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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Josh and Chantel kick off the show with Father's Day recap and backyard project overwhelm before diving into a feel-good story about a $100K donation to Albuquerque Public Schools in honor of a late educator's love of reading. They cover the Mormon cricket invasion spreading across Eastern Idaho, World Cup updates including Lionel Messi breaking the all-time men's World Cup scoring record and Kylian Mbappé closing in, and the viral "hotel breakfast" trend taking over social media. They also debate whether adults should be allowed to order off the kids' menu, explore the "Male Living Space" subreddit, discuss ultra marathon running, share family catchphrases and couple quirks, a nudge to let go of grudges, anger, and regrets on National Let It Go Day, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Backyard projects
(3:24) - Let it go!
(6:48) - Good News
(8:21) - Mormon cricket invasion
(12:05) - Things we always say
(17:32) - You're in our seats
(22:49) - Messi is #1
(27:55) - Familect
(31:50) - Big stretch noises
(36:22) - Male living spaces
(42:49) - Ultra runners
(47:37) - Kids menu
(51:51) - Would You Rather
(53:39) - Hotel breakfast
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Full show transcript:
Sunday was Father's Day. Uh you kept yelling at me to sit down and relax. Yeah. I did. I have so much to do.
I know you do, but that was the one day that you had to just sit down and relax. Yeah. But I didn't.
I had stuff to do. And I still have stuff to do. And I can't get motivated now to do the stuff.
Why? I don't know.
I started weeding the flower bed in the back. I haven't picked that project back up. I loaded the limbs into the trailer from the lilac bush.
This was all on Father's Day. Yeah, this is all the stuff I did on Sunday. Loaded the limbs into the trailer. I haven't finished that project and taking those to the dump. I've got to pull up some pavers and put down some new uh retaining wall stones. I haven't done that. I've got to finish the zone two on the drip water system so that the rest of the backyard gets watered.
I haven't done that. I have so many things. Meanwhile, on Father's Day, when you're doing all these projects, I'm sitting there like, hey, you should come sit down. I had no problem sitting down and relaxing while you were busy working.
But you just kept going like sit down.
Yeah, relax. It's Father's Day.
Relax. I look around the backyard and I love what we're doing, but there's so much still left to do. Yeah. I've got to put the kayaks away. I've got to empty out the shed. I've got to I've got so much to do. I've got to build shelving. That's how I do it. I need lumber for the privacy wall. Like I have so many things.
That's how I feel about the inside of the house. Oh, I don't go in there.
Uh I hang out in the backyard where all my projects are.
I hang out in the backyard too, so why can't look at the house? And then I sit in the backyard and I relax. I go, it's nice back here. Right. And then I go inside and I go, oh no. Why'd I come back inside?
Right. No one's vacuumed in here.
What's going on? It's mostly mopping. I don't, I couldn't even tell you the last time I'm swept just the other day. I know it desperately needed it. Thank you for doing that. Yeah. Somebody said I saw something that said, people ask how I balance everything. The kids, the house, sleep, work. And the answer was I don't. I rotate which one I'm neglecting. Yeah. And right now it's the house.
Right.
Because there's outside stuff to do. It's nice.
But I can't, uh, I can't relax when I got all these projects in my head. I know.
I haven't been. Small stuff. Like I looked over and I was like, I gotta mow again. I gotta get that grass cut. Uh oh, the bird feeder's empty. I'll fill those. So I did that instead. And I went, eh. And you're like, come sit down. I'm like, the birds need food.
Yeah, I know, but man, oh man, it's nice to sit. Yeah.
I gotta work on that sitting down.
I relaxed on Father's Day. You even made dinner. So sorry about that.
I didn't get breakfast. I got the wrong size drink. Man, I'm no, I'm grateful. It was uh it was a good day. It's been a lot of fun to work in the backyard, even on the day that is supposed to be like just chill out. Just chill. You're like, you want to go fishing? And I'm like, but there's stuff in the backyard to do. It's crazy. Anyway.
Well, maybe today you can chill out. You think?
I don't know, because I gotta I gotta go to the dump. I gotta do all the stuff. I can't sit still. Sit still, my guy. Here's today's show. Are you holding on to something? Yes. What? Uh my chair. No. I mean emotionally.
Oh, oh yeah, duh. Aren't we all?
I've uh there are definitely probably some things that everybody holds on to. Yeah. What are like a grudge? Yes. Or maybe a regret. Yes. A guilt. Yes. An anger about something. All of those. Are you hanging on to some toxic people? Yeah. Perhaps. Yes. Today. Let it all go. Is let it go day.
All of easy. Easy peasy.
Look, I understand that maybe it's not easy. But today is a day designated for saying enough's enough. It's time to let it go. Okay. So I I know that sounds silly easy, but maybe spend the day and go, you know what? Enough's enough. Okay, Josh. That grudge has gotta go.
No, I like holding on to that grudge. Why? Because I like it. Let it go. No, wait, man. I like it. It just said I'm hanging on to it. What about an anger? You like one of those? Yeah. Or two? Yeah. Three? How many? Anger? Yeah. Uh, I don't know. I'll have to sit down and write them all out. Oh.
You're gonna list out the things you should let go. What do you call that list? Um, my anger list. Anger list? I don't know. Okay. What about regrets?
Yeah, I got some of those. What? Let's let them go. I don't know why we're talking about this this early in the morning. I'm not in the mood for this. This is too early. This is too heavy. Um now you're on my grudge list. Whoa. Settle down. You toxic person in my life. Hey, right now. Do you feel thirsty? Yes. Sure.
You should hydrate today. It's hydration.
That's better. I like that one.
And then let's work on that anger list.
Now you've got me mad again.
This is a this is a mood swinging kind of thing. All right. All right. Well, that's it. That's it. I hydrate, let it go. And let's have a Tuesday, I guess.
Hydrate so you don't dip. That's what I say. That is what you say. Yep. Okay. Thanks, Josh, for the pep talk.
I I just was saying if you needed a catalyst to let some stuff go, today would be the day. Okay. And you could just say, you know what? I'm over it. Enough's enough.
I've shed my skin. Yeah. I've I've returned anew.
Be born anew. Yeah. Why you roll your eyes like that? Because dumb. Gag. You don't think it'll work? I think it might work. You should give it a try. I got some stuff I could get rid of. Yeah, you do. Yeah. Maybe I'll do it today. Okay. Shed it. I will shed it. That's what's gonna happen. I'm gonna snakeskin it right off me. Let it go.
Yeah. Let it go, babe. Let's let it go, Dan. Let it go.
Here is some good news. This is a story about Richard Van Donjan and his late wife Barbara, who dedicated their careers to education. Uh Richard was a professor at the University of New Mexico. Barbara was an uh Albuquerque public school teacher and librarian who sadly passed away about 10 years ago in 2016.
Richard, who's now retired, wanted to make sure the barber's passion for books kept shining bright. And so he just made a 100,000 donation to Albuquerque public schools. And the money is going toward creating the Van Dongen books. Kids want to read Fun.
Yeah, it's doing exactly what the name says. Instead of just buying standard textbooks, this money uh gives school librarians the green light to stock up on popular literature, graphic novels, the latest nonfiction books that the students are actually excited to open. It is the Van Dungeon books kids want to read fun.
Uh thanks to the donation and passion for reading shared by Richard and Barbara, kids in Albuquerque will be able to turn the pages of impactful books for years and years to come. That's very, really nice. So I uh I dig on that. I think that's great. Get your reading. That's right.
Literacy is a find your genre. Even during the summer. Yes. It's good news. Uh so have you been keeping up on the uh Mormon cricket invasion?
I have not. Well, the latest thing over the weekend is this horrifying video of them in Ashton, Idaho. They're getting uh into that area, and I don't like it at all. They swarmed this house and the video I'm watching. I mean, they are just everywhere.
Ew, it's the swarming of the house that's gross. We were just up there because we drove up there to take a hike. Yeah, and they were all over the road.
Yeah, well, we were over in the Kilgore Kilgore area, kind of between the St. Anthony sand dunes and Kilgore. Uh that whole stretch of the highway there is is pretty gnarly.
Uh there are a lot of them in the road, and it gets slippery and orange from all of their little gross bodies. Um, but the uh this video, I should send this to you. Let me send this to you. I think I'm looking at it. Uh it says Mormon Cruz Invasion, June 16th. Uh-huh. Yeah. And they're all over the house. Uh-huh. Yeah. What do you think about that? It's gross. It's horrible. Yeah.
You can't even open your doors or your windows. They'll come inside. That's right. That's horrible. Where's all the birds? Don't the birds eat them? Sure. Oh, take a lot of birds. They are all over that house. I know. That's so horrifying. Yeah. We, when we were driving through the area and saw them all over the roads. Yeah. You rolled down your window to get a peek at them, and one almost flew into the car. I don't think so. You did. You said that.
No, they were just jumping like crazy. You said it. Nah. Oh my gosh. Nah, they lied then. I don't unless I was saying it to freak out the the kids we had in the back seat. But nah, they were just gross. But they're little shell bodies or ugh. Yeah, there is And this guy's a guy's boots on. And he's walking and he's stomping.
And you can see he's done it for a while because there's a lot of them on the driveway. away. I mean what do you do? What do you do? Get a power washer and get them off the house. I don't even know.
Um you can't even go into your driveway because he's they're surrounded Would you leave the house? garage. No, you couldn't. Anytime you open the door they're surrounding everything. Yeah. They're horrible. Oh these are so gross. I gotta go away.
Well anyway they're still out there just in case you were wondering. They're still like it's like a horror movie. Yeah it is it looks like a scene from a horror movie. You open the door and there they are going hey can we come in you got anything for us to eat? Gross. Yeah. I I mean and they're wiping out uh
yeah they
eat all your vegetation yeah so like if if they were trying to get into my garden I'd have to have cover the whole garden and bug net. Yeah you would I'd figure that out I'd have to figure that out if they get even close this way I gotta figure that out. They're gonna get smart though. They're gonna find a way to get in No, I'm gonna power wash the outsides I don't know what I'm gonna do. Build a moat. Well you don't get across a
moat you don't have to worry about it right now. They haven't invaded our area yet let's keep it that way.
Do I hire birds? What do I do?
Yeah you hire birds that's what you do. Hey bird army get to work I don't know I don't know what you do something though.
I don't want that nobody wants that he be jeebies
Emory our daughter asked us the other day she said that she and her boyfriend were talking about she asked him to tell her three things that she always says and vice versa. So she had to tell him three things that she thinks he always says so then she asked the question to us and you said you could only come up with two for me. The two things you think I always say are I didn't even want this dog yeah and I hate all my clothes.
Yeah you open the closet and you go oh I hate all my clothes I hear that twice a day
twice why
twice you'll do it in the morning when you're getting dressed and then you'll also do it at night when you're trying to think about what you're gonna wear tomorrow. I think I just do it once at night when
I'm trying to get my clothes ready for the next day I don't do it in the morning.
Because then when you put them on you'll go and then you throw the shirt and you go I I hate all my clothes so yeah all right fine you always say oh my back is so scratchy.
Yeah matter of fact if you want I'll
never turn down a back scratch no you will not that's a good
time that's the only one I could think of for you I know there's more but that was the only one thing I could say I gotta come up with two more.
But how often do you think I say my back is scratch at least once a day. No way. Oh yes I don't think I said it yesterday at all
you didn't say it verbally what does that mean You know you know what that means no I don't I don't. If you if you don't say it then you usually just lay down with your back exposed right next to me like oh yeah yes scratch the back so it's a body language sentence that you say oh is it if you don't say it with your mouth you're like how about this how about that back scratch I
could I could go for a back scratch. You always get what else it's one of the greatest things in life I don't know what else I might always say I'm sure people that listen to the show would be like oh you always say that and they would know uh but I don't know off the top of my head what I always say that's why it's a subconscious uh crutch we call it in the industry things that you say all the time um That
it has to be like a not like a like a crutch I think is is if you say things like um or yeah, no, I get it. But this I'm specifically talking about things like sentences that you say all the time. Right. Like I hate all my clothes. That's a full on sentence.
I know one that our kids say all the time. What's that?
What's for dinner they'll they'll appear out of nowhere. What's for dinner? What's the plan for dinner? Yeah. What are we having for dinner?
We haven't seen them all day, and then they're like, hmm, I'm ready for some food. Yeah, what's for dinner? Who's got who's got an idea? What do you mean? Go away. What's for dinner?
Whatever you're about to cook for the family. How about summertime?
You think I'm cooking? Get out of here. Yeah. Go find something. Come on. I think there's an uncrustable in the freezer. It's got all the nutrients you need. Yeah. Uh well, sort of. Hmm. I know, I'll think about it some more, but that that one for sure. I think you're spot on with mine. I do say I hate on my club.
all this dog. That just adores you.
It's more. like, It's more like, yeah, I tried to have a nice relaxing evening in the backyard, and she was like, No, no, no, no, let's play kick a ball. Kick a ball is she loves playing kick-aball. It's just a game where you kick a ball and she goes and fetches.
Yeah, it's fetch, but instead of using your hand, you kick it. And she loves it. She does she will play kick a ball all day. Yeah. And then the neighbor dog goes, she and then she shakes it like crazy.
Really was playing with her for a long time last night, and then she would get distracted by like a smell or something in the backyard. And I'd say, Great, I'm gonna go sit down. And then the second I sat down, she'd be like, hey, yeah, we were playing a game. What's the deal? And then she would bark at me till I got up to play. Crazy.
It is really you were talking about getting her one of those automatic ball launchers. And we need one. Yeah.
I'm too old. It is like having it is like having a toddler having this dog. I didn't even want this dog. I didn't even want it. I didn't even want this dog. And I hate all my clothes.
Yeah, that's it. Those are the two most common said things.
And like this today, this is new. Okay. That I'm wearing. Nice. Thanks. I like it. Okay. So that's good. What would you say my two biggest um fears are when we're going to a concert or a show of any kind?
Your two biggest fears? Yeah. Uh time being late. Yeah. And missing the whole show for some unknown reason. And uh two would be uh you show up and there's somebody in your seat. Yes.
And both of those things happened. Let's be clear. We were not late. We weren't late. No.
We arrived precisely when we were meant to, like true wizards. And did we miss the opening band uh guy? Yes.
I didn't and I didn't care so much about that.
Wasn't wasn't worried about seeing the opening act. We were there for the main stage performance.
Okay. That was fine.
But I arrived exactly during set change, and we were seated and everything was worked out and fine by the time we still had probably five seven minutes.
I know, but I like to sit and get situated.
Yeah, we had five five to seven minutes. That was plenty.
I was getting we went to dinner beforehand and I was getting real antsy looking at the looking at the clock. There was a big line of people waiting for food, and I was like, oh, we're never gonna get there in time.
And we got there exactly on time. Except when we got there, and we said, Oh, hey, I think these are our seats.
The woman sitting there said, Oh no, somebody's already sitting there. And I went.
No. So there was there was a lot to this because uh we weren't necessarily fully familiar with the venue, and so we had pulled up on the phone where our seats were and just said, let's just ask somebody and they can point us. They've got people here. And the sign said section six, but we were in section nine, and they were like, Oh yeah, you're here. And I went, Are you sure? And I they were like, Yep, just head up to row T and you'll be good to go. So we went up to row T, and then yeah, we walked over and went, there's like there's a a woman sitting in one of the two seats, but there are three seats open next to her.
And I thought, well, maybe we're misreading this. And so we walked back out to the to the end of the row and we're looking, and you said, Well, there's these other people right up here, let's just ask them real quick. And so we look, and they're like, Yeah, it's just that row right there, tea, and then head over. And we went, Well, there's a woman sitting there. And they so they watched, and we went down there and we're looking, and we're like, I sat down in the one seat, and you sat down in the next one.
She was like, Oh, my dad is sitting right there. And I went. I said, I said, I'm sorry. I said, We're we're confused. I said we just got in here, but uh, we've been told by a couple of different ushers that this is where we're supposed to sit. And that's when she went, Well, let me go talk to my dad and see what's up. And so between her going and talking to him and looking at their tickets and talking to other rushers, they were a row off.
I yeah.
So we were we were where we needed to be.
And that was just the most important part that we were right.
I I'm not necessarily worried about that. I am. But but here's what happens. Yeah.
When you everybody looks at those people, everybody around you is like, uh, somebody's in somebody's seats. Everyone is watching that.
I wasn't watching any of that. But it was also a really fine interaction.
There was no she was she was very pleasant. She apologized, and I was like, there's I'm not worried about it. No, we're not gonna throw a steam.
We're not those people. I'm I'm not even stressed. Like, it's all good. I wasn't stressed about it when we walked up and you were here. I was just gonna sit next to you. I don't care.
Those are what would have been somebody else's seats, though.
Yeah, and it would have caused a whole different problem.
It would have caused a whole kerfluffle. Yeah, it would have been shenanigans.
We got it all sorted out, and we still had somewhere between five to seven minutes before the show started where we just got to chill and relax.
I just hate, I hate being late, and I hate trying to figure out if we're gonna be able to do
that. So we were on time and it was a non-issue.
It's a total issue. I'm stressing out. That was That was nothing.
There's nothing to stress about. You just got to communicate and be kind and just go, hey, I you know, I'm I'm sorry. We're we're being told this is where we're supposed to be. Can we you know sort this out? And she was like, Yeah, we were supposed to be up here, and she said, sorry, uh, like at the end of the show, we walked out into the aisle at the same time. You were a little bit ahead, but she was like, So sorry that we were in your seats. She was still apologizing. I went, it's all good. You should have worked out. Yeah. You should have. No.
Read your seat numbers better next time No, lady.
No, no, it's all it really is fine.
No, I know it's fine. I just hate, I hate those experiences where you go. Oh, here we go.
Even if the venue had double booked, like sometimes that mistakes can happen, and the venue can like sell the seats twice. Sometimes, then we they would have figured out where to put us. It would have been fine. I know. I'm not stressed.
I'm stressed because people get mean sometimes, and so I get nervous about people being mean. Uh it's all good. Let it go, Day. Sure. Okay.
Get you a little bit of World Cup update Action. Okay, please do. Uh, there is uh team from Argentina. Yes, of which Lionel Messi is on. Yes. And uh Messi has become the all-time men's world cup record scoring player.
Really? He has scored his 17th career world cup goal yesterday against Austria. Uh, he missed an early penalty kick in the game, but totally redeemed himself later in the first half. Uh, he did a left footed strike past the goalkeeper. He has officially scored all of Argentina's goals during this World Cup. Oh man, five goals in two games.
Uh, and uh obviously the uh Argentinian team, very very excited, and they're celebrating in a big way. Uh Messi's record, however, which is 17, is already under threat from a 27-year-old from France named Killian Mbappe, I believe is how you say it. Mbappe is how you say it.
Okay. Uh Keel Killian Mbappe. And he is on track right now to uh give a little bit of pressure to Messi. He has 14 world cup goals, and uh he's 27. 27. And Messi has 17. Uh-huh. Only has three more, and Messi's like 40.
Does France and Argentina play?
I don't know the answer to that. I haven't looked at the tournament bracket.
Because that would be oh, interesting. Yeah.
Uh let me see if I can see where we're at on the uh on the bracket.
I was talking to a buddy of ours who is from Spain. Uh-huh. And he has been watching the World Cup. Obviously, he's rooting for his home team of Spain. Sure. Uh, but I said that my team was Portugal, and he said, Why Portugal? And I said, Well, you know why. And he said, because of pretty boy Ronaldo.
Christian. Yes, because of pretty boy Ronaldo.
Yeah. He did say that if uh Team USA makes it uh past uh round of 16, then he's like, I'll come watch a game with you. Which would be cool. That'd be very funny. That would be fun.
Um we'll see what happens. But uh 17 career tournament goals right now for Messi. Uh, but keep an eye on France, because Killian, that guy. Okay, I'm gonna look him up.
Yeah. What's his name? Killian. I just think.
A Y L I A N Killian. Mm bop way. And then Mbappe. And it's the letter M, then the letter B. Okay. A P P. I see him. I with an accent. Mbappe. Mbappe.
Mm bop. Yes, that is correct. That is he is uh he is a product of hands. He's a Hansen song.
Yes. Killian, that Hansen song. Mm bop. That's right. Awesome. Yeah. Uh pretty cool. I want to watch that. He has four goals so far in this World Cup. Again, Messi has five so far in this World Cup.
So keep an eye on uh keep an eye on Killian Mbappe from But M-boppé France. Also much younger, Messi. I know. Yep. Keep looking out, buddy.
Keep your head on a swivel. He's only three goals away. And he's young. So anyway. That's what's uh that's what I know.
Mbappe is known for his pace, dribbling, and clinical finishing. Oh too I too am known for my pace. You're dribbling mostly.
You got a You got a hole in your lip? That's what they always say. It's your first time taking a drink. I go, yeah. Yeah. Also, can you hand me a towel, please? Thank you.
I've dribbled on my shirt. Anyway. That's uh that's all I wanted to talk about. Okay. I don't know where we are in like standing standings, but I know that uh that that's what's going on. Right. I know.
I I haven't been following along this week. I was kind of following along last week.
Well, you you were really following along with the Tartan Army in Boston. That was really your favorite thing to watch. Yeah. Yeah.
And all of the, I think it was the English that were in Texas. Man.
Man. I saw something somewhere that said, um, having all of the World Cup people over here is like seeing our cousins that we never get to see. Oh, yeah.
It's like a big sleepover.
Yeah, they are calling it the sleepover. That is true. Pretty exciting. So World Cup. World Cup action.
Have you heard of Familyct?
Uh Family. Yeah. No.
It's the secret language that your family invented without noticing.
So like a dialect, but for your own family. Correct. Yeah, because there are things like uh we'll say that's just our own family sayings that no one else understands. Like Rocket Barbara.
Rocket Barbara was on my list. I was trying to think of some of ours. Yeah. Rocket Barbara made my list. Rocket Barbara. I don't know where it came from. I can't remember either.
Our daughter said it when she was little, but I don't remember why. Yeah, Rocky Bar like rah rah. If you're trying to pump someone up, you're like, Rocket Barbara. Right. No, no one else besides our family knows what that means. Right. Um when Beck was little, he used to say, nice to meet you. Nice.
Nice to meet you. So we I think we do that a lot. Yep. And then he used to say, Do you want some dinner? Yes or no? Yes. Whatever he has. Whenever he asked a question. Yes or no? Yes.
When we went, Do we have an option? Yes or no? Yes? You want cheeseburgers? Yes or no. Yes. I guess we want cheeseburgers. Yes or no, yes.
Those are some of the ones that I
Yeah, I'm trying to think of some others. Rocket Barbara was right at the top of my brain.
Because that's Yeah, that's one of our big ones for sure. Yeah. Rocket Barbara. There's another one too. If I'm feeling especially happy, I say. Yeah. I so fail.
I so pale. And that's that's from a viral video of a woman who is on the news, and the camera started rolling, and she was unaware that she was live, and she's just looking at herself, and and she just says, I so pale. And then the woman next to her is like, we're live. And she's like, oh, the news. I don't But it's just hysterical, and I don't know when that became like a I'm content. Yes.
I'm so pale. I so pale.
Yeah. I mean, in the moment she was really just like, I'm I'm good, and nothing in the world is wrong. Right. I'm so pale. So pale. So pale. Yeah, that's pretty good.
You can't think of any others.
I should have asked you before. Yeah, I don't.
I'm glad that you said rocket bar, brother. Of course. That was number one on my list. Yep. Um. No, this is what linguists it's the name that linguists gave it to. Yeah, the private language that every family invents for. Familyct. Familect.
Yeah. Well, and I think there's now there's become that like uh trend of like uh this is the thing you say when this happens and they're holding up like a card with the thing. Right, right.
Like people have turned it into a bit of a viral video game. Yes. Um, but that's the same concept. It's this is the the the movie line you quote when this thing happens or whatever.
And we do plenty of that too. We have a lot of our own. We have a lot of familict, but those are the ones I could think of. Uh great pause. Great pause.
Whenever someone has to get up during a movie or a show or whatever, and you pause the screen, and somebody's in the middle of like a face, and you go, great pause. Great pause. That happens.
I'm gonna have to ask the kids if they could think.
I'm sure they're sure they know some more of them.
But these are and here's the thing. It's like we don't even really think about them. They just come up in like random conversations, and then we go, that's just something we say as a family. Yep. No one else gets it, but we're pause. We sure do.
I so pale. Rocket bar. Rocket Barbara. Yeah. Those are all good.
Do you want a snack? Yes or no? Yes. Yes or no? Yes? If you have to take a midday stretch. And you stretch. Why do we have to make noise when we stretch? Because we're old people. No, I know. But we did it when we were young people too. I don't know that I did as much. What's your what's your stretch noise?
Oh, some old man thing I do, or I go, Yeah. Like that? Like that. Yeah, right. Mm-hmm. And you go, big one. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. It's about right.
Do you do that even if there's no one around? Do you do it when you're alone? I'm sure I do. It's just a natural thing.
There are some times when you stretch and your legs uh are are like all shaky, and you go, oh. And you go, like, whoa, bud, slow down. Like it's just a stretch.
I don't think that's ever happened.
Oh, you're not stretching right then. I guess not. If you're not stretching your legs out so that your body goes, ah let me do a leg stretch. Yeah. Oh, that feels good. Nice. Yeah. Old people noises. Hold on. I gotta jack. You hurt yourself. Oh no. You stretch too hard.
Well, I fell off the step last night. Yeah, you told me that. On the back deck.
And you said uh your ankle was all jacked up. And I said, what happened? And you said I stepped off the deck. And I'm thinking, you went off like into the flowers, or you took the wrong step, and I said, Where? And you were like, just on the steps. Just on the stairs. I said, did you fall down in the grass? Yeah.
I did. I had my phone in my hand, and when I went to step down, my ankle kind of wobbled. Yeah. And I fell. And then my phone fell out of my hands, and I just laid there in the grass. And the dog was tied up. Yeah. So she couldn't help. She couldn't help, but she was looking at me like, hey, can I kick that ball?
Hey, uh kick a ball.
She was no help. Anyway, so just stretching my feet like that kind of hurts because that hurts my ankle. Oh. Well, quit doing it. Okay. So you make that noise when you stretch, whether or not there are people in the room. I'm sure of it. Or you're alone. Okay.
I also yawned a big yawn like that. I like that. You ever do a big yawn like that? Yeah, but my. But why you can't hear
Because you your air pressure in your whole heads like changed, and you're like, ah. You go, someone's talking to me, and I couldn't hear you. I was yawning. What? When My whole my whole body quit listening.
Do we I just wonder if people do this because they want other people to know that they're stretching, or they want other people to know that they're sneezing.
Yeah, that's why I call people out when they sneeze, and I go, fake. And they go, What do you mean fake? Attention seeker. You just wanted everybody to look at you. Like that, no one sneezes like that in real life.
So then that the same could be said of anybody who's stretching.
You're just looking for somebody to notice you.
I worked with uh with a woman one time. Her sneeze, she had this huge buildup. And then she'd go like that. And I went, come on. I said, that is fake. And she goes, that hurt. And I went, hurt. Sometimes my sneezes hurt. Like this. Yeah. And I went, dude. That was not real. Come on. Sneeze like a real person.
Sneezing is so weird. Stretching is so weird. The noises our bodies make is just weird. All right.
Yeah, that's a normal yawn. You don't yawn like that. Ooh. Big yarn. No. That same woman. I could stand, uh, I worked with her, right? And she worked at a front desk, and I could go and talk to her, and I'd go just like that. And she'd immediately go, stop it.
It would make her yawn. And I could do it, like, you could do it that quick. You'd be like, and immediately yawn. It's fantastic. And to everyone who has that same affliction who is listening right now and is like, stop making the noise.
There is There is a subreddit where men can post and share their living spaces with each other. That's correct. It's called male living space.
That is correct. Here's here's the deal. I'm familiar with this. Oh, are you? I am. And not for like any reason like, oh, I want to check out like what would it be like if I was a bachelor? Uh but I like to look at uh the way people decorate and the things that they prioritize.
Decorate fastations. No, listen, you're looking at only the examples that were shared in an article about it. Okay.
And they have chosen the worst of the worst in the article. Okay. Because you need to go actually look at it. Okay. See what's going on. Because it is an encouragement thing.
Like the top post right now, this is a guy who says, I'm 24 years old. Does my bedroom look too childish? Oh. And he's got a loft bed with his desk underneath and his PC, and he's got some figurines and stuff, and he's like, Does does my space look too childish?
Like that's one. This guy is a 37-year-old male. He has a wonderful looking uh like studio apartment. Uh he's got great furniture, he's got some plants, like he's got a thing going, he's got a vibe.
What I think is interesting is when you see ones like this one says, This guy says, This is my friend's first place. He's got two bar stools, he's got a TV with his video game system on the floor, but he's got a really nice kitchen and these prioritized. Okay.
So the pictures I'm looking at, there's one with like a cinder block nightstand. Right. And he's got like his watch and his phone in the cinder block holes. Um, this one, he's got posters on the wall, but they're old posters from like Wendy's, so it's like
yeah, the old food goes Ghost Pepper Sandwich, 499.
Right.
Yeah, no, they're listening. Inflatable couches. Yes, I've lived in some dude spaces. Uh so you know, let me preface all of this to say I've been I've been in some of these places. But this guy is like he's got a whole story here, and he's like, here's the deal, here's my whole thing. He says, after 30 years of an abusive relationship, I finally created something peaceful, and his kitchen is immaculate. Like I would love to cook in this kitchen.
Well, I love it.
So you've got to actually go look at the space because what they're sharing in the article online is a poor representation of what's actually happening in this space online. Um, this guy is like, hey, I turned my unfinished basement into my dream man cave. So this is his male living space. He's got an arcade down here, pinball machines, like galore, it's cool.
When you lived with dude roommates, yeah, it was how did you guys decorate? Terribly.
Well, we had uh well, I had a lot of the furniture, so I had the recliner, which you've seen. It was a horrible green one thing before the green one. Oh, I don't know if I know the brown one. I don't know if I saw that. And then I had my black entertainment
center, which you saw had stickers on it, and then because we thought we were really cool, we lined the whole upper top of it with black lights, and then we took a bunch of like uh soby bottles and like you know, whatever, uh, and we filled them with water and uh and liquid from highlighters, and it would all backlight glow. We were very, very cool, very cool.
I think somebody had a South Park poster that we hung in the living room. Not a lot on the walls. Furniture, like even as you look at a lot of these male spaces in this in here, not a lot hung on the walls.
There, I lived with a roommate, and there was a there was a restaurant in Pocatello, Johnny B. Goods. Sure.
And it was like a 50s diner. And they would serve your burgers and like old little cardboard car.
Yeah. And I had a roommate who would collect those and save them. And she would put them, she would hang up shelves and put the cars on the shelves in the living room. That's stylish. And we were like, were like, oh, you got the blue one. And she was like, Yeah, yeah. I've been waiting for the blue one. I have the pink one and the red one, but now I got the blue one. And we were like, great.
Aren't shared living spaces just fun.
Yeah. And then I had another roommate who had like, she would take like a jean pocket and she would sew it so it would actually make like a little hanger pocket thing. She hung that on the wall. Yeah. And then she put these giant wooden pencils in them. Oh. Yeah. And what for? Style. Oh. Decor. Yes.
I've never seen anything like that.
And she'd put the tiny little pocket under the biggest wall. So it was the only thing on there, huh? Yes. Cool.
That's cool. I will say a lot of the male spaces have RGB lighting. A lot of uh lot of different lighting. It's RGB. All the different colored lighting. Uh red grain blue, RGB, LED lighting.
Like a lot of lighting effects.
Guys really dig in the uh lighting effects in here. Um, but I'm gonna tell you a lot of these uh uh spaces are are really really nice.
Okay, I'll look at some of the good ones. Yes, they just show the bad ones. Correct. For clickbait.
That's well, because somebody stumbled across and went, look how poor these guys are decorating and living. We should talk about it. Hey, who cares?
Live how you want to live. I know.
But also like be supportive, you know, like give some encouragement here. So anyway. There's one guy who lives in a boat, and he said, Here's my boat. There's one guy who says, I've this is my third year living off the grid in his van with his dog. Here's my male living space.
I kind of want to live off the grid sometimes. I think about it and I go, doesn't that sound nice? Yep. Yes, it does. Let's get a van.
Okay. You're gonna van life with me. I don't know.
It sounds nice, and then it doesn't.
We know a couple of people who do these ultra marathon races. They're big time runners, and they do this stuff for fun, and they put their bodies on the line. And they pay to do it.
And they pay uh good money to go and do crazy things. Listen, I ran cross country in high school, so I get a little bit of running. The longest distance I ever ran, and we ran it twice a year was a 10 mile. Uh, which is a decent amount. I mean, that's a lot of running for 16, 17, 18-year-old kid, right? Yeah. Uh these guys just finished up a 108K race.
It's like 67, a little more than 67 miles. Yeah. Yeah. Unbelievable. I know. I know. I can't even imagine. So I'm looking at the map of this race that just happened. And this was over in the chalice area.
Uh-huh. And uh, and I'm looking at like you start with some road running and then you get off the road and you're on this like ATV trail. It's like two wide trail, some of it's single wide. Um what do they call this thing?
The river of no return. I was talking crazy. I was talking to some co-workers because I have a couple of co-workers who went to do this. And they said it's a lot of running, but it's also a lot of like hill climbing. And when you're on flatland, you're just happy to be on flatland because it's a lot of like hiking yourself uphill. Yeah.
And then you're running downhill, which is very hard on your legs and your knees. Yeah. And he said you're using your sticks to kind of your sticks are like your poles to like hoist yourself in the room.
up these mountains.
And then they tell us it rained on that for like three hours, like poured rain on that. Yeah. And they're like, well, we just kept going.
So this particular I'm going to do it again. this particular race. And I assume they do this same map all the time. Is that the idea? Anyway. I assume it's it's about 17,000 uh feet of elevation gain. They have aid stations spread throughout the thing. There are nine of them. Yes. Uh it's this just this long single loop, the one hundred and eight K is anyway.
Um, and uh you do have a few uh climbs, five significant climbs, two of which take you over nine thousand, almost ten thousand feet. So your oxygen's gonna be terrible. Yeah. Terrible. Yeah. And then you gotta just keep running.
It sounds horrible, doesn't it? It does. They pay to do it. They say they're gonna do it again. And I had to mention to both of them that there are other uh quieter, nicer, not necessarily quieter, but more fun hobbies that you could partake in. I mean, they love it. They do love it. I think they're maniacs. I think ultra runners are maniacs. Do I think that your body is like doing incredible things? 100%. But I also think you're a maniac.
Yeah. So even the smallest one that they do is 32K, which is almost 20 miles. Uh and that one, uh just that one alone, I go, eh. No, I know thanks.
They said that some people start like they started really early in the morning and then start at five in the morning and then they didn't finish. Some of them didn't finish till two or three. The next day. The next day. Yeah. Unreal. You know it. Unreal. Doesn't that sound horrible? Yeah. That sounds horrible to me. Oh. Yeah. No. I'm not into it.
And here's the uh you start and then you gotta reach uh the saddle of a mountain at nine miles in. Oh boy. And then you're gonna reach uh another uh uh side of the saddle three miles later, and then you're gonna go through the town side of Bayhorse, which is your first three and a half mile downhill. Oh, fun. Yeah. Oh boy.
I know, I know.
I just that's uh good for you. Good. Good for you.
I mean, if that's what you enjoy doing and it sounds like they do, then I'm like, more power to you, buddy.
Yeah, I don't know if I could I couldn't put my body through it. I just no way. I just don't know. I want to run a 5k one of these days. That's three miles. These guys out there doing like seven times that. I know just for fun.
For fun. They're like, oh, it's fun.
And that's the small one. 32K for fun. Okay. Good for you. Maniacs.
Should adults be allowed to order off the kids' menu. Yes. And Here's why. I also say yes.
Um, it's a portion thing. They're they're charging that price because it's a smaller portion. Yeah. So yes, absolutely. Yeah.
I've ordered happy meals in the past because yeah, I'm like, I don't want a lot of food and I don't want to spend money for food I'm not gonna eat. Right. So yeah. I'm gonna order the kids' menu.
Right. Some of the restaurants are like, no, you can't. And a lot of restaurants put in place 12 and under. Sure. You can't order the kids' meal unless you're 12 or under. But why? Right. Especially if I just want half the portion. Right.
But if you're getting a small cheeseburger or you're getting like two chicken fingers, or you're getting a smaller bowl of spaghetti because you order from the kids' menu. So what?
Yeah, I know. You're I'm still paying money at your establishment.
Right. For a child-sized portion of food. Yeah.
The internet is a little bit divided on this. A lot of people say no. Mostly the restaurants are saying no. You can't. But I don't understand why.
That's the thing I'm stuck on. But why?
Because they're not making as much money. Who? The restaurants. They're not losing money.
I'm buying a child-sized portion for the price you've said this portion of food is uh costs. What's the problem?
It says that a lot of restaurants uh prohibit this to protect their profit margins. That doesn't make sense. On adult meals. What's a profit margin? Okay.
How much the food costs versus how much you make selling that amount of food. But again, I I guess the argument could be made that a child is not going to go to a restaurant and order food themselves. So they could discount the portion for a child knowing that the markup on the adult's meal is going to cover the smaller amount of money they're going to make on the child's meal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I could I could understand that sort of, even though I disagree with it based on the fact that they're still making money.
Well, and this is what some establishments subsidize the low cost of children's meals through adult on on-premise. That's exactly what I'm saying. So if a if a large group of adults only order from the kids' menu, then they are losing money.
Correct. That's what I was thinking about. That's what you're saying. Yes. Okay. So I could understand that being a factor. Um, however, they've they're still going to make some money because they've still said this portion of food costs us this much to buy and and cook and pay for labor. Uh-huh. And we're selling it at a discounted rate. I think that's uh that's an interesting question. As a consumer, order whatever you want. As a business owner.
As a business owner, maybe
then you're still gonna compensate in your day.
Do some smaller portion options.
They some restaurants have, right? Like they have that on the lighter side menu. Oh, yeah, yeah. Where they that's exactly what they've done.
On the lighter side.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, it's a small side salad.
I'd like the heavy side option.
True story. Absolutely.
On the heavy side.
I'm a heavy side kind of guy.
That's probably the super size. Supersi me.
Give me the big, I'll have the extra large. Didn't they quit doing that? Yeah, I think so. I don't think you can order that in a minute. I don't think you can. Yeah. Best you can do is a large. You can't get the big big bucket of soda.
Super super super size bucket of soda.
Empty that bag of syrup into my cup.
Thank you very much. Yeah.
That's the opposite of the child portion. And those guys pay a premium for that. That big extra bunch of sugar. Oh, yeah. They sure do. Anyway. Yes, you should be able to order off the kids' menu. Agreed. Would you rather this or that?
Would you rather wake up each morning with a different hairstyle or with a different accent?
What would it be like to wake up with hair?
That's what I'm saying. This is your opportunity.
I mean, that would be interesting, but then I would like, do I have to style it or is it already styled? Um Because you said it's different hairstyles.
Like I wake up and it's I got a mohawk.
I wake up, I got a big uh pompadour. I wake up, I've got uh, you know, like uh some sort of bowl cut. Right.
Okay. You wake up, you're good to go. Yeah, I'll have that. Okay, you'll take the hairstyle over the accent. I think so. Does the accent include the language? Do I also know the language?
No, it's just English, but with whatever accent on top of it. Okay, then I'm going hairstyle.
If it's wake up with a different language, I'll pick that.
No, it's just the accent that comes with speaking English in that language. Okay. Yeah.
No. I'm going, I'm going hairstyle. Okay. Especially since if I could wake up and just have my hair be done and not have to worry about it, doesn't it?
But what are you gonna do on days when it's like you've got a mohawk? Great.
I guess I got a mohawk that day. Like a tall one. Yeah, fine. Here I am.
Hair I am.
Is that what you said? No, that I wish I had. You I thought you did. It sounded like it.
But you said hair I am, which is one way to enter a room with a mohawk. Here I am. And everyone looks and goes, Yep.
Let's get the day started. There she is. There she is. Would you rather this or that?
Apparently, uh hotel breakfast is kind of having a moment right now. What's that mean? Well, not necessarily the food, but like the whole vibe of hotel breakfast. People are sharing the way they get their tray and set their breakfast and the way they do their thing. They're sharing it on social media. Like, look, look at what I did with my continental breakfast. Oh.
You made a waffle. Yeah. And you got your bagel.
Yeah, but it's all about the lighting, and they're like, look, it's morning. I'm in the hotel with my continental breakfast. What? Yes.
It's a big deal. It's blowing up online. I guess uh people are saying that it feels like a luxury that's like relatable. Like if you stay at a hotel that has a free continental breakfast, it's like it's something that like it's super like it's it's nice, but
not every hotel, like real super budget hotels are like no.
You get only coffee.
Yeah, they're like, we just have all day coffee. You can swing by. But no, it's uh like instead of going to like these big resorts and having all this lavish stuff around, and they're like, look at the way their towels were placed on the bed. It's like a duck. No, none of that. They're like, look at my waffle and my bowl of berry parfait. I do and whatever, yeah.
I do remember when our kids were little, well, I guess old enough to remember staying in a hotel because you know, we've stayed in hotel a few times. Sure. But when they were old enough, it was like they have a pool and breakfast. That's right. It was a very big deal. It is a big deal.
So, you know, uh, we've stayed at a couple hotels that have a real nice breakfast spread. I it's all the same, I think. But that the one I'm talking about was pretty fancy. Which one? The one that they'll like, will hand make you an omelet right here on demand. And you're like, yeah, you will. Thank you.
I do not even remember that hotel. I have no idea what you're doing.
We've stayed there multiple times in Utah.
And you go upstairs to the breakfast area, and it's laid out real nice. Yes.
And they have people there that are like, what do you do you need something we don't have? Yeah, that is a nice hotel. And but it's not even like expensive. That's a their free continental breakfast. They will make you a fresh omelet, and you just go, yes, I would like this and this and this in it. And they're like, great, we'll bring it right out. And that's just part of their service. It's very free.
None of that. Grab your cold cereal in a yolk.
That's what I'm saying. Yeah.
Like turn the knob and get some cereal. Which was the new when when I was a kid and you'd go somewhere that had a continental breakfast. You were like, no way, they have apple jacks in a box that I can open and then pour my milk into the box and eat it out of that. Wow. No way. That's wild. And then it was like, I can flip this down, and cereal just comes out into my water.
Right. Then now, yeah. Now they got the little like bulk food dispenser for your cereal. Big day. Very fancy. Big big day. Yeah. And that was the same hotel that you would walk in the shower, had just a wall-mounted push button thing for shampoo and conditioner. And you'd be like, it's unlimited.
No little tiny bottle. I can just hit the button. Sweet.
Yeah. Luxury, I tell you. Pretty fancy. Unlimited shampoo.
It's unlimited. All right. Uh, let's wrap up the show for today. Hope you have a great rest of your Tuesday. We'll be back tomorrow.
Uh bright and early to hang out with you again. And of course, check out the podcast everywhere podcasts are available. You can listen to this show on demand. So do it.
You can. Hey, get those stretches in. Yeah. All right. See you back here tomorrow. Bye bye.
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