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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Monday, September 28th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
The weekend box office has Avengers Endgame: Encore at the number one spot, a Staten Island couple who gave away more than $800,000 and are sending hundreds of kids to see Hamilton on Broadway, the Minnesota Vikings' 3-0 start, a football cheat sheet from our son, the pants around the neck sizing trick, Chantel recaps her Shop Hop quilt trip with her sister and daughter, a wheelchair accessible hotel room mix-up & a Spanish radio station, Big Gulps, huh? with the neighbor, the window air conditioners are out so now we have to tackle the shed project, helping our son build a budget spreadsheet, can Chantel keep a secret, Comic Sans and Papyrus are awful fonts, the 2026 MTV VMAs happened last night, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Endgame is #1
(1:28) - Fall pictures didn't happen
(5:16) - Good News
(6:51) - Pants around your neck
(11:28) - Vikings cheat sheet
(17:47) - Chantel's cute pics
(22:52) - Work filled weekend
(29:51) - No more A/C
(35:13) - Budgeting spreadsheet
(39:32) - Big Gulps, huh?!
(43:52) - Shoppity Hoppity
(52:40) - Chantel can't keep secrets
(57:10) - Would You Rather
(1:01:49) - MTV VMAs
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Full show transcript:
Chantel.
Josh. The big box office reported the movies of the weekend, you know. Uh-huh. Uh, the big movie over the weekend came out seven years ago. The number one movie in the box office is a seven-year-old movie. What is it? Avengers endgame.
Is it it's in the movies again?
Well, yeah, they brought it back because they're getting ready for Doomsday. So they brought Endgame back to the theaters as an encore, and it returned to theaters uh in first place at the domestic box office, brought in 26 million dollars over the over the weekend. It's crazy. Yeah. Uh the new Resident Evil was number two. Heart of the Beast was number three. Prime Time, which is the Chris Hansen movie with uh Edward from Twilight. Uh that was number four, and Forgotten Island was number five. But Avengers Endgame from 2019.
It's Heart of the Beast, the one with Brad Pitt. I think so, yes. Okay. Yeah. I'm just not keeping up with movies.
lately. No, I haven't really. Because there's nothing really good. Yeah. Heart of the Beast is the uh Brad Pitt thriller.
I do want to kind of watch the Avengers again. Yeah, well, all three of them.
There's so much that's happened. So what we need to do is watch the Avengers Endgame stuff, and then we need to watch the YouTube recaps that people put together to fill in the blanks before doomsday. Okay. Because there's no way we're gonna watch all of the stuff in the world. No, I can't. Yeah, no. No way. No. So that'll work. We'll do that.
All right. Sounds like a plan, Stan. Anyway, here's today's show. Enjoy. Hey there. What's up, buddy?
Well, uh, we're back. So that's a thing. Yeah. Uh this is uh shaping up to be quite the week for me. Uh, work-wise, there's a lot going on as we kind of work our way to this weekend, and there's a lot going on this weekend for us in our personal lives, also for uh for the the station.
We've got general conference this weekend. There's just a lot of work to do. So this is a busy week. It's a busy week. Yeah, as we kind of prepare for all the things that are happening this week. At our calendar. Yeah.
And we were kind of upset because all of our weekends in September were booked. Yeah. And I was looking at our calendar, and I go, guess what? All of our weekends.
Every single October are booked. And this is this is where I could probably go back into March and April, and I could pull up the audio where I said specifically, we've got to write down the weekends we want to go camping first. Yeah. We have gone camping twice.
Uh-huh. Now, I did have a week-long backpacking trip in there, which is good for me. Uh, but I have fished not nearly enough. No. And fall fishing is going on right now, and every weekend is full.
So, what you're gonna have to do is just go after work. I'm gonna have to. You have to.
I'm gonna have to put in my nine to five and then my five to nine. You are, yeah.
No, that's what you're gonna have to do. Because the weekends are out. I know. Sorry to tell you. It's crazy. I know. I want to go take some family pictures. Can't no weekends. None available. No. What we're gonna have to do. What?
Is go on uh weeknight.
Yeah, but it's gonna be too dark. I know. Because our son doesn't get off until six. I know. By the time we drive up there, it'll be dark. Right. It's not gonna happen.
Well, and by the time we get it all scheduled and stuff, the leaves will have fallen off. I took a little drive uh on Saturday. You didn't go yeah, I did. I sent you a picture to go check out some of the uh fall leaves because I didn't want to miss them. And so I went up into uh the the little foothill valley, a little bit east of Pocatello, and uh gorgeous up in the buckskin area. I was in the Cash Valley. Amazing. Yeah, it's real pretty. Yeah, so I saw some same from a distance I did.
From a distance, I did. That's a strange sentence. From a distance, I did. I mean, from a distance I saw the pretty foliage, and then I was like, Oh, it sure would be cute to stand in front of those. Yeah, take a photograph. True. True. Sure would be. But it didn't happen.
No, so we'll just have to do like we did uh winter family photos. I know that there's still time, like we still have the four of us. We can still take pictures of our faces standing in front of stuff. We don't have to totally give up on it just because the calendar's is so full that's you're right.
You know, we can take the camera, we can take some pictures while we're all together this weekend.
Hey, well, you know what? I was just thinking, our son has Fridays off, so we could probably go on a Friday. Right. After work and school. Yeah. Yeah. We that could work. That could work. That could work. Not this week. Too busy. Yeah, I know. All right. We'll get it in there. Don't you fret. Yeah. One of these days. Anyway.
Good morning. Let's get through Monday. All right. Let's do one thing at a time.
Baby step it. That's right. Baby step this week. That's right. Here we go.
Here is some good news. Uh, this story comes out in New York. Richard and Lois Nakotra. They own and operate uh hotels, restaurants, and office parks in Staten Staten Island.
Okay. Uh, and they're on a mission to pour their profits directly back into their community. They recently gave away more than $800,000. They donated that to local schools, veterans' groups, charities, uh, declaring that giving money away is more fun than making it. That's what they say.
I know a couple of people in the world who could use that mentality.
Yeah, I understand that. Uh, on top of handing out cash grants and giving a thousand dollars to every local elementary school. The couple is sending hundreds of middle school kids to see Hamilton on Broadway. Cool. They're covering the cost of all the tickets, buses, and t-shirts for everybody. It's really awesome. That's amazing. Yeah, since 2011, Richard and Lois have given away 4.2 million dollars to charity groups and scholarship recipients, and the latest donations will give a big boost to hundreds of students just as the new school year is getting rolling.
Yeah, it's really really fun. So uh good for those guys. They're like, Yeah, we don't. I mean, we got enough, right? Like, let's just give the rest away. That's cool. I think that's very, very good.
I wish I had a lot of money. I would do that.
Yeah, leave a legacy instead of generational wealth.
Take the kids to the theater. I know. That's so cool.
Yeah, a bunch of kids who would never be able to have that experience are going to get to see Hamilton, which is cool. Amazing. I love it. Anyway, that's good news.
I'm wearing a new pair of pants today.
They are a good looking pair of pants.
Thank you. I found them at the thrift store. Yeah. And they were brand new with the tags still on. So double score. And also, we were shopping, and I hate trying on clothes.
I know this about you, which is look, uh, fine, whatever. If you'd rather have to go back to the store to return something that doesn't fit, that's your prerogative. No. I also know that not every pair of pants or shirt or anything that I like is going to necessarily fit perfectly. Now thrift store a little different. I might try on a jacket. I know my size of shirt. Uh, but I'm not gonna like rush on into a fitting room at a thrift store, typically. Okay, unless there's like, I really want to know if these pants are going to fit. Like I have to know before I spend the money.
There's the pants around the neck trick. I don't. Or you take the waistband and you put it around your neck.
No, you have to have the pants buttoned. Yes.
And if you put it around your neck, if it if you can touch the end to end, they're gonna fit. Makes no sense. You said that doesn't work. Well, guess what? I did that with these pants.
But also, you know your pants size. Fit like a charm. Well, yeah. Fit like a charm. Works like a charm. Fit like a glove.
Fit like a glove. Okay. Idiom. like Fit like a charm. Yeah. Okay. It's like a charm.
It's like a charm. Works like a glove. So I decided I would do a little bit of research. Okay. Apparently, yes, you can estimate if a pair of pants fits your waist by wrapping the buttoned waistband around your neck. Most users online agree this works because a person's waist circumference is usually in bold twice the size of their neck. So you button and zip the pants completely, hold each end of the waistband and wrap it around the back of your neck like a cape.
Yeah. And you can check where the ends meet in the front. If the ends touch, the pants should fit your waist. If they overlap, they're too big. If they do not meet, they're likely too small. Yeah. It works. Usually.
I just want to. I was doing this, and you go, that doesn't work. I just want you to know it does.
It also does not work well for low rise or high rise pants. Okay. Because the waistband sits differently on your body. True. And it may not be accurate for all body types.
Okay. During pregnancy, plus size proportions, etc. And the style of pants you're trying to buy can definitely be incorrect. I like. And not fit your body type. I like during pregnancy. Yeah. You're not going to get a pregnant neck.
Third trimester. I think these pants are gonna fit.
Yeah, they fit around my neck.
They're gonna do it.
Yeah. It's not my favorite method. I would rather just try them on.
I understand that, but you had very little faith in that it was gonna work. And as I was wrapping them around my neck, I said, Yeah, these are gonna fit.
Plus, you look ridiculous doing that at the store. Who cares? Why just don't go try them on?
Have I ever cared about looking ridiculous? No. Sometimes. But why don't you just go try them on? Because I don't want to. Then I have to take off my shoes.
Yeah. And take off my pants. And it's weird and awkward. I don't like it. I don't like it.
Okay. I just don't like. I just don't like taking off my shoes.
Because here's the other part. Then you have to put that all back on. Then you have to put your pants back on.
Then you have to put your shoes back on. I don't like it. It takes too much time.
I think that's the thing. It just takes so much time. And then I have to put my shoes back on. Come on. And I also don't like being barefoot in the fitting room no matter where.
it is. I do have socks. I don't like it. I don't like being sock footed in the dressing room. I don't like it. Okay. That Sounds good. But these pants fit. Well, good. And they look great. All right.
Yes, they do. Good job. Glad the cape thing worked out for you.
Oh, my I'm not even plugged in, Josh. You don't have headphones. You haven't even plugged in my headphones today.
We've been we've been going for over an hour and some, and you don't even know that your headphones aren't plugged in. Well, there they go.
Thank you very much. Now you're there. Begin my job.
Well, all morning you were not wearing them. So anyway, go ahead.
Uh there was some football on yesterday. That's right. Guess what? The Vikings are three and oh. That's right. I think there are only five teams that are three and oh. Maybe three. No, there are more than that. There are five. Okay. Because I counted. All right. And that's pretty awesome. And you're one of them. Yeah.
Or your team anyway is one of them. Yeah.
I'm the 11th player. A 12th. Yeah. Twelfth man. Twelfth woman. I'm just saying.
That's what they say. There's 11, 11 men on the field, 12th man is what they call the fans.
Yeah, but I'm a twelve. Yeah, I get it. I'm 12th woman. That's fine. Go on. My son knows all the stats about football. He can tell you what that player, what college that player played for.
Sure. What number they are, how many yards they got last week. He is like the stat king.
So I constantly have to ask him. Hey, what's that guy? Where's that guy from? What's that guy?
What's that guy's first name? Because most of the time I just even know like their last name. So he made me a cheat sheet last week of all the players on my team. Because I don't know all the players on my team. I know the I know the key. The key players. Right? Like Jordan Addison and Justin Jefferson and Carson Wentz. Right. Kyler. Murray.
You're big stars, yeah.
I know Andrew Van Ginkel. I know those guys. But there's a lot of players on a team. And so I can't always remember. And so I said, Oh, Beck, who it's this guy's number? What's I think I asked Kyler Murray's. I go, what's Kyler Murray's number? And he goes, one. Where's your cheat sheet? And I said, Why can't you just tell me? And he goes, Why do you think I made you the cheat sheet?
I mean, I asked. I said, Did you make the cheat sheet because you were tired of answering the same questions? And he said, Yeah, kinda. Specifically, the the like, he's like, I'll answer questions. He's like, don't not ask me.
But he's like, these are the ones you ask all the time, and I'm tired of answering them. So here is the players. Here is their number. Here is the information that you most commonly ask. Is he married? What's his family like?
Well, that stuff he doesn't know. I know. So that's stuff I have to look up on my own. I should ask him. He'd get so mad at me. I should say, not mad, but he'd he'd say no. If I said, Hey, can you make me a cheat sheet of their families? He'd say, No.
Yeah, nah, you can make your own spreadsheet for that one.
Say, I don't know that information. Yeah. But he did. He made me the problem is, and I told him this. I said, I don't have these, aren't all the players. Like you've just written down the top players.
Yeah, because that's who you ask about most often.
I need my defensive line. I need my own line. You got to get all my players on there. Yeah. And he goes, okay, I'll do that soon.
He didn't sound so excited. I didn't. He's like, hmm. All of this information's online, so you can go ahead and look it up whenever you want.
I know. I know. Ooh, there's a guy on my team that said number zero. I didn't think you could be a number zero. Sure, you can. Hmm.
You can't be negative numbers, though.
Well, okay. That's it. It can be like a minus one.
It's going to be zero through 99. How okay.
I was gonna ask a question and now I can't remember what it was. What was it? I don't know. Oh, what I need is like a cheat sheet with pictures is what I really need. With their helmets on. With and without their helmets on.
It looked the same when they all have their helmets on.
I need to I need a picture reference. That's what I need to do. Okay.
That's a whole lot. That's like a yearbook. And then that has to change every no, and it changes mid-season.
Changes all the time. I should create. Ooh, you know what I should do is just create my own spreadsheet with pictures, and then I'll just keep track. That's too much work.
It's already exists. Where? Minnesota Vikings.com. I mean, just go to their website. It's Vikings.com. Okay. And go to team. And all the pictures and all their jersey numbers and all their positions and all of their everything, their height, their weight, their age. Oh, seriously? The college they went to? Yes.
That's what I need because I always I always I always ask Beck. How much is that guy weigh? How tall is that guy? It's all online. Yeah, he's annoyed at me, isn't he?
The roster, the coaches, the depth chart, who's injured, what are they trading, the stats, uh all of it.
What is EXP? Experience? Is that ears in the league?
Four years, rookie, two years, six years, rookie. Yeah. R means rookie. Yes.
Oh, I got a couple of rookies on my TV.
Every team has a couple of rookies every year. This is your first year watching football. No, it isn't. Come on. Chill down, dude. I'm so chilled down.
Whoa. That guy's been playing for 15 years. Is he the oldest? I gotta see.
Well, you can sort by that column and you can see that Andrew DePola is 39 years old. He's been playing for 12 years from Rutgers College. Yeah. Number 42. And he is your oldest player.
Oh, and they're listed alphabetically with the city.
Yeah, if you hit player name, if you hit number, you can sort them by number. Yeah. No problem.
And they put it on their
All right, I'm going to let you go experience the internet for the first time. Have fun.
I was hanging out with Emory over the weekend, and it was a beautiful day on Saturday, and there was a cute little bench. And she said, sit there, I'm gonna take your picture. And I go, Oh, okay. And I sat down and she goes, look cute. And then she goes, Oh, is that it?
So she makes you feel good, is what you're saying.
Yeah. I went, well, I thought I was looking cute, but apparently not.
Well, you do in this picture. She sent. That's not the one. This you look really cute.
Yeah, there was a different one. So that was the second picture. The first one. Yeah. She said, look cute. And then I did. I was kind of looking off in the distance. And she goes, Oh, is that it? Oh.
And I said, I don't know. What am I supposed to look like? What am I supposed to do?
And she goes, Well, look off in the distance. And I said, I was. Yeah. And she said, do it again. And so I did. And then that's the one. This is a cute picture. It is a cute picture. I agree. It does look cute.
She sent it to the family uh text group. It's way better than the picture that she sends of your sister looking. Whatever she was looking. That she sends to the whole family. That's uh that's a sight.
Well, thanks. Nobody responded to the picture when she sent it. You didn't. I hearted it. Uh I don't think you did. I did. Let me look and see. Because nothing came through. I go, did you send that?
And she goes, Yeah. I go, nobody even liked it. Your dad didn't even like it. Well you didn't. I did. You didn't. It doesn't show that you did on mine. I did. Okay. When it came through. Okay.
But also, you can just send a picture and not have to worry about a reaction.
No, that's not the way I operate.
I I know. That's why I said you can.
I need to, I need constant validation, Josh. Have we met? Hi. Have we met? Mm-hmm. We have. You have to constantly tell me that I'm pretty. Right. I said it's a nice picture.
I hearted it when it came through. I didn't see the heart. I don't know what to tell you. I did. Okay. Thanks. Yep. Preach. I mean, you were busy. I wasn't, I wasn't gonna bug you. You were having a weekend. I felt that several times. There were several times through the weekend where I was like, wonder what they're up to. I won't bug them.
You should have. No. I actually because I was texting you and you were kind of dry.
Yeah, you said I was short and dry.
As Emery would say. Yeah. And I go, Dad must be busy because his texts are dry. Nope I wasn't.
I just didn't want to bug you because you were on your time. It's fine. Josh. I don't mind. It's I didn't have anything to say. Okay.
What were you gonna text then? I wasn't.
Well, you just said that like I would think about like wonder what they're up to. And then I rather than send anything, I just occupied myself. I was like, okay, I'll just keep doing my thing. Oh, okay. You know? I do.
Well, I came home yesterday and I go, Did you miss me? And you go, I mean you weren't gone long enough to miss you.
It felt like you'd just barely been like you went to the store.
Yeah, I know. I wasn't it was over in a jiffy. Yeah. So it wasn't it wasn't you.
It was just that it it wasn't a lot of time. It wasn't like you were gone for like a week. You know. Like it was barely over 24 hours.
I understand, but geez Louise. It wasn't that I You could have missed me just a little bit.
It's not what I'm saying. I'm not saying like I wasn't it wasn't like oh, it's just fine. Everything is cool, no big deal. Like didn't mind sleeping by myself, it's fine. Yeah, you know. How did you do sleeping by yourself? Fine. Yeah. Fell right asleep. You typically do. Yep.
How's that different from when I'm there?
Wasn't that what I said? It wasn't. like It was like you barely left. It was like I took a short nap and then I woke up and then it was like, oh, you're back. Yeah, because we left Saturday morning. Right. And you were back Sunday afternoon. It wasn't that long. No, it wasn't that long. It wasn't like a month.
Well, I texted, and I'll tell more about our our trip in the in a little bit. Right. I texted my sister after she had gone home. And she goes, My husband's bugging me. She goes, I want to go back. How could we come back so early? I don't know. Next next year let's take longer. She goes, Yeah. Yeah. Well, anyway. It's a good picture.
Just to cut back to the point. I forgot. It's a it's a nice picture. And I did heart emoji it. I don't know why it didn't show up. Yeah, I didn't see that.
Well, I did that. So you and I had uh a couple different weekends. You were out of town with your sister and our daughter uh doing your shop hop thing with the quilt shows and all the different uh shopping adventures that you went on, and I was home. You left on Saturday morning uh pretty early. I mean, you left before nine, right? Nine-ish.
Nine was we were my sister is a right on the button kind of person. If you think that I am strict on time, yeah. We left it we wanted to leave at nine. We left at 9.05, and that's because I had stopped to tell you to remind you about something.
Yeah. And they were in the car waiting, honking the horn at me. Yeah, yeah, I heard that. And they were very mad because we left at 9.05. I'm sure it's okay. Continue.
No, it's fine. So you took off. I had uh work. The uh Harvest Lantern Festival was Saturday evening, Saturday afternoon in Pocatello, and so I had like between when you left at nine and my my stop at the office, travel time, get to my live broadcast time, uh, that I needed to fill with stuff. What am I gonna do?
What kind of stuff did you fill it with? Nothing.
I filled it with absolutely nothing. Why? Because I couldn't figure out what to do uh in the time that I had because I was so like concentrated on when I had to leave that. I was like, I don't even know what to do.
So I did some chores, yay. I made uh an egg in the like nonstick uh fancy pans that we got because you hate the pans because you don't think they're non stick, and I went, I know these are nonstick. I'm gonna fry an egg just to just to see. It was perfect. Perfect nonstick pan egg.
We bought those pans and threw the old ones away. Right. We didn't throw them away, we put them in.
put them in the garage. You had to donate.
Yeah, we put them in a bin, our donation bin. I got them out.
I know, they're back in the back in the cupboard.
Because I said I can't stand these nonstick pans.
The reason you can't stand them is because you don't let them preheat. Okay, what am I supposed to do? Well, we don't need to get into how the nonstick stainless pans work, but you have to get them hot before you put food in. Okay. And then they bring on a nonstick nature uh once they're heated up properly.
Okay. But you have to heat them up properly. But they work. Oh, it worked great.
My egg didn't stick at all. I was like, this is amazing. This is how this is supposed to work. But I just haven't pulled them out to like really spend time with them. So I did.
You spent some time with the egg. Yeah, I well, just the one, just the little tiny small frying pan because I was only frying one egg, but it worked great. Well, fantastic. Yeah.
So I did that. I made an egg. And then uh, and then I literally I was like, I don't know what to do. I spent some time scrolling after I did some chores, and then I was like walking around the house like what to do now. And then it was close to time to leave, so I was like, I guess I'm just gonna head down early. Uh, and then I got to go and do a little bit of leaf peeping because I made it to Pocatello a little bit early. So I drove out into the into the hills up in the buckskin area and stuff and checked out some foliage, which was nice. But uh, but that was the extent of my Saturday. And then uh did get to hang out with my cousin and our son and my nephew, like we all kind of hung out a little bit, which was fun on Saturday evening, uh, after I'd gotten back, and then I went to sleep. And it was like, okay, that was the day.
Oh. And then same sort of thing Sunday. I knew at some point I was gonna have to travel back to Pocatello to meet you guys because I was taking your sister's car down there. So I got up. I mean, both days I got up at like 7 30. Like I was just awake, and you're like, why didn't you sleep in?
I'm like, 7 30. I felt like I was like I that was plenty of sleep. I I woke up, I felt refreshed, fine, dealt with the dog, you know, all the usual stuff, and then I was like, well, at some point they're gonna need a ride, so I'm not gonna really get involved on much of anything. So I just kinda mosied around and turned on football and
I texted you on Sunday morning because I the mattress I slept on was terrible. Yeah. And so I texted you and said, How was you how come you're up so early? And you said, don't need to sleep all day.
Yep. And then I said, I was up early too because this mattress is terrible. And you said bummer.
Yeah. And I go to Emery, I said, Dad is dry texting me. I'm not I'm not texting him back, which is you're short, like she always says, quit being a dry texter.
I mean you're short. And I when I explained when I sent her the text message or told her the text match, I go, I told dad that the mattress I slept on was terrible, and all he said was bummer. She goes, What was I supposed to say? She goes, he's mad at you or something.
Oh, whatever. What was I supposed to say? The bummer.
You say, Oh, I'm sorry.
I didn't make the mattress. What am I sorry about? I'm not sleeping on it. Bummer. Yeah. Oh that's an adequate response. I don't know what else I could have said.
Both both my sister and Emory go. As soon as I read it, I go, Well, he's at his bummer. Yeah. Both go. What? So sad. I don't. And I stopped texting you after that. I said, he's not even texting me at all. His answers are short.
I was kind of bored out of my mind. That's when you should be texting me. I didn't want to bug you. I told you. You were you were doing your thing.
You were playing your game on your phone and you were annoyed that I was texting you. No. Yes. No.
I was I had football on. I was cool. It was fine. At eight in the morning. No, I was not on the box. I wasn't playing my game. I was still scrolling. Oh.
At that point. Okay. But it's fine. All right. I had really, I don't know what else there is to say. Oh, the mattress here was terrible. Bummer. I don't. That's lame. Tell the hotel to get better mattresses.
It's fine. I'm not I'm not upset about it or anything. Right.
I again, I'm the fixer, so like I don't know what to tell you about that. It's okay. Sorry that you had a bummer weekend. It's fine. It was just not uh, it was not what I would have loved to have been doing. I really wanted this last weekend to be a fishing weekend, but I had to work and you had stuff, so it just didn't turn out that way. That's all right. Bummer. Well, yeah, right.
Exactly. You had kind of a pretty simple request for me last week. Maybe it was the week before you said, look, the temperatures are changing. Yeah. It's time to take out the air conditioners so that I can have just the window and have the the outside air come inside.
Yeah, this is the type of weather that's the best. Okay. Fall weather is the best.
So you want that fresh air. I like the crisp. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
So I wanted the window air conditioner units out so that we could sleep with the windows open so that you could hear and feel the air. Okay. Okay. You get it.
Sure. So I took the air conditioners out yesterday afternoon. Yes. But we had the the discussion when you brought it up the first time was I don't have anywhere to put them because I haven't done the shed project. What's the shed project? I know what the shed's project is. Yeah. Yeah, you do.
And you took them out yesterday and and said, now we gotta clean out the shed. And I went, no, not today. Right. That's not happening.
So they're sitting on the dining room table.
Yeah, why'd you put them on the dining room table? Those filthy air conditioners sitting on the dining room table. Emory was trying to eat dinner last night. Yeah. And I went, Don't sit by those. Those are filthy.
Well, I set them there because the one in the dining room was right next to the table, so that was really easy to set there. The one from the bedroom, I didn't want to take all the way outside because I gotta take them to the shed.
We just cleaned the garage. I'm not putting them there because then they're gonna sit there forever. I'm not doing that. Because I'll have to walk around them for a month. So I we've got to do the shed project.
The shed, and we're not gonna have time this weekend. So the shed project is gonna have to happen uh after work. I know. We're gonna have to work on the shed after work, which is zero amounts of fun. But I don't like wasting my weekend doing that kind of stuff either.
Well, we know we don't have a wait a weekend to waste. We do not. So there it has to happen that way. Okay. So anyway, so uh yeah, now I'm kind of in the now what phase, but then uh something happened. When I took the one out of the bedroom, I came back into the bedroom after setting it on the dining room table, and you were in the craziest window cleaning mode I've ever seen with q tips and uh kebab sticks and
windex and you could get in there and it cracks
and then you were like, how am I gonna clean this part of the window, not knowing that the whole pane comes out? So I took that out, and then you went, Oh, I've never been able to clean this before. So you really spent some time on that.
And then here's what else we noticed. After I put the window pane back in, now it doesn't slide as well because all the dirt was a dry lubricant for the window to slide, and now it's sticky.
Yeah, it's a little bit hard to open and close. Yeah. It's all right. It'll build back up again. Don't just don't fret. It looks nice though, doesn't it? Doesn't the window looks like that?
I didn't really notice that difference. I mean, honestly, like the glass, I would I would notice a difference. You spent a lot of time cleaning all the little like weather stripping fuzzy little strip and the
Well, it was gross because here's what happens when you put those window units in. Right. And you do a good job of sealing. Yeah, there are still little bugs that creep in. And so there was a lot of like little gnats that had been trapped.
Little buggies. So I had to clean those out.
You had a little vacuum action going. I mean, you really put in some effort on that window. That's gross. Didn't put in the same effort on the dining room window. Yes, I did. Did you? I didn't because I didn't take the paint out.
No, but that one was different. It's wider somehow, so I was able to get in the cracks easier. I don't know. But I did. I I did the same thing. I had the Q-tips in the I.
I never I didn't notice that. I must have been doing something else. But anyway, now we gotta do the shed project. This is the big deal. It's gotta happen. Which means you've got to pull the shelves out so I can put in the kayak thing, so I can put the kayaks in there that I've been meaning to do since the spring. I've gotta get all that done. Uh the I know. winter is coming. I've got to get off. done. I know. I know, I know. Yeah.
So let's, I guess this week focus on it this week. Yay. I know. The sad part is I'm sorry, you get finished with work before I do. So you're gonna have to get started before me, and then I'll come home and pitch in. Yeah.
Well, and I still have like stuff tonight, and I know. There's still stuff throughout the week, so anyway. Yay. I know. I don't know. The shed project that we've been putting off has now it's now kind of a requirement. Because I can't put away stuff for winter until the shed is in a in a better state
it's almost as if you had some time this past weekend.
I wasn't gonna start a project. It wasn't gonna happen. I was too focused on having to leave. There was no time. We'll get her done. Don't plus you can't go like have all this fun and then have me be like, well, I'm here doing huge projects.
That's a good thing. I know that's no fair. Don't fret. We'll get her done. Don't fret about it, Joey. I'm fretted. I am fretted.
I did get to spend some time with our son working on a budget spreadsheet for him this weekend. Fun. Honestly, I wish mine looked like that. Oh man. His his income with his uh with his bills and his debt to income ratio and how much he have left over every month after paying bills, all that stuff. Figured all that stuff out. And I'm looking at it like, man, I wish mine looked like this. His is good. Why doesn't ours look like that? Uh because we have too much going out. Not enough coming in.
The bills to income ratio is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's bad. It's it's not like his. His is pretty sweet because he's got like six bills. Yeah. And uh they're pretty minimal. Like insurance, 100. Like it's that's nice. That is nice.
Car payment, like $300. Yeah. I'm like, what is this? What are these bills? These numbers aren't even real.
I want those bills. I know. Uh, but it was uh it was a good process, and we figured out a few things, and I think he's like, oh, okay, yeah. If I pay my car payment twice instead of once, I could pay it off faster. Which we told me. No, I know, but when you see it laid out on a budget sheet, it makes a little more sense. And we just hadn't had time to do that. So anyway, so that was kind of a cool process.
Well, very good. So hopefully, yeah, he'll be able to kind of line himself out a little bit because he's he's in a good position to put away some money and also pay some stuff off early, which would be helpful in life. You just if you can do that.
That's that's a good plan. Uh so good for him. Good for him.
We also did a calculation to see like if he wanted to work a part-time job instead of a full-time job, like how much money would he need to be able to cover his bills. That was an interesting conversation.
Well, because that's what we've been talking about. Right. He's just been working, but he wants to go to school. Correct.
So, how many hours would you have to work and how much per hour would you have to make in order to make enough money to still pay your bills if you were also gonna be going to school was an interesting thing to see.
How much money would I need to save so that I could quit retire early? Figure that out. A lot more than we have. Dang it. Yeah. Yeah.
We're working on it. Like, we've got some money put away for retirement, which is good. Uh, but not enough. Ah, dang it. Yeah. Okay. Just not enough. Maybe in a couple of years. I haven't even looked at that. Yeah, sure. In like 20. Oh, man. Yeah.
I want to retire now, Josh. Well. Dang it. You're the worst. I'm it's not my fault. You've given a lot of bad news today. Uh no.
I've given just the fact.
Well, good job sitting down with him. I know that he's he's looking to move out. Right. We've been kind of pestering him a little bit to be like, do you have enough money? What what's your plan? Right. He thinks we get micromanage a little bit.
Yeah, well, and and so I we put the guy, we put this whole sheet together, you know, and then he was like, can I have access to that? Because I built in a bunch of different math for it to work.
And so if he changes numbers, he can like play around in it and stuff. Yeah. I said, Yeah, absolutely. So I shared the document with him, and I don't know if he's opened it, but he has access to it. So that's cool. He wanted to be able to access it. I think he's should be able to good move.
It's his spread sheet. That's right. Money, his bills. So he should be able to access it. Yeah. It was pretty good. Well, good job. That was like on the to-do list. Yeah.
So did check that one off the list. Nice. So that happened. Good job, Josh. Yeah. Proud of you. Yeah. I don't want to see what ours looks like, actually. After seeing his, I don't his was all like everything was in the black. I think that's a good look. And I bet ours is not. I don't want to see it.
I don't want to look at it either. Yuck.
You're gonna tell your embarrassing story. This this story, I feel like is one of those stories where when somebody goes, What's the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to you? I feel like this is in that list.
I I actually am not that embarrassed.
But I think the embarrassment uh existed heavily when it happened because I was on the other side of the living room door when you were having the panic attack when you couldn't get inside. You were in the bedroom. No, no. I'm saying I was in the house when you couldn't get in the house.
I'm not embarrassed by the things I said. I am embarrassed. He should be embarrassed because of the way he reacted. The neighbor? Our neighbor.
The neighbor reacted appropriately.
appropriate. He did not. No. Let's tell the story. Okay. Our neighbor, lovely. We like them. Yeah. We've got no problem with them. We have not had a lot of interactions. The interactions with them are our basic civilities. Like, hey, how's it going?
Good, how are you? How's your day?
Your lawn's looking great. Oh, hey, I like those flowers. Hey, see you later. I don't even think we know their names.
All right. It's been a little superficial. You're right. It's just been pleasant. You're right.
Um my sister and I had gone out Friday night to get some gas as we were leaving Saturday morning. So we went out. It was, I don't know, maybe eight o'clock at night. So it was dark. And we're Why is that important? It's not. Uh we're trying to get into the house. I'm our hands are kind of full with some stuff.
Uh and you're typing in the code.
We're typing in the code on the keypad to get in the door. And I look over at the neighbor, and they are just coming home, and he lifts his head and I said, Hey, how's it going? He said, Good, how are you? And he is holding two sodas.
Like uh like uh convenience store gas station. cups. Gas station sodas, yeah. And I said, Big gulps, huh? You seriously, honestly looked at the neighbor with cups in his hand and said, Big gulps, huh? And he said, Yeah.
And walked in his house. And I went, Okay, we gotta go. We gotta go. We gotta go.
We gotta go. We gotta go.
But then there was there, you guys had hands full, and the keypad wouldn't open, and I hear a bunch of noise. A whole bunch of like, you gotta get inside. You gotta go.
You gotta get inside. It's inside the house. My sister can't even stand. She's laughing so hard. And I'm like, just say, we gotta go. We gotta go. We gotta go. We gotta go. We gotta go.
So then you get in the house and you're both practically on the floor, and I'm like, what happened? Except Josh, we gotta move. Yeah, we have to move houses now.
I am not embarrassed by what I said. That was hilarious. And I'd say it again. He's reaction was perfect. No, it isn't.
What else would he have said? He went, yeah.
He should have lifted it. He would have should have raised him up and said, Yeah. No, he shouldn't have. He should have looked at you
with the strangest of looks and said, Yeah. And then yeah, that's what he did. And then went inside. that's what he did. That's the right answer. Big gulps, huh? Well. See you later. You quoted dumb and dumber at our neighbor. I know. It's I would do it again. I would I would do it again. Big gulps, huh? And then you couldn't get inside. You couldn't run away. You were stuck on the step.
With, I'll tell you, there was a bag of dog food under my arm. Yeah. And two jugs of distilled water.
That's right. So that I could sleep nice.
And that's that's what I said when I said We gotta go. We gotta go. We gotta go. Sorry neighbor Sorry, neighbor.
Sorry. What are you apologizing for? It was perfect. It was a great interaction. I'm not a master. They've never thought higher. I'm Like, those guys are cool. I would do it again. You will at some point.
Do that again. Well, it's time for you to talk about your weekend. I mean, we've been kind of teasing around it the whole time, but you and your sister and our daughter went on uh shop hop, which is an annual tradition. Next year's a big anniversary.
Yeah, next year it will be we determined it will be our 10 years. We've been doing this since 2017.
So next year is the 10-year anniversary. The the three of you have been going to uh this quilt tour, uh, which is kind of exciting.
It's called Chop Hop, and there are quilt shops from I think the furthest north is well, there was one in Ashton that we didn't go to this year. We didn't want to go that far north, but there was one in Rexburg. There was a couple in Idaho Falls, there's a couple in Pocatello.
Are there some in Star Valley as well?
There's go over to Wyoming. Some in Wyoming, and we don't go to those ones because we just don't have time to go over there.
Um But they do this thing for like two different weekends.
And you get a you get a passport in every quilt shop that you go to, you get a stamp, and then you put you turn in your passport when you're done and you get entered into a drawing to win a sewing machine. Nice. But we never finish all of
the Do you have to have all of them in order to enter to win? Yes. I see. Yeah.
But there's other, like every quilt shop has drawings and cells and games and stuff.
And so you've entered to win some other things. And you've won some things in the past. Yeah. We have. Yeah, that's exciting.
It is exciting. And it's super duper fun. And we end up, yeah. So we started in Rexburg and we went all the way to Logan. We ended our we end our trip in Logan. So it's super duper fun. We just like it. It's so fun. We have these traditions of where we eat. Yes.
And like you have a breakfast spot, but that got shaken up this time. Yeah, it did. Because everybody knew about your breakfast spot.
Well, everybody has known about our breakfast spot. It's always a little bit busy. And this year it was extra, extra busy.
Yeah, because you were waiting in line, and someone who had already been through the line said, You're gonna wait 20 minutes in line and then order, and they're gonna tell you it's gonna be 20 minutes for your food.
And we looked around and there were a lot of people just waiting, and we're like, we gotta pick somewhere new. So you went somewhere new. Yeah, it was super fun. We went to a place called Bubble Brew. Oh, okay.
It was good. Um every year my sister and I take turns. So if she's driving, I buy the hotel. If I'm driving, she buys the hotel. This year it was my turn to drive. Bad year to drive, because gas is expensive.
Well, I'm sure the hotel was too.
No, the hotel was also expensive. She said, It's always an adventure when we get the hotel.
And this one was an interesting adventure. Because I feel like you might have made a not you. You collectively, the three of you might have chosen the wrong hotel room.
I didn't choose it. She did. My sister did. Well, first of all, it was clear out of town. So we had to drive. It was 15 minutes out of town. Why did she pick this place? Because it was one of the cheaper ones.
Okay. And she still spent a lot of money on it. So we had to drive clear out of town. And when she goes to check in, there was a sign on the computer that said doing an outdoor inspection. We'll be back in 15 minutes.
So you had to wait to check in. And I yeah, yeah. Okay. And I said, 15 minutes from when? And she said Good point. She said it didn't say.
Really good point. I go, when are we how long are we supposed to wait? How long did you wait? We waited about 15 minutes. So the sign was fresh. So And I said, you can tell a lot about a hotel when you first enter a lobby. What is the lobby look like? And she goes, Well, there was punch in a bowl. Oh no.
I've never been to a hotel that had punch in a bowl in the lobby. Community punch in a bowl? No. Not good. Not good. Community punch in a bowl.
I didn't go in the lobby. So I don't actually know.
You didn't go check in?
No. I didn't know what that meant. They had punch in a bowl. Like maybe the monkey. The monkey.
Punch the monkey. We had him sitting in a bowl. What? Oh. Punch in a bowl. No one. Maybe it wasn't like.
You know, because like some places will offer like cookies. Punch in a bowl. Yeah. She goes, there's punch in a bowl.
And I went, I mean, like a couple of beverages in carafts refrigerated and maybe like a coffee station. That's normal. Punch in a bowl. And they had dry ice in it and it was bubbly. Like, what? No.
I know. I should have went to check, but I didn't. I forgot. Okay.
So after you got through punching a bowl. Yeah. We checked in. We go to our room. Yeah.
Um, and we usually just get like two queen beds. Yeah. And Emory and I usually share a bed. Right. And this year I remember, how come I always have to share a bed? I should get my own bed. And both my sister and I went, Whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you contributing here? Yeah. This is a fair point. You don't get your own bed.
Like you can sleep in the chair. How about that? Yeah.
You're lucky you get a bed. Right. And then my sister said, I'm going to go take a shower. And she walks into the bathroom and it was a it was a handicapped accessible shower. Yeah.
And I so you can roll right into it. It's at the floor level. Yes. It doesn't have a tub with sides.
And I said, Did you get a wheelchair accessible room?
And also it had a curtain, not a sliding door. Is that correct?
It had a curtain. And the shower head was lower.
Way lower. Way lower. You sent me a video. It was like shoulder height.
And she said, it was hard to shower. No kidding. I go, did you get a wheelchair accessible room? And she said, I don't think so. Clearly you did. Yeah, you did.
And now I'm asking myself at Punch in a Bowl check-in. Were they like which one of you is uh in the wheelchair? Now, if she went in to check in by herself and you guys didn't go in, we didn't. That means they assumed one of the other guests, meaning you or our daughter were in a wheelchair. Correct. Huh.
I know. And I then I went, Did you pay more money for that? Or did you I don't know. I don't know, but I went, you done goofed.
And now there's somebody who can't access that room because you three able bodied people took it.
I I it's not my fault. I didn't do it. I know we should have what we should have done is went to the front desk and said, uh, we don't need this room. Correct. Can we get a different room? Correct. But we did it. Correct. That's what should have happened.
That's what a normal situation would have been. We got the wrong room. And then you would have gone back downstairs and said, I'm sorry. I we do not need the accessibility. Right. Someone else might, and we don't want to occupy that room. Is there another double bedroom that you can move us to? We didn't. So sorry. Oh boy.
Okay, but here's the other part. We part of our tradition is that we have a bracelet and we get a charms based on
Yeah, you've got that right there in front of you.
And so like there's always like fun things that have happened, then we go, Oh, we gotta we gotta get a charm to commemorate our experience. Commemorate commemorate. Okay.
What's your commemorative charm this time?
Well, we got a chili pepper this year. Uh-huh. Because um, I had my preset on my radio set to classy 97. Yeah. But 97.3 in Logan, Utah is a Spanish channel.
Oh. So every time we got into the car, it was a Spanish channel. And every time we got into the car, my sister would say, Why are you listening to Spanish? Every time. Every time. And I'd say, You know why? I just told you why.
Did she have her phone in her hand every time that you were explaining it? Because if she did, that means she wasn't listening.
No, she was not listening. I go, every time you gotta ask me every time, stop asking. Well, then the chili pepper makes sense. Yeah, I know. Okay, well, fun. Did you have a good time? I had a great time. Are you looking forward to next year? Yes. Well, good.
It'll be a big anniversary. How fun.
I know we gotta do it up big style. What's that mean? I don't know. I don't know.
Two accessible rooms.
The kids apparently told me that I can't keep a secret. Well, no, you can't. Yes, I can. I've kept a lot of secrets.
So the point is, like, here's the deal. When you know information that you feel like is juicy information, you want to share. Oh, I gotta get it out. You can't contain knowledge that is exclusive. You're like, I gotta tell everybody out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Here's the thing. Most of the time if somebody tells me a secret, I go, Can I? They go, don't tell anyone. And I go, Can I please? Can I please just tell Josh? Because here's the thing. Most of the time Josh isn't listening, or he doesn't care. So I hear everything. He's not gonna tell anyone. Right.
I don't tell secrets.
No, you do you're really good at keeping secrets. I know. So if somebody tells me something, I go, I have to tell somebody this. Right. Can I please tell Josh? I promise it's gonna stop at Josh. And they go, Yeah. And it does. And I tell you, and you go, I'm not gonna tell anybody that.
Because I don't care. Who I talk to nobody cares. So yeah, yeah.
But there have been times that the kids have told me stuff, and then I tell my sister, and so then she brought up some stuff that I had told her. Correct. And the kids were like, Why did you tell that? Right. That wasn't and I go, I didn't know that was a secret.
Like it's an embarrassing thing. Why would you tell an embarrassing thing? You should protect the embarrassing thing. You should know.
They didn't tell me it was a secret that I couldn't tell anyone.
So that's on that. Here's what I've found. What? Like, we'll have a conversation. We might share some of that on the show. Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. But then in like a different context, like we'll be camping with family, and you'll for some reason blurt out a thing, and I'll go like, well, that wasn't uh agreed upon to talk about, and you presented it in a very bizarre manner. And then I go, okay. I'll I guess I need to clarify that that's not actually the case, but it might be, but the, you know, it's undetermined right now.
But also sometimes you guys don't tell me things are secrets. So I don't know it's a secret.
Sometimes you just don't have to say everything. Sometimes you could say, hey, is it cool if we tell them about that? Like, is that a thing? Because it'd be interesting to talk about that.
But it feels like what happens is there's a lull in a conversation, and you go, What can I talk about? Oh, blurred. And then everybody goes, Well, I guess that's out there then.
I okay, I'm sorry. The kids got That's what happens. The kids got really upset with me.
It's like you have to fill the silence. And so you go, like, what was in my brain?
It's just mostly like I don't think things because here's I am a pretty open book. I don't really have a lot of skeletons in my closet. Right. If you want to know something, just ask. I'll tell you. It's a problem.
Sometimes it's okay to harbor a few skeling tons. You know? It's fine.
I'm pretty open. So I don't I just tell people something.
I think you being open about you is one thing, but you being open about other people is not the same thing.
You're right. But I also, you gotta tell me if you want me to keep something a secret. So then what happens is
people just don't tell you stuff because they don't want to risk it. I know. And then I and then you go, oh, I'm left out, I feel FOMO. I have so much FOMO, nobody will tell me what's going on. And then it's like, well, you did this to yourself. You can't be trusted with information.
I can. Tell me. I'll tell I don't tell anybody.
That's not true. No, that's not true. It's a problem. You gotta work on it. That's it. How do you work on it? Oh, uh, don't blurt things out for starters. That's where I'd start. Maybe maybe rebuild some trust. That might help.
Okay. I'll give it a go. Yeah. It's a tough one. It is tough.
Would you rather this or that?
Would you rather your phone be stuck in Comic Sands? Yuck. Or all caps. All caps. Okay. Would you rather your phone be stuck in Comic Sands or Papyrus? Ugh.
Why would you do that? You haven't answered the first question.
I like Comic Sands. I'm picking Comic Sands. Absolutely. Plus also, it would drive you crazy.
I don't look at your phone. So it's not gonna drive me anything. Yuck.
But every time you did look at my phone, you'd say, why do you have this? Yuck. Okay. Comic Sands are papyrus. I'm not picking. Absolutely not. Poor Comic Sands. Poor Comic Sands.
don't know why you get such a bad
rap Because it looks like it looks Yeah, I know.
I don't I don't see a problem with it. I really don't. And it is actually a good font for people with dyslexia. I'm that's great.
I appreciate that it exists. I don't like looking at it.
Whoa, whoa. That's it. Whoa. That's all there is to it. It's not a font for me. I think there are much worse fonts. I just don't know. Comic Sands gets such a bad rap. Poor Comic Sands. Oh. That's so sad. I'm Just looking. Look at this font called Spectral. Boring. No.
That's worse. You just pull up fonts. Yeah. Look up the the list of the worst fonts. Okay. Papyrus is high on the list. Brush script is terrible as well. It's it's not good. Uh it is an outdated, messy cursive font. There's one called Bleeding Cowboy, which is bad. It's bad.
There's one called Bell Bottom. Ugh. Poor. Oh, poor Comic Sans. It's fine. It's gonna be okay. There's one called Curls.
Comic Sands is number one. This is this is I know. This is the top 10 most loathed fonts as a graphic designer. That's what I'm looking at. Courier, Trahan, uh Copper Plate Gothic, Bradley Hand, Ariel, which is the basicest of basic Times New Roman is ridiculous unless you're writing a newspaper. Scriptina is terrible. Hobo's bad.
Papyrus is number two, and Comic Sands is number one. They're not why are they so bad? What do you want to know?
I don't know. Papyrus was in designed in 1982 by Chris Costello, who himself admits that it's overused. It was designed to mix a distinctive characteristics of Roman characters with the drawn look of beautiful calligraphy.
And it does both of those things rather well. But while it might be a well-designed font, it is not a good font at all. And if anything, it's almost as overused as Comic Sands. Overly tacky, gimmickly, a single-use font that you see on signs of hippie shops and places trying to seem cool and well designed. Don't use it. Whoa. Comic Sands.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. I get it. Whoa. Whoa.
It was invented in 1985 by Vincent Conner, who was working at Microsoft at the time. And he designed it for the digital assistant Microsoft Bob, which is a comic software package designed for kids.
Sort of like the little paper clip guy in Word. You remember him? I do. Yeah. If he spoke, it would be in Comic Sands. Uh yuck. That's all. I don't like him.
I like Comic Sands, and I'll stand by it.
I'll and you worked at a place that used papyrus on everything. Yeah. Because it was cool. So don't make me choose between the worst two fonts. Just let me choose all caps. They're fine. I'll deal with all caps. Like my phone is yelling at me before I'm gonna deal with either one of those. Whoa. You got hot.
You got real hot.
Well, you brought up two of my least favorite things in the world. What'd you expect? And because you thought it'd be funny. You thought, oh, I'll get him here. I'll make him choose one of the worst things ever. Would you rather this or that? All right. So before we go, we gotta recap the VMAs because that's still a thing. I know.
Why is that still a thing? I don't know.
I mean, MTV doing a video music awards feels strange. It does. Because they aren't the MTV that they ever once were. Right. To be fair, artists are still creating music videos, and that I guess should be celebrated.
Uh the 2026 MTV Music Awards happened over uh the weekend, happened on Sunday, hosted by Snoop Dogg. Really? Yeah, this is gonna blow your mind. Uh leading the nominations with 11. Madonna. She had new stuff.
Yeah. Taylor Swift had nine nominations. Madonna had uh like a lot of performances throughout the night. I feel like it was kind of like a Madonna show celebrate Madonna because it began with a performance by Madonna and then Sabrina Carpenter came out um and did a performance, and then uh later on she did a performance of Dancateria, uh, which I guess is her new thing, but she had Charlie XCS on there. There were cameos from Julia Garner, Somber, Seth Rogan, uh, Debbie Mazar, and her longtime producer Andrew Watt, all these people like on stage, uh, which is interesting. And it marked her first VMA's performance in 23 years, by the way. Madonna. Yeah.
Yeah. So that was kind of it was a big night for Madonna. Taylor Swift, obviously there with nine nominations. Uh it was a big night for her. Uh she won the night's uh big top award video of the year for Fate of Ophelia. She did get the first ever VMA's artist director honors, which is apparently to recognize groundbreaking music artists whose work behind the camera and expanding the possibilities of music video and advanced the art of visual storytelling. So she got that. Yeah.
New Moon Man as well. They're making up awards now. Yeah.
We gotta find something else to do. Uh she Taylor also debuted her music video for Patient Zero. Um, that's the one that she stole the one the song, but the the video has Dakota Johnson in it. Um, which is kind of, you know, it is what it is, and Colin Farrell. And Kara Delavine also in it.
Who uh it's not important. Uh Adam Lambert uh was there again, a night of who's who's uh and Adam Lambert was joined uh with Ray Somber, Teddy Swims. They did a big George Michael tribute. He died in 2016.
I like George Michael, and then get this Dave Grohl, Chris Novoselik, and Pat Smear all reunited to pay tribute to Kurt Cobain who died in 1994. So again, a real timely thing that they did there. So anyway. Uh that was the VMAs. I'm sure there was other stuff in there,
but I am uh those were the big highlights. that I missed it I Yeah. I don't even think I want to check out the highlights. Uh I gave them to you. I mean, even you were like, let's talk about the VMAs, and I go, uh necessary? Yeah no. Totally.
Absolutely necessary. No. That's gonna wrap up our show. Have a great rest of your day. We'll be back tomorrow, and uh thanks for hanging out. Have a good day. See ya. Bye. Bye.
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