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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Thursday, January 2, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
We kick off the show with a list of things that Chantel is looking forward to, our daughter has a lot of pictures of the dog, Chantel wants to be in charge of all the fundraising, 12 grapes were eaten and resolutions were burned, welcome back to reality, Josh built a New Year’s Eve puzzle, our son thinks Chantel takes Fantasy Football too seriously, Josh is taking a photography class, and time is running out to get your RealID card!
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This is wake up classy 97, the podcast. It's a replay of today's full show. It's Thursday, January 2nd. On today's show, we kick off the show with a list of things that I am not looking forward to. Such as?
The Kardashians new season. You love them. A Logan Paul show. Yeah. You love him.
Travis Kelce show. You love him. No. No. No.
Our daughter has a lot of pictures of the dog. How many? I don't know. I don't have the data. You said it was over 600, and I think that's absurd.
There's no way it's over 600. We might find out. That's so long. It's a 106. Okay.
That might be that might be true. I wanna be in charge of all the fundraising. So good at it. You love it. You love sales.
Nope. I can't. Being told no. Nope. Nope.
You don't take it personal. Nope. Twelve grays were eaten and resolutions were burned. Yes. Welcome back to reality.
Your favorite. It goes along with the Kardashians. You love it. Josh built a New Year's Eve puzzle. I did.
I did. Our son thinks I take fantasy football too seriously. Yeah. He might be right. Yeah.
Josh is taking a photography class. This is true. And time is running out to get your real ID card. So get in line at the DMV, and we'll see you in May. Thanks for listening to the show.
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Here's today's show. Hey there. Hey there. Good morning. Hey.
Hey. Hey. It is Josh and Chantel. It is New year, new me. Is it?
No. New year, same me. Oh, okay. I mean, you got one chance every year to reset, I guess. That's that's weird.
Right? You can't be, like, February 1st, new February, new skin and tail. No people do that all the time. I'm just saying that, like, everybody starts the new year all gung ho. Look.
It's 6 AM. I'm at the gym. Look at me. We drove past a, one of those CrossFit gyms. Yeah.
Was that yesterday? That was yesterday. And I thought to myself, what's going on? And then I remembered, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's the first of the year. People. Mhmm.
New goals. Yeah. All that new fresh gym smell. You were talking about how there wasn't much to look forward to in, in between, like, New Year and what? Yeah.
Exactly. Spring break? Yeah. What? Winter?
Yeah. Yeah. Well, here's this, short little list of things that are happening, in film and TV Oh. Between now and, like, early February. Okay.
So you know, Wicked is available. We watched it. We did watch it. So, you already knew that one. There is a new Jason Kelsey, show, which will be happening for 5 Fridays throughout the NFL playoffs.
It's called they call it late night with Jason Kelsey. No. It'll be on ESPN. I don't So he's getting a late night show. I don't wanna watch that.
Okay. Alright. The Golden Globes I'll keep my thoughts to us. Will be happening January 5th. That's this weekend.
Do people still watch the Golden Globes? Nikki Glaser is the host. So prepare for vulgarity. Yeah. Exactly.
Because that's what she's good at. Does. Let's see. Netflix is going to become the home of WWE Raw. No.
Josh, this is a terrible list. I know. I know. I know. And Logan Paul will return to pro wrestling after a year long hiatus.
This is a where'd you get this list? Not Jake Paul. That's Logan Paul. Oh, great. Because all I care.
Hold on. There's more. These are things to look forward to? Uh-huh. No.
They are not. Yeah. Netflix has a 2 part documentary series about Jerry Springer. Oh my gosh. Yeah.
No. Yeah. That's coming out on 7th. It's right around the corner. Netflix.
Are you out of ideas? No. That's a new one. I know it's a new one. Documentary Yeah.
About Jerry Springer. About Jerry Springer. Let's see. What else do we have going on? Unstoppable will be streaming in Amazon Prime Video.
What's that? It's Ben Affleck, produced this sports biopic, with his costar and ex wife, Jennifer Lopez. Oh. So that's that's a thing. What else is happening?
The Motion Picture Academy announces nominations for the Oscars on January 17th. That will be happening in March. Yeah. Again, do people care? I don't know.
The Oscars the award show about movies that people has and never ever heard about. Well, the wicked will probably, get a bunch. Yeah. They're predicted to lead the nominations. And then Selena Gomez is expected to be nominated for her role in Emilia Perez.
I don't know, much about that. I don't know that. Let's see. There's a new movie with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz coming to Netflix. I saw the trailer for that.
Yeah? This back in action movie? Yeah. Mhmm. And?
It looks interesting. Okay. I mean, I'm not gonna seek it out, but if it happens to be available when I'm, like, desperate to find something, on my budget. Alright. That's on 17th January.
January 27th, the bachelor returns to ABC for its 29th season. Holy moly. Yeah. The bachelor, where find love that lasts about 3 months. That's right.
Grant Ellis is a day trader who enjoyed a one on one date with bachelorette Jen Tran before she sent him packing. I don't know what that means. I'm being a little bit grumpy this morning. I was fired. And the last but most exciting of all, February 6th, season 6 on Hulu, the Kardashians were premiered.
I know. I knew it. I knew you'd be excited. I found this list of things happening, and I said, this is a list of things Of things. That you just can't wait to do and watch and be a part of.
Season 6? I feel like the Kardashians have been longer around longer than 6th season. Season, but this is the they've had multiple shows. Right? Like, what was the first show called?
I thought it was just called Kardashian. Keeping up with. Oh, this is a different show? You see what I'm saying? They've moved on to they've just shortened it.
So now they've got this different show. They've been around for 25, 30 years, it feels like. Yeah. They have. Way more than 6 seasons, unless the seasons are 12 years long each.
They could be. They could. I feel like I don't know what I was gonna say. What do you feel like? I feel like I'm tired of the Kardashians.
Alright. See? Yeah. Well, new stuff, February 6th. Great.
I was just talking about this yesterday. We were driving with the kids, and we were talking. We're kinda reminiscing about, the kids were talking about teachers that they had both had, and then Beck was talking about elementary schools and all of his friends and what happened to all these friends. And he's 20 years old now, so I was like, what happened to that guy? And where's this kid?
And, and then we started talking about how I used to be a room parent for him, and the room parent is the parent that goes in To the room. To the room and helps with class parties and helps out with, like, reading and different things. Right. What do you love? The room parent is the parent who goes in the room.
That's that's what I said. Good job. Yeah. Yeah. You got it figured out.
Right. You were never the room parent, were you? No. I was not. I I didn't mean to throw that in your face.
You were working. I was working. I, at the time, did not have a job, so it was easy for me to go in there and and help out. That's right. Then Emery was born, and then I had a job.
And I was not the room parent for her, and I said, I helped a lot in Beck's classes. I didn't help a lot in Emery's classes. I'm sorry. And she went, yeah. No.
Oh, man. So they have this thing that's called Venmo moms. What is that? These are moms who are maybe too busy to help out with class parties. And so they're like, I wanna help in whatever way I can.
But I I cannot throw $20 at that at that party. I can't donate my time, but what I can donate is money to help out with supplies and other things needed for the party. Okay. Also an important part of making things happen. And a lot of people just simply don't want to be the room parent or the class parent.
The parent who goes in the room. Yeah. They don't enjoy it. They don't like it. You gotta trust out of the room, but also just throw money into the room and then leave.
So they have yeah. These PTO moms or the Venmo mom. I see. I have been both. Both are equally important.
Which do you prefer? I don't think it's a matter of preferring 1 or the other. They both have benefits. I really enjoyed being the PTO, like, the class party mom. I liked that mom.
You were you were a vice president of the PTO for a while. That doesn't mean I did much. No. I get it, but you did. I I did not.
You you were busy with it all the time. Yeah. We had lots of meetings. It's hard being the PTO president. If you're a PTO president, it is a lot of work.
You get no money for it, and you get a lot of critique for it. Right. It's hard. It's hard work. And all you're trying to do is be Help out with the clouds.
Yeah. Be a little liaison between the teachers and the parents and and do some activities and bring some excitement and fun and different things to the school. And, yeah, I get it. I know. It's a volunteer job.
And so when you volunteer to do it, and you're like, okay. I'm done. I've done this for a couple years now. Somebody else take over, and then nobody else wants to do it. So you're like, I can't.
Somebody take over, please. That's the thing about, being either efficient or being inspired and excited about something and then showing up. And then people are like, hey. They're showing up. I don't need to know.
I don't need to know. Need to know. I don't need to show up, so I'm just gonna not show up, and then you're in it Exactly. For years years years. Forever.
Yeah. I will say also, I hate fundraising. And so when when schools have, like, go door to door and sell all of these value Yep. Books. I'm like, no.
I'm not gonna do that, but I will donate money. So I But here's $20. Sell all these pizza kits. No. I don't want to do that.
Tell your grandparents. Nope. Here's a bunch of money. Dollars. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna fundraise.
But your kid could win this really cool prize if he sells the most. No. Here's $20. Do that. I hate fundraising.
Really? I do really. Okay. Is it is it the sales part of it that you don't like? Yes.
That you because because the kids do some of it, but, really, it's the parents that might do in the majority of it. Hey. I gotta take this to work for my kid. Take this to work, and then you tell your coworkers, and I hate asking people for money. I hate being told, oh, no.
Thank you. I don't no. I don't like it. It's a big part of selling something. Being told no.
I know. I'll never make a good salesperson. I know, no, I know what my skills are. That is not a skill level. Alright.
Being told no. Yeah. You love it. No. You don't take it personally.
I know. I know. I feel like don't say to yourself, it's because they don't like me, not because they don't wanna buy the thing that you're offering. It's me. Yeah.
They buy it from somebody else. Yeah. They would. I'd know it. Yeah.
Because somebody else would have a better sales pitch than I would. Well, work on your sales pitch. I don't want to. I'll just give money. Here's $20.
Please don't make me sell anything. Please. I've got an idea for the show. What is it? Let's get some value cards and have you sell them door to door.
I will buy 1. And those are the only one I will sell. You'll have your own name on it. And then you're like, this is just for me, and I'm not ever gonna use it. It just goes in the wallet and disappears.
Every about once a month, I clean out my wallet. Yeah. And about once a month, I go, oh, hey. I forgot I bought these value cards. Yeah.
I never use them No. Because I forget I have them. Right. Stop selling me value cards. 2 time Olympic medalist Gary Anderson.
He was growing up on a farm in Nebraska, and he was pretty passionate about target practicing with this rifle that he had. Okay. At the time, his family didn't have enough money for ammunition, so he would, quote, unquote, shoot the gun without ammo and just envision hitting the target. Oh, he manifested a target. That's right.
His persistence, his passion for the sport, it all paid off in a big way. In 1964 in Tokyo and in 1968 in Mexico City, in both of those Olympics, he won gold medals. Is this the Olympian who we just saw who showed up? You know, the one who didn't come with any you know the guy. I don't think so.
No. No. No. Different guy? Yeah.
No. This is a different dude. This is a guy from Nebraska. Oh. Not Okay.
Not Turkey? I think that guy was from Turkey. I know. Yeah. The pistol guy?
Yeah. No. Not that guy. That guy was hardcore. Yeah.
No. This is a different dude. So, Gary has donated the historic rifle that he used to win the gold and break the world and Olympic records in the 300 meter meter rifle event in Tokyo, to the Nebraska National Guard Museum, which is kinda cool. So they have the, Olympic rifle on display now, at this museum. Gary said that not having ammunition while he was on the farm and just visualizing success probably helped him more than if he had had all the resources, because he he had to do it mentally before he could actually do it Interesting.
With ammunition. Yeah. He said oh, go ahead. No. I was just gonna say we were at an arcade yesterday, and there was a game we were playing that involved shooting some balloons.
Right. Did you envision success? Yeah. That doesn't mean I was successful. At one point, I just started just shooting because I couldn't hit any of those balloons.
Accuracy went way down. Yep. I see. Go ahead. Sorry.
That's okay. No. The ones who become champions figure out a way to win, he said. And I think the message out of my experience is just to do what is possible and do it with enough intensity that it can pay off. I think that's really interesting.
That's a good word. Championship story is now on display at this museum to hopefully inspire another generation of champions. It's kind of a cool little thing. He's also an Olympic and world record holder. Envision your success.
That's a good motto for 2025. Well, I remember, Michael Jordan would would talk a lot about that. In warm ups and in practice, he would visualize his shots and and watch the ball go in mentally in his head before he would actually take the shot. It's a big deal. That's Manifest or whatever they Yeah.
That's called manifest. Visualize your success. That's right. 225. Visualize.
It's good news to get you going. So our Google Photos does the year end review just like everything else does, and they gave I did it last week. What? Nothing. What are you looking at?
Just a lot of rumblings as you're moving your microphone around a 100 different ways. Oh, sorry. I'm just trying to get comfortable. Okay. Just trying to get comfortable.
Okay. Just trying to get comfortable. Alright. I'm settled. Alright.
So I did this a couple weeks ago, and it was my top it told me how many pictures I took that year. I think I had taken, like, 367 or something. Yeah. And then it told me who I had shared the most pictures with or who I took the most pictures of. And Right.
You were, like, number 1, and then Emery was number 2. And then it told me, like, what my vibe was based on the pictures that I took. Yeah. I never got one of these. You didn't?
Really? Uh-uh. Emery did this the other day. And her top photo, her best friend, that makes sense. So so the majority of her photos were of her and her best friend or her best friend.
Yes. Is that what you're saying? Her best friend was in the majority of her pictures. Okay. And that makes sense.
I'm not mad about that. Alright. Then I find out that the dog is number 2 on her list Yes. By a landslide. K.
So how many photos of her best friend? I don't remember. K. How many of the dog? I don't remember.
Oh, you didn't write down numbers? No. I didn't write down numbers. Alright. But I know that the dog was at least 600 more photos than me.
600? Yeah. No way. Yes way. There there's no way she had over 600 photos of the dog.
Ask her. It's not 600. Yes. No. It's not.
There's no way. Josh, Ask her. It's not 600 photos. Ask her. I'm telling you I'm telling you.
With certainty it's not 600 photos. Okay. We're gonna take this bet, aren't we? It's not 600 photos. Gonna take this bet.
There's no way. There is way. There's probably over a 100. There's no way that between April and the end of the year, she took 600 photos of the dog. Ask her.
There's no way she took 600 photos of the dog. And ask her. Go ask her right now. Maybe a 160. Bro.
Bro. Okay. That's not the that's not what we're talking about here. What we're talking about is that I'm 3rd in line. And where am I?
4th. Maybe. I think you were 4th. You're worried about being 3rd. The difference between the dog the amount of dog photographs and the amount of me photographs is huge, though.
160 to what? I don't know. 12? I don't know. How many photos are you?
I don't Why didn't you write down the numbers? We need the data. I don't have the data because that's not the important part. The important part is yeah. We've had that dog since April.
Yeah. So in the span of 7 months Mhmm. She has taken more pictures of the dog than her mother. Do you, follow her around and looked all all cute all the time? Yes.
Okay. Well, then there's no excuse. I don't know what to tell you. There is no excuse even if I don't follow her around and look all cute. I have a lot of photos of her.
Listen. What? When she walks in a room and the dog is sitting there in the sunlight and looks up, she goes, oh, you're so cute, takes a photo. I've never once heard her walk in the room and see you basking in the sunlight and go, you look adorable. Click.
And that's the problem, isn't it? Because in the sunlight more. Do bask in the sunlight. Do you? And I do look cute basking in the sunlight.
Do you? Take my photo. That's it. Try that. See how many photos you get.
It'll be, in point 5 over your forehead. Exactly. But, you'll get more photos, so there's that. I can't even believe it. I can't even believe it.
3rd in line over the dog. Yeah. I'm 4th. So After the dog. Yeah.
Well Yeah. You didn't carry her in your womb for a night, but Here we go. Here we go. Let's talk about New Year's Eve and how we did the 5 superstitions, 5 of some superstitions. Do all of them.
You didn't do any of them. Over there eating grapes. And we talked we've talked so much about grapes this week. It's crazy. It's crazy how much we've talked about grapes.
Did you did the grapes get put away? I feel like the grapes got left out of town. Okay. Hold on. Back up.
Back up. Back up. Back up. So we talked about some New Year's resolutions that are New Year's superstitions, such as when you kiss at midnight, that's supposed to bring, peace and love into your life. Check.
If you make noise that's supposed to ward off evil spirits Yeah. We have the noisemakers. Check. If you leave the door open at midnight, that's supposed to let in all of the bad negativity from the previous year year and letting good, positive, stuff inside your house. We did that.
Check. Our son was not happy about that. He's not happy about anything. Well, he really thought that there was, no reason to do any of that. He didn't think there was any reason to do any of it.
If you they said if you write down your resolutions on a piece of paper and then burn it, that's supposed to help those come to fruition. We did that. I did those 4. Right. And then it said, if you eat 12 grapes at midnight, then that represents the 12 months in the coming year, and each grape represents good luck for the coming year if you eat 12 of them.
You don't like grapes? You didn't partake in the grape eating. I kinda forgot about the grapes. I actually was gonna go to the store and buy new grapes because and we I knew we had grapes, but they weren't the freshest of grapes. Boy, they were crunchy.
I'll tell you that much. I was trying to focus on doing my puzzle at the dining room table while you were over there going, January. They were not crunchy. Were some crunchy grapes. They were not crunchy.
February. I pulled up with the grapes. And at I think I pulled these open about 12:10 because I went, oh, grapes. We forgot grapes. Yeah.
So No. Did either of the kids jump in on the grapes? Nobody. No. It was just me in the kitchen alone eating grapes.
I was right there. I heard the whole thing. March. I had to dig through. The grapes were not the freshest, as I said.
Mhmm. I had to dig through the grapes and find the 12 best ones. April. I ate those 12 grapes. No.
I So I'm gonna have a real good luck here. Also had grapes. May. You said that you would eat a grape if you got close enough when one fell in your mouth. It didn't happen.
No. I should have done that, though. Should've just June. We're gonna see because I ate the grapes and you did not. So we're gonna see Great.
Grapes. No. Great, I said. Grape. They were grapes.
Uh-huh. We're gonna see who has the better luck this year. You or me? You're gonna you're gonna leave it up to the grapes here. The nongrape eater.
July. And that's just the first 7 grapes. There's 5 more. I had grapes too. You did.
Participated. August. What day is it? It's Thursday, but it feels like a Monday. Yeah.
It's I'm very lost. Everybody is. I was talking about, driving around yesterday. We we went out, we went to Rexburg. We went and hung out and did some stuff with the kids.
And then, we're driving around, and I'm like, what day is it? Like, it's is it Sunday? What day is happening right now? No one knows. It's such a confusing time.
It is a confusing time. It's Thursday. A lot of people are still on vacation. A lot of people didn't have vacation. A lot of people had partial vacations.
I have another job, and I had a week and a half off of that job. So I would come and do the morning show. Right. And then I would leave, and then I had my whole day. Right.
And then I had a couple of days off from here too. Right. Because we had Christmas Eve and Christmas day, and then we came back for a day or 2, and then we're off for a weekend, and then we're back for a day or 2, and then off, and then back now. Yeah. It's just a mess.
And it's And then we're here today and tomorrow, and then we're off for a couple. And then it's actually, like, a full week. I don't know how we're gonna do it. How are we gonna make it through a full week? I I forgot how to work.
I don't remember how to check emails. I don't know. I don't know how to do it. I don't wanna do it. Alright.
So today, you're back at your other job. Today is Is that right? Back to reality for me. Full schedule today. Yep.
What a day. What a day. After a week and a half. After my life of leisure. It's been so lovely.
I've been getting like, the house has stayed perfectly clean. Yeah. I would go home, and I would have, like, a list of things that I wanted to get done. Sure. And then I would be like, okay.
Now it's my fun time, and I would read. Okay. And I would have a snack, and I would take the dog out, and I would go do some crafting. And then I would It sounds like preschool. I would have another snack.
Right. Yeah. I was And I'd lay out a nap mat Yeah. Absolutely. The couch.
Lovely. Yeah. What's that like? I'd look outside at the squirrels with the dog, and I'd be like, those little silly squirrels. This is what they do all day.
Right. It was beautiful. I want that life back. Well, life is expensive. I know.
I know. I was getting paid to do that. No. I understand. But if you want that as a full time thing, that's expensive.
We're gonna have to take some hits. I didn't realize that. Yeah. That's that's unaffordable. I know.
I know. So sorry. Oh, it's that there's that old song, back to life, back to reality. Yeah. Somebody should be crying when they sing that song.
Back to life. Yeah. I know. Back to reality. Reality.
I don't want to. Well, sorry for your loss Thank you. Of leisure. I know. It was a beautiful time.
It was Yeah. I bet. Yeah. It was. Yeah.
And you even got I was home. What day did you have a half a day? That was just New Year's Eve. Yeah. Just the other day.
You didn't expect to have a half a day. No idea. Said, go home at it was noon. Yeah. He was like, oh.
Home at noon, 12:30, whatever. Yeah. So it was a couple hours shorter than usual. Yeah. And that was the other thing.
We would go out to lunch. We'd be like, where should we go for lunch today? Yeah. The world is our oyster. Look at us just going to lunch.
Man, oh, man. Yeah. Back at the grind. I know. Well, for today and tomorrow, and then 2 days off.
Okay. I can handle that. It's a it's a really easy Listen. And this has been my plan all along. You work Monday, Tuesday.
Sure. You have Wednesday off. Uh-huh. Work Thursday, Friday. A 4 day work week with a day off in the middle.
Sure. Then you have Saturday, Sunday, 2 days off Yeah. And then work 2, 1 off, work 2, 2 off. Brilliant. That's your system.
That's what I would like to be my system. Okay. To give yourself that little midweek break. Sure. Why not?
I know. Who do I talk to about this? I don't know. Who's in charge of time? Father time?
Yeah. That's who. Look him up in the yellow pages. Give him a call. Yellow pages.
Yeah. Who did somebody have a yellow page I can borrow? Father time. He's in the yellow pages. That's where you'll find him.
Look him up under, time. Okay. Not f time comma father? Oh, no. He's just in in the white pages, it's or it's by name, but in the yellow pages, it's by category.
I see. And then alphabetically. So under time, you'll find father time. I get it. I get it.
I get it. Right. Hey. If you're going back to work today, good luck to you. Yeah.
We should. Luck to all of us. Mhmm. You all are a bunch of early quitters. I'll tell you that much.
What do you mean by that? New Year's Eve, midnight hits. We go through the superstitions, the traditions, whatever you wanna call them. Mhmm. You ate all 12 grapes.
Yeah. And then you were like, well Time for bed. Think I'm, I think I'm gonna call it a night. 12 I think I was in bed by 12:15. It was pretty early.
Yeah. You're like, I'm done eating my grapes. I'm out. About 11:30, I was kinda struggling. I was watching TV, and I was kinda nodding off.
Were you? Yep. My eyes were getting heavy, and I went, oh, let's stay awake for 30 more minutes. So earlier this week, we talked about, sort of things that would happen on New Year's, and I shared with you, the the family puzzle. Right.
When you were younger, that's what you did. And so I've had a puzzle kicking around the house for, I don't know, a while. Probably a good couple years. Probably a yeah. I'd say that.
And it was a puzzle that I just had never got around to putting together. And so, I said, well, hey. It's New Year's Eve. Let's, work on this puzzle. And so I got it out.
I set it on the dining room table. I emptied out the box. I started doing the sorting. Our daughter, Emery, was like, yeah. I wanna check it out.
Let's go do a puzzle. She's she's into it as well. Yep. The 2 of you. She, however, was not, she was kind of giving it a half effort.
And I wasn't really super stoked about her half effort because, all she wanted to do was find all the edge pieces and put together the edge, which is important. It's not the best part. To me, that's the best part. Why is that the best part? I don't like puzzling.
It's not fun for me. It's not enjoyable, but I think I like the edge pieces because that's the easy part. I don't know that it's the easy part. It certainly is a part of the puzzle. It's typically, I would say, what gets done first.
Because it's the easy part. You know there are puzzle races? No. Like a like a big think about a big gymnasium full of tables. Don't sigh.
This is cool. No. That sounds awful to me. Your puzzle is a secret. It's in a box.
It's wrapped in paper, and everybody has it. It has the same amount of pieces. Everybody has the same puzzle? No. No.
It is not. Oh. They would probably all be manufactured by the same company, so they'd all be incredibly similar Okay. And challenge, but different picture. And you don't know what puzzle you get till you unwrap it.
So and you have a certain amount of time to complete the puzzle. And, the timer clicks down, and everybody unwraps the puzzle, and you just start building puzzles. And it's basically whoever builds the puzzle first wins. No. Thank you.
Yeah. It sounds awesome. I think it sounds really cool. So as I'm working on this puzzle, I got that playing in my brain. And I'm thinking to myself, what would be my strategy?
How would I sort out the pieces? What would I what would I do? Because as I'm sorting this particular puzzle, there was a lot of text on the on the puzzle and then a lot of, like, it's individual, like, posters from different national parks and stuff. Uh-huh. And so I was I was looking at different colors, and I was looking at different patterns, and looking at all the text, as well as the corner pieces.
So I had the 2 boxes, the lid and the and the bottom box, and then the table, and I had basically 4 sorting things happening at once. And then Emery walked in and started helping sort, but she wasn't turning all the pieces right side. She wasn't sorting the way that you wanted her to sort. Them into piles. She wasn't pulling the text pieces into the text box.
But that was her message. No. I know. And I explained, hey. You're not doing the full sort.
She's like, I just am looking for edge pieces. Like, I just wanna do edge pieces. And so she was and she was like, I'm not gonna be bothered to help you at all. I'm just going to do what I'm here to do, and that's it. So it was a little frustrating being, on the, organized OCD sorting method that I had going and then seeing a pile of pieces on the other side of the table just haphazardly laying.
I can't. I It was too large. Then she started to do math, believe it or not. She was like, there's a 1,000 pieces in here. How many pieces across and down is it?
So we started to try and figure out that math because then she was like, then I'll know how many pieces I need to find in my edges to make sure I'm getting it all. That's when I left. Yeah. Puzzles and math? Yeah.
I'm out. Yeah. That's not an enjoyable night for me. So I was up until, like, 2:30 in the morning. Yeah.
You were up late on New Year's Eve. Well done. I was falling asleep at the table trying to focus on the pieces, and I went, then that's enough. Was that you thought multiple times, you were like, I think you are all trying to sabotage my puzzle. This is true.
You thought I stole pieces and hit them? You thought Emery stole pieces and hit them? At one point, you were convinced that the box was missing the last puzzle piece that you needed. Yeah. And you said, I'm pretty sure Emery squirreled away that puzzle piece.
Guess where you found it? On the floor. On the floor. But then did you hear what happened when she came out? And I said, look.
I got the puzzle all done because I finished it, yesterday morning in about, I don't know, 30 minutes tops. And, and she walked out into the dining room, and she took the corner piece off and put it back down and said, look at all that work I did. And I went, are you kidding me? Are you kidding me right now? Like, yeah.
I did that whole puzzle. So I wasn't unwarranted in my suspicion. Yes. You were. You blamed everybody for stealing your puzzle pieces.
I just there's a fear I have that somebody's gonna do that just to be, just to be smart. Nobody touched your puzzle. I'm aware. None of us wanted to do that puzzle but you, and you did it. And I did it.
Good job. Yeah. Thanks. I I did not win the race, though. Oh, sorry.
Thank you for being sorry about that, I guess. In an effort to not just sit around the house, yesterday, we decided you know, it'd be fun is if we loaded up everybody and we, went to Fat Cats. We were all getting a little bit stir crazy. Yeah. We had a little bit of cabin fever.
We've been in the house too long. So we said, let's, let's go do something. So we went and got lunch, and then we, drove to Rexburg, went to Fat Cats just to play in the arcade and, and see what was happening. Everybody in Rexburg was there. Yep.
So it was a packed house, but we had a good time. And then we learned that we, really need to not let our children, learn about gambling. They already did, I feel. They there is go ahead. I was gonna say they have the coin pusher machines where you you put in your money, and then the coins drop down, and they push more coins and prizes and things to the, towards you.
There's something addictive, because I fell victim to it on a machine next to them. There is something very, satisfying about having, whether it's little plastic pearls or coins or whatever it is, being, dropped in front of you and then all of it pushed in your direction. There's something about that that's very satisfying. All of that stuff coming towards you. Because you and the kids were both like, you were all about the tickets.
You wanted to get as many tickets as you could, which is why you sat at those machines to get as many tickets as you could. Point of an arcade. I disagree. I don't I don't care about the prize redemption. The prizes in there are things that I can pick up at the dollar store.
I don't disagree. So I don't care about the prize redemption. I don't. What I care about is having fun while I'm there. So I wanna play the silly games.
Sometimes those silly games often don't even produce any tickets. Okay. I don't care. Yeah. You're more into I'm there to have that.
Ball and Yes. And and the hammer Yes. Game to see how far the light can go. Dunk the crowd. Yeah.
You're really into the, the carnival type Yes. What do they call that? Midway. You're into the midway type games. Yeah.
Do you ever do that at, like, the fair and stuff? Because you have to pay a lot of money to pay those play those. Sure. And they're usually, rigged and and And, again Yeah. I don't care to win.
I don't want the prizes because oftentimes, the prizes are a terrible stuffed animal. Or goldfish. I don't want that. I don't care about that. Right.
I just wanna have the fun. You and I shared a card with credits. Is that what they're called? Tokens, whatever you wanna call it. Sure.
You ended up using most of them because you were in the mission to get as many tickets as you could, and so you played that coin drop game. Yeah. So I just went and got some popcorn, and I watched whoopee. Well, hold on. That was that was after wandering around and doing all the other stuff.
It wasn't like I went in laser beamed on that and sat there the whole time spending all the credits on a card. Let's be real. We wandered. We did a bunch of stuff, and then I went, well, hey. We're getting down to about 50 credits or whatever on here.
Let's see what I can do. And I did pretty well, I might add. Yeah. You did. The ticket.
You did well. I did earn some quite a few tickets. But, again, not fun for me, and I don't care about those tickets. What prices were you gonna get? I was.
I was doing it for the kids so they could have lots of lots of tickets to redeem and get something awesome. Something awesome Yeah. Doesn't exist. Oh, they were really excited. They were excited about the thing that they wanted.
But that they didn't end up getting half because they didn't have any of them. So they were like, I want that thing, and they went, we don't have that anymore. The kids played this game. You had to collect 5 I think it was 5 of these adventure cards. 7 or 10.
There's there's a bunch of them. It's a whole bunch. And they were really working. The only one they needed was Thanos, and they spent a lot of time trying to get that Thanos ticket. And then there were people watching, a lot of people that were invested in getting that.
Because it's one of the rare cards that you need in order to complete a set. And if you complete the set, you get, like, 3,000 tickets, yeah, for having a full set of cards. To win a cheap knockoff of a Nerf gun. That's right. See, you get it.
You get it. The redemption center prices are lame. I know. Oh, it's always hard. It's because you gotta you gotta have a variety of things.
You gotta have different valued items. It's a challenge. Mhmm. It is a challenge. I worked at an arcade for years years.
I know. It's tough. And when people show up with all the tickets and they go, I'm finally here for the big stuff. I'm here for the celebrate. It's a big deal.
Yeah. They ended up with 10,000 tickets. Over 10,000. Yeah. Pretty wild.
But did you have fun? I had a good time. Apparently, you had popcorn. I had popcorn. I was happy.
Alright. One of your New Year's resolutions was to, what was it, do things that you love. Spend more time doing things that you love. Yeah. That's it's to, be more intentional with my time, really, overall and spend more of it doing, things that I really do enjoy, and want to be doing rather than just focusing on all the stuff I have to do all the time.
You did great. 1st day done, you did great. Yesterday, you signed up for a photography class. Yeah. So, I've I've dabbled in photography for a lot of years.
Yeah. And last year, I got some new gear, and I just haven't really spent a lot of time getting to know it or actually going out and shooting photos and stuff. So I really got into this there's this 6 month long course that I'm taking, and, and it's it's gonna be interesting because it's, like, designed to challenge you for 1, but it's also, there's a lot of, like, feedback involved. And so, like, this first class, unit that I'm in is all about, like, how well are you how good are you at receiving feedback because it's gonna happen. I don't like that.
It's gonna be interesting. I don't like giving feedback. You don't like giving feedback? Unless it's possible. Well, okay.
So this is supposed to be constructive is the idea. Nobody is in here going like, no. You're terrible at photography. Go give it up. Way.
Get out of here. Never take a picture again. That's not how it works. It's all in in a constructive environment in this community, but I think it'll be really interesting. I am impressed that you stuck to your guns on the 1st day.
Yeah. Well, they put out the 1st class yesterday. And so I have an assignment this week that I have to get done, and then next week is a week of feedback. Oh. Oh, boy.
But you also provided feedback to other people too. That's correct. I've and I've had a couple of different, sort of conversations with with people that I've provided feedback to and stuff like that. So it's been interesting. That's cool.
Yeah. I think that's awesome. Keep it up. Keep it up. So I hope to.
And then we'll see what happens. Hopefully, I'm I just become a stellar photographer. Oh, cool. That'd be great. Be really cool.
My New Year's resolutions was to spend more time outside. I did not do that yesterday. So I've already broken my resolutions. No. You have not.
It was just cold. You didn't say spend time outside every day. Oh, that's true. You said spend more time outside in the whole year. Alright.
You've given up on day 1. You're gonna mess up. I I messed up throwing the towel. No. No.
No. No. I haven't given up. I just yesterday went, oh, man. I didn't go outside today.
That's okay. It's cold. It's winter. It was cold. It's not my favorite time to be outside.
Dog on a walk, and then I went, oh, not no. I'm not doing that. That's crazy. Yeah. What are you nuts?
Not going outside? So I thought that I was a failure on day 1. You gotta you gotta give yourself some, more credit. Giving up. I was gonna try again, but It doesn't have to be every day.
Looking outside today going, maybe not today. I'm gonna go outside when I walk to the car. Yeah. Hey. Does that count?
That does count. I gotta yeah. I gotta walk out of my car to go to the post office too. So that's a lot of outside time. That's too outside.
And then when I leave work, it'll also 3. And then I have to go from my car to my house when I get out outside. So much outside time. Look at you. Don't give up hope.
Killing my resolution. Got outside time on the way. You've been outside already once today. Look at you. Really?
You're you're counting inside a car as being inside? Yeah. Does that count? Yeah. Because you're inside of something.
But you're actually outside, aren't you? But you could say the same thing about your house. That you're technically outside? No. I would say you're inside a house.
You're inside a car. That's different. You're outside while you're inside. No. That's When you're inside the house, you're inside inside.
Right now, you're inside even though you're outside of the house. No. Whatever. I don't know. You've you've ruined it all.
You're welcome. We were driving in the car yesterday with the kids. Now the entire reason that I got into football was because of my son. This is well, this is true. And then a documentary that he, you know, he watched with him and then he It was a nice way to bond with him.
He really loved football. And now I'm I'm kind of into it more than him sometimes. I feel feels like that sometimes. On the game, so I'm the only one watching. He's off somewhere else, and I go, why am I watching this football game by myself?
What I found out yesterday as we were talking about our fantasy football team that we have, I said, hey. I think I'm gonna win the fantasy football. Yep. And he says to me, I don't care. I think that you're putting too much stock into this silly fantasy.
Uh-huh. And I went, what? That's that's exactly what he said. And and I said the same thing, through laughter, because I said, what? Like, this is wild.
This silly fantasy league has been intense for me. Mhmm. Both you and I, actually. We've put a lot of stock into this fantasy football team. This is very true.
They Yeah. We've had some highs. We've had some lows. We've had some ups. We've had some downs.
And he It's been a challenge. Entire reason we're doing it says, it's silly. Yeah. What a silly thing. Yeah.
How how could you take it so serious? It's just football. What? I know. I know.
So what we Here's what I think what's going on. He's in 4 different fantasy football leagues, and the family league is the least important to him. I think so too. And and I think that shows in the fact that There is a roster. He does.
He sets it every week. He just doesn't invest any time into that team. No. Because who's he trying to impress with his with his football knowledge? Us?
We already know. We know he knows a ton. Like, it's weird. It's not weird. It's fascinating the amount of knowledge that his brain contains, who went to what college, what their I mean, everything.
Everything about these players. And and this is, like, 2nd and third string people. He knows rosters. He know like, it's wild the amount of information he, he has about football and basketball. But, I mean, he just knows this stuff in hockey and watches it all.
So it's he's definitely in into it. He's very knowledgeable, and he knows what he's doing. But I think the draft decides a lot right out the gate, and then having to rebuild your team and your roster throughout the season multiple times like he and I have had to do, and you have let everyone know I still have the players I drafted the first time. Picked the best people. We've heard it.
So I think he's probably like, I don't really want to engage with my family who I'm around all the time. My parents who are taking it way too seriously. Right. Specifically, my mom who's taking it very seriously. Because you and Emery are competing for 1st and second, and he and I are competing for 3rd and 4th.
I'm I'm just I was taking it seriously because I thought everybody else was taking it seriously. I was taking it quite seriously. But we both were. And then this raccoon showed up I didn't expect to meet See. And, and taught me a little bit about football that I didn't know.
Listen. Listen. Listen. What I think is that we both decided that we probably shouldn't do fantasy football again next year. I think change by the time we get to next year.
But Maybe we should just let bygones be bygones. Or keep playing. No. I They do it for every sport, so you can do fantasy in every sport. I'm solid.
I think I might be okay. Yeah. It'll work. I'll work on all the other one. Okay.
Here we go. Let's hear it. I just did. I said it. You heard what I'm saying?
Gonna win. What happens this week, is the final week. This is it. This is the final week. What I'm saying.
And you think you're gonna win, but what happens when you get second? I'm not gonna get second. Okay. But what happens when that does happen? It's not going to.
I'm projected to win by 30 points. Okay. But what happens when you don't? How does that go? It's not.
It's not. If by some small margin, I do get second, then I will shake Emery's hand, and I will say, good game. I will Good game? I will shake your and Beck's hand and say, hey. 3rd and 4th ain't bad, buds.
Wow. I can't wait for the consoling that you're going to offer us for being in 3rd and 4th. That ain't bad. It's not bad. Yeah.
There's still a placement. Wait a minute. Show up. Yeah. Out of 4.
Come on. Would you rather this or that for 2025, the very first one? It's would you rather this or that? Would you rather have the ability to time travel, but only for 5 minutes at a time? Forward or backward?
Yes. And 5 minutes from where you're at or any time, but you can only be there for 5 minutes. I'm just trying to understand. You can only be there for 5 minutes. But any time?
Yes. Just only for 5 minutes? Yes. And then what happens? You're automatically sucked back to where you were?
Correct. Can you sequentially go back 5 minutes later? Like, my question is You're not missing time in the present. Okay. There's that.
But then as soon as I get back, I could jump again? How how many times do I get one shot, or do I get unlimited amounts of time trial? Do it once a day. Once a day Yeah. For 5 minutes Yeah.
In either direction. Okay. Yes. That is a fascinating capability. Or be able to freeze time, but only for 30 seconds and also only once a day.
I'm going I'm going with the first one. I'm gonna have the ability to time travel once a day for 5 minutes in either direction. And, while I'm gone, reality is frozen until I get back. I'm taking that option. I'm taking that one too.
I would actually probably like to freeze time, but not for 30 seconds. 30 seconds is a very little amount of time. But 5 minutes 5 minutes is not long either. I get it. You could see so much once a day.
Correct. That would be so cool. There are there are pinnacle moments in time that you could travel to and observe for 5 minutes. And 5 minutes is a perfect amount of time because fascinating. Starts to get dangerous.
Like, if you time travel back to a war or something, 5 minutes, you're like, I gotta go back. Yeah. I've seen enough. And do you travel based on description, or do you actually have to input the exact time you want to travel to? I don't know.
Because because if you have to input the exact date and time you're going to travel to, you could miss things. You could be wrong. That's true. And then you have to wait until the next day to try again. Yeah.
Be like, oh, I showed up early. They're just setting up tables. Oh, no. That was boring. What a waste of my 5 minutes.
Now I have to wait till tomorrow. They're just they're cleaning up the dirty dishes. Oh, I was late. Missed it. Good point.
Excellent point. Yeah. Because if it's based on description, you're gonna say, take me to this historic event. Yeah. Take me to the signing of the declaration of independence, and then you, like, show up and you get to watch for 5 minutes.
Or do you have to go, alright. 1776. Let's try and then you have to also pick the location. So you have to be, like, exactly where it's happening. So you're like, okay.
You think we know, but you have no idea what time of day it happened. Just have to say, I wanna go see this event Right. At this not necessarily time, but when this is happening. Right. But then if you have to guess the time You don't have to guess the time.
No. I'm saying if you do, you put in the date 17/76. You got everything written down, and you go, okay. Yeah. I think I know where I'm headed.
But then you walk in 2025 looking, and you and you look around, and no one's gonna notice you. And then you go, hey. What time is this thing going down? And they're gonna go, what are you talking about? Who are you?
Where are you from? And then Who invited you? And you're gone. What time is this thing going? Yeah.
When's everybody gathering? I'd like to be here. I'll be back tomorrow, and they go tomorrow? Like, that doesn't make sense to you now, but it will tomorrow. Strange.
Yeah. I'm taking that one. Me too. What a weird thing. Kinda cool.
Super weird. I like it. I want that power. I know. It'd be cool.
Yeah. It'd be fun. Well, it's finally here. The deadline to get your star card. They've been pushing this deadline back for years.
They have. So I did a little bit of research, a little history, because 2025 is the year. May 7th is the deadline. You have to have, your Star card in order to, travel on airplanes even domestically. So if you wanna get on an airplane, you have to have this real ID card, your star card, or a passport Yeah.
In order to, in order to do this. So don't wait until the last minute is kind of the deal. If you haven't done it yet and you plan on being able to fly after May 7th, you probably wanna get this thing taken care of. You have to go to the DMV. Bad news.
Sorry. Bad news. You're gonna be waiting a time or 2. Yeah. It's gonna be busy because everybody waited till the last minute.
You have until May 7th, so go get in line, I guess, now. I don't know. And maybe you'll have it done by then. Here's here's the deal. So congress mandated this back in 2,005.
They've been working on this thing. 2005? Yeah. They've been working on this for a very long time. It was shot.
Gonna say 2019 because I feel like that's when it was mandated. Well, no. It was actually before that. So so congress mandated this in 2005. It was on the recommendation of the 911 commission Uh-huh.
That they have this real ID identity thing that you you know, by by having the star on there, we've gone through a plethora of documentation to confirm that this person is who this ID says they are. So that's the whole concept behind it. It requires, minimum security requirements for travel documents at that point. You go, here you go. Like, I this is my real ID.
This is who I am. So Department of Homeland Security, is the said that this past 2 year deadline from, 2022 to 2025 now, was because of this giant backlog of paperwork that the pandemic caused. Because in 2019 Uh-huh. That happened. Yeah.
2020, things were shut down. It took forever to get all of the stuff caught up. And so now they're finally like, okay. May 7, 2025, that's the deadline. We got all systems go.
Let's get this thing done. Out. They push it back even further, and they go We'll see. I don't know. For now June 10th It's May.
26th is the deadline for the start guard. Yeah. It's May 7th this year, and they've been working on this thing quite literally for 20 years. For a long time. Wow, it's up.
Try and make happen. So, it's not like you haven't had lots of notice. It's been around for a while. Now you just gotta go do the thing. And it it does take a minute.
There's lots and lots of information about all the documents you need online, of course, if you, if you don't know. Don't just show up with nothing and go, I'm here to get the thing. Do the work beforehand. And even if you think you have all the stuff, you might have to come back 2 or 3 times. Yeah.
Because I had to do that last year when I got mine. Yeah. Make sure you have real authentic documents. They it can't be copies of documents. They have to be the real thing, and sometimes that means you have to go find stuff, like travel to another city to get your hands on your marriage license, for example.
Yep. Yeah. You gotta make sure you have all your real stuff to get your real ID. And May 7th is the deadline, and that's your PSA. So there you go.
Now you know. Now you know. They've set the deadline. May 7th. You've got 5 months.
Good luck. Good luck to you. Hope the line goes quick. And that's gonna do it for the show. That is.
1st show of the New Year. 1st show of 225. We'll have one more show Tomorrow. Tomorrow, and then we'll have a couple days off. Yes.
And then the real Monday arrives. What was the thing you saw? What did it say? Oh. Today is like a little Monday.
Yep. But the big Monday is coming. Yeah. Oh, boy. Real life.
Yeah. Here it is. Back to reality. That's right. Have a great rest of your Thursday.
We will see you back here tomorrow morning. And, you know, that that's that's about it. See you. Bye. Bye.
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