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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Wednesday, December 17th, 2028
Episode summary introduction:
From Keith Richards pumping the brakes on touring to maple syrup, Christmas song fun facts, and why Barbara Streisand goes way too hard on “Jingle Bells”! Today's episode is packed with holiday chaos! Josh and Chantel dive into Christmas music overload, Hallmark movie clichés, Stranger Things trailer obsession, Everest daredevils, a genuinely heartwarming nonprofit making a difference for young men aging out of foster care, gift-giving secrets, quilt ladder drama, the eternal eggnog vs. hot cocoa debate, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: No Rolling Stones 2026 tour
(2:51) - Syrup day
(6:38) - Christmas song fun facts
(8:53) - Good News
(10:49) - Barbara Streisand's Jingle Bells
(15:39) - Bonus Rudolph words
(19:57) - Alarm clocks
(25:16) - Deep breathing at the doctor
(30:35) - Christmas cards
(33:06) - Quilt ladders are hard
(37:44) - Red trucks & green sweaters
(42:30) - Josh is obsessed with Stranger Things theories
(48:50) - Skiing Everest
(54:27) - Would You Rather
(57:58) - Pushing Daisies season 3
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Full show transcript:
Hey, faithful podcast listener. Thank you. That's you.
We're talking about you. Yeah, thank you for listening to the show. Hey, if you ever want to reach out, you can. It's wakeupclassy97 at gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you.
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But if you want to send us an email, wakeupclassy97 at gmail.com is a fine way to do that. The Rolling Stones, we're talking about touring next year. Really? Yeah. I just read something that said Keith Richards isn't in very good health.
Yeah. So they've scrapped the plans to go on tour next year. The band properly sat down to discuss the tour and Keith said he didn't think he could commit to it and wasn't keen on a big stadium tour that would last for over four months. A spokesperson for the band told the British tabloid, which one, the sun, that the band were looking to tour earlier this year but couldn't make it work either. It's hard for their fans, but the Stones will get back on stage when they're good and ready. Okay, Keith Richards turns 82 tomorrow.
That's correct. Can you imagine the rock star life at 82 years old? He has arthritis in his hands. That cannot be easy to play the taller. That's got to be insane.
So, you know. I can't believe Keith Richards is still alive. Yeah, but he's also usually the one who's like, let's go on tour.
So for him to be like, I don't know guys. I can't. I mean, it must really be hurting him.
I'm sorry, Keith. Yeah, the Stones last performed in England in 2022. Their last show in the US was on July 21st of 2024. That was in Missouri. The album they recorded this year is scheduled to be released next year, but it doesn't sound like there will be a tour.
So, sorry. Are all the original members, I think they're drummer died. They're drummer.
Okay, but everybody else is still. I believe so, yeah. Yeah, Mick and Keith and the other guy. I would, right? I would not mind to have seen the Stones live.
I don't think I want to see them now, but I would have liked to have seen them 10, 15 years ago. Yeah. Yeah. They're a good listen. I do like to listen to the Stones.
Yeah, I know that about you. I would like to have seen Mick do his little chicken dance on stage. I see with his lips. It's a weirdo. All right, let's start the show. How about, okay? Well, hi.
Howdy. I was just learning about maple syrup. What'd you learn? Oh, as one does, you know, at six in the morning, I like to do some research about maple syrup.
No, today's maple syrup day. Okay. So what did you learn? Well, I got to tell you, when it comes to the maple syrup, I like the raw maple syrup way more than that stuff they pass off in a bottle as maple syrup, that big, tall, squeezed bottle. The real stuff is made from the sap of maple trees. The real maple syrup.
That's right. The other stuff is not. The other stuff is just made of caro syrup. It's a lot of sugar. Maple flavoring. It is a lot of sugars.
Yep. But I'll tell you, the real raw maple is something else. We for a while, we're on a diet in like 2017, and we were eating real healthy, and I was making paleo pancakes at the time.
And then we were doing almond butter on there with the raw maple. That was good. It was good. That was a good one.
Let's go back to that. Yeah, that was nice. That was the best we ever looked, I think.
The best we ever looked. Not right now, I don't look okay. I mean, you look great. I look fine. I said great. No, you said you look fine. You look great.
You do. I look fine. You look fine.
You look great. How you doing? Fine. Okay.
How you looking? Fine. Whatever. Whatever.
We could both use some better lifestyle choices. How about that? Okay, fine. But I still don't understand why you're bringing me into it. Okay, I could use some better lifestyle choices. I'm sorry that I brought you into it.
It's fine. Anyway, have yourself some pancakes and some maple syrup. That sounds nice. You should have made some.
Or spaghetti and maple syrup, like Buddy. No, I'm okay. Okay. Cook and drain your spaghetti, toss with maple syrup and then plate it, top with chocolate syrup. Add but don't stir in pop tart pieces. Sprinkle on miniature marshmallows, then M &Ms. Finish with sprinkles and for an extra flare, top with a squeeze of ready whip or a candy cane garnish. This is the recipe for what Buddy eats?
Yep. That's the recipe for Buddy's breakfast. Breakfast.
I like the cook and drain spaghetti, toss with maple syrup and then plate it. When are you going to have the sugar crash after you eat all of that? If you ate that at eight, would you have the crash at nine or 10? When do you suppose that would hit? When your stomach starts to feel a little bit, I mean your stomach would probably hurt right after that.
But then the sugar crash. Two to four hours. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. If you eat it at eight. Yeah, 10 o'clock you're going, oh no. I've got an insulin overload. My pancreas, that's what you would say. I don't know if that's what I would say. My pancreas is too much insulin.
I need an add. Have you made the syrup day, I guess? Have a pancake or two. Be careful though.
Your pancreas won't like you. Like that. This is sad. Oh no, too much insulin.
Oh no. A couple of Christmas song facts for you. Did you know that Silver Bells was originally called Tinkle Bell? No. Yes, it was.
And the song was first called Tinkle Bell after the Salvation Army Santas who stood on street corners, Tinkling the Bells. Okay. Yeah. Why did they change it? Well, they changed it because Jay Livingston and Ray Evans who were the composers of the song, Livingston's wife was like, hey guys, you know Tinkle has another meaning, right? And they went, what do you mean? And she went, come on. And then they went, okay, Silver Bells it is.
And they changed it. Okay, there you go. Second fact, fact. Look, did you bring in the fun facts today? I said Christmas song facts.
I like it. Fun facts. That was one fact. Here's fact number two.
I only have two. The Christmas song. Yes.
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire and that. Yep. Was written in the middle of the summer. Okay. Mel Torme and Bob Wells wrote about chestnuts roasting on an open fire in the summer of 1944 during a heat wave.
Heat wave. All right, unnecessary, but there we go. They reportedly wrote the song in 45 minutes. Really?
And then Nat King Cole was the first to record it and his version is still very popular today. That makes sense though because really the only time you have an open fire is in the summer. Like a campfire open fire.
Yeah. But can you find chestnuts in the summer? I only see them in the close to Christmas, but I'm not necessarily looking for them either. Can you find cashews year round? Yeah.
I'm pretty sure you can find chestnuts year round. Okay. Well then put it on the calendar.
In May we're going to look for chestnuts. You go ahead and do that. I'll forget. That's why I'm putting it on the calendar. I'm going to invite you to the chestnut party. Oh, great. So I'm going to put it on the family calendar. Be prepared. Thanks.
You're welcome. Those are my Christmas music facts. Wow.
What fun. There is a non-profit group in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They're called Bridge to Brighter and they're helping young men who aged out of foster care and suddenly found themselves on their own.
So instead of leaving them to fend for themselves, the charity places these 17 to 24 year old men in their own apartments, provides them with safe housing, mental health support and time to figure life out. Oh. Yeah. Really smart. What needs that kind of assistance? Yeah.
Bridge to Brighter doesn't just hand over keys and disappear either. Residents are expected to go to school or work, learn life skills like budgeting and cooking, attend counseling and gradually take on the responsibility of paying rent. And the goal isn't just housing.
It's stability, confidence and independence. Oh, for sure. I think that's really cool. Bridge to Brighter is just four years old and only a handful of residents have graduated out, but early signs show that the program is making a difference. Those involved believe it's a model that could work anywhere in the country. Yeah.
So do I. And for now, it's changing lives in Milwaukee, helping young men transition into adulthood after a bumpy childhood. The executive director is named Nick Skars... What sound does an S and then a G make? Sk. Sk?
Skarskalaarda? We'll go with that. Okay. Is happy with the results so far and says the mission remains simple. He says, I want them to feel love.
I want them to feel supported and that they have self-worth. I think that's huge. It's huge, huge, huge. Bridge to Brighter. I think it's great too. What a great program. Where is this happening at?
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Don't you mean Millie Wauke? No, I did not. I think you meant Millie Wauke, which is Algonquin for the good land. You have to look up that one.
That's good news. How sick of your Christmas music? Are you sick of it yet?
No, I get asked that a lot. People go, are you tired of Christmas music? You've been listening to it for a while. And yeah, like it's been a month that I've been listening to Christmas music, but no.
Because here's the thing. I'm not like, I don't always have headphones on listening to it nonstop 24 hours a day since we put Christmas music on the on Classy 97. So here's kind of how it goes for me. During the show, I hear a few songs here and there. It's kind of on in the background as we're working on other stuff and talking and whatever. And then when the show ends, I've got other things. I've got meetings. I've got stuff I'm doing. I've got things I'm doing in the room even that I don't have the music on for. And then when I drive, I listen to a little bit, but I'm not like constantly.
I am. And that's not intentional. And so I am kind of sick of it because I listen to it here and then I go to my other job.
Ah, yes. We have like a full playlist running all the time. And then if you go to any kind of store or a doctor's office or anything, there's Christmas music playing.
Right. So I'm a little Christmas music. That's interesting. Ah, yesterday there was, we have just a little iPod that plays at the, at the place that I work. People have made playlists.
Right. And I myself have made some playlists. The playlist that has been on the last couple of days is not a playlist I have curated. So it's not necessarily my favorite Christmas song.
Okay. There is a song on there that goes real hard. What does that mean? It's from Barbara Streisand. And it's, I believe it's Jingle All the Way. And there's a section of that song where it's like she sings it as fast as she can. And it's not Jingle Bells?
Yeah. Jingle Bells. It's Jingle Bells. Jingle Bells.
Jingle Bells. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know that song. Yeah. And she sings it so fast.
And I go, every time it comes on the last couple of days, I go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, babs. We got it. We got to chill out.
All right. Is it toward the end of the song? The song's only a minute 52 seconds long. Yeah, because she sings so fast.
Yeah. I don't necessarily know the intention behind it. What did she choose to do that? I don't know.
I don't know either. But I don't notice it's on until she starts singing real fast. And then I go, whoa, okay.
This is too, this is too crazy. I'm trying to see if I can find it. Yeah, that's it. It's too fast. You're right. That is a lot. She goes even faster than that, I think. Yeah, toward the end, maybe.
That was really kind of early on. Let's go a little bit later. She goes... Sing. Go. Sing. Sing. It is a lot.
That's what I mean. I'm like, Barbara. Barbara? Why are we going so hard on Jingle Bells? Barbara.
It's just to reel it back just a little bit. Barbara. Oh, Bance.
Wow. I don't know why she decided to sing it that way. Maybe to have it stand out from all the other Jingle Bells. Well, yeah, to do it her own way.
Okay? Holy moly. Every time it comes on, I go, oh no, we gotta get out of this. It's a minute 52 long.
It's too much, bro. It's a four minute song. She squoze into a minute 52. I know. Squeezed into.
I believe it. Well, Streisand, you did it again. Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell. Whoa. I know. Whoa, horsey.
Chill down, dude. So that's your favorite then? No, top of the list. Top of the list.
Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell. I should one of these days like stop everyone in the office and be like, let's see if we can keep up with her. Okay, that's a great idea. Let's go, here it comes.
Everybody put down everything you're working on. Yeah, let's go. Take the phone off the court.
Everybody off the court. Good, stand up and we're gonna get a minute 52 of the fastest jingle bell, jingle bell you can do. Here we go. Ready and go.
Do some vocal warmup first. Oh, you get no time. Oh, some of those.
Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell, all the way. Good job. Thank you. You know the bonus words in Root Off the Red Nose, reindeer? When you say bonus words, what do you mean?
Like the words that aren't actually in the song, but that as children you included. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like reindeer games. Yeah, like a light bulb. Right, yeah. Those are the bonus words.
You used to play reindeer games like Monopoly, that stuff, yeah, okay. Apparently, depending on where you were and where you grew up, there's different versions of those bonus words. So people would say, like George Washington or like Ben Franklin. You'll go down in history like Columbus. We said that, I said that, but in other places they would say like Lincoln. A lot of people are saying I grew up in the 80s, so it was like like Ronald Reagan. No, I never heard that.
This is what people are saying. Why we grew up, we were born in the 80s, adolescented in the 90s. Why was ours Christopher Columbus?
That predates Lincoln and predates Washington. I don't know. I don't know, Josh. But Jim, I'm just saying, like they're like, if you grew up in the 80s, it was Ronald Reagan.
No, it wasn't, it was still Columbus because he was there first. This one says, the way I learned it was joining any reindeer games like Hoofball. Hoofball?
They just made up stuff. When you grew up in a barn, Hoofball? Reindeer games. Oh, Hoofball, like that's a reindeer game.
You got it, you got it. It's always been Monopoly. Like Monopoly.
But what reindeer's playing Monopoly? So that one doesn't make sense. They don't enjoy it. And the game ends up upside down when the reindeer play it as well.
What do you mean? No one likes Monopoly. No one likes Monopoly. And the game ends up upside down. So now I'm curious what everybody else says. It was mostly like the things that I was reading said that the big changes were the ones at the end. You'll go down in history.
That was the biggest one that had the biggest change. Like George Washington. Like Ben Franklin. No one said that.
They don't even rhythmically work. Well, either just Columbus. Or Ronald Reagan. There's too much. Columbus works like Columbus. See? No, it doesn't work. It does. No, it doesn't.
Yep. Somebody said the dinosaurs. We always used to sing the dinosaurs. You'll go down in history. No one says that.
The dinosaurs. No. I kind of like that one.
Like Thomas Jefferson. No. No.
I like that one. Yeah? Yeah.
Good for you. That's weird that we both said Columbus though. Like Columbus. That's because that's what it is. Story. I don't know if that's what I said.
Now it doesn't, it doesn't feel right. Like Columbus. Yeah. No, that's what I said. Yeah, I know. But that's a dumb one. I don't like that one.
I'm changing it. I like the dinosaurs. It's too- Like the dinosaurs. It's, the syllables are wrong.
It's not. I like that one. And I also like dinosaurs. Cool. What's your favorite?
T-Rex. Which people say oh. I was gonna say weak. No it isn't. Yeah, of course it is. I like that one. Yeah. You would.
What are you gonna pick? Have you ever seen a stegosaurus? Boring.
So cool. Yeah, I have. And you know why? They're the three horns? No, that's a triceratops. It's a stegosaurus. It's the one with all the spines on its back. Very cool. Very, very cool dinosaur.
I like the triceratops because Sarah from a land before time was rude. Well, what are you gonna do about it? Nothing. That's right. You know how when you are waking up in the morning and your alarms go off and then you, your brain isn't working properly and your brain tries to convince yourself to stay in bed. And your brain convinces yourself of all kinds of stuff to do to stay in bed a little bit longer. That happened to me this morning.
Yeah. What happened? I didn't wanna get out of bed. Well, no, I get that.
I understand that part. Did you snooze an alarm? I was like, okay, this is my last alarm. What I'm gonna do is set another alarm for 10 more minutes. You were trying to set alarms?
Oh yeah. How'd that go? It went fine.
Okay. I set an alarm for 10 more minutes. Like remade a new alarm.
And I was like, that's gonna push me back really, really late. But it's like these weeks. None of this. These weeks? Like no one cares.
Like this week, next week and the week after. Like no one's really, it's all loosey-goosey at work. That's what I was telling myself. Uh-huh. Okay.
No one cares if you're late, you're fine. It's a loosey-goosey situation at work. Uh-huh. So I set my alarm, went back to bed, slept 10 more minutes. Did that 10 minutes matter?
Not so much. Yeah, no. Did I fall back asleep? No. You didn't? I don't think that I did.
Okay. It was pretty restless if I did. I was pretty sound asleep this morning. Yes, I know. I was in a deep slumber.
Yes. And I was on my back, which was weird. I woke up and I was like, oh my, on my back. Do you not normally sleep on your back? I'm normally a side sleeper. And so it was a little bit weird to wake up and be like, why am I on my back? I felt like a turtle, like I was stuck. Like what's happening? It was like, you could hear the rain outside the window.
Right. And I went, I don't, I don't wanna do this. The dog was barking, I think at the wind and there was garbage blown about the yard I picked up before I left. Did you? Yeah, because it's garbage day. And if I didn't, I'd be picking it up this afternoon and filling the garbage can. Because I had slept so late. I walked out to my car and there was garbage, like a big box by my car that had blown out of the garbage can.
Yep. I had to kick it out of the neighbor's can. Out of the way. Yeah.
Oh, did you? So that I could even get into my car. Well, I picked it all up and put it in the garbage can.
Cause I didn't have time. Yeah. Well, I think the wind came up and blew the garbage can open and maybe was blown stuff around. That's why the dog was barking this morning.
Like four o'clock. I think she was hearing garbage. I think you're probably right. Anyway, so that got taken care of this morning before I left. Also, there was, there's something on one of my alarms. I have four alarms now cause I set that new one. Normally I have three. No, I have four.
I had, I've one at the top of the hour, one quarter after one at the half hour and one at a quarter two. Yikes. I know. One of them has like a weather update. And so normally the other alarms I can just hit stop. This one, I have to clear out the weather alert to stop it.
Like it just gives me like a detailed report of the weather that day. In the alarm? Yeah. Like it talks?
No, it doesn't talk. It's just before I can hit stop, I have to read the weather report. And I go, well, I don't want this. What did this happen? That's weird. I've never seen that.
On your alarm, you can push the button to say, I would like a weather report. No way. Yeah. Somewhere along the way I did that. And I went, get out of here.
That's a thing, huh? Nobody wants this. Well, I've got one that says it's on vibrate only, no alarm.
That'll never work. I see that. There's a weather forecast button. See? I had that fixed.
Interesting. And I hated it. Every time that alarm went off, I went, ugh, because you have to swipe away the weather forecast before you can hit the stop or snooze button.
Yeah. So you can also have it do voice ones, like I was telling you. So you could have it, like tell you about the weather or your calendar from the day or what's on your task list.
Or you could have it like, tell you a joke. No, I just wanted to leave me alone. You imagine that? That'd be awful. Wake me up with a joke. Ha ha ha ha.
Interesting. I know, right? Well, it's fixed.
So now I will never get a weather report. I'm gonna go in and make yours do all kinds of stuff. Play the chicken song. Why would you do that? Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do.
Why would you though? Bam bam bam. And then have it like you have to stand up and do a chicken dance in order to turn off the alarm. Okay, we'll see how that works. Go ahead and do that. We'll see how that works. Go ahead. It sounds like you're gonna like it. I said it sounds like you're gonna like it.
Cause guess what? I'm not participating in this alone. Go ahead. Let's see what happens, Josh. Go for it.
I double dog dare you. You had to go to the doctor yesterday. Yeah, I just do my annual checkup, yep. And you said that you didn't know if you were doing the breathing correctly. Well, listen, they get out the stethoscope. And here's the fun part was that there was a student doctor as well. And so our doctor, our family doctor, and then the student both got to do the breathing test with the stethoscope.
They listened to your heart and she put her stethoscope in a different place than he did. I don't know if that matters. Interesting. To listen to my heart.
I thought that was interesting. And then they do the thing on the back where they're like, all right, just breathe normal. And they go, okay, now a couple of deep breaths. And that's where I go like, is my deep breathing right? Am I doing it correctly?
Because am I supposed to hold it for a certain amount of time? Do you want me to go like that? Or do you want me to be like, in like I'm relaxing, meditating breaths because I feel like I do it wrong. I do too, because they also move the stethoscope before I'm done with the deep breath that you've told me to do.
That's what I'm saying. And so then I go, I got to move on to my breathing. So you've said deep breath and I go, and then you move the stethoscope.
And then I go, I know, am I supposed to try to keep up with when you move the thing? I'm very confused about the deep breathing stethoscope situation. Because I don't know when I'm supposed to stop deep breathing.
Same. And then they look in your ears. Well, yeah, what do they think they see? And then I always have to go like, oh no, did I Q-tip this morning? And sorry about all the earwax. Or was I, did I Q-tip too much?
Maybe I've pushed too much wax back in there. Like what do you see in there? They don't ever tell me. Never say, they just go, it's gone, all right, let's check out your ears. And then they go, and now your eyes will go and follow my light or look at my nose. I'm gonna look in your eyes, whatever. And then let's look at your throat.
And I go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What about my ears? What'd you see in there? I kind of want to, I kind of want to look in the ears.
I've never, yes. I just realized that that's something I want to do. Cool. You should have asked him if I could look in your ears. Can I look in there? What do you see when you look in there?
Don't you think that'd be fascinating to look down your ear canal? I don't know. I do.
I'm not big on anatomy. I'm not, I don't like it. It's not really my favorite thing.
I think it sounds super cool. I wish, because I was there with you at the doctor. I wish that I had asked him if I could look down your ear canal.
Because I'm curious to what it looks like. Oh man, I'd look down there and be like, oh, oh, oh. If I was a doctor, that's what I'd do every time. I'd be like, oh, oh, oh. And then I'd never say anything else. That's, you're like, whoa.
All right, now let's look at your eyes. Crazy. Oh my gosh. Yeah, no, that's not good.
I would be a terrible doctor. Okay, go ahead and breathe deep for me. No, no, breathe deep. Yeah, and then I'd go, oh, how about that? No, no, I said breathe deep. Like, I am, like you're doing it wrong. How come, hey, here's something else I just realized.
What's that? They used to check for your reflexes. They don't do that anymore.
Yeah, they didn't bounce the little hammer on my knees. And he used to have me bend down. Uh-huh, like the test here. And then he'd kinda look at my spine.
Oh yeah, okay, sure. I haven't done that in a long time. Maybe they stopped doing that at a certain age. Yeah, when you're not 12.
I guess my spine doesn't matter anymore. Nope. Don't worry about that, don't check that.
She's Louise, dog. Yeah, they didn't have me do like the arm test, like resist my, they didn't have me do any of that stuff. And you do that with your feet too, where he puts his hands out and then you're supposed to like push it. Yep, I didn't do any of the reflex, none of the resistance. None of that. None of the spinal bend down check, none of that.
We need a new doctor. No. You don't feel like you got the whole inspection. No, I didn't get the whole tune up. Yeah, well, they weren't tuning anything. They were just doing the inspection.
You take the car in and they go, yeah, we did a 27 point inspection. You feel like you got six. That's what you're saying? Yeah.
Where's my other 21? Exactly. Yeah, all right, well.
How about that? That's interesting. When did they stop doing that? I don't know.
Maybe they were like, why are we doing this? Guess my spine doesn't matter. No. Does it?
Do you have one? I guess. Well, maybe.
Is it crooked? Don't know. Haven't checked it. Since when?
Since I was 12. Yeah, well, what are you gonna do? Just over here, opening up some Christmas cards. Same. That is pretty exciting. Yeah.
I love it. We received a whole heap and handful yesterday and today. That's what we did. Which puts us, we think, at like 31 cards.
Isn't that swell? That's like 10 more than last year already. I know. And there's still eight days to Christmas.
I love it so much. Yeah, so thank you to everybody who sent cards. You said you got one from Montana?
Yeah. And then there was somebody in here who said that we are worth the stamp. That's very sweet.
That was very sweet. Yeah, I'm just looking. I'm looking at this is a pretty, it's a real pretty one.
I know some of them are really nice. I got I got a couple from Blackfoot over here. I got one from Island Park.
I got I got Rigby. Idaho Falls in here. 14 Montana.
Check that out. I think that's probably the furthest away. So far. So far. Cool. That's awesome. Thank you to everybody who has sent in Christmas cards. We are going to send you a card in return. It is our 21st anniversary. So, we have a 2025 exclusive wake up Classy 97 Christmas card. We do throw in a little something extra special just for the people that just for the Christmas card. So if you want to get a little a little treat to little surprise in there and our card, just send us one.
It's 400 West Sunnyside Road in Idaho Falls, Idaho 8342. And we will include your return address so we can send you one back because we'd love to do that. And thank you again to everybody who sent him in. Yeah, that's awesome. We also we have a Classy 97 elf. We have two. That is correct.
We have Roland and we have Arthur. That's right. And they cause mischief all over the office. That's right.
Right now they're hanging about in the ceiling. Yeah, they received a Christmas card in the mail. Oh, that's right.
My Christmas elf named Pip in black. Yeah. Yeah. In black foot, sending mail to our elves. Elves send an elf mail.
Yeah. So whoever Pip is, thank you. Thank you for sending a card to our elves. Pip. Up to up to shenanigans. I'm sure too much office shenanigans over there in black foot. Keep things on the low down there Pip. Thanks everybody who's sending cards 400 West Sunnyside in Idaho Falls, Idaho 8342 if you want to send one.
Thank you so much. Yesterday, I got home after work and I usual as I usually do I was doing some cleaning and some chores and things. And there were some blankets that were laying about some laundry that had to be done.
So I was I was dealing with all that and I was doing some cleaning and some laundry in the living room. We have a ladder for quilts. Yes, quilt ladder.
Yeah. And it's it stores three quilts. I know for a fact that the quilt I sewed myself by hand with these two hands is displayed upon that quilt ladder. Yes. And hold on. And so I sent you some pictures and I said, What's the order with this? Like I know that these go here but what's the right way? And you didn't respond and you didn't respond like you were working or something. And then I sent another picture because I just guessed and I said, Well, couldn't wait anymore.
This will have to do. I know it's wrong. But whatever. And then you if I remember replied and said something the effect effect of I said it's not wrong. It's fine. I was just trying to find it but I can't find what you actually said. I said that I'm looking at it right here.
Yeah, which quilts go where that was my question. And then you didn't reply and I said I guessed it's wrong. But what am I said it's not wrong. It's fine. Yeah, that's what you said.
But then when I walked into the living room later on yesterday, you sure were refolding and changing those quilts on that ladder. So it wasn't fine. It was fine. No, it wasn't wrong.
I just like it a different way. Yeah, so it wasn't right and fine. It's it wasn't wrong.
It wasn't the way that I like it. Right. It wasn't wrong.
Right. Apparently I didn't even fold them correctly. No, because yours. You had them all bunched up at the edges. You didn't even. What does that even mean?
It's the part that I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I don't necessarily mind which quilts go on there. But the fact that you had them folded, I'll show you.
No, I know. See how where it like is supposed to fit. No, in between the ladder. No, you have it all bunched up.
You got to make it the foot the fold has to be a little bit tighter. It looks fine. No, it wasn't.
No, you said it was fine. That part of the quilt gets tucked behind that quilt. You see what I'm saying? Why? Because that's the way I like it. Oh, I see.
You tuck the bottom. It's fine. It's not fine. It's fine now because you fixed it. But the way I did it was all wrong. And it was the you walked in the house and went, uh-uh.
It was just not the way that I like it. Did you have your coat on still? Or did you take your coat off before you had to fix the quilt ladder? We were all settled in for the night and I did it because I knew that you were preoccupied with something else.
And I said, I'm just going to do this the way that I like to do it. So you got a cot fixing it. Yeah, but I can't remember how I got caught. I walked in the room and you had my quilt in your hands and I went, oh, I guess it was wrong, huh? But it wasn't wrong. It was just not the way that I like it. It was wrong.
Got it. But I just quietly fixed it. No, I know you didn't make a big deal about it. That's not the issue. The issue was that you said it's fine and then still changed it.
What would you have preferred I did? Leave it. No.
See? Because it was wrong. No, because look at the way you folded it. It's a terrible fold.
And then you're supposed to tuck it. Ah. So it was wrong? Yeah, it was kind of wrong. Yeah, there it is. All right.
Thank you. You know how like there's a big thing around Christmas time where you see red trucks with trees in them? Little red trucks with Christmas trees in the back.
Yes. And it's on Christmas cards. It's on everything. It's on decorations.
It's on everything. I got a video yesterday. There was an actual, I don't know where it was, but a store, there was a little red truck with an actual green Christmas tree. And somebody was like, well, oh my stars. Look at that. Look at this.
These actually exist. We had my mom staying with us over the weekend. She just was healing from a surgery and I was trying to find her a Christmas movie to watch. And so I typed in Christmas and it pulled up a whole list of Christmas movies.
And every single cover of the Christmas movie was a dude in a green sweater and a woman in a red coat. Really? I'm not even kidding you. It was the same cover shot for shot. Huh.
I said, what green sweater and red coat show would you like to watch? Because I bet you, 10 to 1, it's the same story. Oh yeah. It's about how the guy in the green shirt went back home or the girl in the red coat went back home, one or the other. And the other one was still at home. And they were like, I've got my big city job, but I'd give it up to stay here with you and your sweater or coat, depending on who came home to visit.
Yeah, I'm going to leave my big city job to work at Christmas tree farm. Right. You get it.
Yeah. We're going to open this old hotel that your family owns. I'm an ice sculpture. Come to life. Pick a one. Oh yeah.
I forgot about that one. Hot Frosty. Hot Frosty. Hot, hot, hot, hot Frosty.
That's right. That was a terrible movie. We watched that one last year. It was terrible. It had that girl from party of five in it.
Jennifer Love Hewitt. No. Yes.
The other one. Oh yeah. No. Yeah. What was her name? It was the other one. Uh, Lacey.
I don't know. And then she's got like a, is it Shabare? Shaburt? Shaburt? Shaburt? What are you trying to say?
I have no idea what you're saying. Her last name. Is Sherbert? It's C-H-A-B-E-R-T.
But I don't know if the T is silent. Shaburt. Shaburt.
Shaburt. Anyway, hot Frosty. I think we watched it on Netflix.
Hot Frosty. I don't know if it's still there. Oh. Uh, she sculpts somebody's, there's like a, Yeah. It's a sculpture contest.
Sculpture contest in the town. And he comes alive. He comes alive. That's right. And she kind of makes him her handyman.
And then she's like, do all this stuff around my house. I never watched it. You, you said I've got to watch this thing. I watched it while I was decorating last year for Christmas.
And I went, no, it's, I'll never watch this again. Dustin Milligan plays Jack Snowman. That was his name. He's not credited as hot Frosty. No, the movie, the movie's called hot Frosty. He is Jack Snowman. He actually had a name. I did not know that. That his name was Jack Snowman. You can still watch it on Netflix right now.
I would not recommend. What is the cover of it look like? She is wearing a green sweater. Oh, it's a green like sweater dress. He is wearing like a train conductor slash mechanic coveralls with his name tag.
This is Jack and he has removed the sleeves, but he does have on that magical red scarf. Okay, I'm looking Christmas. Okay, this is not, maybe that was on a different cause I just looked up Christmas on Netflix and it's not, maybe it was on HBO. Could have been. But you're saying everybody had the same outfit on? Oh my heavens. It was green sweater red coat.
Okay. Everyone looked the same. We used to play a game where you would give me the name of a Hallmark Christmas movie.
Yeah, or the plot and you would give me the name. Yeah, I wasn't very good at that, but it was fun. Neither of us were very good at it. It was fun though. You had a good time? I did. Okay, hot Frosty.
Hot, hot, hot. Don't watch it. Let's talk about how you are the most patient person that's not patient at all. All right. When it comes to certain things, you are very patient, especially if you're trying to teach somebody something. Sure. You're very, you're one of the most patient people I know. If you're waiting for a package or you are waiting for a show to come on TV.
Yeah. Like if you've been left on a cliffhanger, you cannot stand it. You have zero patience.
You're constantly checking packages. How many times have you watched that Stranger Things teaser trailer? Only twice.
Yeah. Three times. Twice at home on the TV. I think you watched it three times at home on the TV.
Okay. Four times. And then it's not even like you're not even just watching it. It's you're stopping. Yeah. And you're rewinding. Right. What are you trying to see?
Oh, I'm solving the mystery. Just how about this? How about, don't you dare say wait till it comes out. So how about what? I can't say.
Yeah. How long is that teaser? Oh, how long?
I don't know. Let me reopen it. It is.
It's like a minute long. No. Yaws.
No. It's two minutes, 13 seconds long. Look, the Duffer brothers are really good at making a trailer. They really are.
And I have a lot to analyze in here. They've remixed that song upside down. Right. And you like it a lot.
Enjoy it. I mean, I like that song to begin with, but they've kind of added like a little edgier tone to it. Uh-huh. I'm here for it. It's super cool. Look, there's so much to like pick apart. There's so many things happening. And there's so, the show is so good.
It is so good. That I'm like just really excited. And some of the shots that they're doing are fascinating.
Like this sideways shot with Max coming through this window and stuff. Like I'm just blown away. I'm just blown away. I just am blown away. Here's what. When Stranger Things came out. You and Emery were super into it.
Emery especially. She was, she loved that show. And I watched it with you guys. I didn't quite understand what was happening. And maybe it was because I was half paying attention. I've probably, I'm sure I fell asleep at a couple different episodes. Uh-huh.
And then when season five came out, you guys were all stoked about it. And I went, I don't know if I'm into it. I really don't understand what's happening.
Just watch it without me. And then there was all this hype. So I went, well, I want to be part of the hype.
And I went back and I watched them all again. From the beginning. From the beginning.
From season one. Yeah. And I really tried to focus and stay awake and pay attention. And now I'm in it. I know. And now I know what's happening. So how are you so calm about the fact that we have eight days until the next episodes?
Guess what? I'm just going to wait. Don't you like to ponder and read the theories and think about all the stuff? Which I did. I watched the trailer and I went, cool, that looks awesome.
I can't wait. And then I go about my business. I only need to see that trailer once, maybe twice. And then I go, that was cool.
They did a really good job. Hey, did you know, um, I already have, uh, some Christmas gifts taken care of for you. Okay. I just, I just didn't want you to forget about that. Are you trying to say that I'm also not a patient person? For certain things. It's not that I'm, I can wait.
What I don't like is when everyone knows a secret that I don't. Yeah. Uh, so before you got home, Emory and I were talking about a couple of gift ideas and, uh, I think we got a couple of things nailed down pretty good for you.
I think it's going to be pretty fun. And she's, uh, convinced me even more so to do the gag gift. So she knows about that. And I know about that. And we're both excited to see what happens.
So don't let us down. Oh, great. Cool.
No pressure. How will I know what the gag gift is? Oh, you'll know.
Versus what a real present is. Because you're going to open it and gag. I don't know. Why do they call it that? I don't know.
I don't know. You go, uh, Every gift I open now, I'm going to be like, no way. Perfect. I'm going to react like that.
That's very natural. Oh, wow. Oh my gosh. No way. You didn't. Oh no, you didn't.
Like that's a sock that you left in the yard that we saved. Wow. I put that away. Did you?
Yeah. Or did we get it back out? Why would you get it back out? To wrap it for Christmas. It's a gag gift. Here's that lawn sock.
That lawn sock is washed and put away with its sock buddy. All right. Anyway, I am very excited about, I know you are. And that's not, it's like Christmas night. Like it's six PM on 25th. So it's like more than eight days away. It's eight days and several hours. Okay. Time out.
Are they. Releasing four episodes. And they're all almost two hours long. And then we're going to watch those six hours of the show. And then all that will be left is the finale that comes out on New Year's Eve at six o'clock and is two hours and five minutes long. So you know that cliffhanger between Christmas and New Year is going to be huge. It is going to be huge.
A giant cliffhanger. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it right now. What are you even going to do, Josh?
What are you going to do? You can't even handle it. Maybe you could watch the trailer a couple more times.
I should. You and I were watching a video earlier. A couple of weeks ago, I was talking about how I stumbled upon something on TikTok called Everest talk. Yeah. You just got stuck in like a whole bunch of videos about Mount Everest. People, yeah, like crazy people doing crazy things on Mount Everest. I had to stop. It was a little bit depressing.
Because people don't make it. Yeah. And then they were walking through like piles and piles of garbage and all kinds of crazy things. And so I went, I'm not, I'm not watching this anymore. And then you were watching something this morning and all I could hear was heavy breathing. Yeah. You said, what's all that heavy breathing?
I said, listen to this. This guy, his name is Andre Bargill. And he is Polish and he has become the first person to climb Mount Everest and then ski back down to the Everest base camp without supplementary oxygen.
So that heavy breathing was just him trying to survive. Okay, but why? So, well, here's the deal.
Why not? After nearly 16 hours climbing in the high altitude death zone, he then clipped on his skis on the summit of the tallest mountain on earth and started his descent. He reached camp two on the first night where he rested. The darkness made it incredibly dangerous. I can't believe how quickly it got dark like in the video. Unbelievable.
And then the next morning he had to go through the ice fall, which was incredible and he had to be guided by a drone that was flown by his brother before he safely arrived at base camp to become the first person to ascend and descend Mount Everest on skis with no supplementary oxygen. Pretty amazing. Yeah, except is it? I mean, I think it's incredible.
Well, look at what the human body can do. That's incredible. I understand.
I do. And I watched it with you and I was like, that is pretty amazing. But it's also kind of stupid. Yeah. And when he gets down, everyone's like, oh my gosh, that was amazing. And it was. Right. But it's also really stupid.
I mean, it's not like the smartest thing you could do for sure. But he's a 37 year old ski mountaineer from Poland. He is well known for his climb and ski feats. And he is now the first person to do that whole thing without bottled oxygen.
It's incredible. But then this poses more challenges for all these other people. And I just foresee all these other people being like, well, if you can do it, I can do it. And then all these other people are going to be like, I'm going to try it too. And then they're not going to make it. There's a good chance. I know, right? Yeah, no, you've got to be some kind of beast. This guy is a crazy person.
He really is a crazy person. He also went in September. So he did it in the autumn conditions, which there were fewer climbers on the mountain. And he had a Sherpa to help him get to the top.
So he had a guide with him and then he skied back down. Are conditions more dangerous in September? I don't, I mean, I would think probably or else more people would go in September. Well, what I'm thinking is though, because the light changes too. So you're probably having less people because you can't get a majority of people up and down the mountain in sunshine. Totally makes sense. I mean, they begin the final ascent to summit like well into the dark so that they have time to reach the summit in daylight.
They get up early, early, early in the morning to start walking up I've watched a lot of Everest. That's true. It's true you have. It's crazy.
Some of the YouTube comments are funny. Somebody said, well, maybe this will motivate me to do the dishes today. No. No.
This guy can climb and then ski down Everest. Well, maybe. Yeah.
Don't use this guy. Here's an interesting thing. Somebody did say thank you very much for including the audio of all of his heavy breathing, his coughing and his wheezing because somebody might watch that and think I could totally do that. That's what I'm saying. And not understand what your body's actually going through. He was having a hard time breathing for a long time. And he had to sit down and look around to be like, I don't, I'm kind of stuck.
I don't know what to do. Yeah. And then he did it all by himself. What if he had broken a leg? Oh yeah.
Or lost a ski or I mean, he dropped a pole at one point and I thought that is done. Listen, my middle name is danger. No, it's not. The middle name is not danger. But I'm not ever going to attempt Everest. And I'm never. For you. That's a free one. Nice one. I got a chuckle.
You're lucky. It wasn't even a pity chuckle. That was so, it was okay. That was okay.
It's never. You're going to climb Mount Everest. Yeah.
That's your middle name. Never. Never. In your mind never rests.
Never rest. Yeah. That's true. Yeah.
I know. See it has many meanings. That's a deep one.
Like a crevasse. Are you done? Sure. Would you rather this or that? Would you rather eggnog or hot cocoa? Hot cocoa.
I know your answer. Eggnog for me. Gross. Delicious. Why is it so thick? Well hot cocoa can be thick too.
Yeah. If you make it wrong. If you put too much mix in there.
There's no such thing. How do you, what's your hot cocoa recipe? How do you take your hot cocoa? Do you like marshmallows in it? Do you like syrup?
No. I like to put. Sometimes a little peppermint syrup. A tiny bit. See I like the toasted coconut syrup.
A little bit goes a long way. Some raspberry syrup is also delicious in there. I don't care for all those flavored ones.
I do. I just like the old chocolate. The old basic.
The old chocolate. I'm a real consistent. You really are. I'm a comfortable kind of guy.
That's true. I like what I like and I don't need fancy flavors. What about some whipped cream?
No. Yeah I don't go for the whipped cream. It's just hot cocoa. Lots of mix. Sometimes it's milk. Sometimes it's water. I was just going to ask that next. I don't really have a preference.
When I usually make it, I'm usually using water because it's easier to heat up. Yeah. I do like to fill the thermos. I haven't done that. I like to fill the thermos up with hot cocoa. Carry that around. I feel like if I were a Saint Bernard, I would do that with that barrel on my neck.
I'd be like have some hot cocoa. What? You know. I think he carried around like whiskey or something. I don't think he carried around hot cocoa. I don't even know what you're talking about.
Saint Bernard's carrying around that barrel on their neck? Yeah I know that. But is that from a show or something? It's from history. Oh. My bad. Yeah no, like it's a real thing.
Did you not know that? It's a real thing. Really? Yeah, oh yeah.
I was thinking like the dog from Peter Pan. Okay. You know, Nanny?
What? The dog from Peter Pan. You know, he's a Saint Bernard, but he's their nanny. And he walks around with, I think he's got something around his neck. Yeah, maybe.
Is it a barrel? Nanna. His name is Nanna. Oh sorry, he's a newfoundland. Okay. It's not a Saint Bernard.
Sorry, my bad. Well, but anyway, so these dogs would carry these little kegs on their neck and they were used to aid stranded travelers and warm rescue victims to fend off the cold. And they did carry a small barrel of, it was whiskey in there. It wasn't hot cocoa. I want one for me that's hot cocoa. Okay. And just a straw. Oh, eww. Hot cocoa through a straw? Sure. Because I don't want to take the barrel off my neck if I'm wearing it. I'm lazy.
I just want to be like, oh hot cocoa on tap. Nice. That's what I was trying to get at. That was a, that was a long way to the well. No, it wasn't. Anyway, that's, Okay.
Would you rather this or that? Enjoy your nog. Gross. I will.
Delicious. I heard some really cool news the other day and I've been meaning to talk about it and I keep forgetting. There was a show about 16 years ago. Okay. And it was called Pushing Daisies. Okay. And it was adorable.
And they canceled it after two seasons and I've just received word that they are making a season three. For sure? For sure. For sure? Yep.
Okay. I heard there's a catch. What's the catch? Well, so Brian Fuller confirms Pushing Daisies season three plans in parentheses, but there's a catch. No, what's the catch? Uh, I'm looking, looking, looking.
One of the most eccentric television resumes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm trying to see it. I don't see a catch everywhere I see. Has that it's go time. We have a season three pitch. Oh, the entire cast wants to come back and we're hoping we get to return to them. We just have to find somebody who wants to make it. Oh, no.
Okay. The bad news, of course, is that someone will need to pony up to bring Pushing Daisies back. Though the talent and special effects costs for a revival may raise eyebrows for the being counters and at the streaming services and television networks, it has a distinct advantage in that it's built in audience remains very loyal and eager to see it return. Hmm.
I didn't see that part. I hope it returns. It was adorable. Yeah, I don't think you ever watched it with me. I think I watched it alone.
Yeah, I don't know anything about it. The story about a guy, he was a pie maker. And he owned a little pie restaurant.
Kristin Chenoweth was in it. And he had this ability to resurrect people. So he could touch people and bring them back alive. Oh, yeah, I remember that. Yeah, right. And his childhood sweetheart was dead. And he was able to bring her back alive. Right, right, right. But if he touched people a second time, they died permanently. And there was no bringing them back ever again. Correct.
It was cute. And was he able to bring multiple people back at the same time or only one person at a time? One person at a time. I mean, like he could bring people back. Like multiples of people.
Yeah. He could bring back a dozen, a hundred. Yeah, but he couldn't touch them again. Right.
Because then they would be forever dead. It was cute. I mean, those are just the rules. What about accidentally bumping into somebody?
That counts. So he had to be very careful. Bubble boy. And it had to be skin to skin time.
And he could touch. Yes. I think so.
Like he couldn't touch you on the jacket and be like, tag. I don't remember. It was a long time ago.
Ah, interesting. Yeah. It was cute. I can't remember.
I don't know what the story would be because I do feel like the story kind of ran its course. Okay. But oh well.
Well, there's a catch. If it comes back, I'm excited. If it doesn't, I have said my goodbyes 16 years ago. Oh, okay. Is that all? Hey, speaking of saying goodbyes, you want to say goodbye?
Because the show's over. Let's do it. All right. Let's wrap this up. Remember about an hour from now, 11 o'clock, we will begin today's game of Jingle Bingo with the Bank of Commerce. So make sure you're ready to play at 11 o'clock. Jingle Bingo.
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