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Wake up with Josh & Chantel every weekday from 6a-10a on Classy 97! Missed the show or want to revisit your favorite moments from the show, enjoy Wake Up Classy 97 - The Podcast!
Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Wednesday, November 26th, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
It’s the final episode of November AND the official pre-Thanksgiving party on Wake Up Classy 97! Josh & Chantel kick things off by debating the all-important question: Which movie villains are actually cooler than the heroes, everything Thanksgiving... last-minute grocery essentials, the science of thawing a turkey, questionable Black Friday marketing emails, the Macy’s Parade’s first-ever Mario balloon, a taste-test of the new Snickerdoodle Hershey Kiss, plus a heartwarming LA volunteer event feeding thousands, the Snake River Animal Shelter’s “Turkey Tester” foster program, Idaho State University’s Cinderella run to the Big Sky Volleyball Championship, the great “Are Thanksgiving pajamas acceptable?” debate, why Chantel apparently falls asleep as a sign of TRUE LOVE, and a whole lot more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Cool villains
(4:12) - Thanksgiving eve
(7:19) - Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
(13:33) - Good News
(16:01) - Cranky emails
(21:46) - 97 Angels
(23:18) - Forgotten ingredients
(29:32) - Who won the Mirrorball trophy
(34:25) - Drive thru driver's ed
(38:36) - Snake River Animal Shelter turkey testers
(41:50) - The wishbone
(46:42) - Thanksgiving pajamas
(49:47) - Heirloom recipes
(53:56) - Snickerdoodle Kisses
(57:08) - Would You Rather
(58:52) - Sleepy = love
(1:01:43) - ISU Bengals volleyball championship
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Full show transcript:
Well, this is the last episode of November. Oh. In addition to being the pre-Thanksgiving episode. We do want to let you know you can reach out to the show anytime. Wake up Classy97 at gmail.com and we're on socials, Classy97, K-L-C-E everywhere.
Can you think of a movie where the villain is much cooler than the hero?
I think like anything with Catwoman, not anything. Is that how a Barry Catwoman movie ain't it? But Catwoman's a good villain that's fun to watch in most instances. There's a lot of lure there, you know? I would say Heath Ledger's Joker was a very good villain.
Yeah, they put a list. Oh, okay. And so that when it was on the list for sure.
I think Thanos was an interesting villain to watch. I don't know that he was particularly like, you weren't like mesmerized by him. Green Goblin's pretty cool. Okay. Spider-Man stuff. Okay. I'm trying to think of other like super cool villains. Ursula. Yeah, but again, like she's not, she's not got like a captivating. Yeah, she does.
No, listen to me. Like the Joker is in the entirety of that film. Right? Like she's the villain for like a few songs. Yeah, but she's still cool. I get it.
Okay. It's not about screen time though. A lot of people think Darth Vader is much cooler than Luke Skywalker.
Yeah, there are several people. I didn't even think about Star Wars. Yeah, there are a lot of people who are bigger fans of the Sith and the dark side than they are of the rebellion. Yeah.
And then Captain Barbosa from Pirates of the Caribbean. Very cool. Much cooler than the hero.
You think he's cooler than Jack Sparrow?
Well, Jack Sparrow isn't necessarily the hero. Will would be the hero. Boostrat Bill? Yeah. And then Gangs of New York, Daniel Day-Lewis is Bill the Butcher. Absolutely. Daniel Day-Lewis will win every time.
Most of the movie. In both of those examples, most of the movie. And I'm not discrediting Ursula as a villain. I think she's a good villain. I just don't think she's better than Ariel. Okay.
How about Scar from The Lion King?
Not better than Simba and Fossa. Much cooler than Simba, they say. Okay, maybe, but he's not cooler than the hero being Simba. What about Jafar? Not cooler than Aladdin.
No, I disagree with that one. Deep rat? I don't buy that. Is Gaston cooler than the beast? Never. No.
See, yeah. And again, not even about the screen time there because Gaston's got quite a bit.
He is positively prime evil. Oh, is he?
Grab your pitchforks, let's burn him.
And then there's a whole bunch of people that I don't know. Okay, name them. Let's see. Who's this one? Unface off. Castor Troy is one. Face off? John Archer, I don't know that.
Isn't that John from Olten, Nicholas Cage? Yeah. Okay. But I don't know that movie. Face off.
A lot of people said the Terminator. But I disagree because I think Sarah Kanna is much cooler.
Okay, but also the Terminator isn't the villain.
In the first one he is. Sort of. He's out to kill Sarah Kanna.
He's out to stop things from happening. He's not the villain. He's the villain in this timeline, but he's the hero in the other one. So figure that out.
And then they have Under Siege, but I don't know that movie. And then Elite To The Weapon 4.
I got nothing to talk about that.
So I don't know those ones. Okay.
Well, a good list nonetheless. Thank you. Thanks for sharing it. Shall we start the show? Start the show. Oh, it's the day before Thanksgiving.
Yes it is. What's that called? Thanksgiving Eve? No, I need something cooler than that. Prep day? Okay, that's... Pi day? That's typically when I made pies. Pi day? Before Thanksgiving.
There's already a Pi day.
Can't be that. Yeah, that'd be April 13th. Yeah. The day before Thanksgiving is called Thanksgiving Eve. It also has a name called Blackout Wednesday. Why? Because apparently a lot of people do some heavy drinking today, which I don't understand why.
Do not recommend. No, that sounds terrible. Green Wednesday, which is a term that people use as well. And then friendsgiving happens a lot today. Okay.
Yeah, so I don't know, whatever.
It's just Thanksgiving Eve. Pre-thanks. That's what I'm gonna call it. Because that's all the creativity I got this morning.
Somebody said, is the night before Thanksgiving called anything? And somebody said Wednesday usually. It's Wednesday.
I think it's just prep day.
I like prep day. I think that makes a lot of sense. Because it is. How long to defrost a turkey? Too late, bro. It takes 24 hours for every four to five pounds to thaw in the refrigerator. If you do the cold water bath, it's 30 minutes per pound, but you have to change the water every 30 minutes.
Ew. So if you're gonna do the cold water thing, you have to cook the turkey immediately after it's thawed if you use this method, or else you have a nesting bed for bacteria.
I don't want a nesting bed for bacteria.
That sounds awful. We're not making a turkey.
We're not making a turkey. Nope. And to everyone that is making a turkey good luck.
Yeah, hope it all turns out for you.
To everyone that's making a ham.
If you want to save the neck for Chantel, she loves to use that in gravy. It's her favorite. What's the matter with you? Nothing's the matter with me.
No, really. What's the matter with you? What's the matter with you? What's the matter with you?
Just thought it'd be hilarious if somebody showed up with a Tupperware full of necks.
You're so awful. Why would you do that?
No one do that to Chantel. She doesn't really want a Tupperware of turkey necks. No one does.
What are you talking about? You sure you don't? Josh.
What do you think that would smell like the first time you opened it? Stop. I'm just trying to make you grossed out.
It's gross out Wednesday. You won. Did I? Are you happy? You won. Yeah. So gross. Stop it.
Do you want to talk about the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade?
I would like to talk about it and I'd like to watch about it. I know you really do like it. I like having it on in the background. What time does it start? Early. Well, not actually, I say that, but I think it's not as early as it used to be. Hold
on. It airs at 8.30 in all time zones. Yeah. And there's an encore at 2. The entire parade is three and a half hours long.
Yeah, it starts at 6.30 AM in New York.
It's already over. Malroker, Hoda Cobb, Savannah Guthrie, those are all the hosts again this year. Sure. You can watch it on NBC, Peacock and Fubo. I don't have any of that. If you choose to watch it on Peacock, there are three different camera angles to choose from. Oh.
There's a regular view, a point of view from the turkey float and a bird's eye view. La dee da. Interesting. Do you know this is the 99th year of the parade? Is it really?
That means next year it's going to be grandiose. Yeah, I bet it is. Celebrating 100 years of the Macy's. They could hire me for that. They could. Please, you know where to find me. Celebrating 100 years of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. There you go, Josh. Right. See, I can do their big announcer thing if they need me to.
I saw Sneak Peek at the Stranger Things float.
Oh, cool. All right. Tell me about it. Let's see. They've got Sesame Street, Snoopy, Dora. They've got new additions like Lego and La Boo Boo. Oh, I like La Boo Boo.
And they have a tiniest, the tiniest, tiniest float that's just eight inches tall with two scale goldfish crackers. Okay. I want to see that one. That's an itty-bitty. I know. I want to see that one. Oh. That's cute.
Okay. Hold on though. Go back to the Stranger Things one. You said you got a sneak peek at that. Yeah. Tell me about it.
I don't have much to tell.
Just that it was cool? It was cool. Do you know our cast members riding on the float? I don't think so.
Okay. I don't have that information. Okay. All right. That's fine. Okay. Then you have Shrek's Onion Carrage. It's going to be there. Okay. And then performers, Cynthia Arrivo. Okay.
Of course. Lil' John.
Yeah. Cool. And then K-pop Demon Hunters.
No. That's going to be a big one.
And then Foraner. The band? Yep. Okay. Lainey Wilson, Cool and the Gang. And Mr. Fantasy. Mr. Fantasy? Right. And then in parentheses, this says, who was speculated to be K-Train? K-J-Apa's Alter Ego.
I have no idea who any of that is.
I don't know either.
I feel out of touch. Same. No, it's the kids. That are out of touch. It's not me. I'm not old.
I don't know Mr. Fantasy or K-J-Apa. Okay. I'm probably pronouncing it wrong and people out there that know him are like, you idiot.
Yeah. And then they go, six seven, six seven. K-J-Apa. It's A-P-A. Yeah. I see that. Yeah. I don't know who this guy is. He's a New Zealand-born actor, musician and painter. Oh.
Best known for his role as Archie Andrews in the CW's teen drama series, Riverdale. Oh. Yeah.
I don't know anything about that. As in he is Archie. Riverdale is the adaptation of the Archie comics.
He is Archie in the River. Did you not know that? I did not know that. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Oh, that's kind of fun. Yeah. But it's not like light and colorful.
I think it's heavier than that. Oh. But that's the idea is anyway that all the characters are based on the Archie comics. And Riverdale is the high school they all went to. But Archie is this guy. He plays Archie in that, in Riverdale. Cool. I didn't know that. Well, now you do.
Now I do. And now you guys all know about the... Okay.
But Mr. Fantasy, what is that? Oh, it's an alter ego of KJ Apa. Maybe.
Possibly. Speculation. Speculation.
Well, it's a strange character. Okay. I'm unfamiliar with this person.
Now you're more familiar, right?
Not really. I kind of wish I could just go back to not being familiar. Why? Why? I don't know. You'll have to look it up. It's strange.
It's okay. I think I have everything I need from you. Okay. Oh, Josh, guess what I found? What did you find? They're going to have a float of the Ninja Turtles.
That's awesome. Do they have a balloon? No, a float. Just a float. Not a balloon. You probably can't have both. I don't know. Some of them do.
Oh, the littlest float, the little goldfish float. How cute. Is there a theme? I don't know. Okay.
Mario will be in the parade this year. It's the first time Nintendo's Mario has been a balloon in the parade. Mario's been around since 1981, but has never had a balloon until this year.
It's shocking.
Yeah. That kind of surprises me. So you have to look forward to.
I'm excited to see the... I'm not going to get up and watch the parade with you. Okay.
I mean, you won't... It's like 830. Yeah. I'm just going to have to figure out where to find it. That's all.
Yeah. Because we don't have any of those stations.
Derpy Tiger from K-pop Demon Hunters will be a balloon. Dyer of a Wimpy Kid balloon. Buzz Lightyear. Spider-Man will be back. Beagle Scout Snoopy. He's always there. Yeah. But as the scout. Oh. Which is kind of cool. Anyway, lots to see. Tomorrow morning.
Live from the 99th Macy's Day Parade. Good job, Josh. Hire me. Let's talk about some good news here. This is pretty incredible. Today is Thanksgiving, the Thanksgiving stuffing event in Los Angeles where thousands of volunteers roll up their sleeves and get ready for one of the largest volunteer gatherings in the country. So Big Sunday is the 14th annual Thanksgiving stuffing event where Big Sunday is a charity group on a mission to bring people together. And this event brings together 2,500 plus people of all ages and backgrounds who spend the day filling over 4,500 food bags packed with holiday essentials for families who could use the extra help right now.
Which is incredible. The day wraps up after the last bag is filled and the floors are swept. More than 18,000 people will have a little more food on the table this Thanksgiving because of a few hours of neighbors helping neighbors here. So today is the roll up. Let's get everything ready. Let's get everything prepped. We're going to get everything in line. We're going to go have Thanksgiving.
Sunday, we're back and making it happen. It's all a huge deal. So yeah, it's really cool. So anyway, it's pretty cool. So way to go. Where is this at? This is in Los Angeles. Oh, okay. And it's what an impact. 4,500 food bags are going to feed over 18,000 people.
I love that. That's so nice. Yeah, that's incredible. I'm way to give your time too. Like it's not just a matter of like just doing something. Like they're donating their time to that cause.
Yeah, it's huge. I was trying to see if they had like any, I mean, it's still early in California, but I was trying to see if they had. Yeah, they do.
They have some, they have a Facebook page here. If you go to facebook.com slash big Sunday org, you can learn about big Sunday and what they've got going on, but the annual Thanksgiving stuffing celebration and they'll have like celebrities show up for this thing. Like it's a, it's kind of a big deal. It's in LA. So that makes sense, right? But anyway, pretty cool.
That's great. Yeah, very exciting. People are helping people. Yep. And that is what good news is all about. You know, that's what we call good news. Oh yeah. You know how sometimes you get mail from places that you've shopped before because when you shop somewhere, they go into your email and get 30% off. Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah. So then you're on their mailing list forever.
Yeah. I got an email from a company a couple of days ago and I didn't open it, but you can see like the first couple of lines from the email and it was a little bit cranky and I didn't like that company. And I was, I think it was like a strategic little marketing ploy that they did. So it said, Chantel, we've noticed that you haven't opened or clicked on any of these emails that you've, that we've sent you. And then it said something like we've, we perfectly plan these emails. We curate these emails for you. This email, it was a little bit cranky and I didn't appreciate it. Yeah.
What's, what's that angle? I don't know. They're like, how are we going to get her? I know. Shame her. That'll work. Yeah.
It didn't. Because guess what? Right into the trash. Yeah.
I'm trying to see. I wanted to go to my trash because I deleted a bunch of emails this morning. Let me see what I got. Black Friday savings are live. There's everywhere. Let's see. Liquidation sale up to 73% off and hurry early access to our black Friday dot dot dot VIPs first black Friday starts.
But nothing yelling at you.
Not like that. Friday at early access ends tonight. Holiday savings unwrapped. Get 70% off store wide.
Here's the thing. You know how sometimes like you can take things out of context and be like, well, I read the text this way and somebody's like, well, I didn't mean it to sound like, but it still was like, we noticed that you haven't been clicking on any of the links. Yeah. Notice that you haven't.
I don't know. It could be a little bit nicer. Maybe it was just like, Hey, we've noticed that you haven't been clicking on any of our links. And maybe I just read it cranky. Yeah, I don't.
I don't have anything that's that's cranky. I did miss this one stretch here that was this one email that is how to it's a fly tying recipe. I missed that email. Now when that one just got pushed in there, shoot, let me go ahead and check my spam folder because maybe there's some angel. I think there's some angel in there. There's not.
And here's the thing. It probably wasn't. Oh, here it is. Okay. Yeah, I just found it in my trash. The subject line is you skipped every email you menace.
Whoa, that's not even what you said.
Hey, Chantel, you have seen the emails. You have ignored the emails. You have not visited the site once. Whoa. Yeah. And then it says bold move. And then it says meanwhile the sale is wild. Yeah. If you wait any longer, the stuff you want will disappear. Someone faster will grab it and you will sit there annoyed at yourself. Whoa. So tell me, are you finally showing up or letting another day pass while the good colors vanish?
Don't shame me into consumerism.
What are you doing? With love and light bullying.
It says that. Yes, it does. Wow. They really, somebody said, let's go ahead and shame people.
The subject line. Yeah. You've skipped every email you menace.
They sat around in a room and went, how can we do something different? Like there's a company that they don't ever put their product on sale, like even Black Friday and stuff. And so they will send out emails that say the worst sale ever because it's just regular price. They just never put their stuff on sale. They might throw in like a bonus item sometimes, but they, they are just like, this is how much it costs because that's how much it costs. And we never put it on sale. But hey, just as a reminder, we're having the worst sale ever and you can get it for the regular price, which is funny to me. But that's way different than.
Did that make you want to go shop at their website? Absolutely not. No, I know. I'm like, that's a terrible marketing ploy. Yeah. What a nasty email. Who decided that? A room of people.
There were at least three to four people involved in that. Yeah, I know. I mean, you send corporate emails. How many people are involved when you put together an email? A few. A few, right? So at least three to four people. Yeah.
Three to four. Yeah.
That's what I'm saying. A minimum of three to four people have to be involved in order for that email to go out.
I didn't appreciate it and I deleted it.
Is this a company that you've purchased things from before? Correct.
Once, twice, five times, a dozen? A couple, just a couple.
I wouldn't shop there again. It's an online-only business. It's not like a local company.
Yeah, I wouldn't. I know. I wouldn't be sending them anything. Money-related.
Yeah, they called me a bunch of names. And then she said, with love and light bullying, and then she put XO. Wow. I don't think so.
Yeah, I think you need to go back to the drawing board on how you communicate via email, maybe.
Yeah, I don't think so. That's not going to get my money. No way. I don't like people being mean to me. So you lost my money. Back into the trash.
Hey, but they'll get a read receipt that you did open the bullying email and they're going to be like, see, it worked. Oh, right. So expect more bullying.
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up the family and head on out. Sounds like a good time. All the details are in the Classy 97 app. Just tap that link. Thanks to Mullen Ellies Jewelers. Okay. Here is a list of the top 10 Thanksgiving ingredients you forgot to buy. Oh, great. I'm going to scroll down the list and then you're going to have to help me remember if we remembered these. Now we're not doing a traditional Thanksgiving, but a lot of the same ingredients will be required. Okay. Cheddar cheese.
I don't know. Do we have it? Do we need it?
We got it. Yeah, we did. Is it on our list? I got it. It already lived in my fridge. I didn't need it.
Because listen, we went to the store and you had a list put together and Beck and I were like doing really good on this list. So go ahead.
That wasn't on the list because I believe we have some of the fridge.
Oh, here we go. We're going to need cheddar cheese. I'm going to make a list. Yeah, you are. To check. Yeah. Cream cheese. Yeah, we got that. Got it. Did we get all of it that you need though? Do you need more for the pie thing you're making?
I got it for the pie thing I'm making.
But I also need some for the dip I'm making.
I have two. Is two enough?
I think I need some for both dips. Okay. We're going to need to check. Cream cheese. See, this is crazy. Whipped cream. We got the heavy whip and we got the other whipping cream.
Heavy whipping cream is also on the list. Whipped cream and heavy whipping cream. We have both. Okay. Do we have enough?
Because I know you're using some of it in a soup, right? Yeah. Do we have enough to also make whipped cream?
Why do you need whipped cream? We don't have any pies.
We might need some for pies. Okay.
I got to go to the store tonight.
Okay. Uh-huh. Buns and rolls. Okay. Now that I got to pick up today at 4.30.
We ordered those.
Yeah. So we've got the rolls. Rolls check.
I have 24. Is that enough?
We're going to be good because we're also going to have a French bread. Oh. Yeah. So we'll be fine.
Can green beans. I'm not making green beans. So that's not necessary. We don't need that. Butter. Got it.
We got two boxes. Is that enough?
I think that's enough. Okay. Can corn. We're not making corn. We don't need it. Not needed. Box stuffing. We're not making stuffing.
But also, box stuffing. I mean, it's fine.
Box stuffing is fine. But it's not the same. But it's not. I know. If that's all you have, that's all you have.
It's great. If it's good. Yeah. It's not bad. I'm not saying it's the worst thing. I'm just saying that it's a special occasion. So maybe make a real one.
I did tell my sister. I love my sister's stuffing and I love my sister's yams. And I said, I tell her last night that I will miss those the most this year. Because it's so good. She makes the best stuffing. It's my favorite of all. I know. Okay. It's a little heavy on the onion. I know, but it's so good.
Soda. Yes. Off-the-side people forget drinks. I don't know. I hopefully made an assignment for someone else to bring that.
But they haven't responded if that's what they're going to bring. I don't know. Oh, no. You can't rely on anyone. We got water. I have some apple juice. Okay. And some expired milk. Oh, good. We've covered on drinks then. And then the last thing, heavy whipping cream.
Yeah, which we discussed already. These are the things that people most often forget.
Forget. Yeah. These are the last minute things that people are like.
Well, that's hopefully helpful. Okay.
I got to check on cheddar cheese, cream cheese. Yeah. And whipped cream. I also need to buy a chicken.
Yep. What's that funny?
Because it's a rotisserie chicken. A rotisserie chicken. It's not like we got to go buy a chicken. Like the way you said it, it was like, don't forget our Thanksgiving chicken. No, we got to go get a rotisserie chicken. Yeah.
And I think that's it. I think I'm, I feel like maybe I should run through my recipes. We're doing a soupsgiving. Right. And I'm making three different soups. That's right. And then we're making some dips. Right. And some desserts. I feel like maybe I should run through my recipes.
That's exactly what I'm saying. And I've got my two recipes that have to be run through as well.
I think we got all your stuff.
You think? I know. I know. But then did you, did you make those ingredients part of something else because we had them?
Do you see what I'm saying? Yeah, cause we bought those a while ago. That's right. Let's run through our recipes today.
Okay. I got mine pulled up.
Cause here's the thing. There are some grocery stores that are open tomorrow, but you don't want to go. Yeah. No. I don't want to go.
That's emergency only. That's a, oh no. So let's, let's do our own. No today. So we really are good to go. Okay.
Here's the other thing too. We have to set up a table.
Oh, let's not do this. Why? I don't need to make a whole list. I do. You've already made this list six times. I know because I'm afraid. We got to go move chairs. We got to set up a table. We got to clean bathrooms. We got to do this and that and the other. It'll be fine.
You're overthinking. Every, tell me yesterday, you cleaned the bathroom a week ago. Yeah. I'm not sure what I went. Uh-huh. Yep.
You have to do that every week.
Yeah. Yeah. I guess who's used it all week. All of us. That's right. So it needs a refresher. Okay. It'll be okay. It's fine. I'm not stressed. I'm just chill. No, I'm really not. Okay. Good. Stay unstressed. Let's check our recipes though.
I've got them. I've got mine pulled up right now.
And make sure we got everything we need. Okay. I don't have mine pulled up.
Well, get on it.
I just thought of something else. I need some basil. Oh, here we go.
The finale of Dancing with the Stars last week. Oh, yeah. Uh, here's what I know.
The winners and new champions of Dancing with the Stars are...
The Irwin kid. Irwin. Robert Irwin. Yeah.
Yeah. That is correct. Yeah. Robert Irwin and Whitney Carson won.
Who is up? I didn't watch that show, but I watched clips sometimes. Who was the runners up?
Let's see. The Ephron Toys? The other four celebrity finalists finished in this order.
Alex Earl, Jordan Chiles, Dylan Ephron, and Elaine Hendricks finished in fifth place. So it was Robert Irwin first. Alex Earl, Jordan Charles, Dylan Ephron, Elaine Hendricks.
I don't know any of those people, but the Ephron boy was cute. I see. Well, he ended up in fourth. Okay. Robert Irwin and Whitney Carson got the Mirrorball trophy. So sweet. So here's...
And it's sister won. Okay. This is what I was going to say. Ten years ago, exactly ten years ago. She was 17 when she won in 2015. Bindi Irwin won.
I love it. Ten years ago. They're just nice people. Yeah.
They're just good people. Yep.
And I like nice good people. And I think they're just wholesome and nice.
I agree. And they captured the hearts of Americans. They certainly did. So maybe you're wondering what do they win? What do they win? So there is an Australian dancing with the stars as well, by the way. And you would think, well, why wouldn't he compete on that one? Why the U.S. one? Well, I think he got invited to the U.S. one and that's probably why. But there's also quite a bit of money on the line here.
It was first reported back in 2019 that each celebrity competing on Dancing with the Stars has paid a base salary of about $125,000. Really? For the rehearsal period and the first two weeks of the shows.
So if you're on the show, and you get eliminated first, you at least get $125,000. I want to go. Okay.
You dance. Contestants then receive additional weekly bonuses if they stay longer. Multiple media outlets report that Robert could be paid a total of somewhere between $295,000 and $400,000 for making it to the finale. So that's pretty big. That's big money.
Yeah, it is. In Australia, if you make it to the finale, you make somewhere between $27,000 and $100,000 for the entire season. How much? Between $27,000 and $100,000. Okay. Where Robert on the U.S. one made somewhere between $295,000 and $400,000. So it's quite a bit more.
But he also gets a trophy, right?
The mirror ball trophy. Bindi, when she once said she was going to put it inside the crock pond, she said it'll be there. They can look at it. It'll be fun. They can be a part of it. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what he'll do with his, but very, very. Very cool. So.
That's nice. I'm happy about that.
And apparently it was a record breaking finale from the audience. They received 72 million votes from the public in the finale. That is more than double the previous record. So not only was Dancing with the Stars wildly popular as a show this season, but also Robert.
I believe because of him. Yeah. I would totally agree. That's got to make a person feel good.
No kidding, right? Yeah. Way to go. Big deal.
Keep it up, Irwin family. Yeah. That's good. You're doing good stuff. We all love you. Aw. America has adopted you.
So this is true. This is true. And congratulations. That's a big deal. I know I can't pull off any of those moves. I got old knees. Do you? Yeah. I jumped a staircase in Utah, if you remember. And I went, should not have done that.
No. When did you do that? When we were leaving dinner at the ramen place. And they were like, it wasn't like a lot of them, but I thought I'll jump this. And the minute my feet hit my, the balls in my feet hurt really bad. And I went, that wasn't a good idea.
And then our frontito said, how are your 40-year-old knees feeling? And I went, they're fine. But I still, I'm kind of like, I jumped off something. I feel like I jumped off something. I should not have done that.
Our daughter has been driving. She's got her permit and she's working on getting her license. She just needs practice hours. And she drove us to the grocery store the other day. And then, you know, here's the thing about Thanksgiving. You do all this prep and planning for this big meal on Thursday and you forget that you have to also eat dinner Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. And so we buy all these groceries for Thanksgiving. And then I go, oh, what are we going to do for dinner tonight? Right.
Well, we have stuff in the freezer like we have, we have things we can make.
Right. But we were all in the car. And we said, well, since we're out and about, let's just go grab something really quickly. Yeah. And she inadvertently made her way into the drive-thru. I think you kind of pointed her in that direction. She was just going to park and we were going to go inside. But I think you were like, nah, just go through and she was having a fit about it.
She was like, never mind. I don't want to drive anymore. I just, I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this. What are we doing as the car's still moving into the drive-thru? She's saying this. And I went, we're already here.
You got this. Let's go. She did great. Yeah. Drive-thru is no big deal. The hardest thing, I think, is trying to get the car close enough to the wall so that you can reach, but also far enough away that you don't dent the car. Right. Those are the big drive-thru challenges.
Here's what I've noticed because I have a small car. Yeah. And so there's certain drive-thrus that you can go through and the windows are bigger because cars are bigger. Right. They're lifted. They're just higher, but not my car. And so I think they've made these windows higher to accommodate all these lifted trucks and these bigger cars.
And then when they have to hand me drinks, they have to like practically bend over and hand me the tray of drinks because it's clear down there. Hi, here I am. I'm on the ground. Yeah. She did great though. She was nervous about it because it's scary to talk to people and get your order in.
Well, but I think she hasn't also had to do the ordering for more multiple people thing. Exactly. And I tried to give her the process I go through, which is when I pull up, I'm going to order what I need to get out of my head so that I can then listen to everyone else's orders one at a time. And then I go through and that there's always this pause where they go, anything else? And I go, yeah, hold on. And then I go, what are you having? Like, don't ask me after every meal if there's more, like I'll tell you, hold on. Yeah, there's more. Be patient.
You'll be patient. And so then I get everybody's orders and then they go, and is that all? And I go, yep, that's it. That's it. Okay, see you in a minute. And I go, here we go. I'll be around the corner. Talk to you in a sec.
No, she did great. She was very, very nervous about it. It's like the first time your parents had you call and order pizza. Do you remember that? No, when you lived at home
and your parents were like, hey, will you call and order some pizza? And you go, I don't know how to order pizza. What?
Yeah, now I just do it on an app.
I know shows up. Now you don't even have to talk to anybody. But back in the day, you used to have to call.
I remember having to call the order pizza, but I don't remember the first time. I don't remember the first time I was scary.
Yeah, I bet it was because then you were like, I didn't large pepperoni. Scary. So I think she was just a little bit scared of ordering for the first time, but she did good. And she even last night, we were trying to figure out what to eat for dinner. Because again, I didn't think about dinner for the rest of the week. We got stuff. She even last night, she was like, I'll drive through.
Yeah, I'll do it again.
Let's just go give food.
Like we have food. We have stuff in the freezer. We have mini tacos. We have lots of stuff.
Go have a bowl of cereal. You're fine. You'll eat on Thursday.
That's the new sign. We need that all Thanksgiving week. You'll eat on Thursday.
Okay, this is cool. I saw this. This is the third annual Thanksgiving turkey tester event. This is something that the Snake River Animal Shelter is doing. Oh, okay. And it is, they don't want their dogs to be alone on Thanksgiving. So they are offering an opportunity to take home a 100% certified K9 turkey tester. Okay, all right. To confirm your culinary skills and allow a dog the opportunity to be in a loving home for the holiday.
So this is a foster program for the pets that are at the shelter.
Awesome. So they're picking up today, Wednesday, from two to four 30pm. And then you drop them back off Friday morning between 9 30 and 11. Your turkey tester will be sent with a goodie bag with toys and treats, food and dishes, and then a blanket and a bed if they have some available. Okay. And then they have a form linked to this post. If you're interested in doing this, the snake river animal shelter.org is where you would go to get information about this. Okay, cool. But all supplies are provided and you'll get the best turkey taster in town. No bones.
Don't give them bones. Don't give them any bones. But a little bit of a little bit of the meat.
Yeah, and some snuggles.
Give these bodies some snuggles. Nice. All right. I think it's so sweet. What a good idea.
Yeah, that's cool. They you do have to fill that form online, I suppose, before you can participate. Right? Yeah. So it does say if you want to participate fill out the form. Okay.
Yeah, they also said that science says that dogs are actually in a better mental state when going out on short term foster trips. I like it. And it's the third annual. So they've been doing this for a couple of years.
And so I'm just looking at the website. It says second annual on their website. Oh, this is from last year. But it's yeah, okay. I see. Got it. I see. Perfect. Got it. Yep. So if you're looking for
some love in your home, and you want to snuggle a dog, maybe see if you're, listen, your dog's going to eat your turkey. And it's going to be they're going to have no judgments. They'll be like, Hey, this is some pretty good turkey.
You did a good job. That's awesome. Good job on your turkey. All the details are on the Snake River Animal Shelter Facebook page. If you want to grab, they have the link to the form there and everything. Yes. Which is, which is super cool. Yeah. So cool.
And they'll even send them home with all of the stuff needed. Yeah, I think that's great. It's a sweet little.
Yeah, what a cool thing. Vacation for them. Yeah. Well, help out an animal this Thanksgiving, if you can. That's really, really special.
100% certified canine turkey tester. Yeah.
100% certified. I like it. Yeah. I'm a certified turkey taster for what it's worth. Yeah. I'll taste turkey and go. Do you want somebody to adopt you for the day? You want to go to a foster house for the day? No. I'm not making turkeys. So I'm okay. Okay.
I'll be a soup tester. Right. All right.
Do you know where the turkey wishbone, like the idea of, yeah.
Do you know where that comes from? I do know that there's a sandwich shop in town that uses real turkey in their sandwiches, and they have a little jar of them. You can grab one on your way out if you want.
Ew, no way. Yeah. Really? Sure.
Then you can go break a wishbone with somebody and whoever gets the bigger piece is good luck or something. Is that right?
Oh, I don't. Why are you grossed out by that? Because that's a jar of wishbone. That sounds so crazy.
It's like a mug and they're just around the outside rim, just waiting for you to grab one. You have an issue with that.
I do. That kind of grosses me out a lot. Oh.
I thought that was nice. They were giving people wishbones to take home. I don't know.
I kind of like the idea, but I kind of don't.
I don't know. Nothing like snapping bones with a friend. Okay. You don't want to snap some bone? No.
Okay. It comes from, let me tell you where it comes from. There was an ancient Italian civilization, and they believed that birds, especially chickens, were fortune tellers. They thought birds had sacred powers and could predict the future. When a chicken died, they would save the forkula, which was a little shaped v-shaped bone in the chest, and they would pet it while making wishes.
Okay. Hoping some of the birds' future seeing power would rub off on them. The Romans loved the idea and they were like, cool, let's steal that. So they adopted the practice. What?
But there were so many people wanting good luck that they'd pulled the bone apart so that two people could make a wish at the same time. I see. Fast forward, the British carried the practice on, and then early Americans brought it with them when they left Britain, and then somewhere along the way, the turkey became the star
bird instead of the chicken. Okay. Because they were using it for Thanksgiving instead of chickens. But here's the thing about it that's interesting to me, is that when did it become a competition? Was that when America got it? And then it was like, we're each going to take half, and we're going to snap, and whoever gets the bigger half gets their wish.
I don't know. And the other person's out of luck. It started out as everyone who does this has good luck. Then they said, let's break it in half so two people
can get good luck. It started out as them just petting it. I don't know when the breaking even began.
Well, when the Romans took it. Romans. But then there were too many people and not enough chicken bones. So they said, let's break it in half, then two people can have good luck. Then they were breaking it.
But then somewhere between the Romans breaking it so more people could have good luck to today, where it's 50% of people get good luck. Right. You lose. Somewhere. I win. The message got lost. Right. And somewhere in there, somebody went, nope, I'm better than you because I got more bone than you did.
But also, you could break it. You could even break it into smaller pieces so that more people could have good luck.
That's what I'm saying. When did we step away from, let's give more luck to more people to know I got more bone. I'm better than you.
And then who decides? Yeah. Who, if you've got a house full of 20 people, who decides the two people that are going to go for the wishbone?
Feets of strength. If Festivus has taught us anything, it's by feets of strength. Shortly after the airing of grievances. That's when.
What are you, if you, we're not having turkey tomorrow, but if we were, Yeah. And you got the wishbone. Yeah. Who would you break it with?
Oh, whoever wanted to take on my challenge. What are you wishing for? I saw the sweetest thing yesterday. And I've been saving it because I don't know, I don't know how to bring it up, but this is the sweetest thing I've ever seen in my life. And it was a guy who had posted a picture of his wife and it said, no one tell her, but she is the wish of so many birthdays come true. Oh, see, so sweet. I know. So I don't know what I'd wish for now because I got it all. Oh, and Joshy. Yeah, I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just stand right there. We don't need to talk about it further.
Who are you? Who are you breaking wishbone with? Same.
Same. Same.
Is it acceptable or not to show up to your Thanksgiving feast in pajamas?
Well, I don't know that it's unacceptable. I think it just depends on what your setting is. Like I think there are people that can, I mean, you can do whatever you want, right? I like to do a little bit of a dress up for dinner, not big, but I like to wear like a nice sweater and some pants and, you know, I'm dressed, right? Like I'm not, I'm not lounging about in pajama pants and a tank top or anything.
My mom always did her cooking in pajamas.
Well, because she's starting so early in the morning. Yeah.
So she would always just cook, do all the prep work and stuff in the morning. And then when everything's kind of prepped and baking, then she would get changed. But inevitably she would spill something on herself and then she'd be like, oh, I gotta go change again. She ever heard of an apron?
No. My mom has never worn an apron. I'm just saying they've invented something a long time ago that she could have remedied her problem with, but okay.
A lot of people say that our family, that's our tradition is pajamas. And then a lot of people were like, we come in our, because it's football. There's a lot of football happening. So we just wear our football tee jerseys or whatever.
Yeah. Right. That's cool. Yeah. I mean, everybody's going to do whatever they're going to do. I don't think it's, I don't think it's necessarily deemed unacceptable. I think the only reason that you would say that is if somebody had like some sort of high brow dinner thing and you were the only person who showed up in your pajamas, then you would feel awkward probably or, you know, again, there are people that are like, no way, this is me, accept me for how I am. Deal with it. But I think probably it's okay. Do what you want. Do what you want. Right. Be comfortable. Fat pants are great pants.
Well, right. And you have to put your fat pants on because you're going to do a lot of eating. It's what? Belly on up. It's like that friends episode where he borrows maternity pants.
Just because he wants to have all the foods. He's got to eat all that turkey. Right. Is that the same one where the turkey ends up on the head with the sunglasses?
Couldn't tell you. They have a couple of Thanksgiving episodes.
Do they? Okay. Gotcha. So I don't know if that's the same one or not. Yeah. It's been hot minutes since I watched Friends. Fair. What, not last week on the new episode? Yeah, no, I get it. Uh, okay. Well, uh, yeah, do what you want.
Yeah. Our Thanksgiving is super cash. Yeah. I'm not expecting people to come dress up.
Oh, you better be in formal dress. We should send that out in the text. We expect everyone to be dressed formally. It's a black tie.
Black tie event. Yeah. Soups giving black tie. No admittance.
Yeah. Can't come in the house if you aren't wearing black tie. We'll be eating on paper plates. That's a fact.
I've seen a couple of social media posts from friends and acquaintances that say that they are going back. They're, they're recreating some heirloom recipes. Okay. That's interesting. So they're, they're tackling some of their grandma's custard pie or they're using their mom's old recipes. And there's quite a bit of people who are going to have some heirloom recipes on their table tomorrow, which I think is kind of cool and fun.
Do you have an old recipe that you would like to bring out? Do you have any of that stuff?
Um, not really. My grandma's both died when I was very young. So you don't necessarily remember. Okay.
Sure. But do you have like any copies of recipes from your family or anything like that?
I don't.
Because it's not sad. Yeah. I would love to have my grandma's noodle thing is delicious. I like that. But I have like old cookie recipes from grandparents and an old aunts and uncles and stuff like that that would be fun. You know what I don't want to make? Are these raisin cookies? I'm glad that I haven't seen these in a long time. They're like a, like a pastry kind of dough. And then you put like a, this like sugary raisin filling and then you cover it up and you cook it. It's like a raisin pocket. You don't want to make those? I don't have raisin pocket.
Yeah. It's like a hot, warm raisin pocket. It's like an uncrustable full of raisins. Have you, have you seen these like old, old, old school raisin cookies? Yeah.
No, thank you. Um, and then there's the opposite people who are doing brand new recipes and they're trying recipes that have never been done before, which is always a little bit scary. Good luck if you're trying a new recipe.
Yeah. Nothing like, yeah, old fashioned Christmas raisin delights. Look at it. Filled raisin cookies, raisin filled cookies. You got to go look at raisin filled cookie.
Is this something that you remember eating?
I do remember these being around. Do you? Who made these? I don't, I couldn't tell you, but I remember them being around when I was young. Okay. And I remember thinking, no, it's not that.
Josh, it's kind of like a fig Newton almost. But it's raisins. But it's raisins and not figs.
Yeah. But do you see how it's like pastry dough and then you use the fork to press it together on the edges?
It absolutely is an uncrustable.
Yeah. With raisins inside. Yes. That's the best way I could describe it. It's an uncrustable filled with raisins. It's like you go, oh yeah, peanut butter and jelly. And then you go, no mouth full of raisins. But it's like a raisin paste.
Yeah. Well, if it was a paste, it might be more palatable. But I just remember it being like very like sugary raisin filling. Yeah. But you could do this with any kind of filling, but these raisin filled cookies, those ones look dry.
I bet that's where your love for fig Newton's come from though. It's just raisins and not figs. Do you know what would be better in that?
Chocolate pudding, cookie butter, anything but raisins. I just am not a fan of hot raisins in there. And I love oatmeal raisin cookies. So it's not necessarily that like I don't like raisins. It's the abundance of raisin filling that I just pocket. It's not for me.
I might just make those for you sometime. Oh, what a treat. You might like it.
Because I'm an old man.
It might make you start crying and you'll be so happy like, I haven't had these since I was four years old. It'll take you instantly back. Yeah. And I'll start crying. Yeah, because you'll be so overcome with emotion. You're right. You're right. Raisin, my raisin pocket.
The cookie I've always missed. What's your favorite type of cookie? My favorite all time.
Not a raisin pocket cookie that we just talked about.
No, that's right. I do like snickerdoodles. I like nobakes a whole lot. I like the Samoas.
I know that you like snickerdoodles. And so imagine our surprise when we were at the store and they have a snickerdoodle cookie kiss.
Yeah, you found those yesterday. I was very excited about it. Are we going to try them? Yeah, we are. All right.
Here's your kiss, dear. Thanks. They smell really good.
Yeah, smell them. It smells heavy on the vanilla, doesn't it? Okay, here's my bummer. What? Right upon opening.
It's a white chocolate. Okay, hold on. It's a snickerdoodle flavored white cream with cookie bits. It's white cream, not white chocolate. Let's see. I'll wait till you mine until you're done chewing yours.
I like the bits in it.
Yeah, does it taste like a snickerdoodle? It smells so good.
It does taste like a snickerdoodle. This could be a candle. I hope it doesn't taste like a candle. No. Okay, ready? You like it? I do like it. Does it taste like white chocolate?
It's pretty rich. It doesn't have the same, like white chocolate has a weird bitterness on my tongue that I don't care for and it doesn't do that. So I'm happy about that. That's a really good Hershey kiss. I like the little cookie chunks in it.
Yeah, that's tasty.
I feel like you could probably only eat one of those though.
It is pretty sweet. It's very rich.
But you know those cookies that you can make and you put like a kiss in the center? Yes. This would be really good in those. Yeah, I bet it would. Okay, out of 10.
I'd say eight.
Yeah, I'm right there in the same ballpark.
That's like one of the best kisses.
It's very good. Yes, snickerdoodle Hershey kisses. If you see them, grab a bag. I think we grabbed the last one in the box. We grabbed ours at Walmart. Yeah, you can get them wherever, probably. Not sponsored. No, we paid for them. We didn't like go, Hey, give us this.
Yeah, I paid and it was $5, might I say? Yeah, what's the deal? I don't know. I was completely floored that a kisses bag was $5. You better take it easy on the snickerdoodles because I'm not buying more. I had $5 a bag. But they're good.
Slow down, Sally. They're tasty. It is good. Eight out of 10. Yeah, agree. Worth the five bucks. Yeah, agreed. A two out of 10 would not be. But an eight out of 10, yeah, solid. I'm picking it out of my teeth for a month, I bet. Little crumbs are a little bit jagged.
They get a little bit sticky, don't they? Yeah. Yeah. Hey, but they're nice. Are you going down and raiding because of that? No.
I'll stay at my eight. All right, same. All right.
I guess it's time for what you rather this or that. I guess so. All right.
Oh, it's the last Thanksgiving one for this year.
The last Thanksgiving. Would you rather this or that for 2025?
Would you rather have unlimited mashed potatoes but no gravy or unlimited gravy but no mashed potatoes?
Unlimited gravy, no mashed potatoes. I will put it on other things. It goes on Turkey. It goes on stuff. We've talked so much about all the things that gravy's great about. I'm taking unlimited gravy because sometimes there's not enough. Like leftovers, you go, there's not enough gravy. And then you know how the gravy kind of gets like congealed? Like a little bit thick. Yeah. And then you put like a scoop of gravy on there.
Like it comes out like a mirror and then it lays on top of your food and then you throw it in the microwave and then you take it out and you got gravy.
Yeah. Yeah.
Like there's just never enough. So I'm taking unlimited gravy.
I'm going unlimited mashed potatoes
because you're going to put yam juice on.
No, not on my potatoes. No, but there's other things you can put on your potatoes like butter, bacon, green onions, crispy fried onions, chili, sour cream.
Sure. Sure. Cheese.
You can dress a potato without gravy but you can gravy everything else and make it that much more delicious.
I don't love gravy that much. It's so good.
I'm going mashed potatoes. Oh, you're the gravy to my mashed potatoes, Josh.
Oh, come on now. There's no time for this. Would you rather this or that?
How sleepy do you think I typically get?
That's a weird question.
Do you feel like I'm a sleepy person? Yeah.
That's a nice compliment to you because science says that the more you love someone, the sleepier you tend to feel around them.
Oh, I just thought I was super boring.
No, no, no, no. It's because I feel safe. My stress levels get down. It's my biological response that's tied to trust safety and emotional bonding, Josh. My nervous system relaxes. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Isn't that nice?
It's weird because it seems like it's been this way as long as I've known you that if you lay down and have a blanket and get warm and cozy, you fall asleep. I've known that to be true.
But that's not true with everyone. Forever. It's just true with you, Josh. It's not boredom. It's a powerful reflection of...
But I've seen you do it other places. Obviously, these are places where you're comfortable, like the sister's house or whatever. I've seen you sit down and then all of a sudden you're out. And I go like, well, this was a fun movie, shared experience we were having. That's because I felt safe. Yeah, no, you felt sleepy.
No, safe. My nervous system said, relax.
Just relax. That hasn't always been true though, because I would go to slumber parties and I'd be like awake all night. So I just feel safe with you, Josh. Science. It's science.
All right. I guess it's science. Well, I'm glad to know you're comfortable. That's good.
Thank you. Thanks for making... I'm a little bit... What?
Feeling like this is just an excuse for you to fall asleep.
No. No. No, it's not that. It just means that I love you so much. Really? Yes. So when I fall asleep, it's just me saying I love you. Okay.
Maybe you could just do that while you're awake.
Well, here's the same thing to you, bud. I get so sleepy.
It's because you love me.
That's right. See? It's like a kiss on the forehead. All right. Whatever you say.
It's not me. It's science.
Whatever science says. Okay. All right. Sure thing. Warm, snugly science.
Yeah. See? It's my nervous system being like, chill down. Yeah. Snores. You hear loved and safe. Yeah.
Sure thing.
There is something very large happening this week that we have given zero attention to and not by our own faults because I didn't know what was going on until just now. And it needs to be talked about.
Okay. What is it? Right now, happening in, well, the 24th, yesterday and today is the 2025 Big Sky Volleyball Championship. This is a big deal for college athletes in the Big Sky Conference.
Idaho State University, it was a number eight seed going into the championship. That's great. Okay. Big deal.
Big deal. Going into the bracket. So there were a total of eight teams.
They were the eighth seed going in. Great. They played against Northern Arizona and won on Monday.
Fantastic. They moved on to the semifinals. Last night, yesterday, they played against Weber State. And? And they won. ISU. So ISU is headed to the championship game. It is two night, two day, at some point today.
Okay. It's happening in Greeley, Colorado. They will be taking on Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado in the Big Sky Championship game. Come on, Bengals. It's a Cinderella story because it is the first time ever that the number eight seed has gone into the championship round, which is huge.
It is the first time that ISU has gone to the championship since 2015, which is big. Amazing. And this is happening today. So this is a big deal. That is a big deal. It's a really big deal.
Here's what it says. Idaho State Volleyball will play the 2025 Big Sky Conference Tournament Championship on Wednesday night, taking on host Northern Colorado at Bank of Colorado Arena. The Bengals arrive at the title stage, riding their best volleyball of the season, having won four straight five-set matches, including back-to-back five-set postseason victories over number one Northern Arizona, who they beat, and number four, Weber State, who they beat. Wednesday marks the sixth postseason meeting between Idaho State and Northern Colorado, and the first time they've met since 2022, with the Bears holding a 3-2 advantage in Big Sky Tournament play. We'll see what happens. Tonight, they're going to the championship.
Best of luck, guys.
You got this, Gals. So cool. Yeah. I love it. I think that's amazing, and it needed to be discussed. Yeah. That's really cool. Well done. Let's go, huh? Go Bengals. Yeah. Tonight. Good luck. Tear it up. That's going to do it for the show. Spike them down. Bump-set spike.
If you wanted soft serve to go to McDonald's.
Yeah. We're here for the real stuff. Yeah. Volleyball. I think it's great. Really cool. Yeah, that's great. So well done. That's going to do it for our show. Have a great rest of your Wednesday. Happy pre- Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow. Happy Black Friday. We'll be back in the studio on Monday.
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