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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Josh's beard is out of control, Shark Week 2026 is bringing Chum Island, Sharkzilla, and a whole lot of teeth to your TV, a Philadelphia man ran 32 miles and snagged 41 Slurpees for charity, Josh has a sticker hoarding problem, childhood memories of home decor, "would you rather" pits summer vacation against the work grind, coworkers need to wash their dishes, some nostalgic social media status updates, the baffling logic of "egg math," 90s mall culture, the best way to carry groceries into the house, and more.
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Beard trimming time
(3:22) - Shark Week
(8:50) - Good news
(12:02) - Sticker anxiety
(17:30) - Steaks on the smoker
(24:28) - Parent decorations
(31:39) - Flip flopping hobbies
(37:51) - The guy version of flowers
(43:25) - Egg math
(48:13) - Carrying groceries
(55:58) - Retro mall memories
(1:01:57) - Fewer status updates
(1:08:06) - Would You Rather
(1:10:06) - Clean your fork
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Full show transcript:
I saw myself in the mirror this morning and yesterday. Congratulations. And I thought to myself. Man, what mountain did you wake up on? What is going on? Look at this. This thing's out of control. This beard amount. Your beard.
Holy smokes. And it's not like normally it gets like really long down here, but like the cheeks and around the mouth have gotten out of control. I don't know what to do with it.
They always get a little puffy on the sides. Like right here by your like, I don't know what you call this part of your face. The jaw? Yeah, but like It's my jaw. Okay. this is my chin. It's not your chin. Yeah. This is my jaw.
This is my ears. Between my chin and my ears is my jaw. I mean, you can call it whatever you want, but I'll call it. call it that. Your jowls? Well, I don't have jowls.
That's like a Saint Bernard. I don't have like hangy down skin. That's a jowl. It's my jaw. You're looking up parts of the face? It's the jawline. Okay, you don't have jaws. No kidding.
Jaws are sagging bolts of skin.
I just said that. Okay. you don't have that. I don't look like a dog.
No, you don't. Okay, you have this jaw. Yeah, my jaw. It always gets super puffy. Yeah.
And I can is a better word. And I can brush it out. You know? And really get it going. Uh-huh. I let it grow one year, you remember? Uh, this was years and years ago. And it like kind of like laid down on the my... like shoulder area. It was very, very bushy.
You were holding uh a baby over the weekend. Yeah. And she was facing away from you, but you think your beard was tickling her head. She kept reaching up and just grabbing your beard.
Quit it. Uh yeah. But I think it's probably time I did some beard trimming.
How how trim are you gonna trim? Well, no, you the way you like. Okay. Yeah, I know what you like. Okay.
I'm not gonna make it like where you don't like looking at me. That's not because if I shave it all off, you go, ooh, gross baby face.
I don't say ooh. Yeah, you do, you go ooh. I just go, oh. Yeah. Ooh.
You say ooh, gross. When will that grow back? And it grows pretty quick.
It does grow pretty quick. I just prefer you with some facial hair. Yeah. That's all.
But I can tell my mustache is getting too long because it's starting to, you know. I don't like it.
Okay, it started to impair your eating.
Yeah, it's getting in my food. Okay. It's time to trim it. You might need a little trimeroo. Yep. Gotta do that. Because I don't know. I look a little uh Rip Van Winkle. No, you don't. I feel like I feel like I just woke up from a 40 40-year nap. Like under a tree.
Like, hey, buddy, where have you been? Looked at the caught myself in the side of the mirror and went, oh no. You look bad.
You do not look bad. It's a lot of it's a lot of disheveled beard. It's fluffy.
It is fluffy. And it gets like when I I don't get bedhead because I'm bald. I get bed beard.
Like on the sideburns, like stick up. Oh, it's annoying. I've noticed that. I know. I'm like, quit it.
Like stay down. It's cute. Yeah. Well, hey, you want to start today's show?
Yeah, I think so. Alright, here we go. We are just a few days away from one of the greatest weeks in television every year. Shark Week. Oh. Here's the thing.
Everyone makes a big deal about shark week. Yeah. And then nobody really watches it, do they? Yeah, you got a point. Everyone's like, Shark Week, it's shark week. It's shark week. Yeah. And then no one watches it. It's a good point. I know it's. You're not wrong. I know.
Like I like when we talk about like a man is gonna race a shark. Like I'm Michael Phelps, he's gonna swim. And they didn't put him in the same pool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Come on. That's not swimming against a shark. That's just swimming. Are they doing that again this year? It starts up on uh July 26th on Discovery. Uh they have here's here's a few things.
Uh how come sharks get a whole week? Why don't like jellyfish get a whole week? Why isn't it jellyfish week? Because it's shark week, man. Anglerfish. Because it's shark week, man. But why do sharks get all of the popularity?
I don't know. Because there's a lot to learn about sharks. Jurassic Sharks. That's a fun name. Secrets of the Great White Kill. Okay.
What are these? TV shows?
These are these are the programs. Yeah, these are different segments that are happening. The programs? Yeah. Okay. House of Sharks. Jaws versus Orca. Now we're bringing in whales. There's no whale. The orca are pretty mean. They are kind of mean. Yeah.
I used to think Orca were cool. And I still do, but they are like, they're aggressive. Orcas. You're being too aggressive. How to train a great white. Okay.
Invasion of the mega sharks. Chum Island catching a killer. Chum Island. Alien sharks. Untamed America.
Hold on. Go back to Chum Island. Okay. What's the description?
I'll see if I can find that here in a minute. Okay. And then there's there's so many in here. My strange shark addiction. Huh? Okay. Um what about Sharkzilla takes New York? Spooky. Yes.
Okay, hold on. Chum Island. If I watch any of those, it's gonna be Chum Island. Okay. Chum Island.
Summer's most anticipated television programming event, Shark Week returns for its 37th year. 37 years. Yeah. Okay.
I looked up Chum Island. Yeah. It gave me, it was like, did you mean Cham Island? No. No, I did not mean Cham Island. Let's see. Okay, here it is. Marine biologist, which is cool. Yeah, yeah.
I want to be a marine biologist. No, you do. Yeah. You looked up specifically Chum Island catching a killer. Yeah. Okay.
She it's a marine biologist, Dr. Riley. She sets up Chum Island to safely lure in and study rare elusive population of highly aggressive sharks responsible for a surge of attacks on Australia's Southern Coach. Oh, coast. Coast. Uh I'm gonna watch Chum Island, I think. When is it?
Uh Chum Island will be on Discovery on Tuesday, the 28th at 10 p.m.
Okay, I'm putting it on my calendar.
I don't know if that's 10 p.m. local or 10 p.m. Eastern, but Tuesday the 28th. Chum Island. Yeah. Putting in my calendar. Okay. Sharkzilla takes New York as a special during Shark Week in which a conservation biologist investigates a wave of mauled marine life washing up on the New York shores. The investigation leads to an old nuclear dumping ground that's teeming with great whites and makeups.
Have you ever said this place is teeming? No. This like this store is teeming with fishing lurks.
No, but they have mauled marine life washing up on the New York beaches, and they're like, what's going on? And then they go to an old nuclear dumping ground and they find radioactive potentially sharks. Is that real? Shark. Sharkzilla takes New York.
We gotta watch Shark Week. That one sounds interesting too.
I'm just it should all be in the show.
I thought that was like a sharknado type of concept. No, no.
No, that's all that's real. That's on Friday the 31st at 9 p.m. I'm gonna watch that one. Yeah. Shark. It all kicks off on Sunday the 26th at 8 p.m. with K-pop shark heroes. Okay. Discovery Shark Week.
Starts Joy Twitter. 26th I wonder if they find it hard to come up with a bunch of different shark shows Every Uh clearly every day for a week. No, they have a ton.
It's only three time slots. So it's eight, nine, and ten across every day. The whole week. The whole week. Yeah. Okay. Shark Week.
If you want to know about Cham Island. Oh, no, I don't. Okay. Thanks, though.
Hey, here's some good news. This is kind of a cool story. Back on 7-Eleven, which was uh slushy day at 7-Elevens across America. Oh, we missed it. We don't have a 7-Eleven.
Doesn't mean we couldn't have had a slushy.
I guess or Slurpee. Whatever, whatever they serve there. Yeah. 7-Eleven. Uh, yeah, it's free Slurpee Day at 7-Eleven on 7-Eleven. Uh, and they hand out complimentary frozen drinks to customers where there was a guy in Philadelphia who said, you know what?
This could be a lot of fun. His name's Michael Cooper. So he said, I'm going to turn this into an endurance challenge.
And he ran about 32 miles across the the city, stopping at 41 different 7-Elevens to collect Slurpees along the way. Why? Just Because? Well, for the fun of it, but he also did raise awareness and support for students run Philly style, which is a nonprofit that helps young people develop confidence, life skills, and healthy habits through long distance running, uh, mentorship and goal setting. Okay.
So he raised some money uh along the way, but he also he ran 32 miles from 7-Eleven to 7-Eleven to 7-Eleven, 41 different 7-Elevens and have Slurpee along the way. Yeah. And this unique citywide challenge, uh, you know, blended a little, as it says here, summertime fun with a major cause. Uh, which is kind of cool. Um, and the the fact they're working with the youth is always good. So uh I like that. And it's a cool thing that they can learn some life skills and healthy habits, do some long distance running, which is good fitness.
They get some mentorship and they get to set and achieve some goals. I like that. And uh so I'm I'm all cool with that. So way to go, Michael Cooper. Way to turn a Slurpee Day into a really awesome day.
Slury Day was already a really awesome day. But now it's twice as awesome because you help people, and you got Slurpees. Forty-one of them. 41 Slurpees. Yeah. Did he drink them all?
Well, he ran them, he ran between the two and he had a slurpee at each stop.
Did he drink? Did he choose a different flavor at every stop? I think there's what blue, red.
Like what how many flavors are you gonna get? Yeah.
Not true. Sometimes there's like frozen Coca-Cola's. Okay. Those can of Slurpees. And a Slurpee machine. It counts.
I get while uh 7-Eleven has released over 300 unique Slurpee flavors throughout the brand's history. Uh they have a rotating lineup of 10 to 16 flavors at any given time. 16. Uh, the most popular are blue raspberry wild cherry Coca-Cola and variations of Mountain Dew. Ew. Gross.
Mountain Dew is not seasonally they will do...
Save to drink. No, I don't like it. Seasonally, they will do Fanta Crush and Sour Patch Kids. Ew. Yeah. Gross.
Uh good for that guy, though. Yeah, way to go. Twice as awesome. Twice as awesome. It's good news.
Um, I have a problem. Uh-oh. And I didn't realize that I had this problem until I added to the problem last night. Uh-oh. I was doing some cleaning up on my nightstand a little bit because I was putting some things away. And I had a sticker from Father's Day, and I went, Oh, I'll go put that in my sticker pile.
That's my problem. See, I said, I have a sticker pile. And then I stumble across this this morning as he says, I don't know who needs to hear this, but stick the sticker you've been saving. And I went, I got a pile. Yeah, you do. When I first met you, all of your furniture was stickered.
Everything you owned was stickered.
So we had everything, but a few things.
A good chunk of stuff that you owned was stickered.
The entertainment center and my car and my foot locker. That's three. Not everything. Like you're walking, like you want some cereal? Oh, here's your sticker bowl. Not everything I own was stickered.
What's up, cereal? Here's your sticker bowl. Yeah. Um, but we had when we moved in together, uh the only furniture we had was your entertainment center. I mean, we had some other furniture.
We had the futon, it didn't have stickers on it. Come on. Not everything I owned had stickers on.
Sorry.
I had sticker collections in place. Yes.
We had that entertainment center, and it was we would have people over. They'd be like, cool sticker entertainment center. Yeah.
I like my living room to look like a skate shop.
Which is fine when you're a single dude, but when you're now have a wife and a baby. What's wrong with having a sticker shop?
Or a skate shop looking sticker things.
It's not terrible. I just wanted better furniture. Um, I'm surprised that you haven't stuck those stickers somewhere. You're not necessarily sticker shy.
Well, I've I've got one that I bought about a year ago that I haven't stuck. And so I was trying to see like, do I have stickers older than that? And that might be one of the it's not like super old. I know I have like older stickers, but uh, but that one is certainly one that I've been like, I want the perfect place to put it.
And I don't know what that is. And so I'm hanging on to this sticker because you paid like I don't know, six dollars for it or something. It's a good sticker.
You have stickers on your truck a little bit. I have two. A couple A couple of stickers. You have a cooler that's covered in stickers. You have your watercoloring box with all your watercoloring supplies covered in stickers. Yeah. Uh your laptop is covered in stickers. Yeah. Um, I'm trying to think what else you have.
Every water bottle has some stickers on it.
I just realized I forgot my.
your emotional support water bottle.
What are you gonna do?
Guess what's all over it? Stickers.
I was gonna say that's the only thing of mine that's stickered.
But I you know, do you know the one I'm talking about? I do not. It's uh it's a stone fly sticker, it's like this big. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's like art. Yeah. I don't just want to stick it anywhere.
A stone fly, for those of you who don't know, is a bug that people use to fly fish with.
Well, it's a bug that fish eat. That then we make flies that resemble it, yes. It is an actual bug. So it's a real bug. Yeah, it is. And the female ones are huge. And they're crazy, and people just hold them in their hands.
Like my buddy John packs them around. I'm like, put that down. Freaking me out. He's like, you gotta see how big this thing is. I'm like, no, I don't. Put it down.
Put that down. Now I gotta look at them. They're crazy. I mean, I've seen that picture. Golden stones and stone, you know, and the and the big stone flies, they're crazy.
It kind of looks like an earwig that can fly. No. They're huge. Ear wigs are very small. No, I know.
And the earwigs have that tail pincer thing. Okay. Settled down. They're very different.
They have kind of a this picture I see. He's got like a little.
Oh, are you looking at you're looking at the uh the male. Look at the female adult stone fly. Gross. I don't want to. Those are the big ones. Okay. Yeah. Anyway, the sticker is a work of art. It's very pretty. And I don't just want to stick it somewhere. I want to put it somewhere where I'm able to see it. Where can you put it? I don't know. So it's sitting on my shelf in the sticker stack. In the sticker stack. Mm-hmm. You gotta commit. I know.
Just gotta make that commitment.
I got I got a little anxiety about it because I don't know where to put that one sticker. I have more stickers that I have the same issue with. And I go, I don't know where to put it. Because I want it somewhere cool. We have an entertainment center. I'm not putting it there.
Not turning our living room into a skate shop because I'll never hear the end of it. It looks like a zoomies in here. Like, I know it's cool, isn't it? Not really. Not really. Wish it looked more like a crate and barrel.
Can I go get some wheels and trucks in the back? Yeah. We'll hook you up.
Kind of a big moment last night. I decided, you know, I gotta cook. It's hot inside the house. I'm gonna cook outside because the house is hot enough. Mm-hmm. So I fired up the smoker, made some steak, fired up the black stone so I could sear some steak and uh do some veggies on there, did some brussels. We had mashed potatoes, we had crustinis that you put together. Those were good. I forgot a crusty. I did too.
Oh man, I wanted those today. I forgot everything.
Honey walnut, ricotta, crustinis, so good. Yeah. What a what a feast. I know what Monday night feast.
Such a feast on a Monday night.
Because that was what was in the fridge.
Because it was Monday and it needed to happen. I guess. Because it was a hot dumb Monday.
Hey, but I was uh I was super excited to uh fire up the second time I've used the smoker now. I know I can count on two fingers how many times I've used it.
And that steak, I'm sorry, was delicious.
Well, good, which is a big deal for you because you're not like a big meat person. Correct. Yeah. But it was good, yeah. Josh. It had a nice balsamic fig jelly glaze thing. It was it was pretty good. It was good.
It was cooking, as the kids say.
That slaps. Yeah. No, I was uh I was very happy with how that turned out. So uh and I was a little uh I think the thing that was exciting for me was I got some of the smoky flavor in there because when I did the chicken, and maybe it's just because the chicken didn't stay in there as long because it cooks quicker. Yeah, um, that maybe it didn't pick up as much of the smoke, but I got smoke in the steak, and I was very excited.
Yeah, but your daughter did not enjoy it, and she liked steak, but she said it tastes too smoky. Which it wasn't that smoky at all. I agree with you because I don't necessarily love the taste of smoke. Right. From a smoker specifically. And so I didn't notice. Yeah. I didn't notice the smoke flavor.
Like it was it was in the air. Okay. You could tell I had smoked the the steak.
So now that you've cooked chicken and steak, yeah. What's next? I don't know. We've got I know we've had some requests for some salmon. Yeah. I'm not mad about that. Oh, okay. Never, ever, ever. Yeah. You could just keep smoking salmon every day. Every day. I would just have a continuous rotation of salmon. Hmm. Smoked salmon is so good.
Okay. I gotta get uh I gotta get some some meats going. I gotta get I I'd like to do, I'd like to try ribs. I'd like to try uh like a pulled pork. Something, maybe a brisket, something that's gonna sit there for like a all day. Like an all day cook. Okay.
When are you thinking you want to just do that? I don't know. One of these days. It's hot, man. It's so hot.
Like, even just the the time that I had to be outside cooking, I was still like, it is hot. But uh but I didn't want to heat up the house, and then the crustinis had to be uh toasted in the oven. And you're like 425, there we go.
Not even at a low. It was like the hottest you can go. I'm like, let's turn the seven on the highest she can go.
So it got real toasty. Yeah, we were kind of sweating. Yeah. But air conditioning units are now doing those. Those are now installed because I couldn't uh there was no way, and I had a great night's sleep, by the way. Did you? I had steak in my belly and I had air conditioning going, and even the white noise from the air conditioning, it was all good. I I slept great last night. Good night's sleep.
I got a little chilly. I had to put on my blanket. What a problem. I know. But I woke up this morning and it said, it looks like you had a challenging night of sleep. You did. Yeah, I didn't look at it though, because I don't want to
know why did you have a challenging night of sleep? Couldn't tell you. Were you too cold? Possibly. Were you tossing and turning? Were you not getting enough uh REMs? I don't know.
I didn't look. I just said I didn't look. But I also have steak in my belly. Yes. And mashed potatoes.
And the garlic parmesan mashed potatoes, man. I'll tell you, I was pretty proud of dinner last night. There was a good dinner. I was proud of full meal to be eating it. Yeah. You know what? I I would have liked to have like some carrots. I would have liked that with the Brussels. The Brussels were good. They needed to be cooked a little longer. Uh, but otherwise they were fine.
We had some carrots. You could have thrown some carrots in there. Okay. Okay.
I'm just saying, like now that I think about it, like, yeah, some carrots would have been a nice, like a nice roasted carrot would have been a good thing to have in there. Sounds nice.
I like roasted any kind of vegetable. Yeah? Yeah. You said we might have some zucchini roasted.
Oh, I've got zucchinis coming on. I'm gonna have I'm gonna have zucchinis real soon. Very, very soon.
Why do we always just talk about food and then I go, well, now I'm hungry. Well, I'm I'm not even that hungry. You're not? No. I'm still full of steak. I'm I'm looking at your leftovers over there. No, I gotta go put them in the fridge. They look delicious. Do they? Yeah, do you want to eat them now?
No. No, I don't. You have a thing. Like if we go get uh you like to get uh like a buffalo cauliflower, uh huh. And then you'll eat your leftovers, you're like, oh, I can't wait to have this for lunch, and then it's like 7 30. You're like, mmm. I guess I'm gonna eat those now.
Yeah, because I'm not picky about my food rules.
Yeah, no, that's still breakfast time. It is not time for steak and mashed potatoes.
I would eat those mass. People eat steak for breakfast all the time. I could start eating that at like 11.
Yeah, I know. Crazy people. Steak and eggs, what's wrong with you? You're crazy. I'm going to have a steak and eggs. No. It's so heavy. All day. You're gonna be digesting steak because you ate it at eight o'clock in the morning. What are you doing?
That's probably the that's probably what you should be doing. So it has all day to digest. Man. You know. Instead of at seven o'clock at night. Steak and eggs. When you go to bed three hours later.
No, give me, give me a sausage link and uh and some hash browns. Mashed potatoes. That's not the same. Mashed Potatoes and hash browns are not the same.
It's the same. Potato family. It's the same.
I know what they I know where they come from. But that's a dinner potato. You don't have breakfast mashed potatoes. We should. No. Why don't we? Because it's weird. That's a dinner potato. No. Yes. You could have mashed potatoes for breakfast. That's like using a slice of bread as a hot dog bun. You don't do it.
I was looking around our house yesterday and I want to change our decorations. I want to just change things up a bit.
So you do want it to look like a skate shop.
No. No, no, no, I do not. Okay.
Hold on. I got some ideas. Do you want uh swords? No, no. Dude. No.
Because here's what I was doing. I was looking around, going like, uh, I've had these same decorations for a really long time. I want something new. But new, it costs so much money sometimes to like get new decorations, but I also just don't want to go to like the same store that everybody's going to decorate. I want like stuff that means something to us. Yeah.
Because a lot of years, I think, and we've talked about this, you know, I don't know what we've talked about on the show, but for a lot of years, we've done like, oh, that's what's in stock. Keep up with the trends. And let's do, you know, the walls, the color that's, you know, everybody has. Yeah. Whatever. Yeah.
I don't care about that anymore. But I also there's a time in your parents' life when you realize that they've stopped kind of decorating and their house just gets frozen in time. Yeah.
I could I could walk into your mom's house right now and go, I know exactly what it's gonna look like.
Yeah, I know. Yeah.
And it's looked the same for 20 years.
Yeah, because they've just maybe they've just they're like, well, this is what it is. Well, it's not a priority. Right. Right?
Like it's now it's like, oh, the grandkids and stuff. I mean, it's been forever.
Yeah, it's been a long time. Now, you didn't know my parents when they decorated with swords.
That's I didn't mean to bring up swords as a sore subject. And let's be clear. Your parents didn't decorate with swords. Right. Your dad had some swords.
Yeah, yeah. My dad. My dad had some swords. I don't know.
Were these like state fair swords? What did he have?
I don't know what they were. Actually, they were like legit something.
But I don't are they still around? Are they still hanging on the wall?
They're not still hanging on the wall. But I remember exactly where they were, and they were crossed. Yeah, hardcore. Like a pirate show. There was a wall that connected the living room and the kitchen, and they were right in the middle.
They were in the in the public space.
Yeah, yeah. I don't know how my dad convinced my mom to get away with that. But then my mom had like she had some like cute, like craftsy kind of stuff.
She had the craft fair dolls with the mop heads and stuff like that. Yeah.
And then in the in the 90s, remember everybody had those like big paper fans?
No, I know what you're talking about. What a what a look.
And people would put those on the cross fan, big big uh outfolded accordion style paper fan, two crossed swords, and uh wood block mop head dolls.
Uh I don't think she used those to decorate, but she did have, I know that she had like a wooden chicken.
On like a piece of wire hung on a nail. Yeah. That checks out.
Yeah. And that was the way my house looked forever. Yeah. Forever. Yeah. I remember painting the bathroom like sea foam green or something. And that was like 19, that had to have been 1996.
Sea foam or forest. No, it was seafoam.
It's not forest. Like you're sure it is a forest green. Yeah. It was like a sea foam. Okay. Okay. And then we put this. Like, you know how they had that had that border.
Oh, yeah.
Wallpaper. We put it at the very top. I bet it's still there.
I haven't. ducks or flowers I haven't even got it. I think it's floral.
No, it's not. It's C. It's like a like a sea. Nautical. Yeah. Cute.
But it's still there. There was nothing better than going to the
bathroom and feeling like you're at the ocean. I tell you. It was the lake. Somebody. Oh, it was a lake. That's it's different. Nautical. It was was it the was it a lake house vibe or the ocean? Was it seashells? I think it was seashells. That's the ocean, baby. It was relaxing. Was it? Throw yourself some Epson salts and have yourself a little relax.
Nice. But I bet like I haven't even paid attention, but I bet it's the same thing. For sure the same color. I can't even remember if the wallpaper is there because I haven't really paid that.
There's no way it's not, right? It has to be. Because she's not getting up there to take that down. No.
And if she does, she shouldn't be because that's too dangerous for a 75-year-old woman. I who is clumsy.
Don't go up on a ladder to take down the wallpaper border. Linda.
How did your parents decorate?
Teddy bears. My mom's a huge teddy bear collector for a long time. So we had a lot of bears. A lot of bears. If it had bears on it, we had bears. Bears everywhere. Here, there and everywhere bears.
Yeah. Bears over here, bears over there. Up there, down there, everywhere a bear. I tell you, bears everywhere. Did you ever make it with a teddy bear on it? It's in the house.
Did you ever look around your house and go like, man, my parents don't know how to decorate? No. Oh, I did. No.
But you had cool stuff. You had crossed swords. I didn't have cross swords. Lots of family photos. We had tons of the multi-photo frames down the hall. Yeah, we had those. So lots of that stuff and bears everywhere. It's not an understatement. I'm just telling you. No, your mom used to have You need a shelf. Too bad it's got bears on it. That's it.
She used to have a bear poem in her bathroom. Yeah. And so then every time I used her her restroom, I'd be like, let's memorize the bear poem. Okay. There was one time I I did have it memorized. Did you? Yeah, I can't I've forgotten it now. Was it the teddy bear picnic one? Ah, I can't remember. I think so. I think it was.
Yeah. I'm pretty sure I've read that a time or two. Let me look it up really quick and I'll tell you if it's the right one because I could absolutely I could recite it. This is just pulling up a song. Yeah. I just sometimes wonder if our kids go like, oh man.
I don't think they care. I don't I didn't care. Like it didn't matter to me.
I didn't care. That's where I would always do it. It was just home. Why do we have swords and a fan? Yeah.
Because you are multicultural. And multi-uh timeline. I mean. Because the swords were were they medieval looking? I don't know. Was one a sword and one like a battle axe? No. Just two swords. No, yeah. Same sword? Yeah. Cool. It's awesome.
Beck told me the other day that you flip flop hobbies. Uh yeah, that's true. It's a dad flip-flops hobbies, doesn't he?
They said, I mean, that's I would say that is one of the great benefits of having several different uh interests is that I can interchange. Yeah. Like I can go, oh, hey, we're gonna go out and uh mountain bike.
Cool. I got gear for that. Uh you want to uh go do some RC crawling? Awesome. You want to hit up some fly fishing spots?
Gotcha. You want to come see my garden? You bet. You want to tie some flies?
I got that gear too. You want to read a book? Cool. Like I got all kinds of things. And uh so you know, there's really no reason to ever be bored, even though being bored is okay. Like that's fine. But if anybody wants to hang out, like, oh, you want to play some frisbee golf, I got that. Let's go. So I don't think it's necessarily about flip-flopping hobbies. It's that I have a plethora of things to keep me busy.
That's true. You do. Gold panning stuff, got it. Yes. Fire stoking materials on top of it.
One of my hobbies ever since I was a 10-year-old boy, it's poking a fire. I mean, you know. You gotta be able to poke a fire.
That's every boy's hobby. Yeah. You take any little boys out camping, they're like, when can we start the fire? Correct. It's 10 in the morning. Can we start a fire?
I know. And if you want them to not play with the fire, you show them where the water is. That's it. You know, you need two things. You need a creek and you need a fire pit. And you got a camping trip.
Done. Where are the boys? They're at the creek, they're at the fire pit. That's it. Simple, simple creatures. And by boys, I mean grown men. Oh, there's a creek. Let's go check it out. Look at that. That water is running downhill.
I was just thinking, because you just recently had a scout camp out with a bunch of boys. Yeah. And yeah, if they weren't at the creek, they were at the fire. If they weren't at the fire, they were at the creek. Yep. Absolute correct statement.
That's that is absolutely how you maintain children. Look, a fire. Look, a water. Oh, okay. Great. Done. Job done.
Do you okay? Let's go back. We're off, we're off topic. Flip flopping. hobbies We never do that What is I I think you do have a you have a plethora of stuff for your hobbies. So you are like you kind of rotate which hobby is
a good one. Well, it depends on the season. It absolutely does. Or who I'm hanging with. Yeah, that's because like other people aren't into all of the same hobbies that I'm into. Yeah. So if I'm with someone who's like, hey, we're we're uh here to play board games.
That's a di I got a million board games. Like that's a different thing. Yeah. You're a board gamer.
Yeah, I mean, there's just there's just so much. You're a snowboarder. I'm a video a video gamer, I snowboard, like I've got a ton of stuff.
You do have a ton of stuff. Yeah. But I don't just like I'm not pigeonholed into like I'm only this one thing. Even though certain things definitely dominate my style or my interest or my you know what I mean? Yeah.
But then even during the season, like during summer, you have you know
backpacking, hiking, camping, fly fishing, gardening, garden. Like there's a lot of things. RC crawling.
But each of them take like a turn at the top, depending on like the day. Sure.
So lately it's been. Grilling, smoking. Like, yeah. That's my favorite hobby. I really like that hobby. Right. That's my favorite hobby. That's what I'm saying. There's plenty to there's plenty to do to keep me busy. I'm not short on things to do. Now, is he saying that because he's like, I only do this one, I just video games. That's it.
No, because he has he has music. He plays guitar. I know. For sure.
And I've seen him picking away recently, which is what I love. Like, dude, play guitar. You're very good at it.
He's really good at it. I don't I haven't heard him play in a long time. So I'm happy to hear him picking it up again. Yeah. Because it's been a long time since we've heard him strumming away. But I like. I like hearing music in our house.
Right. And he needs to do the band thing. Like he that would be good for him. Like if he legit would like commit to I'm gonna be in a band.
I know we made a whole garage for him at one point. We were like, dude, get a garage band going. I think this is awesome.
I know. I got a PA set up, I got a mic set up, I have drum kits, I have like it's crazy the stuff I put out there, and then I was like, I need the garage. So I'm gonna tear this all down.
Okay. I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I just thought it was interesting. Yeah. He said you flip flop hobbies. He I don't think he was being critical.
I mean, it's an interesting observation. Did he say that over the weekend? Yeah. Yeah, because I took my RC crawler. Nobody was gonna crawl with me, which was bummed me out. Your nephew was like, hey, bring your thing. And so I did, and then he didn't bring his stuff. So then I was like, Well, I'm just gonna put this away.
Oh, is that why you were so bummed out? I wasn't bummed out. Oh, yeah, it seemed bummed out. No? Yeah. No. You didn't even go down the water slide. Yeah. You went to take a nap. Yes.
I took an accidental nap.
I don't think it was accidental at all. I mean, I was tired. Do you know we all got excited when you came out in your swim trunks? We were like, Dad's gonna play. And then you did it.
I had to change my shorts because I had been soaked by kids running around with squirt guns and water balloons. Yeah. Yeah.
I'm allergic to it.
Yeah, well, that's one of the hobbies that I didn't intend on having toward the top of the list was fun. No, I'm not here for that. No. Keep that away from me. No fun for me. Gorge.
I saw this uh yesterday online, and the question was what is the guy version of flowers?
I mean, can it be flowers? It can be flowers. I mean, uh, you know, that what's that saying that like the only the only flowers a man ever gets are at his funeral? Like that's uh is that the thing? That's the thing they say.
I guess. Would you be stoked to get flowers?
I don't know if I'd be like over the moon about it. I mean, it's it'd be a surprise. I've had it happen. Like you've you've given me a a flower thing, and I've had like uh like work people give you flowers when you're sick or when somebody in your family passes away or whatever. Like I've had that, but okay, that's that's different.
But just as like a like a hey, I'm thinking of you kind of a thing, or it's an anniversary and here's a thing. I don't know. I I'll tell you, I don't know that it's I don't think it's like an edible bouquet. don't I don't need a bunch of cantaloupe.
But they have jerky bouquets.
No, it's like it's not that Would it be that? no, that feels like it's gotta be manly. Like I don't think it's that. Like I mean, not there's anything wrong with jerky, but I don't need like here's a bunch of jack links in a in a bouquet.
So the one I saw yesterday of online was banana bread.
Oh banana bread homemade banana bread would be the equivalent of a woman receiving.
Okay, I would say uh and maybe it's not banana bread because banana bread's maybe a little bit like people like it and don't like it. Maybe polarizing.
But I would I don't think banana bread is ever polarizing. You ever met somebody who doesn't like banana bread? I don't like nuts in it. Uh see, I know.
That's why I like look for me, like if somebody was like, Here's a a big uh brownie, or here's uh snickerdoodle, or here's uh with baked goods.
Maybe a baked good, yeah. Snicker doodle, pumpkin cake roll. Yeah. Like uh, you know, something something like that.
You would like a baked good for sure.
That would be or a no-baked cookies or something, something like that. Like somebody was like, here's a little plate of treats. I'd be like, Are you kidding me? Like, what a day.
Yes. What a day. Yeah. Yeah, no baked cookies. That is kind of the snickerdoodle, Scocha roo. Buddy buddies. Those are all scotcharoo.
Josh's favorites. Come on. Kidding me. A little plate of goodies. I'd be like, yeah, that's that's awesome.
With all of your favorites. Yeah. Oh, what would you even do? Snack all day? I don't know. What a day. What a day.
That's probably a good answer. Okay. And if there was a slice of banana bread on there, I might not be mad. No nuts, though. Right. Yeah. It's the worst kind of banana bread No. Fine. I don't want banana nut bread. Just banana bread. Bread is so good. That's fine. Have it.
I will have it. Thank you very much.
Okay. Uh maybe like uh like a the perfect favorite donut.
What's your perfect favorite? A cake donut.
I like an old fashioned donut. Yeah, you do. Yeah. Not those, not those terrible glazed ones. Not just a plain glazed donut. Like the cakey good old fashioned donut. Yeah. That's cracked on the sides. Oh, that's a good donut. It's dry. No.
Those donuts are dry.
No, they're delicious. So that would be kind of maybe what I would take. Okay. So if one of those donuts ended up on my tray of snacks, I wouldn't be upset.
If someone were to surprise you like and say, hey, I've been thinking about you. I know you've been going through some tough times. Like you're down in the dumps. All right. Instead of flowers, it would be
a tray of a tray of goodies.
Tray. Turned into a tray. Well, like a small cookie sheet. Or okay. Or right now it would probably be like, hey, here's some garden plants. Here's some garden seeds. Maybe. Yeah.
Yeah. Or something as you know, something that was thoughtful in that way. Yeah. Like uh, here's some uh brand new pruning shears or something. I don't know. I'm just thinking out loud. I'm spitballing. I got one set. They're okay. They're getting the job done.
Now you're just talking about a gift. I'm talking about like a surprise. Surprise. Make you feel good. It makes me feel good. No, we're not talking about gifts. It's like a surprise, here's parts of your truck. Hey, you've been down in the dumps. I ordered you flowers. Yeah, This is the equivalent to that.
But but I would argue that the money you spend on flowers could buy a pretty good gift.
Yeah. Have you seen the cost of a flower delivery these days? That's what I'm saying. Holy schmole.
Yeah. Like boom, here's a nice uh part for your truck.
Yeah, exactly.
That's what I'm saying. I'd be like, no way. Like, yeah, I was gonna get flowers, but this was cheaper. Yeah.
That's probably even better because I can use this longer. Right. My flowers are gonna die in a week.
But now I gotta store this vase. Yeah, yeah. So put that under the sink with the other six. Where, you know, if you sent me a cookie tray of snacks, now I got a cookie tray. So two uses. It's a good deal.
It's a better deal. I'm just over here learning about egg math. What's egg math?
Well, egg math is uh pretty weird, actually, because let me ask you. How many fried eggs could you eat? One. One fried egg. Yeah. How many eggs could you eat scrambled? Two. You think you could only eat two scrambled eggs?
If you scrambled up usually, if I'm home alone and I decide to make myself some breakfast, yeah. I usually scramble eggs because that's my preferred egg method. And you would scramble two eggs. And I would scramble two.
But eating two fried eggs feels like too much. Correct. It's the same amount of eggs.
I get it.
I understand. All right. So in egg math, it's weird.
Some might say it's even more. Like you have two eggs, but then I also dump in a little bit of milk.
Sure, it's more volume. So uh egg math works like this. Six fried eggs, hard to eat. Six scrambled eggs, easier to eat. How many hard boiled eggs could you eat? Uh depends.
Okay. Is it in a salad? No, it's I'm just saying hard boiled egg.
It's a solid hard boiled egg. One. One.
Yeah. How many deviled eggs could you eat? Seventeen. So let's just go 18 for uh for a divisible number. No, I couldn't possibly that's nine. Eighteen deviled eggs is nine hard boiled eggs. So egg math. It makes no sense.
It doesn't. But even if I do like an egg salad, I'm usually using two hard boiled eggs. Right.
But you're saying you can only eat one hard boiled egg. Yeah. Yeah, one's enough. It's just an egg. Right.
But if you add mayo and mustard and paprika.
Right. Now I could eat more. Delicious. And put it on bread. Yeah. Right. You see? Egg math. I'm just over here learning. And somebody said tortillas work the same way.
Yeah. How many tortillas could you eat? Like two, usually. How many tortilla chips can you eat? 30 cents. A whole bag. And four of those is a tortilla. I know. Between four and six, right? Yeah.
Anyway. All the wor world cuppers that were here were pretty excited when they went out to eat and they got free bread. Yeah. Texas Roadhouse. What? Or they got freeze chips and salsa. Yeah.
What is this? This just comes with being here. This is America, man. Welcome. Yeah. Anyway. If you're uh ever curious about egg math, you can you can figure out some of it for yourself, but just sit down and think about it for a minute. I I could eat two fried eggs. You could I probably shouldn't. But I could.
How many eggs are in a typical half gallon of eggnog.
I don't like eggnog.
So you're so wrong, though. No. No. But how many eggs? Listen, if you eat a piece of cake, okay. Typically there's what, like two or three eggs and in cake batteries.
That's that's dispersed among all the particles. Yeah, definitely. You're not eating the whole cake.
Depends. Sometimes I've eaten a whole thing of cake. I have not eaten.
No, I think I've never seen you eat a whole lot of cake.
Okay. A homemade gallon of eggnog typically contains 12 to 16 large eggs.
Dude, it's a dozen eggs in a gallon. Twelve eggs per gallon.
Egg nug is one of those things. I can't think about what's in it. Otherwise it's gonna be gross.
I I all I can think about is what's in it. And it's so slick, and I go, no, absolutely not.
No, I just have to focus on the flavor. Because even last night, eating the steak that you made last night is so good. But then my brain goes, You're eating meat. And I go, Oh, I know it's gross.
But that it tastes I couldn't think about it. All right. You're broken. I know.
In so many ways. A dozen eggs per gallon. Yeah. That's insane. At least a dozen. It could be more.
Twelve to sixteen. Yeah. Go a roast. Yeah. Yuck. Not I mean, it's delicious.
It's not gross, but I can't think about it. Don't think about all the eggs in it. Because I don't even really like eggs. And that's why I like scrambled eggs the best, because they don't really taste like eggs.
But you don't like my scrambled eggs because they're too wet. You like your dried up gross scrambled eggs. Yeah. So? Gorose.
How many grocery bags do you think you can carry inside the house at once? Uh several. And they're let's say they're full. Yeah. I would assume.
Like we went grocery shopping. How many can I, or how many should I, or how many do you think you can carry? Like you I'm just trying to figure out where you're trying to go with this. There's so many questions and not enough answers. Because you try to carry everything in one trip. Yeah.
Because here's why. I'll tell you why. It stems back from when my kids were little. Yeah. And we lived in an apartment that had two stories. Right. No elevator. I know. And I was like, okay, I have to carry a baby bucket. Right. I also have to have my toddler and I have all of these groceries.
Right. Let's do this all in one trip so that I'm not leaving my baby and my toddler alone in the car or in the house. So I would load up and load up all of the grocery bags up my arms. Yeah.
Right? So if I carried the baby bucket in this arm, I would loop it under my right arm. And then I could put a bag like in front of the baby button.
Stack them on your own.
And then I could hold a bag, so that's two. And then this hand, I would stack all up my arm. I could probably get like one, two, three, four. So that's six. I could probably carry six bags plus a baby bucket. But if I don't have a baby bucket, and baby bucket, I say baby bucket. It's a car seat. It's a baby car seat. Yeah. We just called it the bucket.
I know. Put the baby in the baby bucket. I know.
Okay.
I know.
But I'm not sure. Because I was part of the baby bucket thing. I could probably carry four on each arm plus one on each hand. So that's ten. I could probably carry ten grocery sacks full of groceries. The worst, let me tell you this. The worst was when because we didn't have a washing machine. We were out of commission on a washing machine when our kids were very small. I guess it was just back we had at the time. Correct. And so then I would have to go do laundry. At the laundromat. With the baby. And I was like, I can't.
Because you have the baby bucket and you have laundry basket plural. Yeah. Uh, and then you have to wash and dry and fold and keep track of the kid. And he was walking or standing at least.
He was learning how to crawl. Yeah.
And I was like, he went into the laundry basket and then tipped over and it was a whole thing.
Yeah, I got a big old goose egg on his head. It happens. But how do you carry a baby bucket and a laundry basket?
So you said this is where this stems from. When's the last time you had to carry a baby bucket? It's 14 years ago. I was just longer than that. She wasn't in that at two.
Yeah, okay. So 15. 15 years ago. Okay. So hold on.
Don't go on one whole year. Fifteen years ago. Yeah. You had to carry all of that. Why are you still doing it today?
No, I'm not still oh, like you, why am I still loading up? Because if you can take fewer trips, why wouldn't you? Because yeah, we still get home and I go, load me up. I know. Let's do this.
And you put out your arms like a forklift. And you're like, put the grocery bags on my arms. Yeah. I'm like, just grab a couple of bags and go inside. No, just load it up. Here's the way it typically goes for me.
We get done shopping, and if we have to do the whole Costco run, and I forget to bring the folding totes, or I forget to put things in a box at the Costco. I know. I know. Man, now I have all these individual items. I hate that.
I hate that too. And it's fine if they're all in like the same kind of shaped box. They aren't. But if you get fruit and you're like, oh no, I got a plastic container. Right. This is just a mess. Or a pineapple. Yeah. Yeah. Imagine. Or meat. Anyway.
Uh I forget to bring the folding totes, and then I go, I should have brought the totes. Because it's so nice when you can put them all in the toes and just grab them.
But uh, like if we're getting salt for the water softener, or we're getting food, or we're getting this and that, and then I just carry it to the step, and I set it on on the step, and you take it from the step into the house. I like that better. I like that better too. Right. That's a good system. Yeah. So quit trying to forklift all the gar the bags, all the groceries.
That was we didn't communicate that. I didn't know that that's what you preferred. I do prefer that. Okay.
But now I kind of want one of these market totes. Because these are cool. That's a market tote. Well, it's similar to just your reusable bags, but it's a Belroy market tote. Bellroy? B E L L R O Y Market Tote. They're very cool. They remind me of the apron that I want. Okay.
Okay. They're made out of that really nice canvasy stuff. And I like it. I like the look of it.
I like the the looks like a good sturdy tote. You see what I'm saying? Yeah, but I like that. I would like to have that. It's big. Look how much it holds. It holds so much.
Why this particular tote rather than a crate?
Because look at all the inside pockets and plus it's a soft tote, so it's gonna it's gonna conform to your items. I like it. I think it's a I think it's cool. Okay, okay. The crates are fine. I like the crates too. Okay. The crates work really well in the back of the truck.
Yes. But if I was in your car, the tote would be the way to go. In my car? I have a tote in my car. Not like that. No. I have like uh I just have the the
bags that they used to get, those reusable bags. They were they work fine. Yeah, I know. And a tote and a you know, a crepe.
You have a Chico bag too, don't you? A Chico bag, yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah.
Here's a funny story about my Chico bag.
Oh, yeah. Is this the uh broken into car story?
Yeah, somebody broke into my car once. Yeah, stole all my loose change, and then went through my rifle through my jockey box, threw all my papers on the floor of my car, and threw my Chico bag that was in my jockey box on the lawn. Yeah, don't need this.
Um look up the uh the the click and carry handles. Okay. Click and carry makes handles for your grocery bags. Don't need to see what you think about that. Don't I look at all the stuff you can carry. You have arms. With the click and carry.
No, I could do that with my just my arms.
Because you can throw them over your shoulders. Then you have your hands free. Okay, but to catch yourself when you trip. That's never happened.
Uh you have to remember to bring your click and carries.
Yeah, but look how small they are. And look, she's going up the stairs uh to her upstairs apartment holding a baby on her hip with her click and carry over her shoulder. Smart.
I did that myself.
I already did it with forklift arms. Yeah.
I'm sorry. No click and carry needed.
Noobs. You've never carried a hundred grocery bags. Come on. And a baby. Yeah. Try harder. Click and carry. All right.
Flashback. You're 16 years old. What is that? 1997? Something like that. 1998? Yeah. Okay. You're 16 years old. You go to the mall. What store do you hit first? And you grew up in Idaho Falls. So your mall would have been the Grand Teton Mall. Right.
Correct. Yeah. Yep. Grand Teton Mall. You would have had to go to uh Twin to go to the Magic Valley Mall. Correct. Okay.
Yeah, we had to we had to drive 30 miles to go to Twin to go to the mall. I mean, we had a mall in Burley, but the mall consisted of a JC Penny. I think there was a music store in there. And that's about it. Okay.
So I'm gonna speak specifically about Grand Teton Mall. Uh in it in its kind of early days, I guess, if you want to call it that. Okay. Um I remember uh going to uh Suncoast and uh and and spending some time in there. Um Tilt, the arcade, yeah, yeah. Food court was always a hot spot because you could grab a free cookie on your way by. Uh yeah.
We always we had to go to Shopcoat, the Magic Valley Mall Street.
Oh, yeah. See, you had like a retail attached to it. So did Pocatello for what it's worth.
So my mom Always liked to shop at Shopcoat. So we had to go to Shopco first, and then we would go eat lunch in the mall in the food court and have soup and a loaf at Mrs. Powell's. Yeah, okay. Oh yes. Soup and a loaf. And it's yeah, and you'd go home with cinnamon rolls. Okay. And then I'd hit the record store, the music store.
Yeah. So there were two, because Suncoast uh had like movie stuff. It was more the movie place. But then you also had uh like the music shop. And I don't know if that was CD World before they separated and had their own building.
C D world was so good.
Yeah. CD World was great. Uh and now it's a dentist, and it's weird. Because I go, that used I used to buy a lot of music there. Um but I don't remember if they were in the mall before they moved there. I'm trying to remember specifically. It's been a really long time since I uh wandered the mall in the 90s.
There was a it was music land at the Magic Valley mall. I had to look it up. Yeah.
And it could have been something similar because a lot of the malls had uh and still do had a lot of the same stores because they just exist in in the mall space, right? Um I worked in the mall when I was in Arizona.
That's not but but I worked at uh at Pac Sun and I always enjoyed going into PAX Sun and then working in it, I went Oh yeah. Just like you do with anything. Then you'd be like, now I know too much.
There was a store in the Magic Valley Mall called the Little Red Hen. Okay. And my mom loved going into that store. It was like a decoration store, but it was severely overpriced. Uh, but my mom would always go in there and be like, if I had more money, I'd buy this. Yeah. And I'd be like, why do we go in here if you can't afford anything in here?
So before the Grand Teton Mall, there was the country club mall in Idaho Falls, and now it is where Fred Meyer is. So that like that whole area where Fred Meyer and the Key Bank building on Northgate Mile is. The key bank building was like a two-story tall Sears.
Okay. And there was a mall there, and then where it's now all storage, that's where like Great American Video was at. And like it was all kinds of stuff.
That was like the hub. Like that was the spot prior to 17th Street getting as big as it did, you know, in the in the 80s and 90s. But uh Country Club had a couple of different like they had a bookshop that I liked. I think it was called the Bookworm. And uh, and that is where I bought my first copy of Michael Crichton's Congo.
Ooh. Did you read it? I still have it. You're not much of a reader, so
I'm surprised you would go into the show. So that would have been like junior high-ish. Probably. Um, but then I I do remember they also had uh an in an in uh what's the word? Uh an indoor RC track and arcade. In the mall?
In the in the country club, yeah. Sick. It was very cool. And I remember, I mean, weird little memories, you know, little core things. Like I remember my cousin having a drum recital in the hall at the country club.
Yeah. In the hall. Yeah, like they they had a stage set up, and that's where he performed. He did his drum thing. I remember that for some reason.
Like just weird stuff that sticks out in your brain. But I do remember that arcade that they had at the country club was a pretty good one. And it was right next to the uh the uh indoor RC track, where I'd watch people race their cars.
The Magic Valley Mall had a KB toy store.
Oh, KB Toys was great. Lots of KB toys. I loved going there. Yep. I think you can buy ponchos now at the place that used to be KB Toys. The Grand Teton Mall.
I don't even remember the last time I went to the Magic Valley Mall. I don't even know what's even still there. Not a Shopco. Not a Shopco. Nope. I bet KB Toys is gone. I bet Music Land is gone. I bet all of those are gone. Tilt gone. Yeah, the tilt was so cool. I could tell you exactly where they all were, though.
Well, now there's a Barnes and Noble where the food court and the tilt used to be. That whole thing has like been rebuilt. So that whole wing is gone. Sad. You want to play like a memories song? Yes.
Yeah. I'm playing it in my head right now. Oh, okay. Nice.
There it is. Look at you.
Misty Modercode. memories. So they're saying that people are doing fewer and fewer status updates on social media. Yeah. You know how when Facebook first started, or MySpace
or Oh, yeah, like in a relationship, those types of status. But then it would be like going to see my friend.
Or like it was a constant like, here's what I'm having for dinner. Okay. Like people were posting like hour by hour updates of what you were doing, right? And now people are doing less and less of that. Well, one. Good. Yeah, nobody, nobody needs to see pictures of your breakfast. Yeah.
I'm gonna start doing it again. You bring it all back. Yeah.
Sometimes you know, Facebook does those memories where it'll show like what you posted six years ago. Right. And my how uninteresting. Oh, it totally was. I could look up and see what my statuses were. Yeah, it was so interesting.
Let me go in here. Because I know like there's a memories thing, right? Like I never play with this. I don't even know. There it is. Memories. Okay. So here's uh here's the thing. Uh apparently you and I went and had some dinner at a restaurant that is no longer uh around. That was four years ago. It looks delicious.
Pictures of food.
Yeah, pictures of food. Yeah. Ten years ago, you said you needed this. We have it, you don't play it. So apparently you didn't need it. It's this mini uh Nintendo emulator. Ten years ago, you're like, I need this. It is imperative to my happiness. That's what you said. You don't even play it.
It sits and collects dust. Twelve years ago, I was grilling. Yeah, you were. I was making up some pretzel sliders. Those look like I did a good job. Man. So here's what I posted. Those look good.
15 years ago. I said, quote, it's a blacked-out blur, but I'm pretty sure it ruled. And then I put That's a lyric. Katie Perry's a lyrical genius. Whoa.
I'm sure that was sarcasm. That was sarcasm. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm. Pretty sure.
Yeah, and then I posted a quote from Beck that said, What if little Wayne had a vine? Remember Vine? Yeah. And then he said to see that. Who is he? He said, one, what if little Wayne had a vine?
And two, who is he? Yeah. Here's the thing about statuses. When everybody used to put statuses, it was very much like you were just posting your day-to-day activity. That nobody necessarily really cared about, right? And then everybody started to be like, who could be like the funniest, or who
could post the most you felt like it was a competition.
Amazing thing that they were doing. And I still feel that. It's like, no, I'm on vacation. No, I'm on a better vacation.
Yeah, no, you're not wrong. People are still competing in that space. Yeah. Here's 15 years ago, a picture of our daughter. She was one. She's got on uh a very cool pink camo hat, and she is wearing star shaped sunglasses with her pacifier in, and it says Hollywood in the house. That is a post. Hollywood in the house.
Um, the biggest reasons people aren't posting anymore is because there's a lot of political arguments. Of course, endless doom scrolling and concerns about privacy because that became a thing too, where it was like you couldn't tell people that you were going on vacation because then they'd know people would get robbed.
It is true. I remember that. I remember that being a concern. I still get a little bit like leery about that kind of stuff sometimes. Where we're like, hey, we're we're on vacation. Yeah. Uh, but I don't know. It's weird.
It's been a long time since I've posted just like a status update. Right. Like I took a step back from that a long time ago. We're supposed to post on classy, but I'm terrible at it. We gotta post some stuff. I'm just so we post. I don't know.
You could post a picture of my pencil collection. That is a good one. That's a post. Why so many pencils? You could ask.
I did ask you that.
I know, but you didn't post a picture. No, no, no. There's a social media publish. post. We'll do that right now. We'll just do we'll just look around. Pencils? Why? Why so many?
Why so many pencils? Um, I almost posted a picture. I had a peanut butter parfait last night. Yeah. I almost posted a picture of that. Did you like it? Yeah, duh. Was the hot fudge warm? Hot fudge was hot fudging.
Yeah. Okay. And how was the soft serve? So good. Nice. So was it was a good treat?
It was an excellent decision. I had a biscoff blizzard, and it was delicious.
I was very happy with that. Well, good. Yeah. Let's post about that. Okay. What else can we do? Let's look around. We still have our uh Star Wars May the Fourth posters up. So there's a little bit of timeliness to that.
I know. What were we even doing with our posts back when we first got started on social media? Yeah, I don't know. Everybody. I'm talking about we, everybody. Yeah. Like we were all just like, here's what I'm doing today. Yep. And people would say, that sounds fun. Yeah, good for you. Thank you for sharing. Thumbs up. Make sure you post a picture of your food. Yeah.
I gotta get back into posting posting pictures of the food. I took pictures of the food last night. Do you want to see? No, I'm okay. They look really good. No, I'm okay. Like, look at how good the plate looks. Yeah. It's nice. You like plating food. I do.
And I watched you, I like to get my own food because you often overstock my plate. That's a nice picture, John.
It's a nice picture of the crustinis, huh? Yeah. Yeah.
But you like to give me too much food. And I was watching you dish up my plate last night, and I went, I could just do that myself. You gave me too many potatoes. You're welcome.
Hey, would you rather this or that?
Would you rather switch days with your oldest child or your youngest? Youngest. She's on summer break. I want that.
I want the I'm at home all day. I've got so many different things I can do. Uh yeah, I want the summer vacation. Okay. Our son has he works four tens. Yeah. I don't want to go do his job.
Yeah, I don't want to go do his job either.
And then and then come home and be tired after working 10 hours and then play video games and then call it a night. Nah. I would much rather have the whole day, summer vacation, grab a snack. I could work in the yard.
I could use, I could I could do whatever I want. Okay. I mean, she's not. She's just watching TV, rearranging her bedroom. Like, yeah, I want that. Make some rhyme.
So let's pretend it's not summer vacation. Okay.
During a regular school year, so I'm going to high school. Yep. Still. Going to high school? All right. No way. Yeah. No way. I don't want to just go to work. Can I already do that? Our oldest is 21. Like he's he's got a job. That's just that's just the same.
Want to do something different. So you want to go to high school. Sure.
Go do something different for old.
Yeah, that might be kind of fun, actually. Sit in history class and learn something. Right. Be like, really? Teach me some algebra. What do you got? What do you got?
Like she just took a crazy algebra class. Like she's going into what's she doing this? Pre cal. Yeah. Like, come on.
I know. She's a smarty pants when it comes to man. So you're gonna go do pre-cal. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Sounds good. Well, that was an easy one. Yeah. I let's go with the youngest. That's an easier swap. Right. For sure.
And that is would you rather this or that?
Okay, we uh all have co-workers. Right? Sure. Sometimes our coworkers do things that we think are gross. I was just reading a story. This didn't happen to me. This happened to somebody else.
Okay. But a coworker in this dude's office was eating lunch at our desk continually. And then he noticed that she always used the same fork, but she left it on her desk and never cleaned it. So she would just eat, put her fork on her desk, go away for the day, come back, eat her lunch, put her fork on her desk. So the forks never getting washed. No. So after a week, he started staying a little bit later than her and would go wash her fork for her.
Oh, okay. He said, because not because I was trying to be nice, but because I I work next to her, and I don't want her gross fork germs spreading to my desk. What would you do? If you noticed you noticed.
Oh, I would call it out. Yeah, you wouldn't go wash it. wash it. You need to go wash that fork. Yeah. I'd be like, what? I would I would let them know their behavior was appalling. I have no problem telling you that something you're doing is gross.
Most offices have a sink. Well, and so but even if you don't take it home and wash it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or use a disposable one or something. Like I what are you doing? What are you doing? Wash your fork. You know. But then there's also the argument of like, why? It's clean. There's no food left on it. I licked it clean. It's the only thing's on it is my mouth. And it's my fork with my mouth on it. Like But if it's like a dirty fork, like it's covered in salad dressing or something and sits out all night. Yeah. That's gonna be gross. Yeah. But if you just like licked it clean and you just have your own fork, I I'm I'm kind of a little bit of two minds on this one.
I'm not. Just wash it.
Or just a few. I agree. Wash the fork. Like my my number one priority is to let that person know their fork is gross. You need to wash it. But if I were if I had my own office and I had my own little cup with my silverware in it, and I decided that I was I took a bite of a cupcake or a brownie or something with my fork, and I went that's clean and put it away. I wouldn't feel bad.
Oh, I don't think that I
would ate like a whole bowl of leftover spaghetti. I would have to wash that fork.
I used to because I thought that I was wasting a lot of disposable forks, and I was like, this is better.
I know. You got me bringing them home.
So I started like saving my disposable fork and then just washing that and bringing it back. And then it got to the point where I was like, I had a handful of disposable forks that I was just reusing and washing and Anyway. way. It's interesting, isn't it?
Yeah. I like to keep my desk like tidy. I keep a tidy workspace. Okay. And sometimes my desk at my other job is in a very high traffic area.
Right. And sometimes people will just like sit at my desk as they're talking to other people. Or leave stuff behind. Or leave stuff behind, or they'll take my scissors and then I go. You gotta put everything on a chain.
You gotta get those long chains like the banks used to have for their pens.
But there's been times I've gone to my desk and there's like food spills not from me, and I get so grossed out. Yeah, I don't like that. don't eat don't eat your food at my space and then leave a mess. I agree. I don't like that.
I don't like that because your space isn't necessarily a communal space. Like it is your desk. It's my space, it's where you work all day. Yeah. Yeah.
And now I have to Clorox wipe everything because you left your gross y mess behind. Right. Oh.
Don't leave your grossy mess behind.
Yeah, exactly. Simple request.
What if it was just covered with used forks? How do I know they're used? Oh, because you can see that they've had food on them. Like a one's got like a rice or two hooked to it. One's got some sauce on it.
A rice or two.
Yeah. One of them is still stuck in a potato. You know, like just an array of different in-use and used forks. Gross. Yeah. Gross. Toast crumbs and a knife with a little bit of extra butter
and there's big times where there's like sauce spills on my desk, like hot sauce spills, and then crumbs all over my keyboard, and I go, that's the stuff I touch. I know. And now I'm really grossed out. You should be.
You need a uh do not sit here and eat sign. Yeah, I do. Yeah. That's the solution.
Or I'll put tax in my chair. Oh, there you go. Yeah. I'll teach you. Don't sit here. Sit in my chair and eat. Well.
On that note, we're gonna let you get out of here so you can go see what's waiting for you on your communal desk. So enjoy that, and uh, we'll be back tomorrow morning.
Yeah, we will. Have a great day. See you then. All right, see ya. Goodbye.
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