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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Wednesday, September 25th, 2024
Episode summary introduction:
It’s comic book day and Loki Skywalker is all about it, Chantel’s love for the Vikings was a little embarrassing, what happens when I say ‘tragedy’, Chantel has a unique way to get rid of soda foam, we’re sooooo luxurious, Nintendo Power magazine, a man who has a hard time waking up married a woman who has a hard time staying awake, our daughter is prepping for driver’s ed, and there’s a about to be a Mario Kart showdown!
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Full show transcript:
This is wake up classy 97, the podcast, a replay of today's full show. It's Josh and Chantel. It's Wednesday, September 25th. On today's show, it is comic book day. Whoop.
And Loki Skywalker is all about it. Loki. He's all about it. Loki. Chantel's love for the Vikings got her into a little bit of an embarrassing situation.
Bit of a pickle? Yeah. What happens when I say tragedy? Tragedy. That's what happens.
Yeah. Nanananana. It's Still don't know the words, do you? I do too. If you didn't wanna say that.
Sure. Sure. Chantel has a pretty unique way to get rid of soda foam. Yeah. Just blow on it.
Sure. Blow it away. We're pretty luxurious in our house. Luxurious. Mhmm.
Nintendo Power Magazine, we talk about that. There's a man who has a hard time waking up who married a woman who has a hard time staying awake. Who is it? Oh, it's us. It's us.
Our daughter's prepping for driver's ed. Yikes. What's the joke? Stay off the sidewalks. Oh, and, apparently, there's gonna be a Mario Kart showdown.
Oh, yeah. And you're gonna lose, son. We'll see. Thanks for listening to the show. Live every weekday morning from 6 to 10 and right here anytime on the podcast.
Enjoy. Hi there, Chantel. Hi there. Hi there. Oh, there.
He there. Hi. Hi. Oh, excuse me. There was a lot of stuff.
K. Go. We're on. And we're live. Today is Wednesday.
It is September 25th. It is National Comic Book Day. Okay. Around the country, different comic book stores will have different events going on as they usually do on comic book day. I would assume that is true.
If you For our next time hosting my dad about comic books. He will tell you that he had an original version of Superman, and his mom threw it away. That's not nice of her. We have a daughter. It is National Daughters Day.
Oh, it is? Yep. Aw. Yep. We better make a post on Facebook.
We got a daughter. That's what people do, right, on these days? That's exactly right. It is world dream day. Mhmm.
I like dreaming. Dreaming's nice because that means I'm sleeping. I know. Yeah. It's better breakfast day?
Oh, better breakfast. Mhmm. What's better breakfast? Oh, you know how you might start off your day with, like, just something simple? Oh, an oatmeal, a yogurt, a protein shake.
Mhmm. Maybe you wanna have a better breakfast today. What's wrong with the oatmeal and protein shake and yogurt? It's just saying that maybe you wanna put a little effort into making a better, healthier, bigger breakfast. Oatmeal and yogurt sounds great.
Great. National cooking day, national psychotherapy day, world pharmacist day, national roadkill day, quesadilla day, lobster day, 1 hit wonder day. We're talking a lot about 1 hit wonders. I've seen a ton of it on the Internet today. You?
Yep. Best one hit wonders. One hit wonders that sync up to your zodiac. Yeah. Yeah?
I just read that. Mine was what was mine? Yeah. I hit that song, and it says that that's my zodiac one hit wonder. Yeah.
Wrong. Well, what are you gonna do? And it is binge day, which is where you fire up your favorite streaming service, grab the popcorn, and binge. It's been a long time since we had a show to binge, and I kind of binged. You slept.
When? Last night? Nope. I binged an entire season of a show called Outlast, and then I told Emery about it, and Emery binged it as well. And then she started the 1st season, and she said the same thing that I did.
1st season wasn't as good as the 2nd, and she quit watching it. Oh, no. Sorry. So tried to binge, but I solo binged instead. Okay.
Because you slept. Yeah. Yeah. Sleeping is nice. Yeah.
I like it. I don't disagree, but it sure does stop you from binging. It does. You're not wrong, but it feels so nice to sleep. I know.
Hey. It's, it's it's Wednesday. It's Wednesday, my dudes. Yeah. Good morning.
There was a family in the UK, and they were trying to get a passport for their 7 year old boy. And the authorities said, I'm sorry. You cannot get a passport. And his parents said, why? And they said, because his name relates to a trademark or a copyright, and we can't we can't give him a password.
This is a this is, his birth name? This is his birth name. His parents named him this. It is on his birth certificate. What is his name?
His name is Loki Skywalker Mowbray. Yeah. That's I mean, look. Loki Skywalker, both of those, fictional characters, Luke Skywalker and Loki from the Marvel Universe, Thor's brother. So, and then the last name is just the last name.
Yeah. That's just his regular name. What do you do? So and he was born on May 4th. So it was intentional force be with you.
That his parents named him at because they love Star Wars and and, apparently, Loki, Marvel Universe. They were told that they would have to get permission from Disney or change the boy's name. They're never gonna get permission from Disney. Exactly. The family said neither of those are options for us.
Neither of them. And they were like, we're not trying to get money out of his 4? 7. 7. So he's been Loki Skywalker for a while.
I know. Which come on, guys. Like, maybe that's cool, but, like, the kid's gonna get teased. No way. You don't think so?
No way. AM Loki. And you'd be like, what? I don't what if he hates Marvel? I couldn't think of the name.
And Star Wars. I bet he does. Sounds like a Loki problem, doesn't it? Loki. Stop it.
So, yeah. What I mean So I don't know what you do. This story picked up steam, and people were upset, obviously. Eventually, the authorities emailed the family, contact the family, and said, alright. Like, we're gonna issue the passport.
Yeah. It's just gonna be delayed. Yeah. So are they, like, in a rush to go on vacation, or is this just I don't know. Because it's procedural.
In Europe, you you can go country to country to country to country like you go state to state to state America. And so 30 minutes away. Yeah. So your passport's, like, a more commonly carried around used, form of identification, I would assume, because you're you're country hopping. Right.
So he'll get it. He's got it. It'll be fine? It'll be fine. Low key skywalker.
I don't know how you I for sure, a copyright. Like, the names are a copyright, but you should be able to name another person that. People name that I mean, think of lesser, not Disney owned properties I know. Like, Hunger Games. If someone named their kid Katniss Right.
Or Peeta or Gale But those are probably not copyrighted. No. I know. But that's what I'm like, the reason Disney does that is so that other people can't use those characters. So this is not in the commercial space.
This is just some dude's name. Yeah. I know. He's not trying to sell anything. Right.
He's not trying to profit off of it. He's trying to exist, and his name happens to be Loki Skywalker, which I'm a little kind of meh about the fact that they combined 2 worlds. Like, maybe you should have picked 1. Don't don't don't be a nerd. Don't be a nerd.
Like, these don't even coexist, and you force them into 1 7 year old child. I mean, you you did it when he was a new baby. But When we were pregnant with Emery, we were asking Bec. Bec was only, like, 4 years old at the time. Yeah.
And we asked what we should name her. Do you remember what he wanted to name her? Bruce Banner, and there there was a whole bunch of other names after him. Yeah. Because he thought she should be called the Hulk's alter eagle ego.
But I can't remember the rest of it. Can't be there. But it it was a combination. I think it was a Star Wars and the Marvel thing combined too. Yeah.
It probably was. We didn't end up going with that name. No. We sure didn't. Or Bruce Banner, whatever the rest of it was.
I mean, he should've just picked 1. Loki's fine or Luke. They could've called him Luke, and there would be no issue. There probably still would be because that's pretty on the nose. No.
They probably couldn't have called him Luke Skywalker, whatever his real last name is, but they could have just called him Luke. True. Okay. They didn't, though. So at least they're getting the passport.
It'll be resolved. Yep. Things are okay. Things are great. Super.
So a few weeks ago, there was a girl, named Abby, and Abby earned $80 from a lemonade stand Wow. The shoes running, which is pretty good. That is a pretty good price. Her parents, told her that whatever she made, they would match. Aw.
So she made a $160. Not bad. I bet her parents were like, yeah. We'll we'll match whatever you pay. Right.
And they're like And then $8. Yeah. We'll match your $5. Yeah. No.
So she she got a $160. Abby decided to give the entire amount to the Kent County Animal Shelter in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Along with the check, Abby included a note that says maybe you can buy a toy or something for them. The employees at the shelter were very touched by Abby's generosity. They shared her story on Facebook.
It's now gone viral. And inspired by Abby's generosity, people in the community started matching her donation Oh. As well and contributing in her honor. And it didn't take long for the shelter to receive over $3 in donations Nice. Along with boxes of treats, toys for the animals, all this, all this stuff in in honor of Abby, which is so cool.
That's great. The director of the shelter, her name is Angela Hollins, Hollinshead. And, she said she was thrilled to see all the support inspired by Abby's simple act of kindness. We often say that kindness is contagious. And in this instance, it has never been more true, which I think is super cool.
That's great. Good job, Abby. Way to go. Abby made $80 and turned it into over $3,000 for On a lemonade stand. Yeah.
Well done. Yeah. Very well done. Good for you, Abby. It's good news to get you going.
I have a funny story to tell you. What's up? So yesterday, I was doing some I was looking for some contact information for a school in Swan Valley. K. And I I googled Swan Valley School.
And I Swan Valley School. No. No. I don't know. I don't remember oh, my Google is telling me.
Yeah. I don't remember exactly what I googled, but I found some contact information or I got to the Swan Valley, and it had their mascot was the Vikings. And I was like, oh, I also love the Vikings. Different Vikings for the kids. Of the a lot of the teacher info, like, all the staff directory had, like, the Minnesota Vikings as their like, if they weren't there for picture day, they just had a Minnesota Vikings logo.
Okay. So I was like, I like this school. And I sent an email out to No way. One of the teachers. And then I noticed that it was actually a school, a Swan Valley in Minnesota.
And I went, that's why. They're the Vikings. Yeah. Yeah. Here's, here's a Swan Valley High School, the Vikings in, Saginaw, Michigan as well.
So just go Swan Valley Vikings. Alright. I just How did you, not look at the they were in Idaho first? I I don't know. I wasn't paying attention.
So then I quickly sent an email back, and I said, please disregard. Wrong wrong one. I was looking for one in Idaho, but, go Vikings. Yeah. Yeah.
But hey. While while I got you Hey. While I while you're here since I got you. I also support the Minnesota Vikings. Yeah.
You got all caught up is what happened. You got you got so excited about that. Everything else went away, and you went, Swan Valley, Idaho. But, also, I think it's a mistake on the algorithm because they they know that I like the Minnesota Vikings. And so they're It's probably true.
Like, oh, I think she's looking for this school in Minnesota that also supports the Vikings. Yeah. But Swan Valley only has an elementary. Don't they go to a different the Swan Valley Elementary? Oh, for Idaho?
Yeah. Yeah. Because then they go to is it North Fremont that they go to? Mm-mm. Don't ask me.
I don't know anything about life. Now I gotta find out because that that's gonna bug me. It doesn't matter that much. It's just something I feel like I should know. When they go to district 92 in Swan Valley.
Oh. Yeah. I'll have to figure that out. Okay. Yeah.
Why? Because they just have Swan Valley Elementary, but where did they go to middle and high? I don't know. I don't know. And I and I it bugs me that I don't know.
I gotta find that information. Why does that bug you? I don't know. We don't have anybody in Swan Valley. I know.
But it just makes me go, like, curious. Where do those Curious. Where do those kids go? Where do they go after they get out of elementary school? In case you're wondering, the school district in Swan Valley, Idaho is not Maybe they go to Ryrie.
You're still on this? They bust them all the way to Ryrie? I don't I don't know, Josh. Somebody knows. I don't.
Go Vikings. Go Vikings. This is a story you should probably tell because you set me up. You set me up. Listen.
It was it was, earlier in the day, I picked up Emery from school, and the song tragedy was on Tragedy. Yeah. It was on classy 97 light. And, and so Shameless plug. Yeah.
Well, you know, I was listening to Classy 97 lite, and tragedy was on. And, and it was just Oh my god. I was driving. Emery and I were having a conversation. And I said, oh, this is that song that every time you say the word tragedy, mom says that Tragedy.
Every time. And so she was like, what? And so I let it play for a minute, and she was like, of course, it's a thing. Like, she doesn't know all the references, but you have a collection of trigger words. And the word tragedy is one of them, and it immediately makes you go, tragedy.
And so, knowing this, she said, oh, I have a story to tell her that involves the word tragedy. And I said, oh, okay. And she said, remind me to tell her later. So last night, we're in the car, and I said, oh, Emery, you were gonna tell mom that story about your, your writing class. And she was like, oh, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. And she proceeds to tell you the story, and, they had to pick a different sort of theme for a story that they were gonna write, and she chose tragedy as her theme. And you without missing a beat, and we had we had sort of told you already, oh, yeah. You were gonna tell mom that story that had that trigger word in it.
So you already knew it was coming. And she says, oh, yeah. I chose tragedy. And you went, tragedy, as you do. And then we both went, yep.
That worked. And you felt now like you were set up. It was a setup. The Domino's were already set up. We just had to knock them down.
You weren't set up. You were already set up. It's an easy part. My other trigger words then? I'd have to If you think you guys know me so well.
They come up all the time. That one just stood out yesterday. But there are there are little trigger words that we will say, and you'll quote a movie or drop in a song lyric or whatever it is. You have small little triggers all the time. All the time, and it's fun.
It's a good time. How can you not sing tragedy from the b g's when you hear tragedy? I just don't know how anybody doesn't get triggered by that word. No. It's tragedy.
Yeah. You know? Yeah. No. And the only word you know is tragedy.
No. No. You just proved it. Tragedy. What are the words?
Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. Looking it up now.
You were not set up. We just know you that well. And, The feeling's gone, and you can't go on. It's tragedy. See?
We were out to eat last night, and it reminded me of going to work with my mom when I was When we went to eat? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because we were getting our drinks Yeah.
And there was foam in the top of the cup. Right. And here's what used to happen. This is so gross, but I'm gonna say it anyway. I know what you used to do.
I was little Yeah. And I would help out my mom at work sometimes. She worked at a bowling alley, and so I would get behind her at the counter. And she would take orders, and they would often get people their drinks. Right.
And there would be foam in the top of the cup. Root beer has carbonation. And I would blow on it. Yeah. Let me get rid of that foam.
Fill it up. There's your drink. You're disgusting. What a gross little kid. I know.
I was little. I didn't know. I know. But that's how you got rid of your own foam was by this explains why the bathroom looks like it does every morning. What does that mean?
Have you noticed it's always you haven't because you you leave right after whatever happens. Why is the countertop always wet? Are you taking your toothbrush and going what happens? What are you talking about? I I go into the bathroom to brush my teeth after you every morning Yeah.
And the counter is, like, real wet. So I have to dry it off before I can brush my teeth because the whole counter's wet. No. It's not because I think it's related. I think you I think it's the same thing as you blowing the foam off your cup as a kid.
I don't blow up my toothbrush. You might. I don't. You know what it's wet from is from me washing my face. Why is your face leaving the counter wet?
Not so my face. It's just my hands. Now you're just name and parcel. It's my face, my hands. It's just spillage from the water in my hands.
Okay. But let's go back to the soda thing. Did you wipe up the foam that got inevitably splattered all over the soda machine? No. It's the same.
Same. See? It's the same. It's not the same. So I apologize for anybody who used to order a soda in the, Yeah.
Late eighties. In a bowling alley that doesn't even exist anymore. It doesn't exist. So you know? Listen.
Those people weren't concerned because Those people if you were bowlers. Yeah. If you were in the in a bowling alley anywhere in the 19 eighties Yeah. Those people were smoking You sure? Like crazy.
Yeah. So It was not exactly the the The epitome of health. Yeah. It was not it was not the opinion of health and cleanliness. The least of their concerns whereas my breast 7 year old blowing the foam off of their root base.
Exactly. Yeah. Way to go. Also, why were you behind the counter? Oh, because it was the eighties, so we were allowed to be.
I see. Did you go to work with your mom when you were little? No. I well, I had a job there. Easy there?
You had a job there? Mowing the lawn. When you were younger? Yeah. When I was 12.
And then, you know, 11, 12, 13, whatever. And then, you know, later in life, I got a job there for a very short amount of time and then realized I did not wanna work in the manufacturing of gloves. And so I left that and went to fast food. Exactly. Early in life, I realized that I no way.
I did not wanna be part of the bowling world. Not going to be part of the glove making world. So thanks, mom, for that. Yeah. Although, they did have an arcade there, and I got really good at playing arcade games.
And that's it. Okay. Cool. Cool. There is some old footage from a 1988 video of a guy calling the Nintendo Power line.
Yes. So Nintendo Power was a magazine that you could subscribe to, which I got for a little while, I got Nintendo Power magazine. But I'm sure it was one of those things where a friend had it or something, and I brought home the little postcard from inside the magazine. And I went, mom, I gotta get Nintendo Power. I gotta have Nintendo Power.
But they would put, in the in the magazine, they that's, like, that's how you learned cheat codes and how to do, you know, warps in Mario and how to get above the map and run across the top and, you know, to avoid the entire level, basically. Like, all that stuff was documented in Nintendo Power. But then, yeah, they did have, also, in the very back in the ads, there was the Nintendo Power hotline. You could call and say, hey. I'm playing Mario.
I'm on this level. And a real person answered. Real person would answer the phone and say, alright. Here's what you've gotta do. Here's how you're gonna get past this level.
That's hilarious. Yeah. That's awesome. I did not know that existed until you told me about that. Mhmm.
But I my brother was a huge Nintendo player. Did he get Nintendo Power Magazine? I don't know. I was Did you see what it looked like? No.
Like, look at Nintendo Power. Magazine? Yeah. Magazine. Nintendo Power Magazine.
So what a great what a great magazine. That the Nintendo Power line existed until 2010? Really? Yeah. No.
I did not. I assumed it would have been gone or, like, way early. Like, early 2000s when the Internet got Sure. Pretty big. Yeah.
Yeah. The Internet did make it go obsolete because then people were just googling things. But what a cool job that would have been. Yeah. That would have been amazing.
But you would have had to just play video games and know the ins and outs of every video game. Dang it. It's kind of a job for you with all your bowling, alley arcade expertise. I mean, you were well rehearsed. You could've Yep.
You could've done that gig. People ringing you up. You're right. You're right. I wonder, was there, like, certain people that were like, ah, Zach's the best at Legends of Zelda.
Oh, I don't know if they had specialties within the call center. Zach and Jack. But Zach is, like, the doctor Mario expert. And over here, we got Josh who's the what's your game? What would you have been the expert at?
Boy, I played a ton of Mario. I'm trying to think what else I played a lot of. A ton of Mario. So I just wonder if, like, everybody had their specialty. Right?
Yeah. So Jack over here, doctor Mario, he's like, oh, you gotta get this cheat code to get this. Yeah. I didn't really care for doctor Mario. So I wouldn't have been that game.
Did you like doctor Mario? Well, it was in the bowling alley in the arcade, so I played it. Course you did. Yeah. You're the doctor Mario.
But why did it's a it's a sort of a Tetris thing, and you love Tetris. It's not like Tetris. Kinda. No. You have to fit the pieces together that match.
It's not like that. Kinda. No. Because you have to put the pills there to kill the viruses. Yeah.
It's a totally different game. It's kind of the same. It's way different. Yeah. But it's The pieces are not even they're all shaped the same.
They're just different colors. There's only 2 colors per pill. Way different game. Way different game. How come that game doesn't exist anymore?
Because it's awful. No. It's fun. Do you have fond memories of doctor Mario? I do.
Yeah. I do. Of all the arcade games? That's all new. Not miss Pac Man?
No. I Great arcade game. Like miss Pac Man. Great arcade game. Donkey Kong.
Donkey Kong was awesome. I love Donkey Kong. And I also was pretty okay at Street Fighter. Pretty okay? We own Street Fighter.
I beg to differ. I said pretty okay. You're a button masher. Yeah. That's not pretty okay.
Pretty okay. That's enough to survive a little bit. It's pretty okay. Not for very long. It's fine.
It's pretty okay. Streetfighter. I also like that 1942 or whatever, the airplane game where it's a top down airplane. No. Then you you move your guy left to right, and you pick up power ups.
No interest. You're shooting at battleships and stuff. No. Boring. That's a great game.
Played a lot of that in the arcade. Crazy Taxi, that's a good arcade game. Also good at home. Nah. But that was New School.
Doctor Mario, bud. No. Not a good game. Stand by what I said. What?
Where were we? You didn't give me the cue. I thought you gave me the cue, and then Yeah. Yeah. I was going.
We're on. What's up? What is the most luxurious thing you've ever experienced? Wow. I'm trying to to to decide.
Probably the hotel and the wedding that we went to about a year ago in Salem. That was pretty luxurious. That was like, I felt like But that was Like, I know we had to, like, pay and stuff. Like, there was stuff we had to to buy, but even just the way that we were that whole weekend, the way we were sort of hosted felt very luxurious. Yeah.
Okay. I believe that. I'm trying to think of But we have other things. We haven't never stayed in a 5 star hotel. No.
We haven't never stayed we have never I've never done, like, an all inclusive thing or whatever. Spa vacation. Right. Or Yeah. Those big resorts or any of that.
Right. So 82% of people claim that they've never had A luxurious thing? Luxury. See and I think it's it's because it's hard, and it's not that you're ungrateful. Expensive.
Yeah. Okay. Sure. Expensive. Yeah.
But it's also it's hard to think of, like, what is like like, we just got new pillows and a new comforter, and it's pretty luxurious. It feels It's really nice. I know. So my my luxury feels simpler. Exactly.
A lot of people say that luxury to them means flying 1st class, never done. Right. A private chef, never had. Riding in a limousine I've done that. Never done.
It's it wasn't that great. VIP access to exclusive events. Okay. Now We've done that one. Had some experiences where you've been, sort of treated at at a show or at a at a sporting game.
Like, we went to a jazz game once and got and got a little bit spoiled. We did. Because we we had a catered private room, and that was that was wild. That was pretty luxurious. Okay.
You're right. I have had some luxury. It wasn't the luxury of, like, hey. Meet the team. Here's autograph stuff.
Like, there's there's a different level of luxury beyond what we experienced. Yes. But, again, something that not everybody gets to, gets to be a part of, and that was a pretty cool experience. Was pretty luxurious. Mhmm.
And I learned really quickly that I could I could get used to that lifestyle. Brat. I could get used to that lifestyle real quick. Yeah. Because I think that's because you're the baby.
And so when when you got rehooked in on that, oh, wait. I could actually just have everything I want? Like, it it It wasn't even just that. It was look. You don't have to use a bathroom with everybody else.
Yeah. There's a private You have your own private bathroom. Right. Or you you get to go have snacks that are just there waiting for you. Bringing more?
What? Yeah. What is it? You're right. I do deserve this.
Yeah. Now someone was paying for that. Absolutely. It just wasn't us. No.
And it was awesome. Right. That was pretty luxurious. Let's see. We've had some luxury Yeah.
A time or 2. I mean, I I I like washing my my truck. When I come out of the car wash, I feel pretty luxury. I feel pretty I feel pretty fancy Again with a washed truck. Pretty low end luxury.
I know. I got I got low bar luxury. It's okay. But it makes me feel like Whatever makes me feel luxurious. Feel luxurious.
Mhmm. Just take it. Like our bed. The Yeah. Brand new sheets, brand new pillows, pillowcases, the new comforter duvet cover thing.
It's it's too soft now. I go like, this is great. I know it's too soft. It's the best. But it's awesome.
It's pretty luxurious. Pretty luxurious. What's going on over there? Oh, listen to that. It's right.
It's spooky season. I tried to do it slowly. Wow. That thing has got a noise to it. Somebody needs to fix it.
Can we talk about what happened last night? What happened? Well, listen. This morning, I was having a hard time waking up as I do. What time did you even go to bed?
Like, 11. Okay. It was a little later than usual, but it's it wasn't, like, terrible. But I I don't I have this hard time waking up in the morning because it's slow. I'm a slow waker upper.
Yep. I like to, like, take my time, and so it's it's frustrating when it's like you gotta hustle and get going in the morning. You're, fall asleep early, hard to stay awake late in the evening. And by late in the evening, I mean, I don't know, 8:30? Hey.
I didn't mean to fall asleep at 8:30. I had been trying to watch a movie for the past couple of nights, and I kept falling asleep. Yeah. So get into the new big beautiful soft bed I know. And turn on the movie.
We were told last night, and we're just like, I'm gonna make some cupcakes. You're like, I'm gonna go play my video game. Yeah. Great. I'm gonna try and finish my movie.
I got into the bed, which was the first mistake. Yeah. And I lasted maybe 20 minutes, I think. Yes, sir. No.
Yeah. Yes. I did. Yes. I did.
I don't think you got past the title screen. Yes. I did. I got way into that movie. 20 minutes.
20 minutes into a movie, into a 2 hour movie? That's way into it? I got a tenth of the way into it. Things are happening. When I I woke up at 10, so I fell asleep probably about 8:30.
I woke up at 10, which is typically when we go to bed, and the whole upstairs is dark. It's quiet. Nobody's around. I'm like, where is everybody? Everybody went to bed.
Yeah. The dog is laying next to my feet. Yeah. I'm like, what is happening? Oh, she did, the dog.
Yeah. I'm laying there sleeping, minding my own business, and I get a lick on the mouth. Oh, gross. And I went, what? I was not pleased.
Not pleased. Making sure you were alive. So, somehow Everybody's like you were downstairs. Everybody's already in bed. Yeah.
Cupcakes are made on the counter. I put the dog to bed. I go say good night to Emery. She said, I tried to show you the cupcakes I made, but you are passed out. Yeah.
You were sleeping. So then you went to bed for real for real For real for real. Like, 10:10 or whatever. Yeah. Yeah.
And then I came upstairs and went to bed shortly thereafter by, like, 11. But, yeah, I don't know how along the along the way, somehow, the go to bed, hard to stay awake at night lady married the hard to wake up guy. Just because I go to bed early doesn't mean that it's easy for me to wake up. I got, what, 9 hours of sleep Yeah. And I still was still just as tired as I ever was this morning getting out of bed.
Yeah. I should have gone to bed earlier. I got out of bed and went, why do we do this every day? At 5 in the morning. 5 in the morning.
That's the largest part. And then it's, like, real dark. Like, it's now dark at 8:30, and it's dark still at 5. It's gonna it's gonna keep getting worse because it's also going to be cold now in the mornings too. And you really don't wanna get out of bed when that happens.
I know. I know. I know. I'm not excited, but I do know. Thanks for the reminder.
It's happening. We have soon, we will have another driver in our house. I'm not ready. I'm not ready either. I'm not ready.
What's interesting to me is that she just turned 15, and a lot of her friends are the same age, and a lot of her friends are not excited about driving. Yeah. She's been itching for years to get behind the wheel and drive. Like, she has wanted to do this for a long time. A lot of her friends are like, nah.
I don't I don't think I ever want to. I was talking to her about it last night. She's gonna end up being the one driving around everybody. And, so she better start collecting their gas money now because, you know, that's not that's not cool or fair or anything. You know?
I just when I was her same age, I was like, yes. When can I I had the itch too? I was like, I gotta get out of here. I gotta drive. I gotta have my independence.
Need mobility. I gotta go. Yeah. I'm not stoked about, putting her on the road because I drive these roads. I've seen the people on these roads.
Yep. And that's a dangerous place. It's very dangerous. So so that part, I'm like, great. It's cool.
It's terrifying. Yeah. Just as terrifying with our son who's, you know, been doing it for several years now. It's still I go, man, it's crazy out there. Crazy.
Good luck, buddy. So, anyway, yeah, that's, that's happening in our house real soon. Yeah. What's the the process? Because you you went to the the DMV to get the permit, and now Well, you have to registered in a class.
You have to get not yet because we have to pay. Okay. Good. So you have to get, like, the form from our school that says that she's enrolled in school. Yeah.
And then you have to show up at the DMV with all of the forms needed, birth certificate, and that thing from the school and Social Security card and blahdy blahdy blah. And then the DMV gets the driving permit, and they send it to the where you're going to do Yeah. No. Where you're going to do your class. The driver school.
Yeah. The driver school. And then you get enrolled in the school, and you pay a lot of money. It's a lot of money. It's not cheap.
Right. And then they do class time, and then they do driving time. And this particular driving school has options where you can actually go to the class or you can take the online classes. And she has opted to take the online classes because she likes to go at her own speed. Right.
And then you do the drive time. Right. And then you have, like, a bunch of time where we get to drive with her and teach her how we drive. And here is my here's my thing. This is where this is where I I think the system is flawed.
Because, the system that you and I had when we were youths was tied to school. And so it was, like, one of the football coaches or whatever that also taught driver's ed, or shop shop teacher taught driver's ed, whatever. So that was the case, for me as well. And I and the driver's ed teacher was one of my classmates' dads, and so I'd known him for a while, which was cool. And I had also driven, like, farm trucks and different things like that because I was working on a farm in the summers, moving pipe and things.
And so, there was a little bit of experience there, and I get into the car and and I'm ready to drive. And he's like, you're gonna need to not be so comfortable. Let's keep 2 hands on the wheel. I it's evident you have driven before, so let's go ahead and do this the classroom way. And I go, oh, okay.
It's gonna be like that. Alright. Look at you trying to pretend you're so like, oh, no one would have do it. Well, I just got in. Like, let's drive.
No big deal. Right? Confidence. You gotta have a little bit of confidence and a willingness to drive. I was actually amazed that I passed my driver's ed class because Me too.
On a I'm kidding. Hey. I'm kidding. Go on. On a dare, my driver's ed teacher was bald.
Oh, no. And my friend dared me to ask him when he was waxing his car if he also waxed his head, and I did it. You did. And what'd you find out? He was not amused.
Uh-huh. And then I felt really stupid. Okay. So but now the system is is really left up to like, there's there's instruction, which is important. There's class time, and then there's practical drive time.
But the practical drive time is not like the time we had. We had a lot of in person classroom time to learn about parts of the car and road signs and watch the terrible video of people getting hit by trains and things. And then and then you would go and drive, and you drove a lot. Like, I felt like I drove I did drive a lot. Like, there was freeway time.
There was parking time. There was there was a lot of drive time. We had automatic cars and manual cars. Yeah. I think we got to choose.
A little of both. I don't know that I ever drove a manual then. I had driven manual before. But, anyway, now it's up to parents. It's up to my driving ability and your driving ability to be passed on to Which is terrifying, you said.
Our kids. And that's where I go, like, the community at large is responsible for teaching their children how to drive? That's a problem because I've seen you all. Mhmm. This is a failed system.
This is a flawed system. Not failed. It's a flawed system. I know that you are definitely more patient a teacher with our kids. I know this from you teaching them how to ride a bike, you teaching them how to Snowboard, whatever.
All of this. So you'll be doing the majority of the teaching because, 1, you're less anxious than I am, and 2, you're more patient than I am. So Well, that's kind. But, also, here's here's the rest of what I what I feel about this parents teaching their kids their driving methods. Parents didn't learn in driver's ed how to navigate roundabouts.
And so now we're going to have generations of people that don't know how to do this because it's not being I've seen it. Do you know what I'm saying? I've seen it. Like, that particular one road obstacle is going to be a challenge for so many people. I'm saying I go out of my way to avoid those roundabouts because I know you can't.
People that drive through them, and it's terrifying. I know. And I know the one is directly on the way to my kids' school. I know. How are they gonna navigate that?
There's roundabouts everywhere. I know, but the the worst one is on the way to school. I know. They put teenagers through that I know. Twice a day.
I know. I know. Chaos out there. Oh, it's nearly spooky season, and all the, costumes are out and everything. Dude, we gotta get to work on our costumes.
I know. I know. I got an idea. You do? Well, maybe.
So, the folks over at Spirit Halloween Stores Uh-huh. Have a couple of new costumes. K. You wanna hear about them? Yes.
They teamed up with Aunt Annie's and Cinnabon. And so, you can have Aunt Annie's pretzel nuggets or a Cinnabon box. You can be snacks. Snacks? Or or or maybe you wanna be the strawberry pop tart.
That's a new one. You can be this you can be the strawberry, pop tart, which is actually a mascot from, the pop tarts bowl in Orlando last December. There's a huge pop tart with a face on it. And, anyway, you can be that I just looked up strawberry pop tart costume Yeah. And I see a lot of homemade strawberry pop tart costumes, which are adorable.
It's just made out of felt and pompoms and all the sprinkles. It's pretty darn cute. And one, the one that they've got here, is like a like a pop tart body, and then you just wear pants. And you just put this over your head, and then it's got, like, a spot where your face cannot poke through. It can see through.
Oh. So it's covered. Yeah. So you're still in there, but then it's got big googly eyes and a smiley mouth that shows the strawberry filling. Oh.
Delicious. So you could be the strawberry pop tart, or, again, you could dress up as aunt Annie's pretzel bites or a Cinnabon box. Aunt Annie's pretzel Mhmm. Bite. Yes.
Costume. Uh-huh. It's a it's a cup of pretzel bites with a cute little hat. Okay. I see that.
I see it. Or the Cinnabon box. So we could be food is what I'm what I'm saying. I don't wanna be that. You don't wanna be fun food?
No. I told you what I wanna be. You're not into it, and it it's so disappointing. I gotta find somebody who wants to do this costume with me because You can be Robinhood. Be Robinhood.
I'm not telling you you can't. But I need a partner, and that partner is you by law. By law, you agreed. You made vows. Nowhere in there did I say whatever Halloween costume you wanna be, I'll be.
Why don't you wanna be my partner? No. I I do. Why don't you wanna be my Halloween Robin Hood partner? Because you wanna make me out to be, like, the weirdest character.
Dude. Yeah, dude. Little John or prince John. Great characters. Or the chicken.
I rest my case. No. No. Not the chicken that's, like, Maid Marian's friend, but the Robinhood dressed up as the chicken. No.
You're not gonna be you're not gonna be Robinhood, and I'm Robinhood dressed as a chicken. Why not? You wanted me to be the the chicken. No. No.
No. No. Not that not that booster. No. No.
I mean, you could if you wanted to. There is a plethora of characters you can choose from Robinhood, the animated show. A plethora. Pick 1. You could be the snake, also cool.
Little John is so good. You could be little John. But you wanted me to be little John dressed as a woman Initially, yeah. Robbing a carriage. But now you could just fall on the way.
Regular little John. You could just be regular little John, Robin Hood's tried and true friend. Where am I gonna get the giant bear costume? Bro, we can figure it out. At this time of day?
Fine. It's fine. Be Robinhood. No. It's fine.
Idea ruined. No. Be be Robinhood. Don't be all sad about it. You can be Robinhood.
And what are you gonna be? I don't know. Something that totally doesn't even match. Totally lame. So disappointed.
I've never been more disappointed than Wow. Wow. What? You had you had a whole year. You had a whole year to think about it.
Yeah. I didn't. I know. I didn't think about it. Or you could be the sheriff of Nottingham.
Or? Or the dog. Oh, could I? Or fryer tuck. Are you saying I look round and bald?
Nope. I'm giving you options of what you could be. The little church mice, you could be one of them. Whatever. Forget about it.
You ready to tell me a little bit of this or that? Yeah. I am. Alright. Would you rather this or that?
Fall edition. Oh. Would you rather eat apple pie or pumpkin pie for a month? Done. Apple pie for me.
Why? It's gross. Because apple pie is delicious. No. Hot apples are not where it's at.
Yeah. What was At a cough. No. Tickle my teeth. To eat it every day for a month.
Every day for a month. That's the only thing you get to eat? Okay. Or you just have to eat a slice of it every day for a month? You only have to it's not the only thing you eat.
You just have to eat a slice of it every day for a month. Pumpkin pie. Pumpkin pie is where it's at. I'm choking. Quit choking.
Pumpkin pie. I love pumpkin pie, but I also love apple pie, and I think I prefer apple pie over pumpkin pie. Would take a fruit pie anytime Yeah. Before you would take pumpkin pie. Okay.
Fair. But I I wouldn't say no to pumpkin pie if it was offered either. I just like pie. I just really wish we could do something about the crust. That's it.
I just wish the crust was better. It's just not great. That's all I'm trying to say. It could be better. I have a good crust recipe.
It's not it's not about you. It's the crust. That white crust is gross. I don't care who's made it. Okay.
It's not good. Alright. It I would I'll eat the pie part with the whipped cream and leave the crust every time. You're going pumpkin pie? Clearly.
Are you gonna eat the bottom of the crust? Do you eat the bottom? No. I don't like any of it. You just eat the filling.
Yeah. I don't like that white crust. It's just dough. It's boring. It's not it doesn't taste good.
No. It's it's not good. I like it. Okay. That makes one of us.
Half the room likes it. Would you rather this event? You go. Yo. Yo.
Yo. Yo. Yo. There's an 88 year old lady. Her name is Shirley Curry.
She is she is known as Skyrim Grandma. Oh. She, yeah. She has played, the video game Skyrim and created gameplay videos over 23100 of them. Really?
She is 88 years old. She's officially retiring from Skyrim. Oh. I know. Skyrim It's a it's a Double o 7?
No. No. No. No. Skyrim is, it's like a fantasy game with dragons and things and whatever.
Is Skyrim a double o 7 movie? No. There's a double o seven movie that Skyfall. Skyfall. Mhmm.
Mhmm. That's different than this. Yep. This is Skyrim, the video game. Okay.
So Skyrim grandma is officially retiring. 88 years old, 23 100 YouTube game gameplay videos. She said she just, came to the conclusion that making the videos wasn't fun for her anymore. She's still gonna do the vlogging thing. She has 1,300,000 subscribers.
Skyrim granny. She's, she's pretty cool. That is cool. Shirley Curry, 88 years old, retiring from Skyrim. Oh, man.
It's never too late to start something is what I'm saying. 88 years old. She has 1,300,000 YouTube subscribers. Could I be Mario Kart Granny? You're not Granny.
I'm not Granny. Yes. You can just be Mario Kart Chantel, and, yes, you can. You literally can hook it up and stream yourself online playing Mario Kart, and people will pay to watch you. You can indeed do that.
That's so strange. What a time to be alive. Yeah. I know. I don't think anybody would watch me play Mario Kart.
I would, watch. Parental discretion advised. Because you get frustrated again. Yeah. Well, you can't because you're on the Internet.
Yeah. And so you can't And there's children watching. So I'm here. Yourself down. I could calm myself.
Yeah. You can't have Mario Kart road rage is what I'm saying. So take a breath. Get road rage when the computer cheats. Or you're losing to me.
Yeah. Yeah. Because you're cheating. Nope. I'm just better than you.
I'm just better than you on those trips. Better than you at Mario Kart. Get out of here. You didn't even know how to drift until I showed you? Come on.
You didn't know how to stop the lie? You didn't show me anything. Excuse me. No. You used those moves to your advantage and never instructed me on how to do them.
Find it out yourself. And then I do, and then you get frustrated because I'm better than you are at using those tools. Yes. And then you go and then you get all frustrated and go, why are you winning? These are the things that happen.
Mario Kart. It's on. We're gonna have a battle tonight. Yeah. Right.
We're gonna record it. We're gonna stream it? Yeah. We're gonna stream the Mario Kart battle? Yeah.
I don't even know how to stream it. But I do. Somebody does. I I literally just said I do. You're going down, son.
Alright. We'll see. We'll see what happens. It. Luigi knows how to drive.
Yeah. Please. Yeah. He's no match for Yoshi. I might play as Donkey Kong just to make you extra mad.
Donkey Kong so much in Mario Kart. Go ahead. Go ahead and play. Let's see. We'll see how you do.
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