Wake Up Classy 97 The Podcast

Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh & Chantel from Thursday, July 2nd, 2026 / Josh and Chantel kick off the show recapping USMNT's historic World Cup win over Bosnia-Herzegovina and look ahead to the Belgium match, firefighters reattaching a young girl's severed fingers, the "Club Rest Stop" relaxation trend, daredevil climbers who scaled the Empire State Building for a marriage proposal, the internet uproar over PlayStation's move to all-digital game discs, tips for keeping pets calm and safe during 4th of July fireworks, the latest gossip on the Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce wedding, who controls the road trip music and the road trip snacks, a German themed family dinner, and more!

Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: World Cup update
(4:05) - It's not Friday
(7:00) - Good News
(8:59) - Parking ticket
(14:34) - Nap club
(21:09) - Ice cream really slaps
(27:42) - German party!
(33:16) - Chantel's farm
(40:17) - PlayStation controversy
(47:20) - No wedding invite
(52:58) - 4th of July pet safety
(57:16) - Would You Rather
(1:02:04) - Empire State proposal

What is Wake Up Classy 97 The Podcast?

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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Thursday, July 2nd, 2026

Episode summary introduction:

Josh and Chantel kick off the show recapping USMNT's historic World Cup win over Bosnia-Herzegovina and look ahead to the Belgium match, firefighters reattaching a young girl's severed fingers, the "Club Rest Stop" relaxation trend, daredevil climbers who scaled the Empire State Building for a marriage proposal, the internet uproar over PlayStation's move to all-digital game discs, tips for keeping pets calm and safe during 4th of July fireworks, the latest gossip on the Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce wedding, who controls the road trip music and the road trip snacks, a German themed family dinner, and more!

Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: World Cup update
(4:05) - It's not Friday
(7:00) - Good News
(8:59) - Parking ticket
(14:34) - Nap club
(21:09) - Ice cream really slaps
(27:42) - German party!
(33:16) - Chantel's farm
(40:17) - PlayStation controversy
(47:20) - No wedding invite
(52:58) - 4th of July pet safety
(57:16) - Would You Rather
(1:02:04) - Empire State proposal

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Full show transcript:

Well,

let's get you caught up on World Cup action. The US men's national team advanced in the World Cup yesterday. They beat Bosnia Herzegovina two to nothing in Santa Clara, California. Um we do have a player who scored the first goal and then got a red card. And a lot of people are upset about that because he's one of our best players, and he is uh because of his red card potentially not going to be allowed to play in the in the first like big knockout game. And so a lot of people online are like the refs are doing everything they can to make it so the US doesn't win.

Uh it's a big thing, it's a whole big thing. Uh but that's uh that's kind of a big deal. Um it is the first time in US men's national team history that they have won a game in the knockout round since 2002. So they haven't uh they haven't won a knockout game in 24 years.

They will head to Seattle Monday night to play Belgium in the round of 16. Now, here was the deal. If you remember, we have a friend who said if they make it past 16, he did, he will come to town and we will watch a game together. And so I'm excited.

He's gonna be rooting for Spain, though.

That's fine. I know he's gonna be rooting for is Spain still in? I don't know. I don't know.

I I haven't been paying attention, and I wanted to be so bad, and I just I didn't.

Well, 2-0 uh is the victory over um uh Bosnia Herzegovina, and now we move on to uh Seattle Monday against Belgium in the round of 16. Very, very cool. We're still in this thing. Have we gotten better at our uh at our chanting and our trash talking and our and our songs yet? Or are we still are we still we believe that we will win? Are we still doing that?

Here we go, you see.

Here we go. Cloud. Oh yeah. Yeah. We we've we're working on it. We gotta be better. Let's go. What are we? Do we have a mascot? You the it's just the US. It's not there's there's a like a FIFA mascot, but there's not a there's not a soccer team mascot for the US, which is the whole country. It's not like when you're on one of the teams in the US. That's what I mean. Like if you play for like Real Salt Lake or something. Right. You know, they probably have a mascot, but I don't know what it is. I don't either. But but this is different because it's like the whole country.

Then our mascot would be the bald eagle. Sure. Here we go.

No, no, we're not the Eagles. This is just the team USA. It's USA team.

I don't know what to tell you.

I, You really wanted to be a soccer fan, and here you are. I know. Lost in the whole I know. thing of it.

I really wanted to be a soccer fan, and I really wanted to watch the world. the world. There's still time. And I you have to pay to watch. And I did watch the first Portugal game because I got a free trial, so I was able to watch that. I'm just bummed out.

I really want to see that. What I'm telling you is that they we're headed to the round of 16. There's more football action. Okay. There's lots of soccer. So I can still participate. That's right.

Okay. Is Portugal still in? I don't think it knows. I'm sure of it. I haven't been keeping track of the bracket. Here's what I know. We won last night. We're playing Monday against Belgium. That's what I know. Hold on. Still in. Oh, here we go. We're gonna find out.

Okay. Portugal. Yes. Okay. They're still in it. Okay. They are still in it. They're playing today. Okay. Again. They're playing Croatia. Okay. Okay, I'm gonna. You're gonna watch your boyfriend again. Oh, yeah. Put John over Tal. All right.

All right. Listen. Here's today's show. Hello. Hi. What's what's good?

Uh, I thought it was Friday. You did. Yeah.

Oh, how sad are you now? So very because it's Thursday. When did you think it was Friday? When I woke up. Yeah. And then I said, uh no. So it the reality hit that quick. I see. I thought maybe you just found out. No.

I've been I've been fighting with this emotion for about 45 minutes. Oh man. That's a tough one. I know. I know. Oh, I know. I know. Are you gonna be okay? I think I'll be okay. What other choice do I have? I mean, I don't know. don't know. I just have to get through today, and then I got a Friday. Yeah.

What were you expecting to do on your not a Friday?

Well, I have the day off from my other job. Uh huh. And I kind of also forgot that we have to come in and do the morning show tomorrow. So when I woke up this morning, I went, It's Friday, and I don't have to go to work at all. And then I went, no, it's Thursday. And I also have to wake up early tomorrow. That's two punches. I know. Oh no. You poor thing. I know. Thank you for your sympathy in this trying time.

Yeah. If you could please allow me my privacy as I recover. Yeah. I'm gonna need it. Yeah. I bet. That's a that's a lot to deal with. Waking up on a Thursday thing. I mean, it could be worse. You could have woken up on a Tuesday thinking it was a Friday. Or something. You know what I mean?

I know. It's still bad. It's still bad. I just you know that song working for the weekend. That's me, baby. Every day.

And it's a big weekend too. Fourth of July weekend. I know it. And so Friday is kind of a fun, interesting day because tomorrow, Friday, actual Friday. Yep. Uh, yeah, we have the show, but then that's it. Like normally, like I'm in the building forever. And uh, and so it's gonna be nice to cut out after the show. How exciting.

I know. Are you excited? Well, then I have to be back at work at like 4 30. Tomorrow.

Yeah. Doing sound checks and doing logistics. So many things For Riverfest and uh 4th of July and getting everything ready to go for Melaleuka Freedom Celebration. There's a lot of to-dos. Lots of moving parts. Yep. Well. Hi. Hello.

Happy Thursday. Yeah. That's what it is. It's a Thursday.

This is quite the story. There's a five-year-old girl in England. Her name is Olive. And about eight weeks ago, she was involved in a playground accident. Oh no. It was a merry-go-round accident. And her fingers were severed off at the tips. It was crazy. Like wild. Olive. I know. Uh and so uh she lost uh I don't know how many fingertips on

the merry-go-round, but firefighters from Essex sprang into action. They searched the grass to find the severed pieces. Ugh.

They quickly put them on ice and rushed them to the hospital. Doctors were able to successfully reattach them. Doctors. Isn't that amazing? Like unreal. So it's been eight weeks. Olive went to the fire station to say thank you. She brought along hand-painted pictures, right? Like finger painted pictures that she made by herself and gave to the firefighters that showed up to help her uh at the playground, which is just incredible. Her family says the firefighters' speed and determination made all the difference. Turning a frightening moment into a remarkable recovery and a heartfelt reunion. That's pretty cool.

I mean, that's what you do at your job today. Oh, I had to look for some severed fingers.

For a five-year-old's little tiny fingers.

Oh man, oh man, they're amazing.

They were able to reattach uh the fingers, and eight weeks later, we're talking two months. She's finger painting photos and all good to go. Oh, Olive. Yeah. Hooray. Isn't that crazy? Uh while she was visiting uh the fire station, they presented her with a certificate of bravery signed by the chief fire officers as well. So that's pretty cool. That's awesome. Yep.

Good story, Jessica.

Yeah, it's good news.

Imagine my surprise when I'm walking outside yesterday after work, and I'm walking with the coworker and we're headed into the parking lot where we typically park and chatting, and she goes, Oh, hey, isn't that your car right there? And I go, Oh yeah, I forgot I parked right there this morning. I was running a little bit late, so yep, I parked there.

So you didn't park in your usual spot where you have like an actual permit to park. Yeah. You parked somewhere else. Yeah, I was running a little bit late. Uh-huh.

And so I said, I'm gonna park here for time constraints. I'm gonna run in. I'm gonna do the thing that I need to do, and then I'm gonna run out and move my car. So what happened? I forgot. You forgot to move your car? Yes.

How long are you allowed to park in a spot? Uh two hours. And then you have to move? Yeah. Onto a different block or into your permitted parking. Or pay. Uh-huh.

Yeah. And so now how much do you get to pay? Twenty dollars. Wow.

So mad. Here's I'm gonna, I'm gonna give you a little bit of uh a little bit of advice. Okay. It was given to me a while ago. When you want to remember something. Tie a string around your finger? No. Put a reminder in your phone. I didn't. Why did you why don't you put a reminder in your phone?

Because I didn't need to. I was like, as soon as this other person gets here, I can run out.

Why don't you put a reminder in your phone?

Get out of here. Oh man. I'm so bummed out. I grabbed that ticket and I went. Oh yeah. And you know what's crazy? What is I parked it at like some like early in the morning, like nine-ish, maybe 9 30-ish, 10. And I didn't get a ticket until 3 15. Well, that's more than two hours. I know. It's like five. And that was like two hours before I left for the day. Wow. So I could have still had plenty of time to move.

Yeah. If you'd put a reminder in your phone. put Set a reminder.

I understand why I got the ticket. I'm at fault. I fully admit. I just hate spending my money on dumb stuff like that. Yeah. Twenty dollars. Twenty dollars. You know what that could buy you?

Um, not much these days, but a little bit. All kinds of stuff. Oh, sure.

Sure. I know. Ice cream. A nice refreshment. Okay. That's that is all true.

But instead it gets to pay a parking ticket. Yeah. Uh well, I mean, at least it's not like a hundred dollars, right?

Yeah, did I put that parking ticket somewhere when I got home? I have no idea. Oh, crud. It's probably still in your car. Probably. I probably ripped it up and threw it in pieces on the city.

Is that right? I'm not paying this.

I own up to my responsibilities. Right.

Well, you and our son just getting those parking tickets. Yeah, his was much more. Yeah, he got one in Utah.

How much was his? I don't even remember. I think it was like 75.

You think so? I don't think it was that much. Are you sure? No. I'm not. Let me find out. Yeah, but it was uh it was definitely some monies. But he had parked uh like downtown. He'd gone down there uh for like a convention thing and he just parked on the street, and you you gotta move. You gotta pay or move or go to a parking garage. You can't just park somewhere. I'm just really glad they didn't tow him.

I know it. Because that would have been insane to try and get your car out of towing and you're in a total. You're in a state and a city that you you don't know where to go or who to help you.

Like, you know, we as family are hours and hours away. Have you been towed before? No. I have. That's because when you were in college, you parked at the restaurant instead of in the school parking lot.

Because I just needed to run in. Doesn't matter.

The signs say customer parking only, and you didn't listen, and you got your car to I know, it's my fault.

I know. But geez Louise.

Give me 10 minutes to run in and do this thing. That is 10 minutes a customer could arrive and need that spot for that business.

70 bucks. You paid 70 bucks for the ticket in Utah. So I'm happy to pay my 20. That's crazy. I'm not happy to pay it, but I'm glad it's not 70. Ugh. Have you ever did you ever watch that meter maids show? What was it? Parking wars. That sounds like a show. On TLC, I think it was.

That sounds like a TLC show.

People in Philadelphia like parking enforcement.

I remember watching that with you.

Yeah, that got intense sometimes. People would get so drama. Mad about their parking ticket.

You're like, you can tear it up all you want. I still have my copy, and you're still gonna have to pay that ticket. I don't know what to tell you.

I would hate to be that job. People yelling at you all the time. Nobody wants that job. Sorry for the parking enforcers out there. Well.

said a reminder on your phone, pay your ticket, park where you're supposed to. I don't know the solution. But one of those three.

Thanks for your advice. Yeah.

Not mad. I'm just disappointed. I don't even care. Oh wow.

This is a brilliant idea. This is called Club Rest Stop. For right now, this is only available in New York, but this needs to start happening around other cities. What is it? Oh, it's uh gathering of people. So you meet in a park, and then you have a couple of hours of guided breathing, some sound baths, meditation, or you can just take a nap. Wait, wait, wait.

So it's not, it's just a group of people that are meeting up and having relaxation. Yes. Club rest stop. That's kind of terrible name. It's kind of terrible. Because uh when I think rest stop, I don't think, oh, this is a place where I'm gonna go and have a relaxing time.

I know. I think this is a place where I couldn't make it to the town I was headed to. Good thing there's a restroom on the way. So club rest stop is a terrible name. It is not a great name for what this is.

The idea is great. Okay.

People meeting up and having a relaxing time.

Yeah, you just relax. You can meditate. You can do a sound bath.

Could I uh uh also say you could just do this alone?

Yeah, but the point of it is I mean, yeah. All right.

Look, I mean, I'm all for having a community. Don't get me wrong. Like making some friends, being a part of a group, having a social thing. That's fine. I appreciate all of that. But going to a park and hanging up a hammock and having a rest in the shade. It sounds great. Yeah. I know. Sounds awesome.

We've been talking about nap times during the day for months and months and months. We gotta get our boss on board with this.

Well, I mean, I know a spot where we can go, yeah. I could go hang up hammocks and you could just meet me there.

Is it secluded though? A little bit, because sometimes I don't want to be napping in a park where people are like walking by. I know. I don't want people watching me sleep. What? I was I was watching you sleep. No, it's that's creepy. I know.

That's what happens at Club Rest stop. I watched you sleep. It's weird. But no, like I know a spot. Yeah, we could we could off the beaten path, hang up some hammocks, and uh and have a relax.

If we had this is the one thing about our backyard that we don't have and that we never will have because we've got power lines in our backyard.

The sun doesn't come from that way, dude. I know, dude. I don't need to put trees on the north side of the property in order to have shade in the backyard, dude.

I just want to hang a hammock in the backyard. I understand. Remember when we hung our hammocks in our bedrooms? Yeah. In our bedroom. In our bedrooms. Well, Emory had one too. That's true. Yeah. That was cool. It was cool. Yeah. It didn't leave us a lot of space because our bedroom is small.

Yeah, but if we would have gotten rid of the the bed and just had hammocks in there.

You had that idea for a minute. You were like, let's get rid of our bed.

We could just like it to not be our bedroom. Like that would like if I could just put the hammocks in uh their own space that you could just go, that'd be cool. Where they were just there. Outside. With some trees. I get it. I get it.

That's where I want my hammock. But we can't have hammocks. Because we can't have trees in the backyard.

We can. We plant them too.

They're not those aren't hammock trees, though. I know. That's all I'm still.

You can't. You know how much a tree ready hammock ready tree is gonna cost. Oh, a lot. Yeah, a ton. And it's gonna be heavy. Yeah. You're not gonna move it by hand, is what you're saying?

It's just not gonna happen, and it bums me out a little bit. That's all. I'm just got some hammock woes.

Okay, but you don't have to have trees to hang hammocks.

No, I know, because that's how we hung them in the bedroom. We didn't have trees in the bedroom.

But I've also hung them across the deck. All of that anchoring is still in place.

No, I understand. I really do. It's just not ever as good as hanging it between two trees when you're outside. Yeah, no, I get that. Yeah. You're shaded. Yeah. You get the nature sounds. Yeah. Yeah. It's so good.

It's so good. Yeah. I'm with it. You we uh have hung hammocks in our front yard before, too. We have We have one tree. And so you hung it from the truck to the tree. Correct. Can absolutely do that. I know we can because we have.

Well, I had a different truck at the time. I don't have the same truck. So I don't have the same. I don't have the rack on the roof to mount to. So I don't have the tie-off point. Oh man.

So I don't even have that. But we but I have there's other ways. Like I would just have to bury a couple poles and we could hang hammocks. In the front yard? No. Not hanging them in the front yard.

Oh, I see. Where the people walk by. In the backyard, where we can't have hammocks because we don't have trees because the power lines. You know, that whole thing. How do we get stuck on hammocks? Uh taking naps.

Yeah, we're talking about taking a nap. Yeah. I Listen to me though. Is there anything better than taking a nap outside? No, there is not. I'm gonna answer it for you.

I mean, some would argue taking a nap inside.

No, take a nap outside. It's better. It's so nice. What was the last time you took a nap outside? It's been a long time. I know. We were sitting outside on the deck the other day. I said, I'm gonna take a nap out here one of these days. Just wait. Okay. I'm holding my breath. I know. It's because there's never time to nap. You gotta make the time. That's what they say.

Make the time to nap. Or join Club Rest Stop. I'm gonna and then tell them to change their name.

I'm gonna I'm gonna make a different one here in Eastern Idaho, and I'm gonna call it something else. I'll come up with something cool. Club. I'll think about it. Okay.

I'll muddle it around. How much ice cream do you think you've eaten already this summer? Hmm. Three, four. Three ice creams? Four ice creams? How many scoops? Let me. Oh. Okay. you get You get one scoop wherever we go.

That's right. You are two scoop Sally. You get two scoops everywhere we go because you are you like a treat yourself. So that's fine. You I think it's more that you just can't make a decision and pick one.

It's absolutely. That is absolutely the case.

Because then you always go like, this is too much ice cream. Or you'll go, I should have had this one on the bottom and this one on the top instead, because this is the flavor I like.

Just pick one. Can't. You can because here's the thing I know. I know. Then you go back another time and you try the other one. Can't nah. Yeah. I'll just get two.

Uh good idea though.

Cool way to dismiss that. Yeah, good idea though. Nice try. I'll just keep doing two scoops.

It's going to keep doing what I do. Two scoops out. But thanks for your opinion. Um, okay. We started an ice cream club in our family.

We've been to like three places. Yeah. So that's what I said. Three. And then I've had a couple uh of the talentes at home. The gelatos. So maybe five. Five ice creams. Yeah. Probably five ice creams this year.

Scoops. How many scoops are we?

How many scoops are in a talented? I don't know. Two?

Why do you keep calling it talenti? Is that the name of it? Yeah. Oh. I just call it gelato. Okay. We've been we've been on a gelato cake lately. Go because it's healthy. because it's Because it's gelato.

No, it was on sale. That's why. five. Uh five. Five scoops? No.

Because we got five ice creams. Cone from McDonald's the other day. Would that qualify as a scoop? Sure. It's soft serve. It's not a scoop.

Sometimes that's a good thing. Yeah, see, again, here's the thing. Really slaps. I got oh no. A whole bunch of kids just went, no. No, no.

No. We gotta play that for Emory. She's gonna have a fit.

She will leave the room.

That is awful. See, you did not switch what she's gonna say. Yeah. You did not say that. What were you gonna say? What do you're saying?

If there's two scoops in each talented and I've had two, that's four scoops. Okay. And then the three ice cream places we've been to, that's a total of seven. Seven scoops. So that means you've had 14. I was also gonna say I had a soft surf cone. You did not.

No, I gotta have sundaes. Right, which is different. Yeah. Isn't it? Yeah, it is. Yeah. Yeah. So when you say, oh, we had cones the other day. No, I did. I hadn't just a regular soft serve cone. Treat yourself. Yeah.

How's that different? Mine was just in a cup rather than a cone with a little sprinkle of hot fudge.

Do you think they sprinkle hot fudge? Yeah. No. It's not sprinkled on. How is it put on then? Glooped. Yeah.

It's Glooped on. Gloop is a better word. Not enough.

With a gloop of hot.

Here's what happens. Here's what I notice, because I love some hot fudge. But you gotta do, you gotta do like a like a layer of ice cream and then a small layer of hot fudge and then ice cream. You gotta lasagna. You gotta put it.

That sounds like a peanut butter parfait. Yeah, except without the peanuts. Yeah, but it's good with the peanuts. I haven't ever had one of those. I don't have to. Have you not? I don't think so. You've never had that. It's gonna blow your mind.

I guess that's our n next.

You have to get that. Ice cream club date. Okay. I won't get that. I'll just get a regular cone dipped in some stuff. Why won't you get it? Because I don't want that. I ate too many of them when I was a kid. I ate so many peanut butter parfaits. I'm telling you. So many. Why? I don't know. It's why I was a 12 husky. Or 12 husky pants, because I had a peanut buster par A addiction.

That's funny, Josh. That makes me chuckle. No, I heard. I was gonna just look at a uh picture.

And then I saw it's uh it's exactly what you explained. It's your ice cream lasagna. Ice cream hot fudge lips.

Well, that's what you have to do because then that's the only way that you can get the the combo Yeah,

but it's in that tall cup, and so you work your way down through the layers of ice cream and hot fudge and peanuts. It's good. Okay.

I'll get one of those. I haven't never gotten one of those because I always had a different treat that I would get. The dilly bar. No, no. No, no. It was always just a blizzard.

Or back in the day in Burley, Dairy Queen was the spot. I know. And so you could get a Mr. Misty is what they called them.

Yeah. And then if you got a m it was like a slushy, but if you got a Mr. Misty float, then they would put a scoop of ice cream in the Mr. Mr. No, not a scoop. A gloop. It was a gloop. Oh, do they still make those? I don't know.

I don't work there.

What they do. Well, there you go. Oh.

But you can't have that. You gotta have you gotta try this hot fudge. We're gonna have to go there twice. Oh. It's 4th of July.

it's calm down. Calm down.

You you have an ice cream problem. I'm gonna be a 12 husky again. Keep up all this ice cream. Earlier this year, it's like, oh yeah, we're gonna eat better. We're going on this thing, and then you're like, you know, it'd be great as ice cream club. Yeah. 12 husky. YOLO. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, sure. You also said that.

Gross. Last night we had a German party, is what I liked to call it.

Did you call it German party or just German dinner? Oh, German. I think you just called it German dinner. Maybe German night.

Maybe German night. I think that's a good one. I feel like it was German dinner. I don't know. I probably called it a bunch of different things. That's probably true. I was cooking it. So there is a place in Utah that you love to eat at, and it serves German food. That's right. Brats and potatoes and sauerkraut and Yes. a noodle salad that you really. It's not a salad. A noodle. It's a noodle dish. A noodle dish.

Yeah, it's a noodles and gravy. It's very good. Spetzel? Yes. Spez. Spetzel. Shh.

There's no sh. It's just SP. Sh spetzel. I talked to it.

I understand. But I the pronunciation I feel like is gonna be a sh sh. SP. I'm not German.

I'm not German. I am a little German. You are? Like this big.

I I'm a little German. Look at you.

Okay. You love their noodles so much, their noodles and gravy. And you love that German place so so much.

I'm I really like the brats, and I really like the spetzel or spotzel. It doesn't that there's gotta be a sp. It feels appropriate. Nonetheless, I do like that dish.

Okay. You had the brat and you had the the potatoes when we went there. Did I have the brat? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the brat and the potatoes, and you you like the potatoes. Yeah. Um and the brat you you thought was pretty good, I guess. You ate most of it.

When we ate it the one in salt.

I ate the leftovers because you brought it back. And I ate that.

But it was it was fine. It's never that's never gonna be my first choice of places to eat. It's good.

It's a German delicate.

It's become kind of a tradition when we go there with a certain yeah, with a certain trend. friends.

Yeah. We go, oh, we're going to the German place. Got it. It's good. It's fine. Yeah. So this time I said, I'm bringing some stuff home. And that's when I got the the brats and the the stuff to make the noodles and gravy at home. And uh so I made that for dinner last night because I was like in a pinch and I didn't want to spend 45 minutes cooking.

Right. And so I said, I can boil some water, do these noodles, make gravy and grill some brats. That won't be hard. Yeah, yeah. So I did that. And uh it was good.

Well, when the kids started asking what was for dinner, they didn't seem too enthused by it. German night. So I was trying to make it exciting for them, but also for me, because I was not excited about German night either. But I was like, come on into German night. You were trying to amp them up. Yeah. Now our daughter, she is she took German class last year.

She's a couple of years. She's done a couple of years of German, yeah.

And her teacher is doing one of those school trips where you just study abroad.

Yeah. For like a couple of weeks. Yeah.

And so she's all interested in doing that. And so then we were like, this is like a trial run. Yeah. This is what you'll be eating when you go over there. And she was like, I don't. I'm gonna go to McDonald's. They have a McDonald's.

And you're not gonna go to you're not gonna Door Dash McDonald's when you're in Germany. Like you're in Germany, do as the Germans do.

It's a trial run. Right. Now eat your what's it? Spetzel. Sure. We're totally I know someone's gonna be so mad at us. That's fine.

Like you're saying that all crazy. Uh but anyway, uh it was good.

I did try and you had the brat and you enjoyed the brat. Yeah, I had it with some mustard. Right. And we had You're supposed to. The way children do it. But I just had the mustard. Yeah. Emory asked where the bun was.

Yeah. I want bread. Now, to be fair, you can get a sausage roll uh in Germany where it's it's in a like a hand pie type thing. Pigs in a blanket. Basically a pig in a blanket, yeah.

Which is probably better than what they used to make at school food.

Well, yeah, because it's a delicious brat in a roll. Yum. That does sound kind of nice. Yeah.

Can you get that at that German place in Utah?

I didn't see that, but then the farmer's market, I bet we could have. I bet they had it at that that farmer's market German stand where we got that garlic sauce. Yeah. I'll bet they had it there.

Try that. Let's try that next time. Like you try to make you make a sausage roll. I bet you could do it. Yeah, I know I could.

Why are you trying to reverse psychology me? I bet uh I bet you could you probably do that. I bet you could make that. That sounds like something I bet you can make.

I guess I don't want to, but I want to eat it.

Oh, I bet I mean you probably have the skill set and the tools to make that.

Well, German night was a success for two of us. I really enjoyed it.

And you like the noodles. You hadn't had the noodles, and they were okay. They were okay. They were not my favorite. Okay. But you said they were delicious. You enjoyed it.

I enjoyed it. They were not my favorite, but they were okay. Well, two of two of the members of our family did not enjoy German night. As exciting as I tried to make it.

By saying, German night.

We've been watching a lot of Clarkson's Farm. Yeah.

So Jeremy Clarkson uh is from Top Gear and uh also from the Grand Tour, which was the post-top gear show. He's been uh British television uh face uh for decades and decades and decades. Retired from the automotive world um and bought a whole bunch of land in England and uh he's got a farm going. He's got I mean, and I'm talking a substantial amount of land. He's got some good acreage, and he's growing a lot of stuff, and he's I mean, he is learning how to do farming, and he's doing a lot of it himself. He's got a he's got Caleb, who's kind of his farm hand, his farm manager, and uh, and then he is doing between him and his wife, they're doing a lot of stuff. They've kind of done everything from like big ag stuff to uh beef cows uh to pigs and sheep and goats to hobby farm stuff uh with geese and snails and uh little uh flat-faced sheep, whatever those guys are. Those sheep.

Yeah, I kind of yeah, between the pigs and the guinea fowl and the

guinea fowl apparently stinking are very loud.

I know they are very loud, but they're so cute. Okay. Um I kind of want I kind of want to farm. No, you don't. I know every time I watch that show, I go, I kind of want to farm. No, you don't, and then the show ends, and I go, no. What was I thinking?

I'm doing a garden and

You don't you don't even want to do the garden. No, I don't want to. I just want the baby animals. I see. Because they they just had baby cows. Go to the zoo. And they just had baby sheep and then the baby key, the baby pigs. Yeah. Oh, they're so cute.

Yeah, that's the fun side of the farming.

Is the cute baby animals. The rest of it sounds like really hard work.

Don't worry. I snap back into reality every time it ends. I go, what was I thinking?

Yeah, half a minute. We were like, let's get chickens. And then you imagine we had chickens right now. Oh no. Yeah. Forget about that.

No, I'm barely keeping my kids alive. I can't keep other things alive.

So yeah, no, I'm glad you've uh you've changed your mind. But I get it. It's a fun, really heartfelt show. It's a wonderful show. It is a great show.

And there's Gerald who is like a helper on the farm.

Yeah. He helps around a bunch of different farms in the uh area. Yeah.

He's very uh he's got a lot to say, but you can't really understand anything. No, he's he's Gerald. He's big G dog. He's my favorite. Yeah. Uh if you haven't seen that show, it really is great.

It's a lovely, lovely show. I'm about I'm on the last episode of the of the current season. They're filming the next season now. They're filming season six. Um, so it is in production.

Okay, so he has a restaurant and he had a what they call the dare night. Yeah. And it was like we have all this food that nobody's gonna eat. Right.

Well, and uh I guess he was kind of inspired to go like, look, there's so much food waste in the world because people like steaks and people like burgers and people like the usual parts of the animal, but there's other parts of the animal that people might want to know they can eat. Yeah. And so he said, let's prepare some of that stuff and introduce it to people and see if they might find out they like something, and so maybe we can minimize food waste. I don't think that objective was uh.

I think there was one thing that like they had some squirrel, apparently squirrel stinks and is pretty oily. Yeah. Um, and then they had some pig ears, but those the pig ears were a hit. Yeah. People really like the pig ear. Yeah.

I'm not such a big fan of Dare Knight. I'm not. Me neither. They read me neither like hearts and brains and tripe, and they were eating snail caviar and uh nah.

No, thank you. Yeah, I'm I'm okay. I'm with you too. Like, I get it, and I appreciate the sentiment of minimizing food waste.

I think that's very that's a very noble cause. I'm not the guy to help with that. Same. I am far too spoiled by delicious foods that I'm comfortable with. I am not I'm not the dare night guy.

But I'm glad that they could all try it

so that I could look at it and go, yeah, no. Yeah. And see their faces when they go, yeah, that was pretty bad.

They had a hot sauce guy come in and he made a hot sauce that was 15 million Scoville, and they put like a tiny drop on a piece of bread, and they were like rocked. It was crazy. The whole restaurant was having a bad time.

Do you would you try any of that stuff? Do you have a lot of it? A hot sauce. You would try the hot sauce? Oh, yeah. You wouldn't try the squirrel? No. Or the pig's ear. I don't think so. Or the snail eggs. No. Yeah, same.

No. I don't think so. And you know, and they brought out the dishes and they said, here's what this is. Enjoy. Like you'd almost want to eat it and then not know what it was.

Oh, that's exactly what I would have to do. I wouldn't tell me. Don't tell me. Yeah. I can't.

I'm a little bit like freaked out about the dining in the dark experience that they do in Vegas, where it's a pitch black restaurant. And so you can't see what they're like they they say, here's your food, and you they sit it in front of you and you're in the dark eating.

So you it's a it's a uh a different experience because you get the taste, the smell, you know, all the flavors, you get the textures, you get to, you know, I mean, yes, you get to hear it, but but you hear people chew, but you can't you can't see, so you don't know what you're eating.

I don't know how I'd feel about that. I kind of don't want that. No, I gotta look at it. But what if it just tasted amazing? No, I gotta look at it.

I don't want to know what it is, but I gotta at least look at it. No way.

Uh because then you're gonna try to solve the mystery. Just try to figure it out what it is by taste. That tastes really good. Like that is frog legs.

I've heard frog legs are good, actually. I don't want to eat them.

Well, you would in the dark if you didn't know.

I'm just not gonna go there. How about yeah, I don't think I could do it.

I'm not the like dare night fear factor, eat this weird bug. No, thank you. Yeah, same. And also, And also, no farm.

I know. I'm better now. Okay, good. I snapped back into reality. All right.

The internet is in a bit of an uproar. Uh late yesterday afternoon. PlayStation announced that uh they are going to do away with physical discs entirely, and everything is going to be a digital download.

I kind of thought that they already had done that.

No, well, so they've made a non-disk drive console. I guess they did that with the PS4, and the PS5 was also presented that way as like no disk drive. So you could buy a console that way. Um, and a lot of the console manufacturers, like them and Xbox specifically, are really getting away from digital uh physical media and and focusing on digital. And the reason it's causing such controversies because it also gives Microsoft and PlayStation and whoever else the ability to just deactivate that game and make it non-playable on your device. So you can buy something, you can spend 80 or 100 on a game, and then they can go, eh, never mind. You don't have access to that game anymore.

So it's causing a lot of uproar online for people that are like, and there's many, many, many, many other reasons why. Uh you can no longer resell your games. You can't loan them to somebody to play. Yeah. You can't, like you have no physical media. Yeah. So it it kind of deletes a lot of industry.

There's a lot of stuff. You don't necessarily own it.

You don't own anything. You're like paying to play it is until they say you can't. So it's caused a ton of controversy online because of that. Uh so that is starting in January of 2028. They will end production of physical game discs. And after that, you will only be able to make new game purchases on the PlayStation store in a digital format. Now, there's also a giant monopoly lawsuit happening because they're like, if you can only buy it at one spot, they can control the price. That's a monopoly. You've got to be if if you can only buy at one place, can't I can't get it somewhere else.

There's no competition. So now there's a giant lawsuit about it. We're gonna see what happens. Domino's getting in on the action, and they said here's an official statement. They posted this online.

Domino's like pizza dominoes. Uh-huh.

In respond to the trends in gaming in the gaming industry as of the first of April 2027, Domino's will cease production of physical pizzas and shift production to digital pizzas only. Consumers will be able to download our full range of delicious pizza codes and using the power of imagination, enjoy them in an entirely virtual sense. Don't you just love it? More physical pizza. I love thinking about pizza. Yeah. Yeah. You don't actually get to consume the pizza, but you get to pay for it. Oh, yeah.

It's Domino's slapping back.

It's getting a little bit crazy out there online.

It's a little bit crazy. I read I read something the other day that said we don't necessarily everything is a subscription. Yeah. We're just subscribing to stuff. Correct. Own anything hardly anymore.

Which is a problem.

You're just like renting stuff because you're paying per month for stuff.

Well, and then and then it's even like you want to go buy a digital download of a show. You've got to go to a streaming service that you have to pay for to then say, I'm gonna pay to watch this movie, and you can rent or own it for you know whatever it is, 10, 15 bucks. I don't know. Right.

I haven't done it in forever, but uh, but if you want to buy it to own it digitally, again, they can still go, nah, we don't have the contract with that movie anymore, so you can't access that on our service, but thanks for buying that, quote unquote buying that. It's that's a slippery slope. It's a really interesting thing.

Um, and uh the internet's got a lot of opinions on it. But that is uh that's the latest thing is that uh PlayStation has said we're not going to do discs as of January 1st, 2028, no more physical video game discs, and that's caused quite a stir.

It's so crazy because we grew up in the the age where it was like you collected the hard stuff, like you had physical copies of cassettes, right? And then CDs.

And then vinyl and eight track and everything that's gonna be.

But even just movies, it was VHS and then DVDs and then Blu-rays. And you collected all the stuff to the point where you had boxes and boxes and boxes of that stuff when you moved. And then all this digital stuff came out, and we were like, great, get rid of all these hard copies. Right. Look at all the space we have. And now you don't know anything. Now the generation, like our son is now collecting.

Yeah, because he wants a tangible hard copy of it. Yeah. And that it makes sense. I mean, I being the analog childhood and adolescence that you and I had, I get it. Like I there's something about holding it in your hands versus just being even streaming music.

It's the same thing. You go, like, hey, I I can touch this. Like, I can put this into a CD player. I can I can listen to this at a different audio quality. Yep. As intended because it's produced differently.

Well, and that's yeah, all of these streaming services for music. I have playlists and playlists, but at any time, any one of them can be

like, well, you don't get to listen to that anymore. There are artists like Garth Brooks, who's like, my music is not available. Yep. On all of these services. Like you can either only get it in one spot or you can't get it at all.

And like you can't just search up Garth Brooks on anything and have it play him. No. You gotta have the right service, and that's the same thing. You know, or you've gotta own the physical copies. So I it's it's a weird time. It's a weird time in the digital world right now. So we'll see where it goes. There's a lot of backlash. So we'll see if PlayStation's like psych or if they push through and actually go, yeah, we told you we weren't doing this two years ago.

Is the Xbox doing the same thing and Nintendo?

Well, and then they're also all and and they're all doing a lot of different stuff, including raising the prices of everything after they've released it, which is so backwards. Normally they go, here it is at $500, and then two and a half, three years later, it's $350. They're doing the opposite. They're releasing it at 400 or whatever, and then going up. And now it's more expensive.

Weird. I know, and people are paying it, and I'm going, quit it. Speak with your wallet. Don't let them do that.

What are you doing? Yeah. I mean, I have it, but so I'm not out there buying it again. Interesting, Josh. I know. Wow. Yeah. Crazy. It is crazy. Crazy too. Crazy too. Crazy on the internet.

We haven't talked about it today, but we've been kind of talking about it a little bit all week about the wedding. The wedding. The wedding. Did you get your invite yet? No.

To the Taylor Travis wedding spectacular.

No, I'm still waiting. I mean, listen. Okay. Travis was supposed to send me an invite so that we could squash our beef.

He doesn't even know you have beef.

Now he's cutting it a little bit close. I mean, honestly, there is still time, but seriously, who there's no way I'm gonna get a flight at this hour. Puh. Guess you're driving. Cutting it close. I can't even ask for time off of work.

I mean, it's tomorrow. I know.

Travis, now we got double the beef.

Oh, he doesn't even know. Double the beef, two patties. Yum.

We got two patties of anger. Wow. Okay, I just was watching a video. Uh, it's a mom, um, and she's got her, she's driving and she's got her five-year-old daughter in the back seat, and her daughter says, Mom, are we going to Taylor Swiss wedding? And her mom said, uh, probably not. We don't, you know, we don't know her. And the little girl says, We know her mom.

Okay. And mom goes, okay, you're right. Like, I'm sorry. She doesn't know us. And the little girls argue with her, like, mom, I know her, though. I know Taylor Swift. And the mom says, Yes, I know.

But she doesn't know us. And the little girl, unbelievable. She like can't even believe it. She's like, I can't even fathom that I love and know Taylor Swift so much that she doesn't know who I am. Uh-huh. And then she says, are our cousins going? And the mom says, No.

Who good? Like, I'm not missing out. If they're going to do something awesome, I'm not going. That's not fair. Right. Okay.

So the little girl finally accepts it and she's like, okay, I understand. We're not going to her wedding. I I get it. I'll I'm not going to be her flower girl. I understand. Whatever, fine. And then she goes, okay. Can you just put on hot to go? just We'll just move on. Yeah.

Throw a chopper on. It's fine. Okay. That was a big big moment. It was a very big moment. I can't believe this. Is everybody else going? We're not going, but I everybody else is going. No one is going. No one No one is going. Okay, cool. Hot to go. Sounds good. H-O-T-T-O-D. Hilarious. Um. Okay.

What I know is that they are going to have a rehearsal dinner tonight for about a hundred people. Okay. Where are you getting this info? Oh, Josh. You can get this information on the internet. Okay.

I also know that their rehearsal, their wedding schedule is like it's going to start tomorrow or Saturday. Okay. With doors. No. Yeah.

Saturday? No, that can't be right. Sorry. Rehearsal dinner tonight. Yeah. Wedding tomorrow. The doors tomorrow will open at 3 30. Okay. And then their ex the reception is going to start about 6 30. And they're anticipating.

What's going on for three hours between doors and receptions?

Listen to this, though. This is the craziest part. The reception starts at 6 30 and it's not anticipated to end until about two in the morning. That's eight hours. That's a lot of reception time.

Eight hours of parte. Look, I don't know. I've never been to one of these things.

There's a bunch of food and ingredients that were delivered to the arena today. Lobster meat. Blackened chicken. Okay. Packaged chicken.

Who knows this information? This is just somebody with binoculars who's riding down what they see coming out of a truck. Yeah, there's lobster meat on there. French fries. Yeah, okay. It's just a food delivery. It's probably just stuff that the venue normally has for like games.

You think that they keep eggs delivered? For what purpose? To batter the fries. Oh listen.

I don't I don't trust your information source. Why? Because it's just the internet. For one. Yeah. Uh for two, it sounds like a list of things someone watched get off a truck. Okay. Fine. Uh also reportedly. Oh, here we go.

She invited the starting five of the New York Knicks. Are you one of those? No, but listen, if you're like number six. Oh, yeah, you didn't get the cut. And you didn't make it. Would you be like, hey, I did just as much as the rest of the team. I'm first bench. What are you doing? What if you're the water boy or girl? You're like, hey, hey, I supplied them with Gatorade. Oh, championship. Hey, hey.

How very exciting. What if you're one of her dancers or something and everybody else got the invite, but you didn't. Oh, wouldn't that be sad? Yeah. How many people are going to be at this thing? The wedding?

They're reportedly saying that over a thousand people are expected to be there. Not one Chantel. I know. Which means we got double the beef.

Two beef patties on this anger cheeseburger. Double the beef. Well, I hope you and Travis come to come to terms soon. We won't. Okay. So I think things kind of amped up a little bit in the neighborhood last night as far as fireworks were concerned. I don't know if you noticed or not.

I did not notice. It felt a little heavier last night than it has the past couple. So I would assume that over the next few nights is where it's really going to get pretty serious.

I'd imagine tonight, and then especially uh Friday night and then Saturday, it's going to be something else. Um our dog Luna gets a little bit barky when the fireworks go off. And I was sitting on the couch uh last night when it kind of started up and one went off, and she startled, jumped, and uh kind of shook her body a little bit, and she was sitting very, very close to me, and I think she's got a little bit of uh anxiety about the fireworks. And so I was doing some research today about uh ways to help your pets uh get through this time of year where the fireworks are are going on and and there's a lot of things the experts are saying that you can do uh to keep them safe. Uh one of the big ones is to to leave your pets at home if you're going to a big fireworks show uh because they can be disorienting and frightening to pets. Um even those that are used to going to places with their people can still get startled. And if they break loose and there's a lot of people around, you can get completely disoriented, and then you have a lost pet.

Yeah, uh situation. So it's best to leave your pet at home. Uh do not during this hot weather, leave your pet in the car. Um, they get dangerously hot. Um, and uh the same goes for kids as well. Like, don't leave live things in your car when your car is not like air conditioned and running.

Um, even partially open windows do not provide sufficient air. Um, or uh they also I guess they also provide the opportunity for somebody to like unlock your door, they could steal your pet. Like it's just not safe. Don't do that.

Don't do that. Uh it says to create a home sanctuary, which is a nice, uh comfortable area in the home where they are safe, sheltered from any outside noise and lights, an inside room with no windows, maybe best. Put down, you know, their their bedding, give them some some toys, food, water, comforts so that they have a safe, cozy space where they maybe won't feel so attacked by uh what's going on. You can also pet proof your home because when scared, some animals can become destructive. So remove anything that could become damaged or might harm your pet if they chew it. Uh it says to keep them inside too. Don't leave your pets outside and unattended.

Um even in a fenced yard, they can panic and they can escape or get loose, uh, become injured while they're trying to seek refuge. Those are those are important things. And most importantly is identification. Make sure that the pet is wearing identification, make sure they're microchipped. Uh, in the unfortunate event that your pet does get lost, those IDs greatly increase your chances of being reunited with your pet.

Um, I do know that there are shelters in the area that are doing free microchipping. Yes. So take advantage of that ahead of the game. Do that today if you can. Um, and uh and get that taken care of so that you're that much more likely to get reunited in the event of a separation. But all of those things are ways that you can keep your pets safe and comfortable on the Fourth of July. Our own included. Yeah.

Ours just gets a little bit like shaken a little bit. Like she gets a little

like barks at them like she's what is all that booby.

Our friend's dog is terrified of them and will shake and shake and shake just all night, just trembles. And it's very sad. Yep.

So take care of your pets, be a good pet people, and uh and take care of them because they can't really do this stuff on their own. They have a fight or flight, and they're they're either gonna fight and chew up all your stuff or they're gonna flight and try to escape and get away, and then you're gonna have a different problem. You don't want either of those, yeah. You don't. So uh there you go. That's what the experts say to do to protect your pets on the fourth of July. Would you rather this or that?

Would you rather pick the road trip music or the road trip snacks?

Trying to decide which you're going to choose because uh Okay, just keep in mind that whichever one you choose.

I understand. That's what I that's why I'm really taking my time with this.

I'll be choosing the other one. Yeah. And vice versa. How far is the road trip? Uh let's say four hours. It's decent. Yeah. It's a decent one. Am I driving? Yeah. Why does that matter? Well, if I'm asleep, it doesn't matter what I chosen. No, you're driving. Because if you're not driving, you are as well. That's why I'm asking.

Because if I'm asleep, you can pick the music and have whatever snack you want because I'm asleep. So you're driving. I'm driving. You're alert through the whole four hours.

Okay. Why are you struggling so hard? What are you picking? No, hold on. I pick some really delicious snacks.

I also Yeah, but you don't necessarily pick what I like.

Fine. Fair. But I also pick some really banging music.

But also you don't necessarily pick what I like.

But there's a lot of stuff that we Yeah, no, I know share music. Sure, sure, sure.

So every time I'm in a car, I'm listening to your playlist. So it's not that far fetched. That's true. I mean, I don't I drive in silence because I like that. So there's that.

And I'm like, no, we need some.

So if I pick the sounds, what if it's just nothing? Just the sound of the road going by. Then that's what I'm gonna do. But at least you got your snacks that you wanted.

I know. So what are you picking? I'm picking the music. Cause I like the music.

We'll get ready for Oatmill Raisin Grandma's cookies. I know. And a delicious cool bottle of water.

And good and plenties.

I don't bring good and plenties on a road trip. No, but you are gonna take some some s like different kinds of chips. Yeah. Like different kinds of chips. Yeah. Uh ear snaggers. We're getting we're getting Twizzlers, not red robe red vines. Yeah.

We're getting the right licorice. No. We're getting the good licorice. You're so wrong. You're so wrong. Red vines. And maybe even black. Red vines are better than Twizzlers. You're wrong. Whistlers taste like red plastic. Wax.

I would completely say the same about what you like. So they're practically a powder stuck together. No.

No, I do. They are so good. No.

And this is why they make different things for different people. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

So you're picking snacks. I guess. Is that what you're picking? No, you're only picking snacks if I'm picking the music. Right. And you pick the music. No, but they don't have to live simultaneously. No, I understand. I'm saying when you make your decision.

I don't care that much about the music, though. Okay, I do. It's irrelevant.

Oh, that's the most important part of a road trip is the music. No, it's the snacks.

Disagree. You're gonna say that until you have my snacks, and then you're gonna go, no, the snacks were important. I should have selected the snacks. No, because I'm not gonna get terrible chocolate. And you like terrible chocolate.

I do like terrible chocolate. And you're more of a salt snack. That's right. And I'm more of a sweet snack. So get ready. Dang it.

Old Mil Raisin cookies coming up. Old fashioned cake donuts. Yes, delicious. You pick the worst snack. No way. That's why I'm picking. Dude, old fashioned cake donuts are so good. I could eat one of those right now. You kidding me?

I mean, listen, if it's my only option, I'm gonna eat it. But they're way better snacks. No way.

Those little plastic waxy chocolate donettes. Oh, I love those. Tell me I eat wax. That is literally brown wax on some kind of bread ish thing. No way. Donets. They can't even call them donuts. Because it's not. It's a dawn at. Would you rather this or that?

By now everybody has heard about the couple that climbed the Empire State Building.

Yes, I would think so. Yeah. I mean, I feel like it's everywhere. Blown away by the guts involved in doing that. I've I get uh 20 feet off the ground and I'm a little shaky. And these guys inside the building went up and then got to the roof and then continued to climb. And here's the thing there's like radio antenna up there. There's all kinds of stuff.

Yeah. And like if we go to climb radio towers, we have to make sure that our stuff is turned off. Otherwise, you can like cook your organs because of literal microwaves.

Not like what's in your kitchen, but micro waves in the air will cook you. So it's that stresses me out. That's they went and did that. I do like the message on the banner.

The message on the banner was lovely.

The banner reads, When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace. Yeah.

It was it was sweet. Yeah. And then there was a proposal. I saw that. Yes. And I went, hmm.

I mean, do you what do you do? You get proposed to on top of the Empire State Building after you've done something you know you're going to jail for.

I just feel like maybe my declaration of love from you. Oh, wasn't a declaration of love at all.

Oh, because I didn't propose to you after we did a death-defying feat on top of a building.

Right. You didn't be going to jail to declare your love.

So I don't love you enough.

Not as much as this guy loves his woman. That's true. And I'm not afraid to say that. Those guys are nuts. They are very nuts. So apparently, did you know that they're they're part of a Netflix documentary?

They are. Were they filming?

No, no, no, no. This had the thing that they did from the Empire State Building yesterday, has nothing to do with their documentary. But this is what they do. They just climb like this. They free climb for fun. That's what they like to do. And the Netflix doc documentary is called Skywalker's a love story. Okay. And they're just famous for doing these dangerous climbs with little to no safety equipment.

Yeah, they have no like harnesses and stuff. Like I'm blown away.

So I don't know. Like, is this part of a marketing?

Maybe. I don't live on the edge like these. No, me neither. I don't need that adrenaline. I don't need the drama. I don't need the adrenaline. I don't need all the action. I just need like a nice backyard on a summer afternoon.

That's all I need.

We I need a good sunset and a view. And like I'm good.

Yeah, we lead a pretty simple, quiet little life, and I'm so happy.

And that is why there's not a Netflix documentary about us for the Mullering. Uh I don't need all that. And I'm sorry that I didn't proclaim my love to you high above the city.

No, it's okay because I don't want to go to jail.

Yeah, uh, now I'm curious. Like, they got what's gonna happen?

Well, they got charged with felony burglary, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, and other offenses. And other offenses. Okay.

Well, now everybody's turned it into a meme slash AI template uh with the two there and then the banner out. Everybody's putting their message on it. Yep. That's the new trend.

Yep.

Like it's uh like it's the Idol Falls Water Tower Photoshop Contest of the day.

Yeah.

Uh so that is what it has turned into, um, which everybody and their brother is doing. So um yeah, I don't know what you do with that, but that's what's happened. That's what's happened. Okay. And as I scroll, it's all I see is a bunch

of AI or photoshopped images of their own messages on the flag. It's okay. Yeah. Here's the thing, Josh. What is it?

The way you proposed was fine enough. It's fine. I don't need to climb a tower with you. I'm okay.

They were 1454 feet above the ground. Crazy.

No, it's terrifying. That's terrifying. Plus, it's windy. It's all get out up there.

Yeah, I don't care for it. It's super sketchy. Hey, but congrats to the uh newly engaged couple. And hopefully you get out of jail soon.

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