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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
Josh & Chantel are dreaming about a $1.7 BILLION Powerball jackpot & side-eyeing the taxes, sharing surprisingly heartwarming polar bear adoption news, a wild debate about people who watch movies at double speed, the difference between real gifts and house gifts, one of the most diabolical white elephant gift ideas ever attempted, real talk about Ozempic and grocery habits, behind-the-scenes radio life, avalanche safety in the Tetons, Marvel Avengers: Doomsday bombshells, and more in today's show!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: People are mean & Josh leaves early
(3:11) - $1.7 Billion Powerball
(7:45) - Good News
(9:55) - 2x speed theaters
(15:34) - The refreshment invitation
(19:09) - Teton Pass avalanche
(22:33) - A clean house for Christmas
(26:30) - Are we done on the phone?
(29:44) - Secret nicknames
(34:03) - White elephant wreath
(39:18) - Positive Ozempic news
(43:17) - So many Christmas cards
(46:26) - Who's baby is that?
(51:20) - Would You Rather
(52:43) - Catching yourself in the mirror
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Full show transcript:
Wake up Classy97. It's Josh and Chantel.
That's right. And you can email us. It's wakeupclassy97 at gmail.com. You can hit us up on socials as well at classy97klce. We'd love to hear from you. We would, unless it's mean. And then we'll still hear from you. And we'll even talk to you for a little bit, even if you're mean. And I'm going to tell you right now, someone was mean to us.
Someone was mean to us. That's right. And it's fine.
You're entitled to have your opinion. That's right. And I was very cordial and nice and kind. And this person still snarky and mean.
Yeah. On Christmas Adam. It didn't feel very Christmas. It's Christmas Adam and you're being mean. I know. Stop being mean.
Yeah. Go be mean to somebody else. You know what I hope? I hope that person who was mean to us this morning in a message on Facebook, I hope they get visited by three ghosts. I don't. I just hope they get a present that requires batteries and they don't have any batteries.
Okay. I hope that when they go to wrap a present, the scissors snag. Oh yeah.
I hope that they run out of tape on their very last present. Right. Same. Yeah.
Take that. Stop being mean to us. Hey, I was going to say that you, I have to work today until three, but you were just noticed that you could get out of here. I'm probably going to get out of here pretty soon.
I hated that. You get to leave early and I don't. I'm going to go gallivant around town.
What do you think I'm going to do? Well, I have a list. No, I didn't say what do you want me to do?
I said what do you think I'm going to do? I think that we're pretty much caught up on a lot of things. We've gone to the grocery store.
Yeah. We've got that or that's checked off the list. The house is pretty much clean for the most part. I've got some stuff I need to wrap. So I'm going to wrap some stuff.
I need to spend some time preparing a couple of other gifts. So I'm going to work on that. What's that mean? It's not about you. I just don't want to say because it's about something I have to get done for someone else who I know listens to the show. Okay. It's something I was going to do yesterday, but didn't. And then you went, I thought you were going to do that. And I went, yeah, I didn't. I don't even know what that means.
Yeah, you do. I'll tell you after we aren't recording. Okay. But I'm going to do that.
I could do that. Oh, I know what you're doing. You know what I'm saying? I do.
Yeah. I need to get that done. I actually have a couple of things I might need you to go do. Oh, no. No, just a quick thing. It's fine. You're going to be fine.
It's fine. I got to make a phone call. I do that. I got to do that too. So it never ends. You don't even get days off, even when you get to get out of here early. You got things to do.
That's exactly right. Hey, have the merriest of Christmases. And I was, was there more? I was waiting for you to say something.
Why was I listening? Merry Christmas Eve, Merry Christmas morning. Enjoy your days.
Have the most fun. That's all. And here's today's show.
Here you go. So we did not end up buying a Powerball ticket. No.
For the drawing that happened on Monday yesterday. Okay. I feel like you've got some news to share. No one won. Are you kidding? No. What the heck, man?
Yeah. Nobody won last night. Why didn't we buy a ticket? I'll tell you why.
Because we forgot, because one of us didn't put it in their calendar to remember. All right. Fair enough. The next drawing is tomorrow. Okay.
Christmas Eve. And it is worth $1.7 billion. Can you still go get a Powerball ticket?
Yes, you can. It is the fourth largest prize in U.S. lottery history. The drawing on Christmas Eve would have an estimated lump sum cash value of $781.3 million. That's too much money. $781.3 million?
Yeah. I don't need that much money. I don't either, but I wouldn't say no. Well, if I wanted, I'd be like, cool. Cool, cool.
It's interesting to me that the prize is $1.7 billion. Okay. Why? Why is that interesting? And that after taxes, you would only receive $781 million.
Oh, I see. It's $1.7 billion, which means it's $1,700 million. And you get $700 million. $1 billion of that $1.7 billion goes to taxes. Isn't that nonsense? That's what I'm saying.
Stop taking my money, government. That is wild. That's wild. I know it is. That's a big old chunk, man.
Yeah. I mean, you're still getting $781 million, but you are not getting $1.7 billion. $1,700 million. Uncle Sam, how did you... Because $1 billion is $1,000 millions. Mm-hmm. There's $1,000 millions, and then there's $700 millions, and they go, we'll have the $1,000, you can have the $700 million.
Thank you for your time. That's crazy. That is crazy.
You've done nothing to earn that, government. That's wildly gross. I don't even know the right word. That's too much. Yeah, you're taking too much. Anyway.
You're doing too much. Again, I'm not going to be mad about $781 million, but don't tell me I won $1.7 billion because I didn't. No, you've won nothing, Josh. Well, that's fair. But I'm just saying, when they go like, you won $1.7 billion, no, I didn't. What is it equal to if you take it as like an annual payout? I don't know.
I don't know how it works. Is that what you would do? A payout or...? Because I think you get more out the gate.
You can get more bang for the buck out the gate because you can invest and you can grow it faster. Then if you take the annual payout and there's a chance that something happens to you and then you end up not getting the full 1.7 or even the $780 million, right? If something happens to you. So I don't know.
I'm trying to see how it would work if you didn't. See, they don't tell me. I'd have to figure it out.
Okay. How about this though? You can't win if you don't play.
True. So if you want to have even a shot, you got to buy a Powerball ticket. They're drawing tomorrow?
That's right. Tomorrow. Wouldn't that be a nice Christmas Eve?
That's exactly what I'm saying. It would be a wild Christmas Eve present to win that money. That'd be insane.
Well, let's go. What a Christmas it could be for some folks. Unreal.
Go buy a ticket. Us and everybody else. Everybody's got a chance. Everyone's got a fair shot. It just lowers our odds a bit, doesn't it? That is true.
Play responsibly. How about some good news? Let's hear it.
All right. There's a wild female polar bear who was recently filmed with a cub that is not her own. I read about this. Yeah. It's a notably rare behavior that's been determined to be a polar bear adoption.
I know. There was an annual polar bear migration that happens along Canada's western Hudson Bay and Manitoba. This is where the polar bear was filmed. There's a reason why red in tooth and claw has been used to describe the natural world ever since society began attempting to establish laws as a means to separate ourselves from it. That's because it's true. There are fewer places where this particular thing is clearer than the world of bears, which engage in both infanticide, which is terrible, and cannibalism, but a softer side reinforcing the strength of the animal's maternal instincts was recently filmed. Here's what they saw.
Throughout over 45 years of tracking more than 4,600 individual polar bears in the western Hudson Bay subpopulation, this is the 13th known case of adoption. Really? That's it. Not many. The mother bear here was encountered by researchers in the spring of 2025 as she came out of her maternity den and she only had one cub, which was tagged. They wanted to track, right? Then when she was seen again in the fall, she had two cubs, one with a tag and one without.
And genetic samples were taken from the adopted cub and are being analyzed to try to identify its biological mother. That's really interesting. It is really interesting.
You don't often see it. I mean, in all of those cases, they've been tracking over 4,000 individual polar bears, and this is only the 13th known case of adoption in 25 years. It just makes me wonder why now, why this one, why this particular cub, why this particular mother? Right. I'm just happy it happened, I guess, right? That's really cool. Yeah.
That's some good news. I saw something yesterday that was a little bit kooky. A kooky?
It was kooky. Somebody said on Reddit, I think cinemas, movie theaters, should offer movie screenings at different speeds. I usually watch movies at a 2.5 speed, which can make going to the movie a bit frustrating because it seems a bit slow.
Who watches their movies at two and a half times? I know. One person.
Well, I'm sorry. He said he watches his movies at 1.25 speed. Rarely, but occasionally he'll go up to 1.75 to two sometimes on the rare occasion 2.5. But whenever he goes to the movie, it feels like the movie is being played in slow motion.
That's a you problem, guy. So he is saying, why don't they offer screenings at various speeds? Have a one screening, a 1.5 and a two. No. Why are you in such a hurry, dude? I don't know. That's ridiculous. I, listen, I know that if I'm watching TikTok sometimes, I'm like, get to the point.
Yeah, for sure. But that's not a movie. That's not cinema.
But it also makes me wonder if that's what, I don't know how old this person is, but if that's, what if that's like the coming generation is like, Pick up a page. We can't, we can't go this slow. We've got to watch everything double speed. Then filmmakers need to make movies faster. They don't need to speed up the tape because look, there's a cadence to things. There is a, there is a practice in radio and I'm grateful that I don't follow it.
Okay. It is called song pitching and the concept is very much the same. But the reasoning behind it is a little strange. So what, what some radio stations do, did and still do is that they will play the music at a certain percentage faster. Let's call it 2%.
Okay. Or 2.5%. So they will speed up the songs. And so sometimes you'll be listening to a radio station that is pitched and you'll, you're supposed to just listen because you listen all the time and you wouldn't necessarily realize it because that's the way you've heard it over and over and over. But then if you listen to another radio station that plays the same kind of music or you listen to the record or you listen to it on a streaming service, then you go, why is it so slow?
Same deal, right? Because you've been attuned to hearing it. But the reason they do that is, is one of two things. They, they think they can try to squeeze in one more song every hour or they can squeeze in a few more commercials every hour. And so it buys them a little extra time. That's the idea is that you have 60 minutes in an hour and you want to cram as much as you can in there. That's the concept. I see.
It's old and it's, and it's not a good listening experience. No, because there was a couple of times I noticed, remember? Oh yeah. You do absolutely notice. Why does the song feel so fast? And that is why. Yeah. It's, I don't know a lot of people that do it still, but it's an old program director thing in radio where they're like, nah, I can get another song in there if I just squeeze them. So that's what I'm thinking. This movie guy is like, he's one of those guys where he's like, I can squeeze in a little bit more in my 24 hour day. If I watch a movie in an hour instead of two.
Yeah, that's wild. I just, it's not, that's not for me. Well, and I'm sure that's not the way the filmmaker wanted it to be presented. Nor did the musical artist, nor did the person created the long, boring TikTok. The reason I do the two X thing on a TikTok, like if I'm going to watch, like if there's something I'm actually enjoying, I'm going to, I'm going to get through it. But if somebody's like sitting in their car talking head going like, let me tell you this thing in my opinion and whatever, if I don't swipe and I'm going to listen to you, I'm going to listen to you at two X. I don't have time to give you all that time. It's not, it's not like you're just talking.
It's not personal, but it is. But like even, even our show, like in live, when you're listening to a live, you can't go faster. You just have to suffer through. But if you're listening on the podcast, you certainly can.
You can two X our show on the podcast. Yeah, get through it quicker. I mean, you know, I mean, you got sometimes we ramble.
Yeah, you've got stuff to do. I'm not, listen, I'm not, I'm not offended if you speed past our show. I'm not, but don't require that at movie theaters.
I, I created this show at a certain cadence on purpose. Don't speed through. Enjoy your time. Take a break. Take a break. You know, take a break with us. Take a break.
Have a little break. Maybe we'll go even slower. No, we can certainly can't do that. But no, don't ruin movies.
Don't, if I ever went to a movie and accidentally ended up in a two X, Oh, see ya. That'd be cookie. Wouldn't it? Beyond cookie. That's what I said.
Be straight bananas. Scookey. Yep. Every and I were out running errands yesterday and she said, would you like to go get a refreshment?
No. And what a strange behavior. Now you've often been upset because you haven't been invited to the refreshment party. Only because what has happened in the past is I'll be at home or I'll come home and I'll see that you all have now had refreshment or you'll walk in with refreshment and I go, Okay, I see how it is.
Nobody thinks about old dad and how he might want to treat. We did yesterday. We thought about you yesterday. Yeah. I got a special invitation to treat club. Yes.
And we brought you a refreshment. You're welcome. Yeah. I said thanks. Okay. I said, we should probably invite dad.
He'll be upset. And then we said, dad, would you like to have a refreshment? Yeah. And you went, well, how do you do?
I'm not trying to be a fuddy duddy as you call me. Why did it take so long to get a refreshment? Oh, because we had a couple of other errands. Yeah.
That wasn't in the disclosure. So I was like, all right, I'm going to get a refreshment. I kind of made six by the time I got my one. Wow.
So listen, no, I said, I'm not, I'm not being that. I just expected it like within a few minutes, but then it was like an hour or so. It was quite a, quite a bit of time. So sorry. Just the way it was presented was, Hey, we're getting a refreshment.
Would you like one? We were. Yeah. And then plans changed. Right.
You still got your refreshment. Oh, no, I know. Okay. And I, and I, it was tasty.
No. And it was. I'm grateful.
And I'm, and I'm all good. Don't expect another invitation. That is rude to say. No, you started with the rude.
So. What did I do? Complaint about the refreshment. No, I complained about the time it took to get the refreshment. The refreshment was great. Grateful.
No. Glad to have been invited. Glad to have been part of the refreshment party. Just wished it would have arrived sooner. That's all.
You're welcome. Because it just was presented on a different timeline. It wasn't, Hey, we're going to do some running around and get a refreshment and we'll bring you one.
It was, Hey, we're going to get a refreshment. Do you want one? Yes, I do.
See you soon. I, first of all, a timeline was never presented. That's what I'm saying. It was an assumed presentation of we're headed for the drive through now. That's the way it was presented. And then I saw the line.
Yeah. And that one, the one, the one we went to was too long of a line. And I said, I'm not going to wait in that line.
Got it. So we ran a couple more errands. I said, let's go to this other one. Right.
And it was much quicker. I understand that now, but at the time you see, Don't expect another invitation soon, Josh. That's all I'm saying. No, wow to you. No, wow to you. Wow to you. W O W number two letter you. Wow to you.
No, wow to you. Thanks for the refreshment. You got your refreshment. I sure did. Be happy.
I'm grateful. Yesterday we handed out a bunch of information about avalanche awareness and we specifically talked about people that recreate in the snow and how that could be potentially dangerous. Well, in Teton County Wyoming, the Teton Pass that takes you over to Jackson, they were doing some controlled avalanche detonations in what is called the glory bowl area. And that was all part of a safety mission on early Monday morning. And they sort of inadvertently caused an avalanche. I mean, they intentionally caused an avalanche, but they inadvertently blocked a giant portion of the Teton Pass with a massive amount of snow. You've seen the pictures.
No, unbelievable. I mean, it is feet and feet and feet and feet of snow that the avalanche has covered the road with. It's pretty. It's pretty impressive. They meant to cause an avalanche.
They didn't intend to block the road. That is correct. Yep. They expect the pass will reopen sometime between noon and 2pm today. This happened yesterday morning.
Oh, no. That all depends on the progress of the cleanup efforts as well as weather conditions. But if you want to check out those pictures, it's unbelievable. In the meantime, you are advised to use alternate routes and check for updates before traveling if you're going to be headed that way. But holy smokes, is that a lot of snow they avalanched across the road. I mean, is it's where there any like everybody's safe?
There wasn't anybody like there weren't any cards on the road to the best of my knowledge. I don't know. There have been years in the past where avalanches have happened that are not intentional and they've trapped people because the snow just buries cars. Yeah. So scary.
I know, right? And that's why they tell you bring supplies, bring blankets, bring stuff so that in the event of something like that, you are okay. I mean, you've got air in your vehicle for a while and they know it's a major highway, so they're going to dig it out. But I'd assume you could probably, if you are in an area with cell phone range, within cell phone range, you could probably call somebody. But what a wild thing to have happen.
Anyway. I think it would be fascinating to watch them do the detonations. I've been up at a ski hill before. I was skiing at a snow basin in Utah up in the Wasatch and they were doing controlled detonations on the backside. Cool.
So you go up to the upper cabin and we were sitting there having lunch while they were doing it. And you'd hear the horn right beep three times before they detonate. And then you just when it shakes the ground. It's not like a super big loud explosion.
It's just a deep base, you know, because it just shakes the surface so much and then down goes the snow. I think that would be fascinating to watch. It's pretty neat. Not only when it's controlled.
I don't think it'd be fascinating if it was something that you were running from. Unprepared. Yeah. No, that'd be too scary. Well, anyway, be safe out there. There is snow in the area once you get into those higher elevations. It's just been rainy in the valley, but be careful.
And if you're working on that project, thanks for cleaning that up. Oh, geez. Yeah, it's a lot of snow. I was doing some cleaning last night because I want a clean house for Christmas.
And it's not that our house is like... I'm taking everything back. No, no, no. My fault.
I went way wrong on your list. No, no, that's not what I want Santa to bring. That's just a... I see.
No, I know. You like a clean house before you go to bed so you can wake up and not have to stress about. I understand.
Because, yeah, like Christmas is today where you can just relax, hang out. And I don't know if I'm going to be able to if... I mean, I will.
Let's be honest. I'll still be able to kick back and do nothing if the house is a mess. But I'll enjoy it more if I know that the house is a little bit cleaner.
So yesterday I was vacuuming and doing some laundry and cleaning out the pantry. Yeah. How'd that go? Great.
I actually got a lot accomplished. Well, listen, it's tiny. Our pantry is not... I understand.
It's a coat closet converted into a pantry. I get it. So it's always going to be a mess. But it looks a little bit nicer now.
The problem is that people just get things out and then throw it back because there's not a set place for any particular things. You are correct. So it's just always a mess.
Yeah. So maybe I should have gone to like a container store and gotten you some of the organizations. Because that's what you want. Here's the thing.
I figured this out. You remember how you were asking for a bath pillow and I said it's not a good gift. There are gifts that are called house gifts. Yes. Right? That's a gift for the house.
Correct. A mop, a vacuum, in my opinion, a bath pillow. I feel like, even though that's something for you that's comfortable, I feel like that's a house gift. I don't feel like that's a personal, I thought of you, here's a gift. Okay.
Got it. And so that's what, like I heard that term the other day and I went, that's exactly the way it feels about that bath pillow to me. You were so excited. That's all you wanted. Somebody give me a bath pillow. I said, go buy one. It's a house gift. That's not something special. Got it.
Even though it's something you want and you're going to use, it's a house gift. Okay. That checks out.
Right. So when I say I should have gone to a container store and gotten some organization, that's a house gift. I should not have done that. No, you should have. You do have to take stuff. But you shouldn't have wrapped it up and put it under the tree.
You should have just bought it and been like, oh, hey, I thought about these because I know that you're always struggling with the pantry organization. Yeah. Now you don't want that as a gift. No, it's not a gift. No, it's a house gift. Yeah.
It's a, it's, it could be in any time. Hey, I was at the store. I picked up some new containers. Yeah. Because this is a shared space. Yeah. Right. Yeah.
I like it, Josh. Yeah. So anyway, that, that kind of helped my brain a little bit. Maybe that'll help somebody else. Guess what? What? I didn't get to the mopping.
So that's a shared house gift. Maybe somebody could get to that today. And then I'll be done. No, no. And then the house will be done. And then we'll all, and then we'll all be able to enjoy Christmas.
Now when you say all, because if mama ain't happy, nobody's happy. Exactly. Is that what that means? You got it. I see. You got it, Pat. I'll be able to rest. Okay. Sure thing.
Well, I'll work on that. In the meantime, if I don't, what happens? If you don't, it'll still be fine.
I'll still be able. And when you say mop, do you mean the little sweepy mop or do you mean full on bucket of water mop? Either. I'll take either at this point.
Interesting. I'll just be happy. It's done. That's all. Okay. Okay.
We'll work on it. So I don't get cold for Christmas. We had separated over the weekend. You were doing some errands of your own. I was doing my errands and I was at home doing a bunch of stuff. I was wrapping presents. And so when you called, you'd called me during the day multiple different times.
And each time I went, what, what, what? I know because you're a texture. I am a texture. But I'm not. Here's what happened.
I was trying to do a bunch of stuff and then I would have to carry the phone with me room to room to room as I was doing stuff. That's right. And then I would put you on the counter. I'd put you on the dresser. What, depending on whatever room I was in. And then at one point, I think I finally said to you, are we done talking on the phone?
That's exactly what you said. Because I, I got stuff to do. Yeah. And you're impeding on my stuff. I know. I got, I've got questions. I need to answer.
But you did it though. Like maybe you did initially and then you were just on the phone. I think you just didn't want to be alone, which is fine. Like maybe I was a comfort.
But we were quiet. Like I was just carrying the phone around at one point having a conversation with Emory. It was like I was there with you. It was nice.
No. What I felt like was I was driving. That's why I called because I can talk to you on the Bluetooth instead of texting, which is not safe.
Right. And so as I was moving about and we were talking about lunch specifically, like, hey, you want to meet up and have some food. So we were having that conversation. And then you said, well, let me see who's up and whatever. So you went to check and see if the kids wanted to have lunch. And then you were kind of handling that while I was still on the phone.
And then you kind of were like, okay, well, now I know the information. Are we just going to meet and have lunch? Yep, that sounds good. And then you went, okay, so are we done on the phone now? Yeah.
Right. Because you were just, we weren't even talking to each other. I was just holding the phone. I realized I was just holding the phone.
That's right. And I went, we have to be done. And I didn't know what you were working on. So I didn't know if you were still trying to find out more information. I was still, I was, you know, running between place to place. So I was in the middle of stuff anyway. So I wasn't really like engaged in what you had going on. I was more just like, you let me know when you've got the information you need and then we'll hang up. And then you did.
I did. You said, are we done on the phone then? We're done. Stop calling.
Unless it's real important. Because I got, I got things to do. Yeah. You're getting in the way. Well, I can't keep carrying around this phone. I'm going to hang up now. I do remember when I said that, I said, are we finished talking on the phone?
And Emory goes, wow. Yeah. No, that was, it's a hardcore way to hang up. It wasn't meant to be mean. It was just, conversation was over. But it also felt like a redundant question. Like you could have just said, I'm done talking on the phone now.
You didn't have to ask the passive question. Are we done now? Can we, can we just end this? Are we okay? I think we are finished. Yeah. All right.
Sayonara. When I was a kid, my mom would put presents that she purchased for us underneath the tree. But she didn't want us to get all snoopy about them. Which you are a snoopy person. I am a present snooper for sure.
I'll admit. So she would put code names on them. There were three of us, me, my sister, and my brother. And she would put nicknames on them, but just code names. And I can't even remember any of the code names that she would use. It was always different every year. And then she would forget at Christmas morning.
She'd be like, okay, who was who? Who was Rudolph? Yeah.
So that was a tradition that I carried on into our family. Yeah, I think it's great. And there's just two of them.
It's not like, there's a lot of them, but it still is. If you've got presents that you want to put under the tree before Christmas. Right. And you don't want anybody to know who they're for.
You can use code names. Well, I'd like that even Emery has kind of taken it on now where she's like, I'm just going to do it. It's going to say from Emery, but she puts code names on them herself sometimes. She'll go, I'll just try to remember who that is because she likes it too. So that's going to run for a long time.
That makes me happy. So we always try to do something that's a little bit relevant to what's going on. So, you know, like when Star Wars came out with their new movies, like the Force Awakens. Yeah, we used like Rey and, or we used the bots, didn't we? I can't remember. Like BB-8 and maybe we used the droids. Yeah. So this year we were wrapping some presents and we were like, what names are we going to get? Like Wicked was pretty big.
Stranger Things was pretty popular. What's the big thing? And then we decided. Because look, here's the deal. As we roll into 2026, this is the last chance we're going to have to use this.
Because everyone hates it and it's going to go away after this year, I hope. I hope so too. One of our kids is six and the other one is seven. Yeah. And they're going to cringe and it's going to be delightful.
That's right. And as we were deciding on who is going to be six and who is going to be seven, I said, we got to write down who is who because we're going to forget. Did you write it down? I did.
Okay, good deal. Because we were going back and forth on who should be which one because we didn't want them to try to figure it out. Yeah, they can usually guess. There's two of them. I know. It's pretty easy. I get it.
I was wrapping something yesterday for Emery and I went, wait, is she six or is she seven? Yeah. You have that saved in your phone somewhere?
I do. I got it right here. We're going to need that in a couple of days.
We're going to need that. It's a good tradition. I think it's really fun. And you know, that's nice. So good job bringing that one.
That's a good solid one. We were talking about opening Christmas presents on Christmas morning, whether you take turns or whether you do it all at once. And my sister sent this video of a family that's opening them all at once. And I honestly, I don't remember us having it like that chaotic. It was nuts in that video. And the guy who was like going through it, who comes from a, everybody takes a turn to open a present household so everybody gets to see what they open and Christmas morning takes a little more time. Yeah. You get to kind of like, you know, enjoy it.
Right. He looked like he was going through it. He was having a bad time. He was looking around like, what is this? He was fidgety. Like his anxiety was through the roof. That guy was not having a good time.
He was trying to hug a pillow on the couch. Like this is, I got to get out of here. This is nuts. So I'm glad that we're, take your time and everybody open them, you know, one at a time kind of group. I like that better.
Me too. So anyway, good traditions like them. Christmas morning is exactly, count them. Days. Two. Days away.
Two days away. We do a white elephant gift exchange with your family every year. And I found out this year something funny that happened a couple of years ago. So a couple of years ago, my white elephant gift was, I had saved a bunch of gift cards that were already used that had no money on them. And then I got one gift card that had actual money on it. That is correct. And I made a wreath out of it.
So there were probably a 10 to 15 gift cards on there. Yeah. It's a great white elephant. It's, it is one of the best.
It is one of the best. You just, I mean, you go through gift cards throughout the year, you just hang on to them. They go, do you want me to throw that away for you?
And you go, actually, no. Actually, I'm going to keep that. And that's what you did for a good portion of the year. You went, no, I'm going to hang on to that. And so anywhere we had a gift card or, you know, whatever, you just saved. And then you, yeah, you had like a little dollar store wreath thing, no big deal, but then you pasted them all around the edge.
So it was, it looked like, holy cow, I got, I got a score here. Right. But only one of them had actual money. And it had, I don't know, whatever the limit was, 10, 15, $20, whatever on it.
Yeah. The problem was that you had to call, you didn't know which gift card had money on it. And you had to call the different gift card balance companies to find out which one had money. That's correct.
Now your cousin's son won that wreath of gift cards. And this was a couple of years ago. This was a couple of years ago. And I believe that I had texted his mom and said, Oh, hey, by the way, this is the card that has money on it. I think I told her, I, you still, I still wanted him to try a couple of different numbers and feel the pain of it, but then be like, I, I don't know what card is worthwhile or not.
I found out when we just got together this last weekend, right? That he threw them all away because he had called a couple of them and was like, I'm sick of this. And just was like, I'm not, none of these have money on them. And I went, no way. Yeah.
One of them did. Sorry for that, buddy. That was, I thought that gift was hilarious.
I think it's a really funny one. Write that down for next year. If you need a good idea, just don't give it to me because I don't want to be tasked with calling all those people.
See, I don't mind. Most of the time you can look it up online and it's super easy. You don't have to call the number.
They have a quick like gift card balance website. You're, that's true. It's super easy. Some of them.
I don't mind doing that. But not all of them. No, not all of them.
You're right. And then you want to know what's really awful. Please enter your 16 digit card number. And if you mess up, it's not like you can go back.
I put a zero instead of an eight. Yeah. Go back. Delete. No. I'm sorry. You were short one zero in that number.
There were six in a row instead of five. No. Sorry about that, president. I had a great time putting that together. I thought it was going to be hilarious. It's a little mischievous.
It's got a little bit of a little nastiness into it. No, you got to work for it. You just got to work for that gift. But when you unwrap it, you think you hit the jackpot at a wide elephant until you read only one of these cards has money on it. And then you go, oh, no. Nor is that worse.
Okay. Is that worse? Or is it worse to have maybe like 15 cards with just $1 on each of them? Oh, that's awful. I'd rather have one place I could go and spend $15 then 15 places I could go with $1.
Oh, yeah. Can I get $1 on this card? Will places do that? I don't know.
I don't know either. I'd like to get $1 on this card. I am not a very fun Christmas game person. Let me just say that because there was another time we were playing some games and I had some really good prizes and I had some really terrible prizes. And it didn't matter. It was like luck of the draw. So if you won, it was like pick a prize. And then it was either like a really cool bag of candy or it was like a can of chili from the cupboard that I had just grabbed. And one time my niece got like, I think there was like $1.25 left on a gift card. And I was like, Hey, you got $1.25 to subway.
Good pick. Why do people keep inviting me to Christmas parties? They think it's fun to have you there. That's why. And it is. It's a good time. It's a really good time. That's fun. Oh, funny. I mean, unless you're the recipient, everybody else in the room is like, that's great.
Good luck with that. Everyone else is like, Oh, who invited Chantel? You're fun to be around. Don't listen to the haters.
Thanks, Josh. So I know you're not a big fan of ozempic, not for its diabetic uses, but for its shortcut weight loss. It just makes me nervous because I remember the Fen Fen. Oh, sure. And people had all kinds of trouble from that. And it just makes me nervous for people.
I got you. So when you when you hear about people doing it, you go like, Hey, be careful because that didn't work out so great in the 90s. Yeah, I feel like we're all gonna you're all gonna get some settlements here and 10 or so years.
I feel like weight loss and cash. You're right. I'm finding this a win win. Anyway, this is kind of interesting. Ozempic is quietly reshaping our shopping habits is the headline. And what's going on is that new research has found out that people that are taking GLP one tend to spend less money grocery shopping, especially on snack foods. So they end up buying healthier foods as a result, which I think is very interesting.
Huh. I could buy less snack food. I could do I could do with fewer snacks in the house.
I'm right there with you. It's kind of an interesting effect on grocery spending that only seemed to last as long as the people were taking GLP one. The data shows clear changes in food spending following the adoption of GLP ones. Studies have consistently shown that these particular weight loss drugs help people lose weight more effectively than diet and exercise alone.
And it's also shown that people's food habits significantly change for the better once they get on GLP one. I think that's it's an interesting correlation. No, that's great. I think that's absolutely great news. There's a bunch of like percentages and data and stuff in there, but just based on, you know, headline alone, that's kind of an interesting study.
I'm not mad about that. I could certainly use some better health eating habits for sure. So are you interested in GLP ones? I've thought about it. Yes. You've thought about it.
Yes. What have you thought? I've thought, hmm, I could use some of that weight loss and cash settlement. Not a bad gig. Not a bad gig. Yeah, it's interesting.
I mean, you know, there's walking and there's dieting and it's a slower turnaround. It's true. We've done it before. I know. I was there.
It was, it was good. It certainly isn't always convenient to eat healthy. And I think that's our biggest problem is that it's, it's not, you have to cook.
You have to cook and you have to, and you have to eat fresh ingredients. And sometimes that's not always the cheaper way to go. But it could be if you were buying it in smaller quantity, because you weren't supplementing with sugars and all the other. That's true. No, you're right. Because then you would, you know, you'd get your stomach down.
You're right. To a manageable size. That's my thing. Like mine is always and probably will always be portion control. I know. I think that's true for you too.
That is my biggest thing. Like I can, I can eat fewer meals. I can eat healthier, but the quantity is always large. And that's the problem with me.
I eat a lot of the food that I do eat because it's delicious. This is, all of this is a January problem. Oh, good point. This is not a today.
This is, this is not a dissent. We're not even close. No, we got to get, this is a January fifth problem. Okay. All right. Monday, January fifth.
More on diet and exercise. Coming your way. We have a little bit of a we have a graphic designer here at the radio station and the graphic designer helped make our Christmas cards. And then she has a little assistant. If you're friends with us on Facebook, you saw that our Classy 97 helps we're helping her make Christmas cards yesterday.
That's right. As of this morning, we got nine new cards to add to our Christmas card. Yeah, we are now at like 60. 60. No, we're 62. 62 cards. Unbelievable.
And that, which means we're nearly triple what we received last night. Right. And they're all awesome. They're all lovely. They all have wonderful things to say. They are, they look so beautiful. Some of them are family photos that are so cute.
Some of them included their dogs. Stanley. Yeah, we got to meet Stanley. The good boy. The hard guess.
Yep. But poor Maddie is the one who is our little sweatshop worker. And she didn't want us to check the mail today because that means she's going to have to put together more Christmas cards.
That's correct. And I told her I'd be happy to do it. And she said, no, I'll do it. Yeah. Well, and much appreciated because she's been building them like crazy for us so that we can send them out. We've got another stack that's going to go out today.
Yep. So if you, if we received your card today, it's going to be a couple of days, you're going to get, you're going to get a Christmas card after Christmas at this point, I would imagine. But nonetheless, thank you to everybody who's taken time and sent, you know, a card, spent the money on postage or dropped it off in person. It's really, really special.
It's cool. We've surpassed the door and now we've started hanging them on the wall. Yeah, they've been hanging them on the wall. Yeah. So, we're going to have to keep Maddie working.
That's right. Let's keep her busy into the new year. Let's switch to New Year's cards.
Oh, there we go. And then birthday cards and we'll switch to Valentine's Day cards. Yeah, let's just keep cards rolling in all the time. If you want to send us a card anytime. We got to keep Maddie working. She's got a earner paycheck. That's right.
Make more cards. What were you going to say? I was just going to say we even had, I'm trying to think of Kim. Yeah.
Kim even made us some lovely bookmarks. Right. Well, not for you. I know.
Specifically for me. But they're so pretty. They are very cool. I don't know how she makes those. They're really, really neat. And she's made them for you in the past as well. But she sent you a couple of new ones, which is really sweet.
So thank you everybody who's taken the time and the money really appreciated it. I know it's like 77 cents or whatever. 74. 74 cents. It means a lot.
Thanks so much. And there's still time. If you do want to send one, we will still have Maddie make you a card to return after Christmas. We will still.
She has help from the elves. That's true. That is true. You just showed me a trailer for a movie.
That's correct. There's a new Avengers movie. I thought they were done with the Avengers. That's correct.
It is called Avengers Doomsday. I'm not mad about it. Except, go ahead. There's no RDJ.
Yes, there is. He is Dr. Doom. So here's the interesting, and that was revealed earlier. Like had a comic company.
I do remember that. The Robert Downey Jr. will be playing Dr. Doom. So that's been confirmed. That's so why wouldn't they just get somebody else? Because he's great.
He's already part of the MCU. I get it. But we don't have to.
We got this guy. So what's been leaked and now confirmed by Marvel Studios is that Chris Evans will be returning as Captain Emer—well, as Steve Rogers, at least, in Doomsday, Avengers Doomsday. Comes out December 18th, 2026. So it's a year away. It's a year away. It will be a big Christmas release next year. Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., some other actors who—you know James Marsden. He'll be in here as Cyclops. Rebecca Romain is Mystique.
Oh, that she's an X-Men. Right. Pedro Pascal is in here.
Is Mr. Fantastic. Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler. I love Alan Cumming. This is a great cast.
This is really super cool. It's got a bunch of people. Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, all these people are mentioned. Patrick Stewart is Charles Xavier. Patrick Stewart is coming back.
As Professor X. There's Joseph Quinn. Patrick Stewart. How old is Patrick Stewart? Oh, let's look that up real fast.
I'm going to take a guess at 75. No way. Yeah, wait. Joseph Quinn, Human Torch. Joseph Quinn, Eddie Munson. Oh, I love that guy. I know. So not Eddie Munster.
That's a different Eddie, just to be clear. Anyway, lots and lots of people in this Avengers Doomsday cast list. Big names.
Well, because it's going to be an epic thing. Well, those aren't necessarily Avengers. Are the X-Men Avengers? So X-Men are technically Marvel, yes.
It's okay. We don't need to get super hero-nervy. They are Marvel. But what happened was movie publishing houses owned rights to different movies. And so even though they're in the Marvel MCU, they were like—like Spider-Man, for example, owned by Sony. Okay.
So it's been a very big, difficult thing for Marvel to make their own Spider-Man movies because Sony had the film rights. Got it. So it's—comic book-wise, yeah, all of this exists in the comics. Yeah. Okay. But outside of the comic books, it's difficult to do the movies. Got it.
No, you don't. Paul Rudd's listed here. Scott Lang. Excuse me? I know. I know. I know.
I'd be excited. I know. That's the only one that really matters.
All right. Well, and Sebastian Stan is in here. That's Bucky.
David Harbour, who is Alexi, the big red dude in the last Marvel movie we watched. You remember? You don't remember? Sure don't.
It's fine. Anyway, we watched this little teaser trailer because information that Chris Evans would be returning leaked online. So they went ahead and hurried and put together a little teaser, Avengers Doomsday teaser, to kind of like let that leak be confirmed. Okay. And you watched it and you have one question. There's only one question to ask. And you're not wrong.
You're not wrong. That is the question, isn't it? And the question is— Whose baby is that? Whose baby is that? You watched the whole thing.
You didn't say anything like, wow, he's back, like, oh, Captain America. No way. You went, whose baby is that? It's a great question. It's the only thing to ask.
It's a great question. Whose baby is that? Well, the fact that one could assume we might be giving spoilers away for the trailer, but it's super short. It's like 30 seconds.
Well, it's very, very short. I want to know whose triumph is that. He didn't necessarily wake up in that house. He arrived at that house on a motorcycle.
Fair point. So— On a triumph. Which is a motorcycle. That is correct.
Or the house that don't know. It's a good one. Whose baby is that? Whose baby that is. We'll find out in a year. Would you rather this or that our last Christmas edition?
It is going to be the last Christmas, which, oh, thankfully, because I'm out by the years. You were running out. I know.
Yeah. Yesterday, we were putting it together on the fly. What do you have today? Have you spent some time?
I did. Would you rather Christmas shop online or in person at the mall? In person. Like, I know the people. I know. I understand. I'm just a tangible guy. I am too.
And you know I hate waiting for packages. You're a tangible guy? Yeah.
Yeah, okay. No, I like to look at it. I like to— I was going to say try it on. I hate trying stuff on. But if I'm shopping for somebody else, I'd like to look at it.
I'd like to look at the size of it. But I prefer to shop online just because I hate shopping. And I especially hate the mall. I know. So I'm going to go— I'm going to say online. Yeah. Because I do prefer online shopping.
Yeah, no, for sure. I am definitely— you'll find me— At the mall? At the store. I'm going to be there holding the item, waiting in line to check out. You will. Because I prefer that.
I prefer to have the item now. So I'm a tangible guy. I heard. Yeah.
Well, would you rather this or that? You and I have this comedian that we like. His name is James Acaster and he is from the UK.
And he's kind of a weirdo, but we love him. And he was just on a British game show that we watched on YouTube. And they had the camera on him and he could see himself in the camera. And then he was doing this thing. You couldn't tell what he was doing. He was looking away and then he was looking fast back at the camera. And the host of the game show said, James, what are you trying to do?
Are you trying to look really fast to see if you can catch yourself looking at yourself in the camera? And he said— And he said, yeah. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm doing. Yep. And you go, what a weird thing to do. And I went, you've never done that? No. You've never tried to look at yourself really fast in the mirror?
No, because it's not how reflections work. I know what. There have been times when we've been filming in the studio or we've been, you know, live on a video. And I'm watching the playback of it at the same time it's being captured and there's a slight delay. And I'll catch myself with my eyes moving after I've already moved a different way and it weirds me out.
So no, I'm not actively chasing that because I don't like it. But also if I was looking in a mirror or a series of mirrors, you know, sometimes you get the ones that tip out. So you can see multiples of yourself in a mirror. If one of them wasn't on time with the rest, I would really be like, well, it's time to go because that's not how science works. I understand how science works. No, I don't.
But also just like to play that game where you just try to catch yourself really fast. What are you going to do if all of a sudden one of your faces is like just staring at you? One of my faces is like lagging a bit. Like no, like doesn't even move the way the rest of them do. I'd be like, whoa.
Yeah. You would go, whoa. No way you'd go, whoa. You would leave the room so fast.
No, I don't care for it. I've never loved that comedian more than when he did that because I went, I do that. Oh, he definitely led an intrusive thought win at that moment. And everyone around went, you're different, James. Who cares? He was having a great time. That's all that matters.
James A. Casper is absolutely one of my favorites. What I live for. I just like to have fun. And who cares if people think you're weird or they don't like it? They're going to think you're weird anyway. And sometimes you can make something you think is great and people don't like it. That's the way it goes.
I just want to be so fine. That's right. Anyway, hey, you know what? This is where we get to say so long, farewell, Al-Feturzain.
See you on Monday next week. Have the merriest of Christmases. May Santa bring you everything you ask for. May your parents have the best sleep in time of their lives on Christmas morning. And if you are celebrating Hanukkah, happy Hanukkah to you as well. And we hope to see you back here on Monday when we're back. And until then, you know, enjoy your holidays with your friends and family. And safe travels. Yeah, be careful. And what else?
I think that's it. Merriest of Christmases. Merry Christmas. We'll see you back here on Monday next week. See ya. Bye.
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