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It's Josh and Chantel, and this is wake up classy 97, the podcast. It's a replay of today's full show. It's Wednesday, May 29th. On today's show, I try out a new method to fall asleep and it kinda works a little too well. We learned the simple things that improve your life, asked how to have the best summer ever, found out that we might have a lilac bush or a tree still not 100% sure, and Josh thinks he takes care of all the tasks.
He successfully made pizza, and he killed a spider like a big boy. Thanks for listening. Catch the show live weekday mornings from 6 to 10 and enjoy wake up classy 97, the podcast. Classy 97. It's Josh, and it's Chantel.
Hey, girl. Hey. And it's Wednesday, and I forgot to take the garbage out. Oh. Because the week is weird.
I I didn't think about it. Do you think we get pushed today? I think we might get pushed today. It might be our lucky day. So it might be tomorrow.
I'm gonna I'm gonna go for that. Also, why is it always windy on garbage day? That is, that's a fact. It is a fact. I don't know why.
Jack? Today is learn about composting day. What would you like to learn about composting? I don't. I've learned a little bit over the past few months about composting.
Black gold, they call it. Or at least 1 guy I know. He's super into composting. Yeah. He's like, you can put your hands in it.
It's all warm. I don't wanna put my hands in it. I think it's great, and I wanna do it. I don't know if I I'm not in the mood to learn about it right now. It could be a different time.
Well, but today is the day to learn about composting. So it is Any day can be The knowledge is being thrust upon you. Black gold. It is, end of the Middle Ages Day. I thought that ended a while ago.
Yeah. I thought so too. It is international day of UN peacekeepers. What is an oak apple? I don't know.
Well, Let me look it up. Oak apple day Oak. Brings together communities in England to celebrate King Charles. The second and the restoration of the throne in 16/60. So I don't know what that, you know like a fruit that comes on oak trees.
Great. You can eat it. It is world tiger nut day. You can't eat it. Tiger nut?
Uh-huh. What's tiger nut? Oh, it's this little shriveled, dried out, like, brown raisin looking thing. It's National Paperclip Day. It is National Flip Flop Day.
Are you flip flopping? I've got sandals on, but not flip flops. Alright. Well, that counts. National Alligator Day, and it is World Otter Day as well.
And it's put a pillow on your fridge day. What? This 1 we talked about last year. And, prior to in home refrigeration, people would put a piece of cloth in their, larder, once a year for luck. So put a pillow on your fridge day keeps the tradition going.
Oh. Uh-huh. Yep. It is National Senior Health and Fitness Day. Have you seen your health and fitness?
Yes, love. Yes. I have seen my health and fitness. It is biscuit day, which is a cookie Yes. In England, and International Everest Day, the mountain.
Let's have a cookie. Alright. We could do that. A biscuit. A cookie, biscuit, it doesn't matter.
I'll take either. Okay. I'll take both. 1 in each hand. Yes.
Yeah. Happy not Tuesday. It's Wednesday. It is Wednesday. Yeah.
Uh-huh. Yes. It's Josh and Chantel. Do you have trouble falling asleep? Not so much.
No. You don't. You don't typically. I'm a pretty good sleeper. You yes.
You are. If you do have trouble falling asleep every any night, I did. I'm usually a pretty good sleeper too, but the other night I had trouble. I wish I had known this trick. This is called the Alpha Bridge Sleep.
The Alpha Bridge Sleep. Yeah. Have you heard about this? Nope. Talk to me.
All the rage on TikTok. Oh, is it? I guess. This person says it is. K.
K. So this is it's called the Alpha Bridge because it tricks your brain it it refers to your alpha brain waves. K. And these are types of brain waves that appear prominently when you're relaxing with your eyes closed right at the brink of sleep. So I've been there.
Here's what you do. So the goal is to simulate your brainwaves by, like, simulating drowsy eye movement so you feel relaxed enough So to fall asleep. So you fake you fake it? Kind of. Yeah.
You go, oh, my eyes are so tired. So get comfortable in your bed. Mhmm. If you're on a plane or train, it says get as comfy as possible too. K.
Close your eyes and count to 30. Mhmm. Next, open your eyes slightly so only a sliver of them is open like a half moon shape. Oh, okay. Count to 5 as you hold them slightly open.
Fully close your eyes again and count again to 30. Open your eyes halfway again and count to 5. Close your eyes 1 more time and focus on your breath. And that should zonk you out. Last step, slowly breathe in and out through your nose, and you should drift off to sleep.
Mhmm. It's a lot of thinking. Counting. Lot of thinking and counting. Do you know what I like to do?
What's that? Go to sleep. Yeah. But I'm saying I know. It works for me.
It works for me. Struggling Yeah. I'm gonna try it. I just don't know if I'm gonna ever remember the steps. Go ahead.
Close close your eyes all the way down. K. Relax all the way down. Done. And count to 30 in your head.
K. Not out loud. Because if if you're doing that, that's gonna be too much. K. You're because you're gonna be, you know, at 1, 2.
It this is just like counting sheep. This is the same thing. No. But then you half, open your eyes. That's too open.
Trick your eyes. My eyes do feel heavy. Mhmm. I could take a nap. I could really Yeah.
And I'm fine. Working. And then close them again and go to 30. Great. Yep.
And then when you get down this is terrible. No. It isn't. It's working. Is it?
Yeah. I could fall asleep. Well, what do you know? What do you know? Be careful with that.
She's powerful. It is powerful. Let's go back to sleep. Classy 97. It's Josh and Chantel.
Hey. The legendary cheese rolling race Yes. Took place yesterday. Yeah. I saw some, photos and video of it.
No. Today. I guess it took place today. No. They they they had some stuff I saw online last night.
Oh. I saw some stuff. You did? Yeah. Well, it said it was posted today, and then it said it took place today.
So well, it doesn't matter. Okay. So it happened either today or yesterday. K. They were worried.
The people in charge were worried about mass casualties. Hundreds of people threw themselves down a 180 meter hill. Yeah. How much? We're in the metric system.
180 meters is 500 and 90 feet. Okay. It does that means the same thing as 180 to me. It means nothing. Alright.
Fair. The cheese was £6. Yeah. The cheese will. Yeah.
They had a couple of races throughout the day. Yeah. They do different heats. But the rule remains the same for each race. The 1st runner to snatch the tees will be declared the winner.
So is that timed if they have different heats? Because it's 1 wheel of cheese. Not no. There's a different wheel of cheese in each heat. Heat.
Okay. K. This year's hill was especially slippery and muddy after a recent rain. Oh, no. Members of the local rub rugby club line up at the bottom to catch tumbling competitors.
That's that's who stops you if you're because it's a steep hill I know. And you get roly polian real quick, and people ragdoll. It's it's crazy to watch. I know. I don't know why anybody does this.
This event, do you know that it's it's formally known as the Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling and Crack? Yep. It is 6 centuries old, and it originated from a festival celebrating the arrival of spring. Sure. Now that originally, years years years years ago Yeah.
A graduate of North Carolina State won in 2022. She came back. She won this year in the in the, females. Abby? Is that her name?
American Abby was the women's champion is what my report says. Yes. Abby Lampey. Yeah. Something like that?
Good for her. Yep. From North Carolina. So she's a 2 time winner because she won in 2022 as well. And she she won the Chiefs.
Oh my. I that's this is something I'll never ever participate in. Will I go watch 100%. I'll just watch online. Well, yeah.
But wouldn't it be cool that if you're in England and they're like, oh, hey. The cheese race is today. Yeah. Let's go watch. Yeah.
I don't know if you've if you've I we're gonna wait for an ad, but I don't know if you've ever seen I have. But, like, just the terrible things that the human body goes through. 1 dude had to go to the hospital, I saw. A lot of people went to the 1 dude not so good, though. Bleeding and bruising.
Yeah. Look at him. Just look at this. And that's a strategy. I mean, that roly poly movement of just ragdolling your body is how you win.
Oh my gosh. That hurts. It hurts me to look at it. Yeah. And there she is with her cheese.
Look at her. Abby, where'd you go? You win that cheese? That's all you win? Yes.
I thought it was bigger than that. It looks small. It's a cheese wheel. That's it. That's it.
I know, but it does look bigger. You gotta catch that rolling down a hill. And that's all you win. Then you win it. I don't like cheese that much.
Abby likes cheese a whole bunch. There's some good news for you. Blake, I guess I'm gonna guess, Cinchelo. It's we'll just call her Blake or Kim. Kim?
Kim? Blake Conchalo always admired, the old red 1954 International Harvester pickup truck that his grandfather Richard had. And Richard had a lot of memories of, driving this truck around, but Blake never saw it on the road. He only saw it run down and not running. And Aw.
So by the time Blake came around, it was it was just toast. It wasn't working. It was done. K. So Blake gave the truck a a nickname.
He called it cannonball because it's red. Uh-huh. This is a big red truck. And, he was kind of inspired to get it up and running again, so he put work in adding parts and fixing broken systems. Often, he had to get creative with the repairs because the actual parts for the 70 year old truck, are, like, impossible to find.
So he had a lot of ambition and a little bit of ingenuity, and he got cannonball running again. And he drove it over to grandpa's house, and grandpa was in tears Aw. And said, well, I'll be danged. That's what he said. That's a quote from Richard, as the truck drove down the road, stirred up a bunch of memories, and fulfilled the dream of, Blake to get that going for Grandpa.
Pretty cool. So we got this, 1954 truck up and running. Cannonball. Cannonball. Yep.
And now I'm imagining, with the exposure of this story, there may be some folks who are like, let's get this thing done upright. Let's do it. And, I bet some people will step in and help. I bet you're right. People are big like that, so I think that's cool.
But, anyway, good job, Blake. Yeah. Blake nice to you, grandpa. Getting that old cannonball running again, so that's pretty cool. It's good news I'll be danged.
To get you going on classy 97. Classy 97. It's Josh and Chantel. Good morning. Good morning.
In case you haven't noticed, schools are winding down. Yeah. That's a thing. Graduations are happening. Summer is right around the corner.
Yep. Some people have, already let out. Yeah. You have to go back after Memorial Day. Others have to finish this whole week.
Yep. Today is Emery's last day. It is her last day It's exciting. 8th grade. Yeah.
She's very sad. Okay. Here I'm trying to remember back. Alright? Like, like, 8th grade.
See, I still had 9th grade at the junior high. I did too. And so I was it was no big deal. I wasn't leaving middle school, going to high school yet. That transition was, saved for another year.
Yeah. But now it's only 7th and 8th grade at middle school. That's going to be a tough year. Through 12th is in high school, which is that's a wild thing. It's just she's like me.
Emery is so like me in so many ways where 2 months ago, she hated it. Yeah. I'm done with school. I don't wanna be here. I hate it.
And now she's like, I'm gonna miss it. I don't wanna leave. I'm sad. Right. And it's just because it's changed and it's scary.
Yeah. At that school, she knows where everything is, and she knows the teachers, and she knows students. And she may not love every day, but she's sad to be leaving it. That makes sense. A couple of teachers that she's really gonna miss.
Right. A couple of friends that she's made that she's not I mean, they're gonna be moving with her to the other school, I assume. But Yeah. Unless something crazy happens over the summer or whatever. But that's the other thing.
Like, you you see all of these people, like, every day Mhmm. And then you go away for 3 months or whatever, 2 and a half months. And then you come back, and so much has changed. I know. Especially yeah.
Like, this is a giant changing point for maturity and everything else in all of these people. So it'll be really interesting to see how high school? Like, that's I know. Like, it was weird a couple of years ago. We're like, we don't we're done with elementary school.
We don't have any kids in elementary. And now we're done with middle school. I know. You're having a transition moment. Because we only have a high schooler left.
I know. You and I. Yeah. That's it. 1 4 years of high school.
It's not like I know. But It's not like she's graduating tomorrow. No. Life happens so fast, man. The blink of an eye.
It's crazy. But good luck to everybody finishing school. Good luck to teachers. I'm sure you're ready to be done. No doubt.
And I saw there was this thing where a teacher said, look. I can be, I can be ready for summer and still be a good teacher. I just am like this is my job, and I'm ready for the break. Yeah. Which well deserved.
Well deserved. Teachers are like, here, parents. Yeah. Entertain your kids. Turn.
No kidding. And, also congrats to the class of 2024. Woo hoo. Classy 97. It's Josh and Chantel.
Josh, let's have a pizza oven update. What do you wanna know? Okay. Well, you got a pizza oven. You've been looking for 1 for a while.
You got 1 from my brother. Me down? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
He was he was not having any luck with it, and he said, look. If you wanna try, you can have it. And I said, alright. Let me give it a shot. And, my first go round, epic failure.
Giant epic failure. What happened on the first go around? Why was it a failure? Well, I made I made dough from scratch, which went fine, I thought, but it stuck to the peel, which is the, giant pizza spatula. Okay.
It's called a peel. It's called a peel. PEA pizza peel. PEEL Sure. K.
Got it. And so I I did a bunch of research after that. Because what happened is, when I put it in there, I took it out, and I had a burned pile of pizza Oh. That was more like a remember. Disaster.
It was just a disaster. Yeah. And, I ended up cooking frozen pizzas in it, and that worked better. The outside edges were burnt pretty hardcore, but the inside, the middle was still pretty doughy. Yeah.
I was having a lot of problems. Yeah. And, and so I talked to a guy who, actually ran a pizza business. And so I you know, he kinda gave me some pointers, and then I got, I got online and did a little bit more research, and I and I found some different dough. Anyway, this go around, much better.
I successfully made, 2 out of 3 of the pizzas that I cooked. Yes. You did. And they were delicious. Yeah.
It turned out. Even the first 1 that you cooked, it was a little bit overdone. Yeah. But you could salvage some of the pizzas. And even the pizzas that were okay were pretty dang good.
But then the the second and third pizzas that I cooked were excellent. I was excited. I I think I learned how to regulate the temperature a little bit better because it isn't propane. Like, it's it's pellet. I have to I have to cook pellets, and it's a whole thing, and you gotta preheat.
You know, there's there's steps to this thing. I know. You're into it. And so, yeah, I made pizzas, and it turned out much better than the first go round. You ate them yesterday for lunch.
You ate the leftovers. How were the leftovers? I'll be having that again for lunch today. It was pretty good. Were they good?
Yeah. Even microwaved? Yep. Not not mad about it. And I do have a toaster oven here, so I could really toaster oven them and make this dish.
Oh, a toaster oven. Okay. Yeah. I was thinking about it. Toaster.
No. There actually, there is, there is rumor around these halls that there used to be a different toaster in the break room that someone reheated their pizza in. No. You can do that You can. You can, but you have to turn the toaster on its side.
Oh, smart. Right. Otherwise, all your stuff goes bleh, and the person who did that doesn't work here. But that person did not turn it on its side. Oh.
And so all the pizza went bleh And then it to the bottom. And then Caught on fire and stuck up a whole place. I bet it was a whole thing. It's a whole workplace disaster. So don't do that.
Use a microwave or toaster oven or air fryer or an oven. Last resort. I would build a campfire before I would turn a toaster on its side. You would. Yes.
Don't. Because don't turn a toaster on its side. It's just not that's not a safe idea. Why? It's a fire hazard.
It's a terrible idea. Just don't put anything next to it. No. Just don't do it. Because, also, when it's done, what happens?
It pops out. Yeah. And there goes your hot pizza all over the whole floor. Classy 97. It's Josh, and it's Chantel.
Hi. I just watched a reel, an Instagram reel, where there was a gas station. I don't know where. But they posted a sign on their door that said they would offer a $5 discount on gas if you walked in doing a silly dance. Ah, great idea.
And I do silly dances all the time. Sure. He ever offers us discounts. Yeah. No.
We We've been cheated. Well, we didn't go to that gas station. No. But more places should do that because I watched the video of, like, these people coming in doing silly dances. Mhmm.
It was fun. It is fun. I mean, that's a whole new energy. And I'm sure there's some some curmudgeons. They're like, oh, I'll just pay.
Yeah. I was pissed, bro. I can't be silly. Where's the fun in that? Yeah.
Because a few people I watched were, like, a little hesitant to do it. But once they did it, they were like, this is ridiculous and fun. Right. And then they laugh. And then you let loose a little bit.
And then you have to have a good time. Right. It's okay. Don't take life so serious. You can be silly every once in a while.
It's cool. Because we like to embarrass our kids. Right. Well, there's that. We do silly walks all the time.
There's an there's this walk I've walked in on that is an instant embarrassment. For Emery. Oh, If I even, like, hint that I'm gonna start doing it, she will lay she will leave the area. Like, I will not be seen with you doing that move. It's a good move.
It's like a gorilla. It is. It is. Well, that's that makes it sound like, like there's, like, forearms forward, which they're not. You really sit back into it.
I don't know what kind of animal walks like that. Where did you come up with that 1? I don't know. My body moved that way, and I kinda just went, this is natural for you? It's actually pretty comfortable.
No. It isn't. No. What happened is, she started doing a silly walk and found that it it was was rapid. Like, she could move.
She was like, this this is a hustle. Like, I can get around quick if I move in this weird way. And she's like, why is that so fast? She just did it yesterday and was like, why is that so quick? Fascinating.
But she won't do it outside of the house. Oh, of course not. And if anybody does it around her, forget about it. Yeah. People can see her outside the house, gosh.
People think she has parents outside of the house. What? I know. How embarrassing. I know.
Can't can't have adults. No way. I love it. I think more places need to offer a discount for doing so well. It's a good it's a good joke.
Just being silly. Right? Tell me a silly joke. I'll give you 5 advice. Smile to faces every day.
Who does? That that attitude. Doing silly walks, doing silly things, telling me tell me a clean joke, whatever. That's fun. It's a good time.
And you're right. More places should be like, here's $5 off. I know. I know. More places should just knock $5 off.
Just for being silly. Hey. You smiled at me today. Here's $5 off. Just because I like you.
That's right. Pew pew. Classy 97. It's Josh, and it's Chantel. Good morning.
So over on the Internet, somebody asked the question, what improved your quality of life so much that you wish you had done it sooner? There's a long list here. Okay. What do you think someone would do to improve their quality of life? And these are easy things.
These are small things that would improve your quality of life, and you wish you would have done them sooner. I don't know. Like, what are some of the comments people have been asking? Somebody said meditating. Okay.
Somebody said getting a pet. Somebody said sleeping 8 hours a night. Somebody said getting out of debt. Yes. So these are bottom of the list.
Okay. What do you think is the number 1 thing I don't know. That what what's the number 1 thing that would improve your quality of life right now? Retirement? Close.
Working 4 days a week. Ah, I said this. So long. No. So I said I work 4 days a week.
It changed my life forever. Yeah. Yeah. Working from home was a big 1. That 1 was up, pretty high as well.
Cutting out toxic friends and family is a big deal. Setting some boundaries. Yep. Stopped putting other needs before their own happiness and well-being. Oh, that's a good 1.
That's a big deal. Exercising, drinking more water, cleaning as you go so the mess doesn't accumulate. Oh. That's that's a good 1. There's a lot of kids who need to learn that.
There's a lot of adults who need to learn that. That's true too. Losing weight made the list. Stop consuming so much news in social media and reading and cooking more. Ah.
Yeah. So those are simple, simple things that a lot of people were like, I started doing this stuff, and immediately my life got better. Reading and cooking more. Absolutely. I need to do it.
I I need to do all of that stuff on the list. Exercising, eating better, meditating, 8 hours of sleep. It's fine. 4 day work week. Yeah.
We're we're experiencing that this week. How's it going so far? I'll ask you in 2 days. Ask me when the week is over, and I'll be like, yeah. 4 days is great.
Right. Monday was great. I know. Yeah. Went hiking.
Got to be outside. I need that more often too. That's not on the list, but spending more time in nature. Yeah. That's a big 1.
So, anyway, simple, simple things, the small things that you can actually control you know what they say about your life better. Things. They add up to big they add up to big things. Yeah. Yeah.
It's true. That's what they say. Wake up, classy 97. It's Josh and Chantel. It's us.
So this is, a question I posted on the Classy 90 7 community. That's our Facebook group. If you're not a member, join. I wanted to know when you were a kid, what made your summer the best summer ever? As you're reaching the end of school, a lot of kids kicking off summer vacation.
What was it for you, Chantel, that, like, as you were when you were a kid, what made your summer the best summer ever? Getting up and having no agenda. That's nice. Like, it was you wake up, you eat some cold cereal, maybe watch a cartoon or 2, and I get out on my bike. I just Ride your bike.
I liked riding my bike Yeah. Around the neighborhood. Okay. You can ride your bike around the neighborhood. I know.
You got a a grown up bike now. I know, but I have agendas every day. Oh. And that's the worst part is having a schedule. When I was a kid, during the summer, no rules.
It felt like there were no rules anyway. Right. Bailey said no school and no homework. Yeah. That's the clearly.
That's that's the the greatest part there. Ben said working at scout camp for the summer. An entire summer in the outdoors, starting fires, riding bikes, building things, hanging out with friends, and getting paid for it. Yeah. It doesn't get much better than that.
That's a good answer, Ben. We've got Dalen who said feeling like summer was never ending, spending late nights with friends and family around campfires. Zach had to work over the summer, so he really appreciated summer when it was over. He didn't get to spend any time during the summer because he's just working. JR had shenanigans with cousin on camping trips.
I know this. This is real. Like, trying to swim across treacherous stretches of water. You know? You do you do dumb things.
You can chime in on the, class of 97 community, our Facebook group. When you were a kid, what made your summer the best summer ever? They asked kids nationally. They wanted to know between the ages of 5 14, what does your perfect summer look like? What do you think they said?
I don't know. What did they say? Simple stuff. It's simple things. Pool parties, road trips, going to the beach, playing for 8 hours a day.
Yeah. And when they asked them what they were looking forward to the most over the summer, overwhelmingly, the kids said having time to play. Exactly. No agenda. No schedule.
Just you get up. You do your own thing. And maybe your parents had something scheduled for you, but didn't matter because it felt like they were so long. That's true. And if they were working, like, if you like, both my parents worked.
Mine too. I was, like, running the neighborhood. I know. That's what it was. Like, I was outside all the time.
It was pretty great. Anyway, make time to play this summer. That's the big deal regardless of your age. That's the advice they say. A big deal is making time to play outside.
Go play and relax. Can we go right now? Nice. Sure. I mean, kind of this job is sort of like play, isn't it?
Is it? At least I thought so. Classy 97. It's Josh and Chantel. The TV seasons have just wrapped up.
Oh, like, like, the series of shows that are done for the summer? Yeah. Like, what? Like, yeah, everything. Like, seasons.
So TV just goes off for the warehouse? Seasons run from fall to spring. Right? Sure. They start in September.
I mean, they typically match the school year. Is that right? I don't know. Yeah. Don't you remember, like, as a kid that you were like, oh, I can't wait until my show comes back in the spring, like or the fall.
That's how it works. That's how TV seasons work. Only show I ever got that involved in was Lost. And it came in the fall I didn't I don't left in the spring. It was all over the place.
And then there were, like, a year and a half between seasons sometimes. Nonetheless, shows have wrapped up. Yeah. Okay? So they did a list.
Of course, they did. The top 100 shows. I'm not gonna go through all of them. Yeah. Let's not read 100 of them.
Sunday night football, Monday night football, and Thursday night night football took the top 3 spots. K. And that'll be back in August. Yeah. The top 3 spots, football.
It's you you did that. Yes. I did it. You're right. It wasn't like that till you became a fan.
Yeah. They were slipping. And then I started watching football, and everyone was like, I'm gonna check this out. Look what you've done. You could say, look what you made me do.
Oh, is that a Taylor thing? Is that that's a football and Taylor reference is what you've done there. Yeah. She doesn't have any involvement in football. So 0.
0 influence. And then a lot of these shows, I'd we don't really watch TV. So I don't know a lot of these, but then Tracker came in 4th place, NCIS, young Sheldon. 60 minutes is on the list, and then they've got a whole bunch of, game shows that are on this list too. And Survivor.
I didn't even think Survivor was still even around. Can you even believe it? Survivor is a good show. Like, I like a competition show like that, but it's been around for a long time. I know it has.
I'm trying to see 46th edition. It premiered in 2,000, Survivor. The Golden Bachelor is pretty up there. They got a lot of newer 1. It was a pretty popular show.
Yeah. It was seniors. Right? Well, they yeah. I guess.
That's how that works. What were you gonna say? No. I don't know. Oh.
That's what it was. It was it was an older gentleman. They have 1 of the most watched game shows, The Price is Right at Night. That's a gay that's a game show. At night?
Yeah. I didn't even know that was a thing. We don't we really don't watch TV. I don't I had no idea. And then Celebrity Jeopardy is on there and celebrity wheel of fortune, but The Price is Right at night.
That's only a show you watch when you're skipping school. Right? It's the only time you watch The Price is Right. And I haven't watched it with Drew Carey that much, but because I'm I'm a Barb Barker kid. So, you know, I feel I feel like I was betraying my Bob Barker roots.
No. Not really. Drew's good. Poor Bob Barker. Yeah.
Anyway Anyway, football, top 3 spots. I'm not surprised. Watch TV. You you alone have convinced me that, that there were a lot of new fans this year. I'm not surprised it was number 1, 2, and 3.
Classy 97. It's Josh and Chantel. Okay. We have a debate that we need to settle. What is it?
You think it's a lilac bush. It is. I think it's a lilac tree. It's not a tree. Wanna know what Google says?
Oh, because Google knows everything. Lilacs can grow as bushes or trees. Oh, so we're both right. Most lilacs sold today are bushes, so you'd be forgiven for being confused by the sight of 1 in tree form. Well, there are hundreds of varieties of lilac bushes.
There is just 1 lilac tree. Yeah. So we were both right. We have a bush. I disagree.
I'm looking at pictures. We do not have a lilac tree. Let me look at a lilac tree. We have a lilac bush. How many trunks does a tree have?
Alright. Alright. Alright. Looking at photographs. We have a lilac bush.
We have a lilac bush. You're right. I will I will secede this time. Alright. Wednesday, May 29th 2024 at 8:53.
Wait. Wait. Josh was determined to be correct No. No. Yes.
Lilac bush. That's in the lilac tree Right. Ours doesn't look like that. Yeah. It does.
No. It does not. Yes. It ours wishes it looked like that. Look at the the trunk system.
Ours looks like that. No. Oh. No. Oh.
No. Ours does not look like that. I'm gonna take a picture, and then I'm gonna ask sad It's not sad. It's horrible. No.
Overgrown. It is a little bit overgrown. Lilac and biz. But I like it. It's beautiful.
Don't say it's sad. I like it. Our sad lilac bush? It's not sad. We're gonna I'm gonna have to ask.
This isn't over yet. I was determined to be correct. I take it back. Wake up, classy 97. It's Josh and Chantel.
Have you ever been mean to a bug? Have I ever been mean to a bug? Yeah. I killed a spider yesterday. That's so mean.
Oh, by the way, I killed a spider yesterday. I didn't in our house? Yeah. You did. Yeah.
Josh, I'm so proud of you. Threatening our daughter. In in what way? In her room? No.
It was on the door to our room, actually, next to her room. And she goes, what is that? I said, I don't know. What is it? She was, looks like a spider.
And she's backing away down the hall, and I was like, fine. And so I grabbed a shoe and I went A shoe. And then yeah. Because that's how I do it. And she said, now you have spider guts all over your door.
And I said, no, I don't. And I grabbed the the toilet paper, and I cleaned it up and threw it away. What kind of spider was it? A tiny 1. Okay.
It's fine. I don't mind I I don't mind tiny ones. Okay. That's different. Killing spiders killed a spider yesterday.
Impressed. I know. Surprised and Yeah. Congratulations. Left it for you.
You should have. You usually do. Anyway Now when I'm talking about being nice to bugs, I was I was talking to somebody, and she said that she used to rip we don't have lightning bugs here. She lives in Arkansas, I wanna say. I don't remember.
She Not Kansaw because you can have Arkansas or you and Kansas, or you can have Arkansas and Consaw. You can't have both. Consaw. Okay. She said she used to rip the butts off lightning bugs.
Why? They glow parts. And then do what? I don't know. Wear them on your fingertips?
What do you do with them? Like bugles? I don't know. But then it made me think at the time that we saw a slug in our yard. Well, see, that's a different deal.
Slugs eat plants. We found it in the garden Yeah. And we didn't want it there. And I still to this day hate the salt on the slug. I know.
I felt so bad because we had the slug, and then we said, hey. Isn't there a thing that they hate salt or it makes them dry up? They do. And then we tested out the hypothesis. Like it.
It was very rude. And I feel I still feel very bad about it. But slugs can't be in your garden. They'll be in your garden. Take them out of the garden.
You don't need to put salt on them. Don't do it. It's very sad. I'm not into it. I you liked you were fascinated watching a praying man to see the grasshopper.
I had to leave. I couldn't even be in the backyard. That was science. That was fascinating. I have to go.
I can't do it. That was just nature, bud. I had no part of that. Do it. I just said, hey, I'm gonna check this out because this is pretty cool.
I'm way too soft for that stuff. I can't I can't watch it. I can't think about it. Moral of the story is be nice to bugs. Except for that spider I kill.
Well, it's fine. If they're in your house, you have to eliminate them, but do it in a nice way. Right? Don't torture them. If you're in their house, you're in their house.
This is why I'm a catch and release fisherman. This is why I can't do it. Just can't. Can't even. It's not a thing for me.
Just be nice to meet you. Go hunt. No. You have a good time. My meat comes from the store.
Classy 97. It's Josh and Chantel. I was just reading this thing about invisible household tasks that drain time and energy. They're not invisible. They're just not like if you see a sink full of dirty dishes, you're like, I gotta clean the sink full of dirty dishes.
So invisible like, you can't see these things, but they still need to be done. And I'm curious to know if you ever see these invisible tasks. Invisible household chores, things that should be done. Maybe I do them invisibly. No.
Alright. Let's see. Staying on top of kids' clothes? A 100%. Do you?
Yeah. You know, I don't, but that they are taken care of. So invisible task done. Next. Who did it?
The kids. They do their own laundry. No. No. No.
That's not that's not even just about laundry. It's okay. Do you have your summer clothes? Do you have your winter clothes? Do you have your school clothes?
Do you have school shoes? When was the last time we got you? They're 14 and 19. I understand. But I'm saying in years prior Oh, yeah.
Then I worried about it. Did you? Sure. Oh, you did? Yeah.
We went school shopping. Okay. Christmas shopping? Okay. Okay.
Meal planning? That's an invisible chore that I hate. I hate meal planning. Invisible. It's on the wall.
Hate I hate it. I hate it. It's on the wall after I write it there. Yeah. It it it's not invisible.
There's there's stuff written on the wall that says what what's supposed to be, prepared for dinner. And there's food in the fridge too. Did you know about that? I did. I did know that.
How about keeping track of what household items are needed? Oh, we're getting low on toilet paper. Oh, the dish soap is getting low. Yeah. That that happens.
That gets gets replenished. Yeah. I let you know. Hey. I'm out of, garbage bags for outside.
Add it to the list. I say that all the time. What are you what are you talking about? That's not even invisible either. I say, oh, hey.
We're out we're out of laundry. So this. You wanna do the live feed? Yeah. I do.
Alright. What about managing school schedules? Sure. Needs and communication? You bet.
Yeah. I signed parental slips. I I don't know what you're making me out to be. Alright. But, so far, all this is taken care of.
Making and keeping track of appointments. Yep. We got a big calendar on the wall, and we have our family calendar done. What goes on that calendar? I don't know.
I add stuff sometimes. I read stuff sometimes. Any of the kids' stuff? What? They're 14 and 19.
The 19 year old fine, he can manage his own stuff. Sure. 14 year old still can't drive herself to anything. Right. So I look at the calendar, and I go, oh, she's gotta be there.
Or you'll send me a text and say, hey, don't forget. And I'll go, great. Not invisible. Taken care of. This is going well.
Yeah. I'm I'm doing great. How about birthday parties? What about them? Been to some.
They're okay. Not invisible either? No. It's always just taken care of. Yeah.
Okay. Have you ever been to 1? I have. There's stuff? I've planned quite a few.
Sure. I've done that. When? When? Yeah.
I've I've planned birthday parties When? And invited people. For who? For you. 1.
1. You planned 1 birthday party. 1's enough. Happy birthday. Wow.
It comes around every year. Be here or don't. Like, is this is the party. You wanna come? Cool.
Here's where we'll be. K. We learned a lot today, didn't we? None of these things were invisible. That's what I learned.
What'd you learn? I I learned nothing. Everything stayed the same. That's what I You're saying you already knew what to expect going into that conversation? Correct.
Because none of that stuff's invisible. It just gets taken care of. It's Josh and Chantel, and it is time for your would you rather this or that question of the day. Would you rather get $1 every time you compliment a stranger or $100 every time you insult a stranger. I would like to be the person who takes the high road and is a good person and do the compliment thing and spread happiness at the same time I'm making them monies.
Only a dollar, though. Yeah. But that just means I have to do You'd have to do it. Yeah. More often.
100 strangers would get a compliment to, to earn me the same as if I said 1 negative thing. I'm not gonna be that negative guy walking around. That's gonna be horrible. Yeah. And then people hate you.
But, man, if I said something terrible to 10 strangers, I'd have a $1,000 pretty quick. Pretty easy. Or a 1,000 people get compliments to do the same. If you found a whole group of them. Hey.
You have this. You look like this. You you can get Compliments or No. Insights. Negatives.
Oh. That's what I'm saying. If you find a group of them, 10 in a 10 in a huddle. Yeah. I'd say go to a football field.
Do it there. That's So is that the 1 you're taking? You're taking the insult? No way. You're taking the quick cash?
No. I think it's harder to insult somebody, especially to their face. You didn't say it had to be to their face. Oh, it has to be to their face. Plus, where is this money coming from?
Who's paying me? That's on a that's irrelevant. Where the money comes from is irrelevant. K. You have to be I'm taking the compliments because I'm not gonna be the rude guy.
No. Who wants to be the rude guy? The rich rude guy, by the way. Because You can be the rich nice guy. You just have to dish them out more.
It's harder. It's harder work. No. It isn't. It's harder work to insult somebody to their face.
100 times harder To be the rich, nice guy, it's 100 times harder than to be the rich, rude guy based on your numbers. Based on my numbers. Yep. No way, man. Yeah way, man.
So would you rather get a $100 for no. Forget it. What are you talking about? Nothing. What?
Classy 90 7. It's Josh and Chantel. You're better today than yesterday daily challenge. Have you simplified your life? No.
Have you created a home environment that is peaceful and purposeful? No. With the KonMari method or the Marie Kondo method Oh, Marie Kondo? Marie Kondo. Sure.
The Konmari Yeah. As it is called. You go through, everything you own, and if it does not spark joy, you get rid of it or donate it. Today, you're better today than yesterday daily challenges to try out the Marie Kondo, method. That was I didn't watch that show.
I only heard about it, but everything, you have to do that with everything. Spark joy? Okay. It doesn't matter if it sparks joy. Guess what?
The oven does not spark joy. Do I need the oven? Yeah. Wow. I'm just saying.
I'm not trying to harsh on your daily challenge. If I open my drawer and it looked like Marie Kondo had been there, I don't know what I'd do with myself. I know. That'd be it's it's a great idea. It is.
Not everything is gonna bring you joy, but you still need it to survive. I'm just there it is. Well The cookies in the pantry bring me joy, but I shouldn't eat that. Chantel has a strong opinion about the Marie Kondo method. If you would like to do the better today than yesterday daily challenge, that's it.
That's all you have to do. And if it doesn't spark joy, you thank it for existing, and you put it away. You put it away. Thank you. Carrots Thank you.
Put them on. I don't think it Go get the Maybe you should learn more about it. A cookie smell joy. Cookies, carrots, and the oven are things that you have to test if they spark joy. What things?
Clothes? All the things, but not not the appliances and the food. Okay. Think the carrot for your nourishment. I will put you in the fridge now.
What about other people's things that I have to live with? Oh, you you do you. No. Yeah? You don't get to decide if my things spark joy.
There's lots of things in my house that I live with that don't necessarily spark joy. Get to deal with your stuff only. Stay in your lane. That's gonna do it for the show. Have a great Wednesday.
Great Wednesday. We'll see you back here tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Thanks for listening to wake up classy 97, the podcast.
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