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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
Today's episode will give you at least 3 ways to feel "Christmasy", December’s rare Cold Supermoon, the Rockefeller Center Tree lighting, the cranberry sauce cans of water scandal, the world’s cutest odd couple, Chantel gets personally attacked by a “Watching Stranger Things With Your Mom” meme, they unpack a psychologist’s surprising advice about the first 12 minutes after school or work, snow nostalgia, Christmas dinner dilemmas, parenting wins, phone-call etiquette, the most chaotic missed football kick you’ve ever seen, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Christmas spirit
(4:01) - Scraping & defrosting
(6:24) - Rockefeller tree lighting
(10:17) - Good News
(13:05) - Rare supermoon
(18:45) - Cranberry sauce water
(23:44) - Bad luck laundry
(28:13) - It snowed
(33:53) - Stranger Things confusion
(38:59) - First 12 minutes after school
(45:38) - Josh answers his phone
(51:03) - YouTube Recap vs Spotify Wrapped
(54:49) - The Giants' kicker
(57:34) - Christmas Dinner
(1:02:50) - Would You Rather
(1:06:20) - Allowance inflation
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Full show transcript:
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Right the bell? Yeah. But daddy says every time a bell rings, an angel gets its ring.
In this case, every time a bell rings, someone signs up to get notified when we post a new video. Wow. Yeah, I know.
Okay, have you found your Christmas spirit?
Occasionally, it comes and goes.
Oh, serious? Yeah. I feel more of the Christmas spirit this year than I have in a really long time. That's good. I don't necessarily know why. We haven't done any shopping. I've got nothing. Yeah, it's overrated. It is overrated. And that's not what's going to bring Christmas spirit anyway.
I get it. You know what is going to bring Christmas spirit if you're feeling like a little baham buggy? What is it? You need to put your tree up. You need to put some lights up. We did that. You need to listen to some Christmas music. I'm doing that. These are the top three things that people can do to make it feel like the holidays are here.
I heard two. Put up your tree and listen to Christmas music.
Put up your tree.
Put some lights up. Okay. Listen to Christmas music. All right. Well, I've done all that.
Then you can wrap a few gifts. Okay. Then you can eat or drink something festive. Okay. Like eggnog or... Nope. Somebody said fish pie? No.
What is wrong with you? Hey, feeling down in the dumps? Have this pie made of fish? No. What?
I think you need some type of cookies. What you need is a gingerbread cookie. You need a ginger snap or you need like a snickerdoodle. You need like a festive cookie. That's going to help you.
You think that's what's going to do it? Yeah. Okay.
I'm lying. I'm locked in. You got to do some winter like some ice skating or some sledding. Sledding.
Sledding. Listen. What? I don't think those are the things that are going to make me feel the Christmas spirit.
What's going to make you feel the Christmas spirit?
You know, like I said, it kind of comes and goes. Like I've got to get my head into a nostalgic place. I think that's a big deal. Okay. I like, you know, really like we got that full moon tomorrow. And that's going to do it. Listen to me. Hold on. There's something about the way the snow lights up when the moon's out. Okay.
The like driving around or being out in it. Sure. Really kind of helps. Okay. I thought you were saying. So I like I get a real wintery vibe out of that.
All right. I saw on our security camera, the Christmas lights were bright. Reflecting on the snow last night. That was really nice. Okay. I like that. Okay. I need, I mean, I'm not mad about a cookie and a cocoa or something.
All right. Or a peppermint mocha or whatever. But have some cookies and let's go check out the moon and the snow.
Yeah. It'll do it. It'll really make my Christmasy mood. I don't know. I don't, I don't know. I've, I feel the Christmas spirit.
Would you say waxes and wanes? Yeah.
Like a moon. Like the moon. Yeah. They do. But I'm, I'm certainly not all the way there yet. Okay.
Well, I just, I've given you everything that I can think of to help. Oh. Yeah. I've got, I got. That's it.
If that doesn't work, you're out of luck, buddy.
You're on your own. Find your own holiday spirit. Okay.
I will. I will. Should we start the show? I suppose. Let's do it. Hey. Oh, hello. Hey, good morning. Hey, good morning to you. It took a minute to defrost this morning, which was unexpected and, and not bad. I mean, I got to hang out at the house for a minute while the truck warmed up. Normally you can hop in and just drive away. And that was not the case this morning.
No, there was some scrapage to be done.
That's right. And, but anyway, my truck was warm, which was neat because normally I'm just driving away and it takes forever. They can tell I get to work to be heated up. It's only takes less than 10 minutes to get to work. So that early in the morning anyway, takes 30 or so to get home in the afternoon. Isn't that wild?
That is a wild. Traffic, traffic in that. What a wild time we're living in. Yep. Anyway, anyway, what day is it? Wednesday? Yeah. Look at guys. We're already two days done in this week.
In this five day, full five day week. Welcome back week. After four off. We're already two days done. We got this.
We got this. We're going to be fine. We are going to be fine. Yeah. We'll be good to go. What's happening today? Do you have any idea?
Let me think about it. Okay.
Well, I know at some point, actually it's around lunch hour today that we're going to play Jingle Bingo with the Bank of Commerce. So that's a noon. So you got plenty of time to get your
Bingo card if you don't already have one. Well underway with Jingle Bingo with the Bank of Commerce.
We've already got two winners. We'll have another three this week and another five and then another five. So there's lots of time to play Jingle Bingo. Get out of here. Yeah. No, I won't. I am going to stay.
Look at all of these opportunities to win $100.
So many. Get on out. Okay. Maybe I will. And then when everybody goes, why did you leave the show? Like, you know, right as you were getting going, I'm going to say I was told to get out. You don't listen to me.
Roll tape. She said, get out. You don't listen. No, all right.
Well, today, today I shall. How about that? How about it?
Yeah. I like what you're saying. I like what you're telling me to do. So it encourages me to listen more. Good morning.
Good morning. Oh, today is the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. I thought they already lit it. No, no, they moved it into place. They, they put the lights on it, but it hasn't been turned on until today.
Who's in charge of stringing up the lights, stringing up the lights?
I don't know. That's what's one of the worst songs. Oh, yuck. It will be lit tonight during Christmas in Rockefeller Center, which is a two hour special that will air live from New York City, 6pm R time on NBC. It will be simulcast on Peacock. If you have that streaming service, Reba McIntyre is hosting. Reba. Yes, Reba.
A single, work, do jobs.
That's her.
She's the survivor.
That Reba? That's the one. There'll be performances from Mark Anthony, Halle Bailey.
Halle, what? Bailey. Who's that? Look her up. It's okay.
Michael Buble, Kristen Chenoweth, Lofi, New Edition. New Edition. Yes, Brad Paisley, Carly Pierce, Gwen Stefani, and of course the Radio City Rockettes. And the tree will remain on display until mid January of next year. So they're putting it, you know, it's been put up. They're lighting it tonight. It will be there through mid January.
Okay. I'm looking up Halle Bailey. No. Oh. I don't necessarily care to know about that. I'm looking up who strings up the lights for the Rockefeller tree.
Well, there are more than 50,000 LED lights on the tree.
They switched to LEDs in 2007. It's over five miles of Christmas light. Did you know there's a head gardener? How about that? How about that? Rocker? Yeah, I think I did know that.
Did you? That Rockefeller has a head gardener. Because I think when we talked about who picks out the tree. Yeah, he does. No, I know. We talked about this. We did?
That's what I'm saying. Yeah, when we were talking about the tree before. Was I listening? No. I'm sure not. Man.
Man what? And then do you remember what I said would happen to the tree after it gets removed? When it comes down? No. That it would be turned into lumber for habitat for humanity?
Oh, you did. I do remember that. See, I was listening. Oh, sure. I was listening to that part.
Do you know when the first tree was put up at Rockefeller?
1923. Close, 1931. The first official lighting was in 1933 and the lighting was first televised in 1951. Really? Interesting. And they estimate that 750,000 people visit the tree every day. Every day? In December. 750,000 people. Pretty incredible.
It is incredible. I want to know who decorates this tree. Who puts these lights up? It is a crew, and they have to have some scaffolding. Yeah, they sure do. Yeah, they got to make sure it's a crew of about 20 people who decorate it. It can take about nine days with a crew of about 20 workers. It's pretty incredible. Yeah, one to two weeks. Well, look at that.
Can you imagine they go to turn it on? Nothing. Nothing. They've got it well tested, I'm sure. Anyway, that's happening today. Kind of a big deal. Tonight at six o'clock, you can watch the ceremonies on NBC or Peacock.
I heard Halle Bailey is performing. That's right.
Let me tell you about Naughty and Titan. Naughty, N-O-T-T-Y. Naughty is a zebra. Oh. Titan, T-Y-T-A-N, is a rhino.
Oh, what are these two up to? They're best friends. How do you know?
Because a wildlife sanctuary in South Africa said so. Both animals were rescued as babies.
What if they're mortal enemies
and everyone just thinks they're best friends? They were brought in at different times after being found alone and in rough shape. Caretakers weren't sure how either one would adjust until the two spotted one another. And since then, Naughty and Titan have been glued at the hip. That's a strange thing to do with animals.
They didn't do that. But they strolled the grounds together, they napped together, they do their bottle feeding side by side. Staff members say that the friendship has helped both animals heal faster, grow stronger, and feel safe again.
And the goal is eventually to release them back into the wild. But for now, these two are hanging out at the sanctuary. They are what the sanctuary is calling the most adorable odd couple. And they're proving that sometimes your best friend that you'll ever meet doesn't look anything like
you, which I think is really good. What a good message.
Yep. They're pretty cute standing next to each other. And they hang out. And they look like little kids. You gotta look them up. Okay, I'll look them up. It's Naughty and OTTY and Titan, T-Y-T-A-N. And the pictures of them hanging out are pretty cute.
Okay. Anyway, they're buddies. Oh, and apparently there's also an elephant around. The nerve. There's a baby elephant around too. What is this? Some sort of sanctuary for small animals?
Oh man, I kind of want to work at an animal sanctuary.
The elephant doesn't get mentioned in the story, but he's hanging out with them too.
Oh, the elephant's like, hey, guys, can I join your party?
Can I be a part of the community buds? I was trying to find the name of the elephant, but I can't find it.
Oh, that is pretty cute.
And a baby elephant. That's all it says. It says, tighten the rhino calf, Naughty the zebra, and a baby elephant.
That baby elephant has a name. I know that elephant has a name, but what adventures these three go on? I'm sure of it. Oh, I kind of want a baby rhino.
Do you see the two of them hanging out? They look like little kids. They do look like little kids. Super fun. Best friends. Naughty and Titan. No, the best of friends. And the elephant. That's good news. Hey.
Hey. Tomorrow, Thursday night, there is a full moon. It is a rare super moon. And it will be the last time that you get to see this particular super moon for 20 years.
Really? Yeah. You better go check it out. You won't get to see this moon specifically in this position and as big as it is and all that kind of stuff until 2042. When can you see it?
When the moon comes up. Really?
Yeah. So at five?
Well, like, yeah, in the afternoon, when the moon comes over the horizon, it will be the super moon. So if the clouds stay clear, this moon will hang low, it will look huge, and it will glow brighter than usual. So you can take a picture of it. You, as they say, enjoy the show. And remember, you'll be 20 years older when this moon happens again.
Okay. Well, we better check it out.
Yeah. I'm trying to figure out if they're calling it the cold moon. Is that what it's called? Well, they always have a name like the blood moon or the whatever. Yeah, it's December's cold moon. It'll be the last super moon of the year and it will be the last time you see the cold moon until 2042.
Why is it? Okay, time out. I've got a lot of science questions, but I don't want to sound like a dork for asking them.
You're all good because we have one moon. Well, and that little rock. So we have like a moon and a rock. Right.
Why will it only...
I don't even know the questions you ask. Well, let me tell you, a super moon only occurs when it happens to be full and at its closest point to the earth during its orbit. So that's why it is a super moon because you can see the entirety of the moon and it is very close to earth in its path and its orbit path.
So this particular... We won't see it this size, right? Is that what you're saying?
We won't see the cold moon. So there won't be a super moon in December like this until 2042.
Okay, so it won't be this close to the earth until 2045.
Is that what you're saying? 42, yeah. But yes.
42. You said 20 years.
Yeah, almost 20 years. Oh, okay. 2042. So here's the deal. The moon orbits the earth in kind of an ellipsis shape. Okay. It goes through its cycles of waxing and waning, full moon, new moon. Right. All the time as it's orbiting the earth, correct?
Yes. So that cycle takes a certain amount of time and they can mathematically figure that out that the next time we will have the cold moon will be in 2042. There will be other super moons. Right. There will be other times that the orbit is close to earth but not in this time frame.
And not in this positioning.
In this positioning and time frame in the calendar year until 2042.
Okay, got it. Check this out. Right.
And it's the last super moon of the year of 2025.
I got it now. So you should check it out if you can. I will check it out. Tomorrow night. I don't even know if I'll be around in 20 years.
So I better check it out now. But yeah, it is definitely a thing.
YOLO as they say. Sure. Do people still say that anymore? No. Oh, they should. Hey, you only live once. YOLO and all that.
Well, anyway, go check out the moon tomorrow night. It'll be a big one. And hopefully we don't have clouds and we can just go see it and it'll be like
it'll be the cold big full moon. What a dumb name.
The cold moon. Yeah. Well, there's like the harvest moon and the blood moon. What are the other ones?
I don't know. Oh, I don't follow the moon names. Who's in charge of naming these moons?
You ask the weird questions all the time. Who's in charge of hanging up those lights? Well, I want to know. There's the wolf moon, the pink moon, the buck moon, the hunters moon, the blue moon, the blood moon, the beaver moon, the sturgeon moon, the flower moon.
The sturgeon moon.
That's right. The snow moon. The sturgeon get a moon. And then there's other stuff. There's the strawberry moon, the harvest moon, the cold moon, the worm moon. No. Yes.
Who's in charge? I'm going to look this up. We don't need to talk about it while I look it up, but come on.
So it just depends on when they happen. Like every month essentially has a name for the moon, the super moon. December's is called the cold moon. Right. Yeah. March is the worm moon. Why?
June is the strawberry moon. So there's 12 different names. Is that what you're saying?
There's probably at least 12. Okay. Yep.
Sturgeon moons in August. I just asked. We're going to find out. All right. No single official group names them. Come on. Check out the cold moon tomorrow. Did you see some of these videos that were shared on Instagram and TikTok where people were opening their cranberry sauce, their ocean spray cranberry sauce and inside was just water.
I did see this. What was the story?
That is the story is that a lot of people were opening these cans and being surprised by a clear liquid inside instead of their cranberry sauce. Yeah. Ocean spray said that they acknowledged that there were reports of this and then they're now investigating. Okay. They've reached out to some of the consumers who posted the issues publicly and they're trying to get more information and quote, make it right. I don't know what that means.
Send you more cranberry sauce?
It's not confirmed how widespread the issue is, like how many people it affected. Okay. Or if it's just a small packaging error affecting a few cans. They also haven't shared what could have happened if there was a supply chain contamination. There's no recall announced yet, at least not publicly.
If you did open a can and it's just water and no cranberry sauce, holding onto the empty can or take a photo and contact ocean spray. Okay. Their customer service department.
What's interesting is how many TV news stations have the exact same video. It's creepy. From the same person? So.
I saw two. I think I saw two different videos.
So I put cans, Thanksgiving cans of water was my Google search. I mean, I'm telling you, pages and pages and pages of the exact same video, the exact same story posted on tons of TV news websites. The exact same thumbnail, the exact same 27 second long video. Interesting.
So maybe it was just one person. I feel like I saw two different videos.
I feel like I had seen a couple of them on TikTok as well, but I was like, how is this a thing? This is crazy. But apparently it's real.
Apparently. Or at least. Or at least you should just use real cranberries.
Well, there's that option. There is that option. But what about my canned jellyed cranberry sauce? Also watching these people open cans is completely terrifying. Why? Well, this guy is just using a knife and hammering it down onto the lid. Oh, it's, it's, it's really disturbing me. Like I never want to watch this man open a can ever again in my life. Yeah, no kidding. He also needs to trim his fingernails.
Wow, judgey, judge yourself.
When I show you this video, you're going to say the exact same thing.
Is that though? Like is that really the way he opens cans or is that just a part of the clickbait plan?
That's the way he opens these three cans.
Exactly. Because here's the thing. If you do weird things like that, then you get a lot more comments. People give you more attention than your video shoots to the top because everyone's like, check this guy's method of opening cans out.
That's fair. I was trying to see if anybody was commenting on. On his fingernails too. Well, somebody said the fact that you all are focused on the water in the cans and not the fact that he's using a knife instead of a can opener.
That's how they get you. That's how these influencers get you.
I just have never seen anyone. That is, that knife is destroyed. I've never seen anyone open a can that way. The way you cut the cans open took me out, someone said. Right. Same. Don't do that. That's not safe.
That's not a way to open a can. Use a can opener.
Yeah, I don't know. Um, okay. A lot of people are pointing out that these cans are being opened. Uh, the ones in this video are all upside down. And so they're saying, I'm going to tell you that they opened up the cans with a can opener the normal way, filled them up with water, put the lid back on it, turned it upside down.
That's what I think they've got.
So that they could make this video. Cause all three of the cans are upside down. And who opens the bottom of a can with a knife?
Viral video people. That's who. That's what I'm saying. Viral video people. I don't think Ocean Spray is going to find anything. And I think Ocean Spray is going to be like,
uh, Bunch of people tried to get Thanksgiving video clicks. I think you're right.
I think you fooled us. Not today. You know, Pennsylvania.
The state?
Yeah. Sure.
You know, Germans, like the, the people from Germany.
Yeah. So early 20th century, Pennsylvania and Germans considered it bad luck to take a bath or change your clothes in between Christmas and the new year. Really? So they would go Christmas day to new year day without changing their clothes or, or bathing. Do you think we should give this a go? No. Why? Gross. Maybe that's why we have such bad luck all year long.
Do we have bad luck all year long?
I mean, we could have better luck. I wouldn't say we have bad luck, but you could always have better luck. Right?
I guess I, um, would rather be clean.
It's only, let's see.
Like seven days. It's like six, seven days.
Six, seven. Stop it. Yeah. Did you do that on purpose? No. Okay. Let me look.
Well, 25 Christmas day, 25 New Year's Day one.
Okay. So if you change your clothes on Christmas day, right? You're going to wake up, you're going to change. That's, that doesn't count. So then you've got one, two, three, four, five, six.
You just wear them nonstop. Yeah. No. I'm sleeping in that. No way. Why not? Let's give it a go. No, it's awful.
We could have, we could have good luck. Nope. I'm going to ask. Hold on. What?
You're asking the internet? Here you go. What are you asking?
Is it considered bad luck to change your clothes? Well, no.
All you're going to get is it's common practice for suspicious people. Like this is like athletes that don't change their socks and stuff. It's gross.
They change them. They just don't wash them. Right? I have no idea.
I'm not the superstitious person.
But are you?
No, I'm not a little stitious. Can't, can't say I make bad jokes and then make worse ones.
Hey, okay. So it is considered, if you wash your clothes in between Christmas and New Year, it's you're washing away your good fortune and bringing about the bad luck.
So how about we just don't do laundry for seven days? That way we're not washing our clothes.
Yeah. Doing laundry on New Year's Day is considered a big superstition that you're washing away family members if you join on New Year's Day. And you're going to bring hardship into coming year.
So no laundry on New Year's. That's easy. Okay. I'm still changing into new clothes.
Oh, you're going to bring us so much bad luck. I'm not. And then we're going to
see our daughters going to wear three outfits on one day. What are you talking about? Okay.
But you wash and change your clothes. I won't. And then we'll see who has the better luck throughout the year.
I think there's a bad test. No, I don't.
I think this is a controlled test.
There's no controlled. That is no, it's out of control. This is a maniac's idea.
Just don't hang out with me during that week. Anybody. Gross. I feel a little bit smelly.
Sleeping on, in your craft room.
Who's going to have the best luck of all in 2026.
Well, my luck will be bad right away.
The aromas. Yuck. Clean yourself. No, I gotta get some good luck.
There's another way. There's some other way. Get a rabbit's foot or something. There's other ways to get good luck.
Hey, speaking of rabbits feet. Remember when, like I used to see those around constantly. I feel like those were huge in the 90s.
Everyone had a rabbit's foot. I don't see those anymore ever. Yeah. Anywhere. Yeah. It's fine. I don't need to see that. It's absolutely fine. That was gross.
It's strange that they were pretty prevalent and now they're not.
Yeah. Well, you asked for it. You wanted it. You got it. I did. It snowed. The trees are frosty and white. The ground is, uh, got a, you know, a, a dusting. A skiff. You happy now?
A skiff of snow. I actually am. Okay. And it's weird. All right. Because I hate the snow. Yeah.
But you were feeling like you were missing it.
Well, right. And I was at work yesterday and we have these big windows at my work. Yeah. All of a sudden it was like, it's snowing. And it was pretty. And the only thing that would have made it better is if I was home, right in a blanket with a cup of tea, watching it come down.
I feel that, but I had to be stuck at work watching.
Uh, I did this morning when I walked out of the house and then you're trying not to slip and fall and break your head open. Okay. I go, oh, who asked for this?
Yeah. I know who did.
I am not the only one. You can't blame it all on me. There's lots of people who love the snow. For sure. So I was not the only one who was asking for snow, but doesn't it make it look so pretty outside? Sure. Look at it. It's so pretty. I see it. It was 18 degrees this morning and I don't care about that.
It's colder now. Is it? Oh yeah. It's like 11.
Oh, get out of town. That's not even a real temperature.
Shouldn't be. A positive 11.
It is true. We're still in the positives.
So I was looking ahead because I wanted to see if there was going to be some more, it looks like Friday and Saturday we could see some more moisture. Uh, but then I don't see anything until like the 17th we'll have some snow. And then maybe some snow on Christmas Eve.
Oh, I like that. Yeah. I like snow on Christmas. Yeah. That's it. I just want snow. Like I want when you have nowhere to go the first snowfall and then on Christmas. And then done. Okay. And then we're done with snow. I actually don't mind snow just not on the roads or the sidewalks. Uh-huh. How do we make that happen? I don't know. You heat everything.
You heat everything. Everything has thermal tubing or whatever they do in the fancy ski resort driveways.
Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. You get it. I'm sure that's very inexpensive. Yeah. Yeah. No big deal. I'll just call up the city planner right now.
Yeah. I'll be like, Hey, can we get heated roads so that we don't have to drive on the ice and snow? It'd be great. What's more cost effective, you think heated roads or a salt spray?
That's what I'm saying. It's going to be.
And every road or just the main roads?
Every road because they didn't salt our road. Fair. I'm sure they didn't salt any of the. Okay.
So let's say they just heat the main roads. Do you realize what you're asking for is insane amounts of road construction? You're right. To get what you want. Yeah. For not driving on snowy roads.
You're right. Listen, it's going to be a temporary pain to start. The cost, the construction longterm.
No one will complain. At all. No one. Everybody will be on board and be like, yeah, we really need these heated. Yeah.
No one complains about anything ever.
Never. I've never pulled up Facebook in the last five minutes and seen somebody complaining about something.
Everybody's great. Don't you? Don't you rate on my parade?
I'm not. I'm just trying to tell you a lot of people are going to be real upset with your plan.
It's not going to happen anyway. So it's just a fantasy. It's a fantasy world I live in sometimes.
Where I go. What you need is a city that's built with that kind of infrastructure to begin with. Exactly. But then you'd have some other thing you forgot and you'd still have to have road construction.
Oh, road construction. And you're going to have to probably have road construction because it's going to break. That's what I'm saying. Because I'm going to have to fix the piping or the tubing or whatever it is. Yep. It's fine. For now we'll just have salt and it works fine. It works fine. Just also get the side roads, get my neighborhood road.
Hit up the residential. So we don't pretty slick this morning. I know. Well, and I did the driveway in the sidewalk and did the, my own salt. I saw that. Yeah. So you shouldn't be slip sliding away in the driveway.
I did. Once you get out on the road, that's, I'm not salt in the whole road. Just in front of our house. No.
I did the sidewalk in the driveway. That'll be enough. Thanks, dear. Yeah.
You're welcome. Good looking out. Yeah. I'm trying.
I had to make sure I got it done before a bunch of people walked and drove on it because there's nothing worse than having that all packed down like that.
Yeah. I agree. Yeah. And I don't have a fancy heated driveway. So I can't just flip a switch and be like, nope, done deal. Do people have that? Yes. Are you kidding? Who are those people? I hate them. No, you don't.
I don't. I'm just jealous. You want to have that. Yeah. It'd be nice to not have to shovel and stuff. That'd be awesome. Yeah. But you know what that means? A bunch of construction in front of the house.
Our daughter loves stranger things. Yes. So she was itching to watch season five when it came out. Right. And I didn't watch it with you guys initially because I had forgotten everything that had happened.
Right. So you actually started completely from the beginning. And you've been, you've now finished the first season.
Yep. For the second time. You're into the second season now. Yeah. Are things making sense? Things are making more sense. She did send me a video yesterday and I felt a little bit attacked because it was watching stranger things with my mom. Yeah. It's no fun is essentially what it was. Okay. Because the mom in the video kept getting things wrong. Like they kept calling the upside down the underneath. Yeah.
Which sounds. Oh, they're in the underneath.
It sounds better anyway. No. You say they kept confusing Dustin's name with Justin. I like that little Justin guy. Now I do get that stuff sometimes to be a pest. Right. Sometimes I know.
Like I know, you know, you do it all the time.
Sometimes not with everything, but you do it with song lyrics because you know the right words, but you know that it annoys the people around you when you sing it wrong. Yeah. You, this is not new news. This is a thing you do regularly. Weekly. Every other daily.
But I really was confused a lot by stranger things. I could get Dustin's name. Correct. And I know that it's called the upside down. I just think down underneath sounds like a much better name.
I disagree. But I also feel attacked because she in the video that she sent me it said I had to pause the video 12 times so that she could, I could explain things to my mom. And I went, that's rude.
How many times did you have to pause it and ask questions? None. One. How many times did you ask questions when you should have paused it to get an answer? Because you were probably missing important details. Some. Okay. All right.
It's fine. I'm, I'm all straightened out now. I think I got it all straightened out now. What I do think is interesting. Both you and I were kids of the eighties. We grew up in the eighties. Sure. And what I do enjoy is seeing eighties stuff. Yeah.
Oh yeah. There's a ton of it.
Stuff that I remember. Right. And that's a Exciting. Yes. And that's all. Okay.
Well, I'm glad you're catching up though, because you've got until Christmas to get, you know, we get three more episodes on Christmas. And then the finale is on New Year's Eve. And it's like two and a half hours.
It's going to be amazing. And the Duffer brothers who created the show have said that they have for years and years and years been dreaming about the final 10 minutes. Really?
So I am very excited to see what they're bringing to the table for Stranger Things finale. But I've got a long time to wait. And not as long as like, you know, years between seasons, it's just like, come on, can I have the rest of it? Like I'm ready.
It's good.
It's a good show. It is. It is a lot. And as I understand it more, I'm like, Yeah, this is a really good show. Yeah. The characters are great. The story's fun.
It's definitely you're in season one and two right now, which are great. It does take a little bit of a like a lull. And then it comes back. But I think every show kind of goes through
that kind of in the lull right now.
Not so much. I feel like the next season has a draggy bit.
I'm in the drag. I'm in a draggy bit. Yeah.
And that's always a hard place to be. But the episodes you're watching are shorter. They're quick. Where once you get into these later seasons, all the episodes in this fifth season are like an hour long minimum. So you're really in the show for a long time when you get here. So to have like a full feature length film, two and a half hour finale between some sources are saying two hours and five, some are saying 230. But it's over two hours for sure for the finale. So it's going to be amazing. And I'm very excited to be able to stay awake. I will. You might have to watch it a couple of times and then you know, pause and ask questions because you'll have forgotten everything you watched in the first four seasons.
You don't know my life. It's fine. I do. I've been with you a long time. It's okay. We'll make it through. We'll make it through. You'll be confused. You'll ask questions. I'll fall asleep.
Yeah. I'll wake up confused. You'll wake up and go, what's happening? When did they get to the underneath? Yeah, see. This is cool. Listen to this. So there was a Swiss developmental psychologist and said the first 12 minutes after school decides your child's emotional world. And I actually think this is true for adults also.
That your first 12 minutes after work? Yes.
Okay. She explained, oh, it was a, it was a she psychologist. She explained that when a child walks out of school, their brain is still in survival mode. So they're still flooded with stimuli, noise, peers, correction, teachers, all kinds of stuff. And it hasn't shut off yet.
So there's still chaos happening in their brain. And then when you pick them up and you start in with all of the questions, how was it? How did it go? How was it?
They're still like, ah, that's, I don't ask that question.
I know you're, I was thinking about this. You're like, I'm going to pick up Emory, you just let her in and yeah, I'll ask how she's doing.
I'll go, how you doing? Or I'll say like, how was it? Because I don't want to pry because it's not ready to be talked about. It's all still too fresh or all or I'll say like, you know, something about her friends or something like how, you know, how, how are your friends today, whatever. Like I keep it light. And then we drive home and we just listen to music or whatever. Yeah.
Because I think in those minutes after you're finished, you're still processing the day, like you're still thinking about conversations you had with your teachers or your coworkers or your friends or, and so you're still in that processing phase. So they, they followed this research team, followed 80 families for one month to see what happened with each family. This family asked questions right out the gate. This family coexisted. So they were kind of just, and this is what the psychologist says to do. You stop interrogating and you just kind of coexist. So one family offered water and quiet. And by the time they reached their house, their daughter began talking voluntarily.
Right. And then the psychologist finally said, this is what we call emotional decompression. So the nervous system, given time, reboots and then says, okay. So basically it's, you don't have to extract the feelings. So by asking questions, you're trying to extract the feelings, but you have to make space for them to land. I get that. Which I think is interesting.
Yeah. Yeah. For sure. And that's really, I mean, it's not necessarily something I'm actively thinking of doing, but it is something where I go like, Hey, I know that like, I don't like when people go, how was work? I go, oh, I do that.
Well, but because I didn't know, now I know better.
I'll do better. Okay. You're, you just are always curious about like, how was the rest of your day? That's the question you'll, you'll ask, but that's when you get home. I've typically been home for like an hour by the time you ask that question, you'll go, how was the rest of your day? And I go, it was just work. Like there's nothing, it's just the same. It's the same as it's been for 25 years. It's the same. Right.
I'm a prior. Like I try to pry the information. There's no information. And now I'm just, I'm now I know not to do that. So I'm going to do better. All right. Right.
I mean, you're still curious. It's fine. Right.
But I want you guys to supply me with the information rather than they're trying to extract it, I suppose.
So, but I also think you like to talk about your day. And so you just want to share your information. So you're asking, hoping that everyone else will go, and what about your day?
No, that's not true. Okay. Because I'm genuinely curious about your guys to stay true.
I'm not saying that's the only reason you ask. No. I'm just saying that you do love to share the details of your day. It's mostly because
part of my processing is getting it all out. Right. And I have to tell it to somebody else to get out the stuff that I want to say. But that doesn't mean that I don't want to also hear about you and the kids' day.
Sure. And that's not what I mean. What I mean is it's important for you to decompress that way. Where for me, there's no need. I don't need to go, oh, let me tell you about how I sat behind a computer and did a thing.
But that's not, yeah. That's my day. That's not the stuff I want to hear that's what I do. I sit in here and then you go, well, how was the rest of your day? And I went, well, I worked on this project and this and I got some work done on this and oh, this, you know, we updated this like, oh, big deal.
Yeah. And then three weeks later, you'll say, oh, I forgot to tell you this big thing that happened.
Right. Because that's when it finally landed for me.
See? I get it. Okay. One last thing I'm going to say about this. They said that the students who had these quiet landings is what they're saying. They showed 30% higher cooperation and fewer arguments. There you go.
Which I think is interesting. Let it breathe a minute. I don't know why it's those 12 minutes. I don't know why it's a specific time, but I think that's interesting. Yeah.
Let it decompress. I mean, look, when I got home and got off the school bus and my parents both worked, I didn't see them until five or six at night. Yeah, same. And so, you know, when I was home and watching Save by the Bell and eating my bowl of cereal and whatever. Yeah. Like it was... Cinnamon toast. I was doing my own thing. I was decompressing. So... Yeah.
True. You know, same. This says, peaceful homes are built in silent car rides. There you go. I like that. Yeah.
It's what it is when I pick them up. You just don't want to ask. Nope. It's not that. Because I'm curious. I want to make sure they had a good day. But if they're not ready to talk, that's fine. It's cool. That's all. Thumbs up, dude. Good luck to you on your new adventure. Doing better because you know better.
I will. Yeah. All right. When you know better, do better. And now I know. All right. This is going to be a nice break that we're talking about because I'm going to say nice things about you. Are you ready? You are? Yeah. Because here's something about you that I noticed that is very nice.
Okay. Every time I call you and it doesn't matter where you are. You...
If you're in a meeting, if you're in the car, if you're at home, you will always answer. The phone? Uh-huh. Yeah. Every time.
Every time. Well, why wouldn't I? I don't know. There's lots of people who ignore their spouse's phone call.
Wow. But you answer every time. I've called you before and you're like, hey, I'm in a meeting. Can I call you back? Sure. And I say, oh, yeah. I didn't know you were in a meeting.
Well, and if I can't answer, which sometimes happens, I will reply with a text right away. This is, hey, I'm in the middle of something. Is it important? Is it an emergency? Can I call you back?
Yeah. Because you don't call. You text. And so when you call, it's like something has needed right away. Because you don't call to just chit chat. No, I don't do that.
But you've done this as long as we've been together. Yeah. I haven't always just been a texter. Maybe I have. No.
I mean, we didn't have... You used to have to pay for texts, remember?
That's true. I do remember. So it was easier to call. I forgot about that. You had to pay to text. Yeah. Wow. Minutes. What a time.
Yeah. Cost per message.
Yeah. I totally forgot about that. Anyway, that's nice. That's a nice thing you do.
Thanks, I guess. I mean, for noticing, I just, it's a normal thing for me. I answer the phone. I'm a phone call guy. You are a phone call guy. I would much rather have a conversation, even if that conversation has to take 45 minutes, than to take two hours texting.
That's true. I guess it's not, this is not just a me thing, because you just answer. I was thinking all this time, like, well, my husband always answers my phone call. But you answer. I answer
unknown numbers. I answer them all. You're crazy. I know. You're wild. I know. And sometimes they'll be like, this is a message from the car warranty. And I just hang up. I don't have time to listen to it. It's fine.
See ya. But yeah, answer. Sometimes people call and they're like, Hey, did you know this is going on in your community and you should be taking part? And I go, I already took part. Thanks.
Yeah, I don't. Call me later. If I don't know the phone number, I really, I'm not gonna answer. Really? Yeah, really. No way. Sometimes I will if I'm feeling dangerous.
Oh, man. When is that? Always. I've never seen you feel dangerous when the phone rings, where you're like, Oh, I'm gonna answer this. I see you go, I don't know that number. I've never seen you act a dangerously when your phone rings. Oh, time to do a backflip. What are you talking about? You act dangerous.
I answer. Do an unknown caller. I've never seen that happen. You know, you used to have to answer the phone, never even ever knowing who his colleague.
I'm well practiced.
I know it. I should be too, but I've gotten too adjusted to this new life.
I heard somebody yesterday say that they felt really silly because they left a voicemail and gave their phone number twice. I do that. I left my, I left my voicemail. I gave my phone number twice in the message. Because I forgot caller IDs a thing.
Because years and years and years ago, when I first learned how to leave a message, that's what people did. You leave it in the beginning and you leave it at the end. And so then I have done that before where I go again, my number is again.
Again, and this is my name one more time. In case you missed it the first, you know, three times I said it. Yeah, no, I answered the phone.
That's funny. Yeah. It was pretty dangerous to just the phone would ring and you'd be like, who is it? And then you'd pick it up. I'm surprised kids these days don't like doing that because they like mystery toys.
Oh yeah. The blind bag phone call. Yeah. Yeah. You never know who's on the other end.
You don't until you say hello and then you go, hello.
And then you go, Hey, well, here it's me. And then they go, who is this? That's fun. We should just call random people.
We used to do it. We did use to do it. We used to pick a number and just call and go, oh, is your refrigerator running? I never did that. Yes, you did. Well, I didn't say that. I had funnier jokes than that. Oh, did you? Yeah. Yeah, I did. Okay. Good job. Well, listen to this. This is what we used to do. My friends and I, we were so crazy.
Whoa, watch out. Big danger. Here it comes. We used to break all the thrift shops and just randomly, do you sell used microwaves? Yeah, you got the good jokes. You are full of good jokes. You with me?
Yeah, I'm here. I was looking up, you know, how they put out your recap, your music recap. Okay.
So did they give the YouTube one? Yeah. Okay. So I was looking at that. Oh, I bet yours is interesting and mine is not because I don't really spend a lot of time with that.
I do. I listened to 10,130 minutes.
10,130 minutes. Let me see if mine even pulls up here.
And then I have a top song that I listened for 137 minutes.
Okay. Here, let me look at my recap. Okay. You said how many minutes?
10,130.
Okay. 4,003 minutes. 4,000? Wow. Yeah. Not very many minutes. No, you don't not very many. That's what I said. My longest streak was five days and it wasn't on purpose. It was because it auto connected to my Bluetooth over and over and over.
Mine? No, mine. And it was frustrating because I'm like quit doing that. Like it would connect and automatically start playing and I'm like, stop. That's what I wish mine would do. It drives me nuts. No, mine does not automatically connect and that's what drives me nuts because I have to stop and be like, oh, I gotta get this all figured out. And it drives me crazy when it doesn't do that.
My number one song I listened to 114 minutes. And? What was, how long was your number one song?
137? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's something. What song was it?
It was that bass side song.
Oh, yeah. Mine was a Cohedan Cambria song. Well, I don't know why this stuff. I don't know why these recaps are always interesting to me.
How many different artists did you listen to? Where do you get to that? It's like midway through. Like my number one artist was bass side, but I listened to 378 different artists.
I don't know where you find that.
They just kept going. No, it just plays a lot of information.
It's got a lot of information.
And everybody out there still waiting for their Spotify wrapped or whatever they call theirs. I don't think they've released that, but I don't use Spotify. So everybody goes, oh my, and they post the, you know, their snapshots on their stories and they're all excited about it. And I go, I don't use Spotify.
Oh, it's the same concept. Yeah. But you know, everybody gets all nerdy about it. Look at my musical taste. I know everybody gets a little snobby about there.
And I go, oh, good for you.
Oh, I like these end of the year recaps though. Like YouTube used to do like the top videos of the year, right? Right. And I like those I don't know why. I don't know why I like the yearly recaps, but I do. It's like a, let's look back on what happened during the year.
That's exactly what it is. That's exactly what it is.
And I like them. Okay. And then there's always a section of like people who that you've lost throughout the year.
And in more in memoriam. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. What a year. Well, look at that. We should come over the name for it. How about a recap? Sounds good.
Let's talk about the Giants kicker, the New York Giants kicker. What's his name? Do you know his name?
I was just going to ask, have you seen? Is this, um, have you seen? Is this, I think this is Koo.
I don't know. I don't know what his name is. I, because I don't follow the Giants.
But uh, yeah, it's young, young Koo.
Oh, I had him on my fantasy.
That's what I'm saying. Yeah.
Last year, right? He actually was really good.
He is. He's a good kicker.
Oh man. He had a bad day. When did they play? Monday, Sunday? Whatever day it was. It doesn't matter. His toe got stuck in the grass. He didn't even make connection to the ball.
Yeah. It was, it was a bad and I keep seeing it. People are turning into memes and stuff. I know. But yeah, I keep seeing it over and over and over and I go, man.
I feel so bad for a poor fella. It's really bad. And a lot of people are calling it the worst field goal attempt of all time. Oh no. Don't say that.
Yeah. I mean, I don't understand how, like something happened. Like how did his toe, and did he break his toe because?
I don't know. I don't know either. I just feel bad for him. Don't watch the video.
I'm watching the video. It's so sad. And they keep doing slow mos, zoom ins and stuff.
I know. I've seen it a million times, but I feel so bad for that poor guy. And he's a good, he's a good kicker on a normal day.
Something just went wrong. I don't know what happened.
Oh, and then I saw a video with the quarterback right after.
Yeah. And he was not stoked. No.
Like they were, they were very not excited. I mean, look, when, when the kick was, was happening, it was seven to 17. So they were down by 10. So it wasn't like it was going to seal the game for them or anything. I mean, obviously it would have given them three points, we would have made it, but
they were still down quite a bit. So maybe relax a little bit on the guy. I don't know. I don't know how that happened. I don't need that. I've never seen that happen ever.
Hopefully something else will happen and he can get out of the internet for a minute.
Yeah. But they're also using him for memes, which is kind of fun.
No, it's sad.
You don't think it's fun that you get to be an internet meme?
Not for something that you failed or you messed up. I would hate that.
Oh man. All press is good press. No, poor guy. Yeah. He's well known. Young way cool, man.
We need another cold place situation.
Oh, is that right? The distraction. Yeah. I see.
We have a lot of Christmas traditions, but one tradition that we do not have is our Christmas dinner.
That's right. Because it's very similar to Thanksgiving. We're not like big ham and turkey people. And so, you know, having a Christmas ham seems like a waste of a good ham for somebody who might like to have it because we aren't going to really enjoy it.
Yeah. So I spent some time yesterday looking at like what people typically eat for Christmas dinner. Yeah. What'd you find? A lot of prime rib, which we also don't like.
I'm not a big fan of prime rib. And a lot of people are going, what? I know. Prime rib is amazing.
And I go, yeah, not really.
We're not those people. Not really that great. A lot of people will do crab or okay. Yeah. Some lobster. Yeah. Justin next door does a big Christmas crab thing. He likes crab legs a lot. Again, I don't think people actually like crab. I think they just like melted butter.
I think crab is good. But my, Emery won't eat crab. There's no way that we'll get her to eat crab.
Doesn't she eat it in the sushi rolls though? No, she gets, it's very minuscule.
Like it's a tiny amount of crab.
And probably imitation or is it real, you think? No, it's okay. The, the cheap stuff we get is imitation. All right. Beck would love to eat crab for Christmas. You think so? Yeah. He would enjoy it.
I think. But I don't know what to do. I've looked at a bunch of different recipes and every time I see something I go, no, nobody's going to agree on that. All four of us, we got to find something that we can agree on to eat.
Or, or what? We do our favorite things like we did for Thanksgiving. And then I can have Indian food. Yeah. Or do you want one meal?
I just kind of want one meal. All right. I'm looking, I'm just looking at the pioneer woman's like, here's her 50 best Christmas dishes. Okay. A lot of ham. Yeah, I know. A roasted leg of lamb. No. That's what I'm saying. What else you got? Mushroom gravy. Negative. Chicken Florentine.
What is that? I don't know. I know what chicken is. What's the Florentine part?
Sundried tomatoes. No, green spinach. I think that actually looks delightful. I would eat that. Look at it. And it's green and red. That could be it, Josh. Chicken Florentine? It looks Christmasy. Check it out.
Because they added sun dried tomatoes to it. Yeah. Every recipe I pulled up, there's one that has sun dried tomatoes in it. All the rest are just green and white sauce with chicken floating in it. But it looks good. It doesn't look bad.
We could do that and some mashed potatoes. Yeah.
Or a pasta. Beef burgundy. Because you could do a chicken Florentine pasta, which is almost an Alfredo. So you could probably get both the kids to agree on it. Because that's the one pasta they'll both eat.
That's true. Why do they have to make it complicated? Oh, because... Okay. Well, maybe that's the thing.
Maybe it's a chicken Florentine. It's got to be a noodle pasta though. You can't do it with these pennies. Why?
Because Bex's not going to eat it. He's not going to eat the pennies. It's going to have to be a fettuccine noodle. Oh, and that's the worst. I hate that kind of noodle, but I'll sacrifice. I always do.
Oh, yeah. I never get the food I like. Two days in a row, I've got to use that line on you. I never get the food I like.
Well, it's true. Mom always sacrifices.
I want the mushroom gravy.
I do kind of want that mushroom gravy.
And make it.
I'll be the only one eating it. Bingo.
And then it's going to go to waste. But you'll get what you want.
Well, maybe this chicken Florentine is it. The recipe that I have doesn't have any kind of pasta.
Yeah, I know. That's why I was specifically looking at creamy chicken Florentine pasta. I see. Because I was looking at a bunch of different Florentines and the pasta one came up. Oh, and it looks nice.
It does kind of look nice.
I'm going to write that down. I'm not mad about that. That could be it. We might have figured out Christmas dinner just now.
Okay, I'm writing it down. We'll have some options. What's it called? Chicken Florentine. Yeah. Pasta.
Well, there's that or there's a casserole or there's several different ways to do it.
I'd like a casserole because that's easy.
Is it? It's the same amount of work. You still have to prep everything. You still have to do it. The difference is, am I cooking it in a skillet or am I cooking it in an oven? That's easy. It's the same. It's exactly the same. Would you rather this or that?
Your favorite part of the day.
It's fine. I don't mind. Would you rather this or that? Are you serious? I mean, I just, it's okay. I like playing along with you. It's fine. I like frustrating you. I like exercising my logic muscles and I can pretty easily convince you to choose the thing that I want with my logic.
I won't be swayed. What is it? Would you rather received money or an actual present as a gift? Well, now that's hard. Here's my determination. I'll tell you my logic. All right. I would prefer a gift because I feel like a gift takes a little more thought.
And it is the thought that counts. Yes. I see.
If somebody's just buying me something to buy me something because they're like, I don't know what to get her. I don't know anything about her. So I'm going to buy her this hot cocoa set.
I see.
You know those pre-private sets. I do. I do know what you're talking about. Then I would rather have money. But if you're actually taking the time to think about it and be like, yeah, I think she likes this. Let's get her this. Then I would rather have that.
I think you got good logic there. Thank you. That sounds pretty good.
Look at that. Easy to convince you. Yeah. Isn't it?
Well, I haven't made my decision yet. What's your decision? I'm just, I'm still complimenting you. Hold on. Okay. Some good logic. Let's think about this for a minute. Oh my. Because it's hard. It's hard to decide because here's why. Sometimes you'll have like a gift idea in mind and you might go like, this is awesome. I'm going to get this gift. I'm going to buy this gift for the person and then you get that gift to them and maybe it isn't exactly the thing they wanted or it's a different brand or something isn't right. And you might go like, well, the other one maybe was out of my price range. But if I gave you the money that I spent on this one, you could compensate for the additional that maybe you could cover to buy the one you want.
Right. I do. I see what you're saying.
So maybe it's a, hey, I know you really wanted this thing and I just wasn't able to buy you that thing, but here's money toward that.
It's not that though. Let's say it's not that. It's either a thoughtful gift or a, I didn't know what to get. Yeah, here's money. Yeah. Hmm.
I think I'm going to side with your logic today. Oh, because I think I would rather somebody spent the time and effort to go and go, I, this is something that this person likes. It's a gift from me to you because I think you'll like it.
I think that's, I think that's a, it's nice to consider it thing. You know, I do. So I'm going to go with that. Okay. Look at us. Yeah. Look at you. Would you rather this or that? The average child's allowance is now $15 a month or about $13 a week.
$15 a month or 13 a week. That doesn't add up.
Roughly $13 a week.
That's not good math.
I didn't listen. I didn't do the math. I just read. Yeah. If there's four weeks in a month, that's $13 a week. What?
If you say what you said,
$15 a month or $13 a week.
That makes no sense.
13 times four is not 15.
52. You said 15. Did I? $15 a month or 13 a week. No, I think I said 52. You've never said 52. Not once. Are you serious? Roll tape. Yep. Roll tape.
$15 a month or 13 a week. And that's when I went, what? And it's been, that's what you said a couple of three times. And then you did the math and went 52. And I went, yeah.
We're going to have to listen again because I feel like I said 52 the whole time. Nope. Okay. We're going to roll tape.
So it's $50. Even if you would have said $50 a month and 13 a week, I would have been like, well, that's close.
I didn't understand how you weren't understanding.
I'm like, that checks out. I'll take the weekly deal. That's what, I'll take 13 a week instead of 15 a month.
Okay. $52 a month. Okay. 13 a week. All right. Roughly. Of course, this varies by how old the kid is, how much work they're putting in, and how tight money is in the house. Well, yeah. A lot of people are complaining saying, that's too much money. But you got to think about inflation. So who's complaining?
Who are these people? They're like, no, those kids are doing too much money now.
In 1992, the equivalent would be about 22 per month or about $5.50 per week. Or for people in the 70s, it would be about $5 per month and $1.25 per week. This is used, this was an inflation calculator that was used. I didn't even know there was an inflation calculator, but of course there is.
Yeah. But look, if minimum wage isn't going to come up, neither is allowance. But allowance did come up. No, I'm saying. We all got to play by the same rules. So you're right.
Because that's what I'm saying. That's right. That's right. I had to work hard for what I have. So will they?
I didn't get a set allowance. I know that my parents were pretty. If I needed something, I would just say, hey, can I have 20 bucks for this?
And they would, I mean, I would have to. I would have to do, I mean, it depends on what it was. It really depended on what it was. But if I was going out of town with like a church group or something, they would give me spending money for that. But I would be expected to do chores, but it's not ever like I got a weekly allowance.
Our kids are spoiled. They've never, I mean, we did allowances when they were little, but most of the things we tried never stuck. We tried a couple of different things and we weren't very consistent with our chores or allowance.
We were kind of lazy parents. No. Yeah. No. Yeah. No. Chores got done. Things have to happen. Yeah. I think we had a pretty good plan going with Emery because she was like during the summer because she wasn't working. And so she was home and she was doing stuff.
And that was great. So it was kind of like her job. And we had a good pay structure going for a couple of months. And then she got a job and now it's like, you know, you don't have time to do all the chores and get paid. Now we just have to hurry and like, hey, everybody chip in, we got chores to do.
Oh, everybody really chips in. You're right. Yeah. No one chips in.
That's not true. Just, just, uh, what, yesterday you went, who emptied the dishwasher? And I went, that would be me. Okay. Who took the garbage out?
Who shoveled the walk and put out the salt? All right. Who scraped the boys' window so he wouldn't have to like, scrape his windows on the bed? All right. Who makes the bed? All right. Nobody else chips in. Nobody does anything. All right. I'm wrong. Are you happy?
I'm just saying. Jesus. You sometimes have a fantasy world that you live in where people don't chip in, but people chip in in our own way, maybe not in your way all the time.
Okay. That's fair. But do we do in our own way? Sometimes I have high expectations. All right. I get it. Settle down. You settle down.
I'm settled. Hey, you want to wrap up the show? Let's do it. I think that sounds like a good idea.
Sounds like a fantastic idea.
Let's end this on the high end. Hey, if you want to hear more of this anytime you want, you can.
And why would it do?
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