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Wake up with Josh & Chantel every weekday from 6a-10a on Classy 97! Missed the show or want to revisit your favorite moments from the show, enjoy Wake Up Classy 97 - The Podcast!
Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Thursday, May 7th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Army jackets are officially back, but not skinny jeans, an English farmer turned 13 tons of unwanted potatoes into the most heartwarming "free taters" story you'll hear all week, societal norms worth ditching, doctor appointment confirmations, can you really listen to one artist for a full seven-hour road trip, car headlights that double as movie projectors, the science of bad sleep, earliest childhood memories, gardening vs. weeding, a surprisingly touching stroll down memory lane involving midwives, a drill-sergeant nurse, and a whistling anesthesiologist, Chantel's not old enough to have a 21-year-old, we're older than our doctors, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Olive army jacket
(3:12) - Josh's restless night
(6:02) - Good News
(8:31) - Social norms
(14:30) - Confirming appointments
(20:39) - Not old enough for a 21 year old
(26:25) - Potato disease
(34:03) - Thank you baskets
(41:06) - 7 hour drive
(47:56) - Young doctors
(51:17) - Earliest memories
(55:56) - Would You Rather
(58:24) - Projector headlights
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Full show transcript:
Do you still have what that are like olive green army jacket that you used to wear? Do you know the one I'm talking about kind of canvassy, but it was dark olive had a little cinch waist thing. Do you know the one I'm talking about?
It's the army jacket. Yeah. If it's the same one I'm thinking about then yes. Well get ready to dust it off. Why?
Because it's back in fashion. Did it ever go away? Yes. It was. I know you're being on fashion trends.
I know you keep up with it. Victoria Beckham has just partnered with Gap for the parka jacket. It's a longer trench Cody one. It's got a couple of new lines to it, but it is literally just that army green jacket.
They're bringing it back. Hers sells for $168. Get out of here. Yeah. Get out of here. Yeah. Yours you already have.
Yeah, and I think I got it used. So style it with some skinny jeans and a striped t-shirt. Skinny jeans. Skinny jeans and a striped t-shirt. That's how you do it. Skinny jeans are out.
They are. That's how it worked back in 09 when it was hot fashion. You would style it with skinny jeans and striped t-shirts.
Now it's a cleaner, slightly sharper outer layer that you can wear over in this example a skirt and a hoodie. Oh. Yeah.
A skirt and a hoodie. Okay. Yeah. Then the skirt's cool. The skirt's also an olive, which looks, it makes the jacket look really long gated honestly. Okay. But it's not a bad look. Did you find it?
The Gap Victoria Beckham Parka jacket. I have not. Look that up and then let me know what you think about. Okay.
And then if you want to buy one, you can for $168. No. No. What am I searching? Gap Victoria Beckham.
Gap Victoria Beckham Parka jacket. Got it. Yeah.
Yeah, I do have this. I know. Mine is shorter.
That's what I said. It's a little longer. It's kind of trench coat. It also has a hood. I like the hood. The hood is kind of cool. I do like the length of it.
I'm not going to spend that money on this. I understand, but it's pretty cute. It is pretty cute.
And it's, you know, paired with that skirt, not bad, but it looks like real long with that skirt. Yeah, it does. Well, I'm going to have to dust mine off.
That's what I said. Dust off your old Army jacket ladies because they are back in fashion. It's only been 17 years, but never left in my world.
Well, clearly. Wait, it went out of style? Yeah. Yeah.
Who cares? For 17 years, but it's back now. You know what's still not back?
That vest. I don't care. I don't care. I'm still going to wear it.
All right. Marty McFly. Let's get into today's show. Okay. How did you sleep last night? Great. Why? Did you really? Yeah.
Did you not? Good for you. Oh, sorry. No, no, I'm fine. I'm just, I did not sleep well last night.
It was strange. I woke up a couple of times and I tell you what happened. I just remembered what happened.
What happened? I fell asleep without my mask on and then I woke up one time and I put my mask back. I put it on. And then the second time I woke up, I don't know what happened, but it was short. I told you the second you lay down, you've got to put on your mask because... Well, I laid down and turned on the Madison and I finished the show. So I was up a little bit later because I finished the last two episodes.
Yeah. So I was up a while, but I wasn't, I was pretty restless when I was ready. Like it was ready to go to bedtime. And I was like, still have all this energy. So I was able to watch the whole show, but then I fell asleep after I finished that.
I turned on, I remember what I turned on and that's when I should have put on the mask, but I didn't. Yep. And then I fell asleep and then woke up and went like, what is going on? So, yeah, that's probably why I had a rough night.
My watch says that I got four hours and 30 minutes of sleep. That's wrong. I know. You got more than four hours and 30 minutes. Is it?
Yeah. How do you know? Well, because you didn't go to sleep at like one in the morning. It did say that I fell asleep at 2.42. Yeah, wrong.
That's way wrong. Yeah. No, you were asleep well before that because you didn't finish the two episodes. I finished the one.
Yes, I did. But not the second. No. Right. No.
So you still have the sixth. I left the window open last night. I liked it. I liked it too. Yeah. It was nice to have some cool fresh air. Agreed. Blowing into the room.
That's always nice. Well, sorry, buddy. It's all right.
I'm going to deal with it, but it's made my morning a little bit sluggish, I think is what's happened is now I feel like I'm not at full steam. So this isn't that interesting. To me, it is.
It's like a science experiment. What? Sleeping without your mask?
Yeah. Well, how I feel when I don't have it for as long as... When I woke you up this morning, you jumped like, whoa. I know.
I was super restless. Sorry. Sorry, buddy. But I'll get some rest, I guess. Maybe throughout the day. Just take little naps. Little cat naps. Sure.
Go out to your car for about 15 minutes at a time. I think we'll take one right now. Here we go. Let's see how this one goes. Good luck.
Thanks. Don't you just hate it when you end up with a whole bunch of extra potatoes? No. And I'm talking about like 13 tons of spuds and nowhere to go with them. Don't you just hate that?
No. What would you do with 13 tons of spuds? I would give them to people. Well, let's do this. Free taters.
That's what you would say? Free taters? Yes. For anybody?
For anybody. Can get you free taters. A massive order for 540 bags of potatoes was canceled at the last minute. And so this farmer, Luke Ablett, he's from Ramsey, England, he was staring at 13 tons of spuds that had nowhere to go because somebody canceled the order for the 540 bags. So instead of letting the crop go to waste, he said, you know what? I'm going to do something good about this and I'm going to donate all 13 tons. It's $4,000 worth of potatoes to local food banks and charities. He said, I just got, I got too many, too many potatoes.
Not ever a problem. It was a tough year for agriculture in England. The rising costs hit his usual customers at fish and chip shops.
So Luke chose to take the financial hit and focus on helping families who are struggling even more than he is. And the response was overwhelming. The mountain of potatoes was snapped up by the community in two days. They went through 13 tons of potatoes in two days. Free potatoes?
People are going to come out. I'm surprised it took two days. Yeah.
Okay. He was happy to help hungry families in the community. Of course, he admits the experience of hearing people's stories and seeing their gratitude was also incredibly heartwarming. He might have lost a sale of $4,000 worth of potatoes, but he did earn the respect of his neighbors by turning a potential business disaster into a massive win for local families. That's what you do with an extra 13 tons of spuds. Potatoes are delicious.
Yeah. I like fried. I like boiled. Oh, here we go.
Let's go. I like baked. Baked potato, boiled potato, fried potato, potato out grouton, scallop potato, funeral potato, french fried potato, we got it.
Shoe string fries, crinkle cut fries. We got it. We got it. Waffle fries. No, we got it. It's twice baked potato. Sometimes I wish I had the power to mash potato off the microphones.
It's good news. Somebody on Reddit asked, what societal norm are you deciding to break? Is there one that you would give me an example? Somebody said, I no longer eat three meals a day at standard times. Now I eat when I'm hungry without calling it a specific name.
That is an interesting one. You don't call it breakfast, lunch, dinner. I mean, everything in the whole wide world calls it breakfast, lunch, dinner.
And if you skip one, you just got to pick one of the other two. What are you going to call it? I know.
I feel hungry from early meal. Come on. Just call it what it is.
Right. Because if it's before noon, it's breakfast. If it's between noon and five, it's lunch after five, dinner. Look, I've got some food rules, but that's pretty nuts.
Okay, let me give you a different one. I'm going to have midday meal. Oh, lunch?
No, don't call it that. My husband and I have separate bedrooms. We get the best sleep. Okay. This is that sleep divorce thing that you keep bringing up like you want it. I don't keep bringing it up. I don't want this because you are the one that keeps the bed warm. I can't, it's too cold when I sleep in there alone.
Okay. So they get a good night's sleep because they just sprawl. And since you got your mask, there's no reason for you to sleep in your own bed because the snoring is gone. Exactly. Gotcha.
Gotcha. So I'm not, I'm fine. Okay. We can continue to share a bed. Right.
If you want to. That's really, but that's the societal norm they're breaking. It's shared, but they're, they have separate bedrooms entirely, not just separate beds in the same room like they used to do in the 40s and 50s. Right. Okay. Okay.
Here's another one. Saying bless you when somebody sneezes. I yell fake.
Does it need to be acknowledged? They say. Here's what happened to me the other day.
What happened? There were like three different people at my job that sneezed. They all got a bless you. I sneezed. No one said bless you. Oh no. And I went, that's rude.
Why, why didn't I get a bless you? Well, yeah. I actually, it could stop.
I don't, I wouldn't mind if, if people just didn't acknowledge that I sneezed. Yeah. Okay. Just continue about your business. A bless you's not needed. People get tired of talking to me when I sneeze. Yeah.
Cause it's like 12, 13, 14, 15. Who knows how many. It's always an adventure. Well, and that's, I hear people sneeze a couple of times and then they say bless you, bless you. And then after the third one, they go, no, you don't get more. Now you're just, Quit being greedy.
Now you're just reaching for a bless you. It's societal norms. I don't know.
I don't know. I'm pretty much, here's one, a rule guy. I'm cool. You accept. Accept.
Here's one that you might be interested in. I've stopped thinking I can only eat breakfast food for breakfast. How's that for a rule follower? That person has stopped thinking that that's, that's just going along with societal norms.
People in society are like, I'll eat breakfast for dinner and it's okay. It's so good. You're so wrong.
That is a breakfast food only. Wrong. Oh dude. Yeah. Wrong. So I would say if you stopped believing that you could only have breakfast, breakfast, you're now joining societal norms.
That's what I was saying. You're the outlaw. I am. You're the outlaw. The outlaw.
Breakfast food. You're like, no. Yeah. There's a new sheriff in town, outlaw.
Like that. Raise your hand if you think Josh is wrong. Hey, everyone put your hands down. Rude. Rude.
Here's one more. Somebody said, I don't care about folding a fitted sheet. I don't care if it's wrinkled. Just throw it in the closet. That's it.
Why are you keeping it in the closet like that? I guess if you have an extra. Okay. Yeah. I have nicely folded a couple of them.
They are in the sheet. It's not honestly, here's the thing. It's not that difficult to fold.
Like it's not. You just put the pocket corners inside the pocket corners. It's fine. Didn't fold it out. It looks swanky, but who cares?
It's still folded. Sometimes people are like, oh, it's too crazy. Settle down. Who says that? I can't. That sheet is too crazy.
I've seen some tic-tac videos where somebody tries and then they get mad and then they just roll it up and throw it. And I go, settle down. Oh, really?
Oh, really? You got something to say? Oh, we've said enough. You know the whole story. We talked about this at length. Yeah. This has nothing to do with a sheet.
No. It has everything to do with, I have a good intention. I'm going to fold this up. It became frustrating and hard. I'm over it.
Bundle, bundle, bundle, bundle, throw. I don't know why you have to keep bringing this up. What? You brought it up.
I just went, you have seen that. That's all. I think it's time for you to stop talking to me.
Oh, is it? Well, keep with your societal norms. If you really like breakfast anytime a day, go nuts. Delicious.
No, it's not. I have a doctor appointment today, just a quick checkup. And I got a phone call saying, confirm your appointment by pressing one. Did, confirmed yesterday. Then this morning I get a text, please confirm your appointment today. So I did. How many more confirmings do I need?
I don't know. I've got the same thing going on. Next week I have a dentist appointment. I just have a cleaning. Yeah.
And same deal. I get text messages. They've emailed me. I thought I responded. I got a phone call the other day and they went, you're going to show up to that?
Yes. It's been on my calendar since I set the appointment. I'm good to go. Remember when we spoke on the phone and I said, okay, yep, I've got that in my calendar. Well, I just wouldn't be surprised if I end up. I mean, it's, I think it's on Friday next week. Uh, but anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if I get some more reminders. Oh, you might get there. And I do. Here's the thing. I do appreciate the reminders because sometimes I go, oh, when is that again? And I, I, my calendar is full.
Sometimes I don't always look, but I don't need to. How many times do you need me to confirm the appointment? I've confirmed via phone call and text message now. You know what's kind of tripping me out is that I can't find it on here.
What? I can't find the appointment in my calendar. Cause you don't put anything in your calendar. No, I have everything in my calendar these days.
That says total line. What don't I have in there besides this? I don't know. I don't know either. I don't know how your calendar works.
I know that you forget things because you don't write it in your calendar. Well, I, I have the little, um, card so I can just look at that. You get a card. I never get a card anymore.
It's just sitting in my truck. It's just, I pull up my phone and I put it in the calendar and they go, do you need a card? And I go, no, thank you. Cause I will just use it, lose it. I've put it in my phone. Thank you very much. Now I don't know where it is.
Again, I'm gonna have to dig it up. I, I, it's next week. Or you could call them and say, Hey, when's my appointment? Hey, remember when you called and told me just a, you know, a couple days ago?
That's why I know you're the reason why they send us 16 reminders because of people like you. I have the card in the truck. It'll be fine.
Put it on your calendar. I thought I did. Oh my. But I don't see it. I'm looking. I don't see it. I, sorry. I don't have it. I can't help you.
I see that our son has a dentist appointment. Yeah. You know who put that in? Me.
Yeah, you did. Cause it's on the yellow calendar. Mine would be on my blue calendar. No, the blue calendar is the family calendar. No, family calendar is yellow in my phone. That's customizable. You can change it.
No, I know. I like it blue. Now blue stands out so then I can see the things that are mine. So the family's yellow. Oh, you're ignoring all the ones in yellow.
That way I can just look for the blue ones quickly. You see. Well, you should probably find out when your appointment is. Yeah, I should. It's next week. Because people have now started to charge you if you're a no show at your appointment.
That is true. I will show. I'll be there. You just don't know when. I'll be there and I'll be there on time. Cause I'm good.
We'll see about that. You don't think I'll be there on time? Define on time. I'll be there like between one and five minutes before my appointment time. Between one and five minutes?
Yeah. One minute? Between one and five minutes. If my appointment is at 2.30, I will be there. At 2.29?
Or 2.25. Between one and five minutes. I will get there five to 10 minutes early before my appointment. Why?
Cause I like to be more waiting. Blit. No way. So I can sit in the waiting room longer. I don't mind waiting. I'm not going to keep them waiting. I'll be on time. But it'll be one to five minutes before my appointment. I'll time it out.
I'll be like, or it's going to depend. If I'm like finished with a project and I don't want to start another project at work. And I'm like, I got to be there at 15, but it only takes 10 to get there. Like, yeah, I should probably go. I always leave with 15 minutes. Unless it's, you know, further out. But if it's something in town, 15 minutes is how long it takes you to get across town anywhere. So I always leave 15 to 20 minutes early from work.
And you arrive how many minutes before your appointment? Five to 10. That's too much.
It's not. One to five. One to five minutes. Right on time. And they go, we expected to see you here at this time.
Then nobody ever says that. Thank you for like, if it's a first time patient thing and you're going to have paperwork and stuff, I'll show up early for that. You never know when you're going to have paperwork. Sometimes they need a refresher. I don't think they're going to need a refresher. I was just, I've already been there once this year. You don't know that, Josh. If you arrive one minute early, now you're late, aren't you?
Because they're like, oh, we need one minute early. We lost all your paperwork. We need you to fill all those paperwork out.
Maybe I should find a new dentist. If you lost all my paperwork, what are you talking about? Come on. I might be the reason they confirm appointments. You are absolutely the reason.
Sorry. I had somebody ask me yesterday if we were married or if we were just really good radio buddies. Can two things be true? We are indeed married, have been for lots of years and also we're good radio buddies. Are we? I think so.
Okay. That's nice. One of us thinks so. Well, I guess not. We're married, but we are not friends.
Okay. Hardly like her. I've met some folks like that.
But yeah, we're married, but we couldn't never be friends. You have met people like that? But can you imagine? There's got to be some folks out there. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah, and don't even like her.
She's a good wife, though. Okay. Then he said, he was asking how many kids we had and how old they were. And then I said, I had a 21-year-old. And he said, you don't look old enough for a 21-year-old.
And I went, that's right. What do you have when you were four? Thank you. When you're 25? Oh my gosh.
Thank you. Is that what you said? Yes, just like that. Gross. Like my face got all scrunched up. Yeah, don't do that. And I said, how about now? Do I look old enough now? He was like, I was wrong. My bad. So you kept me on a good date.
All my grades are covered up. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah, well, but you should see that old ball and chain I dragged around.
He looks like it. Anyway, that was a nice compliment. It is a nice compliment. And the compliment was nice, good radio buddies. I guess we're making people believe that we're friends on the radio.
Right. Need a friend. I'll be your friend, Josh.
Nice. You can count on me. I got one friend. Are you writing it down?
Yes. Today I gained a friend. A good radio buddy. Show friend.
Check. Got one. How many do you have? Let me count. Whoa, that's so many. I haven't even counted yet. Yeah, but the fact that you even have to count, I got one.
I just barely got. One, Josh? Oh, you're going to name them? You have to name them.
Not if there's only one. Put my name down. You better spell it right.
S, two L's and an E at the end. That's you. Friend. Bud, hey, bud. Yeah, nah.
Maybe we should. Not a fan of that. I don't like the like, like I'm glad that we, yeah. The informality?
Yeah, I don't care for that. Or you say I'm glad that we what? I was going to say I'm glad that we are married because it makes it like real easy to talk to you. Because like I've known you a long time. So we can have good conversation and banter. Yeah. And poke fun at each other because there's a lot of history there. Yeah. If I'd just met you like over the past three years, still be awkward.
No, what did? People would be like, do they even know each other? No, I wouldn't. Yeah, probably. No.
You don't think so? Think back to when we were three years young. Yeah. Boy, that's a long time ago. Yeah, it was a long time ago.
Boy. We were not struggling to talk to each other. What are you talking about? I mean, if it was anyone else, not you. I see. I'd be like, oh, that's the thing you do? Like I know you well enough. And I go, OK, I know how this conversation is going to go. I get surprised often. But most of the time I'm like, yeah, we can talk about this.
It'll be funny. Like I know most of the time how you're going to react or, you know, like it's easy to play. If you had a different radio partner.
Yeah, I'd be like, I'd be trying to figure all that stuff out all the time. I don't know. Is that going to upset that person? Oh, yeah. I'm going to say something that like, I don't know where their like headspace is at any moment. Like it could be really difficult. Uh-huh.
But with you, I got that locked. No, sir. Unpredictable, wild. You don't know what I'm going to say. Keep them on their toes. Watch me. You can't. You can't catch me. I can't because you don't move.
You stand still and then shake your arms like that. I can catch you because you're right there. You can also catch me because I'm slow, but also clumsy. So if I do try to run, I'll just trip and fall.
Gotcha. You're not going anywhere. My shoe was untied again. No, it wasn't. You weren't even wearing shoes. And that's why you slipped on your sock. Well, I got a friend today.
High five, buddy. Gross. Gross what? It's too cash. I don't know. You don't like it when I call you bud or buddy? No, it feels weird. Friend. No. That's better. He's my best friend.
My best friend. We have a 21 year old still living at our house, which is fine. Yeah. I don't mind. But there are still days where he goes, Hey, what's for dinner? And we go, Hey, what do you mean days? Hey, that's every day. You're kind of an adult. So maybe you figure it out. And there are days that he does figure out his own dinner.
That is true. But last night we were especially busy where we're trying to do a bunch of stuff. And you were a little bit in a grumpy kind of mood.
I don't know why. I felt a little cranky last night. You were cranky last night. I don't know why. I was being triggered by things that shouldn't have bugged me.
I don't know. Maybe I was overstimulated. We went to Costco.
So maybe that's why. You were fine at Costco. I was still, I think that's where I started feeling like I would rather be somewhere else. And it just kind of carried on through the night. And then I was like, I'm done with this.
And I don't know. And we, the plan was to have some burgers. And Beck said something about, oh, I thought we were going to have burgers for dinner.
Right. And you grumpily said, someone else can cook. And I went, that's not what I said. Oh, no, that is absolutely.
That is absolutely what you said. And Beck and I looked at each other and I said, we're going to figure this out. And Beck said, I don't know how the grill works.
And I said, I don't eat there, but I'm sure we can figure it out. So I went and I fired up the grill. And then Beck and I started making some potato wedges and gathering all the other stuff that we needed for dinner. And it was actually kind of fun cooking with him. I mean, he knows how to cook. He's with years and years and years and scouts. He cooked with his patrol.
He knows what to do, but he just hasn't done it in so long. And so I was washing and peeling the potatoes and then handing them over to him and he was cutting them into wedges. And then, so he's cutting the potatoes. And then he gets done with that.
He puts the potatoes in the oven to cook. And then you said, oh, hey, can I get some buns with butter on them and I'll grill them. And I said, or I'll toast them. And I go, yeah, I get the buns out. And I tell Beck, I go, here, will you cut these in half and butter these? And he goes, with the same knife that I used to cut the potatoes, and I go, yeah. Yep. And he goes, isn't that going to make us sick?
And I go, no. Right, it wasn't raw meat. You're good. It's just potatoes. Right. Just potatoes. I mean, you can wash it off if you want to, if you're worried about it, that's fine.
But what is there to be worried about? I wash the potatoes. No, I get it. You're an interesting person in that regard. Do you know that?
What's that mean? You wash the potato before you peel it. Do you wash it after you peel it? No. No. Why? There's no need.
If I've washed it before I've peeled it, why would I need to wash it after I've peeled it? Think about this for just a minute. You think about it. No, I have, because I've seen this in practice, and it's a strange one to me.
How? Why do you wash the part you peel off and then not wash the part that was now exposed? That's like washing a banana on the outside and then peeling it neat in the inside. What's the wash in it for? Because you're washing all the dirt off of the skin. You're going to scrape the skin off.
And then you peel it off, and then you've got a clean potato. That makes no sense. You don't make any sense.
I peel them and then wash them. Well, I don't. I know. That's why I'm saying it's weird. I think you got that backwards.
I think you're backwards. What's the point of washing the part you're throwing away? Because that's the dirty part. What's the point of washing the inside? Because the potato peelers now touch the dirty skin, so I wash the inside of the potato. The potato peeler has peeled the dirty skin.
The clean skin. Oh, we got to look this up. I got to do some research.
Okay. The point of this story is that when Beck said to me, he goes, you're not going to get sick off of that dirty potato knife. And I go, no, it's a potato.
And he goes, isn't potato the most disease-ridden vegetable? And I go, I'm pretty sure. I don't know.
I'm pretty sure no. Anyway. Oh, okay.
Anyway. Is there something I should know about potatoes? Using a potato knife make you sick with something? I've not heard that. I don't know. Are potatoes the most disease-ridden vegetable?
They can get blight. I know that. Yeah, but that's inside. But also, it said, I looked up, it said, they can make you sick if they're green, sprouted, or improperly stored. Okay. But ours were not.
They weren't soft or mushy or wrinkly. So I don't know. I'm not able to find the proper order.
I'm just clicking around. I just feel like I wash them after I take the peel off because that makes more sense because that's the part that needs cleaned. No, the part that needs cleaned is the part that is dirty. And then I clean it and then I peel it off.
And so it's double clean. Okay. Okay.
Okay, you. If I'm baking a potato, if I'm leaving the skin on, yes, wash the potato. If I'm peeling the skin off and throwing it away, wash after I peel. Okay.
But I've cleaned it. No, I know. And then. I'm aware. Peeled it off.
So it's a double clean. I don't know. I do. Okay. Anyway. Anyway.
I have nothing else to say about your weird potato peeling order. That's not, this wasn't even the point of the whole story. No, I know, but then we got really sidetracked about it. Because I learned something new today.
What did you learn? It was nothing new. I've seen it before, but I, we hadn't really discussed it.
And I feel like that's backwards. But what do I know? What do you?
I'm just one man with a potato peeler. Are you going to be cranky tonight for dinner or what's, what's going to be the deal? It depends.
I, I don't know. I really felt like I wanted to be somewhere else than where I was. Fine. You're welcome to leave.
Hey, hey. No, I wasn't because I had driven you all there. I wasn't welcome to leave. I just, I was, something was going on. I felt like I needed to be in the yard and I wasn't able to be in the yard.
And it was, I was having a moment. Anyone else can cook dinner. I don't feel like that's what I said. Okay. I can see you and me, but, but I still grilled the burgers and the buns and put them together and they were delicious.
They were outside and it was fine. Yeah. And then you chilled out a little bit.
Yeah, I did. I was watching a video yesterday of this woman who was expecting a baby and she said, before the baby arrives, I want to do something nice for the nurses and the doctor from my OBGYN. Okay. And so she's putting together thank you baskets. And I went, oh, that's a really smart, cute idea. I wish I had thought of doing that. Because paying them isn't enough. Okay.
But listen, when I had our daughter, I had some midwives. Right. In Pocatello and they're still practicing as far as we know, right?
They've been checked in a while. Yeah. But I loved that. Right.
I know that. And I wonder if it's too late to send them a thank you basket. Are you for real? It's been 16 years. I know, but.
Going on 17 as the song goes. And yeah, it's been a minute. But I could still send them a thank you basket and say, Hey, remember me?
Because you want to be friends. I love them so much. You were going to like, I'm going to be a midwife. Like, this is what I want to do.
Like I want to work in neonatal with little babies. Like that was very much where you were like, this is, this is awesome. And then what happened to that? It's been 16 years.
You could have been doing it by now. Whoa. Well, I don't know, Josh.
Maybe I was raising children. Oh, is that it? I just wonder if it's too late to send them a thank you basket. I'm sure not. Okay. Do they remember you? I don't know.
Oh, don't say that. You don't think they've had several clients in the past 16 years? I'm sure they've had many, many, many clients, but don't say they forgot me. Oh, and say they forgot you. I said, do I think they're going to go like, oh, I remember her by name? No, probably not.
I agreed. I don't think they're going to remember me by name. So when you go to deliver them and give hugs, that's when they'll be like, I don't know. I always tell people, because when I delivered, when I delivered back, it was a much different experience from when I delivered Emory.
And I had these, there were two midwives that I primarily worked with in focatello. And I loved both of them so much. They were vastly different in their approach. You preferred one. I preferred the other.
But I loved them both. And I remember after I delivered, I went, can we be friends? We're pleased to be here.
I do remember because it was, they were like, no, we're not. We're going to do drug free. We're going to do a drug free delivery. Well, it was your plan. Like you put together a birth plan that you didn't want to have epidural or Potosin or any of that stuff. You wanted to try and do natural birth.
Yes. And then you changed your mind mid delivery. Well, and then it was too late. And well, now I wanted to hold you to your plan. I asked them, I said, can we just do some drugs?
And they were like, no, no, we've come so far. And I was like, I hate both of you. We can't be friends. We're not going to be friends. I think later I said, I'm sorry that I said I hated you. I really do love you.
Let's please just be friends. Listen, I remember it like it was yesterday, not 16 years ago, but it was, it was quite the thing. And you're a beast for doing that. Like natural birth was insane. And you, you did it, which good for you.
Thanks. It was brutal. I mean, it looked like a lazy day in the park. I'll tell you, it looked like you were just having a good time. You looked comfortable.
You didn't look like it was painful at all. Yeah. Yeah. It was a walk in the park. Yeah, sure was. It was a cool experience and vastly different from Beck, our first child, five years earlier, which was in the hospital with the, not that Emery was born in a hospital, but it was just a completely different birthing experience. But, but yeah, Beck was ptosin and it was epidural and it was all those things.
They were incredible too. Of course. Like, oh my, I could send them a basket too.
You absolutely could. There was one particular nurse who like, I was struggled with the. The drill sergeant. She was awesome. They were like, this baby's not coming out. And then the drill sergeant came in and she was like, you're going to have to push.
Yeah. She was like, we're getting this baby. My favorite part of that whole thing was that your mom was there to help, I guess, and, and was holding one of your legs and, and was so like, not bracing. She's like, go ahead and put it down if you want. And that drill sergeant was like, you're going to need to hold that leg or move.
These are your options. That leg has got to stay firm. And that drill sergeant, she got that baby out. Didn't she? Yes, indeed. So I could send her a basket too. That's right. What's her name?
I don't know. And you should send one to the anesthesiologist because he was whistling Zippity Doodaw the whole time. And now you loved. So you want to thank him for whistling Zippity Doodaw while he was preparing the epidural because it really put you in a good mood. No, I think I looked at you and said, you got to get him out of here. You've got to get him out of here. A Zippity Doodaw. He's whistling. I know.
But imagine if he was singing it like that the whole time. A Zippity A. Yeah. Like, what are you whistling about? Get out of here.
Yeah. So you have different experiences, but yeah, you, you really want to send them thank yous now 16 years later and be like, can we still be friends? Hey, can we be friends?
Hey, remember me? They might. They might remember you.
I doubt it. We did a photo shoot with them, remember? We didn't. Yes, we did.
I thought it was just the, just Emory. No, no, no, it was the three of us. I can't remember what it was for, but they called it Christmas thing because she had them like a little Santa hat. They called us and they said, hey, we were doing some promotional photos with your family. Did they ever use them?
I don't know. We must have been a handsome looking family. If they were like, can we have you family come in?
You get a handsome looking family. They didn't ask that of everybody. Maybe we were fourth string. We were just best friends. So they were like, let's go our best friends. Oh, is that right? Come on. All right. You're going on a seven hour road trip. You can only listen to one artist. Who is it? I don't want to do this hastily.
Because seven hours? It's got to be an extensive library. It's got to be an extensive library.
They've got to have a lot of discography. That's what that means. Extensive library. It means they've got to have a large amount of albums. So you could pick the Beatles. You could pick the Stones. I get it.
You could pick. I see that's what immediately comes out because then you go like, okay, there's an anthology here. There's a lot of music. But I'm telling you, an hour in, I'm going like, I got to hear somebody else sing.
I got to hear a different presentation than this. Over the Beatles or the Stones? Yeah. Because I feel like... An hour of just one artist? I couldn't, I know. And I have six more hours to go? That's my thing.
I like a lot of variety. I couldn't do the Stones for seven hours. But the Beatles have enough... Their albums are all over the place. I understand that. But I'm still... You have enough difference in their albums. I know, but it's still John Paul. Unless you can also include Paul McCartney, slash Paul McCartney and Wings, George Harrison. No. Just the Beatles. Because they're all Beatles.
It's just... And then you can build a little bit more of the library and get a varying sound. No. Just there.
Just then. I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know either. You could go Tom Petty. He's got a pretty extensive library. Dude, I'm telling you, after an hour of one artist, I'm gonna lose it.
And Tom Petty is very distinct. You know how I feel? You know what I mean?
Like, and I like Tom. Don't get me wrong. But that's a lot.
That's a lot. But then I would say again, do you also get yard birds? Do you also get Tom Petty and what's her name from Fleetwood Mac? I cannot think of her name. Stevie Nicks. Stevie Nicks. What a terrible song. I do. Do you get... I mean, listen. You could do the Fleetwood.
They're unique in their own way. For seven hours. I couldn't do seven hours of Fleetwood Mac.
I could probably. I couldn't do seven hours of Led Zeppelin. I couldn't do seven hours of Ozzy. I couldn't do seven hours of... I'm just trying to think who's got... You know, but then again, do I get Ozzy and Black Sabbath?
Like, do I... Like, you got to start asking these questions. I couldn't do Ozzy. No way. No way.
Margaret the Moon. You couldn't do all that? No. I could probably do Fleetwood for seven hours.
No way. I really like Fleetwood. How many times are you going to listen to Tusk? Once. Once? You got to get that thing in a higher rotation.
Why? It's a good song. It is a good song.
Live with the USC marching band. You know? Super good.
Okay. You couldn't do Zeppelin? What about Pink Floyd? No. No way. I couldn't do... I like Pink Floyd.
I do not. And there's a lot of album there. Like, there's a good amount of music.
I just... The thought of having to listen to one artist for seven hours. I'm driving six and a half hours in silence.
In the last half hour, I'm enjoying whatever band I picked. That's how I'm doing it. Or I'm getting one song an hour for the seven hours. You could also just tune out.
You could play music and then just not... You don't just ever tune out and you're just in your head with your thoughts. That never happens to you? No. No, I'd get hypnotized and fall asleep. Yeah, actually you would. I can't be doing that.
I don't know. I don't mind driving in silence. But... Simon and Garfunkel.
It's not a bad choice. Sound of silence. Not that song though. It's better.
If you could do Simon and Garfunkel, then you could get all of Paul Simon's solo stuff. That's what I'm saying. Again, you've got to have... If you pick an artist, you've got to be able to untap their entire musical contribution.
So my choices are Beatles, Fleetwood, or Simon and Garfunkel. Well then I'm putting in a loophole. What's your loophole? My loophole is Songwriter.
Okay. So if I pick Bob Dylan, for example. Do you know how much music Bob Dylan wrote that wasn't performed by Bob Dylan? With Charlie Puth. Same with a million other people. They write songs for Pharrell.
Pick anybody. They write songs and then they sell, slash, give them to other artists to perform. What if... So I'd get a huge amount of music. Michael Jackson has a huge amount of music. Michael Jackson was my very first thought. Really?
We didn't talk about him until just now. That was my very first thought. Because there's such a huge library. Okay. What if you had to pick, for me, you had to pick one artist for me. Do I like you? Am I in the car with you? Your intent is to drive me crazy.
Who is it? And then I have to listen the whole seven hours. I'm giving you seven hours of Daddy Fryer. Oh. Yeah. Which is my Icelandic band. You said you were a friend. Listen. After seven hours, I bet you love him.
Bet not. I bet you have songs stuck in your head. He does it sing like that. That's how Shakira sings.
That's all throughout. No, I can't. I can't do this.
Seven hours of Daddy Fryer. Oh. That's horrible. I thought we were friends. I thought we were good radio friends. Good radio friends. You blew it. Oh, friends. Yeah, I win. Rude. Okay. This is going to be the oldest thing that I'm ever going to say.
Today. I have been looking at, I got a new doctor and I haven't met her yet. And when I went to look at a picture of her, because I was like, I don't even know what she looks like. I went, oh, she's very young. And then I looked at all of the rest of the doctors that this facility provides. And I went, all of these doctors are so young.
Yeah. And then I went, why are these doctors so young? You want to know why? Why? Because you so old.
That's what I mean. And then I said quietly to myself, I don't think I'm going to be a doctor. I want a young doctor.
What? They're not going to know all the old medicine. What if they don't know the old medicine?
And then I went, don't be silly. No, I think there's going to be more and more and more young doctors as we continue to get older. Which is great. Yeah.
The longer I thought about it, I was like, this is great. They're learning. They've got all the new stuff.
It's great. Yeah, they have new training. But this new doctor, she's young. And so then I go, if I go there and I'm talking to her about my night sweats and my pair of menopause, she's not going to get it. You're right. Because she hasn't experienced it. Right. Maybe she's studied it, but she doesn't get it. Okay.
Maybe you're making a lot of assumptions before you met somebody. I know. Absolutely. Once I thought about it, I was like, now you're just being silly. Quit with that old mind mentality.
Yeah, you sound like you're mad. Oh, they're so young. Oh, these doctors, they're so young these days. Yeah. Well, then meantime, she's got an older doctor who no one in the family really cares for.
Because we all go, what's up with that guy? My mom? Yeah.
Yeah. I don't care for her doctor at all. She needs a new young doctor. She does. Because she needs someone that knows new medicine instead of here's more medicine.
That's the old way. She needs something else. Yeah. So, you know what I'm saying?
I do. It's probably okay that you got a young doctor. I've told her repeatedly, you got to find a new doctor. She's got to find a new doctor. Quit going to that old guy. Go to a new young doctor who knows new medicine. New medicine.
Yes. You can't change medicine. Medicine changes all the time. That was a joke about math. Well, about math. Yeah. New math. Yeah. Got it. You can't change.
When did they change math? Yeah, exactly. It's an Incredibles reference. Yeah. Got it. Okay. I'm keeping up.
I'm with you. I'm quick as a whip. Way to translate. Quick as a whip. That's an old person thing. Quick as a whip. Yeah. Start open with that. Well, you're quick as a whip.
With my new young doctor. That's right. She was like, uh-oh. I'm just saying. We got an oldie. Is your name Doogie Houser?
Yeah. Whoa, easy Doogie. And she was going to say, who? Who's that? Yeah, who? Get out of here. Who?
Doogie Houser? What is your earliest memory? Like I have some really early memories, but I creepily early. Like I've told my mom about stuff that I remember and she's like, how do you remember that you were a baby? Like you were very, very little.
So that's kind of interesting. Um, as far as like childhood stuff, like I think I've talked about it before. I remember riding my trike and stepping on a bee and I got stung in the foot. That was a bad time. I remember that.
Um, but I don't know. It's weird because I think like every day you have 24 hours in a day, every single day, but you don't remember every minute detail of every day. And there's no, you know, there's people who are like, I have a photographic memory. I remember every little minor thing. Yeah, but sometimes your memory is, go ahead. I've interrupted.
No, you're fine. I'm just saying that like that's a rare thing. I think you just can't store that much data.
Right. But then your memory, it plays tricks on you because you go, did I, is that an accurate memory? Or did I interpret it differently? Do you know what I mean? Like as the years pass, you go, hmm, I don't know if it necessarily happened that way, but maybe that's the way I want to remember it. And so that's the way I have remembered it. Yeah. I think there are some fine examples of that over the past 23 years where you're like, I remember, I thought of that thing or I won that argument or, and I go, I don't know.
I think maybe that went differently, but there's no way to prove it. So we have to just walk away. And that sits well with you.
You like having to walk away unresolved. You love it. No, I remember. I brought that up and it was my idea. Why are you trying to start? I'm not trying to start something. It feels like I'm saying you're sometimes your memory remembers things the way you want to remember things versus the way they actually happen. I'm agreeing with you. That's a thing. That's a thing that happens. Go on.
No, I have, I have nothing further to say. What's your earliest childhood memory since I never asked but did this time? How old were you? I wonder when you and you used to have done a B. I don't know.
Two or three. Really? Yeah. I really don't remember. I remember a memory where my cousin was trying to give me some clothes and I, all I ever got was hand me downs and I didn't want her hand me down clothes. And my mom was like, go try them on. Go try them on. And I was like, I don't want to.
I don't want to. And she was like, go try them on. And I remember had just having a complete meltdown in the bathroom by myself while I was trying to try on the clothes that I didn't even want. Never heard of that. That is, you've changed. I don't want to. Okay. We'll do it anyway. I just said, I don't want to.
Don't tell me what to do. And I don't, I don't know how old I was, maybe five, five or six. I remember that. Yeah, I remember some like stuff like homemade slip and slides and playing in the backyard and some of the things I did. But like, I remember some of the like daycare stuff, some of the stuff like pre first grade. There's, there's a few things.
But I'm, but I think there's probably. Two or three dozen memories that are locked in as cores. And the rest of the stuff is just like, I don't know. I know it's not crazy.
I don't know what I did on that Thursday. I know, but it'd be fun to know. Would it? Yeah. This was probably a boring day. Not in your seven year old day. I bet you as a seven year old self is like, that was the best day. Can't wait for the next day. Yeah.
You got to play cars and ride your bike to all kinds of cool stuff. Yeah. Yeah, I did 40 years ago. Man. Anyway, yeah, I don't know.
The brain's a weird little contraption. Sure is. Thank you. Would you rather this or that, Chantung? Would you rather this is a gardening addition because we have been, gardening has been on your mind.
Big time. Would you rather have a perfect watering system? I'm working on that. So your soil is constantly exactly what it needs to be.
It's really important. Or have a perfect weeding system. So it's always perfectly weeded. I think if I have my watering system down, that's more important because I can handle the weeds in a management situation. It's going to be the watering system that's going to make the difference on the success of the plant.
So I'm going with the watering system. Okay. Okay. And for you? I'm going to go for the weeding because it's not that I dislike weeding because I actually think weeding is pretty therapeutic and I don't mind weeding. But we have the flowerbed in the back.
In the back. And it's just so overrun that I just need to tackle it once and then have it be done until I can manage it better. Correct. But it's just chaos right now. Yeah.
I know that. Yesterday I grabbed some, at my other job we had some packing. What is that? Paper. Packaging paper. Yeah.
And you were like, ooh, can you bring some of that home? Right. I need that. I need some browns. The hydrogen?
No. The carbons. The carbons.
The nitrogens from the greens. Yeah. Yeah. For your compost pile that you're building.
That's right. Because it's good, clean, fine paper, you can shred up and drop in there and then you've got browns mixed in with your greens. And yeah, my co-worker said, what are you doing with that? I said, oh, you don't, I go, you don't want to know. I go, I know so much about composting.
I've seen so many videos. It don't, it's fine. Just know that it's for the compost pile. And she went, okay. Yeah. If you're just throwing it away, I mean, you know, you might as well throw it in and it'll help break up the nitrogens and that's good. You know?
I do. So yeah, watering system is the answer. Weeding system for me. Well, that's how. Between the two of us.
Yeah, perfect yard. Would you rather this or that? This is interesting. If I can find it right here, there is a company in China that has developed a car headlight. You know, these headlights like the ones that I've got, which are pretty bright, but there are some that are way brighter. There is a company in China that said, you know, that technology actually is bright enough that we could project with that. And so they have built projectors into the headlights of some cars in China. And so the idea is that you could pull up your car to any kind of wall and project a movie or whatever, like a mobile drive in, in your car.
It's just projecting out your headlights onto a surface. I'm kind of thinking about this. It's kind of interesting. How does that not kill your battery? Well, it would be, I mean, if most cars are going to an electric system anyway, the batteries are much bigger than. You're standard car battery. Okay.
This is in China after all, where like they are years ahead on their electric vehicle stuff. And so I would say that probably is not a concern. Okay. Interesting. Yeah. Interesting. So you're thinking about this.
I just think it's kind of an interesting concept that you could turn your car into a, you know, a projector where you could watch a movie or you could hook up, you know, a video game system. Where would you go? Anywhere. Parking garage. Anywhere you park. Who wants to watch a movie in a parking garage? Well, if you're sitting there, you're on lunch or if you're, you know, whatever. No.
No. Anywhere there's a wall. You can do it on your garage door in front of your house.
Yeah, I just don't. You can do it inside your garage in your house. I don't see the point. You can do it while you're camping. I don't see the point. I just think it's kind of fun. And that's interesting. I, we have a projector.
We have a screen. Yeah. We've taken that camping. I know. I hear you. I understand. I just don't know why your car has to do it.
Here's what it says. It says while projecting movies may seem like a gimmick, you could technically set up a screen and make your vehicle into a personal drive in movie theater. But the technology has more practical aspects as well. With these advanced headlights, drivers could get on street guidance in the form of arrows. Like your headlights would project like you're driving directions. So you didn't have to look at your phone. You would just look out the windshield. It could project on the road the way you're supposed to go. Interesting. You could, while the car is parked, project some games on the pavement like a hopscotch or something, you know, a night, play night hopscotch.
Oh, wow. If you want, you could project, you know, visualizations and synthesizers and things on the show are on the floor. So like if you were doing like a dance party, you could open up the windows and the doors of the car and then you could project a dance floor and have a time. I think the only thing that's actually appealing is the directions on the street. Okay.
Where it projects the directions. Let's get a little more creative. What else can we do? Anything.
Oh, yeah. I mean, if you use projection mapping, which then would be you could make it interactive. There's a guy I saw who's designing an escape room using that technology, that interactive projection mapping. So for example, the projector has masking in it that blocks off certain areas.
And so let's say it was projecting a waterfall on the wall. Okay. For example. Okay. And then you had the ability to put a physical bucket at the waterfall and it would fill the bucket with the projector with projected water.
Okay. That you could then move to a different section of the room that would unlock the masking of that section where you could pour the projected water into something else. Interesting. It's very cool technology. It's really, really neat. I think that's very, very fun.
Interesting. So if you could combine the two worlds, then you could have your projected whatever on the floor that then became interactive. You could project the piano from big and then you could play the big piano in front of your car. But they have that already. That already exists.
Yeah. But then you have to carry with you. Now it's in your car. You hit the big piano button and it goes and then you get out in front of your car and you go.
Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing. Neighbors are going to love it. It's not for them. You know what I mean? This could be cool. I'm not sold. What would you want it to do that would make you go actually?
I don't know. The direction thing is kind of cool. That's the one thing that will help you.
The navigation thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow, you just don't see the vision. You're right. I don't.
All right. Well, it exists. They're working on it. We'll see where it goes.
It's kind of interesting. That's going to wrap up the show. Hope you have a good rest of your Thursday. Tomorrow is finally Friday. I know. I'm so excited. I can't even stand it.
I can't stand it. Have a great day. We'll see you back here tomorrow. Thursday. Goodbye.
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