Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Thursday, December 18th, 2025 Episode summary introduction: Josh and Chantel kick things off with Lars the reindeer who thinks he’s a dog, dive into a Guinness World Record Christmas carol marathon, debate the unspoken rules of regifting, a $1.5 BILLION Powerball jackpot, Christmas shopping struggles, mystery mail-order catalogs, extreme East Idaho wind, the eternal question: Christmas Eve or Christmas Morning, and more! Timestamps: (0:00) - Bonus: Lars the Reindeer (2:03) - Bake cookies today (5:13) - Christmas carol world record (10:53) - Good News (12:06) - Regifting (17:48) - Powerball (23:07) - Gift tags (27:06) - Christmas catalog (33:25) - Christmas cards (35:59) - Christmas dinner (42:12) - Windy day (45:10) - It doesn't feel like Christmas until... (50:42) - Would You Rather Visit our website: https://riverbendmediagroup.com/info-page/wakeupclassy97/ Email the show - wakeupclassy97@gmail.com Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Classy97KLCE?sub_confirmation=1 Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@classy97klce Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Classy97klce Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/classy97klce/ Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/classy97klce.bsky.social Follow us on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@classy97klce Follow us on X/Twitter: https://x.com/Classy97klce Full show transcript: There is a reindeer in England that is going viral because he thinks he's a dog. Wait, what? His name is Lars and he's seven? Lars? Lars? Like the drummer of Metallica? No. Lars like a cooler person. Everyone knows. Who else is named Lars? Lars Ulrich from Metallica. There's a Danish film director, Lars von Trier. There is an actor called Lars Mickelsen. It doesn't matter. There's a politician and there's an economist. It doesn't matter. This is the reindeer named Lars and he's cool. Okay. It doesn't matter that his name is Lars, but that's a cool name for a reindeer. He's seven months old. His mom wasn't producing enough milk so the owner of the farm that he's on had to bring him inside and bottle feed him. I see that. And he spent a lot of time around there, three dogs. They're all Spaniels and he pretty much thinks he's one of them now. Well he lives in the house like a house pet, so that would make sense. He does get time around at the other reindeer, so it might be just a phase, but he's like, no, I'm pretty comfortable in this little life inside. I'm watching a video of him. Eating the dog ear. Eating the dog ear? Yeah. No, but he has one stubby horn and one normal horn. He's a cute little dude. I know. His little horns make me laugh. He's got big old hooves, man. No, he was just fiddling with the dog's ear. Like. And what's up, bud? And the dog was like, I don't know, explain me alone. Yeah, the dog kind of feels like, why is he hanging out in here? The dog is like, what? This is worse than a cat. Yeah. Why do you all bite? You got a reindeer? Why do you invite this in? I wanted a friend, but it was supposed to be another dog. That's funny. Good luck, Lars. Yeah, good luck. Doing whatever it is you do. Nice. Shall we start today's show? Let's. Let's what? Let's. Oh, let us. Let us. Let us. Okay, here we go. Hey. Hey. What's up? Hey, hey. It is not Friday. I know. I woke up this morning. Surely it's got to be the weekend by now. No way. Nope. Uh-uh. It's not even Friday. No. It's not even the end of Thursday. No. Today is a day to bake cookies, though. I'm excited about that. I kind of want to bake some cookies. Bake some cookies. But what? I still have some shopping to do. When am I going to get to that? After cookies or get this, get this. Okay. Before cookies. I mean, those are your two options. Or no cookies. What? Why don't you bake cookies? You get home before I get. I have shopping to do. Get this. Before cookies. Yeah. Or after cookies. Well, those are my options. Those are your options. I have some running around I could do. If I could get out of here at a decent time today, I could go get it done. Well, then do. And then I would just be done. What cookies would you make? Oh, no, I'm not talking about cookies. I'm talking about the shopping. Are you going to make some cookies when you're done shopping? Why am I making cookies? Because I'm not making cookies. You said you wanted to make cookies. Well, I kind of do, but- I'm real confused. I don't have time. I kind of- What do you have if you don't just have time? I kind of mostly just want to eat cookies. Right. I've had a lot of cookies over the past little while. I do. People keep bringing in cookies. We keep going places that have cookies. I've had like a cookie every day. And here's the kicker, right? We've been doing the nights of lights the last couple of days. And every time we'll- you should be like, do you want a cookie? And I have said no twice. That's weird how you've ended up with a cookie every time. I know. Because then you say, yeah, we'll go on a cookie. And then Kelsey says, yeah, you want a cookie. And I go, yeah, I want a cookie. And then we have cookie. And then I eat the whole cookie. And it's a big cookie. They're good. So what kind of cookie you want to make? You know what I want? No bakes. I don't have that. I haven't had no bakes since last Christmas. Well, tell your daughter, she actually likes to bake cookies. Those are no bakes. Right. So it's the opposite of baking cookies. Get it. Till Emery. She's got time. She's gotten really good at making chocolate chip cookies. Really, really good at it. So she could make some of those. I would not be upset. She has to make- She makes a pile though. She's been requested to make sugar cookies. Okay. Oh, whatever. Oh, she doesn't have time. She has to work tonight. No time. There's never a good time. I get this. Get this. There's no time to eat. There's no time to sleep. She has to work, what, like right after school? Yes. So cookies will be after work. Okay. If she wants to, she might not want to. Okay. We can't violent hold her. That's true. But if I go like, hey, you want to make some cookies? She might be like, actually, yeah. Actually I do. Yeah, because she likes doing that. Well, anyway, bake cookies today. Bake some cookies. Bake the dinosaurs. No. Like Columbus. We talked about this yesterday. Yeah, yeah. Oh man. Hey, I really want a world record. I know you do. And I've been looking around for something that I could do that would be like, here's the thing. I want it to sort of be within my wheelhouse. I don't want to have to like train for something that's outside and then be like, you know, outside my comfort zone and then fail because I didn't train hard enough. So I'm trying to find something I can do. It's like, I already do that. I just need to do it a lot more. That's been my thing. Well this guy here, I didn't even think about it. We listened to Christmas music like for weeks and weeks when we turned Classy 97 into the Christmas music channel, right? Right. Well, and that's a lot of Christmas songs to listen to. But there's this guy, 63-year-old Dave Purchase. And he spent nearly two days straight, 42 hours singing Christmas carols. Okay. There's only like 10 Christmas carols in the whole catalog of Christmas songs. Well, he sang everything from All I Want For Christmas is You from Mariah Carey to Last Christmas from Wham. He powered through 684 songs in total. 38 festive favorites each repeated 18 times. Did he sing Dominic the Donkey? I don't know if that was on the list because I don't have the whole list. But he had 38 songs that he repeated 18 times. I knew it. Repeater. Well, you have to. You would have to. Did he know all of the words to all of the songs he sang? Yeah. Was that a requirement? I'm sure it was. So he wasn't like, no, no. Like when he forgot like a section or something. Right. He also was only allowed one five minute break each hour. And that around the 32 hour mark, he said he started hallucinating from a lack of sleep and he nearly quit. Get out of here. But then he went another 10 hours after that. How? Okay, time out. What? How long did he go? 42 hours. Almost two full days. Hmm. He got a boost of adrenaline when a whole bunch of people showed up to watch. Okay. And that kept him going. I don't have a lot of sympathy for the fact that he's like, I almost passed out. Okay. I don't know. He's 63. He's out here singing songs for 42 hours. Nobody asked you to do it. Right. This was your own decision. No, that's right. But isn't that interesting that at 32 hours in, he was like, I was seeing stuff. He even got some backing support from a pair of choirs and some others who sang along with him. And he says he wanted to do something nutty to bring people together. The previous record, by the way, was 31 hours, which was held by a man from Nigeria. So at 32 hours when he was starting to see stuff, if he would have stopped, he still would have had the record. Do you, is this something that you want to attempt? No. Okay. You might hallucinate. Well, I'm not necessarily worried about that, but I'm more, I'm more into like two days straight of singing and I'm not a vocalist. Well, right. That's the part where I go, okay, what's the thing I do? I just need to do more of it. This guy went, I sing Christmas carols all the time. I bet I could sing Christmas carols nonstop. Look, there's these 38 that are my fan favorites. I'm going to pick these ones. I'm going to repeat them 18 times. 18 times. Yeah. He's sang them 18. Jingle Bells 18 times. He's saying all I want for Christmas is you 18 times. He's saying last Christmas 18 times. 18 times. Yeah. Yep. I guess you would probably, did he have backing track? I don't know. Or was it all opera? instrument. I really don't know. You imagine he's just standing out there singing, I bet. Because then would you want to sing really fast? Like, like what we talked about yesterday, Barbara Streisand. Because it wasn't about quantity, it was about total time. Okay. So then you'd want to sing him really slow. Last Christmas. No, I think you have to. I think you have to keep up the tempo. Well, I'm going to tell you, I'm looking at it right here. He's got a banner up. He had a target of 42 hours. That was the goal. And is it Guinness World Record attempt Christmas song marathon? Join us for a 40 plus hour nonstop Christmas song marathon led by this town's own Mr. Toasty David Purchase. Mr. Toasty? That's what his banner says. Okay. All right. Yeah. And he sat in there. He could have had backing tracks because there are some, there's like a laptop in a sound system and stuff. So he might have had some backing. You know who I do feel sorry for? Is the Guinness World Record people who have to go and sit and start the clock and sit. He put the clock on a digital thing behind him and had it running the whole time. But doesn't a representative from Guinness have to come and be there? No, you can submit it. You can request to have someone there, but you can submit your video. You've done some research into this. I know. I want a record. You got it. It's the only way you're going to get one. Hey, here's some good news. This is a cool story. The students and faculty of Mount St. Mary College, this is in New York. They have officially hit a holiday milestone. They collected more than 1000 toys for families in the Hudson Valley. The annual drive is led by the campus chaplain, Father Gregory Fluet, and a hardworking group of student athletes. They spent weeks rallying the community to ensure that no child in the region goes without a gift this season. From students to staff, the entire campus has stepped up to pack and deliver a massive haul to local charities just in time for the holidays. For the organizers, the drive is about more than just hitting a number. It's about helping the neighbors during a special time of year. Father Gregory said, this season is a season of miracles and light that calls us to open our hearts to see more than 1000 toys gathered for local children. This season is a beautiful reminder of what we can achieve when we come together. I think that's pretty amazing. That's awesome. 1000 toys is a lot of toys. So that's that's pretty great. Well done. Some holiday. Good news. Yeah, well done. Today is National Re-gifting Day. Have you ever re-gifted something? How are you supposed to re-gift today? Well, I guess stuff you held on to for years. Maybe. I maybe maybe I'm wrong in assuming you re-gift within the same year. Or if you get like a present or something from like a co-worker or something early. And then you're like, let's give this to so and so. OK. Today is the day to do that. Interesting. Have you ever re-gifted something? I'm sure, but I can't think of a good example. You had some sitting on the counter the other day and I said, hey, are you going to use this? Yeah. And I said, I probably not. And I said, cool, I'm going to use it for something else. Oh, all right. That's fine. I'm going to use it for some a prize for a game. Oh, OK, cool. I feel like it's what do you think about that? Like if you gave somebody something and they gave it to somebody else, like your heart. Well, that's what that song is all about. Isn't it? Yeah. Last Christmas. It's all about re-gifting. Here's here is something. That is a re-gifting song. You're right. I got something I know I'm not going to use. Right. So in a white elephant gift exchange, I received some socks. Uh-huh. Little cozy Santa socks. I know I'm not going to wear them. 100 percent not going to wear the cozy, soft Santa socks. Right. So you said. In in a strange order, you said to your mom who was staying with us for a couple of days, do you want these socks? And then looked at me and said, do you care if I give away these socks? I went, well, that's the wrong order. But OK. No, in the same moment, but it was in the order. It doesn't. I might have done that to something else, but I know that I've gotten in trouble for that before, so I asked you before I asked her. My point is I don't care. I'm not going to use those. So I don't care if that gets re-gifted. I they were on the counter and I knew that you weren't going to use them. And she looked at them and she goes, oh, those are so cute. And I went, aha, I have an idea. Aha. So, yeah, I'm all good with with that. OK. Because I know I'm not going to use it. Now, if it was something that I was like a treat or something that I was going to maybe partake of and then someone else opened it or used it for something or ate some of it or all of it, then I might be a little bit more like where did all my stuff go because I'm I'm not a big sweet tooth on certain things. And so I might just savor it throughout the year and then go to like grab one and they're all gone. I've had that happen before. And you keep looking at me when you're talking about this conversation. Uh-huh. Well, I live with you. So that would be it. OK. Name the treat that I did that with. I bet you even can't. But you can. And that's what's important. No, I can't. I don't I've never done that. Weird. I don't know what you're talking about. Stop blinking. No, what you're talking about. You're blinking. Would you re give something I got you? No, I don't know. I guess it depends on what it is. No idea. Rewind. OK. Do you think that it's acceptable to return something that somebody's given you? Well, yeah, I think that's fine. OK. I always feel bad. Like my sister has a certain type of shoes that she likes. I would never buy her shoes because you can't guess what kind of shoes she's going to like. My brother-in-law will always buy her shoes for Christmas. Right. And every Christmas she goes, can I go exchange these for what I really want? So why doesn't he just get her like a gift card thing instead? Because that would be better. I don't know. Because then it would save the time of I think now get a shoe box and just throw a gift card in there. I think now he has enlisted the help of their son and their son knows better, better, interesting. And so together they get her the shoes that she wants. Interesting. No, I don't. I think there are times when if I got two of something, I would either return one or re-gift one, depending on what it was. Yeah, I don't mind. I would rather spend my money on something that you're going to use. Yeah. So if I get you something and you go, oh, this isn't exactly what I want. Can I exchange this for something else? I'd be like, yes, go get the thing that you want, because if you're going to use it and like it, I would rather that. That makes sense. And that's all I have. I know. I don't have anything else. Yeah, no, you're right. That's correct. But I, you know, again, I try not to be mean. I'm not trying to be like, hey, I know you put thought and time and money and effort into getting this gift. Thanks. Thanks. Like that's that feels bad. Right. You know, I don't like that. I don't like that either. Because you want to you want to get some for somebody and have me excited about it. So it's always a hard place to be. Unless unless you're somebody who's like, no way, dude, I wanted a crock pot and you got me an iron. So that's it. I'm taking it back. So have you heard all the buzz around Powerball? No. No one's been talking about this in your circle. Uh-uh. In your circle of influence. Your social crew. No. Well, last night there was a drawing and the estimated jackpot was one point two seven billion with a B. Out of here. The cash value of that is five hundred and seventy nine point seven million. If you do the one time payout. OK. Zero grand prize winners last night. There were six people that won a million and two people that had the power play on there that won two million. OK. So there's eight new millionaires last night. Let's be clear about that. But no one won the big prize. Do they get their money automatically? Like would they get it before Christmas? I don't know how quick I don't know how quick the turnaround is. So the next drawing is coming up on Saturday. OK. We should probably at least buy a ticket. OK. Just to see. All right. The estimated jackpot on Saturday is one point five billion dollars. Are what we like to do for Christmas for our co-workers every year is by just a scratch, scratch lottery tickets. And here's what I think is awesome. I feel kind of bad when people don't win. But it's the fun of playing. But everybody and it's become our thing. Yeah. And now everybody like I took my bag into work yesterday full of my little gifts. Right. And everybody went it's lottery ticket time. Right. It's a great time. People love it. And I like how many people have like never played. Yeah. They go how do I play? What do I do when I go scratch it off? See what happens. Do you have a coin? Yeah. Scratch it off. Go crazy. Good luck. And then other people go yeah. It's time. Yeah. Anyway, one point five billion in the power ball on Saturday's drawing. The cash value of that is six hundred and eighty six and a half million dollars. Wow. Wow. Is that. I know yesterday down the hall they were talking about Epic Way. The Epic Way you would quit your job. What would you do? I don't know. I don't think that I would quit. No, I think I mean I like going to work. Right. Like I like doing the show. I like doing that stuff. I think I might go hey. I'm going to be about all those other responsibilities. Exactly. I'm going to just come in when I want. Like well and maybe that's the deal. Maybe you go look what do I need to do because you still need a few things. I still want to save money for retirement. I still want to like health insurance and all those kinds of things like adult things. Right. So I would I would be like hey listen here's here's my situation. Right. I want to continue to be here but also I want a little more freedom. Yeah. Exactly. So what are we now where are we meeting in the middle on this thing? And they say well invest in the company and then you can do whatever you want. No, it's not that I would feel bad about that. I would feel I think there's something about like a company or an employee owned company but I don't necessarily I don't think I want to be like an investor. No. Not like that. Like I would definitely invest a good portion of money to continue to have my money grow but I don't think I would want to do it like in a in a one single company investment thing that feels risky. Does it? Yeah. How come? Because it's a higher risk than putting it in, you know, a balanced market. That's why. Now you're talking all money. I know I get all nerdy. I get all nerdy about it. But anyway, that's the big deal is that Saturday's drawing one point five billion dollars. Well, let's I think we should play. Six hundred and eighty six million and a half. Is this the one where you pick the numbers? You can do you can do a quick pick. OK. You know, you know, or a few or whatever. What are the odds? Never tell me the odds. Never tell me the odds. Why? Because never. So in in the the two winners, they got two million. One was in Arizona and one was in which state is MA? Is that Maryland? I think it's Maine. Is it? I think Maine. It is Maine. It is Massachusetts. Dang it. Maine, I think is MN. No, that's Minnesota. No, is it? Yes, it is. M E then for me. Maybe. Doesn't matter. M E is Maine. OK. Yeah. Got it. Anyway, and then Kentucky, New York had three winners. Pennsylvania and Tennessee, that's where the one million dollar winners were at. So nobody even on this side of the country other than one person who got a million in Arizona play. That's what I'm saying. Saturday's the big drawing. Good luck. Play responsibly. Yeah, play responsibly. I have gone to a store. Name a store. I've gone to a store every day since Friday. I need gift tags. I either forget to get gift tags or last night when I did remember to get gift tags, the only gift tags I could find were a package of six and they were super, super fancy ones for three dollars and fifty cents. I'm going to need more than six and I'm not spending six or six pages. No, bro, it was six tags. Bro, no, bro. Well, don't come at me like I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm just asking. I wasn't there. No, I was looking for sometimes you can buy sheets. Yeah, need to do is go to the dollars. No, I'm looking at them right now. Fifty Christmas gift tags, peel and stick. Yes, gold. That's what I want. I know what I want. Three dollars. Well, the store. I'm just going to find out if they have it in stock or not. That's what I'm looking right now. I couldn't find it anywhere. I looked by the Christmas card. It is ready to pick up in the store within two hours. You can walk in and get it in the store. Three dollars. That we shop at. Not at the show that we shop at. The store that we shop at. Nope. Where is it? A different store and three dollars for fifty of them is a good deal. Yeah, that is a good deal. I'm not spending three dollars and fifty cents for six. Get out of town. I don't know what you were even looking at. I'm looking right now at a hundred piece, stick on tags for four dollars at the store we shop at. Bro. What I'm telling you is that I've looked up and down the aisles three or four times and I could not find a single sheet of gift tags. It was just there was a package of twelve and there was a package of six. Yeah. You're acting like I don't know what I'm talking about. And that makes me real cranky. Settle down. I mean, I'm looking at the store we shop at at a sorted gift tag. Fifty two count. Fifty two stickers for one nineteen at the store we shop at. Mm hmm. No, sir. Because I looked everywhere. OK, I'm just telling you what I see. I also I'm trying to find the pack of six for three, whatever. I want to see what looks like the pack of six for like these really pretty snowflakes. OK, they were really pretty. But I went, I don't I need more than six. Yeah, I get it. I get all I could find. And I was down the gift wrapping aisle, which is where gift tags would be. Like I found these ones that are kind of nice and there's six of them in this bag. And there's like a gingerbread man in a holly and a peppermint and a Christmas light, whatever, and that's a 12. The 12. Yep, they have that one for a dollar thirty nine. No, it says three fifty. Line through it, dollar thirty nine. Yeah, because no one's spending three dollars and fifty cents for six eggs. It's twelve. There's twelve. There's two of each in there. Get out. I just need a sheet of pill and stick for a buck. I'll even pay two bucks. Well, I found you 50 of them for three at a different store. Is it a store that I like to go to? Sure. It's not the store you don't like to go to. I'm looking at a different store. Okay. I'll go to that store then. Yeah. It's not at the one you don't like. Okay, because I'm not going to that store. Well, because, ew. Okay. Anyway, I got to get myself some gift tags. Yeah, well, you can pick up a couple of these. Okay. We'll go tonight. Doesn't that sound fun? Oh boy. I don't know how old people think I am, but apparently they think I'm male him a catalog old. You ever heard of the Swiss colony? No. Oh, well, a few weeks ago I got this catalog in the mail. It's this big. It's from the Swiss colony. And there's a big sticker on the front that says, last chance, we don't want to bother you with unwanted catalogs. This could be your underlined in all caps. Final catalog. This could be. That's right. Please order today. It's not. Please order today to receive future editions. Let's open it up. Oh, yeah. Oh, also I'm pre approved for on this first page, $1,000 in credit that I can charge. So I can order all kinds of things from the Swiss colony. What's in the Swiss colony? Well, now they've been family owned since 1926, it says here. And if I order by this upcoming Monday, I can get express delivery and I'll receive my gifts by Christmas. Oh, yeah. So there's still time. Okay. If there's something in here that we might want to order. What you get? They also, because every catalog comes with a bunch of inserts, they've included a $44.98 value of a free best seller assortment tin when I order. So that's a nice bonus. And they've got a phone number I can call or I can shop online at their website. Or if I really want back here in the back, there is my right in order form I can mail in to order. Go ahead and give that a thumb through. It's a bunch of treats. Did you see anything in there that you wanted? No. The prices weren't that bad. Okay. But the Swiss colony. Can you only order through like, you can't call it in place in order? Yeah, no, I can call or I can log on to their website or I can mail in that order form. Bro. There's still time. Mailing in an order form. I don't know. I can do two day shipping on last minute gifts though. Hey, hey, hey, this is, I know. Look at this one. This is like a Swiss and bacon. I know. Board. I know. You can get a little thing of ham and some mellow cheddar. How much of that ham are you going to eat? None. Exactly. Because you are not going to eat a non-refrigerated little chub of ham. No. No, I'm not. You're right. Anyway, I do like that, that I got pre-approved for a thousand dollar credit. That was neat. I'm not going to use it. This really did come to you. It really was mailed to me a few weeks ago and I went, I got to talk about this because who's mailing catalogs? Who? And why are they mailing it to me? What order? What list? No kidding. Who sold my information to the Swiss colony so that they could send me a catalog in the mail? Hey. What'd you find? Many butter toffee. You like that? Yes. What about, they have a, it looks like a platter of different mashed potatoes. It's not, it's dips. I was going to say. They call it incredible spreadables. Anyway, these guys are not a sponsor. I just saw the incredible spreadables. They just mailed me a catalog. Yeah, you can pick and choose and you can get like eight of them for $54. There's a shrimps campy, a ramblin ranch. Josh, I think, I think you should use the credit that you have. I'm not going to. I'm not going to rack up a bunch of debt on meats and cheeses and dips. Oh, but there's baklava. You love that. And every time we go to the store and you see it, you go, hey, do you guys like baklava? And all of us go, no. And you go, oh, I do. Just like that. I've probably had that conversation six times this holiday. Because I, it's so big for one person. You would have had it eaten by now. What I need to do is buy it for a party. Okay. And then I'll share it and then I won't be eating all of it by myself and then I won't feel so bad. How do you feel about the wild game meat sticks? Not good. I feel not good. No way. You're not into the wild game meat sticks? No. Oh, I bet, I bet they're good. I bet they are too, but not for my palate. Thank you. What kind of meats do you think are in there? In the wild game meat sticks. I don't think it's too crazy. I think it's probably just some elk. Elk is one of them. And some bison. Buffalo is number two. Okay. And some deer. Venison, look at you. Well done. It's weird they say savory buffalo, which it's not buffalo. It's bison. It's not buffalo. Buffalo is a water buffalo. I said bison. I know you did. I'm saying on their website they say savory buffalo elk and venison, but it's not buffalo. Stop saying savory buffalo. All blended with pork and beef for juicier texture. So it's got pork and beef in it too. Not just buffalo. Oh, great. Yeah. I know. I know how you get about your wild meats. You're very into it. Anyway, whoever sent me that catalog, thanks for the laugh. It was weird to open up the mailbox and get a catalog. Looked through the whole thing. Yeah. Do you want to keep this or would you like me to throw it in the car? I'd like to thumb through it a little bit more. All right. Go. Thanks. Appreciate it. I'm not quite done with it. Okay. Good job getting a catalog. Yep. In the mail. Thanks. I didn't order it. Well, I want to say a big thank you to the listeners of the show. Whether you're listening on the radio, whether you're listening on the podcast, wherever you're listening from, however you listen, thank you because you have far surpassed our number of Christmas cards we received last year versus this year. I know. It's what is the one we got one today, which now brings our total to 32? 31. 31? Yeah. Okay. Which is 10 more than we received last year. And look at our door. And the door is just covered. Smothered. And it's pretty incredible. So to everybody who sent one in, thank you so much. Thank you so much. Hopefully you've started to receive the ones we've sent in return. Yep. I've got a big stack. I was working because I like to write little messages in there. So I was writing those out this morning and I've stuffed them and I've stamped them and they're ready to go. Yeah. So we've got more going out today, a good pile that's going out today, but we have sent out, I mean, a bunch already. So anyway, thank you to everybody who's sent a card in. If you haven't sent one, there's still time. We'll take them anytime. Oh yeah. You could send it in February. Oh yeah. I mean, whatever. What I'm excited about, like we're getting some from Oliver, IF, Shelly, Blackfoot, Rigby, Rexburg, Pocatello, Ammon, Island Park, Montana, and even one from Wyoming. Yeah. We got the Wyoming one today, which is pretty awesome. Vodidi-dadi-dadi. So thanks to everybody who's sending those in. That's pretty awesome. If you want to continue to send them, awesome. We'd love to receive it. We'll send you one back. We have plenty to send out. It's like heaven pin pals. Kind of, yeah. You guys are like our Christmas pin pals. Oh. 400 West Sunnyside Road, Idaho Falls, Idaho, 83402 if you want to send one. And we'll send you one back. Make sure to include your return address. Yeah. We got one with no name or return address. You don't want a card from us, I guess. I guess. And that's fine, but, oh. Look it. I'm so excited. I know. The door looks amazing. It does look amazing. So we'll have to post a picture of the door and then we can, you know, let you know where to send it if you still want to send one. There's room. We'll cover the whole room in cards. Oh yeah, we will. I'm not scared to cover the whole room in cards. It's pretty cool. So thanks. Participate in our Christmas pin pal program. That's a lot of bees. Thanks everybody. We don't have a Christmas dinner plan. I have ideas. You do? What are they? Well, I knew you'd be surprised because. Because I've been asking for weeks. Well, I know. But then I looked some stuff up this morning. Okay. Because I wanted to, I specifically said, what's a non-traditional Christmas dinner? Because we're not big like ham turkey people. Right. So I don't think we're going to be cooking a ham. No way. And, and we don't know what we want to do specifically. But here's, here are some ideas. Okay. These are, do you want something interactive and fun? What do you mean interactive? Well, when you Google non-tradition Christmas, non-traditional Christmas dinner ideas, it gives you categories. Okay. Interactive and fun? Sure. Taco nacho burrito bar. No, that's not it. Fondue night. No, it's not that. Pizza party. No. With DIYs. We already, we have pizza all the time. Okay. I want something. Those are the interactive fun ideas. Hold on. I'm getting there. Global cuisine. Okay. Tex-mex with enchiladas tamales queso guacamole. That doesn't sound so bad. Soul food. Fried chicken mac and cheese collard greens cornbread. No, we don't like fried chicken. Asian inspired. Korean beef bowls, firecracker chicken, spicy, Sichuan pork noodles. That doesn't sound so bad. I'm not opposed to some Chinese food. No, me neither. Mediterranean, which would be falafel salad with yogurt or roasted carrots and couscous. No. Those are global cuisine. Comfort food twists. Oh. Again, it says fried chicken. No, it's not fried chicken. Pot roast. I think I would be fine with pot roast, but I think our kids would throw a fit. They're not big pot roasters. Somebody said make it special with 40 cloves of garlic. Whoa. Special. Lasagna or pasta bake. That won't go over well. Nope. What about an elegant alternative like a seafood feast? Beck would love that. Emery would not. I'm also not a big fan because I don't do like lobster. I like shrimp, but I don't do crab and sushi and all that stuff. Here's the problem is that none of us can agree on anything. I know. What about a pomegranate maple glaze lamb chop? No. What? No. No. Country style ribs, pistachio, crusted pork, tenderloin. These are a couple of pork options. Okay. All right. I thought about doing some ribs. You said no. I don't have a smoker. Okay. Hey. Hey. Yet. Oh. Is there something I should know? No. No. No, I didn't buy you a smoker. All right. Well, I don't have a smoker. I didn't know you wanted a smoker. Do you want a little, a little one? I don't want like a big trigger. I'm not going to use it that often. I've told you this. I've said it a hundred times every time we go to the Cal Ranch, but you're not listening because all you can think of is how badly you want out of there. Unless there's chickens and then you'll look at the chickens, but then you're looking at chickens and not hearing me say, Hey, I wonder if they have that little smoker because I would like to have like a little tailgate unit. Okay. I did not know that about you. Yeah, you do. I just didn't hear that about you. I've said before I've said, I want one that's just like what the one my brother-in-law has. That little small red tailgate one. I have heard you say that. Yeah. For a few years. Yeah, I have heard you say that. But you can't tell me that kind of stuff when I'm looking at chickens. No. No, you're right because you're focused on baby chickens. So I can't. Don't talk to me when I'm looking at baby chickens. I can't go. I'm going to go look at those little smokers and see what they have one. Or bunnies. And then I show you and I go, this is a good one. This is the right size. Sometimes they have bunnies there. You can't talk to me when I'm looking at the bunnies either. Yeah. So get out of here. Go talk about your smoker to somebody else. I've never heard you say that. Cornish game hens. No. We can't. We're not going to get away with eggplant roll a teeny. No. Maple miso sweet potato casserole. It's not that. No, it isn't that. A root beer glazed ham. Okay. Okay. Listen to me. Here's what else needs to happen. What is it? It's got to be easy. I'm not spending the whole time prepping stuff. I'm going to be real lazy on Christmas day. So the duck with orange hazelnut stuffing is that? Yeah. You're not going to cook a duck? Nope. I'm going to throw something in the Instant Pot or something in the Crock Pot and then I'm going to be, I'm going to set it and forget it. Okay. So you want, let's do this. I want easy prep, easy cleanup. What about a Crock Pot Christmas dinner? Crock Pot Christmas. Okay. So now, now we're talking slow cooker Christmas. Okay. Roast beef and gravy. Hey, scalloped potatoes look pretty good. Here's the problem that I'm having is nothing sounds good. Like a slow cooker broccoli casserole. That sounds good. Creamy Italian chicken. That's what I made for dinner last night. Yeah. We can't have that. That's the other part too is we've had all of the stuff that we enjoy the last little while. Yeah, I know. So it's like, well, we can't have. Oh, this is interesting. This is a spiced braised pot roast with an egg noodle. What do you think about that? Oh, interesting. Yeah. We're never going to figure out what to have for Christmas. No, we're not. I don't know what to do. Well, I'll keep reading you more recipes. Oh, fun. Okay. Yesterday, super, super, super windy. Oh, I hadn't noticed. No, no, really? So the wind yesterday, they're saying across East Idaho reached over 80 miles per hour. Some of those gusts. I was looking at pictures on East Idaho news. They've got all these pictures of like buildings that got destroyed. Like in American Falls, they had a whole building that's just demolished from the wind. Oh, no. Power lines fell down all over the place. Semis blew over on the freeway. Like in the teens of semis, like right at the Idaho Utah border laying on their side, you can't park there. Teens? Like 10? Like 13, 14 of them. Yeah, teens of them. That's so scary. I know. I'm looking at like wheel lines that blew out in the road from farms, just like hanging out in the roads. It's a mess. So go ahead. No, no, you go. No, you go. No, you go. No, you go. Outside my office at my other job, there was a big bucket. Like it has trees in it. There was a tree planted in it. It's like it just an outside decoration blew over. That's a problem. I know. I saw trees falling over in Pocatello, like city crews are working on cleaning that up. This was the thing that totally blew me away. If that's a wind joke, that's not on purpose. In Wyoming, they had 144 mile per hour wind gusts. No, that's not possible. That is a category for hurricane. The same wind that you would get in a hurricane, 144 mile per hour wind. It's because there's nothing out there to block it. That's insane. That's just wind cruising. Yeah, absolutely crazy. I did ask you at one point because it was garbage day for us, which always happens on a windy day. Of course. And I wondered if our garbage can was still close by. It survived, right? Yeah, it was laying in the yard. In the middle of the yard. Pretty close. I'm glad we kept it. It was on the wrong side of the driveway. It doesn't matter. Still in our yard. I saw that the neighbors had taken theirs in at some point. And I was generous enough to clean up all the garbage that had blown out of their garbage cans into our yard. That was nice. But they left our cam laying in our yard. So the favor was not returned. Maybe they just didn't know where to put it. Maybe they weren't sure it was ours. What? Maybe there's three garbage cans out front. Two of theirs. One is ours. What do you mean they didn't know it was ours? Maybe they thought maybe a different one had blown into our yard. I probably would have left theirs too, honestly. Yeah? Yeah, I wouldn't be sure what to do with it. Well, at least put it up by their house. Okay, I could have done that. I would have done that. I also, we have these big inflatable Christmas ornaments hanging from our tree. They survived. They did hold on. I was impressed. Me too. Because they're up there with a little piece of what's called webbing and a carabiner. Good job hanging those up there, Josh. Yeah. Thanks. I'm proud of you. Hey, I'm proud of you. Yeah, thanks. I appreciate it. Josh. Chantel. It doesn't feel like Christmas until what? I don't know because there are times when I'm driving around and I'm listening to Christmas music and I go, I feel the fuzzies, you know? Yeah. I like that. I'm feeling the Christmas spirit, you know? I like when that happens. And that happens sometimes in the middle of like a different part of the year. I'll be like, oh man, I just got like a fuzzy Christmas feeling. I like that. Okay. I think, like it feels like Christmas time. Like I feel like I'm in Christmas time. Okay. Do you feel it? I do. I've, this week has been a little bit rough. Oh, this week has been so busy. It's been crazy. And so I haven't really felt it so much this week, but I do, I like driving around at night and seeing the lights. That makes me feel fuzzy. But I, I don't know. I like also sitting at home when it's dark and it's quiet and you just see the Christmas tree lights. Yeah. That makes me feel super Christmasy. I went and sat downstairs with the family Christmas tree and the fireplace and stuff. Yeah. That's a good spot. It is a good spot. That's why we put our Christmas tree down there. I know, but you haven't been down there hanging out much. No, I haven't. And I hung out down there for a couple of hours the other day. Really? Yeah. Doing what? She was playing on her phone. I was doing some work on my laptop and we were just kind of hanging out down there. And it was nice. Oh, good job. Yeah. Cause it's a good spot. It is a good spot. I, I wanted to read, here's what I do. And you know that I do this a lot where I have this good idea. And then I say, I want to do that every year. I want to try that every year. And then I saw something that said, you got to change your approach to, you've got to adjust your definition of always and have to to sometimes or some years or not. I'll get to that if I can. It's a good way to be in your head. I'm trying to do that. Because as we've talked about all year long and every holiday and every birthday and every time something comes up, you, you like traditions. I do. But you also do too many. I do. And then you set yourself up for failure because you set your personal expectation of what you want to accomplish way too high. Yeah, I do. And then every time you don't do six advent calendars, you go, I, it was a bad year. I failed. I'm a terrible mom. Everyone's disappointed in me. And you know who cares? You. So what I'm saying is, and what we've said all year, every year for the past forever, it is what you, what you're able to accomplish. And that's good enough. Like you, you have to be able to settle with good enough and you can't. You can't handle good enough. No, but I had like, I'm forced to settle with good enough because like I don't have time. No, you're forced to, to face good enough, but you don't accept it. You don't go, I did good enough. You've never said that sentence in your life. And you need to. Because I know that I can do better. Nope. And have done better. And I see other people doing better. That's the big one. I might go. Other people. I see people on Instagram that pull it off. Right. And if they can do it, why can't I do it? Because that's them, not you quit comparing. You quit it. No, I don't do it. No, you don't. You're. There's one thing I compare. What is it? Size of fish. And I go, man, I want to catch a fish like that. But then I go fishing and I catch little tiny ones and I go, well, that was good enough. I touched a fish. How many times you heard me go, I touched a fish. Today it's a good day. Every time I go fishing, I go, Hey, I didn't, I didn't touch a fish. I'm bummed out. I wish I would have caught something today, but I'll try again another time. I go, I catch a fish. I touch a fish in the net. I go, I touched a fish today. I'm a winner. You got to be okay with good enough. Okay. Listen to me right now. When I tell you that I think you need to change the fishing measurements up. I think you need to catch the smallest fish and be like, Oh, guys, I'm going to catch a fish. No, we talked about that. I know we did. We're going to celebrate the little guys, but I also, I post pictures of them and people go, what is that? A minnow for catching bigger fish. And I go, no, that is a native brook trout that I caught in a tiny stream and I'm proud of it. Good for you. Yeah. People trying to bash me on the fish I catch and I go, when's the last time you caught a fish? Exactly. I don't go fishing. I go, yeah, cause you're no good at it. Oh. You can't, you caught zero fish. Make fun of my small fish. Who's making fun of your small fish? Who's making fun of you? People make fun of me all the time. It's fine. Don't even, you don't want me on your bad side. Oh, here we go. See, I don't tell you about this stuff cause then you get mad at people for me. I do. And I'm not even upset. Don't be rude to my husband. I'll be mad at you. Here we go. See. Forever. Mama bear out here. Protecting her own. Listen to me when I tell you that those crutches don't die. So before we take off for the day, we probably should do a would you rather this or that? A quick would you rather Christmas Eve or Christmas morning? You can only have one. What are you picking? Christmas. Oof. Oof. You can only have Christmas Eve or Christmas morning. You can't have all. Oh man. I have such a fondness for Christmas Eve. I know. I really do. Me too. I mean, like Christmas morning is great and I love Christmas morning, but I have so many great memories and the anticipation and the feelings on Christmas Eve. I would rather have Christmas Eve. Really? Yeah. Okay. All right. Lots of time going to like grandma's house. We had dinners. We had so much stuff going on Christmas Eve as a kid. Yes. Same with me. And we were busy Christmas day too. And it was different. And it was the day. And it was like, you know, but there's something about that sunset starts creeping in. You're like, it is Christmas Eve. Yeah. And it feels different. I'm taking that. I'm picking Christmas morning. Are you? I like Christmas morning. Well, hey, how about you hang out with me on Christmas Eve? I'll hang out with you on Christmas day. We get a boat. That's a loophole. How about it? Hey, that's going to do it for us. All right. Yeah. Have a great day. There are seven. Count them. Seven days until Christmas. And we'll be back tomorrow on your Friday. One more game of jingle bingo to play. The last one tomorrow morning. It's going to be good. We'll talk to you then. Okay. We'll be here. Okay. All right. Bye. Thanks for listening to wake up classy 97 the podcast. If you enjoy the show, please share, subscribe and rate the podcast. Wake up classy 97 is hosted by Josh and Chantel Tielor and is a production of riverbend media group. For more information or to contact the show, visit riverbendmediagroup.com.