Wake Up Classy 97 - January 6, 2025

Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh & Chantel from Monday, January 6th, 2025 / Chantel thinks she could talk about beans for at least 10 minutes, it’s a new pants kind of day for both of us, we shared a bacon, our daughter likes the oldies and she’s becoming quite the cook, someone won the Fantasy Football league and it wasn’t either of us, Chantel gives gentle nudges, there’s a really big afghan in our basement, we played some VR this weekend, and maybe we should vacation to jail.

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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Monday, January 6, 2025

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Chantel thinks she could talk about beans for at least 10 minutes, it’s a new pants kind of day for both of us, we shared a bacon, our daughter likes the oldies and she’s becoming quite the cook, someone won the Fantasy Football league and it wasn’t either of us, Chantel gives gentle nudges, there’s a really big afghan in our basement, we played some VR this weekend, and maybe we should vacation to jail.

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This is wake up classy 97, the podcast, and it's a replay of today's full show in about an hour. It's Monday, January 6th. The big Monday. On today's show, I think I could talk about beans for at least 10 minutes. Alright.

Let's find out. Ready? Go. I like kidney beans, but only in taco soup. Black beans are my favorite when I'm just thinking about having a bean.

When are you thinking about having a bean? I'm over the bean taco already. It's a new pants kinda day for both of us. New pants. New pants.

I'm trying to decide if I like mine or not. They're nice pants. We shared a bacon. A singular bacon. One bacon.

Our daughter likes the oldies, and she's becoming quite the cook. Isn't that something? I like it. Mhmm. Someone won the Fantasy Football League, and it wasn't either of us.

No. I took 4th. I took 2nd. Rude. So playing football with you this season has been a rude experience.

Would you do it again? Maybe. Depends on if do it again. I don't know. We'll see.

We got a long time to think about about it. I give gentle nudges. I beg to differ. It's only gentle. I beg to differ.

You can differ all you want, but that's you're just living in an alternate reality. I beg to differ. There's a really big Afghan in our basement. Yeah. But, apparently, you can't unfold it because the edges are bananas.

I don't know what that means. We played some virtual reality this weekend. Yeah. Now we're back in actual reality. Hooray.

I don't like it. I don't like actual reality. And maybe we should vacation to jail. I don't know. We'll see.

No. Listen. No. It's a 20 year anniversary. You might like to go to jail.

No. I would not like to go to jail. Pass. Thank you for listening to our show. We hope you'll subscribe wherever you're listening and rate the show.

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Like, you wanted to be able to hear in your headphones or something. Like, you were like, come on. Well, we have a routine every morning where I hand you the headphones and you plug them in, and sometimes you forget mine. I'll forgive you this morning because you had a lot going on. I did.

I was sneezing my head off, and then it was just it was a mess. So, anyway yeah. You're plugged in. You can hear. Good morning.

It's Monday. Good. The big Monday. Good morning. The big Monday.

That's it it's not just any Monday. It's the big Monday. Yeah. We've had 2 weeks of weird schedules and holidays and all that for the past Couple months. For the past yeah.

For a while, it's been a weird schedule. And now you're at the point of the calendar where you say, what's next? Me or everyone? You. I am?

Yeah. Why am I at the point of the calendar? Because you you get you get to this part of the of the year and go, what do we have to look forward to? What's next? What's on the horizon?

It's already in the stores. Well, I know Valentine's Day, and that's a big deal in our house. No. No. That's what I'm saying.

Like, what is there? Spring? Spring. Yeah. Like, we're just now in the drudge of winter.

Yep. And the drudge of winter lasts forever. Sometimes it seems. Yeah. It it took a while to get here.

We had a beautiful October. Not a bad November. Not a bad December. White Christmas. It's it's been I mean, we were outside this weekend.

It was only 30 degrees. I know. So it was I've not a lot to complain about. No. For sure.

And now we're in January for real. For real. The for real part of the year where, now we just have to see what's gonna happen. Now you I'm looking at the weather, and I'm telling you there are some single digit overnight lows on the way as we get, like, further into the middle of the month. Okay.

But I'm seeing highs in the twenties thirties all the way to February. Are you kidding? No. Weird weather. Yeah.

Like, around January 20th, we take a dip where we might see, like, a high teens for the high. I mean, we built The twenties thirties. It was snowing pretty heavily on Saturday. We went outside and built a snow person. Yeah.

A snow person. Well, I don't know if it's a man or a woman. Well I'm not gonna assume. Okay. So it's a snow person.

And it was kind of melting as we were putting it together because it was pretty warm. Yeah. Well, it was And then it melted from heavy wet snow. So now it's leaning. Yeah.

I like his lean. His lean is important. He's kinda like, hey. Yeah. Hey.

Hey. It's a bean day. Bean day? Yep. That tiny powerhouse of protein and flavor, the bean.

I like that line. What a powerhouse. The tiny powerhouse of protein and flavor. They're not wrong. I like a good bean.

Green bean, a black bean, a refried bean. What's your bean? How you bean? Not how do you bean, how you bean. How my bean?

Yeah. Not how my bean. How I'm How I've How I've been how I've been bean. Bean. How you bean?

My dog, green? Yeah. That's how that goes. Likes to roam? Yeah.

Here's here's the thing. You know that Joey thing? How you doing? Oh, yeah? They're gonna change it.

To how you bean? How you bean? How you bean? Fine. It doesn't have the same ring.

It doesn't have the same ring. It's also way in there. Wait. Wait. You didn't let me answer what my favorite bean was.

Oh, I it was I was not really serious, but go on. I'm gonna tell you. Go on. Tell me what's your favorite bean. I like the black bean.

You do? Yeah. If we're at a place where they go, what beans are you having? Yeah. I'll pick the black beans every time.

Okay. It's way in day. Beans are also good. It's way in day. Those are in chili.

It's way in day, and you don't like chili. I do like chili. Just not big meat chili. Yeah. You like big bean chili.

Yeah. We're not talking about way in day. Don't even. It's time. No.

Move along. It's the big Monday. No. Yes. Move along.

Move along. Yeah. We're not talking about weigh in day. Weigh in. Mm-mm.

Weigh in. Nope. Keep going. Oh, I'm not I'm not going on. I'd rather talk about beans for a day for 10 minutes.

You think you could talk about beans for 10 minutes? Yeah. I probably could. I probably could. Fascinating.

When you get ready at 5 in the morning Mhmm. I I don't know. We're always running a little bit late because we try to, Maximize the amount of sleep you get in the morning. That's that's the, that's the hard part. So we try and lay out our clothes the night before, but we don't really know how it's gonna look until you put it on.

So look okay? I got I got this shirt. That I sewed a button on by this. It's a nice shirt. I like this shirt.

It's been missing a button for a while, and I could've sewn the button on myself, but I just didn't. And you did it this weekend, so I got to wear this shirt today. Great. And then I got new blue jeans. I also have new jeans.

Yeah. And I And Christmas shoes. I'm wearing my Christmas shoes. Feel like a dope. Why?

Because I don't like these jeans, but everybody says they look cool. They're kind of the new thing that kids are wearing. They're the little baggier. Let's get a good look at you. You did.

No. I wander over here. Let me see. Let's take a let's take a look in the daylight. Time out.

These jeans are called boyfriend jeans. Boyfriend jeans? Are there any jeans that when you're shopping as a dude No. They aren't like girlfriend Girlfriend jeans? No.

They don't have yeah. I'm looking at them. I'm seeing them. Yeah. That's a thing.

Yeah. I know it's a thing. Hip and trendy. I know. I'm trying to be super hip and trendy.

Nailing it. I look like a dope. No. You don't. And then I don't know what shoes to wear with them.

My shoes I had on this first pair looked silly. There's a whole bunch of people that are talking about, like, look. I I was skeptical. This is literally. I was skeptical about the boyfriend jeans, but I tried some on exactly the ones you're wearing Uh-huh.

From exactly where you got them Uh-huh. And said and love them. Somebody said they were just a little bit too big in the waist, but I'd like to get a a different size. But other than that, they love them. I don't love them.

But from my 15 year old, stylish teenager Sure. She said they look cute, and this is what people are wearing. So I guess I have to I feel like a dope. I miss my skinny jeans. That's the big change.

The big change is you're going from skinny jeans. A change. Yeah. Yes. Right.

Into the boyfriend. And I might agree. It's my shoe choice. But your your shoe choice is important today because it's kinda slippery and you wore boots, and that's important. But I totally agree with you.

I'm seeing them with a sneaker, which you've got some killer sneaker sneakers. There's even a woman here wearing shoes you have. I have those shoes. The Pilgrim shoes. I know.

That I knew you were looking at the same picture. There's even, some baby dolls right there a couple of pictures away. Those look good too. So I'm into it. I think you're gonna get there.

I do think the loafer is a better shoe than your boot. Okay. I agree. Sneaker. I I think or that flat, that little, baby Alto flat.

I yeah. I get it. But how can you wear those when you think you're gonna slip and die? Well, you can't. Not that's not a winter shoe.

No. I don't wanna slip and die. So good with the pants. Also, the, the sweater look is is with the with the button up underneath is coming back. Did you see that in some of those pictures?

Yeah. I did. I have a million of those. With the button up under the sweater? Yeah.

That's I didn't know that was back, but that's with the boyfriend, Jean, a good look. So, you know, you're getting there. You're on you're on the path. I'm on the path to cool. You got the jeans.

Now you just need the rest of the fit as the kids say. Do I look like You look cool. Do I look like I'm trying too hard to look Let let's go look at you. Come out here in the daylight. No.

Stop. Stop it. Why can't I get a good look at you? Because you're doing it weird. What are you doing?

I just want you to wander over to where I can see you. I can't see you over there. I know. It's okay. It's alright.

Oh, let's get a good look at you. Stop saying that. I'm I'm really confused about the story, but I'm gonna read it to you, and then we're gonna sort it all out. Are you ready? Okay.

There's a house cat that survived 40 2 days on an island and doesn't even look like it left home. K. I'm confused by all that. The cat's name now it it's spelled t s a r. That's tsar.

Right? Sure. Tsar? Tsar? Tsar?

K. He disappeared from his owners during a family photoshoot on Governors Island in New York back in October. They said, let's get the family together and go take photos. Bring the cat. And Tazar, the family, while attending the annual pumpkin point festival, when he disappeared under bales of hay.

Oh, no. Yeah. You know, as cats do. The family searched for them. They couldn't find it, and they they had to catch the ferry to leave the island.

Yeah. So they, heartbrokeningly, got on the boat, to leave the island, which has no full time residence. Oh, god. And they went back. Now Governors Island overnight caretaker Tristan Mariner, cool name, finally caught the cat after 42 days and says that the cat had apparently been living under a heated porta potty.

The cat came back the very next day. Well, 42 days. They thought it was a gunner. A heated porta potty. That's where he's hanging out under.

It's warm. That is warm. Stinky, but out of the weather and warm. The caretaker said he must have been eating good somehow, but he was certainly relieved to have a handful of sardines when I saw him. Gross.

You know how cats are with sardines. I don't, actually. Crazy about them. Are they? Crazy about them.

So he lived on an island for 42 days. He's now back with the family. All is good. He's, he's doing his thing back home. Probably eating more sardines.

Doubt it, but, what a treat. Good job, Toyo sardines. Gross. Way to way to do what cats do and and survive. Yeah.

SAR. SAR. SAR. Aw, SAR. Anyway, it's good news to get you going.

One of my favorite parts about the weekend is when we can wake up and just lazily enjoy some breakfast. Yeah. So you and I were awake pretty early on Saturday, and you were like, I'm gonna make you and I some breakfast. The kids are still sleeping. Let's see you and I eat some breakfast.

You look in the fridge. What'd you see? Well, I didn't see much. I saw plenty of eggs. Yeah.

But then I found, no breakfast meats, and I found no Bread. Bread. Yeah. There was no bread. And I thought maybe we had some we usually buy 2 loaves at once and then freeze 1.

Mhmm. And so and then there's been times where you've been like, oh, I need to grab bread, but we already have, like, 1 in the freezer, so we end up with 3 in the freezer. Right. Anyway, I I went and checked the deep freezer, the garage fridge, and the kitchen fridge for, bread. No no bread in no bread to be had.

We had no bread. Our kids That's not true. I did find, one loaf of that Dave's Killer Bread you like. I do love that. And so I ended up grabbing that.

And when I took it out of the freezer, it kinda snagged on one of the hooks, and the plastic ripped a little bit. And I brought it in, and you thought maybe there was a mouse that had gotten at it? Listen. Like, we had a freezer mouse? I've got it.

It was in the freezer. We had a freezer mouse getting at the bread. Hey. Listen. Our go to meal for the kids when they're hungry to make is eggs and bacon.

Okay. That's not our go to. That's our kids' go. That's what I said. You you said our go to for the kids when they're hungry.

Oh, no. Sorry. The kids will only make one meal. And they know how to make a lot of stuff. They they absolutely know how to cook, but they know it's easy and it takes a few minutes and that they're gonna like it, and they'll eat it any time of day.

And it's a couple of slices of bacon, a fried egg, and some toast. Yeah. And they'll make that any time of day, and that is why I was specifically out of breakfast Everything. Bread. And I had probably a dozen eggs, maybe.

So you made? I I made, Dave's Killer Bread that you hate. Which was fine. I still ate the piece. I was fine with it.

That's my favorite. Fried us an egg each. And then, we there was one piece of bacon left in the package because whoever made it last decided to leave one strip of bacon in the package. And so I made the one bacon, and we shared the one bacon. Aw.

You and me nice. Half bacons and, fried egg and a piece of toast. That was nice, Josh. You could have not even told me there was just one piece of bacon. You could have made that piece of bacon for yourself.

You would have smelled it cooking. I was kind of occupied in something else, so I might not even have noticed. You would have noticed. You would have been like, was there no bacon for me? And then say, there was no bacon at all.

And you'd go, uh-uh. I smell bacon. And I go, I don't know what you're smelling. And then you'd go, smell let me smell your breath. Smells like bacon.

You'd be a bacon cop, I can tell you. Alright. I So no matter what, though, we split that one piece of bacon, and we had a little breakfast, and it was it was fine. Thanks for sharing your bacon with me. That was nice.

There is no my bacon or your bacon. It's our bacon. You were entitled to half of that bacon as much as I was. So that's it. That's true.

That's what happened. We did our, we did our tiny breakfast shared bacon. And our one little half bacon. It was kind of just a little, what, 2 inch maybe? 2 inch bacon.

One bite. It was one bite. Yeah. I did I did put it on the plate and say, now don't go eating that all in one spot. I did.

I ate it all in one sitting. Yeah. I know. It was good. You're half bacon?

I wish there was there had been more of it. Well, then we went to the store later, and we got more, but we didn't make more. You're right. Because I made a different breakfast yesterday. Huevos rancheros.

Which were very good. Delicious. Yeah. When I have supplies, I can make all kinds of things, but I didn't have supplies. Weekend breakfast.

It's my favorite. It's my favorite. I love breakfast on the weekend. Oh, no. Do you?

Yeah. It's my favorite. In case you haven't heard. I've heard all of that. Favorite.

I like making breakfast on the weekend. Big thing or just one little piece of bacon, I'll still be happy to eat it. Well, alright. Did you bring any bacon for this morning? I didn't.

Well, now we're out of bacon. Bad. Rats. Emory was cooking the other day, and she had some music on. And I go it was kind of old.

Like, it sounded older. And I first second thought maybe it was like a new band that she was listening to that had an old sound. And I said, Emery, did you pick this song to listen to? And she goes, yeah. And I go, oh, it's really cool.

I looked them up. The band was called Daughters of Eve. They were formed in 1965. That is correct. Then right after that song came a song from the Beach Boys.

And I said, Emery, did you pick this song too? And she goes, yeah. And I go, I walked into the kitchen as the Beach Boys song was ending, and then it went into something else. And I can't remember, but she was on this, like, big eclectic Yeah. What you might call oldies playlist, and it was really interesting to hear.

Beatles in there. And she's singing along, and she's dancing to it as she's cooking. And she's, like, in the zone, And I was like, this is the definition of old soul right here. She's having an old soul moment, really jamming to some oldies in the kitchen. Surprised me.

And, oh, yeah, there was some carpenters. She really loved the carpenters. There were some mamas and papas in there. She goes, old music hits hard. Yeah.

That's that's teen speak for is good. Old music hits hard. Goes hard. She said, it goes hard. It goes hard.

Yeah. Alright. I was impressed. And then I said, how did you find out about this music? And she said, oh, there's some, like she was, like, no music.

But then people are dancing, doing dances to these old songs on TikTok. So maybe because there was one she did do the dance to, and I was like, oh, I've seen that. And so but when when we said, oh, did you see you know, do you hear that in, you know, shorts or TikTok or whatever? And she said, no. I just I I know music.

I know music. I know music. I know music. Which is she's not wrong because we've tried to teach our kids full of music. Music.

What I love is it's funny to see your kids sometimes grow into their own little people. This is true. It's fun. Because we are you and I listen to we're both a little eclectic. We like a little bit of everything.

All over. Yeah. And then you your kids just listen to what you listen to as an as a parent because they're kinda forced to if you're riding in the car or whatever. But our son has he listens to hard rock, something that we don't listen to or something that we don't introduce him to. Our daughter listens to old stuff, which we have a tendency to do sometimes.

It's just cool to see what their tastes are. They are indeed their own people. They are. And then they show it off sometimes. You get to see it and go, that's that's a you thing.

That is uniquely you, and that's cool. It was just cute. She's in the kitchen singing and dancing along to the mamas and the papas. The thing. It was great.

It was awesome. Yeah. It was it was way good. And, and good music choices. She wasn't, like, making weird ones.

We weren't going like, what is this? We were going, good choice. I know. They were the carpenters. I don't care for the carpenters.

She cannot listen to them. I think we all know about that. Nobody knows about that. I do. I know all about that, and now everyone else does.

You're not a big carpenters fan. I'm not. I sure am not. RIP. Who?

Karen Carpenter. Just just the one? Are they all out? I don't know. I don't follow them.

Well, you should look it up. Do some Carpenters research. You might find out you really like them. I know. I've I've heard enough carpenters to know.

And then people will say, you don't like the carpenters? What about their Christmas albums? And I'll say, especially their Christmas albums. Man. I know.

It's Really? Hard words for a Monday. Wow. Big words on a big Monday from Chantel. Personal preference.

Yeah. I get it. Doesn't mean you can't listen to them. Right? Hot take.

Hot take. Emery has enjoyed cooking. She wants to do more of it. So she's been Yeah. She's been making dinner.

All in during snake dinners, which fantastic. Not mad about it. I I enjoy cooking as well, but I also kind of enjoy just eating. I always enjoy just eating, and I'm happy to clean up afterward. I don't mind doing that part.

And I'm happy to just sit there and watch you clean up. My one complaint for Emery Cooking is that she doesn't have it down yet, and she's new at cooking dinners. She doesn't have it down yet. Like, while your chicken is cooking Right. You can start your rice.

Correct. And so she'll finish the rice, and then she'll work on the chicken. Right. So by the time you eat, your rice is cold. Again, I'm not gonna complain because she's doing great job, and I'm happy that she's willing and wanting to do this.

Like a chicken shawarma the other day. She did. Which was awesome. It was delicious. Turmeric rice.

It was so good. And then she goes, I'm sorry. I stay in the counter. And I'm like, I don't care. Yeah.

You turmeric does that. Do you make dinner? Yes. I'm happy. If somebody's cooking for me, I'm happy as a clam.

Yeah. No. Good stuff. But it takes a long time. It does.

I mean It takes a minute. It's going to take to make dinner, it's gonna take at least 30 minutes. You you can count on that. Typically. Yeah.

But if you if you're multitasking. Now I'm kind of I I kinda need to walk her through, the way I do mine, and that might help her a little bit Because I'm I'm an over prepper first. Like, I make sure everything's out. You do that. I get all my produce cut.

I do all of that first so that all my prep work's done, and then I just cook like a mad dash. And she I think she's taken on little pieces of both of us when she's cooking because she does a little of that, not to the extent that you do. Yeah. But she does what I do when I cook, and she opens the dishwasher and she loads the dishwasher as she's done with dish dishes and things. See, I prefer to have, like, a dish bowl and a food scrap bowl as I'm cooking.

And that way I I feel like I have an easier cleanup. But if I'm working on a dish and I don't have, you know, like a teaspoon I use, I need it later on in the recipe. If I've already put it in the dishwasher, then I gotta go find it over there. And so I'm I don't like to do I don't like to necessarily full on cleanup as I go. I like to keep a tidy workspace.

I like to clean up at the end. You like me to clean up at the end? I'd like to try to keep it organized for cleanup at the end. Never clean up at the end. I like to keep it organized for cleanup at the end rather than clean up as I'm working.

Clean up as I'm working doesn't work for me. Clean up at the end works great. Clean up as I'm working is my favorite. I like that. I don't mind doing that.

And she's taken on that part of my cooking. I feel like I would use twice as many dishes if I cleaned up as I went. No. Yeah. As soon as you know you're done with the thing, you've put it away.

I don't ever put anything away and go, oh, I need that again. I don't wanna say I'd never do that. Because if you put away a a spatula or something and then you need a spatula, you've either gotta go get it and rinse it off Yeah. But that's rare. Get out another spatula.

The times that that happens is rare. That that doesn't happen very often. Like it would happen to me all the time. Then don't put it away until you're totally done with it. What I that's what I do.

I put it in the pile of utensils in the bowl. Somebody else will clean this up. Until the end. Clean up at the end. Not as I go.

Nuh-uh. See? I see. I see what you're saying. But yeah.

No. She does need a little bit of tweaking on the multitasking of cooking multiple things on the stove at once. Because you can throw things in the oven to roast the same time you're cooking the meat, the same time you're baking the rice with the broth. Whatever. Practice and time and comfortability.

You bet. And, again, I'm never going to complain about it. Because you don't have to cook. Because if somebody is cooking and happily volunteering to do the cooking Right. I'm like, have at it.

If it takes you 3 hours, I will wait. And then she's so funny because she she I I always jump in and I go, do you need any help? Can I help in any way? No. I got it.

Yeah. She just wants to be left alone with her music and go to town. Same. I'm gonna go I'm gonna good with that. That's fine.

Yeah. I'll I like I've got my little corner set up. I got my stuff. She she's doing the setup the same. Just needs to work on the the timing of the process.

She'll get there. It's good. What's she what's she making tonight? I don't know. I don't know either.

She's But I bet it's gonna be delicious. It will be delicious. She's pretty good at cooking. Yeah. That's I I'm excited for it.

Whatever it is. Well, well, well. You just said out loud a moment ago, there was some bad football this weekend. There was some bad football. Listen.

We would be remiss. Good word. Right? That's a good word. If we didn't talk about some football.

Yeah. There was some football that happened this weekend, some big football things. There were teams that were booted out of the playoffs. Yeah. Well, let's let's start with what happened Saturday because Saturday was the AFC North day.

Browns versus Ravens, Bengals versus Steelers. All 4 of those games, all 4 of those teams in the same conference, and all 4 of those currently on the Hard Knock Show. Yes. It's gonna be a good episode. It is gonna be a good episode.

And I really like the Ravens. You do. And the Ravens, pulled off the victory over the Browns, which was good. And the Bengals did in fact beat the Steelers, which was awesome to see. However, the Bengals have been eliminated from the playoffs because the Kansas City Chiefs would rather lose by 38 points, 38 to nothing to the Broncos than to play the Bengals playoffs.

It's such a shame because Joe Burrow is one of the top quarterbacks. Joe Burrow, Ja'Marr Chase, Chase Brown. They're all They're doing credible. So good. So good.

Triple Crown? Does I know. Ja'Marr Chase have the Triple Crown, which I don't necessarily even know what that means, but whatever. That was some good football. They should still be playing football.

Absolutely should. That's unfortunate. Big game last night. Yes. Vikings, Lions game.

Yeah. Did not go as you had planned. No. Lions, have won the division. They There's no got the hats and t shirts.

Would rather lose to. They fought hard this season. They've played really well this season. I really enjoy watching the Lions play, and they quite frankly earned it. I mean, they played hard, and they played good.

Played good. They played good. They played good. They played well. They but the the Vikings lost 31 to 9.

I know. So the Vikings had a really hard time. I know. But we're still in the playoffs. You, at one point yesterday said, I got my sleeve wet on my hoodie.

I have to wear it or else the Vikings will lose, and then you are wearing the hoodie. And as the game went on, you said, they're losing because I'm wearing my hoodie. I'm very confused about how your superstitions work. Well, I don't know how my superstitions work either, and so that's why I gotta figure it out. I think the the last couple of times I've worn my Vikings hoodie, they've lost.

So I think I I shouldn't wear it. Gotcha. I think it's bad luck if I wear it. Well, the Vikings are still in the playoffs. They are.

So they do have a chance to They do against the Rams. That is correct. That'll be the Monday night game, on 13th, so a week from tonight. The more important thing is our fantasy team. I forgot that they were gonna bench Saquon, and so I didn't trade him out, and he earned me 0 points.

Yeah. I I had my quarterback make 4 points and then take the bench. So, listen, here's here's the deal. We've been talking a lot about fantasy football. The fantasy football season ended last night.

You did not win. I did not win, and it was because I didn't take that. You're blaming it on that? Well, it's because of that and also because Jefferson and Aaron Jones and my Vikings had a rough game. Right.

So I was I was actually even if Saquon didn't play, I was actually in the lead, and then the Vikings didn't do so great. So I also did not win the fantasy football league. I took 4th. You got 4th? I took 4th.

Last deep place. I got last place. Oh, Josh. I started out really rough. I spent a long time rebuilding my team.

Couple of days. Come in 4th. Out of 4 out of 4, by the way. I know. Four people, the Tielor household, 4 people in the league, I lost.

Our son, Beck, he took 3rd. You took second, and our daughter took the championship. The Emery won. Emery won the fantasy football. Care about it.

She cared enough. She was constantly asking for help and input on her roster to make sure she was making the right choices. She cared. Oh. She didn't she she cared more about that than she did about, playing board games last night.

So, she did care way more about that, about football than that. But, anyway, she was sad to see, the Dolphins lose. She was not excited about that. That's her team. And, and that's that's that.

And then Tyreek Hill is talking about leaving. She's not in love with that. Dolphins in a rough game. Yep. Rough season.

Oh, man. Rough season for the Dolphins. And now we have, no more fantasy. No more fantasy football. We now have the football playoffs to look forward to.

They're it's wild card round, this weekend, so there's football this weekend. And then we're we'll just be whittling these down. But, you were kind of excited to know that, like, now it gets real. Like, football's fun up until this point. Now the playoffs are here.

Everybody has a zero zero record. Everybody's on equal playing ground here. And if you, if you lose, you're out. That's it. You get one more game.

You're guaranteed one more game if you're in the playoffs, and that's it. It's fine. We can do this. So good luck to everybody who's still alive in the in the playoffs. Well, I've got I've got the Vikings are still in there and so are the Ravens.

So I'm good. You got somebody to cheer on? Yeah. This week? It would be really cool with I don't know.

It's cool. I've I've been enjoying this process. Alright. It's kinda fun. Do you think we'll play fantasy football again?

Are you going to allow me to play fantasy football again? You said I probably should be banned from playing. Say that. You did because you said that I take it too seriously and that it my feelings get hurt. I think maybe I take it too seriously.

I don't know if Who? The raccoon? No. Don't know if I should play it again. It was a little bit of turmoil playing fantasy.

I don't know I don't know if we should play again. I've I've yeah. I think your team should be called the raccoons. I'll tell you that much if you do play again because you're a raccoon. I was trying to think of a play on football and raccoons, but I can't think of any Will you work on that?

I will. You have a whole season. I don't know freaking play again. Off season. It was too much.

It was too much. My emotions can't take that. We'll play again. So I was at the post office the other day, and there were 2 doors. This is not the post office that I typically go to, but there were 2 doors.

1 was, I assume, an exit, but they could have been used interchangeably. One of them, the entrance, had Your your assumed entrance? Assumed entrance had a push entryway. The out the exit door had a, from the outside, a pull. I see.

So you're saying, you would be going into the post office, so you would push Push the door. And then, you would do whatever you need. And then when you were done, you would essentially push your way out Yes. As well. Okay.

That makes sense to me. Okay. I'm in I'm good with that. Okay. So in order for me to go into the post, I would've had to push the door in toward Into the post office.

Okay. There was a line of people, including a man who was standing right in front of the push door. So if you push the door, you're gonna bump into it. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

So I sat there for a minute going, maybe I'll just wait politely. And then if it moves while I'm waiting here if the line moves while I'm waiting here, then I'll have enough space where I can push the door. Yeah. And I stood there thinking maybe he'll turn around and see that I'm standing here, and he'll kind of shuffle out of the way a little bit so I could also come in. But there really wasn't any way for me to stand in that line anyway inside the post office.

So I'm waiting outside, and I'm waiting and I'm waiting and I'm wait I wasn't outside. It was inside. I say outside. I'm you walk in, and there's, like, where the post office boxes are. Right?

No. I know. Okay. I I know what you're saying. Okay.

I'm following along. There's multiple doors when you go into a post office. Why you think that I was standing outside in the cold. I understand. You're inside the main doors, and then there is a a set of doors that they can lock that are where the people that work at the post office are.

I think we're all on the same page. We're following. Okay. You just keep backtracking and going in loops. Just move forward with your push door.

Okay. So I waited, waited, waited. And I went, I don't wanna push this gentleman, but I also I also need to get in to get envelopes because while I'm waiting there You could do your thing. Could have addressed them and been ready to go. So got you.

Anxiously just waiting, waiting. He doesn't look back. The line doesn't move. And so I finally just go, I gotta go get my envelopes. And so I I go, is this the polite thing to do where I just kind of, like You went in the outdoor?

No. No. No. I went in the indoor, but I pushed You did. Gently so that he could kind of feel it a little bit on his back.

Wow. I didn't shove it. I would have gone to the pole door and because it's right next to it and just gone in that way and then grab my stuff. Oh, I didn't do that. Well, that's what I would have done.

But you assumed it was an exit, so you didn't wanna go through it. Correct. But there wasn't anything there was no, like, stanchions. There was nothing Mm-mm. Saying this is blocked off.

You can only exit through this door. No. There wasn't any of that. So you could have gone through could have gone through that exit door. But instead, you chose to nudge the man with the push door.

Well, because it was clear that that was the entrance door. I'm I'm not I'm not being critical. I understand. I'm trying to understand. Didn't want him to think that I was trying to cut the line.

By going through the exit. Exactly. Okay. So I very just kinda pushed the door open, and I kinda nudged him in the back a little bit. And then I said, I'm sorry.

Excuse me. I just need to come get some envelopes. And then he kindly moved out of the way. Well, good. I grabbed my envelopes.

No altercation. Right. But I you go back out, or did you just get in line behind him? I stood in line behind him for a minute, and I addressed while I was standing there and got my things in order. But then I had to leave.

Like, I couldn't wait anymore. Many people were in front of him? 6. That's a decent amount of people. Yeah.

And I didn't wanna wait that long, and so I left. I exited the entrance door. Do you think that if you would've waited for the line to move one person so that you could move in to where that push door was, you still would have had time to get envelopes and address them before you got to the counter? Yes. Okay.

Yeah. So nudge unnecessary. Do you think But I also Then if you were standing there and somebody came in and nudged you with the door, how would you have reacted? I would have said, oh, I'm sorry. I should have been I should have had more spatial awareness.

Okay. But if you hadn't nudged, if you hadn't done door nudge and you were the person standing there and and somebody door nudged you, that would be your reaction? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Okay. But, also, I didn't wanna stand outside the door. I felt like a dork standing there outside the door, like I understand. Waiting in line. Yeah.

Well, that's what waiting in line is. It's a bunch of standing around. But I also don't know what the polite thing to do is. Yeah. I know.

I get you. So I thought what I did was the polite thing To sort of bump it. Gentle nudge and said, I'm sorry. Excuse me. Yeah.

No. I understand where you were at. I get it. But I would have gone through the out. Wow.

If there was no clear separation between those two doors, I would have gone through that one and just said, I was gonna grab some envelopes real quick. Sorry. Pardon me. Pardon me. I didn't do that.

I did a I did a gentle nudge. Yeah. Gentle nudge works. It worked. As a guy who snores, and gets gentle nudged, was it really that gentle, or did you give him a good shot?

It's a valid question. It's always a gentle nudged. Gentle nudged in the night. It's a little more than gentle. It's never more.

This is not a resolution, but this is a goal that I am trying to do this year. Mhmm. I have a lot of unfinished projects. You were cleaning out your craft room and said you found a bunch of unfinished projects. Some you said, I'm never gonna get around to this, so never mind about this project.

Yeah. I just That's a big deal. It is a big deal. Some of them are halfway finished. Some of them, I haven't even started at all.

K. So one project that I found was something I started oh, god. I wanna say maybe 4 years ago. There is I bet longer than that. It's probably better than that.

You're talking about the weather Afghan? Yeah. Yeah. That's way longer than 4 years ago because 4 years ago it was 2021 4 years ago. Oh, okay.

You're right. You did that a long time ago. That's a 10 year old project. Holy moly. That's ridiculous, isn't it?

Okay. So that this Afghan is something I started a long time ago, and it was, your mom actually was the one that I got the idea from. Right. You start the days what is it? It's 30 days of the day.

Chain, a crocheted chain, and it's it's the high temperature of the day. And there are certain colors based on the temperature of the day. Correct. And this thing had to be so determine that. Right?

The colors or, like, you just pick the It's predetermined. I mean, you could if you wanted to, but the one I saw had the colors laid out for you. And it got to be so big that I It's huge. Stopped doing it. I think I got to June, and I was like, I can't keep doing this.

This thing is massive. Yeah. It's And I tucked it away. It's a giant, giant Unfinished. We were playing with it yesterday because you you had it out, and you were, I don't know, tying up some ends on it or something.

I don't know what you were doing, but you we held it up. It's huge. It's huge. Did you make it so big? You tell me, Josh.

Well You tell me. Mean, you were the one with the crochet hook, not me. This is your fault. This is your fault. This thing is huge.

I got it half way to where I thought it should be. I got it to the end point. Yeah. Crochet crocheted my chain, and then I said, yeah. I think that's probably as as wide as I want it to be.

And you said, no. We want it to fit on our bed. That's not a queen sized bed. On a on the bed? And I said, no.

I want it. Like, this is the size I want it. He said, no. Make it longer. And I huge.

Did. It's huge. I should not have listened to you. Because the not only is the length long because you have one every day, 365 days. I didn't even get that far.

But you made me go so wide with it. It's big and heavy. It's massive. Yeah. And here's the other part.

When I crochet, I don't count, and so my ends are wonky. Real bad. They're real bad. Why don't you count? I don't know.

Because it's so wide. You probably lost count. Probably lost count. And I would put it away for a while and then bring it back and not remember what I had counted. I should just throw it away, but I've spent I've spent so much time and money on that thing.

How many, how many How many skeins? Skeens of yarn? I couldn't even tell you. I bet there's only, like, 3. No.

No. No. No. No. No.

There's way more than 3. I was at the store constantly buying new sneakers. You make it so wide? Bro, I should not have listened to you. That's why.

Anything about crochet. I know. Either do I, apparently, because my ends are all bananas. Didn't count. You knew you were supposed to count.

You didn't count. Now you have bananas for ends or whatever you just said. Bananas for ends. You said you said your ends are bananas? Oh, stop.

Stop it. Stop it. Why'd you put bananas on there? Stop. I didn't see any bananas.

We were folding that thing up like a tarp. You're gonna just buy all into that joke, are you? What are you talking about? Let that joke die, dude. Like the afghads.

Wow. The afghad needs to die. No way. It's folded up. It looks nice.

Yeah. Don't look at the ends. Because they're bananas. It looks fine if it's folded up. Just don't unfold it.

Or you'll see the bananas. One can use it. Why? Because it's awful. It's not awful.

Does it work? Is it a is it it's huge. It might keep you warm. It if you woulda kept going, it could have been one of those, you could have, like, crocheted in, like, a neck hole, and it could've been one of those, like, couch afghans where the whole couch is covered by your Yeah. With your head poking out.

I could I could still keep going. Like a couch dress out of the Afghan. You could. You could keep going. It's already a bunch of different colors.

Just grab what you got. I know. That's what I'm saying. Wild. Go hog wild.

Yeah. I could. I could just keep that baby going. Go bananas. Stop it.

We dabbled in a little virtual reality over the weekend. Yeah. So, Victor over here on K Bear, just down the hall, is borrowing us, one of his old VR headsets. And so we were playing with this, got it working and set up and everything, and we're playing with this, on the PlayStation over the weekend. And, we were playing this Astro Bot game Yeah.

Which, by the way, was not the one we're playing, but that game, concept was game of the year this year. So same kinda characters, and you can see how the game's amazing. That game is amazing. Really pretty and and well well made. But the virtual reality version that we're playing is called, like, Rescue or something like that.

And, it is a ton of fun, for 1, but, like, you can watch outside. You can watch on the TV, while someone's inside the virtual reality and kind of see what they're seeing. Not exactly the same. You don't get that three-dimensional feeling. But you put it on, and you gotta get a little used to it.

It's a little bit disorienting, kinda makes you nauseous for a minute. Motion sickness. But then you immediately were like, this is so cool because you are in the world. Think about playing Mario. Imagine in 1989 telling yourself that you could be inside the video game with all of the action happening around you.

It's so amazing. It is really incredible. And we played there was a different game we played too where you have to be the person wearing the VR headset is a cat. Yeah. And there's people outside with controllers that are the mice.

Right. So we took turns doing that. It was really difficult to figure out that you can't just use your hands. You have to use your head. Right.

In this in this particular game, yeah, you're physically moving your head. Fascinating. I was amazed by the whole thing. Yeah. And this is not even the most up to date one.

This that's correct. This is this is the first version of the PlayStation virtual reality that they made the VR, and they have PSVR 2 now, which is better. Insane. Yeah. I bet it's insane.

I bet so too. I bet it's really incredible. So, anyway, it's a ton of fun. If you've never been in inside the VR headset, you gotta give it a shot. It's a it's a cool place.

But it it is disorienting and a little bit motion sick. I did find myself, like, trying to find things around the room at at certain points. I was like, okay. I've I've gotta find the remote for the volume, and I've got the headset on, and I didn't think like, oh, take the headset off, dummy. I just felt around until I found what I was looking for.

At one point, I was trying to lean over, and then I found the couch cushion with my head, and I went, that's the wrong way. Alright. Yeah. You're in a you're in a headset. Take it off if you need to find something in the room.

But it was good. It was a good time. Yeah. I had a great time doing that. I did have to take a break, though, because I went Yeah.

Oh. Yeah. There's a couple of I gotta get out of here. Yeah. And which is probably good for you anyway to take a break.

It's probably smart. Those they had these huge mushrooms at the end of that one. I mean, they look real. I know. You could reach out and touch them.

Wild. There is a whole bunch of like, and and there are parts of the game, like, you activate with the controller, and you put the controller into machines, and it adds different things to your controller. It's wild. And then you had to slingshot your guy from your control. That was incredible.

Cool. It was a really, really cool thing. Yeah. If you've never played it, you gotta check it out. It's it's really cool.

VR is it's it's the way of the future. No virtual reality. Who would have thought? 2025. Here we are.

VR gaming. It's been around for a long time. Yeah. It's been around for a long time. But it was cool.

It was cool. I liked it. Is that what's happening tonight then? Is that what you're saying? Like, more VR?

No. There's other things to be done. I can't live in a virtual reality forever, Josh. I gotta be in real reality. Alright.

Oh, Monday, the big Monday, and time for would you rather this or that? Would you rather this or that be able to instantly master any musical instrument, but you can never play it for other people. Well, that's, fine. You can only keep it to yourself. It for myself.

Or to be able to have perfect rhythm and dance perfectly and beautifully, but you can only dance in the rain. Oh, what? So I can either be an incredible musician, but I can only play for myself Yes. Or I can be an incredible dancer, but only dance in the rain. Yeah.

Mhmm. I'm I'm taking the musical instrument. But you can never play for anybody. Doesn't matter to me. I'll be very good by myself, and I will know that.

And I can tell you that I'm very good. And no one would ever believe you. But I but you you but I don't play for other people. Sure. Mhmm.

Like, why? And I'll be like, because I can't. Mhmm. Sure. You're good.

Yeah. Sure. Now you didn't say I couldn't record myself and play that for other people. You said I couldn't play live. You couldn't play you can't play music for others.

Okay. That means live and recorded. I play music for others right now. It's my job playing music for others. I think I'm gonna go with the music one too.

But you can't play it for other people. That's fine. I'm just giving you what you gave me. I know what you're doing. That's fine because I know I'll be able to play it.

That's fine. I don't sound like that. I don't sound like that. I'm not a BG. Oh, yeah?

You're one of the Gibbs? I don't sound like that. Sometimes there's musicians, and I'm not saying this about the Bee Gees, so slow your roll. But sometimes there are musicians who can play music that maybe shouldn't play for other people. Oh, who are you talking about?

Not the Bee Gees. I like the Bee Gees. How dare you? I didn't say what I said. It was not the Bee Gees.

I specified. Would you rather this or that? Our big 20 year wedding anniversary is coming up in July. It is. And we've been talking about maybe doing a little vacation thing and really celebrating.

You and I didn't really do a honeymoon, so this kinda stems from We were poor. Yeah. I mean, we we were just 20 something year old with a with a little apartment, little one bedroom apartment. Like, we were just trying to make it to the next ramen. So, there there's, you know, an idea that we've got maybe 20 years into this thing.

Maybe we should do something a little bit more extravagant. 20 years into this thing? Do you feel like you're committed after 20 years? I feel like kinda. Yeah.

Okay. And so we've been looking around. I've been I've been researching lots of different places to go and stay and different things. I just found something, I want you to look up. Okay.

Bodmin, b o d m I n b o d m I n m I n. K. Jail Josh. Yeah. I don't go to jail.

Bodminjail Hotel. Hotel.com. It's in the UK. It is. It's in England.

And let me give you a little bit of details about this. It's an 18th century jail Oh, okay. In Bodman, England. It has been transformed into an incredibly luxury hotel. I'm looking at it.

So each room has 3 original gel cells that they've turned into one room. They've done incredibly lavish furnishings. The they still have bars on the windows, which is kinda fun. It's got narrow hallways, motion controlled lighting. It's it's a beautiful looking place.

Yeah. It is. Really, really cool. I mean, you drive in past the old penitentiary walls, and, and then the hotel is just it's really, really cool. They've really done a great job of making it look pretty.

It doesn't look like a jail. It does not. All the stone is definitely 18th century jail. So it still has a little bit of that, but you don't feel like you're in a jail even though you're staying in a jail. Yeah.

Isn't that cool? Let's go there. I mean Let's go there. That's first of all, we'd have to get to the UK, and then wherever Bodman is and then check-in to the jail hotel. But it's really cool, like, really super neat.

They have they have family cells that you can stay in. I looked at the family cell. It looks like it has a sofa bed in addition to the, like, king bed. Oh, gotcha. So you're all real close in there because it's, again, it's jail cells.

It's not big. It's in Cornwall. Bodmin, Cornwall. Cool. I don't know where that is.

I have no idea. I don't know the geography of of England. But That looks cool. But really cool. It's about 300 something dollars a night, which is not as expensive as some of the other places that we're look.

I get it. It's still it's no, it's it's no little tiki hut on the water. I get it. Bora Bora. It is not Bora Bora, but it is something different and really kinda fun and cool, and it looks amazing.

The food that they have looks incredible. I was looking at some of the different area around and, like, you're you're steps away from, the ocean, which I think is kind of neat. So, that's kinda I mean, it's cold England ocean. It's not like you're gonna go out swimming in the beach or anything. But But but really kinda cool.

Good idea, Josh. Go go let's go to jail Okay. For our 20th. Yeah. If it's that pretty.

Yeah. You thought I was gonna take you to real jail? No. No. Anyway Let's go up.

It's an option. It's an option. It is. Keep it on the list. Alright.

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