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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Josh and Chantel celebrate a huge milestone: their 500th podcast episode of Wake Up Classy 97! We look back on years of tangents, laughs, and inside jokes while trying (and hilariously failing) to get AI to compile a "best of" highlight reel from their archives, an uplifting good news story about a Phoenix police officer who treated 144 students to a private movie screening, garden wins and losses, their most used movie quotes, some griping about pesky processing fees, a radio centric round of Would You Rather, capped off with confetti poppers to mark the occasion, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - 500th episode
(3:27) - Good News
(5:13) - AI can't do anything
(13:06) - Dead grass
(21:07) - Maybe breakfast
(25:22) - One strawberry & pocket peas
(29:08) - Dad brain vs imaginative brain
(35:08) - We're an escape room
(42:10) - Movie quotes
(48:33) - Tangents
(52:29) - I'll do it later projects
(58:52) - Processing fees
(1:03:44) - Would You Rather
(1:07:23) - Confetti!!
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Full show transcript:
Oh my goodness. Five hundred. Look at you. Look at you. Look at you, five hundred.
Okay, but here's what's better. Like, I know that today is our anniversary or the big day of our 500th episode of the podcast. But we've been doing the show for longer than that. That's the one. And I wish we had a record of how many shows we've done together.
It'd be hard to figure out just because of vacation and days off and weeks off that have happened and holidays and you know, those kinds of things. We could probably get a pretty good estimation.
Yeah. Because we've been doing the show. So we've been this is our 500th episode of the podcast version of the show.
Uh, which is which is cool. We have been doing the show since 2022. Yes.
Uh around Christmas time, between Thanksgiving and Christmas time of 2022. Yeah. So we've been doing the show for like four and a half years. Is that right? Yeah. 22 to 23, 23 to 24, 24 to 25, three and a half years.
Okay. This will be year number four coming up. That's crazy. Yeah. So you could assume that if we've been doing 500 episodes of the show in uh two years and a couple of months, that you could just double that. We've probably done a thousand live shows. That's a lot of shows. That's a lot of shows.
We've talked about a lot of nothing.
I mean, there's been some substance in there somewhere.
I'm sure of it. It doesn't matter because you know what? It's been fun. Yeah? Yeah. I'm having a good time. Me too. Yeah. Let's keep doing it. That's a good idea. I mean, as long as they'll keep paying me, I'll keep showing up. That's a good point. That is a good point.
Now, normally if you listen to the podcast version of the show, there's like a bonus uh break that happens at the very beginning. But I think we'll just today, we'll just start off with the show. Okay. Because we're here and it's 500, and we're just gonna roll in. There's nothing extra to say. I say now at the beginning of the show.
If indeed you listen to the podcast later and there's a bonus break at the beginning, it's because something happened and we changed our mind between now and the end of the show. That'll be fun.
That would be fun. But we did I brought cupcakes to celebrate.
We've got some decorations, some balloons we've got to blow up this morning. Yeah. Um, we still have to decorate the studio. Yeah. Yeah. At some point, there will be some video footage. Uh, whether that is recorded and and released later, or whether that is uh live, maybe, maybe both, maybe a little bit of both. Maybe we record some stuff, and then we also have uh some stuff live. I don't it's gonna be it's a crazy day. It's episode 500. I wore a shirt that looks like confetti. Let's go. It's a thing to celebrate. High five, buddy. Yeah, 500 high five.
Five hundred, yes.
And one. Two. All right. Happy five hundredth episode, and good morning. All right, here's your good news for today. This is from Phoenix, Arizona. There's a police officer there who's being praised for turning uh kind of a disappointment into a pretty unforgettable day for like a hundred students.
Okay. Um there uh was a group of kids that had some funding fall through for an end of summer field trip. Oh uh, yeah, this is a Greenway Middle School, and so the school resource officer named Sean Revai uh stepped in and he personally paid to rent an entire movie theater for a hundred and forty-four students in the school's summer program, and they got a private screening of Toy Story Five, and he also covered popcorn candy and drinks, which is pretty awesome.
Uh, and for a lot of the seventh and eighth graders that attended, it was their very first trip to a movie theater. No way. Yeah, yeah. He said he didn't want to break a promise that was made to these kids, especially since many of them come from families facing financial hardships. The theater outing cost him about two grand. He says it was worth every single penny.
For sure. Uh he has a long history of helping local children. Last year he spent more than three thousand dollars of his own money to take students to a water park. He also runs a nonprofit, it's called Put on the Cape, a foundation for hope. Uh, and before the movie started, he kind of gave a little pep talk at the beginning. He said one simple thing. He just said, When you grow up, help other people in return. Oh. That's it.
That's it. It's a pretty simple request. Right.
Pay it forward, some might say. I like it. I like it.
Really cool. How sweet.
Yeah. And they got to have that uh that movie that they were promised. So I like, I like that a lot. That's good news.
If you're new here, today is our 500th podcast episode. That's right. Not our 500th radio show. Right.
We could assume it's somewhere around a thousand of those. Yeah. Yeah. So if you're new here. If you're if you've never uh, you know, heard of Josh and Chantel. This is this is today. Our uh 500th episode of Wake Up Classy 97, the podcast. Yeah. So go ahead. Oh, go ahead. No, you go ahead. I was gonna say, so uh we're celebrating.
We are celebrating. Uh, how are we celebrating? Uh, good question. Okay, I'll tell you how we're celebrating. Okay. We are decorating. We're making it kind of festive in here. We've got some cupcakes we're gonna share with people as they come in to work today. Nice. Um I asked AI yesterday if it could scan. I was kind of upset with AI.
Okay, you were complaining several different times yesterday. You said I hate AI, and I went, okay.
Well, yeah, I hate it for a lot of reasons, but I it's supposed to be this advanced technology. Okay. And I was like, hey, will you scan all of the podcasts and kind of tell me like the best of kind of an idea? Like I wanted like some awards. You wanted to put together best of what? Like best of our show. So I wanted to put like awards for like the worst dad joke that Josh has said.
Or like who was the most likely to go off on a tangent, or what was one of the funniest arguments. AI doesn't read um MP3s, it doesn't have the capability to scan audio.
So you need to give it uh better prompt. Well, you need to give it more information, probably is what you need to do. Okay. So let me see, because I'm curious here. Okay. So I am going to copy this. I'm just gonna try something. Okay. And I am going to uh say read real time AI search.
Yeah, let's just see if we can get it to work. Okay. Uh okay.
It was not working for me yesterday. It just kept like rehashing, you know, like ChatGPT is so like it's very positive, reinforcing. So it'd say, I would say things like, hey, it's our 500th episode. Here's what I want you to do.
Here's what I'm kind of looking for. And it would come back with, I love that idea. Let's try this. And then it would give me all of these ideas. And then I'd say, uh, that's not really what I'm looking for. Could it be like more along these lines? Okay. Yes. What a great idea.
So I just gave it a prompt and I gave it some information. Okay. And I know it it like I just gave it a thing. I said, I can definitely do that. So uh anyway, but here's what it here's what I got. I told it to give me uh a top ten list of the best moments, just in general.
And here's what it came up with. Number 10 is the reoccurring segment of Would You Rather. Okay. That's at number 10 on the list. Okay. Okay. Uh it did pull one from yesterday. Uh, the parade etiquette conversation. Uh, just about you and the parade and waving at people and waiting to see people you know.
I would put that in the top 10. Okay. Now we've had better bits than that.
First date memories uh is number eight. Okay. AJR concert recap is number seven. It's not going very deep. No, it is not. These are real real recent. Uh Josh explaining his radio name is number six, also very recent. The CPAP snoring marital spat. Now that one's been going on for a little while. And that one didn't put it number five.
The thermostat art gallery, also very new. Yeah. Is number four. The ongoing uh Josh's ongoing garden saga, it put it number three. The yo-yo dinner disaster, uh, number two. It says everyone picking different grocery store meals.
Josh making a full pasta dinner, Chantel eventually eating everyone else's food. That's what it said at number two. I don't even remember that.
Oh no. And then number one is the weekly family breakfast debate, which is where our son is horrified at we at us wanting the family to come back every Sunday for breakfast after they move. That's number one. That's what it put at number one, the weekly family breakfast debate.
But when I asked, it pulled like things I wanted like some awards for biggest tangent, biggest laugh, most heated debate, the funniest Josh quote things. Josh always says it pulled everything from episode 281 on August 1st, 2025.
Wow. I don't know why it pulled everything from that episode. Uh but my the according to AI, the biggest laugh from our podcast that I gave was when I was talking about how I wanted a black eye.
Ah, that was a good one. Because you really do want a black eye.
Yeah, I think there's been funnier laughs, though. We've had lots of conversations that have been very funny. So I'm AI, you're no good. You're no good AI.
So here's here's what it said. It said, hey, if if you're cool with it, I could go through every episode from 2026 or every episode from 2025, and I could identify the funniest stories and timestamps and give you like a best moments thing. And I went, Yeah, let's do that. Let's go through every episode from 2024 to today. And it said reviewing every transcript, roughly 500 episodes at 45 to 75 minutes each, is well over 25,000 pages of transcript text and is far beyond what I can analyze in a single session. AI can't do it. No. It told me that we've reached the limits.
It kind of told me that same thing yesterday where it was like, well, what I could do over the next couple of weeks is become kind of like your historian. But I can't do that today. That's what it told me too. AI. You good for nothing.
It did give me a solution. I'm gonna tell it to do it. We're gonna see what it does. I I it literally said I could try this, and I said, Let's do it. And he said, I'm in.
What did you tell it to do?
Uh well, I don't know. It didn't do it. No, it won't. It it now it said, ah, this is exactly the kind of project they can pay off for years.
That's what it told me. Cool. So here's the plan.
We'll do this and this and this, and there's this is phase one. Oh, no. But it didn't do it.
No. And I went, I'm just gonna say, make it happen. It's not gonna do it. No, it won't. I am 100% on board with this project. Here's how we'll actually make it happen. Okay, do it. I can absolutely help build it. Okay, build it.
It won't do it. It won't. I know.
The internet has reached its limitations. And that's fine.
I here's what happened. I used to keep track of our best of moments, like the things that I thought like were super super funny. And for some reason I stopped doing that. But I'm gonna keep doing it again. For now, AI has been zero amounts of help. Nope.
It didn't do it. It ran a whole thing again telling me about how it was gonna do it, but it didn't do it. It's not it's not doing it. But it tried kind of sort of. Not really.
It's supposed to be this advanced technology. I come home from work yesterday, and I pull up into our driveway, and the house on our left has recently had uh a new addition to their house. They have a returned child. And that return child I came home to live with them. What are you looking at me?
I'm just listening. She brought a lot of stuff with her. And so she's been trying to organize stuff and clean out our garage. So she's got a lot of stuff kind of on their lawn as she's trying to organize. Right. The house to our right of us has recently put in a sprinkler system. Right. And their lawn is lush and green and gorgeous. Okay. And then there's our house. Yeah. The Grass is dead, dead, dead. There's a drought. Dead. I don't know if you heard. I know.
I really am not watering the grass in the front yard. I'm not. Like I'm not wasting it. For a couple of reasons. One, there's there's a drought. So I'm not gonna water a weed. Uh, but then secondly, if I water it, I have to mow it.
I don't want to mow it. I know. Um, and I'm using the water for my garden instead.
I know. So I've been I've been ignoring the grass in the front yard this year. I know you have to and it looks terrible. And If I've I've seen people that put up a sign that says there's a drought, I'm not watering the grass.
Uh and fortunately, I don't have like an HOA telling me I have to, uh, which is good. Uh because it's just grass and it looks terrible. And it looks terrible. I'm not mad. Like I don't I don't care about the grass in the front yard.
So I came home and I was like, oh, our yard looks terrible, especially compared to the neighbor. But then I look to my left and I go, eh, we're not doing so bad. Yeah. Well. It's fair. That is fair.
But uh, yeah, I mean, uh, it's it is dead for sure. The flowers look nice. They're getting they do. And the and the trees look good. They're getting water because you're watering the flower beds and your daisies have run their course, which is sad. You need to get uh you need to start uh planting a different kind of daisy that's gonna uh continue to bloom throughout the season.
And I thought I did have that.
But it does one big bloom and
then it's just
green plumage through the rest of the summer. I know.
Bumps me out. And I deadhead them thinking, oh, they'll just keep coming, like my poppies. I keep deadheading my poppies, and my poppies are like I got three more where you deadheaded me. Yep. I love it.
Yeah, the poppies are doing awesome. And maybe do that. Maybe you start supplementing some poppies out there. Throw some of the because they're a perennial, right? They're gonna come back. Uh-huh. Yeah. So maybe we start doing more of that. I could do that.
I had a really nice like there was uh what's that plant called the lily? No, no, the one in the pot. There was one in the pot on the step. Oh, just the uh dahlia. Adalia. Yeah, thank you. Uh that one died. I don't know why. I don't know if I planted it too tightly.
I don't know. It was getting water. I don't know if it was just too hot, maybe. I don't know, but it died. Didn't die completely, but it stopped blooming, and so it was just sticks and it was green.
And so I went, I'm not giving up on you yet. So I potted it in the soil. You planted it. Planted it in the ground.
Okay. So now I need another plant to put in my pot. And then I had some succulents also by the door that are also dead. So I gotta overwatered those.
Gotta replenish those. They had terrible drainage and you kept watering them and they flooded and you they're they don't need water, like at all. They're very I noticed the cactus downstairs in the bathroom.
Yes. It's the the cactuses you watered them and now they're above their crowns are above the dirt. They're not even in the pot hardly. They're like out of the soil. What happened?
I don't know. I forgot that I had watered them. I left them there.
It's been sitting in the bathroom for a couple of days. One. A couple of days.
Sunday. It watered it Sunday. It's Tuesday. Couple of days. I forgot I forgot it was there. It's there. Okay. It's hard. Taking care of plants is hard. I know. You gotta remember sometimes you can't water them enough. Sometimes you water them too much. Ain't that the truth? It's just try growing corn. You're having a heck of a time with corn.
I'm gonna win the corn battle. I just hope. I really am trying. What battle am I fighting? The succulent battle. You just gotta let them be. What is that face? But I but they need something. They don't. You gotta like give them a little bit of water every now and then.
I know. They're they're used to like little to no rain. They're from the desert. I know I gotta replace them. And you got them so that they would be easy to grow. I know. And you wouldn't have to mess with them. I know. And then what happened? You messed with them. You didn't have to.
Because here's what happens. Plants start to look dead and dry, and I go, Oh, let me give you some water, big guy. And then it's like too much water.
And then you go, why does it look all sad? I'll give it more water. Yeah. See the problem? This is this is what happens. And then you go to the doctor and they're like, you have no electrolytes. You've been drinking too much water. Yeah. And you go, Oh, that's important. I should probably get some salt.
That's been well. The problem my whole life has been I love you too much. I love those plants too much. Just quit touching.
Quit touching stuff. People are like, you too much. Take a break. Take a step back.
You're squeezing it. To death.
Yeah. I just love it. I want to squeeze it so much. Slow down. It's gonna be okay.
I think there's a book about this of
mice and if you want to water something, pick some grass and just water that.
I can't. You said we can't because we're in a drought.
I'm just uh if you really are desperate to water something.
I kind of do want to water the grass, but you said no, we can't. If you really want go for it. It just looks so bad. I don't want to be those people with the bad yard. Those people. Yeah, everyone has somebody in their neighborhood that's like, uh, just water your grass. We're those people in our neighborhood. We're the water your grass.
Or you get a sign that says we're intentionally not watering.
Okay, I guess let's do that. So people know that it's an act of decision.
Because what people in the neighborhood think of my yard matters to me. Clearly. Clearly, I'm like, oh, they think I'm lazy. They think I don't water. Okay. I don't. And I kind of am.
But I don't want to be those people in the neighborhood, you see. Oh, here we go.
All right. It does look really bad next to the two the good neighbors. The good lawn neighbor. Yeah. Who I've had lawn competitions with in the past several years. Not this year, though. I kind of was just like, I'm not, I'm worried about the garden. That's my focus.
I know. The garden and the backyard have been my entire focus. And I put in drip water systems. I've been doing all that stuff in the backyard. I have not even I haven't even spent any time in the front yard. I don't even I park there. I park in the front of the house. I go inside, I go to the backyard. That's the backyard's nice.
Do we have a front yard? I forget. Yeah, I water the plants out there. Yeah. Too much.
Maybe you should water the grass. Try it. See what happens.
We were eating dinner last night, and Emory said, Oh,
if somebody uh just say, for example, maybe somebody had an idea to bring somebody breakfast.
How would they go about doing that? What? Crankle, crankle, crankle. Sorry. I'm trying to multiply.
Uh they would go about doing something like that by uh bringing food to the studio, I suppose.
That was well, I didn't say studio. I said, well, if it were me, yeah. I would go, I would determine the place that I wanted to go get some breakfast.
And most of the breakfast places close at 10 30. So I'd make sure I went before then, and then I would go. And if it was a person's house, I would make sure somebody in the house knew that I was there. If it was a business, I would find out when they open. Yeah. And I would go then.
When the office is open, maybe.
So as we were going to bed, I gave her a hug, said goodnight to her last night, and she said, uh, maybe if somebody gets brave enough to go or wakes up early enough to go to breakfast, you you might you might get some breakfast. And I went, okay. So are you counting on? I didn't hold my breath. So I I did bring some yogurt.
Oh, you brought breakfast just in case. You you said, All right, I guess I'll make sure I have something prepared. That was probably smarter.
I know, but wouldn't that be awesome? Yeah. If we had breakfast delivered this morning. Yeah, I would be. It would be something. I would be stoked.
Oh, that's what it's like to have food. Got it. In the morning, delivered. Oh. Yeah.
That'd be awesome. When was the last time you had breakfast delivered? My birthday last year. Oh, yeah, I did that for your birthday. No one did that for my birthday.
It's been a while. That was my birthday last year. Don't do that squinty face. Like you're reading something on the ceiling. It's not there. No one did that on my birthday. What's up there? Stop it. I do that all the time. I know. Oh. What's that? Is that something nice somebody did? What's that like? Well, don't hold your breath for breakfast. I won't. Okay.
I mean, it could still happen. She does wake up early. Sure. Her idea was uh if she got brave enough.
Yeah, because she's got to drive, do a drive-thru, drive to parts of town she doesn't know. Talk to a stranger. Yeah, it's a whole thing.
It's a whole thing. It's A whole thing. Big commitment to do breakfast for someone. But also, she's not gonna know what we like. She might. She's not gonna know what I like. I think she'll pick what you like because the two of you often pick the same things. She knows. She's not. pays attention. Does she? Yeah. Okay. Why do you think that? Why did you say that?
Why do I say that she pays attention? Because she does. She does. She pays close attention. She knows what's up. I've I have faith. I think she can do it. But will she? That's probably a different question. That's probably a different question. She can. She knows how. Will she? I don't know. No, I know. We'll find out.
She got in a tiny little car accident. Right. And she's been a little bit shaky ever since. So she was doing so good. And then ever since then, she's like, I just don't want to drive. You drive. Yeah, I know.
She's she'll be fine. She's got it. She's great.
I know she is. She's just gonna remind herself she is. What do you hope she brings you? Well, I'm kind of thinking about a McGriddle now.
Oh, you want like that kind of breakfast. What kind of breakfast were you thinking? Oh, hash brown, sausage links, some delicious fried eggs. You think she's gonna make breakfast? No, I thought she'd go somewhere. Go to a restaurant, give me a big platter. Go to a diner style, a Monte Cristo sandwich with some tater tots. I'll take eggs, bend it. Yeah, you see something like when she was like, what if somebody wanted to bring breakfast?
I'm like, what kind of breakfast do you think? Oh, the garden has produced some things. And yesterday, we all, you, Emery, and and myself got to partake in one giant strawberry cut into thirds. It was awesome. Yeah.
It was a really good strawberry. What a harvest. You know. It's like, do you ever see that Mickey Mouse episode when they cut the pea in half?
Yeah, and everybody gets a tiny sliver of oh, I couldn't eat another bite. Uh here's the thing. I spend a lot of money, I spend a lot of time. I stress, I'm fighting pests. I'm doing a lot in the garden. We got a strawberry.
And it was delicious. Yeah, all right. It was good.
We've been harvesting a lot of uh the pea pods. The snap peas are so good. They are so good. Uh, and and so wandering around the backyard. Uh you put some in your pocket and then later on rediscovered them and went, oh, pocket peas. Okay.
Cool. I was watering and you came over and you handed me some. I think you just handed me a couple, but I didn't have any, like I wasn't ready to eat them yet. I didn't have a way to eat them. So I put them in my pocket. Imagine my surprise when I went, what is that? Pocket peas.
So we've got that going. Uh, I've harvested uh and okra. I've okra and uh and tomato. What do you what are you gonna do with the okra? Uh we gotta pickle it.
I know, but you can't just pickle one. I think you can.
I think I need to just get like the like leftover pickle juice, or I need to build my own pickle mixture of vinegar and dill. I have plenty of dill in the in the garden.
So much dill.
Uh which is good. Um, and then uh, you know, I can make my own pickling. Yeah, I need some garlic and some some other stuff.
You can pickle a single single oak rubber.
Because I'm just gonna make the jar and I'm just gonna put it in there. And then after a few days, I'm gonna eat it. Okay. I've got another one that's probably another couple days. I'm gonna have two okra. What? I know. One for each of us. Yeah. So I gotta get that jar together so I can pickle them.
Get your pickle jars together so that we can have each an okra. Each and okra? Okra. I will get it done. To each their okra. Oh. I see what you did. What else can you do with okra besides pickling? I've only eaten it pickled,
and that's the way I like it. Yeah.
But there's gotta be other ways to eat okra. Sure.
I got it specifically so we could pickle it because we like it with charcuterie.
You can air fry it to make it crispy. Okay. Oh.
With like a salt and some seasonings on there. Okay.
Let's try that. You can fry it. Okay. You dredge it in uh buttermilk and corn milk. Okay. And then you can stew it in a gumbo or a curry. Huh. Or you can eat it raw. You can. Stop. Why are you? I'm learning. What? You what? Stop. Stop reacting. It's a very special day. Yes. It's a very special day. Say the day. Uh today is Tuesday.
It is uh July 7th. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What else?
Uh today is our 500 episode. Come on. Of our podcast. Come on.
500 episodes. You believe that?
Some people are like, whoa. I can't believe you've made it this far. Some people.
Some people are. Other people are like, wow, I've listened to all 500. I didn't realize. I've been there the whole time. That's nice. Yeah. We uh we've kind of figured out this morning. We're somewhere probably close to a thousand shows that we've done.
Yeah. We started turning the show into a podcast in May of 2024, and today is our 500th episode. That's right of Wake Up Classy 97, the podcast, which is the podcast version of the show we do every day on the radio. I asked AI to kind of tell us
like how would you describe our show?
Oh great music, good vibes, real fun.
Well, mostly I said, how would you describe you and I? How explain kind of how you and I work together. Okay. And it said that you have a practical dad brain, and I have a curious emotional imaginative brain.
Okay. I don't disagree. I'm just listening. Okay. I'm learning.
It says every episode has a moment where we both pause.
That was it. Just there a second ago.
Acknowledge the absurdity and continue anyway. And that's the brand. That's the brand.
This is absurd, and we know it, but we're gonna keep being absurd.
It said that they've learned that over 500 episodes that this show has a few constants. Gardening becomes emotional therapy. Okay. Lately. No topic stays where it started. Okay.
What does that mean, you think? Tangents. Okay, all right.
My laugh is a reset button. What's that mean? I don't know.
That's an interesting thing to say.
Go ahead. And that listeners remember everything we forget. Which is absolutely true. Sometimes we'll get people that's like, oh, that thing you said today, and I'm like, what do we say? And they're like, oh, when you were talking about that specific thing, and I go, I don't remember. What? And they'll they'll tell us what we were talking about. I'm like, I did not even remember talking about that. How can you forget that quickly? I don't know.
Lizard brain. I don't know. It just goes away. Goldfish mind. It just uh short term. Here's the here's the here's the real why. The real why is that uh this show is four hours long, and we uh will produce a one-hour show from the four hours of time that we are in the studio. Yeah. Or so, right?
An hour or so. And uh every day. So that's five hours of talking every week. That is a lot of hours. That's a lot of hours.
And so we're jumping through these things relatively relatively quickly and in a large quantity. And so when something strikes a nerve with the listener and they go, I really have something to say about that conversation.
Or yeah, and if I ever run into them, I'm gonna tell them. They remember that story and they go, I heard you guys talk about that one thing. Yeah. And and then we go, I
don't remember when that was or what I said, because since then we've done who knows how many hours of additional talking, and I don't remember.
But I love when it hits a chord with people.
I do too.
I love when people come I love when people come up to us and say, that thing you guys were talking about. I'm like, I hope they are not like when I go, what? Yeah. Because I'm like, I'm really racking my brain to try to remember.
Yeah. Do you remember when um I don't even remember what we said or what we were talking about, but I said booya. Dow, do you remember? I said booya at some point in the show. Yeah. And then I met a woman. That's right. I was going to my therapy appointment. Correct. And she just passed me. And said booya. In passing. Yeah. Oh, that was the best. Well, uh, congratulations.
Congratulations to you. 500. That's uh that's really great.
Um, it's been uh it's been a lot of work, and we're gonna keep going. So what's the next milestone after 500? Is it episode 1000? Yeah. Uh I mean, you you it was a big deal when we got to a hundred, and then I think we celebrated like two hundred, three hundred, four hundred, now we're at five. Probably take a rest till a thousand. Sure. That's like two years from now. Seriously. Well, it took us two years to get to 500.
You're right. Okay.
We'll celebrate again in two years.
Well, you can't have a celebration all the time. It loses its novelty.
That is fair. If every day was your birthday, how would you have an unbirthday?
But if every day could be just like Christmas. Oh, what a wonderful world this would be. I think there's another Elvis Presley said that.
Yeah, but wasn't there more to it than that? No. What do you mean? I don't know. If all the raindrops were lemon drops and gumdrops, oh what a world.
What a rain that would be.
What a rain that would be. Barney said that. Oh, right. Barney.
You've been in radio for a long time. Yeah. Twenty-six years. And you often talk about how you and I and our and our format and the way that we do radio now with this show is has broken radio.
Well, we don't follow traditional forms of what radio should be.
Right. What's happening in uh in radio as it kind of sits is everybody's trying to be fast instead of having conversation like what we do, which is it's actually it's not that it's broken, it's that it's returned to its roots, uh, I would say more than anything. Like we have we're doing this show and having conversation and taking our time and not rushing just to get back to music, uh, because we find value in our conversation. And I think a lot of what's happening in uh corporate radio, especially is they're like uh talk quick, get back to music. Stop talking so much, and they're you know, rush rush, rush, rush, rush. And I don't uh I I don't love that.
Because it doesn't it just doesn't give you a chance to but you used to I I would say depending on when you're when and where I was the philosophy was was being pushed for sure. Yeah. From management from consultants, from other people involved in those decisions, yes. Right. Yeah.
Um so I I was trying to figure out like how we could celebrate our 500th podcast episode today. And so I was asking, I I was using AI for a lot of different things.
And unsuccessfully.
Unsuccessfully, but it also gave me a lot of really funny advice and stuff that was like not advice, but like um facts about our show, kind of like uh here's kind of what happens on your show. So it told me that you and I don't have segments, we have escape rooms.
Oh, that's interesting. What does that mean? Where we I know what a segment is, and and let me just explain that like a segment is like every time we open the microphone, we're doing a bit.
Yeah, and I don't care for that either. Like every time you open the mic to talk, it shouldn't be uh and now it's time for the bit. And here we're gonna do another the thing, it's the bit. Like I just like that we're casually talking. Okay.
So it said to our escape rooms, we don't transition topics cleanly. We wander out of rooms and occasionally forget where we started. Ah Josh has an unofficial life advice voice, and there's a tone shift when you get practical. It sounds like here's the thing. Okay, but here's the thing. Listen. And listeners immediately know something logical is coming. Hey, here we go. Slightly old school wisdom included. Sure. Possibly a rule that no one asked for. But everyone respects.
Oh, is that right? It doesn't feel that way all the time. I would say there's definitely some rules that maybe no one expects. Uh but the respect issue is pretty large, I would say.
And then it said, Chantel's laughter is a known segment format, yeah, not a reaction, an event. Oh it tends to stop the conversation entirely, force topic reset, become the highlight of the response.
It's your reset button. That's why it said you're a reset button. Right.
And then it said, listeners don't remember what was said, but they remember when the laughing started. Okay.
Here's something interesting because earlier you were talking about uh all of the ways that AI was unable to produce uh, you know, uh topics and and recaps and different things that you wanted it to do. Yeah, but yet it it somehow is able to say your laugh does this and the tone of something, but then you said it can't listen, it can only read transcripts. So how does it understand tone? I don't know. That doesn't even make sense.
I don't I don't get it either. But it also it kind of makes sense because you do say here's the thing. You say that a lot.
Yeah, well, well, here's the thing. I do. And my laugh is an event. Boom, reset. It's a reset event. Here's what I know about my laugh. What is it?
Uh I I it's loud. I've often thought it was annoying. There was a couple of people in my life who said it was one person. No, there was multiple. But most of the people that I've talked to since being on the radio have been very supportive and and and nice about my laugh. And it makes me feel happy. Good. It should. Because I like I like to laugh. I never want to not.
What I like about your laugh. There's something I like and something I dislike. Oh yeah. What I like is that it is uh it's unfiltered. It is it is really authentically you having a good time. I like that.
I appreciate it. It's not it's never forced, it's not fake. It's a real when you laugh, you really are having a good time.
That's nice. It's it's got more silence in it than it should. You lose your breath and you go, and it's a silent laugh, and then you go, ha ha. Like, so there are periods of time if you listen to the show where there's these gaps, and it's you silently laughing, which is it's great. I love that you're having a good time.
There's just these big gaps where I go, there's nothing in there because you're silently laughing so hard. So it's good. It's not that's not even a bad thing. Here's the thing, it just creates this. Listen, here's the thing. Listen, listen. Here's the thing about it. It's great, but it has big gaps. So if you can work on see the silent laugh right now, and then you go, and you catch your breath. Okay, you want me to work on that? I'm just saying you disappear. And for radio, right? You disappearing can be problematic. Because then people go, where did they go? And we're still here. You're just laughing silently.
Yeah, sorry. Sorry.
So I don't know how to I don't know, because you're just your breath is gone. That's all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just got to catch your breath. So you work on that. I will. Here's the thing. If you could work on that, that'd be great.
Okay, I saw this question on social media yesterday, and I thought it was interesting. And I want to ask you. And then I want you to ask me, but I also kind of want you to guess what my answer is gonna be. Okay. What movie quote have you used the most in your life?
Hey, you guys. That's probably That's probably it. Okay. Listen, you told me over the weekend we were having a conversation, and you said sometimes when I jump questions on you, you hate being on the spot because you never know how to respond.
But I go, sometimes you know exactly how to respond. Sure. Was that it? Did I do good? Yeah, but that's not that's not the correct answer. Why? I'd never hear you say that.
Well, you're not hanging around with the guys. Hey, you guys, is a thing I say to the guys.
I don't think you do. Uh who are the guys? I don't know.
I can I could do more quotes from that movie. Yeah. Yeah. Like what? Like this is our time now. It's our time.
You actually say that a lot. I do say that a lot. I That was like quoting Mikey.
This is our time. It's our time now.
Okay, that's probably the movie that you quote from the most. Yeah. So that's part two of that question. What movie quote do you use the most? What movie do you quote from the most? Yeah, Goonies. Goonies would be yours for sure. Yeah. Such a good movie. What movie quote do you think I use the most?
Uh pick an Adam Sandler movie. No, just one. Pick Billy Madison.
Pick any line from Billy Madison. Leg. Yeah. This guy I can stay in my room, I'll tell you that. But I pick a line. There's a billion of them. It's too hot for a penguin to just be walking around. What day is it? This is Frank Show. Thursday. Yeah. Yeah. Are there horse socks? Is anyone listening? Pick a line. Yeah, I do.
You do them all. Last night we were watching watching our son play softball. And uh there was the other team was up to bat, and the guy missed, and the the guy on his team said, only the cool guys miss, and you went, Well, if missing is cool. I went, what? Like you just nonstop with Billy Madison.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That one's in brain. That was in brain.
It is. It's ingrained in your brain. It's inbrained. Yeah. I know. Remember, I told you about that silent laugh.
Yeah, yeah. I'm sorry. I was.
No, there's nothing to work on. I'm just telling you.
You told me to work on it.
There's nothing to work on. You're not gonna fix it. That's how you laugh. It just goes silent. And you disappear for a minute and then you come back.
That's so funny. Yeah. Um I was gonna say a movie quote that you quote the most is well, you do this is not the Josh you're looking for.
Yeah, that's one of uh I mean Star Wars for sure. Uh but that one is is pretty used heavily, I would say, by a lot of people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, in all no, this is not the insert thing you're looking for. Yeah, is is heavily used to trick people into thinking you know how to do your job? I am not the engineer you're looking for. Like you get oh, you're right. I'll go talk to someone else. The copy machine isn't working.
I am not the copy technician you're looking for. I don't know. What to tell you? I don't know. Call the guys at the copier. I don't know what to tell you. It's my time. It's my time now. Hey, let me in here it's my time.
How come everybody thinks the front desk person has to be the expert on the copy machine? I've been the front desk person before.
This is how our conversations go off on tangents. You hit a reset button just then. And now we're over here.
I know. I actually have some comments about the way that we tangent. Yeah. So I'm gonna talk about that.
Well, there's one right there. That's a fantastic way that we tangented from movie quotes to why is the front desk person the one that has to know all the stuff.
I said earlier that you were what did I say you were? You're the practical dad brain. And I'm the curious emotional imaginative brain. Yeah.
Yeah, that's right. Here comes practical dad, everybody's favorite character.
Mow the lawn. Oh, put it away where you found it.
Oh, practically.
Here comes practical dad.
Here comes practical dad.
What in the world?
You're better than that. Oh I mean, you are you. Am I? you are practical. That's true. Yeah.
You're very logical. Sure.
But you're more fun. Like you say practical and logical, and people go boring.
Right. But you're here comes old milk toast.
No, you were not. Definitely not milk toast. I know some milk toast people. Yeah. You are not it. All right. That's awesome.
I'm pretty proud to be not milk toast. Could I be chocolate milk toast with sugar and cinnamon? Is that a thing?
What's the opposite of milk toast? Let's find out. All right.
Standing by for a fourth tangent. Uh okay. Opposite of milk toast is.
Uh there's not a name for it, but it's somebody who is bold, brave, and tough. Okay. Okay, we were talking about tangenting.
Yes. Because we're very good at it. Very good at tangents.
My tangent style tends to come from curiosity. My pattern is.
Oh, here we go. This is this is like reading your horoscope. Go ahead. My pattern is.
Yeah. Someone brings up a topic. I asked the question everyone else was thinking, but didn't say that question creates another question. Yeah. Suddenly, you're eight minutes away from the original topic. Yep.
That is absolutely true.
But yours, you tend to take rabbit holes. You go deep in a rabbit. That's true. And yours typically comes from wait, but why? Can I ask something? That's right. That makes me wonder. Uh-huh. Has anyone ever thought about? Okay, this is random, but Right.
I feel like this is very accurate. I agree. Yeah. As a Pisces, this is my horoscope right here. Yeah.
So my tangents are usually exploration tangents, but yours are you're the tangent expander. So you tend to take a small topic and turn it in a story from your past, a life lesson, an example, a comparison back in my day moment. Uh huh. You have storytelling tangents. I have curiosity tangents. You have storytelling tangents. That's very interesting, isn't it?
Let me tell you a story about how that is very cool. It's a that's a good analysis. It's accurate. Yes, it is, actually. It's very I know. Very on point. Yeah. Yeah. Because I go. hmm?
Let me ask a question. Right.
I'll ask questions as well, but then I'll like try to research it out in real time. Which I think is a totally different thing that'll happen, is where we'll be in the middle of a conversation and something will come up and it's like, I don't know the answer to that thing. And and rather than just sit in the I don't know the answer, it will be immediately I have the internet right here. Yeah. I might as well see if I could find the answer, and then that becomes a uh an exploration thing.
I don't mind deep diving. That's what I'm trying to say. I'll go through a learning process in real time, and then I'll walk away going, I learned something today. You should learn something every day. You should.
You should learn something every day. Do you want a tangent today? We haven't. Have we? Oh, yeah. I was gonna say we haven't tangented today. Oh, yes.
We just did moments ago. On what? The movie quotes. We left movie quotes a bunch of different times. Yeah. Do you not remember? That was just a minute ago.
Yeah, it's hard for me to remember things. From just a minute ago? Oh no. That's not good. It's fine.
I'm gonna look this up. Short-term memory loss. What are the symptoms? Oh, you forgot some just a minute ago. That's the number one symptom of short-term memory loss. Great. It's fine.
Because then somebody jogs my memory and I go, Oh, yeah, I remember that. I was there for that. It was minutes ago. I know. I remember it now.
Settle down. You settle down. Getting on the fence. I was there. I know. I am surprised you didn't remember. I do now. When we had the conversation about tangents. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Are you sure? Yep. Yeah. I don't know, my belief. you. We better get this checked out.
Do you have a I'll do that later project that you just keep putting off and putting off and putting up. Yeah. It's the shed. The shed. It's driving me nuts. Yeah.
Because I'm trying to, I've I'm trying to clear out the shed. I want to put in new shelving. I want to put the kayaks in there. Um, so they're stored and put away.
Uh, and I just have not been able to wrap my head around that project. Well, it's been so hot. I'm not even worried about the heat because it the shed, when once I get the doors open, it's not going to be super hot in there because it's a it's a bigger shed. The greenhouse is insane. Like the greenhouse is hot, man. I go in there and I start dripping sweat. I gotta not be in there. I gotta do the shed where I've got a little bit of shade.
It's a sweat lodge, not a greenhouse.
Crazy right now. That thing is insane. I got it. I need to get a thermometer in there. Uh, and uh and a uh what's the thing that measures humidity? Is that a barometer? No, that's barometric pressure. That's not humidity. Anyway, a humidimeter.
You had a you said the thing that was in there yesterday melted.
Yeah, no, like I've got plastic stuff in there, like uh just some like bottles with some different plant foods and stuff. Uh, and the bottles are like warped because it's so hot in there. It's which is not good because on the packaging is a store in a cool, dry place. Uh like the shed. Yeah, for example, not the
place Well, the shed isn't necessarily very cool.
It's a lot cooler than the greenhouse. The greenhouse is designed to hold in heat. Okay.
That's a big, that's a really big I'll do it later project. Do you have any smaller I'll do it later projects?
My studio inside is that just as big as a channel.
That's as big. That's still as big. I have I've been meaning to mop the kitchen for weeks and weeks and weeks.
It gets spot clean. Let's be clear. It isn't like there's a bunch of sticky food on it. Like when you say you have a mop, like that means you haven't got out the mop bucket.
Like the Swiffer comes out often. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's be clear. You make it sound like we live in a pig style. I know, that's fine. That is not where we live. No.
But I've been meaning to do like a thoroughly good mopping job, and I you know, where you move the table
and that's what I'm that's what I'm saying. The big mop bucket job is, That's a terrible job. I hate that job. The dog doesn't even like. We got that spinny mop thing where you push the little pedal and the the dog hates it when you spin that thing.
And here's the thing. It doesn't take that much work. It doesn't take very long. I just go, ugh. I just don't want to. I know. That's it.
That's why the little Swiffer thing with the little jet. That's what gets used. I know. I swept and mopped.
Sure thing. A big project that isn't my, I'll do it later, is in the bathroom. Well, I want to repaint in the bathroom, the upstairs bathroom. But then we have a wall where we've wallpapered like book pages. Right. And those have some of them have come off. So I want to replace the shh. What? They didn't come off.
You got bored standing there and started peeling it.
Some no. Some of them, I didn't get bored standing there.
You got you get you get uh cleaning ADD, and I think that's what happened. You were looking at it, and a little edge was turned up, and you were like, I want to change this anyway, so I'm gonna peel it like a sticker. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what happened. It's not like I got bored. And then all of a sudden, like a page and a half is missing from the wall, and then you're like, well, now I can see the wall.
Yeah. It's terrible. No kidding.
When you could have just mixed up some cornstarch and water and reapplied it and fixed the corner. I know. I don't think you know. It's too late now. It's not too late. Well, it's missing. It's been ripped.
Well, yeah, but I can replace it. Yeah, that is true. That's pretty easy to replace. I just have to do it. And I every day I go in there and I go. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe maybe tomorrow.
Look, inside house projects feel like winter projects when you can't be outside. You gotta be outside. We we have such a limited amount of of good summer days that we can be outside doing stuff. We've gotta be outside. Right.
But then when you're outside and it's too hot and you're like, well, I can't. It's too hot to do anything outside.
I'm not gonna go inside and do a project. I'm gonna go inside and sit around, cool down. Yeah. That's way better.
Yep.
I'm going inside to work. No way.
So we have a lot of I'll get to it later projects. Uh as does everybody.
I want to get the garage done. I want to get the shed done. I've got to get my studio done. I I'm trying to figure out what I want to even do with my studio. What do I want to turn that space into? I don't even know. I know. I don't use it as a studio, but I want to have a functional space, but what am I gonna turn it into? I don't know.
Your fly tying room. Turn it out.
I have a I have a whole fly tying area now. Yeah, I know. In the common space. Yeah. But it's decorated and it has a shelf. It's nice. It has a shelf.
Yeah. There's a boat hanging on the wall. Like there's stuff going on in there. I don't want to move that out of there.
Then we'd have a weird empty space. No, I know. It's good. It's a good space. It's fine.
I'd I didn't. Me trying to hide my stuff. Trying to tuck all my stuff away. Trying to make my stuff disappear like I don't live in the house. Is that what you're trying to do?
It feels like you might be trying to do that. Here, why don't you take all your stuff and put it into that small room that doesn't have a window? So no one even can see inside to see if you even live here.
That'd be great. Why don't you just move your bed in there? Why don't you just if you just want to move all your stuff into that little corner of the house? That'd be great. That's okay.
I could never get you to move all your stuff because you just have too many piles of stuff everywhere. That's that'd be an impossibility.
That was one way to approach that.
We're gonna talk about processing fees. because I'm annoyed by them.
Who's charging you processing? What's going on with your light? Your lighting is all wrong. Is your light on? You're your whole face turned red. I'm looking at you in the video here, and your face is red. Sorry. Is your light on? Yeah. I don't know Why you're red, but you are like a like a oompa loompa, like a real red orange. I don't know what happened to you. Anyway.
I don't I don't know what happened to me either.
Your video has gone awry. That's it's what's up. Go ahead.
Okay. Processing fees. I got a parking ticket last week. Yes. Did you pay it? I paid my parking ticket. You had like 20 bucks. 20 dollars. Okay. Paid my ticket, got on the portal, paid my citation.
Yeah. Doing my diligence, doing my duty, being responsible, holding myself accountable. And then I see processing three. Processing fee. Yeah. Three dollars and ninety cents. And I went, you've got to be kidding me. Yeah.
Because they have to run your card. And this is where it comes from. Do you know the credit card companies charge a fee for businesses to run cards? Every credit card comes from.
Every everybody does. Yes. Some businesses pass that on to the consumer. Right.
Like this in in this instance. Some take it on themselves and say we'll pay it. There's no service charge. And I would say the people that are going to not charge it are going to be the people that are doing millions of dollars in transactions every day. Grocery stores, people like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why you don't pay it when you go to certain places. But when you go to somewhere smaller, like the city or whoever, who do you pay that to? It was I think it was the city.
Yeah. I would assume you owe the city $20 because you didn't. So the city, but they charge you service fees for everything. You want to pay your power bill online. You're gonna pay a service fee.
Four dollars and fifty cents.
Right, because it's a percentage of your tr of your total.
Yeah, that's annoying to me. Right. And it just man I have it automated.
So every time you're getting hit with that service fee. Yeah. So the alternative is to write a check or go in in person. and hand-pain cash. Yeah. Right?
You should be paying me because I'm making this easier for you.
This the answer isn't yelling at the power company or the city. You gotta go all the way to the credit card companies.
It goes all the way to the top.
Because the card companies are the ones that are making this even be a thing. They need to knock it off. They're not they're not making enough money. Yeah, exactly. Come on, you gotta charge per transaction. Give me a break. That was annoying. Right. I was annoyed. Right.
I was annoyed that I had to pay $20, but that's on me. I get it. That's my that's my fault. That is on you. I'll take accountability. Okay. Three dollars and ninety cents extra. How dare you? Yeah. I don't care for it. I don't like it. I understand. I don't like these processes.
I'm just telling you which which tree to bark up. It's not, it's not yelling at the city. I'm not yelling at the city. Right. I mean, the city could say we're gonna pay it, but then it just come out of us anyway. So they're just passing it on.
But it's unfortunate. I'm going all the way to the top. You know what we could do? Something we haven't done in a long time. We could get a checkbook.
No, no. And then you could pay the city without service fees by making them process a check. Because it's 2026. No, I'm not getting a checkbook. You just keep paying that service fee.
I will because it's easy. I get it.
Is there another way? Is there a way they could do it with out using a card? Like could they do it as like uh what do they call that? Like a bank transfer. Oh, yeah, maybe. Some places do that.
There's probably still a fee attached to that too. They get you in these fees, man. All these fees. They're like, oh banks, man.
That's all for you. That's gotta charge you a fee. It's just gonna come with a fee.
You and your fees tell you what to do with your fee. What? I'll pay it. Okay.
Would you rather this or that?
Would you rather accidentally leave your microphone on during a commercial break? I've done that. You have? Yeah.
It's been a long time, but I've done that. Oh no. Yeah.
Or accidentally forget it to turn it on while you've been talking. I've done that. Oh no. Both of these things have happened.
So you tell me which would you prefer?
Oh, let's see. I think I'd probably accidentally forget to turn it on. That's a better choice. I agree.
That is a that is a better choice. And the only reason I say that is because like you're gonna have dead air, but you're gonna you're gonna put in your headphones, you're gonna why can't I hear something? It's only gonna be a matter of time before you go, oh, I've got to turn on the microphone. Correct. And then you're gonna have that fixed. If you forget to turn it off and it goes into the next song or into commercials or whatever after we're done talking, you and I have other conversations.
Yeah. And so we'll be talking about like what's going on with the rest of the day. What's your plans? Where do you come in? We talk to other people. So all of that can potentially just be talking over the top of whatever's happening.
Yeah, there could be some private conversations that happen.
is true. That is true. Like when you're talking about paying bills.
Or yeah. Or when when our boss Jade comes in and we're complaining about the guys from K-Bear. That happens.
Sometimes. Not today, but that happens sometimes. So yeah, nah, there's definitely uh things that we could do. Uh that would be not like the show. It's not content for the show.
Correct. Right. That's what I'm trying to say. Did you, when you left it on during a commercial break? Yeah. Did anything bad happen? No. Like, did you say anything that you weren't supposed to do?
No, I've I've not done that, thankfully. Yeah. No, I've just been moving on. Or sometimes I'll push the wrong buttons and I I'll be like working on a commercial or something. I'll be building something, and I'll have the parts of the board live that shouldn't be uh, you know, different pots up, and I'll be working on something, and then somebody will call and go, whatever you're doing, it's on top of the song you're playing. And I'm like, Oh, yeah, that is correct. Uh thank you for letting me know. So that's happened. Stuff happens like that, but not for a very long time.
Because you're you're an expert. I'm not an expert. You're a pro.
I would say I am a professional, but I am not an expert.
You are pro. You are an expert. Why don't you think you're an expert?
I mean, I know lots of stuff, but I don't know everything. What makes you an expert? What makes a person an expert? Oh, here we go. Let's Google it. It's fine now. This is would you rather? And this is now a tangent of research. This is how the show goes.
Deep domain knowledge with extensive practical experience to consistently deliver results.
Well, then I'm an expert. I wouldn't shoot. I would guess I'm an expert. You tried to do the this. Yeah. But you don't. You can't do that. So what did you do?
Woo! I want to do that so bad. Just do it. I keep practicing. I know. I can't. I can't relax my fingers enough to do that. I'll keep trying. Would you rather this or that?
The past 30 seconds have been the most stressful 30 seconds of your entire life. This has been chaos. This has been crazy. We're getting ready to end the show. And uh it's been our 500th episode of Wake Up Classy 97, the podcast uh version of the show. Now, uh we brought in what are you trying to do?
I'm trying to record. Okay.
So you're trying to tripod your phone? Is that what's happening? So you're filming me. I'm filming you. Correct. We're also filming uh, you know, on the big cameras in the studio. So there's lots of video happening right now.
You've propped up your phone on a thing of thumbtacks. Yeah. Uh you have in your hand a confetti popper. Yes. We thought we would end the show by making a mess in the studio. Yeah. Of confetti. Yeah, we'll clean it up. I'm gonna I'm gonna film you doing your popper, and then you've tripodted your phone.
We could do it at the same time if you tripodted your phone. Where?
Uh I don't have a thing of push pins to lean my phone. Plus, I don't have like a great view. I have all this stuff in front of me. Well, I've got some stuff. That's fine. It's okay. You do you, I'll do mine. We're celebrating 500 episodes. Congratulations. Congratulations. Uh firewall. one torpedo. Ready, set, go. Oh no. Oh no. Let's go.
That was exciting. That was exciting. Okay, that's fun.
It didn't make as big a mess as I thought. No. All right. Now I'm gonna set my phone down so that I can film. Do I so you you're recording already? I am recording already. So let's go. Fire torpedo too. Yeah.
Boom, shagalaka. That one made a bigger mess. Isn't that exciting? That is so fun. Hey, congrats to you, Josh. Yeah. Congrats to us. Hey, hey. Hey. Congrats to us.
Look, phone, filming phone, film and phone. Crazy. Uh 500 episodes down. Here's to another 500. Uh this is cool. This one's actually spring loaded, not uh not um like powder.
I don't know what you're talking about. That's fine. It is fine. I like confetti. You know that about me. I do know that about you. Don't take Josh to a concert unless there's gonna be confetti. I like confetti at a show. Well, we have confetti in our show today. We do. Success.
Happy uh 500 episodes. Here's the 500 more. Thanks for being with us uh and hanging out through uh as many of the shows as you have listened to or seen.
I was gonna say seen. Uh some of the clips have been uh published. I have recorded the video of most of today's show, so I am gonna try and uh produce that all out and put one big video on YouTube of today's show. Uh so you can go back and you can watch, subscribe on our YouTube channel. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. You can listen to the show on Spotify and Apple and Amazon and YouTube and everywhere else. All of the places. That's right. Uh and thanks for being a part of what we do here every single day.
You guys, uh I'm just having fun. Are you? Yeah, everybody always asks, like, how is it working with your spouse? Yeah. We're just hanging out. We're having fun. Right? And I just like it. Okay. I'm just having fun. Well, good. That's good news.
You're tying confetti on your microphone. Well, yeah. Making it all fun and pretty. Oh, yeah. All right. Thanks for hanging out. We'll be back tomorrow, episode 501.
Oh. More confetti. Probably not. No.
Probably the balloons will still be hung up if I'm real lazy today. Yeah, leave them up. I'm gonna leave them up. Leave them up.
Till the rest of the week. All week? Yes. Okay, cool. All right. Have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow. Bye.
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