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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Monday, November 9th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
A lively Monday morning debate over whether it’s too soon for Christmas music, good news for Movember and Men’s Health Month, the frustrations of doctor portals, the end-of-year scramble over deductibles, flex spending and PTO, a staring contest with their Jack Russell, a drift boat that may not be built for napping, a round of bad marriage advice, why it’s hard for couples to make friends as adults, our kids’ friendship and a Star Wars marathon, road trip snack disagreements, a shy 3D-printing trinket maker, a showdown between cookies and donuts, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Christmas music
(4:42) - Strange body parts
(8:38) - Good News
(11:07) - Doctor portals
(16:35) - Dog blinks
(19:48) - Sittin' in the boat
(26:28) - Opposite marriage advice
(30:20) - Adult friends
(35:19) - Our kids are BFFs
(39:17) - Chantel's terrible snacks
(41:41) - Panda trinket
(43:59) - Tripping on entry
(46:32) - Would You Rather
(49:34) - PTO
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Full show transcript:
What day is it?
It is Monday.
It is November 9th.
9th.
Yeah.
How much Christmas music did you hear over the weekend?
Every story I went into it felt like had some Christmas music.
I felt the, I was feeling the Christmasy vibes.
It's too soon.
You were not into it?
It's too soon.
Because here's why and I'll tell you why.
Why?
Why is it?
Tell me why.
Christmas is at the end of the month of December.
That is true.
And if you start Christmas music at the beginning of December, that's still a month's worth
of Christmas music.
That's true.
And again, there are like, I would say 20 Christmas songs that just regurgitated into
a different form.
It's a different singer.
It's maybe a different beat.
But it's not enough.
It's not enough Christmas music to last a month.
Yeah.
I'm animated.
Yeah, I can tell.
I have to disagree with it.
I disagree with your disagreement.
Okay.
Healthy.
Here's what I'm going to do because I have the technology to do this.
I am pulling up the Christmas library and I am doing an analysis on the number of songs.
There are in our library for Christmas music 132 unique titles, not 20.
132.
Sorry, is that unique titles?
That doesn't necessarily.
So what I'm saying is there are six versions of Slayride.
There are six versions of Winter Wonderland.
Five versions of Frosty the Snowman.
Holdlings 132 unique song titles, not 20.
Why does it feel like there's only 20 Christmas songs?
Because you only know 12.
And I'm not trying to be a Bahung Bug because I really like Christmas and I get into it.
But it's too soon and I'll tell you what else.
By the time Christmas rolls around you've heard the same Christmas songs over and over.
I don't disagree.
And you're over it.
And I don't want to be burnt out by Christmas before you feel the spirit of Christmas.
I get it.
I understand.
Well, it's too soon.
I'm not tired about it.
Straight up, we're going to play Christmas music before December 1st.
I know.
So buckle up, Calvary.
I know.
I know.
Get ready, Buckaroo.
I know.
I get it.
I do.
I'm actually, look, I get excited for it.
I do enjoy the warm fuzzies of the Christmas spirit.
I really enjoy a snowy scene.
I do.
When the big flakes are falling, I don't like the cold of winter.
I don't like when it's just cold and windy.
Or that black grass.
Yeah, right?
I don't like when everything is all kind of brown and gray and then all of a sudden everything's
beautiful white and then it melts a little bit and everything turns weird, gray, dirt color.
I don't like all the stuff they spray on the road that gets on my car.
Like I get it.
Like I don't like when they chuck out a bunch of rock and sand for traction and intersections.
Like I don't care for all that in winter.
But man, do I love a snowy scene?
Oh, it's the best.
I like Christmas lights reflecting off the snow.
It feels good.
It feels warm.
It feels cozy and I like that lot.
And I like the little sounds that you get in the Christmas music.
It's different than the music you hear all the rest of the year.
So I get the appeal.
I also understand you can get burned out and I have.
There was the first year I started here before I started.
They had made the decision to start the Christmas music earlier that year because I was going
to be new and starting up and it went forever and ever and ever and ever and ever.
And I went, this is a lot.
It's too much.
This is a lot.
I know.
You know, two full months of it is a lot.
But a month and a few extra days, I'm all into it.
I agree.
I agree, but it's too soon.
November 9th is soon.
Right now and this past weekend and Halloween night, that's too soon.
It's too soon.
I'll tell you.
Listen up.
You can't do any other radio stations.
It's too soon.
You're too early.
You're too early.
You're too early.
Shut it down.
All right.
Hey, let's fire up today.
Show.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Good and Morgan.
Sniffles.
What's up?
Yeah, a little bit.
A little bit.
Why you sniffle?
Just a little bit of morning sniffles.
Oh, is that a thing?
Mm-hmm.
The morning sniffles?
Yeah, do not.
Is that M-O-U-R and I-N-G?
Not morning.
No.
No.
No, these are early in the day sniffles.
Early in the morning?
Yeah.
Where my nose is just waking up.
What?
I also just get cold.
My nose just gets cold, which is why I bought that nose warmer that you hate.
I hate it.
You do hate it.
I don't like to look at you when you're wearing it.
Go on.
You should wear it everywhere.
I can't take you seriously when you're wearing that thing.
I don't want anyone to take me seriously.
No, because then you're like, we need to have a conversation.
And I go, not with that on.
I've never won ever, ever said that.
We got to have a talk.
No, we don't.
Wouldn't be wearing my nose warmer when I said that anyway.
This cold has got to end.
I don't know what to tell you.
No, my nose gets cold and then it gets a little bit runny.
That's all.
I have bad circulation in my extremities.
Nose included.
Yeah, my nose, my ears, my fingers, my toes.
I don't think they consider a nose and extremity.
Yes.
No.
It's a protrusion.
What?
From your body?
My protrusions?
I have poor circulation in my protrusions.
There's a sentence.
It's a strange way to start the day.
Oh, dang it.
Yeah.
In medical and in terms of legs.
The nose is generally not considered an extremity.
Right, because it's not a pro-transition.
It is a projecting part of the face.
A projecting part of the face.
The term extremity specifically refers to a limb or an appendage that extends from the
main trunk of the body.
Wait, no.
A limb or appendage.
That's fun.
From the trunk of the body.
What am I?
A tree?
Hey, listen to this.
No.
The nose, the nose, the ears and the shins are projecting features.
Yes.
Or protrusions.
How about that?
How about it?
Pro-transition.
It's kind of like I know what I'm talking about.
You should listen up more.
What?
So if that's a protrusion, what's a mouth?
Oh.
An intrusion is what it is.
We are riprore in this morning.
I tell you what.
Yep, it's Monday and it is time to talk protrusions.
Yeah, it's just considered an organ.
No.
That's what it says.
A mouth is considered an organ.
I would disagree.
I believe the mouth is a cavity.
And I would say it does say slash cavity.
Yeah.
Organ would be your tongue.
Okay.
Not your mouth.
The mouth is an absence of organ.
It says it's a specialized, a mouth is a specialized gateway.
I don't like that word.
No.
No.
No, thanks.
I will not refer to my mouth as a gateway.
That is strange.
You know if you've got toddlers that you're trying to feed and they won't open their mouth.
Open your gateway.
No.
Don't put that in your gateway.
Let's talk a little bit about some good news.
November is a men's health month or November.
A lot of people will grow a mustache to call attention to men's health, both physical and
mental over the month of November.
Over the weekend, there's a guy named Keegan Efforts from Fargo, North Dakota, who decided
to put together what is called dash for the stash during which he ran 60 miles on his family
farm to raise money for the MoVembror Foundation charity group.
It's a 60 mile run that he did and it represents the 60 men around the world who die by suicide
each hour.
Holy.
Incredible.
It's one per minute.
It's absolutely wild around the world.
So sharing his own personal journey, Keegan hopes to break the stigma surrounding men's
mental health, encouraging guys everywhere to open up and reach out.
He said, "I've gone through some personal struggles and I'm just here to speak about it
and let men know that it's all right to speak about it."
It is okay.
So, yeah.
Find somebody.
Talk about your feelings.
It's okay.
I promise you if you've got a woman in your life, whether it's a mother or grandmother,
a daughter, a wife, a girlfriend, they've
want you to talk to them about your feelings.
Or if you need to have a buddy or a therapist or you need support, let me tell you this,
go to MoVembror.com and they can actually tell you about their mission and everything.
They've got great resources on there that can help you get connected with people and
it's a great, great resource and they also do some really cool stuff like in May, they
do a motorcycle ride every year that's really fun and connect you with people.
There's some great, great things about live chats, things you can reach out to.
Where you can go to get help.
Anyway, MoVembror.com, if you want to learn more about growing a mustache for men's health
in November.
It's early.
It's the ninth.
There's a lot of time to get involved with a mustache, wear a mustache, or, you know,
actually talk to somebody and get some mental health.
Do it all.
Yeah.
Anyway, that is good news.
Let's talk Dr. Portals.
Okay.
You're talking about like when a doctor's office has an app or some sort of website or something
you can go on to check things.
Is that what you're talking about?
Yeah.
That's exactly what I'm talking about.
Okay.
What else would I be talking about?
I don't know.
Okay.
Every doctor has a portal.
You go to the doctor and they go, "Oh, you can check that on the portal.
You can get your lab work.
You can refill your prescriptions."
And I think it's a great idea because it's easy to refill prescriptions and it's easy
to see your appointments.
Sure.
So I like it for the ease of information.
Okay.
I guess.
Every doctor has a portal.
And even at the doctor, I went to just the other day.
They were like, "Oh, you can check that on our portal."
And I go, "I didn't even know you had a portal.
You have a portal too?"
Everybody does.
Every doctor has a portal.
I'm over the portals.
Every restaurant has an app.
That's true.
So why wouldn't every doctor have a portal?
That's true.
Doesn't that make sense?
It makes sense.
Are you going to be using our app?
Are you checking in with our app to earn rewards?
They all say, "I just want to order."
Can I just get a chicken nugget?
Is it that big of a deal?
Why do I have to have your app to get a nugget?
No.
Stop tracking everything I do.
Yeah, actually.
Yeah.
Actually.
Actually.
Unless I'm earning rewards at a place I frequent and then I'm into it.
And then you can just hit the order again and it just lets you put it all in your basket.
That is kind of nice, isn't it?
Were you just checking your doctor portal?
No.
I thought you were on your phone checking your portal.
It's been a minute since I've checked my portal.
Nope.
If nothing to check in my portal, everything's a-okay in there as far as I know.
I do probably have to get my, I think, December.
I think next month is when I go in for my wellness.
Go do it.
So down.
I was just going to say we hit our deductible.
Oh, yeah.
He's been-I have to do that every year.
It's taken care of by insurance.
I know.
You're well in this business or taking care of.
Right.
Okay.
I don't even remember.
Here's the problem with the portals.
Okay.
I don't remember which doctor is in what portal?
Oh.
Because it's not just called doctor-so-and-so's portal.
Newfinchmarts.
Dr. Doofinchmarts?
Yeah, that's from-no, I know it's from Finnie's in Furb.
I didn't know he was a real practicing doctor and that you were seeing him and that he had
a portal.
All of the things.
Wow.
So I always have to ask you, what's our doctor portal called?
I don't even know.
Yeah, I know, see?
Yeah.
I wish you could rename the app.
Now that's an idea.
Let me rename my app.
I found it.
There it is.
Okay.
Are you logging in?
Yes?
What do you hope to find out?
No, no, I was just going to look-I haven't been there for a minute, so I was just going to
see if there was new information.
Maybe the doctor emailed me and was like, hey, just checking in.
You sure a great patient.
Oh, is that right?
You should send notes like that.
Like, doctor note.
Except here I got-I got a login with a pin and my pin is usually four numbers, but this
one is six numbers.
Oh, what have you done?
I don't know.
If it's six numbers, it's probably your birthday.
Probably.
Let's look.
Nope.
Nope.
What did you do?
I don't know.
No, I'm never going to like into my portal.
It was my birthday.
No, kiddin'.
[laughs]
Okay, that's it.
Any time, you have to do a pin number that's six numbers.
People use their zip code is five.
Your birthday is six.
Well, or-
Well.
Six in-or eight, depending.
If you do it-
Yeah, I guess if you do it-
Zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero.
Yeah, that's eight zeroes.
Yeah, I know.
You said six.
That's why I'm saying-
I know.
Depending on if you need the 19, oh, get out.
I know.
The 19.
Or the-
Or the 20, depending on how young you are.
Yeah, I know.
Mine starts with the 19.
Because you were born in the late 1900s.
[laughs]
You old woman.
Hey.
Hey.
[laughs]
So was I.
My point was you didn't say month, month, day, day, year, year, year, year.
You just said eight zeroes.
[laughs]
Yep, that's eight zeroes.
[laughs]
I was doing it in-
No, I know what you were doing.
Zero, zero.
Right, month, month, day, day, day, day, four.
Four years.
I know.
[laughs]
I don't know if you can count eight zeroes.
Anyway.
[laughs]
Well-need.
Uh, anything new in your portal?
You already logged off.
No, I can't.
I got locked out.
Oh, no.
[laughs]
[music]
I was having a stare down with the dog in the kitchen the other day because I didn't know
what she wanted.
She doesn't use her words.
No.
Well, she does.
She goes, "Ruff, ruff."
Yeah.
What?
She just looks at you.
Yeah.
And then when you just stare at her, then she was, "Ruff."
You know, like, you didn't say anything.
I don't know what you want.
Right.
And so I was just staring at her and she was staring back and then she just kept kind of
blinking or she wasn't blinking at first.
Just staring.
Just staring and I go, "Let's have a stare down."
She won because she wasn't blinking and then I went, "What's the story behind dogs blinking?"
Well.
She looked it up.
Just like humans, they blink to shed, spray tears and clean away dust and debris.
But they blink about 12 times per minute.
I don't remember how much humans do.
But the next, also, will mirror blinking when they see dogs or other humans blink, similar
to humans yawning and then that triggers response and other people.
Sure.
If they do a slow, gentle blink, that's a sign of affection or trust.
Oh.
Because the other day she was standing there, like sitting in the kitchen and we were looking
at her, like, "What are you doing?"
And then she started like, slow blinking like she was falling asleep, sitting there.
And I was like, "Dude, if you are that tired, go to your bed."
Like, "Why are you sitting here in the kitchen, like, struggling to be awake?"
Because she feels like she has to protect us.
The dog needs to go to bed.
She's like, "Who's gonna protect you?"
I just feel so tired.
I go to bed.
Weirdo?
Like, is our dog a weirdo?
I don't know, but we always get the weirdest dogs from the shelter.
Yeah.
This is the second weird dog we've gotten from the shelter.
It's the second dog we've ever had.
And both of the dogs we've had have been strange little animals.
Very unique little person, actually.
I love them because of their quirkiness.
But I also am annoyed by their quirkiness a lot at the time.
They're nuts.
They are nuts.
I don't understand.
Last night, the dog was laid across the couch with the chest part of her body.
And she's a small jack Russell.
But it was stuck in the couch.
And she was like stretched out, but her knees were like, up.
She looked like a weird chicken.
And then I was like, "Why do you look like that?"
And I'm talking to her.
She just stretched out further and went long dog on the couch.
And I went, "What are you?
You're so weird.
Don't get it.
Why are you the way you are?"
I don't know.
If you try to have a stare down contest with the dog, they'll win though.
That's what I know.
She will win.
She was pretty good at stare off.
Okay.
Unless you stare long enough, she starts falling asleep in which case you win.
Because her eyes will shut.
She'll be sitting there with shut eyes.
But weirdo.
You had me go sit in your boat yesterday.
Okay.
You said, "You gotta sit in it.
You gotta at least come sit in it."
Yeah.
Well, it's still on the trailer.
It was on the trailer.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It wasn't in the water.
But I was doing some work in the boat.
And I was tidying some things up.
I was trying to get boat ready because here's the thing.
You can float even in the snow as long as the water is flowing.
You can float.
I know that sounds cold.
I'm not counting me out on those days.
Okay.
I'm just saying you can float even in a cold weather because as long as the water is moving,
you can put a boat in it.
No, I know.
And the fish are still fishing.
So you know what I mean?
Well, the fish are still swimming.
Doesn't mean they're going to be biting when you got it.
They've got to eat every day.
I don't have feathers and thread and fur.
That's what's on my hook.
Okay.
You know what I mean?
When you said that, it sounds like whatever you got on your, like I got a worm.
No, no, no.
I just mean like you said fish are biting.
Fish are.
Fish are.
That's right.
You can still go fishing.
It doesn't necessarily mean they're going to be eating.
You're going to be catching them.
Well, you're just trying to be mean to me.
I'm trying to question my fishing abilities.
No, it wasn't that at all.
You wanted me all weekend.
We went out and have this weekend.
I've been thinking about the boat all week of such a great boat weekend.
And you apologize a couple of times.
You're like, I'm sorry we didn't go out on the boat.
And I'm like, it's all good.
Like it's, I still have more preparation to do with the boat.
I have to get a life jacket for you.
Like there's a few things that have to happen.
Right.
But yeah, all week had even like, oh, got to take the boat.
We got to take it out the boat.
I'm like, I didn't even say it that much.
No, you didn't.
I probably said it one time.
I know.
I probably said it more because I knew that you were probably thinking about it.
And so I'm like, I know we should have, because the weather is getting colder and colder.
So these days are slipping by the warm boat days.
Yeah, but like all week is boat weather.
Like we can go every day after work.
Anyway.
So yeah, I said, you got to come try out the chair at least because I had to drain it a little
bit.
I had a couple of things I had to do.
I work on the anchor rope and I was, so I was like, I had to cover off.
I'm like, you got to come and sit in the seat because you're trying to figure out if it's
going to be comfortable enough to nap in.
Yeah.
Because that's what I'm going to be doing on the boat.
Right.
Right.
But you're like, I need to, I need to see this.
And so I said, come get on the boat.
Sit in the seat.
You sat on the front seat facing the wrong direction.
You're like, this feels perched up here.
It was high.
Well, yeah, because you're on the wrong, you were sitting the wrong way and you know, if you
were up on the, on the, the bow of the boat, you'd be fishing and whatever.
But back in the back where you can hang out and kick your feet up a little bit, I think
you got a little cozy.
Yeah.
I think I still don't think that it's napping area.
Okay.
But I don't, this is not, it's not going to be again, I'll say this wasn't the type
of boat I wanted.
This is not the type of boat you wanted.
No, there's nowhere to nap.
What kind of napping boat did you think we would be able to get?
A pontoon.
Not like a fishing pontoon, not like a, a, a, a pontoon.
We went on a really nice, it's aluminum pontoon boat.
Yeah.
And you like that boat because it's like a flat deck.
You can wander around.
It's got cushiony seats.
Yep.
Around the, the sides there.
Yep.
It has a kitchen in it.
Yep.
A bathroom.
It does have a toilet on board.
You have to tell everybody to look away, I guess.
Yeah.
That's the other part.
Where am I supposed to go to the restroom when I'm on this fishing boat?
I'm going to, I'm going to tell you, do you really want to know?
No, I know.
Where?
In the woods.
Yeah, in the woods.
A minimum of 100 feet away from the water.
I know, I know all the rules.
Okay, I'm just, I was sitting in the boat.
I'm looking at this picture.
You took because you're like, that looks perfect.
That looks like a, you look comfortable.
I don't know.
And you also look like you're having a good time.
You kind of tipped your head back like you were a Bronco rider.
Like you were like, oh, I'm a rodeo.
Look at, oh.
I was trying to, I tipped my head back to see like, yeah, if I fall asleep, where's my neck
going to go?
You think your head falls back when you sleep?
Boat.
There it is.
That's what really happens.
I need, so what I need is a neck pillow.
Have one.
So that it can just like, yeah, tip over.
Tip over.
Yeah.
Let's be real.
There's going to be no napping on this boat.
Why?
Reading, perhaps.
I'm thinking you're going to enjoy a nice little pleasure cruise.
It's going to be nice.
You're going to be like, this is lovely because here's the thing.
Once you get away, like when you get down river and you're away from the roads and the
people and you're just in the nature and the eagles are out and all, like, it's awesome.
It's really, really cool.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
And we'll pack a lunch.
It'll be nice.
Yeah.
You got to, you got to bring some snacks, right?
So you can come for sandwiches.
We've already determined.
We have already determined.
I'm going to, I'm going to post this picture of you enjoying the boat.
And I'm going to say, how is one supposed to nap on this?
You look like you're ready.
Mm.
Look, if anyone also naps in a drift boat and you want to reply to this picture with
your photo of you napping in a boat or provide suggestions, it's much appreciated.
Yes.
Because I am going to need all the napping suggestions.
You can nap in the boat.
I've heard, tail.
I fish in the boat.
I haven't napped in the boat.
So I can't say, yeah, I've napped, but I can tell you you can kick back and relax.
Yeah.
Your buddy sent a picture of his wife napping on the boat.
That's right.
It didn't really come to a boat.
It's cold.
What?
It's a tiny year.
What?
Let's get the boat out on the water.
That's what I'm saying.
What kind of bad marriage advice could you give someone?
Bad marriage advice?
Go to bed angry.
I'm just going to turn what they say and make them backwards.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Ignore everybody.
Don't talk about your problems ever.
Never compliment only insult.
What do you?
There is a radio station somewhere else and they have a co-host that's getting married.
So they wanted to offer some bad marriage advice.
Okay.
Okay.
So they always said, they said, always overthink things.
Oh, there you go.
And be mad at your spouse for things that happen in your dreams.
Yeah.
Those are good advice.
Always ask, are you really going to wear that?
That's dangerous.
You chose that, huh?
Or when she comes out and she's like, are you ready to go?
You go, I am, but I don't think you are.
Are you?
That effort really does nothing for your figure.
Boy, that looks like pajamas.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
Okay.
Try to predict what your spouse is going to say and then help them fix the problem.
Before they even explain it to you, you're going to say you finished their sentence, predict
what they're going to say and then finish their sentence before they can end it.
Because that'll, you know, you do that about 10 times.
Somebody's jumping out of the car.
You're going to like this one.
Never forget what your husband did to make you angry and remind him often.
Also, make sure to tell him how to drive.
You'll get used to it.
If you hit a particularly rough spot in your marriage, have a baby or maybe buy a house,
especially a fixer upper, but those things will help any marriage.
Yeah, yeah, move.
Buy heavy furniture and have your spouse help you carry it.
Here's the best one.
Be as irrational as possible.
Leave a notebook of grievances out in the open of small, large, wrong dealings to be easily
found.
Here's my, here's my journal.
Well.
Josh did this today.
I can't stand when Josh does this.
Yeah, I had to take out the garbage.
And then because there's a boat on the side of the house, I can't even take it out the garage.
I have to take it out the front yard, around to the gate and then put it in the garbage can.
So instead of, you know, just moving the boat, it goes on and on.
These are all great advice.
Let's try some of these bad marriage advice.
Sure.
Yeah, get a dog that you don't want.
One of you wants a dog.
One of you doesn't get it anyway.
Get the dog.
One of you wants a boat.
The other one doesn't get a boat.
Now let's be fair.
It isn't that you didn't want the boat.
I didn't want that boat.
Right.
Well, you didn't want that type of boat.
Correct.
This is a good boat, but you didn't want that type of boat.
Well, according to your fishing buddy, it's the Porsche boats.
That is right.
That is the fishing boats.
Excuse me.
You are correct.
He did tell me that.
Wow.
It's the sports car of drift boats and it is the Porsche of fishing boats.
Yeah.
We have a Porsche on the side of the house.
I mean, isn't that nice?
A living luxury.
Actually, yeah.
Did you sit in it?
Yeah, I know you did.
You even sat in the, in the or the or city.
In the captain's chair.
I guess if you want to call it that.
Yeah, that is the captain's chair.
Sure.
That's the last time.
I'm a woman.
That's the last time I'll be sitting in the captain's chair.
Without ores in your hands.
See?
Finish each other's sentences.
It works.
We went to a party with some friends and we happened to meet new people there.
And here's as adults, it's hard to make friends as just yourself.
But when you're trying to make friends with couples, you're trying to make like you and
I are trying to make new friends as coupled to say, hey, you're a cool couple of friends.
Let's go out and do stuff.
That's even trickier because now you don't only have to like make a connection with one person.
You have to make a connection with.
Correct.
This has been a long struggle for decades.
Yeah.
You and I have been together for a long time and it is a challenge because you might like
buddy of mine really enjoyed playing Halo together.
So we were like real connected there.
But you and his wife completely not didn't make a connection.
Right.
It's a challenge.
It is.
And I don't know that it gets easier.
I don't know.
It's it's not like it was when you were a kid and you were like, hey, you were like,
do you want to play?
And it was like, yeah, let's go.
And everybody was on the same page right out the gate.
Yeah, we're going to play hide and seek.
I'm in.
And maybe that's it.
Maybe that's what we need to do.
Hey, who here wants to play hide and seek?
Yeah.
And then you just have a good time.
We didn't try that.
No, we didn't try that.
Right.
Okay, but we did meet a new couple and we were like, hey, you guys are fun and they were
kind of like, you guys are fun.
And then we didn't really see them again.
We met them pretty early on and then we didn't see them again for the rest of the night.
And then later I was like, oh, they were kind of fun.
I'm bummed we didn't really get to see much of them.
But then later in the text group, they were like, hey, you guys were super fun.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You guys are super fun.
So maybe there's they like that blossoming.
Maybe that's the tricky part.
But that's hard.
Yeah, it's hard.
Right.
Because you still got to be like, okay, now I got it like actually talk to you.
Now you got to make plans.
Yeah.
Then you got to like follow through all that stuff.
And then you got to be like, oh, did I have time for that?
Right.
So I have time for a friendship.
Right.
No.
What have I done?
See, it's a weird balance of wanting to have friends and then also not having time for
friends.
Right.
It's a weird thing.
But slam packed, you know, like I don't have time for friends.
Right.
And then days when you're doing nothing and you're like, I wish we had some friends.
Right.
It's exactly right.
So you need on demand friends.
Yeah.
How do you do that?
I don't know.
Because they're scheduled.
They're on demand schedule has to be the same as you're on demand schedule.
Right.
And they're life demands of, you know, family obligations and work stuff and whatever
has to sync up in order for you to play hide and seek.
You know?
You can't get the group together.
That's a mess.
What's a game like when you were in the neighborhood?
Never mind.
You told everybody to go home because they didn't play the way you wanted to play.
Right.
So, but when did you have a group of neighborhood kids that got together?
We had like a group like ten of us.
All the neighborhood kids and we'd meet in the one that had the biggest backyard and
everybody would play around.
It was a good time.
That's cool.
No, I didn't have anything like that.
We'd do night games and we'd do like literally kick the can and we would do tag and hide
and seek games.
We all had forts.
We had big like Nerf battles.
That's cool.
No, I didn't have anything like that.
But I was always outside.
This because you were, you were a rich kid.
You had a lot of...
That is absolutely not true.
You had all those neighborhood friends.
No.
No, we had a bunch of kids who parents said go outside.
So we did.
And then we found each other because we were riding bikes around the block all the time and
then you were like, new kids.
So you'd pull over and you'd start talking and you go, what are you playing?
They'd be like, oh, we're playing Nerf and you were like, I'm in.
Let me go get my stuff.
I'm playing freeze tag.
Yep.
You want to play and I go, is running involved?
Yeah.
You're like, do you guys want to see my barbies?
But you can't touch them.
This is why it's hard to make friends.
I figured it out.
It's me on the problems.
It might be.
It might be.
You guys want to see what's cool?
No, but don't.
No, you can't.
You're not doing it right.
No one plays away.
I like to play.
Oh, man.
Then you're like lonely.
Oh, yeah.
Poor thing.
You're like, except I'm not really lonely because I prefer...
I like my company.
Oh, so they're donating new friends.
One of my most proud achievements, and I can't even really call it my achievement because
I didn't do anything to make it happen, but probably encourage and support it.
But our kids are really good friends.
And when our son moved out, Emory cried and cried and cried and cried.
He was her best friend.
She was going to be so sad and what was she going to do without him?
They spent the weekend.
Yeah, buddy.
Hang it out together.
Play in video games.
Play in video games watching Star Wars?
That's right.
They've started the Star Wars saga, which is huge.
She's never seen it.
And he said, we're going to watch Star Wars.
She has a lot of thoughts about the first one.
I watched New Hope, so they started with episode four, which is very appropriate.
I appreciate that they're doing it in release order because I think that is the best way.
Okay.
I don't like when you start with episode one because I think you get lost in the weeds,
with Clone Wars and all that stuff.
Right.
You know, and Jar Jar Binks and all that.
That's Clone Wars.
So if you start with a new hope, you get the real true experience.
You get to meet Luke and Han and Leia.
She thought it was kind of boring.
Yeah.
And then she said Darth Vader wasn't even scary.
Right.
Wait till she sees Empire.
Anyway, what's going to happen when she sees Empire?
He gets a little bit, a little bit more scary.
Disagree.
He's scary, but he gets a little bit more powerful, quite, quite more powerful.
How about when he takes his helmet off and then you go, what?
What?
What?
Like that.
So anyway, so I think that's exciting.
They ordered pizza.
Yeah.
At one point, they said, hey, if you turn on the oven, be careful.
The pizza is in the oven and I went, pizza is in the oven.
Keeping it warm.
I looked at the pizza boxes last night.
They'd only eat in like two slices.
They got a cheese and a pepperoni.
Interesting.
I mean, they got big pizzas and they'd only eat one or two slices of each.
I will say that I, we came home and there was dirty dishes in the sink.
Surprise.
And the garbage was full.
Surprise.
What in the world?
There was a bunch of blankets on the couch.
But clean up after yourself.
Dirty rotten kids.
You scoundrels.
What do you even do?
Just hanging out.
That was cool.
Pizza cutter in the dishwasher.
Yeah, no, it was left in the sink.
But it is really special.
They have a great relationship and I think that is definitely something to be proud of.
Like they, even growing up, minimal, minimal fighting, like they've been really good buddies.
Then they always, they always look out for each other.
Anytime we were at the store without one of them, it's like, oh, don't forget, like Emory
would be like, can I have a candy?
I might be like, sure.
Then she'd be like, we got to get one for Beck too.
She's always, always looked out for him.
And he has to.
Sure.
But it's so cute.
I just love it.
That's one of the things I'm most proud of as a parent.
And I did nothing to, I have nothing to do with it.
They've done the hard work themselves.
But I just hope it always stays that way, you know?
You know?
I think, you know, I don't foresee a giant betrayal in the future.
Like, you know, I think it would be something like that that would be like a deal breaker.
But I just don't.
They're pretty good buds.
I know.
It's adorable.
Aw.
(laughs)
You give me a lot of grief for the snacks I choose when never we're on a road trip of
any kind.
Because I'll choose like a, like a grandma's oatmeal raisin cookie like that.
Or I'll, like, I'll choose a potato chip.
I'll choose something like that.
And you always, like, just the, the right chips from Gardados.
Yeah.
Yes.
Oh.
The best part.
And you picked those old gross hosted chocolate pies.
Oh, those are so good.
The chocolate pudding pie.
Yeah.
So delicious.
What a treat.
Amazing.
I like a, like an old-fashioned cake donut.
Mm-hmm.
So good.
And you're over here, like, I got these candies and whatever.
Well, listen, what happened this weekend when you decided to pick some snacks and you chose
cheddar jalapeno chickpeas.
Kippies, yes.
Kippies.
Yeah.
You chose wasabi peas.
Yeah.
And you chose pumpkin seeds.
And then at one point, I was like, I should probably get something to snack on.
You're like, I got snacks.
And I went, you got the worst snacks.
You got terrible snacks.
You have, you have an awful snacks.
You have awful snacks.
I picked really good snacks.
Pumpkin seeds.
Yeah.
Delicious.
Crunchy and not, I mean, like a pre-shelled sunflower seeds, I can get behind in a car.
I don't like all the spit.
You got to take them out of the shell.
You got that whole cup of spitty shells.
Gross.
Gross.
It is gross.
So I'm not into that.
And it stinks.
Right.
Or you'll do it in the summertime and you pop them with your teeth and then you'll eat the
seed and then you'll spit the seed out.
Out your open window as you try to gross.
All of the dry grass.
Gross.
Yeah.
It's not a fan.
Yeah.
So I'm not a fan of the shelled seeds of the road trip snack.
You got pumpkin seeds, which also not a fan of the beans.
But you can eat the shell.
Not in sunflower seeds.
What?
Pumpkin seeds you can.
It says shell is edible.
Cool.
No thanks.
And then you got these wasabi peas and you just kept saying you want some of this and I
went, no, I still don't want any of this snack.
I prefer wasabi et amame and I thought that that's what I had picked.
But I think you kept going back and you hear them going like, "Oh, these are good.
Oh, these are good."
Every time you'd eat two of them, you were like, "These are good."
I went, "Yeah, good for you.
Terrible snack."
It's spicy, but they were good.
That's the horse radish, you know.
And I had, so I was eating like a handful of wasabi peas and then I had like a bit of chocolate
and that was kind of a weird but delicious combination.
All right.
What a surprise.
And then you didn't even open the cheddar jalapeno hip peas.
So the one that I might have been into, you were like, "I'm just going to leave that
up in the back seat."
You didn't even say you wanted that.
Hey, hey.
I would have opened that.
That's probably of the three you chose.
That's the better of the three.
But then you did bring along the biscoff chocolate truffles.
Biscoff and Toblerone have created a baby.
And that baby is delicious.
It's so good.
Those are amazing.
It's like when there was that whole commercial about getting your jelly and your peanut butter
and you got your peanut butter in my jelly.
You got your biscoff in my Toblerone and it's amazing.
It's so good.
Those little truffles are dangerous.
They're a good snack, but they have a little fancy dual layered paper.
I feel very, very elite.
Elite.
Yeah, I'm like, "Oh, I'm going to open a fancy Toblerone biscoff situation right now.
They're so good."
I got delicious snacks and they were healthier options.
Right, but there was no licorice.
No, no.
Zero licorice, delicious snack.
No potato chips, even though I have my own bags in the console I could have got out.
Yeah, see.
I just, I wasn't feeling snacky.
And I just get bored and so then it's like, right, then you're like, "Hmm, what's
Obey P's?
I'll have some of that."
Crunchy.
These are good.
Just switch Josh's like.
These are good.
Oh, I'll just switch to pumpkin seeds and crack those in my mouth.
I do get the loudest snacks for sure.
It's fine.
Josh ate Sloud chewing.
Let's get the loudest snack I can find.
That's right and you did.
I did get it in corn nuts.
So you're welcome.
I was going to say you could have got the corn nuts and that would have been just the right
there.
Mm hmm.
Oh, I was just going to say, like when you're out and about you meet all kinds of people
and we met an eccentric young man.
Yes, I don't even know his name.
He told us his name, but I don't remember it.
Yeah, I can't remember.
He told us that he is shy and very introverted and he doesn't like to meet new people, but
well, he does like to meet new people, but he doesn't know how to approach people.
Right.
So he has 3D printed a whole bunch of little trinkets, little creatures, little things and
he carries them around in a bag and as a way is kind of an icebreaker type thing, he goes,
"Hey, would you like a trinket?"
You can pick one and so you can go through and you can go like, "I got a glow in the dark
star or whatever."
That's what you got.
That's what I got.
Good job.
And you got?
I got a raccoon.
A little raccoon, a little 3D raccoon and I think it's perfect because you are a raccoon.
And it's hilarious, a little blue raccoon.
So excited when I grabbed it because I went, "No way.
Out of all of these, there was like chickens and there was like little Halloween guys."
It was great.
It was a little panda.
Here's what I like about this guy.
He is, he said he has social anxiety, says he has struggles talking to people but it gives
him a way to break that ice and go, "Hey, are you interested in having a little chat?"
A little thing and with that is cool.
Yeah.
He approached us and he was like, "Do you want a trinket?"
And I was like, "Absolutely, I do."
Right.
Yeah.
It's a nice way.
Plumber idea.
Right.
And I mean, he said he was shy but do you think, I don't know, is there another thing you
could do?
Is there a different way you could like approach it?
I'm like, "Hey, I am here.
Like it's a good idea."
It is a good idea.
It's a really good idea.
Anyway.
And now I have a glow in the dark star and you have a panda.
I know.
Congratulations.
Sam, do you buddy?
And look, if you're somebody who's struggling, you're also into 3D printing and you're struggling
to like--
Meet people.
Chat.
Like, that's a cool way to, you know, unique.
It's a very unique idea.
Bryce was a name, Bryce.
Maybe.
I can't remember.
Sorry, buddy.
Yeah.
Anyway, cool thingy, I go on.
How's your knee today?
It hurts.
Does it still?
Yes.
You took a tumble.
You were walking into a door and you caught a threshold and you fell down.
Now listen, we were both walking in the door at the same time.
So for what it's worth, we both kind of are at fault for your fall down.
Because the wind caught the door and I was trying to squeeze in the door at the same time.
You were, it was all bad.
And then you tripped over the threshold and you fell down on your knee and you said you
hurt your wrist a little bit.
In front of everybody?
In front of everybody.
There was no one that was around.
There were people around because then everybody goes, are you okay?
And then you're always known as the girl, oh, that's the girl who fell.
Oh, I remember that girl.
She fell.
Remember that girl who fell.
That's how you remembered.
I think that's how you think of yourself.
I'm the girl who fell.
I was the girl who fell and I was wearing, I was wearing a skirt and I had some tights
on.
I know.
Everything is all crazy.
Yeah.
Your whole knee was kind of scuffed up and bleeding a little bit, which was sad.
It was sad.
Is it okay though?
Does it just hurt now?
Or are you?
It just hurts.
And my pride is hurt.
I told my sister about it and she goes, what knee is it?
And I said my left one and she goes, I fell in her, my left knee too.
I know.
And then you exchanged pictures of your bruised up, scarred up knees.
It was gross.
Oh, you're showing us pictures of your wounds.
No, only like the one time I hammered my thumb and it turned black and it grossed your sister
out.
So I kept sending her a picture of it.
Because I think that's funny because she never, she never gets a text message from me
and then she does out of the blue and it's my gross finger and she's like, what is wrong
with you?
I don't know.
I blame your sister.
That's what I say.
The toughest part would fall.
Is it happens in slow motion?
You could feel yourself falling in slow motion and there is literally nothing you can do
about it.
What if you did the Willy Wonka move, which is where he's, is Kane get stuck and he falls,
but then he like, some are selt out of it and he's like, tada, or there's some ones where
you fall and then you just pretend like you're dancing.
How do you get on the floor while you're down there?
Like, look at me go.
That's not it.
That's not it.
Hey, everybody.
Do some jazz hands like while you're on the ground.
No, no, my trick is get up as quick as possible and be like, cool.
No one saw that.
Well, I did stand up and I go, I'm here.
Everybody look away.
Yeah.
Pick up your feet.
I know.
Damn, it's just an accident.
It happens to the best of us.
It just doesn't happen to me a lot.
It doesn't happen to the rest of us.
Would you rather this or that?
Would you rather have unlimited donuts or unlimited cookies?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I got to think for a minute, multiple flavors of donut or cookie or one kind.
Yes, multiple.
Oh, man, you made it worse.
I know.
Oh, dude.
Oh, dude.
I know what I'm going to pick.
What are you picking cookies?
Why are you picking cookies?
Because I like cookies more than I like donuts.
And if I've got multiple options of cookies, that means I'm going to have a snicker
doodle and a pumpkin chocolate chip and a chocolate chip and a oatmeal raisin.
Snicker doodle, ginger crisp snap.
The little chocolate one with the little mint in the middle.
I mean, sure.
That's not top choice for me.
It's a good holiday cookie.
A peanut butter cookie.
I haven't had a peanut butter cookie in a long time with a little fork marks on top.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm going to make some.
Are you?
I haven't had any of those in a long time either.
Yeah.
Sounds good.
Let's make some cookies.
Okay, listen to me for just a minute when I tell you why I'm picking cookie.
Okay.
Because it plays into my food rules.
I feel like a donut shouldn't be consumed after a certain time in the day.
I feel like a donut is like up to brunch.
And then it's a little ridiculous to eat a donut.
You shouldn't have a 5 p.m.
donut.
Who cares?
But listen to me about a cookie that is very similar to pizza and that you can have at
any time.
I will never, ever, ever understand you in your food rules.
That's why I was excited to tell you.
I don't think.
I think cookie transcends day parts.
So does a donut.
No, it does not.
I've had an evening donut.
It's been just as great in the evening as it is in the.
That feels wrong.
No.
No, it's not.
It's not.
No, I understand, but it does.
But it's, it's not.
A cookie in the, or donut in the night?
Great.
Donut in the night.
A night donut.
I don't know about it.
So you're going cookie.
I'm going cookie too.
I'm going cookie too.
Because cookie transcends day parts.
Would you rather this or that?
We've reached the end of the show and I just looked over and I said, what do you feel like
talking about and you went, oh no.
I just, okay, okay, let's talk about.
I have a thing to talk about.
What were you going to say?
I was just going to like take a look.
We have a sheet that we keep here.
Yes.
Oh, you're going to say, like, look, I added this.
I added this.
I know.
I know.
What?
I get it.
Listen, here's what I want to talk about.
Okay.
I want to talk about the fact that I feel like there have been days where we have been
out of the studio.
I feel like there are, like, we've taken a week off here, a week off there.
But I somehow have ended up looking at the rest of November and December and trying to
figure out when to use some of my accrued time off.
And I have a real challenge.
And so then I was like, okay, well, I'll take this day and this day and that'll make things
a little bit nicer.
I'll take this day, this day.
And then I started looking at like work obligations for a lot of the days and then I went, oh,
man, I can't take these days off.
I got stuff to do.
Things are going to be happening.
I'll tell you because as many things that we, as many of the things that we could ask all
the time, like when is Christmas music starting?
When is jingle bingo coming back?
Like these are questions we get all the time.
I can't take time off when I got to play jingle bingo.
Exactly.
So I've got like a problem here with my accrued time off.
So I've circled some days here and then I was looking at the actual paid holidays and some
of the days I circled are already paid holidays.
So then I went, well, now I've got another issue where I can't even use the time off because
I've already got time off.
What a crazy thing.
Anyway, that's my conundrum that I'm trying to sort out.
And I think I've got a plan, but it's going to be to take a whole bunch of time off in the
first part of the year.
Well, and then my problem is that I've got a flex spending account that I can only carry
over so much and I have quite a bit in there still.
And I was like, I got to use this.
What am I going to do for this?
And then the other issue is that we have met our deductible.
And so it's like, well, can't use my flex spending on any of that.
Because if we go to the doctor, then we've already been hired to talk to all.
Well, there's still, you still have to pay out a pocket.
We haven't reached an out of pocket maximum and I'm grateful for that.
This is always a crazy time of year.
I know.
Well, in between now and the end of year, everybody and their brothers trying to squeeze in some
sort of medical procedure because of this same thing.
And that's why like a couple of years ago, I had to have a surgery and they were like,
there's no way we can get you in.
And it was like October and they're like, we're booked through the end of the year.
Like you're not going to be able to have this thing until January.
And I went, that's cool because I've met my deductible for this year.
So I can't wait to start over and have the surgery in a brand new year.
Thanks.
Everybody else who had the same idea to need a surgery, I guess.
Anyway, got to figure that out.
Adiralting is the worst.
I know.
These are the things they don't tell you.
Like when you're 20, they're like, hey, you're going to have to at some point figure
out your PTO and your, your flex spending and all that stuff.
So good luck with it.
Good luck.
Yeah.
Anyway, sort it out.
It's Monday.
Get your stuff taken care of.
Hurry and book all those appointments so no one else can.
Gotta use that money.
Hurry up.
It's Monday.
Hurry up.
It's Monday.
Hey, but the show's done.
So check that one off for the day.
On the to-do list.
Yeah.
Done.
Right.
Have a great rest of your day.
Thanks for hanging out with us.
Have a splendid start to your week and we'll be back tomorrow.
All right.
Bye.
Bye.
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