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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Monday, December 23, 2024
Episode summary introduction:
Jared Leto is going to play Skeletor, we’ve nearly finished wrapping presents, have you ever seen a racoon wear a hat, it was last minute shopping frenzy for a bunch of dudes this weekend, Josh is struggling with some inconsiderate behavior he witnessed, we watched 400 UTVs drive past us for an hour, Chantel wants to make sandwich wrestling a new tradition, Josh spotted a trap before he fell in it, our friends are really funny actors, Chantel has a very festive spreadsheet, there are some very unusual holiday traditions in other countries, and we’ve not crossed the winter solstice!
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Full show transcript:
This is wake up classy 97, the podcast, and it's a replay of today's full show. It's Monday, December 23rd. Today on the show, Jared Leto is gonna play Skeletor. It's a bad pick in my opinion. We've nearly finished wrapping presents.
I thought we were done, and then we found another pile. Well, as you do. As you do. Have you ever seen a raccoon wear a hat? I have.
It's a nice, classy hat. It was a last minute shopping frenzy for a bunch of dudes this weekend. And when I go out into the frenzy later today, it's gonna be me and a bunch of other dudes in a frenzy. Josh is struggling with some inconsiderate behavior he witnessed. I just want people to be kinder.
That's all. Good luck. We watched 400 UTVs drive past us for an hour. It was You tallied up all the points. I did.
My favorite part was that as I'm watching all the cool lights and the displays, you go, oh, that's a nice heater. And Beck goes, oh, those are cool light covers. Yeah. You guys are checking out the We're shopping for parts. I wanna make sandwich wrestling a new tradition.
No. I don't know about it. Not tuna fish sandwich wrestling, though. Tuna fish sandwich wrestling. Josh spotted a trap before he fell in it.
It's not a trap. It's a trap. It's not a trap. It's a trap. Our friends are really funny actors.
That's true. That's just true. That's true. That's just true facts. I have a very festive spreadsheet.
Do you keep it, in just red and green? No. You have you have all kinds of colors? There's all kinds of colors. Wow.
Good for you. Its own unique thing. Good for you. Yeah. I know.
There are some very unusual holiday traditions in other countries, like the Yule lads. And Meathook. I I didn't know about Meathook. Yeah. He's in there.
And we've not crossed the winter solstice. Oh, now. And we've now crossed the winter solstice. I'll fix that. It's now, not not.
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Hey. Good morning. Hey. It's Josh and Chantel, and it is, what do they call it? Christmas Adam?
At Christmas Adam. Call it? Yep. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. So, apparently, they call today Christmas Adam.
You know? Or 2 days. 2 days till the big day. Can you believe it? Tomorrow is Christmas Eve?
I think we've got a couple of loose ends to wrap up. Just a couple. Mhmm. And then we're good. I've gotta go shopping because I found new information.
Talk about that later. Oh. Yeah. Interesting. Mhmm.
Yep. Got a few things I gotta take care of. It's the new information. I'll talk about it later in the show. Okay.
You'll find out new information. I found out new information. Everybody will find out new information. It's Christmas movie marathon day. We've been, watching a bunch of different ones.
You've been trying to watch, not the typical ones. But last night, we did watch A Christmas Story. Yes. Which is great. One of my favorites.
Yeah. It's so good. Couldn't let Christmas go without watching that one. Yeah. We gotta get a Christmas, Charlie Brown in there at some point.
Do we? What is your hatred of Charlie Brown? I didn't get to watch The Great Pumpkin? I didn't say you couldn't watch it. Really?
I just do I have to be a part of that feeling. I guess not. We'll we'll do all the Christmas things that Chantel wants to do. That's so wrong. Uh-huh.
I watched movies without you. I was like, this is what I wanna watch. I'm gonna watch it. You just happened to stop by and be like, what's this? You mean stopped by the main part of the house where you were watching TV?
Yeah. Yeah. If you put Charlie Brown on, maybe I'll stop by and watch, but I don't know if I'll watch the whole thing. Wow. I just it feels a little boring to me.
That's all. I'm just being honest. It's Christmas. Yeah. A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, it is Monday. It's Josh and Chantel.
We're in the studio. We will not be in the studio tomorrow or on, Wednesday, but then we'll be back on Thursday Friday. Correct. So You said all the correct things. You get 3 new shows this week, and then you get to take tomorrow and Wednesday off.
Just Christmas music. Yeah. Tomorrow Wednesday. And we'll probably pop in and say, hi. Hey.
What's up? You know, we like to do that on the holidays. We'll probably do that on the holiday. Okay. But other than that, it's that's the plan for the week.
Couple of shows, couple of days off, some Christmas, some food, and cookies. Yes. I think it'll be all good. Yeah. It will be if there's cookies involved, it'll be a good time.
Mhmm. And there's plenty of cookies involved. I know. Alright. Well, good morning.
Hi, Shantel. Hey, Josh. This is some good news for you. Mhmm. They're making a live action Skeletor.
Okay. Live action. Yes. Live action. Live action seems like an interesting choice.
Why? I don't know. It's such a huge iconic animated thing that seems, interesting to me. It's it's called I don't know if this is what it's called. It's the upcoming live action film of masters of the universe.
Okay. Now yeah. And I knew they were doing that. Oh, you did? Yeah.
But there will obviously be a Skeletor in there. I didn't know if they were doing an offshoot of Oh, okay. Do you see what I'm saying? I see what you're saying. No.
This is the one that they're doing. Do you know who's playing Skeletor? No. I don't. Jared Leto.
I disagree with that choice. Why? I don't think he's the right choice. Why? Jared Leto will always be to me Jordan Catalano from my so called life, and my 15 year old heart will always love him.
Jared Leto. I mean know who's gonna be playing He Man in this. It won't say. So I don't know if maybe oh, no. They did tell me.
Nicholas Galitzine and Alison Brie is Evelyn. Yeah. That'll be a good choice. Right. Which we talked about that a while ago Did we?
When that was announced. Yeah. I don't remember. I don't I don't remember stuff about Skeletor or He Man, so it's okay. IMDB has a poll on here.
You can choose which actor should play Skeletor. Really? And they just have a ton of stuff. Poor Jerry. I just wanna see the results.
Why are you being mean to him? The top 3, are Andy Serkis at number 3. I don't know who that is. Gollum, Willem Dafoe at number 2. Ew.
Now Yeah. The actor who plays Gollum Yeah. I know. In Lord of the Rings. I got it.
Yeah. I got it. Willem Dafoe at number 2. No. He plays every bad guy.
And Viggo Mortensen overwhelmingly number 1 on this IMDB poll. Viggo Mortensen? No. There's no way you could make him the bad guy. He's what's his name from lord of the rings?
Everybody you can't separate that. You know? What's his name? Oh, what's his name from lord of the rings? Also on the list, Alexander Skarsgard.
That is He played Pennywise. Okay. Bryan Cranston, Gary Old man. Bryan Cranston would actually be very, very good. I think it would because there's gotta be a comedic wit.
Yeah. Like, Skeletor is is he's a weird duck. Ian McKellen's on this list. Again, I read you the top 3. Daniel Craig, there's a whole bunch of people to think.
Interesting. Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch is on this list. I mean, there's just everybody you could think of on here. Well, guess what? It's Jared Leto.
It's too late. He's already cast. He's already filming. He's already got it. Okay.
Deal with it. He might be great. Oh my god. I always thought that song said, Melike Kilikamake is a wise way. Right.
I just recently learned that it says Melike Why Kilikamake is Hawaii's way. Hawaii's way. Hawaii's way. Hawaii's way. Just say Merry Christmas.
Mhmm. Look at what we've learned today. Hawaii's way. I can't unhear the correct version. Well, that's good.
That means, you've learned and Oh, Look at you. I know. Wow. La dee da. Pat myself on the back over here.
Hawaii's way. We, my friend, are done wrapping. The majority. The majority of it. We forgot the dog presents after we spent That's true.
We spent the entire Christmas story, the movie Yeah. Wrapping presents. And then we went, ah, we forgot the dog presents. It's always fun. We did a little test run.
Our daughter said, let's see how she might act on Christmas morning, because we we don't know what she's gonna do when she's trying to unwrap a present, because we haven't had her at Christmas yet. And I didn't watch the entire thing, but it seemed like she was excited for 1. Yes. She just wrapped one of her already, already toys she has. So she knew what what she was trying to do, and she was trying to get it out.
Right? And, and so we, she was We thought she was gonna go crazy. Yeah. But she was pretty delicate. She wasn't delicate.
She wasn't crazy about it. Last dog that we had loved Christmas. Loved Christmas and patiently waited for her presents. Mhmm. And then we get her presents and then very delicately would open her present.
Hold them with her hand, rip a little bit. It was very fun to watch. So this dog, our terrorist dog Oh, whatever. She is a lunatic. We thought she was gonna really go hog wild on the present, but she did okay.
Yeah. She did alright. Go totally crazy. We'll see what happens She had some fun. In a couple of days when she, is opening new stuff and also, treats.
That's gonna be That's gonna be the big tell, won't it? Right. When it's I gotta get to these treats. These treats out. She loves treats.
Treats make that dog's world go round. But then, you know, additional shopping stuff we gotta wrap up. I can't believe I gotta say that out loud. Like, I gotta go shopping today. I thought we were I do too.
I thought we were, like, totally done. No. No. There's more to do. Just a just a couple of things.
I know. Not a lot. But there was some stuff we couldn't do yesterday, so you gotta get it done, you know, before Christmas. So before Christmas. Might as well.
Here we go. I mean, we've been, full on Christmas shopping days before. Like, had nothing done, had to get it all done within a few days. So this this is no big deal. This is easy.
You know, as as you get closer to the holiday, the numbers trickle, but you do see a lot of the same people when you go to a couple of the stores. You go, hey. Weren't you just at the last store I was at? Yeah. That happened to us.
Yeah. That happened to us over the weekend. Oh, I didn't pay any attention to that. There were some people that was like, oh, saw you over there. Now I see you over here.
Hey. What's going on? Good to see. On the same shopping list right now. Request.
Yep. May the odds be ever in your favor. Exactly. It is the Hunger Games out there. No.
Because we went out, people were friendly. Yeah. People were nice. Everybody's just trying to do that. For the most part.
Yeah. Yeah. But, anyway, good luck if you're still out there shopping it, right now. We'll see you in a little while. If you're done to each other at the store.
To you. Yeah. Good job. Good for you. Good good for you.
From the good news file, I have found this story earlier this month. Runners in Jackson, Tennessee Uh-huh. Embraced the holiday spirit. They had their annual ugly sweater 5 k and 1 mile holiday run. 5 k and 1 mile.
Yeah. So you can do either. Right? Ugly Sweaters, you can run the 5 k or you can do the 1 mile. Okay.
The race had a 125 participants wearing their most outrageous holiday sweaters to support a charity dedicated to helping children in foster care. It's a great cause. Runners were encouraged to bring a toy, or donate $10, which adds a little touch of generosity to the event. And it ended up raising money and drawing attention to the charity. It was also a ton of fun for the runners.
They got hot cocoa. They had a shoe decorating station. They had a big photo booth, which is kinda fun. Good. One runner said, it's all about having fun and giving back, which I think makes sense, and the proceeds from the race will help provide a warm, welcoming environment for children entering foster care, which I think is incredibly important.
Super important. So I like your cause. I like that some people showed up, and you got to have an ugly sweater 5 k and 1 mile holiday run. And a shoe decorating station. Shoe decorating station.
So you could I decorated some shoes once. You did? Mhmm. What'd you decorate? Oh, they were little canvas shoes, and I puffy paint, put puffy paint on them.
Okay. How'd it go? Great. Cool. Cool.
Cool. Cool. Cool. Very good. It was not for a good cause.
It was just because you wanted some fun shoes? Yeah. I see. Well So good for those people. Yeah.
Pretty fun. Helping out a good cause. Yep. Way to go. Jackson, Tennessee.
It's good news to get you going. You found me a hat yesterday or Saturday Saturday. Over the weekend. Yep. It's a good hat.
It's a hat that, not only fits on your head, but fits you. I don't know what that's supposed to mean. It's, if it had a little raccoon on it, it would be even that much more perfect. The kids didn't to get a little raccoon on. The kids didn't understand why you called me a raccoon.
So maybe explain that. That to Emery, and then she went, oh, now that makes a whole lot more sense. Yeah. So explain what you mean. When it comes to, trash, you sure do talk a lot of it like a raccoon.
Only when it comes to football. Nope. That's not true. Why? But mostly when it comes to football.
Give another example that I talked about. Anytime you're in a competition. Yeah. But I usually lose those competitions. You usually lose football too.
You even serious right now? Are you even serious? See? So, and it's really easy to bring the raccoon out. The raccoon is, very much near the surface at all times.
Okay. That's true. If there is any competition, whether it be, pickleball or cornhole or, darts. I have because I know I'm gonna be terrible at the game. So so you bring out this raccoon.
I should be in a trash talking competition. I bet I would win that. You're not. The but that's the part about it is that you're not good at the trash talk. You just throw garbage everywhere.
Ouch. You just throw trash everywhere. Ouch. Like, there's no strategy to it. There's no You don't have trash talking strategy.
Oh, yeah. Just say whatever comes to your mind. If you're a crazy raccoon. Yes. That is correct.
So this hat is perfect for a couple of reasons. 1, you are with me, cohosts on wake up classy 97 on classy 97. Yes. And the hat says classy Yes. Until kickoff, and that's when you become a raccoon.
That's the whole thing. It's the perfect hat. I'm kind of upset that you don't think I'm good at trash talking. You do it a lot. I've made people cry before.
Who? I don't that's a lie. I think you've made anyone cry. No. I haven't.
But it'd be pretty cool if I did. Would it? No. I don't think that's what you're going for. Like that.
But I always thought I was pretty good at trash talking, and now I feel sad. A raccoon would. You've ruined my Christmas. No. I have not.
Because you're still gonna keep talking trash Yeah. Like a raccoon. Gonna stop. No. I know.
Classy until kickoff. Classy until kickoff. Know what you're talking about. I didn't talk any trash yesterday during football games. None.
Sub. Yeah. I believe, the fact that you were playing against my cousin's favorite team alone was some trash you talked there. Raccoon. Lie.
I said good luck. Yeah. And then you said You're gonna need it. And then he said, yeah. Good luck to you too.
And you said Luck. Where we're going. We don't need luck. See? This is you.
And then I said sorry for your loss because they lost. Right. I was just so sorry for your loss. Sorry. Sorry, Seahawks.
Come on. You lost you lost to the Vikings. No. See, this is how this is it. Milk cartons, banana peels.
You're just chucking it all on the grass. It's just a mess. You're just garbage everywhere like a raccoon. I don't know how to change. You don't need to change.
Just do I have. Don't change. Never change. No. That's not I'm not trying to make you change.
I'm just trying to make you aware of who you are. Oh, I know. I know who I am. I know. A raccoon.
I am. You're a raccoon. Hey. You wanna talk some trash? Yeah.
Who wants to get in the competition with me? No one. Let's do this. No. No.
No. We were out shopping on Saturday, and what I noticed at this one particular store, it was kinda funny. This particular store that we were shopping at, is mostly it's a craft store. Yeah. So there's fabric and crafts, and you don't see a lot of men there.
Like, on any given day? Yeah. I frequent, a lot of those stores because that's also where you get art supplies. Yeah. That's true.
For watercolor or any of that kind of stuff. You want canvas, like, it's not that you don't always there. Yeah. No. I get it.
You usually see, I would say, accompanied by a family or, a significant other or something. You don't often see them wandering around alone with the kids like we did on the weekend. Yeah. There was a lot of men there by themselves Right. Wandering.
Weekend. Looking for ideas. Trying to last minute shop. There was a lot of that. We could've stopped and offered some assistance.
I they looked like they didn't need it. They also weren't asking for it. They were not asking for it. They were like, hey. I'm looking for a good idea.
Unsolicited advice. Right. Because then I get if I give unsolicited advice to Emery, she calls me the mom train, and then she choo chews at me. She does. She says choo choo.
Choo choo. So I've learned that lesson of not giving unsolicited advice. Hey. If you were a man and you were shopping for your wife at, a craft store over the weekend, I hope you found what you were looking for. Saw you.
We we knew the work you were putting in. Yeah. You're you're busy. We get it. We get it.
Good luck. I hope you found Hopefully. Something good. If not, I'll see you out there today later on when I'm wandering around by myself trying to figure things out. Didn't find I'll hopefully, you got a gift receipt so that they could take it back and get something that they really wanted.
Smart. Smart idea. The kids told me over the weekend that they they had ideas for me, but they waited too long. And so they were gonna order stuff. Means.
Well, I found out. I don't know if I'm I don't Beck told me what Emery's idea was. I don't know if she wanted him to tell me. Well, I'm not answering any questions. I'm not telling anybody anything.
I'm not It was something she was gonna buy for both of us, and she reached out to a friend of ours to get some advice on how to know. You don't wanna know? I don't wanna know. No. Alright.
It's Christmas time. She didn't do it. You don't know that. She didn't. She didn't have time.
Well, secrets, man. We gotta talk about you and secrets. What about it? Your constant I am not. Hey.
What would you get this person? That's just a Hey, chill. Sake. No. It's not.
Yeah. It is. You're saying that now. Josh. Chantayo?
Why do you always make me out to look like a bad guy? I'm not making you to look out like a bad guy. You gotta make me look like a dork. No. That's not the goal at all.
I just you got a you got a problem when it comes to secrets. You got a problem. See? Here we go. I do.
I don't like secrets. I know. Rather than not liking I don't like when lots of people know secrets, and I don't. I don't be Yeah. It's the holidays.
Deal with it. I don't like being the only one that doesn't know the secret. Deal with it. I get FOMO. You're gonna find out in 2 days.
You'll be fine. That's too many days to wait. You are ridiculous. So what's underneath the tree? Nothing.
Absolutely nothing. Good. Saturday morning, you and I, we were running a couple of errands. We were out and about kinda early. We thought we'd grab some breakfast.
We were downtown in Idaho Falls, and we swung into, City Bagels. And if you've ever been there before, you know when you walk in, you have to line up Yeah. To order. Yes. And then, they have some tables on, like, the main floor, and then you can go upstairs, and they have some more tables up there.
Uh-huh. Explain to me. And now we got our sandwiches to go. Mhmm. But if you and I were planning on, going in there to sit down, we would go and we would order, and then you work your way down the sort of the deli line.
You pay for your stuff, and then you go find a seat. Is that correct? Yes. Is that the correct order of things to do? Yes.
So if you have a group of people, let's say there's 6 of you, and you're in line behind 3 groups of people, and you've got a group of 6 people, is it appropriate to go pick a table and put your coats on it to hold that spot when you're behind 2 or 3 other groups in line that are going to be looking for a table once they pay. Because that happened. I'm of too much. And I watched it happen, and I felt like, no. That's inappropriate behavior because you're gonna you're gonna block out the seating area for people in line in front of you because you wanna save a spot for the group you're with.
Right. But there's no rules that say you can't do that. I'm asking about etiquette. I get it. And that's just common Courtesy.
Courtesy. But I have done that in the past. Okay. I've done that before where you have a large group, and you wanna make sure you have a table when you get done. And you know that there's a long line in front of you, and you know that by the time you get finished paying, that there's not gonna be a seat available.
So I'm watching this happen, and I'm looking around, and I'm thinking, like because I knew we were gonna get ours to go, but I don't know about the people behind us and the people behind them Yeah. And then the group of, you know, 6 or 8 or whatever that was behind them. Yeah. But I I was looking around the restaurant, and the tables were full. There were not a lot of options for places to sit.
That place is always full. Right. So, so I was thinking to myself, hey. If if we get up here and pay, I'm gonna go move their coat. Like, it it like, that's rude.
That's super rude. Gonna move their coats? That's more rude. Is it? Yeah.
I would've rammed if you had done that. I know you would've, and I wouldn't have done that. I would've said I'm not with him. Because I'm I'm not that guy. But that's pretty rude, I think.
I think it's I don't think it's rude. I think it's inconsiderate. Okay. We're working on synonyms here, but that's fine. I was unimpressed.
I'll say that. Okay. I was not impressed by that behavior. I was I was, I was a little put off. Well and here's the it's Saturday before Christmas.
You have to realize that places are gonna be busy. Yeah. There's gonna be an influx of people Right. Any given place. So plan ahead and have a plan b just in case your plan a doesn't work out.
I just didn't care for the, like, run ahead and plant my flag. This is my this is my property. Yeah. Like, stay away. I don't like that attitude, and it was very much on display.
And it spoiled my Saturday breakfast. Did it really? Well, we left, so I didn't have to sit and watch what happened because the people after us probably didn't have somewhere to sit. Oh. And the people after them probably had to wait for somewhere to sit.
And I think that's rude because they're they took up 2 tables instead of waiting for something to open for them to sit at. They hurried and ran in, threw coats down to say, this is where we're sitting. It didn't spoil my breakfast. Yeah. Because you didn't know what's going on.
Didn't know what's going on, but also my breakfast was delicious. Was fine. Yeah. I had no problem with the breakfast. I just it was depressing.
Aw. That's all. Sorry, Josh. I think it's too bad. Rules are.
I have done that before. Wait a minute. Would I say that it's the best thing to do? No. I wouldn't.
Yeah. But I don't know. Get in where you fit in, I suppose. Yeah. That's that's how the world's working.
It's a bunch of people going, I'm gonna get mine. No. I hope everybody had a place to sit. Me too. Me too.
Worries me. Does it? Yeah. It bums me out. Concerned about it.
Still bums me out. There was this, display, if you wanna call it that, I guess, of 100 and hundreds and hundreds of roofs, yeah, of, UTVs all lit up. Slash ATV. Yeah. There were a couple of ATVs, but a lot of side by sides.
There was a golf cart. There was a k truck. There was yeah. That was cool. There was that, little, Jeep looking thing that you fell in love with.
That thing. You're like, I like that. I did like that. We're talking about the UTV light parade on Friday night. Down by the Riverwalk in Idaho Falls.
Mhmm. It was fun. Yeah. I mean, we we stood there and waved. Our our daughter and her friend yelled at every single one of them and and cheered them on, I should say.
Plus Yeah. Entries? I did quick math. Did you? Because I wanted to, I wanted to find out how much money went past.
And so I looked at the average cost of a side by side. And on average now, again, there are some that are less. There are some that are considerably more, plus people have done all kinds of modifications, and and this doesn't count the lights and the generators and any of the other stuff Okay. That went into decorating any of this. Just the UTVs alone, the average cost is, $15,000 average.
K. And so, I multiplied that by 400, which was a rough estimate, and it's over $6,000,000. So easily over $6,000,000 worth of ATVs That we saw. ATVs driving home. I think it's hilarious that you did the math on that.
Aren't you curious about stuff like that? No. You're not? Nope. Oh, I was super curious about it.
I told Emery and her friend to dress up warm before we win so that they wouldn't be cold, and I said, wear snow pants. And they said, snow pants, you're crazy. We're not wearing snow pants. Guess who was cold? Oh, they both were.
Not me. They also didn't wear coats, which would help. Because they're teenagers. So coats Right. Ew.
They had on hoodies, and I gave them a blanket. And that was what they had for the hour. I was not cold. I was fine. Toes deworm.
My toes got a little bit chilly because I wasn't wearing the right socks in my shoes. Yeah. Same here. Other than that, I was fine. And it lasted we were only there for about an hour.
Yeah. Tops. And it was fun to see the creativity that every ATV, UTV had on there. We saw some reindeer that flew. Yeah.
Some that could, like like, raise and lower. Like, they what they had done is taken the snowplow rig, that lifts and lowers the snowplow Smart. And attached some arms to it with a reindeer so they could raise and lower the reindeer on it. Yeah. No.
There's some real smart stuff. One of them had a snow machine on it, so it was actually snowing. Yeah. A snowmaker. A snowmaker machine.
Just a snowmachine. Oh, that's interesting. Different thing. Snowmobiles. Yeah.
So, yeah, it was a snowmaking, machine, which was fun because then as it went by, it was like snowing. It was cool. It was fun. I had a great time. It was interesting.
Like I said, it lasted about an hour, so it was a quick wasted not a waste of time, but, you know, like, it was just like a in and out kind of situation. Sometimes parades last hours, and then you go, oh my gosh. Yeah. What else was I gonna say? Lot of cold.
We were down in an area where they were giving out free lights and free hot cocoa. White lawn what? Light wands? It was awesome. Yeah.
It was a fun time. I enjoyed myself. Well, good. It was, it it could easily become a go stand outside and be cold, or or or If you wear your snow pants. Or listen I'm listening.
Maybe, between now and next year, there's a side by side in our future. And then we could be in it. I don't necessarily think I want a side by side. Let's let's rent one and see what you think. I've I've been on one.
I know what they're like. Here's the thing, Josh. We don't have anywhere to store it. Right. Then you have to buy a trailer to haul it where you wanna go if you wanna take it camping.
Right. No. I'm kiboshing. This is me kiboshing. We don't need this.
Alright. We don't need this. Okay. This is not gonna happen. But then you could be in the parade.
It's it's fine. We're okay. I'd rather watch the parade. How about I already have the generator for the lights. No.
So we got half of it. No. We'll just be parade watchers. Alright. We're good.
I like watching the parade. Plus, then also I don't have another bill to pay. There is that. How about that? There is that.
That's a pretty good important part. That's a good important part. Anyway alright. Well, maybe Snow pants are not crazy, by the way. If you're cold, wear snow pants.
Aren't crazy, maybe we'll have a UTV, probably not. Probably not. But, also maybe. Nope. Alright.
Nope. Nope. Nope. Maybe under the tree. No.
We'll see. Nope. Prepare to be disappointed. We shall see. We happen to be in Pocatello.
What? Is that Saturday? Saturday. Yeah. Saturday.
And we grabbed some lunch, in the afternoon. Went to a place. We haven't been in a in quite a while. Went to Wingers. Wingers?
Wingers? We actually really loved that place when we lived there. Yeah. We have a long history of that place. Yeah.
But when when we lived in Pocatello, for sure, we went there often. We went there maybe a week after Bec was born. Yeah. That was our first outing as new parents. Uh-huh.
And we had no idea odd years ago. What we were doing, and we said we'll never leave the house again. They were like, do you want a sling for your baby bucket? I don't know what that means. I yes.
But I don't know how it works. Anyway We're sitting there. I digress. And, they've got a couple of TVs going. Uh-huh.
Did you look up the TVs at all? Did I look them up? Did you look up at them? Yeah. They were kind of far away, so I couldn't necessarily Okay.
1 was a sports Yes. Thing that was happening? That's right. Did you did you look at what sports were being played? Well, yeah, I did because there were some some NFL games being played on Saturday, which was I was like, what?
That caught me off guard. Yeah. But they weren't airing that. No. I wanted to watch the Ravens play.
Yeah. What were they airing instead? Do you know? No. I wanna say I didn't look at it too closely.
I don't know. They had on ESPN, the Ocho. Do you know what that is from? No. The movie dodgeball.
He is with Jason Bateman, and he's a host of ESPN, the Ocho, covering the dodgeball tournament. So it was a joke in the movie that there was this ESPN 8, the Ocho, and they covered, bizarre sports, including dodgeball. Well, they happen to be airing, soccer golf on golf? Yes. So a golf course, but they have taken the cup on the green where the golf ball goes Yes.
And it's much bigger. And you kick a soccer ball instead of swing a club. Bro. And, and you count kicks, and you try to get it into, into the giant cup. I wanna play.
I thought it looked great. So I was watching that for a little while, which was fun. And then, this morning, I said, I know they had other games on there, but I I we were only there during soccer golf, so I didn't get to see many of them. So I started looking up some of the other things that get covered on Okay. The the Ocho.
Yeah. What other games? Listen to this. They have the Red Bull 400. What is that?
It is a 400 meter race to the top of a ski jump. No. They're very steep. Yeah. No.
Very steep, and you just have to get up there first. And they have a whole bunch of people start at the bottom, and you race to the top of the thing. Oh, no. It's called the Red Bull 400. Why is it called the Red Bull 400?
Because Red Bull's the sponsor, and it's a 400 meter race to the top of a ski jump. You don't have to, like, slam a Red Bull before you start running. I don't think so. Okay. No.
That's just Red Bull does some weird stuff, like the Flutog and the box the box car race and all that other stuff. K. There is artistic cycling. What is that? Well, think synchronized swimming or artistic swimming, but on bicycles.
And and I'm talking you're on one wheel, pulling a wheelie, pedaling backwards, synchronized with other people doing exactly the same thing. It's fascinating. Do you where how can you watch this stuff? The Ocho. But can I access that?
This stuff's online. Oh, yeah. You can see that all of these I looked up this morning are real sports online. I wanna watch all of these. There are 2 that I thought were very, very, very funny.
And, one of them is called sandwich wrestling, which I think is fantastic because there is one sandwich, there are 2 wrestlers, and whoever takes a bite of the sandwich first wins. Oh, we could play this in real life. I thought you might be into sandwich wrestling. I'm gonna write this down. I've already written it down.
You did? Yeah. Oh, we're gonna play this. And then find the duck. Play this on Christmas with our kids.
Find the duck. K. How do how does that one work? 3 people are blindfolded in, kinda like a Gaga ball pit. Okay.
Right? And there is 1 duck walking around. A real duck? A real duck. Find the duck.
What if the duck flies out of the Gaga pit? He didn't look too interested in flying away. He just kept walking around. No one wins. I didn't see anyone find the duck.
It's probably a timed event. Anyway, they have many, many, many, many more. Many more. Okay. I love this channel.
This is officially my favorite channel. I knew you'd be into the ocean. I gotta find where I can find this. So they do a new, presentation every summer. This has given me so many ideas.
I know. I know. Every summer, they do a new presentation of different sports and, different coverage, for a couple of weeks. Sandwich wrestling. That going on.
So yeah. What kind of sandwich is it? I didn't notice. Because it that actually makes a difference. If you're gonna be wrestling over a tuna fish sandwich, no.
Thank you. You can have the first bite. Gonna forfeit? Yeah. It's not how it works.
No. But I I'm not gonna take a bite of that sandwich first. But if you got a peanut butter and jelly Now what if it's also wrapped up grilled cheese. What if it's what if it's wrapped in deli paper as well? So there's wrestling plus unwrapping plus a bite.
Oh, I kinda wanna play this on Christmas. Sandwich wrestle? Yep. Alright. Take a little take a little bit of that home.
Sandwich wrestling tournament. I don't know if it needs to be a tournament. Me, and then the kids, and then whoever I don't know. Is the winner from those 2 teams. Our kids are gonna wanna get in on sandwich wrestling as much as you are.
I know. The kids never like my ideas. But here's the thing. I come home with all these fun ideas, and they go, and then guess what? I know.
10 minutes later They won't laugh. Having a good time. I know. I've been a part of that for lots of years. And then I say, I'm never bringing games again because you guys are ungrateful.
It might be messy. We like the games. Maybe maybe we don't do it as, as a full on sandwich. Maybe it's just like a bread. No.
Bite the bread. No. It's gotta be a sandwich. It's called sandwich wrestling, not bread wrestling. We can bake it up.
We can change it however you want. It's gotta be peanut butter and jelly, like a sloppy peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Gross. I don't wanna clean that up. Jelly dripping on your fingers?
No. I don't wanna clean that up. What are the rules? I don't know. Is the sandwich sitting on a It'd have to be in hand.
You would have to each have a hand on it. Right? I would think. And then you'll try to, like Yeah. Somebody's gonna get bit in the hand.
Probably. It's a risk of sandwich wrestling. We'll report back later. Okay. Well, so it turns out I got some new information yesterday.
New information? Well, in the middle of wrapping presents, there's this box and, and it had been hiding away. And I pulled out this box and I put it on the bed and I grabbed a knife and you went, woah. Woah. Woah.
Woah. Don't open that box. And I said, okay. And you said, turn turn around. Go go away.
Go away. And, proceeded to, take, an item out of the box or 2 or whatever and say, okay, now you can turn around. And then you hid away the rest of the box. And I said, what's the deal? And you were like, oh, this is a thing.
So you and I had come to an agreement that, we were going to, sort of, furlough our Christmas expenditures on one another this year, in preparation for our big anniversary coming up in the summer. Mhmm. So we wanted to, do something nice there. But, apparently, Pearlie, prior to that conversation, you had, purchased a gift. I yeah.
I purchased that gift for you before we agreed that we weren't gonna do gifts for one another. Right. So it doesn't count. So I found out new information. It doesn't count.
This isn't girl math. This is not how this works. It counts. And if the if I don't have a gift, then I look like a fool. No.
Yeah. I never make you feel that way. No. I understand you don't make me feel that way. But that's what's gonna happen to me on Christmas morning if, there is a gift from you to me and not one going the other way.
No. So yeah. But that's not necessary. That's Oh, it's necessary. Yes.
Because I learned new information, and I'm not falling into this trap. It's not a trap. Feels a little trappy. No. I bought you that gift a long time ago, and then we said we weren't giving you a gift.
Yes, sir. Like, a couple of weeks. That box has been in in hiding. No. That box has been in hiding for much longer than that.
I can look it up and find out when I ordered that. A couple of weeks. Oh, bro. Bro. Here's the thing.
Bro. So, in addition to the the last minute shopping that I had to get done anyway, I also have You don't. Yes. I do. This is not a trap.
I will not be offended if there isn't a present for me to open from you on Christmas. Be. Because I promise you it's not a trap. It's fine. And it's not even that big of a price.
It's it doesn't matter. Something It's that's not even the point. New information came flooding my way. Let's just not do anything except I won't do something. Except I already did it before we decided we weren't gonna do anything.
So it doesn't count. That you could have said, hey, but I did just so a heads up, I did have a thing already. I didn't tell you because I didn't want you to worry about finding me something. Well, too late. Too late.
Supposed to find that box. I knew about the box. The box I put where the box was. I knew it existed. I hid it away because there wasn't room elsewhere.
I knew about the box. I just assumed the box had all contents for the kids, not a mix and mingle. It's it was one gift for Beck, one gift for you. Uh-huh. There was one gift in there for you.
Just one. For sure? For sure. For sure. In my eyes.
Yes. It's one gift. Mhmm. Oh, this is not a trap. It's a promise.
I'm telling you. I'm telling you. I'm not I'm not looking the fool. So just be prepared. And I'll be sure to let you know that I got something, and it's wrapped and put away, but that you can't know about it or what it looks or touch it or any of that stuff What are you talking about?
Until Christmas morning. Because I know how you get about presents and surprises. So be prepared. You be prepared. I am?
I am prepared too. You're prepared ahead of me. I'm getting prepared because of this new information I got. Don't even stress about it. Oh, I'm already stressed about it.
I've been stressed about it since I found out there was something in that box. So Why? You don't get stressed about stuff. Except this. Oh, Josh.
Don't even don't even Don't even. Don't even. Should I even? I can't decide. Should I even?
You can't. You shouldn't. Well, I'm gonna. You shouldn't even. I'm evening.
We were in, Pocatello on Saturday where we went to a matinee of, play. We initially, we're gonna go to this matinee or this show last week. Somebody somebody got somebody got sick. Somebody got sick. And went to the ER.
Yeah. So I had to forego that play. And our good friend, Tracy, is in that play. Right. And I said, Tracy, help.
I really wanna see this play that you're in. Please help. That's why she transferred our tickets. So we were able to go see it. And I'm so glad she did because it was hilarious.
It was. It was, it's done. It's run it's it's the show's run. It's done now, so you can't go see it, unfortunately. But it's called every Christmas story ever told, and it was that And then that some.
Yeah. Which was fun. It it kind of, there was plenty of Charles Dickens in there. There was, the the Charlie Brown Christmas made an appearance. They did.
It was basically a bunch of our favorite Christmas shows. Abridged. All kinds of Christmas traditions. TV shows. Yeah.
All kinds of things. Smashed together in an hour and a half. Yeah. It was hilarious and funny and dated the That's how we ended up in Pocatello for a good chunk of Saturday, which, then led to you learning about sandwich wrestling. So Sandwich wrestling is the best.
I know. I feel bad, like, like, talking about it because it's over, and I can't be like, you gotta go check out this show. Oh, I know. It was very good. Sad about it.
Because it was a sold out show when we've been there. And then they closed Saturday night. That was the final show. So we saw the show before the final show. It's a, yeah, it's a 3 man production, 3 woman man production.
All the 3 actors involved in it. Right. And they it was Playing all the parts. It was good. They did.
Playing 2 parts at once. Super fun. Super fun. If you get a chance to check out that show, next year or something, do it. Do it.
It's a good show. It's a lot of fun. Oh, yeah. He did they did a smash up at the very end. It was a smash up of It's a Wonderful Life and Christmas Carol.
Correct. His Jimmy Stewart impression Spot on. Our friend Ted's Jimmy Stewart impression. Mhmm. Pretty spot on, bud.
Well done. You you nailed it. A lot of that. Your George Bailey was pretty good. Yeah.
That's correct. I forgot to tell you What? When I was browsing through, sports on the Ocho Yeah. There is a, an Excel, championship. What?
Yeah. Microsoft Excel championship. What? So you can do all kinds of spreadsheets and, competitions for spreadsheets? Yeah.
That's correct. It is, the Microsoft Excel World Championship. It is a real thing. And, I don't think it's happened for 2024 just yet, but the 2023 finals happened. Okay.
I was just trying to look and see. It says here that, the tournament has a series of qualification rounds followed by playoff rounds and the live finals that happened in Las Vegas. What? Yeah. It's a big deal.
It is a big deal. Yeah. And, you, make spreadsheets, I guess. I do I do like to make a good spreadsheet. I'm trying to figure out what it is, because I'm looking at, like, a bunch of gaming PCs running Excel.
And I'm going Well, here's the thing. I wouldn't say that I am Excel spreadsheet competition worthy. You don't think so? Know maybe 10 things to do on a spreadsheet, and I do them well. But I don't know the ins and outs of spreadsheet.
Like, could you make the formulas and stuff? Like, that's a lot of the formulas that's gonna be in there. All of them. Yeah. I have a Christmas spreadsheet, and I take great pride in it.
I've seen it. I haven't looked too closely because you always hide it away. Well, because it's got secrets on it. Right. Secrets of information that needs to come to my attention days before it does.
No. Listen. Here's the thing. I was telling Beck this because he and I were out shopping for you, and we we were just chatting and I said, here's the thing about being a parent. I go, when you're a parent and you have to shop for presents for your kids and Santa's his own thing.
Santa brings what Santa brings, but Sure. The parents bring kids presents too sometimes. And you have to you have to at least get the number of presents I see what you're saying. Amount or you have to get the total of the gifts. So your spreadsheet is to keep track of all of that.
Track of all of that. And then Nice. To, like, remember, like, co worker presence, family presence. Neighbors, ideas, things like that. Okay.
Yeah. There's gonna be things that slip through the cracks. And if I don't write it down, then I will absolutely forget all of that. The thing on the spreadsheet that I found out was that you had wrapped one more gift for Beck that I don't have listed on the spreadsheet, and I had to figure out what it is. Mhmm.
And we went through Yeah. And I said, what? Let's find out in a couple days. Oh, no. It's not a big deal.
Right? Yeah. It's no big deal, but it is kinda driving me a little bit crazy because I I take pride in the fact that I can keep track of it all. And I write it down when I have it so that I don't forget, and I You're missing data. This list.
You're missing data. I'm missing data, and it's driving me Yeah. Crazy. What is that missing piece of data? I don't know.
I don't even know. I don't know. I've been thinking about it. I can't figure it out. I can't figure it out either.
And you were the one that wrapped the majority of the presents. I did. I know. So you did not? Through the list, and I went, yeah.
All that's correct, but there's one that I'm not thinking of. I think I just figured it out. What is it? I'm not gonna tell you right now. I think I just figured it out, though.
Oh, great. Oh, great. My day Maybe I'll keep it to myself Bro. And give it to you a day late. Why would you do that?
I gotta fill in this missing I think I know what it is. Jeez. That's fantastic, Josh. But I have on here I've got, like Are you looking at it right now? Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, okay. Everything's color coded. You've got a lot going on on there. I know because I like spreadsheets.
Alright. Now when I I have ideas for like, when it first starts out, I have ideas, and then those are listed in black. And then as they're completed, they get color coded changed. I see. And so then I go, oh, I there's a kind of still a lot of black on this list, which means I had a lot of really good ideas, and I either ran out of time or money or found something different.
And so then I go, okay. That's fine. I'll use that for next year. It's a good idea. And then I'll just copy and paste for next year.
I told you how to make a new tab. Yeah. Well, I know how to make new tabs. Right. But to duplicate tabs.
You don't have to copy them. Yeah. I copied them. I've been copying and pasting, and you said, no. You can just duplicate.
Do this. And I went, what? I know. Opening up a whole new world of spreadsheets for you. Are you talking about, bud?
I know. I know. Well, congrats on your spreadsheet, and the new information coming your way here shortly. Yes. Missing data entered.
Hello? Hi. I did. You didn't give me the nod. I did.
We weren't like this. You weren't looking. I didn't see it. Yeah. Anytime.
Whenever you're ready. Go ahead. Do your thing. We were kinda trying to decide what we were gonna eat for Christmas dinner this year. We don't like the traditional kind of meal.
We like to mix it up a bit. Yeah. So we decided that we were gonna do a pretty, what do I wanna say? Like, a pretty extensive spread of breakfast. We're gonna have a fan.
That's on Christmas morning. Yeah. That's what I said, didn't I? You said Christmas dinner, but that's fine. Oh.
So it'll be No. That's what I like, that's gonna be, and then we're gonna kinda snack all day at Christmas. Gonna have just stuff. We'll just have food around. And then if we need to make a meal, we've got we've got a couple of things like a mashed potato bar.
We got some ideas. Yeah. We got some, some big ideas. Yeah. We could.
This is a big tradition in Japan. They eat Kentucky fried chicken. Every Christmas is huge. Dinner. People place orders, like like, a year in advance.
Yeah. It's humongous. Right. Humongously popular. I know.
I want is it the same in Japan? Like, do they have the same menu, or is it a little bit different? I'm sure it's different. I'm sure they've got a lot of differences, but I don't know why that's such a thing. Okay.
Well, so from an American living in Japan, here's what we know. Sometimes they're better quality than the Western United States versions, because of different food standards and things. Okay. There are over 1200 KFC locations throughout Japan. They look very similar to the ones in the US.
Let's see. They have a boneless garlic soy sauce chicken and crispy strips. That sounds spicy. Yep. So they do have a little bit different menu.
Their biscuit has a hole in the middle like a doughnut. Oh. I don't know why, but it does. You could also get, nuggets fries coleslaw or a choco pie on the side. So you have different side dish options.
Mac and cheese and mashed potatoes, not available in Japan. Okay. Here's some other unique traditions from around the world. K. So they in Mexico, they have what's called the night of the radishes.
The night of the radishes. It's where people take, like, huge radishes, like 3 overgrown radishes, and they carve them into intricate Christmas designs. And there's competitions. Oh, wow. And it's a whole festivity where, like, people take radishes and just carve These are phenomenal statues.
Activity scenes and Christmas trees. I always go Holy smokes. Then in Iceland, they have what they call the Yule Lads. The Yule Lads? Yep.
And these are 13 mischievous elves who visit children during the 13th nights leading up to Christmas. K. Alright. They can leave small gifts or cause trouble depending depending on the child's behavior. So some of them man.
Some of the Yule lads are nice, and some of them are not nice. These guys look great. I like the Yule lads. Example. There's one guy, one Yule lad called the Gully Gawk.
Mhmm. And he hides in gullies and steals milk from cow sheds. No. Not from your cow shed. Then there's the sheep coat, Claude, and he harasses sheep.
Uh-huh. Then there is Stubby, and he steals pans with food right on them to eat the crusts. Gross. Then there's spoon liquor. No.
That's not a shame. Washed spoons and licks them clean. Gross. Then There he is. I'm looking at him.
He's a gross guy. The potlicker knocks on doors and sneaks into kitchens to clean pots. Stop. That's a nice one. He's cleaning pots.
So is the spoon guy. He's cleaning spoons. The door slammer is known for slamming doors, especially at night. And these all have Icelandic names, but I'm not going to attempt. The skyr gobbler has a huge appetite for Skir, which is Iceland's traditional yogurt.
They can also use small gifts in shoes, but if the child has been naughty, they leave a rotten potato instead. That's what you get. That is what you get. Pictures of the Yule lads. Look at those guys.
I know. They're pretty cool. They're of the Yule lads. Look at those guys. I know.
They're pretty cool. You didn't talk about Gryla. I didn't know about Gryla. The mother of the Yule lads. I don't know about her.
An awful ogress who eats naughty children. However, why she hasn't eaten her own unruly unruly sons a long time ago is a riddle. Gryla. Gryla. Mhmm.
I'm sure it's not Or Grilla. Yeah. I'm sure you're not pronouncing that right. Grilla. I got it right.
It's Grilla. According to the miss, it says that Grilla went through Icelandic towns in order to find naughty children who she would kidnap in a sack. That's what I'm saying. So she's probably kidnapped all those real lives. Red one.
Yes. Greala was in red one. Which what was she? The the witch lady. She oh.
That's Greala. Oh. Mhmm. That's right. Now it's all coming back to me.
Mhmm. Yes. Door slammer. Interesting. Naughty naughty.
I don't want a rotten potato left in my shoe. There's also a guy named Meat Hook. Oh. Oh. These guys are crazy.
Mathematically, we have officially, crossed over the winter solstice. Have we? Yeah. So 21st is, is the winter solstice. On Saturday.
And that is the shortest day of the year. It didn't feel especially short. Well, it's because we were hustling and bustling, but here's, here's the deal. And I'm I've got this, I have this whole chart that keeps track of sunrise and sunset times. Okay.
And here's here's the the big deal is that on 21st, the length of daylight was 8 hours 56 minutes and 50 seconds. How much was that? 8 hours 56 minutes Okay. And 50 seconds of daylight. Alright.
The remaining of the 24 hours in the day, dark. Oh. So about 9 hours of daylight. About a little less. Just a little under?
Yep. So that was the 21st. The 22nd, yesterday, 8 hours 56 minutes and 54 seconds. 4 seconds more already. Today, 8 hours 57 minutes and 3 seconds.
So we're already gaining some seconds here. Fantastic. We're gaining we're gaining more daylight. We're getting closer to warmth. However, the tilt of the earth is still to where we aren't getting as much sun as early.
So it is going to stay light a little bit later, but it's also going to get dark still a little bit later. So the sunrise doesn't start counting down until January. So it was at 7:59 this morning. By New Year's Eve, it's 8:0:1. We're still getting later for Sunrise.
We don't start going the other direction until 7th January, then we start going early and earlier and earlier. By the time we get to the end of January, sunrise will be at 7:45 AM and sunset will be at 5:30 PM. So we're still talking about almost 10 hours over a month. We'll gain about an hour of light over the month of January. So it'll be light for 9 hours and 52 minutes.
K. But you're not gonna you're not gonna notice earlier sun until I'm gonna tell you it doesn't break into 6 AM until March 4th. That's when it will the sun will rise at 6:58. So it's still gonna be dark until 7 AM until March 4th. Oh, March feels so far away.
But the sunset will be at 6:20 at night instead of, there's a lot of You know what I mean? Yeah. I get it. Yeah. There's a lot of wintery solstice things that you can do that a lot of people say, like, they write down, like, maybe bad intentions that they had or not so great things that happened to them that year, and they write them down, and then they make a bonfire, and they burn them in the winter sol at the winter solstice.
Yeah. I've heard about that. What else do people do? I don't know. That's kind of the big deal is celebrating winter solstice, and there's there's a good amount of fire involved in that.
There is, and that's because it's dark and cold. And so they're like, how are we gonna fix the dark and cold? I know one way. Warm. Fire.
An icy inferno. Yeah. It wasn't terribly cold that day. No. I'm just saying that in in historically, we have homes and heaters and stuff.
Like I love it. Go back in time when you had a cottage or not. You had a cave. Forget about it. This says you could burn a yule log.
You could celebrate the lights. You could dine by candlelight. You could make a wreath. These are ways to celebrate. The winter solstice has already passed, but if you missed it and you still wanna celebrate, you still can.
Okay. You still can. Know if you burn I don't know what the rules like, the what people do. I know there's, like, some burning of some either bad intentions or you maybe set some good intentions, and then do you burn those? I don't know.
I don't remember. I didn't What do you burn on winter solstice? The Yule log. The Yule log. Yeah.
Reflect on the past before lighting the Yule log. You can reflect on the past year and its lessons. You can let go of the past by throwing dried holly sprigs into the fire that symbolize bidding farewell to the old year. And your yule log, you can throw acorns and twigs in the fire to symbolize the new year ahead. Okay.
And then some, different people like to take pieces from last year's yule log and put it into this year's fire to, then make a new yule log for the next year. A new yule log? New yule log. I get it. Yeah.
That's all solstice y stuff. K. So, anyway, welcome to winter officially. I know you've been waiting for it for so long. It is here.
I have been waiting. And it'll be here until March 21st. Oh, it's gonna be here until May. Saying solstice wise. Okay.
Yeah. But cold weather until June. Alright. It'll be here. You know I know.
It's consistent, and you'll love. It is not consistent. Would You Rather? I know it is. Oh.
I was about to ask, would You Rather this or that? But go on now. I was waiting for the music. Would you rather this or that? Would you rather?
This is the last Christmas edition one. Oh, would you rather this or that last Christmas edition one? Would you rather wear elf shoes for a day or have Santa's beard for a day? Santa's beard. Yeah.
I'm gonna go with Santa's beard too. Why? Because it's warm. It is nice having a beard. Because it's gonna keep my face nice and toasty.
Does help. And you can hide cookies in there. And I've never done that. You don't have Santa's beard, do you? That's fair.
I have my beard. You have your beard, and it's smaller much smaller than Santa's. There's no cookies to be hidden there. Crumbs? Yeah.
That's not the same as a full cookie. And I already trip enough on regular shoes. If I had elf shoes, I'd be tripping all day. Girl, you tripping. But I bet but I bet it would sound neat every time you fell down.
Bells. Yeah. Do this. It would be that. Oh, there she went.
Every time. Oh, there she went. But you wouldn't tell because it would make those noise it would make that bell ringing every time I walk. Oh, it'd be followed by the thud. Yeah.
That'd be the the big part. Bells. Thud. More bells. Mhmm.
Yep. Santa's beard, mainly for the cookies. Hidden cookies. Would you rather this or that? Well, well, well, we've reached the end of the show.
We've reached the end of, our Christmas shows Yeah. Kind of the week. We're gonna be back on Thursday and Friday. We got a couple days off. We're gonna be, no show, tomorrow and no show Wednesday.
But we do hope that you have a very incredibly lovely Christmas Adam, Christmas Eve, and Christmas day, and then we'll be back in the studio on Thursday, post Christmas to hang out with you again. If you just so happen to miss us and you just can't stand it, I can't stand it. And I can't stand him. Right. Like that.
If you just have a real problem and you need some singing in the rain, you should definitely Good catch, guys. I know what you were talking about. You should definitely, check out the podcast. It is available everywhere podcasts are available, so you can replay shows all the way back to mid May if you want. You don't have to go without wake up classy 97 is what I'm saying.
Hey. Wake up classy 97, the podcast is available everywhere podcasts are available. I just wanna tell you, Josh, to please turn off your alarms for tomorrow and Wednesday. No. But no.
But please. But what about waking up at 5? I don't want to. It's our day off? I'm turning off my alarms right now.
I'm gonna set mine for earlier. Cool. You're the best. I'm gonna because that's when yours go off. So I'll set mine for when yours typically go off.
In that way, I don't break routine. I like you to wake up early. 5 in the morning. You're the best. Yeah.
You are really something else. Aw, thanks. Aw, gee. Hey. If you don't have to go to work at all this week, remind yourself to turn off your alarms.
You'll thank yourself later. Alright. Well, have a great rest of your Monday. Merry Christmas, and we will see you back here on Thursday. Stay warm, be safe, and may Santa bring you everything you asked for.
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