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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Thursday, May 28th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Is cowboy caviar a suitable lunch, it's National Hamburger Day, Josh recaps a fishing trip with their son, it's the last day of school for many kids, summer vacations, the tradition of the end-of-school motorcycle ice cream ride, why summer bucket lists might be setting you up for disappointment, Q-tip preferences, fluffy cotton swabs, whether you should look at the Q-tip after using it, Chantel got complimented in an online gaming chat, sibling rivalries and the classic parenting phrase "stick like glue", the Pokemon card craze, the Mount Rushmore of Arena Rock, a pickleball player who cut four nets after an injury "ruined his summer", the whole story of Chantel and her sister embarrassing their daughter at the campground with a spontaneous Jon Secada dance party, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Cowboy caviar
(4:51) - Eat a burger
(8:46) - Good News
(10:30) - Beck & Josh went fishing
(15:18) - Happy summer vacation
(19:55) - Oatmeal is for old ladies
(23:09) - Fluffy Q-Tips
(27:24) - Your mom sounds nice
(30:38) - Stick like glue
(35:43) - Jon Secada dance
(41:17) - Arena rockers
(46:56) - Pickleball revenge
(50:37) - Would You Rather
(52:47) - Poke-man
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Full show transcript:
You've been pretty good at packing a lunch for yourself, but yesterday you said you ate chips and salsa.
Yeah. You made a homemade kind of bean and pepper salsa. Is that the salsa? Cowboy caviar is what it's typically called. Who calls it that? The internet calls it that. Cowboy caviar? Yeah.
I've never heard that term in my life. I am. I'm gonna look it up. You'll find the recipe.
Cowboy caviar. Yep. That's what it is.
That is exactly what it looks like. Texas caviar. I told you. Also known as cowboy caviar. I just call it salsa. It's a zesty bean salad or dip. Yes.
Made from black eyed peas, black beans, corn, fresh vegetables, including bell peppers, onions, alabanos, tossed in a tangy, and vigor in the grit. Wow. Yeah. Popular, easy to make appetizer served with tortilla chips or as a side salad. Yeah. Flavor often improves as it sits. You would agree?
I would absolutely agree. You make it and you go, it's better if it sits a lot. Yeah, it does. I also put cilantro in mine.
Yeah. And garlic. Sometimes I'll put fresh avocado. And salt? Yep. Garlic, salt, all of it.
Yep. Cowboy caviar. And diced tomatoes. I've never heard it called that, but that's what you had for lunch was some scoops of cowboy caviar. I have protein chips with the caviar.
Yeah. With the, I have a protein shake because you can't, you gotta get all your protein in. That's what they say. That's what I had for lunch. Yeah.
Why? Is that an adequate lunch? I mean, it's got beans in it. Yeah, it was fine. I feel like I wouldn't like that as a meal. I feel like it was fine for me.
Yeah. And then when I got home, I was ready for dinner, but it was fine for the day until I got home. So what about this one where this person has it, and maybe this is, this is, it looks prepared, but rather than having it all mixed in the bowl, they have it all separate in little lines. So there's tomatoes, and then there's a line of onion, and then there's a line of black beans and a line of corn, and then a line of black eyed peas, and then a line of cucumber, and then a line of red, or yellow peppers. So it's not all mixed in a bowl together. But why?
I don't know. It's gonna eventually get mixed because the second somebody goes to dip in the peppers and the onions, you're gonna, it's gonna start to mix. So these folks, they do that, and then they pour the seasonings over the top, and then they make a dressing with garlic, coriander, salt, honey, lime juice, and olive oils. They make this green kind of, their own thing, and then they pour that over it.
That sounds good. And then they put it in the fridge for 30 minutes, and then that's it. They just pull it out, and it's just the things in a line with the sauce on.
Just mix it. No. They don't want to.
Well, I want to. You're just gonna mess up the pretty design of all the individual ingredients lined up? Yeah. Yeah, I am. Okay. I think that's silly. Mix it up. It's gonna get mixed. I like this one is easy.
No cooked bean salad, cowboy caviar, and it's just all in a line. It would annoy you to look at it. It would. It's annoying me to hear about it. Yeah. Just mix it up.
No. Because it's gonna get mixed up. Nowhere in the instructions do they mix it up.
If you took that to a barbecue, you're gonna pull that out, and people are gonna go, why isn't this just mixed all together? Yeah. And you're gonna say, oh, well, the recipe told me to line them up. No, that's dumb. Mix it up. Yeah.
What are you doing? Pour the dressing over it, and then they do say toss gently to coat, but they never show a picture of it. The second you toss it, you're gonna mix it.
No, you got to just individually in the tomatoes and then in the onions and that don't mix it. If you ever make this for Chantel, don't mix it. It will make her crazy.
Yeah, it will. I would like to make deconstructed tuna sandwiches where it's just tuna still in the can, a little pile of mayo, some chopped up pickles, and bread with the crust removed. And I'm just gonna hand it to you like that. And go, here you go. Here's a tuna sandwich.
Okay, and I'm gonna say, why did you put it all together? Yeah, you dummy dumber. Just mix it all up.
No way. What are you doing? I'm not mixing it. You got to eat it individual. Okay, okay, I'm gonna mix it. Would you take a chip then and go, I want a little tomato on this bite, a little bean on here.
No, I'm gonna mix it up so we can have all the flavors. This is dumb. I found a trigger. Found a trigger. It's funny. Hey, let's start today's show. Okay. What's up?
Good morning. It's Thursday. Look at that.
Look at that. I mean, we've worked two days and we're already almost done. We haven't even worked two days. We're starting day two of work. That's true. Here we are.
I like working this three day work week. Yeah. Yeah.
Don't get used to it because a full five day one is right around the corner. I know. I know. How would you say that to me? How dare you? I just, it's the thing to say. I know. I know, Joshua. Want to have a burger?
Sure. Because today's burger day and today is the day to have a burger. Okay, where's your favorite burger? Off the Blackstone. Yeah, I really like- Not to toot my own horn. I like Josh's- But I make the pretty mean Smashburg.
Yep. Made them while we were camping over the weekend, which was, they were nice. They were nice. I was happy.
I really do. I think your burgers are my Where else? Is there any buddy else?
Any body? Yeah, that you go like, yeah, they do a good burger. I can't think of anybody. I can't even think the last person who made a burger for me was. That wasn't me. That wasn't you.
Only you, Josh. Wow. You're the only burger guy I know. Wow.
55 billion with a B, burgers are consumed every year by Americans. What do you like? What burgers do you like besides your own?
I just, the only reason I like my own is because I know it goes into it and then I think it's a good burger. Burley's real good. Burley's really good.
This is such a good burger. Yeah. And they should, I don't know, buy advertising or something. Yeah, you're saying all of this for free. I know.
That's what I'm saying. But that's real nice. I do really enjoy the pretzel Scott from Scottie's. Oh, yes.
A lot. Scottie's burgers are delicious. And they have the best fries. IMO. Do you? That means in my opinion.
Do you think? Oh, yes. Yeah, you like that kind of fries. I do.
Yeah. Straight up fast food drive through. I think I like Wendy's burgers the best.
Really? I'm not mad about the, I do the son of the Baconator because the Baconator's a big beast. But I like a Whopper. A clean broiled Whopper is so good.
They used to have that like pub burger and it had like the mutti cheese. Right. Bring that back.
That was good. McDonald's has some stuff going on. Yeah. They're consistent. You know exactly what you're going to get every time. And that's important. I don't like they call their food product. Yeah, that's strange.
Check out this product. Anyway, it is a national hamburger day. So if you want to grab a hamburger, not cheeseburger, put cheese on it.
Yeah. It's been a long time since I've had a hamburger. You've got to put cheese on it. You can't not. You can't not. The average American consumes about three burgers a week.
Whoa. I mean, if you think about it, if you're going out to eat like those are. That's an American staple. You want to grab a burger? Sure. Yeah. Happy burger day.
Good morning. Eat a burger or two. Or three. For me. I don't know. All right.
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And clearly with this rescue effort Hazel proved them right in the most dramatic way possible. But wait a go. I'll show you. Yeah. Watch what I can do.
No kidding. I was gonna see what kind of dog Hazel was besides a rescue here. Oh she's pretty. I don't know breed but really brindle. She's kind of a medium sized dog. She's got big old Dobby ears and a cute little face. Really, really cute. So way to Hazel. Hazel. Way to go.
Right. Get adopted. Save somebody. You know dog stuff. As you do. As you do.
As you do. That's some good news. You and Beck went fishing over the weekend. Yeah. I mean you know you're out in the woods. You're camping. You gotta throw in some fishing time. I was actually surprised that he wanted to go with you. I was very excited that he wanted to go with me and we got to explore some very good water and we didn't catch a single fish which happens occasionally. However, that turned into kind of a bit of discouragement I would say.
For a book of you. Well yeah for sure. But I think the discouraging part was that it's a lot more fun to catch fish.
Oh yeah. Like walk upstream for miles and try to catch fish. For hours. Not get fish.
Put on all your waders and your boats and just keep walking and walking. That being said, we did have a good time. At least I think so. We got to spend some time trying different things. I scraped up my leg real bad doing some bushwhacking. But we did explore some water that I've been meaning to try to get access to and try fishing. So that was kind of fun and hopefully we'll be able to get back out and actually catch some fish.
He's got a license now. I get nervous. That means he can go fishing anytime.
Whenever anybody goes fishing with you because you really do just are out there for hours and hours and hours. Yeah. So I was nervous for his sake but he came back in a good mood. Yeah. And he said that he enjoyed it but he was worried that he kept you from having fun. Yeah. Now I had a good time.
I would like to have caught some fish but you know you can't win them all. No you can't and you often don't. Yeah. I mean thanks. It's rude. No I'm just being honest. Honestly rude.
You just got to keep getting out there baby. Yeah. No my theory I think where we were fishing I think we were too far upstream. That particular stretch of water gets closed to fishing for a month for spawning real soon. And so I think that is when the fish move up and I think they just wait. They go oh today's the day. They check the calendar and they go oh we go today we go today. Oh I haven't even packed.
And then they move upstream. I think we were too high or in the season. And they were like you guys Josh is out today.
Yeah. You know Josh you've heard of him. Yeah you've heard of him.
He catches fish sometimes. Hide everybody hide. Right. Everybody pretend you're asleep. Don't catch his flies. Yeah don't. They're fake.
You don't want it. Do you think fish speak to each other. Sure. In that way. I don't know how but I think they probably have some sort of communication. Yeah. Like if you caught a fish and then you released him you think he goes to tell his buddies like man.
I was abducted and they're like okay Gary. Sure thing bud. Get back into your little your little cut bank and wait for some more fish. Guys I was in the air.
They held me up and then there was a weird device that they pointed at us and then they put me back. Sure thing pal. Gary. His name is Gary Gary Gary.
Why is this always only happen to you. Yeah. Go eat those fake flies Gary. Right.
Eat some real bugs. Yeah. It looked real to me.
Well. Beck had a good time. So good. I see a lot of fishing in your guys.
I know I just need to get I need to get him going more often. Do you do you like teaching people how to fish. Yeah. Does it take away your fishing time. That's what he was concerned about. No I was teaching him a leapfrog technique so that we can fish and move at the same time.
A couple of different things. Yeah because you want to explore the water so he would stop at a pool to try and fish. I'd go up to the next one he could jump ahead and go to the next one.
We can just keep moving upstream trying different fishing holes as we go leapfrogging. Yeah. Good idea. Yeah. Good technique guys. Right.
Wow. And then you can cover some water pretty quick. And then we went this is going nowhere and it's getting late. We probably got to go like eat dinner or something.
So we decided after a couple hours to call it. Sorry buddy. It's a way it goes. I had fun. Got outside. Went fishing. Scraped my leg. Got some bug bites.
It's all part of the deal. Today is the last day of school for a lot of kids. There are some kids that are already out. There's been graduation the last couple of days. So congrats to all of those kids. And happy summer vacation summer vacation.
Yeah. Welcome to summer vacation. Do you remember the last time you had a summer vacation? You worked in school. So you have you had adult summer vacations. It was awesome.
You enjoyed that. We're talking about it just the other day. You were like that's a thing I really miss about working at high school. Absolutely do. Yeah. Because I would load the kids in the car and we'd go to Rigby Lake.
Yeah. Or we'd go to the zoo. You want to know how that feels as someone who has a non-existent summer vacation and just does it work while the family's off doing fun things? It's lame. I know.
It's lame sauce. I know it does. I get it. I know. Yeah. Pretty lame. Because you'd be like oh we're going to the pool. I'm like that's great.
I'll be still at work in my full time year round 40 hour a week job. Yeah. Yeah. But enjoy your summer vacation. Daughter had her last day of school yesterday. Right. And for the past couple of years she has requested a motorcycle ride. Right. So she's requested you to pick her up on your motorcycle.
Yeah. And we go out for ice cream. It's a great tradition.
It is a great tradition. Yeah. She's driving now. Right. So we said do you want to drive yourself or do you want to get a motorcycle ride? And she said well I want a motorcycle ride and you said well you're going to have to ride the bus in the morning then. Right.
So that your car is not stuck at work. It's cool. And she said no I'm not riding the bus. Yeah. Right. So we all drove to have ice cream instead of motorcycle. Which is fine.
You know it is fine. There were years. It's not like it was a good tradition or anything. It's fine. I know. Sad isn't it.
Changes. I usually put together a summer bucket list. Or as I call it an over expectation list. Look at all the things we didn't do is what I hear at the end of summer. Yeah. What a lame summer.
We didn't do anything. And I it's because you made a list that was too many things instead of just saying like hey it's summer let's just get the most out of it. Yeah.
Yeah. I would maybe if I just made a summer bucket list it's like easier things. A lot of my summer bucket lists were kind of extremes not extreme but maybe just don't make one. But maybe I could and it could just be like silly things like let's go fly a kite or let's make ice cream or let's have a picnic or let's you know stuff like that.
But why. Read a book outside. Make a bird feeder. Just live the moment. Go like you know what today let's go do this thing. Okay. That's way easier. Don't set yourself up to fail. You're going to have this whole list and because you're a person of lists and you're checking things off. Yeah.
If there are things left unchecked you're immediately going I didn't succeed. We had a lame summer. Lame. Instead of just going like look at all the cool stuff we did.
Make a list of things we did instead of things that we want to do but didn't get done. Okay. Should we start with last weekend. Write it down. Okay. Pickleball. Check.
Add it to the calendar. Camping. Check. Yeah.
Look at all the things we've done so far. Look see how much road and bike. Check. Yeah. See. Look. Wow.
Summer's going great so far. Went thrifting. Check. Look. So amazing. Look at all the things we've done in one weekend.
We've already went swimming too. Yeah. Check it off. Check it off. There you go. Wow. Amazing.
Summer's going great so far. See. Write down your accomplishments not your failures. Yeah.
That becomes quote unquote failure. I didn't do all these things. We never flew a kite.
You know like we have them. Why didn't we fly them. It's never windy here. Never.
We never have enough wind to fly a kite. Nope. It's a shame isn't it.
Yeah. I shouldn't have said that. Sorry everybody. That's my fault.
Here comes the wind advisory. We mentioned that we were camping at an RV resort over this past weekend and they had complimentary breakfast much like a hotel. I don't like continental breakfasts for the most part. The eggs are a little bit overdone usually or under done. Okay. So the eggs are but you don't like even my eggs.
You say like my eggs are too wet. Yeah. Yeah.
I just really like my eggs. Yeah. So you're not that's not continental breakfast fault. That's your own hang up. Yeah. You got to get over the egg thing.
No. I just don't eat them. I didn't care for anything that they had to offer. They had biscuits and gravy. It was awesome. The gravy was good. The biscuits were homemade.
Yeah. Except when my sister pulled out a biscuit it was like real doughy in the middle. Like a dough. She got the wrong biscuit. The biscuits I had were great.
Okay. I had great biscuits and gravy. The potatoes were awesome.
Little fried potatoes. They were super good. I got those. They were okay. I couldn't get to the ketchup. Well you would have ruined them anyway. No I meant. Put ketchup on them. Yeah you do.
No you don't. So I didn't like any of the options and so I looked over and I saw a packet of oatmeal and some yogurt. Yeah. And I went I guess I'm having oatmeal and yogurt for breakfast this morning to which Emery said that is the oldest lady food ever. I go oatmeal? Oatmeal is not an old lady thing to eat. People eat that all the time.
Old people. No I used to give that to the kids when they were little. Oatmeal is great. Like an old woman. No oatmeal is great. For old people.
No. Oats fill you up. They stick to your belly. These are old people things to say.
Oh it stick to your ribs. Look. Look. And yeah it was maple and brown sugar. Gross.
The best flavor of oatmeal. Wrong. Uh-huh.
No. That's old people yogurt. Old people yogurt. Old people oatmeal. No it isn't. Yes it is. I would say apples and cinnamon is the old people oatmeal. And what's the difference between that and maple and brown sugar? Are you kidding me right now? They're both old people oatmeal. No sir dude.
Yes sir dude. Uh if you would have made a waffle maybe you would have liked that. I couldn't get to the waffles there was too many kids like always.
Right but then do you know what Emery would have said then? That is the most childish breakfast you could have had. So you got to go with just get that biscuits and gravy.
No. Grab a slice of bacon. Some potatoes. It's good to go. You know. I'll just stick to my oatmeal.
It was so good. Yeah your old lady oatmeal. It's fine. I don't even care. I think you do. I don't. Because I am croaching up on. Croaching.
Old lady territory. Okay. So here I am sitting with my oatmeal. My maple and brown sugar oatmeal. Old lady. Delicious.
I want you to know that I threw the fluffy Q-tips away. The ones in the camper? Yes. Listen.
Here's the thing. I like a clean ear and I know I'm going to hear it from everybody. Don't put the Q-tips in your ear. Nothing smaller than your elbow in your ear. Whatever. Everybody does it. All right.
And if you don't then I'm sorry for you. You're lying. Because it feels so good to clean out your ears. Listen. When you take them out of the box and put them in another container, even the little cup in the bathroom, they start to fuzz out.
When you take 10 to 12 of them and put a little hair tie around them and put them in your ditty bag for backpacking or you put them in the trailer so you have some Q-tips there, they fray out faster and they get real puffy. And that's awful. I hate it. I don't like it. I won't use them. They're uncomfortable. They sound crunchy in your ear. I don't like it.
I don't have any problem with them. When you asked while we were camping, you go, do we have any Q-tips? And I go, yeah, they're in that area right there.
Yeah. And you go, fluffy? They're all fluffy. I looked at them. They were a little bit fluffy, but I don't know why you couldn't still use them. Because they were fluffy.
I still would have used them. There was once a girl when I lived in college, there was once my neighbor who thought that she got a part of the Q-tip stuck in her ear. She thought a part of it fell off because she couldn't hear anything. And then we spent the whole day of her going, I know I have something in there. And then we finally went to the emergency room and the doctor was like, no, there's nothing in there. I knew there wasn't going to be anything.
I knew that's how the story was going to turn out. You can get freaked out though, can't you? Yeah, you can. You can really get yourself a little spooked out. But then he did say, he said, don't quit putting Q-tips in your ear. Because I think the problem was that she had just pushed all the earwax in. That's a problem.
She was like rubbing a little too aggressively. Yeah, don't do that. I know. You gotta be gentle.
But he also did say, he said the off brand Q-tips. Yeah, or worse. Or worse.
They have to be. So he said, if you are going to use a Q-tip, use Q-tip brand. Ah, cotton swab is what they're called.
Well, the cotton swabs we had were fluffy. But yeah, I wasn't happy. I said, I'll just throw these away because you're not going to use them. Well, if you're going to use them, keep them around. But I just won't.
I don't use Q-tips when I go camping most of the time. It's a great time. Is it? I get dirt up in the tops of my ears that I have to clean out. Gross. Well, do you not clean yours out? I bet you have dirt in there.
Give her a check. Right now? Well, no, I don't want to know. I'll show it to you. I'll clean out the top of my ear. No, that sounds gross. I don't want to see it. Do you look at your Q-tip when you clean out your ears?
No. You never do. I don't like looking at stuff like that. I do.
I know. You got to know what you cleaned out. No, I don't. I do. I don't.
You're missing out, buddy. No, I'm not. You're grossing out. Yuck.
Yuck. I don't want to know. I don't want to see it. I'm just going to do the thing and throw it away.
That's crazy to me. No, blow your nose. Same thing. Throw it away. That's different, but you got to look at the Q-tip. No, I don't.
No, I don't. I've had my nose hair waxed. I don't look at that either.
I've worn Biorre pore strips. I don't look at that either. That's the best one. No. You're gross. No, you got to look at it.
I don't need to know what my body made. Beck was playing video games with some of his friends the other night, and I jumped in to just talk to him for a minute, and I noticed that he was playing with one of his friends who has moved to Arizona, and I miss him. And I said, Hey, can I pop in and say hi to Jake for just a minute? And he goes, Yeah, here you go. So he gave me his headset and I said, Hey, Jake, I miss you, buddy.
Hope you're doing good. And then one of Beck's other friends who I have not met yet said, Beck, your mom sounds nice. I'm going to take back all of your mom jokes I've ever said about her. That's a big moment. That's a big deal. I imagine it's a lot.
Root. It's just dudes. It's just dudes. And I'm sure there's been quite a few. So that's exciting. It's a big day, right?
Yeah. And here's the thing I remember about that whole thing, was you walked into the bedroom after you had talked to him and you said, that headset is really loud. It was. He gave me that computer headset thing where they talk to each other on the games.
Yeah. You can't hear anything. I have no idea what Jake said. I was talking to him.
I don't know what he said. Was there because all the game action was happening? Yeah. And people were just talking and I'm going to give this back now. I'm sure you said something. I'm happy to talk to you, but I don't know what you responded with.
Okay. So you didn't actually have a convo. No. I thought you had had like an actual chat.
No. I just said, Hey buddy, Miss you. Hope you're doing well. And then I waited for a response. But then you just heard chaos.
And then I went, I gotta go. Yeah. That is enough. I'm going to get out of here. Yeah.
No, that makes sense. Well, I'm glad you got to say hi at least. I know. And all of the, your mom jokes he's ever said, take him back. Just like that. He was like, Oh, your mom's so nice. Oh, she sounds so nice. So I told, thanks. You want to have that friend come over for dinner? Beg used to have a friend.
Yeah. And when the kids were little, I mean, they still don't, but especially when they were little, they didn't eat anything that we made for dinner. And they would just complain about it. Our kids. Our kids. Yes. And then he had a friend who would come over for dinner and he would be like, this is delicious.
Can I have more? And we'd be like, yes. Yeah. Fill up. Our kids aren't eating it. No, I miss, I miss that kid coming over and telling us that our food is delicious. Our food is delicious.
Our kids are just picky, picky, little spoiled kids. So I should have that old friend come over and say, Hey, do you want some food? Cause I'm happy to feed you. Well, even last night cooked a delicious dinner and the 16 year old went, I'm not hungry. I went, yes, you are.
You're just not hungry for this. And she goes, true. Yeah, I know. She's making microwaved macaroni and cheese. Exactly.
Instead of delicious mooshy pork bowl. Yeah. Gross. Yeah. Shame. It has cabbage in it. Yeah. It's delicious.
It is delicious. So the kids just told me something funny. When they were little and we were at the store, they would say, mom, can we go look at the toys? And I'd say, yeah, but go together and stick like glue.
That would be the, the, the common saying that I would say, you would say stick like glue. I don't recall that. I do. I used to say it all the time.
Okay. And I just found out that every told me the other day that the second they were out of eyesight, they would stick like glue, like they would shoulder to shoulder as like a joke. And the second they were out of eyesight, they'd be like, enough with this glue. Yeah. I'm out of here. I'm going to go look down this aisle.
Where are you going to be? Oh really? Oh really?
Oh really? I'm not, made me actually kind of happy that they even remembered that they stuck like glue. But then they didn't. They didn't, but I kind of forgot that I used to tell them that.
So when she said, mom, we do remember when you used to tell us to stick like glue. Yeah, we didn't. Yeah.
I do remember that. No. No.
That was sweet. Did your parents ever tell you anything like that? No, because No, mine just said go outside. Well, yeah. And even if they did, it wouldn't have mattered because my siblings hated me.
So I would have probably been like, Hey, I'll stick like glue wherever you want to go. Yeah. They're like, we know, go away. Quit sticking like glue. Can you not be glue right now?
No, my siblings hated me. Oh, I know it. I don't think it was that. I didn't want their little sister around. Well, yeah, that means they hated me. No, they didn't want you around. But I was so much fun. Were you? Yes. You didn't like get them in trouble.
Never. Really? And I was always willing to play whatever game they wanted to play. Uh-huh. 52 card pickup.
I'll play it. Yeah. Once. You'll play it once. So mean. Dang it.
Well, I don't know how to help you. Did your parents ever tell you to stick like glue? I don't remember doing like the, like the, like go to the store and walk around and look at toys with her, with my sister. I can remember it with like myself, like going to Kings and going into the basement and looking at all the toys.
But I don't remember a lot of like piling around. Oh, sad. It's just not in my head. It could have been the thing.
I just don't remember it. My, my brother and sister never wanted to play with me. And so then I would have to just play by myself. And then when they were gone out with their friends, then I'd be like, oh, you know, that new micro machine set that you got. I'm gonna play with that.
Yeah. That's what would happen. That's exactly what would happen.
And then I'd come home and all my stuff was moved. See. Yeah.
Yeah. That's not going to make any older sibling want to play with their younger person. Just play with us. No. Don't want to.
That's all right. Because every time I turn my back, you're stealing my stuff, moving my stuff, breaking my stuff, getting me in trouble for stuff I didn't do. Like, why would you want to hang?
Stick like glue. Come on. Our kids actually are, they always, There was plenty of hanging out around the house, Yeah, they have got a lot of stuff, but no, I'm, I'm very grateful. Our kids didn't do a lot of the sibling fighting stuff that I know we were constantly at ends like that. Oh yeah.
We all hated each other. Yeah. Not me though. It's not hate. I didn't hate them. It's sibling rivalry. It's not hate. It's too strong a word. I understand.
I was always just so nice to them and they were just so mean to me. Right. I'm sure it was that. It was. It's all one sided. It is.
Yeah. It's unjustified one sided because I'm a baby. I can't do anything wrong. Just be nice to me. They were nice to you. Doubt it. You just didn't like how they were nice.
They were nice by teasing you and pulling you by your feet off the couch. Yeah. My brother did do that. I know. And that is how it goes being siblings. Mind of my own business. Sure. Here comes my brother. Yank.
Yeah. Because you weren't minding your own business. I absolutely was. He probably went into his room and found his stuff was all a mess. And so he came out and why'd you move my stuff and you went I did it.
And he went here's your legs. That's why. That's why. No. Not me.
Yes you. Not in a little. Every other little sibling. If you're a little sister I see you.
I know that you're not doing anything wrong. Little sisters unite. My sister and I when we get together as she says we can become kind of annoying.
I disagree. I think we are extra fun. We may be annoying to some people but those people are wrong.
Some of those people might be emery who gets very annoyed by us. Our daughter. I think she likes us but I think she also gets annoying. Annoyed.
Not annoying. My point of this story is that I was watching you and my brother-in-law build a grill while we were camping and I was watching a tiktok video and it had an old song on it from 1992 and I went oh I love this song. So then I played it and my sister and I were just dancing in the middle of the campground.
Right. While you and- You felt the moment. My brother and I were building a grill. And neither one of you even noticed or took note of the fact that we- We both knew what was going on. We just didn't want to give it any attention or else it'd get worse. I'm very aware of what was going on as we were building a griddle.
What'd I say? Not a grill. That's the same thing. They are different. What's the difference? A griddle is a flat top. A grill has slats. Oh jeez.
We were building a blackstone. Okay. So sorry.
The song that we were dancing to from 1992. John Sikata. Sikata. John Sikata.
Sikata. Just another day. Just another day.
No. It's okay. So you were dancing though in a very weird way. Well yeah. I mean it was your lumpy movement we've talked about. Where you were doing the- You've talked about. That's right. Lumpy movement you've talked about.
That's right. I don't think that I did. It wasn't buttery smooth.
It was cottage cheese movement. It's fine. It's good. It's just what it looks like.
There's not. And it's not unique to you. What's that mean? Your sister has the same genes.
So you're both doing the same strange white girl mom dance. This. This. Yeah.
Arms of the air. Yeah. Yeah.
Exactly. Shake your body. Whatever that is. You're both doing that to the John Sikata song. Yeah.
And then you both said and Beck was there too but you both said oh when Emery gets over here we've got to embarrass her and so we need a sign that when she when she walks over we need some sort of signal. I heard all this. Yeah. I was very well aware of what was going on. I forgot about that part. And then you back decided that his signal was to go.
That's subtle. So you guys all went. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
That'll be perfect. And then you just like play to cool like nothing's going on. Just normal people hanging out. Nothing weird.
Yeah. And then she walked up and he went. And then you fumbled to find the play button.
So it took way longer than it should have. And then you finally got the play button going and then you're doing that dance again. And she is just looking like why did I walk over. I should have not done that. She just ignores that. That's my fault for even walking over here.
I think I'll leave now. And she did. And the two of you still doing that and back going. That's what happened. And I'm going to also add it didn't just happen once. It happened twice. Yeah. It did happen twice because then when we got ready to leave camp, you went part two.
Yeah. No, the caca didn't happen on part two. He did it from the back seat of the truck.
Did he know I didn't hear him the whole time you two were doing it. Dang it. I didn't even hear that. Yep. That's hilarious.
Yeah. I gotta say thank you for being part of the tribe. He was part of the program. He was part of the problem.
That's no problem. He was part of the fun. John Cicada would be proud.
He would be proud. That's right. Somebody should let him know. Yeah. I'll get him on the phone. Like Jan. Old buddy.
Guess what? Your song's a hit. It is.
It's a two middle aged women. Yeah. He's like no.
I know. That's who listens to my stuff from the 90s. It's the middle aged women who went, why don't I have this song on my playlist? I love this song. I just added it to my playlist.
There you go. Check it out. If you're a middle aged woman, John Cicada, just another day, you'll love it. You'll be like, oh yeah, I forgot about that song.
How could I ever have forgotten about this song? And then do that weird dance that you do. Just dance the way you do.
Dance however you want to dance, but make sure it's to John Cicada. Yeah. Just another day.
Alrighty. What would you consider the Mount Rushmore of Arena Rock? Journey, Death Leopard, Queen and... Maybe like a kiss is huge. Or somebody like Boston or somebody like, I'm thinking like big like that.
Like yeah, lots of big anthony stuff. I picked, my picks were Queen, Kiss, ACDC. Okay.
And the Rolling Stones. Yeah. Like, hmm.
What? Let me look up Arena Rock. Hold on.
Okay. Arena Rock or Stadium Rock is a bombastic subgenre of rock music that emerged in the 70s and peaked in the 80s. Theatrical stage production. Oh, so Kiss for sure. So yeah, that's where I would probably take somebody like ACDC out. Because I think they're a rock band and they certainly can fill an arena, but I don't think they're the big power ballad theatrical stage show. Queen for sure.
Kiss for sure is theatrical stage. Death Leopard would probably be somewhere in there. Yeah.
You said Death Leopard. I feel like there, yeah. And Journey for sure fills that with the ballads and stuff. Those guys are ballads.
That's what they do. But it doesn't have to be ballady. When you say Arena Rock, that's what that signifies. Well, this article that I'm reading says that Arena Rock is like bands from the 70s and 80s with strong guitar solos and anthemic choruses that inspire audience sing along. Which would absolutely be ACDC. Do they have guitar solos? Well, yeah.
Well, yeah. Who were the biggest arena rock bands? Sticks, Foreigner Journey, Ario Speedwagon, Boston, Toto, Kansas, Night Ranger. Night Ranger. Interesting.
So there's an ultimate classic rock. I don't know if that's like a magazine. It's a website.
It's a website. Okay. They're bands that they picked were Queen Journey, Bon Jovi and Van Halen. Yeah.
Van Halen's definitely in there. For sure. Yeah. With their guitar solos. And so is Bon Jovi. And they're theatrics. And so is Bon Jovi.
What about Guns N' Roses then? I don't know. Maybe.
And Motley Crue? No. That's different. Both of those are different. That's what I'm saying. There's a difference between arena rock and here, all the power ballads and all of the stuff that exists in arena rock versus just a rock band.
They're different. I'm sticking with mine. I might swap out.
Okay. I'm sticking with Queen Journey and Death Leopard. And then I would add in like Sticks or Boston or something like that. No, I'm sticking with Queen Kiss.
ACDC. I don't. And then I'm going to go with that. I don't put ACDC in there. Oh, I will.
I absolutely will. And I'm going to add, I think I said the Rolling Stones initially, but I'm going to substitute them out for Van Halen. That's who I would add to. I would put Queen Journey, Death Leopard, Foraner. Foraner. Yeah. Boston, Sticks, Ario Speedwagon. No, you can only have four.
I'm just telling you. Those are all the ones I would put in there. You can't. You would only have four. But I wouldn't put ACDC in there.
Well, I would. I disagree. I disagree with your disagreement. Okay. And I disagree with Foraner.
You disagree with Foraner being an arena rock band. Yeah, I absolutely do. Take it.
Okay. Now I just have to look. What are you looking at? Queen Boston Journey Sticks. Zeppelin counts as a 70s, but they were.
No way, man. They were a different thing. Yeah, they were. They're in like. Death Leopard, Van Halen, Guns N' Roses, and Bon Jovi are MTV era bands.
So they technically were not arena rockers because they were too late. Okay. Who did you say? Queen Boston Journey Sticks. Those are the 70s arena rock bands. Boston. Yes.
Still Boston. I mean, they do have a lot of guitar solos, but do they have bands? The theatrics. Boston Journey Sticks Queen, Ario Speedwagon.
Again, every list. Kansas, Toto, KISS. Ario Speedwagon. Boston Journey Queen, Foraner, someone said kind of. Blue Oyster Colt. Oh, Blue Oyster.
They were more of a one-hand wonder. Let's be real. Blue Oyster Colt? Yeah. Because you know one song.
All right. And the one song you know is Don't Fear the Reaper. That's the one song you know.
That's the one hit that they had. Don't make me Google that. Okay.
Hey, listen to this. You've been kind of getting on me a little bit about my intensity during some games. And Pickleball is one of them where you feel like maybe I get a little bit crazy when I play Pickleball because I want people to play by the rules and I want them to pay attention through the game and I want people to be like, you know, on top of their game. And I want you to practice and learn technique and improve your skills and get better as we play. All right.
Well, listen to this guy. This guy in Pennsylvania named Safe Kaleem. He's been charged with vandalizing multiple Pickleball courts. After he was injured while playing. He's a poor sport.
Oh, no. He's 31 years old. He was seen using crutches to get around when he visited two different parks around his township. And he reportedly told them that the Pickleball game had caused the unspecified injury responsible for, quote, ruining his summer and driving him to lash out. Pickleball ruined my summer. So he went and vandalized multiple Pickleball courts. He's charged with criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, trespassing.
He cut four different Pickleball nets and one tennis court net, probably because he was confused. Don't ruin it for other people just because you're having a bad time. My summer. Yeah, but now you've ruined it for so many other people. Yeah. Hmm.
Guy. Maybe you're just bad at Pickleball. Might maybe find a different sport to play. Maybe pick a different hobby. He had a recent Pickleball injury and he said, if I can't play, no one can.
It ruined my summer. And so he, listen, I've had my moments where I've been frustrated about a game, but I haven't been like, that's it. No one else can play. Yeah, no one else gets to have fun. I'm destroying the game. He flipped the table on Pickleball is what he did because he was so frustrated. What did he do again? He got injured.
No, I know. So he cut nets. Cut nets. He hobbled around on crutches and cut nets. You guy, that.
It ruined his summer. It's so rude. Dude, I hope you have to pay for all of those net replacements. There's a good chance. I hope you do. And I hope it's a lot of money. Okay. How much is a Pickleball net?
You learn your lesson because that's just rude. Yeah. I mean, a nice net. If you were doing like a standup net, not bad, 50 bucks or so. How many did he cut for a portable one? He cut three Pickleball nets and a tennis ball net. What did tennis do to him? Now, if you want like a real pro net, you're going to be putting out some money.
The net itself on like a real one is 150 per net. Whoa, buddy. Yeah.
Whoa, buddy. What did tennis ever do to him? Why did he have to cut the tennis net? I told you, I thought he might have been confused. He might have been confused. He might have been like, yeah, this one too.
He was just in a rage, a Pickleball rage. Hey, I'm going to say in order for him to cut those nets, he had to be in the kitchen and you're not allowed there. Unless you're bringing everybody else a snack. Would you rather this or that? Would you rather have no windows or no running water? No windows. Oh, you'd rather have no windows?
Yeah. How would you ever know what's going on outside? I can go outside. You can open the door. I can go outside. No running water?
Miserable all day, every day. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, no, I've got to have plumbing.
You got to have plumbing. Yep. Okay, I'm with you on that one. But having no windows would be so terrible, wouldn't it? I mean, it wouldn't be great. No. No, it wouldn't be great.
But having no running water, that would be worse. Well, I guess that was an easy one today. Yeah, no, that's pretty good.
Pretty easy, pretty easy. Plus also, if you wanted a window, you could just knock a hole in your wall. Yeah, that's true. But then you'd have a window. You would have a window then. And so it would immediately heal because you're not allowed windows. Heal? Yep.
Self-healing walls? No. Yeah, you're not allowed windows. What if I put a skylight? That doesn't count as a window. Is a skylight a window?
I say no. It's a skylight. If it was a window, it'd be cool. Yeah, so skylight is technically a type of window designed specifically to be installed in the roof of a building rather than a vertical wall. It's primary purpose is to allow natural light from the sky to illuminate the space below.
Therefore, it is a window. No. I think. No skylights.
Nope. I think a window is a wall thing only. A skylight is on the roof.
It is not considered a window. What about your eyes? What about them? They're the window to the soul. Do you get to have eyeballs? Yeah, you do. Those are the window to the soul.
I heard about it. So if you get no windows, you get no windows. I'm going no running.
No, no windows. Yeah, no kidding. No kidding.
That's why I picked it. How much do you love Pokemon? I don't know anything about Pokemon.
What do you know? I know Charizard. Charizard. You called him Charizard. Charizard is what I called him. Charizard? Charizard. Yeah, what's his name?
Look it up. Charizard. It's not Charizard. Charizard.
There it is. He's a starter Pokemon. What are the other starter Pokemons? Pikachu.
Yes, that's one. And Pokemon I know. You know Pikachu and Charizard. Yeah. Who else do you know?
I just said. Look up some and tell me some things. Just look up popular Pokemon. Well, I know Ash. Well, he's a trainer. Clearly. Clearly. I knew that.
He's human. Okay, popular Pokemon. The two that come up first are Pikachu and Charizard. Charizard. Charizard.
Right? Oh, Squirtle. Squirtle. That's the other starter Pokemon.
Eevee. Okay. I don't know that one.
Bulbasaur. Okay. Don't know that one.
Mewtwo. Yes. Don't know. Look at you. I'm just. There's a lot of Pokemon people that are like, yeah, she's doing it.
Look at her go. I should know more because our kids were into Pokemon for a while. You called it Pokemon? Yeah. Got it. I like to call it Pokemon.
All right. So Pokemon was originally introduced in 1996, 30 years ago is when Pokemon became a thing. 30 years ago? That is correct. No way. It has probably never been more popular than it is right now. Really?
It's insanely popular. Yeah, you can't get the cards anywhere. Last year, they printed 10 billion with a B Pokemon card. Dude. That is more than one card per person because the world population is around 8.3 billion. Dude. They printed last year 10 billion cards.
That's incredible. And it's not enough to stop shortages. It's not enough to stop scalpers. Here's the thing that's going on with the scalpers. They're scalping out of these vending machines that have the packs that they want to buy. Yeah.
They're opening the packs to find the specific rare cards that they want and they're literally throwing the rest of the cards in the garbage right next to the vending machines. I'm not even kidding. It's disgusting. The scalping is horrible.
I don't know how you stop it, but something has to be done. It's terrible. It's terrible.
It's ruining things. Scalping ruins a lot of things. Concert experiences, Pokemon cards, all that stuff. Yeah, scalping. Anyway.
So. There are in one year more Pokemon cards printed than people on earth, which is pretty incredible. What are some of the rare Pokemon? Oh, Charizard. No, he's not rare. Charizard is rare.
Is he? A holographic Charizard? Yeah, if you get a hollow Charizard, you got some money right there. What is the rarest though?
I don't know. Rarest Pokemon. I'm going to see if I can find a rare. It's a Pikachu Illustrator. Due to its extreme scarcity and pristine graded 10 mint condition, it made headlines when it sold at auction for an astonishing, guess how much? I'm going to say $600,000. $16.5 million for one card. If you have a 1999 base set first edition Charizard, that card is worth $550,000 to $750,000. For one card.
If you have a, I was just looking, if you have a cowboy hat Snorlax. Oh, okay. He's a sleepy boy. It's rare. Snorlax is?
Yeah. He sleeps a lot. That's why his name is Snorlax.
See how he looks like he's sleeping? But does he have a cowboy hat on? Well, that's the rare one. If you get the card with the cowboy hat, wear and Snorlax. That's the rare one.
There's a whole bunch of cowboy Pokemons. Look at that. Look at it. Oh, I've seen Snorlax before. Yeah. Our daughter has a stuffy of this guy. That is correct. He's a sleepy boy.
That's kind of what he does. So look at me. I know Snorlax, Pikachu and Charizard. Charizard. Charizard.
Charizard. Let's wrap up the show. I got to go buy some Pokemon cards. I have a great rest of your Thursday and we'll be back tomorrow.
It's already Friday. Love it. We'll see you then. Goodbye. You got to catch them all. Got to. See you.
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