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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Today's show is stuffed with how to fix a falling apart headphone bag, an 8-year-old became Disneyland's one-billionth visitor, the wild world of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding "memorabilia", our most used phone apps, a debate on shopping cart organization versus never waiting in checkout lines, a dinner table deep dive into the invention of sliced bread, relationship expectations, concrete stepping stones and dog pawprints, our inability to resist sweet treats, Chantel's worst game yet, Garth Brooks's new tour, Chantel got busted staring at construction workers, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Headphone bag
(6:36) - Cold plunge for sore ankles
(12:00) - Good News
(15:01) - NYG garbage
(20:21) - Garth Brooks tour
(26:11) - Double creamies
(31:58) - Before sliced bread
(37:21) - Construction workers
(43:03) - Josh's better wife
(49:15) - Tell me a name
(55:08) - Sharing TikToks
(1:00:32) - Concrete handprints
(1:08:03) - Would You Rather
(1:11:19) - Favorite apps
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Full show transcript:
It's the beginning of the show, but it's the end of the show. We record this part of the show after we've done the show, if that makes any sense.
Well, and you might notice because uh my voice is different because it's warmed up a little bit. Oh, yeah. If you listen bright and early in the morning, am I here like a sleepy? I don't know what it sounds like.
Like that.
Like that.
it doesn't sound like that. It sounds great. Uh, but after the show ends, there's a few things that have to happen because you get ready to go to your other job, and I get ready to sit in this room for another four hours. Uh and part of the cleanup is putting away the headphones and kind of making sure your stuff's organized as you get ready to leave, and you always put away the headphones, but you hate my headphone bag because uh, well, it's this little leather bag, but all the leather has come off. Yeah. So it's just the leather backing, so it's this weird gummy fabric.
Well, and it's not stiff anymore. Like it's droopy.
It's yeah, it's all soft. It's not a great bag. No. And uh, and it is fallen apart. It's like got drawstrings on it, and um, and you've now hooked it up with uh ridiculous amount of paper clips and binder clips to hold it together.
I know. I
And I said, I said yesterday, I said, you know, a stapler might have worked.
I'm gonna do that right now. I didn't even think about it.
Don't know, because I'm gonna take it home and I'm gonna take I'm gonna take it apart and make a new one. So don't do that. Okay. Um, because I don't want to have to pull staples. Well, and here's the thing.
Uh I could have just taken it home and sewed it.
That's what I'm gonna do. Well, no, I'm gonna sew a new one. I'm gonna make one out of uh like I've got a bunch of weird fabrics from when you remember when we had to make a bunch of masks in 2020.
Yep. So I've got a whole bunch of scraps to make stuff out of, and I'll find something fun, like a peanuts or like there's all kinds. I've got all kinds of weird fabric.
I got fish and dinosaurs and who knows what. So I'm gonna make a fun bag and uh and I'll just sew one up. Okay. So I'm gonna I'm gonna unstitch that one for a pattern, and then I'll uh I'll build a new bag. Okay. And then you can complain about how terrible I sewed it. Because it'll probably fall apart quick.
Well, no, I don't think so. You're a good sewer, actually. Um But it's gotta have some firmness to it. That's the problem with this one. One of the problems with this one is that it's it's too
Well, I was just gonna use regular fabric.
I know, that's what I'm saying. You've got to put some firmness in it. Like put like even if you put a even if you put like a lining inside of there. Why? To give it firmness. I just Why does it need firmness? Because look at it, it's too droopy. It's a pouch for headphones.
Why does it need firmness? I'm just asking.
Because it is a pain in the butt to put your headphones in this bag when it doesn't when it's floppy. Just put your headphones in that.
Why didn't you throw it at me? Put my headphones in. Yeah. So okay, I've opened up the drawstrings. This bag's in bad shape. Yeah, I know. Okay. I've got my headphones folded up, and I take the cord in my hand like this. I don't know how you do it.
I do it that way because
that's the way you told me to do it. Settle down. And then I open up the bag. Are you saying because it doesn't stay open?
Yeah, because it's floppy.
Okay, but that will be fixed when the seam is fixed. Keep going. So I'm gonna I'm gonna put this in here. And then it's gonna just go right in like that. And then now I've got all the cord in there. I'll put the actual headphones in. And then I'm gonna cinch it right up. How'd I do? Pretty good. Is that an issue?
Whatever. No.
No, I'm just trying to understand. Settle down.
You settled. No, no.
No. You did it. You did it right intentionally to make me mad. What?
No, I'm just saying my bag has a little more.
Show me yours. Walk me through putting yours away. Because I want to see what what your main hang-up is.
Main hang up, look at. Like, it's got like, see how yours was all floppy.
Yeah, because it's a terrible bit of fabric. No. And it's ripped at the scene.
Okay, I'm go ahead and make your regular bag with the regular fabric, and then we'll see if it's the same. Okay. In goes the cord. Yep.
And then in goes the headphones.
I put them away the way that you told me to, because it's good.
You gotta take care of your stuff. And he said, show me the right way. That's right.
And then I had somebody borrow my headphones once about how to come apart. Because they wrapped the cord around them, and I found out, and I sent an email to everybody in the building. I said, please do not ever touch my things. Yeah, you did. Do not do that.
And then you had like three people that came in and apologized to you.
Which look, I it's fine. I'm I appreciate that you put them away, but I take care of my stuff. You do.
And you weren't mean, you just really don't.
Please don't touch my things. I rely on that stuff every day.
But I think the fact that you even said something, people were like, I think the fact that three people came to say, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. What? Nothing. A mosquito flew by. Oh. Uh was proof that you don't ever like.
I'm not a confrontation guy. I'm I'm a super calm, collected dude. I'm very patient. I'm I'm a happy dude. I don't bring drama. Like, you know, I'm I'm pretty easy to work with, I think. I think so. I think they realized they stepped in the mud a little bit. And they went, oh no, we got mud on our shoes. We better go get that fixed. It's fine. It's all good. And they haven't touched my thing since. So that's great. Okay.
Um what did we learn. Go make a bag. Don't put a liner in it, and we'll see. I'll see. Because I'm the one that puts them away. And I'll let you know if you need a liner or not. And then if you need a liner, you're gonna undo it and put a liner in. Or I won't.
You'll just do it. Then I'll just leave your headphones. you'll just have to deal with my floppy headphone
bag I'll put mine away and leave yours. Rude. I told you to put a liner in it. And you didn't listen.
Here's today's show. Hey, good morning. Hi. What you wrestling about already?
We had some confetti yesterday. That's right. And I put some of it on my microphone.
I also have some on my microphone.
And now it's kind of annoying, so I'm taking it off. Oh. I was gonna leave mine. Well, good for you. Why don't you like it? It was just annoying. It was getting in my way. Oh. That's all.
Were you gonna do something underneath your microphone where it was hanging down? What do you mean? How was it in your way?
It was just a lot. It was in I don't know. It's just annoying. Alright. I've had enough. Yeah. Enough with this decor. Just to each their own, I suppose.
I suppose. It kind of made the microphone look like a jellyfish. Kind of kind of fun. Now there's just one lonely jellyfish. Sorry.
Maybe I just had too many on there. You don't have as many as I did. Yeah. But oh well. Now it's bear. Now it's a bear microphone. And that's okay. Okay. What's going on today?
Oh, I don't even know. What is going on today? It's Wednesday. Okay.
Which was kind of exciting when I woke up this morning. Yeah. Because I'm already midweek. That is a fact. So that's exciting. I know that to be true. A little bit closer to the weekend. Oh, it's great. Yeah. Yeah. We put out garbage for garbage.
You did that yesterday. That's normally a Wednesday job I do, but you decided yesterday afternoon you were going to do that.
Yeah, it was it felt on top of stuff yesterday.
And then you you walked in and went, I took the garbage out.
I didn't I didn't I didn't tell you that for accolades. I took the garbage out. I told you that. So that you would know, so you wouldn't have to be worried about it.
Oh, I it's a usually a thing I do on Wednesdays when I'm walking out of the house. And remember, I know.
I get it. I was like, I took the garbage out. No, stop. That's that's not why I told you. Like, Oh. I've never done that. How was it?
You know, we only get 52 of those a year. 52 garbage days? Yeah. Yeah, I mean. Yeah. It's just the facts. Is that is that concerning? I'm just saying, anything you do weekly, you only do 52 times a year. Isn't that neat? How many times do you do that a year? Oh, 52.
What else is done weekly?
Oh, so some people mow their lawn weekly. But then you would do that fewer than 52 times because you get the winters off. Yeah. So I bet you probably mow. 16, Sixteen, maybe twenty times a year. I'm assuming you get like four or five months of mowing. Okay. This is a guess. Okay. Yeah. What else is done weekly?
I don't. I don't know. I don't know. Okay. We're what are we desperate for content this morning? Oh, it's just so early. It is early.
That's why. It's it's the brain is is waking up.
And I feel like I went to bed pretty at a pretty decent time last night. I woke up at four o'clock. Why? I don't know. Oh.
But let me tell you, I put a fan in the window, big difference. You think that made a lot of difference? Huge difference because of that thermometer we have in the bedroom. One of the things floated up. Made a difference.
I don't know how that thermometer works.
The more things are up high, the colder the room is. Okay. The more things that are down low, the hotter the rooms. Oh, okay. One of them floated up.
That's an improvement. Oh.
To all four of them being down.
You've been lately, you've just been having like a spell of hot flashes. Everywhere we go, you're like, it's hot. I can't even. can't
even. It's a thousand degrees. And this weekend, it's supposed to be even hotter.
So you finally said, I can't handle it. I gotta put the air conditioners in.
Oh, that's gonna be happening, probably this afternoon. Okay. It has to. Okay. I finally felt comfortable sleeping last night, and I have not felt that way in days.
You just get a little crazed because you go, I can't even have the blanket on the get the blanket off the bed. Kicked it all off the bed. It's probably how my ankle hurts. Settled. Kicking that blanket down. Crazy. I know. It's too hot.
That's all. I just need to cool down. I need like a cold plunge. Okay. Okay.
Go for it. Yeah. Have a good time. I'm not stopping you. Okay. That might help. Okay.
And then I could cool off my core temp, you know.
Take a cold shower before bed. That might work. I mean, there's options. So many.
A non-existent cold plunge or a cold shower. And cool off. There you go. All right. Thank you for the tips. Let's get you some good news. Uh, you and I have discussed it, but we've never really made plans to change it. We've never been to Disneyland or Disney World or any of those types of uh theme parks. No. Never been to Universal. No.
No, none of that, right? Well, what would you do if you were like, hey, I'm I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go to Disneyland in California, and I am going to uh just have the time of my life. And imagine you're eight. Okay. Sounds like a good time.
Sounds like a great way to spend the day.
Well, imagine you're eight-year-old Andreas Robles of Arizona, who last week, his parents took him to Disneyland for his birthday. And as he's walking in, he finds out he's the one billionth visitor since the park opened in 1955.
Dude, that would be the best day ever because what did they do? What did he get?
He got a special ceremony featuring Mickey and other Disney characters. He got a sign declaring the park's population had reached one billion, and a VIP tour for the family.
Bro, what did the VIP do? I don't even know. What's his name? Andrew? Andreas. Andreas. Yep. Dude, best day ever.
Seven decades of happiness, one billion guests from around the world, and Andreas is number one billion.
I'm actually surprised that it's taken this long to get to one billion. I thought it would have been more than one billion.
You know how many one billion is?
I know, but think about all of the people who go to Disneyland.
One hundred or excuse me, one thousand million. That's how much a billion is. That's crazy. It's one thousand million.
Andreas. Lucky, lucky, lucky day, dude. No kidding.
Yeah, it looks like uh Mickey, Minnie, Daisy, Donald. Uh, they were all there for the occasion. I'm looking at some pictures. Very cool.
That is cool. And what did his VIP have?
Uh I'm I don't see what it just says. VIP tour. It doesn't uh it doesn't really specify exactly where they went or what they saw. But it does uh show they were a big deal. They were like a big part of the uh changing of the one million population sign across the front of the buildings and stuff like that. So they were part of that whole ceremony.
Can you imagine if you were the person who entered before? Yeah.
Oh, I'm 999 million nine hundred and ninety-nine.
Yeah, that sucks. Oh wait, wait, wait, wait.
I'm one million and one.
Let me go out and come back in. Yeah.
I'll buy two tickets. Make me the million or billionth. Anyway. How fun. Yeah, congratulations. That's some good news.
There is somebody on eBay that is selling a bag of air that was supposedly collected at Madison Square Garden.
Oh, come on.
During the Taylor Travis wedding.
No one pay for this. The description.
This isn't just a bag. It's history you can breathe. No. Frame it. Display it proudly next to your Eras tour merch and sign football's. Absolutely. Or gift it to that one friend who still believes in fairy tales. No. Want to know how much? How much is it up to?
$50,000. You gotta be kidding me. What a scam. Okay, then there's a website called NYC Garbage.com, and they're literally selling trash that might have come from the wedding or the guests. Might have. Items included fabric, soda can tops, and even a single airpod.
This is an interesting website. Have you looked at New York the NYC garbage.com? No. This is very interesting. It's art in a way. Okay. It's very interesting. They've made these little boxes with garbage in them. Okay. And it says garbage of New York City. Okay. K. That's kind of cool.
But it's specifically, is it specifically from Taylor and Travis's wedding? No, I think so. Yeah, that's all I see. This is garbage from the floor after the party. Collected from the edge of a love story outside Madison Square Garden. As close to Taylor and Travis's big days you could have gotten without an invite. This is the debut of pocket garbage. So you can carry a piece of the greatest day of your I mean their lives wherever you go. Yeah, yeah. And it says it's sold out. Yeah.
They were selling it for 25 bucks. Go to the main page of the website, though. Where's the main page? NYC Garbage.com. Okay, I see it.
Oh. Yeah.
And it and if you look at these, it says 100% authentic, hand picked from the fertile streets of New York, New York. But it's art.
It is kind of cool.
It's like a it's like a Funko pop box full of garbage. Yeah.
It's all sold out.
Yeah, but it's super art. Like that's really interesting.
Oh, you know what? It's kind of expensive. $100, $125. The Justin, not Justin. Where did Justin?
Did you go? Did you go back to the other page? No.
What page? The most of the stuff is $100 to $125 for this New York City garbage, but the Taylor and Travis one.
Right, $25. Because it's pocket garbage. It's much smaller.
It's micro garbage. Right. Oh, just Oh, Justin is the guy the guy who's got it. He's like the guy in charge of this website. That's that's where his name came. I see. What? What were you gonna say?
I just like that they say it might be. It's free to get on their wait list if you want to buy some New York garbage.
It says after 13 years away, conceptual artist Justin Gignack is selling New York City garbage again. Each sculpture features authentic New York City trash, meticulously curated, arranged and preserved and signed numbered and dated loose site cubes. Yeah.
It's a really interesting art. It is actually interesting. I mean, I don't want to display garbage, but I think it's a I think it's an interesting way to upcycle some stuff that was otherwise discarded. Yeah, I don't want to
spend a hundred dollars on any of this garbage. But uh interesting. It's all of his stuff is sold out, so clearly somebody's buying it.
Well, they're one of a kind.
They're very unique. I mean, this one is literally just garbage. It's a box of something, uh, a soda lid and a straw. There's a juice box. It literally is just garbage. Yeah.
NYC garbage.com if you want to see the pictures of the garbage that is sold out.
It really is just garbage. It's kind of pretty. I kind of like the parade garbage. They have a different, a couple of different like there's a pride parade garbage. There's the New York Liberty Championship parade garbage. The parade garbage is kind of cool. I like the parade garbage.
Because you love a parade.
They do love a parade. Who doesn't love a parade? Interesting. Yeah. Very blue. interesting. Wow. Wow. You can just do this on your own. You really could. Create some Idaho Falls garbage.
Get a box and do, yeah, East Idaho garbage.
Or selling collect something from Pocatello. Yeah. You could start from Pocatello and hit all the way up to Rexburg. You could. Something from every city.
Look at that. Garbage. An East Idaho garbage tour In a box. Oh, I wow Art people will buy it.
No, I'll just keep it for myself. Oh, you're just gonna make your own.
Your own little box of trash.
Where do we get a got a box like that?
They the internet has everything. Okay. Yeah. I'm gonna do this. You are? Yes. Great. I'm just scrolling along, looking at my uh algorithms, doing its thing, watching some videos, and up pops news about Garth Brooks. Oh. Did you hear the news about Garth Brooks?
I did not hear the news.
So back in 1996, Garth Brooks did a world tour. That's 30 years ago. Okay. And this thing like changed the way country music performances were ever done. He brought rock and roll elements. He had a drum pod. He had a bunch of different stuff going on on the stage. Tons of production. And it wasn't just like standing around playing your guitar and singing.
It was like we're bringing the action. Yeah. Okay. But that just didn't exist really in country music until Garth went, I gotta bring some rock and roll to this thing.
Okay. 30 years ago. Yeah, I've seen some footage of it. He's dancing around the stage.
Oh, yeah, runs around. Just a crazy man. Yeah. I like Garth Brooks. It was announced he is bringing a world tour back. Back again? Starting in August, as in next month. It's the blame it all on my roots retro arena tour.
Oh, I kind of want to get it. Bringing back all the stuff from the 90s. The production, the drum pod, all the stuff from 30 years ago. He's bringing it back. It says 30 years ago, Garth Brooks launched what would become the largest concert tour on the planet. No one to find 90s country music more completely than Garth, and now he's bringing every hit that ever made made that he ever made back to the arenas where it all started.
I don't like country music, but I do like Garth Price.
A lot of people agree with you. And a lot of people have said I saw it back in the 90s, and I still talk about it today. So do you want to go? August 21st and 22nd in Indianapolis is the kickoff. When's it gonna be in our area? He hasn't made the full announcement yet. He's only announced the August 21st and 22nd Indianapolis dates.
Here's the deal, though. He's not just performing, he's also recording. Uh this tour will serve as the foundation for Killer Live, which is this new approach to live recording that continues his tradition of capturing history in real time. So he's gonna record as he's going. So all of these are gonna have new live versions from this tour. The general on sale is happening the 17th of July. That's a Friday.
Do you like listening to live versions of songs? Because I don't. Uh depends. No.
Some of the live versions I prefer more. No. Yeah. Some uh acoustics I prefer more.
Oh, I will always pick an acoustic. I love acoustic versions of songs.
But it just depends. But listen to this. So these tickets go on sale Friday the 17th at uh 8 a.m. our time. Okay. 10 a.m. Eastern on Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster. Hold on. Garth has said no pre-sales, no promo codes, no lotteries.
All tickets go on sale at the same time for everybody. Garthy. That's so good of you. So it's a general on sale. Every ticket goes on sale at the same time.
Do you think he's gonna crash the site? Yes. Yeah, he will. Absolutely.
And uh I like this for a lot of reasons because of what what happens is you get all these VIPs and these, you know, all these little credit card groups and all these people, and that's where all the uh, you know, the uh what are they called? Scalpers jump in and buy up all the tickets and then resell them for uh tons more work. And you know the scalpers are salivating over this one. They're like, this is my big ticket, this is my money. General on sale for everybody Friday, July 17th, 10 a.m. Eastern time, so it's 8 a.m. our time.
But only for the Indianapolis dates. Correct. When is he gonna release the rest of his tour? I don't know. Ah I have told you all that I know. Now I have to sign up for the Garth Brooks newsletter so I can find out. I don't want to. I just want to go buy one ticket to see your show. Do you want to go to Garth Brooks
with I would go to Garth Brooks? Okay. I would go watch a Garth Brooks. I think that would be fun. Yeah. I Garth Garth played in my house when I was young. Yeah, same.
So and especially if he's singing songs from the 90s. Right. Come on. Yeah. Oh, I would like I would go. Now, is Chris Gaines expected to be there?
I've never seen the two of them in the same place.
That was a terrible publicity stunt. Hey Garth, not your best idea.
I don't know. It might still be working for him. Hi, I'm Chris Gaines. I'd like to introduce my buddy Garth. What? Anyway. Kind of cool. Cool. You know, as a 90s. Country music uh adjacent person. That's it. This is the only 90s country I really ever had around. It's just Garth.
You didn't listen to like Neil McCoy. Who? No. The watermelon crawl guy?
That's I don't know what you're talking about.
I listened to country like 94 95-ish.
Yeah, well, you're from Burley.
Tim McGraw.
I've heard of Tim McGraw, but I probably know a few songs. He's with Faith Hill, right? Yeah, I know that much. Tiny tiny bit.
And I think he's done some cameos in Yellowstone. Oh. I think. Maybe. I might just be lying. I'm just making stuff.
Just make it up as you go. I don't know. Just make it up as I go. Anyway. Garth back on the road soon. Cool, cool.
We went to a river concert last night. Yes. And uh there was a sponsor there that was giving out creamies. Yes. You got a chocolate. I got banana. Sorry. I got a chocolate. You got banana. That's right. They were delicious. Yeah. A creamy down by the river listening to some live local music.
Not a bad way to spend a Tuesday afternoon.
No. No, no. And then we saw the sponsor delivering creamies to people.
Yeah, she had a whole basket. She was handing them out. And I said, I hope she comes over here because I'm gonna get another one.
Yeah. And then we spent 30 minutes watching where she went. And she never cream back. She never made it over to us. But at the end of the show, they said, hey, we still have a bunch of creamies left. Come get some.
So I snagged a chocolate. Yeah. For you. Right. And a banana for me.
Right. So that we could each have a chocolate and a banana. Mm-hmm. Creamy.
Delicious. Yeah. Yeah, I had two.
Me too. That's right. Double creamies for the win. That's right. Nothing wrong with that. No, we're not trying to watch our what did I say yesterday? You said, hey, I'm gonna go get some lunch. Do you need anything? And I said, No. I'm trying to eat better. Yeah, right. No.
That is not what I said. I said, uh you said that. I asked what you I said, I'm gonna go grab something to eat. Yeah. What are you having? And you said, I made uh an egg salad.
I'm trying to to eat better. And I said, Yeah, I probably should get back on that thing. And uh and then I didn't. I mean, I my lunch was uh a nice protein lunch. I had a good lunch, but uh yeah, nah, it's it was washed away by the by the double too creamy popsicles. They're good. It's not my fault. Why are they gonna make it taste so good?
Well, and then we had some cinnamon rolls sitting on the counter, so
we had the fourth of July, yeah. So I had to eat one of those. And there's another one there for me when I get home today. So I'm gonna have to eat that.
You can't waste it.
No. Heavens no. Can't let that go to waste. Eating that later on this afternoon.
There's But listen There's leftover cupcakes from our 500th episode.
I mean I know I had one of those this morning.
What's going on? I don't know. We don't know how to say no to sweets. Now you say we Yeah, you have to get roped into everything. I do. Right. You had just as much as I did yesterday.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cinnamon roll and the hey, I'm not shaming. I'm just saying. When you said we, it felt like it should have been an I.
No, no. There is no I anymore. It's only we.
There is no I in we eat snacks.
Correct. That's right.
That is a team effort. We eat the snacks. You got it, buddy. So are you of the mindset like I've seen this this trend where people will go to get a treat and the guys will like uh make their wife order first and then he'll go, Oh, I'm not having anything. And then they'll capture the reaction. Are you a person who like if that happened? If you were like, I really want to go get some ice cream, and I went, All right, let's go. And you ordered your two scoops and I went, I'm not having anything. I'm just gonna I'm just hanging out. What would you do?
I'd be like, No, we're in this together. I can't just have the treat.
Yeah, I would I would you would have you would have the reaction that gets captured. The no, he's having something.
Yeah.
Because you you're you're not gonna sit there and be two scoop sally with your two scoops and me have nothing. Right. Like we were each gonna get one scoop, but she got them both, and that's all we can afford. So I'll just have water.
Do you have free water? I'm gonna watch her eat the two scoops that we agreed we would get one each. No, if we're it would be really fun to lay it on like that. If we're getting treats, you're you're also getting a treat.
Yes. I'm not doing treats by myself. Because where's the fun in that? Getting treats is a shared experience.
Yeah, but there is something really fun about doing that and making you have that moment. But I kind of want to lay it on extra thick. And be like, well, we were gonna have one scoop each, but now we can't, because she got two. So I'll just have a free water.
Thank you. Can I have a sample? Can I just have it like I'll just have the little tiny baby spoon, kind of the Barbie spoon sample of that one? They'll be like, sure. I'll be like, that was a nice treat.
But maybe somebody would feel bad for you and soft.
I couldn't have another bite. That's all that she lets me have is the sample spoon. I she gets two scoops. I right I only get one scoop.
I read something that's somebody's grandpa once told him that ice cream after dinner once he asked his son, his grandson if he wanted some ice cream, and his grandson said, uh said, I don't I think I'm full. And the grandpa said, Oh, ice cream just melts. It's like liquid, it goes around all everything in your stomach. Absolutely. It doesn't count.
It fills in all the gaps. Yeah. Totally agree. I am very much in agreement. Okay.
So whenever we go to get treats, you're in. You gotta be. You gotta be. I'm good for a sample spoon. We were eating dinner last night and uh I can't even remember what we're talking about, but somebody, Beck said, everybody talks like that's the best thing since sliced bread. And then you said, What was the best thing before sliced bread?
Yeah, then we had a whole conversation. We had to do some research. We did real-time research at the dinner table to try to figure out what was the coolest thing before sliced bread.
Sliced bread was invented yesterday. No kidding. Which was so crazy when we found that out.
1928. They invented sliced bread in 1928. Now, let me be clear. People were slicing bread prior to 1928. Correct. With knives, which were invented a long time ago. However, the pre-packaged loaf of sliced bread was made available on get this July 7th, 1928. It was yesterday in 1928.
We about had a conniption.
What's that on that out? We were at We went, whoa! The whole the whole house shook with excitement.
It did. We were at the dinner table, and we said, when was it invented? And it said July 7th. And we went, that's today. Yeah. And the whole dinner table went, whoa.
It was like a TV moment. Everybody fell back in their chairs. Whoa!
Sometimes it feels like uh sitcom in our house. Yeah. Uh okay. So before sliced bread, we determined. Yes. Here was what was cool before sliced bread.
The first thing it listed was the electric toaster. Right. Which our son had a hard time with. In which he said, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Stop. The toaster was invented before sliced bread. And then I we had to we had to clarify pre-packaged loaves of sliced bread.
Sliced bread. Yeah, you people were slicing bread and toasting it. Yes. Yeah. But then he was like,
that was like the beginning of the Great Depression. And then we were making all kinds of fun jokes about the Great Depression started because of all the people that were sad that they didn't have to slice their own bread anymore.
How am I gonna get this toaster to work if I can't slice my bread?
I don't have to slice it myself. I had one job.
Here's some other cool things before sliced bread. Running water. Sure. That was I bet that was a huge deal. Plumbing crazy.
Plumbing changed a lot of things for a lot of people.
The elevator. Yeah. A motion picture camera.
So a video camera, yeah. And the zipper. The zipper. Now that that's the coolest thing since the zipper. When was the zipper invented? I don't know. Oh.
Let's look it up. Are you looking it up? Yes. Okay.
The zipper was invented in 1913.
So then they probably they were like, that's the coolest thing since the zipper. That's the coolest thing since running water.
It also threw in when we were asking about it uh at the at the dinner table. Uh it also threw in the spear. I went, yeah. That one goes back a ways. The spear's been around since man was hunting mammoth. So a long time. Yeah.
Okay, when it was sliced bread built. 1928.
July 7th, 1928. Sliced bread. I was just reading this.
Oh, okay. That's before. Never mind. Never mind. I know how time works. Nice. It's time. Close that.
But then we were off. We were also talking about like, well, what did how did they eat bread? And a lot of people just broke bread. They would just have a piece.
And you would have a loaf and you would break off a piece of loaf and have you would break bread before you cut it. Yeah. Yeah. You're at a broken bread sandwich. Wonder what that's like. Just oblong shapes of bread with some stuff in between. So you know what it's like? It's like eating with a dinner roll.
Well, that's kind of what I did yesterday for lunch. I made egg salad, and then I grabbed at the last minute, I grabbed one slice of bread. Was it the heel? No. But I do like the heel. Ugh. It's all crust. I know. I like crest. The crust is where all the flavor is.
That's where all the nutrients are at the crust. I like the crust. Okay.
So I had a decision to make yesterday if I was gonna make a sandwich or not. And I went, I don't really want to like make a sandwich and eat a sandwich. So I just broke off my pieces of my sliced bread and used it as like dip. Neat. Cool. Thank you. Inventive. Yeah. Was it like a long piece? Yeah.
You could have just cut it in half and folded it. I know, but I didn't want to. Okay. I mean, use it as a dip. Okay. This story. I'm gonna sit back. I'm gonna open up my ears and my mind, and I'm gonna listen.
I was driving home yesterday. And I drove past this place, and it the it looks like they're tearing up like parts of the sidewalk, parts of the parking lot. Okay. And I was kind of fascinated by the process of it.
You want to know what I think is happening uh is that particular section of road has had little tiny um entrance exit, like where it's ramped up on the sidewalk.
I think they're gonna turn that entire thing into uh an entrance exit because of so many people trying to get in and out of that parking area right there. Okay, I think that's probably what's happening. But anyway, go ahead.
Okay. There were three construction guys. They each had um I should have looked up the word. I don't know. Okay, it was like a long like they're shovel digging up stuff. It's a shovel. It wasn't a shovel, a long-handled shovel.
No, it was like they each had a long thing you dig with.
Like I want to say a pickaxe, but I don't know if it was a pickaxe.
Do they look like gold prospectors? It was pointy.
It was a long pointy pickup. I don't know what you've drawn. I don't know. They were getting like underneath the tar, like the sidewalk, and they were like lifting it up. Under the tar. I don't know, like underneath the sidewalk. Okay, and they were prying it. Yeah. Yeah.
Well, so there's a couple things. I mean, they could just be using uh like a big pry bar, which is a big long iron bar that has like a little like kind of a chisel point on the end. They could have been using that to pry one. That's probably what it was. But if it had like uh like an axe, like a big bendy part, then that would be something you usually use just in dirt.
No, it wasn't a pry bar. I mean, it looked like a pry bar, but it was like more pointy at the end. Okay, regardless. Uh I was kind of fascinated watching them, and there were three guys on the sidewalk, and each of them had this tool, and they were like getting underneath the sidewalk and like prying it up, like lifting it up. Okay, and they were laughing and they were having a good time. They were making jokes or whatever.
I couldn't hear them, but you just saw them having a time.
Having fun. But I was also fascinated by it. I wanted to watch them do it. Okay. And I was stuck at the light for a while, and I had my right arm on the steering wheel. Very cool. And so then I was just I put my head on my arm like this. And you were looking over watching. Just watching them for a long time.
Tell me you got honked at because the light changed and you were lost in construction worker.
One of them happened to look over and saw you. Yeah. And then like nudged his buddy.
Yeah, like look at this one. Look at this one over here staring at us with her arm all in her head resting on it. What did you do? Did you flinch?
No, I just was like, play it cool, play it cool.
Okay. So you looked away. What'd you do? Yeah, I was like walk me through what you did.
What's going on in the radio?
Oh, you did your squinty face. You did squinty face. Like, not everything's normal over here. Come on.
And then I happened to look up again, and they were all three still like looking at me. That's hilarious. And laughing, like this woman. What lady? We're gonna oogle us all day. Yeah.
I'm not a piece of meat.
So buddy. It was so funny. Yeah. We drove past like you and I drove past last night and I said, hey, remember this spot because I have a really funny story to tell you.
So right hand on the steering wheel. Yeah, yeah. And then you're you're just resting your chin on your shoulder, kind of looking over, like, look at these guys doing work. That's what you were doing. Look at look at these construction boys. Yep. Yep. Uh-huh.
But I actually was just like watching the process because I was fascinated. I was like, I wouldn't know the first step in how to remove sidewalk.
So what you should have done is flipped around, pulled into the parking lot, and said, Can I try that pry bar?
No, I don't want to do it. I just want to watch.
No, because that's creepy. But if you go over there and you go, I'm really curious about the process. Can I try and lift that up? They'd probably say no, but maybe not. Maybe I would have said yes. Yeah, let's see if you can flip this sidewalk. Let's go.
I should have. Here's the dumbest thing. Or you just wave. I know. I should have just waved. I don't I don't know. Would that have made it less awkward?
No, it would have been worse.
When they all notice that I'm watching that good work, buds. Keep going. You look like it's hot out there.
Roll down the window.
and have a convo. I should have rolled down the window. It would have been awesome if I had like an actual roll down window.
Yeah, but you have to do it manually.
Reach across the passenger side. Hey guys. Good jobs. And then roll it back up. Very cool.
I hope. I kind of hope they're there today. I hope they're back again. Are you gonna drive by? Drive by. Hey, I'm back.
Looks like you're pouring new concrete today. Come on.
So dumb. I feel so dumb. What? Get it together. Look at this leveled lady watching us.
Old lady. Whatever.
I had sunglasses on. They couldn't tell I was old.
Oh, okay.
There are times, let's see, we've almost been married for 21 years. Yeah. You believe that coming up in a couple weeks. Holy smokes. We old. We are old. All right, go ahead. Okay. Uh, but there's been a couple of times in our life where I I go, oh, I feel guilty. And sometimes I feel like you deserve a better wife. Okay. Now hold on. What does that mean? I don't know. And what it what are you getting at?
Because you've said this before. I have said this before. And when you say it, I go, uh, you don't understand me. Go ahead.
You were making dinner last night, and I there's an idea of a wife in my mind, and maybe this was something I grew up with, or what? Some kind of something in my brain. But you were making dinner, and I was doing stuff I often like help you cook, or I'm cleaning up or whatever.
I help you do the dishes afterward. I clean up after you're cooking. I'm I'm the dishes person. You cook, I clean. But while you're cooking, I'm emptying the dishwasher. I think I vacuumed the living room. You did. I was doing other stuff. Sometimes, though, when you're cooking, I just sit at the table and I doom scroll.
Or you'll talk to me or whatever, yeah.
It's been a day and I just want to sit and do nothing. But it's on those days where I go. He should have a wife that
takes my boots off when you walk in the door.
No, that's never take my boots off. Nope. Serve me a hot meal.
Nope, because that's never gonna be me.
I'm just trying to figure out if that's what you think that I'm looking for. Because I'm not. Oh. It's mostly just work that hard day. Like I Yeah, no, I'm never. That's not an even kind of what I'm talking about. Okay. All right, go ahead. It's just mostly I don't know. I don't even know how to describe it.
Is it just around cooking? It's just you've said before, like uh around holidays or even just in general, you're like, man, I should be a baker. I should have hot treats all the time.
There's a lot of women that I know who have like specific meals that their kids or their husband love and will request it on special occasions. Sure. Or like their kids will be like, Oh, mom, can you make that delicious you know, cake or whatever? Okay. I'm just not. I've never really enjoyed cooking. I've never really enjoyed baking. I've made I helped with some baking in the past for bake sales and I've made pies. I've done it. I don't enjoy it. Yeah. But there are times where I go as a mother and a wife, I should
take off my boots, make it home.
No. It's Not ever, ever, ever gonna be something that I do. And I do not feel guilty about not doing that. Take off your own boots.
Nobody takes off my boots from my wife.
One person.
I don't take them. If she's not around, I just wear boots.
I don't know. I don't know where it comes from. But every now and then there are days where I go, I don't he likes to cook. I don't know.
I do. I enjoy cooking. I I really do enjoy the process. I like the whole thing. I like cutting up the vegetables. I like cooking the stuff. I like it.
I I enjoy it. You know, uh, I almost forgot to turn off the oven yesterday. You always do that.
I know. I finished cooking and we ate, and I went over to clean up uh, you know, over on the stove and stuff, and I'm looking and I went, Oh yeah, off.
Usually we're sitting at down to eat, and I'll hear the click of the oven and I'll be like, Oh, hey.
Yeah, are you done with the oven? That's usually what you go. Are you done with the oven? I go, Yep.
Got it. Okay, so you don't ever you don't never sit there and go.
Wish I had somebody to move.
No, stop about the boots. You don't ever have anybody that's you don't ever think like, oh man, it'd be great if somebody made me dinner for once. You don't think that in your brain? No. Okay. Man, I sure do wish.
I had dinner right now that I didn't have to cook myself. No, I enjoy the cooking thing. I I hate doing dishes. It's like top least favorite chore.
And I don't mind. That's why we're a good team. Right.
I don't mind that. Uh outside cooking, love it. Dutch oven cooking, love it. Camp cooking, fine. Indoor cooking. You you will see that happen. You'll be like, hey, she cooks at home, but when we go camping, I bowl out all the all the stops and I got all the equipment. I do the I do the grilling.
Uh you know, I I like the the whole process. I like the kitchen gear. I love going to the chef store. Like if I had a full commercial kitchen, I would lose my mind.
And I hate I hate all of that. I hate going to the chef store. I hate cooking. I love it. I hate all of it. of it. I hate Indoor cooking, I hate outdoor cooking. I don't enjoy any of it.
Like that was my fallback though. If radio didn't work out, I was going to go culinary. And I sh I should still do some stuff. I should still do some stuff because I really do like it. I like messing with flavors of food. I like seasoning food. I like eating it. I like eating it. I like how I like I've learned how to do all kinds of weird stuff from scratch.
Yeah. So I I really like the cooking part. So no, I don't go, man, I wish I had a wife who would chip in the kitchen.
No. You'll walk up and go, is there anything I can help with? I'm like, I got it. Like I'm good. Because the other part is that like uh I'm deep into a recipe and there's timing for things. And so and there's an order because things cook slower than other things. If I was like, yeah, actually, if you jump in, all my timing's gonna be messed up.
That's fine. I asked just to be considerate, but I'm always like, please don't say yes, please don't. Well, now that I know that.
Like, as a matter of fact, could you take off my boots? I'm so excited. Uh you are a creator. You thanks, Josh. You like to say, I bring the fun. That's what you like to say. Uh to parties, to gatherings.
I wouldn't say if that's true for every situation. I bring the fun. To my own family, like my mom and my brother and my sister. Uh I am certainly the fun in that crowd. All right.
So you uh sort of have become the person who brings the games and the excitement to social gatherings. We're gonna play volleyball and it's gonna happen, and we're gonna play these holiday themed games at the family Christmas party. And you bring all of that surprises and you enjoy that part.
I do. And then sometimes it just randomly happens. Like last night. Yeah. You decided as as we were cleaning up uh dinner to play a game called the Say a Name game. And I gotta say, not a good one.
Not your best work. The idea is you say a name, pick a name, any name. Say the name, and I will tell you if I know anyone with that name. That's the game you came up with. The say the name game. So I would go, uh Ricardo, and you'd go, nope, I don't know anyone named Ricardo. And then I would say, uh tell me uh, do you know uh a Bartholomew?
You said Harold, and I said, I actually do know a Harold. That's right. Okay, stop there. That's enough.
I do know a Harold, that's my uncle. But no, instead, you delighted us with a 45 minute story about Harold. That no one asked for Sabrina. I have a cousin named Sabrina. Let me tell you all about it.
Yeah. No one wanted to know. It's a game you invented so you could talk.
Like I have I don't like that it's silent while I'm cleaning. So I'm going to invent a game where I get to tell you stories you probably have heard before.
No one no, you guys haven't never heard those stories before. I bet you didn't even know I had an uncle named Harold. You never met him. Did you know that he was a red skin fan? Here you go. It's not even a team anymore. I know.
But when's the last time you saw your Uncle Harold?
It's been years. No kidding. Decades. But guess what? Decades. Tell me a name. That's where I first heard about Madonna. From your Uncle Harold. Yeah. Cool.
What was that like?
He used to have a loose change in shit in his bedroom. What? See? This is weird. These are weird facts.
Yeah, but no one has ever asked. And so I want to. Those are memories I want to share with my family.
So about your uncle's loose change? This is not your best game. Say a name game. Also, you were the only one playing. Yeah, I know. And I think I can't be sure, but I think Emory Googled a list of old people's names. She did. And then she started. She did. She started saying old people's names. You know a Herbert.
It started with Sabrina, and I went, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You started it with Sabrina because we were talking about Sabrina Carpenter. And then you went, I got a game. Say a name game. I know someone named Sabrina, and off you went.
And then she said, Harold, and I went, I know a Harold. And the two of you said, uh
Because if you just said yes, I know someone, the game would have been something. I know someone. That's this person. End of thing. We didn't need a whole history lesson on your family. I don't need to know about your uncle's loose change.
You yeah, you do. No, I do. Because you don't I would want to know that about your family.
You'd want to know about my uncle's family.
I would want to hear some stories.
I think you know everything. We've been together 21 years. We've been married 21 years. We've been together for 23.
Yeah, I know.
We have been together for what stories don't you know at this point.
Some. I I don't know a lot about some of your family. Okay. You even just said last night you were with your mom and you heard a story that you hadn't heard. Right.
She told me a story.
That's what I'm saying. I'm trying to tell you guys my stories so that you know more about it.
It wasn't even your story. It was just about his loose change. It's irrelevant to anything in life. He had loose change on his dresser. Okay. Cool. Good to know. He collected old hair ribbons. He lives in Winnemucca, Nevada. Wow. Now.
Hey you ever been to Winnemucca? I've been passed. Don't stop. So I'm not a big fan of tell me a name game, is what I'm trying to say. It's one of your worst.
Yeah.
You've had way better games than Tell Me a Name Game. I don't like that one. Because it's just say a name and I'll tell you 45 minutes of story about a person you don't know and probably won't ever meet. Fine. So do you see?
Guess we're not playing that game ever again. Don't be so sad. Well, I had a great time. I'm having fun.
Right, because you were filling in the silence you didn't like. You guys didn't weren't playing. No kidding. Because she said, Sabrina, I went, Nope, I don't know one. Harold. Nope, I don't know one. Henry. Don't know a Henry. I didn't know a Henry. Yeah. Nope. Yeah. That round went quick.
We have a couple friends, and they recently just moved. But they sometimes share our sense of humor, but sometimes not. Okay. do you Do you know what I'm talking about? All right. I'll follow along. Okay. I love them dearly.
They're a lot of fun. Uh we recently had the wife. She was in town, and so she stayed with us.
My wife. And she, we were like, oh, you gotta watch this video. It's so so funny. And we showed her a video and we were laughing.
She was not. Sometimes humor just hits different. Um but what I'm gonna talk about today is they often send us videos like Instagram reels or TikTok videos. Sure. And they think they are very funny. Okay. And I watch them and I go. What? So did that happen? That happened this morning. Okay.
I saw the text. I haven't watched the video.
I didn't respond because I don't know if it's better to not respond or to lie and say. ha, ha, ha. Interesting. I don't know what the response should be.
Because I usually like I've got some people that'll send me some stuff. My cousin will send me some stuff. He sent me one that caught me off guard yesterday. I laughed out loud, and I went, that's a crazy video. So occasionally I go, like, whoa. Like that's that one that was a lot. Yeah. And occasionally I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Like I get the message, or or I'll be like, yeah, like that is a great one. You know what I mean?
Right. What I think, like it's nice that somebody has taken the time to send me a video because they saw something and they're like, this is hilarious. I think this is funny. I want to do that. I want to share this with someone.
Or sometimes it's I saw this and it reminded me of you. Correct. Or reminded me of a funny time we had together, or whatever. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha.
They send the weirdest videos. Okay. I'm gonna say that. I would say of the two, he sends the weirder videos.
Okay, yes. And and I watch them and I go, you're in a weird part of the internet, buddy.
Like I agree.
I don't know what's up with your algorithm, but it is not mine.
He is the one who sent it this morning.
Okay, I haven't seen the video yet. So, but was it one of those where you go, I don't know why you sent this. It's a weird one.
Okay, but it's not like the weirdest one. I think it's just supposed to be funny. But I didn't, I just went, hmm. Okay. I didn't need to see that. Okay. But it's not it's not gross or anything.
It was just not something that I would have found amusing. All right. So now I go, what's my response? Yeah. Do I lie and go, oh, I'm a good one, or do I just not respond?
Or you could you could do a choose your own adventure. You could say A parentheses, the lie, or B. Yeah, whatever. Not for me. And then you go, you choose.
You choose. Or I could just pick another video and send it back to him. One that I find funny and see if he finds amusement in that. Uh-huh. And say, You sent me a video I didn't think it was funny. Yeah, okay. Here's one I think is funny. Hopefully you don't find humor in it. So you're stuck in the same boat I am.
That sounds like a smart idea. Yeah. Do that. Okay. I like that option.
I but here's the other thing. Sometimes, like it's nice. I don't want him to stop sending videos. Well, maybe I do. What? He sends the weirdest stuff. Yeah.
And some of it's gold. I know. I like when the weird stuff is like, that is, I don't know where you discovered this. Like your internet is not the same internet. Like, I don't what what internet do you have? Because I have normal internet. And you have weirdo internet. I don't know what that is.
Yeah, we have another friend who has Weirdo. Yeah, he has a real weirdo internet. And it makes him laugh and laugh and laugh. I know. Sometimes I don't open the stuff he sends because I go, This is gonna be weird. Yeah.
I got one right here, waiting. I just got from our boss. Who knows what that is? Oh no, don't open that. I know. Who knows? I have no clue what's waiting for me in my phone. People have weird internet. People do have I have normal internet. I have gardening. I have like my algorithm is real boring. It's fishing, it's gardening. It's like people with like pictures of sunsets with words over
them that are like today was a great day. Yeah, I know. I have normal internet.
And then I get like uh America's funniest home video type stuff where it's like people falling and uh pets making funny faces. Like uh that's the kind of stuff I get. Normal internet.
I have a normal tame just great algorithm. And then I I get this stuff and I open it and then they're like, Yeah, you want more of that? Here's more weird stuff.
Yeah, exactly. All right, I'm gonna fight fire with fire, and I'm just
gonna send him it works every time.
A video that I think is funny.
If you really want to get rid of fire, you throw more fire on it. That's it.
Did you ever leave cement handprints in anywhere that you ever lived? No. Oh sad.
We never I've never been anywhere where concrete has been poured. Oh no. That's n I mean, it's not totally true. Like I've been where like decks were built. Uh and so there were footings that were poured, but I've never been anywhere where there was like a slab of driveway or sidewalk or anything like that.
So no, I've never left my my mark, so to speak, of my hand. It would be cool if you if like, you know, when we uh bought the house and the kids were like two and seven when we bought the house. Like maybe then it would have been like uh little tiny hand prints would be pretty darn cute.
We did hand prints at my house growing up when I was Oh, that's right. I think it was like eighty-seven or eighty-eight. So I would have been six or seven. But every time I go home, I put my hand in there.
Are they on the sidewalk? Are they in the driveway?
They're right next to the driveway by the flower bed.
Why were you pouring concrete there? Uh uh I don't know. Were they putting the sidewalk in? Possibly from the driveway? Possibly. Because you don't have a garage. No. So maybe it was they were just pouring the sidewalk little connection in front of the house. Like 'cause the the one comes down from the staircase to the street. Yep. And the driveway. So
it's probably just grass in between, and then you the little connector was being poured. Probably. And so it was was that s do you remember? Was it like, hey kids, let's go outside and put our hands in it.
I do not remember. I do not remember it at all. Interesting. Not even kinda. But every time I go home, I put my hand print in my old handprint. You gotta get a picture of that. I need to. I need to for real. It was, yeah, I think it was 87.
You gotta get all you gotta get it, because is it just the three kids? Uh-huh. You uh-huh. You gotta get all three of your hands next to that.
Well, yeah, we do. The old people. Yeah, we do. Well, my sister especially.
Right, as we know. Very much older than you. Right. I'm just a baby.
I mean, it was a long time ago that she put her hand in.
Wow. It's the same amount of time. know. Isn't like she did it two years before you
She doesn't listen, but her son does. And I know he's agreeing, like, yeah, she is pretty old. Yeah. Yeah.
That hands. That handprint probably has wrinkles in it.
But she gets for not listening. Uh the reason I bring this up is because they are pouring concrete at my other job. Okay.
And so you're gonna be oogling the construction workers at work. Is that what's happening? You're gonna get busted twice. Just watching people pour concrete. What's the deal?
No, there was a coworker that sent a picture and said we should probably put our hand prints in the in the concrete. That's fun. We should. Are they gonna be upset? We're
not gonna do it, but you're gonna do it. I kinda wanna just what if I just dipped a toe in. A toe. Then there'll just be a hole in their nice concrete. I know. And that would be hilarious. Because then every time I walked by, I'd be like, that's my toe.
That's my toe hole. It fits. See? Bloop. Gross. It'd catch dirt. Like your real toe. Yeah. Catches. It catches dirt. Exactly. Gross.
You need to put your hand in some concrete. Do I? Yeah.
I I thought about making some uh some stepping stones into the backyard. I but I've got more ideas for the backyard. You do? Yes. What are they? Stones. Say. Well,
I still want I think around the trees, I still want to turn that into a flower bed. Yeah. I'm not in love with what's going on there. I get I get you. And so I I really am strong on trying to change that part.
We already have flowers. I mean, between the bird seed that's been dropped there. There's all kinds of stuff growing.
That's right. But I want to like kill the grass that's there and lay down the cardboard and do the new dirt and the whole thing. I want to do the whole thing. That's fine with me. Um and build that up and make that nice. Right. And that's one of many projects in my hands. It's
a stepping stone idea. Well, you know how the grass is awful. Yeah. Yep. Uh so from the concrete pad by the garage, I want to do stones out into the yard and across the front path where a high traffic path. Yeah.
So I I just basically want to make walkways to the fire pit and walkway down to the garden in front of the thing and uh in front of the deck. And then we already have the the path from the deck to the shed. So that one's good, but I want to just do like big stones. You
can pour yourself. You just get a frame and you mix the concrete and you pour them in, but then we could decorate them. Like I've seen people use like little colored stones to do flowers in them or like handprints or whatever. We could just paint some of them. Like people will do uh not mosaic, but like uh like a quilt pattern painting. It looks like quilt squares on some of the stones. I think it'd be fun just to decorate some of those in all different ways. You know, ideas in my head in that. So no, I have not put my hand in uh concrete, but I certainly could. And we could put the little dog feet in there. Yeah, I know. Put Luna's little dog feet in there. And a little snoot. I don't know.
It's probably not a wise idea.
I don't know if you put the dog's nose in the concrete. That sounds a little rough. But her little feet, yeah. That's cute. Yeah. I like that idea. That's an idea. Josh. Yeah. You always have good ideas. Well, we'll see how quickly I can execute something like that.
Well, not in the next couple weeks because it's gonna be too hot. Great for curing concrete. Yes, it's true.
But I gotta like, I gotta dig out all the grass. Yeah. I gotta lay the thing down. And then I want to do the stones, and then I want to do the mulch around the stones. Because
I'm thinking about doing smaller stones in the garden as well, because when I go out there without shoes on, I walked out there with socks and all the mulch got stuck to my sock. You are once. I had to go take stuff to the compost, and I was it was a bad time. I
know. I always wear shoes. I hate walking around in socks, and I don't like having bare feet either. I I went out there with bare feet once, and it hurt a lot. My feet were on fire. I didn't care for that either. And it wasn't because it was hot, it's because I have sensitive little soldiers.
You do have delicate little feet. It's because you're never barefoot. That's right. You gotta get some hardened feet like I do.
No way. Barney rubble over here.
I'm not driving a car with these feet, but I
you can stop it from moving, that's for sure. Smoke coming up from your heels.
I we're not meant to be to have shoes. Humans aren't meant to be shoes. Humans.
Humans aren't meant to be shoes.
We're not too meant to have shoes.
We're not meant to be. No, we're meant to.
I think we were meant to be barefoot. Do you? Oh, I love being barefoot. I love being barefoot. Good. I don't. I know.
Would you rather this or that?
Would you rather have every green light for the rest of your life? Oh. Or never wait in a checkout line again. Uh yeah, I'll have the green lights. The green lights.
Absolutely. That's easy. I don't mind standing in a checkout line. There's a few places I don't care for it. Window. because Um, because they're just they're so long. They are so they're so long.
Plus then you also have to bag your own groceries. I don't mind that. Oh.
Because I have my cart organized, so I don't mind bagging my own groceries because I organize my cart ahead of time. So bagging is easy. Oh, all my cans are together? Sweet. Oh, look, meat, sweet. All my produce together. Nice. Breads and chips on top. Easy. They come through the conveyor last. Wow. All
my boxed and jarred items together? What? Who organized this? Crazy. I don't mind a checkout line. But a green light every time I pull up to an intersection. Let's go.
If you ever find yourself grocery shopping with Josh, please just mess up the cart intentionally. Hey. Because he will. What are you trying to do to me? A conniption. I have a coma part. You do.
I don't like an unorganized card. You do not. If I know your shopping and I meet you at the store and you've already started, it's it's a horror show. Yeah. There's so many things in You talking about me? Not you. I'm talking about the cart. The cart is a complete disarray. There are things in the baby seat.
I know you really hate close the baby seat.
Just leave it closed. There's nothing that needs to go in there except for a baby.
Yeah, you don't like stuff in the baby seat.
I don't like putting stuff in the baby seats. Because that's where the baby sits in its baby diaper. And I don't want my food there. Thank you very much. Uh yuck, many. Yeah, I'm taking the the green lights.
Same. You are very particular about your carts. I know that. Yeah.
Trolley, they call it in England.
But you you don't mind waiting in a checkout line, except for Winco. Yeah. I'm all good.
Even a self-checkout usually moves pretty quick. Yeah. I'm not worried about that. No. I I don't mind going into the one with the person. I don't I'll like to have a conversation. How's your day? It's great. How's yours? When you get off work. You stuck here all day. Are you staying cool in here? They got the AC cranked up enough for you. How's it going? You good?
I've never ever, ever, ever do all these kinds of conversations. What do you are? I don't know. The cart absolutely got his full steam ahead of you.
No, usually I you're in the checkout lane doing all the paying, and I'm like, I'm gonna go check out the electronics.
I'll be over here. I'm gonna go look at how much a TV costs. I'll be back.
You know, they're selling TVs for so cheap right now, it's crazy. Would you rather this or that?
What is an app that you can't live without? And I don't I don't want to know social media. So you can't pick a social media app, but what is an app that you are like, no, I can't.
Uh you know what? Actually, this might be interesting because I think I can pull up in my settings like app usage stuff. Oh. And it would tell me what you use the most which app I use the most. And then obviously, if I exclude yeah, apps, and then recently opened. Oh, I want to know. Screen time. Okay. So uh I taking out uh social media. So I'm taking out TikTok, I'm taking out um
is TikTok the social media one you use the most?
Uh I've got Reddit and TikTok and Instagram. Okay. Those are the top three. Okay. And then way down there is Facebook.
Where do you find screen time? I'm in my settings. Where do you find that? Oh, I see it. Apps, yeah. I got it. I got it. So that's sorted by okay.
Times opened. Uh that's I've I've changed it to the and this is only today. I want to okay. Let me go to like okay. Let me go to a day that has a big one. So Monday. Uh text messages. I opened that app 63 times.
Yeah, I have messages too.
Um That's my. And then I'm taking out the social media, Gmail, Chrome, Royal Match. My my game. I opened 12 times on Monday.
Yeah, every time I see you, you're on Royal Match. Yeah. Uh I never have to worry if you're doing something suspicious or nefarious. I'm like, Josh is being all weird on his phone.
It's Royal Match. Royal match. That's Royal Match. Uh Pulse Point. I like to see what sirens are about. So I open up that one. My weather app is on here. Weather. Uh, yeah. My vacuweather.
So which one of those can you not live without?
Um, I could live without any of it. I think messages is the number one you know, most used. That's mine too. And then Which is just for texting And then my music. Oh, you'll notice that it's not. I didn't even open my music once.
Why? Oh, I that's all I'd use. No. Yep. I've got text messages, YouTube music, and my keep notes. Uh. Those are the three.
Instance, um, because I took pictures of vegetables in the garden. So that was pretty cool.
Okay, so you're gonna pick. Yeah. Yeah, I'm picking uh my music, my texting and my music. Yeah, and my keep notes.
And I use those are my top well. And and by keep notes, for those of you who are unfamiliar. Keep notes is Google's note-taking platform. Yeah, use it for everything. Yeah, I've got I've got it on here because that's how I keep track of things I want to talk about on the show
or yeah, I keep all kinds of notes. Here's my grocery list, here's my show notes, here's my to-do list.
Oh, look, I can get rid of this note. That was all of my my checkoff list for uh things I needed for the 4th of July. Delete that.
Good job. Look at you. Yes. Uh okay. Yeah. Let's see.
Apparently, I still need to get a mini neo sporn for my first aid kit before I go backpacking. That's important. I must be out.
That's the thing about your to-do list. You gotta check it every now and then, Josh.
And here's my garden list. Look. Uh nice. I got my potatoes. I can check that off. I haven't done this list in a while. Sweet.
I have a summer bucket list. Do you? Oh, yeah. Look, and I have some Father's Day ideas. Yeah? Let's see if I came through on these. Leather apron, a meat thermometer, lumber, and a cordless sawzall.
Wow. What a list. No, it didn't. Uh I got a smoker. Which was not on that.
Maybe that was on the I think it was on the list, and then I crossed it off, but I gotta keep those. So nice.
Good gift ideas. I have a meat thermometer, though. I got the I got the one. Oh, you did when I got the smoker. Yeah. So you need to take that off the list when I'm good there. Ooh, good. I'm all set up with the with the Wi-Fi enabled.
I really do love Bluetooth enabled things off my list. Yeah, that's your favorite. Anyway. All right. Okay. Do you have anything else to say for today? Or are you all talked out? Pretty talked out. All right. Same thing. I think I've said enough. I think so too.
Thanks for hanging out with us. Thank you. I'll say that. Hey! Yeah. Hey. Settle down. Have a good rest of your Wednesday. We will be back again tomorrow on Thursday. And uh have a great day. That's
uh that's it. Thanks for listening. See ya. Bye.
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