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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Thursday, April 16th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Josh and Chantel are back today with a freshly cleaned studio, Chicago gave 316,000 students instant library access with just their school ID, a Japanese fire sergeant got suspended for making his employees beta-test his homemade board games, Starbucks' new AI powered ordering app, teens aren't bagging groceries anymore, the history of "segmented sleep", baby animal science, the world's oldest competitive croquet player, Rick Moranis coming out of retirement for Spaceballs: The New One, our daughter is on crutches, fishing dreams deferred by spring snowstorms, flowers in your hair vs grass growing on your feet, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Open house prep
(3:29) - Good News
(5:26) - Board games instead of work
(9:28) - AI picking your drink
(15:06) - Dogs & puppies
(19:50) - Not enough beverages
(23:36) - Hyperextension
(28:52) - Spaceballs 2
(30:57) - World records for old people
(34:02) - Teen jobs
(38:37) - Cute babies
(42:09) - Josh needs to fish
(47:16) - Would You Rather
(51:21) - First & second sleep
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Full show transcript:
So Chantel, today's kind of a big day around the studios here. We've got kind of an open house thing happening. And so we've been kind of scurrying around throughout this week, and especially over the past couple of days, trying to clean up a little bit, make the place look nice. And I was thinking about the things that we have now tucked away. Why do you feel like you're re-embarrassed by those things?
Or do you feel like they're cluttery? And it looked a little cluttery, less professional than I would like to appear.
So here's a list of the things that got put away. Minutri blender. Yeah. For making smoothies. Yes. The mirror you use to put on your face in the morning. Our box of cereal. Okay. And it's an adult cereal. It isn't like we got like fruity pebbles kicking around or anything.
It's like hunting that cereal. But nobody needs to see that we've got our breakfast cereal. Okay. Here. What else? I did kind of tuck away. I have a couple of gallon ziplocks of like sugar packets for when I make tea. Okay. I've kind of tucked those away. Fair. Okay. Because nobody, I don't know.
I mean, look, we spend a lot of hours in this space. And so, you know, we're here early. I'm here all day in this room. Yeah. I mean, I wander out. It's not like I'm confined here, but this is also my office. So I'm in here working my full eight hours every day.
So I'm done with the show. I'm still in here like working on stuff. So it is interesting, but there's been a lot of cleanup. I don't know if you noticed a couple of things that I'd been meaning to do for a long time that I did yesterday.
In here. Did you notice at all? There were some gunky stickers on the door, on the glass. And I finally, like ever since I started here and I walked into this room, I went, Ah, those look gross.
And I said, I got to do something about that. They were just old stickers. The, the, there's the station logo, but they looked all junky on the door. So I cleaned all that up. Good job, Josh. Did all the glass. I've swept in here. Like there's been a lot of stuff.
Well, when I first started four years ago, there was a dead bug in the corner. Yeah. That was there for months and months and months before I began and after I began. Yeah. And it didn't go away until I finally plucked it off the wall and said, okay, goodbye.
Thanks for doing that. Yeah. Does, do you feel like we're prepared? I think so. It looks nice. Does it look nice? I think it looks really nice. Cause I'm going to do the lighting and stuff in here so it'll be lit up cause we, we do record video of the show in here. Yes. And so I'm going to have all that fired up so it'll, you know, be able to demo a lot of that stuff.
But yeah, I mean throughout the whole building, we got this big open house thing. So it should be kind of a fun time. Have you printed me out a picture of punch?
Yes. The monkey with his mom, with his stuffed mom.
I taped it to the computer. I think that's okay.
I'm not worried about your picture of punch. Okay. I don't think people are going to be looking that close. Okay.
If so, it's just a nice picture of punch. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, looks great.
All right. Well, that's what I know. And, and we're looking forward to that one tonight. Get to spend some time here after hours. Which is always neat. Pock-diggity-dog. Yeah, I know, right? Anyway, all right. Well, let's get to today's show, I suppose. Let's do it. Well, let's get you some good news this morning. Cause that seems like a good way to start things off.
Yeah, it does. With like a positive note. Let's hear it.
Okay. So Chicago is making sure that every student in the city has a world of information right in their pocket with a new program called the 81 Club. They're giving kids instant access to books, digital databases and one-on-one tutoring.
Great. Right there in their pocket, which I think is awesome. It removes the hassles of paperwork and applications and pretty much turns the kids' school IDs into library cards.
I've read about this. Yeah, this is awesome. It is awesome.
So with this move, more than 316,000 students have instant access to all 81 library branches in Chicago. That's great. Yeah, huge. All of a sudden you have access to everything. Here's all the information. Go nuts. Research. Learn. Read.
Discover. I think it's so cool. I think that's cool too.
Major win for students who might lack a permanent address for the official paperwork and remove most of all, most if not all of the hoops, that students might have to jump through to enjoy all the benefits and resources from the library system. So really cool.
That is cool. Really, really cool. Now, I hope it's within easy walking distance for so many of them.
That is very true. With 81 different branches around Chicago, you would think there would be some access to a lot of stuff. I mean, STEM information and just whatever you're interested in.
Whatever. That's just, I think that's so great. Give the youth the information.
And go to your library because the libraries are a great place. Yeah, I know. Libraries are the best. They're way good. Like that news. There was a fire department sergeant in Japan who was suspended for making his employees play board games.
It's an interesting reason to be suspended.
Go ahead. They weren't just playing like Monopoly or Life. He had invented some board games himself. There were 10 different types of board games, all of his original creation. And he had written them on blank pieces of paper. And then one staffer said that they played around 14 times, totaling 35 hours for his future profession in the game designer industry. Like the sergeant wanted to be a board game designer. And he was like, Hey, I made these. I invented these 10 games. I'm going to make you guys play them all day.
35 hours, 35 hours, 14 games, 10 games, 10 types of games. They played 14 times. Yeah. Totaling 35 hours. Right. Nine workers who played were also given written warnings, but they weren't suspended. Not everyone was into it. And the whole thing was stopped when somebody was like, uh, I'm going to go to somebody else.
So somebody snitched, reported it to the higher ups and the boss who got suspended said, I thought this would be good for communication, but now I deeply regret it. Yeah.
So 34 hours, I thought this math was right. If, if they played for 30, you said 35 hours, 35 hours, which oddly is very, very specifically divisible by 14 is two and a half. So that means they played each game for two and a half hours on it. They might have played one for two and one for three, but.
And that would have had to have been across a couple of days. Unless not. Unless you just kept them there all day.
Right. Which is why they would have complained.
I would have complained. You can't make me stay after hours to play.
That's what I'm saying. Board games. But it's for my future.
But it's for my future.
I'm going to be a video game, not a video game, a board game guy. I'm a board game guy.
Play my video, play my games. Come on. On blank pieces of paper. I don't even know if there was like a game board.
Well, I imagine he had the designs drawn up and that was probably the extent of it. Handwritten rules. Yeah. And then he just wanted to observe. They were his test market. I'm going to need you guys to beta test my board games. So for the rest of the day, we will not be answering any calls. We'll just be here playing these games. What if there's an emergency? Too bad. We're video game testers now.
Not video game. Board game.
It'd be cooler if he invented video games. Clearly. Because we've both said video games.
I know. I know. I keep doing that. I don't know. Anyway, don't do that bosses. Don't make your employees play games they don't want to play. You're going to say video games. I know.
He should have invented video games. We naturally think he'd be good at it. Why? Because we both think he did it. He should change up his plan. Anyway, good luck with your games. Is he being sued? What's the story?
He's just being reprimanded. He's just being reprimanded. Yeah. Poor use of company time. He's also a boss? Yeah. He's a sergeant. Yeah. You can't do that. Bad choice, buddy. Good luck with your games though. Have you ever been at a drink company? Like a Starbucks or a Dutch Bros. And you're like, I just don't know what to order today.
No, because I have like two things I order. Yeah, that's not a problem for you. I have one that I order when it's cold outside and one that I order when it's warm outside.
You are. So no, I don't have that problem. Very much. A creature of comfort.
Because the last thing I want to do is try something new. Forget about it.
You've always kind of been that person. Yeah. But as you get older, it is very much ingrained in you. You're just like, no, I like what I like. Yeah. You refuse, not refuse.
Why change now? What are they going to make that I haven't been like exposed to at this point?
I like to try new stuff.
Oh, we're going to put a new thing out called Dubai chocolate. It's gross. I don't want it.
Oh, I like it. Yeah. You know why I don't like it? Because it's expensive. Because it's pistachios. I like pistachios.
Move on. What else we got? Okay. We got a new pudding? Nope. Don't want to try it. Chocolate pudding is good. I love chocolate pudding. I don't need a new pudding. We're trying to make new stuff. Just keep making the old stuff great.
You very much are. Yes. You're just like, nope, I like what I like. Yeah.
I mean, look, I discover new things. I try new things. I eat all kinds of different ethnic foods. And I'm all good with a variety. I'm not like, nope, I just steak and taters for me.
Like I'm not like, what's the word basic, right? Like I have a variety of things I enjoy. But when I go out to eat, there's a couple of things on the menu where I go, I'll pick between the two I know I like. I'm not going to go out and try something brand. If somebody got something, I was like, dang, I need to try a bite of that. That would be one thing where I'd go, I've never tried that before. There's a good chance.
I'm not going to be like, let me get a bit of that goat. I don't think so. No.
See? Okay. What if it's amazing? No, it won't be. Somebody got the duck. No. Let me try a bite of that. You can't eat ducks. Okay. Yesterday, Starbucks unveiled a new beta Starbucks app with chat GPT. Don't need it. Where you can ask for suggestions on what to order based on your mood.
No. So you can ask it stuff like, I want something bright to start my morning. I'm craving an afternoon boost that isn't too sweet. You want to know what this is?
This is a tool for them to make you buy promotional beverages. Oh, you should try our new lavender spring flower meringue.
You're right. Get the big one. You're absolutely right. Yeah. That's all it is. Get the grande. I refuse to say vente or grande.
I just say medium. Well, they're using it wrong and always have been. It makes me so mad. Grande means large. Small, medium, and large. Grande means large. They've got it as a medium. Vente means 20. Yeah. They've got that as a large.
I'll never say that. It's so inconsistent. I'll never say it. It's annoying. And I purposely, it's my own little tall, like kicking the pants to them. I'm like a medium, please. Yeah, they don't care. They don't care, but it makes me feel better.
Oh, good. You can also tell it to recommend a drink that matches the vibe of your outfit. And then you upload a picture of what you're wearing. No. Haven't you ever ordered a drink based on the vibe of your outfit?
You want to know how many times I've done that? Zero. A big fat zero. Well, you should give it a shot. No. You might like it. No. Because here's the other thing.
It's supposed to be what? No. Here's the other thing. Listen to this. What? It's a paper cup. Yeah. The outside of the cup is what matches your, unless I'm getting some. Something cold. The cold ones are clear. No, thanks. Okay. No, thanks.
You can also, they think that it's supposed to be natural, personal and fun. Who's they? Good for them. Also, let's not, let's stop using AI.
Yeah, we're dumping AI into everything. Also, they've been, they've been developing this. This is something they just rolled out, but they've been developing this for like a year or two. Going like, we got to get this technology in there. Because as soon as we get that technology in there, we're going to be able to learn a lot about our customer base, what they like and what they don't like, what they want to order. And then we're going to be able to push promotional drinks. And then they're going to hate them, but hey, who cares? We made the money.
I don't have time for it. We are feisty today.
I just think it's, it's, it's a poor use of the technology for one, for two, it's unnecessary.
It's unnecessary. I think you might. You can pick a drink. Yeah. You know what you like already. You need AI to pick your drink for you. Then we're seriously messed up. Just decide what you want and then try something new.
That's exactly what I'm saying. That's all. All right. Well, good luck with your new app guys. Order a medium.
Okay. Yesterday I learned something. So the kids are calling feet dogs. I have been for a while. I thought the foot was a dog. Yesterday it was brought to my attention that each toe is a dog.
I think we determined by the end of it that a foot is a dog. Yes. Two feet is dogs. Each toe is kind of like a puppy. A puppy.
Yeah. Yeah.
That's, that's what the internet is saying. Which is a dog, but it's a little one. It's not a full on dog. Like if you, if you're wearing flip flops, but you have long pants. So just your puppies are showing. That's, that's what that is. That's not your whole dogs out. Speaking of flip flops.
Have you ever, I was listening to a podcast yesterday. It still has to do with feet. It's still relevant. I was listening to a podcast and they were talking about like Southern California people, like people who grew up in Southern California and they wear flip flops everywhere. And then when you drive in a flip flop, you can't drive in a flip flop. And so you have to kick off your flip flop and drive barefoot. And then I was said, I've driven in a flip flop before. I've never kicked off my flip flop to drive barefoot.
So what is happening? Have you ever driven barefoot?
Yes, I have actually.
I don't like feeling my gas pedal that closely. Why? I don't care for it. I immediately went bad choice, put the shoe back on. Why did you drive barefoot? I can't remember. I was probably on the way to or from a water activity.
Interesting. That surprises me because you're never usually barefoot. That's right. It's rare to see you even in a sandal.
That's why I'm saying it was probably, I was in transit from or to a water activity.
Or maybe it was just because you had to quickly move the car and you were barefoot. It's not like that. I've done that before.
I don't like it. I don't like to feel the gas pedal with my foot. I don't mind it. It feels mechanical. When I'm driving, it doesn't. It's just a part of my foot. When I'm barefoot, I can feel the rubber texture and the metal edges of it. I don't like it. Maybe I have a foot tactile thing with my barefoot thing.
I'm sure you do. Maybe I feel too much with my feet.
My dogs. I got sensitive dogs.
Okay. So I didn't hear yesterday when the kids were talking about the toes being the puppies. I just heard that they were called the toes. That
was just me and one of Emery's friends that we're talking about. The individual toes.
Okay. I looked it up and the internet said that, yes, your foot is your dog. Yeah. And the toes are your puppies.
Yeah. Okay. Well, they're good.
Get those puppies out.
No. Put your puppies away. Put the dogs in the doghouse.
Cover up your feet. Keep them out. No way. Let them breathe. No. Let those dogs breathe. Get those dogs out. No.
Put your dogs away. Why? Keep them put away. Why? Because no one needs your dogs.
Mine? Or everyone's. Everyone. Because I like to be barefoot as often as possible.
Do you know that there are some dogs out there that I wish I hadn't seen? Yes.
I've seen some bad dogs. Cover up your dogs. Whose dogs have you seen that are pretty bad?
Some names. I don't know names. I'm just saying like sometimes people wear open shoes that shouldn't. That's all. I've seen some people that need to see a podiatrist. Oh.
That's not nice, Josh.
I'm just telling you. Cover up your dogs.
Take them out.
Let them breathe. Get some gold bond in your sock and take care of your feet. Put some lotion on.
It's gonna take more than lotion. What you're saying?
It's gonna take more than lotion on some of these dogs. I'm seeing some bad feet is what I'm saying.
No, I know. I know exactly what you're saying. It's pretty clear.
You know. There's some pound puppies. Oh.
Let them out. No. Let them breathe.
Don't let them breathe the same air as me. Around Josh especially.
No, thank you. Emory had her boyfriend over last night and I said, Hey, did you offer him anything to drink? And she said, No, we don't have anything. I said, We have lots of stuff. And so then I said, Hey, would you like a drink? And he goes, Oh, no, I'm okay. And I said, Are you sure? Because I have water. I have milk. I have chocolate syrup. I could make you some chocolate milk. I have a protein shake.
There is one red Gatorade in the fridge. Emory was dying. She kept going, Stop. Stop. Pineapple juice. We do have pineapple juice. I didn't even offer that one. I said, I have some protein smoothies.
Yeah. I've got this really awful vegetable drink. Yeah. But I'm drinking them. I brought another one today. I've had them three days in a row. You have to drink it all at once because it's like licking a garden. It's so vegetables. You haven't tried one yet.
No, I haven't. Dude, it's this cold pressed vegetable drink. And, and it's, it's got to be healthy. Because it's just vegetables.
It's like vegetable pulp floating around in water. And I'm telling you, I drink it in one, like it's a tall bottle. And I just have to do it one time. And then when I exhale, I go, and I licked a garden. It's so much vegetable.
Is there like chewing involved or is it all pretty liquid?
It is very liquid.
Okay. I forgot, I didn't offer him that. Good.
Do you want to taste a garden?
But I did offer him, I forgot about the pineapple juice. Dang it. That would have been, he might have accepted me on that one.
He didn't like any of the offerings. No, he's a diet coke guy. Yeah. He said, no, thank you. And I went, hot cocoa.
I have hot cocoa. Can make you some hot cocoa. Okay. I was trying to be hospitable, but Emory was right. We didn't have any, any good beverage options. Apple juice. Did I say apple juice? Emory goes, we don't have apple juice. I said, there's a giant bottle in the fridge. Yeah. Got it. Got it. We got different juices. One. There's one juice.
And pineapple. Oh yeah. Two juices. We have two juices. And vegetable squeeze.
And a protein shake. I'll make, I would have, I would have made him some chocolate milk if you'd asked. I said, I, I've got some chocolate syrup.
We've got that little electric whisk thing, that little blender. There you go. If you need more chocolate, let me know. I put in a bit, but if you like it extra, happy to remix. Hot cocoa. It could have made that.
I had plenty of drink options. I don't know what Emory was saying. We don't have anything. And I said, yeah, we have so much. I just listed off five things.
Don't tell me we don't have anything to drink. What are you talking about? There could have been more. Well, and then I said, would you like a snack or anything? And he said, Oh no, thank you. Emory said, we don't even have any snacks. I go, are you kidding? We have pretzels. We have goldfish. We have Oreos. We have, what are you talking about? We don't have any snacks. Yeah.
Kids. Pretzels, goldfish, donuts. We have all kinds of stuff. I know.
Don't say we don't have any snacks.
So track meet yesterday was pretty exciting. Went to watch our daughter do her thing at the track meet.
Arrived. Well, you, here's the thing about track meets. You never really know when your kid is going to be on.
Competing. Yeah. And so then you get like a moment's notice and she's like, I'm going. And we're like, okay. And both you and I were like furiously racing. Yeah. I'm like, I'm not there yet. But you know, she's, she's in the middle of the race. She's in line. She's got to go.
So, so she does her first pole vault clears the bar all good. We're almost there. We get there about the same time you and I meet up. We go in, we go into the field area. We're walking by, you know, all the people doing the things. We get over to the area. She's not there.
I look and I got a text and she said, I'm in the shed homies. Quote unquote. Thank you. And, and so we go to the shed and there she is sitting on the medic table. Yeah. She's hyper extended her knee in her long jump, which is super frustrating for her. And, and she's down in the dumps about.
Yep. She was pretty sad. She wanted to clear seven feet.
Yeah. And her pole jump. She only got one jump in on that and it was very, very sad day. Yeah. And the medic said, or the physical trainer said, well, I said, we'll elevate it for a little bit, maybe get the swelling to go down and then, and then we'll try walking. If you can walk after that, then we can probably try and get some more jumps in. Yeah.
We'll reevaluate, but no, she's now on crutches, which she's enjoying.
She is not enjoying. Right. I enjoy it because it's kind of fun making fun of her.
In a nice way. In a nice way. What have you done to make fun of her? Well, I keep calling her crutchy. Well, that's not making fun of her. That's just a cute name. And then.
From Newsy's. I keep trying to kick the crutches out from underneath her.
No, that's, that's pretty rude. It's not, it's not real. I'm not actually trying to do that. It's just a joke. I will say when we arrived yesterday, the medical trainer said, are you her parents? And I said, Oh, I'm actually her sister. Yeah. Don't I look you so young?
Everyone started laughing. Can you even?
Can you even?
I couldn't believe it. The nerve of those people.
To laugh. To laugh. It wasn't a joke. I could have been her older sister. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Rude. Rude. Sure thing. And I'm just the old guy. What does that mean? I don't know. Yeah, brother, sister.
Oh no, we have a, we have a very sad, hyper extended need girl. Yep.
But hopefully everything's cool. She can get checked out today and then we'll, you know, hopefully she'll be on the mend and be able to finish out the season. Maybe I don't know. We'll find out more today, but for now she's crutching around, crutching around, hobbling around.
Yeah. We do have, we went out last night for a couple of different errands that we needed to run and she was just going to stay at home and then last minute decided to come. And then we have a couple of holes in our lawn that need to be filled. Yeah. She found one was a crutch. Crutch, right in. I mean, you need to get better at this game because you're not good. Yeah. You're not good at crutching around.
Well, hopefully she doesn't have to get good at it. That would be the good news. The good news is if she just didn't have to deal with that, that would be awesome. But anyway, hopefully she heals up quick. These are just, you know, the things you deal with with an athlete.
That's what I told her. I said, maybe let's not do athletics because she's done this before.
The same injury a year ago. Maybe let's like chess club. Let's join chess. Chess. It's low impact. A lot of brain power in there.
Yeah. Like let's, let's join the math leaps. Yeah.
Math. Low impact. I told her to join band.
I think that would be good. Although, but there's some marching if you're in marching band. Yeah, but not long jumping. There's potential for like sore feet.
But you could also do, um, Like orchestra, she doesn't have to do marching bands.
That's true, Josh, that's true.
There's a lot of sitting in orchestra.
That's what I'm saying. Maybe we need to be sitting for a minute. Too much jumping.
Sit down, grasshopper. Too much jumping. Well, anyway. Quick healing.
Yeah, it should be on the men's suit. Quick healing.
So I knew that they were making a second Spaceballs movie. But I did not understand that Rick Moranis was coming out of his retirement to be in it. And I'm very excited about that. Because he plays in the first one, he is Big Helmet, the Darth Vader-esque character. And he's back.
He has come out of retirement. There is a sort of a new teaser out there with Mel Brooks announcing the title of it. It was in the first Spaceballs movie. It was going to be called Spaceballs 2, The Search for More Money.
Which is a very funny name for the title. But this one instead will be Spaceballs 2, The New One. Or just Spaceballs, The New One. Not Spaceballs 2.
Spaceballs, The New One. It comes out about a year from now. It's going to be in theaters on April 23rd, 2027. So it's about a year away. But Rick Moranis is in it.
I love that. And I'm so excited for that. Me too.
Love Rick. So I'm really happy that he's come out of acting retirement.
There's a lot of the original cast come back. That's all I've seen. I haven't seen anything else. The original one came out in 1987. Did you know I watched it first? I was palling around with my brother and my cousin. And they were boys that were older than me. And they turned it on. And then my mom got mad because I watched it. Because I was just little. And she was like, she yelled at my brother. You let your little sister watch that? I said, yeah. It was awesome.
So the New One comes out in a year. And I'm excited for it. I think that's a fun franchise.
That'll be fun. I'm excited for Rick Moranis.
I know. That made me so happy this morning. That's cool. Spaceballs. The New One a year from now. I really want a world record. Yes, you do. It's something I've talked about a little bit. I found out there are world records just laying around that I could probably try to get my hands on. What? Get your hands on something. Well, listen, here's the deal.
All I have to do is be old and do stuff. Okay. There's a guy named Neville. That should tell you enough you need to know about how old this guy is. Neville Sandiford. He is in New Zealand. He's officially been named the Guinness World Record Holder for the world's oldest competitive croquet player. Oh, Josh. He's 101. So all he did was do what he loves as an older man.
World record. That's all you have to do. Man, I love croquettes.
He didn't even start playing until he was 79. Listen, it's never too late. Never. It's never too late to start.
And he's been playing that game now for...
Well, he's 101, so he's been playing it for like 22 years. That's fantastic. He competed in a tournament in Wellington to set his new world record at 101 years old, 262 days. He's almost 102 years old. Oh, man, I love croquet.
And he's playing croquet. So listen, here's the thing. Here's the thing.
I just have to be patient. Yep. Or I have to find things that people did when they were younger than me and do it now. Okay. And then I will be the oldest man to do that.
Give it a go. Right. Okay, find something. I'm here to support you. All you got to have is a willingness to try. Yes. Someone to support you. Yeah. And what's the third thing? There's like four things. What is it? A willingness to try. Yeah. So someone to support you.
Some confidence. Confidence. Yeah. And... Oh, you forgot. There's a fourth one, but I don't remember off the top. Oh, Josh. I know. I'll remember one day.
Do you have the confidence and the willingness to try?
I have the confidence to age gracefully and try something when I'm old. Yes. Okay. You could even do it now. I found out there was a world record the other day that was set that I think collectively, as a group, we could break here at the radio station. We'd all have to chip in, but I think we could do it.
Let's do it. You're not going to say it because somebody has still the idea. Yep. Okay. Let's bring it up in your meeting. We're going to do it. Okay. I'm all in. All right. I've got a willingness to try.
And confidence that we can do it. Well, it's the thing. And we all need to support each other to pull it off. Okay. And then we can do it. Okay. Whatever the fourth thing was, we'll need that too.
Put your hand in. What are we doing? Let's go.
You didn't even do it, right? You still didn't. You got to say, let's go on three. One, two, three.
Let's go. Let's go on three. One, two, three.
Let's go. Oh, boy. That was rough. No. Listen, when I was in high school, I had done a lot of jobs. I started working pretty early. I mean, as early as I probably could have around 12, 13, started mowing the lawns in the neighborhood. I'd put together a brochure that I handed out to people so I could, you know, hey. You were real. Have me mow your lawn. I was an entrepreneur.
Entrepreneur. Yeah. Yeah, I was really into it. And I also had just gotten a computer and I had, you know, a software that would help me make brochures. And I went, cool, I'm printing brochures now.
And so that was kind of a thing. And, you know, I probably could have built a website and everything. I could have been just a huge dot com guy. You could have been.
I didn't. Because I was 12. But then I, you know, I went on and had other jobs and, and did those kinds of things. I know you were a big babysitter for your, your neighborhood. They relied on you. They fought over you.
They did actually. It was a group of families and we all went to the same church. And so that's how they found me. But they were all friends. And so whenever they would go out to dinner, they would have to be the first one and they would start booking me like two weeks in advance. And then one would call me and I'd say yes. And then the second one would call and I'd be like, I'm already booked. I'm sorry. She already got me. And they'd be like, oh, okay.
So things like that. Did you have anybody in school that you knew that bagged groceries? Yes. Yes. Likewise. That was, these were like the staple teen jobs, babysitting, life guarding, bagging groceries. Those jobs are starting to disappear. Oh no.
Why? If your teens in general are working, then they did even just a decade ago. And apparently it's not, it has nothing to do with nobody wants to work. Young people don't want to work. It's not that.
What is it? It's that they have found new ways to earn money. Plus they have busier academic schedules than we did. I would totally agree. Yes. And anything you do, extracurricular sports specifically, just drained you. Yeah. You are constantly. They're overbooked for sure. It's crazy. It's absolutely crazy.
Well, what are the ways they're making money? So here's what they're doing. They're not taking these entry level jobs. Instead, they are doing things like reselling clothes online. Some of them, if they have like a band talent or whatever, they can play a musical instrument. They're out busking with Venmo. Really? QR codes.
Yep. Paint nails for cash. Pet and plant sitting, dog walking, trying to build followings as content creators. These are all things they're focused on instead of babysitting, bagging groceries, mowing lawns, all those kinds of things. Interesting. Yeah. Fascinating.
Yeah. Kind of a weird shift.
I mean, they're going to do what suits them best, what works in their schedule and what their interests are. So good on them for being ingenuitive.
Yeah. I got to find a little bit more about this selling things online thing. Yeah. Where are people doing that? Marketplace. No. Teens are not selling stuff on Marketplace. They're not. There's apps and different things out there for sure that they're reselling their stuff.
But I know that like between you and Emery, you both have bags of clothes. You're like, I need to get rid of these, but I don't know where. Well, let's find out where these guys are reselling them. Well, I know a couple of places. No, I know locally. Yeah. But they're reselling this stuff online. Interesting.
I know. Isn't it? They've got to figure it out, man. Yeah. Good for them.
Yeah. I mean, you know, it's not that they don't want to work clearly. They just don't want to do old people work. What? Yeah. Bag and groceries, that's for old people. Baby sitting, old people work. How dare you?
I was a good babysitter. I know. I would bring a kit.
I know. You're a member of the babysitters club. I know.
I was the one and only member of your own club.
But you did. You took a lot of pages out of the babysitters club. You had a good kit of craft supplies and do you have first aid in there too?
No, I should have though. I would now if I did it now, I would.
Absolutely. Just some band-aids and things. Or would you have like a full-on like trauma kit? Stop the bleed.
We got to put a tourniquet on. That's what I'm thinking.
So we were just checking in on the baby eagles and they look cute. They do look cute. They have big feet already, which is one of the funniest things about the baby eagles is when their feet are bigger than their body, it seems. And they just try to move around because they're born with little tiny feet, but they grow. I think they grow feet first. They get feathers and they get fluffy.
And then they get big feet. So many feet. So many feet. But there's so much feet.
Yeah. They are a majority of their body for a while. And then their body goes, oh yeah, I should probably grow into those feet now.
Okay. So I was looking on Reddit and there I noticed there was an article. There was an Austrian zoologist, Conrad Lorenz in 1943. He was the first person who kind of recognized the baby schema is what he called it, which is the blueprint of common features occurring in infants across species. And the baby schema is basically a set of physical features, large head, eyes, a high forehead, chubby cheeks and a small nose and mouth that makes infants appear cute. And this is all species. So it acts as an evolutionary releaser that triggers nurturing and caretaking behavior that reduces aggression, ensuring infant survival.
Well, that makes it, you can't hurt that. It's too cute. It's so cute. So that feels like a people reaction is the same true for other animals. They look at it and go, that's too cute.
I don't know. I don't know, actually. It's mostly a human behavior. It affects human behavior for sure. And they also said that studies show that if you're viewing like infantile faces, whether it's humans or animals, there's a key brain for like pleasure. And so then you've like face this like kinship with them. And then you're like, oh, it's so cute. And so then you just want to care for and protect and nurture that thing, which is like, this is the key. This is what we need for these species to survive. People to be like, we have to take care of this.
Look how cute it is. And so you were looking through a photo album of different cute animals. Have you picked a favorite?
Oh, there's so many. There's a fennec fox.
Yeah, with the big giant ears. They grow ears before they grow the rest of their body. Huge ears.
And then a Dumbo octopus baby.
That was the one that I said was from Nemo. Like it looks like the little scared octopus from Nemo. You touched the butt. That one. That's the one. Axolotl. Oh, okay. They're kind of weird looking as adults too.
The axolotls, I know, but as a baby, they're so cute. There was what was the other one I saw? The baby armadillo? Yeah. Oh my gosh. How doorbs. A doorbs. Well, that's fun. It is fun. Oh, look at some babies because it's good for you.
Yeah, it'll make you feel good about stuff.
Go look at some baby animals. You know what makes me sad is looking at pictures of people with their fish. I've got several different algorithms that I'm part of. One of them is people showing off fish. And I get to see fish from all over the place. But when I see people in East Idaho that are out fishing and I go, man, that's a good fish. I want to catch that fish.
Especially since you were supposed to have a fishing day yesterday.
I like that you call it that. I was indeed supposed to go fishing yesterday, but the weather is just keeping me away and I'm bummed out by that. It wasn't actually too terribly windy. I know they had said we were going to get like crazy, crazy winds. It was definitely windy.
Yeah, I get it. But also if you're going to be in a boat, you shouldn't be in a boat when it's raining and lightning.
So here's a fun story about me and my brother-in-law and nephew when we decided to go on a float trip down a river and did not check the weather before we left. Now, to be fair, I think we knew it was raining or rain was potential because I had my rain jacket, which was great.
But I was wearing Chocos and I was wearing shorts. And when the rain came in, in that higher altitude, the temperature dropped considerably and it was cold. And we were able to get to shore and we were able to secure the boat and we were able to hide under a tree from the rain and hail for a while.
And it was still just cold. And so then we went and we hid in the like giant, large size porta-potty until we could be rescued. Who rescued you? You and your sister.
My sister and I were shopping.
Yeah, you guys were doing like quilt stuff.
You guys were having a good time. Yeah, we were busy doing our thing. And then you called and said, hey, can you come get us? But you didn't make it seem like it was very urgent at all.
No, because look, we were fine. We were off the water. We weren't in like imminent danger. We were cold. We would like to have been able to get to a warm vehicle.
So we continued just our shopping and we were both like, we'll go get them in a minute. And we just kept on a shopping and then we were like, all right, let's go find out where they are. When we arrived, you, the weather was very bad. Yeah. That's why we got off the water. As we were driving, we were like, oh, this is bad.
I'm so glad they got off the river because this could have been so very bad for them. And we pull up and the three of you exit the porta-potty. Yeah. Cold and wet and shivering. And then I felt very, very bad. I'm really sorry that we...
Yeah, we just kept shopping. We didn't realize it was like you guys were going to be in hypothermic state.
You didn't make it seem like it was very serious.
When there is an emergency, the first rule is to stay calm.
Yes, I get it. But you could have also been like, maybe you might want to think about hurrying because we are very cold and wet.
You were already annoyed that I was bugging you on your quilt shopping trip. So me going, and if you could hurry, would have gone over real well.
No, it wouldn't because I care about you.
Right. Anyway, that all to say that I did not fish yesterday as I had hoped, but I keep seeing people hold up really nice fish. And I go, man, I need to go fishing.
You'll get out there. I promise. It's all gonna... You're all... You're gonna get out there. It always happens. I gotta go fishing. I know. It's gonna be fine. You've got the fishing bug.
I do. There's a freeze warning in effect tonight and tomorrow night. So it's gonna be real cold just so you're all aware. And there's a good chance we might see some snow. So... When?
There's also that. Tonight? Here's what it says for... I need to be prepared. Okay.
Are you sure? It says here, cloudy, windy and colder with a couple of snow showers tonight. Tomorrow, a flurry in the morning, up to an inch or two, mostly cloudy and chilly. But then sunny to partly cloudy on Saturday. It's nice. Okay. Sunny to partly cloudy and warmer on Sunday. It's good. And then we get like highs in the mid-70s.
Well, today it says there's supposed to have daytime scattered snow showers too.
Yeah, yeah. It'll probably just be some flurrying.
Like it's drying real hard snow.
Yeah. Winter just can't give up. That's all. Get out of here, Winter. I know. And let me go fishing, would ya?
Let Josh go fishing. Yeah, please. Please.
Would you rather this or that?
They've all been spring themed this week. I don't know if you've noticed. Uh-uh.
Would you rather have flowers grow in your hair? Okay. Or grass grow on your feet?
What? No.
Why? I think how warm that would be. What? I was initially going to say flowers.
Glass is not a good insulator? Yes, it would be. Rather than nothing? Yes, it would be. Why am I, do you know me?
Yeah, but I don't understand why you're asking that question.
Why do I need my feet to be warm if they're in a sock and a shoe? The grass is just going to drive me nuts.
I was thinking for me, the grass, initially I was going to say flowers in my hair because how pretty. But then I was like, oh, but grass on my feet, my feet would always be warm. And then if they got too warm, cut. Cut the grass? Yeah.
Does it smell like fresh cut grass or fresh cut feet? Fresh cut grass. Dried grass is an effective natural sustainable insulator. Yeah, I see. That's dried grass. You're telling me. Yeah, I'm telling you.
That grass isn't going to be warm if it grows on my feet. Correct. Disagree.
Okay. And then what happens? We stay the same. Yeah, okay, good. What are you picking? Flowers in my hair. I'm going to be adorable.
Then I would just keep singing that song over and over. Uh-uh. Flowers in her hair. Right. Flowers everywhere. That's me. Yeah. I love the flower. Okay.
I'm not the flower girl though. Okay. I'd be the flower boy because of my, it'd be bald on top still.
I know what kind of flowers would you want.
Little ones. Nothing huge. I don't want like big, floppy sun flower.
Like a big Gerber Daisy. No. Okay. Not that. So you want maybe just like some pansies? No, it's too big. Small. Pansies are small? No, smaller. Yeah. Okay. Like maybe like a, like a rounding kind of plant. Like a moss.
Like a mound. No. You can get like, like lambs here is like a mounting bush. You could get that. That's not a flower. Yeah, I know, but it's nice. Good look is good. Look like hair.
I imagined something sort of like, like Grecian. Okay. Because they would do, I'm looking up Grecian headwear. Yeah. That's what I'm thinking. Okay. So like the, the Greek, like gods and goddesses and stuff, they had that like, Oh, I see what you're saying.
thing that wrapped around. Right. So I was imagining like the Grecian thing, but it was done up in flowers and leaves instead of just gold leaves.
I was thinking of like, like a kind of like a mounting plant. Right. They could go across your whole head. Yeah. And then it'd be like a toupee.
Yeah. You see? A tulip pay. Yeah.
If it was made out of tulips. You see? But no, I think I just want, because I'm bald on top, I think it'd be a cool, cool accent to have like that Grecian crown thing, but made out of flowers and leaves. I think that'd be a good look. So I'm going to pick that. They're grass foot.
Would you rather this or that? Guess what I just learned. What is it? There was a, there was a historical way that people used to sleep before modern schedules and artificial lighting. And it was called a first and second sleep.
What does that mean? So they would separate sleep into two separate chunks into one long night. So the first sleep happened shortly after sunset and they would sleep for about three to four hours.
Okay. And then they woke up for like one to two hours in the middle of the night. It wasn't considered insomnia. It was normal.
Yeah. And then they would just go do quiet things like read or write or talk with their family, have a snack, pray and reflect. And then they'd go back to bed for another three to four hours until morning. That was their second sleep.
Interesting. I know it. I wonder if that's more of the natural circadian of sleep.
Do you know what I mean? Yeah, I don't know. It said that. You talk a lot about artificial light. Like does that just mean electricity? Yes. Because here's what I'm thinking. The human body would naturally have done what it naturally did. And I understand culture and society and all of those things start playing into stuff.
But prior to electricity, you know, there were candles and things like that. But the pace of everything was probably considerably slower and centered around daylight. Yeah. Because there's not a lot you could do in the night other than sleep and whatever you could do by the fire. Right.
Like there's, you know what I mean? Right. Well, they said it was called segmented sleep. Yeah. And it likely happened because there wasn't any artificial light to extend the day. The nights were long, especially in the winter. And so when it's five o'clock in the winter and you don't have light and you're like, well, I guess maybe we'll go to bed. Yeah.
But that's a long time to sleep.
So you go sleep for four hours, you wake up for a few, you do some more stuff by candlelight that you can. And then you're like, hey, let's go. Okay. We got a lot of hours till the sun's up. Let's get some more Z's. What would you do during your midnight break?
Oh, if I had no light. Yeah.
I mean, you could, you could have like a light, you would have a candle.
Yeah. But I'm like, if, if this was like that timeframe. Yeah. Inside stuff.
Well, yeah, but put what? I don't know. Read what? Yeah, there's not a lot. There wasn't a lot of options.
There wasn't like a library.
Snack. I'd have some snacks. On what?
Jerky. Vegetables that we'd stored away for the winter. Okay.
So let's say. Now time.
Now times, but no electricity. No electricity still. Well, that's what I'm saying.
No, we have electricity.
So you're saying modern day. Everything. We have two sets of sleep. But we get, we get a little bit of sleep.
Yeah. You wake up in the, in the middle of the night. What are you doing? You're trying.
I know it. So many hobby times. So much time for activities. Yeah. You're going to be tying some flies. That. Who knows? I could art.
I would do so many things. I was going to say, I would be, I would be arting and reading and.
If it's required to be some sort of downtime thing. Then yeah. Like it can't be like, you can't run errands. Right. Right. Like everything's closed.
Has to be in your house. Yeah. I'm using that time. Cold and dark outside. Yeah. I'm using that time for hobby time. It sounds kind of nice. Waking up in the middle of the night, doing some hobby, going back to sleep. Yeah. Oh, that was a nice. Now back to bed. Yeah. It's kind of nice. Sounds nice. But what about second sleep? That means you get second snack when you wake up.
Hey, what about second breakfast? You know, I dig it.
That's an interesting thing. I know. And I'm really curious about the human evolutionary changes of society that have caused us to go into we need to get, you know, minimum of seven hours and you just try to cram everything into your awake hours and you don't prioritize rest and sleep hardly ever. Yeah.
Interesting. Fascinating. Right. Yep. Well, that's going to wrap up today's show. Thank you for hanging out with us. Tomorrow is Friday, which is a glorious thing. Oh, yeah. And then the weekend is upon us. Try to stay warm. Yeah. Windy's kind of scattered snowy today. If snow hits the roads, be careful. Slow down. Leave room for other people.
You know all the rules. Yeah, you know the rules. Be kind. Be nice. We'll make it through this cold couple of days and then we'll have some like real nice ones on the horizon. So there's that. Great. And we'll see you back here tomorrow morning. Good bye. Bye.
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