From Saul to Paul: God will step in if He has to

Show open and guest band introduction

The hosts open the show from Lowe Street Studios on Des Moines Amplified, noting a short technical delay. They welcome the band By It's Right Name, in the studio to play a couple of songs and sit in for discussion.

Name banter and the 'Jimmy' gag

A running bit begins: the hosts keep calling a band member 'Jimmy' even though it is not his real name. This spirals into banter about being bad with names, a Wheel of Fortune anecdote involving Pat Sajak, and one host's habit of calling his wife 'the woman' rather than her name.

Coworker shoots a rabbit in the city with a bow and arrow

A host tells a story about a coworker (misnamed 'Jimmy' in the bit) who shot a live rabbit inside Ankeny city limits with a hunting bow and arrow, brought it to work in his lunch pail, and stunk up his house cooking it. The hosts joke about off-season rabbit bacteria, surviving in the wild, and whether it was a neighbor's pet.

Wilderness survival challenge and Jonah

• Could you survive in the wild with just one left shoe, a toothpick, and a bottle of nose spray?

A host is challenged to survive in the wild with only one left shoe, a toothpick, and a bottle of nose spray; he describes luring in-season rabbits with nose spray, smashing them with the shoe, and eating them raw. The bit pivots to Jonah and the whale — the hosts joke about Jonah living inside the whale with full access to its recent meals.

Dead-fish Godfather prank, a raccoon accident, and the chat

Asked whether they have eaten land creatures, the band members mostly decline; one host recounts a Godfather-style prank where he left a dead fish and a cut-out magazine ransom note ('Levi sleeps with the fishes') on a friend's doorstep. A band member confesses to accidentally running over a baby raccoon after an all-night dance marathon, and a chat participant ('I Like Cheese') claims to have run over a monkey in Costa Rica.

Gold buying, Kiss coins, and the case against gold

The hosts mock the rabbit-shooter's plan to buy financed Kiss-stamped gold coins as a hedge against the American dollar. Ben (named in the audio as the finance-world person) is asked to weigh in; the hosts riff on the buy-high-sell-low cycle of gold ads, concluding that in a real collapse food and ammo beat gold bars.

'Digging in the Sky' live performance and CD release promo

By It's Right Name plays 'Digging in the Sky' live in the studio. The band promotes their debut album 'Hearsay', out Friday, with a release show at the House of Bricks on East Grand Avenue (doors at 5, $5 entry, $5 CD, first 11 people get a free CD), with opening bands The Estate and Redwood and Ivory.

Band name origin: Jephilus to By It's Right Name

• Where did the band name By It's Right Name come from?

The band explains their former name 'Jephilus' — a nickname a friend Ivan gave a member named Jared after watching HBO's Rome — and their current name, taken from the film Into the Wild: before dying, the man in the wild concludes happiness is only real when shared and begins 'calling things by its right name.' A host interprets it as seeing things as they truly are, by their true identity rather than by labels.

The two-train algebra problem

• Two stations A and B are 2,000 miles apart with trains at 200 mph; the B train leaves two hours early — how long does the A train travel before they meet?

A host poses an algebra challenge from a nursing student's homework: stations A and B are 2,000 miles apart, trains run 200 mph; the B train leaves two hours before the A train — how long must the A train travel before they meet? Listeners and chat get 15 minutes; Joel Kahn (chat) is barred from answering early. Background math music: 'Supper Time' by Blue Lou Morton.

School discipline stories while the math cooks

While everyone works the problem, the hosts and band trade school stories: names on the board, a checkmark for throwing a shoe in the garbage, tripping a kid who broke his glasses, a blind date vomiting eggs and sausage on Don Johnson-style white pants at Adventureland, and a teacher catching kids throwing water balloons from Southeast Polk High School's third-floor balcony.

Answer reveal, the Dan drawings, and 'The Dan' alter ego

Answers come in: AJ gets 4 hours; Jimmy's page of algebra yields '1980' and '1.21 gigawatts'; chat's Gracious Mimi offers 8.75, 6.52, 3.33, and 12.22. The correct answer — four hours — is explained step by step. Meanwhile everyone draws pictures of 'The Dan,' one host's childhood imaginary superhero alter ego, and a host jokes that Jesus could call 'Dan Hudson' to stop preaching and conduct trains instead.

'Face to Face' live performance and aftermath

The band plays 'Face to Face' (off 'Hearsay') live in the studio; a host joins in and afterward compares his performance to 'that drunk guy at the soccer game' who switches to a vuvuzela. The hosts re-plug the House of Bricks show and haggle comically over a free CD.

How the band formed

The band recounts starting in a youth-group worship band, then a band called Key to the City that played 'Spear Midwest' two years earlier; lineup changes and college departures led them to recruit the speaker's little brother Jared. They have been By It's Right Name since last November/December and are excited to release the CD.

What 'Face to Face' is about

The band explains 'Face to Face' as their anthem: coming face to face with problems, the creator, love, or death reveals your true identity — 'face to face, I lose my place, but on gentle wings of grace, you come.' The chorus's point: face to face with the creator, he sees you 'by your right name.'

Rename the host, 'The Gaff,' and Point of Grace worship days

• What would you name me if you didn't know my name?

Playing on the band-name theme, a host asks what the band would name him without knowing his name; answers include 'Jephilus, warrior of the microphone,' 'Eddie,' and 'Gaffney.' One host decides he wants to be called 'The Gaff' — a guy with high-school sports glory — and spins a filler backstory. The band notes some members still play worship at Point of Grace church on Sunday nights for high schoolers.

Wildlife invasion stories and checkers filler

• If you find a raccoon in your attic, what would you do?

Animal stories pile up: a possum 'playing possum' under a deck after a dog attack (the host debates running it over vs. beating it with a stick for 45 minutes before it walks off), a live-trapped possum released in a cornfield, a raccoon in the attic caught on webcam and finished with a pellet gun, a bat bounced between tennis rackets, a father-in-law's smashed bat that vanished, a kendo-sword bat kill, and the moose loose in Altoona ('Maxwell the mousse') — prompting the joke that 'the Dan' should be called in. Filler includes a checkers quiz and the invention of 'Hungry Hungry Dan.'

The Gaff's lacrosse glory story

• What dramatic high-school sports moment earned 'The Gaff' his nickname?

Ben (self-named in the audio) tells the invented origin of 'The Gaff': the first men's lacrosse team at his high school loses everyone but him to a kayaking accident, the women's team fills in, and in the final he dodges two guys, gets the 'ooskies' from Big Barb (the homecoming queen), sweeps her leg, collides with an opponent, blacks out, and celebrates a goal that doesn't count because the play was whistled dead. Barb then gives him 'the gravies' and his lacrosse career ends.

Oosk and gravy etiquette

The hosts define the 'oosk' (fake a yawn, jab the armpit) and the 'gravy/gravies' (tap the back of the knee so it buckles), debate how to strut away after a double 'oosk-gravy,' stage a WWF fantasy of Dusty Rhodes gravying Hulk Hogan, check Urban Dictionary (which defines oosk as 'to get dominated beyond belief') and Wookieepedia (an 'Oosk' arm-wrestled a Wookiee), and find a 'Pat Oosk Egger' on Facebook to friend.

Band business: shows, the gold minute, goals, a van, and a venue

• What do you think about gold as an investment right now?
• What is the band's ultimate goal?

The band discusses booking one to three shows a month through December, day jobs, and one member's Iowa State finance-and-MIS studies — prompting 'the gold minute with Ricky,' a hedged take that gold is solid unless it goes down. Their stated goal: make a substantial living doing what they love, with the music becoming famous rather than themselves. A host offers to lend them Mike's van and mentions a secret building being developed as a band venue.

Owls, the attic zoo, loofahs, and YMCA showers

A band member recalls living in a blue house in the Drake neighborhood with seven guys, owls outside his attic room, and squirrels 'oosking' on a branch. With two minutes left the hosts admit 'we've done nothing really spiritual tonight,' tease next week's topic (serving God) and a 'man show' on the role of men in three weeks, then fill time debating loofah hygiene and a host's disgust at public YMCA showers.

Sign-off and show plugs

The hosts thank By It's Right Name, re-plug the Friday House of Bricks show ($5 in, 5 o'clock, $5 CD — haggle to $4.50), and give the weekly plugs: livefromthepath.org, the newsletter, info@livefromthepath.org, and the YouTube channel. The show airs Mondays 10 to midnight on Des Moines Amplified.