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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Josh is officially “rolling on quads” at 44 and celebrating the only way he knows how — by pulling a muscle while bowling and spiraling into worst-case-scenario mode! Meanwhile, Chantel breaks down how she handles her occasional “day to be cranky,” the glory of three-day weekends, and a real-life Disney princess moment involving a suspiciously friendly squirrel. Plus, a shoutout to Edward Dickinson Baker, wildly unnecessary birthday emails, ice cream family drama, middle-aged bladder problems, a little NFL offseason tea, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Signs Chantel is mad
(3:17) - 3 day weekend!
(5:25) - Edward D. Baker day
(9:16) - Good News
(10:32) - Bedtime socks & gloves
(15:59) - Birthday emails
(21:50) - Toddlers = middle-aged people
(25:54) - Blizzard delays
(31:18) - Pulled muscles and bowling balls
(35:25) - Awful bed
(40:02) - Chantel is Snow White
(44:16) - Car woes
(49:51) - Ice cream decisions
(53:41) - Would You Rather
(55:35) - Football news
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Full show transcript:
Well, let's hear it. Okay. I was in a very bad mood on Saturday, and I think you knew it. Uh-uh. But I would like to ask you, when I'm mad, what do I do that you first recognize, oh, she's in a mood.
What's the first giveaway? Well, you get quiet for one. And then I know something's up because you're normally a jovial kind of person. You usually are, you know, pretty light, you're stepped a little happy. Uh, you know, you're usually okay. And I had been around, but not totally around. I was busy and I had asked you to maybe drop some things off at where I was, and I got less than a receptive phone call answer. It was more of a, yeah, I guess.
And so everything's like short, has a little bite to it. Okay. You're a little caliente, you know, a little spicy.
So there's that. And then, but mostly like the very first thing I'll notice is like you're quiet and I'll go, what's going on with you? And you go, nothing. And I go, all right, well, here we go. What's it going to be? What's the dealio?
What's the haps? Okay. Nothing. I'm fine. I said, do you want to talk about it? I don't want to talk about it. Okay. Well, I'm not going to talk.
I'm not going to pry. I'm not going to try to cheer you up with my whimsical attitude because it will be met with hostility guaranteed. You'll be like, no, I don't want to be happy. Don't try to make me laugh. So I just sit quietly in my own bubble, trying not to disturb the beehive next to me. It's just waiting to explode.
You know, like that. I was fine the next day. I just, well, I just needed a day to be cranky.
And then I was fine. Okay. It's nice that you recognize.
Yeah. And then just remove myself. That's my, that's my tactic. That's wise.
Right. But then I don't know if because I've removed myself is that why you're upset. And then I go like, I don't even know how to fix this. I don't know what to do.
And then I'm just going to like lay low. So, no, that's smart. Yeah. That's the best response. Okay.
Just lay low, run away. Yeah. Leave me alone.
Pretty much. Okay. But you're feeling better now. Yeah, I'm fine. Okay. I just needed a day. I'm fine now. When is the next time you're going to need a day? Unsure.
Super. Never can tell. But you know the warning signs. You're fine.
Yeah. You're going to be fine. Quiet. And then I go, how's it going?
What you working on? Oh, no. The gargoyle has arrived.
Run away. Hey, let's go ahead and kick off today's show. How about sure about it? Yep. Yep. Okay. All right. Fine. I'll come to work. I guess if that's what I have to do. Okay.
But here's the thing. What is all that noise? I'm trying to get myself together. Oh, okay. How's it going? I'm together. All right. Welcome to work. Here's the thing.
Here's the thing, bro. Don't you feel much more like, I can do this today because you've had an extra day off? Three day weekend. Three day weekend. You want three day weekend every week? Every week.
Yeah. It has to happen. It just has to. There's not enough time to do all the stuff in two days. You got to have a three day. I like having a three day. Don't get me wrong at all.
I'm much prefer to have the three day weekend. Yeah. But what are you going to say?
I don't know. No, but just it's still work when you go back. I understand that. I think I would, like if I could have a three day weekend every week, sure, sure, sure. But if I could have a whole week off, I would prefer that. Well, yeah, but you can't have a whole week. I mean, I'm just saying if I take a week of PTO, I prefer that to a three day weekend. No, but if you had a three day weekend every week, just because. Yeah.
No, that's just the way your work schedule flows before the work week. I'm just saying I came in, I was refreshed. Look at me.
I'm refreshed. I've had a weekend. Let's get to work. Okay. How are you going to feel four hours from now?
I'm going to say, why am I still here? There it is. Okay.
Good deal. But at least right now in this very moment, I'm like, yes, I've had a nice long weekend and it was awesome. And you feel refreshed. Yep.
You feel good. Yes. Okay. Well, good.
Double good. Well, we are back. We are in the studio live. Thanks for hanging out with us. It's Josh at Chantel and good morning. Okay.
What's up today? Any idea? I don't. What's going on with our holidays and days of the day or anything? You have no clue what today is? No. Well, today is a tortilla chip day because you know, why not? This is the thing about these days. Somebody sits around and goes 24th of February, I guess.
I'm sitting on the couch eating some chips. Oh, they should have a day. This could be the day. It's the day.
What a good idea. Trading card day, Spain Newt or day. Is that it? I don't know. That's it. That's it. Then there's like all these like weird ones from around the world that I don't understand.
Like international. I hate coriander day. That's a day. Why? Edward Dickinson Baker. Who was he?
Don't know. Today's the day to celebrate him. He's the larger than life American figure who managed to be at different times a lawyer, a spellbinding speaker, a legislator in more than one region and a battlefield commander.
What makes a spellbinding speaker? Do you suppose? Great question. I don't know.
I don't think I have it. He had close ties to Abraham Lincoln and he became the only US sitting US senator to be killed in combat. Edward Dickinson Baker. The dude had some crazy sideburns. You got to look up this guy.
I'm okay. It's a look. Edward Dickinson Baker. I mean, of all the hairstyles, this guy had one that is something else.
A little bit vampire, but then also a little bit maniac. Wait, and who is this guy? He was at different times a lawyer, a spellbinding speaker, a legislator in more than one region and a battlefield commander. Why are we talking about him? Because today is Edward Dickinson Baker day. Oh, he has his own day. That's right.
But why? It says here, by recognizing his contributions, the day also shines light on the values that he tried to practice in public. Those values being courage under pressure, loyalty to the union during a national crisis, and a willingness to put reputation on the line for deeply held convictions. Okay. Yeah. This is him.
I guess celebrate in what manner you see fit. You could read his life sketch. Oh, no. You could read a biography about him.
No. That's the same as reading his life sketch. It says here, you could host a history night. No, no.
Yeah. I've learned all I want to know about him just now. But you haven't even looked at his hair. It's okay.
I'll be fine. Every picture he's got like hair sticking out of the sides of his head. He was kind of a five head, six head, seven head.
It really kind of cruised back, but he really let the sides go. Poor Edward. I think it was a choice. He liked to look like that. What's his name? Let me look him up. Edward Dickinson Baker.
Okay. Today we celebrate you, big Ed. You got to check him out online. He's a cool dude.
Edward D Baker. Okay. You can find him that way.
Got it. I'm going to get that hairdo. Happy Edward D Baker day. Here's some good news. This is cool. University of Pennsylvania student named Emily, botanager, I think.
We'll go with that. Her name's Emily. She's helping children dealing with long hospital stays by providing books through her charity group for love and Buttercup. It's inspired by her own journey as a caregiver following her father's cancer diagnosis.
She's already donated 30,000 books. Wow. That's incredible.
Yeah, it is. All to children in need. Her latest stop was St. Christopher's hospital for children in Philadelphia, where she hand delivered 500 books to help kids who can't attend school during their treatment.
I know, right? Her generosity isn't just about stocking the shelves with books. It's about providing a feeling of hope and letting people in the hospital know.
Young people in the hospital know that the community is rooting for them and is excited about them enjoying a brighter future. I think that's very, very special. That is very nice. So way to go, Emily. What a very kind, selfless thing to do. Right.
And their charity group is called For Love and Buttercup, if you'd like to look it up and help her out at all. Cute. Very cool. Yep.
And that is good news. I was laying in bed last night. I have very poor circulation. So my extremities get really cold, really fast. So my toes are always cold. My fingers are always cold. My nose is always cold.
This is true. So my nose is always red. So I was laying there thinking as I'm freezing in bed, because if my toes are cold, the rest of my body is cold.
Okay. My toes are warm. The rest of my body is warm. So my toe temperature directly impacts how the rest of my body feels. So I'm laying in bed freezing all my extremities, cold, cold, cold. And I go, okay, I have socks on because now I have bedtime socks. And I have a nose warmer. Did you have that on? No.
Okay. And I have gloves and I knew that I had gloves in my nightstand. I don't know why they're there.
I saw them there the other day and I went, weird that the gloves are here. But I thought about reaching over and putting on my gloves so that I could wear gloves. You thought about it, but didn't.
No, I think that I will do that tonight though. Oh, great. Listen, between me and my CPAP mask and you and all of your extremity warming devices, we're quite the pair.
I mean, whatever you got to do to get you through the night, you know, I'm not here to impress anybody. I've already got the dude. Right, right, right. Okay.
You're already here to stay. Yeah. Right? Uh-huh. Right? Good grief. I just need, I need my bedtime gear.
Yeah. It includes socks, gloves and a nose warmer. And then I'll be good to go. Now, there is a point in the middle of the night when I get too hot and I have to kick out those socks.
Right. And do you do that Jiminy cricket style? I don't know what that means. Rubbing your feet together? Oh yeah. I take a toe. Yeah, there it is. Hook it under the socks and kick it off. Yeah.
Do the same with the other one. Yeah. And then they're just kicking around willy-nilly in the middle of the bed.
Right. And then I have to kick him out of the bed because I don't want him to get trapped in the bed when we make it. That makes sense. So I have to kick him out. I also don't like wearing socks to bed that I've worn around the house.
Right. I want them to be clean socks. Well, look, when I go backpacking, I have a special pair of socks that are only for sleeping. And I don't wear socks in the bed, but when I'm out in the woods and it's chilly at night, it's nice. Yeah. So I have a special pair of wool socks that are sleeping socks.
They're a low ankle wool sock that's just like a booty. Well, here's the thing. My fingers get so cold that you don't even like me to touch you with them.
But think about if I had a nice glove. Oh. Yeah.
Think about it. I think that'd be so warm. They will be scratchy. No, they're soft.
Soft gloves. Are they? Yeah. Are they like that, like minky? You have minky gloves?
Get some of those. And you could be like, all right, check out how soft these are. That would be nice. That would be, I don't know, I could try and make some.
Like a minky mitten. No. Why do you say no? Because just buy them. They're $3.
I'm looking at it right now. Minky gloves? Minky gloves.
They have minky gloves for real. Yeah. How about it? You have three bucks and you get two pairs, I think.
Yep. A set of two. How much? Three dollars? Okay.
Check me out. Bedtime gear. Gloves?
What about the ones that don't have fingers? Will that help? I just said that.
Mittens. No, no. That's not what I'm saying. What are you saying? I'm saying it goes over your wrist a little bit and your hand, but your fingers and thumb poke out.
So the glove ends here. What would be the point? That's what I was asking about.
I got to keep my fingers for. No. No. Who's around there going, my palm sure is cold. Let me warm that up.
No one. And also your thumb sticks out. Yeah. Stupid. So it's just a hand glove, no finger thumb glove.
Yeah, that's dumb. It's shaped like a tree stump. It's the shape of it. You don't want those. Okay, got it. You want full finger or mitten sleeping gloves. Yeah. A mitten would be nice actually. You like your fingers to be together?
Not when I'm outside doing stuff, but in bed that might be nice because. They could be friends. Yep.
Keeping each other warm. Give it a go. I will try.
Try a mitten. Good luck. You're going to look cool. I don't even care. Am I going to be warm? That's what I care about.
Good luck tonight. I'm not out here to impress anybody. Do you want to borrow my snowboarding mittens? No.
They have to be soft. Okay. All right.
All right. So I did have a birthday. That's why we're off yesterday. You did have a birthday.
Rolling on quads is what I've been saying. Now I'm the same age as you, which is super fun. That is super fun. For a minute. For a couple of months. Yeah. And then you'll be like, see you.
And then I'll be older than you again. That's correct. That's okay. Older and wiser.
I received several and wiser. Okay. We'll see. We won't. We already see. Oh, okay. I received a lot of emails for my birthday. Some of them more ridiculous than others.
Our bank sent me one. So I've screenshot a bunch of this stuff because I wanted to. To be able to, like every time I opened one, I went, yep, save that. Did the bank do anything for your birthday? Well, they offered me a gift. What kind of gift? Well, if I go in there and I let them do a financial review, they'll give me some money. So is that a gift?
No, no. The gift of a financial review. This other credit union sent me a special offer for a birthday. They'll give me half as much as the other bank. Half as much? Half as much as the other bank offered.
And this one, I have to actually like put some money in and then they'll give me some money. That's not a gift. Come on now. Bad birthday emails. This guy, I don't even know who this is. I don't know how he got my email, but he said, cheers to you on your birthday. Hope your day is wonderful and as wonderful and unique as you are.
Have a fantastic birthday. I don't know this guy. I don't know his business. I've not done business with him. I have nothing to do with this guy. Like a mortgage company? Yeah, I have nothing to do with him. But that's not even a local mortgage company, is it?
I have nothing to do with that guy. How do you get your information? I don't know. Somebody sold your data. Somebody sold my information is what's up.
That's what I just said. You said someone stole my data. I said someone sold my information.
I said someone sold your data, but my D cut off. I see. So you said soul. Yeah. All right. Yeah.
All right. This one is from the doctor. Now let's talk about this for a minute because for some reason, our doctor, our general practitioner, our GP decided that it would be important to send me an email, a text message and two different notifications through the doctor's office app.
I got four of the same message from the day. Really wanted me to know. It was my birthday. I think they know that you're getting older. So they're like, Hey bud, yeah, it may be coming for a wellness visit. Also the image they're using in their email.
It's almost time for a colonoscopy. Yeah. That's next year. In the artwork, it says copyright vectors used across their image. Oh no.
They used a stock photo. Guys, come on. I know I pay you enough. You can afford a non-stock image.
Come on now. You can get free stock images that aren't watermarked. Well, I know because I've used them before.
They did not. This credit union went ahead and sent me a birthday, which is very nice. There's just says, Hey, as your trusted financial partner, we're grateful to have you as part of our community. It goes on. Are we part of there?
How long it is. Are we part of their community? No, we're not. We just got a loan from them. We're not part of your community.
You just agreed. Here's another bank. This is another bank that says happy birthday to you.
I got four banks now and a mortgage company. We don't even have. I know.
We have one bank. My dentist went ahead and let me know it was my birthday. I appreciate that.
Then I still need to ring this one in. I got to go get my free birthday treat from that restaurant that sent me an email. I want you to know that I also got a birthday message. For me? Okay.
This is from a spa. Oh. And it said, dear Josh, from all of us, we wish you the very best on your special day. Nice. Best regards.
Okay. Why did I get that? I don't know, but they didn't say come get a massage? No. Oh, man.
Sorry. The last one that I saved for last was Star Wars. Star Wars sent me a happy birthday from a galaxy far, far away. How did you get one from Star Wars?
With a cake millennium falcon. What's this? It says the force will be with you always, but especially on your birthday. Thank you, Star Wars.
What's the from address? Star Wars. It's from starwars.com.
Cool. Did Star Wars wish you a happy birthday? No.
No, it did not. It wasn't my birthday. We'll see if you get one.
I don't want one. A birthday cake millennium falcon? Very cool. Very cool. Thank you for all of the amazing birthday emails, corporations and companies who value my business. And you only got one free thing from one corporation.
Two books of the drink place sent me a birthday thing as well. Oh, okay. Yeah. So the drink place and then the food place are the only ones that were like, hey, come get a treat. Everybody else was like, come spend some money.
Everyone else was like, we'll give you money if you give us money. Right. Good email marketing.
Good selling my data. When I woke up at four this morning and desperately had to use the restroom, I said, no. I told my body, no. I said, no, we're not getting out of bed. It is, this is not happening.
No. I still have an hour before I really need to wake up. So I'm not, I'm not getting out. And it take, it took a lot of willpower to forget that my body was desperately in need of using a restroom. Let's, let's also be clear that this is like 15 steps from where you were.
This isn't like you had to like really like walk across the house. Oh, it doesn't matter. I'm just saying I'm not getting out of bed.
It's not time to get out of bed. I think you didn't have to suffer. I was warm. I was comfortable and it was dark. And I was like, sounds like you were uncomfortable though.
Well, I was for just a minute. And then I convinced my brain that it was fine. And I fell back into a little slumber and woke up again about maybe like half an hour later. And my body was like, no, we got to go.
Yeah. And I said, no, no, we're not. It's not happening.
I don't think that's healthy. You got to go. I did eventually. Yeah. But then I was having dreams about going to the bathroom.
Yeah, you need to do that. That's bad stuff. I know it is. I know it's not safe. But then I was lying there determining that toddlers and middle-agers are kind of the same when it comes to like about an hour before it's time to go to bed.
You should stop having anything to drink. This is true. Yeah.
Absolutely true. I know that when we were camping, it's different now that we have a trailer and we have our own bathroom. But when we were tent camping, I had a strict limit.
I was like, nope, no liquid. Because I'm not getting up in the middle of the night out of a tent. No. I get it. Because I woke up one time and there was a skunk right outside.
That is true. And I said, nope. No more drinks for me. Yeah.
Because you don't have to deal with that. And the skunk. Bad time.
That is a bad time. Or any other night nature. There's lots of night nature.
I know. Porcupines, bears. Porcupines. Deer moving around. Porcupines. What's that kid from home alone that's not allowed to have anything to drink?
The little brother. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I need to set. I've got to set that rule hard and fast.
Past eight o'clock. No milk. No water.
No water. Nothing. Nothing.
You get nothing. Eight o'clock is your cut off. It's probably a smart idea. Otherwise you're going to be waking up before in the morning. Yeah, I know. And that's not happening. I only get up when it's time, actual time to get up. That makes sense.
That's a good strategy. Pepsi and not Pepsi. I was reading. I was reading that. Because I wanted to do research on the home alone kid. And I looked home alone and it said. Pepsi and Coca-Cola are in home alone. That's not what I was going to say.
What I was going to say is middle-aged and toddlers. His name is Fuller. Okay.
And it only happens if he drinks Pepsi. Specifically. That's what I'm saying. At dinner. Only Pepsi. That's what it says according to the internet. It says Fuller has problems if he drinks Pepsi. He drank Pepsi at dinner and therefore he will have a problem. Go easy on the fluids. That's what I was looking for.
Go easy on the fluids. That's the line. That's what it says on home alone too. Home alone too. Yeah.
That's what they tell him. Okay. Go easy on the fluids.
Toddlers and middle-agers. Go easy on the fluids. Past eight. Good advice. You're still for time limit. Look at the clock before you take a sip. You have 12 hours from now to drink.
So get after it. Boy, if you thought me waiting on a package was bad, I found a way to make it worse. Can you even believe that? Can you believe they could make it worse for me? What do you mean? What package are you waiting on? We ordered some little adapters for water bottles, right?
This guy makes these things. Anyway, and they're on the East Coast. The East Coast just got pummeled by a huge winter storm. They were calling it a blizzard. It was a big deal. Lots of snow.
We have some friends that live in Massachusetts. Yes. They said it was taller than a corgi.
It is a corgi and a half or two corgis high. That is very true. And so where this guy lives is on the East Coast. And so he's like, Hey, I don't know the next time I'm going to be able to get to the post office, let alone when the mail is even going to be leaving here.
So he said, but you know, I've printed your label. Everything's good to go. Your order is being processed. As soon as I get to the mailbox, I'll ship it. And that's been the entirety of the shipping update that I have received on the product. So now when I get the tracking info update that says your package is shipped, I go check the tracking. It just says label printed. It doesn't show me any movement. It hasn't been picked up by the post office. It's going to be a minute.
And that makes it worse. I guess I'm just going to sit and wait. You're going to have to.
You don't have any other option. It's bumming me out. You love waiting for packages. I know.
And now this is something where it's even worse because now there's all of this additional wait time on shipping, which is a bomb. But you don't even need like this. No, I don't need it until August. I have plenty of time. But isn't it exciting to just wait? I just love waiting for packages. I have a package arriving.
Do you? I ordered it last week. And guess what?
I kind of forgot that I even ordered it until I went and I looked and I was like, oh yeah, that's coming tomorrow. Oh yeah. What do you mean?
Oh yeah. It gets here when it gets here. I don't work like that. I can't do anything about it. What would you do about it if you could? I don't know. You can't do anything about it either. I could drive over and say, hey, can I help with a shovel?
No. What do we got to do to get this package? You're moving. You're not going to do that.
I will put it in for, we'll drive and go to the post office for you. This package. Are you going to tell what it is?
No. Okay, why? Because it's just a silly little thing. Okay.
It's just a tiny little backpacking tool that I'm excited to have. That's all. That's plenty. Okay.
You don't need to get into the details. That's right. It's a backpacking apparatus, which I'm very excited to have on trail with me. Did you share this backpacking apparatus with your other backpackers? No, I was waiting for it to arrive and then I was going to show them and then they'll I'll go, whoa. And now. Now that the snow is melted, you can order one quicker.
Mine took forever. Anyway, it's packaged. The label's been printed.
It's just waiting to get dropped off or picked up or whatever when the snow clears in the giant snowstorm. That's an impact that it personally had on me. So I ordered a birthday present for you. Yeah. And it said it was supposed to arrive on Saturday and I was like, great, I'm going to be home on Saturday.
Ah. It arrived on Friday and there was no one home. And so all day I was afraid of porch pirates all day long.
They were going to steal my birthday prize. And then I finally got home and I was like, oh, it's still there. Phew. Yeah. It was awesome, by the way. Thank you.
You're welcome. I'm excited for the new. I got a new fly time advice. Yeah.
I'm very, very excited to tie some more flies. You knew what it was when you were going to be home. I saw the box. Yeah. Did it say on the box? Yeah.
What it was? Yeah. I know it said the color. Yeah. And the little tag next to it. Okay. That's right.
Because then we go, you didn't take off the tag. No, it's awesome. I'm very excited. It's just an all white box. Yeah. And then it just says green, which it's olive. It should say olive. It's not green. Olive green.
I mean, yeah. But there's also like, you could have a bright green. What would you put on there if it was a bright green? Lime. You should put green, olive.
Those are different. Lime. That's a different green too. When you say green, I think like a kelly green. Yeah, I think like a forest green. That forest would be a different color. Green is a kelly green.
Yeah, but forest has got like a little deeper hue. It's a dark green. Olive is like a yellowish green.
Lime is like bright green. Have you tried anything yet? No. You need a fly tying vice? I have not. I need to. Will you ever take your vice to Florida and then you could call it your Miami vice? Butterfing.
All right. Here's a fun activity for old people. Mollying. There's an idea. Hey, you know what's fun? Going bowling on your birthday. It's not a bad idea.
It's a fine idea. The bad part is when you're old and then your very first ball that you get to go, throw down the lane on the very first frame on your birthday, you hurt yourself because you're an old man. Then, hey, it doesn't hurt so bad today.
Which is good news. I know because you just pulled a muscle. You immediately was like, I'm going to have to have surgery. I'm pretty sure I'm dying. I'm pretty sure this is my last day to live.
I better live it up. I was like, Barrow take some ibuprofen and sit down. You're going to be fine. Listen, you don't know that. You're not a doctor. It hurt really bad. I thought I was dying.
I'm full aware of this. It's having a panic attack. I thought I was going to fall over and just right there in the bowling alley. You're like, it hurts so bad. I felt like I was going to puke. I did. I thought I was going to throw up.
Saddle down. Do you want me to go get you an ice pack? No, I'm good. Like, jeez Louise. Listen, calm down.
No, you need to chill out. Anytime you get any kind of pain, you're like, I'm dying. This is it. Well, I love you very much.
This is my last day. It wasn't like that. It was a good life. I wasn't like, Oh, I didn't mean. No, you, you said immediately after you pulled your muscle, you said, I'm freaking out. I think I'm going to need to have surgery. I'm like, I didn't say, I think I said, I'm worried. I'm worried that I might need surgery. I've got a big backpacking trip. I can't have a pulled leg muscle. This is bad. Big backpacking trip in August. Yeah.
Yeah. You don't think it takes a long time to heal from surgery. Give it a rough physical therapy to learn how to walk again. I walked away. I said, I'm not dealing with this right now. Your mom was sorry. I said, she can take care of this. I can't. I can't.
You know what? I was very worried. I know you were. And you were not. Because I knew you were going to be just fine. You don't know.
I didn't know. One of my whole leg popped off like a, like a barbie to all leg comes off of this thing. You know, guess what? You were just bowling. You twisted your leg wrong.
It hurt a lot. I know. And now you're fine. I'm so glad. I'm feeling better.
I'm still tender. Thanks for asking. You told me I didn't need to ask. No, but you didn't ask at all today about my leg.
Not once. You don't even care about me. It's my last day. It's what should I have for my last meal?
Oh, I hope it's something good. Why do you do that? Why do you naturally just go to worst case scenario? You don't do that for anything else except when you get sore, injured in any way. And then it's, you're dying.
If anybody else is dying, like any of the rest of us, me or the kids get any kind of injury, you're like, oh, you're going to be fine. Put some, put some dirt on it, muscle up. I've never said put some dirt on it and muscle up.
I've never said that once. My leg really hurt. And no one cared. We all cared.
Any of us stopped talking about it. I just wanted you to know I hurt my leg. Adiv, I even told your sister about it. I sent her a message. She's not reply. Oh, she doesn't care about me.
No, she doesn't. I just sent you a video that I saw. Go ahead and open that up. I want you to take a look at this. This guy invented this bed sheet that is, it has borders. What do you mean it has borders? You'll see.
And then I think it's awful. And so he wants, he wants a retailer like IKEA or somebody to carry the bed for him. Like he wants to be able to sell it in a big box store. So he wants people to be like, encourage them to carry my thing. I hate it.
Okay. So you say borders, but it basically looks like a swimming pool, like an inflatable swimming pool. And then you sleep, it's got bumpers essentially. Yeah, all the way around.
Yeah. So you don't fall off the bed. Is that the idea? I don't know. Maybe it's like, it's supposed to give you like a cozy little like, it's supposed to make you feel like you're in a nest. I think that's the idea.
That's what I think too. Why do you need it? Lots of reasons.
Such as? It's an obstruction to getting out of the bed for one. I'm going to have to roll over it. It's tall. It's like body pillow tall.
Yeah. You like to wash the sheets. How do you wash that?
Fair. You like to wash the sheets. Yeah, most people do. That's not unusual. My point is, how are you going to wash that?
I don't know. Also, we have a queen size bed that the width of those two sides is as wide as a person. So half the bed's taken away.
I agree with you. How are you going to wash it? That seems tricky. But yeah, the biggest concern for me too that I didn't even think about was getting out of that thing, especially if you're middle-aged like we are.
Your bones don't work so great anymore. Hey. And you have to get out to use the potty. Yeah.
How you getting to roll out of that thing? I don't even know. I don't like it. It's an awful bed.
It does sound awful. Now. Somebody goes, this is perfect for a toddler because that's what it is. Yeah. It's yeah, to keep a toddler in a bed. Listen, if you were a solo person and you wanted to have a little nest, it could be nice to have a little cozy nest. Yeah.
But I hate it. It says Ikea is selling them. No, he wants them. I understand that, but I'm also looking at other videos and it says run to your nearest Ikea.
Oh no, it's they're just joking. Ikea does not make them. They go run to your nearest Ikea.
Yeah. And then they go just kidding. He says imagine if Ikea sold this like that. He wants.
I gotcha. The troubling part is how many people are like, I need this. I need this so bad. Need.
I need this for my crawling eight month old. Yeah, that's who needs it. I've been looking for this. I need. I need one. I want one. I need this.
No. It looks awful. I'm watching a woman try to make it and it looks terrible too.
I mean, it really does. It's like bumper pads all the way around your sheet. Cozy nest. Is that what it's called? Yeah. Yeah. Something like that. Sherpa nest.
Yeah. I'm not into it. I don't like it.
I saw it on the internet and I immediately went, no. Padded border bed sheet. Hmm.
Padded border bed sheet. Say that 12 times. What if there's an emergency? You can't get out of that bed.
No, you're going to be rolling and stuck. Get it. Plus it looks hot. Like that's just going to be there and then I'm not a fan. So I'm glad you also are not because I don't want that. No, I don't want it either.
Why would I want that? That's a win for us. I have to roll out of bed. That's the only way I'm getting out of bed these days.
You have to do a steam roller just to get out. Yeah. Yeah.
I don't care for it. Now imagine that on a water bed. Impossible. Now you're just stuck. You get in there once you're done. Now you're on a water bed with walls around you. I have to stay here forever. You are part of the bed now. I feel like I'm a Disney princess.
I agree with you. You sent me a video and I have never seen anything like it except for one other person and that one other person works down the hall and his name is Victor and he is also a Disney princess. I got home on Saturday from running some errands and I had a birthday treat in my hand for you and I don't know if maybe it was the fact that I had a birthday treat in my hand.
Maybe this particular critter could smell it but I pull up and there's a squirrel in her yard which isn't unheard of because we like to feed them but we haven't fed them in a really long time because the speeder is broken and you've been needing to fix it. Well I'm rebuilding it. Yeah. I'm actually I decided this winter I was going to build several of them and I just haven't finished it. I started working on it but. But I pulled up. He's in our yard and he's looking at me and as I start to walk like I assumed he was just going to run away as soon as I got out of the car but he just stood there watching me and I got out of the car and I'm watching him and he's watching me and he kind of comes closer and closer and closer and pretty soon he's just like hanging around. Yeah he was right by your feet.
Yeah. Like he touched your shoe. He was like hey bud. Hi. And he kept kind of running around and coming back like he clearly wanted to tell me something.
Right. And I didn't know if he was like hey you guys have fed me in the past. Where's all the food. It's time you get your bird feeder back out because I'm hungry.
Where's the peanuts and the corn. Okay. And I said I'll get you some food my guy.
Chill out. And then our dog saw him and then it was over and then he ran away. Anyway that was a pretty magical experience. It was pretty special. It was. He was like literally just hanging by your feet like and he'd run and you'd stop and look up at you like let's go. Do you think it had babies that needed help. That's what I was wondering about later. Like oh man I thought he was just hungry and what if he was trying to tell me somebody was in trouble and I didn't follow him.
Timmy's trapped in the well and all that. Yeah. Yeah.
He was like hey I need you to come help me and I was like oh let me go get you some food and he's like no you gotta follow me. Right. So then he left. It wasn't because of the dog.
He left because he needed to go get someone who would understand he needs help. Yeah I think so. Yeah that's possible. I know I'm worried about it now. Have you seen him since. Um I can't tell if it was him but yesterday.
He didn't catch his name. No. He was there was a squirrel in our yard yesterday that was eating the food that I had left out. I tried to get him to come closer.
I was trying to hold out some peanuts for him and he was like no I'm fine over here. So you think it was a different one. I don't know. Because that same one if he got that close and then you also had food and he didn't get that close like I'm thinking.
It's pretty actually magical when there's an animal that feels like you're non-threatening. Right. That feels like a that's a nice compliment to have. I would agree. Yeah. To have a wild animal be like I'm not threatened by you.
Right. I think you can help me. You're a safe space.
Feed me. Yeah you're right. That was nice. That is nice. You are snow white. Until I didn't help him and he was like what are you good for. My babies have fallen out of the nest.
You have done nothing to help me. Yeah. And he said thanks for the corn. I'm gonna go now to my family that I had to save myself. I'm sorry squirrel. Come back.
Come visit. I know it was a once in a lifetime opportunity. It was pretty special though. You got it on video so that's very good. I know I was worried that I he was gonna run away when I pulled out my phone but he was like lady I just need you to follow me.
Would you listen to the words that are coming out of my mouth. He wasn't squeaking or anything. He wasn't like in pain.
I mean he was literally just hanging out with you. He was. How fun. He was fun. So I'm pretty magical. Yeah.
In case you haven't noticed. Thanks for making me ride today. You're welcome. I forgot I have to deliver you to your other job. Yes please. Okay.
My car is in the shop. That's right. You know how expensive it's gonna be. Yeah I do because I heard the phone call.
So yeah I do. Your car for a year or so has been bugging you and not that there's been like there's a mechanical thing going on but it's not been undriveable. Right. It's like a sensor issue or something but it's gonna be an expensive thing because the part the sensors make work isn't working and that's why the sensors are yelling is because the parts have an issue. So yeah you're looking at the part the part's expensive.
The labor's expensive and all that stuff done is expensive but it's supposed to be potentially done today which would be awesome. If you had your car back and no little lights on in the dash like what are you gonna do. I don't even know. My check engine light has been on for so long. But I've had enough car trouble to know that every time I get in the car.
Right. Stresses you out. It stresses me out because I know one of these days it's just gonna seize and then I'm gonna be stuck there and people will be honking and they'll be so mad at me and I'll be like I know I gotta push it out of the way. Chill out. I've been there before. Believe me.
When you were in college. Yeah. And that's why you have a traumatic experience you keep falling back on where you go.
It's gonna get me. Well here's the thing because I nobody has a good car in college right. Unless you're super rich.
I was not. So I had a terrible car. A mercury. Sable. Sable. Not even the cougar.
The sable. And it died one time on a busy intersection. It wasn't even a busy intersection. Wasn't it just on Jefferson.
It died twice. Just the one on Jefferson and Pogital. Where was the other one. It died in front of Walmart on that busy road.
That's a busier road. I know. If it died on Yellowstone that's one thing. It died on Jefferson. That was before I had a cell phone.
Right. So I had to have somebody and people were honking driving around me mad at me and I was like what do you want me to do. I was so mad. Distraught.
And I had to walk to somebody's house and say can I please call your use your phone and then my roommate and friend came to save me. Right. Props Christina. Second time by Walmart. Yeah. I had a phone that time. So I was able to call for help. What was wrong with the car both times.
I don't know. It was a mercury sable. Did it run out of gas. No. No. No it did not.
It got no gas. That's a you problem. Not a me problem. It's a me problem one time and you were with me and it was supposed to happen and be all romantic but it didn't. It happened right in front of the gas station and I didn't make it.
How is it supposed to be romantic. You know that thing where like oh no I think the car's out of gas. You know that old trick. No I sure don't. Yeah.
Oh no. I'd be like how responsible irresponsible is this guy. It's the middle of the day and the gas station is like four feet to the right. Yeah. Did carry your stuff bro. Well I didn't know it was out of gas. I wasn't paying attention. I was too busy looking into your eyes. No. Whatever.
I couldn't check the gas gauge. I was too busy looking at your beauty. You are full of it. Okay. Anyway my favorite part is that the mechanic calls me to say oh we've diagnosed it.
Yeah. And luckily I was with you because he might have been speaking a different language who was like oh you're nauseous and you're pumps and you're fuel tank and you're intake manifest. I was like I don't know what you're talking about. I'm really glad that I was there because you're repeating that to me. I would have been like I have no idea what you're talking about because you're just saying words. That's what he was. He wasn't making any sense.
I go I don't know what you're talking about sir. Intake manifold sensor. Particulate filter. All of this stuff. Like that's what we're talking about. Yeah.
Yeah. And then he said nozz and I was like I don't even have nitrous oxide. What are you talking about? Yet. I've seen enough fast and furious to know what nozz is.
You've seen one fast and furious? That's enough. Anyway. Well I hope you get it back today because this hauling you around has got to end.
Can't be bothered. Drive you everywhere. Run you around because I'm going to have to take you to work after the show and then I'm going to have to pick up our daughter from school later and then I have to pick you up later and take you to get your car later. What if it gets done like two?
You're going to be able to leave? Well I'm going to have to. I have to. I have to go. I got to go get my car.
I got to. Well here's hoping. I hope it all works out. Fingers crossed.
Yeah. It's going to work out. It's just going to take all of my money. I know. It's expensive. He's spending my money on car stuff. I was shopping with Emory for ice cream for your birthday and it was determined that not a single one of our four pack, our family of four can decide on an ice cream flavor.
Is that right? So I wasn't involved and I've always said you can keep it low impact and easy but then everybody gets there. Instead of everybody going like yeah I like that, everybody goes but I want that flavor. Right? Yeah.
But I want this one because it has all these nuts and stuff in it. Delicious. See? I'm going to not go for that one. I know. So then I said well why don't we just all get our own pint?
No. You know why? Because a pint was the same size as a gallon. Same cost? Yeah. What did I say?
Because it is not the same size. No. I meant cost. Also ice cream is ridiculously expensive. Is it?
Yeah. I haven't shopped for ice cream. $60 for a pint. That's insane. I know. Anyway. Was it fancy? I didn't see the ice cream you guys got because you ended up getting me my very own fancy cookie butter ice cream. That's right.
I'm very excited about it. I did. You're welcome.
Thank you. There's no deal. And then I said well I want ice cream too and I can't eat the cookie butter ice cream because that's a special Josh. I thought everybody was having it because I don't need that much to myself.
It's a lot. I would have been happy with that but the kids would not have been happy with that. They should try it. It's delicious. It is delicious. It has cookies in it. So then I went well let's go to the store and get our ice cream. They also they had a black licorice ice cream. Did you know that?
Yeah. I don't think I could eat that much of it. Like one or two spoonfuls I'd be like I've had enough.
Yeah. That sounds gross. Half a spoon is enough. Oh. Oh I know we bought like a what ice cream did we get? Oh it has peanut butter. Like Reese's peanut butter things in it. Like peanut butter cups? Yeah. Okay. Because the kids like those and I went oh peanut butter.
That's like a moose tracks kind of thing. Yeah but it wasn't. Okay. All right. And so then I went well I don't want that ice cream. I want something else.
So then I got a caramel cashew. Oh that's a good choice. Delicious.
See we agree on that one. I like cashews and I like peanuts. When you start throwing almonds and walnuts and stuff in there I'm out. What I really wanted was the burnt almond fudge because that's who.
Yeah that sounds right up your alley. I know. Burnt almonds. Fudge. They also had a raspberry cheesecake. I went can we get this one? And Reese said no Beck we'll eat that.
And I went yeah you're right. Ice cream troubles. The woes of the ice cream. Sorry about all that.
It's all right. Trouble you had to go through to get four different kinds of ice cream. Three.
I got three. Which is too much ice cream. It is too much ice cream.
Especially when we're trying to go on a diet. That's not happening very quickly. I'll tell you that much. Because now we gotta get off, get rid of the ice cream. Every time I go I'm gonna get rid of these sweets, I'm gonna get rid of this stuff and then all of a sudden there's more and I go quit bringing this stuff home. Keep having to eat it. I know. Take care of that ice cream would you?
I forgot it's there. I need to eat some. I will. Okay.
When I get home from work I'm gonna be like yep ice cream time. Yes. Would you rather this or that? Josh now that you had a birthday.
Yeah. Do you want me to say how old you've become? Rolling on quads. 44 baby. 44.
Yeah. Would you rather redo your teenage years? Redo? Yeah. Or fast forward 10 years. I don't.
So you'd be 54. I don't want to do either of that. You have to pick one. Well then I'm gonna redo teenage years because I don't want to skip ahead 10 years. You'd rather redo your teenage years?
Yeah. I don't want to miss the time. I don't want to miss the time either but I'm not gonna miss 10 years. You know there's a lot that happens in 10 years.
I don't want to redo my teenage years. Oh no thank you. I'm gonna fast forward.
Crazy seeing 10 years. Okay. Have fun going through puberty again.
That was preteen years. Oh. Well have fun.
Thanks. Yeah I think I'd rather do that. I just don't want to not, I don't want to miss out on the 10 years. Like you blip and you missed it. You fast forward. You don't know what happened in that 10 years. That's 10 years. Yeah you wouldn't know how technology works.
There's so much you miss all of a sudden you're 10 years ahead. Man. That's crazy. You're right. All right. Yeah we're redoing teenage years aren't you? Yeah. Talk to you until I know it's a terrible would you rather.
It is. You gave me bad options. Who picked this?
You do. Whose game is this? Your game.
What's it called? Would you rather this or that. All right let me get you caught up on the latest football news since you know the season's ended and there's it's been a little quiet. Yeah.
Maybe I thought you might like a little bit of a little boost. Yeah I haven't been following along. I don't know what's happening. Well let me tell you there's a couple of different things going on.
Does everybody have a coach now? I don't know for sure. I haven't really dug into that but here's a couple of things I do know.
Okay. The upcoming 2026 to 2027 schedule the 49ers are having a real hard time with it. They have a serious disadvantage.
It says the Niners will play in Mexico City and will also have to travel to play a game in Australia which means they'll travel more than 38,000 miles in this next season more than any other team has ever traveled. That's a lot. I know but that's also pretty awesome.
I mean what an opportunity. Yeah but they're dealing with the fact that they're going to have to do that. The co-chair of the league's competition committee Rich McKay said that he has not heard any rumblings from teams that they want to try to attempt the push push, attempt to ban the push push. So it will probably likely be allowed again in the next season.
I feel like that's such a lazy play. The Green Bay Packers tried to get it shut down last year but to no avail. The play has been used by the Eagles and the Buffalo Bills. I feel like the Eagles invented it didn't they?
They certainly were the first team to really popularize it in the NFL. Yes. Okay. They didn't invent it. It's a rugby move. Oh. Okay. So there's that. I feel like there's just better plays. Yeah but it's effective. I know but it's boring to watch.
I don't disagree. Let's see what else is going on. That's pretty much the big latest football news that I can see.
I was thinking about it because we had a couple of new employees join over the past couple of months that we were in here and they're both big sports football guys and so then I was like, hey look there's not even going to be a room for me to play on the fantasy league. I know I'm grounded. I know.
I've been grounded from fantasy football. I know. You do not take loss well. I don't take loss well when it's not within my control.
That's the frust, that's where the frustration comes from. I don't mind if I lose and it's my fault fine but if I lose because it's extruating circumstances around me then I have a problem. You don't take loss well.
Sure. I mean look nobody wants to lose but if I lose and it's because I underperformed fine. It's not fine.
I'll deal with it. I don't like to lose when it's because somebody cheated or the system was set up wrong or everybody was having a great time at my expense whatever it is. No one cheated. No one.
Not one person cheated. You lost. Listen. Listen to me. I had a good roster. I had great players.
Yes. They underperformed for me. It was frustrating. This is why you're not allowed to play. The people that should have been performing big time weren't.
The people that were unexpected were doing well. It was frustrating. Josh is grounded from fantasy football. Nobody asked him to play unless he can live with you for the football season because I don't want to hear about it when he loses. Oh you'll hear about it on the show every day. I know. Anyway let's wrap up this show for the day. Thanks for hanging out with us. We'll be back tomorrow morning on Wednesday already because it's a short week because of the three day weekend.
Whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop. Okay. All right. See you tomorrow. Goodbye. Bye.
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