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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Monday, July 6th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Surprise Northern Lights sightings while lighting fireworks on the 3rd of July, 17 pregnant nurses at an Ohio hospital's labor and delivery unit, the leaked details from Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey's star-studded wedding, how unsold fireworks are stored, the massive Melaleuca Freedom Celebration fireworks show, the behind-the-scenes pressure of countdown "back timing," and the traffic chaos getting hundreds of thousands of attendees out afterward, 4th of July parade waves, Josh's garden struggles, Kelsey Pfendler's record-breaking solo row from California to Hawaii, reliving our first date, luxury "snow rooms" versus just installing the air conditioner to beat the summer heat, and tomorrow is a big milestone: the podcast's 500th episode!!!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Northern Lights & fireworks
(2:51) - The weekend is over?
(6:29) - Good News
(8:29) - JUST&T MARRIED
(15:35) - Unsold fireworks
(21:17) - Smoke bombs in the dark
(27:36) - Josh's big job
(36:08) - Parade etiquette
(42:11) - "Do better Mom & Dad"
(48:03) - More gardening with Josh
(53:47) - Kelsey Pfendler did it!
(59:48) - Would You Rather
(1:02:46) - Snow rooms
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Full show transcript:
So there we are, 3rd of July, Friday night. Lighting up fireworks. It's a big deal. Everybody's excited. And then we're taking pictures and doing time lamps lap stuff. And all of a sudden, uh, I don't know if it was my sister or somebody went. Is that the northern lights?
Like, is that what's happening in these photos? Yeah, yeah. And uh, and yeah, so Friday night. And I know there was some on Saturday as well. I saw some pictures from the Fourth of July, but certainly Friday night, the northern lights were way on display, is we're sitting out lighting fireworks.
And then you could see, like I know sometimes you can't see it with your naked eye. Right. But you could kind of see like there was a hint of it like at the shadow of like the green portion of it. Right. And then you could see like the pillars. Yeah.
Yeah, the light pillars. It was really cool.
It was so super cool.
Yeah, I haven't been able to see that much without using a camera, I don't think ever. That was really cool. And we were south of town. So we were even, you know, and and it was pretty dark where we were at, but but that was pretty impressive. That was cool.
Yeah, your sister got some pretty sweet little pictures.
Yeah, it was an unexpected thing. Uh and I that was kind of fun to watch fireworks and then have the sky doing its own show.
I'm like, let's go. This guy was like, I'll show you. Yeah.
Let me show you. You want to see what's up? Look at this. Boom.
Uh so that was kind of fun. Captured a few a few photos that were kind of interesting. Um, but yeah, no, that's uh that's a fun little surprise. We could get more like that. That'd be kind of cool. A few more fancy little northern lights displays when you don't expect it.
Yeah, I don't mind that. I don't like, or I mean, I do like, I don't mind, is what I meant to say. I don't mind when the earth shows off. I don't I never will mind when the earth is like let me show you some real beauty.
I was I was trying to find uh a couple of the photos that I got. Like this one is one is this time lapse. Well, I did like a long astrophotography thing. That's when the firework blew up toward the people and everybody was like, whoa! Uh so that was captured in there.
We were trying to do a time lapse, and the firework went the wrong direction. That was pretty funny.
Anyway, kind of cool. I mean, I got a few pictures, but uh, you know, nothing like I'm sure people got like really really cool.
That are really, really beautiful.
Yeah, pretty cool though. What a surprise. Thanks, nature. Earth are you so crazy?
America on your 2000s. A miracle birthday.
The Northern Lights are showing off on your birthday. Let's get to today's show. What's happening?
Oh, geez, Louise. You're just trying to recover, you know? Yeah, I do. It was uh it was a weekend. Was it a weekend? No. No. It was it was gone in a flash. Quite literally. A lot of food, a lot of fireworks. Yeah. Uh little sleep. Yeah. But here we are, back at it again.
Yeah. I I don't have a lot to say. You don't have a lot to say. I just haven't put together the words yet. I feel like I feel kind of like I was dragged through a trench. I feel really like uh unprepared to be at work again already. I know. Yeah, that's kind of how I feel.
But then it's also kind of nice to be back into a more of a routine. Don't you think that? I it felt a little crazy over the weekend. It felt busy, it felt hectic, it felt chaotic. And now I'm like, oh, this is I remember that.
I can handle normal routine, sure. Yeah. Uh and and there's all this work and build-up and uh and preparations and execution of a whole day's event. And so there's, you know, and then there's post stuff that still has to be done.
Yeah. There's stuff that still has to be done. I have a room full of things right here that have to be put away.
That you just dumped off, yep. Uh there's there's still cleanup happening. So there's still things that have to be done. Uh, and and cleaned up and arranged and put away and discussed. We gotta have our a big debrief, you know.
There's just a lot going on. So yeah. Here we are. But we're here.
we're ready to dive in. That is true. I think we'll see. Okay. We're gonna I mean, take a minute. Yeah. Wake up. Right. Refresh yourself. Mm-hmm. I'm gonna jump in. I mean, I've already jumped, we're already in.
No, we've just dipped a toe in.
I feel like it's a cannonball. And where he just jumped all the way in and we're floating back up to the top. Oh, okay. That's kind of how. Well, some of us. Others of us are sinking down to the bottom. Who's sinking to the bottom? That's me. Because I don't float so high.
Yeah, you don't. Josh is not a big.
I gotta get down there and push off so I can get back up to the surface. You're a rock. I know. I'm a rock. Like Charlie Brown. Yeah. Yeah. I did see a video of a couple that were uh diving and they had uh weights to help them get down to the bottom, and they were standing on the bottom holding their weights, and they said, Let's see what happens when you let go of the weights.
And they both let go, and she immediately started floating up, and he's standing there like, Well, see you later. That's how it goes. It's terrible for me. Anyway, hi, good morning. It's Monday. We're still in July, so that's good news. We aren't burning to fall that quick.
Okay. I mean, the stores seem to think so. Uh, yeah. Yeah.
The stores and the internet seem to think it's already Halloween. Yeah, I know. Back to school. Slow down.
Yeah, slow down. Take it easy. But it does.
Fourth of July, they're like barbecue stuff, clearance. Let's go. Time to put out the fall.
After the Fourth of July, though, it does go fast.
It's quick. Yeah. I feel like Fourth of July got here quick, but I agreed. Anyway. Hi. Good morning. There is something going on in Ohio. Uh-oh. Yeah. The labor and delivery unit at uh Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio has 17 nurses who are all pregnant at the same time in the labor and delivery unit. That's not great.
This is a problem. Or not in the hospital, but you need to have a baby.
Yeah, yeah. The nurses say it's been a shared experience from dealing with early pregnancy cis symptoms to supporting each other through long shifts. Uh some are first-time moms, others already have children. Uh the hospital leaders say that they're prepared.
Okay. The unit has nearly 200 nurses and extra staff to cover shifts while the expecting moms take their maternity leave. And due dates are spread out from June through December. So the workload should stay manageable. How many did you say? Six? No, they have 17. Seventeen of their labor and delivery nurses.
Something's in the water in Ohio.
That's what I said. Something's going on in Ohio. Uh when it's time to deliver, these nurses will already be in the right place. They said, supposing they're working that day. The hospital says its previous record was 11 pregnant nurses at once that was set just a few years ago. So this year's hospital baby boom is one for the record books. 17.
What if what if you're a nurse at that hospital and you choose not to deliver at that hospital? Oh. Wouldn't that be a thing?
I'm going across the street.
Well, listen, if all of the nurses are out having a baby. Well, there is that. Yeah.
Well, good luck to all of them. Luck. It's going to be busy over there between now and December. Have fun. It's good news. All right. Well, there was a big uh bunch of events over the weekend. One of them that we kind of talked about that we did not attend. The invite never showed up. No. Uh by the way, did you see the invite for the uh I did not.
The Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey wedding. Uh it was a digital uh like phone evite thing, but it was like a whole app, basically. That the envelope opened up and it had all the it leaked online. Somebody shared it. I don't know. Uh I don't know who, but it was uh from what I could see, it was all like a really intricate app slash website thing that it was delivered to the people that got invited uh to go check out the the big ceremony. How very fancy. I know. Do you know who was there? Yes.
I heard about a few people. Who'd you hear about? Well, I heard about Adam Sandler. Okay. So now I got a beef with Adam Sandler.
It's fine. Adam Sandler officiated the ceremony. That is true.
And then who else was there? Uh Sabrina Carpenter.
Sabriny Carpenter, Ed Sheeran, Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lopez, Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks, Bradley Cooper, Dakota Johnson. It's a whole who's who. Is it though? Yeah, of course it is.
Uh here, you're being very positive about all this.
And I'm being I don't know why you're such a cranky pants. Stick in the mud about a the wedding. I don't either. Jason Kelsey served as the best man, of course. Uh uh Taylor's brother Austin uh was man of honor.
That's because Travis can't find any. He had to use his brother as his best friend because he doesn't have any other friends.
You got so much beef. You got so much beef. Uh there were about a thousand guests attended the celebration. Uh Stevie Nicks and Paul McCartney performed. Did they? Yeah. I didn't hear that. Yeah. Jeez. Yeah.
Talk about a big time.
I saw uh kind of a setup video of the garden party that they created. Unbelievable. I mean, they built an entire church and a garden. Yeah. I mean, it looked like a castle. The thing looked incredible.
Unreal. Uh Donna Kelsey, who's uh Travis and Jason's mom. Uh described the wedding as magical. Uh Taylor's aunt Robin Gentry said both the bride and groom were moved to tears during the emotional ceremony.
Yeah, they said that Travis was the more emotional one. Why you got beef? Because I told you he's a he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Okay. I don't necessarily know if he's a nice guy. All right. Well.
And I think he's buffaloed everyone. Okay. And everyone's gonna say, because I get my hair in a fight with my hairdresser about this. She's like, no, he's such a good guy. I'm like, eh.
He throws his helmet. He yells at his coach. Yeah. He's in the heat of the game.
Plus also, were the Chiefs there? Were the Chiefs in attendance? I don't know. I did not see Mahomes.
I don't see Patrick Mahomes on the list. What? No one has said a word about that. Was Andy Reed there? I don't know. Oh, mustaches. Gigi Hadid was there.
If Andy Reed was there and he didn't wear a Chiefs jacket, yeah. Whoa. Maybe he has a red suit. Maybe.
The signs outside of Madison Square Garden after they uh had sealed the deal. Uh the big marquees said just married. Just for, yeah, I know. Justin T. Uh and they also had this uh cool classic car that uh had the just and tea married license plate on it, which was Cute. yeah, yeah.
I don't know why being such a stink about it. I don't either. Also, but why are they being so like hush-hush about all of their decorations and different things? Do you know why? I mean, they want to have a little bit of privacy. I get that. Sure. But then it's over now. Yeah. So now post a bunch of stuff.
Yeah, well, wedding guests are starting to kind of share stuff from the wedding. So things are leaking out uh slowly. Um, but there's photos and videos and a few things if you start looking at uh, you know, at things, but like they know who did the dress and who did the uh all of the suits and stuff.
So there's there are things that are starting to make their way out into the public beyond uh, you know, just the people that were there. So did Travis take her last name? Travis. No, I saw something um uh and I'll have to look into this, but something about how like on their actual uh license, like they took the last name that is her pen name for a book she wrote. What? Yeah.
So like on paper, they changed their name to this other name. I can't even remember what it was. I'll have to look. I don't know what that really is. You know the legal documentation they probably had to sit down and sign. Oh, yeah. For the past week to two weeks to throw it it probably took a very long time to put in pen exactly how this thing is gonna work out.
All kinds of prenups and all kinds of stuff.
Yeah, there's so much protective paperwork for these two. Imagine they didn't. Imagine they just went, nah, we're good. We're just gonna do it. We're gonna do it like the commoners do. The commoners. Yeah.
I it was easy. Hey, listen, as a commoner, it was pretty easy when you're like, I got nothing. You got nothing.
Yeah. Sign this paper. Let's have nothing together. Nice. Nothing but love. Hey, baby. Uh, congratulations anyway, to him. Uh, I know you have beef, but I'm sure you'll get it.
I don't necessarily have beef. With Travis Kelsey, I have beef for sure. Right. Because I again, I'm like, he's not a nice guy.
Maybe he's a married man now. Okay. Okay.
Doesn't make you a nice guy.
No, I get it. I'm just saying. It isn't like he didn't show up or you know. Like he's following through with the things he said he's gonna be.
Of course, he's following through. Are you crazy? All this publicity for him. He's marrying the richest woman in America. You don't think he's gonna show up? Please. Well, he did.
In a suit. In a suit. Congrats. TNT. It's dynamite. Yeah, I wonder if they're using that. I hope so. Like, ah, yeah. We're T and T the whole time. A C D C playing in the background. No, they had Paul McCartney and Steve.
No, get out of here. Crazy. I want to be rich. No. No. Too much work.
People have beef. You don't even know them, and they have beef with you.
It was a firework-filled weekend.
As it usually is on the fourth of July.
It is, right? And then we saw so many shells on Saturday. How many shells? Do you know an approximation?
I I can find that's okay. I have that press release still somewhere in here. It's a lot. It was a lot. A lot of it.
If you were there, it was a lot. And we'll talk a little bit about it later. We'll get into detail. Very good. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. I mean, just turn the on my phone. Yeah. Um, I was thinking about fireworks that are in the fireworks stand that they now have to box up because now it's done. It's over. You can't sell any fireworks. Right. And then I went, what happens to fireworks that don't get sold?
Uh they get stored. I think they probably don't expire for years and years.
It says they don't expire, but I feel like at some point they're gonna like the older they get, year by year, it's gonna depreciate.
Yeah, but they probably the next year like offer discounts on previous year stuff to move the inventory.
But I also feel like that's a little bit dangerous to sell old fireworks.
Yeah, I've seen plenty of internet videos. I know people buy whatever.
I yeah, no, I know. It just doesn't feel very safe, does it?
Yeah, I think I mean uh when's the last time you saw a new firework? It isn't like they're anything revolutionary going on there.
No, no, no, that's not what I'm trying to say.
No, I know. I'm just saying they take the old inventory and they put it away. And the next year they go, let's bring it back out. That's what I'm trying to say.
No, I know if I'm buying a firework, it's seven years old.
I doubt, I doubt they still are hanging on to inventory that lot that how do they dispose of them? They don't. I just told you they offer discounts. If it's last year, you're gonna move every your inventory every year. You're not gonna sit on seven years of inventory. You're a bad business person if you're sitting on seven years of inventory.
That's not how it works. You gotta move that inventory, get rid of it. It if it's going to depreciate in value, you've already paid to have it imported and brought in and whatever. You're gonna move that inventory. You're gonna offer it as part of a buy one get one. You're gonna get rid of the old inventory. I'm I'm questioning. Why? This is how it works with anything. Every product. This is how it works. The stuff that goes on sale and on clearance is the stuff that needs to move quicker.
It says I looked. They're returned to a climate-controlled wholesale warehouse. Okay, or secure storage trailers to be saved for the next selling season. Technically, fireworks don't expire, and you can safely store them in cool, dry conditions. Okay. But again, I go. I feel like the longer they sit, the worse they're going to get. It's not dynamite, you know, with glycerin and stuff.
And it's just properly stored in cardboard tubes. It's fine. As long as nothing ignites it, it's gonna be fine. There's nothing in it, uh, or it doesn't get wet. Like those are important things that have to happen.
I've seen some expired fireworks, is what I'm gonna say.
There's been some were they properly stored? I couldn't tell you. Yeah, bought them from the fireworks stand. No, you didn't buy old expired fireworks. It's not a thing.
We've had some that we've kept for a couple of years. Sure. Not in a climate-controlled warehouse. No, no, we have not properly stored them.
Have they been in a cool dry place? No. Where have they been? In a puddle? No.
They've been in a dry place, but they haven't been in a cool place. They've been in a hot, hot shed. They're not anymore. We finally lit them, but they were they were kind of old ones. Fine. They worked fine. How old were those ones? I have no idea. I don't either.
This is interesting how worried about this you are. What's going on?
There's a lot of fireworks in the world. Yeah. And they're just sitting around. People's garages. Yeah.
You gotta store that stuff properly. I think the bigger message is store your stuff properly. Don't just leave it laying around.
In hot hot shed, like we did. It's fine.
It's not there now, and nothing happened. It's okay. Just don't do that.
Don't be like us. Do better. Do better than we did. But again, nothing happened. So if okay, here's something else. If you need to discard a firework. Yeah. Soak the ingredients overnight in a bucket of water. Okay. And then once they've been completely saturated, that'll make them no good. Like, you know, you won't be able to light them. Yeah.
And then you can put them in wet. And regular household garbage. Right. Okay. Be careful with your fireworks.
They blow up. That's all I'm saying. I've seen a lot of videos of accidents. There's been a lot of firework accidents. Be careful. Okay. What? I will. Thank you.
You want to tell everybody about your new cool trick. Because it's ridiculous for one. And for two, I think it's going to be a fourth of July staple. I has to be. It's gonna be around for years.
It has to be. We had a family fireworks show on Friday. Yeah. Uh your mom, your cousin. Yeah. Our kids, their kids, everybody's kids.
Yeah, my sister. I mean, tons of people.
There was some neighbor kids that showed up, and we were like, who are those? Who is that? It was just people. Lots of people. Lots of people. Um, I got a little bit, I don't want to say bored because there was a good show to be had. Your cousin at one time had a one-wheel and he was right.
He does that every year. He could get the Roman candles and he shh, not Roman candles.
He's not in not even in this county. Okay. It's not even the city. Uh he holds the the fireworks in his hands like you're supposed to, safely, and then he rides his one-wheel around and kicks off the 4th of July. It's as you do, you know, as you do.
Hey, listen. Somebody's gotta do it. So I don't want to say I got bored, but I wanted to be part of the action. Okay. All of the boys were lighting all the fireworks. And I said to you at one point, all of the young men, there were young men and some teenage boys that were lighting all the fireworks, and your adult cousin. That's right. And I said, Don't you want to go light some fireworks?
I am so good sitting here. I I was so comfortable. I was sitting in a chair.
You said my firework lighting time is done. I got enough uh firework lighting uh history.
I don't I've I've lit so many. It's fine.
Well, I said I want to light some. I said, What do you got in your bucket? You had a bucket of fireworks.
Yeah, it's ground blooms and things And whatever, and then I had a little bag of smoke bombs, and you went, smoke bombs, and you were very excited. Yeah. Uh it's dark by this time, and you're very excited about smoke bombs. And I also had some of those little snakes. You could have gone and lit some of those.
We wouldn't have been able to see that either. But so you said, I'm gonna go light some of these, and I didn't know what you had, and you lit a smoke bomb and you yelled a smoke bomb and ran away. Through it. Yeah.
Smoke bomb and run.
And you can't see it because it's dark. So you don't even know what color the smoke was. Everybody's waiting because you see the fuse burning down, and nothing happens. Like, oh, Chantel's gonna light something. This'll be exciting. It was exciting.
Smoke bomb, run away. There's nothing.
I thought there was two, and then I found another one, and I was really excited. I said, Oh, I have another smoke bomb. Here's what happened. Every time I get lit it, it would light, and it would take forever to light because I think they were a little bit old. But also I was kept saying, Hold still. I'm like, I'm holding still. I guess he was He was doing the lighting of the fuse for me.
Right. And then I'd go, oh, as soon as it was lit, I would make that noise. Oh, like I didn't know what to do with it. I did. Smoke bomb. Run away. That's hilarious. It's a good bit. Is it? Yes. It was funny.
It'll be a fourth of July favorite. Staple.
Fourth of July staple. Uh we did have a couple of stray fireworks. That was exciting.
That's always, yeah, it's always neat when stuff doesn't uh go as planned, and you feel like you might have some fireworks that needed to be drowned and thrown away.
Expired ones, perhaps.
They don't technically expire, but I don't know how they were stored. So it's it's hard to say.
It's hard to say.
That's always a new.
They shot outward instead of upward. Yeah, that's always a problem. So it was luckily it was not a problem. But it was a little bit like, whoo, that was that one was exciting. That was a thrill. I always like the names of fireworks. Okay. I can't. Can you remember some of the names? I was gonna write them down.
Well, fish tank was one. Fish tank was one. Uh psycho uh peacock peacock was one.
That was a good firework. That was a good one. Uh I know, like online.
I saw there's there's uh I don't even know where you can buy uh can buy this, but there's a green widow finale that was new last year.
Uh and it's like three uh giant uh cakes of it's a hundred and eight shots over three boxes, it's meant to be your finale, and you take the three boxes and you twist the three fuses together, and it comes with zip ties and electric tape to hold it all together. No way, yeah.
So it and the average person is supposed to do this.
That's right. And then you light off all three of them simultaneously, and you get a big finale.
This is fireworks, are a bad idea. Why? Because they leave explosives to be lit by people who don't know how to handle explosives. Yeah, that's true. It doesn't feel safe at all. That is true.
I was just looking. If you wanted to buy it says a case of three. A case of three, what? Of those for 176 dollars and twenty-five cents for the green widow finale.
The ones that you have to zip tie together. Yeah, yes. I just don't think that's a good idea. Don't even talk about it anymore. People are gonna get some ideas.
I don't even know if you can buy that around here. I mean, you can't anyway. I'm looking at I I don't know where you buy it online. I'm looking at all the online stuff. That's fun.
No, I just don't think it is. No? No. But shout out to your cousin for putting on the good firework show. One milling it with his Roman candles. Shh. Don't so well, it's illegal. What a lot of people don't realize about the firework show here in Idaho Falls is that you kind of have the big big job. I have a big job. You have, yeah. You're the one that's like doing the countdown, pushing the button to go. That is true.
It's a stressful 30 minutes leading up to that time.
Yeah, you were pretty you were pretty stressed out. Yeah.
Uh my heart rate was it like 126, I think, at one point. I was looking back at my heart rate monitor, and I went, man, I really get cooking when I'm get the adrenaline going. A whole bunch of people are counting on me to be able to count to 10. Uh-huh. It's uh or 10 to zero.
But there's a coworker of yours that's up by the fireworks. He's got a walkie. You're down pushing buttons to make the music that's right happen. Uh play in the recording and and talking to Frank and all of that. Right. And you're doing the countdown. You do the countdown.
Countdown to when we hit the go button. That is correct. It's intense. Yeah.
And you've done that for a couple of years now. Right. And I watch you. I don't I leave you alone. I don't have anything to do there. I'm just there to support and help. This year I moved the chair out of the way because you were sitting and then you stood, and then I noticed that the chair was in your way, and I was like, I'll move the chair. I got it. I didn't even notice. I know you didn't. Because I was there. I was your wing girl. Oh, there's supporting. Thank you. And uh you were getting texts.
Oh, I know. I had people blowing me up. I'm like, guys, uh don't talk to me from like 9.30 to 1045.
Okay. When the show is over and everything's done, then I'll be back. But yeah, like 9.30 on, I'm in a very focused state. Uh and so yeah, I was yeah, my phone was blowing up. I had people that were texting me, and you know, uh, I don't know. We we we try to tell people ahead of ahead of time, hey, don't try to listen on the app. It's it's delayed for one. For two, there's too many people. It it's gonna crash. It crashed and it crashed as it always does because there's too
many people to trying to connect to it. do it. And then we get all you know, we get messages coming in on socials, like I can't uh the app isn't working. I'm like, listen on traditional radio. We say it over and over and over and over and over. You're you're gonna have a better listening experience.
An infinite number of people can listen to the traditional radio. There will be no impact. That's how you need to listen to the synchronized music.
But at 9 50, fireworks are supposed to start at 10. Yeah.
I mean, I had text, I had texts and phone calls coming in start. Let me see. Uh because there were still people trying to get into watch. That was 9 42. Yeah, 9 42. I'm getting messages going, hey, things aren't working. I'm like, bro, not now. I am I am busy. I don't have time to I don't have time to think about that right now. This is the last 15 minutes. That is a conversation for a different time.
I was recording you, and at one point you kind of like
Yeah, I did a gone in your hands.
60 seconds handshake.
Well, because here's the deal. Like I have very specific cue times that I have to hit in order to get things on time. And so I spent probably I mean, probably 20 minutes or so getting all of the timing really just right.
Um, to lead up to when the countdown actually has to start. And to do that, you have to think in reverse, and that's that's always different. They call it in the industry, we call it back timing. Um but essentially you have to work your way from the time you need things to happen backwards.
And so if I need something to happen like right at 10 o'clock, which I did, I have to make sure everything that is required to play before that has happened. Right. And so there's you know, all this stuff.
So I have to think in reverse. And then I got all that set, and I was like, okay, I've got a seven-second window where everything has to be perfect for the seven seconds. And it worked, and it was on time, and things happened, and I went, okay, all right. And when when I got that first step done, I went shake that one off.
Shake it out and now focus on the big one. So I was shaking my hands. I was like, all right, that one's done and happened, and now my next cue is coming up in like a you know, couple of minutes. And so then it was like, okay, here we go.
And then you were once the show got going, you were able to come and sit down next to me and it actually enjoy the show. Sort of. But you you were still your adrenaline was still going, you were still shaking the loop.
little bit. There's there's a lot going on in in my body, apparently, and it was you know, like when you're cold and your body is like shaking. I had adrenaline shakes going. I couldn't sit still. I was like, I gotta move around.
It was no big deal. There's only 300,000 people, counting on whatever.
Yeah, you know, no, no pressure, no pressure. Don't mess it up. So it happened.
It was yeah, there's a big you have to get the music aligned with the fireworks, right?
I have to count down and hit go on all systems at the same time. Yeah. And you do and so my countdown cue tells the the guys pushing the button to actually launch the fireworks, uh, you know, uh in up on the hill. Like when I say go, we all go. Like, that's all on me. That's a that's a bit of pressure. It's a lot of pressure.
Yeah, you did a great job. Yeah, thanks. And it was on time.
It worked really, really well. So I'm very happy. Uh, and uh, you know, uh that being the last one, uh, at least at Snake River Landing, uh, and and for the foreseeable future. Just a little bit of a stress reliever. I mean, I I don't necessarily enjoy all that pressure.
And all of the work's a lot of work that gets put into all of this.
And and I still do need to give kudos to Jade. Uh our our boss is the guy who puts together the music that actually is accompanying the fireworks show, and he's done it for a lot of years, and he puts in a lot of hours. That's how many hours. It's like 70 hours a year that gets put into building that music soundtrack so that it can be a specific length and and sound cool and and keep you energized and synchronize with the fireworks and stuff. He puts in a lot of work on that.
So there's a lot of people who put in a lot of work for sure. Uh everyone. That was a tremendous event. Very well attended. The fireworks show was top of the line. Uh it was incredible.
Unbelievable. Uh during the finale, I don't I don't even remember where I was. No, I was like out of body experience. It was incredible. All of those shells going off. I was like, what is happening? I don't even know.
Uh 18,915 shells in this year's show, which is pretty incredible. 31 minutes. Uh, it's unbelievable.
If you were there, if you withstood the heat during the day, well done. Uh, kudos to the vendors who are out there slaving away in the hot, hot heat. No kidding. All of the law enforcement, all of the first responders, everybody there helping with lost kids, helping with people who are overheating. At one point, you had to help uh a woman who was pregnant who was right too hot to keep walking.
So you're like, I got you. I played I played Uber for a minute. Yeah.
Let's get you back to your car. I got kicked out, and that was fine. It was fine.
You got kicked out of the side by side so I could move the the family.
Is that what you mean? You got kicked out. Yeah. Yeah. It was fun. It was a great day. If you were there, thanks for being there. Thanks for showing up. If you weren't there. You missed out.
You totally missed out. You missed out. It was super fun. Yeah. Happy 4th of July.
Fourth of July. Well, it's happy 6th of July.
Well, now it is. I'm just saying, like, now that that's done, it's like, okay. Now we can move on to what, Christmas? Let's work on Christmas.
No, you shut your filthy mouth.
Settle down. Settle down.
Uh Emory and I went to the parade. You were going to come to the parade with us, and then something came up, and you had to.
Yeah, I had to start my day at uh Riverfest a couple hours earlier than intended. So Oh, sorry, buddy. Yeah, I got I got called into work. And so I didn't get to do a lot of the normally we have kind of a slow Fourth of July morning, and then it kind of picks up in the afternoon, and then we're at Riverfest all day, but not this year. I was busy right out the gate.
You really were. Uh Emery and I did go to the parade because her boyfriend was in the parade. So we were like, let's go and see your boyfriend. Uh we ended up getting there a little bit late, and I was worried I wasn't gonna find a place to park, but I was able to get a really nice parking spot.
That's awesome. We were able to get not super close, but that's okay. We didn't need to be super close. We were in the back. We had a nice little spot where we had a little bit of shade, a little bit of sun. It was perfect.
Yeah, dig it. And then it's always funny. What I observed watching the parade is that it's always funny, both outside the parade and inside the parade. If you're in the parade or you're just a viewer. Uh-huh. Uh you're just scanning the crowd for people that you know. I think that's fair.
I mean I here's like having been in as many parades as I've been in for over the years. Uh that's not untrue. No. Like, but I'm also just kind of driving through the thing. And the people that know you or you know, family or friends or you know, whoever, they'll still be sure to let you know they see.
I know. As a as a bystander, you're watching the parade goers go by, and then you're like, I know that guy. Hey, hey, hey. And it's the loudest you've ever screamed to see somebody that you know.
Just to look at you and wave and go, I see.
And then you feel like the most popular person in the room, and your whole crowd of people, you're like, Yeah, I know somebody in the parade. And we all do it.
Yeah. Every single person. It's just the the different people that you know.
That is true. And then, yeah, that person gives you a handful of candy, and you're like, Yes. Now we saw Emory's boyfriend in the parade. He was on his float, and Emery was waving her hands, shouting his name, and then he looks at her and points at her, and he had a handful of candy, and he just points and starts waving. And I'm like, throw your candy at her, bro.
Throw your candy. And then he remembered as he was almost past by. He was like, Oh, I have candy. And he threw the whole fistful of candy. It was pretty pretty funny.
I was trying to find uh how many floats were were in this year's parade. Do you have any of that information?
I don't. I was trying to find it because we were trying to determine what number of float he was. Gotcha. They used to give you a directory.
Well, and and I thought they might have had something like that online, but yeah, I know you know, over the past few years, it feels like it's gotten close to 200 different entries. I know that he feels like it's a long parade.
His float was number 83. Okay.
So he was pretty far in there. I got you.
And that was, let's see, and then we left shortly after that because it was getting kind of hot. Um And that was at 1130, I think I we finally left the parade. So 83 went by at 11 30. That's crazy.
And if there's another hundred. I know. Wow. So I don't know.
I don't know what grand total. But also sad if you're the last in the line because people are like, I've been here for hours and hours. Right. So maybe they don't have the energy to give your float as it goes by because they've already wasted all their energy on the other 180 floats that have already gone by.
Well, it's always hard too when you go like, I saw the float, but I didn't see the person because you were on the wrong side of the street. Or, you know, whatever. That happens a lot too. But it worked out. So good to go. Good parading. Right?
Good job, everybody. The people wearing costumes. I feel so bad for you. There was a rotary duck.
Yeah, there's always the there is always the duck race duck.
He had extra long legs this year. Is that right? Yeah. It was a tall duck. No kidding. That's a tall duck.
Were they were they like a yellow leg? No, it was an orange leg. Orange legs. Yeah. Okay. Do ducks have orange legs? I feel like they have orange feet. But are their legs orange? Uh yeah. I thought they were yellow.
No, I think they're orange. I think it's orange webbed feet and orange legs. Now I gotta look. Look up duck legs. I'm looking up.
Ducks have orange legs and feet. Okay, they are orange. How about that?
I I Googled duck legs and it brought up duck legs that you could eat.
Well, that's not what I and then yellow duck legs. Ducks with distinct yellow legs or feet usually fall into a few specific. Oh, that's like wild waterfowl. But it also says they could have nutrition-related health issues if they have yellow feet. Oh no. So there are some specific breeds that do have yellowish feet and legs, but most of the time they're orange.
Oh, let me just also say Emory took a she took one for the team when she got well, she didn't take anything for the team. She got she was getting some candy. She got beaten in the nose with a piece of taffy. Oh. She had a big red mark on her nose for a really long time.
Catch it with your hands. Put your hands up. She tried so hard. Put your hands.
Smack in her nose. Poor thing.
It's one way to catch candy. I would use my hands. But you know, I'm a weird guy. Don't usually try to catch it with my face.
She should have tried to catch it with her mouth. Yeah. That would have been awesome.
Yeah. Would have been very cool. Just jump up and snag it out of the air. Very cool.
Now, if you were at Riverfest and you had to leave Riverfest.
Which which anyone who was there did.
You'd know that it does take some time to get out. There's a lot of people, a lot of I've seen some complaints. Sure. I've seen some positive comments. Uh I've seen a lot of deal.
That many people in one spot. This is the big challenge, right? This is this is the reason that it's gotta be at a different place moving forward. Is that this there's just so many people for this thing? It's it's logistically very challenging. It's very, very challenging to figure out how to manage an event of this size in this community.
Right. It is huge. And I know that this year uh there were a lot of things, a lot of contributing factors. Utah's firework ban had a lot of people from Utah coming north. That that happened.
Yes. Uh so that so there's already an influx of of population who want to come see some fireworks. Then you have America 250, 250 uh birthday for America. And then you have the 33rd annual Melaluca Freedom Celebration being the final one at Snake River Landing. And all of this adds up to a lot more people than usual.
So we for the past couple of years, we've gotten together with Nate Eaton from East Side Ho News. Right. And we talk about the traffic. We tr we try to provide some commentary as you're trucking along, trying to get out. Right. Trying to keep you entertained, trying to keep you moving, uh, trying to give you some traffic reports on what's happening.
Our kids were trying to exit along with everybody else. Yeah. And here's the text I got from Emery. Dude, holy moly. This is so long. It's not quickly, by the way. Oh.
Or because because we we said we're gonna try and get you home quickly. Uh-huh. Okay, gotcha. And then she says, or entertaining. Wow. And then she says, You need more pizzazz.
What the okay.
So we've been working all day. What pizzazz is she looking for? I don't know. I don't know either. Ouch! That's from our, I mean, you know, your own your own kids are gonna be your worst critics, I guess. Critical. Yeah. Wow. Okay. So here we are, just trying to do a job, just trying to keep folks, you know, uh informed and uh quote unquote entertained.
So apologies to everyone who was trying to exit, and we did not have enough pizzazz for you. So sorry.
I mean, she's the one who provided the feedback. I didn't hear that from anybody else. No, no. So everyone but her was entertained and felt motivated and was moving quickly, I guess. I don't know. Like I know it took a lot a lot of time to get people moving. And that's you know, been the case. But I think this year there was here here's what happened, in my opinion.
I don't know any of this officially. I think that this year, because there was such an influx of population, there were a lot more people outside of Snake River Landing. It was there were tons and tons and tons of people in Snake River Landing.
Yeah. But like as we were getting built up toward 10 o'clock, like there was gridlock traffic extending for several miles outside of the perimeter. And so people were kind of just stopped where they were gonna be, or they were, you know, setting up outside of the Snake River Landing area to watch the show. And uh, and so I think that probably created an additional challenge for the people that are managing traffic and all of the security and police forces and everybody else. I mean, they had every single officer working yesterday.
Yeah. Uh according to the Ida Falls Police Department, every single one. So between the sheriff's department, the city police, security, the ground staff, like everybody who's involved in trying to make all of that flow, you also had all of these sort of uncontrollables outside of that where people were everywhere. So it was hard to get people from the inside to move out when the out is already packed. I think that was the challenge this year.
It was a little bit chaotic, but hopefully everybody got home safely. It took some time. It did take some time. I mean, we didn't get home till I I think we walked in our door at one o'clock.
Something like that. It was it was late.
It was yeah, it was in the morning, in the wee hours of the morning. It still feels like it.
I still feel like that.
I mean, we did nothing yesterday. I know nothing.
I worked in the garden, but that was about it.
We slept in and we just were like, I can't, I'm beat.
They ran a couple errands and worked in the garden. That was it the whole day.
But we did notice it was quiet around town yesterday, too. Everything was moving.
It was super quiet.
Slow There was not a lot of people out. I think everyone was just the combination of the heat and just all of the festivities. It was yesterday was just uh shh it was a big exhale.
It was uh stakewise. Everybody just chill. It was very, very quiet around town for sure. But that's okay. That's uh that's what we need. We need a little exhale sometimes.
Absolutely. Sorry if you were not entertained with our commentary when you're trying to exit. Uh I'm not sorry.
You're welcome for doing our best.
How many times have you planted corn? Okay, listen.
I'm on my third planting, and this has got to be the final one because I'm running out of time in this season to be able to try and do corn. Uh I've I've really been struggling to get corn to grow in the garden bed that I have designated for corn. And I have replanted uh in the soil there twice. Um, and uh with little success. I have two pretty decent corn stocks that have that have grown and a whole bunch that haven't.
And uh what I know about corn is that they have to grow together so that they can they're gonna be able to do that.
Yeah, they're pollinate, yeah. To in order to pollinate, they have to have the little grains on top have to have to dance in the wind.
And your corns are far apart apart.
They're not gonna touch.
No, they need friends. So it's a problem.
So uh I've I was given some different corn seed to try because I'm thinking maybe the seeds that I had were not great. If only two out of the like sixty or seventy that I've planted have actually grown, that's a problem. So it's it's likely my soil, it's likely overwatering. Okay, but there's a few really big considerations.
I think it might be over watering, but uh what I know about that corn song, that country corn song. Rain makes corn. Oh, that one. Rain makes corn. Yeah. Okay. I know that song, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Uh so maybe you're not overwatering because I mean, that country song says
Yeah, but if if you're not also watering and you're just waiting for the rain to water, that's a lot less water than watering every day, isn't it? Fair. Good point. So what I what I was saying was like it it's better to water every couple of days than to have like my water go every day, like it does. Okay. Give that a go. Yeah. For the corn specifically.
Everything else in your garden is doing phenomenally.
I have really good things happening.
Yesterday you said you gotta come look at the tendrils. Have you seen the tendrils? You love squash tendrils are awesome. You love your garden, and it's adorable. And we go take a garden tour every day. But you had been working out there a little bit yesterday. It was so hot. It was so hot. I came, I came inside. I said, I can't be out here.
It's too hot. And then you came inside and you said, I just love those squash tendrils. Have you seen the them?
They're so cool. Have you seen the squash tendrils? And I said, No. And you said, come look at these squash tendrils. They wrap their little tendrils around the little Yeah, whatever they're trellising.
Yeah. Which happens to be my squash arch. So I've got cucumbers going up one side, and I've got uh what's gonna be butternut squash and acorn squash and pumpkins, like all of this stuff going over the top. I'm gonna have birdhouse gourds, I'm gonna have ugly little crookneck warty gourds. We're gonna have so much stuff. Warty gourds, you know the ones
you put the little hay bell underneath the architect.
Because I'm thinking that you're gonna want to sit on that when that gets going here pretty soon because it grows fast. Like now that it's like really started to take root, though I'm hoping those vines in the next like few weeks, like hopefully in the next couple of weeks, we'll be up pretty high. And that'll be nice. You can sit in there and just be like, look, a little shady arch with little little vegetables hanging down. It's gonna be cool.
It's gonna be very cool. Um but yes, no, I to go back to the corn thing. Um I've replanted another 30 seeds, they're a different kind of corn. Um, and I'm doing them as starts uh instead of sowing them directly into the ground.
Okay, so I've got them in and they have a humidifier cap over them. So I'm hoping that in the next couple of days, I will see some sprouts faster than I am in the in the ground, and then once I get a couple inches, I'll transplant them into the garden and they can root and take hold and all hopefully actually have corn. It's said that I should have ears to harvest in like 68 days, so that puts us like mid-September, which is fine. We should be okay. Yeah, that's pre-frost, so I should be able to have corn in mid-September if this works.
Cross your fingers, but that's why like this is it. If this doesn't work, I can't do corn till next year. Oh and then I'm gonna try to do some, I'll probably just turn that entire bed into bush beans. Your bush beans are doing awesome. No, those are all the peas.
I'm gonna change to change it into- Your peas are doing great. it. I'm gonna do I'm just gonna do bush beans in there instead. Everything else is doing phenomenally. Yeah, you've got a sweet little green thumb. On some things, and I'm reaping all the benefits.
One snap pea at a time. I had found a really good one yesterday. It was packed in there. It was peas were good. I like it. It's fun. You get a walk around, you get a snack on some stuff. I'm harvesting that strawberry today, too. I got that one big one.
The one big one we've been watching. Today's the day. If I get home and some squirrel or bird has already gotten at it because it's perfect, I'm gonna be very upset. You don't even like strawberries. I'm gonna like that one.
Yeah, you are. I've been watching that one grow for a little while. It's a big one.
I'm proud of that strawberry. It's a really good one. Have you been paying attention to Kelsey Fentler at all? No. That's a no. I don't know who that is. Do you know who she is? No, you have no idea. No. You're about to if you don't. You haven't seen any, maybe you didn't know her name was Kelsey. Uh-uh.
You don't know anything about her. Uh, it's Fendler with a P. Yeah. Okay. Uh she is the uh, I guess latest solo woman. She rode from California to Hawaii.
Okay. Uh she officially arrived in uh Hawaii over the weekend. Um, and she left Monterey, California, and rode across the ocean to Honolulu. Rode as rode a boat. Rowro roll your boat. That is correct. R O W. R-O-W.
She rode R O W E D.
Twenty, four hundred miles across the Pacific Ocean in a rowboat. In a rowboat. Yeah. Not a sailboat. No, no. Not a motor boat. No. A rowboat. She completed the trip.
I think you've talked about this before. I have. This is when she was first thinking about making this journey. That is correct. I forgot about it.
So she is a whitewater raft guide in c from Colorado. That's what she does. She's she's she's a rower. She's experienced. She knows how to row a boat. Uh she's a big thing.
Dude, I bet her arms are ripped.
And legs and core. You have to, it's a full body. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She did this whole trip in just under 44 days. She is the youngest woman uh to have completed this. And I'm gonna tell you right now, not only did she beat the uh the previous women's record, she destroyed the men's record as well. Oh, Kelsey. She has uh done this uh this route faster than any other human.
And she did it by herself. Solo did she?
Solo 44 days. Um Dude. pretty incredible. Yeah.
Um I'm looking at some pictures. Her poor little face.
Oh, she got a little sunburn out there on the ocean for for so many days. Uh she is a beast. Yeah, she is. I'm looking at video of her uh July 3rd uh at 9 p.m.
Hawaii Standard Time is when she arrived in Honolulu, um, and the city was lit up and she was met by uh a whole bunch of people, uh, which is which is just amazing.
Um dude, I'm looking at her boat, like her boat is intense.
Well, and it's got um it's it's got a cabin where she can sleep inside. Uh it's a small space. Um, and when she isn't sleeping, the boat has uh a steering mechanism that just keeps her on course, but it doesn't move unless she's rowing. Okay. Uh there were several different check-ins uh on her TikTok. She would go, hey, it's day one of being the you know the first solo woman to do this thing across you know California to Hawaii. Um and she she didn't an insane job. Uh really super proud. She was it was really fun to watch um as she as she made this journey. Um had you been following her up. I've been following her for the past probably week and a half or two.
Uh-huh. You never even mentioned anything.
No, I know. Her stuff would just pop up and I would see it here and there. Uh like she was as she was getting closer to Hawaii, she started running into like a navy ship and um and a Coast Guard ship.
Um, but when she took her first steps on land, uh look, I don't know how much time you've ever spent on a boat. Like probably a few hours here and there, right? Right. It's gonna take some time to get your sea legs.
Yeah. I can't imagine like uh even spending a day in a drift boat. When I get back on land, I'm like, because I've just been like balancing myself. So it's it's a little disorienting. I can't imagine spending 44 days and then jumping out of a boat and going like, okay, I'm on land. It's not the ocean. Hello.
What uh are her plans to get back to California? Oh, she'll probably fly.
Yeah, she's not gonna row herself back. No, no, she's not doing the other way. No, pretty cool though. It is so cool. And and really super amazing achievement.
So scary. I'm looking at her. She's just right smack in the middle of the ocean by herself on a tiny little craft. So scary. Kelsey, you are amazing.
Yeah, and she has made history, and she is uh she's a she's a beast. She is a beast. Yeah. Um, she uh I you know, now that she's completed it, her goal was to row solo, unsupported for the 2400 miles from Monterey, California to uh Oahu, Hawaii. Um, and along the way, she wanted to become the first American woman, youngest woman, and fastest woman to do so. The current record is 86 days, 10 hours and five minutes. She did it in 44 days. The men's record was like 52 days, so she beat the men's record by like eight days. And you say men's.
Yeah. There were multiple multiple men's solo records, and she destroyed them all by days and days and days. Well done. Yeah, she she cut the women's record nearly in half. That's awesome. From 86 to 44. Unbelievable.
That's really, really cool. And yes, I was looking at some. She is pretty ripped. Her arms are pretty. That's cool. Yep. Cool story, Josh.
Yeah, yeah. I didn't know you didn't know.
But now you do. I do remember you talking about it.
When she was talking about going, yeah. Yeah. A while ago. Well, she did. And I just totally forgot. She did it. Yes. Would you rather this or that? Oh. Uh let me see. I haven't looked at it yet. I'm going to guess summer edition.
No, it's just uh, it's just uh, it's actually just a Josh and Chantel edition. Oh I mean, anybody can use it. Sure, okay. All right, but would you rather relive our first date again? Mm-hmm.
Or just which first date? When we first met or the first date. Oh. Because those two were not the same. Yeah, I agree.
Uh first date, not the time we've got to be. Not when we first met. No. Okay, gotcha. All right, go ahead. So first date. Okay. So relive that again. That I'm talking about the time we went bowling. Yeah.
And had lunch and then uh the movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, got it.
So that or jump ahead 20 years for one day.
Jump at 20 years from today for one day? Correct. I'm gonna relive the first date. You don't want to go to 2046 and see what eighty-five looks like? No. No, it's just 20 years. You didn't say 40 years? I said 20. 20 years. 20 years. We're not to 2046.
So we're not 65, Josh. I'm 45. Yeah. We're gonna be I thought you said 40 years. No, no, no, no. I'm reliving the first date.
Instead of seeing what 65 looks like. Correct. Yeah. Hmm. What are you gonna do? Why is this so hard for you? I'm just trying to decide. Because part of me is like, what's the world gonna look like in 20 years? Very interesting.
You just care about what the world's gonna look, not like how we're gonna look.
Well, yeah. In the world in 20 years from now. How are we gonna look in a world in 20 years from now? Okay. That's very interesting question.
It is a very interesting question. I just don't want to because what if you see something you don't want to see? And then you have that knowledge when you come back and you're like now.
I have to live with that knowledge and just wait 20 years for that to happen. Right. True story. Yeah, I don't want that.
I'd rather go back and relive. Okay. Is that what you're gonna put? That's fine.
Yeah, let's just do that. Okay, because that was fun. That was a fun day. It was a good time. It was a great day. Yeah. I wore my favorite shirt. As you do. And your dog? My dog. Yeah, you had a dog named Velcro.
Jumped up on you and made a little hole in it. Yeah. Yeah, I remember.
And I was like, ah, this is my favorite shirt.
It wasn't the dog's name was Velcro.
You should have known going in. It didn't.
That stuff can rip sometimes.
So I sewed it. It was fine. It was just never the same. Oh. My favorite shirt. Would you rather this or that?
Hey. What's up? I don't know. What's up? Were you banging around? Well, I didn't know it was.
I never know when we're on until I see you move the mics up to say we're going. And I didn't happen to see that. And so I see. When I looked up and you're just looking at me like, why aren't you saying anything? Are we on? Is it a go?
Well, you heard the song end in your headphones, so you it's like a good cue. You could start talking whenever you're ready.
Okay, listen to this. You were talking last night. We don't have air conditioning in our house. We sleep with the windows open, but it does not get any cross flow of air. And so it gets really good.
And we have a ceiling fan going. So it's moving the hot air around, but it is it's gotta be it's hot in that room.
It's hot, dude. And we have window units,
but I know, but then you worry about all the bugs that get into the body.
And they're it's a pain for you to kind of put them in and your elbow is hurting.
Well I would rather have a comfortable night's sleep.
That's fine with me.
The power bill spikes. There's a lot of there's a lot of reasons to not put in the air conditioning unit. I understand. Plus it's like for a few weeks. I know.
I know. I was trying to help you out, which is why I said, don't worry about it, because I know it's a pain for you. That's all. It's tough. But here is what you we could do. We could put in a snow room. This is what people are doing. A snow room. Rich people because Oh, rich people. these are pretty expensive.
This sounds like the opposite of a sauna.
Correct. That's exactly what it is. It's a walk in freezer. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. You walk in, it has like you push a button and it starts snowing. And it's similar, like the tech of it is really similar to what ski resorts has.
Okay. But it's just like an indoor blizzard. It's got snowfall, icy walls, freezing temperatures.
So you can go and it's a walk in freezer. Yeah. And a few billionaires already have some of these. And somebody even has a I don't know who, but this article I'm reading says somebody even has them on their super yacht. Of course they do. But now slightly less rich people are trying to get them too as part of a wellness trend, like cold plunges.
Sure thing. They're only $130,000. That's insane.
It's more than we paid for our house for one snow room. You gotta be kidding me. know Crazy.
That is wild. So listen, you can put up our air conditioned unit, or we can build a snow room. Which one would you prefer? Probably the AC unit. Yeah, it's gonna be cheaper, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Well, come on. I don't know.
I might have to get that done. That's just AC.
I know. It's just a lot of things. It is pretty miserable. But it's so miserable in our rooms. I said, let's try and sleep in the basement. And you said we don't even
have we don't have like a bed. Like we have the giant theater couch thing, but it's not comfortable. And I gotta move my CPAP down there. That just sounds like a lot. Just a sounds like a lot of work. Where it's dark and a little bit cooler.
Yeah, a little more comfortable. Right. I always feel guilty when we have because we only have two air conditioner units. We put one in our kitchen and one in our bedroom. Right.
And the one in the dining room there that like cools the main living area and then our room. Yeah.
But I always feel bad because our kids are like sweating to death still. And I'm like, good night. Going to work comfortable. I don't know.
Something's got to change, though. I am living like way too hot these days. It's it's crazy.
You go through menopause.
Man opas.
Yeah. You go through parameters. Paramano pods. No. Let's do it so much.
I just it's just hot. It's the it's July.
Let's see if they go through the hot
flash. flashes. For the next eight weeks. It's good. I'm not having hot flashes. I'm having a hot summer. I know. It's hot summer.
Even this morning you're in the studio. You'll be able to do that. Oh, it's hot.
It's 74. It's 74 in the room right now. We'll go turn down the it could be five degrees cooler in here. That'd be great. No. Yes. I feel comfortable. I'm sweating.
You really are going through some paramenopause. No, I'm just hot. It's hard. True.
Oh, stop. We gotta end this show. Sizzle. Stop it. You're sizzling, Josh. No. I'm sweating. Okay, let's end. All right. Have a great rest of your Monday. Hey, happy back to work day. Yay.
Back to reality.
Tomorrow is kind of a big special day, and we haven't really talked about it much. No. Um, but tomorrow is our 500th episode of Wake Up Classy 97, the podcast. So we've we take this show every day and turn it into uh like a one-hour podcast, so you can listen back to the show on demand whenever you want. Yeah, yeah. We make that available on Spotify, it's on Apple, it's on Amazon, it's on Pocket Cast, it's on YouTube, it's all over the place. Uh and uh it's very, very exciting to reach milestones uh like like this.
We've done the show, we've done more than 500 shows because we didn't start doing the podcast until May of 24. Is that right? I don't remember.
I think I think that's right. Anyway, it it could have been May of 25. It might only be May of 25.
Regardless, tomorrow is our 500th episode. Correct. Uh, which is uh a pretty big achievement in my in my eyes. Oh, yeah, it is. Um, because every day for the past 499 days as of today, uh, I've taken our show and turned it into a podcast. Yeah, yeah.
And made that available on demand. Uh so tomorrow, uh we're gonna try and do something a little special, maybe. I'm gonna try to uh to do some video stuff, so we'll see if we can't like make the whole 500th show available as as video in studio as well. Maybe we'll decorate a little bit. Yeah, we'll decorate it. Maybe we'll uh do a little bit of celebratory stuff. Yeah. Um, but 500 episodes.
It might be fun to come up with like, I don't know, maybe I'll quiz you on some things that we've talked about in the past or something.
Out of the 500 episodes. Yeah. Oh boy. In the first episode of the podcast, you said is that still true? Oh boy. That'll be that'll be interesting. But uh yeah, hey, thanks for um for hanging out with us uh you know through so many shows. It it really means a lot. It does. It's very cool.
It does. Um, and we get to we get to talk to listeners here and there and and uh you know hear different kinds of feedback and we appreciate it. So thank you for being a part of what we've done for 499 shows. Tomorrow, five hundred. Big day. It's a big deal.
It's a big deal. So uh we'll talk to you then. Okay. Thanks for hanging out. Have a good day. Goodbye. Bye.
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