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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Monday, November 10th, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
Josh & Chantel are debating how long guests should really stay over and offering a “dark shower” self-care hack. Chantel gets flustered practicing her sign language in public, Josh reveals his strict “no breakfast for dinner” policy, and together they reminisce on their weirdest Thanksgiving ever. Plus, good news about a family feeding truckers for the holidays, talk of delicious soup recipes, and some new nicknames we think might stick around for a while.
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Serenade Chantel
(4:32) - Cupcake & Pumpkin Pie
(7:06) - Shower in the dark
(11:04) - Good News
(13:01) - Overstaying your welcome
(17:06) - What NOT to do in Idaho
(23:13) - One parent & one napper
(27:20) - Thanksgiving plans
(33:23) - Magical pumpkin dessert
(35:55) - Diet & exercise
(42:03) - Christmas crafts
(46:19) - We saw a baby
(51:21) - Soups
(58:24) - Would You Rather
(59:54) - ASL practice
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Full show transcript:
Hey, two quick things before we get started on the podcast today. First of all, shout out to Camille, who sent us an email.
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Wakeupclassy97 at gmail.com. Thank you, Camille, again. Hey, thing number two. We are on social media as well. So you can follow us on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram. We've got the YouTube channel.
We've got all that stuff going. We want to work on in the new year. I really want to work on bringing the show more content to YouTube so you can actually view the show a little bit.
But I don't know what that looks like. So if anybody's got ideas or maybe there's something you want to see from the creation of the show or you want to see more conversation or whatever, send us your ideas too at that email, wakeupclassy97 at gmail.com. And you posted something on our socials this morning. I did.
We were at dinner at a Mexican restaurant and you saw a mural of a woman who was having a very relaxing time while being serenaded by a man with a guitar. Yeah. And you decided that's something you'd like?
Yeah. You'd like to be serenaded by a guitar? Sounds fine. While you lounge about?
Yeah. Sounds like a great way to waste an afternoon. And then you called me out for never doing it? Yeah, you've never done that. You're right. You claim that you love me, but yet you've never serenaded me. You're right.
I have never serenaded you while you lounge about. So I mean, prove your love. I feel like that's a big expectation. One, because I'm pretty mediocre at guitar. I don't, you say I have an okay singing voice, but I don't know about that. Yeah, you do. And I think the last thing you want is to hear me sing at you.
I don't. I think it sounds nice. What do you want me to sing? Let's give it a go.
Happy birthday to you. Sure. Yeah.
My birthday. Go for it. Sure. That's a serenade. I've done that like year after year since I've known you. So don't say never. You never serenade me. At least once a year, I get to sing at you.
Happy birthday. That's true. Yeah. What else? What would you really like?
Like, if you think about it, what would you want me to sing? I don't know. Actually, I don't know.
You put a girl on the spot. Like Broadway hits? I don't know. Or some ska? Sure. Some jazz? You want me to sing you some jazz? I don't know. I mean, what sounds like you're lounging about and you want me to like show up with a guitar and go, that's the part you got to figure out. I'm lounging. You surprise me with a song.
Well, it'll probably be like, Smoke on the Water. Yeah, that's a good one. It's fine. I'm not gonna serenade you. Not bad.
Smoke on the Deep Purple or, Some white stripes. Again, not mad. Not a relaxing song. I don't, it's not about being relaxing. You said you were lounging. Yeah, lounging. Just listening to some tunes.
That's lounging. Oh, okay. All right. Give it a go. If I could learn like Everclear, maybe, like Santa Monica from Everclear, that'd be a fun one.
Sure. Or maybe some Goo Goo dolls. Yeah, even better. Now you're talking.
Now you're talking. Give it a go. And what if I learn the harmonica and really start bringing some Alanis?
No, thank you. A little bit of Tom Petty. Yeah, Tom Petty. But harmonica Tom Petty. No, no, no. You see, I'm gonna serenade you with the slide whistle.
Like that. All right, let's start the show. What's up, cupcake? Um, am I cupcake? Yeah, that's a nice term of endearment, isn't it?
Sure. Like, what's up, cupcake? I've been called worse.
It's not terrible. That's not one that you've ever called me before. No, you turned your head so quick, like, who are you talking to?
That was the look you gave. What? Who are you talking to? Why are we starting off like this, this way?
I just thought it'd be a nice way to start things off. What's up, cupcake? What's up, pickle? No. What's up, cabbage leaf? No. What's up, mashed potatoes?
Nope. Say how mine was nice. These are nice. Mashed potato. Everybody loves mashed potatoes.
No, that's not true. Who doesn't love mashed potatoes? People. Who? Give me one name. People.
Everyone loves mashed potatoes. I like it. I'm gonna stick it. That's your nickname.
No. What's up, carrot cake? That's cute, but it's close to cupcake.
Okay, okay. I was just trying to Zucchini bread's fine, but that's not the top dessert sweet treat. It's the top, one of the top breads, one of. Okay, but what's up, pumpkin pie? I'm kind of into that. You like that one? That's pretty cute. All right. Cupcake and pumpkin pie.
Those are better grandparent names than lolly and pop, I might say. Okay. Cupcake, cupcake, pumpkin pie. You wanna go?
Make the grandkids say that. You wanna go to cupcake and pumpkin pie, Sam? Yeah, cupcake and pumpkin pie. Come to cupcake. Come to pumpkin pie. Go hang out with pumpkin pie.
He's in the shed. Yeah, you're right. I'm not mad about it.
Cupcake and pumpkin pie. We don't even have grandkids. Hopefully not for a while. Yeah, let's not try to put that out in the universe. Well, good morning.
Good morning, happy dare I say it, Monday. Yeah. Do you need a self-care hack? Sure. Okay, shower in the dark. What? Are you a madman?
No. Shower in the dark. Tell me more. Okay. Doctors, quote unquote, claim that it's a sensory change that can improve your sleep. Is that right?
Yep. If you shower at night before bed, the bright lighting tells your brain to wake up by raising cortisol and lowering melatonin. But if you shower with the lights off, it can have the absolute opposite effect because it means low light or no light signals safety.
So your body goes into like calm mode. Okay. All right. And then it sends you into rest mode. They also say be careful because showering in the dark can be dangerous. Yeah, this is where my head's at.
I'm seeing it as we've got a chance to slip around and fumble around. And if you shave your legs or I shave my head, that's dangerous. I mean, I do that mostly by feel anyway. Right. That's what I was thinking too.
But still, that's, whoa, that feels dangerous. Like maybe I need like a nightlight in the bathroom. So there's a little bit of ambient light. Okay. They do say if you want to try it that way, get an amber colored light. See, I'm into that.
A soft amber, it's like even just a single light source, not that harsh like or a candle. Careful though. Yeah. I worry about candles. They're fire.
They're an open fire in your house. Okay. Continue. That's the worry.
Okay. They could get knocked over. There's a worry I have about candles. Lots of people worry about candles.
I don't think you're the only one. It's a dangerous utensil. It's a dangerous decor piece. You tour these downtown old town tours and you look at all these buildings that are like, well, this one used to be an older building, but it burned down.
And you go, why was everything burning down before they had electricity? Oh yeah. Candles. Candles. Lanterns.
Kerosene. You know. Yeah. I get it.
Not good things. Are you going to try this? I might try it, but I'm definitely going to need to get a small light.
Okay. If you think it's too dangerous to shower in the dark, you can also just do this in your bedroom. Just slow your lights down.
An hour or two before bed. Okay. Don't use a blue light. Don't turn on your TV. Don't use your phone.
A nice amber colored light. Yeah. Turn it down. Turn it down.
Keep it low. Why? I don't like this voice.
Yeah, this is the soft soothing sounds. No, I don't know. I don't think I'd like to meet this person. Well, I'm trying to calm down in my dark. Why?
I don't know. It's a little terrifying. No, no, this person is so nice. I don't know if it is. Just relax.
No. Put your feet up. I don't like it. Close your eyeballs. No.
And just relax. No. No. It's the opposite. The opposite is happening. All your warning signs are. Yeah.
I'm like, the skin on my back is like, wow, get away. That's not a good one. Listen, let's give it a go tonight. No. I'll turn down the lights in the bedroom.
Yeah. I'll be in the dark shower with the door locked is where I'll be. Here is some good news for you. Candy Roy from Grand Junction, Colorado. She learned recently that her husband would be spending his first Thanksgiving on the road. He's a truck driver.
Okay. So she rallied her kids to step up and help others in his absence. So instead of spending Thanksgiving at home this year, Candy and the kids are going to be at the nearby Love's Truck Stop in Grand Junction handing out hot meals to truckers.
She said he's not going to be home this Thanksgiving. So we've decided that we're going to feed all the truckers at the truck stop and give them thanks for what they do and the hard work out there. Really cool. So the family's preparing turkey and mashed potatoes, stuffing all the fixings right now ahead of time. And they hope to serve at least 200 drivers. They've set up a GoFundMe. They've raised 745 bucks. They could use probably a little more. They could use probably a little bit more. Their goal is 900.
So they're at 83% of their goal. But support truckers with Thanksgiving meals is the GoFundMe. If you feel like you want to contribute, support truckers with Thanksgiving meals is the name of the GoFundMe page.
They're trying to cover things like ingredients and packaging so that they can give you styrofoam things so you can go eat your Thanksgiving dinner in the truck or whatever. Truckers are like the heartbeat of America, Candy said. She said, we're just grateful to be able to do something in return for them and say thank you because they often get missed. So pretty special. Kind of cool. And again, if you're interested, support truckers with Thanksgiving meals.
It's in Grand Junction, Colorado. That's what's happening. But those truckers are from all over the place. So kind of a nice little thing. That's a nice little story. Yeah. It's good news.
It's good news. If you have company, somebody says, hey, can I come stay at your house? What is the limit that you're like, okay, I'm tapped. You got to go now.
The limit. Like what's your day? Is it two days? 12 hours? Okay.
So there's two questions here. Are you asking if I'm staying somewhere or if someone is staying at our place? Somebody is staying at your place.
Yeah. So somebody comes to the house to stay. Unless we've like made a pre-arranged some sort of agreement that they're going to be there for like multiple, multiple days. Yeah, it's probably a weekend.
Okay. So two days? Three days? I arrive on a Friday, check out on a Sunday, probably a normal visit.
Okay. Now, unless, again, unless you're like, hey, I'm in town for the week and I don't have anywhere to stay. Is it cool if I stay your place for the week?
That's a different thing. That's like, hey, I'm going to like reside with you for a week. Temporarily. Yeah. But that's different than, hey, I'm going to come visit.
Do you see the differences? I get it. But if somebody says, I'm going to hang out there.
I'm going to come visit and they stay past the weekend. Yeah. They leave it kind of open-ended. And they're like, I'm coming for a visit.
You think it's the weekend, but then Sunday evening, they're still there. And you're like, what's going on guys? I think we would have had a better discussion. Like if that's happening, bad communication has led to that. That's what I'm saying.
That's what's happened. Where I go, like you said you were only coming for the weekend. No, I said I was coming for a visit. I didn't say I was coming for the weekend. I feel like what you said was that you were coming for the weekend. I said a visit.
Well, this visit's about to be done. No, I don't know. How do you handle that? I don't either.
I don't know. I feel three days, yeah, three to four days is pretty much a good time length for me, just simply because our house isn't very large. And so, I feel like you're tripping over people past the three-day mark. You're like, okay. Sometimes they just also just like, let's get back to normal.
Yeah, I get that. But also like we got a week to get to. We got work to get ready for.
Like there's stuff we have to do before we're done with our weekend. And now you've started to sort of infringe on that. You see what I'm saying? Get some infringement. Yeah. Okay.
How about if you're staying at somebody else's house then? Oh, I'll be out. Don't worry. I'm not sticking around. Why? I'm not going to be a bother.
Why? You'll barely know I'm there. I think that's what they all say, Josh.
And I'll leave it cleaner than when I got there. That's how I am. I'm a good guest. Are you? I think so.
Let's ask some of the people that we've stayed with. Yeah. Is he a good guest? Is he? Does he clean up after himself?
Yeah. I stayed at our friend's place in Utah and I didn't make the bed when I left because I assumed they were going to wash the sheets and I didn't know what to do. So I just left the bed unmade.
My cousin either slept on top of the bed and didn't unmake it or he made the bed when he was done. I don't know what the right thing to have done. I don't never know what the right thing to do is either.
What was the right thing to have done? I don't know. I think it depends on the house that you stay at. A lot of people say, don't worry about it.
All you got to pull those sheets anyway. So just leave it. Let's check with them. Find out if I did the right thing or not. Okay.
Did I leave a sloppy room on a bad... You're not invited bad. That's exactly what I'm saying. I'm probably not. If somebody said to you, hey, I'm going to come to Idaho for the first time. Okay.
What would you tell them not to do? I mean, I don't know. You can pretty much do anything you can do anywhere else.
Yeah. But if there's something that's like... That's kind of a touristy trap. Don't really do that. I'm trying to think of something, but I can't. Yeah. It's interesting.
Or is there something that you're gatekeeping a little bit and you're like, definitely don't go fishing this creek. I'm not going to say anything about it. Definitely don't do that.
I'm not going to say anything about it. I'm like, hey, I'm headed to town. I want to do some fishing. Where's a good spot? I'm going to go a snake river right by town. Have a good time. You are going to do that? I'll go just check out the falls.
You're not going to do that. If it's somebody I know, I'll be like, we're going fishing. It's a fishing trip. Somebody to go fishing with? But if it's just, hey, I'm going to be in town for the week visiting some peeps, and I might want to do some fishing. Where can I go? Let me go talk to your peeps.
Okay. What about if somebody says, I've never been to the country before. I'm coming to America. I've never been to America before. Okay.
Wait, hold off on that. Let's reverse it and say, somebody says, I'm coming to Idaho for the first time. What would you say to do?
What's the thing that you'd be like, do this? Are they from out of the country or are they from other part of America? Because people in other parts of America understand, well, I guess, depending on how often they get out, they can understand how long it takes to get somewhere. It takes a very long time to drive from the bottom of the state to the top of the state. It's a very big, it's a tall state. So if you're planning on seeing East Idaho and you want to go to Boise and you want to go to Caldwell or something, or not Caldwell, Coeur d'Alene, like you're going to spend multiple days doing that trip. Because it's so far apart.
Because if somebody's from Europe, they go, well, I'm in London and I'm going to head to Paris, and that's only like, it's a short distance. Right? Right.
So you got to really rally the troops on expectation is what I'm saying. Right, just answer the question. I don't know. You're a dilly-dallyer.
I don't know the answer. Okay, well, if somebody had never visited Idaho for the first time, what's the thing that you'd be like, oh, I got to show you this? Would you take them fishing? No. To your favorite fishing hall? No. Would you take them to the Iowa the Trail? That's a cool spot.
Neurocortilade? Right, that's a cool thing. Would you take them to Boise? Maybe, I don't know. I don't know enough about Boise. I've only visited, you know, a dozen times. So you don't have an answer?
I don't have an answer. Okay, what about if somebody says, I'm visiting America for the first time, what should I do? And I'm coming to Idaho? No, just America. I don't know. Haven't seen it all.
What kind of experience are you looking for? Do you want to go ride the wagon train and have a chuck wagon dinner while a band plays for you? And does a, you know, a Cowboys and Native American show on the way there? Like, what kind of experience are you looking for? Are you looking for that? Are you looking for a big city experience? You want to go see Times Square? Go to New York. You want to, you want to go explore parts of the Oregon Trail? I can help you out with that. I don't know where you're trying to go. This is way too big.
Also, why is this person reaching out to you? That's what I'm saying. I don't work for the tourism board.
I'm not the guy. Terrible at that. Apparently. I bet you. I know what I like and where I like to go and that's it. And I don't want to share that with everybody. So I'm not going to be like, yeah, let me take you camping.
Like, are you into that? I don't know who you are. All right.
I'm just saying. Nobody asked Josh for advice on travel. No, I know what I know and what I like and that's it. I'm not going to plan for other people. Unless. I'd be terrible at that.
Ask Josh for advice if you want hiking, camping, fishing. Yeah, I've never been to Disney. I can't tell you anything about Disney or Universal or any of that stuff. I don't know anything about it.
No, but we know people who have and do. So we can point them in the right direction. And they're going to go, why did you send this strange person to me to tell them all about my American experience? You know?
I get it. So sorry. I asked the question. No, don't be sorry. I just am trying to.
Geez, no, weep. I don't know the answer is what I'm saying. Got it. Check.
Ask that question. Okay. And now your turn. What are you going to tell somebody? Where are you going to tell them to go? What?
Is it somebody that wants Idaho? Oh, see, here we go. It's the same question I asked.
What are you getting at? This is the first time in the whole country are you coming to Idaho? You want to go to Yellowstone and check out a geyser? I can point you in the direction. I take him to Stanley. That's a good spot.
I know. It's a good spot. The sawtooth's are beautiful.
Uh-huh. And these are the Tetons. We have many mountains around here. Our son went to Denver for the weekend with some friends of his. And he, his flight left Denver at nine o'clock last night. So he was going to get back into town at 11. 11. Yeah, yeah.
Close to. Our bedtime is 10. And so when it arrived, when 10 o'clock arrived, I went, okay. I'm just going to bed. You were in bed asleep before 10. I didn't mean to fall asleep, but I should have known better.
Lay down with a blanket. It's like that Richard Mark song. Should have known better.
Here we go. Yeah, I laid down with a blanket, but it wouldn't have mattered if I had a blanket on or not. I was, I was tired. I was plum tuckered out. From all that driving you did, I suppose.
Where you out? From that two hours of just sitting in the car. Hey, no stimulation can wear a person out. Yeah. So when you're the passenger, it's also tiring. So back up a little bit.
You know, you fall asleep in the car every time you're a passenger. No, I, I survived last time. Okay. Listen, I did set an alarm.
No, you set multiple alarms. I did. I know because I knew that he was supposed to be arriving around 11. Yeah. So I set an alarm for 1030 and an alarm for 1145.
1045. That's what I meant. Yeah. They were nonsense alarms. Why? Because I was wide awake. I was ready to take care of that.
You should have just gone to bed. I didn't know that. You didn't ever give me the permission to do that. Permission?
I don't need to give you permission. You didn't communicate like, hey, hey girl. Nor did you ask, hey guy.
No. Hey guy. You're going to take care of this? Hey guy, I'm going to go to bed. All right.
Hey guy. You never said that. But you could have said, hey girl, just go to bed.
No. I'm not going to, I'm never going to say, hey girl. Hey girl, you know you so tired. Go to bed. Hey girl, let me rub your feet.
That's not a thing I'm ever going to say. Hey girl. Man. No.
I don't know who you think we are, but that's not it. So instead you set alarms and I'm like, it's 1030 and it goes. And I'm like, what is that? I got to get up. That's what I, that's a trauma noise because in my head it's like, oh, it's, it's morning now. It's time to wake up. I did kind of crack my eyeball open and you had your coat on and I said, where are you going?
Where do you think? And then you're like, no, he was going to text and let us know the plan. Yeah. I'm like, you're going to leave way too early.
You're going to be sitting at the airport. He hadn't even landed yet. Yeah, he had. Not when my first alarm went off. I don't think that I was fully awake, but I was, I was conscious enough that I knew what was happening. And then when you said, okay, I'm going to go get him, that's when I let myself just sleep. I was like, all right, I just got this taken care of.
I'm fine. Had it taken care of at eight o'clock last night. But if you hadn't had it taken care of, I would have rallied my troops and gone. I would have gone. I would have handled it.
But the fact that you, you had it under control. Yeah. I wish you would have said, I got this. Hey girl, I got this. Hey girl.
Get yourself some beauty sleep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
That would have gone over well. You don't need it, but get yourself some sleep. Yeah. Just, just rest up.
Hey girl, just rest up. No. Never say that to me.
You're correct. And don't keep your breath held while you wait for me to start. Hey girl. Hey, I got this. Hey. Hey girl. Hey girl. Sit down. Let me do the dishes.
You just stop your talking. I'm going to push a button now. Oh, we have 17 days. Have we made a plan yet? Really?
Is it really just, oh yeah. 17 days until Thanksgiving. I have not made any plans for Thanksgiving. Good deal. Good deal. One of my favorites was when we sort of just decided we were going to do our own thing. And, and it still stands out as one of the best Thanksgiving. Well. We didn't have the pressure of all the cooking and all the stuff.
We just made and ordered the food we like and everybody was happy. Yeah. I think Beck had. And that was awesome. Beck had enchiladas. Yep.
Emery had some kind of pasta. Yeah. And you and I had Indian food.
Yeah. And it was awesome. It was awesome. Because everybody got exactly what they wanted. And there was no pressure on, you know, everything. Like we picked them all up the day before. So on Wednesday, we picked up our orders and everything just had to be warmed up.
It was awesome. I think one of the weirdest Thanksgiving's we've ever had is, we were just talking about this last year. We, because our son was born on November 29th. Which is a terrible time to have a baby. Well, it's always right around Thanksgiving.
Always around Thanksgiving. If you try to have a birthday party, nobody can come because everybody's traveling for their family. So you have to push it back, but then you're encroaching Christmas area. Don't have a baby next to Thanksgiving. That's my advice for any young parents. Yeah.
If you can control it, just go ahead and stop the presses. Yeah. All right. So last year, we decided to go, he loves football. So we went to a Boise State game.
Yeah. Well, we wanted to see Ashton Janti. He was graduating and he was going to be, he was declaring for the NFL. It was a chance to see him play some college ball and it was great. It was great.
It was very good. But we had an Airbnb and we spent Thanksgiving in the Airbnb, which is fine. It was just the four of us, but I had brought food to cook. I think I'd made some kind of, I don't know. I don't remember what it was. I don't remember what it was either, but I know that everybody did not like it.
It wasn't that we hated it, but it was like, this is not the best thing I've ever eaten. Well, and at the time we were doing that like a ship to your home subscription meal thing. So it was one of those. Yeah. So it had like vegetables.
Yeah. It just wasn't the best one we've ever had. And then you got really sick and the kids and I just watched all the episodes of prices.
Right. I got to tell you, there is something about being sick when you're away from home. It's just awful. And when you're at an Airbnb and you're not feeling well and somebody's trying to do laundry and the loudest washing machine on the planet. I did not know that it was going to be that loud.
That is the loudest washing machine on earth. And it was wild trying to sleep and I had a headache and I just was feeling gross. And I was, it was not good.
And it's like, I'm like, what is going on? And then we had our dog with us. We had Luna the Wonderjack Russell with us. And she had found what I declare as the hardest toy ever made.
And she loved it so much we bought her one of her own that we have at the house now. It is this hard boiled egg. I guess fried egg. It's a Friday.
It's a Friday. So it's laid out like that with a little yoke center ball thing. Made out of concrete. And it feels like it's made out of cement. And it sounds like it's made out of cement when she puts her two hands on it and pushes it on the floor like a shopping cart. Banging it into stuff.
Banging it into the wall. What is going on? I know, sorry. That was a small Airbnb. Hey, memorable, right Josh?
Oh yeah. It's one that we won't forget. I thought it was many, many thanksgivings ago. You were like, that was just last year.
No way. We got to get ourselves sorted out here. What are we doing?
Well, here's the other thing. So Beck's birthday is on. Still on the 29th. On the 29th. So it's two days after Thanksgiving. And there's another Boise State game that I, we bought him tickets for his birthday again this year.
But this time we're going to Logan. Yeah. They're playing the Aggies. That's right. So that'll be a fun game.
That's a short of drive. We're not going to stay. I don't think, yeah? I don't think so. Okay.
We'll just go down for the day and come home, have some in and out while we're there or something. No, are you? No. No. Why not?
Because it's gross. No way. I'm sure there'll be a raising canes nearby. We can have that.
No. Stop picking all the gross places. Why do you think they're gross?
Because if there's not good food. I think they're awesome. If you like chicken. Yeah.
Which I don't. It's really good chicken. I'll have a piece of their bread.
It's fine. You like the toast. I can get a box of Texas toast and throw it in my toaster oven and it'll be just the same.
Cheaper and I can get eight of them. Wow. So how do you feel about toast? I like toast. Yeah. Is that what you want for Thanksgiving?
Is just a Texas toast, a box of eight pieces of Texas toast? No, it's not what I want. No, thank you.
I'll get you some cranberries in a can. No. You can have a warm it up.
No. And you can have warm cranberries in a can to spread on your Texas toast. Ta-da! Thanksgiving.
I think that's a win. Sure. I've had worse. All right. Well, 17 days to go.
17 days. Let's get ourselves sorted out a little bit. Yeah, we probably should have a plan. When do you plan on making that pumpkin dessert?
I just need to know. I had a pumpkin dessert that was insane, and I'd like to have it again real soon. Yeah. And I know you got the recipes. So I'm just trying to figure out when you're going to make that, whatever that magical pumpkin dessert is.
Well, I am going to the store today so I can get the ingredients today. Later tonight then? Sure. I can do it today.
It's going to happen later tonight. I'll be able to eat that again. I'm always surprised because you don't really like sweets. And so when you do have a sweet and you're like, that is good, then that's one high praise.
But two, I'm always like, I never know what you're going to like. This is called a pumpkin cream cheese dump cake. And it was delicious. I'd like to have it again real soon. Okay. I do know that I had a piece of it and then everybody had a piece and then later I went, I kind of want another piece of that. That's what I'm saying.
I just feel like we kind of need to have. And then I saw somebody else go have another piece. I had two. I'm going to go have another piece.
Right. I had two. You did?
Yeah. When did you get your second piece? Right after I finished the first. You didn't even give me a piece.
Do what now? You didn't give me a second piece. Huh? I was busy. Okay.
I'm looking at having my second piece. Ingredients right now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I'm only missing a couple of things. Yeah. Well, I'm excited about it. Okay. I don't make it today.
Well, I don't want to set myself up for failure. I'd like to have it today. Oh, would you? Is that what you'd like? And I think we have some vanilla ice cream in the freezer in the garage. So I think, I think, yeah, I'd like to have it today with a little scoop of ice cream. Is that what you'd like? Very much.
Very much. I would like to have whatever that magical pumpkin situation is. This called for whipped cream on the top, but you're saying you want... I would like ice cream on the side. Tell me what else you'd like, dear?
That real crunchy stuff, whatever's on top that's all delicious. I'd like that to be a big part of it. I think it's a pretty simple thing. Just want whatever that is. That's all. Sounds fine. I'll do it. I'm writing down the ingredients right now.
Nice. Last night, I was sitting at the dining room table and you said something horrendous. You said that we need to quit eating like this. And then you followed it by, we need a workout plan. Listen. And I want to know who we is. Listen. I have high blood pressure.
You have high cholesterol. Well, let's tell everybody about it. I'm sorry.
That's the violation of your rights. I'm sorry. It's fine. Not like you're airing out my medical record like, let's read the stats from your blood work. No, listen. I get it, but here's the other part. I just told you about this magical pumpkin dessert that I want to eat. I know. Because it's delicious.
So what point do I stop loving life and start diet and exercise? That's what I need to know. Okay. Well, listen, because I have high blood pressure, I had some medication and I had a checkup. And he said, well, it's better, but it's not where I'd like it to be. So two options and options thus.
We increase medication or you diet and exercise. And I said, how dare you say that to me? Right now, though, like as we're getting ramped up for good holiday eatin. And I said, who gives you the permission to say that to me? Do you think you're some kind of expert? Do you know what month it is? You're some kind of expert on health, doctor. Come on.
Where to get your degree? A cracker jack box. Did you say that? Did you say, did you get your degree from a cracker jack box? You're like, since you took the prize out, can I have the cracker jacks? I'm kind of hungry. That's how you follow that up. Because actually, yes.
Actually, yes. Because I don't like this caramel corn. Well, we are headed into the season of overindulgence.
I know. I've been living my whole life in overindulgence. 44 years of overindulgence. I just, I mean, what are we going to do about it? I don't know. According to my quote unquote doctor.
Doctor cracker jack. Like go to the gym? Is that what you want to do? Yeah. Why?
Because he says it's good for my health. Like walk on a treadmill and that? Yeah. Lift some heavy things? Well, here's the other thing is, listen, I'm no spring chicken.
What's that mean? What's a spring chicken? I've heard the phrase, but I've never looked up what's a spring chicken. Look it up. I was helping you load something the other day. Oh, I know what it was.
It was this box of Christmas decorations. I was helping you load it and my arms were so loose. I was like, I can't even lift this up into the truck. It's not even that heavy.
I moved it by myself. That's why I'm like, I got to go lift some weights because my arms are weak. I'm so frail. So spring chicken is slang for a young person. You're no spring chicken yourself anymore is the quote.
Yeah, that's nice. I'm not a spring chicken. Second definition, a young chicken for eating, usually only available in the spring. So that's it. It just means a young chicken. Yeah. Or a young person. A young person. Yeah.
Look at those spring chickens. Yeah, that's what you do. That's a normal thing. Go to the mall. Oh, these spring chickens wandering around here.
Well, so what do we want to do? You want to ride your bike more, but that weather's kind of changing. No, I mean, it's still been pretty decent bike riding weather. Yeah. You just have to wear some warm.
No, I get it. I'm, I just mean like in general yet, but yeah, I mean, is that something you might want to do? Like here's the part of the thing though, the time change really made it dark and we have lights on the bikes, but it's colder and dark also. I know. We're living in dark and cold now. What else, what else could we do? Running? Um, what? You want to go running?
No. Jogging, which is sort of like running, but slower. Hey, I was just jogging down the hallway earlier today. Did you?
When I said 30 seconds. Yeah, and I went, oh, gotta go. And you did a jog.
I did. That's, that's my exercise plan for today. Do you have a reason that you don't exercise? Who says I don't exercise? You. You say that. Well, yeah, it's hard to find the time.
It's a timing thing. I feel like the same. There's so many other things I'd rather do with my time.
Right. I work, I have two jobs. I know. So I come here at six. I know. And I get home at five. I know. And so then I go to bed at 10.
I know. Five hours of personal time. And in that time, I have to talk to my kids. Yeah. I have to make and clean up dinner. Can you do that while you're working out?
Talk to the kids? Yeah. I could multitask.
While you're doing a treadmill? Yeah. Yeah. I suppose.
Yeah. How much treadmill do you want to get in there a day? Like a half an hour, probably.
Okay. That'd probably be a good start. And then hot tub after. Oh, now you're selling it. I like a hot tub.
I know you do. Can't go tonight. We'll start next week.
Sounds good. I keep seeing all these cute Christmas crafts. And I go, oh, yeah, that looks cute. Oh, yeah, that looks cute. And then I go, hmm, when should I start making some of these crafts? Here's what happened. I had a cute Frankenstein pillow that I was going to make.
I had a cute. I haven't seen that. I haven't seen that. I think he was going to make a cute pumpkin thing. What was it? It was a thing, pumpkin thing. I didn't see it, I guess.
I was going to make, there was a Halloween countdown that I was going to make out of fabric. Okay. All right. I put it all away. Here's the thing about countdowns.
You have one. It's the blocks. Yeah. They don't get changed every day. Here's the thing.
Anyone can change that. Here's the thing about advent calendars. You have like three or four.
They don't get changed every day. Why do you, why do you do this? Because they're cute and I like them.
I know. But why do you do this? Because it's fun. It's fun to forget and then go, oh, I'm three days behind. Oh no, I'm three days behind. Here is, here is extra candy. Oh no.
Oh. The Halloween countdown was cute. I never saw it.
I couldn't tell you. That's the point is I had all of these Halloween crafts that I was going to make. And then I was like, oh, I got time. I can still make that Halloween craft.
And then as I'm putting away Halloween last week, into the box they went and I went, well, maybe next year guys. Do you have the supplies? Are they a kit?
Yeah. One of them is a kit. The other one I just have all the supplies for.
Yeah, I have all the stuff. So they got put away. Yeah. All right.
You could make it now. Then when you go to decorate next year, ba-da-bing, you got the thing. Okay. That's fine. But now it's put away.
Some of them, I left some of them out. I just, but now I'm in Christmas season. So now I want to make Christmas crafts. I don't want to make Halloween crafts.
It's one of those things you got to wrap up is what you got to think about it as. You got to be like, hey, before I can be done with Halloween, I just got to make this quick thing. I don't know how quick it's going to be is the problem. Right. And it's going to interrupt your other crafting that you like to do.
I know. Well, I like to do this crafting too. I just have a project already that I'm working on and it's a project that is large. But it's never ending. It's never ending.
I will end at the end of the year. No. Yes. Cause I'm just doing, I'm, I'm just doing this year. It's a, it's a, like a, it's not like a scrapbook type thing. What happens at the end of the year? Well, I'm just making this year.
Well, and then you get a new one and then you start over with the next year. Don't you? Well, I might, but it's taken, it's taken a long time. So I might just take a break. Okay.
Cause it really is more intense than I anticipated it to be. Interesting. I like it. I enjoy it, but it's also, I, it has left me no time for any of my other crafts. I see.
And I like doing other crafts too, but I've put all of my focus onto this craft. You see, you heard. I heard, but I haven't seen.
So when you say, you see, no, I haven't, I just saw, there's a cute, um, Chris. Christmas stocking that you can make out of a sweater. Oh, do you have a sweater to make one out of? No, but I know where to find some.
Do you? And, um, when are you going to do that one? Before Christmas.
We'll check back in then. I need some encouragement. I need, here's what I need. Some support and encouragement. Cause I feel like you're, uh, breaking down my spirit. No, no, no.
Oh, not that. I just want to see a craft. Show me a craft. We got to see our baby this weekend. Brand new one.
Well, like, not like brand, but like barely, barely brand new. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. About a month, right?
Like, let's see. Not even a couple of weeks. Yeah. Three weeks. Look at that. Right?
One, two, three, about three and a half. Okay. If we're going to get like, religious, the point is we got to see a baby. Yeah. It's nice. And you said at one point, uh, you were sitting in the, in a chair holding a baby and you looked at me and you said, I want a baby. Oh, no. I know. And then, no, you don't.
And then I got a second later, I went, what are you doing? No, no, no, you don't because here's our 16 year old. Yeah. I know. No, that's what, yeah.
16, three weeks. No. I gave that baby back.
I said, I like my sleep. Thank you very much. What are you talking about? I don't, I just got wrapped up in the sights and the smells. Get a grip. I did. I'm fine now.
I'm too old to have a baby. Are you crazy? You go see now you're back. Man, for a minute there, I thought I lost you. You did. For a minute I was. Come on back.
I'm here. Yeah. It's nice. Babies are nice. And then. It was nice. Here's the other thing about babies.
They're kind of boring. Okay. Three week old baby.
Not really doing much. I mean, it's fine for like a while if you're sitting there and you're just being cozy. You're snuggling on down and then you go, okay, I want to do something else now. So then gave the baby away. I said, okay, I'm kind of bored.
And then I was hanging out with the three and five year old because they are much more fun. Well, they definitely are doing stuff. Yeah. They are running and jumping and playing and I was like, yeah, let's play. Let's do something because that baby's doing nothing. What are you thinking? If you could have that baby do something, what would you have that baby do?
Run and jump and play. Tell a joke? Sure. Okay. Entertain me baby. No, just sleep. Just sleep.
That's all you got. And that's fine. Babies should be sleeping. We had a baby that I say did not sleep. Our baby slept, but only with me.
That's right. You couldn't put her down. Nobody else could hold her. Couldn't put her in the swing. Couldn't put her in the rocker. No, just I just had to hold her, which again is fine until you're like, I got to take her. It's been three days since I've had a baby. I've taken a shower. You need that.
I know. That's what I remembered. And then I went, okay, I'm back.
I'm back. I don't want a baby. What am I thinking? Well, I'm glad that you came back to your senses because for a minute it was wild.
What made me laugh the most is, have you seen those videos where there's a baby and a toddler and the toddler is just like poke, poke, poke, punch, punch, punch with the baby. Like, what is this thing? Yeah. When you have a toddler, you essentially have a terrorist living in your house. This is true.
As my niece put it, she always lets her intrusive thoughts win. I didn't hear that. That's very funny. I went, yeah, that's the definition of a toddler, right?
I'm going to poke this baby in the eye. Yep, intrusive thought wins. Well, you know, sometimes you got to let them win.
Otherwise, they feel bad. We did have, our dog is a little bit protective of his food. I don't know so much the food. I think it's more people. I think it's more people protective. Okay. And when I went outside with the dog, the three-year-old followed me and I said, okay, you got to be careful because I don't know what my dog is. My dog's a little bit crazy. And I said, I don't want this dog to bite you. And sure enough, we got close to the dog and the dog got a little growly.
And I said, you need to step back and she went, does step back mean poke him? Yeah, I'm going to touch that dog. I'm going to touch that dog. I'm going to just keep itching closer.
And you're like, dude, I'm nervous right now. I'm going to touch that dog. Let's find a different game to play.
I want to play touch the dog. Like stop it. Making me stress out. I know I was very stressed.
Trying to play bodyguard between a toddler and a dog. It's a disaster. It was fun.
It was good. Babies and toddlers, they are delightful. And puppies. But I'm also happy to go home and not have a baby and a toddler. Good.
Good answer. It's soup season. I love soup.
Yeah. You don't love soup. I don't mind soup. I don't like to have just plain old soup as dinner. Plain old soup. Now what I have found. When did you ever have plain old soup? Listen to me. What constitutes plain old soup?
In a can. I never make that. I understand. Okay, go ahead. What are you going to say?
I don't. I like if I go out to have dinner, I don't want to spend dinner money on soup. I want to have a dinner meal. So when you're like, let's have a soup for dinner. I go like, yeah, but I can also just have like a dinner. Yeah, but when I said let's have soup, that means I'm cooking it and it's simmering either on the stove or in the crock pot. I understand.
It's going to be warm and hearty and delicious. I get it. I get it. I don't think that you do.
I do. But here's what I've learned over the past lifetime of eating soups. Some soups are better than other soups and some soups call themselves soups, but qualify as a meal.
Such as? Lasagna soup. Because it's like lasagna, but kind of like soup. But you eat it with a spoon. Did I eat it with a spoon? I think I still ate it with a fork.
No, you didn't. Because it's lasagna. It's not a soup. Did you eat it with a fork?
I'm sure I did. You weirdo. It's a lasagna. It's soup. It's a lasagna. Imagine my surprise.
Yeah. This is your feelings on soup and I know this about you. But imagine my surprise when you sent me a TikTok that had soup recipes. I went, what did this come from? I had to double check. Who did this come from? I sent you two of them.
Yeah, I know you did. Because all the soups in there are meals. What soup do I ever make that doesn't qualify as a meal to you? Tomato. But it has a sandwich with it.
Usually. A lunch sandwich. Oh my. I'm if you on French dip as a dinner. That's not a soup.
I wouldn't qualify that as a soup. Au jus? What about, no, you don't just scoop up the au jus with a spoon and eat it. No, you use a fork. What about a fillet cheesesteak? Is that counted as a sandwich for dinner? That's a hot sandwich. That could be a meal. Yeah, I could eat that for dinner.
So many rooms. That's a hot meal. So is tomato soup. But a club sandwich is not a dinner. Because that's a cold turkey sandwich.
I don't get it. I'm if you on paninis. Does a panini count as a dinner? I don't know.
You tell me. It feels like an afternoon snack. That's a lunch. A panini's a lunch. Some of these soups. Which one do you want to have tonight? Because I'm going to go to the grocery store. You best believe that I'm going to make all of these.
There's some good ones. Probably the one that you said, ooh, I think even Beck might like that. That's probably the one. There's a broccoli cheddar soup.
Now that one I would qualify as like. That's a lunch soup. Okay. That's what I would assume for you too. I would eat it for dinner, but that's. That's a lunch in the same realm as tomato. Bingo. In your opinion.
Yes. But a loaded baked potato soup is a meal. What about this jalapeno popper soup? That feels like a side dish. Doesn't it? It feels side dish. Here's the recipe I did not send you.
Okay. What is it? This guy took these two big patties. They're huge. And then he took two pizzas, square pizzas, and he put them on his grill. And he grilled it up.
And I'll fast forward. He put it as a double decker burger with cheese on there and then use the pizzas, the crust. It's a, it's a Totino's pizza burger. See, this is the kind of other stuff I get in addition to delicious soups. And now I go, do you want me to try this? No, I don't.
Cause I will try this. I don't want that at all, but it might be okay. Look how nice it looks.
It's, it's a big smash burger with pizza on the outside. I don't want that at all. Nope.
No, thank you. No, I'm going to stick to myself. I'm going to stick to my soups.
So you don't want to try the pizza burger. No, not even a bite. No. Would you consider the pizza burger to be a dinner?
Yes. Yeah, me too. I consider everything to be a dinner because I don't have rules on what I eat at any certain time of the day. At one point we were talking about a Christmas party. Yeah. There's this text conversation going around and somebody suggested we're having pancakes for dinner. Pancakes and pajamas.
Yep. I've got to have a meal. That's a meal. What am I going to eat? What's not, it's not just going to be pancakes. I guarantee you there's going to be other breakfast foods.
Yeah. What is wrong? Nothing. It sounds amazing. It's a great idea.
Great idea. Am I the only one that's not excited about it? Yes. It's just me? Yes. Okay. When I tell people that you don't like breakfast for dinner, they go, what? Everyone I tell.
Breakfast has a cut off. Nope. Yep.
Yeah. You got weird food rules, dude. Relax a little bit. You know?
Just. These are the bumpers that control my reality. And I just can't be having breakfast for dinner. I've got to come up with a solution.
The solution is you release the bumpers and you just enjoy pancakes for dinner. It's awesome. I'm going to have to work on.
Releasing your bumpers? Making tacos or something. Okay. BYOD. Bring your own dinner? Yep. I might.
And you're all are going to be like, what he made is really good. I wish I had that instead of this pancake. Delicious.
For dinner? And they're going to be from a box too. No, they won't. They probably won't be.
They're going to be so good. They might be homemade from scratch. It might be a German pancake. What's that?
You're not going to ever know because it's a dinner time. So you missed out BYOD. Would you rather this or that? Would you rather go barefoot in the corn maze or rake your leaves with a fork?
Oh, I'll be barefoot in the corn maze. You would? Sure.
Why? It's just dirt. You hate being barefoot. Yeah, but I also am not going to rake the leaves with a fork. It might be fun. It actually might be more productive than a rake.
No. You might find that you like raking your leaves with a fork. I can already tell you I won't.
What if it's like one of those big serving size forks? Doesn't matter. I use a leaf blower now. That's true.
And your lawn mower. Yep. It's the way I do it. Good for you, but you're going to go barefoot in the corn maze.
Sure. There's a person who likes being barefoot, me. I don't know if I'd enjoy this because... It's farm dirt. Yeah, but also rocks.
Nope. And dried up corn. Out in the, not in the trail. Yeah. No. It always gets in the trail.
No. It's just farm dirt. And rocks and dried up corn. Yeah, there's rocks. There's no rocks. There is. There is. But I'm going to go barefoot too because I like being barefoot.
I just hope it's a warm day and not a cold day because my feet get cold easily. That's all. Okay.
Would you rather this or that? Is that it? That's it. Okay. Would you rather this or that?
What an exciting time for you this weekend. Yeah. Yeah. Because was this Friday night? Yeah.
Yeah. We ran into an old friend and her mom and her mom is deaf and you got to use your sign language. You took a class. You've been doing flashcards. You've been very excited about it. You paid some good money. You had to do a lot of classwork.
You got your certificate saying you finished. Yeah. And then you got to put it into action.
Here's the thing. I took that class in February and I was pretty... I was all in and I was learning stuff and I was able to do stuff and I was like, I just needed an opportunity to practice and those opportunities never presented themselves. And then I kind of slowly stopped. I was doing my...
I had a stack of flashcards and I was doing my flashcards every day so that I could keep up with it. And then as we're walking the street downtown on Friday, there was two people. It was dark so we couldn't tell who they were and they were signing to each other and you said, hey, why don't you go talk to those people? Go talk to them.
Here's the practice that you're always talking about wanting to do. I said, you should go talk to them. I said, no, I can't. I can't. I'm too embarrassed. I'm too... I have forgotten everything. Turns out it was somebody that we knew and she said, oh, practice.
My mom, my mother is deaf. And I went, I have forgotten everything. I haven't forgotten everything. Did you feel like test anxiety at the moment?
A little bit, yes. And then I was also afraid that I was going to make the wrong sign and then she'd be like, ugh. And she was interpreting. My friend was interpreting to her mother and her mother was like, I'm happy to teach you or have a conversation with you.
It doesn't matter if you get it wrong. And I was like, I know so little and then I could not remember anything. It was very much test anxiety. And then I felt because they were signing so fluently, I was like, I'm going to really like enunciate my signs and I just didn't do it. And then I felt like a fool. Well, you shouldn't.
I know. Because it was really your first go at it. And by the end of the night, did you feel like you had picked up a few things? Did you feel more comfortable as things settled down? Or were you still like... Like I was in the woods. I was completely in the woods. I was like, mmm.
I tried to watch them pick up stuff, but they were going so fast and they moved so fluently that I was like, I can't pick that up. At the restaurant, she did say, what kind of food do they have here? And I said, oh, they have water. Pizza. You said pizza at one point. And I was racking my brain like, what other food? You took a whole segment on food.
What other food do you know? I couldn't remember so much. I've got to get my flashcards back out.
I did go home and pull out my flashcards. You know this stuff. You know.
So as you were doing your flashcards, did some of it reconnect? Yes. Okay.
I do. At one point she did ask me, she said, how long have you been taking the class? And I recognized what she was saying, but I couldn't remember the sign for weeks or months. And I was like, so I finger spelled it. And then you were peeling a banana at one point.
And they did. You just were like, I don't know. I'll just peel this banana. Yeah. Cookie.
You were doing milk. You're like, I don't even know. I'm four.
I know the basics. I was so bummed out, but that's okay. You're just doing, just doing. Just hand clapping.
Hand claps. That's great. When I was finished with my meal. All done. Yeah, you did.
All done. Come get it. Dumb. Full tummy. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
Oh no, it's fine. You just need more, you need more opportunities to use it. That's why it immerses everything in any language. If you're learning, you know, Spanish or French or German or English or sign, any of it. Immersion is what makes it so much easier because you have to communicate with it. So you learn way quicker. Yeah. You need some immersion. That would be great.
I could, I could do that. Oh, I'm going to have to get my flashcards out again. And that's fine. I'm not saying that like, oh no. Cause I do want to learn it.
I want to be able to speak as fluently as they do. Well, that's why you did what she did. That's why you took the class. I know. All right. All right. Yeah, right.
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