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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Thursday, June 18th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Josh and Chantel celebrate the Knicks' championship parade and gear up for Father's Day weekend with a fun "Wise Dad vs. Fun Dad" debate and a deep dive into what skills actually make a good dad. They cover the viral "goblintimacy" dating trend and the TJ Maxx sister shopping challenge, share a heartwarming story of two Iowa teens who rescued a stranded elderly woman, and get hyped over World Cup soccer action (including some friendly football vs. soccer trash talk). Plus, a small but mighty YouTube Music update has Chantel thrilled, and the couple debates whether a handcuffed escape room challenge could survive their very different brains.
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Knicks tickertape parade
(3:17) - It's our Friday
(7:18) - Good News
(9:02) - Goblins
(12:54) - 30 days has September
(17:09) - Josh is a wizard
(22:05) - Cop Camp update
(26:46) - TJ Maxx sister challenge
(32:44) - Impressive dad skills
(39:32) - World Cup fever
(47:04) - Resume playlist button
(51:55) - Would You Rather
(55:27) - Partner escape room
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Full show transcript:
So the Knicks got their parade this morning. It started at 10 a.m. New York time, so it's what two hours ago right now from when we're recording this that that they did the parade.
It was a ticker tape parade. You familiar with that term? What does that even, I mean I've heard it.
I just don't necessarily know what it means. So back in the like early days of Wall Street, like back in the 20s to 40s, they the accountants and stuff would take the big ticker tape that they would do the receipts on and stuff and throw it out the windows for parades and stuff. Oh, like big fetties. Yeah, huge huge streamers of ticker tape. So they got a ticker tape parade in New York which is kind of cool. That's really cool.
Yeah, the NBA championship New York Knicks. Pretty exciting. Did who's gonna clean all of that up? Oh, the city. But lots of confetti, lots of people. What a big deal for New York.
We kind of talked about how exciting it was for the city to kind of do all that stuff. But I'm trying to see, I'm looking like live now. The parade's still going on. I'm looking at the YouTube live feed. It's still happening. And it started at 10am local time, I guess in New York. So it's been going on for a couple hours and they're still just way excited.
Well, I don't see any ticker tape. Well, and I don't know if they've reached that part of the parade. There's tons of confetti, but maybe they just haven't reached that far down. There's a whole bunch of people on these parade floats that are not the players.
I don't know who these people are. Like maybe they bring along family. Maybe. Maybe that's the deal. Maybe. Because I'm like watching the live feed and I'm going like, well, I don't know who this is. But yeah.
Okay. Like there's a truck pulling a float. It's got to be a family.
So it's a player and their family. Maybe I don't. I'm looking at this float and it's yeah, I don't recognize. The float is throwing its own confetti though. How cool is that?
Have a confetti cannon on the float to make it rain confetti the whole time. Hey, I dig on that. That's cool. I do on that too.
Yeah. Anyway, congrats again to the Knicks. They're celebrating with their big parade right now as we're recording this. I kind of like a good parade. Do you?
Yeah. Parade mom is a version of you that comes out of parades to get free stuff. You think the Knicks are throwing out free stuff? I don't know.
I don't know. But parade mom comes alive to get like that free dentist t-shirt. Yeah, you gotta have it. You gotta have it.
I'm going back to the kind of the beginning of the parade here and it does look like there's ticker tape. Does it? Yeah.
I'm trying to find the time in here. Maybe when they hit like a section like the financial district or something. Yeah. Yeah. Cause I'm looking at the ground and it is covered in confetti and streamers and all kinds of stuff.
What a cool thing. Anyway, let's start today's show. All right. Hey.
Hey. It's Thursday, but it's a Friday for you and me. It is a Friday and I woke up this morning and I said, I'm sleeping in tomorrow. I'm sleeping in. Are you?
Yeah. It's been a really long week. Late nights, early mornings.
Every single day. And it's not, there's another thing tonight. I know. Every night this week, there's been another thing.
I know. Like the day has burned from morning until dark. And even last night, got to sit out on the deck in the evening time, which I love, but I couldn't shut down. I couldn't just relax.
I almost fell asleep sitting out there. Cause it was the first minute that I've had all week to just kind of like, I don't know what my house looks like this week. I don't know. I haven't been there.
I just walk through. No, this stuff, I mean, we went, we grabbed some snacks on Tuesday. Oh yeah, Monday. Monday. And they're just still sitting on the counter. But that's fine.
They're easy to get to. We were backpacking last weekend. There's still a backpack sitting in the living room. Two. Two. Isn't there two backpacks? No, I put mine away. But I haven't fully put yours away because you said you wanted to learn where everything went. I lied. Oh, is that right?
Yeah. Because I've been waiting to show you. I tried to show you when I was putting stuff away on the weekend from my stuff.
I couldn't get you to come out to the garage to see where everything goes. No. So you changed your mind on that?
No, I'll figure out where it goes. No, I know. I just didn't want to do it that day.
Or Tuesday. I've been gone. I know, bro. I know. Cut me some slack. Everywhere you've been, I've been.
So I get it. It's been a busy one. It's been a busy one. So tomorrow we have a day off. I'm sleeping in. All right. Till when?
I don't know. When my body says, girl, gotta use the restroom. That's usually what happens. I see.
You know, like, fine, I'll get up. Well, for us, it's a Friday. We will have a short week. We're going out of town for a minute. Going to check out a show that you had concert. You gave me tickets to as a Christmas present. So that's exciting. Cash in on your Christmas present.
Six months after Christmas, being able to use them a gift. That's exciting. So that's what's going on. And we'll be back in the studio on Monday as usual for five full days. But let's have a less stressful, busy week. I think we do. Does that be nice? I think it's quieter next week.
We'll be okay. People have been texting me and I've been terrible about texting back. I'm not ever that good. But they're like, I thought I was dead to you. I thought I didn't exist. And I have to apologize all the time. Because I've just been busy. I'll see that I get a text message. And I'll be like, okay, I'm watering the garden right now, which is like the only tiny little bit of sanity I have for five minutes. Hold on.
I'll text you back. And then something else comes up and something else comes up. And then I forget. Yeah. Terrible.
I'm terrible. That's why I'm a phone call guy. That's why we don't have any friends. That's true. We're also incredibly busy.
So having friends would be another stress point. Do you want that? I mean, yes. Yeah, I do too.
I like having friends. Don't give up on us. I promise we're still around. Anyway, happy Thursday slash Friday.
Kind of a wild adventure for good news today. Gunnar Skidmore and Cohen Chick. They were enjoying a simple summer morning bike ride near Fruitland, Iowa. And something caught their attention as they were cruising down the rural road. They spotted what appeared to be someone lying in a yard. And unsure of what they were seeing, they turned around to check it out.
And Gunnar and Cohen made the right move to be at the right place at the right time. It was an elderly woman who couldn't move and didn't have her phone. She'd fallen the night before while feeding her horse and had been stranded outside in the yard for 16 hours.
No kidding. The boys called 911 first responders transferred the woman to a nearby hospital for medical treatment. The kindness did not stop there while she recovers Gunnar's mom stayed in touch with the woman's family. And they've been helping care for the woman's horse by making sure it had food and water.
The family also plans to welcome her home with a homemade lasagna once she's discharged from the hospital. How scary. That is wild. Yeah. Good job on those guys though.
Gunnar and Cohen way to go. I was trying to see how old these guys were their teens. And they were out riding their little e-bikes, their little electric things out in rural Iowa and spotted this woman laying in the yard. I'm glad they were paying attention.
Sometimes a lot of those e-bikers aren't paying attention and they're just zooming away. Yeah. No way to go. And I'm sure they were cruising, cruising, cruising. But anyway, great job dudes. Like that's really incredible.
And it's good news. There's a new dating trend called goblintimacy. Goblin-timacy?
Yeah. Goblin-intimacy. Goblin-timacy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. What is that? Okay. What do you think it is? I have no idea.
Okay. So basically it's, it's getting rid of the idea that you have to spend hours preparing for your date. And then you just, you show up for your date kind of like the natural version of yourself. That doesn't mean you're going to like be lazy because laziness is actually still kind of frowned upon. It's not coming across as low effort. It's more just being like the authentic version of yourself. All right.
So you just kind of show up for your date. Okay. I don't know why goblins have to be referenced because most people aren't goblins when they're being their natural self. Yeah. So here's, here's what I would say.
I think I probably show up to everything as a goblin. I disagree. No. Not that I'm not like appropriately dressed. I just am super basic in my wardrobe.
So like I'm not putting on a suit or anything. That's why I kind of hate that it's got goblin related to it because it's, it's. But I like the idea of showing up a little more natural and, and as you are wearing clothes that you are comfortable in and being yourself and all those things feel more authentic. I don't like that it has goblin attached to it either. I think it's more of a real representation of who you are, the way it's described. Yeah. It's just wearing your own stuff that you normally wear that you're comfortable in versus spending time really trying to doll yourself up to go out on a date.
I don't know who gave it this name, but I hate the name. The internet. The internet. I have days of goblin. Oh yeah. I mean, we all do, right? You know those days where you're like, listen, I'm not doing anything today.
I'm going to lay. I've never seen you look like a goblin one day in my life. No, I think you're just being nice. They're very much days of goblins. Never seen you look like a goblin. Well, I have even camping, you don't look like. Oh, I kind of look like a goblin camping. For sure. No.
For sure. I kind of look like a goblin this morning because I'm just tired. You don't look like a goblin. Thanks, Josh.
So move on from that sentiment. There's no goblins in this room. I do. I do just like the fact that you're just showing up as yourself on the dates. No, that's the way to be.
Just be comfortable. But it's also like, what an easy way for someone to be like, yeah, I don't like this. And you go, okay, great.
I don't need to waste my time. Yeah. You know what I mean? Because you're like, this is honestly, this is what I look like every time. Every day.
Other than right now. Like if you expected me to look all made up and whatever, just to impress you, like that's not a good way to start things out. This is what I look like. This is what I wear.
This is what I do. And not that you can't put in a little effort, maybe wear something out nice out of your closet, but you don't have to be like, I never wear that shirt except for today. And they're never gonna see that shirt again. You're gonna go, you know what? I'm just gonna be comfortable. That's a better move. It's a better move. I agree.
Needs a new name. But I don't mind them. I don't mind the attitude of it. Same. I think that's the way to be.
Just be yourself. No matter how old I get, I still have to, if I'm thinking about a month and I think about how many dates there are in that month, I go, okay, June. And then I go, I have to sing the song 30 days, half September, April, June, and November.
I know. You do that every time. And I go, there's such an easier way. There is not an easier way.
That is the easier way. You have been given a calendar on your hands. And I try to show you this all the time. If you make it two fists and you put them together, January has 31. The dip is February, not 31. So every raised knuckle is 31. And it alternates January, February, March, April, May, June, July, and August both have 31.
And then you keep going. The other way that I remember is because everything alternates except for July or August. July and August both have 31 back to back. I just know that now. So I can figure that out. And I go, oh, August, that has 31 because it's right next to July.
I know those two back to back. Give me a month. October 31, it's Halloween.
It's easy. Everybody knows that one. Everybody knows it's December. 31st because it's New Year's Eve. October. Yeah.
I have 31. So that's it. That's my trick. And then I go, okay, all right, January, November, April. I got it.
Listen to me though. Because yesterday when I out loud at work, I was at work and I said 30 days, I was at her. And there was a co-worker and she was like, what? And I go, oh, I'm just singing the month song. She said, well, I've never heard the song except from you. What's the month song? It's not necessarily a song, I guess, but she goes, what is that?
And she's younger than me. And I said, did you never learn the song? And she goes, no.
And then there was another younger co-worker in the office. And I said, do you guys know the knuckles? And they said, no. And I said, my husband knows the knuckles. I'd never learned the knuckles. I learned the song. Other co-workers come in and I said, do you guys know the knuckles or do you know the song?
A woman, another co-worker my age said, I know the song. Everybody else had not done either. Well, the knuckles are right there. That's one way to do it.
One way to do it. But you've got, isn't it weird that that's built into your hands? That's how you can tell. What do you think you learned that? When? Oh, junior high probably.
I know. I was trying to figure out when they taught me the song and who taught me the song. I've never heard it.
I've never even heard it the whole way through because you always just mumble it out. You don't have to do the whole thing. No, you just go tell you find the month you need. Correct. Yeah, but I don't know the whole thing. Let me tell you the whole thing.
Oh, there's a whole thing? 30 days to have September, April, June and November. All the rest of 31 except for February. Okay.
That's it. And so then I go and I have to do it every time because I still, at 45 years old, don't know how many days every month has. I still have to go. Okay. Is there a 30 or 31 days in this month?
But that's what I'm saying. Now that I know it alternates, I just go, okay, unless it's July August. Okay. It just, if the month before it had 31, that one doesn't unless it's July and August.
Okay. But how many days have 28? How many months have 28 days?
All months have 28 days. That was a trick question. Yeah. Only one of them only has 28 unless it's a leap year in which case picks up a bonus day. Bonus day. Okay. Well, thanks for letting me hear the whole song or thing. Yeah. Are you going to sing it now?
No, I'm not because I don't even know what it said. 30 days have September. That's it.
That's the only part I know. April, June, and November. Okay.
All the rest of 31, except for February. Cool. What do you know about wizards? You're a wizard, Harry. Okay.
That's a thing. Harry Potter is a wizard. What do I know about wizards?
Yeah. I know Merlin from the sword and the stone. No, I didn't say what wizards do you know. I said, what do you know about wizards? I don't know much about wizards.
What do you know about wizards and their ability to keep schedules? They're not so good at it. No, they're fantastic at it. Oh, they're good at it. Okay. Because a wizard is neither early nor late.
They arrive precisely when they are meant to. That is what we know about a wizard. Who's famously said that? Dumbledore? Gandalf. Dumbledore?
No. I can't keep my wizard straight. There's too many. There's too many. Merlin and Gandalf and Dumbledore. Dumbledore. Too many wizards to keep track of. Well, last night I had somewhere I needed to be precisely at 530 and I arrived precisely at 530. So I might be a wizard.
I don't know about that. I know that you agreed to come help me with a work thing and you were supposed to be there at 530. I assumed that you would probably, the event started at 530.
And so I assumed- I did not know that. I thought the event started at 6 and you said, because 530 was discussed as a time to be there. And so I said, okay, I'll get there at 530. The thing starts at 6. That's what I had in my head. And so then when you texted me at like 512 or something and said, there are people already arriving.
Are you on your way? And I hadn't left the house yet. I was panicked like that.
But I did. I looked at life 360 and I said, he's still at home and I bet he's like busy to himself in the garden and I bet he's forgotten. And so I said, hey, are you on your way yet? Because there's people already starting to arrive.
Right. And you said, yep, I'm on my way. And I looked, you were not on your way.
That was a lie. You don't know where I was. I was walking out the door as I sent the message.
I'm on my way. And then I drove and I parked and I arrived precisely at 530. When the event began. And I walked in and there was a crowd gathered and I went, they've been here a minute, but they're starting to kind of funnel down the hallway corridor. And I went, I'm going to sneak around. And so I went through a back entrance and just appeared like magic.
A wizard. And you even said, where did you come from? Well, right. Because I made my way a different route.
Right. And I said, I looked at the clock and my clock said 531. And I went, you're so late.
You're so late. And then when I walked in and saw you, I went, what even? A wizard.
I'm a wizard. Now, I sound ungrateful because you didn't have to be there. You were voluntarily being there to help me, which is nice. And so I shouldn't complain about the fact that you were a little late. I wasn't even though.
But the event, no one, not a, not one participant had entered the room by the time I got there. I was exactly on time. You absolutely were. You were exactly on time. But I also just wanted you to be there early because I like hanging out with you.
Well, that's nice. And so then I went, sure, it would be cool if you were here a little bit early. I said 530. I arrived 530 spot on. It was one of, it was one of my better timely moments. Were you ever panicked or worried? No, I wasn't panicked.
No, you never get worried or panicked. You just show up and you're like, I'm here. Yeah. What, what if I would have been five more minutes late? Like, okay. Everything would have been fine. It would have been fine because I could have done it by myself.
I would have been fine, but it's just the matter of like, I like you around. You're fun. So it's more fun when you're there.
I'm a fun wizard. Nice. So Emery, our daughter has been at Cop Camp all week. Cop Camp.
And then there should be like a jail door like going, Cop Camp. Yesterday she got to go to the shooting range. So she did some shooting and she told us that she really likes. Yeah.
She said you had a really good time. Shooting guns. Yeah. And she said she was pretty good at it.
She only missed two of her shots out of like all the different like they did rifles and pistols and all kinds of stuff and she, she's a good shot. Yeah. Apparently all of the officers were like, you're like even better than some of the boys out here. She was like, well, yeah.
Well, yeah. I said, I said, is that because of all your fortnight training? No, but she's also been at shooting competition. She has done that a couple of years prior to this. So she's, she's a good shot.
That's awesome. She is a good shot. I know. Good for her. And then they had to, I don't know what the, I don't know what it's called that she had to do. She basically had to arrest one of the officers.
Yeah. Well, they were doing taser training and she had to, yeah, she had to tell an officer that he was under arrest, but all improvised. Like there's a guy go arrest him. Go arrest him.
Good luck. So she said, you're under arrest. And they just kept teasing her. Oh, I'm under arrest. Oh, I'm under arrest. Okay. Oh, am I? I think that's hilarious.
I think it's hilarious too. If you, if you had to arrest somebody, what would you say? Uh, you're under arrest.
Yeah. You have to be. You're under arrest. Oh, am I? You have to be firm.
And then she said, yeah, you have a warrant. Oh, okay. I think it's so funny. I think that's awesome.
I don't know what I'd say. Because you have to be tough, but what if they talk back? You gotta be tough.
Oh man, I could never be a cop and I don't want to be, and I'm grateful for the people who do. Because. Because you don't think you can hack it? Nope.
I really do not. Because you gotta be tough. You gotta be tough and you have to deal with people that you don't want to deal with.
And then they mock you and then you're going to take it personal and be like, are you just going to cry? I would cry every day. Every day I would cry. I would lose my mind. I couldn't do it. I would wake up every day and be like, I don't want to do this today. I hate conflict.
I do. Every day I'd wake up. I'd be like, I can't.
I just can't do it. What are you going to say? I would avoid all complications. I'd be like, oh, that guy's speeding, but I just.
What if he's mean to me? I know. I know. I do think somebody else go get that speeder. What if he's mean? You know why I pulled you over? So I could be mean to you.
Yeah. You can go. I don't want to do it.
I couldn't. So I am very, very appreciative of the men and women who are in law enforcement who are better at that job than I will ever think about being. But what would you say to arrest somebody?
To arrest somebody? Yeah. Get down on the ground. Hold on.
Hold on. Use your tough voice. Be serious. Be fun. Be scary.
Yeah. Let me focus. And be direct. Be.
You're under arrest. That was good, right? Oh, am I? Yeah, you are. You're just going to mock back. Oh, yeah, you were. That's actually a little bit disarming. Oh, no.
Is that what I sound like? Yeah, it is. Okay. Okay. Here you go. Just put on the cuffs. Never mind. What would you say?
What would you do? I said, what? You didn't. That's the way you would say it. No, what? It's the way you would say you're under arrest.
Direct, loud. I said that. Okay. I did the voice. I don't remember you saying it. We'll roll back. Roll tape.
It's in there. I said, you're under arrest. Like that. Yeah, it was pretty neat. Intense.
It was. My sister just sent me an Instagram reel. She just sent it.
She didn't say anything about it. And so now I go, is this something you want to do? I think it probably is.
So let me tell you what it is. It's a video of two women sitting in a car and it says TJ Maxx sister challenge. The TJ Maxx sister challenge.
Yeah. What's the challenge? The challenge is that you each go to your local TJ Maxx and you buy, let's see, one, two, three, four, five, six, six of these items. You have to buy a reusable bag. You have to buy something cozy. You have to buy a decor item. You have to buy something to wear. You have to buy a sweet treat.
And you have to buy something that reminds you of that person. Okay. Whoever sent that tweak the rules a little bit. Here's the popular rules, the most common rules.
And most of them are there. You have to buy something that reminds you of them. Something that smells good, like a lotion, a candle, or a perfume. Something cozy, like a blanket or fuzzy socks. Something warm. Something from the checkout lane.
And a reusable shopping bag to hold everything. And then they also, you have to set a parameter, which is a strict budget. Where you have to say, or you could do a no budget for a true treasure hunt. But the idea is that you go, okay, you can only spend $50 or $100 or whatever. Yeah. And you can shop separately that way. Yeah. You don't know what the one person is picking for the other.
And then you meet up, swap bags, and reveal your finds to see how well you know each other. That's the whole point, I guess. Yeah.
And so I'm assuming you're right. She wants to do that. I think she's like, let's do this.
But she didn't say that? Mm-mm. She just sent the video. And I said, that's fun.
And then she replied. No. How long ago did you say that? Just, I just barely said. Oh, this isn't like a day or anything.
This is like now? Well, let me see. Yeah, this is just, she sent it, okay, she sent it yesterday at 8 p.m. And then I just watched it because I didn't see it.
And I just watched it. And then 8.02 this morning I said, that's fun. That's fun. Okay. Good.
Good. The TJ Max Sister Challenge is a popular viral shopping trend. It's all about navigating the aisles, testing your sister telepathy. Telepathy. Telepathy. Telepathy. Yeah, there we go.
Sounded out the big word, Josh. And seeing who can pick the best or funniest items within the chosen limits. Within the parameters. Yeah.
Okay. I think this is what she wants to do. Now she lives in Burley, so she'd have to go to the, do they not have a TJ Max in Burley? Do they have anything in Burley? Sure.
They have a Walmart. Okay. She's gonna have to. You and your hatred for the town you grew up in, I tell you. She's gonna have to go to Twin Falls to shop at the TJ Max there. Or Pocatello.
Or Pocatello. Yeah. Okay. I think it'd be fun.
I think we should do it. I heard. That's fun.
That's fun. Now, my sister and I do not have the same taste in stuff. So it would be interesting to see what she would find for me. And it would also be interesting to see what I would find for her. Well, I'm curious to see what your rules are.
What are the parameters you guys set? I don't know. Yeah.
I don't know either. Sounds fun. Yeah. Should we do it?
That's fun. Should we do it? Should we do a Josh and Chantel TJ Max Challenge? Can we pick a different store?
It has to be one we both like. Oh, does it? Yeah. We could do it in like a Sierra.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. If we had one of those. Can we get one of those here? Could somebody do that? Could someone please do that? That'd be great. That would be great.
I'd really appreciate it. I know just the place to put it. Yeah, me too. It was a real nice vacant building that would just fit it. Just perfect. It's just the right size in everything. You just plop it in there. It's just perfect. You used to have a lady's name on the outside.
You can just take the building. The lady's name? What was it? What was the lady's name? Josephine. No, close.
It was Joe Summon. No, where would Spirit Halloween go? I don't know. You can't take over. Some other vacant building.
Just saying. I would really like to have one of those. That could be the store though, that we could both shop for each other. At a Sierra? Yeah.
You think you could? Yeah, there's enough in there. There is. Yeah, there is.
There is. We could change the parameters. What about if it was a grocery store?
And change the parameters. It's a grocery store. Most of the grocery stores at this point are grocery store retail hybrids. Yeah.
So you could get away with a food item being a real your favorite drink or a favorite things thing to work that into. That's fun. Do it with your sister. See how it goes. We'll decide if we want to do one. All right. You struggle through that one. Got it.
Okay. What do you think your most impressive dad skill is? I mean, I don't know. I'm trying to think. I can cook. Yes. That's a thing I can do. I do lots of outdoors stuff. Is that count? I mean, all of those count. What do you think is the most dad thing you do?
My ability to navigate, direction, be able to figure out how to orient a city after a few minutes of being there. Okay. Maybe.
That's your most impressive dad thing. I don't know. I don't know if that's, I mean, that's a thing I can do. Okay. But I don't know if that's like the thing.
What I will say, and we've said this for a while, you are definitely the, for our kids, you are the fixer. Sure. And then I am like emotional. Yeah. You're the, you are the- I'm there for emotional help.
Right. And you're like, what do you need? I can help you fix this thing. I can teach you how to ride a bike. And I'm there to help with the bruising and the scrapes and sad. So even just the other day, our daughter got into a small little accident and she immediately called you first. Right.
Which is great. And then when I got there, it was all- The hugs. Prying and hugging. Right. And you were there to fix the initial problem. Right.
And then I was there to pick up the sad pieces. Got it. Yeah. It's a good team.
It is a good team. I'm trying to figure out what, like what's a dad's skill? Yeah. I don't, that's a weird question. Like I have skills, but what is, what's a dad's skill? I mean, I think you said some good ones. You said navigating is a dad's skill. Okay. Here's, here's somebody said, what life skills have you found most necessary as a dad?
So these are life skills that being a father are incredibly important. Okay. This is a person said, you might already have it down, but a lot of men don't. Do you know how to clean and do laundry just as well as your wife at least nearly as quickly? Absolutely. Yeah.
I mean, I can clean and do laundry. Yeah. Fine. No problem at all.
So do it. And then a lot of people talking about emotional regulation, because you yourself as a, as a, as a dad, as a father will have your own emotions put to the test many times. Can you be patient?
Can you handle a toddler? Like there's a lot of things that are going to test your ability to regulate your own emotions and not a lot of men are good at that. Not a lot of women are good at that. That's a hard thing.
Not a lot of people are good at it. Yeah. So being able to control your stress and show your kids the kindness and patience that they deserve, someone said, is any, is like top of the list. Well, and I think that depends on the circumstance too.
Like it, like depending on your own stress level that day, your regulations could change. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Okay.
I do. Cooking made the list. Project management is good because you can be organized and have things get done in a timely manner. Somebody said the biggest thing you can do is make sure that you and your partner are as aligned as possible around how to raise a child because you both have to be on a team. This person said, I got a therapist. It was huge because then I could work through different issues through parenthood and my relationship as we became parents and things changed. I think that's important. Soft skills like patience, flexibility, prioritization and analyzing trade-offs are huge things that someone said. So yeah, I think that's the ability to maintain a cool during a crisis is a big deal. You're good at that.
I think there's a lot of that kind of stuff that's in this list. Patience. Someone literally just said patience. Yeah, you're good at that too, which is why the kids all went to you to help them learn how to learn new skills, like riding a bike. It was like they or how to drive a car.
Yeah, it was like, we don't want mom, we want dad. I get it, dude. I'm not offended.
I don't want to do it either. The ability to survive on less sleep, communication is huge, time management because everything becomes busier once you're a dad. If you have trouble dealing with other peoples, bodily fluids, you're going to need to get over it because that's part of being a dad. And then it says hard skills, cooking, baby first aid, some knowledge about child development, phonics, emotional literacy, parenting strategies, all that kind of stuff. I am hooked on phonics. There you go.
Phonics hooked on me. Yeah. When's the last thing we heard that song? Just a second ago, literally. Now, prior to that, a long time.
Yeah. So, it's interesting the things that people are talking about in regards to dad skills. It's way less about fixing things and outdoor skills. And cooking a nice burger.
Cooking made the list, but yeah, being able to grill wasn't high on the list. It was a bunch of, you got to regulate your emotions, my guy. You got to keep your cool. You got to have patience. You got to be willing to listen. Somebody said active listening. I've never heard of that. What is that?
Bro, you need to work on that. Everybody was trying to tell us something last night and I'm sitting there listening to her on the couch and then here come you and you sit down and you start plinking on the piano. I was listening.
And Emery goes, bro. She did. And I said, I'm listening. My hands were bored. Bro, really?
So yeah, stuff like that. You just work on it every day, Josh. You keep working on it.
There's always room to grow. I watched the World Cup yesterday. Okay. You said you were going to turn it on at your other job and then you sent a picture to the family of your whole computer screen was World Cup action. Yeah. So you watched Cristiano Ronaldo play football. Is that what happened? Football, yes.
And I sent the picture. Beck is a huge American football fan. And so I knew I was kind of going to push his buttons a little bit when I said watching soccer is better than football. Yeah.
And pushed his buttons. I did a little bit. Oh, did you?
I said, this is actually way more fun to watch than American football. You said, have you seen their legs? To which I thought his reply was interesting. He said, have you seen Saquon Barkley's legs? And I said, oh no, I'm going to have to go look.
Yeah. And what did you find out when you looked at Saquon Barkley's legs? Bro, have you seen Saquon Barkley's legs? No, I have not. Holy moly, dude spends leg day at the gym over and over.
Okay. Yeah, he's got some muscley legs. But he's got football legs, not soccer legs. Have you seen soccer legs?
No, what I'm saying is like his aren't built for, maybe they are. I don't know. It's hard to say.
It is hard to say. Saquon's legs are insane. They are insane. Look at his legs. Saquon, take an arm day, buddy. He does. But he does not skip leg day.
He does not. But that's why he's fast and can push through. What I was saying is like he's built less for speed and more for power. But that's not true because he's also fast. He's very fast. Right.
Okay. So I was watching soccer and one, it's more exciting because it's a continuous play. Like football has to stop.
It's a continually stop. You play a 15 minute game that lasts three hours and it's, come on. I do enjoy watching football, but I'm just saying we got to cut out all the nonsense in football. Now, soccer, there is some nonsense in soccer because they mostly the flop. They have a lot of dramatics, but that's also kind of why I like it.
Okay. You like when they barely get tapped by someone moving a ball and they fly and roll and they get drawn like, oh, you got to get card. You broke my leg.
And then they get up like nothing happened. Yeah. Everything's cool. I kind of like that. Got him. So I watched the Portugal Congo.
Yeah. The DR Congo game yesterday. They ended up in a draw. It was a one to one.
Right. It was one to one. One to one.
Was the final score. Okay. And I said, well, didn't they just go into overtime? No. No.
Apparently in this first round, you can end on a draw and they both advanced. Right. Which is interesting.
Yeah. Christiano Ronaldo didn't even get any points. It wasn't even him that got the point. Yeah.
Anyway, still, still fun to watch. Is he a forward? Is that his position? Sure.
I don't, I have no idea. But here's, I, he is a center forward. He's a striker. I've been watching some videos about like the World Cup takeover in America. Yeah. And it's awesome. Like the Scottish are in Boston and they're dancing in the streets.
Yeah. There's a bunch of like English people in I think Dallas and they're going to rodeos and they're like, this is awesome. It's like the funnest thing to watch ever. I saw somewhere they were telling people that they couldn't and shouldn't chug ranch because they're getting very excited about ranch that they have discovered in America and they're trying to take it back on airplanes and stuff. And the TSA is like, that's too much liquid. You can't have that in your carry on or in your check bag. It's too much liquid. And so they're chugging at the airport and they're like, please don't do that. That's not a thing. We, you know, mail some home or something, but let's not do that.
Let's not chug the ranch. Yeah. Okay.
Now you are going to tell me about this, this team. Caracco, am I saying that correctly? Maybe.
Okay. But they, their general manager is, this is his third world cup with the team. They scored a goal against Germany. They ended up losing to Germany, but they did score a goal. And when the goal was scored, it like, regardless of whether teams are winning or losing, like obviously you want your team to win in advance in the world cup. But if you're scoring a goal, the celebration is through the roof.
Yeah. Like it's the biggest thing when Congo scored the goal, there was a whole ton of fans for Portugal. And there was a group of like 12 Congo, Congon guys who then were like jumping up and down in a sea of, of Portugal fans. And there, it's huge. The soccer fans are awesome.
Yeah. It's way, way fun. Soccer fans. You've got World Cup fever. I really do.
I've been loving all of the videos. Anyway, so the Caracco team, they scored their one point. They were so excited. They lost in a big way. Right. But the general manager's crying. It was awesome.
It's, it's amazing. US men's national team will play Australia in their second world cup match. That's happening tomorrow. Okay. At 1pm.
Okay. It's a date that fans down under have had circled on the calendar for months because of an offhanded comment by a soccer broadcaster. Oh, yeah. A former Premier League and major league soccer player, now analyst, Mike Grella was covering the World Cup drawback in December when Australia was picked for the US group. And he said, Oh, they're a layup opponent. He said, Oh, that's a layup for Team USA. Oh, really? Yep.
The US soccer team, that's a layup. Watch what we can do. And since then, well, no, that's what they, yeah, that's what he said. The guy representing the US said, US will beat Australia. It's a layup. So Australia has since then really been simmering on this match. This is a big one.
And this particular, that is tomorrow at 1pm. Yeah. Well, I got a free trial of the, of the, I don't even know what it's called. Like the, it's not a ESPN.
It's like a Fox thing. Anyway, I got a free trial of it so I could watch the match yesterday. So I just got to remember to turn it off when the World Cup is over. Okay. I put it in my calendar so I won't get charged.
But anyway, okay, cool. I'm going to watch that. That sounds awesome. Okay. One o'clock tomorrow. I didn't have a minute on our day off. We're going to be driving to Salt Lake, but I'll watch it on the road.
All right. How are you going to do that and drive? I'll be napping. No, get out of here. You're driving. You don't, you don't, you're not a passenger princess. No, I am not.
Not even close. There are a lot of people who use Spotify to listen to music. There are a lot of people who listen to Apple music. There are a lot of people who listen to Pandora.
Okay. Apparently Pandora is an old person playlist. That's what I heard. I don't listen to any of those. We had Google music for a long time that we were listening to. Before that we had, what did we have before and it was purchased by Google music? I couldn't tell you.
I don't know. Google music was fine until they sold to YouTube and now it's YouTube music. And I don't like YouTube music, but we pay for YouTube premium.
And so this is like a free benefit that we get. I don't want to pay for another music streaming application. And so I just tolerate the YouTube music. I don't know how many times a day I say to my phone, I hate YouTube music because I want it to hear me. Oh, does it?
I don't know. One thing I hate doing, I have my curated playlists in my music app. And then if something happens and I'm going to search for another song, I don't like getting out of my playlist because my playlist is like thousands of songs long. And so I'm like at a perfect spot on my playlist.
And I don't want to, I don't want to leave where I'm at my playlist. Yeah. Guess what I found out today.
What can you do? I, and this is a new feature they just added. I accidentally got out of my playlist yesterday and I went, I'm going to have to remember what song I was listening to to find that spot on my playlist again.
They just added a resume playlist button. No kidding. Yeah. Are you so excited? I'm so excited. That's a big deal.
What's a big deal? I just figured out, I've been, I've been over here doing research because I wanted to really take you back. In July of 2014, Google purchased the music streaming and curation service Songza. Songza.
We had Songza. Yeah. This is honestly, this is, this is why we're still with YouTube music. Like, yes, we, we buy YouTube premium because I can't stand watching ads on YouTube.
For one, I watch a lot of YouTube, the kids watch a lot of YouTube. So we have decided that will be our music service subscription. Right.
Cause I don't want to pay for another one. I get it. So we had Songza prior to 2014. Forgot about Songza. Right. That's what I had to figure out. Songza had their playlist feature that was really nice.
You could build them. You, it had a really nice playlist thing. And I remember when Google Play Music purchased it in 2014, you were like, I don't like what they're doing to it, but it was, it was pretty similar. And then Google Play Music became Google Music. And then YouTube, which was also owned by Google, they decided they were going to merge Google Music and YouTube into YouTube music.
And that is where, is where everything kind of went Yeah. I, I don't like YouTube music, but I refuse to pay for another. Oh, the resume playlist button. Yes. Yeah.
I like it a lot. Because one of your biggest frustrations is like, I want to hear this song and it's in my playlist somewhere. So you end up scrolling because you want to find it in your playlist.
So you don't have to leave that playlist to go just play one song. Yeah. And then, but now you can do that. You can leave, you can come back and hit resume. Yeah.
How fun are, like this is great for you. That happened this morning. I was pretty stoked. Wow. What a big day. What a big day. I think YouTube music has been listening after all. To your complaints.
Wow. There's sometimes in my car, when I'm listening to music and I'll pull up my phone and I go, I hate you YouTube music. Songs that was free as well, which was another thing. Yeah. Yep. And then, yeah. And then we didn't start paying for it until it became Google Music, I think.
I forgot about song, song zone. Yeah. How funny. Yep.
Okay. Well, YouTube music, you're a win for today. I'm excited for you.
Thanks for resuming my playlist. I like that. I like that a lot.
Would you rather this or that? Dad Day Edition. Dad Day Edition. Would you rather remember it as the Fun Dad or the Wise Dad? The Good Advice Dad or the Always Up for Anything Dad?
What about, what are you picking? I'm going to pick the Fun Dad. You want to be the Fun Dad. I'm trying to think of examples from TV shows. And I feel like Ty Burrell's character from family is the Fun Dad.
Yeah, for sure. And I'm trying to find a good example of the Wise Dad. Tanner from Full House. What's his name? Greg. Greg Tanner. That's him. You talking about Bob Saget's character? Yeah.
Yeah. Not Greg. What's his first name?
You don't even know. It's not Greg. Danny. Danny Tanner. Thank you.
Okay. So he would be like a Wise Dad. He's always giving advice and... Yeah, that makes sense. Okay, so yeah. That's a fine example.
Okay. Or even the Roseanne Dad. He's kind of the Fun Dad.
Or Uncle Phil is kind of the Advice Dad figure to Fresh Prince of Bel Air, right? Yep. Yep.
Yep. So which one, Josh? Which one?
Which one? I feel like I want to be the Wise Dad. I feel like you are.
I want to be the... Listen, everything's going to be okay, but you're going to have to feel bad for a little while. But it'll pass.
Because I feel like I can offer that advice even if I don't necessarily listen to it myself. You know? Yeah. I think that's what you are. I think you're more of the Wise than the Fun. And I'm the...
I'm the Fun more than the Wise. What? For sure. Ask our kids. They'll say the same thing.
Emery has already told us that. I like to have fun. No, I'm not saying just because you're wise.
You're not fun. Okay. Yeah.
Yeah. I've... Tim Taylor on Home Improvement. He's more of a Fun Dad, I'd say. I think he's a Reckless Dad. He's... He can be wise. He can pass along a good lesson. Like there's one that stands out.
Like his kids were embarrassed to say, I love you. And so they came up with the... How about them Lions? Because they were in Detroit.
And so how about them Lions was the way that they could secretly say, I love you without saying I love you. What show was this? It was Home Improvement. Oh, I don't remember that. Yeah.
So like there was little nuggets hidden away in there. That's cute. I didn't remember that. You remember that? Cute, Josh. How about them Lions?
And they go, yeah, I know what that means. It was a cove. Cute. Anyway. Yeah, probably, probably want to pass along some good life advice and skills. Nuggets. And some wisdoms.
Nuggets and advice. While having a good time. I'm not afraid of a good time. I don't want to be not fun.
Yeah, you're not not fun. Oh, it's solid. Okay, I was just reading this thing. It's essentially an escape room.
Okay. But you have to be handcuffed to your partner. So you have to have one hand behind your back. And your handcuffed. And you have to work in tandem with your partner to escape this escape room. There's too much happening here.
What's happened? Are you handcuffed to your partner? Or do you have a hand behind your back?
Both. That's not possible. It is. Your handcuffed, the handcuffs are really long.
I saw a picture of it. So you put your hand behind your back, I put my hand behind my back, and your hand cuffed together behind your back with one hand behind your back. Hold on.
Oh, what? You're there to figure out? Settle down.
Settle down. The questions I have are every person in the couple has two hands. If one hand is handcuffed to you and one hand is behind my back, that's why I'm asking. The hand behind you is the handcuffed one. That's what I said. You said your handcuffed to a partner and you have one hand behind your back.
That's what you said, to which I went. This makes no sense. How am I going to do anything if my one hand is hooked to you and the other one is behind my back?
No. You take one hand, you put it behind your back. Which one?
Whichever one you choose. Okay, non-dominant hand. That hand is handcuffed behind your back to your partner. And they are also back to back now?
Your hands? What's back to back? You and I.
No, we're side to side. How? Let me try you a diagram. Our arms are not that long. The handcuffs are. I don't understand what you're not understanding.
Why don't I just turn and put it side to side? What do you say? What?
Why does it have to be behind my back? It's not going to stay there. You can't use it. That's the whole point. Okay, so go on with the story about this challenge. We're chained together, which first of all, going great.
I know. We're going to lose this escape room. Is it timed?
We have like an hour? Or is it a competition with other people? No, you're timed. You're just trying to get out of the escape room together. Do you want to know what's going to frustrate both of us? What?
Is that we cannot work independently even though we're hooked together. He's just got his hand behind his back. It doesn't have to stay there. I understand, but you don't have, he's just holding it that way.
They both are. The only way it's staying there is if it's hooked to you. Okay, the problem is that one of us is going to have to use their non-dominant hand unless... That's why I was asking if we were back to back. No, we're not back to back. We're side to side. You don't think we could do this? I think we could. Do I think that you're going to carry 80% of the weight? Yes. It's generous to yourself. I'm kidding. Here's the thing I'm struggling with.
I'm going to go back to the working independently thing. A big part of escape room strategy is gathering things and figuring out where puzzles are and where locks are and where tools and resources are. Those are the three working parts of an escape room. Yeah. Then you centralize what you can control and just the time it's going to take to not be able to do that independently is going to delay us. That's the way your brain works, but that's not the way my brain works.
Whenever we do an escape room with our kids, you're like, get all of the locks, get all of the pieces, put them on this table. That's not the way my brain works. That's not the way I solve puzzles. That's like picking out the corners and the edges first.
That's what that is. I focus on an area of the room. You can't.
You can't. That's going to be because our brains have a big disconnect. Your brain does not operate the same way that my brain operates. Sometimes that is a compliment to us and sometimes that is not. In escape rooms, it's been a compliment.
Maybe go with it. Maybe we've been successful doing it that way. If it's not broke, don't fix it is what I'm saying. I think another problem that we have is just like a lack of communication, which I think is a big part of any relationship. But I think as long as we... You and me lack communication. We communicate all day, every day.
I think when we have misunderstanding, it's just because I haven't said appropriately what I wanted to say and you haven't understood what I'm trying to say. Like when you said, you handcuffed together and one hand is behind your back and then I was spiraled out and confused about how I was going to do anything. Because I only have two hands and one's handcuffed to you and the other one's behind my back.
Okay. So then what if there was an escape room where one person had to be blindfolded and that person only had hands? So I was blindfolded, but I had to use my hands. You couldn't use your hands, but you were my eyes.
Would you... Then you introduce a third one who has like no ability to hear or no ability to speak. And then that's... Bada bing. It's that monkey game. Bomb banana. Bomb banana. It all comes back to bomb banana. We have to diffuse the bomb, but no one... One can't talk, one can't hear, and one can't see.
Everybody has their hands, but anyway. Good concept. I like it. I don't...
When do you want to do it? Is it a thing? I don't know. It's not a thing? It is a thing, but it's in LA. Convenient. I just wanted to ask you if you think we could do it.
That's it. Oh, we can. You think 80, 20? Yeah. I'm 20, you're 80. That's fine. Okay.
I'll take it. I don't know. I feel like I can't attribute more.
I gotta give myself more credit. That's fine. 75, 25. Whatever you feel like it needs to be. Let's wrap up the show. All right. Have a great rest of your Thursday. Have a great weekend.
We are not in the studio tomorrow, but we will be back on Monday. Thanks for hanging out with us. And happy Father's Day this weekend.
Happy Father's Day. And we will be back on Monday. See you later. Bye.
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