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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
It’s a jam-packed, slightly slushy Tuesday on Wake Up Classy 97! Josh & Chantel kick things off with Fat Tuesday, the Chinese New Year, and a full Idaho road report—because winter decided to clock back in. Then it’s mystery box madness as Chantel considers dropping $85 on unclaimed mail chaos, things get weird (and a little creepy) when they dive into Meta’s new AI patent, a dad secretly reads the entire Twilight saga for parenting research, the Olympic medal count heats up ahead of bobsled weekend, the “Believe” sing-off challenge, the great banana ripeness debate, dried apple witch trauma from second grade, ESPN’s ranking of the hardest sports in the world, and so much more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Mardi Gras & Chinese New Year
(2:39) - Slushy roads
(6:30) - Unclaimed mail
(12:18) - Good News
(13:54) - Meta AI for the dead
(19:03) - Chantel's day off
(23:53) - Dad books
(29:57) - Bobsleds & Olympic movies
(35:50) - Song lyric game
(41:23) - Banana scale
(47:54) - Hardest sports
(54:20) - Benjamin Button
(1:00:02) - Fry sauce
(1:06:42) - Would You Rather
(1:08:52) - Barnacles
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Full show transcript:
Alright, hey Chantel, happy Fat Tuesday. Oh, is it? It is Mardi Gras. Okay. Today, Fat Tuesday. So, eat a baby cake or whatever.
Yeah, I guess I'd never know what that means.
I think you kind of gotta go to Nolans to figure it out. And I'm not mad about that. We could do that sometime. I had to be happy to know. I don't want to go down there during Mardi Gras. I want to go down there not during Mardi Gras, I kind of get a feel for it, and then maybe stick around for Mardi Gras. Got it. Right, like be there early. And be like, oh, okay, this thing's are kicking off.
I don't think anybody actually really knows what Fat Tuesday means. You think they do? Sure.
A lot of people. Okay. Especially those from Louisiana. They know exactly what it's about. But it is Mardi Gras. It is also the beginning of the Chinese New Year today. This is a spring festival or lunar new year. It marks the end of winter and the beginning of the new spring season. It is a 15 day celebration that ends with the Lantern Festival in China, which is very cool. It's all about renewal, planting, growth, and fresh beginnings, and themes associated with spring. Now, this year, 2026 is the year of the horse.
Okay. So, well, we were not born under the horse sign because we were born in 81 and 82. So this is not our year as far as that's concerned. But the horse represents hard work, bravery, independence, and forward momentum. And red is everywhere during the Chinese New Year, from decorations to clothing. The color represents good luck, joy, and warding off evil spirits.
Get out of here, evil spirits.
Lots of big family reunions, fireworks, big feasts, lion dances, red decorations. People give red envelopes filled with money for good luck.
I'll take those. I will take those. Those will be greatly appreciated. And they are given to children, family members, friends, and employees as a symbol of good luck. So that's pretty neat. It's the Chinese New Year, the year of the horse. They're saying it's the fire horse this year. That sounds intense. Yeah. It's a burning horse. The year of the cat.
No, that's not. It was a different year. Later in the show, we'll learn that you just can't help yourself when it comes to singing songs when they pop in your head.
The year of the horse.
Okay, that's nice. That's nice. Shall we kick off the year of this show today?
Yeah, let's kick it off. Yeah, kick off. Kick.
Okay. Hi. Good morning. Hey. Bit of a scramble, bit of a thing. It's kind of snowing slushy outside. Yeah, just wet. Yeah, so give yourself a little extra time today. And do what I didn't and try to be patient with other people.
Yeah, Josh. You were telling me that you got behind a slow car.
I did. I did. I was going a little bit slower today too because that slush pushes my little car around. I understand. I get it. And it's slushy. It is. And I was thinking I was just hearing a siren in my headphone. Just be careful.
Be careful. This morning. It did snow. It was kind of a little snowy when we left the house. By the time we got here, it wasn't snowy, but there is slush and wet roads out there. So, as always, we encourage you to check the road report before you hit the road. It's 511.idaho .gov. If you need to check the road report, it's always a good idea. And then you can know before you go.
Know before you go. Yeah.
Know the snow before you go, bro. Yeah. Good fun. 511.idaho .gov is the website. You can check out the road report. Just looking at it at a quick glance, there are some difficult roads. Once you get south of Pocotelo, it looks like a lot of I-15 is difficult to travel right now. Also, Highway 30, which is the one that takes you to Lava Hot Springs and Soda Springs.
That highway is also listed as difficult. Fair conditions for I-15, Blackfoot to Idaho Falls. It looks like good conditions around Pocotelo and American Falls area, and then further down 86-84 toward Burley. So, if you need to go that way, it looks like it's good. It's fair around the Blackfoot to Idaho Falls area. Also, north of Idaho Falls, as you head up to Dubois, it looks like that's also fair.
Difficult south of Pocotelo to Utah. That's what it says right now. That's how you read it. You look at the colors and you just go, oh, purple. That means it's difficult. Got it.
Thanks for mansplaining how the road report works.
That's when a man explains things. You can check it out at 511.idaho .gov.
Did winter decide to begin today?
Well, you know, it thought somebody would like to do something outside. So, let's go ahead and make it nasty. No, you want to know what it is? What? We put our winter stuff away. I put the snowboarding stuff away. I put the snowboards in the snowboarding gear away. Immediately, it's like, oh, I can snow now. Because this was the first year I thought, I'm going to get it out. Beforehand?
So that it can be in the garage and that way it can be easy to grab, and I won't have to walk through the snow to get to the shed to get it out and all that. And so that was kind of my whole thing. Nope. Do that again. Do it every year. Put it in the garage or go get it back out.
Put it in the garage early so that we don't... Listen, I've enjoyed not having winter. And then it snowed and I went, oh man.
Yeah. I mean, this is barely anything, right? It is barely. It does say there's some snow today, tomorrow and Thursday. So there's kind of snow throughout. It's not like heavy. It's nothing big. It just says a snow shower. It doesn't say like heavy snow. Coating to an inch. It's just a little bit of snow. All right. I'll tolerate it. Just know I don't like it. Okay.
I don't like it. I'm tolerating. Tolerating the snow. Okay. Okay. Well, good morning. What day is it? Tuesday? Yes, it is. Happy Tuesday. You told me about this a while ago and then I completely forgot about it until I just saw a video of two women doing this and I want it so bad. You told me a story about unclaimed packages that people could purchase. Yeah. So they have these unclaimed mailboxes full of like packages that people have never picked up.
Right. Now I don't know how you get your hands on one. Oh, I do. Do you have to like get ahold of the post office? Do you buy it?
There's, okay. There's a, yeah, you buy it. There's a couple of different, they call mail boxes where you can get. So there's eBay and then liquidation.com, fund delivered, unclaimed baggage. So there's several.
Okay. So eBay has unclaimed packages or lost mail mystery boxes and you can find a numerous amount of unopened or returned items. Liquidation.com offers auction based or fixed price pallets of undeliverable retail merchandise. Fund delivered has mystery boxes featuring unclaimed mail items. Unclaimed baggage is mystery boxes that contain items found in luggage that remain unclaimed.
Okay. I kind of just want the, I want the unclaimed mail items. So the, the video I watched yesterday was these two women that were opening all kinds of stuff that was, they got a leaf blower. They got some clothes. They got a fanny pack. They got just random. It's just a bunch of random stuff because it's just unclaimed packages.
So I'm looking at the fund delivered one. Yeah. And it looks like you can get just like standard packages, which is $85. Oh, no way. Yeah, way. That's expensive. And this is, this is, they say it's a party game built for mystery package lovers and chaos coordinators alike. I feel like that's your title. Like when you make all the games for the holiday parties and stuff, chaos coordinator. That's a good title. It's addictive, easy to play and guaranteed to turn in your room and to pure fun.
Roll the 12 sided die, swap steel, unbox your way through a mystery perfect blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So that's $85. Okay. If you want plus packages, which is bigger stuff. This one is 120.
That's kind of more than I wanted to spend for, especially for stuff that you don't necessarily have no idea what it is. No, and it could be something totally crap.
Then this one is a party box, which is even bigger and it's 225. Geez. Yeah.
I mean, I don't know what kind of size these women got that I watched, but they got all kinds of stuff.
So that's the fund delivered thing. That's what they do. So that's their, their whole thing is like a wide elephant kind of approach. So they try to make it, you know, that way, but you end up with weird, weird stuff. What was the other one you said? You said eBay, but then what was the second one?
Oh, geez, Louise. Liquidation.com. This is pallets of undelivered retail merchandise or there's the unclaimed baggage, which is stuff that unclaimed items in luggage.
Yeah. These guys have a lot of stuff. Which one? Which one are you looking at? Liquidation. Okay. Like they have broken out pieces as well. So they have like, you can get this, the current bid on this HP laptop is $1,221. Like if you want this, you want to bid on this Lenovo, the current bid is 650.
I don't want to do that. These ones have broken stuff out. I don't, I don't see the, I want the mystery. Yeah.
I'm trying to see. There's also, okay. There's Gov deals. Check that one out. There's a pallet. Yeah.
See, what? On these, even on these pallets, they have like, it's a whole pallet of light fixtures or it's a whole pallet of dining room chairs.
Like it's, it's, it's a little different. I don't want that one. No. So then there's Gov deals and this is, no, this is auction too. I don't want to auction.
Government surplus.
I don't want that. Yep. That's different. That's totally different.
I don't know. You'll have to, you know, there are, there are also like stores that have all this stuff. You just go browse through it and then you can look and see if there's stuff you want.
I know, but, and I know, but it's exciting. You don't know what you're going to get.
Yeah. Well, you don't know what you're going to get when you start digging through that bin either. Fair. And then you look and you go, wow, I didn't know I could find that.
Well, $85 is more than I wanted to spend. I get it. But it was exciting. They made it look real fun.
But that's that party box one. So that's not a whole pallet of stuff. That's just a random box that they throw things in. Yeah. And they may know what's in them.
How though, they've been unopened.
Have they? I mean, a little bit of glue. You can reclose a package. They go, I'm just telling you, there's better ways to do it. What are they go to a store that's already opened them up and look for the deals. It's easier. And then you only pay for what you want and you don't have a bunch of stuff you have to donate. Fine. Just saving you a trip. That's all. I ruined my fun. Okay. Here's some good news.
There is an 88 year old woman named Francis and Francis is a grandmother and she after 88 years of just loving the ground took a flight for the very first time. Oh, yep. I know.
Isn't that fun? She'd always promised that she would only fly once her grandson, Alex, earned his pilot's license and she kept her word. He invited her on his first flight from, uh, from, uh, was it lacrosse, Wisconsin to Chicago. The milestone was a family affair.
Alex, parents and brother were also on board to watch him, uh, you know, take over the cockpit and fly the airplane. And Francis was treated to the royal treatment on her big debut. Uh, she said, it's very, very nice. I felt like a spoiled celebrity.
I had the first seat in first class. Uh, it was a career highlight for Alex as a memory of a lifetime for a grandma who showed it's never too late for a new adventure. He said, which is really cool.
I like that she took her first flight with her grandson pilot.
Yeah, that's pretty cool. I will fly when you fly the airplane. And there you go. She has now officially flown to Chicago. Like it. I assume they flew home. It only says they went one way. Maybe they drove back. I don't know. But she said she liked it because she was treated like royalty in first class.
There you go.
Good job, Franny. Isn't that awesome? Congratulations. That's good news.
You told me something disturbing yesterday. Yeah.
Uh, I am trying to pull it up here really quick, but Metta, the guys behind Facebook, uh, have patented a new AI and I hate it.
I hate it too. I don't, I don't like it. I think it's a terrible idea.
This new AI lets you keep posting from beyond the grave. That's the whole idea. The company was granted this patent in late December. It's just being made public now, this information. Uh, it outlines how a large language model can simulate a person's social media activity, such as responding to content posted by real people. They're literally like out in front of you saying we're going to turn your beloved into bots. Yeah.
So basically they're going to like after your person dies or somebody that you know dies, they'll take over their Facebook account and post as that person would post.
So here's what it says. The language model may be used for simulating the user when the user is absent from the social media networking system. For example, when the user takes a long break or if the user is deceased, but we have no plans to move forward with this example, they said. Okay. Sure thing.
Sure thing. If the user's been what did you say?
If the user, it says the language model may be used for simulating the user when the user is absent from the social media networking system. Absent. Yeah. For example, when they take a long break. Yeah. Or if they are deceased, but we have no plans to move forward with this example.
I would say that I'm absent from Facebook. Yeah. I still have my account. Right. I log on sometimes to see what's going on, but I haven't posted in a very long time. Correct. So they would consider me an absent Facebook user. Sure. So they would post on my behalf and I don't like that.
If you're no longer posting online, whether it's because you need a break from social media or you pass away, your followers user experience will be affected. In short, they'll miss you.
No. So to fill that void, meta would essentially create a digital clone of your social media presence, training the model on user specific data, including historical platform activities such as the way you comment, the things you like, the content you post, and to understand how you would, or if you were passed away, how you did behave. And then the clone would respond to other people's content by liking and commenting, even responding in DMs for influencers or creators who make their livelihoods on Meta's platforms and need to take a break from social media.
Such a tool like this could be useful, they say. I don't think so. I don't want to talk to a bot. I don't know. And I don't want my deceased loved ones to be bots.
Agreed. And I don't know how that's useful.
It's useful to the social media network to continue
to say they have all of these active users. It's not useful to general person.
I don't like it.
I thought it was creepy. Now they were granted that patent again back in December, which has been almost two months since the patent was granted. A lot of this has probably already been coded and implemented and all that stuff. So, you know.
Ew, how creepy would it be if all of a sudden you didn't know this, right? Like you had no idea about this. And then all of a sudden somebody that you know that had passed away posted something. No kidding. Wouldn't you be like, what? Yeah.
No kidding. Creepy. Yeah, I really dislike it. Agreed. So, let's stop it. Quit it. Facebook. I don't care for that. Quit it. That's a creepy move. That's a creepy move.
I don't like where the AI is going. Nor do I, but I'm not in control. I know. And now the robots have heard me say that. So now I'm going to be the first to go. Go where? To the robot.
AI robot. They're like, no, we're just going to continue to manufacture everything you make using AI and then just you yourself. You don't need to be here. Disappeared. Yeah. We'll just have a robot chantel do everything. I don't care. So, not into it.
Look out for me. Yeah. I'm going to be the first to go in the robot apocalypse. Holy cow. It's creepy. I don't like it. Yeah, me neither. We need real people.
Yes. This is a fact. So, yeah, stop it, Meadow. Quit it. Quit it.
Now you're going to disappear too.
Oh, great. Well, I'll be wherever you are. Maybe.
Here's hoping. Here's hoping, kid.
Are you sure? I'm not sure. Or are you thinking that might be a vacation? Or you're like, oh, now you've said the thing too. Now I don't get my time away. No, no, no. You want us to hang? Yeah, yeah. All right, cool. I like that. Okay. How was your day off yesterday?
Oh, Josh. Yeah?
It was awesome. Okay. So after the show, you went home and what would you do?
Oh, so many things, but also nothing at all at the same time. So many things and nothing at all. Well, tell me about it. I got home and the house was quiet because back had to work and Emery was kind of just hanging out in a room just being lazy. And so me and the dog hung out. It was.
Check's out. Sunshiney. So I just sat by the window. It was a little bit windy, so I didn't go outside, but I sat by the window in the sun and drank a cup of tea with the dog. And then I went and did some art in my craft room. And then I slowly took down Valentine's Day decorations. And then I was like, it's only, it's only noon.
The day was just like going so slowly. And then I had some lunch. And then I took a nap and then I watched some TV. And then I went and got a refreshment with Emery. And then I was home. Fantastic. Yeah. What an afternoon. It was quite the afternoon and I loved it.
I can do that every day. Is that right?
If Brown Hog Day were
yesterday, I would like that day on repeat. Okay. Yeah. All right. I was incredibly busy with meetings and trainings and So sorry. In and out of conversations and I was all over the place and I didn't get a chance to eat anything until I got home.
And so it was like three o'clock when I finally had a meal. Yeah. I was running around like a crazy person while you were in like the serenity of the quiet home.
I was taking my time. Yeah. Just living the best life. You have been craving a BLT that my mom has made. Right. So we get all the ingredients.
That's right. And you made one yesterday. I did. And I said, I have all the stuff for Josh too. Yeah. You sent me a text and said, when do you think you're going to come home for lunch? And I said, I don't think I'm going to have time. I'm in between meetings. Like I'm still late on this meeting. I've got to get to this other meeting. I don't think I'm going to have time to swing by the house.
Emery did not want a BLT. So she ate her lunch and she ran off again to her room because she's a teenager. So I sat quietly and ate my BLT by myself.
Well, the dog was around, of course, because it smelled like bacon. So yeah, well, nice. Good for you.
Just me and the dog hanging out. Me and Luna are the best of friends.
Until you went downstairs and then she stayed upstairs and then you had the quiet time in your craft room.
Yeah, it was awesome. Yeah. Well, sweet. That's your groundhog day. Yeah.
I'd do that day every day. All over again. How about it? Two o'clock nap time.
What would you do differently if that day replayed?
What I would do differently. Oh, I would get rid of the dog. Not get rid of her just like temporary because I did try to take a nap and she was barking at something outside. So I didn't get a long enough nap. I see. So that's the different thing I would do.
She's barking at something outside in the living room and you were in the bedroom or you were trying to nap on the couch.
No, I was in the bedroom. She was barking at something in the living room.
Yeah. But loud enough that it disturbed your slumber. Yes. Okay, all right.
Oh, he also made a delicious chicken tacos for dinner. I mean, when you have all the time in the world, you can do anything. He can be like, look at this.
I mean, lunch and dinner. Yeah. Who is this person? Never met her. Me neither. I was like, I quite like this. Yeah. Cleaning the house, making dinner. When you got time, it's a piece of cake. Look at you.
And then I got home from my third meeting of the day and had dinner at nine o'clock, which was very delicious. So thank you for all of your efforts.
Can I be getting quit my job and do that forever now? Hmm.
Maybe after we get some other stuff paid off. Yeah. I mean, sure. Fine.
But you don't get dinner tonight.
That's because I told you no.
Yeah. Because I'm not coming home from work and cooking. So guess what? Now you're back to working life. Oh, man. You had stay at home life yesterday. Yeah. She's gone.
Now it's back to working life. Yep. All right. I'm not cooking dinner. I hope you liked it. Put your foot down. That's it. I'm done. I saw this online yesterday last night while I was eating dinner and I said, ah, this is great. So this, this person posted online that her dad would read the teen books as they were becoming popular. Okay. So that if his kids would ask to read them, he would know if they were appropriate or not.
Great. So he was like, I'm going to read all of this junior fiction. So that, you know, if, if they go, hey, I want to read that, he could say, no, that's, that's not okay, but you should maybe try this one.
Or he could say, yeah, yeah, totally. So what she found out was that he read the entire Twilight saga before she did. And so when she said, Hey, I want to read that, he said, I mean, you can read it if you want to, but it's really weird. So, you know, he, he went through it all just to be able to say stuff like that.
I think that's an interesting, that's an interesting dad win. That's a, Hey, yeah, I feel comfortable with you reading that, but I'm going to tell you right now, that's weird. And, and I think that's funny because she didn't know that he had pre read them until later in life.
Then she found out that he was reading them to decide if they were appropriate or not, which I guess that's how you would do it. That's good parenting. Yeah. That's a dad win. Right.
It's solid, but that's, that's dedication. I've read those Twilight books. I have not. I've only seen like the first movie because after you read them, then you watch the movies. Well, yeah, because you wanted to be able to say whether it was good or not and mean it.
I think I saw the first movie and then I was making fun of it and I had some Twilight fans that were like, you can't, you can't make fun of it until you read it. And I said, okay, that's a fair point. So then I read the books, watched the movies and I said, can I make fun of it now?
Dad's on point. They are really weird. Yeah. And I know there's a lot of Twilight fans. Sure. And I know that I'm going to get some hate for not being a Twilight fan.
This isn't like it's a brand new thing.
They are weird. Those are weird books. Dad's right. What makes them so weird? The vampire sparkle.
No, I know, I understand all that. I didn't mean, I thought maybe it was like the writing was weird or something.
The writing is not my cup of tea. The movies are bad just because Kristen Stewart is bad.
I don't think she's bad. Yes. No. Come on. She's a spider monkey.
Everything, everything she says, the way she acts. It's like.
Right. She was acting as directed.
Was she though? Yes. Because she acts that way in every role she has. No. Tell me a role where she's not acting like that.
Hold on.
Okay. I don't, I don't care for it. I don't care for her acting, but I will say that there is a Twilight fan who I talked to and she said she loves them because they are so cringe.
Oh, for sure. That's part of the novelty. I'm looking at her IMDB. Okay. To try and see what I've maybe, maybe seen with her in it. Okay. What about as the sister in Zathora? I haven't seen that. The Jumanji sequel.
Oh, the space one. Yes. The Jumanji in space.
Yes. Space Jumanji. Was she in that? Yes, she was the sister. Small role. Right. I don't remember. I'm still looking through the list here to see. I didn't know if she was in Into the Wild. I'm going to need to watch that again. You know what I've realized is that I haven't seen a lot of Kristen Stewart movies.
Yeah, because she's terrible.
No, I just haven't seen these. So that's interesting. That's an interesting thing I learned just now. I haven't seen a lot of movies with her in it. So I can't really say that she's good or bad because I haven't seen them.
I don't think you're missing out.
She plays a soldier in Camp X-Ray. Don't know that one. I bet she doesn't just, oh.
No. Her way through it. Yes, she does. No way.
No way. I think that was reserved for Bella. I think that was just a Bella thing.
What I also know is I do know a really big Twilight fan and she used to be in love with, like, what are their names? Jacob and Edward.
And now she's gotten older and she watches them. She goes, now I'm team dad. She likes the dad. There we go.
She's gotten older. She's like, yeah, I've shifted my perspective. Well, neat.
Well, anyway, if you're looking for a way to like find out if anything is appropriate for your kids, just consume it first and then make that determination. That seems like a safe bet. Yeah.
So if you want to know if the book is good or not for your kid to read, read it and then go yes or no. Right? Solid way to figure it out.
Bemery is currently reading to kill a mockingbird. Right. And she was like, do we own this? And I go, yes, we do because that's a good one. And I read it first. I don't think you've read that one.
No, I think I did see the movie though.
She does want to watch the movie when she's finished with the book. And I had forgotten that Robert Duvall, who just passed away.
He just passed away, yeah. Is Boo Radley in the movie. So there you go.
How about that? How about it?
Okay. Let's talk Olympics real quick. All right. Because I know coming up this weekend, I think, is the big bobsled events.
Oh, yeah, yeah. I got to watch the bobsled. I got to watch Jamaica.
Because they have a bobsled team. Yes. Yeah. Here's a metal count recap really quick for you because that Norway still winning Norway. They are. Yeah. With 29 total medals, 13 gold Norway.
Yeah. Seven silver and nine bronze. Italy is in second in the metal count with 23. They have eight gold for silver and 11 bronze. The U.S. is in third with 19, six gold, eight silver and five bronze. Well, that's USA.
That's kind of where things are sitting right now. I just saw Colin Joest from Saturday Night Live. Scarlett Johansson's husband. That is correct. He did the bobsled. He decided it was a time to take advantage of an opportunity and he rode the bobsled and said it was the scariest experience of his life.
I showed you the video that's making the rounds today. And he said he felt like his bones were going to be separated from his body. He said it was absolutely terrifying.
It looks scary. I mean, all of those sports look scary. All of them. You want me to be in the bobsled.
Now, listen, I thought you might like to be in the middle. And then I saw that a team of USA and one of the practice runs was having a problem with the middle. Right.
You have to jump in.
That is true. Already I'm out.
You think I'm going to be able to jump into a moving bobsled? Yes. Clearly you don't know me very well.
So Saturday is the four man bobsleigh. It begins at I think two o'clock local in Italy. But tomorrow? No, no, Saturday. Oh, okay. Yeah, Saturday. So they've got practice going on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Saturday, they begin the competition. So they will have the four heats of men's bobsled on Saturday and Sunday. And that looks like that's going to be the big, the big bobsled day for you. Saturday and Sunday this weekend. Do you want to watch some Olympic movies? Such as? The cutting edge. Is that an Olympic movie? Yeah. Okay.
I mean, kind of, they go to the Olympics. Okay. Topic. It's a story about a man who plays hockey. Let me just explain it to you. Okay. He's a hockey player.
All right. And he gets a puck to the eye and then he can't see very well. And then he still wants to be a part of it. Okay. And he gets convinced somehow to join figure skating. Yeah. And I'm not going to tell you what happens with him and his partner. I'm not going to ruin it. Okay, well. But it's great.
It's not even on the list of notable movies themed around the Olympics. It should be. Here's a list of movies themed around the Olympics. Cherry, It's a Fire. It's a true story. Not as good as Cutting Edge. Miracle. Also hockey. True story. Eddie the Eagle. I just watched that like a year ago or so. Did you? That's the ski jumper.
Yes. Did I watch that?
I don't know. I don't think I did. Based on a true story. Boys in the boat. Based on a true story. That is a great book. Yeah. Race, which is the story of Jesse Owens. Based on a true story. I should watch that.
That's from 2016. Then in the comedy and romance category, cool runnings. Okay. Right? Yes.
Jamaica, we have a bobsled team. Oh, there it is. Cutting Edge. It did make it. It's in the comedy romance. A former hockey player and spoiled figure skater partnering for the winter Olympics.
Let me tell you that there's a section in that movie where he talks about his Gordie Howe jersey. Okay. And at trivia once. I remember that. There was a question about hockey players and I was like, I think it's Gordie Howe. And I chickened out at the last minute and I was like, I don't want to lose.
Never question yourself. We told you that.
I know. And I knew that because of that movie.
Blades of Glory is on here. That's, it is again, not based on reality, but based around the Olympics. Men with brooms is a Canadian comedy about a curling team trying to win the golden broom.
All right. Dramas and documentaries. I Tanya, which is about Tanya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan. Yeah. There is a movie called Munich, which focuses on the aftermath of the 1972 Olympics. There was a massacre.
It was very crazy. I am Bolt, which is a Usain Bolt movie. And then Simone Biles Rising, if you really want to watch a documentary about it. Okay. There are some others, but those are kind of big notable Olympic top movies.
Oh, you just need to watch the cutting edge. Did make the list from 1992. So you'll be happy to know. Yeah. Go watch it. It's so good. Okay. Good to know. Have you seen that? No. Oh, Josh. I got it. We got it. We got it. It's so good. I'm not going to tell you how it ends.
Okay. No spoilers. Bob's led this weekend.
There is a game. I don't know the name of the game, but it had a microphone. I was looking at it the other day and it had a microphone and basically you get like a, like a prompt. Okay. And then you're supposed to come up with the song.
Oh, and you grab the microphone. Yeah. I think it's called grab the mic.
Maybe that sounds that's I thought.
The whole, the whole concept is that the microphone is on a table. I've seen this in some videos.
Okay. That sounds right.
And you're given like the first two or three words of a potential song lyric. So, you have to grab the mic and you have to sing the first song that comes to mind that uses that lyric.
Okay, so we were at the store the other day and I saw this game there and I was looking at it and Emery was standing next to me and the prompt on the box to give you an example is believe.
So it's just a word? Yeah. Okay. So immediately I go, in the middle of the story, I go, do you believe?
Oh, you went share. Yeah.
And then I turned around and Emery was not there. That's amazing. It was just me. By yourself. And there was a woman who came around the corner and I was like, cool.
That's amazing. You are cool.
Do you believe?
How much did you sing and pretty loud?
That, just like that. Do you believe? That's what I did. Just that. How loud though? That level.
Pretty vocal. Pretty loud.
I thought Emery was right next to me.
You did it pretty loud.
Believe. It was full on share. Believe. Uh huh.
So let's think of two other believe songs. Okay. Smash mouth.
Sing it. You have to sing it.
And then I saw her face. Now I'm a believer. Does that count? I think it does because you have to use the word believe and believe is part of believer.
Don't stop. Believe and see. Also. Believe is in there. Okay. Now see if it said believer and you said do you believe you would not have the full word. I get what you're saying. I have the whole word and more. I don't have the rules in front of me at the game. If I made the game, that's how I'd make the game.
Do you have others?
Those are the two I thought of right off the top of my head. That was pretty good. Thanks.
I can't think of any other believe.
There is the song believer from Imagine Dragons. What else do we have here? I'm just pulling up. There is a, oh, there's some, there's some Christmas music. Okay. There's some believe in it. There's that smash mouth song. What a fool believes from the doobie brothers.
Just a fool to believe.
Just a fool to believe.
Now, okay. And here's, I didn't read all of the words, but does the, does the title of the song have to say believe in it? I don't think so. It's the lyric. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So it doesn't have to be in the title.
That's right. There's that Imagine Dragons song believer. Josh Groban has that song believe. If you just believe. Yeah. That's right. See. There's plenty of them in here. Unbelievable. It's got believe in it. So unbelievable.
Ow. That's that one. You know the one. Yes. There's plenty in here. Do you believe in love with Huey Lewis? But you're cheating. You're looking. I know because you asked if I knew of others and I do.
I kind of think that song sounds or that game sounds fun. How many times?
How many times what? Because that's, that's the true test of a game. How many times is it fun? Good point.
You think it's only going to be fun a couple of times? Yes. And then it's going to get like, oh.
And then it sits in the cupboard because we're like, yeah, that's fun, but it was a lot. So, so here's the deal. Someone else by that game will come over and play it once and then we'll go, that was a fun time.
And then that'll just sit in your cupboard. And then you can store the game and we'll go, that was a fun game to play that one time. Or better idea. Rent it out. You just play it in the middle of the store. What I should have done is said, hey, I'm that woman who came around the corner.
Yeah. I explained what you were doing.
I said, Hey, can you think of a song that has believe in it
and held the microphone toward her face like you were interviewing her? Yeah. All right. The lyric is believe you have three seconds come with the song that has the word believe in it.
What you got? What you got?
Three, two, one. And she probably would have pulled out journey. Don't stop believing.
And then the two of us could have had a little do it in the middle of the store.
And that would have totally embarrassed everyone else around you. Who cares? I'm just saying, it would have been a great moment. And everybody else would have been like, whoa, those two got serious about journey.
I think Emery probably knew that I was going to sing in the middle of the store and that's why she ran away. I bet you're right. Rude. I'm sitting here looking at my banana that I bought, brought for breakfast. Yeah. When I put it in my bag this morning, it looked more yellow than this. And as it's sitting on the counter, it's just getting browner and browner.
It happens so fast. And I don't know what does it, but once a banana hits a certain point, it is like banana bread ready.
I don't think this is banana bread ready. It's getting there fast. This is probably the last day that I can eat this.
Yeah, you have to eat that today. And it's going to be soft. It is. Yeah. Listen, your sister has a problem. She eats the green one. She really does. Like as green as you can get. And I don't know what's wrong with her. I don't like them. It's so crunchy. I know. It's not ready.
No, it's not. You've posted an image on the Classy 97 Facebook page about 20 minutes ago or so, and you've got a scale here, and it's banana ripeness from one to five. Super, super green is number one. That's where your sister eats them. Number five is where Justin from The Hawk, who is just in the room here, he's in number five. So those are your two spectrums. Green to, it's banana bread ready.
Right. For me, I am like right there at three, I'll eat a four, but I prefer the three perfectly yellow, ready to go, ripe, ready to eat banana. I don't like them too green.
I don't like them green either. Three is the perfect answer. I will accept a four. If it's a five, I'm done. It's going to, it's, it's either garbage or bread.
I've eaten a five before, but it's like I've choked it down.
You have a four and a half in your hand.
No, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is not a four and a half. Yes, it is. I'm going to take a picture. I'll post it on this way.
It's very Andy Warhol looking right now.
Yes. This is a very warhol looking banana to be sure. That means it's a work of art. Yes. That means to be consumed.
Eat it. I told you today's the, hold it up to the light. For a minute, I thought I could see through it. I can't. It was just the light from the monitor reflecting on it weird, but I was like, did I just look through the banana? I thought I had like banana X-ray for a minute. That was why I know.
How would that come in handy? It wouldn't. You would never be able to, you'd be like, what's inside that peel banana?
Super power ever.
Yeah. That is a terrible super power. I can see through banana peels. Wow. Okay. I'm going to eat this right now. Yeah.
I mean, when we start talking.
Okay. Good. I like that.
But here's the other problem. There are four more of these at home.
Somebody's got to eat them. Are they all in that condition?
No, I told you when I ripped it off this morning, it was probably a, it was a three, three and a half.
Now it's a four and a half in a few hours.
This is like a, this is a four. This is actually just a four. This isn't a four and a half. How come we don't rate any other fruit like this?
You rate everything.
On how good it tastes. Yeah. But you don't look at an apple and be like, Yes, I do. That's too, well, I guess you do.
That, that apple looks soggy. That's not ready. Soggy. Yeah. You ever seen one of those that started to do this, this move, like you had it sitting on the counter and then it starts going. You know, like the bottom of it gets a little bit soggy. And then it goes like this.
We have to, And you go, no. Here's a funny story about apples. Can't wait. When I was in like the second or third grade, we had to dry out some apples. Okay. And then we turned them into witches. All right. I don't remember the whole process because I was just little, but some, we had to dry our apples out at home.
Yeah. And some of us didn't dry our apples out correctly. How was yours? Not so good. But we got so many bugs in there because our apples weren't correctly dehydrated.
You had a bunch of fruit flies and stuff.
Yeah. It turned into kind of a nightmare. And our teacher was like, we got to throw these away.
How's the proper way to dry out your apple? Couldn't tell you. Because you didn't get instructions on that. And you didn't have the internet to look it up back then.
We probably got instructions, but guess who wasn't paying attention that day? This old gal. Surprise.
So I'm looking at these dried apple witches. These are terrifying. The dried out apple witches? Dried apple witch. Look them up. Look at the images. That's a terrifying craft.
I saw them in real life. Did they work? Yeah. They were terrifying. And then when the flies came around, you were like, this is a spooky classroom.
I don't care for these dried apple witches. So you're supposed to carve the face into it. So you peel it, you carve the face into it. And then you put them into like a Tupperware or something to dry out. It says.
I don't think we missed the Tupperware part.
Some of us. Yeah. Some of us. In the Chantel house. Missed the part about drying out properly. Yeah. This is gross. Like some people have done the carving of the faces and then put them into their apple cider and let them bob around with faces carved on. It's really gross. What a fall treat. I've never heard of the shrunken apple heads.
Really? No, it's terrifying. You didn't do it in school? Negative. It was spooky. Yeah, I could see that. And then when the fly showed up, it was really scary. I heard about it.
Crazy. I just remember our teacher being like, yeah, we got to get rid of these guys. She had to call them the janitor. It was a hole. It was a big ordeal.
Did you do hats and hair and stuff on them? Or did you get that far? Did you just have a gross apple?
No, we decorated them, but I can't remember if we did hats and hair. I don't remember. These are crazy. That was a long time ago. Anyway, I'm going to eat this banana. Sounds good. ESPN got a bunch of experts together and they rated the most difficult and demanding sports in the world. Highly. Highly? How do you say it?
Yeah. Is that on the list? No. That looks insane. They grabbed 60 sports. They ranked 60 of them. And they've determined, I don't have all 60. I just have one through 10. But they determined that the hardest sport is boxing. Okay. I mean, look, not a lot of sports are you also getting punched? Well. Like, while you're just trying to have fancy feet, you're also getting hit in the face.
Rugby? I just have a list of the top 10. Rugby came in 13th behind Alpine skiing and Water Polo. And I'm like, yeah, those are difficult. Yeah.
That Alpine skiing, which is the, that's the slalamy stuff, right? Yeah. That looks crazy. You're going so fast. Water Polo, you can't touch the bottom while you're playing. I know. I'd be terrible at that game.
And then they rated basketball and football, the ice hockey above those.
So boxing is number one. Ice hockey is number two. Football is number three. Basketball is number four. Wrestling is number five.
Did you get me when you said that?
Then martial arts. Then tennis.
Seven. It can't be that difficult if the score is love.
Oh, that's so nice. Gymnastics is after that. Then baseball, softball, soccer, Alpine skiing, Water Polo, Rugby, lacrosse. And steer wrestling and rodeo is number 15. They put steer wrestling. Wrestling a cow is lower than tennis.
I would like to determine what...
I've never played tennis. I don't know how stressful and dangerous tennis is, but it's got to be less dangerous and stressful than wrestling a cow.
I know. I'd like to see what their determination, their metrics were. Okay. Well, I can tell you. Okay. Go.
They used several things. The amount of endurance required. Okay. The amount of strength, power, speed, agility, flexibility, nerve, durability, hand-eye coordination, analytic aptitude, and then it gave them a total score. So based on all of those criteria, which is quite a bit of
criteria, they've determined that steer wrestling is 15.
There's more on here. What do you want to know?
No, no, no, no. I got to tell you because they also did the easiest sports.
Well, do you know what number 60 was on this list? No. What's the easiest? Fishing. That's number 60 on the list. Yeah. Out of the 60 sports, fishing is number 60. Only behind billiards at number 59. And bowling. Yeah. Shooting, bowling, curling, archery, equestrian. Because the horse is doing most of the work.
I also, they put cheerleading easier than golf. And I'm sorry. Yeah. Those cheerleaders, the work really, really are. That is true. It doesn't take any just slow-off.
They're saying cheerleading and golf are easier than horse racing. But again, the horse is doing most of the work. 90% horse. I mean, I would say 80-ish percent horse, 10 to 20% jockeys, like, got a whole position. You got to stay in that riding position. That's tough.
Do you feel like fishing is number 60 on the list? What type of fishing? It doesn't specify.
That is correct. Because there are multiple kinds of fishing. And I would argue that fly fishing, when you're waiting, is different than fishing from a drift boat. Is different than soaking a worm on a dock. So there's many different kinds of fishing. Baitcaster fishing, net fishing, throwing that big net out in the ocean and reeling that thing in. That's more strenuous than sitting on a dock, on a bucket, waiting for a fish to swim by and grab your bait. You know? I would say fishing should be higher. Fly fishing should be higher. But I'm an elitist.
You are a fishing snob. That is correct.
Hey, ski jumping made the list. It's at number 30.
Okay, but go back because I will say I've waited in the water with you before. That's not an easy task.
Waiting is not on the list by itself, but it could be. And then you could combine that with fishing. Fishing and waiting are two.
Not waiting, but waiting. Yeah, waiting. Because those rocks are slippery. That's right. And you're supposed to have like felted bottom boots?
I don't have felt bottom boots. I have cleats because I, if you have felt, there's a reason. It doesn't matter. I have my reasons. I don't do felt.
I just wanted to sing felt bottom boots. You make the rockin' world around.
That's a weird owl version of Queen. Yeah. No, I get it. I get it. Felt bottom boots make the rockin' world go. No, you don't have to sing it. We know. You're so trying so hard not to sing it.
I have to. It has to come out.
Swallow it. It's fine. Just keep it inside. No. Stop yourself.
Sorry that your sport got the easiest of all the sports.
Out of 60. Sorry. It's 60 out of 60. It's fine. I do it recreationally. Okay.
So you're not upset?
Not at all. Okay, great. I was trying to find a sport that you'd, like roller skating is on here.
I've got a brand new pair of roller skates.
Just saying you can't handle yourself.
Give me some. I'm on fire this morning. What'd you just say to me?
A minute ago? Yeah. When I said, I saw a thing online that was going to almost spoil the end of Benjamin Button. Is that what you were saying? Spoil the end of it. I haven't seen it. And I forgot that I was watching it. I watched it like five nights in a row and I kept falling asleep. Because it's a boring.
No, listen. It's a fascinating. And I have yet to finish it. And like I have yet to get to the part where Brad Pitt looks like Brad Pitt. I have not gotten to the part where he isn't old looking.
Okay. Because you turned it on one night. I immediately fell asleep. I might have been asleep even before you turned it on, but I woke up and I've seen the, I've seen the end. I haven't seen the end.
So I know what happens at the end. Have you seen the rest of it? Well, now can you say it's boring? Because the part I saw was boring. Oh, well, I'm sorry. You saw the boring. I saw the middle to the end part.
I haven't seen the middle of the end. So I've only seen the beginning to the middle. The Brad Pitt part. Well, Brad Pitt's there. He's just old looking, but young. See. Yeah. So anyway, I got to finish it.
How did you almost see a spoiler? That movie is like 30 years old.
Don't tell me the ending. And also it's not 30 years old.
How old is it? I don't know. But also when did I start watching movies? 20 years ago. When did Benjamin Button?
Which sounds weird. I understand. But I really, what? Late 90s probably. 2008. Oh, even later. It's not that old. So it's not even 20 years old.
Time out. Yeah. How did you almost see a spoiler?
Somebody was talking about the ending and I went, I don't want to read it. So I kept scrolling. And then I went, oh yeah, I never finished Benjamin Button. I got to finish that movie.
Okay. I've seen it. Well, good for you. Do you want me to replay it for you?
No, I do not.
I'll do it. No. One man show. You need to stop. I don't want to spoil. Okay, we'll finish it. How far did you get?
About halfway. It's a long movie. What's the runtime?
Hold on. I got you. I guess you're going to find out yourself.
Two hours, 46 minutes. No way. That's why I haven't finished it.
That movie is so long. I don't think it needs to be that long. Why?
It's about the story of a man. Who's a baby? Born old. But then gets younger as he gets older. Benjamin Button.
It's a real story, isn't it? Like it's based on a real person?
The curious case of Benjamin Button is not a true story. It is a work of fiction. That's all I'm reading. I'm not reading anything. I closed the tab. I can't get spoiled on the ending of Benjamin Button. It's got to be good.
It's not. I've seen it. You haven't seen the beginning. Do I want me to tell you how it ends?
No, I do not. Okay. You need to stop.
Have you gotten to the part?
No. Don't even say it. Okay. All right. I told you, I have not gotten to a part where Brad Pitt looks like young Brad Pitt. You've only seen old? I've only seen old man.
Because the idea is that he has a condition where he's born old.
Correct. And he gets younger as he gets older. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. I've seen that end. Yeah. Good for you.
There's a, hold on. Because there's a movie similar where Robin Williams plays a character with the same condition. What's that movie called? Jack.
Have you seen that movie? I don't think he has Benjamin Button disease.
I don't think it's called Benjamin Button disease. But yeah, he is born as an old person. Or no. I can't remember. Look it up. Are you looking?
Yeah. It's a coming of age comedy drama. Uh, let's see. Uh, during a costume party, uh, this lady Karen goes into labor and his rush to the hospital. Uh, the baby named Jack inexplicably looks full term and healthy despite having been born in the 10th week. So he's born older. 10 years later, Jack has the body of a 40 year old man. So he's getting old. He's just aging quick, not in reverse.
Okay. Yeah. Cause I just remember he's in like sixth grade.
That's a 40 year old looking man. He looks like a 45 year old man. Yeah. That's right.
Oh, that's a good show.
Have you- Have you even seen Jack? Oh, write it down. All I'm gonna do for the rest of my life is watch movies that you've written down. Guess what?
This is my retirement plan. Well, gotta watch that movie. Cause here's what happens. I write it down and then I lose the list. Yep. Or I say, we gotta watch that show. And then we never do when we do have time. That's exactly what happens. Okay. I've written it down. Good deal. Next to all the Olympic movies we're going to watch. Oh, good.
Which is just cutting edge. Okay. Good.
We went out for lunch on Saturday and we were out of place and I asked the director and he asked for fry sauce, which is not unheard of in our area. I know that there are lots of states that don't know what fry sauce is, but Idaho certainly knows what fry sauce is. This is true. And you can find it pretty much-
You had tater tots and you wanted fry sauce. Yep. You should be using ranch like a normal person. Ew, gross, never.
That was your first mistake. Do you happen to have any fry sauce? And she said, no, but I can bring out some mayonnaise and we've got ketchup and you can make it yourself.
I said, oh no, thank you. Yeah. I was shook. Well? Because it's unheard of that you- And it's like a diner restaurant. Right. Like they should have fry sauce. Correct. You would think they would have premixed in a squirt model. Here you go. Exactly.
Have a good time. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not going to mix my own fry sauce. Thank you very much. Thank you.
Do you also have garlic and pickle juice? Because I'd like it to taste like fry sauce. Not just mayonnaise and ketchup mixed together.
One of my five years old?
No. Yeah. Thanks mom for the fry sauce.
When your mom- When you were little, did your mom ever make you fry sauce? It was like a big day.
I'm sure it was a- Yeah. It was mixed in like a cereal bowl. Yeah. But it was usually mixed for like- We had a meal that was going to require it. There was a little bit mixed and it would sit in the middle of the table. It was served for everyone. That's right. It was like, hey, there's fry sauce.
Oh-ho! Yeah. I'm like- Because my dad drove truck for our ride at- Drove truck? Drove truck. Yep. For years and years and years and so we would get- Oh, ride of potatoes. Yes. And so when it was like real fancy, then we would make French fries and some fry sauce and we were like, oh, we are living.
That's a big deal. That is a big deal. Fry sauce night.
Because we didn't have it all the time. You couldn't just buy a bottle of it from the store.
We don't own a bottle of it.
No, I know, but you can go get a bottle of it from the store.
I know, but- In our days- It's so easy to make yourself. I know, I get it. But just remember to add that garlic, salt and pepper and a little bit of pickled juice.
But I'm also not going to make it at the table in the middle of a restaurant.
You can also throw in different seasonings if you want to get like a little kick in there. You can throw in some Creole. What? Yes, you could throw in. Yeah, get crazy.
Throw some Creole in there. You're talking real crazy. I know, I know. Or here's even a better way to make it. Leave out the ketchup because it's gross. And just make an aioli. Ew. Yes, aiolis delicious.
Well, I do like aioli, but that's mostly for like fish tacos and stuff. Fry sauce with ketchup for tots.
Ranch. No. Yes. That's what ranch is for. I was- Don't go get me that salad. No, it's for tater tots. Ranch is for. I do like a fry sauce on like a steak fry. I feel like that's a good place for it. Or a crinkle cut. A crinkle cut does well with fry sauce.
Do you like crinkle cut fries or the worst type of fry? No. Yeah, they are.
I would argue the potato wedge is the worst kind of fry.
It's too much. It's too much between a potato wedge and a steak fry.
A potato wedge is a sliver of potato.
Yeah, I'm seeing it in my face.
Breaded in my face. Breaded and then fried. It's the worst kind of french fry.
The potato wedge?
A potato wedge. Okay, agreed. A potato wedge itself, if you're like, hey, I want a potato wedge, fine. But you have to put so much liquid dip on a potato wedge to consume it because it's just a bunch of potato. It's a dry starchy potato and a lot of it. Yeah, your mouth goes.
Yeah, it goes, that should be wetter. But it never is. So that's how I feel about potato wedges. Now, I love tater tots, which I would argue is a good amount of potato as well. You know, shredded and then made into taut form. Yeah. Lots of surface area. It's a good potato. Love tots.
But how do you feel about potato wedges?
Not my favorite.
It's just like too dry. I just like that you said. So that's how I feel about potato wedges. Yep. Okay, I agree with you. Potato wedge worst, then crinkle cut.
Because it's also too much potato. I would say, again, sticking with too much potato, your steak fry is gotta be up there. Yeah, those top, those are the three. They're barely not a potato wedge. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're longer and thinner cut. So you aren't getting as much potato.
But you need so much sauce.
But you gotta have sauce or else you're just eating dry starchy potato. Yeah, correct. Like I can eat crinkle fries just by themselves. I can't do that with a steak fry or a potato wedge. You gotta have dipping sauce. Agreed. You also don't like those little sliver potato fries. What do you call those? Shoe string. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, shoe string. You're not a big fan.
No, because that's not enough. It's not enough potato? Yeah, you gotta get, there's an in-between potato. Yeah, that's right.
And you know what, what's the best of all? Tot. Tot is king. King Tot, they call him. I'm telling you, that is the best way to have a potato. Or scalloped or algrotton. Those are very good too. Funeral. Funeral is a great way to have a potato. Fried breakfast potato, all so good. Don't you touch it with ketchup. Yeah, I will.
Hashbrowns, ketchup. Ruin. Pepper. Ruin. Perfect.
Gravy. Let's get on the gravy train here. Gravy is way better. Yeah, and I will chew-chew my hashbrowns with gravy on them. This has been Potato Talk.
And that's how I feel about potatoes.
Hey, would you rather this or that?
Would you rather, I know what you're gonna say, and I think you probably know what I'm gonna say. All right, let's find out. Chores first or relaxing first?
Relaxing always. Chores never. Is that my answer?
Is that what you thought I was gonna say?
You're gonna say chores first because you can't relax if there's stuff to do. That's where your head goes. I just can't sit down until everything's cleaned up. I can't go on vacation and have a relaxing time unless I know I'm coming home to a clean house.
Which is hilarious because I still find time to relax at home knowing that there's a million things that need to be done.
Yeah, but if someone else is relaxing, that's where the problem comes in. Yeah. Why are you sitting around when there's dishes in the sink? Yeah. Why aren't you making the bed and doing the laundry when I'm thinking about it?
No. No. Yeah, I mean, kinda. Yeah. I get more upset when I'm busy doing stuff and the rest of the family is sitting around and I go,
Yeah, you made the decision to be busy.
Can you guys not see that I'm doing stuff?
Yeah, no, we see you doing it. Well done. Bravo, you. Hi. Can you not see that I am holding down this part of the couch? It will fly away if I'm not sitting here. Can you not see that I don't want to do the thing you're doing?
I don't want to do them either. Then quit doing it. It needs to be done. Right now? I just, yeah, that's true. I can't relax. Right. Properly. I can relax, but I can't relax. No one else can either. Oh, I feel so sorry for you. No, you don't. No, I don't. But that's the facts. Jack. Yep. That's facts, Jack. Yep.
Well. Would you rather this or that?
What's the grossest thing that you can think of? I mean, there's a lot of gross things, but. I really hate barnacles. Yes, you do. I think barnacles are so gross. Why don't you like barnacles? I just, for one, they look gross. For two, they're just nasty. Oh, I'll tell you. They're athropods of the subclass.
Oh, good. I'm glad you looked that up. Marine crustaceans related to crabs and lobsters that attach themselves head first to harden large surfaces like rocks, ships, and whales. Yeah.
Have you ever seen them on whales and turtles and stuff? Sometimes boaters will pick up a turtle and it's covered with barnacles. And then they like remove them and then the turtle's like, thank you, I can move. Yeah.
I hate them. So they start as a free swimming larvae. And then they settle down and cement themselves to a surface for life. Yeah. Like they intend to be there forever. Ew. And then when submerged, they open their shells and use their little legs to filter food in and then they close up their shell and they eat it.
Gross. They're so gross. I hate barnacles. I hate them. They're so gross. And they think it all stems from a science book I read like in seventh grade. I opened a science book and there was a well covered in barnacles. They're terrible. I think I opened it and I immediately shut the book. I was like, that's the grossest thing I've ever seen.
It is really gross. Plus if you have what's that called tryptophobia, it's real bad.
Yeah. I don't have that.
But look at what our barnacles is when I Googled and then look at the images and then you will and you'll go, no, they're so gross. I know. And I hate the fact. They look like garlic.
They make it impossible for the things that they attach themselves to to move.
Yeah. Because they cement onto it and it can't be pain free. It's got to hurt. Oh, for sure. And I want to know like a whale is moving around. I guess whales do kind of sleep at some point. So they probably like are more stationary. I'm trying to figure out how they catch a whale.
Yeah. Yeah. Right. Probably when they're stationary at some point. Yeah. They're real gross. Okay. So you showed me a video. You know that I hate barnacles. Yes. You said you called me over the other day and you said, you got to come look at this. Right. And it was a deep sea diver who found like a sunken ship or something.
Well, no, I think it was his job. He was out there cleaning propellers and stuff because they get onto the boats. So he had this blade like a like a flat blade that you use for scraping ice off your driveway.
Yeah. He's got one of those and he's just spatula laying these barnacles off this boat and scraping them away. And you were like, I want to do that job. And the whole time all I can see is the black abyss below him. And I went absolutely not because worse than barnacles is the deepest of waters. And I won't do it. No way, dude. I have a major phobia about the depth of the ocean. Good to know. I can't handle it.
I just want to scrape off barnacles because it's ill.
Have you seen videos of people that are like just out there diving and stuff snorkeling? Yes. Scuba, whatever. They're in the water and literally out of nowhere, giant whale shark.
Like, boom. No, thank you. Like, you're just enjoying your time and your dangly giant animals swimming at you from the depths from every direction. Yeah. No, thank you. No way, dude.
The barnacles. You can be knocking barnacles off of stuff. Doesn't that sound satisfying?
Not really. Yeah, it kind of does. You're going to go knock them off a whale. You can't scrape a whale like that. No, you can't.
They only have to be on ship. I'm only going to scrape them on ships. Yep. What is the purpose of a barnacle? No, get out of here. There is no purpose. What do barnacles do? No. No one wants to know. Does anyone know? No.
Let's wrap up this show, Barnacle Bill. Have a great rest of your Tuesday. We'll be back tomorrow morning. Thanks for listening and check out the show On Demand. Everywhere podcasts are available. You can listen. Happy Fat Tuesday. Yeah, see you tomorrow.
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