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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Monday, June 29th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Josh and Chantel share the hilarious story of how their home thermostat became a tiny art gallery featuring General Grant and Napoleon Bonaparte, a heartwarming story of 94-year-old who took up the art of quilling after losing her husband to Alzheimer's, an exciting update on the Big Bear Valley eagle nest, an awesome AJR concert recap, the art of confetti at concerts, plans for a family book club reading Project Hail Mary, fitness and protein goals after 40, Chantel's big unforgettable jumping moment, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: General Grant is on the thermostat
(3:24) - Busy week ahead
(7:26) - Good News
(9:27) - Luna & Sandy update
(15:02) - Losing muscle
(21:14) - Gryo sauce
(27:39) - AJR concert recap
(38:09) - Family book club
(43:25) - Josh's snoring
(48:36) - Would You Rather
(51:31) - Chantel's big jump
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Full show transcript:
Our kids love um the books, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and in turn also love the movies, and there is a scene in one of those movies that our kids reenact or repeat repeatedly. And the scene is when the when the kids have a party, and the dad has model figures. Right. And General Grant, his model figure of General Grant.
Yeah, he paints civil war. Gets moved.
He gets screwed on the thermostat. That's right. And the dad says, who moved General Grant on the thermostat.
Yeah, something to that effect. Yeah. So one of his figurines is on the thermostat. And uh, and that's how he knows there was a party in here. Because someone touched General Grant.
So we found a couple weeks ago we were thrift shopping. Yeah. And we found a miniature Civil War little soldier. Person. Yeah. Who we then call General Grant. That's right. And he is now sitting on our thermos.
He lives on the thermostat in our house. It's a funny little joke that we get, and no one has ever asked. No. But if they if you don't know, you don't know. And if you do, you're gonna go why is General Grant on the thermostat. And then you're in on the joke.
Yep. And then well, chuckle, chuckle, chuckle. That's right. So over the weekend, Emery likes those those little ball toys, and they have like um mini brands mini brands. Yeah. And there's all kinds, there's books, there's succulent plants. Yeah.
There's a billion different things. They've made a new one, and you can get art. Yes. And so she was like, I want to get this art one. So she got the art, and inside her art was a Napoleon, the painting of Napoleon. Yes. Bonaparte. Bonaparte.
Yes. The French Napoleon.
She put it together, and then she goes, I know exactly where I'm gonna hang this. Yeah. She goes, I'm gonna hang this right next to General Grant on the thermostat.
So now General Grant has an art gallery on the on the thermostat.
And she waited and waited and waited for you and Beck to notice. Yeah. You didn't, neither one of you noticed.
I don't I guess I didn't but all that much. Yeah. But it's hilarious. It's very fun.
And every time I walk past it, I get so excited because it's a tiny little painting of Napoleon and General Grant miniature figurine on the thermostat. And it is the best part of my house.
It's so funny. It is it is a hidden little painting uh in the hallway right next to the figurine general. Yeah, it's it's very fun. Yeah. Uh so you know, do stuff like that at your house because it's a lot of fun. It is. It brings a little smile to you every time you walk by. You go, Oh, yeah, there's that little art gallery. Look at that.
It's awesome. She wants to get a bunch more. You want some of them because I do. But they also did spoofs of some of the famous paintings as well. So you can get like uh the lady with the blue ribbon, they have that painting, but it's a cat instead of the lady. So that's kind of fun. Anyway, uh, yeah, those are cool. Uh and now we have a tiny little art gallery. And if you happen to come to our house, you'll know General Grant. He's on the thermostat.
You have to salute him when you walk by. Do you? No, I just made that up. Oh, okay. how do you General. Well, hey, here's today's show. Hey. Good morning.
Uh how are you?
I'm good. Yeah. Are you asking to ask? I'm asking you. asking as Yeah, people will just say, Hey, how are you?
I'm asking to ask. Okay. Uh, only because you were you were pretty bummed out that the weekend had come to an end last night.
Always bummed out.
And uh, and our daughter gave you the solid advice that I always try to give, which is you don't have to clock in early. You don't have to think about work until you walk into the halls of work. So I understand. Yeah.
But it was time for bed, and so then it was like now it's real. Now the weekend is officially over if I'm headed to bed. Got it. And I always get sad about that. Yeah. I always want the weekend to be here.
And to be longer would be, you know, take more time. Yeah.
We didn't do much this weekend, but it was kind of nice just to have like a reset and just kinda take a breath. Yeah. Didn't that feel nice? Yeah.
I mean, it was there was not a lot of hustle. Uh there was a bit of lounging, and you know, yeah, that's fine. That sounds good. It was nice. Yeah. Because this weekend is gonna be a hustle. A hustle weekend. Yeah.
Yeah. This is the week as we build up and prepare for 4th of July, uh, which is Saturday. And so there's a lot of stuff that has to happen this week with work for me here specifically to be prepared for Saturday. A lot of stuff has to get tested. A lot of things have to get built. There's a lot going on behind the scenes to be able to accomplish all of the Fourth of July festivities. Yeah. So uh it is a busy week uh as far as work is concerned, which is that's fine.
I don't mind being busy, but it is uh like a a lot of small little details that have to happen in a very, very specific order in uh in order for everything to happen the way it's supposed to on Saturday night. Have you looked at the weather? No, I think the uncontrollables, right?
Those are the fun ones, but it changes all the time, so it doesn't matter if you check it now, it'll change well that's true by Friday.
I think big factors are always gonna be rain or wind or anything like that. It is just gonna be sunny, it is gonna be mid eighties, and it's gonna be as of right now, nine mile per hour, little baby winds. Fantastic. Right.
All in all, sounds like a great day. Friday. Showers and thunderstorms. It's okay.
Get it out of the way. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, cool it off a little bit. Yeah. And then we're gonna get like by the time we get to a week after Fourth of July, it's like a scorcher. We're gonna be in the in the 90s uh triple digits are coming. Like July is gonna like just come in swinging a hammer. So we'll see how that goes. don't break us all down But that's not to worry about this week, right? Nah.
We're gonna chill out. We're gonna just chill out this week. Okay. All right. Chill out. Yeah. Maybe on the show.
That'll be like the four hours of chill. And then it's gonna be like, okay, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. To the end. For you. Yeah.
For me, it's pretty chill. I don't I'm a part-timer here, so I don't know.
Oh, part timer.
There's not much required of me. What do you want? You want some? No. I can give you something. Do not. I've told you a million times the older I get, the less responsibility I want.
That's true. That's a good way to live. I like where your head's at. Smart. As little as possible. Yeah. Well, good morning. We are in the studio. It is Monday. Our work week to the fourth of July has begun. Welcome to it.
Wooty woo. Are you familiar with the art of quilling? Yes. You are. Yes.
The small little papers and you uh wrap them around a thing, and then you can make different shapes and flowers and all kinds of things with it. Yep. Well, let me tell you about Dolores Dolores Frudenberg. Uh back in 2020, so six years ago, uh, she lost her husband to Alzheimer's. She is 94 years old now, and she needed something to keep her busy. She also wanted to honor the legacy of her husband, and so uh she took up quilling this tiny little intricate paper craft and she uh builds greeting cards uh using this quilling, really intricate, beautiful uh pieces. Um she's got one where she built a train with some little cars and it says sending you a train load of love.
Cute. So she makes all these really cool little cards, and uh she sells them at local art fairs and donates the proceeds to Alzheimer's research. Uh and over the past, you know, six years, she has raised thousands of dollars for all the Alzheimer's Association, uh, making it a point to hand out literature about the services that the charity group offers while she's interacting with customers. Uh and she also said that uh having a mission was a big deal for her husband, and so she feels like her being driven to do this is uh sort of fulfilling his mission.
Yeah, yeah, which is pretty cool. Um about the money that I'm making for the association, it's about meeting the people and fulfilling the mission. So cute. Yeah, I think that's really really nice.
Way to go, Dolores making uh quilt greeting cards, and they are very cool. So keep it. Yeah, it's a cool art. It is and it's keep making art. And she's 94, so dexterity is probably a challenge.
And fine motor.
Like a really intricate craft to do. So good for her. Good job, Dolores. Yeah. That's some good news. It was a pretty eventful day in the nest in Big Bear Valley. We haven't talked a lot about the Eagles, the baby eagles uh this year have been on fledge watch as of like mid last week. I don't have them pulled up. Uh, would you like to see what's going on?
I absolutely would. Is there only one in there right now?
There is only one in the nest right now.
a fledger kind Kinda sorta. Where did the other one go? Uh down.
So what here's what happened. Uh, this is gonna be in Pacific time. About 10 30 uh yesterday. Uh this is Luna that you see on the camera here. Sandy is no longer in the nest.
Luna was up on the branch up on the Y here. There was a fish that had been brought in, and uh Sandy was down on the lower on the front porch, they call it. Sandy went in, was eating on the fish. Luna jumped down to this branch and then jumped down into the nest to share the fish.
It was a nice breakfast. About an hour later, they were both perched on the front porch. Sandy was where Luna is right now. Luna was closer to the nest. Sandy wanted to get into the nest, so Luna jumped out of the way, get in to get back into the nest, and in the process of them both being jumping around, Sandy fell down a branch lower below the nest. Fell down, got tangled in some of the branches, was kind of a chaotic thing for about 10 minutes or so on the camera and then released and fell lower. Oh no. And caught herself or hit himself again, and then uh was in a better position, however, was upside down.
Oh no.
So you're not gonna stay upside down holding on to a branch, but not your wings are now tucked, you're not all tangled up and stuff. Uh but but Sandy was stuck upside down.
Uh the only way to write was to let go again and get turned over. And uh the friends of Big Bear Valley believe they have spotted Sandy on camera again, but they haven't seen her since she he or she, I guess. They haven't seen Sandy since that moment, really.
No. So uh however, there's been a lot of Luna like looking down and around. Jackie and Shadow have been all over the place, um, like perched on unusual branches, so they believe Sandy is in these other areas, and the parents are monitoring and watching bringing food. I have no idea. Oh no. So uh they're fully grown, they're ready to fledge. Uh it it always just sort of happens, I guess.
And that's kind of where
scary fell from the nest yesterday morning uh before noon uh and all of that fun. So there is video of that whole ordeal um that uh has been posted online, but the friends of Big Bear Valley Eagles are sort of fledging, but also kind of falling.
We've been watching them a little bit. Yeah, and they've been ready for a while. They've been doing an awful lot of flapping in the nest. Oh I know I know I hope you're okay, buddy. Yeah.
Uh she was soaring or flapping at the very least when she let go of being upside down to write herself. Uh which is a very good sign. Not a bet. Yeah.
Stop hanging upside down. That is true. Uh and the Friends of Big Bear Valley reported that she has been seeing flying on security camera, so hopefully we will see a return to the nest or something. Um, but once you're out, like I think that's the thing. It's sort of like uh taking that first leap's the hardest part. And I and I don't think it was voluntary. Uh I think it was kind of an accident.
But now Sandy's like, well, can go back home. I gotta figure this out. So I guess I'm gonna learn how to fly now. Um so anyway. Pretty cool. That is cool.
Uh hopefully it is very fun to watch them, yeah, honestly.
It's pretty neat. Yeah. But anyway, if you want to watch it, it's on YouTube, but they've got a live stream of the Eagles' Nest. We we've been watching this one for a couple of years, but uh this particular pair we haven't been as close to as we were to the previous two, but there's there's only one in the nest right now. It's Luna. Sandy has How do they know which one is which? They know. Uh the people write poetry about him.
I mean there are there are people who watch constantly and they they look for different trademark things that they do. They know the people know. well But they can't tell if it's a female or a male, right?
I don't think you can. But they are called Sandy and Luna. I'm sure you can, but not from egg to now. I think you probably have to be closer. Yeah, probably well, good luck, Sandy. I know.
We're rooting for you. And Jackie and Shadow apparently stayed close to Luna because it was Luna's first night alone in charge of the nest. So in charge. They were they were nearby pretty much throughout the night, it says. So that's a new update. Anyway, we'll see what uh we'll see what happens. Good luck, little eagles.
Yeah, I know. Good luck, buds. You've been working yourself silly. Uh you've been you've been just really busy at work and at our house doing stuff in the garden, and you think you have tennis elbow because you've been okay.
I do, but I've been I've been putting icy hot on it. It feels pretty good today. But if I try to like carry anything with some weight, or if I try to like do much of anything with it, um hurts it hurts.
Okay. I'm sorry. So we were sitting there just casually laying about this weekend, not doing much of anything, looking at all the stuff that we should be doing, but saying, nah, let's just take a break. And I said randomly, hey, did you know after 40? If you're not gaining muscle, you're losing it. So we better get to gain in muscle.
Yeah. And I said, we who? I said look around. What do you mean we're listening I've done some research? Okay. Because uh your body balances muscle protein synthesis synthesis, the building, and breakdown loss as long as you provide a baseline of stimulus and adequate protein. You can maintain your current mass without actively building new muscles.
I don't want to maintain my current mass. Of muscle, you do. Well, of muscle, yeah. Do I have any muscle? Yes. No. You have muscle. I do have muscle in my legs, especially. I feel like you have muscles everywhere. I need to get some
more muscles in your face, you have muscles in your teeny toes, you have muscles everywhere. Upper body muscle. Okay.
I need to start packing in some mulch. Yeah. You do.
I'll go get another truckload because I want another truckload. Do you? Yes. For where are you gonna put it? I just want more in the garden. There's not enough. Okay. I want another yard. Why? Because I feel like I need another yard of mulch. Why? Because it's not enough. Okay. yeah I need more. true Uh true muscle loss loss usually takes two to three weeks to complete uh of complete inactivity to begin. Okay. Two to three weeks of complete inactivity is when atrophy will begin. Taking a short rest week will not cause you to lose your gains.
But you have to keep getting your protein. Well, yeah. Do you know how much protein a middle-aged woman has to get? No. Like 550 grams. Are you sure? It's not that much. But it is insane. The amount of protein, it's like that's all we have to eat. Look it up. It's so much.
I adults should aim to 1.2 to 1.6 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight. Let's put that into here. Uh let's do a let's do the calculation. Adults between 40 and 50 to prevent muscle loss. Aim for one to 1.2 grams per kilogram or 0.45 to 0.54 grams per pound of body weight. Oh, math.
So take your body weight. What is that? I'm just kidding. And multiply it by point four five. Okay.
I'm not gonna say it out loud. Because people can do the math. Well, that number is how much you should uh you should have in protein daily. Daily. 0.45 times your body weight daily.
That's so much. I've got a protein shake right here. It's got 30 grams of protein.
Nice. How many of those would you have to drink to hit your goal? Two and a half. Yeah. You just said maths. People can do maths now.
I know. I don't care. Go for it. if you're If you're so desperate to know my weight, then go ahead.
Is it the same as what's on your driver's license?
Um, I don't know. I need to look and see. Probably not.
Because when you went in and they said, Are you still this height? Are you still this weight? You went, mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. No change. No, still the same as I was since I got my license when I was a teenager. Still the same. Same. Me too.
Adults over 65 need more protein. It goes to one. It basically. No, it's actually the same. It does. It says it shifts higher, but it isn't.
It's the same. You gotta have basically half a gram of protein per pound. That's really what you need. Half a gram of half a gram of protein per pound of body weight daily. According to look, I'm just reading the internet. But that's it. Half a gram of protein per pound of body weight. Yeah, that's so much protein. Every day. Oh my. Ugh.
And then you have to get your fiber. And then you have to get your water.
Yeah. Yeah, you do. And also go for walks and everything else.
We have been going for walks. We've been doing good. Two, two walks. We have gone on two walks. That's good. Don't rain on my bag. Better than zero. Yeah, I know.
And one of them was decent. We took a three-mile walk. It was big. It was decent. So back off. Hey. go Settle down. Go gain some muscle. I got plenty. I'm not doing two to three weeks of inactivity. I'm not gonna start wasting away. I'll be okay. I got I got yard arms. Yeah. Yeah. I kind of like it. Well. What you got?
Nothing. I got nothing. All right.
I hope uh every very, very, very good restaurant is paying attention to what happened to Euro two. This Euro restaurant or gyro, however you like to say it. I call them euros.
Euros. That's because I think that's how you say it. Uh they closed their doors after 45 years of business. And uh when they closed, they they left a note on the door that said, I want to thank my local customers for their patronage over the past 45 years. Regretfully, we will be closing permanently on Monday. Um, and best wishes to all. And when they closed, they left the recipe to their special secret recipe, white sauce.
Smart.
It's some mayo, some vinegar, some sugar, and some dill weed, and you mix all the ingredients and refrigerate, and that's their like world famous white sauce. Yeah, it's always something like that.
Yeah, it's always something super easy.
So kind of uh a crazy thing. I mean, really cool of them to be like, this is the thing everybody loved. We held the secret for 45 years. Here it is. Go enjoy a euro when you make it.
Here's how you make the delicious white sauce that made ours special. I kind of want a euro. Do you? Yes. What kind of meat? Because you're not a big meat person. You're gonna put regular old euro meat in there?
I mean, if it's cooked properly, then yes.
Of course it will be. It always is. And when you say properly, that is subjective because you get a little bit weird about meat. Like you don't like a properly cooked steak. You want it burned like a hockey puck. You don't like a properly cooked hot dog. You like it burned like a charcoal brick. So when you say cooked properly, that means cooked to your preference. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Not properly. You mean burn.
I mean burn. Like almost like black. you were afraid of I don't I don't know. And I haven't always been like this. I was just telling you about this the other day. I know. I go, I don't know when this started. I used to have no problems.
Yeah, because I made uh I made a pasta meal that had some sausage in it. Yeah. Uh, and you thought the sausage chunks were too big, and so you were having a problem with it. Yeah. Yeah.
And I said yeah what did I say? Do you remember? I said, I can't think about eating the sausage while I'm eating the sausage.
Which is strange. And I have to I
can't just eat a bite of just sausage. I have to put like whatever's with it, like pasta or tomato, like in that instance, it was pasta and tomatoes. Then I have to have like a proportion to hide the meat. Yes. I don't know where I came from. I don't eat. I haven't always been this weird.
So the Euro meat is uh typically a combination of ground lamb and ground beef, though chicken and pork are also used um in Euros, but uh it's it's all heavily seasoned, pressed into a dense loaf and then rotisseried and then sliced into Euro meat that is put inside the Euro. I didn't know that. I didn't know it was a hybrid of meats. But it's good. It is good, it's way good.
The only time I ever have a euro is at the fair. Yeah? Mm-hmm. Because where else are you gonna get them?
Well, you can't go to Tom's.
We did go there before, but I don't think I ever got Euros when we went there. I think I got like a chicken sandwich or something. Why would I do that? Why would you get a chicken sandwich?
I'm gonna go to a fish place and have the chicken. I'm gonna go to a Mexican restaurant and get the cheeseburger. I don't know. That would be a fun thing to rate. How's the American menu at ethnic restaurants? Yeah.
How do they do a cheeseburger and fries at the Thai food place? Do you like that? That's that's interesting. Anyway, I think uh I think a euro sounds pretty nice. Now I have the secret recipe for this white sauce. Let's make some. Yeah.
You got a smoker? Let's get some smoked smoked meats going.
Some smoked meats. I'm gonna cook them like to the proper temperature because I uh because of food safety. Yeah. But I'm gonna cook them right and you're gonna have to eat it and go like, okay. I'll try it. It's not a burned piece of charcoal.
Think about it. I'll just have to think about something. Just think about how good it tastes. That's what you should be thinking about. Okay.
Like, man, this this meat tastes good. Man, this meat is good.
Usually I it's fine. Like the meat tastes good, and then something happens and I go, now I'm done. Like there's a piece of fat or a piece of tissue or tissue. I don't know why I said tissue.
A piece of tissue. That there's a bite of tissue.
Some chunky bits sometimes, and then I go, I'm done. Now I'm out. Oh then now I'm grossed out.
Just think about how good it tastes. Does sausage taste good? Yes. Sometimes chicken taste good? Sometimes. Is leftover chicken good? No, never.
Never. Leftover chicken is the worst.
Would a properly cooked steak that melts in your mouth be good? Yes. What color is it? Don't look at it. Taste it. I'm gonna feed you with a blindfold on so that you can just taste flavors and go, that tastes good. What color is it? Color of meat. Delicious.
It's the color of delicious meat. Have a bite. Stop it.
What is the problem? I don't know. I don't know. So many things. All right. So many things are the problem. We gotta get you better. I'll make euros somehow, some way. They're not on the menu this week, though. We got other stuff. Yeah. Next week. Maybe.
We got to go see the fun at AJR over the weekend.
Or as our uh kids pointed out, we saw CJR because the one brother, Adam, uh, only participates in some shows and he wasn't there, and their drummer was Chris instead. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, but the other two were there, so we saw CJR. Because they're all it's three brothers and then uh an amazing uh trumpet trumpet player.
That trumpet player was the bomb. Yeah, very cool. What I didn't know is that they were brothers, and I I thought AJR was just the one guy. No, it's three. You thought it was just Jack? Yeah. Okay. I didn't know his name was. He's the J. In AJ R. I know now. Yeah. I've I've done some learning. It was a great show.
I forgot how many songs I knew from AJR. Same. Like I was I was standing there watching the show, going like, I know all but I think three of the songs, maybe two or two or three of the songs they played. I knew every other song. I went, I didn't realize I was so well versed in the AJR playlist. Discography, whatever the word is. Like I've gone to other shows where I've been like, I'm excited to see this band, and I've known fewer songs. Like that's bizarre.
Yeah, it was good. They put on a good show. Apparently at some of their shows, they take uh people bring signs with different challenges.
right it's kind of a Uh thing they do, yeah.
Yeah, and then they get a hat because he wears a signature hat. Yes, Jack does. And there was a young woman in the audience who had a sign that said worm race. Worm race. She got on stage and had a worm race. Did the worm.
killed it Very, very well done. Her name was Maddie, if I remember right. And uh, and yeah, she she can do the worm.
Yeah, she can. I've never seen somebody do a worm that well, actually.
And she traveled quick and far, like all the way across the stage.
If you had to challenge somebody to anything, what do you think you could challenge? Not a worm race. I mean neither.
Or maybe a worm race. Because I could maybe win that. I probably could not. How many worms do you think you could do before you were like, ah, that's enough?
Uh it's not it wouldn't be a worm. It would be more like a like a centipede. Slug. Yeah, Yes. Slug race.
But how many, how many slug moves could you do in a row? Before you were like, I'm not doing this anymore.
Probably two.
Two slugs. And then you're like, I'm done. I can't slug anymore. What would I challenge them to? I don't even know. I don't know. What would you put on your sign? I don't know. Either. Jump rope? No. Jump rope what? I don't know. Jump rope. It's just check for jump rope.
The hula hoop challenge.
And you're about to have a hula. I'm terrible at hula hoops.
Yeah, you can't provide props. It just has to be your own self. Something your own self can do. Yeah. don't I don't know. I don't know either. Now I gotta like work on it. Yeah.
Because you're gonna you're gonna want to do that a challenge at some point in your life. Listen. When you see them again.
You never know when the opportunity is gonna happen. That's true. You gotta be prepared for every moment. Yeah. Good crowd. The crowd was good at the show. the show at one At one point the band came into the crowd. I always love that. And we were like there.
Right next to where they were performing. Completely unbeknownst. I didn't know they were gonna do that uh that thing where they sat in the in the crowd and played songs. What a surprise. Very cool. And I went, they're like 10 feet away from me. How about that? That was pretty cool. What a surprise. Yeah.
Unbeknownst to you. I like that you're like, they didn't tell me they were gonna do that.
Well, it was just a thing I didn't know. You know? It's uh it's a pleasant surprise where I went, hey, look at that. Nobody's seated in a great seat to see.
Nobody told me that you were gonna come into the crowd. Yeah. I didn't know ahead of time.
That was no one spoiled that for me. All in all, a really cool show. So good. And uh, yeah, I'd go see them again. It was a fun party. It was a fun party. Yeah, if I if I happened to be in the area and they were like, hey, AJR's coming. I'd be like, yeah, I'll go. Yeah. It was a good time. And I know a lot of their songs. So cool.
Lights were good. Like I always admire the fact that when a man is.
Do you like a good production? I do high production value. I feel like they could have done more with the uh the whatever those things are. The big steam? The big smoke machine things or whatever. I would have liked to have seen more of that. I'm a fan of confetti. I could have dealt with confetti at the end.
Yeah, but then you have to think of the people who have to clean up the confetti.
Look, I get it. That's somebody's job. I understand. But I like a confetti cannon. I'm good with it. Are you? Yeah. Are you gonna clean it up at the end? No. Okay. That's somebody's job. But I think it's fun. It is fun. They had on the screen digital confetti. I would like to have seen real confetti as well. That's all.
I wonder how much that would cost.
How much does a confetti cannon cost? Or how much does it cost to make confetti? What do you want to know?
How much does confetti cost? when What are you Googling? How are you gonna Google this? I'm gonna tell you right now that uh 10 to 40 dollars per pound.
Really? When you purchase raw in bulk by event organizers. Okay.
So how many pounds do you need for a show? And then also, is that something you're carrying to each venue?
Yes. So there is a website called Ultimate Confetti. And they sell confetti. Okay. So uh I I don't know how the quantities work here, but it's uh flame resistant. That's important. That is very important. Uh it is eco-friendly and biodegradable. Uh it is fluttering and slow falling, and it is sold in one pound bags for $11 per one-pound bag. Hey, okay. So then if you use this outside, it will take four to six weeks to disappear.
We have gotten those little confetti shooters before. It's like the little twist cans.
Yeah, it does make a mess. It does.
How many pounds of confetti Google this? What are you what do you see?
I'm just looking at the different cannons and stuff. Okay.
Uh okay. I just asked, how many pounds of confetti is dropped at the Super Bowl? Okay. Want to take a guess? How many pounds? Yeah. So much. 300 to almost 1100 pounds.
300 to 1100 pounds. That's a giant scale.
Yeah, that's what I'm trying to figure out. How many pounds you would need for a for a concert.
a Taylor probably goes through some confetti. How much does Taylor use?
I'm just saying, maybe it wasn't cost effective for them, Josh. oh All you wanted was confetti, but maybe that just wasn't in their budget. hmm It's possible. That's all I'm saying.
And also maybe they just didn't want to travel with that much confetti. That's all. How much? Okay, let's look this up. Is dropped in Times Square. Let's New Year's Eve. That's a lot. Three thousand pounds. That's insane.
They're also dropping that all by hand. What? Yeah. They're up on there are people up on top of the edges of the building throwing confetti down. They do it by hand.
Oh man, oh man. That's a job. I would just take the bag and just dump.
One here comes a pound of confetti. It's not gonna fall right. You gotta you gotta spread it out by hand.
Yeah, and then they wouldn't ask me back. They'd be like, You're you're bad at confetti dropping. Don't come back.
A standard concert will use anywhere from 10 to 75 pounds, depending on how many times they launch it. And and but you even if you're on the low end and did 10 pounds at 11 per bag, you're spending a good hundred bucks in confetti. Yeah. Maybe they don't have it in their budget. They don't have a hundred dollars.
Maybe they needed another smoke machine and they were like, a smoke machine or confetti. We don't have budget for both. But I also think maybe it varies by venue, too. Maybe a venue has different rules in place.
Like maybe the venue we were at was like, nope, no confetti. Absolutely not. That's true. It could be. Because sometimes they just probably don't want to clean it up. And I don't blame them.
One confetti launcher, confetti blower, they call it. Okay. Uh is about sixteen hundred dollars for the box with the blower, and you throw the confetti in there, you preload it, and it goes and shoots it out. And you probably load it with a couple of bags, I bet.
Couple of pounds. Yeah. Yep. That's what I'm saying. I like confetti. I would have liked. Apparently so. I would like to see some. I like a good concert confetti, you know?
like I like confetti. I like a good concert. Yeah. Don't you? But that didn't ruin your experience. No, I had a great time. Digital confetti was okay.
Good show, but I mean, you know, a little finale. I like a little finale. That's all. Don't you? Yes. I like a good finale. well A little confetti.
I've heard. I've heard about your confetti. It's a good show. Glad I got to go. I'd go again. Even without confetti. But we talked briefly last week about how I want to start a family book club with our family. And we all know.
That would be the family and the family book club. Yeah.
And we all read a book independently, and then when we're done with the book, we go and have a
so like here's how I see this going. Okay. Go ahead. Because it'll be fun to go and have like a treat and talk about it, but I think we're going to need to probably do check-ins. Because if we just go to like you start the book and I start the book, and the kids start the book, and we all start at the same time, and then we're all gonna plan this thing where we talk about the book when it's done. You're gonna be done and have read two other books before the rest of us.
And then I'll forget what happened.
That's what I'm saying. So we're gonna need to do like, hey, when you get to the end of chapter four, okay. We check in. Okay. Because otherwise we're gonna lose the plot, and it's not gonna it's not gonna happen.
We pricked we picked our first book. Yes. Project Hail Mary. And we haven't started yet. Well, I presented it to the kids. Yeah. I asked them each independently because that was the only time I got to see them. But I asked Beck, I said, Hey, do you want to start a family book club with us?
And he goes, What do you have to do? And I said a book. We're all just gonna read a book. And I thought I would clinch the deal with the book because it's something he likes space. I was like, you're gonna be into this. And he goes, We have to do the ice cream club and book club.
You are setting up a lot of clubs these days.
Asking so much.
You kind of are asking a lot. You're setting up a lot of expectations. And I like where his head's at, actually, because he's going, look, how many advent calendars do you really need at Christmas time? Three. You need three because one's candy just for fun. The other one's kind of a countdown calendar, so that's cool, and also has little treats in it. And then the other one has a paper of expectations. So maybe let's do one and just have it be treats.
His was more of a like uh I have to spend more time with you guys. Yeah.
I have to leave my room. Why? You won't. But then he agreed to it. And then he was like, yeah, that sounds kind of fun. Yeah, because he's into the book.
He's into the book. And then I asked Emory, and Emory said, Is Beck gonna do it? And I said, if I said no, would you still be a part of it? And she goes, Well, and it's only gonna work if we're all a part of it.
And I went, Yeah, you can't have a family book club with not the whole family. That's that's a three-person book club.
I had asked Beck first, and he had already agreed. And that's so I was able to respond with a yeah, he's into it. And she went, okay. Okay.
So everyone's in. Okay. Now I gotta get the book.
Who was saying it's gonna be hard to get four copies? Beck. yeah I Why did you say it like that? didn't I didn't mean to. Okay. He was worried you weren't gonna find four copies. I'm trying to decide if I'm gonna audio book it.
Right. I think you're gonna audio book it. I can check it out from the library. I've wanted to own a copy anyway, and I'm sure I can just borrow a copy from another copy from the library. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Or from the colour. They probably have multiple copies.
Because I know a couple of people who own it. So it's fine. I'm not concerned about that. So when does this start? I don't know. I gotta get the books. All right. So as soon as I get the books. Here's how I see this going. Okay. I think we're all gonna read about a uh uh like a chapter or two, and then it's gonna just fizzle.
Let's find out. You gotta keep the spark alive. You gotta, you know what you gotta do is we gotta have like themed things. So you're gonna read ahead because you read quick, and then you're gonna have to go, okay. I know this is what's coming up, so we're gonna have like uh a treat based around a thing.
Now who's getting the Xbox?
No, I'm giving them to you because you love these good intentions. I do, but I'm just trying to find ways to keep that spark ignited, you know?
You keep the spark ignited, you do it. I'm gonna need help. I came up with the idea.
Yeah, I'm just helping you fulfill your dream.
Great. You come up with the idea.
I don't you already did.
No, I'm talking about you come up with the spark.
just I just don't want your idea to fizzle, and I think the only way to do that is to keep the spark alive, you know. Whatever that means. Yeah, I don't know what that means. Yeah, all right. Well, I'm excited to uh dive into it. I've seen the movie, I like the movie. Uh how's your Spanish? No bueno.
Okay. There's this there's a Spanish edition at the library. I don't want that. No.
I don't know what's happening. It's like it's in another language. Dang it.
now Well, now we can't read it because we don't have four copies.
I'm sure there's other bookstores. There's ways to get copies.
Uh we're that's gonna be easy. That's the easy part. It's gotta it's keeping the spark alive. That's gonna be hard.
Well, read ahead and pick a theme. That's why it has to be you. You're gonna be ahead.
Uh kid do everything. So you have a CPAP machine. That's right. And you have forgotten to get some distilled water for that's right.
I need to get an uh another bottle of distilled water, another jug.
So you haven't, you didn't use it all weekend.
Well, I know I can turn the humidifier part off, and I haven't tried it with the humidifier off. I've had the humidifier the whole time, and I and I I don't know. I don't want to be dried up. And so I know I could run it without it um by bypassing the humidifier part, but I just I like that. So I need to get distilled water so I can fill my reservoir so I can be humidified while I sleep. There you go. Yeah.
What I noticed was that you snored a little bit, but it wasn't bad. Yeah. And then I, when you first started to do a little bit of snoring, I was like, oh, I kind of missed that.
No. Listen, and I know it sounds weird, but it was a little bit comforting. Uh-huh. Because it wasn't like crazy loud. It was just kind of a nice, like, like, I don't know how to describe it. It was rhythmic.
Okay. And I was like, oh, this is kind of I remember this. And it kind of lulled me to sleep a bit. Crazy, right?
Crazy. You weren't shaking my pillow. No, because I said gently. It was a gentle snoring. So I was like, oh yeah, I remember this.
And then I was laying there going, Yeah, I kind of missed this. Not the crazy. Not the crazy.
There are times where it gets loud and it gets intense. It's never been like that. What are you talking about? I mean, it gets there are times.
It gets it gets crazy. No. Yes. Anyway, I missed it. Yeah. It was nice to have a bag. Just the soft, gentle lull. You have a scout leader who says that.
Because when all the adult tents are set up in the in the camping area, you're within earshot of everybody. Like you hear everything out there. The woods are quiet. Yep. And so and you're in like, you know, fabric between you and the outside. Right. So you hear everything. Yeah. And there are different snores coming from different tents. And that is the uh that is the sound of sleeping adults.
She said before that she can pick out which one is she can pick out your snore salad. Yeah, she knows who's whose. But she said it's also night like a nice little lullaby.
That's kind of what it felt like when you were snoring. scoring this When was that? Friday night? So I was like home. It's nice. Nice. Like I feel comfort here. I feel comfort in the snoring. I remember I remember this. Now don't get me wrong. Yeah. I want you to get your water.
Yeah, no, I want it too. Yeah. I need to go to the store. I just keep forgetting. But just I was going to purchase uh uh what's it called? A uh what's that water? A distiller. Oh. Is that the word? Yeah. Yeah. So that I could just make my own at home. Okay. I just haven't. How much are those? Uh-huh.
Moneys? What exactly is the difference? What is distilled water? Oh. I'm all looking it up. You're not gonna tell me. It's it's distilled. You don't know. You don't know either. Yeah. It's a purified type of water that's been boiled into vapor and condensed back into liquid, leaving behind impurities, contaminants, and naturally occurring minical minerals.
Yeah, so because it doesn't have those minerals, there's no mineral buildup.
It is essentially pure water. That's right. Pure. Pure. Pure H2O.
Yeah Just pure H2O.
All right. Go get your own distiller. Yeah.
I'll have to look around, see what they got.
Okay, go for it. Okay. Thanks. Sounds like a fun hobby that you can try. Yeah? Yeah. They're actually a little bit expensive.
Well, it depends on what I want. Because there's a little machine, but then there's also this like crazy distiller. Like there's oh, that's for that's for adult beverage distilling. That's a different kind of distillery. That's a distiller.
Uh for turning alcohol into distilled alcohol, not water. Oh, that's why that one's like hundreds of dollars. Like, that thing's expensive. Don't do that. No, that's not what I'm looking to do.
I just want water. So yeah, that's about 60 bucks, it looks like 60 to 100, depending on what I'm looking at here. Okay. But then it's another thing to sit on the counter. Hooray. Ah boy. Hooray. love You love stuff on the counter. I sure do. It's uh would you rather this or that?
Would you rather have every family meal become a competition or every car ride become a karaoke session?
Oh, I it's a competitions, not kairioke. I don't need karaoke. Why? You obviously you're choosing karaoke. Yeah. No. I'd rather have cooking competition. Well. Okay. I can't deal with karaoke.
The competition sounds fun. Because you could do all kinds of different things. You could have an eating competition. You could have a cooking competition. Yeah. You could have a sit on your chair competition.
What? You could make it. That's wild. You could make it so sit on your chair. No way. No, like different ways to sit on your chair. Who can sit on their chair? Go. Listen, when you're a mom and you're trying to get your own. It becomes a competition. You've already done this.
No, I know. I know the quiet game quite well. Uh no, I get it. Who can sit on your chair? Go. Three, two, one, go. In a fun way. Who can sit on their chair and eat all their food at once? Here we go. Three, two, one, go.
Yeah Yeah, You would win if we ever did like a who could eat their meal the fastest. You would win because you're you're I am really a good challenger.
Yeah, that's because she likes to race you. I'm worried about her choking because you eat so fast.
I don't eat fast. I take big bites. Both. It's both. No. It's both. Speed is a byproduct of large bites. I don't eat fast. I just take big bites. That's it. Okay.
I feel like it's both.
So it comes across as eating fast, but I'm not. I'm just eating more each bite. I'm not like hurried. I'm not like, I can't wait to hurry and finish this food. I'm not eating quickly. I'm just eating big bites because I like the amount of food I'm putting in my mouth. But it okay. Because people go, do you even taste it? I'm like, I tasted all of it.
It's fast though, because you bite, you take a big bite and then you go back for it. You are also fast. You take big bites and you're also a fast eater. It's both.
Are you upset you'll lose the speed competition?
No, but I'm not upset by that. I'm gonna I'm gonna win the competition of who can sit on their chair the craziest. I don't know. I don't know.
And it also craziest wasn't in the initial who can sit on their chair.
Because it hasn't, I haven't finalized all the details, but I'm gonna win that one. Yeah. I'm gonna win that one. I'm picking the food competition. Same.
Because I just like I'll sing a few songs, but I don't like a karaoke. I can't do the karaoke thing. Let's talk a little bit more about it. Would you rather this or that? I uh I can't believe you want to talk about this.
This is uh listen, there is There are things. it was hilarious.
There are things that happen in our life that we don't necessarily share on the radio. There's a lot that we do talk about. Uh, but there's still stuff that happens that we just go like uh that's that's more for our own enjoyment or whatever.
Uh and so not everything makes it to the show. But I see this note, and you uh you want to talk about this? I just want to make sure it's your last chance to back out before we tell this story.
I think it's funny. Go for it. I don't know why. Well, no, I'll tell you what happened.
You thought for some reason you could jump. And listen, let me let me start by saying you got big ups. You got big time verts. You you have an ability to get off the ground in a big way. And uh, and by big way, I mean your feet come off the ground a little bit. But but I wouldn't, I mean, you could jump rope, but I don't think you could double dutch so good, is what I'm saying. Okay, because there's a little high knee.
Here's what's I'm gonna just keep practicing, and then I'm gonna get so good at it. I was attempting to jump on the bed.
Yeah, you said, hey, look, let me jump on the bed.
With like I the intention was to jump, yeah, land on the bed with my knees in like a super cool, like, yeah, way. Our bed is high. Yeah. Too.
It was a and I'm gonna tell you right now. I looked over and went, I don't know about this being a good idea. And then you went ahead and tried. And you got a big buildup and you jumped, and I saw knees. Here's what happened. The knees hit the edge of the bed.
The knees hit the edge of the bed, and then you bounced right off. Yeah. And then because I couldn't my
feet You couldn't put your legs straight fast enough.
My legs couldn't go straight fast enough. I hit the back of the wall.
Right, you bounced off the bed, and there's on your side of the bed, there's I don't know, three or four feet between you, uh the edge of the bed and the wall. Yeah. And so you bounced off the bed, back to the wall, back forward, and your head hit the bed, and then you disappeared. Well, and it was silent.
Because I couldn't my feet were slipping, my bare feet were slipping on the carpet. Uh-huh.
When you bounced back. I couldn't stand. And I went, Josh, Josh. I know you and I was like, I there's no help. You get no help. I don't even know what to do from him.
Yeah, you just sat on the bed like that.
I was amazed that it all happened. It was the blink of an eye, and you disappeared.
And you just then you were just silent. I told you not to do that.
That's not a good idea. But here you wanted to show off. Hey, look at me, jump. Okay. And then you pinballed your way around the whole side of the bed and disappeared. Yeah. And I went, oh no. I said, Are you okay? And silence. And then you went, I'm laughing too hard. That's what happened.
I can't even believe you didn't even try to help. What was I gonna do? She sat there like well.
I told you I thought I was gonna have to put you in leg braces and you have a wheelchair to move around. It was gonna be terrible. don't I don't know what you were thinking.
I don't know what I was thinking either. But uh do it again. It was fun. Boink boink boink boink. Crash. Hilarious. Well, goodbye. Let me do it again because it was funny.
Yeah, that's what people who do silly things say. Well, I'm gonna try it again. I've heard that before. From the smartest man in the room who said, I'm gonna do that again.
Yeah. Yeah.
We'll do it again. Sure thing. I'm gonna wrap up the show on that note. I'm surprised you wanted to share that story of you bouncing around the whole bedroom. Yeah, it was fine.
Because you tried to do a jump. Yeah. All right. Have a Have a good rest of your Monday. Uh we'll be back tomorrow morning. Belustery Day. Yeah. Stay dry, stay out of the wind. Uh, and we'll see you back here tomorrow, I guess. Okay. All right. Bye. See ya.
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