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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Tuesday, June 30th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Is the fridge really "empty" after a grocery trip that somehow yielded gelato, Takis, and ramen but apparently "nothing to eat", blue and green color clashes only matter for one of us, a senior living community built a giant slip-and-slide for residents, an emotional update from the Big Bear Eagle Nest Cam, a shopping cart bit that doesn't go over well, a gross "would you rather", Josh's garden war against earwigs & slugs is heating up, the Beatles are important to know about, summer sleepovers, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus:
(3:34) - Chantel's OOTD
(7:43) - Good News
(9:26) - It's a bad bit
(14:07) - Eaglets fledging
(17:48) - Horrible meat prep
(23:36) - Coworker gossip
(29:01) - Trampoline sleepovers
(34:38) - The Beatles
(41:51) - Retirement sneak peek
(47:33) - TV breakfast
(52:00) - Would You Rather
(54:34) - Earwigs & slugs
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Full show transcript:
We
went to the grocery store yesterday because apparently there is nothing to eat in our house.
We have plenty to eat in the house. Yeah. It's just not anything that she wants.
Yeah. So I was looking at the shopping cart. And here are the items
that got purchased that we now have in the house. So there's things to eat. Takis. Shells and cheese. What else? Ramen noodles.
Ramen noodles. Yeah, ramen, like the spicy ramen bowls.
And those Alani. drinks.
And Some Milani like uh like whatever I know you drinks. And gelato. And gelato. This is what we didn't have in the house that we do now. So there's stuff to eat in the house. Oh, and milk for cereal. Yes. Yep.
Those were all the groceries that we bought.
That's what we bought. Because I said, what are you going to eat? Milk, gelato, shells and cheese, ramen. And talkies. And talkies. Okay. Good to good to go. Good to go.
I said to her, I said, listen, let me tell you what a day of meals would look like if I was home alone all day. That's right. And he she can drive.
She has her own money. I know. Um I said I would eat. I would start off by having some toast and eggs. And then in the afternoon, I would probably have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
You said you were gonna have an egg salad sandwich and then decided that might be too many sins. eggs.
Too many eggs. But I might mix it up. Like maybe I'd have tuna fish? Tuna fish, yeah. We have tuna fish. Tuna fish. You gotta get a meat in the maybe a quesadilla. We've got stuff for quesadillas. Sure. We've got all kinds of frozen accoutrements. Frozen pizza.
We do. We have taquitos. We have chicken nuggets, we have corn dogs. We got all of that. We have tons of food to eat in the house.
None of it is healthy. But yes, we have eggs and bread. I know. And sandwich making things. I know. But there's nothing to eat. Nothing. Nothing at all.
We've barren shelves, an empty fridge, the freezer is cleaned out. There is nothing to eat in this house. And then you say anything about it, like there's all of this food. And then she says, Well, it's nothing that I want.
Yeah, I don't want any of that food. Why What is the um the cupboard was bare poem? Do you remember that? No. Well, yeah, you do. No. It's like that old nursery rum. Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to give the poor dog a bone. But when she got there, the cover was bare. So the poor dog had none. Oh. Oh. It doesn't even rhyme.
No, but it also does doesn't. It's not our house. Right. We have a lot of food for both her and the dog.
That's right. Plenty to eat. I just looked. Emergency pantry staples. Canned beans. Got 'em. Dried pasta, got them. Eggs, got it. Rice, got 'em. What is she talking about? We don't have anything. We've got the basics. You can do all kinds of stuff with that. The staples. Okay. The basics.
Anyway, I I just thought we should clarify. There is plenty to eat in the house. Yes, there is. We just have nothing that suits.
Nothing that she wants to eat. Okay. Very good. All right. That's uh start today's show. Okay. Hello. What do you know? Uh not much. How's your outfit today? Let's do an outfit check. Your O T D. How's your
O O T D today? Why? Why do you care? Well, let's see. I you've got on uh that holes shirt that I explained last time. So I think I've described that shirt pretty well. Yeah. And then uh, did you have on that skirt with the little blue uh cheese wheels? Blue cheese wheels. Yeah. Scoob back. Let me see. Does it look like sliced up cheese wheels? Nah. Oh no, it doesn't. It kind of looks like uh. What's that look like?
It just looks like circles. Yeah. Blue circles. Blue circles. Skirt with blue circles.
Skirt with blue circles. Yeah. And then I just wanted to call attention to the fact that you matched your blue skirt with a green sweater. Yeah. What's what's up? What's up with blue and green? Blue and green is cool together. So Oh, yeah.
What's the deal? What's what's the deal? I initially had a jean jacket picked out, and then I went, mm-mm. I don't want to wear that. But that would match your blues. I bet it's too matchy matchy, you see. So you put the green on for like a pop of color. Is that right? Yeah.
So if I wear green pants and then put on a blue shirt for a pop of color. color, I get called out for fashion faux pas. But when you put a blue skirt and a green sweater. It's different. It's different.
Joshua. Okay. It's different. You hear that? Is this why you called me out? Is this why you were like, let's check out your outfit of the day? Because you wanted to make a point.
Little blue-green action, huh? It's a solid choice. I I would make the same decision.
Listen to me right now. Yeah. What do you have to say? Just wear whatever you want. Who cares what everybody else says?
I don't care what everybody else says. There's only one person who I care has anything to say. And she dragged me through the gutters about it.
I did not. I did not drag you through the gutters. Yep. I said, why what's this look? What do you got going on?
And all I had on was green pants and a blue shirt. And you went, do posted you posted on the internet about it?
Did we post you a picture of you wearing it?
Is this go together? Yeah. I don't think that we did. Yeah.
Hmm. I don't think that we that's fine. It is fine. Who cares, Josh?
R O O T D looks good. Thank you. Thanks, Josh. Yeah.
Um, I was gonna wear some sandals, and then I went outside barefoot because I had to chase the dog.
Why did the dog go out without the lead? What happened there?
Uh I was carrying the dog to the lead. Yeah. And then there was a cat. I see. So I had to hold on really tight because she was wanting to escape. I see. And then when I set her down to put her on the lead, I was holding her real tight. Yeah. But
she got away. She's slippery. And the
grass was wet, and so she was slip sliding. I see. And then I didn't have any shoes on. Uh-huh. And then my feet were cold. And I said, I'm not wearing sandals. I'm wearing some socks and shoes. Okay.
With your O T D really capping it off. Got it. You're gonna do an O O T D post? Probably not. Check out my O O O T D.
What about you wearing? Let's check out your fit.
I'm wearing uh a tan shirt. With a fish on it. Surprise. And brown shorts. Tan and brown. They go together. Looks good. Yeah. Do it great. Yeah. Good morning. I don't know who named this town, but they named it Murfrisboro, Tennessee. Uh you want to type that in? No. Murphree's borough, Tennessee. There's a senior living community there that turned back the clock for its residents with a giant lawn-sized slip and slide. Awesome. And
they gave everybody a chance to laugh, splash, and relive their childhood. The event was called Ride and Slide. And it brought together caregivers, firefighters, college football players from uh Middle Tennessee State University, all helping these seniors safely glide down the massive tarp. Uh one resident is a retired army veteran who gave himself a pep talk before he took the plunge down the thing. Uh proving
a little courage goes a long way at any age, they said. Uh organizers say the day isn't just about fun, it's about connection and joy, especially for residents living with conditions like dementia, Parkinson's, uh, you know, those types of things. But really, really fun. Uh, and they brought out music and they had uh the university cheerleaders came out and they put out this giant tarp, and then the fire department came out, they put out soapy bubbles and uh and water, and they got it all soaked up, and then they had uh they had big inflatable uh like tubes that you float down the river, and they put the seniors in those and pushed them down the slip and slide.
That's awesome.
Yeah, really, really fun times. That's amazing. Anyway, well done. That's some good news. Good news.
You got called out at the store last night. Listen by your 16-year-old daughter.
Yeah. Well, she needs to learn how to take a joke, I guess.
Or maybe you need to ease up on that joke about it.
That's it's not even like a terrible joke. Like it is, it's just for some reason she likes to walk right next to the cart. And it's so easy to just herd her into objects. And so I'll walk slow and she'll even if I just slow down my pace. She's like, don't do it. Like, I'm not even doing anything. But now
you've called it out, so now I'm gonna do it. But I'll just start like slowly veering to one side, the side she's on, and then all of a sudden she's wedged between the cart and aisle and a big bucket of cookies or something. And it's and then she goes, uh and it's fun for me.
She normally likes it too. Like she's normally laughing too, but last night she was in no mood. And she said, stop with this bit. It's a stupid bit. Which made you do it more. Well, yeah. Which made her get more cranky.
Which I don't think she got cranky. She was still smiling about it. She got a little cranky. She's just not stoked to be herded by the shopping cart.
Nobody is. You do that same nonsense to me. And I go, knock it off. That's a funny bit. It's a stupid bit, according to Emory.
Yeah, well, I think it's a great time. I have a good time doing it. So that makes one of us. Yeah, it does. Yeah. And if that's it, if it's just me enjoying it, it's still a good I mean, that's true.
There's lots of things I do because it entertains me. Right. I don't care if everybody else needs to be in on the joke. Right.
It's not a stupid bit at all. Well, you clicking around.
It's okay. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Carry on with your day. Okay. Anyway, are you gonna stop or are you gonna keep going? What do you think? You're gonna keep going. It's the one bit you have. Wow. That's it. That's it. Yeah, one bit. That's all you got.
And it's to wedge her between the shopping cart and an aisle. Anytime there's an obstruction in an aisle, I like to steer her into it. And she just she'll be talking. We'll be shopping. And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then all of a sudden I stop and she's wedged in between two things. And then she's like, dude.
you would You would think she would learn not to walk so close next to the cart. Right. But she doesn't.
It works every time. Every time.
But yeah, no, she could bit. She was frustrated and said, It's such a stupid bit. Stop doing that bit. And I went, I don't I don't think I will.
Not today. This was too good. This one is too good. So you can borrow that. Just herd people around with your cart. If I could I do it to a stranger? Try. You could try. I would like to try. Well, give it a go. How funny would it be? Just to. I mean, somebody's gonna notice me slow walking.
Depends on the stranger. Some people could get really mad. Some people might find funny in it. Some people might get real mad.
And then what happens?
And then they start yelling, and I don't like
people yell, get away from me with your cart. Yeah. whoa, dude. I'm just looking at the bread. Sorry, I didn't see you there.
Settle down. See, it's easy. Go for it. Just make sure we're not around.
You love confrontation. So much. I hate it. Don't do that when I'm around. Just do it to our family. What about you know how people will open up the freezer doors and they'll kind of stand, so they'll be like almost in the fridge. What if we got two carts and we surrounded them and trapped them in the freezer door?
That's just wasting power.
It's not gonna be very long. We're not gonna keep them there for minutes.
You're leaving the freezer door open.
They're holding it open to
look at the ice cream or whatever. Power. Oh, come on. Wasted. Come on. Wasted. Yeah. Wasted.
Why are you saying that that way? Wasted. What a day yesterday for the uh friends of Big Bear Valley and the Big Bear Eagle Nest Cam. Uh, that whole group uh was going through a lot because uh Sandy and Luna were in the nest, and Luna knocked Sandy out of the nest. Right. Sandy was
upside down, and uh it was a whole thing. We talked about it yesterday. Uh quick update on the status of Luna, uh, as of 924 on cam time, they're calling it, uh, because it could be off by a few seconds or whatever. But if you want to go watch it, 924 cam time, Luna took the leap of faith and flew away gracefully from the uh nest, and uh and off he went uh and uh went to a nearby tree, landed right above uh one of the parents, and the parents like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hey, what's going on? Looking around, it's a funny little video. Uh and
uh and that's uh that's kind of a big deal. At the time that happened, uh they had heard some distant vocals between Jackie and what they believe was Sandy, uh, but they hadn't confirmed that until yesterday afternoon, they did catch Sandy on camera. Oh, good in a different tree. Um, but Sandy was spotted not too far from Luna, actually. Um, and midway up the the tree they call the headless tree, nicely sheltered, moving around, looking healthy, and that is uh good news. So there's video of all that stuff.
If you want to watch I am gonna, I'm going right now to watch the Luna.
Yeah, Luna fledging is really cool. It's a really cool thing to see. Uh, and then the video of them finding Sandy is is kind of cool because they zoom way in and you're like, oh, there she is. We got her. And she's right side out. She's good to go. Oh everything
is good. Two little eagles. Yes, they have fledged successfully, although one of them a bit more awkward than the other. But they
have they've successfully fledged. Now it's always for me, it's it's kind of a sad thing when you pull up the YouTube feed for the Nest Cam. And it's empty. And it's just empty. I know.
It's this empty nest. Because all the action that you've been watching for months from eggs to ravens to new eggs to it's almost like real life. Well, it is real life, but you you just watch and watch and watch them grow, and then early June, mid-June, late June in this instance, they're the they're gone. They're out of the nest.
You would turn it on and just kind of work with the sound of it.
What do you mean I do next? The sound is still there. I can just pull it up and just listen to the sound of nature, but it was always nice just to hear the uh, you know, all of that in the background. Like it just sounds like this. Like it's
just this. It's nice. It is nice. There's just birds and I mean there's a road nearby or something, so there's a little bit of traffic noise at the moment, but yeah, it's usually just uh just birds. Like it's morning in Big Bear Valley, so I can just listen to the nice little nature sound. Anyway, it's still there.
Well, I'm glad they both fledged, and they're all safe and they're all good. Seems that way. I love it. Yeah. Good job, little eaglets. You did it.
You have a tendency to fill our lives with hypotheticals, and so uh I kind of threw one back at you over the weekend. And so I did you ever answer? Did you ever you did? Okay, so the question is I was I was making dinner uh and I think I left that at home. I'm just thinking. I had my lunch and I set it down somewhere, I think. I'm kind of bummed out about that right now. Sorry. I was
bringing the leftovers that I anyway. I'm trying to remember where I set that. I have to do that. I hope the dog didn't get it. That's gonna be sad. Anyway, man, that's a bummer.
Grab your stuff. What are you doing?
I I was grabbing other stuff. I think I set it down and walked out. Uh anyway, uh the question I was I was uh removing some sausage casing from some links uh that that I had because I was just doing some ground sausage and it was packaged that way. And uh, and I was like, this is kind of a gross thing. I wonder I wonder if this is gross enough that I could do a would you rather with this? Because you
love doing gross little would you rathers. And so I said, Ah, I know what else, what else is kind of gross. Uh you don't like when you get a rotisserie chicken or a Thanksgiving turkey, and you have to take all the meat off of that. And so I thought, ah, that's pretty gross. She doesn't like that.
Maybe you don't like that more than I don't like.
It's not my favorite. It's pretty gnarly. And then uh, and then I was thinking, what else is gross in food prep? Devaining shrimp is pretty gross. And so I said, which of these three things do you think is worse? Deveining shrimp, removing the sausage casings, or deboning chicken.
I think it goes in this order. Deboning the chicken, deveining the shrimp, and removing the sausage casing.
You don't care so much about the casing. No. Okay, well, that's good. Because as I was doing it, I was like, I know this probably isn't like appetizing looking. Like it's kind of gross. It is gross. Just gotta slice with a knife and peel it off, but it's like gross. This little like deflated balloon.
You think the devaining the shrimp is the worst. It's so gross.
I really dislike that a lot. Yeah. Of all the three, that's the worst.
But you don't ever deep own the chicken. Uh you usually leave that to me. Yeah. So you should probably do that so that you can get a better rating.
No, I've I've done it. I've carved turkeys and stuff. I'm I'm good. That's different.
You haven't stripped it of its meat. No. Fully. No. You would freak out.
I wouldn't freak out. I just don't like it. I would not do it. Oh, I can't handle it. No, it would be fine. I can deal with it. No, I just don't want. I would not freak out. What are you talking about? It's just not something I want to do. But deveining shrimp is terrible. Here's the thing.
If you ask any older generation, they're gonna say, those are fine. All of those are fine. We asked your mom.
Yeah, she's like, no big deal. No big deal. I don't care about any of them. I know. When did we get so soft? Guess what else is shocking? What?
When we make turkey, which we don't do very often because we don't actually like the taste of turkey. Right. But when you have a turkey.
Let's be fair. I like turkey. I just don't like to cook a whole turkey.
I don't like the taste of turkey. Uh when you pull out the bag of goodies, that's gross. And I throw it away. I don't save it to make broth. Or gravy. I do not the gibblets. There's a lot of people that are like, what's wrong with that? Yeah. I don't like it.
You just toss out the neck too. Yep. I throw it all away. You know what would be great is if they could give me a turkey with without the extras. Like I don't want them.
No, I don't. I'll throw them away.
I will. What we've found to be much easier is just to get like a turkey breast and cook that. Because it's all it's that's all we want anyway. I don't want to, I don't care about drumsticks. I don't care about dark meat at all. And it's easier and it's already carved off. So ta da.
Yeah, plus I don't have to deal with the bag of surprises.
Correct. I don't want your bag of surprises opened up thinking I got a toy inside. Yuck.
You. Yeah. You. This is why I'm a partial vegetarian. Until you like meat. I win. The only time the only reason I eat meat is because my the rest of my family eats it. And I don't want to make two meals.
If we go to a burger place, you aren't like, I'll just have a salad. You get a burger. All right, fair. Yeah. Fine. Fine. You got me. You got me. Until you want meat.
I know I never that I want to. I'm never like, oh, I want a burger. Never. I just go with you guys and I go, I'll have that. I'd rather have a veggie burger.
Than one of my smash burgers. Not more than that. Right, because you like the meat.
What'd you pick? What did you pick?
The shrimp. I don't want to. I hate deveining shrimp. I will I will buy the a pre-veined, pre-deveined, whatever the word is. I don't like doing it. It's gross. It's awful.
Let me tear this little ligament out of you, and it's not a ligament. I understand. But it's got that same kind of pulter. It's just so gross. And what it is is not a vein. But Gross. Yeah. Disgusting. Yeah, agreed.
Do you ever meet some of your coworker spouses and think, I wonder what they've heard about me? I mean, I can't uh I
can't bother myself to think about stuff like that. Like I would hope that what they had shared would be kind things, things that would be like, oh, this guy's a cool guy to work with. That'd be that's what they say. That's what that's it. They're like, man, I really like working with that cat. He's super cool.
That's it. That is it, Josh. You just keep thinking that. I'm pretty sure.
What do you think they're saying about you?
About me? I don't know. I should ask, though, right?
Yeah, yeah. You should you should definitely worry about it.
We spend all day with our co-workers.
I spend a lot of time with the people I work with.
And guaranteed you go home and you complain or praise some of the people that you work with. That's right.
I want to be on that uh on that. On the praise team. Yeah. And it depends on the day. Sure. Like there's like they're gonna go, oh yeah, Josh, man, today. Let me tell you about this guy. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm saying. Yeah. That's why I want to meet the spouses and go. What do you know about me?
What do you know?
That's that's how you open a conversation with someone you just met. What do you know about me?
You don't have to be that defensive.
It's not defensive. It's it's uh inquisitive.
The way you presented it was defensive. You gotta open with more ad not at le with less attitude. Well you know about me. Hey, what you know about me? What have you been told? Yeah, exactly.
What secrets do you know about me? That's a way to ask.
What complaints have you received about me?
What is this guy I work with a lot? What has he said negative about me?
I go home and there's no one that I can complain to about my morning co-worker. I know. Tell me about him.
Insufferable. Yeah, but see, you have second job where I bet those co-workers hear about first job woes. What do you mean? Like if I went to your second job and went, what did she say about me after spending time in the studio? Did she show up in this office and just let it all out? Oh, that guy I work with in the morning.
No. One coworker might say that. Which one? None of your business. Oh, yeah? Because there's always at least one in the office
that you work with that you're like you have a trusted confidant.
Yeah, and you're like, okay, I'm gonna tell you all of the things. What's her name? I'm not gonna say I could tell you. Who's yours? Who's your work confidant? I have no complaints. And what do they know about me? Nothing.
I have zero complaints, and I have no one to complain to about anything anyway. If I did, which I don't.
Why don't you have anybody to complain to? Here at work? Yeah. What am I gonna complain about? What do you complain about
so that I know what I should be complaining about? Because I don't complain about anything. Oh I'm just happy to be in the same room as you every day.
Whatever. Get out of here. Get out right now. I can't. I got work to do. The next spouse that I see, a coworker spouse that I see. I'm gonna say, hey. What's he been saying about me? What's she been saying about me? What do you hear about this place at home?
That would be really interesting. Just to hear like, what do you what do you what are the rumblings? Yeah, yeah. What are the things that come home with somebody? Uh-huh. I bet it's interesting. Because everything is uh in perspective, right? Yeah. Yeah. And it's, yeah.
It is that person's perception. Right. So I'm curious about that. So then I would be like, uh, let me hear your side of the story that you heard because I'll tell you my side of the story on that project we were working on that your spouse slacked on. Whoa. And I had to pick up all the pieces. Look at
all that tea. Whoa. Yeah. We hung
out with us with a coworker's wife a couple weekends ago. Yeah. I didn't even ask. You should have. She could have given me a lot of details. Yeah, what do you know about it? She would have said. You think? Oh, yeah. She would have been like, oh, let me break it down. Girl. Girl.
Well, there will be more opportunities, and I'm excited to hear what you find out. No one's going to tell me anything. You don't think so?
No, but I'm going to certainly try. You should. I know. It's important. And I'd be like, hey, you don't even need to complain about like, don't even tell me this stuff about me. What have you heard about everybody else?
No. You want to know about you.
Yeah, I kind of do, but I also want to know about everybody else. Tell me all of it. Yeah. Yeah. Did you ever have sleepovers on the trampoline? Oh, yes. When was the last time you had one of those? When I was 16.
We had a we had a uh like a clamshell tent thing that would go over the top of the trampoline. Which you think like, no, Rich. It was pretty cool though, because it it basically uh it it had like a hinge thing, sort of like my my uh truck tent, and it went all the way over the top and made a dome and it had a zipper there by the ladder that you would use to get up onto the trampoline and it had windows and stuff. So you have a cover so you could stay out there in the rain or whatever, but that wasn't as fun as just being out under the stars with a trampoline. But also one of the coldest nights you'll ever because the wind underneath the trampoline is uh wild.
It was always the worst night of sleep that you could ever get. And then you would wake up and he'd be like, that was awful. Yeah, what have I froze all night? Yeah. It was not comfortable.
And then the night And the sun comes up way early. So you're waking up at like five o'clock, grabbing your blanket and going inside and then falling asleep on the couch.
All the cats in the neighborhood getting in fights and every noise. You're like, what is that?
It's dangerous in my backyard.
Yeah, you'd be like, I never want to do that again. Next weekend your friend calls, want to sleep on the tramp? Oh, yeah. Yes.
Yeah, it was a good time. Let's go back. Yeah. No, it's been a very long time.
I was trying to remember, we just recently took down our trampoline because our That's fun how you say we.
Go ahead.
You just recently took down our trampoline.
Listen, our kids are 21 and 16.
Yeah, they hadn't used it in a long time.
They hadn't used it in a long time. And I was tired of moving it every time I had to mow the lawn. I deal with this for years, and I'm like, no one's even out on this thing. No. Like it has no one's even gotten on the trampoline for like a year and a half.
But I don't think I'm taking it down. Did they ever sleep out on it? I don't know. Maybe once. I think because I was smart enough, they were like, Can we go sleep on the trampoline? I'd be
like, no. Well, I I think I said, Yeah, you can. Well, are you gonna sleep out there with us, mom? No. Yeah, no. No, I'm not. Those days are long gone.
But uh, but so I took it down, and you you would have thought that I like told everybody we're moving to a new house. It was crazy the reaction. They're like, Well, we want to jump on the trampoline. And I went, No, you don't. No, you don't. And then oh, I'll put it back up.
Yeah, that's what Emory said. Can I put it back up? Sure thing. No, you're not gonna.
Here's what's gonna happen. You're gonna hook up two springs and you're gonna go, no, this is hard, and I'm gonna go, yeah. Now take it all back down because I had it all put away.
Is it still over kind of in the corner?
Well, the the trampoline mat is put away in the shed, and uh and the legs are just over on the on the ground by the shed, yeah. We were gonna give it to our neighbor. Maybe. Yeah. I have no problems with that. Me neither.
Like the thing has been around for a lot of years, and I'm tired of moving it. I had a garden to build. I don't have room for a trampoline in the yard anymore. The dog would get tangled up on it all the time. I'm like, I'm not dealing with this trampoline anymore. Taking it down.
We know. Jeez.
Yeah. So I took it down. And then yeah, then I got a bunch of blowback for him. Like, why didn't you ask first? I could have had one last trampoline jump. Come on.
I do remember when we first bought the trampoline and you showed the kids a sweet front flip. Yeah. They were impressed. Were they? They were very impressed by you. I think I have a video of it.
I think if I tried to do that now, I would probably just like have to lay down for a good week or so.
It's probably best if you don't even attempt it.
Yeah, no, I don't go upside down anymore. There's no reason. Right side up is the only way up.
I wonder if you did it now if the kids would still be as impressed. No. They would not.
I would be impressed. I'd be like, wow, I can still do that. But I feel like a little dad. Yeah, I feel like I'd do it, and then I would do that like forward run thing where you you do the flip and then you lost your balance and I'd go, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, and fall off the edge, and then be like, that was a bad call. That was not a good idea. It ended up on the internet. It'd be a whole thing.
I always we did have when I was in school, like when I was younger, there was a one friend whose parents would make you sign a waiver before you could jump on the trampoline. And I always thought that was so weird. Until our kids had friends that would come over and I'd be like, oh yeah. maybe a waver is a bad idea. Yeah.
I'm not gonna sue you if my kid gets hurt on your trampoline. Yeah, no kidding.
My sister was jumping on the trampoline once. Oh, yeah. And she was coming up as her friend was coming down, and her friend's teeth got stuck in her hand. That's disgusting. I know. Your sister has teeth in her head still to this day. To this day.
They just stick up. She just combs her hair all.
She does. You should ask her about it. Anyone who knows her, ask her. Yeah. Hey, how about those teeth? And you're skull. You still have that tooth in there? He's covering it with hair still. Ew, get
it removed. My parents, I told you the story over the weekend, but my parents didn't listen to the Beatles growing up. So I never really knew who the Beatles were until I probably was gull in middle school or something. And I quickly found out that knowing who the Beatles were and listening to the Beatles was considered something that was cool. Okay. And I went, I don't know who these people are. And so
then I had to do some research because all that was in my house was Elvis Presley. Yeah. And Dr. Hook. Yeah. And some old country. Some Neil Diamond. Yeah, really old country, like Marty Robbins. Right. And Jimmy.
I didn't grow up in a Beatles household either. I grew up in a Queen A C D C Neil Diamond kind of household.
Bee Gees. Didn't he have Bee Gees in your house? Lots of bee gees. Yep. So yeah, I quickly learned that the Beatles, like knowing who the Beatles were and listening to their songs were cool. And I was like, well, I want to know who these guys are. So I
listened and I was like, yeah, okay, there's something. But I remember I remember doing some research. And back then you didn't have the internet. So you had to actually get books out.
And lucky for you, you had the whole world book encyclopedia.
Did have the world book encyclopedia. Rich. That we got from Albertsons because my one book at a time.
You got a you got the world book from Albertsons? Yeah, you know. We got the Funkin' Wagnals from Albertsons. You had world book. You did not get that. Or did you have Britannica? Which one did you have? Britannica was the TV one.
Uh we had world book. Yeah. Fancy.
You had color print pages.
I think my parents still have that. Probably. Probably. They probably spent a lot of money.
I know. What's in the year do you think those were published? 93, 94? Earlier than that.
Uh-huh. Really? Yeah, I bet it's probably 88 or 89. Interesting. I'm gonna have to go look. I'm very curious about that. I'm gonna have to go to Burley and look. Oh no. They're brought they're in the same spot.
I know they're in the living room on the bookshelf.
They haven't moved from that position. Okay, back to the Beatles. So I had to do some research, right? And I remember being so confused because I was like, Well, Paul and John look so similar. How am I ever gonna tell them apart? This was before John was wearing glasses.
As I know No, he wore glasses the whole time.
No, I didn't. No, he didn't.
When did John not wear glasses?
He didn't. There was lots of times he didn't wear glasses. When he was young, he didn't wear glasses. There's like old pictures of him where he's not wearing glasses. That's weird. Do you want to know why that's weird? Why?
Because he uh when did he start wearing glasses? That's so weird. I don't know.
So then people would ask questions like, have you heard about the Beatles? I'd be like, Yeah, I really like I really like John. And they'd be like, Oh yeah, me too. And then I I would always mean Paul when I met John. And then finally somebody scolded me and they were like, you know that that's that's not John, that's Paul. So then I had to really brush up on who John and Paul were.
You need to know these things. This is big information.
Hey, what? What's the information?
No, you you need to know the Beatles info.
I do now. Yeah. Because I remember I was like, I'm gonna be part of the cool kid club. My parents didn't listen to the Beatles. Here I go.
This is bizarro information.
About the glasses. Yeah. Why?
John Lennon was extremely nearsighted from childhood. He began wearing glasses in public in September of 1966. He adopted his iconic wire rim spectacles as a costume. Um, and then he continued wearing them after he showed up in this costume. He was like, I can finally wear my glasses. People didn't make fun of me for it.
Oh yeah.
So weird. He wore glasses in his teens. He hated how they looked and almost exclusively wore them in private before 1966. During his early music career, he tried contact lenses, but frequently abandoned them because they kept falling out. Now remember, contact lenses weren't soft lenses. They didn't have that stuff. It was
like really hard terrible things. But the uh round sort of spectacles that he was famous for wearing transformed his look. He embraced the style, he turned them into an iconic signature for his persona, and then he wore them after 1966. But he he hid that he wore glasses for a long time. Because people were gonna make fun of him for being a nerd.
That's why I got them confused all the time. You nerd. Okay, so that's crazy. So then I thought I knew some stuff about the Beatles, right? So then I get to high school, and there was the coolest kid in high school, and he was a couple years older than me. And he loved the Beatles, and I was like, Oh, me too. I know the Beatles. And so then I'd be like, What's your favorite album? Yeah, I met that girl. Did you? Yeah. I know her. You don't know her at all. Yes, I do.
What's your what are you into? I'm into it too. What is it? What do you? I researched all this stuff to sound cool. Send an email with a lyric in it. I met that girl. Yeah. I did that.
It wasn't it wasn't a Beatles lyric.
No, but it also went way over my head because I didn't understand. But that's fine. You put in effort.
Yeah. That's the thing. I put an effort to be cool and it never pays off. Just be yourself. Yeah, I know. It's so much better. Don't try something. Don't try to be cool for other people.
Don't try hard. Just be yourself. It works out better. It's so much easier if you just be you. Like it's it's easy. You already know all the information. You can be like, I don't know anything about the Beatles. Like or I know very little. Or I really like that song they sing about a blackbird. I do love that song. I know. But that's
you can just have that be enough. You don't have to be an encyclopedia of Beatles information. No one's out there like, huh? She's not a Beatles expert. We can't hang out. He can't.
She's not, she's just simply not cool enough. Yeah. She doesn't even know Eleanor Rigby. I mean, you do, but now. Yeah. So what's your favorite album? Revolver. That's a good choice. Duh. Why does Sgt.
Peppers get so much love?
I don't know. That's the weirdest one.
I mean, it is super weird, but I don't know. It's not my favorite.
No, I think people are trying too hard to be cool. Yeah.
But look at how revolutionary. Look at the colored costumes. All right.
I came home last night and it was a little bit rainy and gloomy and ick and cold. And I came home, I walked in the door, and you weren't wearing your little old man sweater. That's right. And you had just made a cup of coffee. That's right. So there was a smell of coffee. It was nice. And it was lovely. Yeah.
And I I'd been walking around in the garden and looking at things, and it was chilly outside. I needed a little warm-up. It was all good. Yeah.
And I said, is this what a retirement is gonna smell like and feel like?
Yeah, like an old man.
I didn't I didn't mind you wearing your old man sweater. Yeah. And the house smelling like warmth. Yeah. Okay. It was nice.
On a rainy gloomy like late spring, early summer morning. Yeah. Or afternoon, I mean. I liked it. Yeah.
The only complaint is that you didn't make me a cup of coffee. No, come on. You weren't home. I know. It's not my first. But wouldn't that have been nice if you had made me like a warm cup of tea? Yeah. That was just waiting for me.
I don't even know how you take your tea. How sad is that?
That is sad. It depends on the tea, actually. But that's all right. Because if it's British tea, Right.
And you like milk and a little bit of sugar. Sugar. Yeah.
But if it's like verbal tea, then you gotta put a little bit of vanilla and a little bit of honey and some frothed milk. That's that's too much work. It's not.
Sounds like a lot of work.
But if it's like uh other kinds of tea, then you put a little bit of honey in there. Like it's a peppermint tea, then you put a little bit of honey in there, and that's it. Yeah. I
don't expect you to know my tea order. But you could have made a tea and just had it steeping, and then I could have prepared it. I guess when I got home.
But what if it was the wrong kind? What if I had made you a peach tea? You know what I could do is just have hot water ready. Yeah, see? Just go nuts.
Peach tea. You know me well enough to know that I'm never gonna pick peach tea. I know anything. I do. I know. want it. I like the peach tea. I know you do. The peach green tea is very good. Do we have some of that? We used to. Uh huh. I used to have a bunch of it.
Because I bought a box once, and then I had like two of them. You know what else is good? What? Apple cider. That's nice. I like a hot apple cider.
I know you do. Don't ever make me that either. I don't ever like that. You don't like a hot apple cider. Well, just at Christmas time. You can have it anytime. I don't like to. Why? It's only at Christmas time.
You don't even like it then, because you'd rather have a hot cocoa. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. You could have made me a hot cocoa. I don't know how you take your cocoa. Yes, you do. How?
You pour a packet in. Fill it with hot water.
No, you gotta have two packets. It's gotta be real chocolate. Maybe a packet and a half. The mug you have is this tall. It's huge. You need two packets. I have other mugs. That you don't like.
Yeah. You're actually right because I used a different mug the other day, and I'm like, what is this? Right. What is this? Let's say it says not my mug. Right. You have two mugs that you use. I do.
What's that lady's name who made the sip mug? I don't know.
I should know. Her name's on everything. I know. She makes all kinds of stuff. That's got is it uh that spade? Is that that lady? No. She makes purses. Are you talking about Kate Spade? Yeah, yeah, yeah. She makes the purses. Okay. Oh, I don't know her name. Jenny. Jenny. Okay, Forrest.
Who she names all the Yeah, everything has like a word written on it. Yeah. She made dog bowls that say woof.
Yeah, she does. What's her name? I don't know. Can't tell you. It doesn't matter.
But you have one of her mugs that says sip. Yeah, I love that mug. Because it's a joke. It's a bit you have. Tell me I have bad bits. No, this is a good bit. This this is where you you do the bit. I will do that. You take a little sip of something. You take a drink. Yeah.
And you go, right before you take a drinking.
Right. You got your your uh what do you call that thing? It's my emotional support water bottle. That's right. Your emotional support water bottle. And you go, zip. And then you take a drink. It's it's you don't have to do that. So you got a mug that says sip on it. So you didn't have to say it every time. The mug says it for you. Sip. I still say it. I know you do. Sip. It's a good bit.
I haven't done that bit in a long time. I know.
You know what other bit I haven't done in a long time that I think is hilarious. Tell me. That I do. I don't even know where this came from. Somewhere in my brain, but we were at some kind of event or something, and I reached over and I pretended to unzip. Yeah, an arm. An arm.
You were like, I store my chapstick in your arm. And you went zip, and then you pulled it out, took the lid off, and then put on the chapstick and put the lid back on and put it back in an arm and zipped it back up. That's so weird. It's a weird bit. It's a weird one.
I think it's hilarious. I haven't done that in a long time. It used to drive Emory crazy.
Do it again. Bring it back. See what she does. And she's gonna go, no, immediately. You're gonna go zzz. And she's gonna go, no, there's no chapstick in my arm. Yes, there is. That's where I keep it. That's where I keep it. It's where my chapstick lives. Uh-huh. You got bad bits. You do. What?
You know how you would watch sitcoms in the 80s and 90s, and there would be a beautiful breakfast spread on the table. Like mom's cooking eggs and bacon and pancakes. Did you like it?
Like I I think there's uh different shows where they would like walk into the kitchen and the whole family would be awakened in the kitchen and they'd be like, About time you got out of bed. Grab some slapjacks.
On a school day. Oh, yeah.
Like these were always on a school day. Yeah, they're grabbing, grabbing a, oh, I don't have time. I've got a big test, and they're grabbing a toast on the way out. They just pick it up off the plate. Like it's already ready to made and good to go.
But the mom is awake and she's made breakfast. Sure.
And and uh the dad is sitting at the table with his reading the paper with his newspaper and his cup of coffee, and the little sister is sitting there already eating, and the teenage boy is like, I'm running late, I gotta get to the bus. Yeah. I don't have time.
Did you ever have breakfast before school growing up? I don't know.
I mean, it was lots of pop tarts.
Yeah.
I would grab a pop tart on the way out the door. Toaster strudels. No, because I wasn't rich.
That's the same. I'm gonna look this up right now. How much are toast?
But also toaster strudels were kept in the freezer. I didn't have time. I didn't toast the Pop Tart. I didn't have time to make anything. I had to grab it out the door. I was already late for class. The first bell had already rung. I had to I had five minutes to get to the school.
I was never late. Like I never got a tardy, but there was never any time for breakfast. At most, it was cold cereal.
Yeah, I never had cereal was after school. Because that's when I had time. Okay.
Pop tarts cost between three and five dollars for a standard eight count box. Okay.
Toaster Strudels generally cost between three and five fifty per box. Yeah, it's more expensive, isn't it?
On a six count box. Yeah, you get fewer for more money.
So yeah. You're rich lady.
Remember we had this debate not too long ago. Yeah. And then you were like, I haven't actually ever, I don't think I've ever had toaster strudel. And then we bought some. They're delicious. They are delicious.
Those are dangerous in the house. I know. I will eat all six of them. They are so good. Yeah, I know. Can't have that. I love toaster strudels. Right, I know you do. Because you grew up with them. You know what I grew up with? S'mores pop tarts. So good. No, brown trugger and cinnamon. No. Well, those are a fine second place, but s'mores was where it was at. No way, man. Yeah. Um.
Okay. So you never had breakfast. I think the most breakfast I ever had before school was like on my birthday. And then my mom would go to like McDonald's and be like, special birthday breakfast.
Birthday breakfast was an ego waffle with ice cream and strawberries on it. That was birthday breakfast. That's how you kick off a birthday with a dessert. See, I don't have a problem with that. Now breakfast for dinner, I have a problem with, but dessert for breakfast, all good.
You're fine with that? That's right. No, you are not fine with that because even when I do make French toast, something like that.
No, French toast is too sweet for breakfast.
Yeah. But ice cream. Yeah.
Have you had a have you had an ego waffle with ice cream? I have. And strawberries on it. Man.
Because that was something you grew up with. So you do.
I haven't had that birthday breakfast in a long time. That So that was a good that was a good tradition. I'm I just had forgotten about it. Do you want me to bring that back? Yeah, we should. We should introduce the kids to it. They don't even know.
I think we did when they were little, but then I stopped doing it.
But we got that frozen box of strawberries that had the syrup, and you'd have to thaw it out in a bowl of water in the sink.
So you'd have to wait for your birthday breakfast.
Yeah. That was all thawed out already. We'd throw it in the night before. Oh. So it was ready to go. Yep. But no, never like a big continental breakfast was available for me to grab a toast from or anything. Me neither. It was TV's made up.
Yeah. It was mostly just because our parents were busy.
Yeah, everybody had jobs. Like everybody has stuff to do. Like you woke up late anyway. Like, let's go. You got five minutes. The first bell's already rung. You gotta go.
Get yourself some cereal. Well, we have his grape nuts. Yeah, we didn't ever have that in the house. Oh, gross. Yeah, I know.
Would you rather this or that? Okay.
Would you rather have me win every argument?
Oh, like that doesn't happen. Go ahead.
Or admit that you are right every time, even when you're not.
Claim that I am right even when I'm not. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So like how you do. Anyway.
So both of these things are things you do. You just want to know which one I would like to personify more.
You're saying I win every argument.
I lose every argument.
Get Over yourself.
And also you claim you're right even when you're wrong.
That's not true.
I admit it when I'm wrong. Hey, hey, hey.
Not hey, hey, unbegrudgingly, but I do.
that. Hey. You don't think you do both these things? What?
Win every argument? Sure. I think I win every argument because I'm always right.
See? Even when you're not. That's both of these things in one.
You were driving me so crazy last night because I knew I was right. The kids were looking for their old Nintendo DS. Yeah. And I go, I know where it is. And I went to look in the bin where I thought it was, and you said, it's not in there. It's not
in it. It's full of DVDs. And I go, I know where it is then. It's in
the drawer in the entertainment setting. And you go, No, we took all those out. And I went. Are you? Yay. Hey. Hey. And guess who was right? Hey. Who? This old guy. Even when you're wrong.
Look, what's the old saying? A broken clock is right twice a day. Hey. Hey, hey. What are you picking? Uh I claim I'm right. I don't know. I like neither one of these is really super attractive. Like I'm not like, oh. I don't okay. I don't
really have a preference, so I guess that. You're just gonna admit you're right. I'm gonna claim I'm right, not admit. You are going to claim I'm right. You already do. Admit I'm right sounds weird. That's a weird way to say that. But uh claim I'm right.
Okay, claim you're right. You would do that anyway, just because you know it gets under my skin. So you'd be like, Oh, does it? I didn't I didn't know that.
Would you rather this or that? Uh hey. I have uh fighting a war in the garden, and I think I'm getting an upper hand. I don't know. I have put out uh as we talked about yesterday. I put out some ear wig traps.
Was it yesterday or whenever it's uh Sunday night, I think you put them out. Yeah. And then you check the traps. Check them yesterday, and I got ear wigs. You just put like some plates.
It's well, it's you just have to have like a low lip dish of some kind. So I use some plates and a couple of little lids and stuff. And you put in uh oil and uh some soy sauce, and it attracts them, and then they get in there and they die. And I win. So and then they can't eat my vegetables anymore.
There was the mo you put a couple of different traps out, but there were the most next to my rabbits. Next to the radishes that you've been
I'm I'm gonna have to replant again. And they germinate pretty quickly, but I've they I had leaves pop up and then leaves gone the next day.
I would so many ear wings though in that trap. I know. There's so many. Yeah.
I got a slug, which I didn't know I had slugs. But you gotta get rid of slugs. Yeah. Ugh. Because they they are nasty little boogers. Literally. Oh little white slug. He was gross. Uh, but he's in there, and so I'm uh I'm gonna win this battle because these things are eating all my all my foods, and I can't be having that.
So why did you okay? I wanted to know why soy sauce and oil. Well, that's an earwig trap. It well, yeah.
So I specifically looked up earwig trap, and that's how you make it.
So it because of the strong fermented odor and high salt content, and this it simulates the smell of decaying organic matter and moisture, which are their natural food sources. Well, so they're like, oh, there's something over here that's delicious that I'm gonna eat. And no, they're not. And then you they go in there and you go, kick it out. Yep. You're done.
Oh And look, I wouldn't feel bad if if it was like they weren't in abundance, but there are tons of them.
It says the the oil coats them and makes them heavy so they can't swim or crawl back out.
It's sad that is I got I can't be having them eating my veggies. You gotta have a little bit of uh a soft heart for the vegetables here. You can't be mad about the earwigs. I've gotta
I've gotta win this battle. They're eating the food. I'm trying to grow food for the peoples, and uh and I'm and they're eating it. So weird. But I also want to do it in a way that is not with a bunch of pesticides and stuff.
I gotta figure out what's eating my hollyhock because something is eating my hollyhawk. Yeah.
And well, it could be slugs or earwigs, I'll tell you that much.
Did you put a trap over by the hollyhack?
It's in my garden. I'm focused. I'm I'm super hyper focused on.
I know. You're focused on the garden, and I've been dealing with the plants.
But I also did the neem oil, which helps. I did the neem oil on the on the leaves of some of the plants, the flowers and stuff, because it's not food. So it that needs reapplied after it rains, after you water, it washes it away. So you have to reapply that.
I used to think it was grasshoppers, but we don't have any There are grasshoppers. Okay. Not as many as before. There are plenty. Okay. We used to have praying mantises that would eat the grasshoppers. Correct. But I haven't seen those in a long time.
No, but do you know what their little egg thing looks like? Uh-uh. It you know those weird little looks like a styrofoam packing peanut you find underneath a rock sometimes that's like a weird kind of brownish-orange color. No. Oh, okay. Well, that's what it looks like. I've seen them before, and I've been like, what is that? And that's that's the uh praying mantis uh egg thing. Oh yeah,
the little uh cocoony looking thing. Yeah. Yeah. Have you seen those? Yeah. Yeah, that's praying mantis. We need to get some of those. Well, I don't have any. I haven't seen any. Eat the grasshoppers. I know they do.
I told you I've been like we've got some a wasp nest.
We have one that we've allowed to stay in the yard. I've befriended them. Yeah, by spooking them out. Oh, yeah. You square up like you're gonna fight just to see what they do.
No, I've been nice lately because I'm like, hey, let's go.
I'm I'm leaving the one because I need them to eat the caterpillars and stuff in the garden.
And they're pollinators. Yeah. I'm not sure. So I go and talk to them. They remember your face, and so I'm like, look at my face. I'm nice. We're letting you stay here on our property. Sure. You're part of the farm. We have
an understanding. Yesterday it was cold, and so they're just gonna be a little bit more. Did you give them a little blanky? Tucked inside all domicile, and I was like, okay. Have a blessed day. Oh, is that what I say to them every day? You do. Have a blessed day, wasps. That's fun.
Anyway, so I'm I'm excited to see what uh what creatures I got in the uh traps overnight last night. Who do What do you think I got? More earwigs. Probably. I hope so. How exciting. I hope
I got more earwigs. They gotta go, dude. They just have to. I don't have time for it. I know. We got radishes to grow. That's what I'm saying. Yum. Yeah. And they're good, right? radishes.
That's why the earwigs love them. Are they attacking any of your other crops or just the radishes?
Well, I've got some issues with the basil leaves, and I've got like one of my peppers. Uh, so I'm just trying to, I'm trying to be very thorough. I've got
traps set all over the place. So good luck, buddy. Thanks. Trying to get rid of those bugs. And good luck to the earwigs. That's gonna wrap up our show for today. Have a don't good luck the earwigs. I have to be like Find some. Go somewhere else. Vamus pest.
You can live if you go somewhere else. That's right.
Have a good rest of your Tuesday.
We'll see you back here tomorrow. Uh and uh, yeah, that's about all I know. Okay. All right. Goodbye. See ya.
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