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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Thursday, April 30th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Josh and Chantel kick things off with a very scientific update on their global listener map, then baby names are getting weird, the Book It program is BACK and Chantel wants a free personal pan pizza for finishing her book, we take a walk down memory lane on the playground, our 21-year-old son has very politely told Chantel to please, for the love of softball, be a normal mom at his rec league game, Josh mourns a broken RC rock crawler axle, Microsoft Teams comes up and everyone hates it, a new Charlize Theron thriller kept Josh up late (and scared), birds are apparently terrified of women, the world's oldest penguin just turned 38, horror movies vs rom-coms, and so much more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Britni is the first pin
(2:38) - Busiest week
(6:15) - Good News
(8:16) - Baby names
(15:17) - Book It! is back!!!
(20:38) - Squeeze the last drop
(28:32) - Butt Ball at recess
(34:28) - Chantel was lectured
(40:57) - Josh broke an axle
(47:16) - Canadian radio
(53:28) - Little free puzzle library
(58:49) - Apex
(1:02:16) - Microsoft Teams
(1:08:43) - Would You Rather
(1:12:12) - Bird study
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Full show transcript:
So, a couple of days ago, we put out a, I was going to say, a plan.
Yeah, a plan. I don't know what we put out. What are you talking about? We actually don't know.
Catch me up. We told listeners, like you read some stats and said that we had people listening. All over the world. You taught. We had people listening in. All over. Yeah. And I said it would be cool to get like a map and put pins in where people are listening from. And then we put out a call to listeners to say, hey, let us know where you're listening from. That's right.
We got one response. That is correct. From Brittany and Pocatello.
That's right. So, hooray to Brittany. She's our first pin. That's right. You said pin in the map in Pocatello.
Because we're going to get that specific in our pinning. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So, city, Providence, community. Territory. Territory. Small fort. Wherever you're listening. Yeah. Let us know. Treehouse. Put a pin in you.
Yeah. The email to do that is wakeupclassy97 at gmail.com. Brittany, thanks for sending in your email. We were really delighted to hear the nice things you had to say.
Very, very cool. And we appreciate that. To be fair, you don't, this isn't pandering. You don't have to say nice things to us to get a pin. No, it feels like you're pandering. I think you're pandering.
I'd like to hear nice things. Right. But if you have something bad to say, listen, I don't want to read it, but I will. Words of affirmation is Chantel's lovely. Yes, for sure. So, if you want to give her words of affirmation, she will love that. I do. Everybody loves that. No, I know. Nobody likes to hear bad things. But that is your major, like if days go by and you don't get feedback about any part of your life, you're like, man, I'm in the dumps.
I'm doing everything wrong. So anyway, wakeupclassy97 at gmail.com. If you want to send us an email, let us know where you're listening. And we do respond to the emails.
Chantel does a great job. She'll sign my name on the email response. Or letters. We've gotten some letters before too. We have gotten some mail. Camille has sent us a letter and so did Margaret.
Yeah. She sent us a letter too. Well, thank you for reaching out.
Lots of ways to get in touch with us and we appreciate it always. Should we get to today's show? Let's do it. Oh, good morning.
Hi. They said, have a full-time job and pay your bills. And they were like, it'll be fun. Do something you love and maybe you'll be happy the rest of your life.
If you do something you love, you'll never work a day in your life. That's what they kept saying. I've heard that before. Also, do you know what the definition of insanity is? Doing the same thing every, all the time and expecting a different result every day, all the time. Listen. It's a social experiment. They've got to solve fools.
I don't know what it is. I'm grateful to have a job. I am also grateful to have a job.
I am doing what I am passionate about. I just want to do it later in the day. I just want to do it whenever I just want.
Like, I wake up and I go, no, I don't want to go to work today. Your week has been bananas. It's been a crazy week and it's not over yet.
I know. I'm super tired. I'm so tired. It's only Thursday for you.
I know it. It's Thursday for me too, but my Thursday feels different than yours. I woke up and went, all right, Thursday. I can do today. I know I got it in me to do tomorrow. I'm good to go.
Yeah. But you have had a nonstop early to work. Your second job has taken you late multiple afternoons and evenings. I mean, you didn't leave work until... I got home at nine o'clock last night. Nine o'clock. I left home at 5.30 yesterday. I got home at nine o'clock. 5.30 in the morning. I got home at nine o'clock at night. That's a long day. It is a long day. And guess what?
What? You can do it again today. Well, I guess I go home at five today.
Oh, so normal. All right. Hurry for me. Yeah?
Yeah. But I have a couple of doctor's appointments that I'm not looking forward to and I always put the crink in the system. And anyway, it's okay. It's not going to be okay. We have some company coming to town. My sister's coming to town. Your birthday's coming up.
I mean, it's going to be. Surprises of foot. I know. What's...
I hate surprises. I think you guys just do it to make me angry. We were eating dinner last night and Emery said, Beck, I got to talk to you about something. Yeah. And I went... Yeah, she and I had a whole conversation and she's got some things that she needs to take care of and then she's supposed to rope him in on some things. So hopefully that happened.
I do not know. She's pretty good about it when she gets her mind on it. So I'm sure she'll get to take care of it. I know she will.
She takes care of stuff. I know. But I've got some running around to do. It's just there's a lot to do to get ready.
It's chaotic. Every day. Every day is a little more rambunctious than the last one. Rambunctious.
Yeah. So maybe... Look, here's to a calmer Thursday for you and I hope you get it because you deserve it. You've been working hard. Thanks. You need a little breather.
That's what I said last night. I said, nobody bothered me. I got to go take a bath and just kind of decompress the week and I did. Well, good for you. And it was nice. Good. Well...
Happy Thursday. Oh, look. What I found. Good news. It's good news. Yeah.
There is a penguin believed to be the oldest in the world that just celebrated her 38th birthday. Aw. Yeah. You should look up the life expectancy of a penguin because if this is to be the oldest in the world, I want to know what the average age is.
Okay. This is a Paradise Park Wildlife Sanctuary in Cornwall, England. How would you pronounce this penguin's name? The penguin's name is S-P-N-E-B. S-Pneb?
Spneb. Yeah. Yep.
Spneb. Yeah. The penguins... Oh, it says here can live to be around 20.
15 to 20 years in the wild. Yeah. Yeah. Galapagos penguin may live over 10 years. Okay. But emperors can live over 40 years.
Okay. Well, this is a Humboldt penguin named Spneb who is celebrating her 38th birthday and survived a scary infection back in 2007 and is still going strong. To celebrate her birthday or keep her through a party, they had a special ice cake dyed blue and packed with her favorite sardines. She enjoyed that while zoo visitors looked on.
Spneb is thriving in retirement. She enjoys a healthy appetite. She enjoys a healthy appetite, it says, and even has a special relationship with a 21-year-old penguin named Prince. Oh. Yeah.
Special relationship. Congratulations. Spneb. Spneb. Spneb. Who named the penguin Spneb? Cute.
Yeah. Happy birthday, Spneb. It's good news. Are you happy with the names that we named our kids? Yeah, I think so. Do you think they're happy? Do you think they like them? I mean, I guess. I think so. It's the only name they've known their whole lives.
They haven't ever complained about them. Yeah. If you could have another baby, listen, no, we're not. But.
So giant if. Got it. No.
Could you imagine starting over? No, dude. No. Man. I can't.
I'm so tired. Like our youngest is 16, just started driving, reset to a brand new baby. No, and here's the thing. Like there are people our age that are grandparents.
I know. So we'd be having a baby. Well, our people we know are becoming grandparents.
And then you have to do toddler again, and then you have to do elementary school again, and then middle school again. No, I can't. Yeah. I can't do it.
I've been in school in what, 12 years. So yeah, no thanks. No, thank you. Okay, but there is a baby name that if we did have another baby, I would be like all over it. It's Juniper. I know. You've heard that name a couple of times and you've said that is just adorable. It's so cute. I have to name something that we need to get another dog or something and I'll name it Juniper. Could you imagine another dog?
No, no, no, no, no, no. But Juniper is a very, very cute name. Isn't that? I know. If your name is Juniper, I love that name.
It's so cute. Okay, Maverick? Yeah, I know a Maverick. Is more popular now than Thomas. You're seeing fewer and fewer Thomases and more and more Mavericks. I know a Maverick. I know a Tommy, but I don't know a Thomas. Tommy J? Tommy J? Yeah. Is it Jefferson? No, no, no. Tommy J. Genesis is now a more popular name than Sophie.
Interesting. Nova is more popular than Grace. Nova's a cool name. Nova's pretty cool. One of the fastest rising girl names is Iceland.
Iceland? Interesting. How interesting. And one of the fastest rising boy names is Truse.
Truse. Halo and Honey are also in the top lead. Wow. What are we just grabbing words now? Messiah is rising.
That one's still around? Messiah comes with a lot of pressure. Yeah.
Wow. Patrick, the name Patrick is dropping. Well, it's because of a starfish. Because it's dropping because of the starfish?
Yeah. Why would it be dropping? People don't want to be named Patrick because of him? Because of Patrick Star. He's nice.
No, it's not about being nice. It's just about the brain capacity attached to the starfish, which in SpongeBob happens to be lower. Doesn't even matter. He's a great friend. He's a good friend. He's a good friend. He's very kind. I understand.
I think that's why it's on the decline. If your name is Patrick, be proud of that name because Patrick Starfish is a nice starfish. And you got great fashion sense. Sarah has dropped pretty low. That's a pretty popular name, but it's that one is Losing Steam.
Okay. And Donald is falling. And also, Sincere. Who's name in their kid, Donald, these days? I don't know. And Sincere? Sincere.
I've never met a Sincere. I haven't either, but they're saying that name is dropping. Yeah.
How about it? If you see a lot of Genesis and Novas. Are there still a bunch of like olives and olivias and?
I don't know. Olive is cute. And Olivers.
There was a lot of those. We know an Oliver. Yeah.
He's cool. That's right. But Olivers, Olives and Olivias were like running rampant as the top names for a while. And I feel like when Emery was in school, there was a lot of Lidias. She knew a lot of Lidia.
Interesting. How many? Like two or three. That's pretty, pretty decent. In one neighborhood. Yeah. Cause that was her whole social circle.
And then we would sing that old song. No. Lidia. Not we. I say that. There you go. Have you met Lidia?
No. Still haven't. I still haven't come up with a name for Josh. A name?
Well, like a song, a song that matches your name. You don't need to. We do. No, it's unnecessary. It's fine.
No. There was that old Lizzo song. I can't even remember the name of the song now. But I don't even know what she says. She might even say Joshua. She says, Joshua. No.
What did she say? No. Not Joshua. Everyone should have a song with their name in it. Everyone. Are you upset that you don't? Yeah.
Again, the closest one is Chantilly Lace. Right. It's a stretch.
It's a stretch. But there is that one, Dave Matthews' song. No. Your name is not in the Dave Matthews'ance marching song. It is not, it does not say Chantilly. What does it say then? Not that. Kind of does. It doesn't at all. It actually says.
You just are hanging on to it so tight. What they actually say is place them in a back seat until a, and it says. Or bag. Or maybe that.
Place them in a bag until. Chantilly Qua. No. That's what it actually says. Place them in a bag until a.
Place them in a bag Chantilly. No. It's what he sees giving me instructions. No. It's not. That's not the lyrics. You have that song coming up next?
No, I do not. Dang it. It's giving me instructions.
Hey, put those ants in a bag. Can't tell. Somebody write a song about me. Not AI. I don't want an AI. You want a real, not.
I want a real song performed by a real person. Not AI. I got exciting news. I stumbled upon this morning. As of tomorrow. May 1st.
Parents can enroll their kids in. Book it. Summer of stories. It runs June 1st through August 31st. It is open to families with children in pre-K through sixth grade.
So if you have a elementary school aged child, here's how it works. You're going to go to this website. Book it program.com.
Okay. You're going to download the Book It app for your iPhone or Android. And you are as a parent going to do the quick enrollment form. And you're going to create a profile for each child. And you're going to set their monthly reading goal. And it says here that it is a limit of five pizza hut certificates.
Oh yeah, baby. Per family per month. One certificate may be earned per eligible child per month for meeting the goal. So this is pretty cool. You can set the goal. And as your young readers reach those goals, they can earn their free personal pan pizza if they meet their monthly goal.
Can this work for adults? I mean, listen to me. When I tell you, you can indeed read a book and treat yourself to a pizza.
I know, but then I have to pay for it. It's a personal pan pizza. I actually, hmm, why haven't I been doing that my whole life? You're an adult with adult money. You can reward yourself with treats for doing adult things. When I finish a book, I should just have been rewarding myself with a pizza every time.
Right. What have I been doing? Put on a pin and go have a pizza. It says I finished a book. You have a button maker.
I do have a button maker. Why haven't I been doing this? I don't know because you didn't think about it till just now. I'm going to start. Listen, I'm almost close to reading a book. When I get finished with that book, which I'm reading. Yeah, it comes out next week.
So I got a, I got a book it to finish it. That's right. Yeah.
No, I get it. Anyway, I was really excited to see the book. It is making a return for summer reading June 1st through August 31st open to families with children pre K through sixth grade. You get the book it app on the app store and then you can fill out your profile, register each child. And again, each child is eligible to receive one personal pan pizza per month for reaching their goal, which is pretty awesome. Kids are reading with a limit of five per family per month. So if you have five kids, you can have five per month.
Each kid gets one. Oh, does that make sense? Yes. Yeah. So anyway, the summer of stories program, you can begin to register starting tomorrow. I love it. Yeah. On May 1st.
And then the program gets underway on June 1st and runs through the end of August. I want a pizza. What would you put on your personal pan pizza? Oh, it's like a one topping.
Okay, but that's not. It's pepperoni. Just you can have unlimited toppings pepperoni black olive and sausage.
That's your that's your favorite probably some green peppers. If I can put anything. Yeah, you can put anything.
I can put anything. It's some extra cheese. Like a cheesy. What I put on mine.
Thanks for asking a bunch of vegetables and starting with onions and mushrooms. Yep. Right. I already knew what yours is going to be.
Red onions, green peppers, mushrooms, tomato, fresh tomato after it's cooked, some basil, some roasted garlic. They don't even have that. I don't.
Yes, I do. At the pizza place I'm going to has it. Oh, I see. You're not going to get the personal pan pizza. No, we're just talking about what would you put on? What's your favorite ultimate pizza?
That's just what we're talking about. Some roasted red pepper. Meat, a couple of veggies, some hot honey. Or I like buffalo sauce.
And then at the very end, if you put the pesto sauce on top of it. No, you've ruined it. No way, man.
It's buffalo sauce. No. Yeah. And then because I'm watching my figure on the ranch.
Yeah. You're watching my figure grow like a little bear ranch. You know, now I want some pizza. Well, I have none. Go read a book though.
I have maybe you'll get one. No one ever rewards me for reading. You're an adult. Award yourself. I don't want to. So I'm going to ask you, what is something that you love so much that you will either, like if it's in a bag, you'll tip the bag upside down and get every last crumb, every last bit of it.
Or if it's a liquid form, you'll scrape every last inch of it from the container. Muddy buddies. And fro yo. Fro yo is a good example.
We just had some fro yo. Yeah. And I got the hot. Yeah, I saw you. And I said, Chantel, what are you doing? And you said, mind your own business. I did say mind your own business. And I said, okay, I guess. I make my own decisions. I knew what I was doing.
Yeah. What are you doing? Mind your own business. I don't even think I said that. I think it was much more rude. I think I told you to shut up.
I don't know what you said, but it was along those lines for sure. You don't get to tell me my business. I was looking out for you. Keep your eyes on your own fro yo bowl. Yeah, I did. Guess what mine had in it?
A little bit of graham cracker and peanuts. Does that mean you're better than me? Yes. And at better than you at avoiding so many things. I'm not going to avoid sweets.
Yes. Why did I have to avoid sweets? Because you said you wanted to. Not the other day. I didn't say I wanted to.
I'm minding my own business. We have an app that keeps track of my calories. And I had enough calories that day.
And so I said, I'm going to get myself some hot fudge. And I did. And did I enjoy it?
Yes, I did. Until somebody's judgy, judgy got in my way. What are you? What? What? What? What? What are you?
Somebody's judgy, judgy got in my way. So the answer is fro yo for scraping and. Fro yo is good. Muddy buddies that I pretty much anything that comes in a bag that I'm enjoying that I would dump upside down. I'm telling you, I'm not a big fan of the checks mix though. I like the guardettos mix better. And I would absolutely. I just like the checks in the checks mix. I understand. That's why I like muddy buddies.
Because it's just the checks. I was thinking of something that I love so much that I will just lick the bottle clean. Yeah. And it is Buffalo Wild Wings. You can buy their sauce at the stores.
Right. It's their Asian zing sauce. You love that stuff. I love that stuff.
Would you say you feel the same about Winger's amazing sauce? Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
Also, these are both sugary sauces. Here comes judgy, judgy everyone. Whatever that is. It's you being judgy, judgy.
Judgy, Josh. I'm trying to help you achieve your goals. I'm not being critical. I'm not saying, oh, here she goes. It's not like I've been eating a jar of the sugary sauce all day. I've been actually.
But you would. Do you want to talk about what's happening for breakfast this morning? What? I'm having Cheerios.
Yes. What is the problem with Cheerios for breakfast? Nothing. With almond milk. I'm having a good, healthy breakfast. Part of a balanced breakfast, they said.
Who said? The whole cereal industry, every commercial as I was growing up. Hey, I just need you. This started out as an innocent conversation.
Yeah. And then what happened? I asked about Froyo, or I said Froyo and you said Froyo was so good and I had hot fudge. And I said, yeah.
And I said, what are you doing? We can replay the whole break. We don't have to do it again.
We don't have to reenact it. Okay. So this question was posed on the internet. This, what is something that you scrape, scrape, scrape.
And a lot of people were like, hey, listen, it's not necessarily food, but if I've got a tube of toothpaste, I'm going to cut the middle of it off. I'm not doing that. Oh, I do that constantly.
Because you're a middle squeezer. We don't need to hash this one out either. Okay.
I just got a new tube of toothpaste and I have, I'm still, there's still some in the old one. Yeah. So I've unpackaged the new one. It's sitting next to the old one, but I'm not done. I'm still squeezed now. This morning I went, I had to squeeze a little bit harder to get some out.
I'm getting close to the end. Do you think that tubes of toothpaste gets sad when their replacement comes in and sits next to them? They're all squeezed out and sad.
And then their brand new puffy, shiny bottle is like, hi, I'm here to take your place. No. Somebody should write a book about that. No. Somebody's gonna steal my idea. Just wait. Listen, when did your, I don't even know the right question.
When did you become so worried about the feelings of inanimate objects? Oh, this is not new. This is just the first time I've said it out loud.
No, it's not. But when, like, were you little? Yeah.
And because you, your siblings didn't want to play with you, you went, well, it feel bad for me. So now I'm going to personify that onto a tube of toothpaste. Yeah. Yeah, you got to go back to therapy.
I think you got some unfinished work. No, I'm fine. Totally adjusted. I'm a totally. Here comes Judgie Judgerson.
Judgie Judgerson, Josh. Yeah. I like hot fudge. Watch out. I'm gonna have some.
Don't eat sweets around, Josh. Not when you say you have a goal in mind and not, when I'm not judging you and just saying, what are you doing? You don't want that? I don't need you to micro manage me.
I can handle it. You feel like that was micro managing? When I looked over and went, Hey, what are you doing? And I said, that was me being supportive. That was me saying, I'm trying to help. I know you, you want to take a different path than this.
I know this deep inside you. You want to say no, but you just saw it because the kids right in front of you were going, and you went, that looks good. I'm having some of that. I have no regrets. Okay.
None zip. It's not like I was putting a bunch of candy on top of it. I just got a scooper two of hot fudge. And then I went, everyone mind your business.
If I everyone, I mean, Josh. Yeah. All right.
I got it. My level of support will change to adapt. Good luck on your adventure. Thank you.
Yep. I won't cheer lead. You can cheer lead. Just don't judge. I wasn't judging. It felt judgy.
Look at me over here. I didn't get any sauce on mine. I just got fro you because it only has 60 grams of calories.
60 grams. And I scraped and scraped and scraped every last bit of it. What was your favorite activity at recess when you were a kid? Oh, I was pretty good at monkey bars. Were you? Yeah. But, but I, as you know, I blister easy. So that was a pretty common occurrence for me.
I never understood four square. Yeah. I didn't play that. So I never did that.
Big 500 guy. I never played that either. No. No, I was a swing girl. I liked playing on the swings. So me and my friend would race to the swings every day because sometimes they would get taken very quickly. That is true.
I would have to race to the swings. Yep. That's probably why I liked 500 so much. A lot of people could play.
If you were good, you got to catch the ball and you got to show off your throwing arm, which was always, Did you have a good throwing arm? Yep. Whoa. Yeah.
But you had to fight a little bit to get that. Like they would ban the game. Why? Because people were getting a little too rough. Oh no.
So they'd be like, you can't play. Yes. How do you get rough at 500? I guess if you're pushing people around to try and catch it. Right. And so some duty aids would be like, you guys are being too rough. You don't settle down.
We're going to have to take away 500. That's how they all talk. I don't know why they sound like that. You guys need to settle down.
See, that's interesting because they didn't care what we did at recess. It felt like sometimes hot metal slide in the hot sun. Now listen. Go burn your legs off. Right. No, that's fine.
They were totally cool with that. Spin yourself so fast on the merry-go-round. You don't feel so good.
You get sick and go up. Fine. Yeah.
For sure. We had no rules. The playground equipment was made of like old cabins. Like it was, it was chain link fence posts and old cabin wood hooked together. Old railroad.
Yeah. Railroad ties holding in old bark. From chewed up old cabins.
Yeah, that the neighborhood animals used as their litter box. Yeah, like it was fine. We made do.
We're going to be okay. A lot of tether ball. Big tether ball situation. I didn't play tether ball either.
All I can remember is playing on the swing. Boring. It was not boring. Boring.
Because we made up all kinds of things to do on the swings. Yeah. Oh yeah, like, hold on. Wait, like what?
You could swing on your belly. Oh, it's still just going back and forth. Got it. Next.
What else? And you could turn and face your swing with your friend. Yeah, and lock up feet. And then do what? Go back and forth. Got it.
Okay. And then if you locked up your feet, you could have another friend sit on top of your leg. And? And then you guys could swing back and forth. Go back and forth. Yeah. Yeah. It was fun. You are a back and forth lady. That's what I know about you. What does that mean?
That means swing, I guess. Because that's it. Boring.
It was not boring. Hey. Cool, you're a dude. You're being very mean to me today.
I am not. What else did you do? Nothing. We just went to the swings. What did you do if you couldn't get on the swings?
We stood next to the swings. I don't actually even remember. I did the monkey bars a couple of times, but I wasn't very good at them.
Yeah. And I got the wind knocked out of me when I fell off of them once. Did you make that sound? When all the air is gone?
That's a noise. And then kickball. I remember playing kickball. Yeah. That seemed like more of a PE thing. It was like a class activity. I don't think we did that.
Yeah. That was during PE. We didn't ever do that at recess.
Oh, I'm sorry. We did play some, what we call, butt ball, which is where you had a racket ball, the little blue racket ball. And you basically, we played wall ball or hand ball. But if you missed or screwed up, you had to go stand on the wall and somebody got to take a turn to throw it as hard as they wanted at you. That game got banned. We weren't allowed to play that all the time. You guys are being too rough.
We're going to take away the racket ball. Oh no. Sorry about your games getting banned. Well, you know.
My games never got banned. You know what? Yeah, because it was swinging. Back and forth. Boring. Take a risk. I did.
Did you jump from the swings? Yeah. When?
All the time. Fix your eyebrows. Stop telling me that I'm boring.
I bet I had more fun than you. Whoa. Prove it.
Can't. I didn't have to invent dumb games like butt ball. It was awesome. We were really good at it until it got taken away. And we had to go play 500 until they got taken away.
And then guess what we had left? Swings. Boring. You know what?
What? Swings are still around in playgrounds today. They'll never get boring.
Do they still make racquetballs and footballs? 100%. You're boring.
No way. You know they had a Gaga ball and they took that away. Yeah, they did take that away. Why did they take that away? You guys are being too rough in the Gaga ball pit.
We're going to have to take it away. We were sitting at the dinner table last night and Beck, our son, told us that he starts his, his coworkers have started a softball team. Yeah, on the rec league. And so they're going to be starting their first game on Monday. Right.
And I was like, oh cool. Where at? What time?
I'll be there to support you. Right. And then he quietly, very quietly said, I don't even know how he started. I should have recorded the conversation. He said, do you remember what he said? Well, I remember he, he essentially said, listen, and he got real serious about it.
And he just said, I, I think it, like I'm, I'm glad that you want to come and that you want to cheer me on and be excited, but also keep, keep it down. Like I don't, I'm an adult. He's like, I'm a 21 year old.
I don't need my mom hooting and hollering in the stands about me. And, and he's like, just please be, be, be a normal person. Not exactly those words. I mean, that's, that's what he said in a roundabout way. He went, hey, hey, hey, listen, but he wasn't attacking me. Like he wasn't calling me out either, but he was kind of like, he was, he's trying to be serious.
And then he was saying, he was wrapping it in a package of you guys, but he was looking at me when he was talking. And that's what you said. You said the whole time you're saying this, you're looking just at me. This is like, what are you, what are you trying to say? And it's all he's trying to say is, look, I'm an adult. This is my coworkers. It's not like, you know, he's like, not that we're taking it very serious, but also like I want to be with my work people. So it's kind of weird.
That's what he kept saying. Like, well, these are my coworkers. And I was like, I'll listen. If you don't want me to come, I won't come, but I want to be there to watch you.
Yeah. And he said, no, I want you to come just. Just quietly. Basically.
I said, I understand what you're saying. I will come. We'll fill the first game out. If nobody could see was like, I don't think anybody else's like families are going to be there. I go, okay. Yeah, but people have spouses and stuff.
They're going to, can we make matching shirts? No, Josh, I've been. That's quiet.
It's not. He's going to, he's going to have a fit about matching shirts. No, I can't, I can't ruin this. You, you get one that says back on it. And then Emory and I will get ones that say go and then we'll sit on either side of you. So it says go back.
And we won't say anything. Brilliant. I think that's brilliant, but he's going to hate that. And I'm going to get in trouble for it.
Even though it's not my idea. He seriously was focused on me. He was like, please don't be you is essentially what he was saying.
He was like, these are my coworkers. Don't be an excited mom. Don't want you to embarrass me. Right. And I said, I understand completely.
I looked him in the face and I said, I understand the message that you're sending. I promise you. So don't bring the boom box and play walk on music.
Is that for sure? Bro, I can't be a part of that. This is my one chance. If I mess it up, I'm not going to, I really am going to be in the doghouse. I can't mess it up.
I have to go watch and I have to be as supportive as he wants me to be. Get some of that big league chew and like really put a big old bunch in your mouth. So you got that like gross look, you know, you know what I'm talking about. And then stand over by the fence and do hand signals and do like a, like a big, big league chew spit thing.
Throw, throw him some like sign language I love using there. No, I can't. I can't. I have to be on my best behavior. It's gonna be, and then he just kept like trying to convince me it's gonna be boring. And I was like, if you don't want me to go, just say you don't want me to go. And he was like, no, you could come, but sit quietly in the back.
Yeah. Don't, don't make a sound. So I guess that's gonna be a fun game where you just have to sit and watch and not do anything.
Just like golf clap. I think it's exciting. I think it's cool. Here's, here's the thing. And here's, here's where the nervousness comes from. You know, these, he's gonna be a little bit aware that you're there.
But I think because he's seen, he's seen parade mom and he's seen like, you know, he's seen different versions of mom and mom has many levels and supportive cheer mom is, is hardcore is a lot. And he's not ready for that. I know.
But he also like didn't do high school sports and didn't do these things where he would have been able to become comfortable with you going, yeah, dude. I know, right. I know. He's also not 11.
He's 21. And that's what I'm saying. I know what you're saying. Yeah. Now I've been lectured by you and I'm not lecturing.
I know. You have felt judged and lectured today like you've never felt. Yeah, I really have. And this is, no one's doing this, but you need a safe space. Oh, really? Okay. I'm gonna be on my best behavior. Yeah, I'm gonna go supportive. But I will quietly, I'm gonna be the obnoxious one.
Yeah, you didn't get like, that's one saying they'll never expect it. Walk on music, big t shirts. Maybe we get his face printed on like a four foot poster board.
So when he's up, we can wave it. I can't, dude. I can't. Because even if it's not my idea and I'm not participating, yeah, I'll get in trouble for it. I have to sit, if you're planning on doing that, I have to sit way far away from you. I can't be roped into your shenanigans. I'll be banished.
He's gonna sit over there with your arms crossed. Like that's not even funny. No, I'll think it's hilarious, but I can't participate.
He'll never let me come to another game to watch ever. I can't. This is my one shot. You only get one shot. All right, Eminem, one opportunity.
Good luck. Something sad happened to you yesterday. Yeah. I had to post about it on the internet. It was so sad. And I've had people in the community reach out and they're like, it is sad.
They agree. Of course, there is a community for this, but I don't know how I got a hold of it. I don't know why, like maybe it's because I post so little on Facebook personally that when I posted in the group, it was like, hey, everybody, look, he posted. Everyone, look over here. He posted.
Maybe. Because you wouldn't, you're not part of the group. Like it's an open group, but it's a group dedicated to the specific model of rock crawler that I have. It's my RC rock crawler. I broke an axle yesterday. Oh, no.
Yeah, pretty sad. You said broke an axle today. You told me that you would broke an axle. You said, I had to order an axle. Yeah.
And I went, okay. So listen, your birthday is coming up and your sister and brother-in-law are coming to town. And your brother-in-law is the gateway to RC crawling for me. Yes. And so he has shown me the way.
He gave me the base model of this crawler as a gift because he had upgraded and he went here. You, I'm going to give this to you. And I went, awesome, man. And so then I started modifying it and doing stuff to improve its performance.
And so I've been working on that. And then I was excited because I was crawling around on some rocks in the backyard. And I noticed that I was having a hard time getting up over some stuff that shouldn't be a challenge. And I'm like, why is this struggling? And I noticed that one of the wheels wasn't moving. And I went, what? And so I picked it up and I pulled the trigger to do the accelerator and three of the wheels spun and the other one did not. And so I went, what? And I moved it with my hand and it free spun. And I went, oh no. That's the noise I made.
And then you texted me and said you had ordered another piece. And then as I was scrolling through Facebook yesterday, this group, and of course there's a group. There's a group for everyone and everything.
That's right. Crawlers, upgrades, mods and fun. Josh posted, broken axle today, replacement is ordered, sad Pikachu. Right.
And you said sad Pikachu. What is that? And Beck replied and said it's an old meme. It's an old meme.
And he sent the actual crying Pikachu. I'm like, what? Why?
I sent the group to family or sent that screenshot to the family. I was hoping the kids would make fun of you more. No, because I used it properly. I used the right meme properly.
So they're not going to make fun of me. Oh my, sad day. Did you send it to anybody else? Whoever you wanted to make fun of me in No, I didn't.
I just sent it to the kids because I just wanted the kids to make fun of you. But then the community is like, you got to buy this brand. This brand makes the best ones. You got to buy these. So I looked up those ones. Let me tell you, the ones that I ordered, please, are $15 for the pair. Okay.
The ones that they are like, you need to order these specific ones. I'm looking. Give me two seconds. I'm waiting. I know I'm on pins and needles. I know you are.
I can't even wait until you tell me about your rock crawling part. Settle down. I have to scroll through the transmissions to find it. And it's not showing up right where I wanted it to be.
It's okay, Josh. Anyway, they were much more expensive is the point that I'm trying to get to. Axles. There it is. If you go to the right section, you find exactly what you need. And the ones that I need are, yes, $60 for a pair versus $15.
But then they're like, yeah, but you're going to keep breaking them until you upgrade to these nicer ones. So I know. I'm glad you have a support community.
Yeah. I want the support community to pay for it. That'd be nice. If they were like, you're going to need to upgrade to these.
And I'd be like, cool. Pay for it. Yeah, $55. $55 for two tiny little metal axles.
Or $15 and I buy them more frequently. Talk to your group about it. You don't want to hear about it?
Not so much. I appreciate you. I appreciate your hobby. It's not an interest of mine.
Last night you were trying to tell me about your axle and listen, I... It's interesting. I'm not picking up a strong confidence. I'm trying to be supportive, but also trying to be like, how do you pretend to care about it? You shouldn't have to pretend. Because what I'm saying is that it's a good hobby. It's a fine hobby.
I'm happy that you're enjoying it. I feel judged about it. Fine.
Feel judged about it. Is that the proper response? Yeah, it is. Okay. Fine. Feel judged. Write that down. That won't work if I say it. Got it. Thanks for clarifying. Rules are rules. Did you know Canadian radio stations are required by law to play Canadian artists on airways?
At least 35% of the time. Yeah, that is a fact. That's a well, I know that because I've been in radio for ever. But did you just learn that? I just learned that.
Yeah. And there are actually quite a few artists that aren't Brian Adams and some 41 and Celine Dion. So I looked at some Justin Bieber, the weekend, Jerrake, Shawn Mendes, Jerrake, Carly Rae Jepsen, Alicia Cara, and then we've got Celine Dion. I think that's Alessia, but that's okay. Alessia Cara. And then Celine Dion, Brian Adams. Sean Nia Twain. Sean Nia. Sean Nia Twain. Alanis Marcette, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young. Lee Greenwood is Canadian. That's true.
That's true. Tate McCrae, Leonard Cohen, Avril Lavigne, Nickelback, Michael Bluebit play, Sarah McLaughlin. There's quite a bit. There's quite a bit of Canadian artists.
Yeah, there are. Would I say, does that equal 35% of music? Do you think they can come up with enough of Canadian artists to play them 35% of the time? Okay, so I am going to go to a similar station to ours in Canada. Let's look here.
Let's go to, let's go into pop and let's just see. I just want to see who's getting played in, see that took me to US stations. They're saying TV stations also have to have primarily Canadian content too.
That is correct. What's Canadian content? It has to be made in Canada, like Caillou. Caillou. All they have to watch is Caillou. No, that is not all they have to watch.
Oh, if all they had to watch was Caillou, there would be much more angry Canadians. You think? Oh yeah. Okay, here is the made in Canada radio station. Okay. You mentioned Shania Twain. There's an artist called Dallas Smith.
Okay. There is a rapper and he has a song with Rihanna. Rush is Rush Canadian. They must be. Rush? No.
Neil Pert. Look it up. They are Canadian. Are they? Yes, because when we were in Toronto, the album cover was taken at one of the castles we went to.
Okay. Yeah, they are Canadian. That's right. Lover Boy, we mentioned Brian Adams. Alyssa Reed, Nelly Furtado. You mentioned The Weeknd. Josh Ramsey and Chad Kroger of Nickelback.
I said them. Erica Badu. We're just naming Canadians. This is Canadian singers. I was looking up Canadian television shows. Okay.
Nothing that I know. Well, no kidding. I know, but you would think that like sometimes things translate. Sure.
To America. Shorzi is one that I probably know. My nephew tried to get me to watch that. Yeah. And letter Kenny is Canadian. Right. I've heard of that one.
But that's it. They're saying Schitt's Creek is Canadian, but I don't know if it is either. I think it's just because Eugene Levy is from Canada. That's true.
The Levy family is. Okay. What is this? There's this orphan black show. There's Anne with an E Vikings. I don't know any of these. I know. That's, I'm like, I don't, I've never heard of any of these either. Heartland. I've heard of that.
It is a saga set now, Bird of Canada. Okay. Okay. So now I'm wondering if you took out, if we had a lot in America where it was like, you can only play like 30% of our 35% of our contact has to be American born singer song graders.
Yeah. Cause we play a lot of English singer song writers who play Canadian. I think we could probably, you could probably make it work. Right.
You could get away with playing 35% of American. Of course. Okay. We'd have to play like Elvis, Michael Jackson, Taylor Swift, Beyonce. Yeah.
Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Britney Spears, Bruno Mars, Bruce Springsteen, Eagles, Madonna, Prince, Mariah Carey, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Jay-Z. It would not be hard. Yeah.
It'd be pretty easy. Yeah. So there's that.
Okay. Do we know why this is a law for them? Because they're proud of their Canadian heritage and it makes sense to do that. If you're going to be consuming, you know, any kind of art, you should be consuming art that is created by your country's artists. I think it's just a, it's a, it's a proud nation thing.
That's what I think. I've never thought that it was an issue. I've always thought that it's interesting because you would end up with different artists that maybe don't make it onto a global stage, but are huge in Canada. So you'd have to know them.
Now it would be harder if they were like, 30% of your playlist must be from artists in your state. Okay. So I just looked it up. It's to combat the overwhelming dominance of American and British music. There you go.
Ensuring Canadian artists receive airplay developing in domestic music industry. Yeah. That's, that's great. That is actually kind of nice. It is kind of nice. That's pretty cool.
Yeah. What a nice little law. And I didn't know you didn't know that was a thing.
I did not. That's nice Canada. Welcome to Canada. I don't know if I told you about this before or not. I've seen this before and then I saw it again this morning.
There is a little free puzzle library. I saw this in Idaho Falls. This morning. Yeah. Like it's sort of like the neighborhood little free libraries, but it's full of puzzles. It's puzzles.
Yeah. The rules are listed on the door. This was a, this one in Idaho Falls was a project put together by a woman and her grandpa. How cool.
And lots of love has gone into it, she says. And it's, yeah, you just, leave a puzzle, take a puzzle kind of thing. And that's kind of actually nice because once you finish a puzzle, you often go, now what do I do with this? Well, so we've exchanged some with some friends.
That's what I was going to say. We have a friend who's a big puzzler. And so we've traded puzzles.
Yeah. But, but I don't build as regularly as she does. She always has a puzzle going. She has a separate table in a room just set up so she can go sit and do her puzzle.
And so that's good for her. I don't have that. So I get like a couple of times a year maybe that I get to sit down with a puzzle.
I like doing it New Year's Eve. That's true. That was, I don't know why. It's always just, it's a good time waster while you're waiting for stuff to happen maybe.
Takes a few hours. So you can usually sit down. You can mingle. You can have conversation over a puzzle. People can work on it collectively if they want. So I think that's probably why I like it for a New Year's Eve thing.
Yeah. But I don't constantly have a puzzle going. Maybe I should. Where would you put it? I'd need another table somewhere. Because I'm not going to just do it in the dining room.
On the kitchen table. Why? That's why you put everything else.
I know. There's already stuff there. There's no room for a puzzle. There's garden stuff. There's RC car stuff. Usually there's watercolor stuff. Sometimes that's fishing stuff.
Yeah. All my hobbies. I've got one real good table in the house where I can sit down and do my hobbies. It's the dining room.
It's a good place to sit and do your hobbies. You were telling me last night you were wiping the table off and you said something really scratched this up. I still can't remember what it was, but yeah. It was you? I remember. Yeah, but I don't remember what it was.
Because I remember when it happened. I went, man, it really felt like it roughed up the table. Yeah, it was pretty.
You pretty gouged it out. Yeah. But I can't remember what it was. It was something normal.
It's kind of fine because I've been meaning to paint that table and put a new glaze on it anyway, but we just haven't yet. One of these days. One of these days.
Josh. And I want new chairs. Like I just want an overall new dining space anyway.
Yeah, okay. You want a booth? No.
That's what everybody always says. Because your brother-in-law makes restaurant booths and so he would always go, you want me to build you a booth? No. I don't want to have to slide into your dinner. No.
No thanks. It's the sliding out part that's the worst. Is it? Yeah, because nobody ever looks graceful or cute sliding out of a booth.
You have to scoot your whole body over. That's true. And it makes that noise. Yeah, especially. Yeah.
Especially what? Hot vinyl legs. I usually just turn sideways and kick my feet out. I've seen that.
And then wait for somebody to pull my feet. No. Strangers. Raiders. Help. Help.
Just sitting there kicking my feet. Somebody come pull me out. Help. I'm stuck.
Scooch, scooch. So anyway, yeah, I could go for a new puzzle. A puzzle table? But I need to build the ones that I have already. Do you have some already? Yeah. I have a couple. Oh.
Get to it then. Well, now it's that's a winter. I feel like that's a winter activity. I'm in outside mode. I'm hiking. I'm in fishing.
I'm in all those things. Yeah. I agree.
That's an inside winter thing. For me, it's a never thing. Why? I don't enjoy puzzles. But why? I think they're boring.
Well, they're not there to like dance around. It's on a table. You get to put it together. No, I understand. I understand how puzzles work.
Thanks for explaining that. I just didn't know if you knew where the entertainment was. The entertainment is in your mind.
It's not in your mind. Yeah, but that's it's not enjoyable to me. I find it boring and I get I get very impatient and I go, I'm going to go find something else to do. Yeah. And I do. You don't have the patience for puzzles.
Earlier this week, we were talking about things you do and don't have patience for. I think that was just yesterday. It was earlier this week.
If it was yesterday, puzzles, puzzles, you do not have the patience for it. I can do it. Okay.
I just cannot. I admire people who do. That's a great hobby for you. Go find yourself the free puzzle library. Do you know where it is?
Exchange puzzles. Yeah. I don't know if I want to read that. Okay. That's fine. But you can search it out.
It's on Facebook is where you saw it. Yeah. Okay. Search it out if you're interested. I started a movie last night and you walked in and you were like, Nope, what is this? I was not excited about this movie. And then you fell asleep with the movie on and I had to finish it. Did you finish it?
I was going to ask you. Yeah, I did. And? And I didn't care for it. Oh, I don't, it's not my kind of movie. But then you got me all sucked into it. And then I was like, I got to finish this and I was on the edge of my seat a couple of times because I was this too much thriller. I actually didn't even know what it was going to be about. I had seen some promo things that Charlize Theron had done. Yeah. With her co-star. I don't know his name.
And they did that thing where you have like a mystery box and you stick your hands through and you touch scary things and try to figure out what they were, what they are. Right. He had beef jerky. She had a snake. And she was terrified of the snake. And so then when the movie popped up last night, I went, oh, this is what they've been trying to mark it.
The movie is called Apex. Yes. It's frightening. It is frightening. You don't even know why it's frightening.
I don't. Because you fell asleep before. But I got pretty far.
But you don't know half of the story. The movie starts out with them in a tent. Yeah. And hanging on a cliff.
On a cliff. Right. Yeah. It's crazy. It's, it's terrifying. And I was like, I don't know.
They're suspended hundreds of feet in the air in a tent. And immediately I went, yeah, I'm not, I'm never doing that. That's never gonna happen.
I'm not doing that. It was too scary. Right. It was much too scary. Yeah.
I'm never going to do that. And she looks her head out and is just hundreds of feet down to the, I don't know, down to the negatives. But then it was like one extreme thing after another.
And then she was extreme kayaking and extreme. And we were like, both of you and I were like, just go read a book or something. Yeah.
Like be chill. And then you dozed off. And then that's when the real movie starts. I stayed awake for a lot of the movie. Yeah. You didn't see the whole movie. Okay. I'll have to finish it. Yeah. There's a whole front part.
And then the real movie starts and the real movie is scary. Okay. And I didn't care for it. Is it going to be something that I'm going to want to finish? You should finish it.
Oh yeah, for sure. I'm going to finish it. It's action packed thriller adventure. And it made me scared.
And I didn't like it. Also, Charlize Theron, I think it's their own. She's 50. Did you know that?
She looked 20 in that movie. Yeah, I know. Ridiculous. Wonder who, if how much of that was stunt person and how much of it was her.
I don't know. And now that I've seen it because there's a lot of stunts. Dang. Is she Tom Cruise doing her own stunts? I don't know.
It's pretty good though. You bananas woman. Yeah.
I don't know. It's a scary movie though. It's not a family.
No. It's not for the family. It's not for Josh either apparently. No, it's not. Not for me alone while you're sleeping. Sorry. But thanks for leaving it all. Sorry, dear. I will recover. Okay. And I will finish it. You should. Okay.
What do you know about Microsoft Teams? I don't want to be involved in it. You don't use them here? No.
I don't. And I look, I, for a corporate entity, I, it feels big brother. It feels micromanager. I don't even know really anything about it. But all of a sudden I'm hearing, I don't use it here. I don't use it at my other job.
But I know people who do use it and they are very, people either love it or they really hate it. And I've been hearing about it so much lately that I need to do some digging about what exactly it is. So essentially what I understand is it allows you as a team to be able to collaborate on projects. So it has video meetings. It has a chat applet. Like the drive?
It does do file storage. Yeah. There's what's Teams and channels so that you can do project workflow stuff. All of your phone system can tie into it. Like it does a ton of different stuff.
But it does meetings and chat and all of this stuff. And so you can build a team and then you put members in that team and that can be like a team of engineers. And so if somebody needs something from that team, they can then reach out and go, engineers at engineers, I need a thing.
At production, I need a thing. It's just an organizational thing. But I think, I don't know, maybe if you have a hundred or more people working on stuff, it makes sense. But I feel like when you're a team of like 20 or fewer, send an email. Or yeah.
Or it's like maybe beneficial for corporations where you've got offices in this city and offices in this city. For sure. Absolutely.
And those people need to work together on a specific project. Yeah. So I think it has its place. But a lot of people don't like it. And I feel like for me, like if I had a manager, because they can look at like when you logged on and what's your activity and how much you're doing on your project.
Oh, serious? That's why I'm saying it feels micromanager-y and big brother. Like I just, I do my work. I work at my pace. I get all my stuff done. Like you don't need to babysit me. Like I don't like a Hawkeye productivity tool like that.
Yeah. Because you're gonna, you know what I mean? Like I might prioritize my projects throughout my day differently than a supervisor might expect. But instead of them going like, that's interesting how he would do that, I know they're going to interject and go, why aren't you working on this before you do this?
And I'm going to go, because it's not what I'm doing today. I just, I, the reason I brought it up is because there's a new trend going around on social media where, where the thing is called my top five horror movies. And then you list like things that you hate. And like, for instance, one woman put like, when my meal comes covered in onions after I've told them three times no onions, or when it's bedtime and my teenager comes in and wants to talk to me, stuff like that. But I saw, I've seen two now that have come up that have both said when you get a hay on teams. When you get a hay. Yeah. Because now somebody wants you to do something.
And you're at your desk and how do you escape? Yuck. So, okay. So I have a friend who uses teams. And I first heard about teams from her and she just sent me a text. She must be listening. But she said, teams take a, takes up 60% of my work day. Yeah.
And then she said, people in my office don't have in person meetings anymore. Right. They just call you on teams. And they go, Hey, here's your thing. And it's a video call. Yeah, for sure.
Or a voice call, or a chat, or a team conversation. Fascinating. Yeah.
Which again, remote work or whatever. Yeah, I know. And I want to keep it down.
Okay. Like quit, quit bringing it up. There's a guy who he works in the IT field.
And he said, why does every company use Microsoft Teams? It is the most dysfunctional piece of garbage. It kind of sounds like, I mean, I hear a lot of negative about it more than positive. Yeah.
A lot of people. But he's like, I don't have problems with any other meeting software. Google Meet, Discord, Zoom, Skype, they all work fine. But teams, why is everybody using teams? Because he's like, it's so difficult.
You'll get a link in your email, you open that link, then you go in, everything works fine in your preview, then you get on the actual call. And there's all this like, allow access to your stuff. And your stuff isn't connected. And all, like, just in the test environment worked.
Now you go live. And it's like having issues. And he's like, it's a panic. He's like, it's frustrating, because I'm trying to prove that I have competence in the IT world. But Microsoft Teams is a barrier because it's the way it works.
It's so frustrating. This guy is going off. Okay. Yeah. Well, if you're using Teams, I feel bad for you, son. A lot of people don't like it. I don't want to get involved in it. Okay. Should I go tell our boss you want it?
Please don't. I'm good with the way things work now. So you would prefer to have the in-person meetings? I would prefer to, yeah, because my team isn't that big. Yeah.
Yeah. I would rather have a face-to-face conversation for five minutes than have to worry about connecting a video. You have a small office. So you can just walk down the hall with a question. Yeah. If I have 100 different employees on a team or in multiple departments across multiple locations, something like that makes sense.
Yeah. 20 people or fewer in an office, go walk down the hall. Walk down the hall. Can't be bothered. Have a five minute convo, get back to work. That's more efficient. Okay.
I think what Josh was saying is he wants Teams. Stop it. There was a study done where, oh, I'm sorry. You're jumping ahead. I am. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Put on the brakes. I am way ahead. It is time for, would you rather this or that? So sorry.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Would you rather this or that? We talked a little bit earlier about how you don't necessarily like thriller movies. You do not like horror movies. I'm not a big fan. I just don't like being scared thing. So today's, would you rather, is would you rather watch only scary movies or only rom-coms for the rest of your life?
Oh, blah. What's it gonna be? What are you picking? I'm going to pick rom-coms, doll. Why? Because they're happy at least.
Sell me on it. Not always. I mean, that's the calm part of rom-com.
Yeah. But they, they, they're not always like happy. But at least even if it's not, they're a little bit hokey or cheesy and you can kind of scoff and be like, oh brother.
Whereas a horror movie, you're kind of left with like a kind of feeling sometimes. Top 50 rom-coms. Oh, what are they? And I'll tell you which ones I've seen. You've seen them all.
Have I? Shakespeare and Love. Yes.
Breakfast at Tiffany's. Yes. No, I have not seen that actually. Okay, that was number two. Okay. Amelie. Yes. Annie Hall. No.
Some like it hot. No. Manhattan. No.
Singing in the rain. These are old ones. Yes. As good as it gets. Yes.
Roman holiday. No, but I've seen an adapted version of that. You've got mail. Yes. Pretty woman. Yes. Love, actually. Yes.
Sleepless in Seattle. Yes. Overboard. Yes. City lights.
Overboard is so good. What? City lights. No.
10 things I hate about you. Yes. That's the top 16. We'll stop there. Okay. Otherwise we'll just keep naming another 34 movies. I mean, there's a good variety here. Yeah. Yeah.
Jerry Maguire. Yeah. I've seen it. It's good.
Wedding singer, Groundhog Day. Yes. See. Yeah, I think I'm going to be in this one. Yeah. Runaway Bride.
Because you've seen a lot of those already anyway. As long as I don't have to watch Bridget Jones. What's wrong with Bridget Jones?
Isn't that the question? Everyone's dying to ask, what's wrong with Bridget Jones? I love Darryl. How absolute Darryl.
What are you googling? Top 50 horror movies. Just make a decision.
I just got to see The Shining, The Ring, Video Drome, Texas Chainsaw Massacre. No. See, that's what I mean. The silence of the lamp, the thing, the cabin in the woods, get out of the way. You're either going after you watch it. Yeah.
I'm going to pick the rom-coms. Yeah. Because you're going to feel better. I mean, I'll feel not a skirt. So I'm into that. So that's feeling better.
Better than a skirt. Exactly. So that's what I'm picking. Okay.
Would you rather this or that? We'll get to your a new study, Sarah, as next. There is a study. No way. Where city birds appear to be more afraid of women than men. I've heard about this.
And scientists don't know why. Yeah. But did you hear how they did? Like the way they figured this out was to see how close people could get to birds before they flew away? Real scientific study you did there. Men can get about three feet closer than women can. Three feet decent.
Before the birds fly away. Regardless, they checked like, maybe it's what you're wearing. Maybe it's your height. Maybe it's how you approach the birds. So they tried a multitude of like variations of like getting the women to approach the birds. And every time the birds were like, no, thanks. This feels like a good episode of Myth Buster. Kind of, yeah. Like where they just, they're in the city and they've got a bunch of pigeons and they're like, okay, now run at them and see how close you can get. But it's not going to be the same patch of birds every time. So they did this in five European cities.
They did it in Czechia, France, Germany, Poland and Spain. And they had close to 3,000 observations. And they, what they know is that birds recognize gender, but the exact reason for the fear is unknown. Isn't that interesting? Oh, and then they did it with different species. So they had pigeon sparrows and magpies. Magpies. Why are you so angry at magpies? I'll tell you why. Did a magpie hurt you?
Yeah, actually. What happened? We were staying at your mom's house and they were loud outside the window. That's your whole reason? That's the reason you don't like magpies.
Yes, they are so loud and annoying. Wow. They're very cool birds. They're from the crow family. I know they're from the crow family. They're very intelligent. I know they're scavengers and I know all of that. I know. And their feathers are iridescent, which is really cool.
I'll try to be better about it. They might as well be the state bird. They're so prevalent. Are they not the state bird? I don't know what is the state bird.
Yes, I do. It's the mountain blue bird. That is correct. It is not the magpie. Okay, so the studies also found out that birds might be reacting to subtle clues like scent, body shape or gait. So I wonder if it's the scent of women that they maybe just don't like. And they're like, uh?
Yeah. Do you want to kind of try this in our backyard? Running at the birds? No, because I want the birds to come around. No, no, no. We're not going to run at them.
We'll just take our time and we'll see who can get closer. I kind of want to do this study in our backyard. We get finches, sparrows, red-winged blackbirds, doves, crows, magpies, robins, hawks. I saw an eagle flying through the backyard the other day.
Let's do this. We'll also test this out with our squirrel and see if the squirrel... You had the squirrel come up and touch your leg. I know. He did. That squirrel was trying to tell me something. What was it? I don't know. Timmy's trapped in the well.
But then the next day I saw a dead squirrel. Do you think it's the same one? I really hope not. Yeah, me too. We're going to try this study in our backyard. Sounds good. Good luck.
It's very scientific. I know. Let's wrap up today's show. Hope you have a good rest of your Thursday tomorrow.
It's finally Friday. It's also the first day in May and it's one day closer to this old lady turning 45. Don't say this old lady.
My old lady. No, don't say that. When do I get to start saying that? Never.
Let me check with the old lady. Would you ever call me your ball and chain? Only twice. Twice ever? Would I only twice? Have I?
You'll never know. Have a great rest of your day. We'll see you tomorrow. Goodbye.
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