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Wake up with Josh & Chantel every weekday from 6a-10a on Classy 97! Missed the show or want to revisit your favorite moments from the show, enjoy Wake Up Classy 97 - The Podcast!
Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Thursday, July 16th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Over 130 devastating wildfires are burning in northwestern Ontario and the smoke is drifting across the U.S., Sunday's World Cup Final between Spain and Argentina is set, a heartwarming charity story from the Vashon Island Quilt Guild, Stranger Things' 10-year anniversary and its new VHS-style Netflix release, a nostalgic detour through VHS vs. Betamax history and 90s movies like Airborne and Mac and Me, dog grooming struggles, the challenges of making friends as adults, a lack of house rules, the ongoing daylight saving time debate, a new humanoid robot teacher being introduced in a New York school, and more!3
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Canada wildfires
(4:17) - World Cup finals
(10:14) - Good News
(14:04) - Stranger Things is 10
(19:55) - Pumpkin spice already
(25:21) - Dog grooming
(30:36) - New adult friends
(36:22) - How long would you wait
(42:14) - Earwig war update
(49:22) - Describe a sitcom
(55:35) - House rules
(1:00:39) - Daylight Saving Time
(1:05:20) - Would You Rather
(1:08:11) - Humanoid teacher
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Full show transcript:
Dude, have you seen the wildfires?
Yeah. Have you seen the wildfires in Ontario, Canada? I have not.
It is crazy over there.
It's nuts. Just yesterday, uh, wildfire, uh, forest fire and emergency services discovered eight new wildfires in the area uh as of Wednesday evening, like as of last night. Like it is crazy. I gotta get there.
Uh you gotta get where. Well, I gotta get there over there because Smoky said only I can prevent them. Oh, right. You're right. So I gotta get I gotta get there.
You're crazy. They've got mass evacuations. They currently, as of last night, have 136 active wildfly wildfires. How many in northwestern Ontario? 136. There are 136 wildfires burning right now in northwestern Ontario. Evacuations, highway and road closures, air quality warnings, event cancellations. There is so much going on with this wildfire uh season in Canada. It's absolutely crazy.
That's so scary and sad.
I know. It's nuts. They have uh nearly 50 aircraft, including water bombers and helicopters over there. The federal government has deployed three firefighters helicopter uh helicopters to the region. Um they are like running on empty on this one. It's it's wild. Like uh I saw a video yesterday of like a train going through some of the area, and it's just like engulfed. Like it's just fire everywhere. Oh my gosh.
It's it's crazy. There are in Canada over 800 wildfires burning right now. And just in the in the Ontario area, what did I say?
136 just in Ontario. Yep. It's crazy.
That is crazy. Like you look at the map, there is uh there's a fire map that Google has. I mean, a great portion of Canada is under smoke. It's like all the way from British Columbia, which is north of us, Alberta, um, all across Saskatchewan, most of Ontario is under smoke, and that smoke is now traveling south into America pretty strong. So a lot of that smoke is showing up in Minnesota and Wisconsin and Michigan and parts of New York, um, and and the big portion of the eastern United States um is under a lot of this smoke.
So let's be careful. Um as far as like what's going on in Idaho, uh, if you want to know, there is um a bit of a fire outside of Boise. Um there is one up in where is this one at? This one's up pretty far north. Um this is up toward, give me a big down Fraser area, kind of up in Greer, it looks like there's a small fire uh about a day ago, but it's like 72% contained. Um, and then all the way north, there's a few small fires. Um one that was reported just like 16 hours ago, all the way up, like right above Bonner's Ferry in the very, very, very tippy top I know.
So um, you know, I'm glad to see that we aren't like in this smoke area, but if winds change and how things move around and stuff, like the smoke from these uh Ontario fires is reaching into parts of Colorado, um, which is crazy, like down into Kansas, um, almost into Utah, down in the bottom part of Utah, and that's clear from Ontario, clear up above New York. That's so scary. I know that's it's a lot.
I just hope and pray and worry about the firefighters who are fighting that and for the animals who
are caught in that people who live there. And the people who live there. So scary. Yeah, it's pretty incredible. So uh be careful. Let's be uh fire-wise, as uh Smokey says, only you can prevent forest fire. But it's a collective you know, it's not just you, Shannon. All of us. Yeah, it's it's you as in the collective we. Exactly.
Only we can prevent forest fire. Correct. All right. Let's start today's show. Good morning. Good morning.
Good morning. Hey, did you know the stage is set for the World Cup final? I know it. Yeah, I was just uh just watching a clip of the cross pass that uh Messi sent over uh to uh Martinez, who won the game for Argentina in stoppage time, Argentina and Spain Sunday, 1 p.m. Espania. You wanted to watch World Cup Soccer? There's the last game. I know. And it's the big one, and it's the big one. Spain versus Argentina, Sunday, 1 p.m., the final of the world.
We have to watch the final, right? Like, I haven't seen I've seen I've seen one game. What game did I even watch? It was Portugal versus You the.
We watched like the very first day. Yeah. Yeah.
And then I've just been watching highlights, but we have to watch the final game. Especially since we have a buddy from Spain who's pretty excited that his team is in the finals.
This will be hosted at Met Life Stadium. Uh the New York New Jersey Stadium. Um in East Rutherford, New Jersey. That is where the final will be happening. Uh so that's gonna be very exciting on Sunday. It's gonna be uh it's gonna be a packed house. There's no way there's an empty seat in that place.
Absolutely not. Um how many how many seats does Rutherford Stadium hold? Oh, you would ask that. I'm just curious if it's gonna pull in um equal or bigger amounts than the Super Bowl.
Uh tough to say. Um, it looks like let we see here. Okay. Doing this real time, you know?
Uh let's do 82,000 spectators.
Okay.
I think the Super Bowl's like 250, right?
Well, if they held it at that stadium, it would only hold that many people. So you can't like all of a sudden make another 40,000 seats or something.
I get it, Josh. Yeah. I get it. Now numbers work. Okay. Okay. Um between 60 and 103,000 attend the Super Bowl. Yeah, depending on the venue. Uh last year, Santa Clara. Oh, sorry. Levi Stadium in Santa Clara held 70,000 fans. So that stadium holds more fans. Yeah. So it'll be interesting to see.
Oh, it's gonna be packed. I was just gonna see if there were any tickets available.
I kind of wish that Norway would have gone there because I really love the Norway fans. Yeah. Or the uh the Scottish fans were fun to watch too. Yes, indeed.
Uh it says here tickets, if you want to try and snag some, um, are gonna get you uh face value, uh two thousand for category four tickets, sixty-seven hundred for category one, but because it's the final and because they're super in demand, yeah. Uh you're gonna pay between seven thousand to seventy four hundred dollars a ticket. Wow just to get in. Wow. Depending on the proximity to the field, they could go up to thirty-nine thousand dollars a ticket.
Okay, and then where does that money go? Obviously, it's gonna go to the rental of the facility and it's gotta pay for like the the cleaning crew and yeah.
If you bought them from FIFA, but if you were just gonna buy them secondhand from somebody, then they're making money.
Well, and these players, they make a pretty good amount of money, don't they? I would assume I mean I don't think it's an it's equal to what like M FL footballs make. NFL footballs.
I don't know. I couldn't tell you how much they get paid, but I can tell you right now that there are two tickets, they are forty-three thousand dollars a piece, but we could sit pretty close to the field, pretty close to midfield.
I'd only pay that if if Ronaldo is still playing. Oh, is that right?
He's the only one that's worth the uh 43,000 per ticket.
He's the only one I know. I know Messi, and he's in the finals. That is correct, yeah. I've seen some videos of him, and he kind of brushes away little kid fans. Who does Messi? Yeah, and I don't like that.
I think that's all propaganda to get you not like messy. You know who's putting that out? It out Cristiano Ronaldo, Cristiano Ronaldo. It absolutely could be. Yeah. Because you saw one clip. It isn't like you've seen every clip of it. Three clips. Wow. And he did the from his what how many years of career you found three clips?
Where's the other millions of times he was like, what's up, dude? Come stand by me here. Good looking jersey. Here, have a ball. I'll sign it. Where's all those clips? Come on. Can't be real. I saw three things on the internet, and I formed my opinion. Anyway, Sunday. It's gonna be fun.
One PM. I'm putting it in the calendar.
Okay. Spain and Argentina.
That's what's going on. What team are you going for?
Uh, you know, I really think I would like to see Spain do it. Oh. I think they I think that'd be fun. I don't have any reason why. I just think that would be different than Argentina. I feel like Argentina's won a lot.
Well, yeah, so is Spain.
That's why it's not just this time. I just mean in general.
Well, if they have Messi on their team. Yeah, they've won a lot. Hold on. Now I gotta see. All right.
Argentina's won three. Spain's only one once. I'm picking Spain. I'm picking Argentina. Ah, you would. All right, let me give you some good news. This is kind of a fun story.
I think you're gonna like this. Uh members of the Vashion Island Quilt Guild in the state of Washington just completed a six-month charity project that involved hand stitching and delivering 25 custom bed quilts to the Islands Man Fire Station. The quilters were inspired to give a boost uh to the hard work, hardworking firefighters uh to use during their overnight shifts. Each firefighter gets a personal quilt to use at the station. They tuck it away in their locker and they can pull it out. They've got their own quilt, their own bedding uh when they're in their sort of dorm like setting, right?
Yeah. Uh the guild worked on the massive project. Members shared stories of all the times that the emergency crewed crews had rushed to help their own families and friends, and they have also made quilts for local medical centers, women's shelters. Uh, they're still at work and planning their next charity project, but 25 custom bed quilts for the firefighters. Pretty big accomplishment. Uh that's a lot of work. It's a throw. Yes, it is.
I know, because I've made quilts before. It is a lot of work. That's so sweet.
Right. Hand stitched. With love. Yeah. And hard work.
And probably a lot of uh cranky words when your bobbin runs out of thread.
Yeah, this guild meets uh on the third Tuesday each month at the community room at the Vishon Lutheran Church. You gotta pay $30 to be a member of the guild. And then you get to make
the But then you get to say you're part of a guild. Isn't that true?
It is true. The Vashion Island Quilt Guild has been around since 1988.
I'm sorry, my guild wouldn't approve of you. Yeah. That's what you say to people.
Yeah, you have to submit work. They're like, mm-hmm. Not good enough for the guild.
I gotta go meet the guild. Gotta go meet the girls at the guild. That's cool. That is cool. I gotta start a guild. A guild?
Yeah. A quilt guild.
I don't even know if it's gonna be a a quilt guild. What exactly does guild mean? It just It just sounds cool. It sounds medieval, doesn't it?
Uh it is a professional association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft or trade in a particular territory.
Like uh like a market guild. Okay. In like medieval times. You got a blacksmith over there. Sure. Hmm. Hmm. A The guild would be a group of blacksmiths.
It's their particular craft.
You can't like mix and match people.
The market would be where the members of different guilds come to uh sell their wares. The guild is just the group of artisans and craftsmen.
So then yeah, I would probably be a part of the the quilting guild, and then I would go to the market to sell my wares. That's right. What would you what kind of guild would you be a part of? Boondoggle keychains. Plastic lace. Oh yeah. Watch Big time. Pony beads. Pony bead guild. We show up with our uh little boxes.
What were they called? Caboodles. That's right. We show up with our caboodles, pop them open, and we go take a take a look upon my wares.
Take a gander upon my wares. You're not gonna make any money, I'm sorry to say. That's not true.
I'm gonna make so much. I'm gonna have those pony bead geckos on a key ring. People love that stuff. That's true, they do.
That's true. They do. It's good, nigga.
So yesterday marked the 10-year anniversary of Stranger Things.
Oh, since the first one came out? Yeah. You are kidding. No. I'm not kidding.
It was in 2016 when that show premiered. July 15th. That's crazy. Yes. First of all, I went, no way. Has it been 10 years since Stranger Things launched? It just wrapped up. Like uh at New Year's. That's when we wrapped everything up with the final season.
That would make our daughter six. Yeah. Did she start watching it when she was second?
No, she did not want to start watching it when she was six.
I'm a better parent than that.
I'm a better parent than that. Yeah.
Yeah. Because she really loves Stranger Things. Right. And she's watched all three. All is there three seasons? No. Four seasons.
Five, whatever it is. Six.
Anyway, she's seen all of the seasons at least three times. Yeah. But I'm sitting here going, if she was six when they came out, did she watch them? And if she did, then I'm a terrible parent. Nah, you're good.
Uh Netflix, uh, where Stranger Things lives to celebrate the 10-year anniversary, they released a VHS special edition version of the stream. So you can put it on your TV just on Netflix, but it's got grainy, glitchy, vintage VHS look and feel to it. Cool. Which is really kind of cool. And now they got people watching the show again.
Like it's brand new because of all the conformity gate stuff that's now spiraled into action. And uh when I first saw this, I went, they're gonna release it on VHS, and you're gonna have to buy a VCR, which is very stranger things thing to do. And they'll have a Stranger Things VCR that you can buy, and then you're gonna hook that up to your TV somehow, somehow. Uh, which would be fun if they just didn't sell it with a cable, so you had to figure that out. And then uh and then you would, you know, you'd get the VHS collection and you'd have to put it in there and watch it, but then if they changed scenes or they added stuff, it's way more difficult to get those changes onto the internet than if you can just screenshot or video capture or whatever. So you'd actually have to run it through software to be able to like capture it. It would be really cool if they did that, changed the ending, did all the things everybody's like, no, no, no, I know this is different. Yeah, this isn't the way it's gonna end, it's not this way. And they did that only in the VHS. That would be really fun.
That would be you'd make a lot of people cranky.
I probably agree with you on that. Um, but still kind of fun.
But guess who has a VCR? We do. Because we awesome.
Uh but happy 10 years, like that is that is insane. That's crazy. Yeah.
Yeah. I don't like to hear about things that happened
current time things that are not that far away, but don't far further away.
Well, yesterday there was a coworker of ours that was like, hey, you know when we went to that concert, and I was like, Yeah. And he was like, that was two years ago, and I went, No, it wasn't. Yeah, it was six months ago. I know. And he was like, nah, dude.
Nah, No, that was two years ago. Time is going by so fast. It really is. Yeah. It's one of those stranger things.
Listen, we talked yesterday about about how you can slow down time, remember? You have to practice mindfulness. Yes, be present. Sure thing. Did you try that yesterday? No. Me neither. No. And the day went by in a flash. Yeah.
Pretty wild though. I'm uh I'm excited about it. I want to give it a at least a little bit of a look just to see. Yeah. Because I think uh I think that's pretty fun. And I agree. Uh anyway. And fitting with the theme. Yeah, absolutely. Giving it that 80s feel, and it's got the word VHS in it. So you kind of feel like
video, how much got to rent this is that what that is? I don't know. I just made it up.
Uh, I don't think that's what it is.
I got it. I got it. I got it. Video home system. Oh You're close. Yeah.
Video home system introduced in 1976 by JVC. They won a media battle, isn't that something? JVC won a media battle. What's that mean? So because before uh before you had VHS, you had beta uh Betamax. Right. Um Who invented that.
I don't know. We have some friends who still have Betamaxes. Really? And they yeah, they love them. Our neighbors.
Beta Max was its own thing. Uh, but they could only hold 60 minutes of video where VHS uh was able to hold longer things, two or more hours, and ultimately JVC and the VHS market won.
VHS.
Well, and because like Sony invented Blu-ray. Uh, but somebody else invented DVD, and then somebody else was doing HD DVD, and there was a big battle then too. Blu-ray won. Sony won the media battle. Congrats, I guess.
Yeah. Happens over and over and over. We need another physical media battle. Did we? We haven't had one since Blu-ray. We need something.
Somebody new needs to go. Here's the new hot physical media. Let's go away from the streaming stuff. Let's have somebody do something new in the in the physical world. That'd be fun. Okay. You don't think so? You don't want a whole rack of media in the living room?
No, no. We just got rid of all of that. I think it's a cool look.
There we were in the middle of the grocery store. And I looked down and I said, what? And then I ran to find you. Because I said, I gotta get your reaction to this. Yeah. You said, hey, come here.
And you turned on your camera, and I came around the corner and I went, You gotta be kidding me. There's no way. It's way too soon. What day is it? I said. I said, is it July? Are we still in the month of July? It's July 15th.
It's July 15th. Yesterday was at least. Pumpkin spice creamer. Yeah. In the stores.
You can buy it. Zero sugar, by the way. But you can uh you can grab yourself a bottle of pumpkin spice already.
Pumpkin spice typically comes out like September October. Isn't that when you usually see it hitting? What are we doing?
Pumpkin spice season. Time is mid to late August through late November. Yeah. They're trying to get a jump on.
I know. And time is already moving too fast. Why is everybody trying to make it go faster? That's a great question. I'm still sitting here in summer. Yeah, I know.
That's what I was saying. It's the middle of July. What are we doing?
What are we doing? I'm not ready for pumpkin.
Why are we doing? I I am ready for a few places to get their peppermint back.
Why don't places just have peppermint year round?
Because they like to make a big deal. Peppermint's back. McRib is back. Pumpkin spice is back.
I don't even really like pumpkin spice. I don't know why people make such a big deal about pumpkin spice.
I don't know, but it's back. It is already.
I know. And that's like a month early. Makes me a little bit cranky. Just because we're already moving too fast. Quit it. There's Christmas going up in some stores I've seen. Oh, yeah. Back to school is in stores.
I'm not surprised about back to school. I'm not either. Back to School is is right here. We're there. We're we should be there. We should be. I mean, enjoy the rest of your summer. But you should be thinking about your back to school shopping.
No.
I'm not thinking about that yet. I do like that it gets a little bit easier as uh your kids get older. The back to school shopping goes from a big rush to get supplies and all those kinds of things, put together a backpack, get all the things, get the school list from the school. Uh turns into uh, well, let us know what you need when you get your syllabus. Yeah, and then we'll go buy a binder or whatever.
I do like that. Um, and a lot of the stuff we still have. Like, oh, you need some loose leaf paper, got it. You need some pens, cool. You want another package of mechanical pencils? Okay, fine. You could just get six real ones, but that's fine. You do you. So Uh so I don't mind I don't mind the back to school stuff.
Actually, let's go back because you do have some pencils on your desk there. Yeah. Why do you why don't you use mechanical pencils? I don't like them. You don't?
There's like one mechanical pencil I've ever used that I really really liked. Um, but it's fine. It's the zebra one. I do like the zebra mechanical pencil. Is that a brand? Uh look up zebra mechanical pencil, you'll recognize it right away. Okay.
Like it it comes up real quick. They're black and silver. They're very cool.
Uh-huh. They're the that's the one mechanical pencil. If I was gonna have one, it would be that one. That is a fancy one. I that's the I like that one a lot.
I don't know why. I've just that that one stood out to me
uh when I was younger, maybe junior high, high school, something like that. Um, I really enjoyed it, but not a lot of people give them love, apparently why I think it's a cool why don't they get love? I don't know. I'm just reading now. People don't like it. Oh no. Yeah. Sad. Yeah, people are like, their pens are insane.
We really love the zebra pens, but their mechanical pencil becomes, as someone said here, the pencil you get at the office depot for like six bucks. And I went, okay. Is that a problem? I guess. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
I've nobody's shopping at the Office Depot.
I don't I don't know. I don't like the uh, well, yeah, because it was office max. Uh, whichever one. It was Office Max. I don't know. I like the little tiny eraser. I think it's cute.
I think it's a funny little pencil. There's nothing at all to do with what we were talking about. No. Which was pumpkin spice is back. So forget about pencils. It's pumpkin spices.
You just said we have to focus on pencils. We gotta start thinking about pencils. That's what started us on Pink Play.
I don't even you gotta think about school supplies. Pencils is part of that. Sure. Anyway, if you want to see how you and I discovered pumpkin spice and what we really think about it. There's a video on the Classy 97 Facebook page and Instagram. There sure is. You can see we're not making that up.
Pumpkin spice is back. It's real. I have proof. I brought receipts. Oh wow.
What a receipt to bring. Like, you know what? I better have proof. Because if I'm going to make a claim, it better be accurate. Anyway. Uh Classy 97 KLC on Facebook and Instagram.
Our dog is in major need of a haircut. I finally got that set up. Yeah. Our daughter's been pestering you to do that for months and months and months.
I wouldn't say months and months. Definitely definitely a handful of weeks. A couple of weeks. No way. Why?
Months. It's been months.
I like to see how long her hair can get.
I know. I think you're just lazy about calling. That's true. And then you say, I'd like to see how long her hair can get. And then we all go, we all know you're lying. She asked me if I would just call it make the haircut. And I go, No, I won't. And I'll tell you why.
Because you said when we got this dog, I'm not going to be responsible for taking care of the dog. I'm not going to be making the vet. I'm not going to do the thing. I'm not. I'm the only one who takes care of this dog.
I don't even want this dog. Is that what you said? No. Weird. Because I feel like that's exactly what you said.
And then the dog became your best friend, and she follows you around like your little shadow, and she loves you, and she's like more excited to see you than anybody else. That's because I'm the only one. I could have this whole conversation by myself. I'm the only one that's giving her a walk. The only one that's taking care of the dog. Not gonna be responsible for the vet. Not gonna be responsible for the groom.
Someone else can do that part. Right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So I got that appointment made. Good job.
Yeah. So tomorrow she's gonna go get her uh all of her hair cut and get her nails trimmed. She'll be like a whole fancy new dog.
Good. It's always w weird when you go pick her up after she's had a haircut. She looks like tiny. Like because all the hair really gives her some volume. She looks like a weird somebody else's dog. I go pick her up and I go, that's not the same dog I dropped off.
I dropped off a mangy thing. What is this? This thing smells nice. What is this? Yeah, I dropped I dropped off a homeless dog.
Yeah. I don't know what this dog is.
I don't even recognize her. She doesn't have her eyebrows. Her eyebrows are the thing that gets the crazy. Well, her eyebrows.
Yeah, and now her mouth hair, her jaw hair is like crazy.
It looks like she has a foo man shoe.
Yeah. She's got a lot a lot going on on the face. And then the hair on her legs gets kind of curly, so it looks like she's wearing furry pants. Yeah, it does. It's ridiculous.
Okay, my question is this, because she is in need of a bath. And so then I said, Do you have to bathe the dog before you take her to the groomer? You don't have to. Cleaning your house before the house cleaner comes. That sounds ridiculous.
I mean, clean up your laundry. Don't make the housekeeper do that. But if you had a housekeeper that's there to like sweep and mop and take care of you know bathrooms and stuff like that. Like I wouldn't pre-clean just I would take care of things so they weren't like awful. Just in general maintenance, but I wouldn't pre-clean.
I you know, you don't pre-shampoo before you go to the hair salon, do you? Oh. Because you like that part. Oh, that's my favorite part.
Sure, that's fine. Sometimes I go, oh, you're just worried that she's gonna be a stinky dog showing up. Yeah.
That's why we're taking her to the groomer, because she's a stinky dog. Yeah. Okay. And then I'm gonna pick up that other dog, whatever that dog is. She do it before and after. She's a completely different animal.
You really should do it before and after. She is what? A long haired.
Well, she's uh she's a Jack Russell. Uh, she, but there are several different um. I don't know what she's got going on, really, because there are there are like short haired uh coats or smooth coats, and then there's the rough coat and then a broken coat. And I think she's broken coat. She is she is.
She is definitely look up, look up broken coat Jack Russell. Okay, and that's what she is. But then when we groom her, she she looks great. She looks like a smooth coat when she's groomed, uh, and and she looks nice. But um that oh yeah.
That she is a big thing. The rough coat is is like crazy. Like they get like super wiry um on the rough coat, Jack Russell's. Okay.
Okay. So are you gonna bathe her before you take her or no? I don't know.
I wasn't thinking about it. Okay.
She she kind of a rough coat, too. I'm looking at the rough coats. I'm seeing that.
I mean, like, there's some of these guys that'll do like a schnauzer nose on them. I'm not a big fan of that. No. But yeah, she's definitely got like that somewhere between that broken coat and that rough coat. Yeah. She's somewhere in there. Uh, but you know, the the smooth coat Jack Russell's, man, they are handsome looking dudes.
Tell you what. And that's what she looks like after she gets her hair cut. Her appointments tomorrow. Yeah. Good job making that appointment. Well, you know, it's only been like a week since anybody asks.
Why did it take you so long to do that to make that appointment?
I want to see how hair along her hair got.
No, you're just lazy. We have met some new people, and um we're slowly learning a little bit about each other. And uh potentially on the way to friendship.
Yeah, like you do like when you talk to people.
You gotta learn about them. Yeah, well, it's hard when you're adults to make friends, right? But then it's hard as a couple to make friends because there have been times in the past where it's like, well, you get along with the dude.
Yeah, because we play Halo together or whatever.
Yeah.
But it doesn't necessarily gel with you and and his wife because you're too dissimilar. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, right.
So it's hard to make friends as an adult, but then as a couple, even harder. And so yesterday, in talking to our friends, our new potential friends. Sure. I said, okay, what what are your top three movies?
Yeah, like what do you when you like what could you watch over and over and over? Right.
And I was like, come on, don't let me down. Like, what do you got? Yeah. I felt a little let down.
Oh that's why you you said uh you like after you asked, you said, uh, well, we can't hang out. I guess not it's never this is never gonna be a thing. They just can't. No way. No. I completely points of reference are way too way too off.
Here's the thing. Like we can have friends that don't have the same interests in us. But I just went I've never watched that movie.
Specifically what? Because you threw out like you love Clueless and you like Adam Sandler stuff, so you threw in Billy Madison. I threw in Goonies, yeah, you know, stuff like that. What I don't even remember.
You threw out Goonies, Mallrats. Yeah. Which Yeah. Great movie.
When was the last time you watched Mallrats? I didn't know that was one of your favorites. I know.
I spent a lot of time thinking. Oh, in the Star Wars collection, yeah. I like the Star Wars movie.
Uh uh the the wife, the woman throughout Avatar.
Which so you uh you have a thing where you're like, I'm not big on the avatars. It's just not when did you watch it? Like when it first came out. No, I've never seen it. You've never seen it.
I don't have any kind of interest in it.
You don't even know what it is.
I understand, but you know how you can look at something and be like, uh, I don't know.
And was it Avatar as in James Cameron Avatar or was it Avatars in Last Airbender Avatar?
I feel like it's James Cameron because then she also said Titanic. Oh, okay. So Titanic is like her own movie, but I would never put that in my top three. Okay. And then she said 21 jump street. And I went Oh, okay.
Again, old one, new one. Probably new one. Huh. Okay.
I don't know if we're gonna jive. All right. It's fine. Just don't talk movies. No, we can't well, or music, because then we started talking about like what music do you like? And she said everything that I was like, uh whatever.
I felt like it was way more uh similar because it's basically just uh all of the stuff that you have on Shuffle anyway.
I do have my playlist is a huge a huge variety.
Yeah, like you're good with that. That's fine. You like a dancy poppy thing, you like uh some older country stuff, you like a few of my weird songs that I play, and then you have your own taste and stuff.
It's like if it's if it sounds good, yeah.
Like like my Icelandic band. It sounds good. Daddy Fryer. Yes. Fry daddy. It's not Fry Daddy, it's daddy Daddy Fryer. Uh it's good stuff.
Anyway, I don't know. It's hard. Because I guess we'll stay away from those topics.
I guess that's fine. Hey, have you seen any other good movies? That's what I shouldn't say. You could just yeah. Oh, that those are nice, but have you seen any good ones? Have you seen a good movie lately?
She also said, Oh, blast from the past, and I went, Blast from the past. Talk about it. That's the most obscure movie reference of all time.
The things you learn about people, you know. Everybody walks their own path. And then eventually they intersect and you go, we're gonna talk about that for a minute. Blast from the past. I should have put what was that rollerblade movie. That's what I should have said.
I know exactly. Are you talking about the one you know the one? I do know the one. Does that have Seth Green in it? I think so. Oh, I love that movie. What is the name of that movie? You know the one. Oh, I do.
I mean, there could have been like worse things. There could be worse movies. They could have been like, I just am like the biggest fan of you know, I I don't even watch movies, I only watch Star Trek or something. Now we're off. Now we're going a different direction. Airborne.
Yes. 1993 is when that came out. Oh, that movie is beautiful.
Downhill rollerblading. Yeah, they have to get that like sharp.
curve. Oh man. Oh man. It's crazy. That movie is so good.
I should have thrown that and Mac and me. I should have thrown in knacking me. That's a winner. Why didn't I do that? I don't know. Mac and me, Airborne. I should have thrown those in. And Goonies.
You said, and here's what's funny is you said you're thinking about your responses too much when we're talking. Yeah.
You're trying too hard to get people to like you. I know, isn't that sad? Just be yourself. All right. We'll get some. Mac and me.
I was in a situation yesterday where I entered a house I did not know the people of. Yeah, watch that happen. I I was invited. Let me let me be clear. Yeah.
I was in a situation where I broke into someone else's house. No, you were invited in. Uh this was uh to pick up something that you had won, which is exciting.
Yes. And you went into the home and you said, Hi, I want a thing. Or you went to the door and said, I want a thing. And they said, come on in.
Here's here's what I saw from the car. Okay. Because Emory and I were sitting in the car waiting for you. And you went inside and I went, Oh no. And Emory goes, she's gone.
And I said, and that was the last time you saw your mom. That's it. It was that quick. Well, I just we were just joking, think, right? Because I'm thinking, like, oh, it's gonna be like a like a oh, step on in really quick.
I'll I'll get your prize, and and then you'll be on your way. Yeah. So that's what I was expecting.
Yeah. Uh, and then it took longer, and then it was a little bit longer, and I was like, she's never coming back. I'm just gonna have to get in the driver's seat and drive away from here, I guess.
You're like, well, kid, it's just me and you.
Sorry about all that. We're gonna have to go away now.
So yeah, after a few minutes, it was like, do I have to go up there? I don't want to. And you'd left your phone in the car, so I couldn't even like call you and like save you. Bad day. Like you, you just were like, I'm going in. Stranded. Yeah. Okay.
I got to chatting with the homeowners. Yeah. Lovely, lovely people. I was chatting, and I actually would have stayed in probably chatted with them longer, but I knew that you guys were waiting and appreciated.
Probably worried. Appreciate. We were running some errands, and so I knew. Anyway. I wondered how long would I have to be gone before you to s to come after me. And let's say it's that situation. I've entered a house. Yeah. We don't know the homeowners. Right. And you're in the car. How long do you go? I need to go check. How long? I don't know.
I mean, you were uh you were gone for 10. Between five and 10 minutes. I would say 10, yeah. I mean, it was it was a pretty good amount of time. And it would have been longer. Right.
But I go, I'm sorry. I've got my family in the car.
Maybe like if it got to the 20 minute mark, I'd start to be like, is everything okay? Like you were just picking up a thing. Like what happened? Okay, so 20 minutes is I think 20, I'd start to be like, I should probably start making a move.
And what would you do? You'd go just knock on the door.
I'd probably just go knock on the door and go, hey, everything okay in there? And what if nobody came to the door? I'd poke my head and go, Hello. Where's everybody at?
What point would you enter the house to look for me?
After an unsuccessful knock or two. Okay. Then I'd be like, I know you're in there. Like, what's going on? And then I'd be like wandering around some stranger's house, find you in the backyard, like looking at flowers and stuff. Like Check this out. this out. Yeah. Or eating snacks in the kitchen. Yeah, but what are you doing?
Oh, she offered me a cookie.
You're just taking cookies from strangers now?
I'm the easiest person to kidnap.
Because all you have to do is be like, look at this delicious brownie. All right. Okay.
So as as I'm having this conversation, I'm thinking about like our daughter, if it were if it were me. And I had gone into someone's house, and the two of you were sitting in the car. It would be longer than 20 minutes. And you would wait.
Yeah. And you would be like, this is ridiculous. And there would be a whole bunch of chitter chatter about it. And then when I get back eventually, you'd be like, that was ridiculous. There would be no come to rescue me.
There would not. Absolutely. I'd give you probably a half an hour. I'd push it to 45 minutes. And then I'd be like, well, sorry. You write me off. You have no dad. Yeah. I have no husband. Yeah. That's it. I gotta find somebody new.
Oh, really? That quick. Yes. 45 minutes. Wow.
Crazy. I'm not I'm not coming in to save you. What am I gonna do?
Well, and then I was thinking, like, okay, let's say it's just Emory and me. Right? She's in the car. I would go, hey, I'm gonna run in here real quick.
She's on the phone 30 seconds, texting you, going, he's inside. He's gonna be forever. This is stupid. What am I here? I could be anywhere else. One of a refreshment.
What is going on? Like she would be talking to you nonstop the whole time. Yeah, she would. And at zero point in time would anyone come to get me.
Never. I'd be gone. And then you're gonna have to find a way to come get her because she's stuck at somebody's house. Yep, I would. Because she's not coming to the door.
No, and then I'd pick her up quietly, we'd leave. I'd be like, Let's get out of here. Let's go. And we'd run away. Right. And I've been there now. Good luck, Josh. You're on your own. Let's say I'm not in the car. It's been a fun ride, but I'm not in the car.
She's in the car. You're inside. How long until she comes to the door? She never will. She won't be texting me right away. I'd give her 15 minutes tops. She's texting me going, Mom hasn't come out of this place. And I'll go, Well, I don't even know where you're at. Why don't you go see if like go knock on the door? No.
She would know. No way. Not gonna happen. If we leave it up to Emery to come and save us, we're both we're both done for. Yeah. That's the life we live.
Well, battle companion, I'd like to uh have you on my side here for the war against the earwigs because last night I got the uh the supplies I needed to be able to build some new earwig traps for the garden and you've been uh complaining a little bit about the way your poppies have been being consumed by something and you're like, I don't know if it's slugs, I don't know if
it's I thought it was Rolly Polys because I saw some isopods, yeah. And it wasn't right. And then we thought it was slugs, and you went out there last night and you said it's earwigs. I saw them.
Yeah, well, and here's the thing. If you want to know what's eaten your garden at night, go out at night and you'll find out. And there they were. Uh so I put out um a couple of slug traps, uh, which didn't catch any slugs, which good, fine. Um, I'll put those out again tonight and we'll see. We'll just keep an eye on them.
And then as far as the uh earwigs are concerned, yeah, I caught earwigs. Not near your poppies, though. I uh because they were already on the poppy flowers when I got to them.
So uh it is earwigs. Uh and they are in a separate area from the garden. So uh as far as uh them hanging out there and having like a home and mulch and all the things that they love, that is not where the poppies are. The garden has the mulch, but uh which they live in, and that's fine. Like I don't care if they live there, just don't eat my stuff. Yeah. Stay away. Stay away from my poppies. I kind of care if they live there.
Okay, but they weren't my puppies were doing fine until this week. And then all of a sudden they're like, oh, we discovered poppies. Right.
And now I'm so I'm I'll have the traps out earlier. I think the reason that I didn't catch any around your poppies uh was because specifically they're already eating them. They were like, nah, we're already here. So if I can get the trap in place ahead of time, they'll be more attracted to the trap, and then your poppies can grow back and it'll be good.
Because right now they're looking real sad. I know. I saw them this morning and I went, boy, they did a number. Um have you been keeping up on the wasps?
I haven't checked them out. You they're your friends. Yeah, yeah. I'm making friends with the wasps. Yeah.
Because they recognize faces, you know. I heard. And uh so I check on them every now and then and I'll be like, hey guys, like it's fine if you live here, but you just keep to your thing. I'll keep to my thing.
You do they're hanging by the wood pile, they're doing their thing.
You do what you need to do, like kill all the bugs. I mean, maybe I need to go tell them to do the earwig thing. Maybe they'll do it for me. We're friends. Yeah, go talk to them. They I noticed in their nest, Uh, and they always look at me when I go to talk to them.
Here's why, just real quick, here's why they're not gonna do anything about the earwigs, because the earwigs are nocturnal. So dang it. They're not on the same sleep schedule. Yes, right. Yeah, the wasps don't do so good in the dark. Well, I checked out their
their nest yesterday and they've got a lot of larva in there. And I'm like, guys, you know, you've been busy. We don't need this many. We don't need this many living here. You're doing too much. Keep it down. Are they gonna slow down production? I don't think so. Yeah, I don't either. It's a problem. But I always end my wasp exchange with a have a blessed day. So they know. Yeah, okay. They'll leave me alone.
Okay, good. It's important that you talk to the uh insects in the backyard. Yeah, it is.
Yeah. I think they listen. Yeah.
Well, look, uh they're they're pollinators, they're also eating like caterpillars and and uh, you know, stuff like that. Small grasshoppers, they're keeping they have a a place in the garden. I'm not trying to get rid of all of them. I know. Um, so that's why we've let this one colony do its thing. Um and I'm fine with that. I'm fine with it too.
It's it's cool, but it's it is cool. It actually is kind of fun. I actually really do like it because I go over there and they all turn and look at me. Yeah, like what are you doing?
It's kind of fun to watch. If I get a little too close, then their wings go up like battle night. But I kind of keep a distance and they're like, they turn and you're like, hey, now that I have your attention. Yeah, attention class.
We need to work on the earwigs.
And then I go, Thank you for your time and attention. Yeah. Have a blessed day.
Nice. Well, I harvested uh a couple of more cherry tomatoes. Today is very likely between today and tomorrow, it's a zucchini day. I will harvest the first zucchini. Uh so I'm excited for that.
You can't do anything with one zucchini. You gotta get me two, and then I can make some bread. Okay.
Or cookie. I have many growing. Um we're gonna be close to a yellow squash as well. So I'm gonna have some grill vegetables available real soon.
I love that. That is summer to me.
Yep. I've got uh I noticed I've got a couple of little tiny pumpkins growing, um, and it's starting to vine up, which I'm really excited because that's gonna be the whole arch, is that whole squash pumpkin arch. I'm really stoked. It's getting taller over there on the squash area. You're linking peas. The the peas came on strong. We had snapp peas for a long time. A Lincoln peas have started up and they're big and uh they're like we got peas for days.
I know I was gonna grab some for lunch today and I forgot. Ah. They're good. They are good.
I got a couple more strawberries to harvest here in another day or two. Things are happening in the garden. the garden Josh you're growing Stuff is happening. You're doing it.
Yeah. I've got two rhubarb leaves now on my rhubarb plant. Now, they have a bunch of holes in them because of the earwigs. So I've got earwig traps in there. That one caught a lot of earwigs last night. These earwigs have got to go.
I know. So uh my understanding is you you kind of redo these traps. I've got to do them more regularly. I did the first big initial push uh when the radish event happened. Uh, but now I'm working uh a little more proactively. Now they have all the supplies. Things will be things will be happening.
I said, Do earwigs do anything good? Like what are they good for?
I mean, they decompose things, I suppose.
They are like a tiny cleanup crew and bodyguards for your plants. Yeah, that's what my friend, my gardener friend said. He said that they eat decomposing stuff. Not true.
The isopods do. The polies do for sure.
You're right. I got confused. That's what he said.
Like they they're great. They'll break down stuff. Uh but but no, the earwigs, man, they are leaf eaters. They eat all your stuff.
Yeah, they eat dead plants and dying bugs. And they clean the soil and help it grow. Right. Uh eat the dead plants, not my poppies. Not the good ones. I'm so mad at you. Well, welcome to the battle of the earwigs.
I'm here. I got my got my weapon. What?
My battle face. Oh, okay, good, good, good. We have a friend, um, and she is married to a British man. Yeah. And she said one of the weirdest things about being married to someone from another country is that we often don't have the same beloved childhood show memory references. Oh, okay. So she said that the UK got a handful of our shows, but not many.
Um And so when she talks about like things from her youth that she used to watch. He's like, What? What are you talking about? So she said he has no clue who Balkie and Cousin Larry are.
No way for Perfect strangers. Tanner. Okay.
Or the family from Little House on a Prairie. And she said, I have no clue what his childhood TV shows were. That makes sense. And so she'll say, she'll like try to describe things to him, like things that she watched. Like, oh, like it's a show about a teenage girl who has two dads.
And the the three of them live together because her mom died. And then he's like, well, here's one of my favorite TV shows. Okay. Uh my favorite show is about a guy from Wales who wasn't very bright and was always tripping and falling down. Oh. It's a winner. So then that started a discussion about like how would you briefly describe it?
Top level 10,000 foot describe a sitcom.
Here's one that we came up with. Okay. A space alien who loves to eat cats moves in with a suburban family. That's Alf. Good job. Yeah. An American family hires a British butler to help them around the house and give great life advice. Ooh.
An American family hires a British butler. Mm-hmm. I don't know. Do I know Belvedere? Oh, I'm unfamiliar. I think.
Oh, it's been so long. I don't know, Mr. Belvedere. What? I don't know. Yeah, that's Mr. Belvedere. Okay. Mr. Belviner was so good. Okay. That's great. Okay. An engineer creates a walking talking robot who looks like a little girl, so he can pretend she's his daughter and keep the technology hidden.
Yeah, I I remember we were talking about this not that long ago, but I don't remember the the name of it.
A single mother higher hires a baseball player as a live in au pair. What? You don't know that one? No. A single mother hires a baseball player as a live in au pair. You know what an opair is. Yeah, like a nanny. A nanny. Yeah. Come on, Josh. What? A single mother.
No, I know. You can't you can say it six hundred times. It's not gonna make me know what show that is. Who's the boss? Okay. Guess how many episodes of that I've seen. Zero.
When I was in when I was in college, they were like showing reruns of who's the boss late at night. And so when I would like study, I would watch Who's the Boss, and then I got hooked.
Okay. And then I'd be like, ooh, our Angela and what was the name on the show? Tony. I know it was played by Tony Danza, but I can't remember his name on the show.
I was like, are they gonna get together or aren't they?
It was stressful.
Okay. Here are the shows that were on at my house. Okay. Uh a man with a talking horse. Mr. Ed. Yeah. Yeah. Uh a sheriff and his deputy, and the sheriff's son go fishing.
I don't know the name of that show.
Andy Griffith. Yeah, yeah. Uh so that was on. Uh a rich socialite uh moves to a farm. Green Acres. Yep. You were such no wonder you're an old man.
I know you watched old man shows. The Monsters.
The Beverly Hillbillies. Like these were the shows that were on. And then like as far as modern shows, it was coach. It was coach. Yeah, coach was good. Home improvement was on a lot. Roseanne was on a lot.
Like those, sure. I didn't watch who's the boss and all that. What? And then when when TGIF kicked into full gear, then it was family matters and step by step, and it was lots of full house. I watched tons of save by the bell. There's plenty of that. But I don't watch any, like I didn't watch any of that other stuff.
Can't believe you watched you didn't watch Who's the Boss. I can't even believe it. I don't watch it. Did you watch Perfect Strangers?
I we did watch Perfect Strangers. I knew about Larry and Balkie.
Cousin Cousin Larry. Right.
Yeah. That one took place in Chicago, if I remember right, because of the Cubs stadium. Good job. In the opening, correct. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good job remembering that. Yeah. Well, this has been a fun game of I have different points of reference than you.
You do. You have different things that have shaped your life.
He's right. Uh Frasier was I'm just kind of going through a list now to kind of see some of the ones that were on. Uh that one was was on. I never really, really got into friends. Um MASH wasn't really a thing in my house.
I know it wasn't yours. Cheers was a thing, but it was on later. And so was uh like Night Court. Like those two, but those were also ones that were like, I don't think you
No, Night Court was like we were supposed to be in bed when my parents watched night court. Night cart was not appropriate for children. So and then it was like, well, now I really want to know what you're watching. So you'd sneak out and be like, what's going on? But it was boring. They were all in court, and then I'd be like, I'm going back to bed. Yeah.
Well, and then there's the older ones too. Different strokes, facts of life, designing women. Like all of those were like those were. I never watched it. But I never watched either stuff.
Boring Middle aged women.
That's like reading that's like reading the Kathy comic stream.
I Um I was reading something today that was like we have a house rule, and it's this. And I was trying to think if we had any house rules. I mean, can you think of any?
Uh I mean, we had a whole wall of stuff. We had a chalkboard wall for a while. Yeah. And on the chalkboard wall, we had written up a whole bunch of stuff, but they were sort of like uh common courtesy type.
It was mostly like, yeah, like uh there was one on there that I remember it was like stay curious, ask questions. Right. But that's not what I mean per se. I it's like you go to houses and they're like you have to take off your shoes. Like that's a house rule. Or like don't let the cat outside, or the bathroom door sticks, so you have to like wiggle your way in. I don't don't sit in dad's chair. Okay. I guess that would be one. You have a kitchen chair.
Yeah, but it I'm not like get out of my chair. That's where I like to sit when you're I know I I know that. And that's fine. I don't I'm not like get
out I don't know why that's my cheer. It's not where I like to eat, it's just where I like to sit and watch you cook. Yeah. Whatever. It's my hangout in the kitchen spot.
Yeah, in in my chair. Yeah. I do like that chair a lot. Uh I know. It's a good chair. I know you do. But I I mean, I would say like a couple of the the big rules that we try to enforce are like if you if you borrow it, put it back, you know.
Like nobody follows that rule. Are you crazy? It's like try. Put it back where you found it. I guess, okay. So if we had a guest come over, what would be like some of our like, hey, here are some things you need to know about our house. I guess the number one would be like our dog is an escape artist, so you gotta she's a flight risk.
Yeah, you gotta make sure you're not leaving the door open.
Be careful when you open the door. Um That's about it.
I think that's that's more of a warning than a rule. Like we're kind of a make yourself at home, be comfortable kind of place.
I don't feel like we're we don't require you to take off your shoes.
Like uh yeah, we put in hardwood floors, like we switched.
I'm not upset if you eat my snacks. Right. If you can find some good
snacks, make
sure you let me know we'll share or something. Yeah.
Yeah, I don't I don't really have a lot of uh there's not a lot of rules. No. I mean, there's there's good structure, and there's you know, it's a good good strong home. Good bones. Yeah. But it's but yeah, there's not like there's not like a whole bunch of restrictions or expectations if you come to visit. It's like hang out.
When I remember my parents watching a lot of like home renovation shows when I was younger. And it was it was always that thing, like this house has good bones.
Oh, yeah? Yeah. Like on this old house.
So when we were buying our house, I remember being like, Does it have good bones?
Well, yeah, the bones are good. Built in the 70s out of good lumber. Strong bones, good foundation. Yeah. Yeah. Past inspection. That's right. With flying colors. Yeah. And still going strong. Still going strong. Yeah. Good bones. I don't know.
I really am trying to think of any kind of rule that we have, but we just don't. Yeah. Like there's some I remember like going to friends' houses and they were like, we're not allowed to go in this room. Or we're not allowed to go into our parents' bedroom.
But we don't I mean, yeah, like also like don't hang out in there. That's weird. But like it's not What in our bedroom? Yeah, like if you hang out in our bedroom all the time. I'm saying like with their friends. Like you'll go like everybody, let's hang out. Like that's strange. Uh that would be that would be weird. But but no, like the kids like everybody can go wherever.
Well, one of my favorite things is at night when we're all tucked in bed, and then our kids are like, hey, can we have let's talk about our day right now? I know you're like on the verge of sleep, but do you mind if I just lay on your bed and we'll just get into some serious business right now? I'm like, uh Yeah, I guess I've been overable all day, but okay.
Now sure.
No rules. We got no rules. Yeah. Nothing's strict. We're a no-house. My my big things are like just have common courtesy. That's what I mean. And I mean this for my kids too. Right. Refill the toilet paper when it runs out. Take out the garbage when it's full. Put the dishes in the dishwasher.
Oh, we're still working on all this. I know. 21 and 16. And we're still working on this.
Maybe we need to be a little bit stricter about our rules.
That's right. And take off your shoes on the way in. We'll start there. We'll we'll we'll start laying down the law.
You wouldn't even follow that rule.
No, I'll I'll just stay outside, I guess. So those uh fine folks over in Washington, DC have been going the rounds again about uh daylight saving time. Oh yeah, and whether uh they should just stop doing it or not. Yes. And the latest, I guess, is that uh the house has now said, yeah, I think we're gonna go ahead and make daylight savings time permanent. So permanent.
So we'll so we'll stay in the time we're in right now. Okay. So the idea is that if this goes all the way through, because now that the the house is done it, now you have to have the Senate doing it, right?
so. Then then it would have to be signed off on uh, you know, by the president or whatever. But that the idea is that then we just don't change change.
Okay, but I thought it was kind of left up to the states because
it had been Arizona wasn't doing sure. I think it had been it it hadn't been decided upon federally. States had decided we're not gonna do that. Okay. And there are several states that are like, nah, we're done, including Arizona. But um, but now this would be federally, they would just say this is what time it is. We're not doing this change your clocks thing. Right. Yeah.
Because initially it was like for the farmers, correct?
Railroad or farms or but now we have lights. I mean now we have electricity. I mean one argument that keeps coming up is like, but then the kids are gonna have to wait for the bus in the dark, and I go, that's a thing anyway. When it's winter in Idaho, the kids are out before the sun comes up. Like it's not, you know, we get these late nights in the summer where the sun doesn't set until nine, ten o'clock. That's fine. It's great.
Do you know that some kids have to wait for the bus stop in the cold, but some kids on the fancier side of things, okay have heated bus stops. No, I did not know that. You did know that because when we took a house tour on the Pareto House?
Homes a couple years ago. Oh, you're talking about That particular neighborhood built that thing for their kids. I know. That was pretty fancy. It was also a gated community. Yeah. And I went, uh-huh.
Sorry to our kids.
Yeah, sorry, we don't live in a gated community with a heated bus stop. You're gonna have to walk outside in the cold. I'm sorry. Like the rest of the oh children. Um so anyway, half of the government uh this time has said, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna do this thing. Now, if you remember, it was not that long ago. The other half of the government was like, Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're gonna do this thing. And the half that is now said we're gonna do this thing is now on board when they weren't before. I don't know. It's bizarro land in Washington, DC. I'm glad I'm not there. Me too. I'll just stay here.
Government is fun. Yeah, yeah. I like following the government.
No, but the but I don't know. What do you think? I mean, do you care? Like, it's one less thing to think about.
Right. I I think we should just leave it. Like, let's not worry about the changing. Right. I think it messes up people's Yeah, it certainly does.
Sleep schedules like one guy said, let's just do it for 30 minutes and then call it a a wash. What do you mean? Like, we're not gonna change an hour either way. We're gonna go 30 minutes, everybody wins. Just jump ahead 30 minutes, I guess it'd be fall back. We're gonna fall back 30 minutes and then we're done. And that's just where it stays.
That's where we are. And then that's the big difference, right? I mean, he's not wrong. Right. And then everybody is is good. I mean, I don't uh it's not like that big of a deal, but it certainly messes with you.
If they agree to do it, like to not do it, would it go into effect?
I think that would be the idea is that we would just stay in the time we're in right now. We just won't fall back. Interesting. What are you? What do you want to do? Um it's fine. Just leave it. Yeah, just stay.
Just I mean, I don't know what that's gonna look like. Like it takes a while in the winter, it takes a long time for the sun to rise. But it would probably give us more sun in the evening in the winter. Right. Right. So okay. Exactly. I mean, we're let's just try it. Let's just try it. We'll just see what happens.
Let's just give her a go. Yeah, let's just see. What's the worst that could happen? I mean, we could always go back if it doesn't work, right? It's just time. No big deal. Let's see what happens. Why do we think we can control time? We can't. Yeah. Just leave it. Let's just see what happens.
Yeah. What's the worst? You know? Would you rather this or that?
Would you rather wear matching outfits everywhere? Cute.
Or finish each other's sentences every time. Yeah. Uh I'm gonna uh these are both terrible. Do you want to be the match? Matching matching couple? Stop it. You don't know what I'm gonna say. Next. Stop. That's bad.
That's bad stuff. That's just you talking over whatever I'm about to say. That's not finishing my sentences. Okay. Right. So then finish my No, you can't set it up that way. It's not how it works.
Oh yuck. I'm gonna choose the matching outfits because I think the other one is gonna be detrimental to the show. Yeah, okay. But matching outfits isn't is not gonna be detrimental to the show. It'll be gross. But you know. No, it's gonna be awesome. And then which section do we shop at? That's are you wearing dude clothes or am I wearing lady clothes? Because...
Well you mostly just wear t-shirts and shorts. Right. So and I mostly do too. I mean, I don't have a you're wearing a sweater. I'm not gonna look good in that. It's not a sweater. It's a sweater. Sweater vest. Not a vest. Well, it's like a it's a sweater. It's a short sleeve sweater. It's a short sleeve sweater.
You're wearing a short sleeve sweater in summer.
Yeah, because I'm inside air conditioning all day and it gets a little chilly. Yeah. And I'm kind of sad that I forgot my jacket today because I'm gonna be cold at work.
Good thing you wore that short sleeve sweater.
Just tuck my arms inside. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, it's nice in there.
Now it's a no-sleeve sweater. I got no arms. Yeah. So I'm going with matching outfits, but we're gonna have to I don't know where we're gonna have to shop.
And who are we yeah, who's gonna match who? I guess I'm just wearing fishing shirts wherever I go. Awesome. Get used to this, everyone. And then people will say, What do I wear? Oh, do you fish? A fish shirt. And I'll say, no, I don't, but I have to match my husband.
Because it would otherwise we'd be finishing each other's sentences, and no one needs that. So would you rather this is
I can't wait for you to wear a sweater vest.
I'm not wearing sweater vests. You don't even own a sweater vest. You're gonna look so cute. No way, man.
There is a school in the west side of New York. And they are putting in a humanoid robot teacher. It's not going to replace the actual teacher. She's going to act as an aid. Her name is Sally.
The robot. And she is programmed to provide learning support to both students and educators. She will have a life like I keep saying she. It will have a life like life-like appearance with silicone skin and long brown hair. Okay, what's its name? Sally. So it's a she.
That's fine. But let me let me rewind. Okay. Say this. So there's a school that is bringing in a humanoid robot. Yes. As a teaching aid. Correct. Okay.
Um, she's gonna be stationary in a seated position. Yeah. But it'll have a wide range of upper body movements. Okay. Right? Weird. Oh. All right. And facial expressions. Um, she's not gonna use students' names for privacy reasons, so the kids will have to address themselves with a number. So there'll be they'll go up to her with things like, hi, Miss Sally, I'm student number 62. Oh boy. And then Sally will be like, hi, we were talking about this yesterday. Do you want to continue that conversation? Here is the part that I'm sure teachers are gonna love.
She can interject teachers by asking if the teacher has forgotten where they're at in the lesson plan, or if the teacher accidentally skips over something, Sally can interject and say, Oh, yeah, you forgot to say this. Yeah, no thanks. Uh Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like I'm not
sure. I don't need anybody interrupting me in the middle of my teaching. Uh-huh.
Um she is going to cost the district around $57,000, which is a discounted rate from the normal price of $95,000. Boy, oh boy. Boy. Oh boy. Huh. What do you think? I don't like it. I don't like it either. Um.
And as one person said here, every person who signed off on this has never been in a room with a kid. Right. Uh that this is not a good idea. No, it's a terrible idea. I don't think the kids are going to respond well to this. No, and we I mean, that's just me being very assumptive.
We have actual people who are willing to help teachers in the classroom and willing to help students in the classroom. And why are we replacing humans with robots? Let's stop. Yes. Let's stop. That's not it. No. This is not what you teach our.
What level of school is this? What do you mean? Is this elementary? Is this middle school? High school? Uh, unsure. Throw that thing in a middle school and see what happens. Good luck. Robot.
I would hope the middle school kids would destroy it.
That's exactly what I'm saying. Like, yeah, okay. Cool. That's a cool face tattoo you got, Sally. Where'd you get that from? Student 656? Cool.
Yeah, what stud I'm student number six seven.
Oh, let's go. Come on. I hate it.
I hate it too. I really, really hate it.
I don't like the humanoid movement. And the fact at all.
That they're spending $57,000 on this thing. Come on.
Yeah, there's better use for that money in the school system. But here's I do not like humanoid thing. Me neither. Uh because it's it's just not it. Nope. I don't know. What are we doing?
What are we doing? Like somebody needs to stop the wheels of the humanoid thing. Yep. Anyway. Thanks for that.
You're welcome. It's a cool way to end the show. Do you want me to just make robot moments? Yeah, humanoid. go to the next one? One teacher said, oh, Sally gets to sit, but I don't.
Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I'm going to get yelled at by my admin for sitting to teach, but Sally can sit. That's fine.
What a way to make all of your teaching stats. So mad at you. A terrible idea. Anyway. Stop the humanoid thing. Put it into it. We don't need it. Nope. We do not.
Every single thing we've learned about humanoids and AI has been super positive. Come on. All right. On that depressing note, we will wrap up today's show. Tomorrow is Friday. That's very exciting.
Oh, yeah, it is. And uh yeah, I look forward to tomorrow. Me too.
That'll be great. Uh hope you have a great rest of your Thursday. And we will see you back here tomorrow.
Thanks for hanging out with us. That's all I have to say. Me too. All right. Bye.
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