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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Monday, March 16th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Fresh off a spontaneous late-night Nine Inch Nails concert in Salt Lake City, we're talking bathroom line gender politics, the science of multitasking, why one person's salt-and-pepper technique has officially become a crime scene & Detective Stovepepper, our daughter is this close to her driver's license and finally warming up to the family hand-me-down car, Josh reveals he's making his stage debut as a dead man in an opera this April, we revisit the legendary worst first meals ever cooked for a partner, Blackstone season is officially OPEN, the spring equinox has arrived, a Boomer and a Zoomer are picking up a pay phone and making each other smile, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Restroom lines
(3:09) - Monday, not St. Patty's Day
(7:04) - Good News
(9:18) - Bike rides & BBQs
(13:29) - Multitasking
(17:32) - Sing loud, sing proud
(20:37) - Detective Stovepepper
(27:46) - Spontaneous concert
(32:17) - Emery's car
(37:56) - Opera rehearsal
(42:17) - First homemade meals
(49:50) - Emery loves steak
(56:17) - Would You Rather
(59:37) - Healthy road trip snacks
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Full show transcript:
Oh, good. Hi. Hey, how are you? Oh, hi.
How are you? Good. Okay. Okay. Good.
Okay. What is that voice? Oh, hi. Oh, hi. Oh, hi. Hey, good.
What's up? We, it's pretty standard when you go to a public setting. The women's line for the restroom is always insanely long. And the men can get in and get out. Typically, yes.
We were, there's only been two places that I've gone where I've gotten in and out and you've had to wait in line. One of them is at a fly fishing expo where there are more men per capita. Per capita? Let me tell you, in instances like this, I feel like they should convert a woman's restroom into a man's restroom. So there's more opportunity places for men to use a restroom. They don't do that for women. They should. When there's women functions.
They should when there's women functions. Supply and demand. I get it.
But also, I don't know what it is. I think men can go quicker than women can. We don't have to stand in front of the mirror and go far. Listen to me when I tell you that I'm an in and out kind of woman. I know I don't like to linger.
I don't like to hang out in the bathroom. I get in. I do my business. I get out. Right.
I get out. And then there are women that are like, I'm going to hang out here and talk and fluff my hair. Right. I got men to do that too. To be serious.
Yeah. But there are also men who don't even stop to wash their hands. You're disgusting filthy people. Stop it.
I know. So we were at the Fly Tining Expo last year. I'm going to be there this weekend. I'm sure it's going to be just like that. It's going to be lots of dudes. Lots of lines for bathrooms.
I know. I want to see if I can count all the women because I'm going to be there too. No. You want to see if you can count all the women? I'm here to count women. That's not weird at all.
Okay. And then on Friday night when we went to the concert, nine inch nails in Salt Lake City, heavily a male demographic. There were women, but it was 80% dudes. You think 80, 20?
What do you think? Maybe 70, 30? Maybe 70, 30. I'd say 70, 30. I mean there were a good amount of women for sure.
That's why I changed it to 70, 30. I'll tell you the proportion of people wearing black was way higher. Yes. 90 some odd percent dressed in black.
That's for sure. What do you wear to a rock show? Black. What do I own this black? Metal. Black. Yeah.
I don't like standing in line to go to the restroom and then go like, okay, well here we go. I know. I got in and out. Yeah. Awesome for me. Yeah.
Well, you know what else awesome for you? Today's show. Woo-dee-woo. Here we go. Hello. Hi.
Hi. So you had a little voice cracky there. No, I did that on purpose. I did yodel.
Like a hello. Oh, I see. Yeah. You know how it goes. Cool. What's up?
Nothing. Here we are. Back again.
Yep. Back again. Work. Yep. Back again.
Doing the stuff. That's right. Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day. Today is not St. Patrick's Day. Correct. And yet here I am wearing green.
Wow. It's one of my few colors. It really in my wardrobe that's integrated. Do you like green? You like green a lot. I don't have a lot of Kelly green. And when I think St. Patty's, I think Kelly green. Nice, bright, strong green.
Okay. I do have a lot of olive. Olive juice. Olive green. Isn't olive juice the thing that you like in the mouth at someone and they'd be like, oh, I love you too.
And you're like weird. I was talking about olive. Right. Weird. Yeah. Yeah.
Because that's a normal behavior to do to somebody. Well, we're gonna have to dress up for St. Patty's Day. Are we? Yeah, we're gonna have to do something fun. Remember a couple of years ago at home I did a shamrock shenanigans? Yes.
That was fun. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. I don't remember. I remember you doing it. I don't remember the individual things that happened. We did a there was a leprechaun that we had to pin something to.
Checks out. Pin this thing on the leprechaun. Beard.
Hat. Maybe it was the beard. I think it was Gold pot.
No, it was beard. And then we did some rainbow games. So far it sounds like real memorable. It was fun.
I didn't say it wasn't. You can remember pin the something on the something and rainbow games. It was like four years ago.
Shamrock shenanigans. That's why I called it. I remember. Oh man, I used to be fun.
I used to have really fun ideas before I was so tired all the time. Yeah. You know what wasn't happening four years ago? What?
You being on the show. I know. Now I have to wake up so early. I know. I'm just so tired.
So tired. Right. Right. Right.
Right. Well, hey, good morning. We're here. It is. Here's what's really going on.
What? Take a selfie. Celebrate a panda.
Celebrate a panda. Yep. Appreciate that you have lips, I guess. Uh-huh.
I do. It says it's National Lip Appreciation Day. I appreciate my lips. There you go.
Happy to have them. Curl Crush Day. I have no hair. You have straight hair.
Appreciate curls if you got them. And Freedom of Information Day. So it is a former president James Madison's birthday. And so as a day to recognize transparency in government today is Freedom of Information Day. And that is what's going on.
Okay. Tomorrow, the luck of the Irish. Today, all that. And Monday. Yeehaw. And it's Monday.
Hey, but we only have four shows this week. That's right. That's right. A day off was always so nice, isn't it? I know.
Yeah. That'll be Friday though. And we'll talk about that later. But good morning. Here's some good news. There's a pair of bright yellow pay phones that have popped up, one in Boston and one in Reno, Nevada. Random. But they talk to each other.
Okay. The one in Boston has popped up at Boston University and it is labeled Call a Boomer. And the phone in Reno is at a senior center and it is labeled Call a Zoomer.
Okay. And so it's these two pay phones that talk to each other to help bridge a generation gap and tackle loneliness in kind of a fun, spontaneous way. And total strangers are picking up the phone, just as people did in the 20th century, to trade life advice, just share a friendly chat. Julia Strauss, who lives at the senior center, said, I think it's fantastic. It's so fun. It is cute. And it's great to be able to connect people, not just of a different generation, but of different places geographically.
One of Julia's neighbors, Maryland, said, I haven't smiled so much in a long time. That's cute. Yeah. So I got these two pay phones that just call each other, Call a Boomer on one side, Call a Zoomer on the other side. And you just pick it up and it rings and you go, hello. You don't know who's on the other end. I was going to say, are they open 24 seven? It's literally a phone booth.
Okay. But what about if there's a college student who's up late one night and then calls the care center at like three in the morning? I bet there's a boomer waiting to answer. You think? Why not?
But if it wakes up everybody, they might turn off the ringer at night. I don't know. I don't work there. It's a valid concern, but I don't have that information. Okay.
They might take the phone off the hook. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. They let it go. Until it stops. And then they're like, cool, we'll hang it up in the morning.
Anyway, kind of a fun idea. And also good news. Yesterday was so nice after, you know, how many days, 17 days of wind, wind, wind. I think it was only like four days of wind, but I get what you're saying. It felt longer than that. Yeah.
So many power outages, so many trees uprooted. Yes. Insane. Trampolines this way and that. I had to pick up the chairs around the fire pit twice. I mean, I know.
What will we do? But yesterday was lovely. A little chilly.
We went for a bike ride. Yes. And it was a little bit chilly.
Yeah. But I got the bikes out, filled up the tires. We achieved a three mile bike ride, which was great. It felt a little like the beginnings of spring.
Well, you know what happens this weekend is the actual equinox, the spring equinox is this weekend. So yeah, we're there. We're there. We're there.
Yeah. We did some yard work. We went on a bike ride. You did some barbecuing later for dinner. That is correct.
Yep. It felt awesome. And there were other people cooking outside.
I smelled it as we were doing a bike ride. I went, oh man, it's happening. It is happening. Yeah. Not mad about it. It's happening guys. It's happening.
Yeah. Hopefully you got to enjoy a little bit of it yesterday. It looks like looking forward this week.
There's supposed to be some pretty good looking temps. Oh yeah. That's what that's what I saw earlier. Like by midweek, it was looking real good.
Yeah. And it's by tomorrow. 70 tomorrow. 74.
Get out of here. 79, 80 degrees Thursday, 78 on Friday. Are you kidding me? And then windy on Saturday. But still 70. We can't have Idaho without wind. Yeah, but I'm wearing shorts.
Like as of officially tomorrow, shorts weather. I'm surprised you already haven't been. Well, I have been a couple of times, but it's official. Bye bye pants. Normally you start wearing your shorts.
Your short game starts in February. Yeah. You've been known to do that. I work in an office, so I can wear shorts.
It's fine. Like I'm inside. Even if it's snowy, I could wear shorts.
Good. My legs would be cold. Only when you're outside.
No. Inside too. And no, it gets cold inside too. There's heat. You know? No, I get it, but it still gets a little chilly.
All right. Well, I'm excited for this. Warm weather. Yeah, this warm weather.
Me too. It's going to be weird because it's going to be like the 70s, 80s here for like a few days. And then it's going to drop right back down into the 60s, which is pretty normal. And we'll be in that for like the remainder of the month.
But just for a little small glimpse of what we've got to look forward to in the summer this week, we got a little bit of 70. Yes. I'll take it. Yeah, it's pretty nice. I was ready yesterday to plant some flowers.
Yeah, I know. We're walking around the yard. I'm like, no. It's too early. It's not many. I know. I get it. I do.
We still have frost coming. I get it. I made that mistake.
I had to deal with a lot of stuff because I made that mistake. I just, I got the itch. I got the warm weather itch.
I'm on a plant. Just enjoy it. Be slow with it. I know, but I like pretty flowers. I know.
I know you do. It's not May yet. And everything is dead. And now we're going to have to cover it up with sheets every night. I just don't want to deal.
And then you got to go, hey, will you go uncover that? Just be patient. I am. Things are coming back to life. We saw that.
A lot of the flower beds are coming back to life. I know. And the fern survived the winter.
The fern, our little fern. I think it's because it's right next to the dryer vent. Yeah.
So it's stayed nice and toasty warm. It's going to be great. That fern is going to be awesome this year. I know. So big thumbs up.
Big thumbs up to warm weather. You said to me over the weekend, you know, maybe I should stop trying to multitask. Yeah. You're having some problems. I was having all kinds of problems. You were spilling drinks. You were spilling ingredients. You were trying to make a smoothie and stuff was going all over. There was stuff happening. And then later on, I came upstairs and fridge is open.
Dishwashers open. There's a lot happening. You got a lot of things going on.
I try to maximize my time. Yeah. And so then it's like, oh, I've got to make this. Like I was trying to make a lunch for today. And I said, I can make a lunch.
But while I'm doing that, I'm going to, I'm going to heat some water because I want to have a cup of tea before bed. Right. Because that's smart.
It was not smart. I was like, a nice little cup of chamomile tea will put me right to sleep. And it did.
And then woke you up four times. Yeah. Yeah. Terrible idea. Tea before bed. Don't do it after 40. Don't do that. Why do you even try? I don't know. But you said your water's hot.
What's that for? And I said, oh, I forgot I did that. I said, well, I was going to pour it so that it could start steeping. And you didn't even have a mug out. Oh, I didn't have anything prepared. I went, okay.
Because I had too much going on in my brain. Check this out. What?
Settle down. Your brain cannot actually do two things at the same time. It's a myth. Even with weeks of practice, researchers found that the brain is just task switching really fast, which makes you more tired and prone to making mistakes.
Yeah, that's true. Our brains have to line up tasks in a specific order. Even a tiny distraction can cause the whole system to crash.
For sure. And this is why things like texting while driving remain so dangerous. No matter how much you practice, your brain simply is not built to run two tasks at once. It switches between them quickly, but it cannot run them simultaneously. You can only have one tab open at a time.
One. Okay, I'll work on that. As I knew yesterday, I mean over the whole weekend, I made all kinds of mistakes over the weekend because I was trying to do too much at once. Yeah, just settle down.
I am. Just do one. I learned my lesson. One task at a time. That's easy.
Multi-task? Nah. See, Manhattan's figured out a long time ago. They were like, you can't even multi-task. Like, no, no one can. The brain doesn't work that way.
But I can do this one thing for right now. And it's sitting sometimes. Sometimes it's just sitting in quiet. Yeah, you do that. True. True. Okay, well, that's good to know.
Science is backing us up. Yeah, it's just telling you straight up. You're not broken. You're just human. And your human brain can only do one thing. And if you try to do it too much, you're going to make all kinds of mistakes.
Believe me. But you had like five things trying to go at once. You had a lot happening. I know I did. I don't know why. Because I was trying to maximize my time. Did it, was it effective?
No. I walked in the room and went, there's too much going on in here. And then tried to help. And there were tasks that weren't even started. Like what? Hot water, nowhere to put it.
For one. You could have helped out. No, you literally told me not to. And I went, okay, I'll just leave then. Yeah, so I put it down and I left the room. There was too much chaos going on in there. I couldn't hang out. Why did I tell you to put it down and not help me?
Because you said, oh, I'm working on that. I'm not ready for that. And I went, all right, I'll put it down. Okay, sure thing.
Then you left. Yeah, good luck. Our daughter, Emery, has voice lessons. And I can't remember when I started to do this, but I've been doing it for quite a while. Whenever she gets out to go to the lesson, I say, sing loud, sing proud. She rolls her eyes and she looks at me like, you're so annoying, mom. I dropped her off on Saturday. She had a makeup lesson. So I dropped her off on Saturday morning. And I didn't say it because I was like, oh, she thinks it's annoying. I won't say it.
Okay. And it wasn't our typical day. It was just a makeup day. And so it didn't feel like the right routine. Yeah, okay. So I didn't say it. And she had the door open one foot out the door and she looked at me and I was like, what?
You have pavlovd our child. She didn't even say anything. She just looked at me and I go, I looked at her. And she looked at me and I go, sing loud, sing proud. And she goes, thank you. And she can't do her lesson without getting the send off.
You have, you have pavlonianed our child. I think she quite likes it. And the fact that she acts like she's annoyed with it. It's a nice encouraging message. Yeah, it is. Thank you. And her primes.
It doesn't. Fun, loud and proud. Don't rhyme. Well, I mean, I guess, but it's not like a poem or anything. I didn't say it was a poem. I just said it rhymed.
So sing loud, sing proud happens to be the name of an album from the Dropkick Murphy's. I did not know that. A thing that's been out for 25 years, by the way, came out in 2001. I'm trying to see if it's featured in any other places. Like, is it a movie?
Is it like, where's it said? And I got nothing for it. No, I didn't bring it from anywhere. I just said it one day. Well, you just said, is it from something? I don't know.
Oh, no. I just, one day I was just like, hey, sing loud, sing proud. Yeah. Sing your little heart out. Okay. And now it's become, she can't exit the vehicle until I say her her encouraging message.
Yeah. Here's your daily mantra. Go sing loud, sing proud. That's a good idea for everyone. Sing loud, sing proud to everyone.
It is true. Sing along to the radio in your car. No one can hear you except for you. Make your own kind of music. Sing your own special song. That is a song. Yes. By who?
Oh, someone. You don't know? Not on my head.
Mama Cass. Okay. I can't believe it. Oh, you believe it. Believe it. Hey, this is a message for everyone on this Monday morning.
Sing loud, sing proud. I want to ask you a question. And the question is, when you're cooking, how do you salt and pepper your things? Well, we have little bowls, I guess.
That's what they are. Small bowls that hold the salt and the pepper, and they sit on the stove, and then you just grab a pinch and you put it in what you're making. Okay. So you reach over, you pinch, and then you unpinch when you get to your... No, I sprinkle when I get to my dish. So you pinch, like pepper, and you bring it over to what you're making, and then you twist your fingers like that.
And it sprinkles down. Because the last couple of times you've cooked a meal, and I've gone to clean up, because that's the role we each play. The stove is riddled with salt and pepper.
It's almost like you just grabbed a handful and you're like, pya, right on top of the stove. No. I don't think the salt and pepper ever made it to the food. I think you pinched, and then you were like, oh, I can't pinch anymore and released it.
The second your hand left the bowl. No. That's what it looks like. You haven't watched me cook. No, but I've seen...
I'm super into it. I've seen the aftermath. But I'm certainly not emerald.
Bam! I'm not doing that. So, you know, I'm not... That's what the stove looks like. It looks like you're... And I'm also not salt-ban, like making it drip down my elbow with like a... What kind of hand is this? It's the salt-bay hand. It's like an emu hand. Like an emu? Like a dinosaur hand? And then you sprinkle it?
No, I'm not doing that either. I get a pinch of it and I go, and yeah, some of it might fall out on the way. But that's not... That's the stove's pepper. Also, if I ever wrote a book, the last name, stove pepper, is a very, very good name. Like a detective stove pepper? Detective stove pepper. That's very good. Detective stove pepper is... That's a fantastic name. Write that down.
That's a money-making idea. I'm not gonna write that down. Thank you for writing that down. Detective stove pepper.
Someone's gonna steal it from us because we didn't write it down. Okay, have you ever thought about grabbing the bowl in one hand and bringing it over to the pan and then... Absolutely not. No, you could never think about doing that. Why? It's right there.
It's very nearby. You just make such a mess with the salt and pepper that I'm trying to determine a better system for you. I know you took a picture of this. I did take a picture of this. What are you gonna do with this? Because I went, you've gotta be kidding me. Because this was the second time I was cleaning up after your mess and I went, I don't even know how. I don't know how all of the pepper got on the stove. That's not even that much.
Are you insane? That's so much. What did I made? What did I cook? What did I made? What had I made when that picture was taken? I don't remember.
Let's see. It was on March 15th, so it was yesterday. Was it just the eggs?
It must have just been the eggs. But this was the second... I took this picture because this was the second time that I'd been cleaning up after you and I went, pepper all over the stove again. And I went, I have got to take a picture of this. You've got to.
This is a memory worth keeping. Detective stove pepper. He'll help you figure out what happened. That's what's going to happen every time you go to cook. I'm like, oh, watch out. Detective stove pepper. Stove pepper's coming. Detective stove pepper. Hang on to your hats, everyone.
Yeah, it's a noir detective. The pepper's going to get loose. You don't do that with the salt.
It's just mostly the pepper. But honestly, Josh, explain that. Some fell out.
That's the explanation. Some didn't make it. Some. Do you understand how I think that it's like you picked up a handful and then you're like, pya. No, it's not a handful. A handful would be serious. It'd be a lot. That is serious.
No. That's just casualty. It hurts so much. It's more than a pinch.
That's more than a pinch of pepper. I got a phone number for you to call. What is it? It's detective stove pepper.
On the case. Maybe just try a little bit of a lighter hand or a firmer hand, I guess, maybe. When you're pinching, you got to pinch it until you get to your pan. I think it's quantity because I'm kind of picky about how much that I get.
And I don't want to overdo it, especially on an egg, because I'm not a big pepper on the egg guy. And you are. So I think I probably was like, ah, there we go.
And then I went, oh, she likes a lot. Here. Here. Stove.
Yeah, stove pepper. Everywhere. Right.
Let's sprinkle pepper everywhere. Maybe that's what you thought. Maybe you're like, it's confetti. Maybe. Let's have a pepper party.
Everybody's sneezing. Anyway, post the picture. Get some feedback.
I don't think I'm the only one who's supposed pepper. It's not a great photo. Well, or don't. I mean, I can.
It's just kind of a mess. Throw it up on the Instagram story. Okay. And get some feedback that way. Okay.
What kind of feedback am I going to get? I don't know. Just find out if I'm the only one who does it.
That's what I'd like to know. Other people have to spill the pepper too. I'm not the only one. I think there are people who spill the pepper, but the quantity of which pepper has been spilled. It's astronomical. No, it's normal. It's typical. I don't do that after I cook. I don't make that kind of a mess.
Maybe that wasn't even my mess. Did someone else cook? Nope. Just me?
I don't know. We've got to call somebody. Get somebody on the evidence train here. We're going to find out a little more information.
We have all the information you need. Josh cooked. Here's his aftermath. You make a mess when you're cooking.
Thanks for helping clean it up. Some might say that we're older or middle age, but I would like to say that we still have some spontaneity left in these old bones. Okay. Because we took a spontaneous night away. That's a fact. It is a fact. And it was rather fun. And we spent a lot of money. Well, let's be clear. It felt like it was going to be an opportunity that if we didn't decide to make the choice to go in that moment, that we were going to be perhaps regretting that we didn't do it.
Correct. So we decided that it would be more important in the moment to spend the money and take the trip last minute than it would be to sit in the, I wish we would have gone phase. And I don't regret it. Do you? No. No. No. No. Okay.
Good. It was a concert Friday night. We decided Friday that we were going to head to Salt Lake and we were going to buy tickets that were expensive and we're going to go to the show. And we've been looking at tickets for four weeks. Well, yeah. When it was announced, we started looking at it. And I said, ah, crazy.
I'm not paying that much. And then we found out that this could be the band's last tour. And then I was like, ah.
I know. I looked at tickets again, still expensive. And then we knew a bunch of people that were going and we were like, ah. So you were monitoring, making sure like prices were coming down. Correct.
They were not. And we finally just said, you know what, let's just do it. Let's just buy those really expensive tickets. Worth it. Worth it. It was worth it. Yeah, it was because we got to see the show.
And if it does end up being their last tour, we were there. Yeah. Yeah, we were. We didn't get any merch that says that we were there though. Does that mean we weren't there? Sometimes.
I don't know that that's how it works. Now we did have somewhere to be on Saturday morning. Like we had some activities. You had to be somewhere and we had to be somewhere. So it was like a quick, we have to go down.
We have to leave right after the show. We were driving. What time did we end up getting home? 2.45 in the morning? It was 2 in the morning. It was, it was way, way, way late.
Yeah. I did not enjoy that. I didn't either. Wake up for a morning show, decide to buy tickets and then go, okay, let's go. I mean, the show didn't even start until eight. Eight o'clock.
That's when the opening band took the stage was at 8 p.m. Yes. Who are we? We're so young and spontaneous. Yeah. That's who we are. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sure thing. Just saying, I should have probably, I would have pulled over. I would like to have taken a good couple hours of sleep. It probably would have been wise to do that. Because I tried very hard to stay, I was trying to stay awake very hard because I, if I fell asleep, then I knew you were going to fall asleep. And it was better if we were both awake so that we could both see.
Correct. What was going on? And we made it and it was fine, but man was I, I hit the pillow when we got home and I was immediately asleep. There was a couple of moments when I went. I know. Yeah, that was, that was a rough drive. That's a rough. Do not recommend.
Do not recommend. If you wake up early in the morning, trying to be up, what was that? I mean two in the morning was 21 some odd hours of awake time. It's too much.
It's way too much. Especially I'm getting sleepy thinking about it, especially for these old bones. The song. Young, young, spontaneous bones.
These aren't old. Fun though. Good show. Yeah.
Very, very good show. And you don't regret it. No. Not having the buyer's remorse because you were saying that you were having buyer's remorse. Now you feel good about it? Well yeah, because right after we bought them I was like, oh, the things we could have bought with that money, we shouldn't have done that. We shouldn't have done that. And we had an experience.
It was awesome. And no, I don't regret it. All right. We're in it. And we made it home safe. And we're so young and cool and spontaneous.
Look at us. Our daughter has a car that she's not fond of. She takes her driver's test next month and this car has just been sitting waiting for her to drive it.
That's right. Our son drove it through high school and then into a good part of his post high school. And then he saved up. He bought his own car, which has been great for him. And that one has been waiting for another driver. And here it is.
Here it is. She does not like it. She thinks it's old. She thinks it's ugly. Listen to me. This car is luxury.
I know. A little coupe. Leather interior. It's got wood trim, which is super cool.
She hates. It's got heated seats in the winter time. It's a fun little car. Much better than my first car that I drove. Much cooler.
Much nicer. Yeah. Sunroof. Yeah. Sunroof.
Yeah. So yesterday the weather was nice. You decided to put some air in the tires. Well, I needed to start it because it's been sitting in the driveway for a little while. And so I was imagining I was going to have to probably jump start the battery or recharge it or whatever.
But it started right up, which was great and didn't have any problems. And then I said, you know, we probably need to get some lunch. Let's get this thing ready. And we'll have her drive us to lunch in the car that, you know, she hasn't driven it until yesterday. And then when she found out that she was going to be driving, she went, oh, hold on, wait. And then went into her room and got the supplies she's been waiting to put in the car to make it her own. And then she started to kind of warm up to it. And she adjusted the seat and she got things kind of good to go.
And then, yeah, we went and had lunch. And then she was like, I kind of want to go get some things for the car. I want to get some, some like a little like first aid kit and a few different things that I want to have available. Some Kleenexes and hair scrunchies and different things that you put in the car when you might need them.
Right. So then she's like, now she's kind of really into the idea of I have my own vehicle through the car wash and vacuum dip. Made it all nice and shiny. Yeah. I think she's warming up to the idea of it. Yeah. And then she just wanted to keep driving.
Yeah. She's like, where else do we need to go? Where else can we go?
What do we need to go somewhere else? It was pretty good. She was pretty good. So we're getting close to having four drivers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm, listen, we've done an awful lot of chauffeuring for this particular girl over the last couple of years. True. I'm ready for her to drive herself.
True. Especially when it's at night and I'm home from work and I'm all in my pajamas and it's warm and cozy and I go, what? You need me to drive you where? Get out of here.
Get out of here. Drive yourself to school. Pick yourself up from school.
Take yourself to work. Yeah. Yeah, no, I get it. I get it. So, you know, we were going through that phase again, which is kind of fun because then we'll have a new errand runner. The big deal is that.
Go to the store and get this thing we don't have for food I'm cooking right now. Yeah. The big deal is that she was so anti that car and then once we got it looking a little bit sharper and a little bit cleaner, she was like, okay.
Yeah, because she's starting to see the independence of it. I kind of like this. Power windows. You don't have to roll them down. Crank handles. I mean, come on. My first car, the passenger door didn't even work. So if I wanted to take any kind of person with me, they had to get in the driver's side. That's always a cool thing.
It was so cool. Just crawl in. Or get in the back. Just crawling through my door. Hurry up.
Don't step on my seat. Busted off. My brake light was busted. I had that was terrible car.
Not as nice as Henry's car. No, but now, you know, now we move on. Now she's, when is it? It's like middle or the late part of next month. Are we like a month away?
I think we're about a month away. Oh man. I know. She's got a pass. She's got a pass. She's got a pass.
Do we know what's involved in the driving test portion? No, and I can't, I was trying to ask, it's been how many years? Five months. Oh, how many years since?
Since we've done this with Beck. Oh, several. So now I can't remember what you're supposed to do. I don't know. I know.
She's got to go take the written test and she's got to go take the driving test. Correct. But I don't remember.
I don't remember. And it changes all the time anyway. Yeah.
So even if you can't remember, they're like, what you've done before is totally different now. Yeah. We've got to get her online, take a practice test. Yeah, we do.
So that she can have good practice on that test. Yeah. She's got a pass. Right.
I'm tired of driving this girl around. Right. Right.
You had play practice. All right. Let's talk about this. It's, it's not a play.
It's an opera. Okay. To be fair.
My apologies. And I'm, I'm one of three different actors that are going to play a role in, in an opera that's coming up in April. So it's about a month away. And it should be a really good time. It should be a good time.
I'm excited for you. It's, it's Johnny Ski-Ki and Buoso's Ghost. And I play Buoso on April 11th on the performance. April 11th, I will be a dead man in an opera. And I'm pretty excited. This is your first time.
That's right. First, first time on stage, I have a minimal, minimal to do other than, you know, I'm not going to spoil anything, but there's some, some minimal, minimal acting that I do have to do, but I have no singing, thankfully, and no, no speaking lines. I just have a little bit of acting and a whole lot of being dead. So it's going to be really fun. But I got to meet the people that are involved in the production and I'm really excited about it. It was really cool to kind of be behind the scenes on that kind of stuff, because they're still working through a lot of the directing and some of the blocking pieces and still getting some of the, you know, songs and lines down and stuff. So that was really fun and neat.
But there are three different Buoso's, three different nights of the show. And I am on the 11th, April 11th. I'm excited. I'm excited to come watch you be a dead man.
Yeah. If you want to, if you want to see me in my stage debut, April 11th at the frontier performing arts center, that's where you're going to find me. I'm excited, Josh. I'm proud of you. Are you? I am.
It's going to be hilarious. Yeah. That's pretty fun. I'm excited about my costume. Oh, you didn't tell me anything about your costume. Yeah. Keep that a surprise. I don't want to know. Okay. Cause you told me some other stuff.
All right. And I know too much. You don't know too much. I want to be surprised.
Okay. Before I told you anything, I said, do you want me to tell you? I know you did. And you said, yes, I want to hear about it. So anyway, I'm excited. It'll be a lot of fun.
And April 11th. You have one more rehearsal. So you've only had two rehearsals. I did have a dress rehearsal.
I have this one, which was kind of an introduction and kind of going through some of the stuff. Then I have a dress rehearsal where it's just me, not the other two boos. So it's just me and address rehearsal. And then, um, and then the performance. Yeah. It's, I can say that I don't have lines to memorize or specific things. I just have to be specific places. So I'm sure I'll get director notes when I go to dress rehearsal because the other two will have had opportunities, I think to do dress rehearsal as well or somewhere around that.
So I'll get notes about like, Hey, we changed this or whatever from the last. So you didn't have to do like any blocking or anything either? Some, but not much.
Okay. Only because like I have specific positions that I need to be at at specific times. So I have cues and I blew it. The one cue I just totally missed. It wasn't even, I didn't even hear it. You have one cue and you have several, but that one I really missed. Anyway, looking forward to it.
It's going to be a lot of fun. It's the, what's the group? The Idaho Falls Opera Theater. Is that what it's called? Yes. Um, yeah. And, uh, it's going to be a lot of fun.
April 11th. If you want to see me on stage. Not singing. Not singing. Not acting.
And you're welcome. Small acting. No speaking. No singing.
Stage, just me there. Yeah. Yeah.
Kind of fun. It'll be cool. It will be cute.
It will. Keel. Keel. April 11th. I asked you this yesterday. What was the first meal you remember making me? Um, it's, it's an interesting question. And I'm trying to figure out, uh, what it might be because there was, I got, I grilled.
Did you, did I grill for you? Not in the early days. No. So you really think it's that noodle bowl thing? I'm 100%.
That's the earliest one I can remember. Cause it was in your basement apartment. Okay. And you said, I gotta make you this meal that my mom used to make that I loved. And when you were describing it to me, I went, uh, okay.
Listen, I want to say. Cause it had a, it was, it was noodles. Egg noodles, right? Well, they know, cause when you say egg noodle, you think about like the egg noodles you use in a casserole and it's not that they're long noodles. Okay. They were like a linguine or a, or a, you know, a fettuccine style noodle. Okay. There it's, it's probably a fettuccine. Okay. Which is not the right noodle for an Asian dish. There's a hard boiled egg or two.
Okay. And then there's like, uh, it's supposed to be a specific pork, like the pork you would use in like pork and seeds. You know what I mean? Mm hmm. So, and then you slice that up. Yeah.
Or break it up, whatever and be in there. So it sounds like. And that's it. Ramen. No, because ramen. Wrong noodle. It was a different noodle and is also heavily broth based and this is not broth based. This was like noodles.
An egg and then you would put some soy sauce on it. It's not the greatest thing ever. It was, yeah.
It's pretty bland. You made it for me. That was one of the very first meals I remember you ever making for me. And I went, oh, I think what, what happened is somewhere along the way that dish, uh, became like, uh, like a depression version of ramen. Which didn't need a depression version.
So that's what I really think it was. I'm looking right here and I'm, and I'm like, there's one that uses egg noodles, but you can use ramen, udon, instant noodles, egg noodles, you can use, uh, you know, whatever. I feel like you used egg noodles when you made it for me. No. I guarantee not. That's not even no way.
There's no way. That's not even the right noodle. And then you soft boil eggs so that they have a creamy yolk, not a firm yolk. And then, uh, you do the sliced, diced leftover ham steak.
You cook that up a little bit. You put that in there and then you use soy sauce. And then you would normally, in this recipe, you would add garlic, ginger, sesame oil, a little bit of sugar in there, maybe. So you actually had some sort of broth that it was in and then you would have more of a ramen. Do you remember what the first meal I made for you was?
Probably their chicken roll-ups or burger bundles. No, I remember. Cause those were, those were later. The first meal in my apartment that I made for you was spaghetti, but I, I like to put red pepper flakes. Yeah.
Probably red pepper bomb the sauce. I did. And you were like, this is really hot.
Yeah. And it was fine for me, but even as I was eating it, I was like, this is a lot. I've, I've done a lot. I over-red pepper flaked this and you were being very nice. And you were like, no, it's good.
It's, it's really good. You got any more of that water? You can really use some water. Do you have any milk? We get an ice cream after this. It's hot. And look at us. We both stuck around after. Yeah. Terrible first meals.
I don't, that's a weird noodle bowl thing. Yes, it was. Yes, it was.
I'm glad that you agree. I really, uh, I'm trying to find it. You're stuck on it. Because I'm trying to find out where it came from. It had to have come from somewhere in like the 1960s. I feel like that's a 1960s domesticated ramen recipe. It was not good. It was not good ramen. Well, I haven't made it since then.
Thankfully. Because it wasn't ramen. You can't even call it that. No, it was, it was not good.
I'm sorry to tell you. It's without broth. And you made a batch of it. There was so much of it. And we just threw it away because it was so bad. I hadn't learned about pasta serving sizes.
So a box, then you can have more. Of gross. It wasn't gross. It was just bland. It was gross. And I had the wrong ham. You had the wrong ham.
The whole thing was bad. And I went, I don't know why I stuck around. You got better. I'm glad I stuck around because your cooking is much better now. Because I think what happens is as you evolve and grow and try new foods and, and then I got really, really, really heavily into cooking. I learned how to season. Yeah.
That's important. I made steak and you didn't ask for a sauce last night. You ate the steak without sauce. I don't need it.
Okay. I've come from egg noodle bowl. To or noodle egg bowl. We'll call it to noodle. Noodle egg ham. To to steak. You didn't even need sauce for.
No, so good. You've come a long way. It's a big improvement. It is a major improvement. I'm glad I stuck around.
Yeah. I'm glad I didn't let that first meal determine. And your spaghetti doesn't have red pepper flakes in it anymore.
No, I just put it in my own. You learned I liked lasagna, but I was a Stofers lasagna kid. I'd grown up on the throat in the oven lasagna, but it was good for me.
I liked it. And then you said, no, no, no, let me make you lasagna. And then I went, all right, now I've had lasagna. I like lasagna. Yeah, I do remember making that for you. That was that's how I real gin, isn't it?
I said, I'm not going to get it. I'm going to make it lasagna. And now I'm on a healthy diet adventure. No, lasagna. Too much lasagna. Lasagna is not on the menu. I felt like Garfield. Too much lasagna.
That's not even a thing. Anyway, I'm going to make that noodle bowl again. I'm going to get the real recipe and make it. Just see if I can hear what about this? What about this? What if I take all of what it was supposed to be and make it actually good? No, just don't. Let's just leave that in the past. Let's just leave it back in the past. We don't need to recreate.
We don't. Let's just leave it. It's got ham in it. You made steak last night, which is Emory's favorite food that you make. You got the steaks out to defrost and you had two. I had two sirloins and two rib eyes. OK. And you said the rib eyes are for the kids.
The sirloins are for us. Yes. And then you cooked them.
Yes. And the rib eyes were what did they say about? They were about 16 ounces. They were.
We had eight ounce sirloins and were they 16? I think so. I think so. 16 ounce rib eyes.
Yeah. Good, decent steaks. They were they were nice steaks. They were delicious. And so yeah, I seasoned them up, did a little marinade thing, cooked them on the black stone, made some asparagus to go with them, had a nice salad. It was a great dinner. Very balanced, nice, protein heavy meal.
Yeah. And I listen, we're not necessarily steak people. We don't eat steak a lot. One, because it's meat for me.
Right. And two, I don't know why you don't eat steak that much. I don't know. It's just steak. OK. Chicken's easier. I don't know.
It makes our daughter sad because she really loves steak. Yeah. Really loves it. A lot. And there are people in our lives who go, Emery, we'll make you a steak. We'll like, we'll get you a steak.
Right. I feel bad for you that you never get steak. Come to my house, we'll get you a good steak.
Right. So you said I have steak. I'm in a grill of the steak. Yeah. Well, I bought asparagus specifically to use to go with the steak.
So I needed to use it before it goes bad. That's really the driving force. Asparagus drove the ship. She ate her entire 16 ounce rib eye minus the fat part she cut off. And then Beck couldn't eat all of his.
He said he wasn't that hungry. That's right. So she finished off.
That's right. Beck's 16 ounce sirloin. She loves steak. Mind you, she's a tiny human being. She loves steak. She does love steak.
She ate every last crumb of steak. You left for a minute. You came back in and you said, she finished both of those steaks. I said, she sure did.
Yeah, I was blown away. She's a steak champ. She did say if she could be in a steak eating competition, she would do it. Yeah, she said if there's a place that has a steak eating challenge, I would probably beat it. And she did eat it quick. She put some steak away. So good for her.
I'm glad she has a thing she likes. At least it's inexpensive. I know. And easy to cook. Yeah.
Something you can just throw in the microwave. No, but it was fun. I got the blackstone fired up and all ready to go for the season. So it's in good shape. I'm excited to have that because now that means I can cook all the time. I like cooking on the blackstone a lot.
Well, here's the thing, because you've set a precedence for Mother's Day. Oh, is it crepes now forever? Yep.
Yep, it is. I blame that on my friend, Javi, who introduced me to these crepes that I can make pretty easily and they're pretty good. And I like making a savory one with peppers and little square hams, the same kind I would use for a noodle dish you like. And so I'll put all that in there, some cheese and stuff.
They're very good. And then also make sweet ones, which is where my cookie butter addiction comes into play. Nutella for me, please. Yeah, I know.
Nutella, a little powdered sugar, some berries. Yeah. When is Mother's Day?
Months away. Well, that's what you have to do from now on. I have to make crepes. Mother's Day breakfast. Crepes for me, please.
OK. They're good. They're really good.
They are really good. Good job getting the blackstone out. I'm excited about it. Yeah. That just means summer's coming. I know. I was cooking outside in the evening.
It was nice. Smash burgers. Smash burgers. Lots of new recipes I want to try. I've been saving through the winter.
Plus, I got the pizza oven to get out and try again. That's not my favorite. No, it's OK. It's just you make better stuff.
Then the pizza oven. It's OK. I'm not trying to burst your bubble.
It's fine. You just make better stuff. I got to get better at the pizzas, the problem.
Well, I'll keep. I got to make smashed tacos. I want to make burrito.
I want to do all that stuff. Yes. I know.
I know. It's blackstone season at our house. That's what it is.
I love it. Also, apparently, Emery has someone who she watches who uses a blackstone. I know. Because she wanted to ask me a million questions about how I take care of mine.
I know what I'm like. This lady, she scrubs it down every time. She re-seasons it every time. And I went, she's doing too much. You were giving her instructions on the blackstone.
She wanted to learn how to make steak. I was curious. I said, did dad just teach you randomly or did you want to know? And she goes, no, I asked. I wanted to know.
Yeah, she was like, can you you got to teach me how to make steak? Well, it's this is it. You mix up this stuff. You're getting that's a lot of butter. Because that's what makes the steak nice.
And then you put it all together and you put it on there and you sear the outside and then you slower cook the inside and off you go. She had her coat on outside there watching. Yeah, she was out there.
I was standing next to the blackstone. So I was nice and warm, but she was trying to watch from the deck and just talk to me because I don't think she had shoes on. So I don't think she wanted to get down on the grass. Anyway. Yeah, no, she's she's now learning how to make steak, too, which is important because she can't be waiting around for us. That's right. She's like, I'll make my own steak.
They never cook me steak. I'm I'll make my own. Yeah. And she'll be fine.
She'll do well. Say, would you rather this or that? Operator operator operator. Would you rather this or that? Would you rather drink sour milk or brush your teeth with the dish soap? It's so gross.
I think drinking the sour milk can actually affect your health. So I'm going to dish soap. You don't think the dish soap is going to affect your health? No, I'm going to spit it out. I'm going to swallow it. If I drink something, I mean, I'm ingesting it. I'm not drinking that milk. But you're not drinking that milk. You're going to swallow a little bit of the soap. I'm not going to swallow any of the soap. As much as you try hard not to.
I don't swallow toothpaste every day. There's a little bit that's going to get in. No way. It's going to be bubbles forever. It's going to take a while to rinse out, but it's not going to make my insides curdle. How much sour milk? Any is too much. I shall not touch the lips.
I'm going to I am inclined to go to the sour milk. You're disgusting. Because I think that's better than the dish soap dish soap. That's hard to say.
Dish soap. Is it? How much sour milk am I drinking?
I don't know. Give me an amount. A half a cup?
A cup? Do you know the story of US President Zachary Taylor? No. You don't? No. Do you want to? Sure.
He died on July 9th, 1850. From? From. After consuming large amounts of milk, cold water, and raw fruit, specifically cherries, on a hot 4th of July, led to severe gastrointestinal distress. There are some theories that say his combination of milk and acidic fruit curdled and gave him gastroenternitis, which curdled the milk in his belly.
I'm not drinking sour milk. Go back in time. How long ago? 1859? 1850. Okay.
We've made tremendous progress in our pasteurization and our medical. And I'm not going to be sitting outside in hot weather drinking it. It's not going to curdle in my stomach. No.
You didn't specify that. It's going to be a hot July day and you're drinking sour milk. How much of it? Any is too much.
Shall not touch the lips. I said. I know you said it. If I'm drinking just a swig, fine. I'll do it. I'd rather that than dish soap. No way. I shall not touch the lips.
It shall not touch the lips. Did you know that story about Zachary Taylor? Yes, I did. I just didn't know the dates. How do you know that?
It's a thing I know. I don't know. Weird. Yours. The weirdest. What? Surprised you didn't. Okay.
I think I'm going to go with sour milk. On a hot July day. No. You're so gross. Why is it hot to be hot? Because that's the worst time to consume that awful milk. Ugh.
Hey, you know what? I've been enjoying this new healthy road we're taking. It's actually not been terrible.
No, it hasn't. I was frustrated this morning because I expected to step on the scale and see a different number, but I didn't. And so I was discouraged. I'm not giving up though. I am just a little bit discouraged.
Okay. I think- You expected to see a different number and you saw the same number. You expected to see a different number and it wasn't the number you thought.
I was expecting a lower number, but it was the same number. Uh-huh. I think it's- I blame it on the laughy taffy I had. Yeah, I didn't have that. I didn't. I didn't have the Friday Laffy Taffy.
But let's talk about your Laffy Taffy because here's the deal. And you said you're not going to count it. I did. And I had two oatmeal raising cookies and I didn't count them. I counted mine.
No, why? I held myself accountable. They were midnight snacks, literally. We were driving back from the concert in Utah.
We stopped to grab a treat because that's a road trip thing. And it's difficult. Yes, it is. It's hard to find something that is going to be good, but also be healthy. Yeah. Something that's going to satisfy your cravings, but also not tank your entire program.
Progress, yeah, right. And so the grandma's oatmeal raising cookies were not it, but boy, were they good. I got a Laffy Taffy. Yeah, it would never be Laffy Taffy for me.
It would never be grandma's oatmeal raising cookies. Prior to that, on the way out of town, we stopped as well and said, we got to get some. We got to get a little snacky.
Really tried hard, got like a jerky stick, which is good protein. Right. And then popcorners, those chips are good. Those chips are good.
Then we had the problem of got chips on Friday afternoon, finished chips yesterday because we can't have them around. No, we can't. Those can't be there. They're too good. I couldn't stay out of my popcorners. And so I said, I got to just finish this bag so I can be down. I got to just eat the whole bag.
I blame it on the popcorners and the Laffy Taffy. Those were my two setbacks. Ugh. Ugh.
Every was eating a Kit Kat yesterday. And I said, where'd you get that? I kind of attacked her a little bit. Where'd you find that? Settle down. And she said from my room. And she goes, do you want some? I said, no. Get it out of here. Yes, I do.
But no. It's hard being healthy. It is hard being healthy. I just want to eat the good, delicious food. All that sugary sweetness.
Yeah. Have a donut. Yum.
Yum. But no. I did say no.
There were donuts in the office on Friday. And I said no. Thank you. Good job. Thank you.
So why am I at the same measurement? Oh, man. It's fine. I'm discouraged, but I'm not giving up. Here I go. All right.
That's going to do it for the show. Have a great rest of your Monday. We'll be back tomorrow.
Woo-hoo. See you then. Goodbye.
Happy Monday. All right. See you. Tomorrow, wear green. Don't forget. That's right. Or else you're going to get pinched. You're going to get pinched. See you tomorrow.
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