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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Monday, August 10th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Josh and Chantel are back from a week off and diving right into everything we missed! A Beach Boys debate, a recap of our late-night trip to see the new Spider-Man: Brand New Day, a feel-good story about a former Wendy's employee turned Yale scholarship recipient, Chantel's chili mac mishap, Josh recounts his 50-mile Sawtooth backpacking trip with the scouts, an epic fly fishing showdown, squirrel-feeding adventures, a full garden update on zucchini, pumpkins, and corn, the Kirk Cousins/Max Crosby practice scuffle, NFL preseason football, our favorite teachers growing up, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: The Beach Boys
(3:24) - Hey, we're back!
(6:12) - Spiderman: Brand New Day
(10:01) - Good News
(11:56) - Chili mac
(18:50) - The backpacking adventure
(26:39) - Fishing competition
(34:15) - Garden upkeep
(40:11) - Sleeping alone
(45:18) - Mowing the lawn
(49:33) - Kirk Cousins VS Max Crosby
(55:33) - Treat A Teacher
(59:19) - Would You Rather
(1:02:14) - Josh is a princess
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Full show transcript:
We are back from a week off with a brand new show. And that means a brand new episode of Wake Up Classy97, the podcast. Thanks for being here and thanks for listening. You like the Beach Boys. I do like the Beach Boys. I've liked the Beach Boys since I was a little kid. You have. Yeah.
I got a Beach Boys cassette tape at a Christmas party once in 1995. Okay. And I went, oh man.
Oh, that's great. I used to listen to my mom had an eight-track of the Beach Boys. And then I would sit in the basement and listen to the eight-track of the Beach Boys. Like that was I was very into it.
There's maybe like three or four songs that I like. And the rest are just throwaway. I made a poll on my Instagram account yesterday. There were seven people who voted that they liked them. Two people that did not, myself included. Yeah. Me and our friend Kyle. Shout out to Kyle.
You and Kyle don't like the Beach Boys. Everybody else who chimed in was like, they're good.
There was a lot of people who did not chime in, but yeah.
Seven people said yes, two said no. So our our major survey is nine people. Yeah, yeah. Wow. But hey, you know what? Beach boys won. They're the people like them. So that's good. The majority of people. Yeah.
The majority of people. I'm making up good vibrations. Not that one.
Of all the ones to sing, you picked that one. Like that's not even good beach boys.
Driving around running errands yesterday. And you were like, let's listen to some beach boys. And I went, oh, why?
Because it's summer. I was a beach vibes.
I've never picked the beach boys to listen to as I'm driving around. But you do you.
Well, I I did. And I had a good time. I enjoyed it. I'm I'm sad that you don't like them.
It's fine. That was Surfer Girl song. Which one? The Surfer Girl.
The little slow sway one. Ooh. Yeah, that's the one. That's not high on the list.
Yon City.
You yesterday were like trying to put together your poll and you were looking for a Beach Boy song to put on there, and you didn't put the one that we were listening to. You put a different one that is one that you do like, but for a minute you were like, what about Kokomo? And I went, eww!
you don't even like the Beach Boy.
I don't like Kokomo. You don't like the 80s Beach Boys.
You don't like good vibrations, and you don't like care for good vibrations.
Surfer girl. Yeah, I don't like every song. But I like more than you do. Yeah, that's true. You do.
There are three. God only knows. Wouldn't it be nice? Both are great. And what's the other one I like? Help me Ron. No. Absolutely not. Little Deuce Coop. Nope. You don't know what I got. No, thank you to the Beach Boys. Oh, come on.
It's fun, fun, fun. Tell your daddy takes the T-bird away. Yeah, skip. Rude, Man. That's fine. How about we start today's show? Let's get to it. Oh, hi.
Oh, oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, you guys.
I know. I haven't heard my own voice and headphones in so many days. How does it sound? Pretty good. Oh. Pretty good. Yeah. You sound nice too. Oh, thanks, dear. Not to be overlooked. You sound real good, my haters. It's been a minute. It's been a week. Uh, and some. Ta-da.
Hey. Hey, we're back. Here we are. Uh so live and in the flesh. Yes. And so much to do.
So much to talk about, too.
So many things have happened in so many days.
Things that I haven't heard of, because you've been saving them to talk about on the radio. Yeah, maybe I'll just not tell you. Okay, fine. No.
I got so many things to talk about. I got so many uh stories to share. Likewise, bud. So this'll be fun. It's good to see you back here in the uh workplace. It's always nice when you walk up to the door and you use your uh little key and it lets you in.
You're like, oh, it's like a job.
Hey, that's a good sign.
So you know, we're off to a good start. good start. They didn't change the locks on me. That's exactly right. They did not. Someone's messed with my pencils, however. Oh no, not your beloved pencils.
They're fine. They're still in order. They were just wiggle, wiggled a bit. Still.
Still in order. Yep.
What else is I've I was trying to see if anything else changed. Everything looks exactly the same. Looks like you have a voicemail. Uh I do have one voicemail. I'll have to check that. Okay. Yeah. All my little Everything else is things.
Everything looks the same. Yeah. It's clean.
Nobody redecorated or painted or anything. There's no like welcome back signs.
No. Hey, we missed you.
No fanfare, no balloons. I hope you had a good vacay.
That would have been nice to come back to something.
I probably have to water the plants because I'm sure that didn't happen, so I'm going to do that. It's pretty much what's going on.
Hey, we're playing Kids Smarts this week.
Oh, yeah, that's happening. We've got Manheim Steamroller tickets to give away, so we're playing North Pole Password. Nice, nice. Um that's coming up today. I'm trying to think what else. There's so much going on.
Just so much. We'll talk about how you can uh help a teacher win five hundred dollars. Cool. Yeah. Uh that's exciting. Um, and that is with our friends at PSI Environmental, by the way. Cool. Uh, so it lots happening. Uh, we'll get to it all. Let's get to it. Hi.
Happy Monday. Welcome back.
We decided to go check out the new Spider-Man movie over the weekend, and every viewing uh showing, every showing was uh like sold out, and you finally found one at 10 o'clock at night.
It was later than that. It was like 10 15.
Well, and then by the time the movie started, it was like way later than that because they've got 20 minutes of preview. So it was 10 30. We got out of the theater after 1 a.m. I know it. Who do you think we are?
I am young and cool and hip.
Oh we did make it through the movie. Couple of kids in the theater nearby did not. They were sleeping and snoring.
And I pointed and laughed. And I said, You fall asleep in a movie. Yeah, oh, you did? Yes. Wow. That's brave. That is brave of you. I was pretty proud of myself that I stayed awake. So hi five.
Well, let's let's talk about the movie. Obviously, don't give away any spoilers, but let's go ahead and dive into this thing.
I can't even think of what spoilers would be. Uh I can. So don't say it. Okay, fine. I can't remember anything. And so the whole time in the movie, I was like, wait.
Yeah, no, you did have questions for me. You're like, what? Why don't they remember? And I went, that was in the like the whole last movie. Okay.
But who's that guy? Yeah. And have we seen that movie that he's in? And why does Spider-Man hate that guy? Yeah.
Super good though. I really enjoyed the movie. I love the uh the big reveal of some characters. That's a big spoiler.
Okay, I was gonna talk about that.
Don't talk about that. Because that was the one thing I said. I can't wait to find out. Because it's been held so secret. What?
Who the secret character is? Is that what you're saying? Yes.
I was disappointed. I'll tell you that much. Whoa. There could have been other characters we could have.
I was uh super stoked. Okay. Um anyway. I think all in all, great movie. I agree. Super good movie.
And Tom Holland. Let's talk about you love him. He's so adorable. I do love him. And I love Zendaya. I love Tom Holland and I love Zendaya. Yeah. Just two of the like most authentic, genuine celebrities. They're so sweet.
Like good people, so have you seen them together? Well, yeah. Adorable. Yeah. On screen and off screen. Yeah. Right. And Peter Parker, not Peter Parker. Tom Holland and his friend.
Yes. What's his friend's name? The friend. They're friends in real life. I know. It's so nice. Yeah. And that's all. What's this one called? A New Day? Spider-Man and New Day.
It's called the New Spider-Man movie. Brand new day. Brand new day. Brand new day.
See, look at that. That new stuff.
His name's Jacob Battalon. But Battalion? Battalion. I don't know. there's no ION. Anyway. That's his name. Jacob. So Tom and Jacob are friends in real life.
They are friends in real life. How adorable is that? So adorable.
It was so uh so good. Uh if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend. Uh, but you know, maybe don't go so late as we did.
Or go so late because you're young and hip and cool. Or that.
You could always be young and hip and cool.
Who am I to stay awake at one o'clock in the morning? That's right.
So hip and cool.
Young and hip and cool.
Oh, here's some good news I just stumbled upon. Let's hear it. I'm gonna tell you about Talas D'Asouza. When he was a teenager, he got a job working at Wendy's in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and he was a really good employee. He was promoted to shift manager by the time he was a junior in high school. Whoa, buddy.
Pretty great, right? A big year for Talus as he was looking ahead and uh and trying to get ready to go to college and looking for a way to afford tuition. So he went to the two owners of the Wendy's restaurant and he said, Here's my situation, and I'm gonna have to quit so that I can take a higher paying construction job to make money to pay for school. And the owner said, No way are we losing our prize manager? So they made him a deal. They said, You stay on the team, we'll foot the bill for your higher education. Ah so the owner stashed away extra money every hour that he worked, which completely covered his tuition at Cape Cod Community College. Nice, which is awesome, right? Yeah, it gets better. He got straight A's, he was the student body body president, and he ended up getting accepted as a transfer student to Yale University.
Which by the way, only two percent of transfer students each year get accepted. Dude, what's this guy's name? His name is Talus D'Asouza. Talas.
I know killing it. Not only did he get accepted, he was awarded a full scholarship with his acceptance, which is worth about 200,000. Whoa.
Which is crazy. So he said he'll be majoring in political science. He has dreams of becoming a lawyer. Uh, and that this big dream is all made possible because of a special connection to this fast food restaurant to Wendy's that he had forever and ever and ever ago. And he said, Sometimes all it takes is one person who believes in you, and I am living proof of that. I think that's really incredible. So uh congratulations to Talus to Souza who's going to Yale.
That's a nice story.
We call it good news around here.
You are the cook dinner person in our family. What does that mean? That means that you are most often the one who is cooking dinner for us. Yeah. And you were gone all last week. Right. And I said, ah.
I was cooking dinner for myself.
Guess I'm gonna roll up my sleeves and cook dinner for these people in my house that need to eat. The children. Yes. Roommates.
The two children are roommates. Okay.
That are fully capable of cooking dinner for themselves.
Let's be clear. They are 16 and 21.
But for some reason, they still come to me and they go, What's for dinner? I don't why are you looking at me?
Well, I know you had picked a few things ahead of time because we went to the grocery store and you were like, I'll get this and I'll make this.
They had asked for a couple of things specifically. They were like, hey, we haven't had chili mac in a long time.
Let's talk about the chili mac for just a minute. Okay, go. Let's run through your cooking process. Okay. How do you make the chili mac?
Well, a lot of people will homemake chili mac.
Nah, I use the craft mac and cheese boxes and the canonali chili.
It's that's one of our comfort foods from when the kids were.
How many boxes of mac and cheese did you use? Dose. How many cans of chili? Oh no. You well, you're half chili. You forgot the uh I usually use one hot chili and one regular chili. Or one hot chili and one chili no beans.
Just depending on how I'm feeling. So you were half the chili. Uh-huh. I I knew that was probably the case. Your proportions were off already. But go on now. I'll tell you how I knew later in the story. Okay.
Let's go back to the night before when I had made I had a recipe for some homemade ramen. Okay. And I was like, I'm going to make some homemade ramen. Nice. And I had these rice noodles. Yes. Severely overcooked.
You barely cook those. Like they cook in not very much time though.
Yeah. I overcooked them. So they were a sticky, soggy mess. Emory didn't eat them. Me and Beck were like, it's not bad. Okay. It's a little soggy, but it's okay.
All right. Cut it. I mean, ramen's pretty wet dinner anyway. As far as things go, it's kind of a flavor was really good.
Okay. Cut to the next night, making
No, that's when you made the Chili Mac. Yeah. Okay. So you made the ramen with overcooked noodles, and then you did the chili mac. Let's go through the process. Boil the noodles. Yeah. Drain the noodles. Yeah.
I make the cheese sauce on the side. Did you do that? I did. And how'd that go? Fine. You melt the butter and do the thing and whip it all together and then you pour it into the Oh no, I didn't do that. What did you do?
I just mixed the milk and the cheese sauce. Yeah.
And then you don't melt the butter first. Uh-uh.
The butter goes into the noodles. And then it melts. The hot noodles melt it. Wrong. No, you're wrong.
You melt it and then you mix the cheese and milk into it and you let that whole thing sit on the side. And then after you drain the noodles, you put that in. Then you add in the two cans of chili. You stir it all together.
You got chili Mac. You didn't make it that way. No, I didn't. Want to know how I know? How? I tried some of the leftovers. Because I didn't know how awful it was.
I'm not criticizing you. I have never had a texture in my mouth like that. I thought, hey, there's leftover chili Mac. And I was I was a little hungry.
You were you had to work on Saturday. I was working around the house, and I thought, I'll just have a little snack of this. I took a couple of bites. I really tried to fight my way through. That is real bad.
Yeah, I know. The kids loved it. Well, what happened? I undercooked the noodles.
It is a coagulated brick in the fridge. It is paste.
Overcooked the noodles the night before, undercooked.
There's no way those were undercooked. Yeah, they were. Yeah. Not in the fridge anymore.
That just needs to go. I left it because I wanted you, I want to have this conversation, and I want you to go try some of the leftovers.
No, I don't even like it. I didn't even eat it. I had like one little scoop because I don't even like it. I only made it because the kids like it.
So I went, I don't think they like it anymore. Fine. You've ruined Chili Mac.
This is the easiest thing in the world to make, too.
Craft macaroni and cheese with two cans of chili.
I can make macaroni and cheese in my sleep because I made it so often. Apparently not. Babysitting. Or maybe you should try that.
Because doing it with your eyes open wasn't good. Out.
Hey, I'm not criticizing you. I'm criticizing the meal. You're great. The Chili Mac was not.
I don't enjoy cooking. It's not fun. I have a good time. Although I made what did I make the other day?
Last night you made dinner. It was great. You made uh Buffalo cauliflower tacos. They were great. They were pretty good. Yeah.
I can make some stuff that's good. I know. But Chili Mac's not it. Because yuck. It's gross. The kids love it. It really is a comfort food from their younger lives. But it's not my favorite. Yeah. So I think I was kind of like, ugh about making it.
I just want you to heat up one little bite and just you have to feel that texture.
It's also a week old. I don't do leftovers more than three days. No. I'm not eating it.
It's craft macaroni and cheese and chili.
It doesn't matter.
And it's half chili. It's not even enough chili. Which I also noticed right away. I went, this is mostly mac. This is missing something. And it was missing the can of hot chili. That's the one you left out. I like to give it a little kick.
I asked the kids what they wanted, and they didn't pick the hot one. They don't know how I make it. Okay, sorry.
They just know what that they eat it and they it tastes nice. But now you know the secrets. Oh man.
Emory did tell me that there are things that you make that are good and things that I make that are good. Right. She said, you make the better breakfast burrito. Okay. And I make better spaghetti. She said that. Okay.
Okay. I take no offense. What? We have our specialties. Right. We should have a Chili Mac cook-off.
We're supposed to have a bread cook-off.
No. We never follow the couple. No, we don't. You've had so many questions about my week, and I want to get to as many of them as I can. So I might give you like a lightning round to ask as many as you uh want. But I spent the week last week uh backpacking six days uh in the sawtooth wilderness of Idaho. And uh hands down, the most beautiful place I've ever hiked. And I've hiked in Yellowstone, I've hiked in the White Clouds, I've hiked in several different places in our state.
Unbeatable. You said at one point that's my favorite place.
Uh there is uh one spot that I showed you a picture and a video of and stuff that is absolutely my like favorite place on earth. Had a great conversation with one of the other leaders that that I was with. So we it was a bunch of scouts.
We had four scouts, four adults. It was a wonderful week. Uh, and we got to see some very, very high altitude Alpine Lakes. It's uh I've had in my head sort of a vision of what this would be like. I watched a ton of YouTube video. I've been planning this route that we were gonna take uh since like February.
Finalized maps and and routes in March, and I've just been planning and thinking about it and researching and reading and just trying to gather as much information about what this was going to be like, and it blew away every expectation I had. Unreal. The size of it is just huge. The size of the Sawtooth Mountain Range. It's just giant. Everything is like so much bigger than you could even imagine. I've been at Table Mountain on the Tetons, like all kinds of different places. It's huge.
Why was that your favorite place on earth? Uh is this a lightning round question? Yes. Uh just the the serenity and peacefulness of it. Okay. Like it's a good thing.
You said at one point that that could be the place. That would be a place. Okay. There will be multiple. Okay.
I'm gonna I'm gonna set up here's the deal. Ashes of me get dispersed in several different places. And one of them is there, and each one of them has a song that has to that has to go with it.
And I've already picked out that situation. So we've got to write these down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I uh gotta put them somewhere, and then one day it's just gonna be a sob fest after you've hiked miles. You go hike miles to beautiful places and listen to a song, uh, which you'll have to download or whatever that looks like in the future, and uh and it'll be amazing.
What's the song? Do you have the song picked out?
Yeah, I'm not gonna it's a thing. It's not like a well-known thing. No, it's it's it's a song I have. It's a good one. It'll make you cry. It's a sob fest. I'm telling you, you're gonna sit there and you're gonna listen to this five-minute long song, and you're gonna enjoy minutes. Yeah, I think I think I'm worth five minutes of your time.
You were going to cry over you for five minutes? After I've just high tinted. Yeah. Okay. It's gonna be crazy. Five minutes. Yeah. Must be a Led Zeppelin song.
No, it's not. It is not a Led Zeppelin song. Yeah. But if you go up here and listen to Led Zeppelin in the mountains.
Freebird. No. Let's get a little freebird up.
That's It's nine minutes long. know. Anyway, uh, really, really cool week. Spent the week living out of a backpack, moving around, uh, doing some fishing, which I'm gonna talk about in a minute. I had to separate fishing from backpacking because the fishing
is I haven't even heard anything about the fishing.
The fishing is amazing.
I've tried to ask you questions about it, and you're like, oh, hang on, I gotta save it for the radio.
The fishing was quite the ordeal. Uh, but I had I had hooked up uh GPS communicator so we could talk. Yeah. Uh, and I could give you check-ins. How'd that go? I don't know what that looked like on your end.
It felt a little impersonal, and so then I just thought maybe it was like a at first I thought it was you were sending out a group text to a bunch of people, and then I was like, well, I don't even know if I can respond to this, and if I respond to this, is everyone gonna see my response? I don't know the answer to that. So then it was like at first I would just like react to it with like you would send like
yeah, oh, we're here at camp, and I'd send a heart and I'd be like, I don't even know if he can see that. Right.
And then a couple of days later, I was like, uh, I love you. I miss you. Then I was like, it's everyone else seeing that. I don't know. Did you even receive it? I don't know because I sent it and then I got nothing in response, and I was like, okay, well. I so I felt it felt as though you could text me updates, but I couldn't respond. And then later, you had like I think on the fourth day or something, you responded to a text that I had sent, and I went, ah. Gotcha. You can receive my text. Yes. So all the other days when I had texted you, you were just ignoring me.
I don't know if I saw them all now that you say it that way. Uh-huh. I'm gonna we're gonna have to look. It is definitely a much slower communication. It was. Um go ahead. No, go ahead.
No, you go. I was gonna say I made uh some uh a lot of different food. I don't know if you know the food I took. I didn't. I took homemade pizzas, they were pretty okay. Okay.
Uh not bad. Uh the peanut noodles. I would make that uh every day.
That was super good. Uh and it's just ramen with peanut butter in it and a few other things. Okay. It it turned out really good. Let me see. I like that.
Good job. Yeah. I got a text from another of our scout people who stayed behind, and he said, I'm watching the hikers progress. I assume you have a map of their route. How did they get from Monday night's camp spot at Redfish Lake to Tuesday morning's trailhead at Tin Cup? And I said, I don't have a map. Josh explained the route to me repeatedly. Uh-huh. I did not listen, although I pretended that I did. Oh, great. Oh, great.
Because we weren't at redfish at all. So that's a problem.
I had no answers. People were texting me, like, where are they? I'm like, I don't know. Huh. You showed me on your maps. You had me watch videos. I'm like, you guys are cute if you think that I am a good listener, because I am not.
Well, I got home. I threw a bunch of gear around the house because I had to unpack my bag and do laundry and uh and do food and clean tents and let my sleeping bag air out, like all that stuff. Yeah. Uh and I finally got that cleaned up on Saturday. So that was good. Thank you for that. You're welcome.
Well, thanks for making it safely home. Yeah.
It was good. And you know how you you end a backpacking trip? How's that? With a big greasy cheeseburger and a milkshake. And we did. And uh, and so we went to uh Sun Valley, we grabbed a burger and we grabbed a milkshake, and it was right next to the fly shop. And so I got to go wander and look at deals on flies, and that was pretty great for me.
And it wasn't uh wasn't that bad. Well, good deal. My body's recovered. I feel good.
I'm covered in scratches, but I think I'll I think I'll survive. How many miles total did you get? 50.5. Good job. Yep. Good job, guys. Thank God.
We did it. So as we're backpacking through the sawtooths, just as a quick follow-up to the previous conversation, we stayed every single night at a different body of water or near a nice alpine lake. And so uh I did indeed carry my fly rod uh and and a selection of flies with me. Um and uh and attempted to catch some fish every single day.
Uh, which was a pretty okay thing. It's like who planned this trip? Me. So let's spend some time where we can fish. Uh and fish we did. Uh myself, one of the other leaders and one scout had a bit of a fishing competition going. Oh uh quite quite quickly. Uh, it became uh a fishing competition. And I was uh being out fished, and I was a little upset about it.
Well, you do not take loss well.
Well, yes, I do. Just listen. Go ahead. Go ahead. So I uh started including in the uh daily message uh what I called the fish count. Um, and I would I would update uh and just say, hey, just so everybody knows, um, the fish count, uh, the other leader has one, I have two. That was that's when I was up. I was very excited. Said, hey, just so you know, and that was more to rub it in to the other leader that I had outfished him by one fish. Uh and so that was cool. So that was on August 2nd is when I I was up. Okay, and that was the last time that I was in the lead for a little while, anyway. Uh, because the next fish update uh was uh I was behind uh the other leader was at three and I was at two, and then the other scout had gotten in on it. He was having a real hard time catching fish. Were all three of you fly fishing?
Uh no. I was fly fishing, and the scout was fly fishing for the first time. So uh he also had a he had a combo reel. It was a spinner and fly rod. And uh at one point we had a restock day where we were at the vehicles, and so he ditched his spinner reel but kept his fly reel uh and rod because he wanted to learn how to fly fish, and I was there and I could show him some stuff and whatever.
Uh so he was like, I'm gonna I want to catch a fish on my fly, my fly rod. I got really bad. So I said, Well, let's figure it out, dude.
Let's make it happen. And so uh he fished only fly fishing. Uh and so when we got to one of the lakes, the score was the other leader seven, me five, the scout zero.
Aw. And we had tried multiple lakes, and you know, we'd had a little bit of success, but it was it was minimal at that point. But we were stoked, like 12 fish total was a good time. Like that's that's awesome. And we're just catching them and putting them back, like we're just having fun.
So it could have been the same fish that we were just catching over and over. It's not how fish work.
It's because what I'm about to tell you, you're gonna think to yourself, that's the same fish over and over and over. It can't pa that can't be possible, you're gonna say.
And I'm gonna tell you, it's not how fish work. Here we go. We got to the lake. And I'm not gonna say the name because it's it's it's a little bit of a sweet, sweet spot. And you have to work to get there. So it's not like everybody's gonna like load up the truck and go fish this lake, but we got to this lake. And we fished the entire perimeter of this thing.
And uh I'm sitting there with the scout and I'm helping him set up his rig, and I get them all set up, and I said, You gotta cast right over the edge of this rock. And and I'm telling you, they're right there. Like there are fish right there. His very first cast, he gets his first fish right there.
I mean, boom, instant. The fly hit the water, the fish hit it, and they were coming up and doing top water stuff, which is so fun because they come up and smash the fly, and you get to see it, and it's an explosion of water, and he was officially on the board, and we were yelling across the lake at each other. It was a big huge moment. It was so cool. And we were like, Yes!
It's happening. Collectively, in that one day, the three of us caught over a hundred fish. That's insane. I ended up with a total of 46 fish.
Oh, not one day. No, my total. My total for the but I only had five going in. I caught 41 fish. That's insane. That is insane. The other leader, he was using a spinner rod. He did he did about half that. I think he finished with 26.
Now you went to get some, you tie your own flies. Yeah, but you also went to go get some from the store that were pre-tied. And there was a pizza. There was a five. I didn't take the pizza with me. Oh, dang it. I thought you had.
I should have. I bet they would have caught, I bet they would have gone nuts for the pizza. No, I left the pizza at home. They would have probably gone crazy for the pizza.
Most of the time they look like bugs, but that was the people at the shop were like, Yeah, that you would be amazed.
Oh, yeah, people love catching the pizza. It's good. Fish love it. Um the scout ended up beating us both. That's awesome. He caught 50 fish in one day. On the first day he ever caught a fish on a fly rod, he caught 50 fish. That will never happen again.
in his life. No, did you tell him?
We we tried to set his expectations to be like, this will never happen. Like this was the best day of fishing you're ever going to have. And you're 14.
Down the hill from here, buddy. Dude, you're you're you're gonna work.
You're 14 years old, and this is the best day of
fishing you've ever had in your life. So much harder for fish than this and not get anything.
But it that's why we just we didn't stop for hours and hours and hours. We wandered around that entire lake catching fish one after another, and yelling numbers across uh and calling each other out the whole day. It was just amazing.
That was so much fun. And he smoked us. He and I at one point I said, You're counting one fish as two, aren't you? And he's like, No, he caught 10 fish in a row on a cast. Boom, fish, boom, fish. Every cast, 10 in a row. It was nuts. That's awesome. It was so much fun.
I didn't even see any pictures of fish.
Did you even take I've got a couple of pictures? They were all little brook trout. Uh those are your favorites. They're so pretty. Uh it was so fun. I've got a couple of pictures, but uh, yeah. He put uh he's got two pictures set on his phone. His lock screen is like his first fish, and then his wallpaper is the biggest fish that he caught. So he's uh he was pretty excited.
But everybody makes a big deal about the biggest fish, but I think you should take pictures of the smallest fish because they feel good. But those are harder to catch than the big ones.
They're not because they haven't learned the the way food looks.
I'm just saying The biggest fish will always go for the food. Get those small ones.
They're like you got that backwards. You got that exactly backwards. Anyway, it was wonderful, wonderful fishing. And uh that was that was definitely the highlight of congrats. Yeah, super cool.
Okay, before you left on your backpacking week, you said, Can I walk you through the garden to tell you what you need to check for? Yeah. And I said, Yep. Because The garden is your baby.
Well, it's it's just a uh it's a thing that I have built. It's that's all.
I mean, it's just a garden. tend it, you upkeep it, you love it.
It's your baby I spent a lot of time in there yesterday.
And I just get to reap all the benefits. Yeah, I really don't do anything.
Cherry tomatoes, strawberries, raspberries.
Got him. I brought some, didn't you? You did?
Yeah, I brought all of the things zucchini, which you turned into delicious brownies that I can't stay out of. They're very good.
I'm gonna make more because we have a lot of zucchini. I have a lot of zucchini. Okay, you said here's what you probably need to uh watch out for. Yeah. I've got zucchini that need to be picked. Uh you need to keep an eye on the radishes. You need to keep an eye on the Yeah, just in case they get big. Yeah. Keep an eye on the pickles. You said okra, take care of the okra.
Yeah, I've pickling cucumbers, like little pickle cucumbers. There's okra if the little okras get three inches, you gotta harvest those. Keep an eye on these cucumbers because I don't know when they're gonna be ready, but I've got like real cucumbers going. I've got a lot going on in the squash bed. Pull raspberries when you want. There's plenty of those.
If strawberries pop up, you know what to do with those, tomatoes when they're red. You know. Yeah, easy stuff. Right. Water the herbs, water the rhubarb, because they're not hooked up to the watering system.
I did good. I checked it every day. Every day I would go in and take a peek and I would talk to them and I would say, listen. I know Josh is gone, but um I'm here for you. Oh, I'm a good replacement. Yeah. I got a splinter on the birthday.
Yeah, you said that. Where'd you get the splinter from? From one of your garden beds. Which one? I don't one of the wooden ones. They're all wooden.
I don't remember which one. I bent down and put my hand there and I went, Well, okay. It's still in there. I can't get it out. Well, that's no good. I know. Uh I thought I did a great job until you came home and said, Did you check on the pickles at all? And I went.
Well, I hadn't even like I didn't like rush out to the garden. It wasn't even the first thing that I did, and you were surprised by that. You're like, I'm surprised you aren't already out there. I said, let's go take a tour.
Let's see what's up. And we're wandering around, and we got to the cucumber bed, and I went, Oh, these cucumbers look good. And I looked to my left and I saw the biggest pickles I've ever seen in my life.
I could sell these to a drive-in theater to put in a big jar. I have huge pickles. And I went, you didn't pull these pickles. And they just kept finding them. I found like six or seven giant pickles in there. I forgot about the pickles. Yeah.
But I got so many other things. Did you see all the other things? Oh, yeah. I pulled an onion. Which okay. Didn't need to.
And then I and you cut it off, so it's you gotta use it. So we did. We used it and I cooked it into a meal. Which was fine. But yeah, no, I'm just they're just gonna lay there with those things flopped over, turning brown until I'm ready.
And then just dry it. dry out About so many zucchini That I gave them away at work And then I kind of was like, oh, I wonder if he's gonna be upset that I gave them away. Feed the people. Okay.
We still have like six on the counter. How many did you give away?
Like six or seven or eight. I have one zucchini plant, and it's grown like twenty zucchini.
I gave them all away, and then I came home and I went, I wonder if Josh is gonna be mad. I gave away all of his zucchini. No. Okay. Feed the people.
Okay, I did. And they were excited. Yeah. And they were like, these are good zucchini. And I went, thank you. I've been working really hard. Oh, yeah. Oh yeah. These are good zucchini. Yeah. Sure thing. I'm out there every day, sweating away. Yeah in my sun hat.
Fighting the earwigs and yelling at yelling at the pests and pulling the weeds and trying to keep everything at bay. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You got it. Who's doing that? Me. Me. Okay. Thank you for tending the garden in my absence.
I appreciate it. I am so excited about the mammoth sunflowers. They are way over my head. They haven't opened yet. Those things are gonna be huge. I'm excited. And I have some pumpkins.
You do have some pumpkins. You were pretty excited about your pumpkin.
I found a pumpkin. I was moving some vines and trying to get them to trellis over my trellis arch, you know. And I uh moved a big leaf and I went, that's a pumpkin. And I got like a like a I don't know, six-inch pumpkin under there right now. I'm so excited about it. It's awesome. It was a sneaky little surprise.
You're getting so excited about your garden. You're pretty excited about it. And corn, you have got corn.
I know. I really was struggling with the corn, but the stalks that I have been able to grow have ears on them. I've got like six years of corn growing right now. How cool. It's exciting.
Yes, it is. I'm ready for some corn. Well, slow your roll because it's got a little ways to go. I know. It's right now it's just kind of wispy hairs hanging out of the corn stock, but
wispy hairs turn into ears of corn. How cool. Growing food. It's exciting. Delicious food. That's right. Thanks for taking care of the garden. Thumbs up, pal.
They didn't say anything when I got back. They they didn't like complain.
Tacky. Didn't complain about me. They're like, she only came to visit us once.
It's a good thing you built a watering system or we'd all be dead. Yes.
You were gone all last week and Emory asked me, Mom, are you gonna be okay sleeping alone? And I went, uh-huh. Yep. Gonna be just fine.
Was that her like, if you need me to stay, I will.
No, I thought it might have been because when she was little and you were gone, she absolutely liked sharing the bed with me. Um, but I was thinking that same thing, like, oh, are you do you want to sleep with me and you're you are too embarrassed to say that? So you're saying, Mom, are you gonna be sad? And I go, No, I think I'm gonna be okay. And then I said, Do you want to sleep with me? And she said, No, I'm gonna sleep in the basement. And I went, okay, I'm I'm totally fine sleeping alone. Don't even fret about that. I was totally fine. Washed the sheets. Are you sure? Slept in a fresh bed. Right. It's my favorite.
Which I know, yeah. You're into that.
Turned on whatever shows I liked. Right. Loved it. Loved it. Loved it. I'm happy for you. I'll tell you what, you came back Friday evening. Friday, yeah. Friday night and Saturday. I slept like a baby the whole week, and then Friday night and Saturday night, two worst nights of sleep I've gotten all week. Oh, I'm sorry. I don't know what the deal was, but uh
I'll tell you what happened on those two nights. Because how'd you sleep last night? Fine.
Not great, but fine. Not as terrible as well.
You said you turned the air conditioner off. Yeah. When you were sleeping. Without you? Yeah. Yeah. It was so hot last night. You you had turned it off, and I was like sweating at the I'm sorry.
So Friday and Saturday, you were probably cold
because I had the air conditioner on the bottom.
But it was also it's loud. And I it was I can't. I like the white noise though. Oh. Me too. No. Uh oh.
We got ourselves a conundrum. Where did you sleep in the bed? In the middle of the bed. In the middle. So that could be an issue too. Yep.
Um I will say that one of the days the dog was not feeling well. Yeah. And so then I felt bad for the dog, and I was like, come sleep in my room, dog. Which is not a thing. I don't do that.
I don't like to do that, but I did feel very bad that the dog was sick. Yeah. And I was like, come sleep in the bed with me.
Oh. That was one of the worst nights of sleep I've ever gotten. Well, it was her deal. Well, she was like cuddled up right next to me, so I couldn't even move.
And anytime I did move, she'd be like, I'd be like, excuse me. You're a guest here. I'll kick you out right now.
Okay. And then every noise, because it was not her usual bedtime place. And so every noise, she was like, What is that? Like, settle down. This is how I sleep in here. Go away. What? So that was a rough night. That was a rough night. Okay. But other than that, it wasn't.
I just wanted to remind you. And I understand it was by choice. But I did sleep on the ground for five nights in a row. Yeah.
You chose.
I said I understand it's by choice. But when you're like, oh, my comfy bed, it was so hard to sleep. My comfy bed was awesome. Yeah.
My comfy bed all by myself. Yeah. Amazing. I'll do it again in a second. Got it. Loud and clear. Have you have you slept in the bed alone? Yeah. It's awesome, isn't it?
It's the same. I stay in my same side. I just, it's the same. It's exactly the same. I have the same routine. I do the same stuff. You use my side of the bed when I'm not there. Yeah, I do.
I'm going to sit here and do my makeup or whatever. Yeah. I did that.
Yeah. Because there was all this stuff on my nightstand when I got home. I went, what's all this stuff? Everything's in the wrong spot. And there's all this like stuff here. I took the makeup bag and I went, bye. Yeah. What is this?
Well, our room became my room when you left. Very quickly. Very quickly.
You're like, oh, I miss you. But also, don't come back. But I miss you. But don't come back. I got it. It it makes sense. But when you're gone, I just leave your stuff alone. I didn't touch any of your stuff. It was all moved. You have to clear space to put your stuff.
I was gonna move it back and I might have forgotten. Oh, yeah.
Like some sort of little sister move. Oh.
Really? You didn't say anything about the lawn when you got home. Which lawn? Our lawn. You didn't even say anything about it. What would I have said? Did you even notice? No. That anything had happened? No. Okay. Did anything happen? No.
Okay. What would I have said? Everything looked as I left it.
Yeah, it did. You thought it'd be funny as you left to say, oh, hey, if you get around to mowing, and I went. Cute. Uh that's not my job, and we both know it.
So but there's two other people in the house that could do it. Oh, absolutely.
Those freeloaders, they're not gonna do that. Did it even come up? No. No.
You didn't even say like someone needs to mow the lawn. No. Because I didn't even think about it. No kidding.
You said you said as you left. You go, if you get if you think about mowing, and I go, with these dainty hands? Yeah. Not with these old gals. I'm not mowing the lawn. And I never will. Why?
Because that's not my job. And we knew that when we got married. Josh, you know that I'm never gonna mow the lawn. I think I only have ever mowed the lawn once in my whole life.
Not since I've known you. Yes. Where? When? Which house? What? No. Never. I mowed it once. When? Years ago. No. Yes, I have. You can't even start the mower.
I know it's hard, but I started it and I mowed, and it was it was a
really gas can't still right where I left it. I know, I didn't touch it. I know. Why would I mention the lawn? Looks exactly like it did when I left. But a little taller. Yeah. Yeah.
I'm not mowing the lawn. That's your job, not a my job. Listen, there's a lot of things that the two of us separate really well. And I'm happy to pitch in wherever. I'm not the mowing the lawn is not my I don't know. I don't do it.
I know. But why?
Because I don't like it. It's just walking. It's really hard to get it to start for one.
It's not. It starts on like the first pole every time. Not for me. You gotta pull harder. You gotta put your back into it. I know you can do it.
I know I can too, because I've done it before, but it takes me a lot of travel.
I don't think you did it. I think I think you had someone help you start it. Probably. But I did mow once. Once. Yeah, once. We've been together for 23 years. Yeah. We've owned our house for 14. Almost 15 years, and you think you've mowed once. You think.
No, I have. I know I've mowed once. Prove it. I can't. I know.
I can't remember a time when you mowed. Well, I did once.
And I'm surprised you don't remember because the lines were all squampus. And you were like, that's not even straight. And I go, I know.
So I did I have to mow the lawn again? Because if I did, it doesn't count that you mowed.
I don't think that you did.
If you missed stuff, I did.
I don't think I missed stuff, but it was certainly not straight. Wow. That's why I didn't mow this time. That's why? Yeah. No. I mean, a lot of reasons why.
Because it was hot. It was really hot. Yeah. I know. I was walking through miles and miles of forest in the heat over mountain passes that would scare you. Skinny trail on tall cliff mountains. Couldn't be bothered. Sorry. With these dainty hands. Oh, come on. Josh. What's up?
Kirk Cousins got in a fight.
I know you were so excited about this. Here's the thing that is interesting about you. Many, many things. Okay. But one thing that you have said is like you like it when I get angry about stuff because you think it's like I don't know. Hot that I go, I'm so angry right now. And you're like, no, don't be angry about stuff. No. So when you're telling the story about Kirk Cousins and Crosby, what's his name?
Max Crosby getting into it at practice because he kept bumping him and and which you don't do. That's your starting cube. Yeah, dude, you're on the same team. Did you forget? I don't know. Maybe.
Lots of head injuries, possible, possible. But Crosby's also like a he's a crazy guy. Dude, he's not he's a rage kind of dude. Yeah. And so I'm wondering.
Good guy. Great clips, haircutting. Yeah. Cole shopping Kirk Cousins is
like, hey, hey, hey, let's not bump into me, dude. Like, this is practice. Settle down, Max. Uh, but Max is like, I'm sure, like, well, I gotta get my practice in too. And it, and so he kept smacking into uh into Kirk at practice. And then enough times that Kirk got in his face and went, dude, yeah, yeah. You need like they had to separate him. Yeah. It got into a pretty serious altercation.
Kirk charged Crosby, got directly in his face, grabbed his jerk jersey and exchanged tense words. Oh, tense words. Yeah. He's intense. Dang it, Max. Ding it.
Max, quit running into me, dang it.
The two had to be quickly separated by teammates. Whoa. Whoa. Yeah. Kirk Cousins. I I don't know. Maybe the Raiders isn't where you're supposed to be. Well. I think maybe you should just go back to the Vikings. I don't think that's an option. I know it.
It's just where you want him to be. I do. You want Kirk Cousins back, but you don't want Sam Darnold back. Super Bowl champion. No.
Sam Darnold. The Seahawks can keep him.
Wow. Okay. I think they're fine with that. Yeah, because you know why? what? Super Bowl ring wearing Championship having Sam Darnold.
Darnold was on the Vikings. He didn't do anything for us. So it's Seahawks can keep him. Okay.
Well, by the way, football's back. Preseason's officially underway. So if you did not know that, um, it's it's all happening. There's games in the mix right now. So uh there's a game on Thursday, a couple games on Thursday. Uh like six games, I'm looking at on Thursday. Yeah. So if you want to watch some football, it's back. Yeah, but it's preseason. Yeah, but you still it's football.
But it's not even any of the starters.
Okay. So last Thursday was kind of the uh preseason kickoff with the Panthers and the Cardinals and the Panthers won. Good.
I actually like in the preseason. Yeah. Maybe the Panthers need to start with their second string and they'll do a little something this season.
33 to 30 over the Cardinals. That's pretty good. This is a high-scoring game-ish. Yeah. Kind of neat.
Kind of fun.
We're in now week two of the preseason. Lots of games going on. Thursday night, Bengals and Lions. There's a fun one.
I like the Lions. Old Rough and Tumble Dan Campbell.
Yep. That's what you call him. Uh Vikings and Giants will be playing on Saturday.
Oh, easy. That's gonna be an easy one. Okay. I don't you know here's the thing. There's been so many shakeups as there has been every season.
I don't even know who my quarterback is. Get back and look at your roster. It's a whole thing.
I just know my guy Jefferson is there, and my guy Addison is there. Okay. That's who I really care about. I gotta I gotta do some research on my QB.
And Kevin O'Connell. Yeah. Shout out. Coach. Mahomie. What? What are you? You talking football is something else. I can't play fantasy football this year because you don't like how I get.
There was a there was a family. I saw that. That said who was in for fantasy football. I saw that. It came in while you were out of town.
Yeah, but it's also the people I don't play with because they cheat. So I'm not I'm not playing with cheaters. Okay.
I said, don't tell Josh, he's not allowed to play fantasy because he's no fun to live with when he loses. So is it already passed? Is the fantasy league time already passed? No. Are we gonna do a work one?
I can't play. You told me I'm grounded.
You can play, Josh. You just can't listen to me. You can't take it too seriously. You're too intense.
I'm not playing. I'm not. I'm I've uh recused myself from this year's fantasy. It kind of kind of feels like having a wee uh a week, a year off might be a good thing. I think so. I will sideline it this year. Okay.
I think that's a smart choice.
Because I got super frustrated about things last year.
Yeah, you did.
I'm glad you're so I'm gonna sideline myself this year. And I'm not I'm not gonna commission. I'm not gonna do anything. I'm gonna just enjoy a season of not playing. I'm taking a gap year. Oh I'll be back next season healthy, strong, prepared. And then I'll give my name on the case.
on that trophy That's right. I'm gonna spend the year working on my emotions. Okay. We'll see how it goes.
Do you have uh in your history of being educated a teacher or maybe a couple of teachers that stand out as like they were great? Yes, Mrs. Madsen. Mrs. Madson, tell me about her. She was awesome. I loved her. Which which grade? Second. Second grade. Okay, awesome.
It doesn't matter what year you have an amazing teacher. Those are the teachers you remember the most. Okay.
I just was curious. Yeah. Uh what was what was great about her? I don't know.
Okay. She was just nice to me. Okay. And she was lovely. Okay. She had nice teacher clothes.
I don't. I'm just I'm just trying to understand.
No, I it's just the teachers who see something in you. Yeah. Right? And they are like, you're a cool one, and I like you, and you're a great student. And that was an especially difficult year for me. And she was like, I see you. Okay.
Sixth grade for me, Mrs. Christiansen. Uh great teacher. Uh really enjoyed that class. I was a teacher. I had really had my fingers crossed that I was going to get. And so when we drove to the school to look at the list they had hung on the door that showed which class you were going to be in, and where you look for your friends' names as well, and see what kind of class. This was pre-power school kids. We had to do it. We had to wait and drive by the school like every day and go, did they post the class list?
Did you post the class list? And then you'd run up to the door and you'd go and you got the teacher you wanted. It was a big day. So that was uh that was cool. Why did you like Miss Christensen? She was awesome. She was great.
Uh great teacher. Red hair was nice. She had that going. She was just a wonderful teacher. I remember being very fond of sixth grade. It was a good year. Uh thank you, Fox Hollow Elementary for sixth grade. Lots of Oregon Trail in the computer lab on brand new Mac computers. It was very fancy. Mrs.
Madsen was in Dwarzhack elementary. Dwar shack. Yeah. That's a word. That's someone's name, I assume. I don't know where it came from.
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That's the other thing, isn't it? Like there are teachers in my life who I'm like, I loved that teacher for myself, but then as you have kids, you're like, I loved that teacher for my kids. Like though I can think of so many teachers right now. Yeah, that I'm like, thank you for being an amazing teacher to my kid.
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Would you rather this is a summer edition?
Oh, it's so on time. We're still in summer. It's almost back to school. I'm hanging on too. I am too. I'm with you. All right. Summer edition.
Would you rather swim in the ocean with giant sea turtles or relax in a pool on a giant floaty? Floating in the pool. I know, doesn't that sound cool? But I've never swam in the ocean with sea turtles, so that sounds nice too.
I will sink in the ocean with the sea turtles, and they will be like, where do you go? So that's why I'm gonna go on the floaty in the pool.
I'm trying to decide. Is it my own private pool or is it a community? This is your game. I know.
Because I don't want to who's gonna let you take a giant inflatable to lounge around on in their public pool. I think uh I think it's gonna not be that. They're gonna see you pull up with that, and they're gonna be like, mm-mm, not here.
This isn't your own pool, dude.
Could we please not have any splashing? I'm trying to relax.
Yeah, hey, hey, hey, hey, kids. This is not time for you to be playing in the pool. I'm here to relax on my giant float. Do you see my giant floaty? You every time we go to the store and you see one of those little floaty lounge chair things, you're like, I want that. Oh, and so bad. So see, that's what you want. But I don't know where to put it.
I don't have my own pool.
You could set up the kitty pool in the backyard and sit in it. Oh boy. I'm just saying. With what? Hose water? Yeah. Cold hose water. Where do you think the water in every pool comes from?
It's a little bit warm though, sometimes. Where does it originate? I don't care where it originates. It's the it's the temperature of the water. Like if you're filling up your backyard pool with your inflatable pool with your hose. It's cold. It is cold. Unless you have a heater.
Like the rest of the pools you're referencing that have warm water.
I want warm water. Relaxation.
Yep. So you want your mom to fill the pool with hand delivered gallon by gallon.
She never did that for me. She only did that for the crank. I know.
Warm water, one bucket at a time. pitcher at a time From the house to the pool, spent all day moving warm water.
For the kids to play it for five minutes and be like, I'm done swimming. Yeah. That's crazy. Okay, I'm gonna pick. I'm picking. I don't know. I like both of these options. I'm picking both. No. I'm gonna swim and then relax. Okay. It's your game. Would you rather this or that?
Would you consider me a Disney princess?
I would consider you would. Oh, do you consider yourself a Disney princess? Not really. All you have to do is believe in yourself, dear.
Just because I hand fed a squirrel one peanut does not make me a Disney princess.
Well, you tried again yesterday and it didn't work.
So tried again a couple of times, and I think it's a different squirrel. I think so too, but the one that I hand fed, he was like, Oh, you're gonna feed me a peanut. I'm gonna take that peanut from your hand.
Took it directly from your hand.
Yeah, he was very he had very yellow teeth, which I was kind of grossed out by. But he did. I mean, brush your teeth, but you know, you're out in public. Them yellow dogs. He's they were pretty they looked like the corn he was eating. Down the tree. Yeah.
You were shaking the peanut.
Yeah, because I thought if he could hear it, he'd be like, I know that that's a peanut. So I was shaking it, and he went, Oh yeah, I want that. And so I just held it out and he came down the tree and around the front, and he reached out his little mouth and he took it from my hand. He took it by that's how I saw his teeth. Uh by his mouth, then because he was holding on to the tree with his hands.
From what I could see, he was holding on to the tree with his back feet and he grabbed it with his front feet. He grabbed it with his mouth. Oh, I didn't know that. And then went and ate it. Were you afraid he was gonna bite you? No. Fascinating.
I got a far away video uh from our security camera. I didn't get an up close.
I know, sorry, I was I didn't take anything.
But you were surprised because I didn't know if you'd seen, and so I came back inside and and I said, He took the peanut. You're like, I saw that, it was crazy.
Our dog was having a come apart. I know. She does that.
She sees a squirrel and she's like, I gotta save the whole house from this squirrel.
And she was like, You're consorting with the enemy. I've been trying to get rid of that squirrel for months, and you're now feeding it.
Well, but then we watched him take a couple of peanuts and hide them in the yard. He dug a little hole and buried them in a couple of different spots. That's why I didn't mow. No. No, because he already forgot where he buried them.
I wonder if it's still there. We should go dig it up.
I guarantee it is squirrels bury stuff and stow it away, and then they forget. And then you have random plants growing, and you have a peanut tree. A peanut tree. That's not how peanuts grow. They don't grow on trees. No, they are a legume. Right. They grow underground in a bush, like a potato. Correct. Yeah.
Well, good job feeding that squirrel. Keep trying. That's what we've been trying to do ever since we moved in, is just to hand feed those squirrels. Yeah.
And you did it. Emory is hand fed the squirrel. I have hand fed the squirrel. You one day were greeted by a squirrel right by your feet who was like, You got any food, bud? I didn't have any food. No, but he really wanted you to feed him. Yeah, he was. He was like, I mean, inches away from you with standing up there looking at you like Uppies. Uppies. You're like, I got nothing for you, bud. Like you're gonna have to go find food somewhere else. High five to us. Yeah.
Squirrel. We are squirrel-friendly in our neighborhood.
I just wish they wouldn't have torn so many holes in the finch sock and taken all those seeds.
Yeah, they're they do cause some damage, which is why a lot of people don't like them around.
I want him to stay in the front yard and eat where I feed him. Don't go to the bird feeder in the backyard. That's not for you. That is bird food, not squirrel food. Maybe you should put a note. Yeah.
I'm just gonna put one that it's sign that says no squirrel is a squirrel image with a no and a bird with a check mark. And he'll get it. Yeah. Like, oh, I now I understand. This is for the birds, not the me. I see. Anyway. All right. Hey, we made it through the show.
Oh, first day back. We I was gonna say we killed it. I don't know if we killed it. You don't think so? We did something. Good show. Okay.
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