Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Thursday, December 11th, 2025 Episode summary introduction: E-bikes, safety laws, and why New Jersey is suddenly the strict parent, Christmas cards, coworker gift pressure, Lego-induced meltdowns, margarine vs. butter, Australia just kicked kids off social media, Facebook Marketplace auctions are apparently a thing now, December 11 turns out to be the unofficial national breakup day, grab your bagel, stretch it out, and thanks for listening! Timestamps: (0:00) - Bonus: E-bike madness (3:37) - Bagels & stretching (6:32) - Office gift giving (11:03) - Good News (13:41) - Stay home if you're sick (18:43) - Facebook Marketplace auction (22:18) - Australia bans social media (28:43) - Lego dogs (34:23) - Christmas cards (36:47) - Girl next door (41:01) - Birthday calendars (44:48) - Margarine vs butter (50:06) - Would You Rather (52:46) - Breakup day Visit our website: https://riverbendmediagroup.com/info-page/wakeupclassy97/ Email the show - wakeupclassy97@gmail.com Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Classy97KLCE?sub_confirmation=1 Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@classy97klce Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Classy97klce Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/classy97klce/ Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/classy97klce.bsky.social Follow us on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@classy97klce Follow us on X/Twitter: https://x.com/Classy97klce Full show transcript: Wake up Class of 97 at gmail.com is our email if you want to reach out. Easy to do. Send us a note, send us a high, send us a Merry Christmas, whatever you need. Hey, we're also collecting Christmas cards and we're returning them. So anywhere in the world, we can send a Christmas card to. So if you send us one, we'll send one back to you. Yes, we will. Our address is 400 West Sunnyside, Idaho Falls, Idaho, 83402. You can send us a card. We'll send you one back. We sure will. We love to hear from you. All right, that being said, have you seen these folks driving around on these e-bikes? That was like an old man sentence, I know. These ain't these new e-bikes. They've got the battery powered bikes and they cruise. They go really quick. Are you talking about like here in town or like a video? No, here in town. No, I have not. You haven't seen people riding around on them? I mean, I have seen people on the e-bikes. Okay. You sound like it's like a group of people or something. It's not a group. I mean, there are people that have these and ride them in the road like they're a car or a motorcycle. No, no, no, no, I have seen those. I talked about one of these a couple of weeks ago, remember? They just jut out in front of people. They're crazy. Yeah, they are crazy. So in New Jersey, they are going to require e-bike users to have a license, a registration and insurance for their e-bike. Because they're becoming a very popular mode of transportation. But what's happening is that when people are getting hurt or whatever, they don't have insurance. They don't have registration for their e-bikes. And so New Jersey said, we've got to do something about it because we've got young people riding them. Right. This is getting, it's getting to where it's a safety concern. And so it's, you know, I could see this happening across the country if more and more people are going to use these as a mode of transportation because they're quick. I mean, they go 20 to 40 miles per hour. They're very fast. Yeah, they do get a little bit dangerous. And it's a bicycle, it's electric, so you don't necessarily have to have an endorsement like you do with a motorcycle in order to ride one, but they're going to have to start treating them similarly if people are going to be using them in the road. I did hear a video of a doctor who said that he is seeing more and more and more head trauma cases from e-bikes and e-scooters. Because they're in the road. Like and it's again, it's, if that's going to be the thing you're going to do, cool, but you've got to wear a helmet. You've got to have some sort of insurance on there because if you're going to hit somebody or get hurt or whatever, you're going to need to have that kind of coverage. So anyway, New Jersey is starting to lead the way on what they're, what they're trying to do to help, you know, mitigate some of the safety concern. New Jersey is one of 46 states that are using a three tiered system where only fully motorized bikes that go 20 miles per hour faster require license registration and insurance. And I think that's probably where Idaho is because we've got that, you have to have an endorsement, you have to have, I go over a certain, you know, CC or a certain speed or whatever. So anyway, I like that they're being proactive on it. And hopefully that can help keep people safe and protected. That's the goal, right? Or at least it would seem. Or maybe they're just trying to get more money. Who knows? You don't know. I doubt it's a money thing. I feel like it's a safety thing. I think it's safety. Be safe. All right. Start the show. Sure. Hello. Hello. And good morning. Good morning to you, sir. And welcome to today's show. Same to you. Good? Today is exactly 14 days to Christmas. So we are there two weeks exactly. We are there. Until, until, you know, big man does his big flight and all that stuff. So that's kind of exciting. It is exciting. What else is happening today? It's have a bagel day. I love bagels. What's your favorite bagel? I kind of like try a few different things. But no. Is it everything bagel? Oh, I mean, that's a fine option. Unless you're doing something sweet. Yeah. Like I like a blueberry. I like a cinnamon sugar one. I like a cheese bagel of different varieties, like an Ozzy Ago or a Pepperjack. I like a jalapeno sometimes. There's a lot of different varieties of bagel. There is. There is. Good job. Yeah, thanks. And then what do you put on it? Do you build a sandwich? Do you just put on cream cheese? Sweet or if you want some big savory? I know. Right. A lot of options. No, I want a bagel. Well, it is have a bagel day. So it's a fine day to want a bagel because today you should have one. Yes. Also stretching day. Oh, I need a good stretch. I know. Same. I haven't. We used to do studio yoga, remember? Yeah, studio yoga. And we haven't done that in a very long time. That's true. I mean, even you are doing it pretty consistently and you've kind of fallen off. Because I get distracted by other things here in the morning sometimes. My good looks. Well, I like to do it by eight. No, it's not that. Wow. I like to do it by eight because that's when everybody comes in. You don't like to stretch when people are here. I don't want anybody just walking in. I see. Seeing me in a weird position and being like, well, I like this is a professional place of business. Yeah. And I'm professionally stretching right now. Do some desk calisthenics yourself. It's true. Everyone could use a good stretch. They could. You're right. All right. Well, go do a stretch and then go get yourself a bagel. That's right. Do a bagel stretch. Put it out of reach. So you have to stretch to get it. See. High C. Yeah. Get yourself that everything bagel. But leave one for me. Because you want one. I do. Is that the one you want? You want the everything right now? Oh, yeah. That's the best one. It's definitely one of them. So good. Okay. All right. Well, hey, good morning. I'm Josh. I'm Chantel. That's right. Together we are Josh and Chantel. Yes, facts. I was reading an article that said that employees feel pressure to give gifts to other coworkers. Do you feel pressure to give your coworkers? Probably until we figured out what we're going to do. I like I've been thinking about trying to do something a little extra. Yeah. And that's kind of been like a thing in my head. But then I was like, I don't know if I can pull it off in time because I haven't I haven't practiced like I need I wanted to make something. Right. And I just haven't honed my skills into where I'm comfortable saying, yeah, I'm going to make that thing for everybody. There are 18 people here. Yeah. And for you to have a hand or for you to make those 18 people something, right, you would have needed to start it a long time ago. Not necessarily. I just would need to feel confident in my ability to do the thing I wanted to do. And I was sort of making it up in my head and I was trying to figure out like, you know, is that what I want to do? I don't know. And then I feel like we've got a good solid fallback. But do you did you feel pressure to get everybody something? I don't necessarily do at work. And if somebody gives me something, I'm appreciative. But I also, if somebody doesn't give me something, I'm not like, OK, I don't believe you gave you didn't give me something. No, everybody's everybody's in a different situation. Exactly. Right. And I don't know what those situations are. So I don't expect someone at the office to give me something, whether I give them something or not. Right. What I found to be the culture here is that they like to do that. And I did not know what that means. What do you mean? Like, like when I first started here, I was unaware that that was a big thing that they do here. Giving gifts? Yeah, because I where I worked before forever didn't do that. As like everybody in the office, bring in a thing. And so when that happened, I went, oh, I got to bring in a thing. So that first year, I felt a little bit of like, oh, I missed the boat on this. And then I got better after that. But but it does add up. I mean, if you've got a family that you're trying to shop for. Sure. And then you have, I like this year, we have a white elephant gift at exchange. At this particular job. So we got to get two white elephant exchanges and then co-worker gifts. And then and it's not like we have to participate in those things. But sometimes the pressure does mount. And if you're not in a financially secure place, I'm sure that can feel we've been in that place before where we're like, I can't, I there's no way that I can buy co-worker gifts. Sorry. It's just not going to happen this year. Right. Or neighbors or friends or I could just pile up. But I never want like my co-workers to ever feel like because I gave them something that I'm expecting something in return. I do. I want them to know. That's not how it works. It's not about getting, right? It's about giving. Right. Yeah. I heard about that. Mm-hmm. But yeah. First year, awkward feeling like, oh, this is a thing that happens here. Oh, but you shouldn't feel that way. No, I, but I'm the new guy too. So it was even more like, oh, I should probably figure this out. And I don't even remember what I did the first year, but then you've been here every year after and we've done the thing we do, which is great. It is great. And that's become our thing. And I kind of like that that's become our thing. This year, I kind of want to jazz it up a little bit more. Right. That's why I was going to make another thing. Yeah. I'm not going to make anything. Sorry, co-workers. Get out of here. I don't have time for that. I don't have the time nor the energy. It's not that I don't like you. I just don't want to spend my time stressing over a Christmas present for you. Got it. Got it. Checks out. I'm just being real. Just being honest. You know, good luck in your own office culture, whatever that looks like. Hopefully it's easy breezy for you and you don't have to stress. Hopefully. Yeah. And good luck with it. Back in the nineties, Becky and Lynn Minor purchased about 100 acres of forest in Chewella, Washington. I think I'm saying that correctly. OK. Over the past 20 years, they have been dedicated to restoring what was a poorly managed forest into a thriving, healthy tree farm that they call Casa Beca de Norte or Becky's House of the North. OK. Yeah. All of their hard work will now benefit many others because Becky and Lynn recently donated Casa Beca del Norte to the Washington State University Extension Forestry Program. So what that means is this 100 acres of forest will now serve as a living classroom where experts and students can study how forests grow, survive threats and bounce back from damage. So it's going to help grow forests all over the place because they'll be able to study what's going on in this 100 acre wood. Uh huh. Right. While saying goodbye to their beloved property has been bittersweet, Becky and Lynn remain focused on the lasting impact the land will have. They say we hope that the tree farm continues to be a place of learning and research since our high school days. Becky and I have felt it's everyone's responsibility to leave the earth better than they found it. And with this tree farm, we feel that is what we have done. I want my own 100 acre wood. Pretty cool. Yeah. 100 acres is a lot of wood. I guess you're right. It's a big forest. Oh man. But think of all the animals you would have there. So many. Owls and rabbits. Deer, moose, elk, bear, pigs, raccoon, squirrel, chipmunk, snake. Wearing no pants. Oh, Winnie the Pooh, a tiger, a donkey. I see. Yeah. I forgot about the tiger. Yeah. How did you forget about Tigger? He's the like Pooh's best friend. Is that Piglet's role? Piglet. I would say Piglet. Piglet is his bestie. OK. And the rest of them are great friends, too. True story. Two kangaroos. Kangaroo. A mama and a baby. That's right. We got it. What an odd mix of animals in the woods. A tiger and a pig. And then that beaver, that woodchuck or whatever he is. Who whistles when he talks to that guy. All right. Well, anyway, that's some good news. Yesterday, I walked into the employee bathroom and there was our Andrea who works here. She was washing her hands and she said, oh, I'll just be out in a minute. She said, I've just been chloroxing all the doors down. There's been a lot of people that are sick. And I went, oh, no, indeed. And then I read something this morning that said, do you secretly get mad at the person who got you sick? I mean, I don't even know that I have to be secret about it. I mean, if you if you are ill, like visibly, like you can tell somebody is not feeling well. Yes. And they're trying to tough it out at work. Or they come into work, then like they were like, hey, I wasn't feeling very good. I'm going to go home early and then they show up the next morning looking worse. I go, what are you doing? Bringing that here? What if they don't have the time to take? I understand. But don't make everybody else sick because now everybody else can have to take the time. OK, I get that. I don't like getting sick and I don't like. But I don't think it's anybody's fault if you get sick. I never blame people when I get sick. I think it's just something there's germs that go around. Yeah, no, I think that's one thing. Pinpoint who's got you sick. But if one person shows up and is like, oh, man, I'm not. Yeah, I know. But OK. And then goes home early or finishes out the day and then comes back the next day, even worse, or you hear him in the, you know, you're down the hall and you hear. You go like, I'm not going near that room. There's varying levels of sickness, too, though. You've been sick at work before. Sure. Not like. Right. That's what I'm saying. But you've had the sniffles. Sure. You get mad at those people. No, that's different. Those people can still get you sick. I understand. What I'm saying is if you are like hacking up along down the office from other people, you've got to go home. Yeah, if you're hacking, go home. Everyone appreciates it. But there are days when I've had the sniffles and been at work and been like, I'm really sorry. I'm not feeling so great, but I'm also not feeling terrible. Right. I can finish this day. Right. But I try my best to be like, I'm wiping on my surfaces. I'm keeping my distance. I appreciate that people usually will go like, hey, I'm feeling like I'm running a fever. So I'm going to get out of here so I don't get anybody else sick because of fever. During a fever time, there's a bigger contagious thing. And so they'll go, I'm going to, I'm not going to come to work until I don't have a fever. So you, you actually, and you said it's not secret for it. No, like I would be like, go home. I do know that you, when we're in public spaces and you hear somebody coughing repeatedly, you're like, you know, I'm not going down that aisle. Go away. Because all their airborne hacking up germs are just floating in the sky right there. I'm not going down that aisle. I don't like it when, like it happened just yesterday. We're at the grocery store and there was a kid in a cart. And I'm like, I don't want to walk near that cart. I saw that kid too. And so I try to like hold my breath as I go by. Covered his mouth. Okay. You were ahead of me. So I didn't see. Yeah. He covered his mouth. Yeah. With his hands. Sure. And his mom said, thank you for covering your mouth. Right. But then as you and I both know. Then that kid's touching all kinds of stuff. Little kids touch everything. Oh yeah. Kind of it. Use your elbow. Be a vampire. I appreciate that you're covering it. Like whatever you want to call it. Yeah. I know. Cough into your elbow. Guess what? It's sickness time. I know. You're bound to get sick. I get it. It's not necessarily anybody's fault. Because it is whoever brings it to the office. This person got sick from this person and that person got sick from this person. Totally again. Who is patient zero? That's, that's the person that we get. That person who brought it into the office. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying too. If you got it outside of the office, you got people at home that aren't feeling well and you started feeling the symptoms and you're like, I'm still gonna go to work. And then you get in here and you go, like, go home. Yeah, but I don't have the time to take. I don't know what to tell you. But you're getting everyone else sick. You get so mad. It makes me laugh. I know. I don't blame anybody when I get sick. If I know who it was, if it's like, you know, somebody was sniffling and touched a door handle and then I touched a door handle, like I wash my hands regularly. So hopefully I don't, you know, carried around. But man, it's too easy. Wait. Sorry. It's sick time. Everyone's going to get it. It's coming for you. Oh, that's terrifying. Yesterday, I saw a video that I wanted to share with you. This guy was selling an item on Facebook Marketplace. OK. And he had multiple people interested in the item. And so he told each of those people separately to show up at a specific time and place. And then he held an auction. And the three of them were pretty upset. They were like, what? That's not how Marketplace works. And he's like, look, it's been a lifelong dream of mine to be an auctioneer. And so I would like to start the bidding at one dollar. And if you, I mean, they were like grumbling and he was like, all right, bidding starts. And he hits like a hammer on the on the railing. And he was like, here we go. And bidding opens at one dollar. Do I have one dollar? And then they started playing along and they were like, I'll give you a dollar for it. He goes, all right, who gave me two dollars? And he's just sitting there and he ended up selling the thing for like 36 bucks or whatever. It was like a car part. I was going to ask. But yeah, but there were three interested people and you ended up selling it for 36. I don't know how much he was asking for it, but they just kept auctioning and they ended up one of them wanted. That's kind of fun, actually. Yeah, I don't know if that's like against policy. I don't know how that works. I don't know how that works either, but I'd never seen anything like that. It felt parties were like, okay, I don't see anything wrong with it. Well, the one guy was like, I'll give you a 10 bucks right now. And that's it. Like at the very beginning before the auction started. And he was like, I'll give you 10 bucks right now. And that's it. And the guy goes, we'll start the bidding at one dollar, gavel. And then as the bidding goes on, that guy who was like, I'll just give you 10 bucks. By the time we got to 10 bucks, he was like $11. But that's it. He just kept saying that every time he bid. I'll give you $13, but that's it. And he just kept going up. And then the other, one of the other guys that was bidding was like, you say that every time. And he's like, $26, that's it. Was this local? No. No, I think it was in Australia. But it was funny. Made me laugh. And I went, huh. Did they have a video of it? Yeah. Yeah, it was a video I saw on Instagram. That's hilarious. Yeah. And I went, okay, that's an idea. I mean, look, you do you. Listen, if you've sold anything on Marketplace, you know that the amount of messages you get, is this still available? Well, it's because there's one button. Though there's one button you can accidentally hit that says, is this item still available? I know, but it is a pain in the butt. I know what it is. You have to try and sell something on Marketplace. And then you have to go and meet somebody in a public space because you're like, I'm not meeting you at my house. Right. You don't get to know where I live. Go meet me in the parking lot at Winko. Well, I saw a couple of people that were meeting up for a Facebook Marketplace deal last night at the grocery store. Did you? How'd you know? Well, they both pulled up and one rolled down the window and the other one was standing outside with an item. And I think they were like, are you the so-and-so? It looked like that was the part of the meeting. It was a sketchy kind of deal. Yeah, in a parking lot. Do you have those children's clothes? Yeah, weird. What are you selling? That's what I should have done. I should have rolled up and go, what are we selling? Yeah, what do you got? You want to do an auction? Excuse me. What happened? I don't know. I couldn't talk. There was something stuck. It's good. I'm good now. You hear me? I hear you. I'm here. Are you here? Are we good? I'm good. Okay. Australia just kicked their kids off of social media. I saw that. You did? Yeah, like officially, officially. They're like no social media for kids 15 and under. For 15 and under. And it's a big developmental thing along with a bullying thing, a frontal cortex thing. There's a lot going into that. It is a new law that wouldn't affect yesterday. Yeah, huge. And it banned all social media for kids 15 and under. It's the first country in the world to do it. It includes age restrictions on all the major platforms, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube. Over a million Facebook and Instagram accounts disappeared overnight. Companies will face steep fines if they don't deactivate kids' accounts. And they have to take reasonable steps to keep them from setting up new ones. Oh, sorry. The law passed last November and they're barely going around to actually enforcing it. Fans of the law thinks that it's going to be a great idea to get kids off their phone and encourage them to hang out in person again. Other people think it's going to backfire and leave them less informed and less connected. Plenty of kids are just going to find their way around it. Well, and that's going to be the interesting thing, right? Like, what are the... Like, how do you sign up for a profile and prove your... Of a certain age with a birthday? Right. That's simple math. Exactly. Exactly. That is an interesting challenge. I'm curious to see what kind of... You know, how are they going to police this? Right. It's interesting. But I say that about a lot of things. I know. Like, yeah, okay, good on paper. How does that translate to actual enforcement or policy? How do we actually enforce this? I think it's a great idea because I think our kids need to be connecting in person rather than over the phone. Yeah. Well, and look at the age. Like, it's very specific. It's 15 and under. I know. So, at 16, you get the opportunity to start these things. And I know that most of the apps have like a safeguarded parental whatever mode, but kids are smart and they know how to get around that stuff. Yes, they do. And so, you know, you got to be aware. You got to be cognitive of what's going on with your kids and social media and screen time and all that stuff. It's a hard thing. It's a hard thing to balance. It is hard. And then there was a 14-year-old Australian kid who said, why not just ban water and air while you're at it? Well, that's a little different. No, not according to this. I understand. I need this. I need it to live. Yeah. I agree with what you said though about losing connection and losing a few things because there's definitely a communication thing, but that can still exist. It didn't say you can't have a phone. It didn't say you can't have texting. It didn't say you can't have communication with your teenage friends, but does say like social media and the amount of stuff that's just bombarding your brain every four seconds does need to slow down. I think it needs to slow down for me. It needs to slow down for adults too. I agree. I wish it would ban me. Can you ban social media? I can ban social media for you. Everyone? Just ban it for everyone. Yeah. Let's all go back to not having it. We could all use a break from social media. Let's be real. Remember 2002 when it was only MySpace? Yeah. We don't need MySpace anymore. Let's just go back before. I read something somewhere too that said that there is a group of kids that are getting flip phones. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Because they don't. I've got scouts that have flip phones. Really? Yeah. They purposely are picking those because they don't want a smartphone. They're like, I don't want all that stuff on my phone. I just want to text my friends and whatever. I kind of like that. Yeah. I kind of want just a flip phone now. That's all you use it for anyway is texting. I mean, I get on social media, but I don't need to is what I'm saying. I need a break. You would live without Marco Polo? That's how I talk to my friends. That's what I'm saying. You mean I'd have to call somebody? No way. You know what would happen if you had a phone call? Shorter conversation. That's what would happen. And everyone would be in the conversation at once instead of staggered across a week or whatever. And instead of being like... I really want to know the more of that story. I got to wait for somebody to look at their phone and reply. Now you could just have a conversation. We'd have to have a conference call. And then it'd be finding the time that we could all have a conference. I texted somebody yesterday expecting them to text me back. They called me right away and I went, uh, that's what I do. Don't call me. Yeah. That's what happens because it's so much faster. I know it is and you get all of the information. It really is. And you get tone. That's true. That's all lost in text. I know. Band texting. Yeah, there's a good one. There's a good platform. We're going to get rid of texting. So I'm going to make everyone go back to talking on the phone and I'm going to get rid of caller ID. So you just have to answer and not know who it is. Yeah. Yeah. That's how that 14 year old feels. Why don't you just take away everything else? Water and air. I need it. Interesting. Good luck, Australia. Yeah. We'll see if it lasts or how they, I don't know. I'm curious about it. Me too. But good luck. I talked yesterday about how our co-worker of ours had given everybody these little Lego dogs. That's right. Except for one guy down the hall who loves cats and he got a Lego cat. There were two cats. Two cats. Yeah. The rest of us got dogs. That's right. Okay. The rest of us are cool. That's right. I attempted to make this Lego dog. I did not succeed. Now, how long did you give it? I gave it probably 20 minutes. That's pretty decent. I know because I know myself and I know that I often quit prematurely when things get difficult and I wanted to get a solid effort. Okay. I really did give it a solid effort. Okay. I hated it. The pieces were too small. The instructions were not clear. I gave up. The pieces are indeed very small. You came home last night, completed it in 30 minutes. Less than that. It would have taken me probably two hours. I built mine yesterday. I hold my hand right here in 30 minutes and yours had already, the hardest part is starting, isn't it? Isn't that? You had a couple of layers. This thing is how many layers tall? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. It's probably 16 or 18 layers of Lego tall in these many Legos. You had two or three. There wasn't a lot built, but I will tell you, I had to use my phone and take a picture of the instruction so I could zoom in to see what pieces I need and what that really was the game changer. Being able to read the instructions better made everything work. On your dog or my dog or both? Yeah. The instructions are teeny weeny. So I had to really give up. I mean, you didn't have to. No, I did because otherwise I would have gotten frustrated and I would just throw in it all away. Well, now you have a completed dog. I know. Thank you. And I have a completed dog. You did that in no time. Do you want to know the most frustrating part about building this is when you drop a piece into its open body and then you have to shake it out of there like a salt shaker. That was the most frustrating part for me. I was like, come on. Those pieces, like the one to one piece. The little tiny one piece. Yep. Yeah. How did you even pick that up? With my hands? You wouldn't need some tweezers. No. You did it with your fingers? Yeah. Wow. I'm impressed. All right. Look at my face. Color me impressed. Yeah. Well, now we each have a dog. I know that Jeff down the hall, he has built his dog. He has a black dog and they gave it black eyes and he went and not a good idea. No. He came to tell you has eyes. They're supposed to be like translucent looking, but there's no way for light to get through to like know they're translucent. So it's just black face. You know, black face dog. And then Andrea down the hall, she said, can I hire you to build mine for me? I said, whatever you need. To you? She asked you? Yeah. Cause I was walking around with mine built. You did it at no time. So you should just make her. It's just a Lego. No, it was not Lego. Well, I mean, it's not Lego brand. No. It's all Lego instructions are concise and clear and the pieces are easy to assemble. And this is not a leg. It is not Lego quality. It makes me sound like I'm unappreciative of the gift. I love the gift. I just wish it had come preassembled. I'm lucky that I have a Josh to do it for me. That's not the fun of it. The fun of it is building it. Oh, I didn't have any fun with that part of it. That's like the gift we give. It isn't the gift so much as the fun of using it. Okay. That's true. Right. You should have built it yourself because that's the fun of the gift. I understand, but I didn't want to. But I'm glad you gave it a good solid 20 minutes. I did. Yeah. I separated all the pieces. I know that was sort of helpful. Yeah. I liked that part of it. Yeah. When I left yesterday, Justin next door was building his. I have yet to see if he finished it. He was building it for a long time. Well, you said that you had told Jade, the guy who had given, you said that you told him that I attempted, but I got really frustrated, which I am sure that he got great joy out of it. Oh yeah. He loves that people are upset about it. Yeah. I know he does. Yeah. He's like, I really liked it. Everyone hates this. That's a great joy for him. I know this. You should have told him that I loved it. I put it together in 10 minutes. What an easy gift. And then he would have been disappointed. You see, that's what he should have said. I do see. Because he likes people's misery. What a great gift. Yeah. Here's this thing. Hope you hate it. But that's why we like hot sauce. Like we do a lot of different hot sauces. We'll like try different ones around here. And he's like, this one really hurts. And he's like, yes, let's have it. And it's good. So, you know, pain and misery comes along with working with that guy. So you just get comfortable with it. Okay. Well, I appreciate you making my Lego. You're welcome. Thanks, buddy. I just posted a video. You and I made a video. Yeah. And it's about our Christmas cards. Okay. Yes. We have four Christmas cards on our door. That is right. We got a fourth yesterday. So that brings us to a total of four. We have four Christmas cards, which is great. Right. We're off to a great start. We are off to a great start. If you would like to send us a Christmas card, we'll hang it on our door and we'll send you one in return. Yeah. We have a new one every year. This is our third year making a Christmas card. Maybe you've been collecting them all. Or maybe you want to start your collection this year. This is our best one yet. I would say this one's pretty darn good. And if you want to get your hands on it, we will happily send it to you. Just send us a Christmas card with your return address and we will send you one in return. And that way you can hang us on your fridge or whatever you do. Hang it on the door, hang it on the little wire with the little clips, whatever you end up doing. Or look at it and throw it away. We don't care what you do with yours. But if you send us one, we'll hang it on the door. Because eventually down the line, put it in your hope chest. Because then somebody's going to find it and go, who are these people? And that will be fun. So anyway, if you want to send us a card, 400 West Sunnyside Road in Idaho Falls, Idaho 8302. We do have it posted on socials. You can see the video. You can see the cards. We are sending out the four return cards today. So if you want to get one, there's still time to do it. And all you have to do is send us a card. We'll send you one back. It's an exchange. It's like a Christmas card exchange. But you have to send us one first so that we know your address. Right. That's how it works. Right. That's the real reason. Plus, we want to decorate our door with Christmas cards from you. So send a card, get a card. It doesn't have to be a fancy card. No, no, you could just write a letter. You could have the kids make a card. Yeah. We're not picky. No, we'll hang it on the door. Send us a card. The details are where? Oh, on the internet. Facebook, Instagram, where? Oh, the video? Yeah. I posted it at Facebook and Instagram. All right, there you go. But if you just want our address and you're like, I don't want to watch that demo video, just Google Classy 97 radio station. And you'll get the address. Okay. And you'll get our address. All right. Send us a card. We'll send you one back. Yesterday, I said, I'm going to go grab something to eat for lunch. And I had a few minutes to run out of the building. And I went and grabbed a nice healthy lunch. And I thought, you know what this healthy lunch needs is a soda. And so I went next door to where I grabbed lunch. I just went through one of those drive-thru soda shop things. And I was like, all right. Now, what do I typically get when I go through one of those? I know it's not. It was strange of me. But I went, I want something to drink. And I was like, Oh, yeah, there's a soda shop right there. I'll just go there because they're usually fairly inexpensive. And, you know, maybe a couple of bucks or whatever. And I can grab a fancy soda. So I pull in and I look at the menu and they have them categorized by what the base soda is, right? So it's a Dr. Pepper or a Mountain Dew or a Sprite or whatever. I don't either. But do you know what I order? Let me think. Okay. I would guess your base would be a Sprite. That's correct. With a peach syrup. Not correct. Yeah, I'm just listening. Okay. I would guess just a Sprite with a peach syrup. There's more to it than that. Okay. What else did you put in it? Let me see here. I'm going to pull it up because I want to pull the actual thing that I ordered. If I had to order for you, because you don't typically get those dirty sodas. But if I had to order one for you, that's what I would pick is a Sprite with peach. But there's, I think there's something else in it. Maybe coconut. I think it's a coconut peach thing. Okay. Yeah. I was just trying to find the menu online, but it's becoming more of a pain than it's worth. But that's okay. Anyway, yeah, so that's what I got was a Sprite with the coconut and the peach. And everywhere calls that something different. Yes, they do. So I ordered a 32 ounce girl next door. Okay, that's embarrassing. Pull up to the window and she opens it up. And it's this younger woman and she's like, Hey, how are you? I was like, great. Can I get a 32 ounce girl next door? Thanks. It's awful. What are we doing? I was not stoked on ordering that. I like it when they have those weird names because it makes you order them. Yeah. I mean, they've got to do something else. Can we call it? Can we call it a Josh? Can I just can I rename it so that people go, yeah, I'm going to have the Josh. Thank you. I feel like that's way better than a 32 ounce girl next door. It was delicious. It was great. It was, it was awesome, but I was not stoked. There used to be years ago when I worked at a different job, there was a soda shop just around the corner and I didn't go all the time. But if the day was especially difficult or I was in a cranky mood, I was like, I'm going to get a soda and I would just go and get the soda. But I think the one I liked had a root beer base and it had toasted marshmallow syrup and then I feel like maybe a salted caramel syrup, but it was called something somewhere like campfire night or something. And I'd be like, can I just get a campfire night? My job, I wasn't mean to the people, but I was just cranky at my job because people were driving me crazy or something. I don't work at that job anymore. Okay. Well, anyway, I didn't read any of the other, I didn't read any of the other options because I did not get a chance to because I found what I was looking for. But I was like, man, it is sprite, it is coconut, it is peach. That is what it is. Yep. Oh man, I could order for it. It's like I know you. Look at me knowing you. Look at me knowing you. No, that's not the words, even to that song. You were talking about how all of the birthdays that I have listed on our calendar are not consistent. Yeah. Well, now I would like to complain about something else. Go ahead. I would like to complain about the 500 emails I got inviting me to the updated events because you went through and fixed all of the calendar. Started January 1st and I fixed them all. Guess what? They're all consistent now. They all say the exact same thing. Capitalization. Look at this email. This is my garbage can on my email. Look at all of that. Look at it. Well, guess what? Look at it forever. You complained. I fixed it. You're welcome. You're welcome, Josh. But then you called me out because one birthday that I had added apparently wasn't checked as all day. It added like 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Who does that on the birthday? I just put it in whenever the default was. I just added it so I wouldn't forget. Your main complaint was that some of them said birthday. Some of them said B-day. Some of them had a capitalized B. Some of them didn't. What was your preference? I don't know if I had one. I just wanted consistency. The one birthday that you had put in that I called you out on said B-day all lowercase. Yeah. And I went, hmm, look at this. Created by Josh. Yep. Hmm. Look at this. Then you still didn't add your own birthday. So now I'm going to go in and do that. Well, listen, my... Apparently you think it's weird. No. Google added my birthday for me. Did you know that? No. Well, it did. Not to the family calendar. Well, maybe I'll add it to the family calendar then. I don't know your format. So I'm just adding it right now. My birthday is on the family calendar. No, it's not. That's on my work calendar. Hold on. I'm... You're going to do it? Yeah. I'll add my birthday. I will discard. Are you going to complain because I'm sending you a... No, because it's only one. And I'm expecting it. Not 400. Well, now they all look the same. All of the birthdays in their family calendar look the same. That's a big deal. Capital is that... Yes. You get it. I do. They're capital of those eyes. Properly and consistently. I think that's great. Thank you. You're welcome. These are real important things that matter. They are. It took 10 minutes and I got her done. It took you 10 minutes? Yeah. That's pretty quick. I mean, I don't know how long it took. Well, let's find out because we can. Because I have the emails. So if I go in here and I look... To the first one? That's right. Excellent. So the last one... Here we go. The last one came through at... Does it tell me? I don't know. 2.43 pm. The first one came through at 2.12. So it took... 32 minutes. Yeah. It took longer than 10 minutes. Right. Took you a half hour. Well, I probably got... Distracted in between... Yeah, I was probably in the middle of something else. That's a 30-minute project. Not bad. Not bad. Thank you. Now, all of the birthdays in our calendar are uniform? Yes. Good. I will sleep easy tonight. Thank you. Listen to this. This is a margarine butter fight. Margarine and butter fight. Yeah. When margarine was first created... I don't know the year that it was first created. I should have. Oh, I'll see what I can find. It was illegal to make it the same color as butter. Really? So the manufacturers dyed it yellow. But eventually, margarine became more popular than butter. So butter manufacturers started dyeing their butter yellow. Isn't that interesting? So butter was white? Yes. I feel like the butter we get is still white. It's got a yellow tint. Well, I think that's the natural color. I don't think we buy like dyed yellow butter. No, I don't think so. Interesting. Isn't that interesting? So margarine was actually created in 1869 by a French chemist who won a prize from then-Emperor Napoleon III for developing a cheap butter substitute. And it was originally made out of beef fat and milk. And it was used to feed the poor in the military. Interesting. Yeah. Margarine. Yeah. When was the last time you had margarine? Oh, it's been a while. Did your parents ever use it? We used to have margarine, yeah. Always? Is that what your typical standard was? I was trying to think. Like, we weren't a country crock house. No. We had- Country crock was for the richies. That's right. We never had country crock. I'm trying to remember the brand we had. I want to say... Of margarine? I would say, you know what? I bet we probably had the small thing of country crock, but we were not able to afford parquet. Parquet was so rich. Parquet was the expensive stuff. Yeah. Parquet. Wasn't parquet the one that talked? Yes. What did it say? Parquet. That's what it said. Yeah. It's a little lid lifted up and it went, parquet. Yeah. You're rich. But that, no, I think country crock was actually... Nope. There it is. It was golden soft. That's it. Greg's with 2G, Greg's golden soft margarina. Margarina. Yeah, they threw the end at the A at the end. Do they still make parquet? I have not seen that. Parquet. Nobody could afford it, I betcha. Golden soft. That's the can. I'm looking at it. Golden soft margarina. Because it's fancy. I have not had margarine since I lived at home. Same. But now I want to try some parquet. I would, I do, can you still get parquet? That's what I'm asking, can ya? I don't know. Yes, you can. They've changed the logo, but parquet is still available and as a squeeze. How about that? Parquet. Now the flavor says butter even better. Parquet. That was the slogan. Okay, parquet. Okay, parquet. I'm coming your way. You want to try parquet? Yes, I do. I bet it's just like all the other margarines. I'm sure it is, but I, we never got parquet because it was too expensive. Well, I always wanted it because of the commercials. Listen up, mom. Why didn't you buy me parquet? Look who's getting parquet now. I don't want it in the house. What? Can we just find somebody who has it and use some of theirs? Why don't you want it in the house? You want a whole thing of margarine? No, you can get a squeezable one. That's a lot. It's only $2.50. That's a quantity, not a price. I get it. It's a lot of margarine to have around. A whole squeeze bottle. You might find that you like margarine better than butter. I don't know about that. Okay, well. Kind of a butter guy. Are you? Yeah. I like butter too. Butter is better. Uh-huh. Is that right? Isn't that the high commercial? I don't know. It sounds like there was a butter margarine war. I said that. I know. That's what we started talking about. That's what I'm saying. When you start saying butter is better. I can't believe it's not butter. I've had that before. Because it's so good. It's not. And it's not spreadable. No, but it comes in a spray bottle. I know. I was on Weight Watchers once and they said, you can have as much. I can't believe it's not butter as you want. Except it's not. If you have it on a piece of bread, you're like, what is this? Yeah, I wish it was butter. It's what you should be called. Yeah. Yeah. It does not. I can't believe it's still not butter. I can't believe you're not spreading and or melting on a hot piece of toast. Yeah. Melt. Melt. It's because it's not butter. It's an oil. I can't believe it. I believe it. Would you rather this thing or that thing? It's would you rather this or that? Would you rather get socks for Christmas or underwear for Christmas? Can I have both? Do you need both? I'm always good with both. Okay. I love new socks. You know that. I know you do. I do. I need new socks. I could also use some new socks. There's been a random sock floating around our yard. Yeah. I'm pretty sure it's yours. It looks like one of your socks and you keep saying, I'm not picking up that sock because I can't be sure it's mine. It's yours. And then you're like, I don't know if I have a missing sock. I'm like, you do. Here's its friend out here blowing around in the flower bed. Maybe you could take the sock inside. Listen, though. Listen to me. You take extra socks sometimes. I can't win. In your pocket sometimes. Nope. Never done that. That's no, that's not true. Sometimes if you're wearing like a shoe that doesn't need a sock, but later you're going to wear a different shoe. You'll carry a sock. I have no. I've maybe only done that once. I remember it. Well, okay. But our house is at the end of a street. Yeah. So anytime it's windy, as it has been for the past couple of days. So you think that's stranger sock? Garbage blows into our yard. Yeah. I'm not touching that sock. Even though I feel like just pick up the sock and throw it away. Pick up the sock and throw it away then. I bet it's yours. We look a little bit like gross people who can't clean up our yard because of one sock stuck in the flower bed. That's yours. I don't. Why would my sock be outside? Maybe it fell off. You were wearing socks the other day. It kept flopping off. Maybe it had some static clean. Oh, there you go. It could have been stuck to your pants or something. Good call. All right. I'll inspect it today. I'm sure it's your sock. But I don't feel like I have any socks missing. All socks have pairs. All socks are present and accounted for. I disagree because one of them's in the front yard in the flower bed. So. You're picking socks? Yeah. I'm going to pick socks too because I do need some new socks. I like both. I'm fine with getting those as a gift. That's fine. It's one of those things where you open and you go, I needed that. It's a needed gift. Not a wanted gift. That's cool. I think that's fine. I needed that gift. And I like new socks. You do like new socks. They have to be the right height though or else I get made fun of. What height do you like? The height I'm wearing today. I got to look. Ankle? Neat? Yeah. Not that tall ankle. You know? I'll have to look. Yeah. Okay. About 15 years ago, researchers used Facebook statistics to study when people are most likely to change their status from in a relationship to single. And the day with the biggest spike was today. Today? And ever since it's been considered breakup day. Is that right? They say that today is the most popular day of the year for people to break up. And because of the Facebook stats of people changing relationship status. Yes. Okay. Interesting. And a lot of people are saying that it's not too close to the holidays for it to be cruel, but it's far enough a way that you can skip buying them a present. So it's always December 11th or is it the Thursday two weeks before Christmas? The 11th. It is. Okay. Plus you don't have to bother with the awkward family introducing, especially for newer relationships. Sure. So here's what I found because I wanted to find out why do people break up on December 11th. Right? Like what are the key reasons for breaking up? Yeah. This year, apparently there's deep reflections on life goals and relationships revealing if a partnership truly fits. That's what's going on this year. Holiday stress is a contributing factor, magnifying existing relationship cracks because of all of the stress of the holidays. Okay. Something they call the Christmas dilemma, which is where couples decide against faking happiness through the holidays or want to avoid the pressure of potential awkwardness of meeting family. That's what I said. Right? They call that the Christmas dilemma. And then ending it by mid December allows time to grieve before Christmas and start the new year fresh, which is a clean slate thing they're saying. And then emotional amplification because the contrast between the idealized festive season and a struggling relationship highlight in compatibility, making issues feel bigger and leading for the decision to cut ties. So that is particularly why. They say other popular times for breakups are late March and the Tuesday before Valentine's Day, which they call the red Tuesday. Hey, good news. What's that? If you do get dumped today, you're not alone. And hey, there's some fish on the market because other people might- There's some fish on the market. Yeah. What I mean by that is other people have probably been broken up with you. So go catch yourself a new one, I guess. There's other fish on the market. People are saying it. People have been saying it for a long time and they're saying it again today. There's other fish on the market. Okay. I like it. That's a good idiom. Thank you. Should we end the show with that? Yeah, might as well. All right. That is what we will do then and we will be back tomorrow on Friday. Oh, yes. Yeah, I know. Have a happy Thursday. Yep. We'll see you tomorrow. Goodbye. Thanks for listening to Wake Up Classy 97, the podcast. If you enjoy the show, please share, subscribe and rate the podcast. Wake Up Classy 97 is hosted by Josh and Chantel Tielor and is a production of Riverbend Media Group. For more information or to contact the show, visit Riverbendmediagroup.com.