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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Friday, January 9th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Have you ever thrown something valuable away and then had to dig through the trash to get it back? Today we're dumpster diving, talking about quitting or not quitting your New Year’s goals, sharing a heartwarming kindness story from Georgia, arguing about cleaning timelines, geeking out over nostalgic movies, breaking down why analog life is suddenly cool again, Bruno Mars is back, soup is apparently having a moment, and a whole lot more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Accidental garbage
(3:46) - Don't quit today
(6:55) - Good News
(8:29) - Kind hobbies
(14:00) - Punch cards for resolutions
(22:27) - Hanging up is hard to do
(28:03) - Old movies
(35:27) - Cooking AND cleaning
(43:14) - New Bruno Mars
(48:10) - Analog is so hot right now
(54:26) - Soup & sandwiches
(59:56) - Space is crazy
(1:04:27) - Would You Rather
(1:07:33) - Light years
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Full show transcript:
Have you thrown away accidentally anything valuable before? I think I have had valuables of mine that have been thrown away that I wish I could get back. Oh, that's sad.
I know. I have some things from my childhood that I don't know where they ever ended up. I threw away my retainer once at Christmas. That's right. I remember this story. And it was expensive. And it was just tangled up in the wrapping paper? Yeah.
You took it out to eat a candy, didn't you? Probably. Guaranteed.
Guaranteed. Because I've seen you on Christmas morning or anytime there's a treat around. And you go, oh, I got to stop whatever I'm doing to try this treat. So there was some sort of Snickers Santa or something. And you went, got to try that now?
Yeah, probably. I'll be eating that right now. So I dug through the garbage. I had to dig through the garbage to find my retainer. Because my mom was like, I'm not buying you a new one of those. Those are expensive.
And I don't have the money to replace that. And I went, OK, I'll go find it. And so I dug through the trash. And the trash had already been put into the dumpster.
So I had to go get the trash out of the dumpster. And then dig around in the bag. At least it was just a bag of wrapping paper. It wasn't like it got thrown away with the Christmas dinner leftover turkey carcass. I also, at a job years and years and years ago, was taking out the garbage through my keys in the dumpster along with my trash bags. That's a bad deal. I had to get into the dumpster.
That's cool. And get the keys. Have you ever gone dumpster diving on purpose? Nope. You haven't? No.
It's an adventure. No, I don't like it. No, it's really cool.
You find really cool stuff that people throw away. It was bigger for me in the 90s. I think what happened is a lot of people, I get it was a dumpster diving heyday. But a lot of people like big, the big box stores move to these, what do they call them, where they compress all the garbage. Oh yeah, it's not a compactor. Compactor, that's the word. And so a lot of the people, they take their cardboard, they have a cardboard compactor, and then anything they throw away, they dump into the compactor and it gets squeezed into a block. And then the truck comes and picks it up. So there's not a real chance to dumpster dive big boxes anymore, but for a long time there was.
But if you can find a one off store that's a big box that maybe is in a strip mall that doesn't have a compactor, you can sometimes find pretty sweet stuff. I watch people online. They find all kinds of cool stuff and it makes me kind of want to go try it out.
I don't want to. It's like metal detecting, but for real treasures in a garbage bin. It's cool. What I will say is when I had to get in the dumpster, I had to get a step ladder to even get into the dumpster.
And then when I got in the dumpster, I went, well, how am I going to get out? Upper body strength. I didn't have that. Yeah, because then you just hoist yourself out. No, I had to have. You had to get rescued?
Yeah. I had to have somebody come put the step ladder in the garbage dumpster so that I could use it to get out. And then I had to fish the step ladder out. That was fun. That's a process.
Yeah, it was. Got my keys back though. You want to go dumpster diving? No. You don't.
You don't want to. What treasures do you think you might find? Garbage. Okay. Well, yeah, garbage that they throw away, but sometimes people throw away stuff that's just like a return.
That's a fine product. Okay, you're right. But I... You don't want to go do it?
I don't. Put on some old pants you don't care about? Hop in a dumpster or two? You can find neat stuff. Okay, go for it.
It's a whole vibe. I'll stand by and support. You're going to do the lookout? Yeah. So if the boop-woops pull up, you can tell me. Yeah.
I don't want to get caught by the whoop-woops. You know? This is another police.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. How about we start today's show? Let's do it. Hello. Oh, hi. Hey, you want to quit something today? Um, what?
Well, specifically something that maybe you said is a goal at the beginning of the new year. Today's a fine day to quit. No, I'm not quitting. No, today's the day where you go, nah, I'm done. No, I'm not quitting.
I've only just begun. Oh, nice. That's good. That's good. I'm not a quitter.
I mean, sometimes I am. Like a fourth of people quit today on their resolutions and goals. They go, nah, nah. Ah, that's enough. It's only been nine days. I know. Guys, keep going. Hey, you, I can see you.
Oh, yeah. You're doing great work. Keep it up. Yeah, don't quit today. Don't quit.
Yeah. Don't quit tomorrow. Just don't quit. Okay.
Keep going. So today a quarter of people are so quit. Uh, and then, uh, only about half of people will make it to the end of the month. Oh no, guys.
Yeah. Don't quit. Even if you fall behind or you fall out of the wagon a bit, just start again. Yeah. That's not quitting, is it?
No, that's, that's just a bump in progress. Exactly. Exactly.
So. Don't quit, guys. Hey, don't quit. Hey, listen. What?
It's Friday. Yeah. Which means we've made it through the first. We've made it to the last day of the first full week in two weeks. It was rough. I know.
And we still have four hours of the show and then another, you know, four hours or so of the day. Yeah, I get it. Yeah. I'm aware, but hey, keep going. All right. Don't quit. Good answer. Don't quit your job either.
Yeah. Don't do that. There's been times this week where I go, yeah, I'm just going to quit. This is too much. Doing this every day is too much. I've been watching videos of guys that are like, you know, I'm tired of working the grind.
Yeah. And so I'm just going to leave work and I'm going to put all my camping gear in my car. I'm going to sell off everything else. I'm going to go camping.
And I went, I like where your head's at. But how are you going to pay for food? Oh, the plan is to door dash around the country.
But you got to pay for that. Oh, he's going to be the door dash. That's right.
Oh, no, thank you. Just everywhere you go, you just door dash for a few days to make a couple hundred bucks or whatever. And then you're off to the next place. No, I don't want to do that. Is that something you want to do? No. Okay. I mean the camping part, yeah.
Yeah, but I don't, that's fine. We can just take it a week and go camping. But what if it was every day? Yeah, I think it would get old after a while, don't you think?
Not if you're moving around. It's okay. Okay.
All right. Well, don't quit. That's the moral of the story today on quitter's day. Don't quit. Keep going guys.
I believe in you. There's this guy. He is called Keith Tidwell. Keith Tidwell. And Keith got to his night shift job at Kroger in Macon, Georgia. And that was a five mile walk that took him about two hours each way.
Oh no. That's a long walk. It was long. It was often dangerous.
It was in the dark. And then a regular customer decided to pull over and go, hey, Keith, what are you doing? Debbie, it's her name. She recognized Keith from the produce section and offered him a ride about a year and a half ago.
And Keith said, yeah, that would be amazing. And he took a chance on this ride from a stranger. And what started out as a one time favor is turned into a weekly routine. Now Debbie picks him up several times a week and shares that he gets to work safely and on time.
And for Debbie, the gesture is deeply personal. She lost her son a few months before she met Keith. And she said she fills her son's spirit in every ride that she gives. She knew he would have wanted her to help someone in need. And she has enjoyed letting Keith into her car and into her life. And Keith is currently working on getting his own driver's license.
But over a year of shared commutes, the two say they plan to stay close friends long after the car pooling ends. Oh, that's nice. Isn't that cool? Good job, Debbie.
Yeah. Way to help out Keith. That's really awesome.
Debbie and Keith are the best of friends. Yeah, taking rides at work and doing stuff. It's good news. I was reading a list of hobbies that attract the kindest people. Okay. Would you say fly fishing attracts kind people? I would say, I mean, everybody I've met in the fly fishing world thus far has been, you know, yeah, I mean, it's been nice people. If you encounter a space that somebody's already fishing, are you... Oh, there's definitely etiquette. Right. But are people nice and are you nice to the other fishers? Again, so far, so far to this point, yes. Did you even hear what I called them?
Fisher's men. I heard you. I hear everything.
Fisher's men and women, because there's Fisher's women. Sure. You hear everything, except the important things I want you to hear. Like what? All of the things I said to you last night. You said important things to me last night.
Oh, no. The popular, the most popular hobbies that attract kind people? Sure. Pottery. Pottery. And then crocheting.
Okay. And other fiber arts. So knitting. Fiber arts.
That's what they call it. Okay. Birdwatching. All right. You like fly fishing and birdwatching.
That's right. I've got two kind ones. Hiking.
Three. Beekeeping. I could get into it. You could? I could get into it. It's a lot of work, bro. It seems like a high risk, low reward. And I feel like I don't want to be responsible for bees.
No. And I just don't want to see him die. But I can understand, see, and that's where the kindness comes in.
I couldn't do it. You got to take care of something. That's the big kind thing. All right. I get sad when my plants die.
I can't take care of a bee. Woodworking. Okay. Board gaming. Board gaming. You want to go board gaming? Go ahead. Gardening.
I love it. Bonsai. That's a patient kind of thing.
Oh, I'm going to snip off this little branch. And reading. Those are the top 10 kindest hobbies.
Sorry. Hobbies that attract kind people. Interesting. How about that?
Yeah. You know what wasn't on there? What?
Junk journal. That's true. It's because I'm not kind.
Scrapbooking? It's because I'm not kind. Digital or analog? What else do you do? That's not kind. I'll wait. I'll wait.
I'll wait and see if you know what else I do. Yeah, I have lots of hobbies. You do? I like to read. That was on the list. Sure. I was saying that wasn't on the list. Quilting wasn't on the list. There you go.
Bunch of rude ladies. Crocheting and fiber arts. Fiber arts. Yeah. That kind of, I bet quilting counts in that.
It's a fiber. Okay. Okay. Whatever you had to do to justify yourself.
I'm kind. No. Listen, as I told my coworkers yesterday, I said, what did I say? I don't know. Right now it was nothing. Somebody said that I was very patient as a customer.
Yeah. And I said, something about how it depends on the day. My kindness depends on the day. And yesterday you had a little bit of extra. Yesterday was a kind day. Okay. I had a little extra to give today. I'm out now.
So don't be asking me for favors. Right. So you had bird watching, hiking. Yeah. You do a little woodworking.
I mean, very, very. You wouldn't consider it a hobby then? Well, no, because like I don't own a table saw.
Like I'm not, I don't, you know what I'm saying? I've taken it off the list. All right. So you've had bird watching, hiking and gardening. Yeah.
You have three of the kind hobbies. Nice. Wow to you, sir. I'd expect you to be a little bit nicer. I feel like I'm quite kind.
What are you talking about? I mean, out of 10, solid seven. A seven out of 10. All right. Now you're kind. Settle down. Don't get all mad about it. Settle down.
Josh is getting upset. You're kind. Of.
Of a lot right now. That's, I don't know. Well, cool.
Well, cool indeed. Also on the list was cooking, but it was low down on the list. But I do that. But cooking for fun.
I like cooking for fun. Someone also said, believe it or not, death metal. All right. How's that a hobby? Oh man, you guys want to get together and death metal? Yeah. I mean, if you play in a band or maybe you have common, you go to a show, you have a common interest. We've got some death metalists down the hall.
Death metalists. You bet. Switch column. Yeah.
Like gold metalists, but death metal. Got it. There's, they're all right. Kind. Routest people. They say, they say hi to me every day. Wow. How kind. You told us earlier about how today is quitter's day. That's right. National quitter's day.
Well, the internet has a solution for those quitters. What is it? They say make a punch card. Okay. For example, for example, you make a card.
Okay. Or write it down somewhere. Like your resolution is workout more or.
Okay. Facebook less. And then you keep that around in your pocket or close spy.
And each time you complete the habit, like going to the gym or cooking at home or skipping your late night doom scrolling session. Got it. You punch stamp or check off the square.
Okay. Then once your card is full, like maybe you put 10 punches on there or something. Yeah. Then you reward yourself with a small treat. Okay.
So it's a, it's a buy 10, get one free kind of thing. Yeah. I see.
That makes sense. The internet is saying this is the way to get you motivated. This is the way.
Do you know the way? No, that's different. This is the way is Mandalorian. Oh, there. I quit the Mandalorian.
It is. Yeah, I know, but I quit before it ended. Oh, I didn't. I know you did. You stuck with it to the end. That's right.
I forgot that that was even a show. Wow. Baby Yoda and all that.
Grogu. That's right. Look at you.
What a nerd. No. No.
I'm just down with the times. Okay. Whatever that means. I don't know what that means.
Do you want to try a punch card? I don't know. Okay. Are you going to quit your resolutions then? Quitter. I didn't make any. You didn't. No. Why? Because I'm great. Oh, nothing to improve.
10 out of 10. No, no notes. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Wow. This is the way. I did not even realize. That's right.
I was with Mr. Perfect. No, listen, I don't like putting the pressure on myself like that. So it's not that I didn't make a resolution. There are things I want to accomplish. I have goals.
Yeah. But I didn't like, I didn't go, nope, I'm going to the gym every day three times a week. No, I didn't set that kind of a thing. I did. Uh-huh. It wasn't that specific, but.
Right. But what do we know about smart goals? The first word specific.
So you set yourself not a smart goal. I can't remember. This specific, measurable, right. Accurate, attainable, attainable, relatable, relevant.
Time base. Timely, yeah. Smart goals. Yeah.
Set some. We took a training on smart goals years and years and years ago. Apparently I'd learned nothing. Yeah.
I forgot what it all stands for. I should get out one of those sheets and write down my goals and make it a smart goal. You should.
I should. It's kind of like a punch card. It's more like just writing down intention, but that's fine. I mean, look, you can have an accompanying punch card.
I don't. Do your smart goal and then set yourself like as that's part of your measurable. You go, Hey, I want to do this 10 times and then I get a treat. Well, what I actually have is a spreadsheet on Google drive. There it is.
Of course you do. How many colors in this thing? Two.
Oh, wow. And when I complete the task, then I color it green like done success. If I don't green is the color of success.
If I don't, it's red for failure. And then at the end of the week, I add up on my points. You've been doing that a while. I have.
I know. How's that going? Well, I think I had when I initially started it a couple of years ago, I had two.
Much on there. So I had set myself up for failure. It was like a ridiculous amount of stuff that I needed to accomplish. It was like, read one hour a day, do a house project.
Yeah. There's not enough time in a day. There just wasn't.
And then it was also like, did I, did I have a good relationship? Right. Check in with my family all day. Right.
Did I have like, did, what was our relationship strong today? Right. But also there's things in the attainable and the A part where it has to be things you can control. And I think you forget about that one a lot of times. I do.
Because then you just throw in stuff that's outside of your scope. Yeah. It was, it was too much. And so I failed every day because I was like, well, I didn't do that. Well, that makes you feel good. No, it didn't.
You had a punch card for failing. I should. I could. Yeah. There you go. 10 failures, you get a treat.
No, this year I... Hey, that's not a bad idea. You quit 10 things. Boom. Treat. I like that idea.
But I've really condensed it down now and it all is very attainable stuff. Like, did you stretch? Did you move?
That leads to... Did you move? Well, you know what I mean. like just like some kind of physical activity. Okay.
It doesn't have to be anything specific, but it's like, did you get these steps in kind of a thing? How many? Well, I'm shooting for 7,500. Okay.
Because I've worked two very sedentary jobs. I know that. So it's hard sometimes to even get 7,500.
So I'm starting there and I'll work myself up to 10. Do you know what you did yesterday? No.
In your steps? Oh yeah, I could tell you. What is it? It wasn't good. I'll tell you that much. Okay. I was hoping it would be good. Not where I wanted it to be. Why?
How many did you do? I was gonna check. Oh. Do you really want to know? Did you get 7,500 yesterday? What happened? I sat all day. Did you get over 4,000? Yes.
Hey, look at you. Did you get over 5,000? Barely. You did better than me. Look it.
I was very not active yesterday. I know, that's why. Anyway, it's fine. And then I'm tracking my food.
Okay. See, I hate the tracking. I know you do. I just hate it.
But I don't mind it. I used to, and here's another reason I failed is because I was tracking myself manually. I wasn't using an app or anything.
It was tracking my calories and my protein and my fiber intake. By yourself. And that was exhausting. Yeah.
And I said I can do this. Oh, it wears me out. I don't even like when I have to scan a product just to say I ate it. I don't mind that. I don't like it.
If I could have somebody do the tracking for me and help me reach a goal, that'd be great. I can't be bothered to write it down. I hate that part.
It's so awful. Just let me do the thing. And then... Be on your way. I did it. Yay, I hate writing it down. And I understand the accountability and all the reasons why you have to do it. It's just such a waste of time. There's no reason. What am I gonna do with that information?
Zero things. You punch it in your punch card. Okay, I ate. Punch.
Did you eat healthy? That's when you get a punch. I had a vegetable. Punch. There you go, see?
I'd call a flower rice with dinner. Check. Yeah, see? That's what I'm saying.
High five, a guy. I don't need to write that down. I even tried to keep my portion smaller.
Last night. That's my biggest crutch, is big portions. Good job. Hey, I'm proud of you.
Hey, thanks. Two punches. A vegetable and a portion small. Wow. And a portion small.
Nice. Have you ever been on a phone call with somebody and then it's like you say goodbye six times, but in a different form? So it's like you go, okay, thanks, bye, see ya. Oh yeah, thanks, sure, have a good day, bye. So are you asking like have I ever not been able to get off of the phone with someone?
Which is just a simple thanks bye. I'm sure that's happened. I don't have like a fresh example or anything. I was just on a phone call yesterday. Well, I mean, this is pretty much every day that I'm on the phone. And it's, most often happens at work.
Yeah. And I go, oh yeah, thanks, hey, thanks, have a good day, bye. Thanks, see ya, bye.
That's a lot of see advice. But it's from both sides, right? Yeah, so you're both doing that? If the person on the other end says thanks, I have to say thanks. If they say have a good day, I say thanks to you too. So it's like this, like never ending like who has to have the last word kind of a thing. Are you a have to have the last word kind of a person? I'm not a have to have the last word, but if somebody tells me to have a good day, I feel like I should also say that back. Okay, let me ask you this, because you sent me some text messages and I didn't reply because I felt like all of the information had been received and I had nothing else to say.
I'm looking for an example. Okay. I guess like I started sending thumbs ups because there's nothing else to say other than like, yeah, I saw this. That's fine, just didn't mean not. Does that work? Yeah, just an acknowledgement is fine.
Yeah. Okay, like you, the day you did the school pickup, you said I hate school pickup. And I didn't reply because I was somewhere, I don't even know, obviously I wasn't able to do, oh, I was busy, I was working. Oh, sorry to have bothered you. Well, that's why I wasn't able to do the daily pickup that day.
And so you said I hate school pickup. And then that was at 357. And then I didn't text you again until the next day at 1130. Which technically you texted me again and I said thumbs up. So what I'm saying is, is that different than back and forth who gets the last word? If I just go like, okay. No, no, no, no. And I don't think it's about getting the last word.
I think it's just about a common courtesy where if somebody says have a nice day, you say, oh, thanks you too. You know what you could say? Will do, click.
I already am, bye. Click. It's getting better every minute, click. Have a great day. I will now. I won't.
Yeah, no thanks. They say thanks, you have to say you're welcome. And then they go, hey, have a good day.
And you say, okay, yeah, you too. And they go, all right, we'll talk to you later. And you go, all right, see you soon. And they go, okay, bye. All right, bye. You have all these sign-offs. Yes. And it gets real ridiculous at times.
And sometimes as I'm hanging up the phone, I can hear them on the other lines. Still saying stuff. Still saying stuff. And I go, this has got to end.
That's what I said. They go, hey, have a great day. You go, you too, click.
You just got to commit to the click. It's almost too courteous. You know what I mean? It's too much.
Now you're being too friendly. Right. Hey, thanks, bye. Yep, have a good day. Yep, you too, thanks. See ya, bye.
Oh, thanks. It's too much. Just hang up.
I can't just hang up. No, you've said enough. Transaction complete. Right.
Done. Yeah. What I'm saying is you got the phone. And you go, hey, yeah, no, thanks. Yep, you have a good day too.
But even there you said three. Hey, yeah, thanks. Hey, yeah, thanks. Goodbye. No, I was finishing the conversation. I was saying, hey, yeah, thanks was the end of the conversation. Okay, but I... And then they went, hey, have a good day.
I went, yep, you too, click. I think it's rich that you think that this is so easy to hang up a phone call because you are a talker on the phone. What are you talking about? You saying I can talk? I'm saying that sometimes you're on the phone with people and they're like ready to hang up. And you're like, oh, I got some other things to say. Yeah.
And I'm like, they've already answered that. Hang up the phone. Yeah, I don't like when you're use drop and phone calls.
Cause like I'll be in the middle of explaining something and you're over there doing like, cut it off. Stop talking. I've got more to say. Get long winded, bro. I have more to say. That had already wrapped up.
I don't think it had. I'd like to say more about it. I like that you don't like that I use drop. You like that I don't like that? Yep. Why?
I don't know. It's an annoying thing when you're like, hey, you're talking to, you're not in this conversation. You don't know what I still have to get out of my brain. Get it out. Right. Yeah.
You're over here Dave Cluyay-ing. Yeah, just stop the convo. Hang up the phone. That's rich coming from you who just has 400 hangups. Oh, I have a lot of hangups right here. Yeah. We just talked about it.
Not just phone hangups, but a lot of other personal attributes. All right, let's do a practice. Let's do a practice. Okay. And I go, all right, well, that's all the information I needed. Thanks, you have a good day.
Oh, thanks, you too. What is a movie you loved as a kid? But when you watch it as an adult, you go, oh. Mack and me. You never watched that as a kid. I did watch Mack and me as a kid a couple of times. I would rent it and I would watch Mack and me.
And I enjoyed Mack and me. And then when I see it now, I go- Yeah, no, Eric! I see it now and I go, the story's weird. The green screen is terrible. I have never seen it. Well, I've seen clips of it from when- But you've never seen the movie?
Colorado's on Conan O'Brien. You gotta, we gotta watch it. It's so bad.
I am okay. And that's what's great about it. It's so bad it's good. You'll never look at a straw the same way ever again in your life. I don't know what that means.
That's exactly what I'm saying. Plus, they're the strangest bodied creatures you've ever seen. Almost like a sneech, like a star-bellied sneech. Yeah, they do have a little bit of Doctor Seuss look to them. Yeah, they're so weird. You gotta watch it just because it's so weird.
I'm okay. Nah, we gotta watch it. I was thinking about this. My own self, movies I watched as a kid.
Now you go, ooh. Flight of the Navigator. I haven't seen it. Yes, you have because I introduced it to you and the kids a couple years ago. I don't remember seeing it. Did I fall asleep?
I don't know, probably. And Beck was like, what is this? And he still makes fun of it. I loved that movie as a kid, loved it. And now when you watch it, what happens?
I've only seen it once as an adult. That was enough. You gotta see Mac and me.
Then you gotta see Flight of the Navigator. All right, fine. Another one was Willow. You really all great. I loved that movie.
Matt Modigate. Yeah. Oh, Val Kilmer at his best. Yeah.
In a cage. Man, I loved that movie. And then the other one I had was The Secret of NIM. Did you ever watch that?
About the mice? It was terrifying. What's the dude's name? The kind of scary one?
Nicodemus. Yeah. See, I know a couple of references, but that's it. Oh man. That movie is terrifying.
I don't know why my mom let me watch that as a, I think it was probably like five or six. Yeah? It's scary.
Oh, it's like a scary fival. Yes. Yes.
That's exactly what it is. Well, and then you can- You love an American tale. You'll love this one. Nicodemus like rolls his eyes back in his head and then you can only see the whites of his eyes. And from what I can remember, I think he sees the future or something.
But when he does that, it's like dark and I think there's like lightning and stuff. I was a little- Sounds like stranger things. No, but I was little. And there's little mice. And one of the mice is sick and the other one has to go and get food to, it's scary. And then there's like some- Nope. That whole thing happens. Yeah.
I've seen that. What came first, I wonder. Ooh, great question. Have you seen, you haven't seen Secret of Nymn?
No. We gotta watch that. I'll watch Mac and me if you watch Secret of Nymn. Secret of Nymn came out in 82. 82, okay. American tale came out in 86.
Okay. So Secret of Nymn came first. It probably traumatized everybody.
And then they were like, we gotta make a nice mouse film. No cats in America. That whole bit. No, this one had crows in it. And then there was a, they lived on a farm. So there was like a plow, like a tractor. And every day they had to like worry about getting run over by the tractor. Man, oh man. There's a lot of dark themes for a little kid. All right.
Cool. Why are you laughing about it? No, there's the whole plot. I'm just trying to figure out the whole plot is not getting run over by a plow.
And then. No, this one poor mouse. She has to take care of her whole family. I think it's her mom that's sick. Is her name Nymn? Couldn't tell ya.
Okay. So she has to run out and get food for her mom, avoid the tractor, avoid Nicodemus, avoid the crows, cause they're gonna eat her. Oh man.
I'm stressed out thinking about it for this poor little mouse. The secret of Nymn. I'm just trying to find, I don't see. The plot? Well, I don't see the character's names, but that's all right. Mrs. Brizby. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mrs. Brizby. Yes. Is a widowed mouse.
Yes. Who moves her children out of their home in a field before the local farmer starts plowing. I told you. That's the plot. I did. Unable to leave because her son is ill, Mrs. Brizby seeks the help of nearby rats who have heightened intelligence after being the subjects of scientific experiments.
Yep. She receives an unexpected gift from the elder rat Nicodemus, and soon she is brought into a conflict among the rats jeopardizing her mission to save her family. That's the plot of the secret of Nymn. I forgot about the science rats. Oh man, that movie.
Okay, so. I'm gonna have to check that out. I watched it a lot.
Did you? And it wasn't necessary that I- Why were you, you're so afraid of it. You're like, it was crazy.
You was freaking me out. I watched it a lot. But it wasn't that I loved it.
I think I watched it because I was like, I don't know, addicted to the adrenaline of being scared. Oh. I don't know.
I don't know. I gotta put on that scary movie. It scared me. Or everyone thought it was a kid's show and they were like, do you wanna watch The Secret of Nymn? And I'd be like, no. And they put it on anyway because they didn't listen to kids.
They were like, sit down and watch this. It's a cartoon. Leave us alone. Go watch your cartoon. Quit bugging us. We're playing cards. Yeah, exactly.
I'd be like, no, Nicodemus. Yep. Every time.
No. His eyes. We gotta watch it.
Okay. And Mac and me. Oh man. The tractor, that poor little mouse. You know what else a good movie I watched when I was younger? That still probably holds up but I haven't watched it. Harry and the Henderson's? No, that's a great movie too.
Yeah it is. Furn Golly. Oh, Furn Golly. You do love Furn Golly.
That's right. I think it's kinda boring. Okay. Okay. Well, fine. We'll watch that one too. Okay. Let's make a list of all the ones. The kids are not gonna enjoy this.
It's fine. They won't watch it with us anyway. They don't hang out with us. What do you think the dog would do if we put on Mac and me? She would freak out.
Or if she saw Nicodemus, she'd be like, what is that? Yeah, that's true. Yep. We'll watch them with the dog. That'll be fun. Boy oh boy.
Yeah. How come this is a long standing complaint that I have with our marriage? What is it? When you cook, I feel like it's a silent arrangement that I will clean up. But when I cook, I also have to clean up. Maybe you have a different timeline. No. I'm just suggesting that maybe your cleanup timeline doesn't line up with my cleanup timeline. For me personally, now I cannot tell you why the kids vacate the room. Yeah, they- That's the one that needs to be remedied.
They leave rather quick after they eat, don't they? That's what needs to be remedied. For sure. Emery cleaned up a little bit.
Yeah. But she left the leftovers out because she said, she goes, I don't know what you guys do. She goes, I know that you separate them into your- Now it's time to learn. Separate lunches.
Right. So she said, I'm gonna leave the leftovers. And I go, that's fine. I'll take care of that.
Right. And then you got up and did that. And I was still sitting there. I was still not ready to start the cleanup. I'm not sure I'm doing that.
I'm not sure I'm doing that. I know that I was helping. You weren't really helping. No, I'm helping out. I put a spoon in the dishwasher. Whoa. You want me to take these Tupperware out?
Helpin' out. No, I need those Tupperware to put the leftovers in. Right, that's what you said.
That's not helping. And then you put the leftovers away in the Tupperware. And then guess what? You didn't do the dishes.
Helping out. You got the leftover from the pan that you put the leftovers from? No, because you were there at the sink already. But I was helping load the dishwasher because I was helping out. Emery had loaded the majority of the dishwasher. You loaded a couple of spoons in the dishwasher.
Let's be real. And then I washed the pots and pans. I found another spoon and I put it in and said, I'm helping out. Whoa, hot dog. I know. Slow down. So what's now?
What's the issue? You've got to help out more when I cook. Me?
Yep. I'm vocally saying publicly. Vocally saying. Yeah. Right. The next time I cook, I will not be cleaning up. All right, good. How long do you think it will take for you to go, someone needs to clean this up? Because I bet it's quicker than anyone sitting around is going to go, I should help clean up. Okay, but that used to drive me crazy. Is that like a dude thing?
What? Because when I was living at home and my mom used to work on Saturdays and I hated actually Saturdays because my mom was gone. And it was just my dad and my brother at home and I would be like, okay, I'm going to clean the house.
And then I'd say, hey, can you guys take out the garbage? Oh, so this is a long standing thing. This is a long standing thing. And they'd be like, yeah, I'll get to it. And then minutes and minutes and minutes go by.
And I'm like, take out the garbage. See, it's because you have a timeline that is not the same timeline as everyone else. Everybody else has their own timeline where it's like, yeah, I don't want to do that right now.
But if there's food that needs to be put away, you got to put the food away. And it will get done. It might not be on your timeline. That's the issue is that you have a different timeline.
That is the issue for sure. And you go, no, everyone needs to be on my timeline. Yeah. And everybody else is like, no, I don't. Yeah, you do. I have my own stuff going on.
And it isn't your stuff. And you may go, that's pointless. What are you doing?
That's not even important. But at that moment, I'm in the middle of something. And I'm not in take out the garbage mode. My timeline hasn't started for cleanup.
Yours is mid cleanup. Are you suggesting that this is a me problem? No, I'm suggesting that you should focus on what you can control, which isn't someone else's timeline.
Even if it's something as silly as like, hey, I'm trying to clean up the kitchen. Can you all come help? You have to go like, hey, listen, before everyone leaves this room, we're doing this. Okay.
So you can set an expectation for everyone ahead of time. Okay, I like that. So you go, hey, the timeline is shifted. This is going to be the timeline.
Not mid your timeline. Go, come do this right now. Because I'm in the middle of something. I'm not on that wavelength. You see, I can't break my timeline to go do yours.
You and yours together. You should be on my timeline is what I'm saying. How do you not know my timeline? After 40-some whatever years in your life, you should understand that timelines aren't the same.
No. As you just said at home, your brother and your dad are not helping and you go, someone take out the garbage. And they go, okay, we will. And then they didn't. But you meant right now.
Yeah, right now. See, that's not going to happen. Continue on my path. So again, there's a communication that says, hey, the garbage can is full and I can't continue my cleanup until this gets taken out. Will someone do this right now? That's a better communication. I'll be more specific. I'm just saying when you were younger and at home.
Oh no, it's good. Then you would have said, hey, can someone take out this garbage? They went, yeah, that's a thing to do. Sometime. Can someone paint the basement? Yeah, eventually. Do you see? It's all timelines.
Can someone start on painting the basement this weekend? That's not in my timeline. I don't know.
Maybe it'll be easier if you tell me what your timeline is. Oh. It's all over the place. I'm aware.
I'm full aware of that. Sometimes it's not even a timeline. Sometimes it's just a, there's no timeline.
You ever have one of those? No, everything is on a timeline. I know. You should try a no timeline. I don't operate like that. But what if you could? Then I guess I would be just like you. What does that mean? And nothing would get done.
That's not true. I have lists. I have things. I have stuff to do and stuff that gets done. You know what I can't even put in my timeline?
Unloading all the Christmas stuff out of the back seat of my truck. I know. That I took home Monday. Yeah. It's still sitting in the truck. I can't even be bothered to do that. And the big ornaments that are hanging on the tree outside.
They're still outside. I know. One of these days that'll get on my timeline. Has it been on your timeline? No, that's not my job. That's a you job. Okay. Good. See?
All right. We're getting somewhere. Where are we getting?
I don't know. I don't think we're getting anywhere. Just get on my timeline. Or? No. No. This is some big news I saw yesterday.
What is it? I was kind of excited about Bruno Mars. You know Bruno Mars. He is releasing his first solo album in 10 years. So he hasn't done anything? He's done stuff. No, I know.
Interesting. I know, right? It's coming out February 27th, 2026. The last album he had came out in 2016.
That was 24K Magic. Which is hanging on the wall right there. You do have that album. Look at you. I'm excited about it. I really like Bruno Mars. What's the name of the new record? It's called The Romantic. Yeah, that's right. And then he's kicking off the romantic tour.
And so if you want to see him... I kind of would. I'd be a good show.
Yeah, I would. So he did like that Lady Gaga song. Right? Yeah. And he did that song with Rose. Yeah. But he also did all the stuff with... What was that group he was with? You know. And they were super like... The Uptown Funk guys? Oh. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. What's it called?
Couldn't tell you. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about though. I do know what you're talking about. He has a single called I Just Might. Do you have this? Do I have it?
Yeah, are you going to be playing this? I don't have it. Oh. Hold on. Okay.
Let me check a couple of places. Stand by. Uh... Hold on. Hold on. I'm stood by. Well, I know, but you got to like talk about something while you're standing by. I've tried. What should I talk about?
What do you want me to talk about? I wonder... I'm going to look at the tour and see if he's coming anywhere near us because I actually think that would be a great show. Not super close.
There's a Colorado date. I Just Might is the name of the song. Yeah. I do have a copy of it. You do? Okay.
Let's see. Las Vegas is where he's going to kick off his show on April 10th. That's where the tour kicks off at Allegiant Stadium. I don't know when tickets go on sale.
It's right here. Pre-sale begins the 14th at 12 local time. And General On Sale is Thursday the 15th at 12 p.m. local time. Whatever local time means.
That's a weird thing to say. I guess that'd be local to the arena that it's going to be at. So like if you wanted to go to Las Vegas right now I can't remember if Vegas changes their mountain so they're the same time as us. Not the same as Arizona. Which is... I don't think so.
Okay. So Allegiant Stadium anyway. Las Vegas, Nevada April 10th. That's the closest.
Then Glendale, Arizona at State Farm Stadium. So he's playing big arenas. Of course he is. He's going to sell out. Big arenas.
I would think so. And then he's going to go do a couple dates in Texas. Then he's headed to the East Coast. Then he's going to head to England and Paris and Berlin and Amsterdam.
And then he'll make his way back to the U.S. in August. Couple of dates in New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Maryland, Indiana, Florida. Colorado, September 26th and then he's in California.
So Colorado, Vegas and Arizona. You asked about dates. I just needed you to know if he was coming close. That's your closest ones. Colorado, Nevada, Arizona.
Okay. Why isn't he coming to Salt Lake? Because Salt Lake...
The Delta is big but the Delta isn't Allegiant Stadium big. That's true. He could do a couple of nights there at least. He could.
But he's not got two nights anywhere. I was looking at the information online. And you know how, like, you'll get a little bit of an AI, like, summary of what you've searched for. It said Bruno Mars recently confirmed the album was finished, leading to massive fan excitement.
Okay. I'm not necessarily, like, I'm a fan of Bruno Mars. I'm not a super fan, but I would like to see him live. I think that would be fun. I think that would be a fun show. Yeah.
If you are a super fan, get ready for his album coming out February 27th. Okay. Very good. First album in 10 years.
The romantic. I'm gonna have to update the wall. Are you? Probably. New Bruno Mars. You know?
Okay. I have the new Ed Sheeran. But you don't have the new Taylor Swift up there. Or the new Harry Styles.
Is that the newest Harry Styles? I don't know. Hmm. You gotta update your records, man. I know. That's just money. I don't. It's money for Waldecor. I get it.
I understand. There is some analog trends happening in 2026. Now, when you say analog, do you mean like, like young people want to carry around Polaroid cameras, for example? Yes. Exactly that. Because I saw that in person on New Year's Eve and I was blown away. Did you really? Yeah. Because there was a photo prop set up for people to come and take photos and we were standing near it and everybody was coming up with their cell phones, hey, could you take a picture of us?
Whatever. And so a lot of people were just helping take pictures. And then one young person rolled up with an old school Polaroid with the film in it and everything and snap and out comes the picture and I went, no way!
I saw that. Like full-size Polaroid. They want that old time. You kind of look in their photos. Well, right. But there's also what's interesting is that you've got like people carrying around Walkmans and Discmans.
I have not seen that. Yeah, big time. And a lot of people carrying around like old analog technology instead of relying on you know, the nice cell phone technology that they carry in their pocket anyway. It's really fascinating. It is fascinating. It's really, really interesting. Like people are using notebooks to take their notes instead of typing them. Yeah. 2026, I've made the moved digital. You have?
Yeah. I used to carry around a couple of books. That's where I was keeping all of my like analytic tracking my yeah, all of my meeting notes. I was carrying around two different notebooks for all that stuff.
I put it all on a drive file. I was like, I'm just going to take my my surface into meetings. I still like writing down stuff. I get it, but I'm tired of carrying around all these floater papers.
So I made a template and that's what I'm taking all my meeting notes in now and everything. I just can't. In the analog trend. No, I wanted to get away from all the paper. I tired of carrying around all the paper. I have a lot of paper too. And that's really it. That's ultimately where it comes from is I'm tired of carrying around pen and paper. I have a really nice piece of technology that I don't fully use and I went, I just got to use it.
Okay. So I made that change in 26. Like I've been every day instead of writing in my notebook, I'm updating a spreadsheet. It's awesome. It's doing, I built it. I spent a lot of time building in formulas and stuff.
So it's doing a bunch of graphing and and a bunch of different calculations for me. I know I felt like I really needed to step up my game in 26. If I'm going to reach some goals, I got to have the proper earlier in the show. I said, I hate tracking. I hate tracking food, I guess. I get it. I don't mind tracking analytics.
That's fine. People are also reading physical books. They've said goodbye to their e-readers.
Interesting. I've never been in, I like a physical book always and forever. You have one in front of you right now.
Yeah, I do. The Catcher in the Rye. Somebody thought about getting me an e-book reader for Christmas years ago and I said, please don't. I won't ever use it. Yeah.
Ever. I like a physical book. But have you tried one? Yes, I have. I don't like it.
Okay. I like turning the page of a book. I like holding a book. I like the smell of a book. I get that. I understand.
People are also using paper calendars. Really? Yes. It really surprises me. I know, me too. I don't think I could do it. I actually have a paper calendar at work that I track different things that I need to do. Because I don't want to put it on my personal calendar and I don't want to put it on the work calendar and so I just keep it as like a...that's kind of what I need to do today. And it's for one specific task. I see. And it's just that paper calendar to track that one specific task. Interesting. So I remember to do it. Yeah, okay.
People are using physical alarm clocks, not just their cell phones. I get that. You adopted that yourself?
I did. They're writing letters. Which is awesome. Yeah, I think that's great. A physical letter is something special. And then analog music, records, CDs.
Oh yeah, big time. Guess what is the most analog thing of all? The radio.
I know. Turn on your radio. Try that out. But here's something great though too.
What? Is that if you don't want to like consume it analog, you can get it in HD which is great. You can also get it in our app if you want. We've got digital and analog. That's how good we are. That's what I'm saying.
You should check out digital and analog. That's correct. Baby. Baby. Well, cool. I don't know what else to say about it.
Oh, there's nothing else to say about it. I want to know what they're doing with all of the physical media that they're like people aren't making CD racks for your home like they used to. You know, like is that all going to come back? Is Case Logic got a big move coming? Case Logic. Yeah.
I don't know. I got rid of all that stuff because I didn't like the clutter. I know. It's a lot of stuff to have around. Yes it is.
But there is something cool about that aesthetic. You remember the CD shelf we had in the living room when we lived in the apartment in Pocatello? Yes. There was like just stuffed folds.
Yes. And I couldn't even fit. It just wasn't. I couldn't even fit my CD collection in that anymore.
It wasn't pretty. No, but it's cool. It is cool. Because people come over and they can learn a little bit about you pretty quick. They go, oh, you have an interesting musical taste.
Yeah. Look at the things you listen to. Why do you have the N-U-R-E-R-C-R? And you're like, I was up late one night.
They were selling it on TV. Yeah, N-U-R-E-R-C-R is great. How dare you. N-U-R-E-R-C-R is the best. Not the best, but I would have an N-U-R-C-R. I did have an N-U-R-C-R CD at one point. Yeah.
Not anymore. I got rid of it. But did you have the one with like the waterfall commercial that they ran at night? Probably. You did? I don't know. I don't remember. What was that thing called?
The collection. I can't even remember what it was called. But that was always a fun commercial that would come on. They'd be like, oh, buy the N-U-R-C-R CD.
N-U-R-C-R. All right. Go get yourself some physical analog media, I guess. If you want to. It's the trend. My house, our house, is just a buzz with soup. You guys have a problem. Me and Emery?
You and Emery, no. The problem is, you're all hyped up about soup. I love soup.
I know you do, but you think it was a brand new invention. It's just soup. It's delicious. It's soup in a sandwich.
I don't know why I like it so much, but I could eat it every day. I know. Every day. All I hear from you two is soup. We get to rate the soups. There's a new soup place opening. I can't wait for more soups. You guys are crazy. We like soup.
Apparently. It's delicious. I like soup. We like to eat soup. I like soup in a sandwich and a soup in a sandwich. And then a little treat on the side. You know what we should have is a soup. Yep.
Sounds good. What is, what's up? I don't know. It's the best.
I don't know. Emery and I love to go eat soup. Eat soup in sandwiches for lunch. It's just like or dinner. Lunch, dinner, anytime. You're like, hey, you know what sounds good? Soup.
And then both of you are like, yeah, it does. Let's go have a soup. And can I get any Claire? That's what I hear all the time. I go, okay, well. Yeah.
Usually the soup and sandwich places have desserts too. That's right. And so then you go, do I want a Claire? Do I want a tart? Or do I want a piece of bread? Or a strawberry dipped in chocolate? Or whatever. Whatever suits your fancy. It's the best.
Alright. So we're all excited because the Cafe Zubens is opening January 15th. It's the grand opening. So it's next week. Yeah. Are you first in line? What's your story?
No, because I don't I don't like the lines that new places have. And so. They're going to get you through it.
I know they will. You could be there on opening day. I could. I just don't want to.
You should. When's the last time you did that? When's the last time you were like, opening day, I'm going to do a thing. You've never done it.
I have driven by. That's what I'm saying. But you've never. I understand. I understand.
And say, no, thank you. Go on. Go on opening day. What day of the week is it? I don't know. What are you going to do?
Sit in line? It's a Thursday. It's a Thursday. It's a week from yesterday.
You're just going to sit in a line. No big deal. I'll think about it. That's it.
I'll think about it. Sit in a line for a few minutes. Maybe it's 15 minutes.
Maybe it takes a half hour. Is it worth it to get soup and a sandwich? Yeah, because the soup is so good.
Every time we go to Utah, we eat there. I know. We love it so much. I am fully aware.
And now we have one in our town. I know. I'm telling you, I feel the same about chicken. There's a chicken place that's about to open in Chubbock and I'm all about it.
A chicken? But you're not going to say the name of it? Everyone knows what I'm talking about. If I say it, then other people are going to show up. It rhymes with Drazing veins. Sure. That's it.
Drazing veins. Yeah, no, I'm real excited about it. I know you are, but it's just... Do I want to be there opening day? Yeah, I do. You do.
With the kids. Yeah. That place is going to be nuts.
I know. You don't think the soup is going to be nuts? No, I know it's going to be nuts. That's why I'm going to give it a couple of days. No, go opening day.
Maybe. Suffer with everybody else. I'll think about it. Do you think those people love soup as much as I love soup? Yes.
Yes, I do. I think that people just get excited about a new place coming into town. I totally agree.
Which I am also excited about. I'm telling you, you could open a restaurant. And there's there's there are so many people in this East Idaho market that we are under served by restaurants. We need 700 new restaurants. I'm fine with that.
I'll tell you which ones to bring. Hot chicken. No. Houston hot chicken.
Yes. Give me a Houston hot chicken. Yeah, that is so good. I've never had Dave's hot chicken. I'm sure it's great. But bring me a Houston hot chicken. That one is so good.
It's unreal. I'll tell you what. Not to bring. Okay.
In and out. Oh, stop it. Bring two.
Get out. Here's the thing. One's never, one's not enough. This town needs another Chick-fil-A. This town needs, this town's going to need another Zupa. This town needs two of everything. We need two of everything, not right next to each other. Let's build on the other side of town so we can start moving some traffic around. Let's alleviate some pressure.
That'd be nice. Hey, listen. Whoever's in charge of this. Listen, I got ideas. We need 700 new restaurants. Some of them we already have. We need two of each. At least.
Which other one would you think that we needed two of? Everything. Chick-fil-A yes, for sure. Yeah. We need another one of those. We have a bunch of other ones. We have multiples of the huge. Yeah.
Right? We don't need more of the huge. We need more new. Every time you open one, you need to open two. Because one's not going to be enough. They're going to be overcrowded.
They're going to be bombarded. You see what I'm saying? I hear you.
You don't bring one, Dutch Bros. You bring three. I get what you're saying. I get it. Because one is going to... It's not enough.
Not enough. I get it. Hey, anyway.
If you like soup. January 15th. You find Chantel in line.
I don't know. You got to go. You got to do it. There's too many people.
Just go do it. It's soup. You love soup. I love soup. Do you want to know something I learned about space?
Sure. The first ever image has been captured of a solar system with more than one planet orbiting a star other than our own galaxy, our own sun. So a different galaxy.
A different solar system with a star at the center with more than one planet orbiting it. Awesome. Here's the part that always blows my mind with space and time.
Okay. This photo that they were able to capture shows a young star in the center. It's about 300 light years from Earth. Why do you say young star? Because here's the size of it, I guess.
But here's the thing. It's 300 light years from Earth. So what that... Do you understand light years at all? Let me explain.
Yes. We have a satellite called Voyager that we launched a long time ago. It is now one light day away from Earth. So that means if you send a signal to it it takes 24 hours to get there. When it sends a signal to Earth it takes 24 hours. It's a light day away. Okay.
Okay. This solar system is 300 light years away. So if we were going to try to send a signal with current technology it would take 300 years to get there. So what we're seeing is 300 years ago because the light we're seeing is from... It took 300 years for the light to reach where we took the photo. So that solar system that we're viewing in time is older than the United States.
We were still rolling around in carriages when this solar system is doing who knows what 300 years ago. Time. It's a weird thing. This is a little bit Einstein. Yeah, my brain is. I get it. But it's really interesting that we found this and we're looking at it, but we're looking at it from so far away that we're looking at it 300 years ago. It could have exploded and we won't know until we see that but that happened a long time ago.
It's weird. So was the image taken? When was the image actually taken?
Very recently. But because it's so far away the light has taken that long to reach the camera that's taken this photo. It's amazing. You're very confused about it. I am.
It's super nerdy but it's really cool. I'm just not smart enough to understand. Yes you are. I'm not explaining it well enough. I think you're doing a good job of explaining it. My brain just goes try to connect the dots. It's the massiveness of it. That's why it's so hard to comprehend is because it's so massive but it's very, very far away.
I want to look at it. It's a really interesting kind of blurry photo but you can see this sort of ring in the middle that is the glowing star and then there are a couple of dots, really bright dots around it that are two giant exoplanets that are orbiting that star. The planets in that particular solar system.
Okay. Why do you call them exoplanets? It's what it says. It says exoplanets.
So I read that to you. I like when we try and talk about space. Yeah, I know. Because we know what we're talking about. It's really, really fascinating actually. It's really wild.
We can actually see this other exoplanet. Are you ready? Sure.
Is a planet that orbits a star outside the solar system. Okay. There you go.
It's an exoplanet. Okay. Anyway, very, very cool. Very, very cool.
It's the first ever image of another multi-planet solar system. Awesome. And that's neat.
That is neat. I want to look at it. Okay. I'm going to come check it out. Alright, I'll show you in a minute.
Okay. Would you rather? This or that?
Would you rather know how you'll die or when you'll die? I don't like this question. I know. Neither. Neither?
I don't want to know. I feel like that's kind of where I sit too actually. It would change the course of everything. It would.
And I would just always live in the panic of it always. Yeah, no. I don't want to know any of that. I don't need there. Alright, let me come up with a different one. It's just not. I don't like that question. I don't deal well with mortality. You don't.
I know that about you. Like, I opted out of an assignment in junior high or high school or something. We're supposed to write our own obituary and stuff as part of some exercise and I don't want to do this. Like, it's morbid.
I don't feel good about this. So. I'll cut.
I got a new one for you. Alright. Would you rather shovel snow or scrape ice? Oh. I'd rather scrape ice.
Yeah, I'm scraping ice. Cause that takes less time. It's way less time. It doesn't hurt my back nearly as much. And that's what I have to say about that. Plus, I get to use a cassette tape instead of a shovel. Yep.
True. I had to scrape some windows this morning. I scraped yours. Thank you.
Yours are so easy to reach. Yeah. I got to crawl up on my truck and get all like crazy with the door open. Half hanging on there trying to scrape the windshield. Get a smaller car.
How am I going to pull the trailer with a smaller car? I don't know. And not.
That's the problem, isn't it? You see. I do. Yeah. Okay. That was an easy one then. Yeah, no.
I like that one better. Scraping ice. Yeah. Yeah. Scraping windows.
Better than shoveling snow. Yeah. That's correct.
That is correct. I don't like shoveling the snow. I do either.
At all. That's no fun. I just push it. You know, I know.
And then you hit the uneven cracks in the sidewalk and the shovel kicks back on you and then you ram it into your guts. I hate it. I don't. There's nothing good about it. No. There isn't. But I feel like it's a as a homeowner, it's a responsibility because I don't want somebody slipping on the ice in front of the house because that feels like dangerous.
Yeah. Well, and I don't want to have to have somebody go, I hurt my head on your unshuffled sidewalk. So I try to be pretty good about it. You are. Even though I don't like it. Nobody likes it.
There's somebody out there who's like, I just love to shovel. Nobody does. No way. Is he? There's somebody out there. I guarantee it. No, buddy. There's somebody who's like, it's my favorite thing.
I can't wait to shovel. Nobody. There's somebody. I don't know who it is. It's nobody. It's not me. It's nobody. I'll tell you who else it isn't. It's not you. It's no.
You know who else it isn't. Our kids. So I end up doing it. We appreciate it. Thanks. Yeah.
Yeah. Sometimes the neighbor does it. Sometimes. Sometimes I do it for the neighbor.
Sometimes. For the past, I don't know, half hour or so, I've been trying to explain how light years work. So I, I don't think I've done a great job. No, no, no, no. You really have. No, you did. What I appreciate about you is that you draw diagrams and you explain in a way you would actually make a really good teacher.
Honestly. I don't know because I feel like I haven't fully explained to you how this works. So I think my brain is just trying to catch up with everything that you've said. Okay. Well, so I just asked the internet. I said, explain this like I'm five and there's an explanation here that I'd like to share with you.
Okay. And it says the first thing you have to realize is that everything we see and I've said this to people and this alone breaks brains. Everything we see at all is light being generated or bounced off of an object being generated by or bounced off of an object. Yeah. Color is only light.
Right. And that blows people's minds because they go, no, this thing is black. I go, this thing you see as black because it absorbed all of the light and looks that color. If it's white, it's reflecting all of the color.
Like it's just, that's everything is light. Right. Yes.
Everything we see. Yes. So that's a way to start breaking brains right away. I've heard that before though. Yeah. It doesn't necessarily mean that I understand it, but.
Okay. Then it says second, you have to understand that light does not travel instantaneously. It travels at the speed of light, which is about 186,000 miles per second. So it's very, very fast and the closer you are to the source, the harder it is for you to realize that it takes time for the light to travel.
Because your brain can't process that a light switch turned on and that light traveled to your eyeball in 186,000 miles per second. It's very fast. Yeah.
Okay. So then a light year is the distance over which light travels in the course of a year in a perfect vacuum. So light, a light year is the distance that light travels in the amount of time it takes for a year to pass. And that is the speed of light multiplied by 60 seconds in a minute.
Right. Multiplied by 60 minutes in an hour. Multiplied by 24 hours in a day. Multiplied by 365 days in a year.
So light, a light year is 6 trillion miles per year. You lost me. See, I lost you.
You did. I know. And that's how fast it happens. Well, you started introducing numbers.
I know. But ultimately it comes down to the formula of distance equals rate times time. I started making a joke in my head about Buzz Lightyear. And then, and then I was gone. It's okay. I know that there are smarter people than I that are doing the work. It's okay.
And I don't have to understand it always. It's just the formula distance equals rate times time. And you have to plug in those values in order to understand how far away something is or how long it takes for light to travel from those two things and how fast light travels. It's not zero. It isn't, you turn on the light switch, it feels like zero. But it's actually 186 thousand miles per second.
I get it. Like your car, right? Doesn't go that fast. Doesn't go 186 thousand miles per second. Right.
It goes 60, 70, 80 miles per hour. Right? Hey, um, it's Friday and it's the first week back at work. And this is too much for that. I appreciate it. But let's not anymore. Okay. Sounds good. Okay.
Here's an example. No, no, no. No. Shut it down. Alright.
My brain is done. Have a great weekend. Thanks for hanging out.
We'll be back on Monday. Grab the podcast. Everywhere podcasts are available. You can listen. It's wake up classy 97th podcast and we, you and I, will be back Monday after a weekend of rest and recovery. Ah. R and R, they call it. Except we got lots of projects to stop it.
No, we don't. What do you want to do? Take down the rest of the Christmas stuff. Ugh.
The house could use a clean. What is wrong with you? Sit down. But I am sleeping in.
I'll tell you that much. Sit down. I'm sat. Alright. See ya. Goodbye.
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