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Wake up with Josh & Chantel every weekday from 6a-10a on Classy 97! Missed the show or want to revisit your favorite moments from the show, enjoy Wake Up Classy 97 - The Podcast!
Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Monday, May 18th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Josh and Chantel kick off the short week tired, wind-battered, and still somehow in a great mood! Do you actually need to refrigerate ketchup, bread, or coffee, a heartwarming good news story about a 14-year-old whose handmade pillow donation project for foster children led to an unforgettable full-circle moment, recap of the weekend road trip to Boise for "Taurus Fest", a surprisingly pricey farm-to-table dinner, a college dorms reunion, a near-miss trust fall moment, our daughter made herself very comfortable in our absence, curly fries vs. waffle fries vs. crinkle cut fries vs. steak fries, a reluctant endorsement of Raising Cane's chicken, gelato is a healthy alternative to ice cream, a nostalgia trip through childhood TV shows, why men don't get enough compliments. what it means to let go of control during a trust fall, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Warm ketchup
(2:36) - Just happy to be here
(6:08) - Good News
(7:53) - Favorite compliments
(13:17) - Teenage daughter bed takeover
(17:13) - Chantel carried a bag
(21:25) - Creative frost prevention
(26:54) - Fancy dinner
(34:15) - Old friends
(39:24) - Chantel likes the chicken
(43:48) - Retro TV shows
(50:45) - Gelato all the things
(55:46) - Would You Rather
(58:21) - Trust falls
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Full show transcript:
You're going to be excited to hear about this. Am I?
Yep. What is it? You love ketchup.
I don't like ketchup. According to food safety experts, you do not have to refrigerate it after you open it. Yeah, because there's so much sugar in it that things not going bad. You don't refrigerate your honey. You're not going to refrigerate your ketchup.
There's nothing in there to go bad. I mean, unless you don't want warm ketchup. Yeah, warm ketchup is kind of gross, isn't it? I had a warm salsa the other day and it was a little bit strange.
I feel a little off-putting. I've had warm chips and cold salsa, which is not bad, but the warm salsa took a minute to get used to. Why did you have warm salsa? I ordered chips and salsa and the salsa was warm. So I had warm salsa. I was like, warm?
I don't know. I wasn't terribly upset. It just was a little bit strange on the palate. I don't know about it.
It was a little weird. They also, the thing I was reading said that you should not put bread in your fridge either. I always store our bread in the fridge because it tends to mold less quickly. Well that's what you think, but I think it makes the bread hard. It does. And that's what they say, that the ingredients in bread crystallize.
Yeah. So it makes it hard. Yeah, you shouldn't put your bread in the fridge. Also, if you put your coffee in the fridge, which a lot of people do.
Yeah, it absorbs moisture. Oh, that's not good. And so it's going to take on flavor and stuff. And it's, mm-hmm.
Yeah, you're going to get bitter, gross onion coffee. Mm-hmm. Don't want that. But you don't have to store your ketchup in the fridge. Gross. Food safety expert said this.
Don't take my advice. When I worked in fast food, I'm trying to remember if the ketchup was in the walk-in or not. I can't remember. It comes in giant bags. And then you would put it in the pump thing.
Bags. Yeah, because it's hooked up. Not a can? No, it came in a big bag with a valve on it. And then the valve hooked up to the pump. And so as you would pump the ketchup, it sucks the bag up.
And then you get all the ketchup out of the bag. But I don't think it was refrigerated because it would sit out in the pump for days. So it's shelf-stable. This got so much preservatives in there. Mostly sugar.
Like the first six ingredients are different kinds of sugar. It's gross. I don't want it on anything. Barely like it on fries. Barely. I'll tolerate it occasionally. Settle down. It's just ketchup. You brought up ketchup.
Let's get into today's show. I enjoyed. So you and I did some traveling over the weekend. So there wasn't really downtime other than the drive time, which was substantial. And not that that is super stressful or anything, but it kind of takes it out of you. It isn't super physical. I didn't work hard.
Right. Your brain is under-stimulated. You get bored.
Your body's under-stimulated. Yeah. I get it. It's a long time. It's hours in a car. Four, to be exact. One way. Yeah.
It's eight hours in a car. And no. And so here's the thing about my body today. I just want to sleep. I know. I'm kind of... Like what is that about?
I feel a little jet lagged. Yeah. Just because it was a couple of really late nights. Okay, fair. Yeah.
And we're at just a little too old to stay up that late. Maybe. Maybe. It could be that. It could be that.
I will also say that it was a little bit chilly yesterday. Yeah. So we had to turn on our furnace after we've turned it off.
Right. But it was too hot in our room. And so I opened the window. Right. Which was nice and chilly so then you could snuggle on down.
Yeah. But then the wind chime was going a little bit crazy last night. I thought about getting up and going, taking the thing off.
I did too. But I couldn't be bothered because I was too tired and cold. And so the wind chime kept me awake a little bit.
Yeah. This wind has got to stop all night long, all day long. Every day. Every day. We got to do something different.
I know. How do you stop it? I harness that wind.
For what? You know how on extreme home makeover edition. Oh yeah. They say move that bus. Harness that wind. Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you. I just want to tame it. Dame that wind.
It does say there's a potential for a bit of snow this morning. Are you kidding? No.
You have got to be joking. Mm-mm. That's for real.
I don't even know why you would say that out loud. A little snow this morning. This morning. Mm-hmm. Well, I will say you covered up the plants last night because we didn't want them to get a little bit frostbite.
That's right. And they got blown away. They're all over the yard. What is? This stuff we use to cover them. The sheets. I looked out there and looked at everything covered. Not everything.
Oh, the garden was all covered because I also used rocks to hold everything down. Good thinking. Yeah.
That was what I thought about. Good job. Thanks. So when I looked out there everything was covered but apparently some stuff got uncovered. Yeah. Well, that's real good.
There were some sheets just strewn about. Great. Love it. Wind, wind go away. Come again. Never. Never. Enough with you.
We all hate you. And also I'm going back to sleep. That's how it's going on a Monday morning.
I'm mad at the wind. Yes. And I want to go back to bed. Yeah. Same. Okay. As long as we're on the same page. Same page. That's good.
Same page bud. That's good motivation to keep the show going. When we both are like, I hate the wind and I want to go back to sleep. But we're not like cranky or crappy. We're still like.
No, that's true. Still in a happy mood. That's that is a positive mood. All right. All right. Good news for you here.
This is kind of fun. There's a 14 year old named Eliza White from Gretna, Nebraska. That does exist.
Okay. Even though every time I've been in Nebraska, it's just dark. Yeah. It's been dark.
Yeah. Well, and Gretna, Nebraska, this 14 year old Eliza had a fun side business rolling. She spends her weekends hitting up local craft fairs to sell her handmade pillows.
This isn't about just making a little extra pocket money. For every single pillow that a customer buys, she handstuffs, sews and donates a second one to a child entering the foster care system. Complete with a sweet little tag that says, you are strong. You are loved.
Isn't that cool? Foster care is a huge part of her family's life. Their household went from three to eight in just two and a half years. The real magic happened when social workers brought a two year old girl named Elena to their house for an emergency placement. When she arrived, she had nothing but a backpack with crayons, a coloring book and unbelievably, one of Eliza's donated pillows. Oh.
Yeah. The moment left the entire family in tears and they officially adopted her last year, which is amazing. I'm not crying. You are.
It's so good. With the help of her mom and her grandmother, Eliza has donated hundreds of pillows and she plans to keep her pillow project going for years and years and years. I hope so. Way to go. That's so sweet. So good. That's one of my favorite good news stories of all time.
It is good news. I know that men don't typically get complimented. Okay. And that makes me a little bit sad. I've been trying hard to compliment strangers because it's nice to receive compliments from people that love you.
Sure. But it's sometimes even a bigger like lift in your step when strangers compliment you. The other day I went to the bank and she said, you look lovely today.
I really like your eyes. And I went, thank you. Oh, it was so nice. I wish men received more compliments. I really do because it's nice to receive a compliment. Yeah. I got one compliment paid to me on Saturday morning. You did?
Yeah. We were meeting up with some friends, gave a hug, and one of our friends said, you smell clean. And I said, I bathed.
So thank you for noticing. I did in fact shower. That makes me wonder, have you. Exactly.
Smelled unclean before. I don't know what to do with it. I'm going to say thank you.
That's so funny. You smell clean. All right. What's been a compliment, your favorite compliment you've ever received? So far that one.
That one has not been your favorite. Interesting. For me, I don't know. I always like when somebody says, you have a nice smile. OK. I like that compliment.
That's a nice one. I hang out with a bunch of like rude co-workers who don't pay compliments. They're not your standard. No. No, because if I went solely based on the feedback I get from them, I'm a dungeon troll.
Yeah. Don't listen to them. You got to get out of that space.
Compliments. Yeah, you got to. You have to have received one that was nice. I mean, I'm sure like when I like it wasn't. I don't think I've had just a random compliment. I think it would be like, you know, if I if I'm cleaned up and, you know, going out or something or going to an event, people, you sure clean up nice, they'll say. I say, yeah, yeah, yeah, which is similar to you smell clean. That's a funny compliment.
That makes me happy. Yeah, I had a roommate once. Well, I had two roommates and they didn't always get along. And one of the roommates told the other roommate, you look nice.
Did you shower today? Yeah, so similar, similar vein. Yeah. Oh, Josh, that's funny. No, I mean, well, look, I had I had shaved my head. Yeah, I had showered. Yeah. So there's there's two different scents.
I had moisturized. There's three. What? And I had used a beard softener oil.
So I had a lot going on with my head region. So when you give somebody a hug like, hey, I haven't seen you in a while and you give them a hug, they probably caught a whiff and went, well, that smells nice. You smell clean. Yeah, that's what I felt like saying. Wow. Did you say yes? I don't know that I said much. Compliments of Irish Spring.
Thank you very much. I don't use Irish Spring. What do you use? I don't even know what you use. The body wash that I got at a fancy place.
Yeah. In the men's aisle of a woman's otherwise woman's store. The big orange you on the outside. I asked you if you used your beard oil because I wanted to smell it. I couldn't smell it.
I liked it when you use your beard oil. I don't know what to tell you. I had. I know. I didn't smell it. Yeah.
Well, all the smell got sucked by somebody else. I guess so. Maybe I just didn't get that close.
Maybe. Because it was shortly after that, I said, hey, smell my beard. Because I wanted to know if it was.
Just a weird thing to tell somebody. Hey, smell my beard. Hey, smell my beard.
But I know you like it. But I also wanted to confirm, like, is it my beard oil? Is that what smells clean? Or is it like, did I put on enough deodorant today?
But even, OK, listen, even that compliment is as funny as it is. It makes you feel good, doesn't it? It made me curious.
No, but it also makes you go, yeah, I am. I'm clean. Thank you very much for noticing. I did clean up. Thanks for noticing. So for this particular activity.
Yeah. So you're welcome for showing up showered and clean. Good job.
We all appreciate it. Yeah. Now about today.
Not so fresh. Hey, yes, I am. Come on. We were gone. We left early Saturday morning to drive to Boise to see some friends. And so we were gone overnight, came home yesterday. And our son was in Utah with some friends. And so our daughter was home alone with Grammy on standby.
That is correct. And she said, hey, can I watch a movie in your guys' bedroom? And we said, yeah, have at it. And you said, you could stay in there if you wanted to.
Yeah, you're fine. Like if you just want to, like, if you feel more comfortable staying in there while we're out of town, go for it. Like sleeping there or whatever. She quickly made that room her own, didn't she?
Yeah. We came home yesterday. She was just lounged about on our bed. Yeah, she's like, this is my home now. There were socks all over the place.
There was a sock in our bed that she couldn't find. It's still missing, isn't it? It is still missing.
She said it's somewhere in our bed. No, I don't think so. You think I got kicked out? I think it got kicked out. She had an ice cream tub.
She was eating on the bed. I know. Just make yourself right at home. Look, I'm glad she feels comfortable enough to be like, yeah, this is OK. I'm cool here. I'm going to watch some TV. I'm going to sleep. I'm all good.
Yep. I feel secure and safe here. That's awesome. My favorite part is that she had made the bed. So she had slept in at Saturday night and then made it Sunday morning. So she was just laying on top of the bed yesterday when we came home. But when I pulled back the covers, she hadn't pulled the top sheet all the way up. I said, you'd even make the bed proper and she properly. And she said, nobody uses that sheet.
I forgot about it. It was all pushed up against the end of the bed. Our kids do not use top sheets. There is a sheet over the mattress and blankets. And I went, well, it's a terrible way to make a bed.
Yeah. Pull my sheet all the way up. I think she probably had like a Kevin McAllister type moment.
I'm eating ice cream in bed. We gave her permission to do so. I know, but jumping around, you know, like really enjoying the time watching TV. That was the scene. I think she was.
Yeah, she was quite enjoying herself. Well, it's also a larger bed than her bed. That's what she said. She was like, I can just sprawl out all this space.
She's like, I love it. Well, don't get too comfortable. Yeah, get out.
Yeah. This is my bed. Get back to your twin size bed.
She also though, invited our dog to sleep on the bed. We don't. Doesn't happen. We don't let the dog sleep on our bed. I said, what? And she said, on my blanket.
Doesn't matter. Now she thinks it's OK to sleep on my bed. And I did notice first thing this morning, she ran in and jumped up on the bed like, oh, this is what I do now. Yeah, no. So now we got to retrain a bit out. It's not your bed.
Your bed is elsewhere. I was pretty impressed. She, our daughter, she made her own dinner on Saturday night. She did good. She cooked, too. Like she didn't just like heat something up.
Right. She made spaghetti and meatballs. She made a meal. She was like living it up while she was home alone.
Yep. Good for her thinking she's woman of the house. She could have mopped the floors.
You could cook a little bit more often. That's what I'm saying. She does. She's done that a time or two. I know.
But could be more often. Anyway, no, good for her. Glad to have the bed back.
Had to reclaim it, which was easy. We had to kick her out. Shoo, shoo. Yeah, get out of here. I'm going to bed. Shoo, shoo.
My bed. Yeah. Bye-bye. We arrive at our friend's house on Saturday and we walk in and we say hello and we chat for a minute. And then I say, oh, I'm going to go get our bags. And I go outside.
Well, I didn't say that, to be fair. I said, hey, Josh, do you have the keys? I'm going to go get my bags. And I brought my bags inside. And I took my bags upstairs where we were sleeping and you came in and you said? Well, we were getting ready to go out and I needed something out of my bag and so I went upstairs and my bags were not there.
So I came back downstairs and I said, did you bring in my bag? And you said, no. No, I would never. I did not say it like that. Go schlep your own gear.
Yeah, what am I, your roadie? Get out of here. You can go carry your own stuff.
I didn't say it like that for one. I just, when I got my bags, because I had, I took a lot of stuff for just one night away. Literally, we were there like four, one night. Less than 24 hours. A little more than 24 hours, but.
But I had three bags just by myself. What? Why? I don't know what you brought. So I was already overloaded. And then when I brought my stuff inside, I gave you the keys and I said, here's the keys. Yep.
Fend for yourself. But I also looked in the car and saw your bags. You also had the three bags.
I literally only needed the blue one. And I said, I don't know what he needs to bring inside. So I'm just going to leave it because I don't know. Is that what you said? To myself?
Yes. I said, I don't know what he wants. You saw it and went, nah. Can't be bothered.
No, that's not what I said. Got my stuff. I'm good. Because you know, if I would have gone out, I would have done two trips. You would have.
I'm brought in everything. I know you would have. I know, I know.
And that's, I know. What do you, what do you, what do you want? When you said that, you go woman. No, you said, are you serious? And I went, yeah.
And then I felt like the biggest club in the world. Because you are very nice. You are very considerate.
And I'm a selfish jerk. I get it. I know. That's not what I said at all. But yes. Since you brought it up.
I do nice things for you sometime. That's right. Such as?
Such as. Let's get it. Give me a minute. Okay. I will let you think about it. Okay. While I go bring in the bag. Your bag.
Right. You had to just bring in your bag. I brought in mine. Okay.
Okay. That is like girl math. Imagine if I wouldn't have brought in mine, you would have to carry all my stuff too. What? Yeah. You know what's funny is I, I expect when you go to the car, when you say, I'm going to go get, I'm going to go get the bags. Right. I expect you to bring in my stuff.
You imagine just for a minute what, what it would be like for you and what would be your reaction if the exact same thing had happened the other way. He hates me. He doesn't care about me. He, he's upset at me about something. Why didn't he bring in my stuff?
Now I have to go bring in my stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry.
No, don't be sorry. I'm just trying to understand how that can play out in the same brain. I'm not bringing in his stuff. He can get it. I don't even know what he might want. Turns into, why didn't you bring in my stuff? What did I do?
My hat? What, what, what, what? That makes no sense. You make no sense.
You do. I'm in this Facebook group for gardening in East Idaho, something, something like that. And because we've had these frost warnings, people have been getting pretty creative about covering up their plants because it's, it's important. You got to keep your stuff covered up so that, you know, the frost doesn't get you as, as you've spent some money, you've invested in your gardens, you want to keep your stuff alive and healthy and, and let it grow, right?
And because we get like six fake springs in East Idaho, we get snow some mornings and then we'll all of a sudden be 80 and then it's back down to overnight lows in the 20s. It's just bizarre. It is bizarre. It's bizarre land. But we've, we've got some frost warnings over the past couple of days.
I think we have a couple more days of it, definitely tonight. But as, as I've been looking through, I've been watching some folks that have come up with some creative ideas. There's a lady on here who's using winter coats to protect hanging baskets, which you showed me a picture of it. How is it staying? How's it staying?
Yeah, yeah. You have the coat unzipped. You wrap it around the hanging basket.
You zip it up. It's going to stay on the basket. No, it's not going to stay on the basket. Why isn't it going to stay on the basket? Cause it's, it's straight through. How big is the neck hole? Small. The basket's not fitting through the neck hole of a coat. Okay.
That's fair. And then it looks like she took the arms and tucked them up under the hood of the coat. So it's hugging it?
Yeah. It's kind of, it's kind of hug it. It's a genius little move. Really smart idea. Yeah.
Really, really good. Plus you've put away your winter coats. So all you gotta do is get that bin out.
Yeah. Maybe you got some oversized ones. If you've got big baskets. It's not going to be using little kid coats. But it's kind of an interesting idea. Depends on what size of basket you have. That's true.
That is true. This person has worked on planting some small plants, but wanted to make sure that they stayed strong. So decided to use coffee mugs to cover small plants, just turned over coffee mugs.
The wind's not going to blow over a coffee mug. No, but that's a tiny plant. Those are small plants.
But I've got, I've got small stuff that's, that's popped up. Yeah. That's true. That's not a bad idea. That's a good idea.
People are getting real creative with their stuff. I am sad about my, what am I, my little starts, my little cups. They're not doing well. I should have some emerged seeds by now and they're not. What did you put in your cups? A lot of stuff. The birdhouse gourds, the, the crookneck squash things.
I've got a whole bunch of stuff that I was starting from seed that hasn't taken in the little cup. Where have they been living? I've got, I've been moving them inside and outside and watering them regularly and giving them some sunlight and stuff. Have you been talking to them? Not specifically.
Have you been encouraging them to grow? I mean, yes. On the inside?
No. You got to say it out loud. You got to say, good job guys. Keep going.
Yeah. Come see the plants. See the sunshine. You got to, Josh, you got to talk to them. Okay.
You got to encourage them. You're a terrible gardener. I am not. You're not. That's true.
You aren't. But you got to give them some encouragement. Try that. Okay. Try that out for size. I will try that out for size, as you said. Anyway, good luck keeping your gardens alive. It's a lot of work.
And we'll just try to make it through all these cold nights together as a team. What's that old nursery rhyme? Is it Mary, Mary, quite contrary? I don't know.
How does your garden grow? Maybe. What's that got to do with anything? I was just thinking about it. Okay. What comes next?
I don't know. Overnight, low to night in the mid-twenties. So certainly you're going to want to cover your garden tonight. There's a frost advisory that is in effect right now until nine o'clock this morning. But it will be cold again tonight. So you're definitely going to want to cover your stuff tonight.
It says the overnight low is in the low thirties tomorrow, going into Wednesday. So there's a good chance you're going to want to cover there as well. And then we're going to be okay. We're going to be don't go telling anybody what the Memorial Day weekend's looking pretty good. Looking good? Yeah. Oh yeah. But don't go telling everybody about it.
I'm not going to tell. Because then I don't want to jinx it. Right now it just says pleasant with intervals of clouds and sun. I'm happy for a pleasant weekend. I know. Isn't this pleasant? Yeah. Like in the seventies and then into the eighties on Sunday and Monday.
What a pleasant day for a stroll. Weird. How do we go from today 58 snow this morning overnight low 24 by the time we get to Friday 70, that time we get to Sunday 80 overnight low 50. What's going on? High desert baby. It's a weird place we live. This is a weird place we live. I lived here my whole life.
It's just bizarro. Anyway, take care of your garden. We met with some friends over the weekend because my two besties, my two best friends I've known for a very long time, 20 years plus. And all of us have a birthday in May. And so when we get together, we like to call it vacation. Yeah, I like to call it Taurus Fest.
Yes. Because we're all Taurus. Taurus Fest. And so we got together for vacation.
It always, it doesn't always happen in May because schedules get in the way. But we decided that we wanted to go for a nice dinner. We wanted to go somewhere fancy.
Oh man. So we went to, and it wasn't necessary. Like it was a nice place, but like walking in, you wouldn't automatically think, whoa. No, because it looks like, like an old diner that has been converted into an upscale restaurant.
But you walk in to where you would have seen like booths and milkshakes at the bar. Yeah. Like it has that vibe. Right.
But it's been completely upscale. Yeah. Like really nice furniture.
Like, yeah. And they are a farm to table restaurant. Oh, I didn't know that. He explained that when he seated us, but you might not have heard.
I did not. So all of the foods that the chef prepares are sourced locally. Oh, cool.
All the meat, everything is sourced locally, which is huge. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, really cool.
Oh yeah. So all the vegetables, like all the stuff. Sourced locally.
I had rockfish. Yeah. Where'd they get that from? That might be from somewhere else. Hold on. Yeah. I don't think everything is sourced locally. Yeah.
Yeah. Somewhere else. So true marine rockfish do not exist in Idaho's local waters. No, you don't say.
Yeah, no. However, there are several freshwater species that behave similarly and local anglers will use the term rockfish to refer to them. Oh, they lied. I don't think you had actual rockfish.
No, no, no. I think you did have actual rockfish. I don't think you had bass or whitefish or whatever Lingkod is. But those are all you can find those fish in Idaho. I catch whitefish all the time. Yeah.
So you can definitely have some of that if you want. But true rockfish, true marine rockfish. Doesn't come from Idaho?
Not in Idaho. So I would say maybe aside from that. Everything else.
Everything else. Because like the stakes had the ranch where they came from in the name. Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah. So like the steak that I had was really super yummy and was locally sourced. The potatoes that the mashed potatoes that the steak was served on and with. I'm sure we're local potatoes.
You're better mashed potatoes. That's right. Oh, so good.
Yeah. It was so good. So we had a nice appetizer, which was these. They were like a hash brown. Cubed. It looked like French toast sticks.
Kind of. But it was delicious potatoes in like a really nice garlic cream sauce. Those were so good. Excellent. So excellent. Excellent. And then we had I had the steak with the mashed potatoes. You had the rockfish, which came with white. What?
Cauliflower, roasted cauliflower. Oh, I saw that. That looked nice. Potato. It was nice. I had a bite of the fish. The fish was good. The whole thing was delicious. And my steak was unreal.
That was the most we've ever paid for a meal. Do you want to talk about that? What do you want to say about it? We had an appetizer. We had a drink.
We had a steak and a rockfish. Yeah. Yeah. So we had two entrees. No leftovers. No leftovers because the portions, this is a farm to table restaurant, so the portions are managed.
So drinks, appetizer, and two entrees. How much do you think you might pay for that? Any other day, how much would you pay for two people to go have that for? I would say, yeah, like 60 bucks. 60 bucks? Maybe 100? If you went somewhere real nice, maybe you were spending a little bit, you might pay 100, maybe a little more than $100 for a nice night out like that.
Right. $200. $200. Bro, that bill showed up and I went, what?
No, I didn't. I looked at it like, because you have to play it cool, Josh. You have to pretend like you're fancy. You have to pretend like you're one of the people. If you're in a nice place, you have to be like, oh.
Pretend like you're one of the people. Yeah, and then you have to throw down your card like, oh, use that one. Yeah.
Yeah, our friend Andy and I were making that joke. He goes, oh, go ahead and put that on my Visa. Put that on my ICC. Yeah, you're not ready to see that card. Do you like that fancy green one? That's mine.
Go ahead and put it on my plastic. Yeah, I was surprised because in my head, I went, yeah, this is going to be a little bit of money. Right. Like my stake alone, I knew was like $60. I knew that going in. But then when I saw the bill, I went, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. It's cool.
Cheat choice, Am. Yeah, apparently. But then they brought us out to Zerts. Because there were so many birthdays at the table. Collectively, there were like five birthdays out of the eight of us. There were five birthdays in there between the end of April and the end of May. So it was like, cool.
I know that our buddy Doug, his birthday is in September and my birthday is in February. So we felt very outcast. You should have weirdos.
Right. Have a May birthday. Yeah, it was like, cool. I'm going to be over here being a Virgo and a Pisces with a bunch of Tauruses. You know, astrology and that. Yeah, I got it. Yeah, $200 dinner. No, we're fancy. Oh, we're fancy.
That's where we belong. I think that is the first time I've ever paid that much for a dinner for two people. Same. Like we've been together a long time and I feel like we've done some fancy things. But I've never paid that much for a dinner. Same.
It was delicious. But yeah, you have to like go, oh, cool. Yeah. That's go ahead and take my money for that meal. All right. We'll be having hot dogs tonight for dinner.
I think that's correct. So much. We're back to ramen noodles and frozen pizzas.
Here we come. We got to meet up with some old friends of mine from when I used to live in the dorms. In college.
In college. That's right. From 1999. Yeah, from 99 to 2000. A couple of years you lived in the dorms at Idaho State University. And which dorm did you live in? I lived in the Redfield.
Right. Owen dorm. The Redfield Owen dorm was, Redfield was girls side. Owen was boys side. They were connected. Right. And in the middle were like a commons area.
Yeah, a commons area. And there was a foosball table in there. He used to not play properly on. I heard story about a professional foosball player that came through the school challenging people. Yeah, I didn't know about that.
Giving away like $1,500 scholarships if you could beat him. Sounds like not many did. He was pretty good. But I'm going to bet he was pretty good because he held you to the rules. I bet that. You can't spin.
I don't remember that at all. If you only play foosball, spinning the guys all upside down, you're not playing foosball right. And you're going to get smoked as you learn. I know Josh. Geez Louise, settle down.
Hey. So this was, I lived on the girls side of the dorms obviously, but I had a lot of friends on the boys side. And there were rules that you couldn't go into the boys dorms past 10 o'clock.
And my friend and I used to hang out in there all the time. Right. Our friend that we met up with over the weekend, his name is Ryan. And he was the resident advisor.
The RA. So he was like, I don't care. Like don't do anything inappropriate.
But I would on mind. I imagine the rules have changed since the late 90s. He left and his replacement we did not like because he was a big liar for the rules.
There's rules. Yeah. See, I imagine things changed after Ryan was the RA. Yeah, they did change.
And we did not like it. Mike was his replacement. Mike follows the rules. And we were like, Mike, we don't like you.
No, bring back Ryan. That's what we all said. It's 10 o'clock. Go to bed or go study or do something else. Rules is rules. No, go study.
Yeah. You're in college. What are you talking about? Your parents are paying a lot of money for you to be here. Go get an education. Okay, listen, while we were eating dinner with our friends, our friends have a 16-year-old daughter.
We have a 16-year-old daughter. That's right. And she had gotten a text from her daughter that said Chick-fil-A question mark.
Right. And then she didn't automatically respond. And then there were six text messages consecutively. Her name is Jill.
From her daughter, the text messages said, Jill, Jill, Jill, Jill, Jill. Were they coming in that fast? Yeah, I don't know.
Like, how fast was she sending messages? Our daughters have never met. You and I haven't spoken in 20 years. But guess what? Our daughters are essentially the same. Yeah.
I get those exact same texts. Chick-fil-A? Refreshment? Mine just don't say Jill. Mine say Chantel. Chantel. Mom. Mom.
Man. How can two people be exactly the same? Like, you wouldn't have done this to your mom. I didn't have a phone. I said wouldn't have. I know you didn't have the technology. I'm probably. But you would have. Yeah, probably.
Where would it have been that you wanted to go? Because AC driving? Oh, AC driving. AC milkshake? Milkshake? Mom? Milkshake fries? AC? Mom? Mom?
AC driving in Berlin? Solid gold, baby. I feel like that's what it would have been.
Yeah, it would have been. AC? You want to go to AC? Or A &W?
Did you do A &W a lot? We didn't have one of those. I thought you did. It didn't last long. Okay. We did have one, but we didn't.
Yeah. That wasn't a frequent case. But the AC was the spot. Oh, the AC driving. For sure. That's what you would have said.
But it was also close enough that I could have walked. No, I know. But you still would have wanted money. Oh, yeah.
I'm not paid for it. Refreshment? Yeah. Where do you think she learns these traits? This isn't like she hasn't observed this. This is a learned thing.
I've never done this in her present with my mom. What I'm saying is the attitude is present. So it's easy to go, oh, no, I know how to push this button.
Yeah, okay. Chick-fil-A. Mom?
Mom? Refreshment? You want a treat? Do you have to run to the store because we can get a treat on the way to the store? You got to treat yourself when you're out running there. And then you go, yeah, that does sound nice. And then she gets your way. We deserve a treat.
Yeah, you're right. Closet shopping is hard. Let's go get a treat. Oh, man. You're ridiculous. You want to admit your confession or how would you like to move forward with what you're about to say? You said you weren't going to tell anybody.
You said that. Are you going to tell anybody? I haven't said anything. I asked if you were going to admit your confession. I'll admit to it. I'll admit to it. I'm not going to say a word.
I'll own up to it. On the way home from Boise, we were driving through Pocatello Chubbock and we decided to stop and grab dinner on the way. So we drove through the Raising Canes.
Haven't been to the new location yet. So we said, hey, let's stop and grab that on the way home. Our daughter was begging for it.
She was very excited. Raising Canes. Yep. So we grabbed some Canes and then we headed back on the freeway and drove home. Now we're sitting there. We're eating. We're having a nice time. We've reconnected with our daughter who we hadn't seen for 20-some odd hours.
And we're like, hey, here's some food. We're sitting at the dinner table and you say out loud, What'd I say? You told me I wasn't going to tell anybody. No, you said you weren't going to tell anybody.
I said, I haven't told anybody yet. This is actually pretty good. You said this chicken's pretty good. And I said, huh.
And then Marie said, what? It's a big deal because I think it's a little bit overrated. You did. You struggle with it. I think it's overrated. But? But it was pretty tasty yesterday. It was pretty good. It was pretty good.
It's good every time. Their fries are not my favorite. You don't like a lot of fries. I don't like a crinkle cut fry. You don't like a crinkle cut fry. You don't like the fries from In-N-Out, which I'm with you on that. I don't like anything in-N-Out. I'm with you on the fries. Fries lack. But you also don't like the little shoestrings from Freddy's.
Nope. Whose fries do you like? I like. You like McDonald's fries? I don't mind McDonald's fries. I like the curly fries from Arby's. You are a curly fry person. I like a curly fry.
I know that about you. Curly fry from Jack in the Box is delicious. Yeah, you like a curly fry.
Yeah. Because you think the waffle fries at Chick-fil-A are too much potato. It's too much potato.
Yeah. But a curly fry, which is a lot of potato, by the way, you're totally into. But they're seasoned differently. They're seasoned! Okay.
They've been around. If you have a waffle fry from Chick-fil-A, you have to use so much sauce to even make them taste like anything. It's too much.
I don't care for it. And then one at Freddy's are not enough. I see. Look, I'm a tater-tot guy. So, if there's the option to get a tater-tot or a golden crown, some of that kind of stuff, I'm in on that. Yeah, agreed. I like those better. I will choose that every time. So, a lot of these restaurants now offer a tater-tot.
And I go, yes, I'll be having that. I used to be a pretty big onion ring guy, but not so much these days. I'm not big on them. Oh.
I will take a tater-tot all the time, but I'll take a french fry over an onion ring. Shocking. I know. I'll take a tater-tot. I don't mind that. Yeah. And then a curly fry.
Right. Curly fry you would take before a tater-tot. Never a waffle fry. Never.
Never a shoestring. No. Gross. Get out of here.
Nobody once said. What about one of those like real homemade potato fries? Like a steak fry? No. Not a steak fry.
Like, still has some skin on it, like a drive-in greasy fry. Oh, I like those. Do you? Like Scotties? Okay, yeah.
That's a good example. Yeah. I like those. Okay. I care for those. A great deal.
All right. That's a lot of potato. But it's different. They're seasoned. So anyway, needless to say, you like that chicken. It was good, but I was also hungry.
So. That's how dinner usually works. I was hungry. So I ate dinner and dinner was good and it happened to be delicious chicken. It was good. Yes. I admitted it. But you wanted more sauce and more bread.
More bread always. Yeah. I just asked you a question a minute ago and the question is, and I'm working on posting this to our social media pages so other folks can answer, but the question is, it says, don't mention your age. Just name a TV show you watched as a child. Uh-huh. And you said. Fragile rock. Fragile rock. Great pick. Fragile rock came out in, what did I say, 83?
83 to 87 is where it aired five seasons on HBO. And here's what I think is weird. Yeah. We didn't have HBO. So I don't know how I watched Fragile Rock.
It wasn't on HBO. That's what Google says. No. That's what it says. I think they've brought it back. No.
Are you reading the AI summary? The original Fragile Rock ran from 1983 to 1987, airing five seasons on HBO. How in the world did you ever watch it? I don't know because we didn't have HBO growing up.
My parents would not have paid for HBO. Maybe I just watched it when we had the free trials. Maybe. I don't know. It was. That's weird. Yeah.
The co-production brought together British, and CBS Canada and HBO and the Jim Henson company. Yeah. I don't know. I know. I know, but I watched a lot of Fragile Rock.
Yeah. Well, you were fancy. Maybe I had videotapes. Videotapes.
Maybe I had videotapes. What was the show that you watched as a kid? David the Gnome. I don't even know what David the Gnome is. David the Gnome, I learned today.
I did not know this. I am 40 whatever years old and learned that the world of David the Gnome, which I watched on Nickelodeon in the late 80s, was originally titled David El Nomo, which was a Spanish animated TV series based on a series of children books that were written by a Dutch author. So this guy named Will Huygen was the original author of The Secret Book of Gnomes, which then a Spanish channel, Televisión Española, made 25 episodes of David El Nomo, and then I learned on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. I did not watch David the Gnome. I know nothing about David the Gnome.
Well, it aired from 88 until 95. Here's what I know about David the Gnome. What do you know? It just, you know, one of the questions was what happened to David the Gnome.
That's a question. And then the final episode of David the Gnome, David and his wife, Lisa, reached the end of their 400 year lifespan. Knowing gnomes do not live past this age, they embark on a final journey to the mountains of beyond. Wow.
The final episode shows the couple saying goodbye to their Fox companion, Swift, before transforming into trees. Oh man. I know. What a thing to have happen. I didn't know that. I never saw the finale. How sad.
No, how transformative. You can watch it. I have the clip right here. We can watch it.
Oh man. Do you think you'll cry? No. No, I won't.
David the Gnome. Here are some other answers that folks have posted. And again, I'm going to post this on our social media so you can chime in. Somebody said, punky Brewster. That's a good answer. Somebody said dinosaurs.
Oh yeah. I watched a lot of dinosaurs. It wasn't dinosaurs part of the original TGIF lineup.
It absolutely was. And then Alf made the list. I loved Alf. I watched a lot of that. A lot of that.
Scooby-Doo, Fragile Rock, David the Gnome. Small wonder. What is small wonder?
Okay, time out. Is that the one where the shooting star? Is that the shooting star? I don't know. I think so. Small wonder.
I can't remember now. Yeah, I don't know this show. Oh, I do. I absolutely know this show. Yeah, this is the shooting star one.
Oh yeah. An American comedy science fiction sitcom that aired in 1985 to 1989. Small wonder. The weirdest TV show 80s kids can't forget. I don't remember it. I do. Okay. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.
All right. Land of the Lost. Hey dude. I watched a lot of Hey Dude. Again, Nickelodeon was my world. So Hey Dude was fantastic. That's Ben Stiller's wife that was in Hey Dude, by the way. Oh yeah, it was.
Absolutely was. Boy Meets World, Dragon Tales. I haven't seen gummy bears on the list. I didn't watch a lot of gummy bears. I did not. Another early Nickelodeon. Family Matters, Charles and Charge made the list full house step by step. Oh yeah.
All of that. Heath Cliff. Did you ever watch any Heath Cliff?
Nope. He was like a big orange cat, not Garfield, different. He was Heath Cliff. Right.
I didn't watch that. Boy Meets World, Threes Company, Captain Planet. There's a bunch in here. So we'll get this posted so people can chime in because it's kind of fun to talk about some of your childhood memories of shows that you watched as a child without mentioning your age because they're like, you're going to put up something. If somebody writes, I watched a mash. I'm like, as a child? Well, it was on in your house.
I understand. But did you actively watch it? No, but it was the only thing on TV.
Then you were like, yeah, I guess I'll watch this. Do you have trauma from helicopter noises now? Yeah.
That's when I knew, well, dad's got control of the TV now. Guess I'll go do something else. Watch it mash. Okay. Now it's going to bug me though. I got to find the theme song for this. For Small Wonder?
No. For the something about a shooting star and put it in your pocket. Would you like to swing on a star is the one that I have stuck in my head. But I don't know if that's from Small Wonder. I don't know. I'm going to look it up. I'm watching a clip from this show. This show is I do not remember this at all. What happened out of this world is where the swinging on it.
You should be swinging on the star. Okay. Thank you for some research. We have started eating gelato because it's a healthier alternative. We've convinced ourselves that it's a healthier alternative ice cream. Oh, it is. It is. So we got, we got a pint of it probably a week ago and we agreed on a flavor.
It's not the flavor that I would have picked for myself, but it was something that we both agreed on and finished that. And then we went to the store and they had a sale on July. They were buy one, get one free.
Yeah. Good sale. And then you said, I'm going to get one and you get one. And I went, great.
I can get my own gelato. That's right. So naturally you stacked up four or six of them because you like to rate things.
And you went, ah, yes. Now I can decide. That's not the way to go about it. Just look at the freezer and go, I'm going to pick this one.
No, no, no. Stack them up on one shelf and then close the door because it got all steamy. And then look at them.
I want to get all of the cold air out. Right. And I had to make a decision because I couldn't decide. And so I said, okay, out of these six, which one do I want? And then I was like, I can't decide.
I've narrowed it down to two choices, but I can't decide between the two of them. One was more of a fruity flavor and one was more of a caramel flavor. And I'm like, am I like both of these?
I can't decide. And then I said, why don't you get two and I get two as just a joke. And then you said. So we did.
So that happened. Healthy or alternative, right? That's right. How's the diet going, Josh? Not bad. It's going great. It's not going bad. It's not going bad, but it's not going good.
It's going fine for me. I have total control. I don't know what you're talking about. We broke out the gelato last night. I said, Hey, do you want some gelato? And you said, yeah, I'll have some gelato.
Yeah. And then you finished a little bit earlier than I wanted to. First of all, I'm having a sorbet gelato, a sorbato. A sorbato. That's what it says on the jar.
It's a sorbato because it's a sorbet gelato. No, I got it. I got it. And I like it.
It's a passion fruit one, but I like that I can scrape it and it rolls like that rolled ice cream. Oh. Yeah. So I was doing that.
So I took it down maybe, maybe a quarter of an inch from the top all the way around because I was just rolling it like that. Yeah. And then I was like, I've had enough. So I went to put it away and you said, you can't be done.
I'm not done. Like that's my responsibility for your, you know, ability to stop yourself. Because I was like, I wasn't finished eating gelato. If you were going to go get the gelato and you said, Hey, do you want gelato? And I said, nah, I'm good.
Would you have had gelato? No. Why?
Because you have to eat gelato with me. No, I don't. Yes, you do.
I can't be eating gelato alone. Yes, you can. No.
I've seen it. You're capable. Oh, I know I'm capable. You can have a treat without me. You don't need my permission. Sometimes I'm going to say, nah, I don't really feel like anything.
Okay. And you just go, okay, I won't have a treat then. Don't get judgy when I'm still eating gelato and you've said years away. Whenever have I been like, boy, you're still eating that? Never. Not once. No, you haven't. You really haven't. I just don't want you to.
Don't project your own self judgment on to me. Quit saying the same things that are happening in my mind. Stop it. Okay. I just, I'm going to be watching your gelato levels. Okay. If I, if I finish my gelato before you finish your gelato before me, no, I can't, you will keep your spoon out of my gelato.
I will. I don't like your flavor. Good answer. Yeah.
My sorbato. Yeah. No, you can have that all to yourself. And the other one.
I don't know what other one you got the same as the first one we had. Oh, basic cookie crunch. Yeah, it was caramel cookie crunch. Yeah. Basic. It's delicious. Basic is vanilla. Come on.
Everybody knows that. I can't even remember. I got southern butter pecan. Yuck. And the, it's like a blackberry one.
Also yuck. No. Blackberries taste like medicine. Prove me wrong. Is it time for would you rather this or that? Well, then would you rather this or that?
Would you rather have a head the size of a watermelon or a head the size of a golf ball? Oh no. Oh no.
I'm going with golf ball. No. Why?
Because I don't want, I don't want to carry around a giant head. That's not that much different than now. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. You're like grapefruit right now. You want to be smaller than grapefruit head? Yes.
Dude. Either really large or really small. I feel like my head right now is the size of a watermelon. It is not. I mean, not the elongated kind, but a round watermelon.
That's my head. You should compare. Rude. The next time we try to put my hat on a watermelon and go, wow, that hat is loose. Watermelon head over here. We're going to measure. I have a tape measure of my purse. The next time we go to the store, we're going to measure your head and then we're going to measure the watermelon. We're going to see.
What do I do? And mine too. I'll measure mine too. I have a big head too. No.
You don't. You have a tiny head. You put my hat on, it falls over your eyes. Like a fival.
Yeah. You look like fival in my hat. What are you picking? Watermelon head. Watermelon head?
Because I already have it. You're going to stick with watermelon head. I'm not picking that tiny head.
A golf ball head? No way. I'm not having that. What if it's the elongated watermelon?
I'll deal with it. I'm not having tiny head. And then if it's the oval watermelon, is it oval long ways or is it oval lengthwise? It's oval tall. You're going to have such a long head.
Mind your business. Why is it so long? Are you so rude about my elongated head?
I can't even with you right now. That's what you picked. Yeah, but why are you going to make it all rude? That's why would you pick that? I didn't pick a rude head for you.
Would you rather this or that? I was talking about some trust falls with our friends over the weekend. Because you don't and haven't done them.
No. You don't trust anyone to catch you. That's not true because I talked about it with you and I trust the people that I was with. I would trust implicitly. You're going to go up on a platform, turn your back towards them, put your arms across your chest and fall back, trusting that group of people, myself included, to catch you and not let you fall. I would, yeah.
You're really going to do that. My problem is I have a hard time like releasing control and that's why I think that I have a hard time getting massage and I can't relax because I don't like being out of control. And so for me to just fall, that's my hang up.
I understand. Falling is a bit of a commitment. What's going to happen if you just let go of control at the masseuse that you're afraid of? I don't know.
Because the end result is a nice relaxing massage. I know. I know. I don't know. Let the walls down, you know?
I know. Like what's your hang up? I don't know. I really don't know.
I couldn't tell you. You go get a pedicure and you get the same problem. Same thing.
Yeah. I asked all of our friends, I go, have you guys ever done trust falls? None of them had ever done it.
I've never had the opportunity. We should have done it. I said, let's go do it. I would do it, but I've never had the opportunity to do it. We were going to do it on Saturday with our friends and then we forgot.
And I went, oh. You wouldn't do it with a group of people that you've known for maybe a few days or a week. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. But you know, if you had opportunities growing up, you had opportunities to do that at different camps and stuff.
Different church camps and stuff. But you never did trust falls. No, I didn't trust any of those people. You wouldn't do it. No way. So because you thought they were going to go, haha, you goof.
Yeah, they were all, last second, they would have all stepped away. Let me fall. No, I'm not doing that. You think that would have happened?
Oh yeah. Look me in the eyes and tell me that would have happened. That would have happened. It would not have happened. It would have. Especially not there. Um, you didn't know the people I knew. Were there adults around during this activity? Doesn't mean I trusted them either.
My point is no one's stepping away. They're going to catch you. I don't know about that, Josh.
You should have maybe tried this when you were 12. Not with those people. With the people that I know now, 100%. Those people, no way.
With the people you know now when they were also 12? Yes. No way. Yes. No.
You got a trust fall issue. I do. I really do. Well, good luck with it. I'm working through it. Are you? Yeah.
Okay. Let's wrap up today's show. Thanks for hanging out with us. Hope you have a great rest of your Monday. It's a short week this week.
We're here until Thursday, but then we've got, as you pointed out, a five-day week ahead of us. Come on. Very excited.
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