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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Josh and Chantel are back with another delightfully chaotic morning show with some exciting news about unreleased Prince music, it's Big Word Day (magnanimous, gregarious, onomatopoeia, and more), a salute to your local library, a heartwarming story about a man who found $44,000 worth of Pokémon cards in his parents' attic, liquid salads vs. actual salads, the toilet seat upgrade, Chantel absolutely fumes after catching neighborhood kids on camera stealing her beloved tulips right out of the flower bed, backyard beautification projects, the Prego "Conversation Keeper" gadget no one asked for, texting read receipts causing family drama, fishing is more important that food apparently, ants carrying watermelon, and so much more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: New Prince music
(3:28) - Big words & libraries
(6:53) - Good News
(9:38) - Conversation keeper
(15:06) - Lacking motivation
(19:54) - Unhappy brownies
(26:25) - Projects upon projects
(31:07) - Flower thieves
(37:58) - New toilet seats
(44:45) - Leaving me on read
(49:40) - Second whiffers
(54:11) - It's not a test
(59:13) - Where's my lunch
(1:08:22) - Would You Rather
(1:12:13) - Uber greens
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Full show transcript:
You just informed me that there is new music from the late great Prince. Yes. The song is called With This Tear, and you were telling me he did all of the instrumentation?
That's what I read. It was recorded in 1991, and it said that he did all of the instruments on it.
Okay, so here's what I've got. It features Prince producing, arranging, composing, and performing all instrumentation. Shortly after its creation in 1991, Prince offered the song to Celine Dion, who recorded her own version in 1992 of With This Tear. The track is the beginning of a number of unreleased Prince recordings scheduled for release this year as a part of Never Before Released Prince album project.
They want to do a new vault album, and that song is going to be on it. It was recorded at Paisley Park. I don't know if that's any kind of significance to anything.
I believe that is his home?
It's a museum.
Yeah, it's his home. Yeah, it's Prince's home. Yeah.
Wow, interesting.
Oh, interesting. Oh, interesting.
Well, that's cool. Well, now I want to know a little bit more about this vault album because this is all Never Before Heard stuff from Prince, and this was recorded in 1991. And we haven't heard Prince doing it. We've heard the Celine one because it obviously was produced and out there in 1992.
But you heard it from Celine Dion?
Well, she did record it. Did she really? And released it in 1992. Oh, I didn't hear you say that. Yeah, that was the whole thing. After he did this recording in 1991, he offered the song to Celine Dion, who recorded her own version in 1992.
I was a huge Celine Dion fan in the 90s, and I don't remember that. Yeah.
Well, the song is called With This Tear. It's on YouTube. It came out just a few hours ago. It's already close to a million views. Wow.
It's good. I mean, it's good. It's not my favorite of Prince's songs, but it's a pretty decent.
What is your favorite Prince song? Oh, let's get crazy. That's a good one. That's your favorite Prince song. That's a really good one. A Seven was really good. Oh, that is a good one. I really like that one. I think the ones that I hear all the time are going to be Raspberry Beret, Little Red Corvette, And those are the favorite.
Windows, Cry. Those are big ones. Those are all 80s tracks, though. Seven. When did Seven come out? That came out in 1992. So that was kind of a different sound for Prince. And then let's go crazy. When did that one come out?
Do not know. I do not know. I'm looking. I'm looking at all of his songs. I don't even see that in here. I don't know.
Let's go crazy. Came out in 1984.
Really? It's that old? I would assume that was the 90s one, but I guess not.
He did the Bat Dance in 1989.
Yes, he did. I remember that. I do remember that.
Interesting. All right. Well, okay. New Prince. New Prince music. Check it out. And here's today's show. What would you say is the biggest word you know? Oh.
Well, my natural instinct is to say, onamaiapia.
Onamaiapia? Can you spell it? Nope. Oh, I know. M-A-T-O-P-O-E-I-A. Onamaiapia. Good job. What does it mean?
It's the, when the name and the sound are the same.
Right. Like plop. Yeah.
Good.
Plop is a good onamaiapia.
Yes. Good example. Or ribbit. Ribbit. That's a good one.
Yeah. Or hiss. Right? Those are onamaiapia words. That's a good one. Thank you. Do you have any others in your vocab?
Not that I can. I can think of. It's too early to think of words. All right. What about one that you know?
Well, I was trying to think of a few and I was thinking about like the word transcontinental.
Oh, that's a good one. That's a good big word. That is a good one. Like that's things that move or travel from one continent to another. Transcontinental. Okay. What's another good word? Why? Well, today is big word day. Magnanimous.
Do you know what that means?
Without looking it up? Magnanimous. Uh, without looking it up?
Like, did you know that word? Or did you just Google big words?
No, I knew that word.
I heard a lot of typing and then you said, Magnanimous. I looked up big words and there's something I don't know, but I know that one. And what does it mean? I don't know. Well, then you don't know that word. I do too. You know of that word. You and that word are acquaintances. You don't know that word. Wow.
Okay. Hostile. I know that word. Uh, that's you and your attitude towards me.
Hostile. Yeah, okay. That's fine. Listen, it's a day to show off your vocabulary on big word day. It's also a day to thank your libraries. And so I thought these two would go together real well because if you'd like to improve your vocabulary and know some big words, there's a place where you can go where they give you the words for free. That's true. They do all of them. That's true. All the words. You want to know a word? Go learn a word.
Gregorious. I know that one. What is it? Big, big, huge, like, like big personality. Okay. Why are you saying that like that?
Whoa. I just was saying that maybe it, uh, meant something more than just big personality.
Yeah. People who are fond of companies, sociable and outgoing. Yeah. I said that.
No, you didn't. Yes, I did. Well, just then when you read it, but before that you just said big, huge, big personality.
You are coming at me this morning.
Not at all. I don't appreciate it. No way. That's not what's happening. I just want to know more big words. That's all. This is a good day to know some big words.
Go check something out from the library.
Yeah. Thank you libraries. Visit your local library to learn big words and improve your vocab. That's what's going on today. Big words from the library. Let's get you some good news this morning.
This is, uh, over in England, a 37 year old teaching assistant named Andrew Braun. He was cleaning out his parents attic and he found his childhood Pokemon card collection. Oh, uh, most of the cards were dog ear and loved as he said, but tucked away in a tin were three pristine cards that he bought near the end of his collecting days. Uh, but he remembered that these cards didn't mean as much to him as a kid, which is why they weren't such good condition. He was like, eh, whatever. Well, just for kicks, he said, I wonder what these cards are worth if they're worth anything. And apparently he hit the Pokemon jack.
Oh, no way. No kidding.
The three cards sold at auction for over $44,000.
Dude, come on. The three, three Pokemon cards, $44,000. One card, a mint condition Skyridge Charizard holographic card sold for over 23,000 alone. Come on.
Yeah. Unreal. So thanks to his Pokemon windfall, Andrew and his fiance, Rachel, now will have their August wedding fully funded. I love it. Thanks to some Pokemon cards. Good job, Charizard. They should have enough leftover for a fun honeymoon at the quiet and coastal community of Devon. Let's go to the coastal community of Devon for our honeymoon.
Oh, I sold a fancy Pokemon, Charizard.
Now we can go to Devon. Is it Charizard or Charizard? Charizard, like lizard at the end. Charizard. Charizard. Yes. Yeah. Anyway, way to go. Good job, Andrew. And congratulations to Andrew and Rachel who will have their August wedding.
Our kids have some Pokemon cards laying around. Yeah. I think if you want to know how much each one is worth, I guarantee our son has already looked into it. I bet you're right. I bet you're right.
Now, has he done anything with them? No, but he does have them and he's priced them out and he'll show us. He'll go, this card's worth like a hundred bucks. Yeah. And I go, that's cool. It's worth zero sitting in that binder. But okay. Anyway, they're all sleeve protected and he takes care of them.
So I don't think he has a mint conditioned Skyridge Charizard holographic card. I don't think so either. If he did, it's worth $23,000. Let's sell that puppy. I want to. You want to sell it? Yeah. I'm going to go look for it right now.
I want to go to Devon. Same. Yeah. Let's go to Devon. It's good news.
Sometimes we have the best conversations over the dinner table. Prego, the spaghetti sauce, which we just happened to have.
I know we did spaghetti last night.
They are coming out with this thing called the conversation keeper. Okay. It costs $20 and they're only planning to sell about a hundred of them. Okay.
The influencers got it. I'm not even going to get stressed. Go ahead.
So basically it's like it's a puck shaped device that looks like kind of the lid of a prego jar. Okay. You press a button at the top of the puck to record a conversation. There's no screen and no connectivity outside of USB port for charging or for transferring the recorded dinner conversation. Got it.
It can hold up to eight hours of audio and it also has prompts to quote, spark real conversation. Okay. So you can hit it to like give you if the dinner table is quiet, you can be like, we don't know what to talk about. Prompt. Got it. How was school today? It'll say you can't. You can't come up with that on your own.
I just don't know what to talk to my kids about.
Does it feel like a spy?
No, because you said the only connectivity is the charging cord. So it's not connecting to internet or anything. Okay. According to what you said. Yeah, that's what it says. It feels a bit unnecessary. Look, if you want to record your dinner conversation, take out your phone and hit the voice recorder app and just go crazy. That's true. You know, when I get there saying like it doesn't have a screen, it's free from distraction. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Put your phone over there where it's out of reach, hit record and ask the kids how their day at school went.
Right. I don't like phones at the dinner table. Right. We were eating some dessert last night and then I wanted to get on my phone for something and I was like, no, I can't. I got to practice what I preach. And then I looked up, you were on your phone, Beck was on his phone and I went, okay, I'm going to get my phone. Dessert's different though.
Dessert's different. I don't think I was like scrolling on my phone. I think I was contributing to our conversation something, but I don't remember what. So I'd have to look and see what I did there.
But anyway. That doesn't necessarily matter. What, do you remember what we were talking about last night at the dinner table? No.
That's why I was trying to figure out what I was contributing with.
No, we were talking about space. Yeah. And we were talking about the moon and the tides of the moon. Yeah. And that's when I realized the kids are smarter than me.
You did say at one point to, to Beck and I, and I don't know if Emery was in that conversation as well. Maybe, maybe that was in the truck, but we were talking about all that and you were like, you guys are smart.
Yeah, they're smart. Yeah. At some point you're going to look at your kids and go, yeah, you're smarter than me. When did that happen?
Well, I think they learn different things. I don't know that they're smarter than, but there's maybe they know more about a thing than you. Yeah.
They're pretty smart. Yeah. And I appreciate it. I'm proud of them for that, but I'm also like, hey, hey, hey, I taught you how to walk, you're behind. Yeah.
When did you learn all this space stuff?
I don't know. And then like Beck is really like right now, he's, I would say studying because he's learning because it is a game, but he's learning a lot about rocket mechanics and space travel and what it takes to stay in orbit. And he's learning a bunch of different things about space trajectory and what it takes to get a rocket into space. And like, I mean, just a ton of different stuff. And it's really fascinating because he's like, you have to, you know, you have to approach the atmosphere at this certain angle.
And if you don't have the right angle by the time you get to this point, you will crash back into earth because the gravitational pull is so strong. And it's, it's really interesting. When I get to have these like short little five minute conversations with him about how his game is going, because he's really involved in it, but he's like, no, I'll show you. And he's got these little like alien crew members that are pretty fun to watch and they get all like freaking out when you launch them, their faces go, ah, it's, it's silly. It's a good game.
But anyway, yeah. So he's learning about all that, but yeah, I don't need the, I don't need that device. I don't either. Again, if you want to record it because you're thinking, I want to listen to this later in my life.
That's fine. I don't know if you would either. I don't know if you'd go back and listen to conversations that you've had.
It's almost like a podcast. Kind of. Except over pasta. It's a pasta cast. They missed an opportunity to call it a pasta cast.
Yeah, they did. They really did. To pasta. To pasta.
That kid cracks me up so much. All right. We have a lot going on in the backyard of the house. Yes. I should specify. Yes. There's, there's a lot happening in the backyard of our house. We purchased trees. I'm working on garden beds. I've got mounds and mounds and mounds of soil compost.
So much dirt.
Yeah. I have a lot to do. Yes. Yesterday after work, I got home and, and I had some other stuff going on. I didn't get home until closer to four and, and I was not motivated to do anything.
I thought for sure I would come home and find you in the backyard. I did. You were just in the kitchen. Right.
I was trying to try out a new spawn point as we talked yesterday about different places that we hang out. I thought, I'll, I'll try the kitchen counter area. I'll stand here.
It was an okay spot. I didn't recognize you. Oh no. No.
It's normally where I am when I'm cooking dinner, which is where you found me when you got home because you stopped at the grocery store. Oh, that's true. That's right. So you saw me in the kitchen cooking by the time you got home, but you called me and said, what are you doing? Expecting me to be like, I'm elbows deep in garden stuff.
I wanted to know what to expect when I got home. Like, am I going to have to roll up my sleeves and get to work too? Cause I'm kind of tired.
I was super burned out by the time I got to the end of the day. And then I think it's because I pushed so hard through the weekend that yesterday I was like, I'm toast.
Yeah. We bought, you bought six new garden beds.
Yeah.
And all the dirt to tell them 55 bags of dirt, 19 bags of compost. Yeah. Pick those up, load those stones.
I got stones.
Yeah. I forgot about a bunch of stones. What do they call those? I guess they're blocks. Decorative. Well, they're retaining wall blocks is what they are. Yeah. Bricks maybe. I mean, you got a palette of dirt. I know. They loaded a palette onto your truck. Yeah. And then your truck went, oh my.
My truck was like, no, that's too much.
You're doing too much. You're done too much.
So yeah, anyway, I was not feeling it, which is frustrating for me because now it's been sitting there all yesterday. I've got a busy afternoon today, so I don't think I'm going to get to it today. Yeah, you're not going to get to it. And so I'm looking at like tomorrow, but I'm feeling like a couple days of rest. My body might appreciate. Yeah.
I think that's wise, but your daughter's also itching to go get a driver's license.
That's true. So that is true. Yep. There's a lot going on.
But I also yesterday, my arms from loading and unloading all that dirt. Yeah. I was like, oh, I know. I'm feeling it more today than I was yesterday.
Yeah. My neck is still a little tight. Yeah. Same. My arms feel better. Yesterday, my whole body was like, oh, today it's just my neck.
Yeah. We did a lot of work over the weekend and our, we're too old for this game.
I need a couple of days of recovery apparently. Yeah. That sounds nice. So that's what I'm doing. Okay. And then tomorrow I'm going to get back to it. Some point before or after a driver's ed test. We'll figure out how that's all.
Yeah, we're going to figure it out. Anyway, just in case you were wondering about my motivation, it's still burning. I just needed to take a day or two of rest. It's fine.
I'm not just leaving a half finished project in the backyard. Are you just saying that to me? I'm telling you that when you look out there and you go, why do we still have that pile of dirt?
It's not because I don't want to. It's that I'm taking a rest for a couple of days. Got it. I'm going to get back to it. I got the whole weekend ahead of me too, which I'm greatly looking forward to.
It's going to be a good one. But I'm going to be gone.
So, you're going to be on your own. And you're going to come back and go, whoa, what a yard. Whoa. Whoa.
You have the kids to help put them to work. Yeah, right. I know.
I do, but yeah, right. We'll see what happens. If I can get them to spend some time outside helping me, that would be real good.
That would be, we could knock it out of the park. Who's this we? I mean, you and the kids. Yeah, right. While I'm out of town. No kidding. That'd be great. I come home, work is done. Yeah. Sure.
Perfect. And we made some delicious brownies last night and I took a piece, a small piece. And then I said, I'm going to actually get some gelato and put some gelato with this.
That was a good choice. It was a good choice. Yeah, I had the same.
But then while we were sitting there eating it and we goes, do you like the brownie? And you go, mm-hmm. And you had your hand up near your face. Like you're resting your head in your hand and just quietly eating. And she goes, why do you not seem happy about it? I was happy about it. You seemed pretty sad about eating a brownie.
Look, it's been a long day. I was super tired. I had a lot of things going on. And then I also had, you know, a scout thing that night. And so by the time I got to brownie, I was just beat.
But a brownie. Yeah, I know. It should have been the thing that's like, I'm excited. I was. Mm-hmm. Didn't seem like it.
I'm grateful.
I wish I had taken a picture. Because it was the saddest brownie eating I've ever seen. I was just tired. Okay.
I'm still tired. Okay. Even a brownie can't make me just be not tired. It's been a long day. I was grateful for a nice little treat. So I had a little corner of brownie and a couple of little, you know, spoons of gelato. And I was like, this is going to be great. And I'm real ready for bed. Okay. Which we had to stay up later because you had washed all the bedding.
Yeah. So we had to wait for it to get out of the dryer. And then we had to make the bed before we go to bed. I just had a lot going on. Okay. It was a big long day. Okay. Just tired.
Saddest brownie eating in all the land. Yeah.
I felt like Charlie Brown eating a brownie.
You looked like Charlie Brown eating a brownie. Yeah. You did. You really did.
At one point I said something and you said, that is the most Charlie Brown thing anyone has ever said.
I was trying to remember what you said. Do you remember what you said? I don't. Because yeah, it was very, I guess I'll eat this brownie. That's exactly what it looked like. Your head in your hands. Barely scooping.
I was eating it slow. I didn't want to rush it. You know. Wanted to savor it.
I didn't even want her to make those brownies. I knew I was going to eat them. She really wanted to make them. I know she did. And I really want to eat them.
That's why I had a small corner piece. I had a small piece too. And a couple of spoons of gelato. And I went, this is a nice treat.
I'm making some progress on my health journey.
Well good. How about you? I guess.
You guess? I guess. You don't notice anything? Not particularly. I'm tired as ever.
It takes a while for the body to recover from stuff. I've noticed that. I definitely am not in my 20s anymore. I'll tell you. I can't wait to see what I can do.
It feels like I could jump up and get moving quick. When I was in my 20s. And even in my 30s. I was a spry young man. And I feel like now I'm like, I need two days to recover from stuff.
One day. You need two days to recover from one day of work.
Well, Saturday and Sunday we're both busy. So yeah. Having a couple of days of rest and recovery. I think is real important.
That's why you're eating your brownie so sad?
Yeah. I'm just tired. My body's beat. Yeah. Ready for bed. And I gotta go make it before I can go to bed. But this brownie is yummy. Thanks. I didn't make it. No, I know.
That's what I'm saying. So I'm just gonna sit here and eat this brownie. This is yum. Stop judging me for the way I eat my brownie. They're all like expecting me to do handstands because of a brownie excitement. I'm just gonna eat my dessert. I got a lot going on.
All right. Geez. The wheeze. Don't ask Josh about his brownie. Well, the brownie was great. The day was busy. Okay.
You don't seem excited about a brownie. What was the expectation?
I don't know what her expectation was.
Apparently I under delivered.
We both know that you love brownies. That's one of your top treats. So I think we both thought that you'd be more excited about having a brownie. I was quite excited. She's very tired.
I could eat a bowl of cereal right now the same way because I'm still so tired. But I'd be like, great. I'm having breakfast. Look at me go. All right.
Sorry. I need a nap.
Why are you sorry? Don't be sorry. There's nothing to be sorry about.
Sorry. Sorry. Dary. You need a nap is what you're saying?
Every day. I know. Same. Got to embrace that. I don't know why I'm feeling so tired. I'm just tired these past couple of days. I'm excited. About? About everything.
You got a date today.
I mean, we'll see. Be excited about that. Yeah. Yep.
Fish and date. Fish and date. It doesn't need a song. Josh is going on a fish and date. Fish and date.
Maybe if I'll if everything goes according to plan and schedule, we'll see. I'm hopeful. But I'll probably just be fishing with my hand.
Exactly. I'm like cheating. You're going to be so sad about your your best fishing friend. You know what? I'm like, I'm so sad about fishing.
I'm like, I'm so tired.
I'm just tired. Get off my back.
I'm just tired. That's right. Don't judge the way I'm excited about fishing. I'm just tired.
Maybe that's the boost you need. Maybe. A nice fish and then you'll be back at it.
Like, cool. Now I can do the gnaward.
Rip, roar and a go.
What's that move? Looks like you're driving a tractor. Rip, roar and a go. You saw a video all about these people going like weekend warrior, I suppose. And explain this video. The video? Yeah. Wasn't this video of people following their folks around? It was real life. Oh, you saw this in real life?
Yeah. We were at Lowe's buying some stuff for our backyard.
Our big backyard beautifying makeover is what I'm calling it. All right. That's a catchy name. Big backyard beautifying makeover. Sure.
It rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? And I, as we were at Lowe's, I noticed there were typically dudes walking. And then shortly, like two steps or so behind them, a woman. And then I just, it just made me laugh because I go, there's so many couples out today working on projects. A weekend warrior.
Well, you stopped one and said, Hey, what are you working on?
Because, because it just chuckled because I went, are these the dudes project and they've dragged along their wives for help? Or are these a women's great idea that the dudes are like, I gotta figure this out.
She had an idea. We gotta work this out. So while you were looking at lumber and doing your mathematical projections, there was a woman next to me and we're all pushing those big flat beds or the big wood carts. And they're weird and bulky and not easy to maneuver. And she was pushing hers. I was pushing mine and I happened to look over at her and I go, what project are you working on?
And she goes, Oh, he's building a stage. And I went, interesting. Yeah. And then you took off.
And so then I had to run follow you with my big bulky cart. But I was like, I wanted to ask more questions about what kind of stage. And also, was that your idea or is that his idea?
Right. And is this a stage for your house? Is this a stage for performance space? Yeah. What are we doing? We're building a stage for what?
Yeah, I know.
I didn't have time to ask because you took off and I was like, I gotta go. I gotta go. My project lead is leaving.
Yeah, exactly. My foreman is moving.
I got called a foreman. You did? By our son who was helping unload the truck. He was very excited about that project. He was running the wheelbarrow of stuff and he, I was carrying stuff and trying to make sure everything was happening. I was moving trucks. I'm moving trailers. Like I got stuff. I'm running logistics and he goes, you're acting like a foreman out here.
Yeah. Not doing any of the labor. And I went, that's not what a foreman does. But okay. I also feel like I'm out here doing servant leadership and I've been doing this for two days.
Exactly. We called you out to help for about 10 minutes. And now all of a sudden you're like, I've been doing everything.
What? But I'm the foreman. So that felt nice to be promoted to foreman of my own backyard. Beautification makeover or whatever you call it.
Big backyard. Beautifying. Makeover. I can't even remember. It's kind of, we gotta have a catchy name for it. We do. The big backyard. Beautification.
What? That's what you've already said. No, I had. And then you added makeover at the end. You acted like the thing you said from the beginning was some giant light bulb idea. That's what you've been calling it the whole time. No, I think I said beautifying, but beautification is new. If I have beautification, big word, by the way, on big word day.
Nice word.
Then I don't have to have makeover. I can just say big, beautiful, beautiful. No, big backyard beautification. Why the gasp?
The gasp is unnecessary. Oh, it's a brilliant idea. Oh, I'm so smart. Well, whatever you want to call it, it's a project. And I am the foreman. And it's what? I don't remember what I was going to say. It's a big backyard beautification.
Thumbs up buddy, you did it. On Mondays, we get done here on the show at 10, and then you have to go directly into a meeting. That's right. And then I'm usually here just finishing some stuff up, putting away headphones and all that. That's right. You set me.
Well, hold on. Let me tell you my end. Okay. We're getting ready for the meeting. I get a notification that there is motion on the camera in the front of the house. And I just curiously I pulled it up and I went, oh no. Oh, no. Oh, I need to send this to Chantel. She is going to be so mad. And I showed it to our boss who's sitting next to me and I went, look at this. And he's like, no way. And I went, yeah, send and it immediately you were fired up.
Yeah. I made this noise when you send it to me. You sent me the video and I go, I watched and I watched and I go, oh, I made that noise. Yeah. I was so mad. The video shows a little girl. Yeah. Seven, eight. I don't know. Walking into our yard and just plucking one of my spring flowers.
Just yanking it out. Just walking away.
That belonged to her. Yeah. And I went, the nerve of you.
So I'm sitting there and then you text me back two additional videos. Which happened before the one that I saw. So you, there are on our camera, three videos of not just this one girl, but two other girls in the neighborhood who came back multiple times to grab flowers out of the flower beds, clear out by the house.
These are not by the street. Nope. They walked clear through the yard up to the house and yanked flowers out of your flower bed twice. So there is a minimum of five flowers that were pulled off the stems yesterday. I counted four, but. Well, because the two girls came back twice, that's four. And then the other one, the one I sent first, that's five. That's at least five flowers. Can you even? I mean, that's crazy. That's crazy.
The one video you can hear the little girl say, oh, I want that. Mm-hmm. That's orange. I want that. Look at the orange. I want that. And then just pluck my tulip right out the ground. Yeah. Not cool.
And then you can hear her, she walks back to her friends. They won't be mad at us. We're just little girls. Right. And I went, oh, wrong. Yeah. I am mad. Yeah. Fumon. I'm very mad.
Like I, at the second I sent the video, I felt like in the meeting, like I'm like, I know exactly how upset she is right now. Because you love your flowers. I do love my flowers. It's a high level of audacity, even from a little kid to be like, I'm going to go into someone's yard and take a flower that I think I have to have.
Deserve that I think is mine.
And then you pluck it. And then what happens? It's now instantly dead. Yeah. So you can, you could look, you could go, I'm going to stand here and look at those flowers because they're so pretty. I'm going to come back by every day and look at those flowers because they're so pretty. But you pulled it. Now it's gone forever.
I know. Emery said, what do you think their parents said when they brought them home? I go, they didn't make it home. Yeah. The flowers never. No, they were dropped along the street like seconds after they plucked them. They didn't make it home. Yeah. You killed my tulips for no good reason. My tulips that I covered during the frost.
Just to have them plucked away.
Now, if I was outside or I was home and there were little girls that came by and they were like, those flowers are so beautiful. Do you think I could have one?
Right. I'd be like, absolutely. And we'd go get the
scissors and we'd cut one off for you. We'd go off and we'd go, there you go. Correct. You don't get to come into my yard and think I'm not going to get mad at you because you're just a little girl. Right. That's not yours. There's a little strange thing to say. It is a strange thing to say. Also, don't stow my flowers. That's stealing.
Right. And you're on camera doing it. Yeah, I got you on camera. So there is that. We do have camera of your whole conversation with your friend and whatever a shark emoji means.
Yeah, she said shark emoji. Shark emoji. I got to have that. I don't know what that means. I don't need that. But we got that on audio. We got the whole thing. Yeah, I got your face. Yeah. And I am fuming. Stay out of my yard. Yeah, I wrote a sign.
I made a sign. Oh, that's right. But you were much nicer. I was going to say, uh, shark emoji, we got you on camera. Don't come on our grass. Like stay away. Like I was going to like really call them out directly like that. Not anything like rude, but I wanted them to know that we know.
We, well, I did say that. I said, stop, please stop stealing my flowers. We saw you on camera. Not nice.
That's a lot to read. I was going to keep it simple. Mine's pretty, it's pretty simple. Just draw the shark emoji. You go, we got you. Stay off my lawn.
I don't want to be mean, but I also don't want you to steal my flowers. Not cool. It was the yanking. You can hear the visible snap.
I know. Camera video. The audible snap. Oh yeah. You could see it, but you could also hear them. Yeah. I know. It's a sound, isn't it? It is. Yeah. It's an aggressive sound pulling those flowers off the, off the stem like that. Man.
Hardcore. I know. I walked into my other job and I said, we have a thief in my neighborhood and they're like, oh, what they steal? I go, my beautiful tulips. Three of them. Four.
No, three girls. Oh. Three girls in our neighborhood who walking around stealing flowers. Why aren't you at school? Yeah. Why weren't you at school? That's a great question. It's 10 o'clock on a Monday. You should be in school. Why, I oughta. Not stealing flowers. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of questions about these three.
A lot of questions. We've needed a toilet seat in our upstairs bathroom for a very long time.
I guess I didn't realize that you wanted that so bad. Yeah.
I didn't realize I wanted it so bad either.
I mean, it wasn't broken or anything. It's been there for a long time.
It's been there for a minute and it just needed to be replaced because it was getting kind of ick. All right. And then it's just one of those things that you don't think about until you're in the toilet seat aisle at the hardware store and you go, oh, I forgot that I wanted one of these.
I really thought we should have went with the squishy padded one. Those are the worst. And then you get that like, like bath mat wrap for the lid. Gross. And then like an open, open vase of dusty soaps. That was kind of the look I was going for. And I like, I would like for the fuzzy lid thing to match the carpet thing that goes around the base of the toilet. Right. It keeps my feet warm when I'm using it in the night. Whatever that decision was, we missed out on it. We have not done that.
We have not done that. They're still making all that stuff. I know they are. Yeah, they are.
I'm sure they are. Like you don't just have to like inherit that from your grandma. They still have it. Yes. You can buy it new. Cool.
You sure can. Cool. But if you want to inherit it from your grandma, you can. I'm good. The whole plushy toilet decoration look.
I like when you have like a crocheted angel doll thing that goes over the roll of toilet paper on the counter. I like that too. I like a bit of that. That's a good look.
It is a nice look. Yeah. And so we got a toilet seat and it was only, it was only like $40.
And not even, I mean it was like. I mean they had cheaper ones than that. They had more expensive ones, but. Well they had some with built in bidets and fancy things.
I know. I mean why did I wait so long to get this? It's been so nice every time I go to the toilet. I know. This is quite lovely. Well nice. And the lid, we got the soft clothes.
Yeah. Because someone in the house has a tendency to drop the seat and or lid like really loud and it was driving me crazy. And so I said, well if I'm getting one it has to have the soft clothes.
I'm just happy somebody's closing the lid honestly. Well there's that. Because that's, that's considerate.
Yeah. The lid should be closed. I close the lid all the time. Because so many times I hear from you, I dropped it in the toilet. I go, you know if the lid was closed it would have bounced right off.
Wait, so many times?
Yeah, I've heard it. More times than I've ever dropped anything in the toilet I've heard from you. No, I dropped it in the toilet. I don't know. I've been maybe four or five times total in our entire time together.
Okay, that checks out. You said so many times. So many more times than me. Maybe once a week you're here in that. I hope not.
Get it together. If you're dropping stuff in the toilet once a week, close the lid. I'm not though.
I'm not dropping stuff in the toilet.
So I said I've heard it four or five times. How many times actually has it happened?
I don't know. I haven't been keeping tally. But more than that. Probably more than that.
Close the lid.
I don't, I actually am very bad about closing the lid. Yeah, I know. Because I don't like to spend time in the bathroom.
But it's a soft close. Now you just move it and it'll close itself. Okay. Eventually it just nice soft. And then next time you come in, it's closed.
It's a good idea. But here's the other part. I'm a middle aged woman who have had two children. Oh, here we go. And so sometimes you got to get to that toilet.
It's not soft to lift.
It takes time is what I'm saying. What to lift a lid?
Yeah. And so you just said I like to have the lid closed.
I know I like to have the lid closed, but I don't like to have the lid closed. Right.
Okay, good. Got it. Makes sense.
I like to have the lid closed for sanitary purposes. But I don't drop things in it. If I'm in a rush to use the restroom. Yeah. Oh, if that lid is closed, I'm going to be
well, we could have got the one that didn't even have a lid. It was just the seat.
I didn't even see that one. How much was that? We have some money. What?
You don't want that? Just an open, let's like an open public restroom toilet. Yeah, no, we don't want that. No. You know what else? What? We have round toilets. And then I where was I somewhere and they had the elongated toilet. And because we had just bought the seat, I went, that's a long toilet. I guess it's long.
I can't imagine having that long of a toilet in my house. That is elongated. Good word.
That is a good big word for big word day. Elongated. Anyway, I was standing there like, this thing needs to settle down. It's too far from the wall. This is a very elongated.
In the early 80s, my aunt got a black toilet. Now that's cool. That's when the black toilets were pretty new. Yeah. And we all went to look at her toilet. We were like, we gotta go check out that toilet. Yeah. It was a pretty cool toilet.
Do you know, I can tell you the last time I used a black toilet. When? When I went to the restroom at the Raising Canes in Utah, the Post Malone Raising Canes has a black toilet. Congratulations. Yep. I know exactly where one is. And the last time I was there, I used it. So, a black toilet is something else.
They're fancy.
Yeah. And if you haven't been to the Post Malone Raising Canes, the bathroom is a whole experience. It's like a castle throne room. It is. It's like, whoa, okay, I'm serious right now. I'm the king in the castle. Got it.
So, we got a new toilet seat. Yep. A round one.
Not that elongated. That's a long. I don't want a long toilet. That was bad news. You know how when you send somebody a text, it shows that they've read it? Yeah.
Like, I sent one just this morning and I have zero check marks on it.
Oh, sad.
Yeah. Was it too? I was just waiting for an appointment. I'm trying to set up an appointment. And so, I sent a text and then I get this no check marks. It just says that I've sent it, but no one's read it. Oh, sad. Yeah. So, here's another one. I sent no check marks. Okay.
It used to be that that only worked. I don't know how iPhones work, but I think that they could see iPhone to iPhone users could see who'd been read and then Google or Android to Android users could see. But recently, like you couldn't see, if I was in a group chat, I have an Android, if I was in a group chat with an iPhone, it wouldn't show that the iPhone user had read it.
But I think that that's changed recently. Okay. My sister has an iPhone. I have an Android. It's changed recently so that if she sends me a text, she gets notified, not notified, but she can see that I've
read it. She can see that you've read it. Yeah. So, this is where the phrase, you're leaving me on red, means you've read it and you're just going to not respond. Yeah. So, you're being left on red. Yeah. Okay. What's the problem? What's going on? What's the haps?
My sister will send me a text and I read it and then I get busy doing something else and then she'll send another text. It said, I know you've read my message.
Oh boy. And I go, chill out. She sent me a text message in the car the other day and I had just pulled into the house, read the message, loaded all my stuff inside the house. Ten minutes later, she said, I know you read my message. I said, hey, hey, hey, can we just take a breath? I go, I was loading my stuff into the house and she goes, well, it was 10 minutes ago that I said this. Hey, hey, hey. Okay.
So, here's the thing about texting and correct me if I'm wrong. Out. Because I might be because I don't like texting. I would prefer a phone call conversation because we can have the entire conversation at one time and then be done.
Ta-da. Texting takes forever. It does. But here's the thing about it. Texting is designed to be, I'm going to send you a message. I'm going to wait for a response.
I think it's faster than an email, slower than a phone call, right? Like, I think that's the design. An email, you can take a while. Text is quicker. If you want an immediate response, call somebody. Yeah. I think the texting is in the middle ground. Okay. That's fine. But that's, but the point is, but yes, you can take a minute.
You could take a day. It doesn't matter. You could take a week. A week?
For a text message? Why not? No way. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's an email.
Okay. My point is 10 minutes is fine. That's what I said. An hour is fine. 10 minutes is fine. Even if I read it and I'm at work and I don't respond until hours later when I'm not at work, that's acceptable.
Especially when I say to you, Hey, I just got home and I was loading all my stuff and give me a minute. Well, I gave you 10. Oh, sister. Sue. Sister Sue. Sister Sue. Calm down. Settle down. Okay. Settle down, sister Sue. Settle down. Got it.
Got it. Her name isn't Sue. No. No. I know that.
But that's what we're going to call her. She'll love that. Sister Sue.
Settle down. She'll love to be called sister Sue.
She would. She really will. She will, she won't cringe a bit. Well, cool. Just know, Josh, if she ever sends you a text, you've got to respond immediately.
Otherwise, I'm going to read it and then I'm going to respond hours or days later. I know you read my message. Yep. I did. Yeah. I'm plotting my response. I did. What would be more fun is just to start typing something. So it just looks like you're replying forever and then don't. I know you were typing to reply. I guess you'll never know what I was going to say. Can you answer a question for me? Sure. Why is it that when you smell something, you have to smell it twice?
It's not that I have to. No, but you do.
Because if you don't, you won't know what the smell is or something. So here's what happens. Okay. You smell something and you go, this is exactly what happens. You go, that stinks. Ooh. And then I go, why did you smell again?
One, I think to reaffirm that it's a bad smell, but also to like, is that something that I need to be taking seriously? Like, is that a, an emergency smell?
What? All right. Here's, here are a list of emergency smells. Rotten egg sulfur smell could be natural gas propane or a sewer gas. Yes. Fishy or musty could be a potential steam system leak or electrical malfunction. Okay. A burning diesel or exhaust smell could be improperly vented machinery or exhaust fumes entering a building.
Okay. A strong chemical or sweet smell could be hazardous household chemical leaks like paint thinner, pesticide or fuels or a hissing roaring noise doesn't necessarily have a smell. Often the company's a gas smell indicating a pressurized leak. Okay. See? So those are emergency smells.
Are you saying that you, no, there's more emergency smells than that. There's more emergency smells. If you've got a bad food smell, yeah, that could be your disposal. If you've got a bad, I mean, come on, there's lots of bad household smells. There's bad, there's bad children smells. Those are all emergencies. So you take another whiff to go. Okay. What is this?
No, I'm not taking a second whiff. You're a second whiffer. I am not a second whiffer. I get one and I go, that'll be good. I don't need more. I don't need second, third whiffs.
I don't necessarily know why I do it. It's just maybe a habit. I couldn't tell you. I didn't even know I did it until you pointed it out and you go, why do you always take a second whiff? You do. You go, ooh.
And you do that like, really you let it aerate. And I go, why are you breathing it in so much if it's gross? If I smell something gross, I immediately go, I'm out. I'm not taking another sniff. I'm a single whiffer. You're a multiple whiffer, at least a second whiff.
Don't say multiple. I don't go, you do.
That's exactly what it sounds like. And I go, quit smelling it. You go, that stinks. Like, well, keep smelling it, I guess.
Well, if I'm the only one taking a second whiff, at least one of us is going to know if it's an emergency smell or not. I don't need to. Why don't you need to?
I need one. That's enough.
I don't know if it's an emergency.
That's not a good one. I got to go. Ventilate the area. That's a burning electronic. That's a smell I don't want to smell again. I don't need more. I'm out.
Ventilate the area.
Yeah. Ventilate or evacuate. Two big words.
You're a second whiffer.
I'm not. You are a multiple sniffer. I don't. Ew. Ew. Yeah. I knew that the first time when I went, this is not good.
I don't know what to say. I have nothing. You are the way you are. I am the way that I am. We walked into the studio this morning and we each had a piece of paper on our desk. Yeah. Did you turn ours in already?
I did. Were you done? I guess. Yes. They've been turned in. Okay. I turned them in this morning because I didn't want to be late for a deadline. I don't know if there was one. I don't think there was one. I just wanted to make sure they were turned in.
Teachers pet. You were like, I'm going to be first. No.
I don't know that I was first, but I wanted to make sure that they were turned in. So it was just a recap of an event like you go through and you say like, here's what was good. Here's what we could do better. Here's how we might be able to accomplish some of that stuff. Yeah. So it's just a reassessment after any kind of big team thing.
It's a good thing to do. Nice little debrief. Yeah. At the very top, it said name. Yeah. And I said, did you put your hall name?
Right. I said, yeah. Also, it's not a test. You feel like you with a paper with a pencil in your hand, you were like, I don't even know what I'm supposed to do. I'm stressing out. I was.
I have anxiety about it. Like, it doesn't matter. It's not a test. It's just feedback. Your exact words were, there's no wrong answers here. It's not a test. Yeah. As you're furiously writing.
Yeah. You said, you wrote so much. I don't even know what to write. And you go, there's no wrong answers here. It's not a test. I'm going to get an A plus, but it's not a test.
It's not a test. You keep trying to fill out your name. I'm just going to keep writing on how to do things better. You didn't even read what I wrote. You don't even know. I don't know what you wrote.
That's right. You wrote a lot. I didn't read yours either. So it's secrets.
I wrote in the good category. And then I wrote a small smidgen in the better category.
Right. See, I just wrote in the good, better and the how.
I didn't write anything in the house.
Yeah. That's why I should have asked if you were done, but oh, well, let's turn it in now. You got automatically your docked points because you didn't even fill out the third section.
All I wrote in the good was 10 out of 10.
Oh, great. It wasn't even a math question.
And then in better, I wrote no improvements.
That's what you wrote. Wow.
That's not what I wrote. 10 out of 10. I wrote something very eloquent. Eloquent. Big word. Big word. And then whoever's going to read it, watch our managers just going to take them all and dump them in the trash.
Yeah. He's not going to read them. That was a good practice. Now, here's the real one. And you go, no. No multiple choice. Nothing.
I don't know why I do whenever there's any kind of paper on my desk. I go, what is this? Automatically. Surely it's a task. Automatically. I think it's a test. Did you, you did write your full name though, huh?
Why is, why are you so concerned?
Well, here's the thing. I know that I'm the only chantel here.
I'm the only Josh here. So then I went, well, do I have to put my last name? Because that seems stupid. If I'm the only one that's going to write our last name, that's going to be stupid.
So do I write just my first name or do I write my first and last name? And then you said, there's no wrong answers.
This is not a test.
Do what you want. Somebody back there is going, why'd she put her first and last name? We all know who she is. I want my paper back.
How much time today are you going to spend thinking about this?
Just right now. Just this.
I won't think about it. Now, tell me honestly. Just this.
I promise.
You've been thinking about it since you did it and now it's two times.
No, I have not been thinking about it since I did it. When we did it about an hour ago is when I wrote it into the thing to talk about. So I'm only thinking about it now because we're talking about it right now, but I won't think about it any further. This is not something I'm going to go crazy about. There are things that I do go crazy about.
You are super defending yourself about this right now. You have a lot, a lot going on. I'm just trying to decide. This isn't anything. I'm not going to be thinking about this one after we're done talking about it here. I'm done.
I just wanted to say a couple of things about it, but then I'm done. I'm not going to think about this. This isn't going to be something that I'm going to worry about all day. I just don't want to think about it now. I wanted to think about it an hour ago when I wrote it. And then I'm not going to think about it after this. That exactly. Stop. I want my paper back.
I just want to tell you that I'm not crazy. Right.
I'm not. And I'm not going to think about it anymore after this. It's just fine.
Right. Okay. What is my number one rule? Oh, I don't even know.
There's so many rules and so many different circumstances. What are we discussing? There isn't. There isn't. There isn't a lot of rules. Okay. Well, what's rule are we talking about?
Name a circumstance and I'll tell you what the rule is.
When you're busy, don't bug me. That's a good rule. Yeah, I know. The towels don't go in with the regular clothes in the laundry.
I don't necessarily think that's a rule. It should be and I try to keep that, but sometimes if I have...
Unless it's just a few clothes and you can throw a towel.
Yeah. And then I'm like, I got to wash these pants and I've got to load the towels, throw them in.
Okay. I don't care. Okay. But kind of care?
No, not usually. Okay. I think I probably did 10 years ago, but now I don't.
If the toilet paper roll is out, put a new one on. Yes. So which rule are we talking about?
Okay. I guess I have a lot of rules. Yeah, I know. Okay. This rule is if you're going to require me to do some work, you got to make sure I got a snack every now and then. Oh, I don't think about that. No, I know you don't.
Whether it's work or an activity, if I'm in the zone, whatever, food's a thing. You know what would be great is if I'm in the zone, if somebody who was hungry was like, we should probably eat something.
I feel like I... Just hold on, hold on. And it doesn't say I'm going to stop progress so we can have food, just make food happen. And then I'll go, oh, I should probably eat something as well.
Do you see what I'm saying? That way my flow state isn't interrupted by now I have to think about what to eat and go get it and do the whole thing. If it was like, hey, I'm in flow state, which happens often. If somebody showed up and was like, hey, here's a sandwich.
And I'd be like, that's a great idea. I should eat. I haven't eaten since breakfast. Are you blaming this on me? I'm not blaming anything.
I'm saying, if you are in the middle of a work thing with me and I'm in the zone and you're going, I'm hungry, rather than stop the work zone thing that's happening in my world, say, I'm in an order lunch and we're going to have food here and then I'm going to make him stop to eat, is what I'm saying.
Do you see the problem where I didn't have my own set of cars, vehicles? I was tagging along with you for the ride. I get that.
And when you dragged me around all day,
I was like, hey, we should probably get some food. And he said, yeah, yeah, yeah, well, we'll get there. Yeah. And so then I said, okay, I'll just go with the flow.
Yeah, that's one circumstance for sure. I'm thinking more about later when it was like unloading time. And there was a lot of that going.
Unloading time. I know you were. I know. But what I'm saying is that would have been a time to go, I'm going to not unload, I'm going to go handle food.
I'm not blaming you at all. I'm saying that there were probably some opportunities where food could have entered the picture sooner than it did because I don't stop. Same thing. If I'm out fishing, I will just fish and fish and fish and fish. Yeah, you will. I won't stop to think like, oh, I should probably eat because hunger is weakness. No, it's not. It's very necessary.
It's fuel to keep going.
Yeah, for sure. But I'm not going to stop doing the thing to go, I should stop and sit down here and eat a sandwich or something.
Even though somebody said multiple times, hey, maybe we should get some food. Yeah. Hey. Right. Should we get something to eat?
Right, we should. After we do this or after we do this part or maybe in between this and this part. You know, another time that would have been perfect is when we were stuck waiting for a minute. That would have been a good time to say. No, I understand. I understand where we were, but there was food nearby that could have been walked to even. I'm just throwing that out there. I'm bouncing ideas, you know?
I think that if I had said, oh, hey, there's food across the street. I'm going to go get some food for us. You would have said, just wait a minute because we're going to be down here in just a minute and then we'll go get food because I have done that before and you've been like, no, just keep on waiting. Just keep on waiting. That's your, that's your MO. Just keep on waiting.
Just keep on waiting. That hasn't happened yet. Just keep on waiting.
We'll get there. Just keep on waiting.
And we did eventually eat.
Yeah, we did. I was famished. Another big word.
That's a good one. Malnourished. Another good big word. This is one example over the weekend where we were busy. I'm saying in general, in general, if someone showed up and said, hey, you need to stop and eat something, eat with me. I brought sandwich. I'm like, that is awesome. I can't wait to stop. Let me do two more casts and then I'll stop and eat. Hold on one more cast.
Yeah, exactly.
Hold on. I just got to try this one more spot.
Hang on. Yeah, hang on. I got to walk down this way for a mile. I'll come back and eat in a minute. My next fish is going to be on my hook. I know it. That's right. Keep that sandwich there for three more hours. When I'm done fishing and ready to eat.
I'm just saying, that's probably a better approach in general for the way my world works. That would be helpful to me to have someone say, hey, you need to stop and eat and drink some water and those kinds because I will just forget.
Hey, I will readjust everything. That's not what I'm saying.
You're misinterpreting. Big word. I'm just trying to offer suggestions to those around me that suffer because I don't stop.
Think about it. Meanwhile, we're all loading bags of dirt, stomachs growling. We just need some food.
Grab a granola bar. I don't know. We'll get meal soon.
We'll get meal soon. Yeah. We'll get meal soon.
Yeah, I don't know what happens. But I, for some reason, I can shut it off. I know. You can. I don't know why or how.
Some of us around you who are also working really hard go, I can't even take another step. I need some food. Give me some sustenance.
It's interesting, isn't it? How I can shut that off? What is that? I don't know. What is that thing where I can go like, I don't know, whatever. I'm in such a zone that I'm like, I don't even know what food is. I'll worry about, like I'll get done and I'll even be like driving home or whatever. And I'll be like, I guess I'll eat when I get there. I'm not like, I've got to eat something. I just don't even think about it. I'm so in it. I don't know what that is. I don't either.
Cause my body goes, no girl. Yeah. We got some food to eat.
Like if I've had breakfast, I'm good until I eat again. Whenever that happens to be. I don't know why. I'm sure my body's like, bro, you should eat a snack. You should have a water. But I just don't. And that's not good.
It's not, that's not healthy. Yeah. No, you should probably eat something. Here's the sandwich. Oh, thank you.
What a treat. I saw a video of a fisherman who, uh, his, his wife had packed him a sandwich and, and rode on the bag, catch a big one. I thought that was sweet. This is nice idea. That's all. How nice. Would you rather this or that?
Would you rather go on a trip? Would you rather go on a picnic? That sounds nice.
Doesn't it? You got a brand new pickups that last year. Can, can we just get the would you rather before you start influencing? Would you rather go on a picnic?
Dealing with ants or dealing with wind? I'm going to say ants. Why? Because I hate the wind.
I've seen them march away a watermelon. Okay. I don't want to deal with ants because they start with the watermelon and then they're marching you away. I don't need that. I'm like our new queen. You know?
No, I don't, I don't know. I've never seen an ant march away a watermelon. You haven't?
Oh, the ants go marching one by one.
No, no, no, I know the song. I'm dealing with the ants. As long as it's just a regular black ant, not a fire ant. Okay. Because I don't want fire ants.
There's lots of different pictures and videos and stuff. Vants marching away watermelon. There's a lot.
Real, real life pictures or animated?
Are there not real ants carrying the watermelons? If you look at ants carrying watermelon, there's a lot. Okay, I'm looking. A lot of images of ants carrying a watermelon. There are. They love it.
Haven't seen a single real picture. They're on this watermelon, but they're not carrying it away. Here's what you do. I'll tell you what you do.
They're not going to lift up the whole watermelon
by the rind and carry it away. All you have to do when it comes to ants is you got to take some of your food, put it off yonder, they'll go to the food. So cut off a slice of your watermelon, set it aside, and they'll go for that. And they'll leave you alone. You might have a couple here and there. You can't escape the wind.
What do you do with the couple here and there? You go, shoot you. You flick them. Go get your watermelon over there. You flick them. Flick. Wow. Flick, flick. So yeah, I'm going to deal with ants. Same. As long as they're the little black ones.
Not the fire ants.
I know. Right. I'm not setting up a picnic in an ant pile.
Oh, you're not setting up a picnic at all. What's that mean?
Got that new picnic set. You haven't even used it. Is that what that means? Yeah. Because as I recall, we did put together a whole thing. We went and had a tailgate picnic. When? Last year. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
Okay. Time out. Because that, I would argue that that was just an excuse for you to go fishing. That wasn't, I'm going to take my wife on a picnic date.
That was, I'm going to go fishing and then have a picnic on the tailgate at the fishing hole. Why not both? It was not my favorite choice. But why not both?
Because then you also got quiet wilderness reading time.
Yeah, I know, but it wasn't the most pretty of spots. I would rather go somewhere pretty. I'm not, I'm not trying to be ungrateful, Josh. Pick an ants.
Would you rather this or that? All right. You know these green drinks that I've been having? Yeah. This cold pressed vegetables. Yeah. I had one yesterday. They're still not great. Okay. The internet's calling them liquid salad. Yeah. Yeah. And apparently liquid salads are trending because a bunch of adults want to have a drink that is all the veggies rather than make a salad. It certainly is.
What's the word I want to say? More convenient. Yeah, convenient. That's the word.
So oftentimes these liquid salads are a pouch or a powder or a shake and they are marketed to busy people who want nutrition without all the prep work. But dietitians are saying that you can use them to fill the gap, but here's what you're losing by drinking a salad instead of eating one. Oftentimes, liquifying fruits and vegetables means less fiber. It means less chewing, which helps with fullness.
And there's more risk of additives like sugars and supplements that you may not need. Okay. So a lot of people are saying like, hey, listen, if you have to do it because you need the veggie injection, then go for it as a fill-in, but really should be eating the salad. Okay.
I'm just saying I made a salad a couple of weeks ago the night before for my lunch the next day. And by the time I washed all the vegetables and chopped them all up and peeled the carrots, it took me a half an hour. And I'm not saying that that's, I'm just saying there's time that I would rather spend doing other stuff than chopping vegetables for a salad. And I'm going to eat for lunch the next day.
So the one that I'm drinking is like a cucumber celery grapefruit charred lettuce lemon thing. Okay. And it's this ubergreen. And it's a 12 ounce bottle. And I have to do it all at once because it tastes, as I said before, like licking a garden. It's so vegetables. It's so vegetables. But I was clicking around. I know we didn't pay $74 for the six pack.
We did not. There's no way. That's how much they're selling it for on Amazon. That's insane. $74 for a six pack of these. There's no way we paid that much. No, I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have spent that. Not even close. Nope. I haven't tried those yet. Do you have one with you here today?
I do not. Okay. You haven't tried one yet? It's not a sip and drink. I'm going to tell you, you're going to go into it thinking you're going to take a drink like it's a good smoothie or something. Don't. Is it? I made the mistake. Drink it all at once. Taste it one time.
Is it eight ounces? 12. 16. Oh, 12.
I chug it. I chug the 12 ounce bottle one shot. And then I go, okay, that tastes like vegetables. What's the face you make? Yeah. Like that. Because it's just vegetables.
Okay. They're cold press. They're not blended. What does cold press mean? So the cold press is when? What is cold press? It's specifically a method of extracting oil or juice from fruits, vegetables or nuts without using heat, chemicals or solvents, keeping the temperatures below 80 degrees to preserve nutrients, flavor, and natural enzymes. So that's the cold press, all the vegetables to get the oils out of it. Okay. Interesting. Yeah. They're not blending them or eating them up.
What vegetables are in it? I read that. Shirley kale. No.
Not kale? Shirley kale.
I just assumed they always put kale and stuff.
No. It's cucumber, celery, grapefruit, charred lettuce and some other things. Grapefruit? Yeah. That's the one thing it's got in it for flavor. I hate grapefruit. Yeah. Cucumber, celery, grapefruit, charred lettuce, and lemon. Lemon. But they also put in there, they put in a couple of things. So they also add organic peppermint, tea leaf, and organic spearmint tea leaf and purified water. The rest of it is all organic cucumber, celery, grapefruit, charred, green leaf lettuce, lemon juice, kale juice, spinach juice, parsley juice, and then that mint tea.
I actually think I would like it. I think it sounds kind of nice. I bet if I have
a sip, I might like it. It's not a sipping drink. I might. I might like it. I like tasting it once.
Do you know, there was a big craze about people making a bunch of celery juice a couple years ago. Nobody talks about that anymore. And I remember asking once that there was an influencer who was just doing it every day, making my celery juice. I asked her, what's the benefits of just having celery juice versus eating the celery? And she never responded to me. And now no one's making celery juice anymore.
I'm going to tell you, the reason that you would do it is pretty good. It helps lower blood pressure. The celery juice?
Yeah. Rather than just eating it?
Well, I'm just reading specifically about celery juice. Yeah. But it's consumed for hydration, improved digestion, reduces inflammation.
No, I think that. Like it has great benefits. But what's the difference between eating it and making a juice out of it? Come to Josh and Chantel for all your health. Googling.
We are not nutritionists. We Google. It says eating whole celery is generally better than drinking the juice because it retains the fiber which aids in digestion and satiating. Drinking the juice, Des? No, eating it. Okay. And that's the same thing they say about the vegetable juice at all, is that if you drink it, you're not getting the fiber and you're not chewing, which helps you feel full. Okay.
Interesting.
Because then you're like, oh, I ate something. If you're drinking it, you're going to go, well, I got some nutrients, but I'm still kind of hungry. So then you might follow it up with cheese. Delicious cheese. Or a cookie.
Cookies. Cookies.
Well, hey, we got to wrap up the show.
We're over time. Oh, jeez, Louis.
It's fine. It doesn't matter. Thanks for hanging out with us. We will be back tomorrow. And until then, we'll see you later.
We'll see you. Yeah. Have a good day. Okay. Josh is going fishing. Catch a big one, buddy.
Yeah, I'll see that on my sandwich.
Nope. I didn't make you a sandwich because you're a big boy. Oh. See you tomorrow. Bye.
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