Like, come on! They do, I'm telling you.

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Come on. So I don't know if that's on my list this summer, but it needs to be a priority soon.

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When you need to do it soon, because otherwise you're gonna have an infant and they don't like baseball.

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Well, yeah.

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Not yet, many. When they're super small. Producer Mike is here with texts from folks, and you can call or text with what it is you're crossing off your list this summer or soon. 800-609-1049.

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Maggie said, I've never been to the wilds. Oh right. Oh yeah. We live in that county. And I've never been to the way.

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Oh, it's so cool. You get so close to the rhinos.

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Well, see, I I don't want animals near my vehicle. So have you never been to the wilds? No, I never have.

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Oh, it's a great time.

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What's the other one like north? Um it's there's another one, like the African Wildlife Safari Park. I've never done that one either.

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Okay, I don't know if I've done that. I don't think I've done that one. I've done the wilds, though. It's a great time. Take allergy pills before you go.

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Well, I don't need something spitting into my passenger seat. I don't think. They do too. I've seen the video. Anyway, uh uh, what else we got?

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Dana said we've been to Putin Bay a bunch, but we never realized that there's actually a cave there. So we're gonna do the Crystal Cave this summer. There's a cave there?

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I guess so. I have never been to Putin Bay. I know. I know. I don't know how I can claim to be an Ohio and then I've been.

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I don't like fun usually, and I've been to Putin Bay.

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I don't know why. I don't know how I've missed this.

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Yeah, really.

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But I it's just yeah, add that to my Ohio bucket list. Are you even an Ohioan? You should see Josh's eyes right now. The disappointment is intense. I'm not mad. I am disappointed. Then you go to the wilds and then I'll go to Putin Bay.

SPEAKER_01 6:26

I don't know, fleas. Um last text. This one kind of broke my heart, and Dylan even admitted that it would make producer Mike sad, which it did. He said, I've never been to Cedar Point, and I don't have any plans to go. Man, you're missing out, Dylan. Come on.

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Maybe his tummy gets all twisty.

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Which is fair.

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Maybe the corkscrew is does not treat him well. And that one beats your head back and forth. It does, yeah. It really hurts. One ride and concussion immediately. We didn't help Dylan at all in this conversation.

Kittenfishing And Dating Profile Lies

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News that'll make you go.

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Wait, wait, wait. What?

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All right, we're gonna bring in our resident Gen Z for this one, Hannah.

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Okay.

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Producer Mike. Hi. Do you know what kitten fishing is? Kitten fishing. Kitten fishing.

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We're not talking about Hannah's cat here. We are.

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No, no, not fish the cat. It is related to cat fishing.

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Okay, and that's like on dating apps where somebody creates completely fake identity. And blah, blah, blah. All right. So this is gentler, but still, and I am educating a Gen Z right now. I love this. Everyone needs to pay attention.

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That's crazy.

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Mark it down on your calendars at home. Not that it matters, but I'm teaching a Gen Z. I'm open to learning. I'm ready to learn something. Kitten fishing is little lies on your dating profile.

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Oh, like somebody who's like 5'11 rounding up to six foot. That's it.

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Or somebody who's 511 rounding down. Uh the weight. Um, slightly adjusting your age, saying your degree is from a prestigious university when in reality you took one online course there and that's it.

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I think my favorite thing, because yes, in my 20s, I was on some dating app. Sure. Nothing wrong with a dating app. Right. Was like uh someone would say they're super into hiking, and really it just meant like they'd go on walks. It's like, what do you mean you're into hiking?

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I parked far away from the front door of Walmart. Right. I love hikes.

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But it's called kitten fishing.

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It's called kitten fishing because it's not as full grown as a cat, I guess, apparently. Okay. Producer Mike, back to what you said. I'll be honest, when I saw kitten, I was hoping for more cat content on Hannah's Instagram. All right, Hannah on the radio. Fish, her cat, is a star. We love him. Go watch go watch his stuff, but go watch Hannah's stuff too, because it's also really good. And it is not kitten fishing, so you can do it. It's okay.

The Grossest Thing Found In Food

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I am so glad this is not my story. But first, what have you found in your food?

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Ugh.

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I mean, it's so early for this conversation.

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Anytime is a good time. Oh, God. And it's not a hair. I'm just saying a hair is its own category of conversation. That's so disgusting. We'll set that aside. Uh you got like the classic stories of the live frog inside the sealed bag of salad.

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I love that that's considered now a classic story. Can we get out of here, please? That should not be a norm in Sad Laver.

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But today, today we get to hear about a man who said he started to feel queasy shortly after he bit into a sandwich. But it was only later when he cut more slices from the loaf of bread he discovered.

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Oh, I'm so scared.

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A mouse.

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No!

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Baked in the bread.

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No!

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It's a good day when I can make Hannah go.

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You're telling me that he took a bite of a dead mouse.

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No, he took a bite of a loaf of bread with a dead mouse in it. So that's what that's what he found.

SPEAKER_08 10:11

I mean repulsive, but I thought you meant it was somehow in his hands.

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No, no, no. No, he did not bread. He did not consume any parts of said mouse. Okay, it's so gross. But it was baked throughout. It had the essence of dead mouse of gus gus.

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Oh, gus gus!

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What is in it? Cinderelli, Cinderelli!

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Oh how?

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How? Well, I don't want to know how because I also don't want to know where, because I just don't want to know. Okay. What'd you find in your food? Um, call or text uh 800-609-1049.

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You're gonna squish the baby! I am not. I am nowhere near you. When have you unknowingly endangered your child? Call 800-609-1049. Okay, not really, but kinda.

Bear The Puppy Learns To Hurdle

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So you may know by now, I have a puppy named Bear. He is nine months old, and he is 102 pounds.

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Yeah, that's man size.

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And he is still growing.

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Golly.

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Well, this horse-sized dog loves to chase his cat brother named Fish. There's a lot going on. So Fish and Bear run around the house having the time of their lives. It's great until this week. Okay. Fish can typically escape Bear by jumping on the couch and he runs down the back of it and gets away his freedom. He loves it.

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Much smaller, much more agile.

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He loves to taunt Bear that way. He thinks it's really funny. Well, that is no longer because Bear has discovered that he can jump. He can hurdle from the back side of the couch. Like no cushions. The back side of the couch. He hurdles over this couch.

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So standing broad jumping jump over the couch.

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Over the couch. Like, I don't know, is it the moose that jumps over the moon or the cow that jumps over the moon? Whatever it is. It's a cow.

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You have a baby coming. You need to know this. But that's another conversation for another day.

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That is Bear now, the dog. He has learned that he can hurdle the couch and he lands on the couch.

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On the cushions.

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And most recently, on me. No, no, come on. Luckily, it was just luckily, it was my shoulders and head. Luckily, not my pregnant belly.

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Right there on you.

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I know, but I looked at my husband and I was like, this has got to stop. Because it's it's funny now until there's like a little baby sitting there when you're napping and do that.

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Or someone sitting and holding the child. Or you've just tucked him away there on the couch before he can roll off.

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I know. Yeah, embarrassing. Now bear, fish, and my husband Chris think it's the funniest thing.

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Well, that's a problem.

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And good thing this couch is old because it's getting some wear and tear. But Chris looks at Bear, looks at the couch, looks at Bear, looks at the couch, and goes, eh, we'll get a plant. Like somehow that's gonna stop this soon-to-be 140-pound dog from hurtling.

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That's better than my idea. I was thinking, can you strap a baby gate to the top of the room?

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Oh no, we might need to. Like at a sporting event. Like we need the nets, like at a baseball game. I don't know. I already knew I was going to be a helicopter mom. This is making it 10 times worse.

Embarrassing Moments We Cannot Forget

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You know, going through an embarrassing moment is one thing. Having to go back to the scene of the crime and relive it is something else entirely. So you can share your most embarrassing moment, or one of them. Please do call or text 800-609-1049. Hannah, I'm reliving it tonight.

SPEAKER_07 13:49

No, why?

SPEAKER_05 13:50

Because I'm going back to freshman orientation for college.

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Ooh.

SPEAKER_05 13:55

My son is uh going to the place where my wife and I went to school, and his freshman orientation is today and tomorrow, and they have a portion for parents, and since we live nearby, we're gonna go. Which is great, but But I am reminded of when I was a mere 18-year-old, didn't know anything from anything, and um, like the first time on this campus, there's there's a big meeting in the cafeteria. Okay, and there's a ton of us in there, and they've got one of their singing groups from the student body, you know, like they're doing this whole thing.

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Sure, sure.

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And uh, and they're getting ready to perform a song. And I look at my watch and I'm like, man, I gotta get out of here because I had to go do a radio thing since I was going into the radio program. Yeah, that makes sense. I didn't want to walk out in front of everybody, that'd be rude. So I'm like, oh, sweet, there's doors like right back here. So I went to the door.

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Oh no, oh no. I see where this is going. Completely missed. Was there a big red sign? Yeah. Oh no, John.

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So now, in a quiet, solemn moment before they begin singing, I opened the door. Everybody in the entire place is like, whoo! They turn their heads and they're looking at me. And then not only did everyone see me, I still had to walk out in front of everyone while they found some security person to turn off the alarm.

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Stop it!

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I left and I still heard it woo-woo over the horizon as I walked away to the radio station.

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You may already know this about Josh, but in case you don't, he is an introvert. He doesn't want the attention of the people.

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No, I don't know.

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This is your worst nightmare and you truthfully have never forgotten it.

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I tried to slink every time, and I've been back to this cafeteria a few times. I look at the door and I'm like, doggone you.

SPEAKER_08 15:42

Oh I mean, it doesn't matter like how outgoing or extroverted or anything that you are, that that would haunt you for life.

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Yeah. Yeah, and then just combine the fact that the last thing I want is everyone looking at me after I've done a dumb thing.

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Did you have any friends who were able to tell you kind of what happened afterwards? Nope. No, you just walked out and said, I don't want to know.

SPEAKER_05 16:05

No, see, the thing is, one of the singers was at that point, uh, she wasn't my wife yet, but was my wife's boyfriend at the time. So I I could have found out. I didn't want to find out.

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You don't need to know.

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So share, share your embarrassing moment because I my heart is racing right now. Call or text 800-609-1049. Everybody's had an embarrassing moment, so you gotta get it off your chest. I I wish it would help you feel better. It won't help other people. I get to go back to the scene of a crime, uh, the embarrassing crime. Uh I'm going back to freshman orientation at the same college I went to because my son's going there, and I I accidentally set off an alarm because I tried to go out an emergency door, I was trying to slink away and just be like sneak, not sneaky, but like not an interrupting. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 16:55

Right.

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And I instead I interrupted in the worst way possible and didn't see the enormous red sign that said, Don't exit! I was like, There's freedom. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 17:05

Oh my word.

SPEAKER_05 17:06

So mine, um, you can uh you can share yours when you call or text 800-609-1049.

SPEAKER_08 17:12

So mine was more recent. It was actually just this past spring.

SPEAKER_05 17:16

Oh really?

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Yeah.

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So this isn't even the Hannah we didn't know. This is the Hannah we know.

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And it was at one of the River Ladies' nights. Okay. And it was my first true encounter with pregnancy brain because I went up on stage and all of our friends, all my friends, the River family, are amazing and we're so sweet and understanding.

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These nights are awesome.

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But I went up there with the microphone, trying to just say, hey, like intermission

Pregnancy Brain On A Microphone

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is starting, be back in 10 minutes. I was trying to give them what time. So I was counting forward 10 minutes, right? Yeah, right. Couldn't do it. What do you mean you couldn't do it? I somehow first said 10 minutes behind the clock. Then I'm just staring at the clock, going, How do I add 10 to like 807? So how do the number and I'm saying this all out loud.

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So you're the you're the confused face meme with like the math equations in the back.

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Like you're just going, uh I'm looking at the River family. These ladies are so sweet. They're all like, you got it. You can do it. And while they were so kind, I walked off that stage, sweating and going, my brain is oozing out of my ears.

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You.

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I know. Like, what just happened? And as you can tell, I'm still thinking about it. Her face is so red right now.

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I know.

SPEAKER_08 18:34

This is nuts. By the way, next Lady's night's coming in September. We'll be on the lookout.

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All right, and we'll do our best to count time better than last time.

SPEAKER_00 18:43

Yeah, oh my word.

SPEAKER_05 18:44

Cindy, thank you for calling. What was your embarrassing moment?

SPEAKER_00 18:47

My embarrassing moment was when I was at church one Sunday morning and the pastor had to announce that their keys in their car. But not only did they leave their keys in the car, they left the car running.

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Okay.

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So getting up, and I waited as long as I possibly could, but yeah, everybody knew when I stood up and just so happens you just you stand up like, I actually need to go to the bathroom, everyone.

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But then that's an embarrassing moment. If you try to see you were you were sunk.

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Have people given you a hard time about it since? Oh, oh yeah.

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I'm trying to think. Were you in a hurry? Were you late or were you just distracted? Was there a child involved? What happened?

SPEAKER_00 19:31

You know, I wish I could save up my children were grown. Um, it was just my husband and I.

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You were just so excited to start worshiping the Lord. Wait, are you blaming Jesus? And you can't blame Jesus.

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Just thinking. Just thinking. I was just thinking.

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That's scary. Just thinking. Getting accused of using AI when you didn't is this century's version of a witch allegation.

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She's a witch!

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Just thinking. The pollen is so thick. I coughed up two daffodils this morning. Like a hairball. Just thinking. I have all the ingredients to make dinner, but I don't have the

Just Thinking One Liners

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person I was when I bought them.

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Yeah, I that is so true. There's no food. Yeah, there is. Just thinking.

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It is so hot. I just walked outside and ran into Shadrach, Meeshack, and Abendigo.

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And good friends check in on their friends and gotta see how things are going. And so, producer Mike, how are you doing, man? We're coming up on a year of you living in Ohio. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:00

So that's exciting.

SPEAKER_05 21:01

It's been a minute since we talked about apartment life and all the different things that you get yourself involved in. And so I just want to check in.

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How's it going? Well, right now, I'm in a season where there's a lot of change on the horizon. I could tell you're stressed, you've been sick a bunch. Uh-oh.

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You need to get more sleep and eat vitamin C,

Producer Mike Faces A Big Move

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bruh. Yeah. Anyway. What is what's the change? What's going on?

SPEAKER_01 21:25

So this like summer season, my roommate, he's been, you know, looking for new jobs. Okay. And they have some place that hired him, which I'm like, that's really exciting. That is. That's a win. So that's super cool. Fantastic. Here's the thing, though, it's halfway across the country. So he's like moving, moving. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 21:46

Well, and he's not just your roommate. He's one of your closest friends.

SPEAKER_01 21:49

Yeah, we've been friends since freshman year of college. Oh, geez. We were on the same floor together. We've been a part of the same friend group for years. And so it's gonna be weird not having him around. Yeah. For sure.

SPEAKER_05 22:00

And it's you're gonna miss him a lot, not only because of the relationship you have, but because he's super tall and like you can't you literally can't miss him.

SPEAKER_01 22:08

You can't miss him unless you're gonna be the man is six five. Jeez. Yeah. Um, but the awesome thing about this is that even though it's you know a lot of change, I've seen God working through this season and he already has provided me with a new roommate. A friend of mine from church has been wanting to move out of his parents' house, and he was like, All right, I'm just gonna wait until I get out of student debt. Just a couple months ago, he got out of student debt.

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Love to hear it.

SPEAKER_01 22:39

I'm like, that's awesome. Another thing, too, is we found an apartment in a complex that my friends had lived in previously, and so that I was familiar with. I'd been over there a bunch of times and even stayed there, and they had an apartment that became available within our price range like the day before my lease ends. Are you serious? I'm like, oh my goodness, uh, this could not be any more divinely orchestrated right now.

SPEAKER_05 23:07

God is he is at work writing this part of the story, like and it's all really good stuff. I mean, you're gonna miss your friend, but a great opportunity for him, and then you get this brand new experience also with a friend, and so next steps, um, it look like they're being set out in front of you.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

That's absolutely amazing. It's a it's just incredible because with the big transition, it's amazing to know that God is the constant in all of that change. And I've just been reminding myself of uh Romans 8.28 and how God promises that he will work all things for my good.

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Sometimes it's God's plan not to take away the fire, but instead to walk with you through it. In the Bible, in Isaiah chapter 43, starting at verse 2, notice this. I was listening to a sermon and it pointed this out to me. In this passage, it states, when you multiple times, not what if. So when you go through tri trials, because it's

God With Us In The Fire

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gonna happen. When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire, the flames will not be able to consume you.

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These are the promises of God we don't want to remember. But he promised us we were gonna have struggle.

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We don't love the when you.

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Yeah.

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But why won't things these things consume you? Because Jesus will be with you.

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There's the one that we like.

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Yes. When Jesus is holding your hand and telling you, no, no, no, I'm not gonna take this out of your life yet. You've got something to learn through it, but I will get you to the other side. There is power there, there is hope there, and this is because Jesus is king, because he doesn't just rescue you from every hard thing, he rules over it even while you're in it. Nothing you're walking through is outside of his authority. And nothing that you're going through catches him off guard. So if you feel like you're in the fire right now, you're not forgotten, you're held. And the same God who says when you will also make sure you don't walk through this alone, and we'll make sure that he is with you every single step of the way.

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