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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Monday, December 29th, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
What happens when you take five glorious days off and then try to remember how real life works again? Josh & Chantel are back in the studio talking Christmas naps that hit different, post-holiday brain fog, why sharing food (especially cereal and soup) is absolutely not okay, they break down a surprisingly entertaining trip to the movies, debate mass-appeal ice cream flavors, confess to zero Christmas returns, dive into one of the sweetest feel-good stories you’ll hear all week—an 81-year friendship built on a single birthday card, towel warmers, cheese confusion, neighbor gift guilt, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Weekend movies
(2:38) - Back at it again
(5:12) - Decoration tear down
(9:07) - Good News
(11:41) - No Christmas returns
(16:16) - Christmas naps
(20:51) - Cheese mess ups
(26:17) - Non-sharable foods
(33:00) - Neighbor gifts
(37:42) - Car stereo install
(44:51) - Mass appeal ice cream
(50:51) - Would You Rather
(53:12) - Towel warmer
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Full show transcript:
Over the weekend, we went and saw a movie. That's right, we did. We saw the new Anaconda with your boyfriend Paul Rudd.
Yeah. And Jack Black is in there as well. Pretty good movie, would you say?
It was pretty, I was entertained. Yeah? Yeah. Better than the original. I will also say that.
Okay. There was a couple of... Better than the original with Ice Cube and J-Lo? Yeah, and John Voight.
Sure. It was number five in the box office. Well, there was not anything else that came out, was there? Yeah, there was Avatar, Fire and Ash.
That's right. Huge box office. I forgot about... Huge box office.
I'm not an Avatar person. Yeah. $64 million it brought in over the weekend. Disney's Zootopia 2 was number two on the chart there. Marty Supreme, that's the new Timothy Chalamet. That movie was number four. The Housemaid was number four. And Anaconda, number five.
I haven't even heard of three and four. Oh. I don't know what to tell you. I don't know. There's other movies out there.
We don't really spend a lot of time in the theater like we used to when we were younger. No. And that's okay. I don't... I don't...
It's fine. My favorite part about the whole movie experience was when you sat in your chair, you scooted back and your feet couldn't touch the floor and you thought the chair was broken. And you said, my chair is all messed up. No? You're just small. You're just itty bitty. That's okay. I was entertained. Go see that movie if you want to be entertained. It was fun. Yeah. There was a couple of hokey bits but that's all right. That was a big snake.
That Anaconda. Steve's on, Paul Rudd, Jack Black. Steve's on is amazing. They're all delightful. And the lady. I feel bad I don't know her name. She was awesome. She was great. I like her. It's entertaining.
Yeah. Is it worth five or would you put it higher on the list? I would put it higher on the list just because I don't care for Avatar. Right. And this is the third Avatar of like 12 or whatever they're going to be. Oh, they're making so many. Stop it with the avatars.
Yeah. No, they won't. I know they won't. He cannot be stopped. And a lot of people like it.
I am in the minority. James Cameron. That's his name. Yep.
Yeah. He cannot and will not be stopped. He's going to be making Avatar to the end of time. Well, it will probably be the name of the next movie. Avatar to the end of time. Hey, let's start today's show.
All right. Well, it is super fancy to see you here. Why is it fancy? Because it has been five days. And here we are.
Five glorious days. Isn't that a weird thing? Yeah. I kind of forgot how to do everything. I forgot how to drive. I haven't been driving. Well, you have been a passenger in my vehicle and then our daughter is driving. So she drove a little bit and you sat in the back seat. So yeah, you haven't really driven anywhere in five days. So I got in my car and I went, how do I do this again? Even this morning, I'm like, what key do I need to open the door? I think if I do adjust your seat.
I'm like, I'm gonna lock in. Headphones? What are they? I forgot everything.
What is this work business? It'll come back to you like riding a bicycle real quick and then you'll go, oh yeah, I remember. Yeah, I already do remember. I remember. It was five glorious days off though.
I don't think I've had a vegetable in five days. Serious? Oh, yeah. That's not true. It can't possibly be true.
Think about it. I ate a bunch of cauliflower and broccoli and carrots and celery. How long ago was that? A few days. A few days.
I had homemade food last night for dinner that had olives and tomatoes and onion in it. Okay. So. Whoa. So that's vegetables.
I brought a salad today. I'm gonna. I'm gonna.
Oh. You got plenty of time. We still have a whole entire another weekend of holiday. I've been waking up and eating sugar cookies for breakfast. I have not been doing that. Oh, I have.
It's been awesome. Did you bring sugar cookie for breakfast? Your whole body is gonna go, I eat my sugar cookie. My whole body already is like, what do you do? You go back to bed. Yeah.
No, that's where my body is like, hey buddy. Remember to sleep in? Remember sleeping in? Remember staying up late and sleeping in? Yeah. And having no absolutely no schedule or routine. Right.
What are you doing? That was awesome. Yeah. Well, we're in the studio for three days and then we're gonna be off for four. So how about that? Whoa. I know. I know. Huzzah. All right.
Well, good morning. We took our Christmas decorations down at home. I usually leave them up until after New Year's, but I hadn't urged and I said, I got the time.
Let's do it. You got real antsy about it. I did.
I don't know why. I got it. One minute you were like, should I do it? And the next minute the kitchen table was covered in decorations and I went, I guess it's happening.
I know. I don't know why. I think I just got bored and I had the time and I said, you know what?
If I don't do it now, I'm not gonna have time later. Yeah. Well, we had to get more bins because we've been redoing our storage situation and trying to consolidate and clean up, make things a little bit more consistent because we've had like 800 different random sized bins.
Right. It's been very inconvenient and so for, you know, stacking and whatever. And so we didn't even have the new bins yet. But as I'm looking around here in the studio, we still have a lot of Christmas up in here. Everything is up in here.
Yeah. What do you, it's our plan for this place. We need a bin.
We do need a bin, but do you want to leave it up to after New Year's? Oh, I don't know. Here's what I think is going to happen. You're going to go through your usual routine of getting ready and doing what you do, make up and hair and whatnot. And then at some point this morning you're going to go, I'll start taking this down. It's because I get bored. I know.
I get fidgety. Yeah. Sit still. You know what I did?
What? Sat down. There's not even, we didn't even turn on any of the lights. This morning?
Yeah. We don't even have any of the Christmas lights on. You usually hit those and the trees usually on, but I turned the tree off before we left. Smart.
Yeah. Should we turn on the lights? Why not? Let's turn on the Christmas lights. Might as well. Might as well turn them off. I'm surprised you haven't taken batteries out already. I, listen, I'm not that crazy. Yet?
Give me some time. Oh, okay. I mean, mark the time as 6.39.
It's still festive. Sure. We'll leave them up for a couple of days. All right.
We've got three days here this week. Sure. We'll take them down next week. How's that sound?
Well, I'm good with it, but we'll see what actually happens. At some point I've got to get a bin. Yeah. We've got to bring a bin in and that will be the cue to start it because we've got to bring in the box for the tree.
We've got to bring in the box of the stuff that we didn't put up and then we've got to consolidate into a new bin. Yeah. True. True. True.
So that has to happen. What else are you looking at? I was just looking at all of the stuff. Actually, we've got a lot of stuff.
Yeah. We had the little cylinder that holds all the ornaments that float on the ceiling. That got tipped over in the garage yesterday. Who cleaned it up? You must have because you made a noise when it fell over. Because that cylinder bin, the lid is broken. I know. When I was bringing that home from bringing it here, tipped over in my car.
So I've cleaned those ornaments up a handful of times already. We need a better system. What is it? It'd be nice to have some sort of system so that the fishing line that they hang from the ceiling with didn't have to be untangled so extensively every year. I don't know what goes on in 365 days from putting them up or taking them down to putting them up and those things get so tangled. Like a Christmas light. Like a spring of Christmas lights. It's just wild.
I don't know what goes on in that box, but something that tangles up all those cables and stuff. Anyway, get a bin and we'll make it happen. All right. Next week.
At some point. All right. You and me, pal. High five, bud.
All right. Let's do some good news for you here. This is kind of a cute little story. It started in 1944 when this resident from Kentucky first received a birthday card for her 14th birthday after her family had moved to any Indianapolis during World War II. The new girl didn't have many friends. One of them named Mary Wheaton would prove to be the lifelong kind of friend, which is pretty cool. On her 95th birthday, Pat Doremer received a greeting card that was already 81 years old.
Here's what's been going on. These two, Pat and Mary, have been passing back and forth the same birthday card for over 80 years. Wow. 80 years?
Yeah. So when she turned 14, when Pat turned 14, Mary gave her the birthday card. When Mary turned 14, Pat signed the card and gave it back to her.
And they've been passing it back and forth on each other's birthday, writing a new little message and passing it back and forth for 81 years. It's crammed. I'm looking at the picture of it. I mean, it's little small, like little happy birthdays, some of them, but it's completely crammed. What a cute idea. It's very cute.
It's a very cute little thing that these two have done. Pat said she knew it would show up in her mailbox this year when she turned 95. She'll sign it again, date it and send it back to Mary in May, just as they have always done. It's a tradition of simple joy that brightened her day so many years ago and will continue to make the pair of birthdays for another blessed year, which is super cute.
It is cute. Yeah. So good for those two. They've been passing back and forth the same card for a long, long time. 81 years straight. No.
Cute. One card. And guess what's inside? A little dinosaur.
Oh. And they, on the little dinosaur bones have been writing years like it's the rock and amon, or an amon and arco. It's got 1994, 1993, 1992, they've been writing the year on the dinosaur bones, putting a little happy birthday right in their name, sending it off. I wonder how like this spine, I'm surprised it's still able to open and shut. Great question. Good paper back in the 40s. I guess so. Real strong birthday card paper.
Cute idea. I know. Well done, ladies.
We had zero Christmas returns this year. Is that right? Which is, I think, first.
Because of sizes being incorrect or whatever. Yeah. Yeah.
Wrong color, wrong size. Yeah. Didn't like it.
We had none this year. That's a good, that's a good deal. That is a good deal. I mean, there wasn't a lot of clothes in there. No, but usually like there's shoes and stuff too that have to be returned.
Yeah. No, I think we all did great with shoes. I think everyone was pleased with their gifts. And that's one thing that our family does. We always get a new pair of shoes, it seems. And I'm super excited about the pair I got. Same.
I'm wearing mine right now. Are you? Yeah. Nice.
I'm not. Mine, I don't want to get them dirty. I'm real nervous about them because I like them so much that I'm like, I can't even wear them. I like them so much. They're white.
Which is a problem. Yeah, they're like very, very light, great. And then they have like red and blue accents. They look like NASA shoes. They look like moon shoes. You keep saying that, but I don't necessarily see that. They look like NASA shoes. You can keep saying that.
It's not going to change my mind about. Like all of the colors of an astronaut's spacesuit, they got it. Well, I'm glad you like them. I like them a lot. I'm looking up an astronaut's spacesuit right now.
And it's red and blue and then that light gray. They're perfect. I bought those shoes. I had to buy those shoes online. And guess what? Did you join the loyalty club? I didn't intend to. Because you can earn points with every pair that you buy and then you eventually you can earn free shoes.
I don't think so, but I am part of their email club because I keep getting emails for them. So I got to make that go away. I get them already because I've been a fan of the shoes for a long time. They're very cool. I don't want to keep getting their emails.
I don't know how to help you. They're cool shoes. You might see a pair you like. I don't know. Have you looked at them? I like the pair that you got me. Well, that's nice. I was just meaning like did you look at the lady shoes that they make?
I did not. What are they called? Zero? Yeah, with an X. With an X.
That's right. They're barefoot shoes. How did you find these shoes?
Oh man. They kind of find you. Really. They're so cool. I'm looking at the space shoes right now. I don't know how you can't. I don't know how you look at those and say no, they don't look like space. All right.
They look a little spacey. You're right. You're right.
But yeah, go look at the lady's stuff. They've got nice shoes. Oh, they have slippers too.
They have boots and slippers and they're cool, man. They're a little pricey. I will say that.
I understand. Look at their, they got some moon boots that are pretty sick. Yeah, those, and you can get them in a couple different colors. Okay.
The women's shoes are pretty cute. I know. And now thank you.
I'm already in your loyalty club. Well, what I like is there's a couple of pairs that they have. So the ones that you got me, there's a couple different color styles that make them look like baby shoes.
They do. And it makes me laugh because they look like little baby shoes. Well, I'm glad you like them. You had them on the dresser for ever since you got them. Well, I wore them around the house. Because I felt like I'm not taking these outside. But I was worried that you didn't like them or they didn't fit. And that's why you hadn't been wearing them. No, I don't want to get them dirty.
Okay. They're too cool. I feel like I need to carry them in a bag and then put them on when I'm inside a building. I don't want to wear them outside. They're nice. I decided to wear my new shoes the other day, I guess Saturday.
It was dry when I put them on outside. That's right. And then while we were out and about, it started to snow and I went, no.
That's exactly my point. I wore my new shoes. How dare you? They're okay. I managed to avoid. Puddles.
The puddles, yeah. Good. Good. I just found another pair I kind of like. Do you? From that same company?
Yes. I'll have to show you. They're really cool. Anyway, thanks for the shoes.
Thanks for the shoes for me too. Yeah. And no returns. No returns to us. I think my favorite part of Christmas was the Christmas naps we all took. Yeah. I could go for a Christmas nap like, you know, now. That'd be fine. Yeah.
Just find a good couch and a blanket. At one point you had fallen asleep. Yeah.
You asked if I would scratch your back and you kneeled on the floor with your head on the couch and you fell asleep that way. Absolutely. 100%. I don't know how that was possible. How was it impossible? It's a better question.
Two seconds. Have you tried it? I have not. Oh. It's fine. You must have been comfortable enough. Yeah. Clearly. I was impressed. You were impressed that I was able to fall asleep like that?
Yeah. I could sleep pretty much anywhere. I know that about you. Why did a Christmas nap hit differently though? I don't know. And then you said you didn't get a full nap like Emory napped, I napped, but you were like, I didn't get a full nap. No.
Why? I didn't say it like that for one. Well, there were a couple of times where we were like, why are you so tired? And you're like, I didn't get a full nap. Well, you guys did come at me in a little bit because we started to watch Stranger Things and I fell asleep. And you were like, why are you sleeping?
I didn't get a full nap. Yeah. But why not? I don't know.
That's what I'm asking. I was cold. Everybody was good with their nap, but you were like saying that it was our fault. You didn't get a full nap. No, I wasn't saying it was your fault. I was just saying, don't come at me because I'm falling asleep during the show. I see. When I didn't nap like you can. I didn't get a full nap. Yeah.
Yeah. I was cold and I couldn't get up to get a blanket because you were laying on my back. You had your head on my back at one point, so I couldn't move. On your back? Yeah. Because I was laying on the couch this way and then you were laying this way, but your head was on my back.
Interesting. So I couldn't move. So I was cold, uncomfortable. I didn't have a pillow. I remember I had my head on like a folded up blanket.
I don't remember my head being on your back. It was at one point and then we all woke up and then I went and got a blanket for a pillow and then we fell asleep again a little bit. It was a good nap. You had a couple of different naps because you had a couple of different positions.
Floor nap and then head on my back. I don't remember that. I do. I don't remember that. I do, trust me.
Head on back. Even the terrible nap that I had was still pretty great. Yeah.
I think the naps are different on Christmas because you know there's no obligation. Right. There's no responsibility. There's no responsibility. Everything is closed.
Nobody is expecting anything of you. Gotcha. You just are able to just be unless you're cold and someone is laying. And then later on you're going to yell at him about it because I didn't get a full nap.
I only yell at you guys because you yelled at me first. Will you fall asleep? Because. I didn't say why you fall asleep. At one point in the show I said there's a lot happening and she's quiet. And so I probably made a noise and then you went, no, I'm not asleep.
I'm awake. Yeah, I probably. Yeah, right. That's what really happened. But you didn't get a full nap. Yeah, I did it. So I get it. Yeah. It makes sense.
I know it does. Just let me nap when I want a nap. And apparently don't lay on your back, preventing you from getting a blanket.
Exactly. I'm very confused about the back nap. What are you confused about? I don't remember laying my head on your back.
I'm trying to figure out that position. I just explained it. Let me draw you a diagram.
That'll help. Because our couch is a U shape. All you're doing is using your fingers and saying, I was here and you were here and your head was on my back. I was on this portion.
It makes no sense. You were on this portion. Yeah, no, I understand. I don't know how my head was on your back. It makes no sense. Let me explain it. All right. Let me draw you a diagram. Sounds good. Let's talk about cheese for a minute.
I like it. Because I always mess up what kind of cheese we have at home. Always. I think you think we have cheese when we don't and you don't think we have cheese when we do. That's the big, that's the big mix up. Okay, but what did you say?
You think I have cheese when we don't and we don't have cheese when we do. That's correct. Okay, but. Because you go to the store and we'll be making a recipe and you'll go, do I have mozzarella? And you'll go, I don't think we do.
I'll buy mozzarella. And then we do. And then we'll go to the store and you'll go, do we have taco cheese? And you'll go, yeah, we have taco cheese and we won't buy it. And then we go to make nachos last night.
Guess what we don't have? Taco cheese. Like a cheddar cheese.
Yeah. Shredded Mexican blend taco cheese. We had Monterey Jack. And mozzarella.
And mozzarella and Parmesan. That's right. So. Two bags of mozzarella, by the way, because at one point you were like, I don't think we do.
And so you got two. I don't know how I'm always messing up the cheese. You don't look at the cheese.
They're different color bags. I understand, but you don't look at the cheese and go, I need shredded cheddar cheese. I don't.
You're right. That's the big mess. That's how it keeps happening is that you just aren't looking at the cheese that we have. I just glance in the cheese compartment and go, oh, there's cheese in there. We got cheese. Yeah.
Okay. All cheese with cheese. We have cheese. All cheese is the same cheese.
It's not true. I used mozzarella on my nachos last night. It tasted fine. I did not. You didn't? Nope. I only used the spicy nacho cheese and it was spicy.
Well, I had the spicy nacho cheese, but then I sprinkled a little bit of mozzarella on the top. Hey, listen, I couldn't tell you the difference. Well, if you were eating them by themselves, you certainly would. No, I bet I wouldn't. Cheese is cheese. You're just not a cheese connoisseur, I guess.
I like cheese, but I don't love cheese. So maybe that's it. It's fine. It was fine. I just don't know how I'm always messing up the cheese. It's because you don't like the cheese. You got to check the cheese in the door where the cheese lives.
You got to check that before we go to the store or when you're making a list. Because you opened the fridge and said, we don't have any cheddar cheese. And I went, I have rats. And then you start to look and go, well, what can we substitute here? I got string cheese. Let's just shred up some of the string cheese.
That's true. We had a sliced monster. We could have.
We had sliced American. We could have made that work. No, that was later. No, we did.
Because I guess we could have made that work. Unwrapped individual little slices and cut them up. Put that on the nachos and melted it up. I thought that actually would have been very good. It would have been something. That's for sure.
It would have been something. Next time. Here's my, here's my promise. All right, here we go.
Next time I promise I will look in the cheese compartment and make sure it's the right kind of cheese. Yeah. But that's my promise. All right.
To you. Because I'm happy to cook. It's just more convenient when I have the right ingredients is all that's all.
I don't mind cooking at all. It's fine. Cheese is cheese. And I'll go to the store with you and we'll work off your list. And then when we don't get cheese, and we go, well. How about you are just responsible for the cheese from now on out? Why? I can't be the cheese responsibility guy. Why?
Because it goes with the whole list. I can't be the cheese responsibility gal. Clearly.
Yeah, very clearly. But it's also a place where you can grow. So I would hate to rob you of that opportunity. You know, I'd really, I would hate to take that away from you. It's a good chance for you to grow in your cheese.
I don't grow unless I'm challenged. That's right. By cheese. That's where the growth comes from. I think the fridge could use a clean out for sure.
We've got some old stuff in there. You just did it. Yeah, I know. But then I was looking at some yogurt this morning. Right.
That's pretty old. You want, oh. Oh. Oh. That's the noise you made? Yeah. I feel like it's bad luck to go into the new year with old leftovers in the fridge. Is that a thing?
I think it is. Clean that fridge. You've got a few days to get it done. Hey, listen, this is a challenge for you. What is?
The cleaning out the fridge. You'll never grow unless you challenge yourself. I will let the stuff in there grow. Oh, it is.
Yeah. Because I don't know. I don't like the dates. I'll let stuff sit in there a while and I think it's still good. Okay, try some of that yogurt. I don't like that yogurt when it's brand new. I'm not going to try it when it's old. You won't taste a difference.
Ugh. You and I were having a conversation yesterday about what food would you not want to share with somebody? Should we go back and explain that this all started because we witnessed three people sharing one salad and thought, that's an interesting choice. From the same bowl. It wasn't like you made a salad and everybody took a scoop and put it on their own plate.
It was one container of a mixed salad and then the three ladies were just having lunch. Which I think is fine. I don't think there's anything gross about that. That.
You would share a salad like that way. You don't have an issue. I kind of take issue.
Do you? Well, that's what stemmed the conversation was. What foods would you absolutely not want to share in that way? Who you're sharing it with.
Right? I guess that's true. If you're sharing, would you want to share a salad with me? I would rather just scoop up my own on my own plate. It's not you. It's me. I just would rather have my own serving. Okay. So you said what food would you not want to share? The immediate thought in my head was soup.
Yeah. One bowl of soup, two or three spoons in the one bowl. Again, you're not scooping out your own bowl. Nope. It's one bowl and everyone is.
No, thank you. How many people are sharing that soup bowl? Did you say three? Two or three. Two or three.
Mm-mm. I think even just another person? No.
No. We asked the kids. Emery said cereal. Cereal. You can't share a bowl of cereal with anybody.
No. I think that's top of the list of foods not to share. Cereal and then soup. Why is cereal higher than soup? I don't know because milk is.
Because there's milk involved. Yeah. Yeah. She also said popsicles. No, you said popsicles. Yeah. And then we talked about chewing gum and lollipops, all things that you wouldn't be like, air have a taste. No, I'm not okay with it.
Would you care more to share a bowl of cereal if you had the same spoon to share or different spoons? That's awful. The other thing I added to the list was spaghetti and I know Lady in the Tramp and it's all cute and romantic and stuff, but it's not.
No. But I don't think spaghetti is... Anything that has a slurpee. I don't think spaghetti is that bad, actually. How do you eat spaghetti? I don't know. You twirl it on your fork and then you take a bite.
Yeah. And what happens with the noodles that you bite? You bite them off.
They fall back onto your plate. I'm not sharing spaghetti with anybody. It's not happening. Not even me, Josh? It's not about you.
It's about me and I'm grossed out by it. Good morning. This is what we're talking about today. Yeah.
I just... But salad. You really wouldn't even do a salad either. No, just give me my own bowl of salad. All right.
Give me a paper plate or something in napkin. Yeah. That's what I was going to ask. I'll use the lid of the container. Something. I would take my own little serving aside and I'd be like, this will be my part. Put it in your hands.
That is called hand salad. And that's a real thing that happened to a scout on a camp out. Really?
Yeah. One of the scouts was having a salad. She had forgotten to bring utensils. She just used her hand and had hand salad. It worked. She was very okay with it.
Okay. Do you feel this way about all salads? Green salads? Macaroni salad?
I'm not sharing macaroni salad. No way. No way. Give me my own serving. I'm not doing it. I kind of am not into sharing anything, actually.
I'm noticing. I would just rather have my own serving of it. You really hate those videos of the people who just throw all their food on the table?
I think that's awful. And people are like, look how fun. I covered the table in tinfoil and now we're just serving all the food in the middle of the table and you just eat it with your hands. It's gross. It's not fun.
Look how fun. It's not fun. It's disgusting. Yuck.
That is correct. A yuck. I'm not into it.
Okay. You're not into sharing any type of food? The more I think about it, the more I'm like, unless I can break a piece off and give you your own piece. I'm not about, here, take a bite. I'm not about that.
I'm not about, here, have a drink of my soda. No. Nope.
Not about it right now. The more I ponder, the further away from letting it happen, I get. But we've done that before. What? You've shared your soda with me before. Did I know it? Yes. I feel like you snuck a drink.
No, you've offered it up to me before. But if we're using like, it'll be like a water and you'll be like, I'm so thirsty. I need a water and I'll be like fine. But I do like, if there's a sport cap, I don't open it. I unscrew the lid. So I'll be like, use the sport cap. All right. Not into it.
If there's a straw, pop open the lid and drink from the side of the cup. You know, I guess, I guess so. I think it's gotten worse for you as you've gotten older because you used to share. You didn't use to mine, not sharing.
Now you're just cranky about sharing. I guess. Unless I can break off a piece here. Try this cookie snap here. Have a piece. But don't just take a bite of the cookie. But I've done that before. You can have a bite of burrito.
That's weird. I don't mind. I, you can have a bite of my burrito.
I don't care. Just don't, don't share my soup. That's why I draw the line or cereal. Cereal was top of the list because there's milk cereal and soup.
Is it because the milk might dribble down the beard and back into the bowl? Yes. Is that why? Yep.
Got it. One thing I did not get around to this Christmas was putting together my neighbor gifts. And there are people who do some really incredible things for their neighbors. I don't. I try to do something nice for the neighbors, but it's usually like, I think last year I did a box of ding dongs.
Right. And I said, ho, ho, ho from your neighbors, the ding dongs. Is that our name?
Is that, was that the joke? Like we're just a couple of ding dongs next door. I get it. Yeah.
Okay. But like we have neighbors who make us home bake treats every year. That's right. Super delicious.
Super appreciated. I'm not, I'm not that person. I appreciate those people who can bake a bunch of goods, but I'm not that person. But I didn't even go to the store and get a box of goods this year. That's how bad I am this year at Christmas. Sorry neighbors.
This is my formal. Look, I'm telling you, I'm worried about the one neighbors. They've been awfully quiet. They're out of town. They gotta be out of town. Yeah, duh. They gotta be.
Duh, duh. Their lights are off. They haven't shuffled. They're out of town. I know.
It's fine. People go out of town this time of year. But I just, they, they didn't leave a note. They don't usually. But they're usually not gone this long. It's, I think they're going to be okay, Josh. I just, until I see them again, I'm going to be worried.
I bet you'll see them as early as the end of this week. We'll see. Betcha. I betcha. I hope they're okay.
Do you think I should do neighbor gifts? Still? Yeah. Yeah. Are you still worried about it? Well, I was thinking about it. It's not.
Here's the thing. I don't think any of our neighbors are expecting anything. I don't think they've missed my box of ding-dongs this year.
No, but you could do a happy new year from your neighbor. Hey. Who does that?
Nobody. That's right. We're unique. See? Yeah. It isn't that we forgot. Right. It's like we planned on doing a new year gift. Here's the thing. I didn't forget Christmas presents. I just ran out of time to put them all together. That's all.
I never forgot. I know you printed the thing, but did you buy the stuff? Yes. Oh. Well, then you have no excuse.
No, I know. I just ran out of time, motivation, and energy. That's it. I was just exhausted. I don't know what the stuff even was. I just know you printed things and then you said, that's for neighbor gifts. Like, as in, don't throw that away.
Right. And I went, okay. And I was going to make it all pretty and cute. And I just didn't. Didn't. And here's the thing. I only do four.
There's only four neighbors that I deliver gifts to. Right. I couldn't even muster up the energy to do that.
How totally lame. Well, the one neighbor's been gone. It'd be sitting on the porch. Fair, fair point. I can't be sure the others aren't gone either. True story.
Because you know what? I've been, I've been hibernating hibernating for sure. The last five days I've just been inside my house going like, I don't know what's going on outside.
I can't even be bothered to look. I know it was windy. Yes. I know it snowed. That's why, that's why I couldn't deliver any gifts because it was windy.
They would have blown away. See. It's the weather's fault.
That's right. It's not, it's not your lack of productivity. No, it's the weather. Never my lack of productivity.
That's never the cause. You have the supplies. You just the wind. Uh huh. It's the wind. Uh huh. Yeah.
So when anybody asks, what do you say? It was the wind's fault. There you go. Perfect. See? Who's going to ask though? No one. No one. Because they're nice neighbors.
That's right. Well, I mean, no one in the whole wide world is going to go, did you do your neighbor gifts? You know the wind. And then they will look very confused and you go, I couldn't. It was too windy. Blow away.
See? Perfect. I like it. I like your response to that problem.
Good. Sorry neighbors. The wind's fault. It was the wind. Tell me about this project that you were working on with Beck, our son.
The radio, the stereo, the thing that worked really well and then didn't all of a sudden. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah.
That, that, that's what it is. No, for, for Christmas, he got a new head unit for his car. So new radio for the dash, which he did something he's been wanting.
He's wanted some, you know, a bit of an upgrade there. So that was kind of cool. We're able to make that happen. And so then it was like, when can we install it?
And when are we going to make this happen? And so, you know, it gets dark at like four. So we're out there in the afternoon with headlamps on, installing a radio into his car, which, you know, that was, that was fun. We got that done and it only took a few hours and a little bit of wiring. Yeah, a lot of wiring. If you've never wired a radio into a car, I never have. There's a whole bunch of wires, a whole bunch. Every speaker in the car has two wires, a positive and a negative.
Correct. How many speakers are in your car? I would say four, five, six.
If you think about your car, you probably have, there's one in every door. So that's four. Yes. Uh-huh.
And then sometimes you have tweeters that are up by the, by the mirrors. So those would be another couple. Okay.
Anyway, the point is there's a lot. So every, every speaker in the car has two wires. So that's automatically going to get you a minimum of eight wires that have to be connected for four speakers. And then you have a power and then you have to connect it to the ignition switch and you have to connect it to a ground and you have to connect, there's a lot of wires in here. And if you have steering wheel controls, you have to connect all that harness. There's a lot of stuff you got to deal with.
Okay. So it's, it's not for the like faint of heart. Because you're going to be in there for a while in an uncomfortable seat. It's not something you can do it like a workbench.
You've got to be in the car wiring it to the car. It's a pain. So get that done. And then I've had some old stereo equipment from when I was in my 20s. That I thought, you know, it's sitting around, let's, let's wire it up in his car. He's got this new head unit. Let's put in a subwoofer and let's make this thing thump down the road a little bit. I've got the gear.
Okay. So I pulled the gear out, started doing some of the pre wiring, rebuilt all the wiring in the box to make sure it was good. Took it out to the car. We ran the power wire.
We ran the cables to hook it up. We've got all the stuff under the carpet down here. And then we put it down the trim like really nice, right? Back to the back of the car. We get everything kind of wired up. And then I go to connect the power, which is sort of like the last big step is to connect the power to the amplifier.
And that goes pop and smoke comes out. And that's not good. Now this thing's old.
It's, you know, I've, it's decent old. But when you let the smoke out of electronics, they quit working because if you know anything about electronics, I don't then, you know, they run on magic smoke. And if you let the magic smoke out, they don't work anymore. So you can't let the magic smoke out.
What do you do? I have no idea. Everything that I researched was like it could, it could have been reversed polarity, which it wasn't. I had, I had a fuse in place.
I don't know why the fuse didn't blow instead of the amp. It could just be old. It could just be old. It could just be old, old capacitors, old stuff in there. It could be old. I bet that's what it is. And, and it, that's possible.
But I'm bummed out about it. And so it would have been very cool to have him bumping down the road using the old subwoofer that you used to have. The subwoofers are fine.
Like that's all good. So what's broken? It's just the amp.
So we've got to replace the amp. But I'm nervous about it because why did it pop? It makes no sense to me.
And I don't know. And I don't want to go spend money on a new one and have it pop again. I know. So I'm, I'm nervous about it. And I'm also bummed out at the same time. I can't figure out why it, I can't figure out how that happened.
It just, it doesn't make sense. I had good ground. The second I applied power to it, pop smoke.
And I don't, I don't care for that. Something shorted in there. And I don't know what it was.
Honestly, it could just be old. How many cars has that amp been in? Three or so.
Thing around a million times. So it could just have just been its time. I know, but it's sad. It is sad. Cause that would have been super cool to have your son. Cause I remember early days of you and I dating.
I always liked it when you drove because I had a good sound system in the car. Yes. Yes.
It was awesome. I know. So we'll work on it. We've got all the wiring run. So that's good. And we've disconnected, you know, the, the positive from the, the battery terminal.
So he doesn't just have like an exposed power wire in there. Oh good. I was worried about that. Well, that's, that's a fire hazard.
No way. So that's really important that you don't just run around with power lines running to the back of your car for no reason. That's, that's not a good idea. So, you know, and that's the weirdest part is like, I've done this thing so many times. Like, I know what I'm doing. I've hooked it up in how many cars? Like I've done this. Yeah. Like I know it's not like I'm, I can don't know what I'm doing.
That's the part that really bugs me is that everything was hooked up properly and then it popped. I just don't know. Just sold. Just time for a new one. Yeah. I hope so. I hope it's that and not that like something, I missed a step or something because I'd feel foolish. But I know everything was done properly.
I can't figure it out. It really pumped you out. Yeah. I left it sitting on the kitchen table for a while. Now I put it away in the garage so I can think about it more. I liked eating dinner next to it. That was fun.
Yeah. Well, it's what happens sometimes. It only smells a little bit. It did stink up his car though.
It was, it was pretty gnarly for a minute, but it's all good. You'll figure it out. You'll get there. It's just old.
Just get a new one. I was pretty impressed. I walked out there.
You guys were surrounded by wires and you knew where to hook it all and where it all went. I was impressed. Color me impressed. Look at you. I was.
Oh. If you're at the store and you can only pick one ice cream flavor for a group of people, so a mass of pill ice cream. What flavor would you pick? I know the flavor I wouldn't pick. Which is?
Well, you picked Rocky Road. I feel like that's a mass of pill ice cream. It's fine, but it's got like almonds in it. Yeah, delicious. And that's, I know to some people, some people are allergic. Some people don't like nuts. Okay. So it's not a mass appeal option.
All right. Even if it's a peanut one, you're still, you're in muddy territory. You got to go way more basic if you're going to be mass appeal. And unfortunately, that might be bland. You might say, but I don't want vanilla or chocolate.
I want something special. Then you don't shop for mass appeal ice cream. You know what you do instead is you go to the store and you say, Hey, everybody, we want to have a little ice cream get together over the Christmas break. How about we all pick out a pint?
That's how you make everybody happy. I understand that, but I had to make a snap decision because I was the only one at the store. You didn't have to. You, you decided on the, I want ice cream idea. And then you picked an ice cream flavor because you felt like you had to. I felt like I wanted to.
Yeah. And I thought about getting four pints, but I thought that's too much ice cream. We don't need that much ice cream laying around the house. So instead you got the one rocky road flavor.
Yeah. So, so, you know, if I was picking, look, your, your safe bets are going to be four flavors. They're, I would say five. They're five safe bets.
Let me see if I can guess. Chocolate, vanilla, cookie dough. Um, that's it. Cookies and cream and Neapolitan. Okay.
Those are the five because then you're getting, yeah, it's a vanilla chocolate, strawberry. I know what it is. Yeah. You don't have to have all three. You can go, Hey, just give me a pink scoop out of a Neapolitan bin. You see. Those are your five mass uphill flavors. Okay. Or you go completely bonkers and you go sherbert and then people go, what?
Why did you buy sherbert? Okay. I'll have a scoop. Now this started because you wanted to get fancy ice cream for Christmas. I wanted to get gelato.
You wanted everybody to get gelato. Yeah. That didn't happen.
No. And you said you drove past and the place was packed. I went inside. And you said, forget about it. It was so busy.
Yeah. That I said, I can't, I can't even, I couldn't even. Because apparently everybody else had your gelato idea. Or they were just there getting lunch.
I couldn't even get to anybody to talk to them about gelato. And I had other places to be. So I said, okay, I have to go to the grocery store. I'll just pick up some ice cream there. Erin was with me and she said, let's all just get our own pint. And I said, what a great idea. We don't need that much ice cream sitting around.
We just don't. How many, how much ice cream did you buy? About one gallon. One quart. Yeah. How many pints are in one court?
That's right. Four. So how many courts, how many pints would you have bought? Four. Same amount of ice cream.
Four different flavors. Everyone would have been quite pleased. But what do I know? But I also, in retrospect, that would have been the better idea. For sure.
But I also don't know if I would have been able to pick your flavor. Okay, great. Let's talk about that.
Yeah, let's, please. Which brand? I don't know. I can't remember what brand it was. Listen, we have the four of us like Rocky Road.
So that was a, that was a massive pill. I think half of us, two of the four have had ice cream. Yeah. I think one of us has forgotten there is even ice cream. I don't think he wants it. I, because it has almonds in it. I think he likes Rocky Road. He's eating Rocky Road. Regular Rocky Road, not this Rocky Road. This Rocky Road's got almonds in it. It's a deterrent.
I'm telling you, it's not mass appeal. That's like ordering a supreme pizza. What are you doing?
You can't do that. I like supreme pizza. I know you do. I never get the ice cream I want. To be fair, that's not even the ice cream I would have chosen.
I know. I picked it because I thought everyone would like it. What were you going to choose? Birch almond fudge. Not that.
I know. Nobody would ever have liked the ice cream that I would have picked up. But do they have that in a pint? I don't know.
Can't remember. That would have been a perfect pint for you. It would have been. And then I would have been so happy. Now no one is happy.
And if mom's not happy, no one's happy. I think you're just fine because you got that Rocky Road you like. You've had a couple bowls.
I've had one bowl. Okay. You know who likes it a lot? The girl. Yeah.
The girl one in our family. Great. I think she was just like, yo, let's get this one. Everyone likes this one. I think you're right.
So she could have the whole court to herself. You're exactly right. We don't need that much ice cream laying around.
It's the same amount. Okay. Next year I'll do better.
No, you don't have to wait. You can do better now. We don't need that much ice cream. I don't want to get that much ice cream. Oh, well, you let me know when that court's gone. So I can get a court that I like.
Why can't you just get a court now? Because we don't need that much ice cream laying around. Would you rather this or that? Would you rather relive last year or fast forward to next summer? Oh, can we jump ahead? Is that something we can do? Is that what you want to do? Is that your pick?
I mean, I don't want to relive last year. That's kind of where I'm at. I'd like to just jump ahead.
I would like to also jump ahead. Let's go get some warm weather, some camp and some biking, some hiking, some backpacking. Swimming. I got plans, man. Okay, let's skip ahead. Let's move past all this cold weather. I got fishing to do.
Right. I got big fishing plans in 26. What are your big fishing plans? Backpacking. I got a big backpacking trip we're putting together.
Do you? Yeah, we're doing a 50. Oh, yeah. I knew about this. Yeah.
So I got that. I got to get shape. I got to start going to work out like now. I shouldn't even be here.
I should be working out right now. And you were just talking about getting more ice cream. It's going to take me eight months to get ready for this thing that's in eight months. It's okay.
You'll get there, buddy. So I guess maybe you don't want to fast forward. Unless I set my good intention now and I go, here's the plan. And then I jump ahead and go, hey, I followed through. You think that's how it goes? Give it a shot.
That's what I'm saying. If I jump ahead and find out that I didn't work out, that's going to be sad. That is going to be, you're going to be so disappointed in yourself.
I really got to, I'm going to be out in the woods for a week, hiking for 50 miles. That's not for a long time. Eight months. It's not that long. It's not that long. I got to get working out. So if I jump ahead and I have worked out, cool, cool, cool.
It sounds like relive is sort of a passenger to the time again. And I don't necessarily want to be that. No. So. Okay. We're both fast forwarding. Sounds good.
Here we go. Would you rather this or that? Top Christmas present I received was a towel warmer. You would say that was the top? One of. What? Okay. They're all great. Yeah.
But that one is top notch. All right. So we talked about this before, uh, leading into Christmas. And I mean, this was several months ago that you were like, I want one of these.
And I second guessed myself. I was like, no, it's not necessary. I don't need it. Sure. And I still, it is not necessary.
Okay. It's a luxury. I get it for sure. Tell me about it. It's nice.
It's a nice luxury. You took a bath. Oh, I've taken many. No, I know you have in your life. No, no, no, I mean, during this holiday break, I've used that towel warmer quite a few times.
Have you? Yeah. And what I know is that 15 minutes, because you can set the time limit on it.
Sure. 15 minutes is not long enough to get it warm enough. How warm do you want it? Warm. You want like a heated blanket hot.
Not like stifling, but yes, 30 minutes is probably ideal. Here's the thing I think is true. I think your bathwater is too hot. I know this to be true. I know your bathwater is too hot. You don't know.
I do. And that is why your towel doesn't feel warm after 15 minutes. It's because your bathwater is too hot. You might be right. Yeah. No, I know. 100%. 100%. Your bathwater is way too hot because you bathe in lava.
Yeah. And then you get out and go, why is this towel so cold? You keep the door shut.
You don't run the fan because you don't like it to be cold in the air when you get out of the tub. Yeah. You are crazy.
No, no, no. That's way too hot. I just like being warm. That's not warm. That's too hot. Point is, thanks for the towel warmer.
Yeah, you're welcome. I like it a lot. It's delightful. Yeah. It's pretty nice to step out of a hot towel and then be like, oh, hot, hot, hot air.
Step out of a hot water bath into hot air and then wrap yourself with a hot towel. Ooh la la. Glad you like it. It's great. Thanks.
Hey, that's going to do a Friday show. We made it. We made it.
The ultimate test is going to be next week when it's like the full five days. I know. I know. That's going to be the hard one. It's going to be very tough. But we made it through today. Here we go.
Let's call that one victory. If you're back at work today, good luck to you. Yeah.
If you're back all week, big, big good luck to you. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. All right. We'll be back tomorrow.
Have a good one. We'll see you then. Goodbye. Bye.
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