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Wake up with Josh & Chantel every weekday from 6a-10a on Classy 97! Missed the show or want to revisit your favorite moments from the show, enjoy Wake Up Classy 97 - The Podcast!
Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Tuesday, November 10th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Would you swallow a robot gut snake, a wild rescue story from West Palm Beach, the Jeep ducking trend and its Subaru Mo Moo cows, this year’s flood of new Christmas music, microwave egg maker breakfast, Chantel’s new outfit, the Vikings’ loss to the Bills on NFL trade deadline day, a mystery lump of raspberry caramel, why everyone hates work evaluations and corporate buzzwords, waiters who never write down your order, Josh’s new office and fly-tying desk, a bug in your salad or a hair in your soup, the awkwardness of being watched while using a computer, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Gut worm
(3:47) - We're original
(8:30) - Good News
(10:24) - Moo moo Subaru
(15:16) - YMCA / XMAS
(20:41) - Pepper eggs
(26:59) - Baby bib or shoot 'em up
(32:52) - The Viking need a QB
(39:10) - Raspberry caramel
(43:28) - Work evaluations
(48:14) - Write down my order
(53:55) - Big boy desk
(58:28) - Would You Rather
(1:01:56) - Computer shame
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Full show transcript:
Would you swallow a robot?
What? It's
a medical device. It's called the gut snake. It is a soft snake-inspired robot that can slither through your intestines and take photos. It can deliver medications. It can take tissue biopsies.
It's a robot snake called the biocenter with an S. Like scent. No?
That would be with a C. Why? Sent scent? Hmm. Biocenter. Uh uses inflatable air chambers and what they're calling friction sleeves to move around the cramped and slippery 20-foot length of your small intestine.
Interesting.
It's just a worm. It's a it's a robot worm.
How does it come out?
Probably the way it goes in.
What?
It can go in either way. It i i It is magical. It can go into your mouth, or it can go the other way.
Okay.
And
I would imagine it comes out the way it went in. I would hope. I
would really hope. What if it gets stuck and it won't come out? Well, it is remote controlled by doctors using a handheld device like an Xbox controller.
No.
Yeah, they drive it right on through.
No.
It's a robot snake.
No.
Gut snake.
I'm not. I'm not gonna participate.
Okay. They've been using little robots to do all kinds of m medical procedures for a long time. This one's just now a little soft little snake guy.
How do you know it's soft?
It says they they developed a soft snake-inspired robot.
Fascinating.
Look, it's it's it's very small. It's kind of like a tube. It's less like a snake. Like you think about it like a worm or something, but it's a little tube.
Interesting.
And it can uh it can kind of cruise around your body and do stuff. Do it. It's a soft rubbery robot with a hollow body. So it's just uh it's a tube. Uh, and it uses four inflatable changes uh chambers to kind of crawl through, and it can obviously it's got like a camera and it can go through and it can take tissue biopsy stuff.
I think that's it's fascinating, and I think it's cool.
I just need some more information. Okay, well, it has cameras for imaging, a sprayer for uh medication delivery, tiny clippers to take tissue
samples, and it's tethered to an external system via a cable, uh though it is meant to move mostly autonomously. Healthcare workers can control it, they can drive it through this Xbox controller.
They literally used an Xbox controller to drive it through your body. Fascinating. Yeah.
I'm intrigued.
I mean, this is modern medicine.
Yeah.
Robots you know, scanning your body and doing the thing without having to cut you open.
I know.
Weird. That's weird. It is weird, yeah. But cool. You know what?
I like science.
It's a real thing.
I like modern science.
I think it's cool. Uh MIT developed this, and uh, it is out there now.
Okay.
So I'm
gonna ask my doctor about it.
You're gonna say, hey,
doc.
You got that gut snake.
That's what I'm gonna call it. Hey, Doc!
Hey oh doc. Let's start today's show, huh? Um, this morning you said I had such a great idea for the show, but I forgot it because I thought I would remember it, but now it's gone forever. So today's show, here we go. Not gonna be as good as it could have been because your brain forgot the greatest part of the whole show.
Yeah, I know. I was laying in bed, you had already gone to sleep.
Yes. I
was laying there, I was watching shrinking. I thought of a great show note. Something to talk about. And I know better. I know I have to write it down because once it's not somewhere where I can see it again, forgotten. So I don't know what I was doing. What was I doing?
I don't know.
Your phone was probably too far away. It was too far away, and it was also cold outside of the blankets, and I said, I can't.
It It wasn't cold outside the
blankets.
It was hot inside the blankets.
No.
Yeah. It was I mean, yeah, it was hot inside the blankets, but that's why I'm gonna do it. That's why I always have to leave a leg out.
Yeah.
So you get Temperature regulation. You get your you get your leg all t cold, then put it back in, and then it gets all toasty again. That's one of my favorite parts of winter. Your favorite parts of sleeping. I like when I wake up because my leg is cold and then I put it in and it gets warm.
Yeah, and then you get like oh-mm.
Uh-huh. I never looked at it as like uh I'm doing something nice for myself.
I always looked at it as like I need to find a better blanket situation to regulate this heat. No.
Yeah.
I think the situation we have is great.
So Okay.
do you remember the show note?
How
would I how would I know? I am racking my brain because I'm and I'm like, was it something to do with our marriage? Was it something to do with our kids?
Something in the show triggered a thought.
Not necessarily.
And then your thought process led you down a chain of th of different thoughts, and then you got to one and you went, oh, that's fun. And then you went, I'm gonna keep thinking about something else, but I'll remember that. And then I'm gonna keep thinking about other things, and you continue down the train, and then uh you went, Oh.
Cause here's here's the thing.
I forgot what that was.
The longer I'm here, the more I realize what I think we're pretty good at like stirring conversation with each other.
Sure.
And uh but uh you also want to find stuff that's relatable to talk about.
Okay,
because it's exciting when people come up to us and they're like, Oh my gosh, my husband does the exact same thing that Josh does.
Right. And
I go, All right, we hit on a relatable topic.
Yeah.
That's great.
That's good news.
But we also don't want to talk about what everyone else is talking about.
That's correct, which is so easy to do. And that's uh that's one of the frustrating things about this industry is that there are services out there that every radio station has access to.
News.
And well, that's what I'm saying. Uh oh, you're saying and news people use the same thing.
Yeah, I mean, you've seen it where like uh like news script gets sent to news stations all over the country, and that and uh different reporters in different cities reading the exact same script.
Right the same thing in this industry where they'll give you stories and everybody's gonna read the same stories, and then they're gonna go listen to our great unique morning show and then you go, guys.
It's the same.
It's the same in every town. You aren't doing anything unique. Like, what are you doing?
So I try to be different.
I try to come up with stuff that's fun and silly. I think you do a great job.
Well, thanks. But this one would have been so good, and I totally watched it.
And that is why we will not be crowned.
Unique, most unique.
No, the most unique uh morning show in the world is because you forgot this one conversation.
It's all my fault.
That's right. Because we were gonna be crowned that. We were gonna be top of the pile of unique. What's weird is when we have a conversation, and then a couple of days later, those services start talking about what we talked about. So I'm convinced they found out about our uniqueness, and then they went, we gotta listen.
We gotta take these bits.
Dylan ideas. That's what I'm saying. Pay me. Pay me.
Yeah. It's
easy. It's all I want. Pay me.
I just want the credit.
Oh, okay. Here's good news. This is a story from Florida. Last week in West Palm Beach, Florida. They had some heavy rains that caused a lake to overflow onto a roadway. Kind of a scary mess, especially when a driver accidentally entered the water and his vehicle quickly became submerged. Anne Marie Sanchez, she was in the area when she spotted the vehicle, ignoring potential dangers. She swam out to the sinking car, grabbed the struggling driver, a man named Bill, and hauled him towards shore, getting some help from another brave bystander who pulled him uh to safety. The story didn't end with the rescue. Three days later, there was an unexpected knock at Anne Marie's door, and it was Bill. He showed up to thank her for saving his life.
And the two shared an emotional embrace. Yeah.
Uh he told her, Thank you for having the courage to jump in when nobody else did. Thank you for saving me.
Oh
isn't that so nice?
So nice.
It's crazy. If you see the video uh of this whole thing, because of course there's video, uh, or photos, rather. The this lake overflow. I mean, it just flooded. And you see cars kind of floating up in the water, and I guess Bill decided that seemed like a okay spot to go for a quick drive. I don't know what happened, but she swam out there and she uh she had like a uh little flotation board, like a kind of like a boogie board. and she handed him that and they swam back to to safety together. Uh pretty amazing and uh really cool of Bill to be like I gotta find her and tell her thank you.
Yeah.
Pretty good.
And they're gonna be best friends. Yeah.
Thanksgiving dinner together.
Good
story. Yeah. And Marie and Bill. Thanksgiving turkey. Uh anyway, that is good news.
You know how Jeep owners have a thing where they collect and trade little rubber ducks.
Yes.
Did you know there's one for Subaru owners as well?
Um no, I did not.
I just found this out yesterday.
What is it?
It's called Mo Moo Subaru.
Oh, okay. So there's little cows.
There's cows.
Oh, of course there are. Uh, did this recently start up?
I don't know when it's a big thing.
I feel like there's gotta be new. So now all the Jeeps are gonna have all the ducks and all the uh Subaros are gonna have the cows.
Yeah.
And people's vision is obstructed.
Well, I saw something the other day that said I almost got collided by a Jeep, and all I could think is I'm gonna be surrounded by all these little ducks all over the road.
Du Ducks everywhere.
I don't think that I I don't drive a Jeep or a Subaru.
That's right.
But I don't think it's kind of a cute idea to be like, hey, bud, like
we have the same thing.
But I don't want little I don't like it. Like I do, but I don't want that. Do you know what I mean?
But before you did,
like you've said before that you really wish you had one, and I made a recommendation that you all started passing around golf balls. Yeah, that's totally lame though.
I don't like that because that's totally lame. That's two on the nose.
Oh, you drive a golf, here's a golf ball.
Yeah. No,
that's
it. Looks like a golf ball.
I don't even like golf.
You don't have to. Do you like ducks and cows? No. Only you like it.
But I also just want something that, like, I don't know. You're right. I don't what I don't like is that it's like your dash is covered.
Because then I was thinking
if you had a dashboard covered with golf balls, every time you turn, it's gonna be a party. No, that's dangerous.
Yeah, accelerate too fast. You got golf balls in your lap. Break too hard. All of them run up from under the seat.
Exactly.
And they go like it sounds so cool.
No, it sounds so dangerous.
It sounded like you were driving around a ball pit. And it would be amazing. I don't know.
Golf enthusiasts. We gotta come up with something cool.
Well, I've thought the same thing for just for Toyota, but there's so many Toyotas. Like you'd you couldn't, I mean, there's a lot of jeeps, let's be real.
And there's a ton of Subaru. Like you'd go, you'd go broke by It has to be trinkets. It can't just be a Toyota thing. It has to be a tundra thing.
I see.
Mine is if you're saying I'm a golf thing, then it has to be a Volkswagen thing.
That's true. Because it's it's not
a Wrangler
thing. You're right.
It's not a forester thing. It's not correct. It's the make of the vehicle.
Not the model. Not the model. Yeah. Yeah, there's too many.
Too many what?
Toyotas. I I'd I'd be like, I can't with this. Every parking lot I go to, I'd be like, I can't even make it to the store because I have to hand out 700 little trinkets. I don't have the time.
I did when I bought my Jeep.
There was a You're a you don't know, you know not my Jeep.
Sorry. When I bought my golf, there was a fellow Volkswagen owner who said, You need a little German flag.
That's right.
Decal. And he gave me a German flag decal.
And I like that. Yeah, but faded.
It did fade. And now it just looks silver.
All of the colours. I need to pull that off.
I want another one. I liked having that little German flag. And then people would say, Did you live in Germany? And I said, nope, but I had a German grandmother.
Wow. Good for you. I had. Is that uh dinges?
Yes.
Yeah.
Good job, Josh.
Yeah.
Good job remembering. You do listen when I talk to you.
I no, I don't. Don't you be fooled. I'm not paying attention ever. I I do know that there's uh two Chads apparently.
One on my mom's side and one on my dad's side.
They've been the same name. Yes. Chad.
Yes.
I just figured
that's pretty it's a pretty common name.
But you go, my cousin Chad, and then uh I met uh Chad, and then uh you said this other Chad, like 20 years into our marriage, you're like, Oh, I got this other Chad, and I went, No, you do not.
I do.
It's one Chad.
You get one Chad. There's a lot of my family that you haven't yet met.
That's true. We've been together for well over 20 years, and they're still apparently a Chad I've never met.
Well, there's a lot of here's what happens when you're in a family.
What is it? You get estranged from a lot of people. It's true. They are a strange.
They are strange.
A whole bunch of the record labels want me to play new Christmas music. And so they send me all kinds of stuff. Um just tons of it. So I get new stuff from uh, you know, all kinds of different genres, lots of country Christmas stuff all the time.
And they're like, you should play this, you should play this. Alanis Marcette's new Christmas album. I've got a copy of that. Um there they're wanting me to play some stuff. There's new stuff uh from Kylie Minogue. Her new song is called XMAS, XMIS. And uh the video, she's trying to create a YMCA Christmas song. And so she's got everybody doing you know, X M A S.
How do you do an S.
Yeah, just twisty. Yeah.
How do you do an X?
X.
Oh, like with your hands crossed in the air.
And then M.
M.
Which you know from YMCA. You've seen that, and you know the A also from YMCA and then S, which is like just curves. Yes. Yeah.
S is hard. You can't make an S.
Well, you can. I'll show you the video.
Okay.
But uh there's also uh a new song from uh the band that did the low rider song, war, they're called.
Remember Lowrider? Oh, yeah.
That's the one I was playing for you, and I felt like they're the description is hilarious because they're like, bring some uh oh, what did it say? It was something along the lines like bring the California Island sound to your Christmas playlist, and I went okay. I don't know. There's just a lot in here, and then there's I mean, there's I would say a lot more misses than hits. Uh that is for sure. Um there is a Teddy Swim silent night that I am curious about, though.
Here's the thing. I have always said that our claim to to riches.
Okay.
The way that we're gonna become
millionaires is to make a Christmas song because you can just live off the royalties of that.
I think we miss the boat. I think there's too many now, and the market is oversaturated.
And every year I get sent more and more and more and more because I think everybody's trying to do that.
I think so too.
Everybody stole our idea.
But I also um I don't think doing a Christmas in the form of YMCA is it either.
X M-A-S.
Oh, I got I got Christmas song from Debbie Gibson in here. Debbie Gibson.
Yeah. I'm just going through.
Kylie Minogue and Debbie Gibson.
I feel like Yeah.
maybe these artists are just trying to make a comeback. They're like, we gotta get in. We gotta break into the Christmas track.
That's what I'm saying. Everybody's like, I just if I could make another few hundred dollars this season, it'd really help. But Anyway, I will uh do my best to um put together the best of the best here, and really not bore you with a lot of the bad stuff, because a lot of it's bad. A lot.
Yeah, but it's all relative, isn't it?
I I would say I would agree with you, except that some of it just doesn't sonically sound good. Like it's it's either poorly written or poorly performed or poorly produced, I think is what it is. And I think there's some great stuff in here too. Um, but then there's also some stuff that I go, like, does it fit? Like, does it actually make you feel Christmassy? Like, and you can have fun.
Like, there's absolutely a ton of fun Christmas stuff.
Um, but it is interesting, it's interesting to kind of go through and um and look at all the the new stuff. I don't know, I'll have to play you some.
Yeah,
I heard some of it and get your feels on it because there's some that I'm like, this is like how did this end up getting distributed? Like this was do they honestly think people are like we're not desperate for Christmas music.
Like we have a great library, and how much of it was AI written?
Oh, that's a really good question. Some of it might maybe for sure.
I would say probably about I'd say 5050.
No way,
yeah. Way
no.
No, there are real musicians that are trying to make this happen. And there are more way more than 50%.
And the industry, record, and radio have a real problem with AI generated music. So it's not it's not necessarily a space that AI is gonna thrive in. I don't think you're gonna make a bunch of bucks off of your AI Christmas music. So I wouldn't go getting all excited. But uh anyway. Yeah. If you're looking for uh something new this this Christmas season, XMAS from Kylie Minogue. You can you can dance along with your arms. X M.
M. A A. X.
S.
I I have been let me back up.
You I have been. You're backing up three words. Go ahead.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's not how I wanted to start. You and I were shopping one day and we found this little microwave egg thing.
Yeah, for like six dollars.
Six bucks.
Yeah.
And you can throw an egg in there and you can like put anything you want.
Yeah, it's like a microwave omelet maker.
Yeah.
Yeah. It's
so cool.
It is very cool.
So every morning for the past couple of weeks, we've been I'm
getting some protein.
Yeah. I put an egg in there and I throw in some peppers and some green onions.
You throw in some cheese and some Turkey. I've got turkey sausage right now that's really nice.
And it takes you scramble it all up.
Yeah. You
throw it in the microwave for a minute, and then you've got a hot, delicious breakfast.
Yeah.
Full of protein.
That's right.
What a great way to start your day.
I mean, uh, for someone who's tracking macros, you bet.
Which I am.
Right. I keep forgetting to bring my cottage cheese. Like I like to have that in the morning, and I just keep forgetting it because I have to build it at night, and I and so then this morning I go to the fridge and I go, I didn't do that.
Guess what I brought?
Cottage cheese.
My cottage
cheese because I'm good at packing my lunch. I know. You want to pack mine?
No.
Yeah, I didn't think so.
Um, okay. So yesterday I made your egg for you.
Yeah.
And well, you saw me making eggs one day, and you go. You shouldn't put the salt and pepper in there when you're
scrambling it up because it's when you make scrambled eggs, you add the pepper. It breaks the curd. I watched some Alton Brown. And so I learned a lot about when you're supposed to add seasonings and when you're supposed to add cheese and other things to the eggs uh for maximum uh
retention of flavor and structure, and they don't damage the eggs. The eggs are actually pretty fragile.
And if you uh if you emulsify them uh before you scramble them, you get watery eggs.
I I put my salt and pepper
in. I know you do,
and it wasn't emulsified. Anyway, so you were like, you shouldn't put your salt and pepper in when you're scrambling. So I purposely now, if I'm making yours,
I wait until it's scrambled and then I put in your salt and pepper. But yesterday you had a complaint that I put too much pepper in. You love pepper.
You do love pepper.
More than most people.
Yeah.
You put a lot of pepper on there.
Yeah.
And a lot. And so uh what also happened was there was like a pool of it. Like I don't like to just taste pepper.
I like to taste the food. I I didn't put as much pepper in yours as I did mine.
I know.
I don't know how much in here. If you can't taste it. Well, but then I showed you uh the the top of the egg section that I didn't eat was just pepper. It looked like it had a pile of caviar on it. There was so much pepper, and you said, well, what happened is it came out kind of quick in that one spot,
but I thought you wouldn't care. I
don't think I said that.
Something to that effect. Okay.
Also, we have to be fast when we do this.
Oh, I know. We have minutes.
There's today I had six minutes, so I was able to get it done in a qu in a flash.
Right.
Felt like I had a lot of time. So this morning, yesterday you were complaining about the amount of pepper that I used.
I think there might have been some egg shell in today's.
No, I didn't put any eggshell in there.
I don't think you did on purpose. There was just a crunchy bit, and it was in my last bite. So I'm kind of left with that. I might have to go back to cooking my own egg. I appreciate the health.
That is fine by me. I purposely put less pepper and salt in there today, but you still said it was pretty peppery.
Yeah.
How's the salt level?
I didn't even notice.
Okay, well. Maybe it is time you just cook your own.
That's all I'm saying.
That's fine.
Like I'm I really appreciate you cooking my egg the past couple of times. I do.
I am not offended. One iota.
Okay. You
can cook all of your own eggs.
Yeah. That little thing is pretty awesome, though. You just scramble your stuff, pop it in the microwave for one minute, and you got like a a little egg biscuit, and it's awesome.
It is awesome. I didn't have my hot sauce today, though.
I got sad about that. It's
all right.
We need to get a little bottle of cholula. Have
that kicking around. We could all just have a we could just have a big bottle of Jalula.
That's what I mean.
I don't know why we have to have a little bottle.
It's a work bottle.
Yeah, but you could just have a big bottle.
I like that green one. I want that one. You want the sweet habanero?
The sweet habanero is so good.
Yeah, I like the green pepper one.
I like that one too. I'll just use them both. But you're gonna make your own egg from here on out.
I don't care. Well, nota.
Yeah. This is how I got out of cooking dinner all the time. Yeah.
You just do it bad. Yeah, make make bad food.
And then somebody's like, we can't be having this bad food so many nights in a row.
Oh no, I don't have to cook. Oh no.
Women, listen up.
Make bad food. It It'll save you who's doing the dishes.
I don't care about doing the dishes. I'm happy to do the dishes.
Okay.
Until I do it poorly. And then you go, we can't be eating off dirty plates. Oh shoot. Guess you're gonna have to do the dishes too.
It's a terribly rude strategy. If everybody's unhappy, somebody else might do it. If that isn't the youngest child in the family type thing to do, that is absolutely right on right on par.
Yeah, you see something that's broken and you go, ah, I'm not gonna talk about it.
I didn't even see that.
Somebody else can discover that.
Who broke this? Oh wow, what broke? I didn't even notice.
I've been trying to uh change up my style a little bit.
Okay, how are you feeling about it today?
Because uh you saw a picture last night and you you said I think I'm gonna go for this.
Yeah, I have all these pieces. Yeah.
I can do that.
So let's let's run through it.
Because you've got uh let's start at the bottom with the shoes.
What shoes did you go with?
I went with these.
Were you doing the docks?
No.
I thought you had on Doc Martins.
They weren't docs.
Oh, okay.
Those aren't docks, but they're uh it's a I don't even know what you would call them. It was kind of a wedge, but it seemed a little too fancy. And so I I just wanted a more casual kind of look.
And it looked cute this morning, and they make me look very tall.
All right and I like to look very tall.
But why'd you change?
Because I like I said, they were a little too fancy. Plus, also they're kind of clompy, like a clonk clump, clonk, clump.
Oh, I knew what clump meant.
So I went I went for these instead.
And these are cute too. Okay, fine. I thought you didn't like these shoes.
I do like these shoes.
I thought they hurt your heels.
Well, they're a little too small, but I still like them.
Got it.
By the
end of the day, my feet hurt, but that's okay. Yeah. Okay,
so
I well, so you uh you got on these like salmon. Uh what do you call those? I
don't know. They're
like uh what's the style? Like a I don't know, I don't know the right style.
I don't need that. What do you call that? I don't. I don't, I don't know.
I'm just trying to help paint a
picture because now I've said Doc Martin. People are like, oh, she's got on a boot. But you don't. No. Not even close. You have on like a Mary Jane kind of looking flat, but it's like a salmon canvas. Yeah.
It's like a salmon canvas Mary Jane thing.
That's also a flat.
Yeah.
We can take a picture and That's fine.
All right. And then uh what's the pant choice?
The pants are like a it's like a slack, like a pattern slack.
Okay. And they're like a plaid
looking yep.
All right, which is which is good.
Just uh like a white kind of sweatshirt.
Kind of a jersey knit kind of thing. Designed to look like it's inside out. Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then a jean jacket.
Right.
And then the lady that I follow on Instagram does this thing with bandanas all the time.
Right.
And I think it's so cute. And she'll wrap them around her arm or she'll put them around her neck.
And I was like, I want to try that. Okay.
And so
Then you've got a cool bandana.
Where'd you get that thing? Oh, I got this at a store.
No kidding.
In Preston, actually.
Oh. Preston, Idaho.
Yes.
Home of Napoleon Dynamite.
So I was trying it on last night. I go, I think I can pull this look off. I think this look is so cute.
And I asked our daughter, who's a very she's into fashion and she knows what she's talking about. And now let me before you tell you tell everybody what you said to her.
I was down the hall, and after you said it, she laughed and she goes, Did you hear that? That's a new one. Write it down. So here we go. It was a big moment.
I put the bandana around my neck and I said, I kind of look like a toddler who's like teething. You know, you put those little bibs around them so it kind of catches all their saliva. I said, Do so I do look like a toddler, or do I look like a like shoot'em up.
A shoot'em up. And then you did two finger guns like you were in the old west. Shoot them up. Quick draw. Shoot'em up. So do I look like a toddler or a shoot em up.
Yeah, do I look like a teething toddler or do like a western shoot'em up?
Western shoot'em up. Um I don't think you look like either.
I think you look like uh like somebody who's wearing a scarf. I like the scarf thing. The bandana thing's cute. Okay. Thanks.
I think it's great.
I like it too, but I you know, when you change your style a little bit, you gotta you gotta just own it.
Right.
Instead of being like, I don't know.
I don't Now, let me see the picture, your reference picture.
Do you have that on demand? I do.
Is that something you can show me real quick?
I do.
Okay.
Unless I deleted it.
I might have deleted it. It's okay. I'll find it. Oh, here it is. Okay.
I think I did great.
Well, let me see. I just want to see what what she's got going on.
Okay.
So she's got on like a black uh Mary Jane, but it's a little platformy.
Yeah. Well, that's what
I think it's a glossy one. Um her plaid stripes are a little more um
defined.
Yeah, but did you do the roll up?
Yes.
On the ankle.
Yes. Good. Okay.
Then you've got the jacket with the shirt and the scarf. Yeah, I think it's cool. Yeah, I can dig. You did good.
Thanks, Josh.
Thanks. You're welcome. Now, do you feel like you're owning it?
Uh well, I've only seen just you and me in here in the studio today.
That wasn't what I asked.
No, I know, but you have to go out in public to feel if you're gonna own it, if you're gonna be like, this feels silly. Do you know what I mean?
No.
Like it's just us, and it's just been us this morning.
Yeah, but there's there's certainly days where I put in a little more
effort
than than you know, slacks and a t-shirt uh like today. But there are some days where I'm like, I'm gonna like dress it up a little bit.
Yeah, and you feel good like right out the gate. Like, even if it's just you and me, I'm like, I feel like
I put myself together
today. You feel, yeah, you absolutely
so that was my question. Are you owning it?
Yes.
Okay, good.
I like it. I think it looks cool.
Nice
I think I did a good job of uh using her this inspo picture as like a guide.
Sure.
And I go, Yeah, I like it. I think it looks cool.
Yeah.
So
well done.
I'm glad I don't look like a shoot'em up.
You don't look like a Western shoot'em up at all.
I'll see you at high noon. I I like to talk a lot of trash.
No way. But
I
since when
I can't talk up a big game if my team doesn't also perform.
Do You uh do you find that you have a problem?
Who has a problem?
My team? That you have a problem.
I do not have a problem.
It feels like you might have a problem.
I don't have a problem. My team has absolutely a problem.
The problem is you need a quarterback.
I need a quarterback really bad.
Yeah, you do. Uh it was interesting watching the Vikings play last night against the Bills. They lost.
Uh I knew that was gonna be a rough game because the Bills are very good.
Well, here's here's the deal. If you don't follow football very closely, let me just explain that there is a deadline for you to trade players. And uh, and so a lot of teams will trade uh, you know, different things like draft picks to pick up other players in the beginning of the next year.
Right, or they'll trade players for players, or they'll trade players and draft picks for players. Right.
Your team is in desperate need of uh stronger offense
um and a better quarterback. Because my defense is killer,
and that trade deadline is today.
It's today at 2 p.m. our time.
So between now and 2 p.m., if your team is going to make a trade for a quarterback, it's gotta happen, or else there's no more trading for the rest of the season. And then you just have what you have, which is not good news.
Well, and okay, so Kyler Murray is our new quarterback. He's injured.
He's been playing awesome, but he got injured.
So we had to put in Carson Wentz, who did not do well,
he did not perform. And
so then in the fourth quarter, oh, let's put in the third string.
And he was
actually okay, but why'd we wait till the
fourth quarter?
The last ten minutes or less. KOC.
Bud. Yeah.
Should have done that at halftime.
Yeah, I mean, I mean, look, in baseball, they'll swap out a pitcher if things aren't going well. It should have been something like that.
Should have
been. Um,
I get it. There should have been a substitution. I'm not even on the field.
Yeah, I know.
But I could feel the frustration with Justin Jefferson,
who was like, bro, I can't, I can't do my job if you can't do yours. Correct. And he was trying really hard. But he had to, he was like, I'm going deep, dude. Throw me the ball. Yeah.
And then he had to turn around and run back to try to catch the ball, and it went terribly a couple of different times. He had like one reception the whole night. Yep.
And he is very frustrated because he's in his prime. Yeah, I know.
The dude's not getting any younger, and he's very talented wide receiver, and he's being underutilized. He's in, he is sub-top 50 in wide receivers right now. And it's not even his fault. He's he's one of the greatest wide receivers of all time, and he's underutilized. And that is frustrating. I know I'm frustrated for him. I'm not even playing.
So last night they're talking about all these different potential quarterback options.
They keep throwing around Jonathan Taylor. Thomas.
No, not Jonathan Taylor Thomas. No.
Wouldn't that be dope?
This is this is the kind of football fan you are. Jonathan Taylor. Jonathan Taylor Thomas? Yeah. Every time somebody's name is said, you have some sort of quip like that.
I like to mess up their names. Like sometimes you just hear their last names,
and then I like to make up their first names. Oh, if you do that to a real football fan who knows all of the names, they get so annoyed. Yeah, our son. Uh or you'll pull like players that have been retired for decades. Like, oh uh, you see Young was out on the field. Steve
Young.
No No. He hasn't played football in decades. But yeah, Steve Young back on the field. Uh anyway, uh, so that's been an option. Last night they were throwing around Kirk Cousins' name.
They've been talking about Kirk Cousins for a while. But here's the thing. We don't need Kirk Cousins. I love Kirk Cousins, but he is old.
Okay.
But he's also, he knows that program really. I think Steve and Jefferson actually worked really well.
That's what I'm saying.
What if Kirkko Chains comes back? I would actually kind of like it, but I also kind of wouldn't. Because he actually hasn't been playing that good either.
Right, but that's why he would be an option out of Vegas. Because Vegas has the new guy. They have a quarterback. Like they're going to be okay if they trade Kirk Cousins back to the Vikings.
I don't know if they'll do that. I don't know. Wouldn't that it's gotta be so hard. I follow his wife on
Instagram, Kirk Cousins, and they have to move every time they get traded. So he was in Minnesota and then they moved to Atlanta, and then they moved to Vegas, and then they moved to
Oh, I'd be so annoyed.
I guess we're just
gonna be able to do that. Just the amount of movies.
Back to Minneapolis. I don't know. I think uh I think that's an interesting life.
It's hard, it's hard to I mean, normally I'm like school.
Yeah now I'm like skull. Oh no.
Yeah.
You need to be big skull right now.
I know.
The team needs you.
I know, but it's hard.
Yeah. The team was so audibly upset last night in the stands. They were booing their own team. They like booing the team.
Well, they made a lot of dumb plays.
That was crazy.
I was like, I wouldn't run that play. Why'd you pick that play?
Yeah.
Put me in coach.
Yeah. Wild. Your
team ended with two field goals. I know, dude. I know.
You got a great kicker. You got a killer defense.
My defense is awesome. And Van Ginkel, easily one of my favorite players right now.
Yeah.
He's awesome.
You need a quarterback real bad.
I know.
Get cousins back. I think it's a good idea.
Plus, then you would be like, oh, my team's back together. And you could wear your jersey again. I do have a
cousin jersey. All
right, bring Kirky back.
See?
I was at work yesterday at
my other job, and there I
wasn't there when this happened, but I was informed by a coworker that there was a woman who had come in and she said, Oh, I brought you some raspberry caramel. And it was in a bag. And she said that it was from a store.
Okay.
A locally owned store.
Okay.
But it didn't have any kind of markings or any kind of tags that said it was from said store.
I see.
So it looked like it was like caramel. And it was a big chunk of caramel. Like it was probably the size of I don't know.
The Kleenex box?
I mean, not that big, but maybe half of the Kleenex bag. The Kleenex.
It was just one lump.
Yes. Okay.
I have many questions.
Me too.
I'm going to tell you right now, there's not a business in town that sells you a lump of carmel like that.
I know.
I know. Did this person steal it? I don't know. But also, I just was like, you're not going to eat that. And my coworker was like, well, yeah, I might. And I was like, one, you don't know this person who brought it in.
And two, you can't be sure that that came from a store, a verified store. You don't know how clean that caramel is. You know where that caramel's been. You You don't know the origins of that car.
I said, I'm not eating that caramel. And she'd for hours. She would just be like, I just want to know if it tastes like raspberry. And I'd be like, I'll give you a dollar if you eat it. And she was like, well, I don't really need a dollar. And she was just Curious about it. And I said, I'm not, I'm not partaking. You go crazy, but I am not. Guess what? She opened up the bag.
And
she had a piece of caramel.
And
she said, This is pretty good. And I said, All right, I'll have a piece of caramel.
No, you did not.
I didn't. I did.
You went through all that turmoil about stranger danger, and then you fell victim of your own stranger danger. What are we going to do with you?
I didn't even wait even long enough for her to like have a reaction to it. I was, she was just like, that's good. And I was like, all right, I have some.
That's crazy. I know.
I know. I know. I'm crazy though, Josh. My middle name is Danger.
No, it's not.
If you've been forgotten, It's not.
That's the thing about it is that it's not.
We had some friends over a couple of weeks ago, and he was checking out your garden
and he saw a
tomato that hadn't ripened.
Yeah, it was like it had been frozen for nights and nights and nights.
And he said, I'll give you a crisp dollar bill if you eat this. And I said, All right.
You got a dollar bill. So now you're just desperate to give away that dollar. Give you a dollar if you try that caramel.
I'll try too, but
what is going on?
I don't know. I don't know. And I am not, I don't like to eat strange foods.
I know. You have no idea where that came from.
I really do not. I'm going to take a picture of it and send it to you because it is really just a lump of caramel. It was pretty good though. And you could taste the raspberry in it.
So you don't know where it came from.
I don't know.
That could have been a bad batch that someone threw away in the dumpster and
they dug it out and went, Yeah, I'm gonna have this.
I
know. I
know I know I'm gonna take this over here to these people I don't like. You're crazy.
I know. And then another coworker said, You guys ate it? There were three of us who ate it. And I said, Yeah. And she goes, Well, how did you? And then she got curious and she was like, Well, how did you like cut it?
You just pinch it.
With a night, yeah, we just I go
You just pinched it.
We used our dirty fingers, and just- It's just crazy.
Disgusting.
Dangerous.
Middle name disgust.
No, middle
name.
Danger.
Blip. Middle name.
Live on the edge.
But.
Let's talk about work evaluations.
Don't you love them?
No, I hate them.
I used to have uh a boss who wanted us to do evaluations like that. And you had to rate your own performance
and then go into a meeting
where you'd be told that no one gets a five. Because there's always room for improvement.
Well, then that's the thing. Like if you feel you're doing great and you put a great number down, then you go in to talk to your boss and they go, you really think you're performing this right? But if you mark yourself too low, they're like, what are you doing here? Like step up your game. What do you suppose?
I like self-evaluation.
Eat them.
I agree. I I don't know. And I'm
like, well, I get the point of like you should take pride in your work and you should you should uh strive to uh achieve more be the best that you can be in your career. If that's if that's something that you're doing. I feel like not every job needs to be so serious. Like uh it's okay if I just come in because this is what I do to pay my bills. That's just fine. Not everybody wants to climb a corporate ladder. Me, that's me. Well, okay. But you know what I mean? Like some people are just
content performing well in their
space with no intention of like, look, if I show up and I'm doing a good job and you're not getting complaints about me, and you feel like my performance it speaks for itself that's good enough for me. I agree.
Like I don't need that.
I have a pretty I have a pretty good relationship with my boss who gave this to me and he mentioned that they were coming and I said don't do it.
Yeah
we don't need this.
And so then yesterday when he passed that out our evaluations he said well Chantel asked that I give everybody a hard copy I said I had no part in this yeah
I told you not to do this.
I think the other thing that happens I think I look I think there is value as as a boss going like hey look our team is uh is doing well where do where are our weak spots you know are there
things we could do better I think that there are there are definitely uh times where that conversation is is important. Right.
But I think that's a different conversation as a team as a as a you know a focused like are we achieving the goals we set out uh to achieve because every business has goals whether it's budgetary or you know sales or whatever it is you've got goals and if you're not achieving things you need to assess the situation. So if there's a uh shortfall I think that's where you as a boss can go hey what's going on but the personal evaluation thing Yuck.
agreed
yuck
I know and then I have to I have to write goals
yeah what what are what are your goals?
I don't know I got it.
that's that's a really interesting thing.
I got none.
Yeah. You know like uh like if you have like what are your markers of success? Like how do you feel successful every day? Or this one what this is a good one. What's your why why do you when you wake up in the morning why do you come into work? What's your why
stop it
like there's just a lot of those and I
go like
we need some uh synergy in here we gotta we gotta build on our synergy I go what are you talking about?
What are you talking about? Can I go do my job now?
Yeah yeah
now you're taking
away my time now I have to fill out this dumbbell evaluation. Well good luck with your evaluation what are you gonna write?
I don't know I hate it I hate it so much.
I try to look uh like I take care of myself I have got good hygiene like so when when people talk to me they aren't grossed
out I did have another coworker who turned hers in already and I went what a brown noser
When did you get it?
Yesterday
no
way turned it in day of yeah
who are you trying to
impress what I said
I what are you doing
making us
all look bad see I've been that guy before that that's like cruising through stuff and everybody's like would you stop performing you're making the whole team
look bad yeah
and I'm like I don't know what to tell you. Keep up
no
so I've been that guy but I've also been the guy who's like buried in work way behind and going like now you want me to do another
thing I should have had like way. I should have had like a meeting like a rally meeting
oh
yeah gathered all the coworkers and said hey let's
need to not
do this
none of us turn this
in
yeah can't fire us all
how do you feel when you go to a restaurant and the waiter doesn't write anything down
I you know it's interesting I feel like if they've been a uh uh uh like a waiter or something for a long time I feel like there's a
good but you don't necessarily know if they've been a waiter or a waitress for a long time that's a good point.
I mean I yeah they don't they don't hand me a resume with the menu.
Um I always get a little bit nervous.
Sure.
And then they always come through
I haven't had any of them disappoint me.
So good on them.
Yeah I I don't I don't know that I've ever have I ever had uh an experience where not writing something down turned out to be like they came back and they went I I should have written that down. Like I don't think I've ever had it any problem like that. I don't like but you know like when somebody knows the menu and and you're like oh I you know here's what I want and they go great got it and for you and and you're like I
know you're making me nervous twinge of nervousness for sure.
I it would also depend on the the table size. Like if it's you and me I feel like you're not gonna get too crazy with two orders like a drink order, an appetizer, and then two entrees like you're I think you're gonna be able to handle that.
I don't know I still would probably
forget I need to write everything down. Here's the thing that would probably be frustrating in your mind you're going like all right I've got uh I got a diet coke I've got a diet Dr. Pepper I've got chips and salsa I gotta go get that and then on your way to going to get that another
table you're serving goes, oh hey, can I get two sides of ranch?
Exactly.
And then you're like or oh,
no.
Diet Coke.
Right. And also, can we put in another order of the uh flautas because they're delicious?
And you're like Exactly.
Oh
no, now you're lost. I'd forget everything.
Right. So maybe what you do is you'd be like, they'd go, excuse me, you go, I'll be right back with you. And you go, okay, diet coke, Dr. Pepper, chips and salsa in the machine. And then you go, what can I get for you?
Then you have to go back. You have to compartmentalize.
Yeah, I think that'd be my struggle. I've never done that. Have you ever done that? You've never done the waitress thing, the waiter waitress thing. I have I've never done that. I've done like back line um stuff at fast food, and I've done like front counter and drive-thru, but I've never
done everyone says that you should do it at least once.
So that you can be you know what it's like. So that doesn't show a little bit of more respect. Yeah, because I bet there's a lot of people that are just rude.
Terrible.
Just rude people. Yeah. If you're in the in the uh food service industry, bless your heart. Good
on
you. Holy smokes.
And uh
what a job.
If you don't write anything down and you're good at what you do, also well done. Yeah.
You think they're taking uh some sort of brain med.
Oh they got like big brain medication. Or they have a system.
Like maybe they're repeating things in their head or whatever their system may be, but I don't know.
That's not something I could do. Somebody says, I'd like a Diet Coke. I'd be like, got it.
And then somebody else says, I'd like chips and salsa, and I'd say, Wait, what was the first person's order? Right.
Go back. Start from the top.
Okay. And then you know when you when they bring the food out, and sometimes it's a different person and they just say the name of the food. That drives me nuts.
And because the people at the table are never paying attention.
Like I'll see the food come out and I'll go, Oh, food's coming. And then that's that's my signal to the table to be like, pay attention.
Yeah.
But it doesn't happen. And then they'll go, all right, I've got uh bacon cheeseburger, and no one says anything.
And then they go, bacon cheeseburger, and then somebody goes, Oh, that's me. And I go, remember when I said the food was coming to the table? And also you should be paying attention.
You're a grown person. I know.
Pay attention to when your food is coming
so the waitress doesn't have to sit there and go, bacon cheeseburger.
I got a bacon cheeseburger.
I don't like that either. And these are our things. just makes me crazy. I know.
It's usually our friends and family.
And I just want to snap at them and be like, hey, can't you? Pay uh attention. What did you order? Chicken strips. Who ordered the chicken strips? Like now I'm gonna say it. Well, somebody claim the chicken strips. I wasn't paying attention to what everybody else was ordering. Stop your conversation for 13 seconds and take your food from the from the person.
Please. Yeah,
that one drives me crazy.
I don't like that.
I feel so bad for the person because I'm always like no one is ever like uh chicken alfredo, and I'm sitting there just staring off. Like I'm never that guy. Ugh. Pay attention.
Oh funny.
That's gotta be happening at every table.
Everyone's making me crazy. I know, and I'm sure they hate that most of all.
Yeah, I'd come out and I'd be like, if I say your food twice, I'm taking it back.
You're not getting a meal. And you're just gonna pay me double.
That's right. Because I'm not dealing with it. I'm not putting up with it. That's the kind of restaurant I want to work at. One where I can sort of be like just real uh candid with the with the customer.
They have those.
Not the rude one. I don't want the rude one where they yell at you.
Yeah, and call you a bunch of names.
Yeah, I don't want that. I I don't want to go to one of those places.
I don't either.
Like I that's too intense.
I would probably cry.
Oh.
Yeah. Because they would probably call it some real stuff. They'd be like, oh, you think you're dangerous, but you're just Oh, danger's your middle name.
Let's see. Let's see about that danger. So as I was working on remodeling the office next door, I've got I've got a big boy desk, first of all. I don't still have the little baby desk. I know people have been looking for an update on that because I get a lot of people swinging by and going, Oh, I thought you got the baby desk. What happened to the little desk? I don't have a baby desk. I have a big boy desk now.
You can't you couldn't even do anything on that little baby desk.
I mean, I did, in fact, enroll in health insurance while sitting at the baby desk. So I you can do some stuff.
It was functional.
Yeah. Uh here's here's another thing that happened yesterday. Someone was looking for me uh later in the afternoon after the time that I usually leave for the day. But I ended up staying here late.
I'll explain that too. Um, but there there was uh one of the sales guys was looking for me. And I could hear him going like, Oh, uh Josh probably left for the day. It's after the time he normally leaves. So uh do you know if he's still around? And then he's asking Jeff, our production director, and Jeff's like, uh, did you check his office? And he goes, Oh, I forgot he has a big boy office. And I went, Yeah, I'm in here, man. Like, hello. He didn't see me sitting in the studio, which is where I've existed for like the past few years.
But your office is right next to the door.
It is right next door.
And there's a window.
That's right. He's an observant one. But he missed that. Uh anyway, so yeah, so that was a conversation. But then as I was kind of putting it together, uh, my buddy John has the ability to tie flies at his desk at his job, and I felt like that's something I need to make happen.
So I brought in uh a little vice and a couple of little supplies so that I could tie some flies while I was waiting for computer processes. And yesterday was that day. I I was stuck waiting for a computer to run a process for well over an hour. And I was totally bummed out that it took that long because normally it's a 20 minute thing. And then I turned that into tying a bunch of flies. So it worked out. I mean, I got like, you know, half a dozen flies tied, and the time I had to sit there and wait for the computer to run its process. Um, because that was the like the last thing I needed to get done yesterday.
And I'm sorry. If your boss comes around and sees you tying flies, he's not like, what are you doing?
He didn't, it wasn't my boss. Nobody knows. Or you know what I'll do is I'll tie a few for him, and I'll go, here you go. See benefits for all. Uh I haven't thought about that, but that hasn't happened yet.
Okay.
So I'm okay with that.
But anyway, uh Well, nobody knows where you are.
Nobody knows where I am. I have a big boy desk, not a baby desk, and uh I got to tie like half a dozen flies yesterday.
You tied six flies?
Yeah. That's insane. Yeah. Well, the computer was taken an abnormally long time. Normally that process takes 20 minutes. But I the computer I have in my office took an hour to run the process that normally takes 20 minutes in here. And that's frustrating. I've got to figure that out.
Because I can't be I can't be sticking around until after five o'clock every day.
No way. I don't get paid enough for that. Anyway, yeah, I've got a little fly tying bench thing. And it and it's nice. I like that I have that there at my fingertips, and I can tie like the the fly that I'm tying is one that I specifically use right now and will use I can use it year-round.
Um, but it's a good fall pattern, and it's uh and it's one that catches fish real often. So I've got a whole bunch of supplies. I'm gonna tie more of those because I you you tie them and you lose them, and you tie them and you fish with them and you lose them. And it just it goes in a cycle. Or you're fishing with somebody and they don't have one, and you go, here, have one of these. This is what's working. And so you gotta have a box of them.
Right.
So I'm gonna tie more. Maybe today I'll tie another six. We'll see how the computer decides to behave.
Meanwhile, you're probably like, I'm gonna do this project, and and pretend like Oh, computer.
The computer's running. it's taking so long. Yeah, yeah. Oh, slow computer. I guess I'll have to tie some flies.
One of slow install.
Yeah. Dang it. Would you rather this or that?
Would you rather find a bug in your salad or a hair in your soup?
Oh. Well, they're both side dishes, so at least my main meal isn't hurt.
But if it's a main meal, it's not.
It's a salad or a soup. Um a bug in the salad.
Yeah.
Or a
hair in your soup.
How much have I eaten? Is it right out, right? Like it's right on top.
Oh, you've eaten
No.
almost half of it.
Oh. Yep.
And is it a live bug or a dead bug?
Uh I'm done eating it, whatever it, whatever it is. I'm done eating it. I'd rather it be a hair than a bug.
Really?
Yeah, I think so. Because uh a hair is something I'd expect to find in a kitchen, a bug in a kitchen, I'm now grossed out by your whole kitchen.
What kind of bug?
Like a hair, I go, please stop with the hair and the food. That's awful. But a bug in the food, I'm I question the cleanliness of your kitchen.
And then are you saying something?
I'm not eating it.
Right.
I'm done eating. My appetite's destroyed. Because if I find a bug in my in my starter or my side dish, there's a good chance I'm gonna find a bug in my main and I'm gonna have an issue with that.
A hair, a random hair is a less disgusting offense for me.
Interesting. I'm not happy about it, and I'm done eating my soup, but I'm you're
more grossed out by the bug. I'm way more grossed out because the bug indicates a dirty kitchen. That's not true.
To me, it is. And depending on the bug.
Yeah, right.
Like a caterpillar in my salad that's been eating the greens, I'm not into it. A cockarooch, no thank you. A fly. I mean, there are sometimes restaurants get flies that fly around, but if I got like a dead fly in the salad, I'm over it.
Yeah.
I'm not into it.
Yeah. I I can't decide. I really can't. I feel like a bug is cleaner than hair, though. G Gross. Grossy gross.
I mean, I'm done eating.
Yeah, I know.
Regardless.
I'm done.
But I feel like the hair is something I like. There are people making the food. There are people serving the food. A hair can happen. A bug should not ever happen. That's what I'm saying. Okay.
Well, going with that logic, I'm gonna pick a hair too.
Yeah. But I'm still done with the lunch.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
I'm over it. And then are you going back to that place? Uh not for a while. I had a bad experience. I'm not going back. Well, I mean, if that bad experience was not hair or bug related, I would still be like, I'm gonna give that place a rest. I'm not gonna go there for a while. I had a bad experience at a place in town. I haven't been back.
Ooh, say the place.
No. I won't. I will say I don't feel welcome in that place. But I also
interested.
Yeah, but that's fine. They like it that way. So I don't go back. Would you rather this or that?
Is there a word for when you're working at a computer and there's somebody watching you work at your computer and you can't work at your computer?
Shame. I don't
think I feel like there's some people that should be ashamed of how they use a computer. I having been the IT person watching over the shoulder. That's not what
I'm talking about. I'm talking about like if your IT person comes to help you and you have to, they're like, type in your password and you're like, I forgot how to type. That's what I'm saying. Shame. You should feel shame.
No, I shouldn't feel shame.
There's just a you should be better at computer.
No, they just make me nervous. And so then I go, I forgot everything.
Right.
I don't even know.
Is that what's happening? Because I again I'm gonna say being on the other side of that and walk in. Somebody goes, my computer's having a weird issue. And I walk over and I'm watching them use it. And I go, have you ever used a mouse before?
You're not the right person to ask.
That's what I'm saying. You used to be an IT guy. So I don't you're not you're the wrong person
to talk about this.
That's what I'm saying. Because I I can't watch people use computers.
Well, I have watched people use computers too, and it's sometimes it is bad.
Now, Saturday Night Live years ago, Jimmy Fallon was the company computer guy, and he he would do the move. Like he had like an attitude about like his his computer prowess.
Yes. And he'd walk up and somebody'd be like, Oh, I can't, I can't get my email to open. And he's like, Well, did you try clicking on the attachment?
And then they'd go, Yeah, of course I did. And he goes, Oh, move. And then he sits down and he's like, was that so hard? Like, so I get it. Like that was a great sketch because I've been that guy where I'm like, can you just I'll just let me fix it. Let me just drive and let me see.
Yeah. But then, you know, I want to be patient. I want to help these people understand and learn a new thing. And then so I watch and then I go, like, I'm losing my mind right now.
And then they'll like double click on a link they should have only clicked once, and I'm like, you don't know how a computer works.
Right.
And then I'll go, can you minimize that window? And they go, huh? And I go, shrink it, make it go away. Like they go, huh? And then they close it.
And I went, and then their desktop, once they closed the window instead of minimized it, the desktop's just an array of icons and files. And I go, I'm done. I good luck. Burn it with fire. I don't know how to help you. Feel a shame.
You know.
The feeling is shame, and you should feel it.
No, that's not. You're the wrong person. Have you never been at a computer and you've had a problem and then somebody comes over and you've forgotten because somebody's watching you, you're like, I don't even remember what I'm supposed to do.
I have not.
Okay, well, you're the
one I'm supposed to.
I don't I shouldn't have brought this up.
You're better than No, no, no, no, no.
Move.
No, that is not what I'm trying to say. There are absolutely people who are better at computer than me. I do like when I try to talk technology with people that are on the same level, and they go like, well, I could explain this. And I go, you don't have to. We're on the same page. And they go like, what? And then we get to have real nerdy conversation.
Yeah, that's always cool.
Yeah. I like that. I like when uh when when levels are equal.
Yeah, you've called, you've called like people to help us out with like home stuff before.
Yeah.
And they always it's.
Have you tried turning it off and back on again? And I went.
I've done all of the online troubleshooting. I know. You lead in with it like I've done this and I've done this.
And then you get like real nerdy about it. And it's like you're like, I want them to know what level they're working with. That is not a good
thing. Oh,
get out of here. You know it is absolutely. I'm not like please come to my level. That is not what I'm trying to do.
That's what I'm saying. What I'm trying to do is let them know you don't need to run through the basics with me. I've done the basics. I've troubleshot the problem to the point of reaching out to you because all of the things I know how to do didn't work. So please don't give me the basics because I've done them. That's what I'm trying to do. No, I'm trying to save everyone time. Yeah, you're trying to be like, I'm on your level.
No.
I know what I'm doing.
I don't know. I don't talk like that. No. Listen. I don't know. It's not a thing. I just don't want people to waste their time going like, well, now, do you know where the power is for this device? And I go, dude, I've power cycled it three different times. The last time I power cycled, I left it off for 10 minutes so that the trends, so all the stuff could discharge inside.
I let it reset. I've done all due diligence. I've gone through it. And now I need top level help. That's why I'm calling. Because all the basics didn't work. Anyway. So we can wrap up the show.
I think it's time.
All right. Sounds good. Thanks for hanging out with us. We'll be back tomorrow. Uh let's see. What's happening tomorrow? Mm. Just a Wednesday.
Just a Wednesday. Middle of the week.
Yeah.
Here we go.
All right. We'll see you back here tomorrow morning.
See ya. Bye.
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