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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Friday, May 1st, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Josh and Chantel kick off May in the most chaotic, delightful way possible and honestly, we wouldn't have it any other way. From orphaned words you didn't know existed to a furnace that won't quit, a birthday on the horizon, prom season, a tractor arriving on Sunday, what lies deep into the ocean, hot dogs become a safari, dandelions become a cause, and somehow milking a cow becomes the most divisive topic of the episode. Plus, May holidays galore, No Mow May, No Meat May, fun facts about Canada's almost-name, New Hampshire's seatbelt rebellion, the unwritten rules of life we're all apparently breaking, and more! It's Friday. It's May 1st. Chantel turns 45 tomorrow. Let's go!!!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Orphaned negatives
(3:00) - Broken furnace
(7:06) - Good News
(10:57) - Octopus fossils
(17:31) - 6 sharp pencils
(24:44) - Bob & Linda Belcher
(31:20) - Crust only grilled cheese
(36:55) - Garden goodies
(42:48) - Unwritten rules
(46:18) - Chantel does NOT want farm animals
(55:15) - May is packed
(56:53) - No mow May & no meat May
(59:58) - Farmers markets
(1:01:18) - Would You Rather
(1:03:33) - Friday fun facts
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Full show transcript:
Tomorrow's your birthday. Yes. Yeah. Today's Friday. I just learned about unpaired orphaned words. Have you heard about these? No.
Whoa. I wasn't aggressive. They're called, no, they're called orphaned negatives. So these are words like disgruntled, nonchalant and innocent. These words, their positive counterparts have vanished from common usage.
So they are orphaned negatives. The opposite of innocent being nascent. The opposite of nonchalant being shalant and the opposite of disgruntled being gruntled.
Gruntled. But no one uses those. I didn't even think those existed.
It would imply based on logic that if there is a word disgruntled, then there would be the opposite being gruntled. So here's some more. Awful.
The opposite, there, that no one uses these. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I was, I got stuck on gruntled. Okay. Because if disgruntled means that you're frustrated or upset, then gruntled means that you're happy, satisfied or content.
Correct. I got to bring that back. I like gruntled. I am gruntled. I feel gruntled. Correct. We're bringing that back. There's so many of these.
There's tons. Impulsive. Pulsive.
Pulsive is the opposite of impulsive. So what's the definition of that? It says it means lending to compel or compulsory.
Impelling, driving or attending to compel. Yeah. Huh.
We got to bring some of these back. Yeah. Really interesting. That is interesting.
You'd never hear of those. Right. If something is off-putting, it would be putting. Mm, putting. No, not putting. I know. I know.
Super interesting. I like gruntled. I'm bringing that one back. Yeah. When someone is doing something uncouth or is uncouth, there is the opposite of that being.
Cooth. It's super interesting. There's tons. Unwildly and wild. Wildly, which is rarely used. Untoward and toward. We use toward.
We don't use untoward as much. Yeah. Fascinating. Anyway. All right. Well, hey. Thanks for bringing that up.
That's actually cool. Yeah. Words and words in there. Words. Yeah. Here's today's show. Dupadalu.
Well, look at you. Friday morning, sitting across from me, your usual spot. Ready to take on the day. So happy it's Friday. Are you? It's been such a long week.
Yeah. It has been an exceptionally long week for you. You have been busy. And then here's the thing. Some things going on with our furnace. And I don't think either one of us want to really address it.
I think so in a little bit of research that I did, listen, here's the deal. We have what is called an electric air controller. We don't have a furnace. We have an air controller because it's electric. But it's a little more simple than a furnace.
Okay. It has combustion in it, fire. We have a heating element and a fan. And the fan is not turning off when the thermostat says, hey, you're at temperature. So I did a little digging the other day when I discovered this problem because I woke up in the morning and the house was 75 degrees and I was like, what is happening right now? Felt like rotisserie chicken. And so I did a little bit of digging and I think the issue is the thermostat. I think the thermostat may have gone bad, which is an easy fix. Okay.
I just haven't been able to get a new thermostat. Right. But then it is kind of like, do we need to concern ourselves with it right now? Because there's going to be just a couple of days and we're not even going to have to correct, worry about it. I mean, eventually we're going to have to deal with it. But yeah, we're not going to deal with it before next winter. But, but yeah, it's, we don't have air conditioning. So it doesn't, it doesn't run the air conditioning in the summer. So it's literally just goes dormant for a good portion of the year.
So we'll have plenty of time to have it looked at if, if it's not the thermostat, but my, I would like to get a new smart thermostat and see if that's the entire issue. Okay. So, and then what's your face? I just hate spending my money on that kind of stuff. I know. I know.
I know it's necessary. Yeah, it's boring. But it's adult stuff. I just want to spend my money on other stuff. So I'm hoping that that is all that it is.
Yeah. Because it's kind of a simple thing. There's only like three wires that run to the thermostat that tell it, to tell the furnace what to do.
My point in bringing this up is that we didn't even bother turning it on last night. Yeah. And so it was perfect. I woke up, it was chilly when I got out of bed, but it made for a perfect night's sleep. Well, good.
You felt more comfortable. Correct. Yeah. And then because it is a little chilly in the morning, you snuggle on down and then you're like, this is nice. Yeah, you don't want to get out of bed. And that's a problem. That is, that was a problem. Yeah, I understand. But anyway, we are here and it is Friday and it is the end of the week and tomorrow is your birthday and there's a lot happening and we're just going to get through it. Okay. That's the plan.
Yeah, tomorrow is our daughter's prom. I know. So the week doesn't even, the busy week hasn't even stopped the week yet. We got a company coming to town. Yeah. I still have yard work to do. Yeah. I got to prepare because I got a tractor coming.
Like there's so much going on. You know? No, we'll do that later.
I know. That's what Sunday's for, I think. No, because that's when the tractor gets here. I don't know. We'll rest later, I guess. We'll rest when we're dead. That's what my mom always said. Oh, rest. That's a good outlook.
That's a good outlook. I'm so busy. Anyway, good morning. Good morning.
All right. I guess we got to go to Naples, Florida for good news today. They're gearing up for what they call a hot dog safari. Yeah. Yeah, I know. Okay.
It's happening tomorrow. It's all for a great cause is the third annual Naples Hot Dog Safari, bringing together six local restaurants to battle it out for the title of the city's best hot dog. Participants purchase $10 score cards, and then you go from restaurant to restaurant, judging the hot dogs on the dog, the bun, the toppings, the presentation, and the value.
And all the money raised will be donated to St. Matthew's right, which is awesome. And for those intimidated by the idea of eating six whole hot dogs in one day, event organizers have offered up these pro tips. Split the hot dog with a loved one, or that's still the hot dog with a stranger, or split a hot dog with a dog, or run from location to location to burn off the hot dog you ate. Even if you split it, that's still three hot dogs you're eating. I could do it. Your doctor's going to be so mad at you. That is true. Your cholesterol.
Yeah, nah. Last year, the Naples Hot Dog Safari raised $4,400. It's hoping to raise thousands more this year. Very cool. I actually want to participate in that.
In the hot dog safari? I do. I like that they call it that. Like it's a jungle cruise.
Like let's go to the jungle, and have a hot dog with a tiger. You know, I kind of think that's a jingle. I think it's awesome.
Uh, yeah. But you know how I feel about rating stuff. You love to rate stuff. I do like to rate stuff. You think you could rate six hot dogs on the dog, the bun, the toppings, the presentation, and the value.
And let me be clear here. You buy your $10 scorecard, and then you go to the restaurant, you still have to buy your hot dog. Oh. That's why it's rated on value.
Oh. Value wouldn't be a criteria if it wasn't part of that. Now I would assume, in addition to the $10 scorecards, that some portion of those proceeds would be contributed to this fundraising effort as well. Yeah. Interesting. I think it's a clever idea.
Yeah. I want to learn a little bit more. I kind of want to do a safari for everything though. Like pizza safari. Hot dog safari. Pizza safari. All right.
Let me learn a little bit more here, because I'm curious. You eat, you judge, we all win. Free to attend $10 donation for the scorecard. You pick up your scorecard, you go to the place, you try each of the hot dogs on the thing.
Here's what's weird. I don't even really love hot dogs, but for some reason we'd been talking about hot dogs this week, because you said that there was a hot dog with mashed potatoes. And now- Zero potatoes. I've been craving hot dogs. And so we got some hot dogs at the store last night. I was excited to eat them for dinner, but you said no. I didn't want to make a fire last night.
You could have put them on the grill. I didn't want to do that. I know.
That's why I ate something else. Well, I can't even go- The internet hugged their website, so I can't even go look to it. Yeah. What's that mean? Too many people visited it and it broke it.
They hugged it too hard. I had not heard that term. Yeah. The internet hugged their website. And so now it doesn't work right.
It choked it out. So- That's okay. We don't live in Naples, Florida anyway, but that's a cute idea. It is a fun idea, the Naples hot dog safari. Have fun if you get to go and it's good news.
Here's some cool science news. Are you ready? Sure.
They newly discovered found an octopus fossil that suggests that ancient oceans may have been ruled by giant kraken-like predators. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
They still are. It's kind of sketch, isn't it? Yeah. The ocean is so big. I know. There's no way there aren't giant things in there. And those things are so smart.
They've been around forever. If you have a fish and you get a fish from the store and you put it into a small aquarium, it will grow to that size. It'll stop growing bigger than that. But if you put it in a bigger aquarium, they grow bigger and they grow bigger. Think about the ocean. Think about the ocean. You're telling me there's not giant creatures in there?
Come on. I know there is giant creatures in there. There's no limit.
They can get as big as they can get. There has to be. It's spooky. Yeah. I'm not a fan of that. So they analyzed fossilized jaws from Japan and Canada.
All right. And they found indications that some octopuses live during the dinosaur area and that they may... What? Era. What'd I say? Area. Era.
I'm at era. Okay. May have reached that they may have reached lengths up to 61 feet. Yeah, dude. I'm telling you. I'm reading a book. They're still in there. I'm reading a book about an octopus right now.
Yeah. And Ringo Starr wrote a song about an octopus. What's it called? It's called Octopus's Garden. Isn't it? Yes, it is. Thank you.
I want to be under the sea in an octopus's garden. Yeah. Yeah. He also wrote a song about an egg. Listen. Cuckoo, cuckoo. The beetles. They're so weird. Well, they went through their, they went through their phases, didn't they?
They did have a certain phase that made them a little loony. Yeah. Anyway, well, that's definitely fascinating. I know.
And clearly terrifying. Sometimes as I'm scrolling my feed, get these videos of this research crew that has like a robot vessel on the bottom of the ocean and they just roll around poking stuff. It's kind of neat. The vessel poke stuff? Yeah, they're not in it. It's a little, they're up on like a ship above it, but they're viewing through the camera feed connected to it.
That's what I want to do. Have you not seen it in your feed? No. I'll have to send you some.
It's why. That is my lifelong dream. To sit on a boat looking through a camera poking stuff on the ocean. I wanted to be a marine biologist, but it didn't make sense for an Idahoan.
Why? Because we don't have any marines. We don't have any oceans. But there's more than just oceans in marine biology. I understand that, but I'm particularly fascinated with ocean life.
Yeah. But are you also not fascinated by what grows in Alpine lakes? Because I know what grows in Alpine lakes. Trout. I thought you were going to say something cool. Not that trout aren't cool. I appreciate the trout. They help with our ecosystem and they're a lovely fish.
Trout. But deep sea creatures. Right. Isn't that fascinating?
Do you know what else is really cool? Salmon. I do love to eat salmon.
Right. But the oceanic salmon that return to the freshwater and spawn every year, it's fascinating. That is fascinating. I actually think that's fascinating. And we've seen them trying to swim upstream to spawn and it's so hard to watch. It's hard to watch.
But you're like, go guys, go. It's part of their life cycle. I know it.
So anyway, my point is you could still do marine biology in a landlocked state. I understand. I really do.
But I want to be on that boat. I'll send you some videos. Okay. Please do.
You'll love it. The vessel poke stuff? What kind of stuff does it poke?
They found like a shiny gold crust and they poked to see what was under it. And? Oh, that's into the video.
No, the people need to know too. I don't know if I ever saw. I just thought they were poking it. And they were like, look, it like breaks apart when you poke it. Fascinating.
Yeah, it already had a hole in it. So they didn't feel like they were disturbing, you know, whatever it was. We're they in the part of the ocean. That's very dark. I have no idea.
I want to get that. Yes, they're not it. I don't know. Okay, hold on. You're kind of freaked out by the giant octopus. Do you think that octopus? I don't think octopus are necessarily dangerous or mean.
I don't. I think the thing about octopus specifically is that they are incredibly intelligent. Oh, yeah. They are wicked smart. They are sentient. They are there are so many things about them that we just don't know.
I know. And their ability along with cuttlefish, their ability to camouflage and change and squeeze through any size thing. They're they're absolutely crazy. They're just really, really fascinating creatures. They are fascinating.
Agreed. And they they feel judgmental. Like I feel like if they look at you, they judge you. Well, they're smarter than you.
So why wouldn't they? So I'm saying, look at you air breather. You dumb human brain. Yeah, they're really fascinating.
Yeah. Don't don't you think like you look at them as like they're just looking at you like, I bet. I bet you walk up right. Anyway, how long can you hold your breath?
I bet not as long as me. Stuff like that. Yeah. You know. Oh, another cheeseburger.
Good choice. They're they're super. They are. Yeah. You should concern yourself about it. Every time I run into one, I'm like, Oh, here we go again.
Another one of these guys here to judge me. I was I arrived in the studio this morning and I walked over there to turn on the, I don't know what it's called. The automation system. Yeah.
This computer. Yes. Okay. Plugged in our headphones before you arrived. That's the only thing I know how to do.
I've told you, I will absolutely get you up to speed on activating this. This board. I know. I don't want to. But I do.
I have my my jobs. I plug in the headphones and I log into the automated because you could log into this computer. You could do this.
No, I don't start up audition. You can open up the internet. Like there's a lot more that has to happen. I don't push those buttons. You get the recording started.
Okay, listen, podcast. Like there's lots of things. And I plug in our headphones and I go, What in the world? Why do you have not one, not two, but six perfectly sharpened pencils?
Yeah. Why do you have them to write with? I haven't used a pencil and I couldn't tell you how long, but why do you need six of them?
Because I use them and I always want a sharp one. Listen, there's a little bit more to this, but I don't think it's necessary to divulge all my secrets. There's no secret.
No, I like writing with a pencil and I have to borrow a pencil sharpener from somebody in the office and instead of having to do that every day, I sharpen six and then I do it like every other week and I go sharpen all six and then I'm good to go for another couple of weeks. A bizarre man. Why? I don't know.
You deserve so. Do you not like a pencil? No, I actually don't. And I haven't written with a pencil and I couldn't tell you how long. Would you like to try again?
That's not true. I like a mechanical pencil and I use one just the other day. Have you tried using one of these recently? Let me give it a go.
I don't know what you're going to write, but you might change your mind. Do you need your own pencil sharpener is what I'm asking? I have one. A plug-in one? No, it's an old school. It's an old school one that you could find in the classrooms where you crank it.
A yuck. No, it's cool. Do you want it? No, we have an automatic one here. It's real nice. Yeah, but if you have to borrow it, do you want your own automatic one?
Maybe and I wouldn't have to bug other people, but what do you think? I don't know. Let me write with a pen.
Okay. No, it's a pen. I don't like a pencil. How come?
I don't like the way it feels in my hand. Okay. That's fair. Yeah, it's not for me. Okay.
But it's cute that you like it. Can I have my notepad back? Yes. Thank you. Let's see what you wrote. I don't know what you wrote. Oh, I just wrote scribbles. No, no, no.
I could just just words. Yeah. Yeah, you can keep that.
Thank you. But anyway, no, I like it. I like to take notes with it. I like the eraser because I like to bounce it like that.
I think that's a good time. Sometimes just like to hold it. I like to put it behind my ear. I like when I'm wearing a hat, I can tuck it up in my hat. I like a pencil. I'm all good with a pencil. Okay. Plus if I write something and I go, no, I don't like how I wrote that, I can fix it.
Yep. I like, you don't like a pen. And when you write something, you can just use your pen to cross it out. I don't enjoy crossing things because then you can doodle over your crossover. It actually bugs me a lot.
Really? If I if I mess up in a pen and I have to scribble it out and like I want to throw away the whole page and rewrite the whole thing. I don't like that.
I have a mistake in my journal that was written in pen. I absolutely hate it. Wow, Josh.
Yeah, I don't like it. That's how, like, I know I've completed that task is if I scribble it out. And then when I have six scribbles on the page, that's a good day. I've done a lot of stuff that day. I'm gonna pull this out and show you because it's so small that it bugs me.
Your mistake in your journal? Yep. Can you just not white it out and redo it? Then I'd have white out on my page. Is it your page white?
That kind of cream colored. I would notice. Let me see. I'm trying to find it. Okay. Okay, but it's right here.
Where did you find all of those six pencils? That little thing right there drives me crazy. I hate it.
I can't even look at that page. We have a whole bunch of pencils here. We have a couple of boxes of them. Could you put it in kind of like sticker? No. It's under the it's under whatever I cover it with. I know it's there. I can't wait. Like today's the first day of May. I get to make a new page. I'm gonna finish April and I'm gonna make a new page and then I'm gonna be not having to look at that page again.
It's gonna be great. What did you have written? What was the mistake?
Oh, no, you're gonna have to look at it again. 20 years. 20 years I've been living with you.
Well, longer than that. So it was the day that Emery had passed her skills test and got her license. That was the note that I wrote, but I messed up on writing the word skills and I can see that there's an S and a K in there, but I don't know what else I did, but I didn't like how I wrote it. So it scribbled it out and I moved on.
Use a pencil. You think you know a person? You really do. And then you just find out something new. Listen, your mind is an interesting place. Yeah. I did not know this about you.
I don't like it. So welcome inside my brain. Well, happy penciling, Josh. Thank you.
This one's the one I've been using the most. It's still pretty good. Is it a number two? Tickaronda?
They are. Tickaronda. What's it?
What are they called? Tickaronda. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, right there. It's not tickaronda. I know it's not. Ticonderoga. Ticonderoga. I was close.
Yeah. We got a lovely compliment the other day from a dear friend of ours who said that we remind him of Bob and Linda Belcher from Bob's Burgers. And I've seen maybe one or two episodes of that show. So I didn't quite know if it was a compliment or not at first. I mean, they love each other. So I looked it up and I said, there was a Reddit post where somebody talked about their marriage and it said that Linda is supportive of Bob, which hilarious.
Linda and Bob is my parents. That is correct. It is correct. I've never put the two of those together.
Okay. So Linda is supportive of Bob, especially whenever he feels inadequate for a failure. She always says how proud she is of everything they've built together and she's content with their lives.
Right. On the other hand, Bob seemingly resists to Linda's weirdness, but he always goes with it and often ends up enjoying it. It doesn't sound familiar at all. No, it doesn't. And I, I don't know. It was a nice compliment. Yeah, I think so.
I was trying to come up with some examples. We need to watch more of the show. I think.
I tried. Actually, you know what? I was laying in bed the other day and I was trying to figure out something to watch and it popped up and I went, okay, well, watch an episode of that. Guess what? It's only on Disney plus.
Of course. And we don't have Disney plus because I got mad at Disney plus because they keep raising their prices. I know. They all do it.
They all do it. I know. So I said goodbye Disney $25 a month. You know how much that is a year? How much?
Let me do some quick. Anyway, I thought that was a nice compliment. It is.
I think that is $300 a year. Yeah. There's a faster way to figure that out. Yeah, I did it. I know you did. You just went 12 divided by 25. Yeah. Is that how you got there?
Now I went 12 times 25. Yeah, that's what I mean. Yeah. What's the quicker way? Well, if you want to get to a whole number like 100, how many 25s do you need? Four. Four. What's 12 divided by four? Three. So what's four times? Okay, that's gonna take so much longer than what I just did.
There's three quarters. It's just, it's this quick. No, it isn't. It's that quick. You need four 25s to get to 100 and you need three fours to make 12. It's 300. I did it just fast.
Just fast. We often get, well, not often. There was once somebody said that we, if people are listening to us, that like they have a front row seat to our marriage. I don't necessarily know if that's a compliment or not. Well, just an observation.
I think it's an observation. Where did you go? I'm right here. Okay.
I just had to grab something. It's fine. I think it's a fine observation. You know, I do. I do know. And here's the thing.
Yeah. If you stick around long enough, you're going to learn so many new things about Josh. I do every day.
You're welcome. I don't think you've learned anything new about me in a long time. I know everything there is to know about you. Do you think you know? I know you before you even know what you know. Do you think that you know me better than I know you?
I don't know what that means. Do you think you know me better than I know you? I heard all the words.
I heard them all in the right order. No, that is unnecessary. I don't know what that means. How can you, how is that quantitative?
Okay, let me say. How can I, how can I measure? It's immeasurable.
There's no way to know. Okay. Let me ask this question. Do you think you know me better than I know myself? Do I know? How can I know you better than you know yourself? Yeah, exactly.
Yeah. Because you think you know me, but guess what? No, I know you. I'll turn around. I'll turn around and surprise you every time.
I won't be surprised. I've known you long enough that I think I know all your tricks. Yeah, I think you do too. And that's sometimes upsetting. Because I can still, I can still sneak out and like get you. But you got like a simple book of things and they're easy to go, oh, here's what's coming. It's predictable. Hey, it's consistent. It is not. But listen to me.
Dangerous. The things, no, it's not. The things that, the things that I do and like are consistent and simple. And, you know, I don't need a lot of like danger and stuff.
I'm pretty good. You are a very much a creature of habit. You stick with what you know.
It's not, you don't. Not that I don't try new things or like, I don't want adventures or whatever. But, yeah, but I study a lot about what I get into. Like I learn a ton about it. So yeah, I know a lot about you. You've studied about me. Yep.
And read a lot about me. Yeah. Checked out the reviews from other people. And five stars. She's five stars. She's five stars.
Guys, she's five stars. Most days. I mean, there are days you'll be lucky to get one and a half. Yeah. Your five stars though. Yeah.
Thanks, Josh. Oh, what is it? My birthday or something? Tomorrow. Not today. Don't go trying to squeeze another day of birthday in here.
Don't try to go squeeze in a compliment when it's not your birthday. Yeah. Come on now.
That's for tomorrow. You just showed me a video where there was a man making a grilled cheese sandwich, but the middle was cut out. Yeah. He said, if you want to punish your kids, you can make them an all crust grilled cheese. And he took out the middle part of the grilled cheese and it was just the crust.
And I actually thought that looked pretty tasty. The just crust part? Yeah.
Cause you would dip that in some soup. Oh yeah. But I... Oh yeah. That's it. That's it.
That's it. Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. You would.
So here that kind of got me to thinking. What about grilled cheese strips? Fine. What about? Yeah.
What about if you make a grilled cheese sandwich, but then you take like a pizza cutter or a knife and cut it in strips? Or what about? What about? Your eyebrows. Your eyebrows bounce like six times. Or bang, bang, bang.
What about? That's what happens when I have a really good idea. What about if you take those strips and then you cut them into tiny little squares and then you just put those on top of your soups? No. So then you have... No. You'll have soggy... No. No. No. Don't turn your soup into a cereal. Listen.
Nobody ever likes my... No. It's fine. It's just... We're brainstorming.
We're trying new ideas. No. You shut it down immediately. Yeah. I don't like that one. You didn't even say... Let me think about this. Before you even talked about crumbling them over the top of your soup like a weird way, they're not oyster crackers. It's sandwiches.
Listen. I was thinking you were going to say then you could dunk them like an Oreo, but I always get my... The tip of my thumb and the finger in the milk and I don't care for that. Do you use that fork technique? No. Why? Because... Have you seen that fork?
Yeah, but also it's the same with my... With my biscoffs. And they don't have a sandwich. Cheese dry out and had grilled cheese croutons. They could hold, you know, a little bit more crunch longer.
Or you could... What? They have moon cheese. I don't care for it.
I like it. It's basically freeze dried cheese. It is exactly freeze dried cheese.
It's not basically... I bet that's good. Yeah? In tomato soup. Okay.
I should try that. Sure. I have moon cheese at home.
Okay. You don't like moon cheese? I don't care for it. Oh, it's so good. I don't. It's... I've had a lot of other freeze dried things I like. That's not one of them. I like it a lot. Okay. Anyway, the crust's on the grilled cheese. Yeah?
I actually thought it looked good. Who gets the middle? I don't know. Because I'll eat the middle part as a normal sandwich. Here's what else I just got a real big craving for because we're talking about eating the middle. Cinnamon roll.
I could eat a nice warm cinnamon roll right now. Just the middle? The middle's the best part. But that's what got me thinking about it, was if I made crust-free foods or crust-only foods, I could take out the middle part of the foods and then just give people I don't like the parts I don't want. Here, I made you a cinnamon roll and the middle's gone. What are the middle foods?
There's a pan of brownies and the whole middle's gone. That people might like. I love edges. I do too. And it's brownies. I'm not upset.
Yeah. I like the crust-on-bread, so I wouldn't be sad about that. I like the outer layer of a cinnamon roll. The middle is the best for sure, but I still would be like, oh, sick. A cinnamon roll?
Thank you. What about a cream-filled donut, but the middle's gone. And so it's just a chocolate-covered ring, like a normal donut.
Ew, but it's barely frosted so you get the actual- Pop tart. That's a good one. Oh, that is a good one.
So I took the middle of the pop tart and all you get is the dry edges. Oh, that's the worst one. That's the worst one. Yeah.
Why doesn't the pop tart frosting go all the way to the edges? Make it- They're getting worse. I know they are. I don't know if you've seen pictures. I haven't had a pop tart in a long time.
Me neither. But they're getting worse. The amount of frosting is certainly not proportionate to the amount of not-frosted pop tart. Make a new machine, guys. It's costing too much money to frost the whole thing. Yeah, that's probably true.
You're probably right. So we got to cut back. We're going to give you now with 20% less frosting. You did a little shopping yesterday. Yeah. A little garden shopping.
The dining room table is very covered with greens. Uh-huh. We couldn't even have anywhere to eat last night. I got to get my life under control. I got 700 hobbies sitting on the table. No, right now it's all garden stuff. But yeah, I went and got a good handful of plants for the garden. So I am closer to being ready to plant. I'm so eager to plant.
And I don't want to because I don't want to have to deal with- It's too early. I still have at least a week, if not two, before I can put those in the ground. So I've got to take care of them, move them in and out, you know, that whole thing where they're on the boxes and then take them out and water them and let them have sun and then I bring them back in. And, you know, it's a whole thing until I'm ready to put them in the ground.
But I'm very excited. I've got a pretty good schematic in my head. I drew it out, but then the plan changed. And so you were giving me some grief about my drawing out my plans the other day. No, I wasn't giving you any grief. Just saying my brain's wacky.
No, I don't think it's wacky at all. I am actually very impressed by the amount of time and patience you've put into it and to actually physically map it out and to plan it. You've worked really hard on your planning. I was just showing off. Oh, I see. I was showing your plans off to somebody else. I wasn't giving you grief. Okay.
No, I think it's actually very cool. So now I just have to, there's a couple I still need to get, but I'm hoping to pick those up real soon and then be, excuse me, that much closer. I do need to start some germination on a couple of things. What else do you have to pick up? Cucumbers.
Oh. Spinach. Spinach.
Which I could do from seed if I wanted to. Trying to decide. Here's the thing. I feel like- A couple other things. I can't remember everything.
There's a few that I'm missing. You're going to force me into learning how to can. I'm not going to force you into it. Don't necessarily think that that sounds enjoyable. Interesting. Because I thought you were kind of into it when we were first talking about it.
I kind of am, but I'm also kind of not. And we have some friends who are really, really good at doing that kind of stuff. Yeah, but we also have access to somebody who would instruct you and like actually go through the process of it.
I think it's fascinating. And even if it's just a few things like some jams, freezer jams. I love jams. I know you do. The internet knows we love jams.
Well, and here's the other thing. We have so many jams in the freezer. I do love like a dilly bean. Pickled beets.
Right. And we've planted, we're going to plant some beets. So I am excited about having the food, the process of it though. I don't necessarily know if I'm going to enjoy. And is that because it sounds like work or is that because it's something new that you have to learn or get to learn?
What's your hang up? I don't necessarily know. Interesting. Because I look at it and go like, I can't wait to do the harvest.
At the end of this, and you know, kind of as we go, like I can't wait to pull some peepods off and do some snack. I think it sounds more like because I just remember my grandma and my mom and my aunts all doing canning. And it was like, and they had those old school pressure cookers.
Sure. And it was an all day thing. And maybe that's why my hang up is I know that they've made better systems now. And but I'm remembering the days of it was a little more dangerous and it took all day.
And I don't know, maybe that's my hang up. There's also an aspect of like gathering around harvest to do this. Yeah, that sounds rather enjoyable. I kind of like that aspect of it too. See, here's the thing about the whole garden thing is such a reconnection with like nature and ecosystem and earth in your own yard. Yeah. Like that's the part that's got me like really fired up about it is that I'm in the dirt and I'm like the idea of going out and picking our own stuff. We've had a garden before, so it's not like this is anything new, but this is a much more extensive garden than we've ever had.
Correct. I'm kind of excited about it. I'm excited to see the yard all grown with me too. And that'll be like July, August, when it'll look a little bit better. Right now it looks like garden dirt.
Dirt. Yeah. But it's going to be fun.
Yeah, it is. I'm super excited to kind of see it all come together. So anyway, yeah, the table will get that back. I will make that happen before the end of today. OK. Company's coming over. Yeah, we're going to have a place to put people. Yeah, we will have a cleared dining room table. OK. Shortly. In the meantime, it smells delightful. Yeah, there's all kinds of basil and dill.
I know, I know. I got herbs going. I did get the chives planted. The chives are in the ground, the garlics in the ground, the onions are in the ground. I've got two different kinds of peas in the ground with a trellis. We're going to have peas. It's going to be fun. I'm excited. Delicious.
I love food. OK. What are some unwritten rules in life? If you borrow it, give it back. If you treat other people like you wish to be treated. OK.
These are all good. If you take care of your feet, then they'll take care of you. If someone shows you a photo, don't swipe unless. Invited to do that. That's important. I'm not a big handover my phone to show you something. I'm not. I don't like receiving phones that people hand over.
Likewise. It feels weird holding them. Yeah, like this is not my phone. I don't want to. I don't know why that feels like such an invasion. Even like when you or Emery, like if your phone is sitting on the couch and I'm going to go sit down and I have to like move it. I'm like, I don't. This isn't my device.
This is yours. It feels weird. Like it's not my case on my phone. It's not.
I just don't feel comfortable if somebody is like here. Look, watch this video and I go, no, you hold it. I'll watch it while you hold it. I have like microphone etiquette stuff too. Like and I learned this early on and you don't do a lot of interviewing or or like it would happen a lot when we do live broadcasts and you'd have a microphone and you'd go to talk to somebody about a thing. And you'd be like, well, tell me about, you know, this, this vehicle or tell me about what the deal is that you've got going on and you would hold the microphone and you'd have people that would try to grab the microphone. And as the person in control of the conversation, I just have to sit there and let you hold it while I'm still holding it because I'm not going to let you take it away because I have to be able to go. We're going to end the conversation and move on because there's there's time limits on stuff. Like we aren't just going to sit here and talk for 45 minutes about this one vehicle. Like, right?
Like we have like a minute and a half to have an entire conversation because people will be like, I'm not listening longer than that. Okay. So, so that's the same kind of thing where I go like, I'm, I'm showing you don't grab it out of my hand. I don't like that. Um, another one is don't hit reply all. Unless you really need everybody in that conversation. Oh, I love a blind carbon copied email. When somebody sends it to a group and they blind carbon copy everybody and then when they hit reply all, it only goes back to the one person. I like that.
So there's a two parter to that. One, if you're going to send it to a whole group, blind carbon copy it. If you expect to get replies to, if you're in a group email, do not reply all. Unless it's pertinent. Unless it's pertinent. Um, another one is if somebody has headphones in assume they don't want to chat with you. That's fair. Just make that assumption.
Yeah. Let people off the elevator or train before you get on. They have to. You need somewhere to stand. You gotta have some room.
They gotta make some space for you. True. And if you didn't cook it, don't complain about the food. Hey, that's a good one. Those are some good ones. That's a good life lesson.
It's a good. Someone needs to hear about that. Who? Our children.
Our daughter. I added a third screen to the room and it's created confusion for me. It's behind you. Oh yeah.
And I lose my mouse all the time when I'm trying to like click on things and then I go like, where's my mouse? And it's up there. Anyway, did you get it? I got it.
Everything's fine, but like I'd lost it for a minute. There have been, you've been kind of in this gardening world and you've been watching a lot of, um, you've been watching a lot of videos, YouTube videos and TikToks of certain people that have these tremendous gardens. Yeah. And there's one that you were like, you got to check out this lady because I think you'll really like her. And I do. I think she's great.
Yeah. Her name is Anne of all trades. She's on YouTube. She's the lazy gardener. It's kind of her thing. And she's like, we just like, we got to make gardening easy because if not, we're going to get frustrated by it because it's work and it is, but it should be fun. And there are ways that you can make it less, uh, frustrating and less time consuming, but she has like an entire farm.
Like she's got animals and she's got a garden and her husband is a farmer and she's a mom and there's, there's a lot going on with this. That's what I've decided. I do not want. You don't want the full homestead lifestyle animals. I don't want to deal with the cows. I don't want to deal with the goats. I don't want to deal with the donkeys.
I don't want to deal with the chickens. She has a goose that runs the whole place. Like the goose is, runs the place more than the herding dogs. Like the herding dogs are afraid of the goose.
The goose is the top of the food chain on her farm. Which is adorable to watch. But every time I watch videos of her and every time I've, I've watched two videos, I just go, yeah, I, that's the one thing I can't get behind.
I appreciate and very admire the people who can. That's just never something I'm going to be into. Right.
We have a friend named Lindsay who has an animal sanctuary in Utah and she has pigs and I mean, cats, lots of cows and little horses and all kinds of different animals in her animal sanctuary. And I just go like, good for you. Good. Every day you have to wake up and she, she works in radio. She has to wake up before she goes to her job and have a job.
She has to wake up and do job so that she can then go to job. Yeah. I just, it's hard enough keeping two kids alive. I can't, I can't and a dog. That's too much on my plate already. You don't want to add like eight cows and some goats. And then if you've got cows and you have to milk them. Yeah. The woman that we watched, she was milking her goats and her cows.
And then you have to, you have to wipe off their udders. I just know. No, thank you. You didn't, you didn't like any part of that. Have you ever milked a goat? Do you want to?
Oh, why? You really don't. Have you ever tried milk in a cow? You never have. Never, never, never.
No, no. How have I done that and you haven't? Because I don't like to. I don't want to.
I've been given opportunities and I go, oh, thank you. No. Why? Because I don't want to. Oh, I'm so curious what's holding you back. You don't want to pull up a stool and, and. Milk a cow. No. I had friends in high school that lived on dairy farms and they were always waking up milking the cows and I was like, well. I don't.
Really? I don't want it. I don't like it. You want to wake up at like four in the morning and go out and move irrigation pipe? No.
I did that for a few years. That was fine. I am not a farm girl. Okay. I don't want it. Stop.
You've got this glint in your eye like, oh, I'm going to get you on a farm. I just think we should try it. You should try it. I don't want to. But what's, what's your aversion? I think it is gross. But you clean it.
Okay. But here's the other part. You got to wipe it off. It'll be okay.
If you, if you make me milk that cow, I'll never drink milk again and never will. Why? Because I'll know where it's come from and that'd be so gross. But it's like, I, I know.
Sanitized. I understand. I understand.
It doesn't still make sense in my brain. And then I'll go, oh, no, thank you. I won't, I won't ever drink milk again. I'm probably not going to now.
Just thinking about it. And I don't drink a lot of milk anyway. Have you ever milked almonds? We have almond milk. Soy beans. You want to build some soy beans? I don't want to milk anything.
I don't want any part of it. What about that delicious goat cheese with the blueberries and stuff? Yeah, it's so good. I know. I love it. That comes from goat milk.
I know it does. That's why I can't go milk a goat because I want to eat that still. You can.
What if you made it yourself? No. You don't want to learn how to make butter and cheese?
No. I feel like I don't want to. Should be a good enough of an excuse for people to just leave you alone about it. I just want to know why you don't want to.
I've already told you. I think it's gross. Because you think it's gross. I don't want to smell it. I don't want to look at it. I don't want to touch it. I think the whole tactile experience of it is going to gross me out. And you know that I have a weak stomach.
And the second I sit down underneath that cow, beside that cow, I'm going to smell and I'm going to go, well, I can't. I'm done. I'm out. I don't want to.
I don't want any part of it. It's so interesting. It's not. It's just, it's really just a matter of being grossed out. I got way more grossed out by humans than I am about milk and cows and goats.
No, I know. I'm grossed out by humans too. There's a lot of gross things in the world. Like, yoyoyoy. But like milk and a cow, whatever. I'll never drink milk again. Have you ever seen like a, like a full on day?
Have you ever done a dairy tour? Yes. Like with all the machines and stuff?
Yes. That's a crazy place. I know.
That whole spider of like nursing machine. Here's that we live in Idaho. So I know I've had a friend whose dad owned a dairy farm.
My sister lives in the country in Declos. So our neighbors were dairy farmers. I've always been surrounded by it. I know all of the steps. I know what it takes. You got a milk and goat. I don't want to. We'll go to the fair and you can milk a goat. You're not listening.
It's at the fair. It's not like. I don't want to. I could have a goat come in here.
Would you do it? And I'm trying to get it out of the barn so that you're not in the barn situation. If that's the barn isn't what's grossing me out. I don't want to do it. Stop. Stop it.
Not even a little bit. What does that look? What's that mean? That means stop. Stop.
Those were like mind bullets. You quit asking about milk and animals. Okay. So you don't want animals, but the rest of the farm you're good with. Yeah. The fruits and the vegetables and the trees and the, yeah, I'll take all of the rest of it.
And here's the thing. I wouldn't mind having goats. I'm not milking anything. I'm not milking anything. I don't want to have goats. I don't want to have goats either.
I don't want to be in charge of feeding anything. What about the little donkeys? What'd you think about those two? They're cute.
Did you like having to deal with their hooves? No. No.
Or she had to grind them. Yeah. No. And did you know that like you could damage, that was a crazy thing I learned that you could, you could accidentally damage a donkey's feet and then I can't walk. You have to be very careful.
I didn't know that. I don't want farm animals. Not even little donkeys. No. What about that pig with the skin condition?
And his eyes don't open all the way. No. I don't want farm animals. No. None.
None. Not even like a shaggy cow that you don't have to milk. No. Okay. Got it.
Okay. So May is got a lot of cool days in it. One, my birthday. 31 of them. Let's start with today.
Today is May day. Yeah. Right. So it's May 1st. Tomorrow is my birthday.
And also the Kentucky Derby. Okay. That's happening. All right.
And then we've got May 3rd on Sunday is World Laughter Day. Okay. Good. So enjoy yourself a laugh or two. Sure. Every day should be laughter day.
I don't disagree. May 4th. May the 4th be with you. That's right. That's right. And then Cinco de Mayo. Cinco de Mayo. And then Revenge of the 6th.
No. Which is the second chance to celebrate Star Wars. May 6th is also National Beverage Day. Oh. So go hit up your favorite soda shop.
Hydrate. Then we've got May 9th as many golf day. We've got Mother's Day. Okay. That's in there.
Yeah. National Pizza Party Day is May 15th. National Classic Movie Day. World Baking Day. National Road Trip Day.
I mean, come on. Scavenger Hunt Day. Memorial Day.
Yes. May is the best. May is loaded.
It may is loaded with good stuff. Spring, flowers, warm weather. Glorious. Well, let's enjoy the May. Let's enjoy the May, everyone. I think that's a good idea. Let's enjoy the May. I just may.
Yeah. Happy May. It is officially May. It is. Yeah. Officially. It is officially May.
Which comes with it a few things. It is no Mo May, which is where you don't mow your lawn all month. And if you have an HOA, I'm sorry for you, son.
I feel bad for you. Work with your HOA to say, hey, listen. Hey, the bees need the dandelions. And I know you don't like them, but I'll mow them at the end of the month. I don't know why everyone has such a problem with dandelions.
Me neither. I like them. I they turn into wishers. Yep. If you've ever seen a field full of dandelions, it's actually quite lovely. Yeah, they're nice. So no Mo May is not mowing.
Yes, you can. They're like a salad. I made them. I made bread out of them.
You did make dandelion bread. That is true. Don't mow your lawn for an entire month. The grass will grow. Lawn flowers will bloom. The bees that are native to your home area will emerge from hibernation and feast on the local pollen, which is important.
Bees are struggling and we need to make sure they have plenty to eat. The freeze has affected some of the fruit trees. It's affected a lot of the blooming flowers.
And so what seemed like they were going to have an early spring of food turned into really cold weather, which forced them to kind of have some issues. So no Mo May is the idea that even if you leave a patch of your yard that you just reserve for the bees, it's a nice thing to do. Yeah, it is. And your little kids love them. That is true. It is also no meat May. And I don't know how I feel about this, but I thought you might be excited.
I am excited about it. 31 days every day in May without eating any meat products. Easy peasy. Not easy. I could do it. No way. So easy. No way. No way.
I don't think I've eaten meat all week. Yeah, I did. Yeah. Well, we got burgers on the menu. We got Thai food. You're going to eat meat and Thai food? No, you won't. You don't eat meat when you get Thai food. I get veggie only. Yeah.
Anyway, there's a bunch of different online resources. If you want to try to go meatless in May, it is no meat and no Mo May for the month. Fully support for me. Both?
Yeah. I can't do the no meat. I got to have meat. I know it's fine. You do the no meat, but let's do a no Mo.
We're already in. I drove home the other day and I went, oh, I moat the backyard. I know the front yard is looking a little mangy, but that's OK.
I actually just need to weed the flower bed. Yeah. I just haven't had time to go out and do that. I see. The grass is fine because I don't mind.
I don't mind the dandelions and the grass, but get on my flower beds. Whoa. All right. Well, anyway, happy May 1st. Something very exciting happening in downtown Idaho Falls tomorrow.
OK, but not to leave Pocatello out because something very exciting is happening in Pocatello too. Love it. Yeah. So we got both farmers markets starting up. Tomorrow. Tomorrow.
First day of the farmers market. The Pocatello one is nine to one. And they are located in historic downtown on the corner of center and Garfield. OK. And then Idaho Falls is going to be on what's that street called?
Thank you. And it runs from nine to two, I believe. That's what it typically has been.
Yep. Nine to two on Memorial Drive. Rain or shine.
Yep, always. And now that it kicks off, it runs through October, which is great. So you can count on that every weekend.
And I assume Pocatello is the same situation. May 2nd through October 31st is when there's run. All right. Awesome. Looking forward to the farmers market.
Yeah, support. All the local produce, which will be out right away. There will probably be flowers. There'll be food and craft items and all that. And plants.
That's what I'm looking forward to. And food. And food. Lots of food. And art and music and dogs and people.
It's a good community thing. And sunshine. There you go. First farmers markets.
Idaho Falls, Pocatello starting tomorrow. Would you rather this or that? Would you rather have the power to never feel physical pain or never feel emotional pain? Whoa. Physical. Yeah, same. I don't mind having emotion. That's fine.
And I can, you know, if it's something that I have to deal with, that's fine. But physical pain? Like if I never felt physical pain, that'd be something. But it would be scary because sometimes physical pain means that something is wrong.
Seriously wrong. I understand that. If I never felt physical pain, you'd be like. Everything's fine. Yeah. Everything's fine. I don't get like a weird like out of nowhere. And I go like, oh, oh, oh, am I dying? I'm dying, I'm dying.
That means that you've got an infection. Yeah. Cool. I know you have, whenever you have any kind of pain, you immediately assume you're dying. That's what I'm saying. If I didn't have that, my emotions would be better. You're right. Josh needs to never have physical pain.
That's right. I never need to be sick. I never need to have physical pain. I just never need to like, you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah.
Lee. Yeah. I don't mind being emotional. No, I don't mind emotions. Emotions are good. Emotions are healthy.
That's great. I would feel miserable if I couldn't feel at all. As someone who often stubs her toes and is coughing clumsy and tripping over things.
Never having to feel physical pain. I'd be like, oh yeah. What if you just never had like a physical ailment or you never had, like if you fell really hard, you didn't feel it because nothing happened. Like you didn't break a bone.
Right. You stub your toe, there's no black toenail. You know what I mean? Like it doesn't, nothing happens.
Not that you're immortal, but you just don't break. Yeah. That would be cool. Right. That would be great.
That would be great. It's not a thing. I know it. But that's what I'm picking. Yeah, me too.
Would you rather this or that? Fun facts on a Friday? I'm not trying to find it. Chantel's fun facts? Chantel's Friday fun facts? Yes. It's Friday and it's a fun fact.
It's Friday fun facts. You. Did you find it yet? I found it. I'm sorry. I mean, I didn't know how long your jingle was gonna go before we had the actual fun facts, but are we there?
Yeah, we're here. Canada was almost named a fiska, which stood for England, France, Ireland, Scotland, Germany and Aboriginal islands. What are they, Wynco? Come on. Or Vemchnop.
Which is all of the planets. What's Wynco? Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado, Oregon. I don't think I knew that.
They've expanded since then, but yeah. How about that? Fiska. New Hampshire's the only state where it's still legal for an adult to drive without wearing a seatbelt. Huh. I wonder what their road fatality numbers are. I don't know. And maybe they just are in the position where they're like, this is too hard to police.
Yeah, maybe. Which state? New Hampshire. What's a population of New Hampshire? Five.
That's why. They can just tell them, hey, guys, don't run into each other. Hey guys, be careful. Stars can eat planets.
Is that right? If a planet gets too close to the star, the star will basically pull it in and devour it. Well, yeah, that's gravity for you. They basically eat them. Yeah, they consume it. And then last fun fact, rain contains the vitamin B12.
So if you're lacking on B12, go gobble up some rain. No. Why? Why don't you want to gobble up rain?
I don't know. New Hampshire has approximately 40 to 60 vehicle occupants die annually while not wearing seat belts. How many?
40 to 60 a year. Oh, guys. Now I'm curious what that is in Idaho. In Idaho.
She's wearing seat belt, guys. In 2023, there were 85 or roughly 103 on average. We have twice as many as New Hampshire and we have a seat belt law. Explain it. Worse drivers, that's why. Yeah, that is why. I've seen the red light runners. I know why. Yeah, quit running those red lights, everybody.
Yep. And wear your seat belt. Safety first.
Or as they say on all the billboards, buckle up. It's the law. It's the law. That's gonna wrap up the show for today. Have a great rest of your fun fact Friday. Happy May, happy birthday to you, tomorrow, Chantel. Thanks, Josh. Check out the podcast everywhere you get podcasts. You can download Wake Up Classy 97, the podcast. And we will see you back here Monday.
Take a good look. This is the last time you'll see me this age. On the radio.
You'll be 45 next time you see her on the radio. Hey. Yeah, half 90.
Hey. Ha ha ha ha. Or as I found out yesterday, that feels different than half 88. Cause 44 is half 88.
45 is half 90. And for some reason that feels different. It does feel different. Yeah. I'm just happy to be alive.
Hey, good point, good point. Happy you are too. Woot for life.
What? Put that on a shirt. Woot for life. See you Monday. Goodbye. Bye.
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