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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
Josh nerds out over a robot that’s literally swimming under Antarctica, Josh & Chantel celebrate Christmas Card Day with real physical mail, they dive into the wholesome story of a farmer who’s donated one million pounds of food to families in need, a breakdown of how many Home Alone injuries should have actually killed the Wet Bandits, updates on the mischievous Classy Christmas Elves, a debate over whether wrapped gifts should be opened early or stared at for weeks, a dumpling addiction, winter camping in a truck, a new board game, the daily drama of holiday package tracking, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: What's under Antarctica?
(2:19) - Christmas card day
(4:26) - Good News
(6:03) - Home Alone injuries
(10:53) - Classy Christmas elves
(15:43) - Chantel's unfinished sentences
(19:43) - Too many packages
(25:31) - The worst benches
(31:15) - Josh's backseat campout
(39:24) - The dumplings
(44:03) - New board game
(48:54) - Gifts from co-workers & neighbors
(53:58) - Would You Rather
(57:48) - Get the podcast & thanks for listening!
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Full show transcript:
There's one thing I know about you. It's that you were very fascinated by the ocean.
Yes. What if I told you that over the past two and a half years, there has been a robot swimming through 186 miles of ocean around Antarctica? What is it doing? Well, researchers are trying to figure out what's going on underneath the big ice shelves and what is underneath Antarctica because it's like floating ice.
So they've got these robot, this robot and hopefully a team of them soon swimming around collecting data on parts of the planet that have never been accessed before. Cool. Yeah. So it's pretty incredible. They're able to steer this robot.
They've been able to guide it back to the surface, pull it out of the water and they hope to deploy more of them so they can map out what's going on underneath Antarctica. Yeah. Cool.
I want to see that data. Yeah. Very interesting. Now, this robot, when I first heard about it, I went, is it a humanoid thing? Like, does it actually like swim? No, it's like a tiny tube.
Yeah. I was thinking like a Wally looking, not Wally, like a Eevee. Honestly, it looks like a tall sprinkler head. It's just a long tube. It's bright yellow.
Okay. It's just this tube. But anyway, they've got this thing. They've had it going for like 300 miles now and it did go underneath the Shackleton ice shelf and swim out the other side, which is pretty cool. So it's a tiny bit of Antarctica, a tiny little bit.
That's so cool. That they were able to get this robot to swim under. So if they can do this and actually explore like what's going on in the ocean under Antarctica, that's pretty cool.
Imagine what they can look under other stuff. I know. Pretty amazing. What's under there? I don't know. Let's find out. Yeah.
They're trying. Cool. I know. I thought you'd like that. I do like that. How about we start today's show? All right. All right. Why so sad?
No, I'm not sad. Just let's begin, I guess. Well, today is Christmas card day. That's right. Which is pretty exciting because I'm sure you saw over here on this side of the room. No, I didn't. Oh, you didn't? No.
You didn't see that there are two in my hand? Yeah. I know.
I know. And they also, the fine folks down in our graphics department that have been putting together our Christmas cards to send back have prepared two of them. So we'll be sending these out. Oh, hooray. Yeah. And it comes with a little bonus.
One of these. Nice. Which is very, very cool. Nice. Nice.
Uh-huh. So a couple of those going out real soon as soon as we grab some envelopes. Cute. These are fancy. I know.
Come on. Pretty awesome. So thank you to the two people that have sent us Christmas cards. We got them this morning. We've got your cards ready to go. We just got to throw them in some envelopes and then we'll have them out to you right away. If you would like to get a Christmas card from us, very easy to do. Just send us a Christmas card. It's 400 West Sunnyside in Idaho Falls, Idaho, 8304202. And make sure to include your return address on there and we will send you one back in the mail. We got one from Idaho Falls, one from Pocatello in my hand right now. Thanks, guys.
Yeah. And happy Christmas card day. Thanks for playing the Christmas card exchange with us. I know.
We're going to have two on the door today. Yes. I know. Very, very cool. It's exciting to get Christmas cards, isn't it? I'm excited to open them up and see what we got.
Me too. Sometimes people put little notes in there. Sometimes there's pictures. So it'll be cool to see. What we got in the mail.
But if you want to send us mail, you can. It sounds old school, but it's super exciting. It is exciting. 400 West Sunnyside Road, Idaho Falls, Idaho 8304202. We'd love to get a Christmas card from you. And we have Christmas cards to send back. So yes, we do. Send us a card.
Okay. Happy Christmas card day. And good morning.
Good morning. Here's a story that is from Virginia. Since 2009, a farmer there named Darren Greer, he's from Reiner, Virginia. He's been donating produce and working with the Society of St. Andrew to help those in need. He was honored recently because he hit a pretty amazing milestone. He has over one million pounds of fresh fruits and veggies that he has donated.
That's incredible. Every apple, bushel of corn, creative tomatoes went from his soil to food pantries, local shelters, and families in the community. And he's very passionate about farming and happy to see that its hard work made an impact on the lives of others. He said, I've got the means to do it.
And I guess it just became my hobby to help people. I don't want to see anybody go hungry. The Society of St. Andrew held a surprise celebration for Darren at his farm where they presented him with the Feeding Virginia Award and also let him know that he's been responsible for providing healthy food for over 400,000 people. Wow. That's amazing.
Absolutely incredible. He said he hopes to inspire others to help out as well, even if it doesn't involve produce and farming. He said it's mind-boggling where we can do a little help for the good of mankind. Everybody should try to help as much as they can. I think that's really cool. So way to go, Darren.
Million pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables that were donated by him and his farm, which is pretty incredible. So way to go. That's really nice. Good job.
And that is good news. You've seen Home Alone and Home Alone 2? Sure. And I think the third one too. What happens in the third one?
Oh, that's where the kid gets the remote control car. That's a different actor, right? I think Home Alone 3 was a different actor. I haven't seen that one. Yeah, it was in 1997. And anyway, yeah, he gets the remote control car that morphs, and I had one. Did you? And it was cool. And it basically was a normal remote control car, but it had a button on top that then you could raise the car up higher so it had a higher clearance.
Or you could lower it down into like race car sport mode. Very cool. Wow. Very cool.
That is very cool. A doctor researched and diagnosed the injuries that the wet bandits suffered during Home Alone and Home Alone 2. I guess they were the sticky bandits in Home Alone 2, right? Yeah, we're no longer the sticky bandits.
We're now the wet bandits. I think it was one or the other. I think they were, yeah. Because they were turning on sinks and flooding homes, and then they said we're not doing that anymore. We're now taping tape backwards on our hands. They were the sticky bandits. Yeah, one or the other. I can't remember which one.
Okay, so the doctor diagnosed them and said 23 of the injuries that they sustained in those movies would have killed them. How many? 23.
Yeah, probably. Taking an iron to the head, probably high on the list. Paint buckets and flying backwards on the stairs, that would have got you.
That's two I can think of. Getting shocked. Like at one point. Oh yeah, electrocuted. Yeah, at one point, not Harry, the other one. Anyway.
No one knows his name because. Oh yeah, they do. Because all you hear is Harry. I know. Gerald. No. I feel like it's a Marv.
Come on. I should have known that. Yeah, so Marv at one point gets electrocuted so bad he turns into a skeleton.
Yeah, I remember that. That do you in? So that's three. What are the other ones?
I don't know. You said there's 23 of them? Yeah, he didn't list them. Oh. And it's from the first and the second movie.
So I don't know the second one as well as I know the first one. Stair falls, skull fractures from paint cans, third degree burns from the blow torch, electrocution. There you go. Oh, nerve damage from stepping on glass, internal bleeding, all of which would require immediate extensive medical intervention, but instead are played off in slapstick com. Right. With no warning.
No, do not try this at home. A good point. That's not a great movie, is it? I mean, it's fun.
Yeah, but it's like, look how hilarious it is to hurt people. It's a fight for Christmas is what it is. Oh, is it, Josh? Yeah, it's good family fun. You know?
I guess so. Be begun to the face when you poke your head through the doggie door. Probably not good.
Not good. It was my mission to watch more Christmas movies this year than we did last year, because I think we watched like maybe one or two. So far, we're up to four. Yeah.
So we're already winning. You know what else would probably get you? What? All the medical debt.
Yeah. Because think about all the stuff you'd have to go through, all the treatments, I mean, so many different injuries. At what point would you stop trying to break into the home? I wouldn't have started. Well, right, but say you did. Say you were along for the ride and you were like, this is the only way I can make money. I got to be here.
When I drove back by and Michael Jordan's cutout was dancing, I'd be like, this isn't the right choice. You know that movie well. I do. I've seen Home Alone a lot. So have I, but I couldn't tell you what happened. I mean, I could.
I just couldn't. Says here, spinal decompression and internal bleeding treatment alone. Those two alone cost thousands of dollars in treatment. That's two of 23.
There you go. Don't try this at home, kids. Yeah, yeah, definitely do not home alone your house.
Also, don't burglarize anybody. Well, there's that. That's a good, that's probably the better message. Two good pieces of advice this morning.
Look at us sharing the good word. That's nice. When did we get our classy Christmas elf? The first one we have two now.
When did he arrive? What's been a couple of years? Has it been three years or four?
This I think is the third. Okay. Okay. We needed help naming him. That's right. So we asked the listeners here in class of 97 for help on naming him. And we came up with Roland. G chestnut. G. Yeah. Or T. G. I feel like it was G. For gingerbread.
For. Or tinsel. T for tinsel or G for gingerbread. It was just G for.
G. Yeah. I mean, that's just his middle name. Roland G chestnut. Right. I feel like that was his name.
I think that's correct. His full legal name. Now his small companion was named by our daughter.
Yes. Arthur. His small companion arrived last year. That's correct. Arthur? Okay. Because I don't remember that.
She named him Arthur, which was, which is short for. Arthritis. Arthritis. Because she feels like he looks like his bones hurt. They're bendy.
Quite. They are very flexible elves. Yeah.
They are limber is a good word. Anyway. Yeah. So Arthur and Roland.
I just looked it up. It is Roland G. G. Okay. Roland G chestnut. No one knows what the G stands for. It's a secret.
Gingerbread. Maybe. Possibly.
Ginger snap. Possibly. Maybe.
Anyway. They're up to no good. They've been hanging out on the desk back there.
Well, when we, yeah. And then the magic arrived apparently over the weekend because we came in and found them yesterday. Roland was in the tree and Arthur was hanging from one of the ornaments hanging on the ceiling.
Yeah. And this morning, new magic, we have found the classy Christmas elves attangled in Christmas lights in the lobby of the place. They're all a mess. They're going to give a surprise to all of the coworkers that come in this morning.
That'll be very fun. I know. Yeah, I was surprised. Me too. I went, what are we doing?
What is happening right now? I know that there are quite a few employees here at the radio station who love when they make their return. And then there are some who don't quite love when they make their return. There are some folks who are a little bit creeped out. And I mean, I've seen Roland's face.
I get it. He's made snowflakes before. Yeah. Paper airplanes.
Yeah. He's hung himself from the ceiling. Like he snuck himself from the ceiling to house. One of my favorites, I think, is Star who works down the hall. Her office used to be right here next to the studio.
And the first year Roland was around, he was hanging out playing around with the smoke, what's I think called, the fire extinguisher right here outside the studio. She swears up and down that he moved and looked at her while she was working in her office. And she is super creeped out now because she is like, I know he turned his head and looked at me. She's like, I guarantee it, which I think is very fun. She's like, nose around, just me in my office.
And I hear jingle and I look up and his head turned and looked at me. So I think it's great. Very exciting. She should feel very privileged.
I think so. Not everybody gets to see it. Show you their magic? That's great.
I think it's really special. So yeah, they're moving around. Yep, doing their shenanigans. I know you got, did you get a picture yesterday? Oh, we got the video yesterday. I got a video yesterday. Did you get a picture today? I got a picture today.
It's not great. I might have to go take another one. Yeah, you got to see what these two are up to. These two crazy elves. Causing this.
Roland and Arthur. If you've got an elf at your house, good luck to you because they get up to no good sometimes. They are shenanigans. I tell you what. I tell you what. That's a good name. Shenanigans? Yeah. Oh, shenanigan. They have to be an Irish elf.
That's right. Shenanigan the Irish elf. Anyway. Shenanigan. Nothing.
Okay. Do you want to explain to me what you mean when you say that I never finish a sentence? There are a lot of times, it happened yesterday, where you started a conversation. I guess there's two things that happened. You started a conversation and assumed I knew what you were talking about. Well, yeah.
Because you jumped in like four minutes after you'd been thinking about the thing and said something about the Christmas party. And I was like, we have multiples of these things. I don't know what you're talking about. And you were like, oh, you mean you're not in my head? And I went, no, I'll never be in your head. And so that happens often where you'll just be like, oh, and then that thing. And I go, you got to catch me up.
Because I wasn't there for the beginning 40 minutes. You've been thinking about it to know what you're even talking about when you just started here. So that's the one thing that happens. That's kind of the beginning part. And then the other thing is when, and I go, what?
Were you going to finish that? Like, and sometimes it's one word. Sometimes it's a couple of things, but you just stop. I just sometimes I wonder if I do that to other people or I just do that with you. There's no way it's only with me. I think I just do it with you though, because yeah, I'm more comfortable with you.
Okay. And so I think it only happens with you. I hope it doesn't happen with other people. I got to start paying more attention. Here's the other thing that happens is I think about something that I want to say to somebody. And I don't say it because I forget to say it.
And then the next time I see them, I think about that thing again. And then I don't say it. And then like weeks later, I go, did I say, did I actually say that to them? Or have I just thought about it so much that I thought I've said it to them? And I haven't. Sometimes you've said it multiple times.
Yeah. Sometimes I don't know if I've said things out loud or if I just say them in my head. Sometimes I do say them out loud and you go, yeah, you told me that yesterday.
And I go, oh, I didn't think I said that out loud already. What's going on in there? I don't know. It's kind of a cluster in there. I don't know what's happening. It's, you don't want to be in there. No, I mean, I wouldn't know how to find my way.
Me neither. It's a tangle of wires. Yeah, I know. And I don't like untangling wires that much.
It's like a big ball of Christmas lights. Right. Good luck finding the end.
Well, you can find the end and plug it in and then it's lit up and then you go like, now what? It's just still a ball of mess. Right.
Good luck finding something. So anyway, that's what happens. Don't finish the sentences. Me neither. Can you think of an example?
Not off the top of my head because it just happens. You'll just be in the middle of telling me something and then something distracts you. A treat, the dog, I don't know, whatever it is. And then, and I go, what? And then what?
What? Sometimes you don't even say and then what? Because I think you just don't want to hear the end of the sentence. That's what I think.
Sometimes I just give up and go like, I guess we're done. I've heard enough anyway. Right. I get the gist. So that's what happens. Sometimes sentences just don't get finished and that's the way it goes sometimes. And that's okay.
I don't think you want to hear them anyway. What's that? Yeah, exactly. It's that time of year where I've placed so many online orders that now I can't necessarily keep track of them. Oh, is that right? Yeah. I like tracking packages.
I like the Wizard of Oz. You want me to track your packages because I can. You can track most of them. Yeah. See, that's the part where I, there's stuff I can't track.
Yeah. So I'm trying really hard because every day I get a thing in the mail, the informed delivery thing. And so I'm trying really hard to ignore package notifications. Okay, good.
Thank you. And only look at like letters. Because if I scroll past the letters, it shows me like tracking information stuff. What do you mean letters though? So like it scans all the mail. Right. So I can see like a bill is coming or a Christmas card is in the mail or whatever.
So I'm looking at the scanned letters, but then avoiding going past that to see the packages below. Good job. Well, too bad.
I got a notification today that said your item has shipped and I went, oh, I forgot about that one. So I thought I was being really good about like writing down. I know you love spreadsheets.
Like what's going on with your spreadsheet? I think I just got, I forgot about that one and I went, okay. So then I had to make myself a quick list and say, okay, I remember ordering this. So here's the other thing.
I get home before you. Yes. Sometimes packages aren't properly disguised and discreet. No, I know. So what do I do?
I don't know. I'm just going to have to bring stuff in. Avert. I, it's what I'm going to have to do. It is what you're going to have to do.
Unless you want to be spoiled. I mean, I'll try to bring them in, but I will try to pay not that close attention. Yeah. Avert your eyes. Yeah. Look like this. The way that I've handled that in the past just so you know is I've shipped stuff not to the house. I know.
I just, I don't know. I like it to be home for summer. I understand. I get that there's a lot of people that have stuff shipped to their work. I had a coworker the other day that was like, Hey, just so you know, I've got a lot of packages being shipped here and she wasn't wrong. There's a lot of stuff shipped to our work.
And I get like a little bit nosy. I go, Oh, would you order? That looks cool. Uh-huh. Oh, what comes in that shape of box? I know.
I've been super curious. I want to open some of our packages. Hey, easy. That's, that's a federal offense.
I know. Can't go open and other people's paying. Tampering with the mail. Yeah. Okay.
I think I have, there's only one thing that you need to avert your eyes about. What is it? You're probably going to find out, you know, I should have had it shipped to work. I wasn't thinking. Okay. One, two, three, four. Well, I'm not going to read the labels.
How about that? Because I know I haven't ordered anything. So I'm not going to read labels. I'm just going to bring it in and set it on the kitchen counter and look away. Okay.
That's a good idea. Now, there's five packages. Would it be better for me to put them somewhere else, not in the middle of the house?
Yes. In the bedroom. I will, I'll put them somewhere else. Put them in the bedroom. Either there or in your craft room, something. I will, I will put them somewhere. Yeah. Don't put them on the kitchen counter.
So they aren't just in the middle of the house. I know. Okay. Hang on two seconds.
That, I'm looking at my orders here. Because I know there are five. There's probably one I forgot about.
There are two, three that you can't look at. Okay. Well. And honestly, the kids could look at all of them. Most of these are for, no, hold on.
Okay. There's two that none of you can look at. No one can look at it.
Don't even look. Because it's for a gift exchange for- I get it. The whole group of us. Okay. Everything else is for, like there's, that's for me, that's for me. Oh, okay. Uh-huh. That's for me.
See, remember when we were talking about Tiz the season, where Josh shops for himself? I've been doing really well at not looking at deals and not looking at things that might interest me. I get it. To buy, like, and then you're over here like, that's for me. Well, one of these things is my Christmas ornament that I ordered. And then the other one was still of a deal. So I had to get him.
That's why I had to look away. I've really tried not looking at deals. Nobody else was going to buy those. So I was like, I'm just going to get him. I need a new Christmas outfit. All right. It's a present to me.
All right. And then that thing is a gift from Emery to somebody else. So everyone can look at that. Everyone knows about that already. So there's really just one thing that you can't look at.
Everyone else can look at that. I'll just bring in the packages and put them somewhere and then maybe tell you about it. Okay. And then I'm probably going to get another notification today of something I've forgotten. I'm sure. I'm not going to be like, oh, forgot I ordered that. Well, hey, thanks to the delivery drivers.
Yeah. I saw somebody out on Sunday. I didn't think they delivered on Sunday. Well, Amazon does. Yeah. I knew that, but this was a FedExer. Oh, really? Yes, really.
Well, I did not know that either, but. Sorry for your late hours. No, kid. People are being nice to you. Yep. And thanks. Much appreciation for your hard work. We see you. I had to be in the doctor's office with Emery yesterday and you wait a minute when you're in the doctor's office.
Fact. So as we're sitting there waiting, she's taking some pictures of me and she sent a picture that she had taken to the family group chat. That's right. I was going to pull it up really quick because. Oh.
Yeah. You say that to every picture. I go, take a better one. And she goes, okay, okay. And I go, hold on, hold on.
And I kind of tousled my hair a little bit and then I kind of like did a cool pose. And then she goes, no, that's not it. Okay.
So the first one she sent, she captioned beauty shot. And I said, I hate those benches because I do. Those benches are so uncomfortable.
They are bad benches. Yeah. And then she sent a picture of the drawing was this Hulk on the wall?
Yeah. So it was a picture of Hulk's feet. And then there's a video of you doing, is this a smiley pose thing?
Mm-hmm. And did you know it was a video? I did not know it was a video. I see. All right. Well, you look cute. As I was like tousling my hair and doing a cute pose.
Yeah, you look cute. She said, she goes, that's not it. And then I go, okay, let me try again. And I did another little tassel cute pose.
And she goes, okay, well. I was in like, subject matter is just not working today. That's going to be the best I can do because I can't perform magic here. That's the impression I got from my teenage daughter. Well, okay.
Well, she said. That's going to have to be it. I guess. That's what the impression.
If I take one more, my camera might break. Why do you hate those benches so much? They're so uncomfortable.
They are very uncomfortable. There's zero padding. It's just like a hard bench. It's just 90 degrees with the wall.
Like it's just so uncomfortable. And they're short. It's not deep. They're not short.
Like it's at the right height. It's a long length. Yeah, they're wide. But the width. The depth. There it is. The depth. Yeah. There's three dimensions.
Yeah. They're plenty wide. The height's fine. It's the depth. They're too.
They aren't deep enough. And so they're like hitting me in the back of the calf right at a pressure point. And it's so uncomfortable. And then you're like, I get to sit in this awful. It's like sitting on a table. Yeah, it is.
That's too small for an hour. And it's like, do something different. Give me a cushion. Something.
It is a very bad bench. And we love, we love the doctor. We love the doctor's office.
Absolutely. We love all the staff there. Worst bench.
Benches are awful. Yeah. To be fair. Yeah. Oh yeah. I love everything else. Just not that bench.
Anyway. And it's the same bench in all of their rooms. I know it is.
Because they did it in one design and they were like, yep. Burn them in all of the rooms. That's right.
And everything else is perfect. It makes me wonder if anybody sat in them before they decided to go with that design. I just, I imagine it's easier to clean and more sanitary than a chair.
That's fair. So I understand why the bench, but it needs a little extra something. They could have gotten a wipeable chair.
Wipeable chairs. Yeah. Yeah. I guess if they're just a plastic chair.
Yeah. I don't think that would be that much more comfortable. A plastic chair? Plus the room's not huge. Right.
There's not a lot of room for one or two chairs in there. No, but you could get. There's got to be a better way. That's all. It's too late now.
No, I get it. They've got the benches and that's what they've got. Right. So you just have to suffer. It's fine. I only have to be there, you know, every once in a while anyway, as it is. But every time I'm like, ugh. I kind of forget about them until I walk into the room and then I went, oh yeah. One of the nurses told me that sometimes people will bring in their own seat. Really? Yeah, she's like, people will bring in their own camp chair.
And I went, yeah, I bet. Because they're that awful. It's just the benches not where it's at. I wonder if they get a lot of complaints then.
I don't know. I'm sure I'm not the only one that's like this bench. Can you imagine taking it in your own chair? Kind of.
That's kind of crazy. I mean, I have my small backpacking chair I could bring in, just unfold and have, if I'm in there for an hour, it'd be nice to have somewhere a little more comfortable to sit. I mean, part of me is like, give me a wheelie stool. I'll sit on that. I know.
And there's a big sign that says, don't sit on the doctor's wheelie stool. Dang it. I forgot what I was going to say. Oh, my brain is a mess of tangled cords. Yes, it is. Oh, you've fallen asleep on those benches before. Okay.
Not really. What I've done is turn sideways because I have to sit there sometimes for a long time. And so I would turn and put my back against the other wall and then put one leg up on there. And then as I was leaning back, I was like, you know, this is actually, I could snooze out for a minute, but I don't think I've ever like taken like a full on nap. I might have like been more comfortable and been like, yeah, this is, I could sleep. So they must not be that uncomfortable. That's what I'm saying.
You can find comfort if you try hard. Anyway. Or taking your own camp chair, I suppose. Right. That is true. Anyway, thumbs up, buddy.
Yep. So I went camping last weekend, Friday night to Saturday. And it's been a long time thing that I camp like once a month because I'm a scout master with the troop locally. And so I spend a lot of time camping. And if you'll remember, the weather on Friday was cold and rainy and wet and that's right.
And it washed away all the snow we had and everything else. But here is the usual situation. I have a plethora of tents to choose from. I have big tents. I have cots. I have backpacking tents. I have hammock. I have so many different ways that I could sleep. I have my rooftop tent for my truck.
I have many, many options. I have an RV. I wanted to get crazy. I should have taken the RV. No, you shouldn't have. Why?
I don't know. Maybe you should have. Anyway, I've got lots of different places I can sleep. And I have yet to, well, now I have, I had yet to up till this last weekend, slept in the back seat of my truck. And I thought, when you said you were going to do that, I was like, don't, it's so cold. That's going to be so cold. It was real nice.
Did you even use like your little buddy heater? Not even. No.
Good. Cause that would have been dangerous. Well, I wouldn't have used it in the truck anyway. Okay, good. I don't need to do that.
Cause that is dangerous. No. Look, it's, it's essentially, it was just a shelter. And this is, this is like a winter preparation camp out. So it's not like we weren't out in the woods.
Let's be clear. Like we were literally in town. In a parking lot.
Well, I was in the parking lot in my truck and the scouts were like in like this fenced off area of grass. Like it's, it's in town. Like it's not like we were in the woods. It was, I could have walked to our house and in 15 minutes.
It's not that far. At one point you said you had forgotten some things. Yeah, I know. And I bring them to you and I went, oh, I don't want to drive to bring them. And then I went, oh, he's just down the street. I'm literally four minutes away.
Like I'm very close. So, uh, it really wasn't that big of a deal. And normally I would have been like, okay, I'll put up a tent and whatever, but it was a Friday night to Saturday morning. Like it's a very fast camp out because it's an introductory cold camp out. And sometimes it's snowy. Sometimes it's just windy and rainy.
Sometimes it's really nice, but you just never know. So I just said, I'm just going to throw my sleeping bag out in the back seat of the truck and do this thing. And I, in my head, I've sat in the back seat and I've been like, there's so much room in here. Uh, this is going to be super cozy and really comfortable. And then when you lay your whole body down on the seat in the back, you find out that it's a little more narrow than you think. And it is very comfortable and it was fine. And I didn't fall off or anything.
Body spillage over the seats? Not at all. Oh, okay.
No, but it was, it was definitely more narrow than I thought it would be. Okay. Uh, and so anyway, uh, throughout my 15 degree bag, which I am in love with, that's like the fourth time I've slept in that bag. I really like it. Sixth time you've talked about how much you love it. I really like that sleeping bag. It's one of my favorite purchases this year. Okay.
Like it's, it's so good. You haven't even slept in yours yet. No, cause I don't camp after September. Are you crazy? You should.
Nope. It was so good. Through my pillow in there. Um, I used, uh, I have a capote, which is like, uh, I don't know. It's like a big robe, but it's, I don't know how to, I don't know how to explain it. It's like a backwards snuggie. Which is just a robe. It's got a big hood on it and, uh, and it's got a, you know, a string you tie around the waist anyway. It's a, it's a robe. Yeah.
It's like a big heavy duty robe, uh, like a warm robe. Anyway, uh, I made that. So I laid that down on the, on the seat belt area. Because those, they kind of fold into the seat, but not all the way. And I didn't want to be poked by them.
So I threw my capote down in that area, which worked out great. It really wasn't bad. And I stayed warm and, uh, and all in all, it was like, I'm really glad that I did it. It was a great experience. Well, good.
Yeah. I'm glad you had a great experience. I checked that out.
I had a great experience at home in my bed. Yeah. Well, because here's the thing. Sometimes I want to go out fishing and I don't necessarily want to do like the whole camp setup because I want to spend more time fishing. Now I know I can just throw my sleeping bag in the back seat. I'm going to be okay. Good to go.
Yeah. Or you could recline your driver seat. That felt like it would be less comfortable because then you're, you're sitting. Yeah. I don't think it reclines far enough.
I don't know. I've slept in the back seat of a car before. It has not been comfortable for me, but my truck's also a lot wider than the car. So like I really was, you know, I'm only five seven. So I was able to really kind of stretch my legs out all the way. I really was quite comfortable. Well, good. It worked out pretty good.
I'm happy for you. Yeah. It's a, as a kind of a last minute thing, it worked out for me to be able to do that. So anyway, and then I didn't have any tent to tear down. And then I drove home. I didn't even put my bed away because I, we had other stuff going on. I had to wake up early and cook 200 sausage links for the, all the people that were camping. We had like 50 people camping.
It was a lot. So I had to make a whole bunch of sausages and then, and then I just drove home. Uh, and then I was wearing my coat. I washed it yesterday, but you called it my sausage coat for a couple of days. Cause well, yeah, I wasn't going to not wear my coat while I was standing out there. It's good that we didn't go to visit any dogs. They would have been in love with you. All these dogs like, Hey, hey, hey, hey, this guy, where he smells like sausage.
He's got all of the sausages. Anyway, well, I'm glad your bed truck worked out for you. It did. It really did.
And it was not bad. If we get in a fight ever, what I'll say, you sleep in your truck. Yeah. I've have many other options before the truck. Go to the RV. I just said that in the basement.
Yeah. There's a million other places I can go before I end up in the backseat of the truck, but I'm glad that I tried it out because worst case scenario, it'll work out. But here's the deal. It's a one person thing. That's fine. There's no, there's no way to fit two people.
That's okay. But then I got thinking in my head, like how I could build a platform that would go over the, you know, over the, the, where your feet go in the truck that would be the same height as the seat. And then I could put down some padding and then boom. Well, I hope you find some kind of partner because that's not ever going to be. You're not going to sleep in the backseat. No.
Why? Not on a platform. Yeah.
With a pad. No. No.
No. Listen, I'm not very high maintenance, but I'm not doing that. Why not?
Because I don't want to. It's a genius idea. It is a genius idea, but find someone else. You don't like that I called it a platform?
I don't like that you were thinking about like, how could I fit two people in here? Yeah. No, get your fishing buddy. No, that's different.
That's not the same. I'm going to be like, let's just roll in one vehicle. We'll just camp in the backseat. You and me. I got a platform. I got a platform. No, that's not a thing.
No, it's not going to be a thing for me either. So I appreciate you thinking about me. I really do. That's okay. I'm going to figure it out. It's going to be so comfortable.
I'll talk you into it. Well, you were sleeping in your truck on Friday. I had the house alone for a bit and it was awesome. And I'll tell you what I did. I had a hard time deciding what to eat for dinner because most of the time I have to figure out what everybody else wants to eat for dinner.
And then I go, well, I actually want this thing, but I know that not the rest of the people in my family are going to want that. Okay. So it was all just me. I was going to be eating dinner alone and I had this awesome plan. I was going to go pick up my dinner. Somebody said, I think it was you that were like, you should go sit down somewhere.
Yeah. So one time you were out of town and I was home alone. I don't remember the situation, but I took myself out to dinner and I went to a restaurant and sat down and ate by myself.
And it was in March. I was watching March Madness where I was eating, which was great. Because I would have been doing that at home anyway, but I got to sit there.
And what I found out is that when you go to some place that has like chips and salsa or a loaf of bread or whatever that they bring to the table, when you go by yourself, you get the whole loaf to yourself. And I went, wait a minute, this is genius. Like, this is great. And that was just that alone. I was like, I got basketball. I got my own appetizer bread.
Well, that's what I finally decided that I wanted. I wasn't going to go sit somewhere by myself, but I was going to get my food to go, go home, put on my pajamas and watch some TV all by myself. And I was happy as a clam to do that. So I went and got myself some takeout Thai food. And I did the same kind of thing where I ordered an appetizer and a meal.
And I. Is this the dumplings? Oh, I can't stop thinking about those dumplings. You keep telling me I got to try them. And you're like, do you want to have that so we can go get those dumplings? Do you want to do that? Every day since Friday.
I know. Are they open today? Because I would like those dumplings. I ate.
Here's the thing. I think there were six in the box. I ate all of them. Well.
Good for you. So you're saying we're going to need two boxes. No, because I'll have more.
No, I know, but I might want six. I mean, maybe here's what happened because I ate three of them and then part of my meal. And then I boxed everything up and put it away. And then later that night, I was like, I kind of want more of those dumplings.
So I ate the rest of the dumplings. Right. I cannot stop thinking about them.
Interesting. They were so good. And the fact that I was just, here's what I did. I got my pajamas on and I sat and ate in the living room on our coffee table, watching TV. I gave the dogs some peanut butter so she would leave me alone and happily dipping my dumplings in whatever sauce they provided. Oh man. What a good time that was.
I got to look at these dumplings. Is there a picture? No. I'm looking at the website. There's not a picture of them. No, I don't think so.
But here's the thing. I wouldn't have even have ordered those, but they got so many reviews on their website that I was like, well, I got to get the dumplings. And it's a good thing I did. Okay. So sometime in the next couple of weeks, I got to go back and get those again, because I can't not.
They're called, it's these house made dumplings with which meat? I don't think you get to choose. I don't think I'm going to like them. Why? They got mushrooms in them. Oh, I couldn't even taste the mushrooms. Fine.
All six for me. Yeah, apparently. Oh man.
Eight dollars for them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Worth it. Okay. Well, you thinking about them right now? Yeah.
Yeah, because we're talking about them. I know, but like, you can you taste them? I think you can get them steamed or you can get them fried. And I got them fried. Uh, it doesn't say. And that was the way to go. I don't know.
I didn't try the steamed ones, but the fried ones, because they were a little bit crispy. Right. So good. Okay.
Oh my. Well, I might try a bite, but I'm nervous about the mushroom situation. You won't even know. You wouldn't have even known they were in there if you hadn't read it. I didn't even know what was in there. I just ordered them and ate them. Okay. So good.
I played a new board game. Yeah. Tell me about it.
It's called summer camp. I picked it up for a deal. I got it for 10 whole dollars. And it's a, and it's a big board game.
And I got to play it while I was on this camp out where I slept in my truck. Yeah. Uh, really good game.
Good. Very balanced game. Um, and I liked it. It, I mean, I'm at a scout camp out and it's a kind of a scout sort of game where you got to earn merit badges and stuff like that. Um, really fun game. We need to play it as a fam. Okay. I'm down. Uh, it's two to four players. The box says 35 to 45 minutes.
It's full of lies. That timer. How long did it take yet?
We played, we started about 10 30 and we finished at about a quarter to one. Oh. Okay. But let me tell you, this is, this is one of those games. Uh, it gets a great fun game, but it's a deck building game.
And so there's multiple moving parts to games like this. And so when you do your first play through, they really shouldn't put the time on the box as an expectation for the first time you're going to play the game. Because you don't know the rules. You don't know the game mechanics. Like you don't understand all the moving parts of the game until you do a slow play through. So this was our slow play through. And, uh, and it was, uh, me and a couple of the other leaders and then one, uh, one of the leaders, um, what, like 11 year old who was playing.
Okay. He smoked us. The 11 year old one, uh, completely destroyed us, uh, which was, which was perfect, right? Like three adults, we're overthinking everything. We're trying to do big strategy stuff.
And he's just playing the game and he figured out how to beat us and one. And it was, uh, it was really good. So I liked that the game was, you know, for him, it was, it was fun and it was challenging, but he was able to beat three adults.
So I love that. We haven't played a game, a board game in a really long time. There was a while where it was like we were playing anything we could get our hands on for a while. Right. And it's been a couple of years since we've played a board game. Yeah.
This one's a good one. It's a lot of fun. How many people can play it?
Two to four. Okay. And it's a card building game. It's a deck builder.
Yeah. So if you've ever played Dominion, it's similar to, it's similar to that where you, you have a, uh, the game board is, uh, moving pieces, but there's also cards on the board and then you have, uh, a small deck of cards that you start with. And then you start buying other cards with resources and that kind of thing. And you build your deck up and then you shuffle it and you draw a new hand every time you play. So it's, it's kind of fun because you get to kind of build your own fate, um, sort of in the game. And I think that's where, uh, the 11 year old figured out like before, before the adults did, he figured out these are the cards I need in order to be able to win.
And we spent more time going like, well, what? What if I buy this? And he was like, no way. It's this is the card you got to buy every time it comes up.
And so he smoked us. Yeah. I love it. It's pretty good. Um, but the game was super, super good.
Um, and what I liked about it was didn't have any built in sabotageery. That's what you said. Yeah. Which what the, what I mean by that is that this game is like every player is able to progress at their own ability. Uh, so you build your own card deck as you go. And, uh, and as you progress along, you, you kind of go like, well, I've got to make a decision of whether I'm going to use this card for the action or whether I'm going to use it to help me buy other cards. And if you use the action, it's only for you. Like you get to advance your player on the board. You can't take cards away from other people. You can't move their pieces backwards.
I like that. So you're, you're only in control of your own destiny. And that's what's great and super challenging about it. Yeah. What's it called again?
Summer camp. Yep. It's a good one. It's a fun game. Okay.
I was super impressed. Let's get our family together. Yep. And then we can choose. You only work on three merit badges when you play and it comes with like nine or something, nine or 10. So you just pick. So I've only played three of the merit badges and there's a whole bunch of game left that I haven't even seen.
So yeah, it's cool. Sounds like a game night has happened in this week. Sounds like it. I love it. Okay.
It's a good one. If you can find it on a deal too, I got it for half price. Ten dollars. I know. What a steal. Question for you.
What's up? If you get a present, a wrapped present from a coworker, a neighbor, a friend, do you save it to open on Christmas? I would ask. I would say, do you want me to wait until Christmas to open it? And if they're like, no, no, go ahead, open it now. You would ask in all circumstances. You bet I would. Okay. What if it's in a bag, like a gift bag?
Same. If they want to be there to witness me opening it, I'm going to say, did you want me to open that? Do you want me to save it till Christmas?
That's probably what I'd say. You want me to wait till Christmas? Okay. What if they just like, what if it's from a neighbor and they just leave it on your doorstep? Well, then I'm opening it beforehand. Okay. You're not even going to ask. Well, who am I going to ask?
I'm going to go to the neighbor's house and go, should I wait to open this? Well, if you have their phone number, you could text them. I guess. Do you have the neighbor's phone number? Yeah. Oh, one of them. Yeah.
Two of them. Yeah. I suppose.
Of our neighbors in our, in our general vicinity. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I will always open the present. Yeah, I know. Cause you can't stand to wait five seconds. I feel, I feel like those types of gifts are meant to be open before Christmas. I don't know.
I don't know why I've always thought that, but I have. But what if it doesn't say who it's from? Then I might save it. I don't expect people to save the gift that I give them. If I give a gift to a coworker or a friend, I would expect them to open it. Yeah.
I feel like that's kind of the point is open this gift. Yeah. It's like a fun, like, ah, like a prelude, right? Like an appetizer at a Christmas. Yeah.
A mooseboosh. Right. You get it.
Yeah. And plus, if it's in a gift bag, I can already see it anyway. So it might as well just rip out the tissue paper.
Then you can see it. You can't stand to wait. I really cannot. You're terrible at it. I really, really am.
Like they're wrapped Christmas gifts under the tree right now. Specifically for you and you know about it. Yeah. How many times have you touched them? Not once. Tell me the truth.
I am telling you the absolute truth. How many times have you thought about touching them? I only think about them when you guys bring them up, actually.
Because you've forgotten they were there? Yeah. Well, that's good.
That's progress. And tell you guys, talk about them, which you do all the time. Not all the time. You bring them up all the time.
Both you and the kids. Oh, remember those presents under the tree? That's because we like to bug you. I know you do. But I don't think about them as much as you think I do.
So, none and none. If there were more of them, you would. But the fact that there are two, it's not enough. And they're small.
Uh-huh. If they were bigger, you would really be worried about it. I'm not worried about any of it. I feel like you're kind of worried about it. I feel like you are provoking me to want to be worried about that. Yeah, a little bit. I'm making you on. Yeah, you are. Yeah.
It's because it's not hard to do. You're not going to get me this year though. Oh, yeah, I will.
Good luck. Because the second I go shopping and I go, I got you something, you're going to go, I'm going, I'm not telling you. You're going to go, did you tell the kids? And I'm going, no. And then Emory's going to go, tell me. I won't tell her.
I'm going to say, no. And every year I have to have the same conversation. How many people can keep a secret? One. Every single person you tell cuts your chances of keeping that thing secret in half.
Yeah. Quit telling more people. I can't keep a secret.
I know. I have kept a lot of secrets this year so far. What's that mean? I've kept a lot of secrets. Oh, great.
I've been, I've been so good this year on so many levels. So, but I guarantee you've told somebody. About one thing. Yeah. You have to. You can't. You have to spill the beans. I have three secrets. You, you can't contain the beans. Yes, sir.
No. The beans get spilled. You are the bean spiller.
Not all the beans. There's just a small hole. Where the beans are leaking out.
One bean leaked out. No. It's more than one. No, it's not that. No, it's a couple of beans and some of the bean juice. No.
Yeah. I've been good. I'm telling you. Turned a new leaf. Oh, yeah.
Yep. There's, it's the ninth. You have so much time. You have so much time.
You do have a lot of time. It's fine. I'll keep them all a secret.
I got this. Those beans are going to be spilled. Nope. Guaranteed.
No way, man. Christmas beans all over the place. No one can hear you shaking your head. It's over here shaking your head. Nope. Not a thing. It's fine. I got it. I got it covered.
All right. We're in the middle of Jingle Bingo. Still going. Still going.
No bingo yet. Well, it's not. Yeah. I don't have five in a row yet.
That's right. They're kind of, you've tricked people out this week, buddy. Have I?
Today you have. Okay. Yeah. I've got some that I'm like, could be there.
Could be there. Okay. Well, keep track when you get five in a row, 208, 525, 97, 97. That is the phone number. You say Jingle Bingo and then you confirm you have the correct bingo. And if that all is true, you're going to win a $100 Visa gift card from the Bank of Commerce in Classy 97 as we play Jingle Bingo. One winner every single weekday, this week and next week.
So still good amount of chances to win. Yeah. All right. It's a would you rather, Tyler? Oh, is it really?
It really is. All right. Well, let's go ahead and I'll push this other button. Would you rather this or that? I'd rather wrap presents all day or shovel snow all day.
Wrap presents. I knew you were going to say that. Yeah.
No. I hate shoveling snow. I know you do. Hurts my back. I hate when you shovel snow because you complain about your back.
Well, because it hurts my back. You're a really good gift wrapper also. Yeah, don't mind wrapping gifts. That's fine.
I mean. It gets tedious so like all day. All day. Look, if I have all day and that's the only thing I'm doing and I can take my time and there's no rush and I can throw on a Christmas show and.
No, what if there is a rush? Let me finish my nice one before you just destroy it. You can have a hot cocoa. I could just be cozy.
Yeah. And take my time. Set up a table. Not, you know, I don't have to do it on the carpet or anything. I could make it.
Oh, I prefer to wrap on the floor. No way. Yeah, way. Now give me a table. No floor. All day. No way. Yeah. Okay.
But what if you have to get, there's like a quote that you have to meet in an hour. How many? Let's say 50. That's a lot. I know.
That's almost one minute. Okay. Let me scale it back. That's way too many.
All right. How about 30? How many presents do you think you could wrap in an hour without being overburdened? 20.
Okay. Let's say 25. 20 gives me three minutes per gift. Okay. So you have to wrap 25 in an hour.
That's too many. You're doing that all day. You still picking that over snow? Yes. Okay. Because I'm still cozy with my hot cocoa and I'm inside.
Who's going to get mad at me if I don't wrap an extra five an hour? Would you rather shovel powder snow or like wet snow? Powder snow.
What are you talking about? Would you rather shovel? Over wrapping presents. You would you ever grab the snow shovel? I have before. When's the last time? I don't necessarily shovel.
I just mostly push. Last year, bro, or probably earlier this year. No.
Bro. Not this year for sure. Earlier in the year.
Yes, I had. Like in January you're saying? Yeah.
That is what I'm saying. So you're saying a winter ago? Yes. Maybe. But how many times? Probably once.
Yeah. And I push. I don't lift.
Just push it out of the way. So where do you pick it? Presents. Yeah. Inside?
Right. On the floor? Cocoa?
No, table. And all you get is peach juice. Gross.
I know. Made mine horrible. I had to make yours gross too. You only get peach juice to drink. Peach flavored anything is so gross. Warm peach juice. Ew. Yep.
That's why you're not in charge of this game. Okay. And we added just a few minutes to say goodbye and wrap up the show really quick for the day and to let folks know they can listen to it on demand anywhere and everywhere with Wake Up Classy 97, the podcast, which is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and YouTube and everywhere else you get podcasts. Right. So if you missed any part of the show or you want to go back and listen again or if you, you know, just love it so much you want to hear it on repeat, you can. Oh boy.
I know. We have over 350 some odd episodes of the show as a catalog you can go and listen to. So you can go all the way back to like a long time.
You have over a year's worth of stuff. I wonder if, never mind. What? I was just going to say, I wonder if I've gotten better. Oh, okay.
Or stayed the same. Well, let's go listen. No, I don't want to. What are you working on improving? What are your goals?
Don't have any. Well, you're never going to improve if you don't set goals. What are you talking about?
What are you trying to improve? I don't know. I got to think about it. I suppose. Well, that's a January situation.
That's a 2026 Chantel issue. So I want, do you want to know which episode is the most downloaded? Sure. For some reason, I don't know why it's St. Patrick's Day this year. Interesting.
March 17th, 2025, our largest downloaded episode. Interesting. Yeah, I don't know what happened in that one. Something good, I bet. I bet so.
Yeah. A St. Patty's Day edition? Were we playing some games or something?
I don't know. And then September 10th of this year, April 18th and April 24th, and then May 5th of this year, all this year. Those are the top five episodes. Thanks, everyone. Yeah, thanks for listening. I'm always amazed.
I'm like, when somebody says, I heard you on the radio, I go, oh, thanks for tuning in. So anyway, have a great rest of your Tuesday. We'll be back tomorrow. And thanks for hanging out with us. We'll see you then. Bye.
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