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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
On today’s episode of Wake Up Classy 97 the Podcast, Josh & Chantel dive headfirst into the holiday season chaos! Wicked American Girl Dolls selling for over $1,000, Giving Tuesday inspiration, unpack the thermostat settings at home, Josh shares his true emotional trauma of white elephant gift exchanges, quirky family traditions & whether it’s finally time to retire the crepe-paper birthday door, plus the local Idaho runoff elections, the hunt for snow that refuses to fall, Christmas cards, fantasy-football grumpiness, squirrel Thanksgiving feasts, the annual selection of the perfect ornament, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Wicked American Girl Dolls
(3:24) - Giving Tuesday
(6:09) - Good News
(7:50) - Staying warm
(13:41) - White elephant exchanges
(21:26) - Birthday traditions
(27:21) - Vote today!
(29:58) - Wake Up Classy 97 Christmas card
(32:24) - Where's the snow?
(39:43) - Christmas ornaments
(44:27) - So many Christmas activities
(50:50) - Would You Rather
(52:17) - Squirrel Thanksgiving
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Full show transcript:
Hey, if you want to get in touch with us, you can. Wake up Classy97 at gmail.com is our email address. You can follow us on socials, TikTok, YouTube, and everywhere else at Classy97KLCE.
We'd love to hear from you. Give us a follow, watch a video, give us a thumbs up, subscribe to our YouTube channel, you know all those things. Like and subscribe. What? Like and subscribe. Like and subscribe. Okay. I know you've been a big fan of Wicked for a long time and there's a lot of Wicked merch out there. American Girl Doll not wanting to miss out on it. No, they did. Did do Glinda and Elphaba American Girl limited edition Wicked Dolls.
So Green Skin Elphaba and then of course Glinda in her full sparkle. However, these were launched in September and they sold out immediately. I bet they did. They're being sold online right now. They were originally $295, which is outrageous.
But collectors are now spending upwards of $1,000 each. Get out of here. For an American Girl Wicked Doll. Get out. Yeah. Get out. Yeah.
No, for real. And there's some collectors that have been snatching them up and then flaunting them on TikTok like, look what I got. And someone said in their caption on their video, worth every penny. Stop it. Yeah. Well, they only made 6,000 Elphabas and 6,800 Glindas.
Explain that. How many? 6,000 Elphabas and 6,800 Glindas. So they made just 800 more.
Okay. But they made 800 more Glindas than Elphabas. That's what I'm saying. Why not just make 6,000 of each?
Exactly. Why an extra 800 Glindas? That's a weird number.
Yeah, it is. I just looked them up. They're super cute.
I know. I'm not going to buy them. Some collectors are super obsessed taking them everywhere they go on their daily, you know, run into the coffee shop with my Elphaba.
Crazy. Elphaba wouldn't run to the coffee shop. She'd fly to the coffee shop.
Well, she's being carried. I mean, silly. Crazy, silly, silly. Yep.
I'm on the American sold out, sold out. Oh yeah. No, you can't get them. You're going to have to buy them secondhand.
$295. Get out of here, American Girl Doll. Now, if you, where do you go? Like eBay maybe? Let's just pop over to eBay really quick and see if we can find Elphaba American Girl Doll. All right, there.
$729, $530, $405, $430, $620. Yeah. Crazy.
And then $128 just for the pajamas. Get out. No, I won't.
Get right on out. So yeah, no, you're going to pay a Prittay penny if you really want that thing. I don't really want that thing because I'm not going to spend that kind of money on it. Good answer.
I wouldn't have spent the $200. No, we neither. Anyway. Get out. Let's start the show. Okay. Morning.
Good morning. All the big holiday stuff other than Christmas and New Year is now sort of behind us here. Except for today is Giving Tuesday. Oh, is it really? Yeah. So you go through Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, a day of rest, and then you have Cyber Monday and now you have Giving Tuesday, which is a big day to give back, celebrate generosity, give to others, and make it less about the commercialism for yourself and get out there and give.
Nice. A couple of really cool ways that you can get out and give. The giving machine is in Retzberg. It's at Heming Village. It'll be there through the week.
I want to say maybe even two. I need to pull that up really quick, but I'm pretty sure it's there until the 15th. So then it will be at the Grand Teton Mall in Idaho Falls until the New Year. So after it gets done in Rexburg, it'll move again. It's making its way to Idaho Falls. Yep. Spend a couple of weeks in Pocatello.
Now in Rexberg, then in Idaho Falls. So plenty of chances to give with the giving machine. 97 Angels, another great way to give with Mullen-Elly's Jewelers in Class 97 and the Salvation Army. A way for you to help out some families in need this holiday season. Find an angel tree, grab a tag, do some shopping, give back, help the community out a little bit.
That's what 97 Angels with Mullen-Elly's Jewelers is all about. What are some other ways to give? You could support, what? Go ahead. No. You're going to say, no, you're going to say some. I was just going to say, there's plenty of different organizations.
That's what I was going to say. They could use volunteers for even a meal, family room, the Ronald McDonald House family room at Irma. The rescue mission. Big time. The domestic violence center.
Absolutely great. There's all kinds of nonprofits that you can help out. So today on Giving Tuesday, do a little giving this holiday season. I think that's a good message. What a nice way to give back.
A lot of nice ways you could get involved. Don't slouch. Cyber Monday's over.
Giving Tuesday is here. Don't slouch. You got work to do. You're all excited about getting those deals. Get just as excited about giving back. Some time. The food bank?
Always could use some help. Yeah. Good one. Good morning. Good morning. Well, we're talking about Giving Tuesday and it's time for some good news. So let's talk about some good news. There's two things I want to let you know about.
First of all, a new survey says that three quarters of Americans have donated a charity in the past 12 months. That's awesome. Huge good news.
That's a big deal. In British Columbia, one woman decided that no senior should be left alone on Christmas and she wound up inspiring an entire community with helping out. Back in 2020, Christina Conway launched a simple idea. It's write holiday cards for seniors who might not receive one. Write a holiday card.
It's a small gesture and it grew very quickly. Volunteers come together each year now to write cards. This year they will send out more than a thousand to each one handwritten with a few kind words and a reminder that somebody out there cares. Care homes have shared how deeply the cards land with residents. Some even cried because it means so much to them that someone out there cared, Christina said.
I get very excited thinking about the people who receive the cards knowing that it may be the only one that they get. I think this is huge. This is huge. For Christina, it's also personal.
She explained that it's so important to think of our elders and remember that someday we're going to be in their shoes and we wouldn't want to be left behind either. Huge. That's nice. Yeah. Really cool. Yeah. Really special.
Anyway, well done, Christina. What a great movement. That's something that anyone can do. Yep. Anyone can do that.
Yeah. Write a letter. Send it to somebody at a care center. Huge. Big deal. Great idea.
Anyway, that's some good news. When you're cold in your house, do you grab a blanket or do you go turn up the thermostat? That's a good question.
It depends. I go look at the thermostat and I go, no way is it over. It's 70 in here.
That's where we have it set. I go, how am I cold and the thermostat's doing what it's supposed to be doing? Why am I feeling chilly? Then I decide if I want to put on a hoodie or a sweater or ... A hoodie? Yeah. You go for a hoodie first?
Something like that. Probably a sweater first, like what I'm wearing right now. Rather than a blanket? Because I expected it to be chilly.
Yeah. Blanket limits mobility. If I'm just sitting around, sure. But I'm not going to be like, if I'm doing stuff, I'm not going to carry a blanket around. A blanket limits mobility?
Yeah. Blankets for laying down, being cozy. Not for walking around. Taking a nap. Right. So 70. I was thinking our house was set at 70. I think it's set at like 68 or something. Sometimes it gets warmer because there's people in there moving about. Let me look.
I'll look really quick and tight. Because the Department of Energy says the ideal temperature in the winter that you should set your house is 68. I think that's where it's set at. Well, how come you set it at that number?
Because that's a good number to be at. That's what the Department of Energy says. Right. They says do it when you're awake. They says.
Okay. And then they says that when you're asleep or out of the house, you should drop it even lower. That's right. And that's why I have it all set up as a, when you're home, when you're away, when it's nighttime setting.
So it changes throughout the day. This is going to save you some money, they say. Listen, I looked at our power bill the other day and I went, you've got to go. You've got to be kidding me. What? Yeah.
It must be winter because that power bill was large. They love it. They love what?
Making you pay money. They love it. Well, we're using it.
It's a service that we're paying for. And boy, howdy. Are we using that heat? You were called last night.
Yeah. I just plugged in the electric blanket. Cause I was also chilly. And you did that and then you just had it at the foot of the bed.
How'd that go? Yeah, because here's what happens. I'll be so snug in bed and then I'll, my toes will be super cold and I'll have them tucked under my legs a little bit.
Sure. I kind of crisscross in bed. And then I'm like, oh, I got to stretch out my legs and then I'll stretch out my legs and my feet will touch the end of the bed and it is cold down there. I see that.
Cause there hasn't been any body heat down there. That makes sense. So last night I said, I got an idea. I know how to tackle this problem. I worked out. It did work out, didn't it? Yeah, but I was still, I got into bed. I was pretty cold.
Your flanks are always cold. Yeah. And that's, that's a bad deal.
Once my, it is a bad deal. Once those are cold, I'm cold. It takes me a while to warm up. Why do your flanks always get so cold? You should probably layer.
Layer? I don't know because there's, there's meat there that gets cold. Yeah, but the rest of your body was pretty warm except for your flanks that were frigid. They weren't that frigid. You just said yourself they were cold. I don't know.
I didn't like it. It's not, it's actually not flanks. It's up higher. It's like my shoulders. No, it is not.
Yes, it is. I'm looking at the position of where flanks are and flanks are not what's cold. Oh, where's your flanks then? I always just call it your flanks because that's what I thought your flanks.
No, the side of a person's body between the ribs and the hips. Right. Yeah, that's what it is. No, it's up higher.
It's clear up here. No, bro. Yeah. Uh-uh. Yeah. You're so wrong.
It's up in my, I'm trying to figure out what it's called my scapulae. Uh-uh. That's no way. No way, dude.
I'm right. It is your flank area. It's between your ribs and your hips. It's like your back area. It doesn't ever feel cold down that low. Are you serious? I feel cold up higher.
Well, that's maybe where you feel cold, but I'm telling you, when I touch that part of your body, it is always cold. Wow. I do know. Now you've made me cranky. Oh, no. That's all it took? Yeah.
Disagreeing about my own body where I feel cold? Okay. Be cranky about that. I will. Nice one. Yeah. Well, anyway, it said it's 68, so we're on par with the left.
We're doing what we should be doing. Good deal. That is our power bill, so expensive. Hmm. Could be the Christmas lights. Could be the computer that never stops. I don't know. Yeah, the TV.
I mean, we use a lot of energy. Could be the garage fridge and the freezer. Could be, there's a few things. Yeah, there is a few things. You're right.
Man, oh man. But yeah, no, it could also be the cost per kilowatt. That could be a thing too. And it's winter, so I don't know what to tell you. I know. Power. Who needs it? Everybody. We have a couple of white elephant gift exchanges coming up.
One with family and one with our radio work people. Right. I quite enjoy a white elephant gift exchange. Do you?
Exchange. Do you not? I don't. Really? Because I always end up with the worst thing. Well, that's the thing, isn't it? There's nothing good ever. Sometimes there's something where I go like, yeah, at least I would settle and be okay with that. But I end up with the worst gift every time.
And I go, why? And let me be clear. Like, it isn't like I got the junk prize or whatever. Like it will be something that might be useful. I'll use the family one as an example.
Sure. Because one time I ended up with a, what are they called? The pot thing, the oven mitt things.
And a towel. Okay. And I went, this is a gift that somebody felt like would be a contributing thing to this white elephant.
And it's functional and whatever. It had like dogs on it or something. I don't think that was a white elephant gift exchange. It was part of a game where we had like the pass the gift thing. So it was a white elephant, but it was the pass the gift read the story thing.
So it wasn't like you even have the opportunity to go and like steal or strategically work with somebody to be like, all right, if you steal that once, I'm going to steal it from you and we're locked in on a good one. Right? Yeah. Like you can, you can pair up and go, I'm going to, we're going to work this out so that we both get the thing that we want. And we've done that before. And that can be, that can be done.
Yeah. But man, there's so many times where I just go like, what are we doing? I would, I would almost prefer a name draw or a secret Santa thing or something like that.
Like where somebody has to, like somebody ends up getting you something that you might be into. Okay. And you got to learn something about somebody. Okay.
You got to do a little bit of like sneaky investigative work. I would prefer that. Yeah. To a, to a bring a weird thing. I agree.
I would also prefer the name draw thing, but I don't mind a white elephant. I think it's fun. I think it's silly. Now I was just reading a post where a guy was like, I hate them.
He goes, yeah, it's just a waste of money. Cause you're just fine. Fair point. Fair point. And then whatever you get, doesn't get used. It's a re-gift thing.
Yeah. And he goes, so what's the point? Then you've wasted this money and you get a terrible gift in return and his family voted to have it. And he was the only one who voted no. So then he's like, now I have to have this cause everybody else wants to do it. Right. And I hate it.
And now I have to spend my money on a dumb gift and get a dumb gift in return. Right. I feel this guy's pain. I understand.
I get where he's coming from. I didn't know that you hated it though. I don't, look, I hate such a strong word. I don't hate a lot of things. I don't hate it.
I just would rather do something else. Okay. I'll participate.
I like to have fun. So I'll be there. I'll engage. I'll be a part of it. I'll play the game. But I'm going to end up with something that I go, all right. You do it.
You do it. Always. I always try to be like, I'm going to put a little thought into it. This year I didn't really put a lot of thought into it. I went, this is going to do.
It's pretty good. It's a good white elephant gift, but there's no point to it. Now, I can't remember the ones that you bought. Are they for the work white elephant or the family white elephant?
That's the work. I still have to figure out the family. Because the thing I had for the family I don't feel like is appropriate for the family or for work. So I've got to do something different. Yeah.
Agreed. You got to come up with something different. Well then why don't you just buy a nice present? Like some chocolates.
Everybody likes chocolates. No, that's lame. What? Here's what I would like. I would like every gift that gets opened to be something somebody wants to steal. That would make it awesome. But that's never, that doesn't ever happen.
I know. And then you end up stuck with the thing and you go like offering it up. Hey, anybody want this? And everybody looks at you like, no, nobody wants that. Quit asking. You're stuck with that forever. Yeah, that's your thing now.
And then you go, well, hand towels and pot holders, I guess that's me. Because no one's going to take it. No. So you don't even get a chance. You know what I mean?
You get the thing and then you're just stuck and you're like, well, I guess I'm done. I'll be over here watching everyone else have a good time. That's why I don't like it. It's not fun for everyone.
It's fun for four people who end up getting in a back and forth battle over something good. Do you prefer to be like the front? You know how you draw names to determine the order. Do you like to be in front? No, never the front toward the end, not the last.
Last can be good or bad, but I'm talking like fifth to last is a good place to be. Because you know, good majority of the stuff that's been opened, there's a few, there's a few, like I've been through a white elephant gift exchange where no one stole the whole time. Everybody's opened up a gift and then what this was done.
And you want, what? Where's all the excitement? I guess no one's going to steal because everybody was trying to be too kind or something. I don't know what was going on. Or it was all terrible gifts and nobody wanted to end it. Yeah, or that, or everybody went, that guy really wants that thing. I'm not going to take it from him.
Anyway, I've been through those. I prefer to be toward the end of the draw a high number. You know, if you've got 20 people, I want to be around 13 to 16. That's a good spot. Because then you've got a good chance to strategize and you can watch because if something's been stolen once, you can keep an eye on it because you can be that second steal to lock it in. You know, you might be like, ooh. I do know. And sometimes good stuff goes before you get the chance too.
And then you go like, all right, well good on you guys for locking down the jelly beans or whatever it is that you nailed. I don't know. People get weird about white elephant. It's funny.
Well, we're doing it this year. Two of them. Lucky you.
Yeah. We'll see. They'll see what you end up with. I can't wait. Okay. I can. I can wait. I know you can. All right.
Where do you like to be? You never said you like to be first. I don't like to steal.
I like to get the unwrapped. I don't put that much stock into it. Honestly, like you've thought about it. But I just, I don't know. I like to get the mystery and be like, I guess this is what I got. And I, it's fine.
You got cozy socks and a thing of lotion. Yeah. Look at you go. I'll use it.
Locked in. So ever since our kids were little, I've done these birthday traditions where I create paper their door and they have to bust their way out of it. And usually it's, here's the basket of stuff and the tape and then we stand there and I put the thing up and you hand me a piece of tape and then you hand me a piece of tape and then you hand me a piece of tape. And then it ends up with like your whole door is crepe paper.
Your whole door, door entry way and you have to break through it to welcome your new birth year. And this was the conversation that I heard this year between you and our daughter who's 16. Hey, when do you think that should stop? Like you needed her to go. Whenever you're not a bad mom, if you stop, like that's what it felt like you were looking for. Well, it was so our son turned 21 and he still lives at home. If he didn't live at home, I wouldn't be crepe papering his door.
This is true. I think I did it last year, but now I'm like, okay, but you, I feel like it should end now. I feel like it's time for that tradition to end for you. I'll still do it for her daughter because she's 16. I'll do it when she's 17. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you going to go to 18 and go, all right, that's enough. I feel like it. Yeah. Because I feel like at some point it has to end, right?
Like it has to. I know that she did it for you. She did.
Because the kids like the little tradition thing. So he didn't say anything like that. He missed it or anything. But I had been thinking about it all day the day before his birthday. Like, should I do that?
Should I not? Like he's old. He doesn't even want it. Have you asked him about it? No, I haven't even talked to him about it. I thought maybe last night you would have asked or something.
So that's why I'm talking about it. I asked Emery, I said, do you think that I should do that? And she said, no, I think it should probably be done for him. Not for me, she said, but for him. Yeah. And she said, I think you said 18, it should end. And she went, well, I only have two more years of that. Yeah. Yeah.
I think 18 is solid. She is like you when it comes to traditions and sentimental things. Like she wants to know that it's the last time so she can say goodbye to it. Yeah. Yeah. She does. Okay.
I need to know. I didn't know that was the last one. It's like that trend right now where kids are getting picked up by their moms and they're like, because I don't remember the last time that I picked you up. So I'm going to pick you up one more time. Yeah.
Because I need to say goodbye to it. I asked Beck if I could do that to him and he goes, good luck. You can try. I'm like, you're right. I can't. He could still like snuggle you.
Yeah. He could. You could have like a sit on a couch, you know, like that, like when he was a little kid. I could. You don't have to try to pick him up and hurt yourself or something.
Yeah. Because I will. I will hurt myself or we'll both just fall. Right.
That's why I'm saving you the struggle and just snuggle. You see? Yeah.
And then you can go, okay. Because he's a real snuggler of a kid. That's what I'm saying. You'll be like, what is this person?
What is happening? If you can get our son to come snuggle, that would be a miracle upon miracles. Even when he was little, he just does. He never was a snuggler kind of kid.
Oh. He was, I would say, probably like when, when like bedtime stories were being read and stuff. When he was hunkered down, he would be snuggly. But I don't know that he was necessarily like a cuddly kind of guy.
But he'd be like, yeah, I'm cozy. I'm good to go. Read the story. Yeah. Let's get through my tree house books and my series of unfortunate events and things like that. My Diary of a Wimpy Kids. Yeah.
Nate the Great or whatever his name was. There's a Wookiee in my closet. Yeah. You know, all that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. So, oh, look at, now you're all sad about your 21-year-old. Well, now I got an old kid.
You're going to go crepe paper the door just to make sure it's done one more time? You know why? Because here's something. When you start a tradition, you have to follow through on that tradition forever. I know. And that crepe paper door thing was awesome, but you had to wait for the kid to go to bed. Oh, yeah.
So you could do it in secret. Yeah. And then it was like, I'm so tired. I don't want to do this tonight.
And I think that's probably why I didn't feel the need to do it this year for Beck. I probably would have if I had more energy, but I was like, I just want to go to bed. Because he's like up at all hours. He'd walk out like 10 minutes after you went to bed and be like, oh, now I got to do this.
Now I got to bust through this and no one's even awake to see it. Right. But here we go. Yeah. That's a good point.
That's a good point. But I feel like 18's there. I think that's where you're at.
I think so too. And you go like, hey. And I had done it for a couple of extra years because I think I did it last year. Right. I'm sure. You got an extra.
You got a couple of extras in there, buddy. Yeah. See? But now we're done.
Yeah. And he doesn't even know. No, he doesn't. I'll have to ask him. Maybe quietly he like cried himself to sleep. He's like, oh, my mom didn't crepe paper my door.
Worst birthday ever. You better talk to him about it. I should. I will today. Today is a vote day. Yes, it is. So there's we had elections like weeks ago and there were a few undecided races. Yep. Today is the day for those runoff votes. Yes. So for there's a city council seat and a mayoral race in Idaho Falls and there's a mayoral race in Pocatello.
Dude, is that the only one in Pocatello for the runoff? Unsure. I don't know. What I know to be true is that I'm kind of ready for it to be over. Well, there's that.
Like everybody else. I think so. I think it's a little bit of a little voter fatigue, a little campaigning fatigue.
Yeah. So it's Mark Dahlquist and Greg Cates are the runoff in Pocatello today. Then you have. So, you have the city council seat is Dominic and Brandon Lee, right?
Yes. And then you have the Idaho Falls mayoral between Jeff and Lisa. So, there's several different races that are still undecided and today is the runoff for those races. So, it's important that you get out and vote today.
Yep. If you need information, of course, you can get it at the website. It's voteidaho.gov.
You can head over there. There is also a judicial review that is taking place in Lemhi County as well. So, runoff elections in Banek and Bonneville County and a judicial review in Lemhi on the runoff today. So that is happening. I believe polls will be open until 8 as usual.
Yep. So, 8 a.m. now until 8 o'clock tonight, you can go in and you can cast your runoff vote. I just remembered because we went to vote early. We voted the first day early voting opened again.
And we voted when election day actually was in November. And you saved your sticker this time? I saved my sticker and I forgot it. Yeah.
I was gonna wear it today. Forgot. Do you know where yours is?
Yes. I think I left mine on my nightstand. I didn't grab it this morning. I forgot mine as well.
Totes forgot. Yeah. But anyway, get out and vote. It's important. Voteidaho.gov if you need details. If you don't know where to go to vote.
If you need to register all that stuff, you can get all the details there. And get out and vote. It's important. Yes. Go exercise your right.
Do it today before 8. I was just looking at the door and it looks kind of sad and lonely and brown. Oh. We need some festivity happening over there.
What we've done in the past is covered it with Christmas cards. Is that what you're getting at? That is what I'm getting at. So here's the deal.
I know as of yesterday, we're real close to having the Wake Up Classy 97 Christmas card ready so that we can send it out. And it is a butte. It's a doozy. It's a doozy.
It's a real butte, Clark. We always have a little bit of fun this year. Going a little retro. It'll be fun. It'll be cool.
It's going to be awesome. So if you want to get your hands on this year's Wake Up Classy 97 Christmas card, we'd be very happy to send you one. All you have to do is send us a card.
Include your return address and we will send you our Christmas card in return. And I heard that we might be throwing a little something extra in there. Really? I don't even know about that. I know. I know. I heard about it yesterday.
Lottie dog. So if you want to send us a card, I would recommend it. It's just 400 West Sunnyside in Idaho Falls. You can find our address online very easily.
Yes. Just send it to the Classy 97 Studios. Send it to Wake Up Classy 97. Send it to Josh and Chantel.
Whatever. Send us your Christmas card. We will send you one in return.
It's an exchange. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you want ours, we'd love to send it to you. Just send us a card and we'll send you one back.
I'd love yours because I like to receive them and I like to put them on the door. That's right. We will hang them in the studio. They will be part of our studio decor for the holidays. And add us to your list. Maybe you have an extra. Maybe you've already sent them out. Throw us on there. We'd love to be part of your Christmas card list. Yep.
And we'll send you one back. Really easy. And it is Gorge. It's a good one. Which is short for Gorgeous.
Yeah, no, I think everyone knew that. Everyone's going to want this on their door, fridge, Christmas card holder, wherever you put them. You're going to want it. You're going to want it. It's a good one. All right, send us your card.
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This is the one and only time that you will hear me say this. But where is the snow? It's supposed to be happening today from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. intermittent snow and flurries accumulating to a coating of an inch. You said that yesterday. You said that was supposed to happen last night. I said there was a chance of snow last night, but tomorrow will be the snow starting at 10 a.m. That's what I said yesterday. Okay.
Because I keep seeing there's a few people that I see on Instagram. One lives in Canada, so obviously they're going to have a lot of snow. You're missing. You're feeling like a little bit of like.
I couldn't just need a little bit of, yeah. Because it's pretty. People are like showing their outside snowfalls and I go, that's pretty. I kind of want some snow.
And again, that's not like me to say this. You want it for the aesthetic, not for like to snowboard or to play in or any of that. No, I don't snowboard.
But who do you think I am? No, I don't play in the snow. I look at the snow from inside my warm cozy house. Okay. Well there is a chance for some snow today.
Okay. I did see that they were salting the roads. Yeah. I feel like that's an overreaction.
I think so too, because they were salting them yesterday as I was driving from work. And I went, hey guys, what? Like it's an inch. What are we doing? Listen, though I appreciate it. I appreciate that you're trying to keep us all safe. I do appreciate that. I'm not trying to get you down. I'm going to tell you, because here's the big thing for me is that there's every time it rains or every time it snows or every time we get, you know, inclement weather of any kind.
People kind of forget how to drive. And so I'm going to tell you the biggest thing you can do is slow down. Go slow. Slow down and leave extra room between you and vehicles around you. And give yourself plenty of time to get to where you need to go. These are the big tips.
This is what you need to know. Maybe you're new to the area. Maybe you've never driven in snow before.
Maybe you've got terrible tires on your car. You just, maybe you do. Give yourself some space.
Anytime. Give yourself time. Give yourself space and slow down. Those are the things that are going to keep you from fender benders. Slow down. Nobody wants a fender bender. And nobody wants a fender bender in the cold weather. Yeah.
All you have to stand outside in the cold and wait for the police to arrive. No, thank you. No. So be careful. If it does in fact snow today and there is an inch of snow on the ground or more, just be careful. Be careful. Yeah. You know?
And I, yeah, let's let's have that. Here's the question I want to ask. You don't probably know the answer to this. I'm just going to ask it anyway out loud to the.
To the air. Yeah. Okay. Somebody has to make that call. So like I, as I'm seeing the cars yesterday, all the trucks that were putting down the salt on the road, like there's a committee of people, right?
Sure. And there's a committee that has to say, do we salt? Is that necessary? And then there is somebody that's like, yeah, we, we better salt. Somebody has to make that call. So that would be the transportation department on the local and the state level.
And then the road crew, there's a foreman it says here that has to consider factors like the weather forecast, pavement temperature, traffic volume, and using that information, they decide if pre salting is needed or if salting is required during or after a storm to prevent ice formation and melt snow for safety. I see. Here's the thing. Nobody wants to be that person to make that call. It's like the superintendent that has to make the call of schools closed because you can't win.
You don't think every time you make a decision because you're never going to make everyone happy. People are upset that school is closed. People are not upset that school is closed. So are you saying that people are upset because of the anti-icing spray stuff? No, no, I don't think that at all. You just said a minute ago that it was an overreaction.
Yeah. Well, you know, I feel like an inch. But what do I know? They know, they know the data. They know what they're doing. That's what I'm saying. I'm not in that job.
I just sit here and talk for a living. That's what I'm saying. Right. You don't know the responsibility that lies on their shoulders. You're correct.
And with great power comes great responsibility as we know. So he's like, well, I could salt and help everybody out or I could not salt. I'll tell you what I don't like.
What? Is how much of it gets underneath my truck. And then I have to go and wash my truck. And then, which is fine.
I don't mind going through a car wash. It's okay. So what are you complaining about? Just to complain. Chill down, dude. I just like to be cranky today, I guess.
I'm cranky today. It's because your fantasy is not going the way you want it to be. Oh, fantasy football is bad. Don't even talk about it. Don't even bring it up to Josh. He's not allowed to play anymore.
You're fired from fantasy football. Okay. Because it's ruined my whole day. Because it's ruined your life. Well, you know, I was one spot away from the playoffs and things just didn't go my way, even though I have more points, but I have a worse winning record by one game. And so I missed the playoff bracket by literally one game.
It doesn't matter. It's supposed to be fun and you're taking it way too seriously. Nobody invite Josh to play fantasy again. He's he's grounded. Grounded?
Yeah. I'm every time somebody goes, Hey, you want to play fantasy football? I have to say no, I'm grounded from fantasy football. Yes. Okay.
Yes. Hey, but you want to know the good news is that I'm not in last. So I don't have to do and neither are you. So whatever the punishment task is, we're off the hook for that.
That's true. We are. Congratulations to us.
We're off the hook for the loser prize. Yeah, I love it. Yeah, that's a good thing.
That's really good. Hopefully it's not our son. He needs to know that there's a loser consequence and maybe he'll step up his almost last place right now. I don't think he cares. You think he's going to do the loser consolation thing?
I don't think he's. No, I don't, but. Fantasy is ruining your life. I know. I'm grounded from it. Yeah, you are.
Don't tell anybody that you're ever going to play again because he's not. It'll come around. It'll be the like the beginning of the season. I'm like, Oh, who's going to do fantasy? And I'm like, I can't. I'm grounded. I'm grounded. My wife says no. Because it makes me cranky about everything from snow, ice, melt on the road. Yeah.
Your day is shot today because you lost fantasy. Yeah. Grouch. I beat you though. So that's good.
I don't even care. Hey, one of our family traditions every year is to get an ornament. We each pick out an ornament that kind of when the kids were little, it was just something that they randomly picked. Right. So Emery would pick out like what she thought was beautiful. What she now later is like, this is horribly ugly. You mean like the purple butterfly?
Yes. That's like a pie plate big. But when she was seven years old, she was like, nope, that's it.
That's beautiful. Brett, Beck used to work at Pretzel Maker. Right. And so one year he got a Pretzel ornament. That's right.
When he learned how to drive, he got a car ornament. So it's just different things. Yeah.
It's all different. Like every year you find an ornament that has something to kind of summarize your year. Yeah. I love it. It's one of our favorite traditions. Every year we get them out and we're like, oh, yeah, remember this ugly thing that I got? And then every year it becomes a hunt for what we're going to pick to kind of commemorate.
Yeah. And the ornaments find us. We don't find the ornaments. They typically find us, which I think is awesome because the year that I started watching football and decided that the Vikings were my team, Minnesota Vikings. Well, it wasn't even Minnesota. It was just a Viking helmet ornament.
I have not seen that ornament before or since that year. Good point. You don't want to say it? I do. And I'm struggling to find an ornament this year. I know.
That's what I am too. And I thought initially like maybe I'll do like a wicked ornament, but I don't like any of the ones that I've seen. Emery just gave me an idea. She sent me an idea. It's kind of like a circle. And like in the circle, you write the books I've read this year and then you make little tiny books that go around the circle of all the books that you've read that year. That's a cute idea. Oh yeah. That could be a cute idea. I don't love that idea yet either. Like normally when we find the ornament, we're like, yes. So I have a couple of fish on there and like the cutthroat slam was kind of my big accomplishment this year.
So I was, I've been looking like maybe I'll find a fish, but I haven't even seen a good fish one. Yeah. You're right. Commemorative of that time and I'm not finding.
I know this year's been the hardest one, the trickiest one. But I think I need to go check like a different place. I think there's a couple of boutiques we need to go check. I was thinking that same thing.
I need to get out of the normal place to go find. Yep. Agreed. So that's the big deal. Cause the normal place isn't doing it. The normal place says. That's what I'm saying. Okay.
Yeah. The collective normal place. Everywhere I go, I look, I'm like, where's the ornaments?
I'll go look. And nothing is really speaking my name. And he goes, there's some converse. There were some converse ones, but they're red.
And I'm like, eh, that's not, I don't have red converse. Right. Doesn't mean anything.
No, it doesn't mean anything. I know. And I already, like I said, I already have a couple of fish. So I'm like, do I need another fish? I don't know.
Sure. Or you get your coin, get another coin, your cut, throat, slam coin. My, my accomplishment coin.
Yeah. And then put that, hang that on the tree. That could be an ornament. I don't know. I know. That's what I'm saying. Everything they see, they just been like, I don't know.
Some, I'll see something. It is. I'll see something and I'll go, there it is. And it'll be fine. That's how it usually works. Yeah. But not, it hasn't happened yet this year.
Like one year it was He-Man and Skeletor. They're hanging out on the tree together. They're hanging out on the tree. It's a weird tree. It's covered in all kinds of stuff, but it's, but it's all this.
It's all, every year we've made a thing. Yeah. It's kind of fun. It is fun. I love it. That's one of my favorite. And I think the kids like it too.
I agree. Cause they go, oh yeah, I remember this. Well, even Emery, when we were hanging up our ornaments yesterday, Sunday, she said, what are we going to do with all these ornaments when we're done? And I said, well, the idea is that I box all your ornaments up and you take them with you. And you go and you start your own tradition or, and she goes, well, that's sad that you and dad won't have anything left on your tree. Yeah, we will.
Yeah. We'll have all of our ugly ones left. More fish.
More room for fish. I gotta find something this year. Yeah, I know. I don't know what it is. We'll keep looking.
No, I'm wrong. Good luck. Good luck to you, buddy. Have you taken a glance at what's happening in our community over this month? Do you mean like as far as Christmas activities?
I have not spent a lot of time. Holy smokes. There's so much going on. Like for example, I mean, these have already passed, but there was forgotten carols and Trenton Siberian orchestra. And there's multiple, there's been multiple showings of the nutcracker and there's the home alone with the symphony and there's Christmas lights.
You can check out like, drive through all the neighborhood lights and there's elf performances and there's Christmas Carol performances. It is. So I just pulled up riverbenmediagroup.com slash calendar. That's our community calendar.
Okay. There's a lot of stuff. Christmas festivals. There's so much stuff. Christmas tree lane.
I know. Some concerts mixed in. Characters of Christmas. Christmas with the, is it core layers? There's, there's a ton of stuff. There's avalanche awareness. That's, that's important.
That is important. Uh, toy drive and light parade and, uh, it goes on and on and on. The ATV light parade happening. There's, uh, Christmas comedy shows that are coming up. It is insane the amount of stuff that's coming up.
Yeah. And there, this is not any kind of complaint. My complaint is how do you decide what to do? I can't. You just try to do as much as you can. I can't do it all, but I want to do it all. But you just, you just decide what you can do. I know. And then, then that's the other part is like, oh, well, if I buy tickets to this Christmas thing, then that's taken away money from Christmas presents.
Right. You asked that the other day and he told me that there was something you said, you want to go to that. And I said, yeah, sure.
You know, whatever. And you went, well, tickets are this. And I went, early. I know it. Cause you're right. I'd rather do something different with that.
With the money. Yeah. I know, but I kind of think that thing sounds fun. I get it. But.
You know, there's a trade off. That's what I'm, I'm like, man, oh man, when I was a kid and it was Christmas time, you just waited till Christmas. I don't remember doing much of anything except for getting hot cocoa and going to look at Christmas lights. Yeah.
Just driving around in the car. Yeah. Yeah. Which by the way, that's coming back too. With, uh, with nights of lights. Yeah. So we'll, we'll be a part of that. That's coming up, what, the 15th, 16th and 17th. And a couple of weeks.
So yeah, we'll be doing that too. And there's too much. That's a freebie. I like freebies. I mean, it's your gas money. So it's not totally free, but it's a freebie.
I like freebies. And you get a hot cocoa and a cookie and then you go look at the lights. Like that's a, that's a good one for the whole family to put that, put that on the calendar, 15th, 16, 17. It's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday nights of lights.
I like freebies and I like hot cocoa and I like cookies. So triple whammy. Yeah.
Oh, do they? Okay. I'm just saying all over East Idaho, there's so much to do for Christmas. And if you're sitting at home going like, but there's nothing to do, you're not looking in the right spot. Cause there is a bajillion things to do. I even made a calendar the other day of my own calendar. Cause I was like, just to say, look at all this stuff.
No, cause I was kind of like, well, I want to do this and I want to do this and I want to do this and I want to do this. And so I, I've made myself a little spreadsheet cause I like a good spreadsheet. And I said, this is on this date and this, how much is it costs? And then I kind of, this is where you, this is a, this is a bad setup for you. Why? Because you're going to feel like you failed because you didn't go to all those things and no one but you has set that expectation. I'm just telling you, this is, this is, this is, and then you're going to go, I had such good intentions and we didn't do anything.
Even though whatever we end up doing is just fine, but because you went through and took all the time to put together a spreadsheet, you're going to feel like, I didn't check anything off that spreadsheet. Hey, but listen to me right now when I tell you that I love a good advent calendar. And in the years past, I've had multiple advent calendars that are like, this is like a kindness advent calendar. And this is like an activities advent calendar.
And then it was like Christmas movies and doing something nice for, and it was every day. I know. And I've failed every year. Then I told you last year, and I'll tell you every year, until I'm blue in the face, you got to lower your expectations for yourself.
I didn't set up a single advent calendar this year, not even one. You're grounded from advance. And if you're not careful, I'm going to ground you from Excel spreadsheets. No, you can't.
Don't, don't set yourself up to fail. I'm telling you, I grounded myself from the advance this year. I know.
I didn't set up one. I'm telling you. You've replaced it with a spreadsheet of expectations.
No, no, no, no. It was just, it was just like, here's a spreadsheet of the activities that are happening. If everyone is interested, and I've asked the family, are you guys interested in this? And I haven't gotten a lot of response. So if I don't get response from the family, I'm just going to be like, well, I guess we're not going to do that. And that's what you're going to do. And then I'll be fine.
All right. I'm going to mark this time on this day so that when we have this conversation in a few weeks where you go, we didn't do anything and I'm upset. I'm going to go, no, roll tape. I will be fine. She says, okay. I am. I'm going to be fine.
Cause the one I really want to do, the one that I really want to do, no one has really shown that much of an interest in it. And so I'll be like, okay, no biggie. Oh, I swear. Honestly, I promise. I never get the pizza I want.
I think it's a would you rather Josh? Do you? I do. Is it a Christmas edition? Of course it is. Are you crazy? Let's go ahead and ask the question then. Would you rather be an elf on a shelf or a gingerbread man cookie?
Well, I'd be an elf on a shelf. Yeah, how come? Cause I'm not going to get eaten. Cause you're going to get into high jinx. I like the high jinx. You're going to get into some mischief.
I like the, uh, the North Pole connection. Okay. I feel like if I'm a gingerbread man, I'm. You can run, run as fast as you can.
And I'm going to be sad about my gumdrop buttons and you know what I'm saying? Ginger. Um, I, that's it.
That's really why I'm picking that. I just don't want to be, uh, eaten. I'd rather be around for a little while and then disappear and then come back and disappear. That sounds like a good gig. I kind of like, it would be fun to be an elf on a shelf because you can get into all kinds of mischief. I get the mischief.
I get the, nobody can touch me. Yeah. Like it sounds good.
While the whole world is asleep. Or I could be a cookie. All right.
I, I like your logic. Yep. I'm going to a funnest shelf too. We agree on this one, Josh. All right. For now.
Would you rather this or that? Okay. There is a woman who created, she's from Denver, Colorado, and she created a Thanksgiving spread for her back yard squirrels. Wow.
Don't tell Emory. It's so cute. This is the fifth year that she's done this and her menu was insane. She made peanut butter, banana and walnut pancakes garnished with a pecan crumble. She had peanut butter, banana and walnut quesadillas. She had banana slices tossed in walnut crumble, just with peanut butter and garnished with pecan crumbs. She had peanut butter cookies. She had sunflower seeds sprinkled about. She had sliced grapes, walnuts and pecans.
I mean, she really did like create a nice little feast for them. What are her feeders? Do you see what kind of feeder she has going? Well, she just put, she didn't really have a feeder. She just kind of made a spread.
Like a, like a charcuterie kind of thing. Kind of. Yes.
Was it on a board or? Yeah. Okay.
All right. I've seen people do that for like crows and stuff too. Look at, they'll do a, like a crow charcuterie thing. Again, that's a little smile on that squirrel. Oh, there he is. He looks like camouflaged from where I'm sitting.
But I see, yeah, he's in there. He's like, wow, thanks. I can't believe all this bounty I have found. I don't came back the next day and went, where's the leftover? You're right.
No one on. She says, the woman who does this, Christina is her name. It can take up to two to three hours to prepare all of this miniature food. And, but she loves it. She goes, I love the animals. I spend a lot of time around them because she's also a wildlife photographer. And she just wants them to feel extra special during the holidays, just like everyone else. Well, that's very sweet. It's very nice.
I know. I think we should make a Thanksgiving feast for our squirrels. I'm going to fill the bird feeders. The, the, here's the issue.
Settle down. I'm going to go spend two hours and $40 or more on nuts. Here's, here's what I have. I have bags of bird seed and I have a squirrel food as well. But the feeder that was in the front yard broke. The squirrel's been rough on it. And so I've got to rebuild it. And I planned on doing that as a winter project was rebuilding multiple squirrel feeders so that in the spring, I can put them out. And, and I know they need some food now.
They do. And I just haven't had a chance to like actually start working on that yet. So I need to get, I need to get busy on my squirrel feeders. That's why I wanted to know what kind of feeders she had.
It was for some reason, Emory thinks we need a squirrel picnic table. And every time we go to the store and she knows it's there, she was, oh, look, it found me again. We have to buy it. It keeps showing itself like we got to look at, it's meant to be.
And I'm like, no, it's not. It's stored there. It's a little picnic table. It's pretty cute.
It's a pretty cute little. Where am I going to put it? In the tree.
You hang it. I know. Clear up there. I haven't gotten up into the tree yet to finish the Christmas lights. You're going to have me get up there and hang a picnic table.
Just put it on the step. No. Why? I'll figure it out. All right.
You figure it out. Meanwhile, I'm going to build some different feeders for the tree. And I thought about trying to get them into the backyard, but then we got the dog back there and I don't want her. Going nuts about the squirrels all the time. You can't put it in the backyard because the dog will go crazy. That's what I'm saying.
So I got to try to figure out how to make it happen. Not that she doesn't go crazy because they're in the front yard. She does.
So anyway, that's sorted. That's my winter project. Rebuilding squirrel feeders.
Christina in Denver is like, here's a full Thanksgiving spread. Meanwhile, the squirrels in our neighborhood are like, what gives? What's the squirrel got to do around here to get some food?
I just want a peanut or two. I know. I know.
I'm not asking for a peanut butter. And I have it in the bag in the garage. I just don't have a way to put it out for him right now. Spread. Put it on a nice charcuterie board. Sure thing.
A board. All right. Let's wrap up the show for the day, huh? Sure.
I see it's kind of started to try to snow. All right. I'm not mad about it.
Well, enjoy it. Let's get some a skiff. Okay. Let's get a skiff of snow. All right.
Up to an inch. Have a good rest of your Tuesday. We'll see you back here tomorrow morning. Get the podcast. Re-listen to the episode. Missed to catch the parts you missed.
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