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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
Start off with some lazy windshield scraping, frosty mornings, and the great “were those dogs or people?” jogging debate. Plus it’s on to Halloween costumes (yes, including their dog’s chicken outfit), a nostalgic gush over the new Goonies LEGO set, and why Home Improvement still hits differently in adulthood. Plus — the truth about Halloween music, a heartwarming Taylor Swift fan club story, Kelsey Grammer becoming a dad at 70!, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Hurricane Melissa
(2:55) - Wait people of dogs?
(8:42) - Dog costumes
(12:53) - Good News
(14:33) - Goonies Lego set
(19:46) - Home Improvement re-runs
(23:42) - Costume shopping
(30:07) - Halloween music
(39:43) - Native country names
(45:29) - Rockefeller tree
(50:26) - After hours work
(56:35) - Taylor Swift fan club
(1:03:28) - Conversations with strangers
(1:11:18) - Would You Rather
(1:14:28) - 70 year old dad
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Full show transcript:
All right, I've been trying to pay a little bit of attention each day to Hurricane Melissa. This storm is just absolutely insane and they've kind of done some updates this morning since I told you some stuff earlier. So the National Hurricane Center says that top winds are now at 185 miles per hour. And the minimum central pressure is what they're calling, it's measured in millibars and it's 892, which ties for the third most intense Atlantic Basin Storm ever.
And the eyewall is nearly on shore and official landfall will occur this afternoon as it's headed for Jamaica. That's where it's headed right now, which is just absolutely incredible. This is, it is a category five at this point. It is absolutely crazy. It is tied for the third most intense storm ever, ever since they started tracking this stuff, which is pretty incredible. Officials are most concerned about flash flooding and mudslides. Those are the two biggest concerns for the island of Jamaica. Those effects are not limited to Jamaica. The storm's outer bands have been lashing Haiti. It is forecast to hit Cuba once it passes over Jamaica. And so far it has been blamed for seven deaths, three in Jamaica, three in Haiti, and one in Cuba. So obviously those numbers expected to rise, which is just terrible.
It's just terrible. So hopefully everybody is safe. Definitely keep them in your thoughts. Inevitably what will happen is once this thing passes, there will be a call for aid, for donations, for things that people can do to help in the aftermath of this thing. But hopefully fingers crossed everybody stays safe. I know we already have a rising number that we hate to see, but man, third largest storm of all time. I'm not scary.
Yeah. I'm grateful to live where we live, although the climate outside of the hurricanes seems real nice in Jamaica. It'd be nice to be warm and that would be a good trade off.
Well, I don't know. I would rather take the cold over a hurricane. Well, yeah, I know what you're saying. No, I'm just saying like in general, like the majority of the time, the climate is super, super nice. Yeah. And how many historic hurricanes hit Jamaica in its entire existence?
I don't know. But if this is the third scariest storm. Yeah.
Of all time out of the Atlantic, not necessarily that's hit Jamaica. I get it. But still.
Yikes. Anyway, be safe. I know. No kidding. Let's start our silly little show. Okay. Good morning, Shanta.
Oh, good morning, Joshua. How was your drive? Pretty lame. Yeah. Yeah. Did you hit some red lights?
Hit all of the red lights. Yeah. Yeah, I did the thing where I didn't scrape. I did the lazy man scrape. I noticed. I did. I did let it defrost halfway up the windshield.
And then by the time I got out of the neighborhood, it was up high enough. I felt very comfortable. I could see. I didn't have an obstructed view or anything. And then by the time I got halfway here, I had a whole windshield. Oh, did you?
It was pretty awesome. Oh. Yeah. I scraped. I saw you were scraping as I drove away. When she'll before I left, because that's the safe thing to do.
Right. And I had, I had about half when I left. I felt confident. Oh, did you?
Yeah. Otherwise, I would have got out and scraped. But I was not looking forward to that this morning. And I said, I looked out the window and saw frost and I went, I'm going to go start the cars. It wasn't early enough.
I needed to have started them about five minutes earlier. And then no scraping would have been necessary. Yeah. That would have been great. Yeah.
Or we could have just sat there and waited five minutes longer. I guess. Either way. We could have done that. Either way.
We could have. Yeah. I don't like that it's scraping season already. Well, now we're kind of really into it.
I know we are. You see the temperature. Did you look at your thermometer this morning? No.
26. Oh, I did see that. Yeah, I did look at that. Right now it says it's 24. When you asked if I looked at the thermometer, you asked if I looked at the thermometer. Weird.
I feel like I asked that exact question. Yeah. Weird. Yeah. I feel like I literally exactly said, did you look at your thermometer?
I didn't hear you say that. Weird. Totally weird. It's going to be even colder tonight. I know.
This is the part where I get really like kids waiting in line for the school bus. Right. I'm going to tell you that it's not as cold as it could be. And it's still like the high temps. We're still going to see 50s and 60s. We're not going to see any 70s. We're done with that. No.
But this late into October, I'm not mad about 50s and 60s. Fair. That seems fair. All right.
I'll take it. I said, I said, what did I say yesterday? I don't remember.
You say a lot of things all the time. Which thing did, which thing are you talking about? You don't listen to any of that. You're right.
That's not true. What'd you say? I said that I'm going to think about winter in a more positive light this year. What? This is fall, y'all.
Yeah, I know. Cold weather specifically. I'm going to think about cold weather in a more positive way. How's it going? Well, I'm just thinking yesterday you said that I could think about snow in a more positive way by doing all the cool snow activity.
Sure. But how do you think about cold weather when there's not necessarily any activities to do in the cold weather? I saw people jogging this morning.
I did too. I'm not doing that. Cold weather jogging? No. I don't do warm weather jogging.
I'm not doing cold weather jogging. Do you see that one? I think it was a woman. It was really dark to see. And she had two dogs with her. And everybody had a headlight. I saw one headlamp and two red waist hip lamps. No, those were dogs.
No. Bro, there were feet. There were other feet. There was three people. Those were tiny people. No, they weren't tiny.
Because they weren't dogs. No. What are you talking about? On the way in.
Yes. I saw a person with a headlamp jogging in the middle. On the side of them were two people.
No, there were two people because they had hip belts on like a fanny pack thing with a flashing red light on it. And I thought, this is a weird looking vehicle driving down the sidewalk. And then I saw it was people. It was three people. I feel like it was a dog.
There were no dogs. There were three people. It was one person in the middle, a dog on either side with headlamps on the dog. No.
A dog in a headlamp? Yeah. Come on, now.
No. I really, really want to know what that was. I really saw it with my own eyes through my very clear windshield. So did I. I think your imagination saw dogs. I think you saw people. I did with my lights when they came around the corner and I went, that's three people. That's a weird, because I thought it was weird because they were bouncing silly. And it's because it was a headlamp. Like they were dogs.
It's not. Dogs. We're going to go see if we can find them. We're going to go drive the whole town trying to find these folks that are just trying to have a morning jog. With their dogs. No dogs.
Three people. I'm for sure about it. I'm also for sure about it.
Okay. Now there may or may not have been some dogs up for a jog this morning, but regardless of that, let's talk a little bit about some pet costumes because Halloween is coming up on Friday. Our dog has a costume. Our dog has a lot of costumes.
Okay. Let's be real because we think it's hilarious. It is hilarious. But I also, Emery loves dressing up that dog. That dog has a lot of sweaters. The dog has a lot of costumes. I don't always love buying the costumes just because- It seems silly. It does seem silly because she's going to wear them for like half an hour because she hates them. And so then it's like, all right, take it off.
We're not going to torture you anymore. She'd be fine if we put it on and then took her for the W word. She would actually.
And she'd be like, fine. Let's just go. I'll wear the stupid sweater. I'll wear the thing. Put the pizza head on. Or if we go to get her a pop cup. Right. She'll wear it without- we have a lion head, which she doesn't even need right now because she looks shaggy as the lion head.
That dog needs a haircut. So I saw this list of, I don't know who put this together, but this is a bunch of different costumes for this year. I guess it's Google's Fright Geist. I don't know what that is.
All right. Anyway, they put together a list of the top costumes for dogs this year. And chicken is number three. That's what we have. I know. I love- Chicken Luna.
I tried to convince Emory to get. I love the ones that look like spiders. Those are hilarious. That's number 10 on the list. Number 10?
With the extra legs. Yeah. I love those ones.
And I like the ones that look like they're people walking. Correct. So that would be like the pickleball champ was number seven, which is awesome. Glinda from Wicked is number 11. An ambulance made the list. Elvis, a flying monkey, the Lorax. There's a lot of things here.
The number two, if chicken is number three, there is- we got to watch it. We don't even know the demon hunters thing. K-pop demon hunters.
No, I don't know. I think we got it. Number two, Derpy the Tiger. Who's Derpy the Tiger? He's from K-pop demon hunters. Oh, let me look him up.
Yeah. And then the number one costume for pets is LaBooBoo. Derpy the Tiger is pretty funny. Yeah.
I haven't seen a costume for a dog. Did you put that in there? No.
Let me look that one up. Yeah. Oh, it's just- that's not that exciting. I mean, it looks- yeah, right?
It's like a hoodie. Yeah, no. I like- no. Give me the spider. The spider is much cooler. I like the spider with the legs out the side.
Really it scares people when it runs at them. Anyway, I like the LaBooBoo. I think that's funny. Where are we going to take our little chicken dog?
I don't know. We've got to sort that out because you and I have costumes. Emery has a costume. The dog has a costume. Bex said he's not dressing up.
He said no. Like that. Are you going to dress up or howling? No. Okay. But we have to go somewhere and do something. I agree. We got to sort that out.
Yeah, I know. We have to figure out what we're doing. We got to- we're old people with old kids. I know, but that doesn't mean we don't have fun. No, I know. And I'm not- we just got to make fun.
I'm not going to sit at home and greet the five trick or treaters we come in six hours. Spaced out. You know?
I do. It's like, oh, here's one at five. Here's another one at six thirty. Here's another one at seven. Come on.
I'm not. I like trick or treaters, but I don't get very many. And so I don't want to sit at home waiting around. I get you. Take the chicken on the town. That's the plan. All right.
Here's some good news. This is about Breanna Lenoy, who's the principal of Buffalo Academy of Science in Upstate New York, and always joke that she wanted all the students at her school to attend her wedding, which is kind of an unreasonable challenge considering the charter school has hundreds of students. And how would that logistically be possible? So Breanna's students didn't think it was an unreasonable challenge and they brainstormed a way to make it happen. So working together with the teachers at the school, the students transformed the courtyard into a surprise wedding venue. And Breanna, obviously stunned, found hundreds of students and staff gathered to celebrate her upcoming wedding with her fiance, Zach. And the surprise mock wedding had an altar, a makeshift gown, vows, even candy ring pops, and it unfolded just a couple of days before the real wedding. But all the students got to be there, which is kind of fun. That's cute.
Yeah. Breanna was obviously not surprisingly overwhelmed by the gestures. She said it meant everything to me. I love my students more than anything. And I just hope that our students feel as loved as I felt in that moment, which is really special. So kind of cool. The school heard about it. The students were like, yeah, we would love to be there. But how like, we're not going to get hundreds of people to be dropped off at some wedding. No, and then who's in charge of those kids once they get dropped off. Right.
I'm not babysitting while I'm getting married. So what a cool, cool way to kind of make that happen. The student body and the teachers did it. Cute way to go guys. Good news. Have I got something for you? What is it? It is a Goonies Lego.
Okay. Now I saw this over the weekend that they had released a Goonies Lego. I have done everything in my power to avoid looking at it. So I know none of the details because I saw it and I said, hey, they made a Goonies Lego and you were very disappointed that I had seen it. Like, I was surprised. I was surprised with it. So I said, I haven't looked at it. I don't know what the set looks like.
I just saw that they released one. What's the set? It's a ship. It's a pirate ship. Very good.
And it has 2,912 pieces. Okay. 12 minifigures. Okay. Now let's talk about that.
Obviously you got the crew. Yeah. Sloth. Sloth. Fratellis.
That's a lot of minifigures. The Fratellis. Okay. All three. One-eyed Willy is there.
Of course. A skeleton with the patch. All three of the Fratellis. Brand. Yeah. Andy. Yeah. Data. Yeah.
Steph. Yes. I said chunk and sloth. Yeah.
Mouth and Mikey. Like, they're all there. That's perfect.
All of them. I think that's great. So you get the 12 minifigs. You get the pirate ship. Now, is it just the ship?
There's not like a castle piece or any sort of tunnel system that you have to kind of work through. I mean, check it out. Go look at it. All right.
Go look at it right now. They do have the cave. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. That is part of the pirate ship. They've just included it on there. So there is the little cave area. Oh, I see.
They kind of put it under the boat. There it is. I see. Mm-hmm.
I think it's cool. Guess how much it is. Don't look at that part. Just take a guess. Okay. I don't even know.
I'm looking at pictures of the boat. How much is it? $329. It's 12 minifigs. Bro. It's a big set. You said it's over 2,000 pieces. Yeah, it's almost 3,000. Yeah, that's why.
Yeah, and they put in some of the booty traps, which I think is great. That's cool. This is a cool one.
I would have this one on display. It's so expensive. I know. It is very cool. It is really, really cool.
One of the minifigs is wearing a shirt that says, Goonies never say die. That's cool. It is very cool. I agree with you. But let me look at the pictures here. It's very expensive.
Look at what? Josh Brolin's guy is pretty great. Yeah, with his headband. It's really good. Dada's got the punching glove coming out of his shirt, which is cool.
It just makes me want to sing the Cindy Lauper song. I know. Good enough.
Corey Feldman's brushing his hair. This is really a cool set. Really cool. Sloth has got the chocolate bar. We need to watch the Goonies again. These minifigs. I want it just for the 12 minifigs. I love the ship. I think it's cool. They put in a lot of thought into making that. But those minifigs are the best looking minifigs I've seen in a set. They are perfect.
I know. The sloth one is probably my favorite. They're so good.
I love that the kids are little short, like hobbit sized Lego people. It's so good. It's perfect. It is great. Chunks got his little Hawaiian shirt on. It's so good. $329.
This could be yours. I just love it. It comes out on November 4th of this year. Next week you'll be able to have your very own.
I think it's so cool. For the low cost of $330. Plus some tax change. I'm looking at the 360 spin of it. It's cool.
They've got the keys in there. Oh, it's so cool. It's my favorite.
This is my favorite Lego. When was the last time you seen Goonies? It's been a very long time. I don't know the last time I've seen Goonies.
I also know the last time I built a Lego. This is so cool. This is my favorite one they've ever done. Really? Absolutely. Hands down. Okay.
It's so good. Speaking to your 90 year old kid heart. My 90 year old kid. 90's year old. 90's kid. You get it. You get what I'm saying.
It's so cool. One-eyed Willy's up there. And they don't really show him. Which I think is kind of funny. They don't show one-eyed Willy. They don't show him in the minifig thing.
And when you do the 360 of the boat, you can't get a good look at him. I think that's awesome. I think that's fun.
You got to discover it. I think that's cool. It's my favorite. Well done.
Well done. You know how sometimes you get kind of set on comfort shows. Like you'll just turn something on because it's familiar. You don't have to think about it.
You just have it on. Sure. The last couple of nights I have felt that way about home improvement. Yeah. We were watching some of that last night.
It was good. I mean even just some of the noise. Some of the intro music.
The voices that you remember from days gone by. Yeah. No. I get it. And it's sort of like from my mom. Everybody loves Raymond is kind of her thing.
And anytime that's on. But growing up it was like there were new shows. Like Night Court was new and Coach was new. And some of those were.
I love Coach. Those were like new shows. But the old reruns, Nick at Night had on were Green Acres and Beverly Hill Billies and Mr. Ed. Like those were the shows that were like the reruns that were on.
You're right. Now the reruns for us. You're saying home improvements are rerun. I think so. That's what we're going to have on now. We're just watching home improvement.
I think so. But I'm not bad about it. Me neither. Jokes still hold up. The hairstyles and the clothing do not. Yeah. But the morals do don't they? Yeah.
Yeah. You still learn a lesson after each and every episode. There's a couple of cringy Tim Allen impression pieces where I go like, I don't think that would be politically correct today. But okay, we'll let that go.
And Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Yeah. What an actor.
What? He was about the same age as I was. Yeah. I think he's really close still. And I remember having a huge crush on him. You and everybody else.
Of course we did. But he's pretty cute. He's got a cute little. He's 44.
Yeah. He is the same age as me. You're actually older than him.
He was born in September of 81. So it's only a couple of months, Josh. Big whoopey-doo. He's a good little actor.
I'm impressed by his acting skills at what? We started watching season three. I looked up when season three was okay. 93 to 94. So yeah, I was about 12, 13 years old.
And so he was probably about that same age. Yeah. It says he, yeah, 98.
Is that what you said? 93. Oh, he left in 98 when he was 16. He wanted to have a little bit of regular high school experience still available to him. So he left Hollywood. Oh. Yeah. I don't know what he's been up to since. I don't know either.
He did a couple of movies and stuff, but here's what I think is funny. When I watched that show and my parents watched that show, like I related to the kids, right? Now watching it as a parent, looking at the relationship and the parenting and going like, this hits a little bit different when you watch it as a parent, doesn't it? Maybe that's why you're into it now though, because you are. You're seeing it through a different lens. That makes sense. Anyway, it's good.
It's on Netflix. If you need some comfort, just a little comfort show. Hit up home improvement. Home improvement, man. It's full of nostalgia.
And good life lessons. Right. And that neighbor Wilson, he's still not showing his face.
I think he does in like the last episode or something. Yep. Cause they gave him like a little handheld fence thing and then he took it away and it was a big, oh, big moment. We got to see Wilson.
Bottom half of his face. Anyway, yeah, no, it's good. And if you said it's on Netflix, that's where we're watching it. Super. I needed to go to the costume shop yesterday because there was something I needed for my costume that you still don't know what it is. No, I know.
You now not only know exactly what I'm wearing for Halloween, but you've also seen it and I still have zero insight on what you're wearing and you're keeping it secret from me. Why? One, because I'm mad.
Why are you mad? Because I had lots of fun couples costumes that we could go as and you poo pooed all of them. And I said, fine, I'll do my own thing.
And this is my own thing. Okay. And you don't get to see it until the costume contest. All right. So there. Okay. So I don't get to know or see it because you're mad at me. Correct. You got it. Because I didn't do a couple's costume.
Yeah, you didn't like any of my ideas. Last year. This year and last year. We haven't even talked about it this year. Yes, we have.
When? What do we talk about? The crab. I didn't want to do the two people in one costume. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Poo pooed all of my ideas. That was the one idea.
No. Was two people in one costume. And then there was a, there was a plus one to your, I don't know if you want to say your costume. I don't yet. Okay. So there was a plus one to your costume and I said, well, I could go as this and. I never said no. You had a, you had a tone.
Nope. So I went, fine. I didn't have a tone. And you could absolutely be an accompaniment to mine, but you're not going to. No, I'm not going to because I found my own idea.
So I guess I'm going solo this year. And my idea is pretty great. Now we are doing a costume contest here at the radio station. Right. Prizes to be had. I, I see that. I'm excited for a chance to win prizes.
Me too. Do you feel like, I can't answer this about you, but do you feel like I have a chance? I feel like you have a chance. But I don't know what everybody else is going to do.
Mine's, mine's a two parter with a reveal, which I think is, I think, I think the fact of mine has a reveal is the thing that gives it a better chance. Yeah. Because at first people are going to go, what is that? And then when the reveal happens, they go, come on, really? That's kind of the reaction I think I'm going to get. Okay.
All right. What do you, what reaction do you think you're going to get? I'm going to get a funny reaction. You think so?
I think people are going to be like, that's awesome. Is yours just a character? Is it a, is it a person?
It's a person. Or is it, okay, you're not doing like a, like a pun. No. Okay.
It's a person. All right. Interesting.
Yeah. And last night I found the piece that I needed. And as I was sitting there eating dinner with the kids, I went to try it on and I was like, what do you think about this? And they were like, hmm, I could look a little better. And I was like, well, I got to do some stuff with it. But then I sat down and started eating dinner with it on, which was hilarious.
And then we have live 360. And so when I got alerted that you were home, I was like, I got to go. I got to go. You got to take this off.
It's just funny that I was sitting eating dinner with it on. I don't know what that means. I know. I'm being very vague because I got to keep it secret. Okay. The second I start getting ready for the costume contest on Friday, you're going to know. Okay.
And that's sad to me because I would like to reveal it to you. Well, you can go get ready down the hall and walk in. I could.
And we could set up a time where we can reveal it on the radio and we can film it. Okay. Okay. I think that's fun.
I think we should do that because it's hilarious. Well, I have to get, I still have a couple of pieces I need to get tied up for my thing to be ready to go. Okay.
And then what? I got a couple of days. So I'll be fine. I've got all my pieces. That's the big deal.
I was worried I wasn't going to get pieces in time, but I think I have everything now. So that's good. You got everything you need. Yeah. You're solid gold, baby.
Okay. And so am I. I'm so excited. I'm excited. I'm excited for you to see it. Okay.
What is it? You'll find out on Friday. I'll find out on Friday. But I will hear, I'm here to say if you need to go to any kind of costume shop, good luck. There's still some stuff left, but it's a lot of it's been picked over and it is crowded. It is a busy place to be those costume stores. Well, it's Halloween week.
It's three days away. So, and all of the little toys are kind of broken. All of the decorations, you know, the spooky ones in front. That's lame. Yeah, they're all, they've been, they've been run. They've been main handled. For a month. Yeah. I get you.
It's been a rough season for them. Usually is. All right. Well, Friday we'll do an unveiling of costumes. And then hopefully we'll win prizes. I really hope we do.
I think it'd be so fun. Put in some effort. But I know that there's a couple of people. Here's the thing I know about our coworkers. There are some people who are going to put in very minimal amounts of effort. Totally agree.
And some people that are going to go over the top amounts of effort. And then we've got, we've got new people in the building. We don't even know enough about to know what they're going to do. Drew, I can't wait.
It's going to be fun. That's Friday. And then my other thing is I have another job to go to. So then do I continue to wear my costume? Yeah, so it's Halloween. I know, but I haven't gotten the approval. The approval to wear a costume as an adult on Halloween at your adult job?
Yeah. Do what you want. I'll think about it. Okay.
I would do it. I'll be wearing what I'm wearing all day. Well, that's kind of what you are anyway. Rude.
R-U-D-E rude. We got Christmas coming up and that includes Christmas music. And for months, there is Christmas music being played.
Sometimes there's even stations who play it 24 seven. Yeah. Such as right here on class of 97. That is true. On the 4th of July, you get a day where you get to play 4th of July music. This is true. We even play it for an entire day here on class of 97.
And two this year. I did it. You did two days?
I did two days, yeah. How come nobody ever plays Halloween music? Okay, so there's plenty of it. And K-Bear just down the hall, they do. But they have like crazy Halloween stuff, right? I'm not talking about that. Yeah. I'm talking about your, this is Halloween, your time warp, your thriller, your Adam's family theme.
Sure. So I don't think there's enough to do a full format. And to be fair, for 4th of July, it's our playlist isn't just patriotic music. We put USA themed and we put big summer songs and you know, a lot of like, you know, it's all upbeat music. There's not a lot of like slow stuff during 4th of July music. I get that. But it isn't just 4th of July.
Like I think Christmas is the only one that has like a full format where you can go 24-7 Christmas. But listen to me. I'm listening. When I say that Christmas music, you got maybe 20 songs that just get recycled by different artists. There's more than that. But I understand what you're saying. Same with Halloween music.
You can take this as Halloween from Nightmare Before Christmas. Sure. That's been covered by how many different artists? I don't know, five? Probably more than that. I'm just saying, I feel like there's enough.
You could play a whole day of Halloween music. I get you. So I, because you've made me curious, now I have to look at it. Okay. So in here by title, because I can actually do this, I can tell you that there are 141 unique song titles in Christmas.
Okay. And there are only at most eight versions of one song. And that is Silent Night.
There are eight versions of Silent Night. Okay. In your library. In the library. Okay.
That is correct. How many do a quick search in your library for Halloween songs? Can you do that? I could. I don't have a, I don't know if I have them categorized that way. I don't. I see.
Okay. So I would have to find like thriller, for example. I have thriller so I could play that. I do not have Monster Mash in this thing.
What? I probably have it over here. But then I'm like, you got, you got even some modern ones.
You've got Bad Guy from Billy Eilish. Sure. You could put that in. Yeah. I have a copy of Monster Mash.
Yeah, I do. There's two versions in the system of Monster Mash. One of them is the one you were thinking of.
The other one is from The Misfits, which is what we play. Yeah, exactly. That's what I'm saying.
Oh, we don't need to play what cave air plays. No, I know. I'm just saying. Yeah.
There is, there is some music and I do plan on dropping some in on Friday. Oh, do you? Yeah. Sorry.
But there's just not enough. It's not a surprise. It's not necessarily a surprise. It's Halloween.
We should. But the, but the, which is what I've done for the past few years is drop in a couple during the morning show each hour to make it spooky. But there's not enough to do a whole day is what you're saying.
If people made Halloween songs the same way they make Christmas songs, there'd be enough, but there's not. That's always been my, I'm sorry. I was just thinking my wheels were turning in my brain because that's always been my claim to greatness, to richness.
It's like, all we need to do is come up with a Christmas song, we're with me and then sit back and earn our royalties as that gets played. I bet it's small. I bet it is now because I feel like the market's over saturated, but you've also got to have a hit. Like your, your song, like we've got some new stuff that we're, that we're playing this year because I've, this has been my world for the past few weeks already as I've been in Christmas mode, getting ready for it because it's like less than a month away that we switched to Christmas. And so as I've been looking at songs and things like there's, there was that movie red one that came out, right?
That we went and saw. There's a couple of songs that were in that movie that are new. Like there's one song that doesn't, didn't exist until this movie.
Okay. And it's from that, that soundtrack. It's a great song.
But it's not. This Icelandic artist, Laffy, she's great. The song sounds really good. It's incredibly popular.
But. No, but that's a new song that like it's not, it's not a remake of an old Christmas song. It's a new Christmas song. Yeah. But, and here's the other problem is that sometimes people don't want the new Christmas songs.
Well, sure. They just like their old stuff. But that's what's great about it is we play a bunch of it.
We play a ton of it. I get it. What I'm saying is I don't think that's going to be my claim to greatness anymore. I can't just make a Christmas song and live off the royalties because that market's over saturated. I see. So now I'm thinking maybe I make a great Halloween song. And then sit back and rake in the royalties. You see what I'm saying?
Yeah. But I don't think it's going to, it's, the Halloween music doesn't hit as hard as Christmas music. But it could.
It could. And it might, if I make the best song, the best Halloween song. So traditionally in Christmas music, there's jingle bells and there's, you know, there's lots of like little sounds that are very, very specific to Christmas to give you that sort of emotional feeling. What sort of sounds would you emotionally tie to Halloween? Fun.
Family. Those aren't sounds. Oh, sounds. I thought you said feelings.
What sounds would you tie to your song to invoke those feelings? Oh, I see. Well, you got to have a little bit of creaky spookiness, but you don't want it to be too spooky creepiness. Okay. I'm going to do a quick search to say how much in royalties do the writers of Monster Mesh make? Do you think it'll tell me? I have no idea. I don't know.
And probably not. Okay. Okay. Okay. Listen to this. Monster Mesh written by Bobby Boris Picker and Leonard Lenny Kapizzi currently generate about $1 million annually in total royalties. Okay.
Okay. So they get about $350 a year from the master recording. So they're recording rights. Then they get about $500,000 a year from publishing rights combined. That's about $1 million every year. How about that?
All right. Well, how much do you think Time Warp makes? Ooh, let's find out.
I don't think you're going to find out because here's the thing. It isn't just about when it gets played or when it gets streamed or when it gets, you know, whatever. This is also in a movie.
And so every time Rocky Horror Picture Show plays, that song theoretically should make money. That one, they say is a little bit trickier to calculate because of that. Hmm. We'll never know.
I know. Are we going to make a Christmas song? Are we going to make a Halloween song or a Fourth of July song?
Which one do you think is going to be the most lucrative? The Fourth of July. Why? Because it can be used outside of Fourth of July.
Fair. It can be used in political campaigning. It can be used in, like there's other venues that thing can be used to make money. Good thinking, Josh. That's where the Real Monies act.
This is why you're the brains of this operation. Oh, is that right? I don't know about all that. I'll be the creative force. You're the logistic. Sure. Give me the fun part.
Nice. I am curious why we interpret countries into our own language. And why we don't just say what they're called in their native language. Right. Like, Deutschland is Germany. Right. Or Kuba. Or, right. Sure.
Or any of those. Why do, I tell ya. Great question. Niederland? Niederland. I don't know. I don't know either.
It feels like it would just be easier to learn the native. Name. Country name. Yeah. I don't know. I just think that's interesting to me.
I don't know why I was even thinking about that, but it was fascinating. Well, I don't know. I don't know. I really have no idea other than to say that the cartographers probably are the reason. Those cartographers.
Well, I mean, think historically, right? Like, if you went to Cuba. Don't you mean Cuba?
But if you went there and you were like, where am I? And they said, Cuba. Cuba. And you said, right, Cuba. Got it. And you wrote that down.
I'm in Cuba. Okay. Right. I mean, it's the same spelling. Yeah. That's just an accent thing.
Where Deutschland and Germany is way different. Okay. All right.
So then you think about, like, Egypt. Okay. For example, or. What about it? Well, I don't know how to even pronounce it in its native. But even spelling it, you're right. A cartographer, if a cartographer went there and was like an English speaking person and was like, what's the name of this country called? And somebody said, oh, it's this in my native language. Right. How would you even, how would he even know how to spell that?
Or Japan, for instance. I was trying to see, it looks like, Misser is how it would be pronounced Egypt. Oh, yeah. It's M-I-S-R. But there's like a thing underneath the S. It's Misser. Is that how you pronounce it? Mm-hmm. That's the, that's the old Arabic pronunciation, Misser. Okay.
The, of modern official Arabic, it just changed to an A. And so it's Masser. Uh-huh. Yeah. Got it. Yep.
There's supposed to be a slight roll on the R sound. Okay. So then, look up Japan. All right. How do you, how do you pronounce that in its native language? Mm-hmm. Nihon.
The real name of Japan is pronounced Nihon. See, this is interesting. Right. Why do we call it Japan?
Right. It's called Nihon in Japan. Now, right, but the Japanese characters. Or Nippon, either one.
But again. Nihon is more common in everyday conversation. Cartographers aren't going to know the Japanese characters, but they can write in English.
Japan. No. They can write Nihon.
I know they could. You're absolutely right. But Japan is Nihon and not Japan. That's correct. That makes no sense to me.
In kanji, it is pronounced Nihon or Nippon, but Nihon is more common in everyday use, it says. Okay. Good to know. Yeah. I didn't know that before.
And now I know. The English name Japan originated from an early Chinese pronunciation of the kanji characters. But in Japanese, it's Nihon. But then how did it become known as Japan?
Because the cartographer asked a Chinese person and they said, oh, that's this symbol, which translates to Japan. That's what happened. Okay. And so a long time ago. It all got messed up. Yep.
Sure. The name Japan was introduced to Europeans by traders who heard the name from Chinese. Chinese speakers who pronounced the characters as something similar to Japan. And this pronunciation was brought to Europe in the 16th century.
That's what I said. It's cartographers, people out talking to other people. But here's the other part too is because inflections change person to person to person. So if you have like chili, for instance, it's pronounced chili.
Right. But when people look at that chili chili, go spend some time chili. It's warm down there. Is it a little bit chili?
Stop it. In Spain. Yeah.
Espana. I'm going to start just calling them what they are. I'm going to learn all of them. Well, good luck with that. That sounds like a fun hobby.
I think it might be kind of fun actually. Yeah. And then if somebody says, oh, I think I'm going to go to Italy and I go, don't you mean Italy? Yeah.
I'm going to be that person. Well, like Rome is Roma. It's Roma, Italia.
It's not Rome, Italy. Right. So have fun with that learning it all. I will.
All right. I just found out where this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is coming from. Ooh, let me guess.
When it will be set up. Okay. Let me take a guess.
Sure. I'm going to say Massachusetts. No. I'm going to say Vermont. No.
I'm going to say Connecticut. No. I've given up.
You've got 47 to go. Pennsylvania. No. Two more. Delaware. No. Illinois.
No. It's coming from New York. East Greenbush, New York is where it's coming from.
They usually get the tree from somewhere all over the country. They've had an Idaho one there. They've had, they get them from all over the place. But this year it's coming from East Greenbush, New York. And this year's tree is a 75 year old Norway spruce.
They chopped it down. I know. I know. I know.
And I thought the same thing. But listen, listen. This is why I wanted to talk about it because you went, what? They cut down a 75 year old tree. All right.
Check it out. It will be cut down November 6th. It will then make its trip to New York City on November 8th. It will be in place adorned with over 50,000 multicolored LED lights. It will have a 900 pound star with 3 million crystals on top. Whoa. That's incredible.
Don't tell the new thieves. Yeah. No doubt, right? Where did the, they'll pull up in their little ladder truck. No kidding.
The tree will. I just want to say there were crystals here. Yeah.
Yeah. We're here for that star. The tree will arrive in New York City, November 9th. It will be up and lit during the annual televised tree lighting ceremony, which happens December 3rd.
And then after the holiday season, this 75 year old Norway spruce will be turned into lumber for habitat for humanity. Okay. That's nice. Sad that it had to be.
It had to tie. Right. But at least it's going to a worthy cause. Right. So it will be turned into lumber for habitat for humanity.
So it'll have a really cool second life. Talk about a giving tree. Oh. Anyway, that's how close we are to the Christmas season. I know we're like 60 some odd days away or something. We're knocking on the door. Yeah.
But there you go. It's just a couple of months away and that tree is ready to go real soon. They've chopped the tree down already. No, no, it will be cut on November 6th. It will be transported and in place by November 9th.
It will be lit on December 3rd. Who determines the tree? Who scouts out the tree? I assume it's a team of people. That's an interesting question.
And what do they determine? Oh, the tree has to be perfect. And this one, by the way, comes from a residential lot. Like this is a tree that's in someone's yard. Well, then, hmm. Yeah. I got a tree across the street.
I'd like them to have. That thing's huge. It's not owned by you. No, I know, but it could be owned by the Rockefeller Center. So then do they pay the person? Great question.
I don't know. Or if it's donated, the tree was chosen by the, the head gardener of the Rockefeller Center named Eric Pauze or Pauze. Who is tasked with finding the right tree every year. As soon as I saw it, I knew it was perfect.
How tall is it? The tree does have an order to fill. He said, what I look for is a tree that you'd want in your living room, but on a grander scale, it needs to make people smile the second they see it. This year will continue the tradition dating back nearly a century.
In 1931, construction workers who were building Rockefeller Center put up a Christmas tree, marking the first time that a tree made an appearance in the famed New York City locale. I did not know that. I did not know that either.
Two years later, the first ever Rockefeller Center tree lighting ceremony took place. They've been doing that ever since 1933. How about that? How about it? We're almost at 100 years of this thing. I kind of want to go. I want to go along with that guy while he scouts trees. Then I also want to be there when they chop it down and when they load it onto the truck. Because I think that's a process, especially if it's somebody's yard.
Right. It's 75 feet tall. It's 45 feet in diameter and it weighs 11 tons. How tall did you say it was? 75 feet.
75 years old and 75 feet tall. Ain't that some? Norwegian pine. Cute.
So cute. What are your rules when it comes to receiving work emails after your allotted work time? I know some people that refuse to put their work email on their phone. Smart. Is it?
Kind of. I don't think you should be chained to your work phone all the time. Okay. I guess for me, maybe it's position specific.
Well, I think it's... I'm a manager, so I feel like as a manager I have a different level of responsibility than somebody who isn't a manager or is managed by me. I want to respect coworkers' time. And so if, for example, I needed something from an employee and it was a day they were supposed to be off, I would do everything I could to not have to bug them on their day off as a manager.
Right? And what I would do instead of calling or texting is sending an email with the intention being when you're back in the office reply to this email. I wouldn't expect a response immediately from an email. Okay.
I feel like it's also case by case basis. So if I receive an email, I have my email on my phone. I get it on my phone. Your work stuff. Yeah.
Yeah. If it is imperative, then I'll respond to it. But typically, if it is imperative from a coworker, they'll either call or text. I agree. And then those are always, yeah, I'll answer this because that's an immediate. Yeah.
Work is calling. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. Now, in an on-call position, which I'm not in, an on-call position, you would need to be, you would be responsible for responding. Yeah.
Whether it's email, text, or call. Correct. Because you're on call. You should be monitoring for communication. Yeah.
Yeah. But I think for the most part, in my general opinion, email is the slowest response is acceptable. Respond at your convenience. If I call you or text you, that's more urgent. Depending.
If it's from a coworker, yes. Right. That's what I'm saying. If it's from like an outside person, maybe it's somebody who's won a prize and the thing is tonight and they haven't received their tickets. Do you see what I'm saying?
I do see what you're saying. And they were like, it's after hours. I don't know how to get ahold of anybody. And they sent an email. I don't know if I would necessarily see the email on time.
Oh. I would try it once I saw it, but I'm not going to be actively monitoring for work email. Like I see emails all the time. It's on my phone. Mm-hmm. And I keep a pretty clean inbox on purpose.
I like being organized in my work world, in my personal life. Forget about it. Forget about it. In my, in my work life, I like to be very organized. So I do. I run a pretty tight organized ship when it comes to my project. Do you want to keep your work life so organized, but your personal life? It's accountability, I think. Like in my work life, I feel like being organized and on top of things helps me feel more in control of my work balance.
Okay. And so my project load, I can, I can better maintain a project load if I take the time to keep myself organized. If I, if I'm unorganized or, or I have like 800 unread emails, I'd lose my mind. I would feel every day like I was behind. So it's an accountability thing for me.
Well, so how is that different from home? Oh, most of it's junk mail. And I still read them. I don't have a bunch of. You're just, you're specifically just talking about email. Yeah, specifically.
Okay. But I also have, I have like big organization in spreadsheets and the way that we put together the show and my workflow on things. Like I have systems in place that make my life easier every minute of every day. But I don't have that at home.
I'm a little bit loose, goosey when it comes to home stuff. Yeah, I noticed. Did you?
What'd you notice? You're loosey goosey factor. Yeah. A little bit.
I'm a little bit like, yeah. It's like the shoemakers, kids don't have shoes, right? It's the same thing.
Oh yeah. It's like I spend all day in my organized systems. I go home to chaos. It's not chaos. I wouldn't say it's chaos.
We literally have a sign on the wall that says this is our perfect chaos. It is. But I feel the same way.
I'm much more organized at work than I am at home. Yeah, I know. I have noticed.
Yeah, I know. It's funny you bring up the shoemakers, kids don't have shoes. I used to know a family that owned a furniture store, but when you went to their house, they didn't have any furniture. Where'd their furniture go? They didn't have any. They just lit. Did everybody sit on the floor?
Well, they have like a few pieces, but you would think if they owned a furniture store that their house would be like fully furnished. But it wasn't, really. Yeah, you'd think it would.
It wasn't, really. Because furniture is expensive. I know. That's why. Funny.
Well, case by case basis then. Pretty much. Yep. Chaos. And try to respect people's time off.
Yeah, those are the things. There's a 95 year old named Frank. And he lives in a retirement home in Nebraska. And he bought his occupational therapist a pin that says, I love Taylor because she does in fact love Taylor. Nice. Then when the occupational therapist would come to visit, she always had her I love Taylor pin on and all of Frank's friends were like, I would like it.
I love Taylor pin. Did he make it? I don't know the answer to that. So he bought it. It says he bought it.
Okay. So he got all of his friends. I love Taylor pins too. Is it the I heart Taylor? Yeah. Okay.
I'm seeing it. And now they're all Swifties and they've started a Taylor Swift fan club in the retirement home. Really? And there's over a hundred people in it. Whoa. He says his ultimate goal is to get Taylor Swift to come visit them all in person. Oh, how cool.
And he's also, he also happens to be a lifelong chief span. Okay. So he's hoping upon hope that she brings her boyfriend.
Oh, excuse me. Fiancé with her when she comes, but he goes, if she doesn't, and she just brings herself, that'd be all right too. Well, I mean, you know, if you got to settle for one, I really love when celebrities get news of stuff like this and then actually follow through with the request. So I, and I would say the fact that we're talking about it on the show means it's highly likely she's going to hear about for sure. Right.
Cause she's a big listener of the show. Right. And so I've heard, right. I just hope they haven't heard all of the trash talk. I've been saying that's why they started listening actually. They were upset because we're touching grass is what it is.
Was that me? Like they live in, in a circle of influence where they go like this is everybody loves us and then they tune into you and they go, except her. Why did she hate you so much Travis? We got to prove her wrong.
Right. And then they walk in the door and they go, say it to my face. I don't say, yeah, I don't think you're a decent dude. I think you're playing a game. Right.
And then he proves you wrong. How exactly? That's what I want to know. Prove it. Yeah. He's like, look, I know this is what you think, but you're only seeing the snapshot.
You only get to see microseconds of our entire life. I feel like you're a snake in the grass. Here we go. See. See. I, I don't hope they come to visit me, but I do hope they go visit the Taylor Swift fan club at the retirement home in Omaha, Nebraska. Nice.
That would be fun. Because I think that they needed that little community could use a boost. And listen, if they decide that they're going to travel through the area to go like skiing or something in the wintertime and they needed a place to stop by and do a little publicity, I'm just saying, like we won't turn you away. Correct. Right.
Like you can come and sit in on the show. And prove me wrong. There you go. See, now if they get wind of that, they'll come for sure. They'll follow through. It'll, it'll happen. And I'll be like, uh, I'm a cheese fan or not a cheese fan.
I'm a Viking span. Right. So convince me why I should be a cheese fan. No, I don't think you have to be a fan of the team. No, I will never.
See. What if they brought you like the little mustache so you could like how in the big coat so you could look like coach. I should have dressed up like him for Halloween.
That would have been a really good costume. Oh man, I blew it next year. Okay. Will he still be relevant next year? Maybe. He may be retired. Who knows.
Andy Reed retired. Maybe. Never. That mustache shall coach on. I kind of just wanted to wear a mustache. Wear a mustache then.
I saw it at the Halloween store last night. They had all kinds of goatees and I was like, I kind of want to wear all of these. Well, goatee nuts. They had a Vikings goatee. Yeah.
What does that mean? Well, like, you know how they're like long. Oh, that's like a full beard. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I see what you're saying. I know that display. All that facial hair.
They got a ton of it. I kind of just wanted to wear all of the facial hair. Yeah. Well, do it next year.
Okay. How come Halloween's only once a year? You can dress up anytime you want. Here's the thing about being an adult. There's two things I'm about to tell you that might blow your mind. Say one, you can do whatever you want. You have adult money. You can make adult weird decisions and do nobody cares that much. Oh, everybody. No, they don't.
No, they don't. You see a six year old in the Spider-Man costume on June 14th. You're like, hey, he's just made a kid.
You see an adult in the Spider-Man costume in the middle of June. You're like, man, something's wrong with that person. Okay, fine. And then you move on. That's your problem to worry about.
No one cares that much. They're going to go, I saw a woman wearing a Spider-Man costume at the mall today. How weird is that? I saw a woman.
It looked like she was dressed like Andy Reed. Yeah. It's February. Why? Because I wanted to. You can do whatever you want.
You can literally go to the garage and get the gorilla costume out and put it on and drive around town and go to lunch. And no one is going to say anything. And if they do, they're going to go like, what's the deal? And they're not even going to do it.
It's not going to happen. You could do it. I'm telling you, you could do it and nobody would say a thing.
They probably would, but then guess what? Your opinion of me is not my responsibility. Okay, there you go. And what are they going to say? That's odd. I wish I had that kind of confidence and freedom is what they're going to say.
They would say that. You're an adult. You can do what you want. Honestly, no one's going to stop you from dressing like a gorilla and going to the grocery store.
I don't want to dress like a gorilla. I'm just saying. I know that's what you're using for reference, but hmm.
But it's pretty freeing actually. You want to wear a mustache and walk around looking like Coach Reed, go for it. Go nuts. I'm telling you, no one's going to care. I kind of want to. I might.
Let me at that facial hair. All right. It happened again. What? I was watching a video and then I started to cry a little bit.
That's right. What are you watching? Here's what I hear. I hear this because the video is not loud enough for me to make out what's going on. I just hear like you're watching something and then I hear this. I go, what are you watching?
Allergies. No. I go, are you watching something sad?
And you go, no. It wasn't necessarily sad. It was kind of sad, but it's also just more uplifting than sad. All right. We'll talk to me about it. So it was a TikTok video that I was watching of a man who has made a pot of tea and he goes up to strangers and says, Hey, would you like to have a cup of tea and just chat for a minute?
Okay. This is nice. And they sit on a park bench. So he's just chatting with strangers. And his TikTok account is called mug of life. Okay. That's the great name. He just carries around tea and then he sits and has chats with people.
The one I watched. Can I ask you if you're in the inner city? We've been to New York, for example, and somebody walks up to you. You're sitting on a bench and someone just walks up with a kettle and goes, Hey, would you like a cup of tea and a chat? What are you going to say?
No, right? You can go, no, thanks. I'm good. That's what you're going to do. You're going to go, no, thanks. I'm good. No, thanks. No, thank you. I know I full on admit that I'm not going to sit and drink whatever you've made. Yeah. You're not going to do that.
To be fair, I've seen a couple of his videos now. I don't see any of them drinking tea. He does have a thermos, but whether or not they accept the tea.
See, that's even weirder. Like if you walked up with like a folding table and you had a tea set on there with a little hot kettle and you set that down and it looked like we were going to have some tea. Yeah.
That's one thing. Stranger walks up with a thermos. Hey, you want to have a chat and a sip of whatever I'm carrying in my hot thermos? I get it. No, no, I don't. I know.
All right. So now that we've got that out of the way, go ahead and tell me what happens in the actual video. Well, so both the videos I've seen of his, everybody is a little bit hesitant, right? They're like, uh, because nobody trusts anybody. And so then they're like, uh, is he filming this himself?
How's, how's the camera set up? Is it filmed by a stranger hiding in a bush? No, no, no, it's filmed by him. And then he sets the camera down once they sit on a bench and records their conversation.
So he records himself saying, Hey, can we have a chat and you can have a sip of whatever hot beverage I'm carrying around in my thermos? Strange. You're ruining this for me. It's fine. I'm just, no, I'm not. I just want to, I'm just trying to understand. I just want to think that this is what life is actually like instead of the alternative.
That's fine. Where nobody makes any connections with anybody. If you're sitting on a bench and somebody walks up and goes, Hey, would you like to have a chat? You're saying no things.
Oh, 100%. So it doesn't matter if you want this to be the world. You're going to prevent it. As our most sane people. I know.
Okay. So he's, he's got his camera. He says, I'm going to walk up to this person and see what's up. And he's walks up and he says, Hey, does he introduce himself? How's it go? He says, my name is so and so.
And I, I just like to have some tea with people. The gentleman, the first video I saw was an older gentleman who had just recently lost his Jack Russell dog. And he was still pretty broken up about it.
And he had just rescued a new Jack Russell from the shelter. Was he sniffling? Is this the, or you were sniffling about this one? We both were. He was crying too?
Yeah. Cause he just lost his dog. That's sad times. And so he was trying to like form a new relationship with this new dog, but they were struggling. And it was like, he doesn't understand me.
I don't understand him. I don't know what his life was prior to me adopting him. He came with a lot of baggage that he can't tell me about. But he's like, we're just trying to fill each other out.
And he's like, I miss my old dog, but I'm trying to love this new dog. And it was just a nice little chat on a private bench. It is nice. And it was heartwarming. Okay. And now you've ruined it.
No, I have not ruined anything. I'm glad you got to hear that story. You know, like that's nice. He was able. I wonder how many knows he gets every time he tries to go out and film. I'm sure to the, to the yes that he got the turned out to be a great story.
And I'm sure every time he gets a yes, it's a great story. And the, to be fair, I've seen, I saw two videos. And then I started a third and they were all older generations.
So I'm wondering if maybe the older generation, either they're more trustworthy or that, or there, maybe they are just looking for companionship. Where's he filming this? They all have an English accent.
So it's somewhere in England or Europe at least. Yeah. Okay.
So, because I think that makes a difference too. And not that people in other parts of the world aren't skeptical, but I think there's a lot of like, I don't feel safe talking to anybody. So I'm just going to stay in my own little bubble that goes on for a lot of American people. Yeah. I think, and especially in a large city, I think you're, you're in a different thing. Is he in a, in a, in a park like that? He's in a park setting. Public place. It's a park. Yeah. The man that he approached was walking and then he approached a woman who was already sitting on a bench.
I see. And then I also wonder if he has an easier time getting acceptance through other men. Like I wonder if men are more willing to sit down and have a chat as opposed to women.
If women are like, especially if they're alone. Okay. Yeah, I get that. And the man approaches them.
Are they like, ah, no, thank you. With a strange thermos. Right. No, no, no, no, thank you. I know. Right. It is interesting. It's an interesting concept and I, and I like the human element of it. I like the storytelling.
I think that's great. I've always felt like every single person is a book, right? Like everybody is a story. Everybody has their own, you know, twists and turns and character development and all that stuff. So it's fun to get to hear some of that from people. That's cool.
I know it's a nice, a nice little video and it was. Mug of life, you say he's called. Yeah, now you've blown it. I did not. I just know that you won't ever make it on that show.
No, I won't. It depends though. It depends on who I'm with. If I'm alone, absolutely I will say no.
But if I'm with someone and depending on who I'm with, if I'm with my friend Christina, well, absolutely say yes and sit down and have a chat because she. She would have called him over. She talked to everyone.
What are you talking about? She would have seen him walking by and been like, what's in the thermos bud? Can I have some? I'm kind of chilly.
Can I have some? Yeah, yeah. She'd be like cracking that thing open. Like, yeah, she's, she's a totally different kind of human.
You tell me about your life. Yeah, right. And then they'd be best friends for the next 30 years. Exactly. And then you'd be sitting there going like, I would never have asked to try something from that thermos. You're crazy.
And that is why you two are different. Yep. Yeah.
Would you rather this or that? Every single time I get ready for it and then I go, is it that time and it's not? And then I unready myself and then it's that time.
That's how it's been going for me yesterday and today. Would you rather have your costume fall apart mid-party? Oh, no.
Or have someone show up wearing the exact same thing? I'd rather have it fall apart. Me too.
Same. Like, I don't like that. Like, I don't like that. Like, oh no, the thing, like I hot glued buttons on and they're falling off or whatever. Like that's a bummer. It's going to deplete my costume, but at least I'm the only one. Exactly.
Yep. And at least you've made a statement when you've arrived and then people have seen it. And then it's slowly crumbled throughout the night. But I'm, here's, here's something funny. What if your costume that you have yet to unveil is that two person crab thing and you've just stuffed the other half with newspaper? What if it is, Josh? And then, what if it is? And then you're dragging around half of, half a thing, but then at the party, a couple shows up in the costume and you're like, they actually convinced each other to do it.
And I'm in a half crab with a, with a newspaper person. Well then guess who would never hear the end of it. Yeah, me. Exactly.
Cause I'd be like, oh, she got him to do it? Yeah. And he's having a miserable night. No, he's having the best time. Cause he's like, I really like this. And my wife is so fun.
And I love being with my fun wife. Oh man. I just think that would be hysterical. If that's how you're, like you did a couple's costume, but you couldn't get the other person to do it. So you built like mannequin version of it. You're like, fine, I'll find a way to make this happen. And then a couple shows up in it. And you're like, oh no. I think it's still funny. I think it makes it more funny.
If there's, you didn't have a couple person to do it. Oh, that's so funny. And then I'm thinking about like the, the boogaloo eyes were hot glued on and ones like falling down. And dangling. Right before the other couple walks in.
And then you've got, that's a, that's both the would you rather. That's the, someone showed up in the costume and yours is failing. And your solo couple's costume is falling apart. That's exactly right. That would be my life. That sounds about right. Right. Oh, that's fun. Anyway. Yeah.
I'm picking the falling apart thing. Cause I don't want to be, I don't want to have two people dress the same. That's always no fun. That's awkward.
Cause then you're comparing and you're like, oh, they did a better job at that than I did. Yep. That's a bummer. Yep. Yeah. For sure. All right.
Well, would you rather this or that? I just saw this Kelsey Grammer is 70 years old. Okay. And his wife, Kate Walsh is 46. That's a bit of an age difference.
Yes. They have welcomed their fourth child together. A son they've named Christopher. This is a Kelsey's eighth child overall. And he is now a dad at 70.
Let's go through his other children. Okay. All right.
Because this is their fourth together. Okay. James. So Christopher is a newborn. James is eight. Gabriel's 10. Faith is 12.
Previous children. Jude is 20. Mason's 23. Greer is 33. And Spencer is 41. So as old as child, Spencer, 41 years old.
Just barely five years younger than his wife. Yeah. That's, that's what I was trying to get at there. Yeah. It's very interesting.
I'm picking up what you're putting down. Yeah. Kate is his fourth wife. The couple married in 2011. And they revealed that she was pregnant in June. They have now had the baby. Christopher. It's boy. Okay.
And Kelsey Grammer is a dad. Again. At 70.
At 70 years old. Good luck, man. I mean. Good luck, man.
Is right. Here's what I know at 44. I like sleeping through the night. Yes. I like that I'm not changing any diapers. Fair. And I like that I don't have to chase the toddler around. And I like that I don't have to buckle anybody into their seat belt. Just yesterday, you said, as the dog was following you around going.
Muff, muff, muff. You looked at her and said, you're like a toddler. She is.
Our dog is like a toddler. I like that she burfs at you. I don't like it actually because it's a noise that I hear and I go, stop doing that.
Because I don't know what she wants. Right. And then you're like, do you need food? No. Do you need water? No. Do you need to go outside?
No. She just wants you to go somewhere different. I think she just gets lonely, honestly, because I follow her around and she takes me to the garage and I go, are we going outside? And she's like, no, I just kind of want to look around in the garage.
And I go, I don't want to look in the garage. Yesterday, she was burping at me. We call it burping because that's what it's every day she makes. And she took me to the kitchen, led me into the kitchen and then just looked at the coffee maker and I go, you have no need for that. I don't know what I do. I know it makes a noise sometimes.
Can you make it make a noise? Maybe she likes the smell. I don't know.
I don't know either. She had just eaten dinner. She had just had a treat. So I was like, I got nothing.
I'm going to go over here now because I don't want to stand in the kitchen and look at the appliances. She's three years old, three and a half now. Yeah. And I have to clean up her toys all the time. She has accidents on the floor that I have to clean up. She is, she is a toddler. Sometimes she wakes me up in the middle of the night because she heard a noise. The only thing about her that doesn't distinguish her from a toddler is I don't have to worry about wiping her bum.
Yeah, you could. And I don't have to buckle her into the car when we go on a trip. That is true.
But everything else, she's toddler. Yeah. So I couldn't do it. I can barely do it at 44 with a dog.
I don't, I like sleeping all night at 70. No, thank you. No. I know. Good, good for them. Yeah.
Good for them. I guess. How about we wrap up the show for the day? Okay. All right. Let's do it again tomorrow. Sounds good. Okay. Wednesday, we'll be back in the studio. We'll see you then. If you want to revisit any part of the show or listen to it all for the first time, you can. You can. It's available on demand as a podcast.
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