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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Monday, December 16, 2024
Episode summary introduction:
The snow is brown in Maine, what do you do while carolers are singing at your house, Chantel’s mom always gave a special gift to the mailman and that’s suspicious, a chili charcuterie is not a real thing, one of us was labeled a bad parent for being sick and going to be early, Chantel was not very sneaky but made up for it with awkwardness, there’s a ribbons & bows department at the north pole and they work very closely together, teen girls love MASH on TikTok, Chantel has curb envy with our neighbors, and we learned a trick to swallowing pills.
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Full show transcript:
This is wake up classy 97, the podcast. It's a replay of today's full show in about an hour or so. It's Monday, December 16th. On today's show, the snow is brown in Maine. Don't touch it.
Eat it. Don't eat it. What do you do while carolers are singing at your house? I guess you just stand there for 3 to 5 songs. My mom always gave a special gift to the mailman, and that's suspicious.
Yes, it is. Suspicious. It's suspicious. She was just being kind. Kind of, suspicious.
A chili charcuterie is not a real thing. No. That's just a chili bar. It's a chili bar. One of us was labeled a bad parent for being sick and going to bed early.
No. Guess who it was. Not me. Guess who was labeled a bad parent? Good parent.
Oh, really? I was not very sneaky, but made up for it with awkwardness. True facts. That's just how I live my life. Yep.
There's a ribbons and bows department at the North Pole, and they work very closely together. Yeah. You learned about them in great detail. Teen girls love MASH on TikTok. And so does Chantel.
And it's not the army show. No. But you also love MASH. No. I don't.
Yeah. You do. That song comes on. You see you hear the helicopter noise, and you run to the TV. No.
No. You just can't wait to watch MASH. No. I have curb envy with our neighbors, and Josh won't let me get decorations. Because there's no room on our tiny porch.
And we learned a trick to swallowing pills. And also that I can't, or you can't, I guess, swallow with your mouth open. That's new it. Close yours. Yeah.
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How many days till Christmas? 9. I think 8? 9? I think 9 days.
8 days until Christmas Eve. There you go. 9 days until Christmas. Yeah. That's correct.
You are correct. Your math was on point. I know. Thank you. Yeah.
Well done. I'm good at math. Well done. I know you are. I'd never doubted you.
Not for a second. I actually just counted the days. I went 5 plus the weekend plus 3. However you get there. Whatever it takes.
Plus 2, actually. Uh-huh. 5 +2+2. Sure. That's how I did it.
5 then 2 and 2. Yeah. So I counted the 5 days of this week plus the Saturday, Sunday weekend. I know Christmas is on Wednesday, so then I counted Monday Tuesday of the next week. Alright.
Well, look at that. 52 and 2. You got there. I get it. I get math.
Me and math are buds. Yeah. 9 days till Christmas. Holy moly. 8 days till Christmas Eve.
Big deal. Big deal. It's a big deal. I have so much left to do. Mhmm.
I have an abundance of things to get done. Do you have to get done? Everything that I have not yet done. What are the things that you haven't got done? Of it.
What have I done? Yeah. But, this isn't meant to sound mean. What do you typically do? Oh, wow.
I said it's not meant to sound mean. It is I'm actually genuinely curious. Have shopping to get done. But what shopping? Quite a bit.
For? People. Who? I have a list of people I need to buy for. Okay.
That's the big one. And then wrapping, and then, you know, all of that. So there's a lot to do. We have a lot of wrapping to do. So Yeah.
We have a lot to get done. Yeah. And 9 days to do it. It's okay. Okay.
It'll all work out. It'll all be fine. It always does. I know. And guess what?
What? Christmas is like a baby. What's that mean? It comes where whether you're ready for it or not. I see.
Alright. Well Well, I see. What else you gotta say? I got nothing else to say other than good morning, and it's Josh and Chantel, and we're glad to be here. And, that's that's what I know.
Yeah. We are. Are you not? I am. Okay.
Good. Sleepy. Well, of course. It's a Monday morning. It's early.
It's definitely okay to be a little sleepy. It's dark. It's a little cold. Good morning. We saw some snow this weekend, I think.
There's still a little bit hanging around. I think this is our first snowfall of the season. I would agree that at least that, like, stuck around a little bit. Yeah. There was some snow in Maine that fell.
Uh-huh. And it was brown. Why? They had some brown snow. Why did they get brown snow?
Chocolate snow? No. No. Why is it brown? The, officials there said, please don't touch this.
Avoid this at all cost. They, they have a paper mill Oh. In the town, and they think there was a malfunction causing the mill to release a paper making byproduct called black liquor Oh, good. Resulting in the precipitation of brown or town tan colored snow. Yeah.
Don't eat that. They had the main department of environmental protection to check it out. They're like, send out the, environmental protection. So they're calling it snow. Was it actually snow, or was it just paper?
I think it was snow sample. I I don't know what they're calling it. They're calling said it was it was it snow. But Right. But I'm wondering if it were if it did go up into the atmosphere and then fall with snow.
Because it's not deeper either. Did it just go up and then, become snow of some kind? I don't I don't understand how it all worked out. Neither. But Like, if ash was falling, it looked like snow, but it would be ash.
So would you say it's snowing ash outside? No. Maybe. You might. Snowing black liquors, like, what you call this?
Yeah. Don't, don't mess around with that. Yeah. They took a bunch of tests on it and then said, we're gonna also take this back to our lab Mhmm. And do some more testing on this.
Smart. If there's a paper mill in the town, and this is the first time that they've see it seems like this is maybe one of the first times they've and just something seems a little suspicious. And who hit that button? Who hit the put it into the town button? Let the townspeople have this bunch.
Here's my favorite part. They're saying everyone, pets, children, adults, please avoid coming into contact or ingesting this, quote, unquote, snow. Mhmm. And then they say, it is not toxic. That's no.
See, that's a don't be scared, but also beware. Yeah. Exactly. And then they say, but it could irritate your skin. Yeah.
Okay. I would not hang around that stuff. I'm glad that our snow was white. Is it? Don't touch the brown snow.
Yeah. No. Don't touch any colored snow. No. Stay away from non white snow.
That's a good idea. Good idea. Oh, it's me. Hi. Hi.
Good morning. Hey. Have you ever gone caroling? No. Have you ever had carollers?
I've never had them show up at the house. I've never had them show up at our house either. I have gone caroling. What do you do when they show up? You just stand in your doorway and listen?
They've never shown up. But So I don't know why I went to went caroling, did people just stand in their doorway and listen? I went with a church group. Okay. And most of the people that we visited kinda had an idea that we were coming.
Mhmm. And so it wasn't like a I mean, it was kind of a surprise, but not either. They didn't know when we were coming. We just wanted to make sure they it was mostly, like, elderly people in our church. Sure.
And so Did they sign up on a list to have carolers visit? Or No. We just thought it would be something nice to do for them, and we wanted to make sure that they would be home and that it was gonna be acceptable for us to come to their house. And, yeah, they just didn't do the just walk through a neighborhood caroling and stopping at houses and making people stand in their front door? I mean, they stood in their front door.
Yeah. They didn't get invited inside their house. No. I don't think you do. I think you you stand outside, and people stand in their doorway and watch.
And do you do you watch for 1 song? Do you watch for 2 or 3? I don't I feel like there's a lot of, I don't know. Look. Back in the old days, that was entertainment.
So maybe stopping whatever mundane, boring thing you had going on to watch carolers sing 3 to 5 songs in your doorway was a big Right. To do. Can you I don't know. It's rare when I'm at home, and I'm not already doing something else. Right.
That's not like, now I'd be like, I'm I'm I'm tied up with Especially during the movie or a show or Yeah. A football game or a whatever. Especially during the Christmas season too. Like, you're extra busy. Right.
So if you show up my house, season too. Like, you're extra busy. Right. So if you show up my house and you're gonna sing to me one song, 2 songs, and I have to stand there, and it's cold Right. And I don't have shoes on, and I don't have a coat on.
Yeah. I don't know. I'm not saying that it wouldn't be welcome, but I am saying, like, maybe just one brief song so I can get back to what it is I was doing. Right. That's what I'm saying.
Sounds so ungrateful. Maybe don't show up singing the 12 days of Christmas. Don't send that anyway. Nobody likes that song. Don't sing it.
Gonna sing the 12 days of Christmas, start at 12. Yeah. And you're gonna hit all of them in one swoop, and I'm good with that. And then you're done. Yeah.
And then maybe leave me some cookies. Give me oh, is that how it works? I didn't think the carolers brought treats as well. They don't. I've never heard of that happening.
That's not a thing. Okay. I just like cookies. Alright. It.
Oh, you know what'd be funny? What? If we went caroling to all of the people at our office. Would it? Yes.
Would it? Yes. Not well, okay. Never mind. We're not gonna go stand in somebody's office doorway No.
Singing for, like, 3 minutes? Why 3 minutes? How long is it gonna take you to get through a song? Not 3 minutes. A couple of minutes.
We're gonna find a short song. You're gonna sing just the one song over and over and over? This is not a big space. Like, people are gonna hear you, and then you're just gonna show up at their door and do exactly what they just heard next door. You're right.
Never mind. Bad idea. Yeah. Plus, you and I are not great singers. So Well, that's what would make it way more good and fun.
I Good and fun. Yeah. Way more good and fun. Mhmm. That's right.
The good and fun carolers were called? If you wanna book us. Nope. No. Nope.
The Good and Fun Carolers. Yeah. That's us. We're in the yellow pages. The GFC.
The Good and Fun Carolers. We're in the yellow pages? Yep. That's where you'll find us. Go look it up.
No one has a yellow page anymore. Bingo. Hey. It's good news. Oh.
Yeah. The holiday season, is upon us. And this year, some students from Bell Elementary in Tyler, Texas have, made themselves, their this own little project to spread joy and kindness. Great. Yeah.
They have an after school leadership program called the Bella Girls. This is Bell Elementary. So these are the Bella Girls, a group of enthusiastic 4th 5th graders who've been organizing some pretty heartwarming community projects. The Bella Girls recently visited the Hamptons Living Community, which is a senior living home. They brought along cupcake socks What?
Which are socks rolled to look like cupcakes Okay. I see those. Hand out to people that live there little, socks. The residents very thrilled, and the visit inspired a lot of smiles and warm conversations, of course. One of the school counselors and the program leader is named Kim Collum, and, she believes the event was a display of the power of community.
She said being able to see the girls today just come and interact and meet new people and just give back to the community and just even this small little way, I think all of us wanna know that someone is thinking about us and that we're and that we care about them, and that's very, very cool. Sweet. Yeah. That's nice. So What are they called?
The Bella Girls. The Bella Girls. Bell Elementary in Tyler, Texas. I was gonna call them the cupcake girls. Well, sort of.
That's a book. That's what they brought. Little cupcake socks, and they handed them out The Bella Girls. Some time. Yeah.
For their 5th graders. Yep. Well done. Yep. Really cool.
Some some good news It is some good news. To get you on. And kindness. Yeah. It's a good mission to be on.
I'm on a mission to spread joy and kindness. Watch out. We don't like joy and kindness here. No way. That's good stuff.
You want lots of that. It's good news to get you going. This is the time of year when I, like most people, have great intentions. I always start out with really good ideas at the beginning of the Yeah. Season.
And then as time goes on and I realize I don't have time to do all of the things that I wanna do, I go, well, I'm gonna have to kick that to the wayside. It's this is the season where I call myself my middle name is Good Intentions. Chantel Good Intentions, Tielor. Right. Because I have great intentions, but my follow through is a bit lackluster.
And, again, I'm I'm going to, reiterate that they're only your own expectations. No. I get that. It's you. You're letting yourself down, and that's it.
No one is like, oh, I really wish you would have done that thing we didn't know you were gonna do. I try to do neighbor gifts every year Right. Which is something small for our neighbors. And I I thought you had a good idea. Yeah.
So our we do have some neighbors that we'd love, and they bring us every year, they bring us over a plate of delicious homemade goodies, and I go and they're different treats? Yeah. Like, they've made some different stuff. It's great. And I'm like, thank you so like, good job, you guys.
I've never done that for our neighbors. So I'm sorry to our neighbors. I do have a good idea this year. Uh-huh. And there are neighbors right next to us that we don't know.
I don't know their names. Right. And I thought, I should get them something too because they're nice. Yeah. We smile at each other when we Yeah.
We wave. Come home. Yeah. Sometimes they tear down your fence for you. No.
That's it. That's not the neighbors I'm thinking of. Yeah. We've got we've got several neighbors. So I'm just trying to see where we're at.
But yeah. Okay. The these neighbors, the ones that we don't know their names are Right. We haven't ever spoken to them. They used to have a well, they still do have a son, but when he was younger and possibly did not have a cell phone Sure.
He would come knocking at our house and say, hey. Is your guys' power out? Yes. It is. And we'd be like, yeah.
Yep. Something's going on, and he'd be like, oh, okay. Thanks. And then we never saw them or heard from them again. And so the power went out again, and he'd come over and he'd be like, hey.
What's going on? Hours out. It's been a long time since we saw that kid. He got older. He got a cell phone.
What happens. Yeah. He was able to figure out what he found, though. Flew the coupe. He might be off doing school or something.
I haven't seen him for a long time. Where he's at. Oh, no. We gotta get those neighbors a gift. Yeah.
I agree. Okay. So you've got a good idea. I think, I think we just gotta follow through now. I will.
Okay. Happy to help. I'm just you know, let's just get it done. Half of it's done already. Yeah.
I just need to finish the rest of it. Well, finish the rest of it. Okay. Okay. It's good intention met.
My mom always did gifts for the neighbors that she knew, but then gifts for the mailman. Oh. The post office person. That's interesting. I know.
What are you suggesting? Not suggesting anything. What are you assuming I'm suggesting? She just liked him. Mhmm.
No. Uh-huh. Something nefarious going on. Nothing. Nothing nefarious.
She was just nice. I know. She's just being nice. I know. I know.
Sorry to our mail worker. Yeah. Postal carrier. I don't even know who it is. Is it a mail?
I feel like we have different ones all the time. Yeah. So I can't I can't I'm sorry. I appreciate you. I appreciate the work you do.
Sometimes late into the night. I get it. Sometimes in terrible weather. I can't leave you a gift because I don't know who you are. Or But I'll tell you what I can leave.
What? Mail in my mailbox No. I don't even do that. For you to move around. I haven't mailed something in a very long time.
I know. Well Well Good intentions. Good intentions. Chantel, good intentions. You're gonna meet them.
You're gonna meet your good intentions this year. I just know it. I can feel it. I know we're gonna hold hands and skip We'll celebrate. To the winter wonderland.
It'll be a big deal. Yep. It's a big deal. We've been having a bit of discussion about what to eat for Christmas dinner. I know, last week or the week before, we talked about it on the show, and we decided we weren't really into the turkey and ham traditional Right.
Type meal. So we've been trying to figure out what to have. Prime rib. Yeah. Right?
That too. So, you had found something, and you shared this with me yesterday. And you said, what about I saw a chili charcuterie. And I said, that's not a thing. It is.
It's way. No. It's not. It's just a chili bar. It's just a bowl of chili because he and all the stuff you can put on it.
That's not a chili charcuterie. Hey. Did you see that chili charcuterie I sent you? And you went Which I did not. Charcuterie?
And I said, oh, it's like your pot of chili, and then you have all of these toppings. And you went, oh, like a chili bar. It's a chili bar. Well, now I can't even find the post. Yeah.
It looks fine. No. I'm No. Look. How cute is that?
How cute is a bowl of chili with a plate of toppings? Yeah. I know. I'd rather just not have all the toppings out like that. Why?
There's sour cream, and there's jalapenos in there. Just splayed out on a cutting board. Yeah. Yeah. So the sour cream is gonna get all runny.
Josh. Don't me. The cheese is gonna get all hard sitting out in the air. You're not gonna leave it out for hours. Dude?
Dude, you. How long do you think chili charcuterie is gonna be out? You put it out for 10 minutes, get your plate, get your toppings, and then when everybody's done, you put it away. What a mess. At most half an hour.
And all you're gonna do is take all the stuff out of the bags and containers and put it on that board and then have to put it all back into the container or throw it away. Wow. Wow. No way. It's a bad idea.
It'd be like if someone said, hey. Come over for a nacho charcuterie. We'll have all the stuff to make nachos on the counter. That's just a nacho bar. You like baked potatoes?
Come over to our baked potato charcuterie. It's not a thing. Alright. We're not doing chili. Geez Louise.
Chili Charcuterie. Had to say was you didn't like the idea. That's all you had to say. I I'm fine with the idea of having a chili bar, a nacho bar, a baked potato bar, a mashed potato bar, a grilled cheese and soup bar. Oh.
Pick a thing. Don't call it a charcuterie just to make it sound cute. But it looks it looks cuter than a I don't chili bar. I the way it looks matters not to me. But it matters to me.
Is it a bowl of chili? Am I using tongs or a fork or a spoon to get the cheese out of the bag? Fine. I don't I don't need it on a board where it gets all hard. It's not I don't know why you think it's gonna get hard.
It's not gonna be of shredded cheese sitting on a cutting board will get hard. It's not gonna get it's not gonna be out there for hours. Scooting closer and closer to me. Like, listen to me. You know, I've heard.
You said chili charcuterie, and I checked out. I've heard enough. Emery's school did a late movie night on Friday. Yeah. She's not driving yet.
She's taking driver's ed, so, she needed somebody to chaperone her. Right. Not chaperone, but drive her there. Her and her friend. Right.
The problem was that the movie started at 11:30. It was a late night thing. Typically go to bed at 10. Right? So I take her.
I take her and her friend down to the movie. The doors opened at, I think, 11:10. So we drove down at 11, and I said, great. And she said, mom, are you gonna be awake to come pick us up? You weren't feeling well, so you were already tucked away in bed.
I was not I was not leaving the house. So one of us had to be a good parent. And I said, yes. Good. Just had to be the one responsible for this particular task.
I said But go on. Yeah. Of course, I'm gonna be there. And she goes, are you gonna fall asleep? And I went, no.
I know how to I know how to stay awake when I need to. I got this. I got this. How'd this go? The movie was 2 hours long.
Right. So if it started at 11:30, that meant they got done at 1:30. Yeah. And, again, I go to bed at 10. Right.
So did you fall asleep? I turned on a movie on the couch. I was doing fine, doing great until about 12:45. You fell asleep. And I went Yeah.
And then something happened, and the dog started barking and woke me up, which I've never been more appreciative of our dog. Because I went, woah. That would have been so bad. Yeah. That would have been bad.
Bad parent. Oh. It would have been. Wouldn't it have been? Yes.
Yes. It would have been very bad. And I so I sat there for a minute, and I kept nodding off, and I went, no. I can't I can't sit here any longer in my cozy little blanket in my cozy little house. No.
You'll be asleep. I had to put on my shoes and go outside in the cold because I knew if I'd stayed there much longer. Absolutely. Right. There would have been no more waking me back up.
So I picked him up. I was there on time. I was early because I you. I know. Fancy.
Look at me being a good parent. Yeah. Look at me sleeping because I was sick. Dropped her off at the movie. I didn't know if there was gonna be enough seats.
I didn't know if it was gonna be a sold out show, and I said, hey. Text me. I'll drop you off, and then I'll drive around. It was a I said, I'll drive around. And then once you get into the movie, text me so I know that you're in the movie Right.
And then I'll head home. Right. And she did, and I just sat there going, I don't know what our parents did when we were kids. They dropped us off and went, good luck. Yeah.
I know. Find a phone to call me if you need something. Yeah. That's what it was. I don't know how it worked back.
It was the nineties and the late eighties. I don't know how it worked. It was probably even worse in the seventies because I don't know. You're just on your own. Yeah.
You were. Figure it out. And your parents were like, well If you have to walk home, you're walking home. I I could I wish you good luck, child. I'm positive there was more planning involved ahead of time.
There had to be. And somebody was responsible, and somebody knew the timing and showed up. And that's just how it was. And that's and you hoped for the best, and you didn't fall asleep on the couch because? I'm sure that happened sometimes.
Did not happen this week. No. It didn't. I was a good parent. Well done.
Good parent. One day out of all of the years years You did it. One night was a good parent. Where do you begin this story? Let's start with, you know how in life sometimes you just feel icky, and then you you decide, you know, I probably should go talk to somebody about I feel icky.
Mhmm. And it's late in the weekend or it's late at night or whatever. So you go to, like, like, one of those urgent care type places. And then, you go in there and they're like, you know, I just don't feel good sending you home. Maybe we should send you over to the emergency room.
And so they're like, yeah. Let's do that. Then they send you over to the emergency room, and then you end up spending a lot of hours in the emergency room. A lot of hours. It's it's kinda how Saturday went, for me.
I did. You were there with me because I needed someone to drive me around. So that's where the story, I guess, starts. That's where it starts. So you were in the hospital bed Uh-huh.
Doing some sleeping off and on. Right. I was on my phone because what else is there to do when you're waiting for doctors to come back with test results and different things? Right. And then my phone dies.
And I went, oh, no. You were super sad because your phone at one point, you said my phone's at 4%. Mhmm. And you didn't have a charger because you weren't expecting to be sitting there with nothing to do but look at your phone for Hours. A lot a long time.
Hours. Yeah. And, then I started to get a little antsy, a little bit bored. Yeah. And so then I started making my own kind of fun.
Uh-huh. I was doing some stretching. I was looking around the room. Yeah. Doing a little bit of snooping.
And what did you find? I found some gloves. Yeah. Because there's a box of gloves. There's a lot of box of gloves, and I said, oh, they're not gonna miss one glove.
Right. And you thought it'd be funny to wear a glove. I thought it'd be funny to put on a glove and kinda harass you a little bit. Which you do. And here's the thing about Chantel.
No matter how comfortable or uncomfortable you are, you could be out shopping for shoes, for example. And you know that little box of, thin socks they put out? That's like your best friend. I love that thing. You love that thing.
I like taking those socks. Because you get one of those little things, and you put it on your finger, and then you just poke me with it with your weird little sock finger. I don't poke you. It's best to just rub your face. Yeah.
It's weird. So that's imagine that, but it's a just a rubber glove. Yeah. My favorite part, though, is you've got the rubber glove on, and then the doctor walks in. A different doctor.
Yeah. It was not Right. There was a shift change Right. While we were there. And the doctor that we had been talking to the whole time we've been there Right.
Was gone. New doctor, and they went, because he hid my gloved hand. I think the other doctor, we had built up enough of a rapport with her that I would've been like, I'm sorry. I got bored. This new doctor, we didn't know.
Right. And I went, and so I quickly hid my blue hand, my blue gloved hand, and I sat down. Because you couldn't take it off. It'd make noise Yeah. And then you'd get busted.
Yeah. So you had one rubber glove hand hiding. Yeah. I tucked my I folded my arms Yeah. And I was doing my best to hide my rubber glove while he's telling us all these medical procedures.
Yeah. Busted. You got busted with a rubber glove for him. I didn't get busted. I hit I did a good job hiding it.
Uh-huh. He went to take off your blood pressure cuff, and I hurried and took my arm out and then took off the glove Oh, yeah. And, like, tucked it in my purse. You are a ridiculous person. I know.
What really should have happened is I'm an adult. Yeah. You should've just sat in the chair. Just said, I'm really sorry. I got bored.
I took a glove. Or didn't take a glove. There's always that option. The option where you didn't take a glove. Where is the fun in that?
I don't know. Just leave it. I love it. I mean, it was seconds after you put the glove on, you went to the other side of the room, and the doctor came in, and you immediately were like, Yeah. We've been there for hours without seeing a nurse or a doctor or anything, and I was like, ah, I'm just gonna take a glove.
And then he walks in. Yeah. It was like a bad It's the way it goes. Kid parenting moment. You got caught.
I didn't get caught. Disbanded. No. I didn't. I did a good job hiding it, and then I snuck it off.
I bet he probably knew. He was probably like, oh, somebody took another glove. Yeah. Chantel's been in here taking the glove. He was actually a fine doctor.
Yeah. He would have been he probably would have been okay. I should have just said, I took a glove. You just hold it up, like, I do you need any help? I'm gloved up.
I'm ready to help. Can I help? What can we do now, Don? Yeah. No.
Then slap. Yeah. Exactly. Did Santa, when you were a kid Yeah. Did he always wrap your presents?
When I'm adult. Yes. Absolutely. There was never a year that you woke up and you had, like, a even, like, a big item that was just on display? Always always wrapped.
Sometimes you see, like, movies or different things where the kids walk down to Christmas morning, and there's items that are unwrapped. Right. Half the fun is unwrapping them. I agree. Yeah.
I I don't I it's the way I of it all. The way I grew up anyway for what it's not. To I know. I'm trying to think of a time that there was a present that was oh, there was one time. I had a I had a dollhouse Mhmm.
That, was it was large. It was a large gift, and it didn't come in a box. Gotcha. It was built. It was constructed.
Correct. That's neat. And so it was not wrapped. Yeah. I think that was the only time.
Was it, was it adorned with a bow? No. Oh, it just It could've been. I just don't remember. To have been.
It's possible that it was. I just don't remember. The big man's got a whole bow department, so I I think that's probably probably in a bow. I'm sure it had a bow. Yeah.
Couldn't even had a ribbon. Maybe. It's possible. The bows and ribbons department is one thing, and they work very closely together to make things pretty. I know.
So what I'm saying is It had a bow. It probably at least had a bow. I'm trying to even remember our kids. Did our kids ever have anything where Santa didn't wrap? He just left it on display?
No way. No. There was there was one time. Emery had gotten a it was a school. It was like a big school for her American Girl dolls.
Oh. Santa brought that 1 year, and that was not wrapped. Was it adorned with a bow? Because if you didn't hear, he's got a bow and ribbon department that works very closely together. Again, please.
Things very pretty. And I'm telling you, it it better had a bow. You just don't leave things without a bow. How do you know it's a gift? That's what I'm saying.
There's a whole department. Yeah. And they work very closely together, bows and ribbons, to make things look pretty and to designate them as a gift. Hey. That's got the bow on it and ribbons.
Be a gift. It's a gift. See? Dumb. That's very important that you know that.
We all know it now, Josh. Thanks. If I was gonna work in any department You would pick the Bose and the ribbons department? I I wouldn't. Why?
I think that's a great department. They work very closely together, but I don't I don't think I would be there. What department would you pick? I don't know. The reindeer.
I don't wanna be in charge of the reindeer. Too bad. That's Why are you picking for me? You voluntold me to do so many things in my life. You're not gonna voluntold me to go handle the reindeer.
I think you'd be good at it. I don't wanna be good at it. What department do you wanna work at? I don't know. You know, flight tower?
That'd be fun. You wanna do that? Yeah. Alright. You can do that.
Job. Jeez Louise. You got awfully testy about your Here's the thing about flight towers. We're gonna have a few diagnostic testing flights and a few things we're gonna have to do throughout the year. But for the most part, it's kinda one big job, one night.
The rest of the time, you're kinda taking it easy. That could be true of any departments up there at the Northwell. Way. You don't think that ribbons and bows aren't busy with a quota of ribbons and bows they have to put together all the time? Come on.
Get with it. Reindeer, year round job. Reindeer, absolutely a year round job. Job. You wanna know the the day you get off?
Never. No. You get Christmas Eve off. That's it. That's it.
You're working year round for one day off. I don't think I don't think the ribbons and bows department is working year round either. They gotta make ribbons and bows. I think they probably started November, and then they worked 2 months. And then they're like way.
Rest of the day, you gotta rest those fingers. No way. Yeah. Dude, they're starting to march. They're gonna get carpal tunnel.
They're starting in March. Millions of presents? Billions of presents? August is the earliest flight tower. You think you can work in the flight tower?
Yeah. Wear a headset and talk on a microphone. Got it. Nailed it. You know how when you were a kid, you used to play that game called MASH?
Oh, yeah. And it was, like, where you'd live and who you'd marry and how many kids you'd have, what your job was. Yes. And it was like a little finger thing, and you'd No. That was different.
Oh, was it? What was that called? That was a cootie catcher. But wasn't that the same? Didn't that give you the same results?
I mean, if you wrote it depended on what you wrote inside the little cootie catcher. Okay. You could write anything in there. But MASH was m a s h at the top of your paper, and m was mansion, a was apartment, s was shack, h was just a regular house. Okay.
And then you put, like, who you're gonna marry Okay. How many kids you're gonna have, and if you had any pets. Okay. You could make it as detailed as possible. Alright.
There were friends who used to do this, and they would say, what color of pets are you gonna have? Good grief. Yeah. And then you would count anyway, they have a version of this on TikTok. And I saw it the other day, and I You made me do this.
Is this? Yeah. They're calling it my life. My life. And then you just pick it'll give you it gave you where you were gonna live.
Car and a job and What you were gonna do for your job, what kind of car. Yeah. Mine, I don't I didn't take a picture of yours. I don't remember where you lived. I lived do.
In a sewer. You live in a sewer? Yeah. I lived in a snowy cottage. Look at you.
Mhmm. Lucky? I was a streamer, a gaming streamer. What was my job? I don't remember.
I had a pink Ferrari Cool. And a pug. Nice. That was my life. That was my max.
Hamster. I remember You did have a hamster. What kind of car did you catch? Snowy cottage with a hamster. I don't remember the car, and I don't remember what my job was.
Probably because they both were lame, but I was cool with the snowy cottage and the hamster. Yeah. Snowy cottage. So I was gonna hang in the snowy cottage with my hamster. Hamster?
Yeah. Just me and the hamster. Hang on. And I just go, is this the this is the new generation's mash? I think it said I was a remote worker.
I think it's all it said. So I worked from my snowy cottage with my hamster. But, yeah, why would you ever leave your snowy cottage? I got a fireplace. I got foods.
You got a hamster? I got a hamster. Get desperate for foods. No. That's not a big meal.
Not a big meal. But you're right. If I did get desperate, then I would have a hamster. No. I wouldn't eat your hamster.
That's sad news. It would be sad news. What would be my hamster's name? Joey. Joey the hamster.
It's me and Joey hanging out. I like it, but I'm mad about it. What's your pug's name? Samantha. Samantha.
Okay. You said something I did. I said something. Made me laugh. Well and you said it when we had, we'd come home from, the fun time at the, emergency room.
And we're walking in the house, and you you looked around. You went, I just love all these Christmas decorations. They're so festive. And you were being incredibly sarcastic because the house is cute. It's all lit up, and the tree's lit.
We got ornaments hanging, and and it's all decorated and stuff. But you have these dead plants in pots on the step, and they were part of your Christmas decor, I guess. No. But that's what you were talking about. I just love all these Christmas decorations.
They were part of my Halloween decor Oh. You could say, because dead plants and Halloween go together. Alright. And I put, fake bones inside of the plants at Halloween. And then I just forgot to roll them out when Christmas hit, and so the house looks festive.
We've got ornaments hanging from the tree. Right. There's Christmas lights. If you walk into our house, it's super festive inside the house. Right.
It's just that front, my front porch needs some work. To cheer up for the holidays? Yeah. I don't necessarily love the dead plants. 9 days to go.
I know. And that's the other part I got from. Become New Year plants. But here's the thing. Do I want to spend money on more decorations?
No. Do I also have to have a plan on where to store those porch decorations? Yes. Do I have room to store the porch decorations? No.
It's like 2 plants. What do you mean? That's all it is. Right? Just the 2 plants?
The 2 dead plants? Yeah. Yeah. I just have to get rid of those, but then I want something cute to go in the place of those planks. I I don't think it's necessary, and I'll tell you why.
Because if the snow comes, I gotta move them to shovel anyway. Well, they they would just be on the steps. No. I know. You're gonna put decorations there?
Yeah. Then that's in the way of the shoveling. You see what I'm saying? Yeah. But they'd be out of the way.
Just take them away. Don't put anything back. But then it looks so boring. No. It'll look prepared to be shoveled is what it'll look.
But the neighbor has Christmas trees, and they look cute. Good for the neighbor. Guess what else the neighbor has? To move the trees to shovel. No.
Yeah. I did see I was at the store yesterday, and I saw a I mean, you can get those small Christmas trees that are real. I mean, they're only 3 feet tall, and they were on sale. Oh. And I said, oh, I should get one of these, but it's alive.
And so then I go, what do I do with this after Christmas? Oh, it's gonna dry out. Not if you keep watering it. How are you gonna water it outside? On the step where I'm gonna have to move it to shovel.
Also, there's not a big patio in front of the house. No. There's not. Put it on. Put a tree on it.
It's small. It was little. How big around? I don't care how tall it is. I mean There's not a lot of room to work with.
Arms around it. It's that small. You can put your arms around me when we hug. That's too big to be standing on the porch. You know what I mean?
I get it. We don't need that. Just if you're gonna take some away for the winter, that's fine. When the spring comes, go crazy with flower pots. What, Josh?
I didn't buy anything, did I? Dot dot dot yet. I didn't because I have other things to spend money on. I don't. I didn't.
I won't. Jeez Louise. Trying to be festive up in here, but Look. I'm just I'm trying to be a little no. We've got a well decorated house.
We don't need more for 1. For 2, I'm thinking function. It's gonna be in the way of shoveling. But the neighbors have really cute trees. Look at their trees then and go look at those cute trees.
I do. And then I look at my boring porch and go, oh, I wish I had cute trees. Boy. No. I'll never have cute trees.
You have curb envy. Too. Yikes. While we were at the emergency room over the weekend, part of the fun of that was the nurse gave you some pills Mhmm. And then asked if you needed some water.
Yeah. And you said you I'm not a please. I'm not a dry swallow guy. I I like to take a sip You do. And then, get things kind of, you know, moistened up.
And then I put the pills in there and take a sip, and then I swallow everything. What I noticed about you. I've never seen you take a pill before like that. That's That's the way I do it. And then we started talking with the nurse.
Sarah was her name. She was awesome, and we loved her. She asked if you were a dry swallower, which is interesting to me. Who does that? That's awful.
Sounds awful. And then you are an extra An extra sip. I don't know. I like a little sip and then pills and then sip. Yeah.
I'm just pill, sip. You hold them in your mouth and then add water and then swallow with the water? Yeah. I can't do that. It they're temporarily in there.
It's But the dry pill sitting on my tongue, no thank you. But it's it's seconds. Too many seconds. But it's not like the sip before you put the pills on there is gonna do much of anything, Josh. Keeps it from settling on my tongue.
There's a thin layer of moisture. I don't like that dry pill sitting on my tongue situation. What we also learned from nurse Sarah was that if you tip your head back, it actually closes off your esophagus. Correct. It opens up your airway.
Trachea. Yeah. So she said when you take a pill, you should actually tip your head forward. Correct. And that's gonna open up your esophagus.
Which is weird. I've been trying it because I'm still taking some pills and stuff, but I'm I've been trying it, and I end up spilling water everywhere. Oh, well, you should probably because I sip, and then I put the pills in, and then I add water, and then I put my head down, and water comes out. It's you gotta close your mouth. Yeah.
I I was just gonna say, I think you gotta close your mouth. But I'm learning about how the mouth works. You'll get there, buddy. It's it takes practice. It's weird because you're not used to doing it.
You're not used to putting your chin down to swallow the Is it easier to swallow the pills when you do that? Absolutely. It is. But I have to I have to be conscious about closing my mouth. Oh my gosh.
Otherwise, water goes all over. What have you done before when you've taken pills? Like, if you tip your head back I just your mouth was just cold. Keep my head low. Wow.
No. I don't tip my head back. Alright. I I put in a little water It's like that, and I go gulp. And then I put the pills in, and then I add a little water, and then I go gulp.
And your mouth goes. Then maybe sometimes it doesn't happen. No. It doesn't. You can I'm not like a baby bird.
Like that. Time out. Time out. Time out. Because I can't even swallow with my mouth open.
What? I'm trying. You can't you can't swallow with your mouth open? No. Yes.
You can do it with your mouth open. I just did, and that was the most difficult thing I've ever had to do. That was so stupid. You're so dumb. Oh, whatever.
You're over here. Oh, go ahead and do it. I can't. That is hard. Uh-huh.
Well, good job. We've got life figured out, don't we? No. We're learning new tricks all the time. We're so smart at life.
But if you put your chin down and keep your mouth shut Keep your mouth closed. It holds the water in, and then you can swallow better. Because then it opens up your esophagus instead of your airway. So just so you know, science or whatever. Science.
Mhmm. Biology. Yeah. And that. Which is the study of life.
Yep. We're learning it. One day at a time. Thanks to nurse Sarah. Appreciate it.
Would you rather this or that? It's a Christmas edition. Would you rather go ice skating or sledding? You know, I haven't ice skated in a very long time. Me neither.
When's the last time you went ice skating? The last time I went ice skating. Like, real legit ice rink ice skating. I don't think you've ever done it since I've known. I don't think so either.
I'm I really think the last time I went was when I was in high school, and we took a field trip to group thing or something? No. It's in high school. We took a field trip to Sun Valley. Oh, okay.
Remember. You went bougie ice skating. Know. Woah. We were there for something else, and we also got to ice skate, but I don't remember why we were there for.
The Olympic, skaters were training while you were there. 0. Are you sure? They have their own private training courses. They're not in gen pop training.
Just at the lodge. Yeah. Yeah. They're yeah. Are you sure?
Positive. You sure about that? But listen. I fell and hurt myself so bad, which I tend to do. I'm accident prone.
You're a fall risk. And I could barely even, like, move my arm the whole way home. No. So I went to Sun Valley in high school for a journalism thing. We did not ice skate, though.
The bus almost left us behind. Because you were too busy ice skating? We were busy doing something else, but my friend and I almost missed the bus. Could you imagine? Can you even?
I'm like, did you not even do a head check? Or a head count? What the heck? I don't think they were checking heads. They were probably counting them.
We gotta check your head. The last time I went ice skating was probably Cub Scouts, so it's been Wow. It's been quite a few years. We gotta go ice skating. 10 or 12 years.
Yeah. We could. I don't then sledding. Sledding. Here's the thing.
I got injured in sledding the last time I went to I did inline skating. I can roller skate. Ice skating, I've done. It's it's very similar. I'm I'm okay at it.
I don't do the backward stuff I can do on roller blades because I just haven't practiced enough. But I could probably figure some of that out pretty quick. I'd be okay at that. And then I don't have to walk up a hill. So I'm taking I'm taking ice skating because I hate walking up a hill.
There's nothing worse than walking up a hill. In snow and ice. Look. Once is fine. No.
You're here. Up a hill multiple times in an afternoon. Ugh. Why? Let's go ice skating instead.
That's my pick. Okay. I'll pick it too. Alright. Okay.
Would you rather just do that? That's gonna wrap up our show for today, but, hey, we do wanna remind you to come and hang out with us tonight. Nights of lights at Teton Toyota is back for year 3. We are gonna be there kicking it off tonight at 5:30. It runs until 7:30.
So you can stop by. You can, grab some hot cocoa, some cookies. You don't even get out of your car. No. You just drive through.
You get your cookie, you get your hot cocoa, you get your map, and you're off to see the wizard. Of lights. Of lights. Yeah. Something like that.
It's a lot of fun, and, class of 97, obviously, will provide the festive Christmas music soundtrack while you're driving around and checking out the, awesome lights out of the box. Yeah. So free hot cocoa cookies maps. Last year, they had these real really cool glasses. I think they'll have them again this year.
And you put those on, and they can make the, Christmas lights like elves or Santas or candy canes. Like, really super cool. So you wanna grab some of those if they have those as well. But definitely stop by. It's tonight, tomorrow, and Wednesday.
It's nights of lights at Teton Toyota just off Sunnyside in Idaho Falls. Start your, Christmas light viewing, festivities at Teton Toyota. That's great. Start there, and then go check them out. It's a lot of fun.
It's super fun. If you've done this before, come back again and do it again. If you haven't done this before, might I recommend it? It's a lot of fun. Yeah.
Start up a new tradition. Do it with your significant other as a date. Load up the whole family in the car, however you wanna do it. Go by yourself. Go with a bunch of friends, whatever.
It's a good time. For yourself? Yeah. Do a solo. Yeah.
That's what I'm saying. Kinda spoil yourself with a little hot cocoa and a cookie and some Christmas lights. Activity lights. I like it. Nights of lights with Teton Toyota kicks off tonight, 5:30 to 7:30, so take advantage of that.
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