Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 Episode summary introduction: 🎉 We did it! 400+ episodes of Wake Up Classy 97 as a podcast! 🎉 Josh & Chantel kick off the show celebrating a major milestone and immediately spiral into biodegradable confetti, mystery perfume called “Grenade,” and whether 20-year-old marriage vows are legally binding without witnesses. With Valentine’s Week underway, they break down the only acceptable date night options, the official rules of grocery shopping vs. cooking dinner, relive the awkward glory days of school dances, plus, Sweetheart Sleepovers for shelter dogs, Olympic medal updates, drive-thru car shape confusion, why “sun’s out, guns out” may never be said in public again, and much more! Here's to 400 more episodes of the show! Timestamps: (0:00) - Bonus: 400 episodes! (3:50) - Promise day (8:37) - Take out & go (12:24) - Good News (14:04) - Eating on the couch (20:22) - My good side (25:32) - Cooking rules (31:11) - Sedan, coupe, or compact (34:36) - Slow dance (40:53) - Suns out, guns out (44:36) - Bed time for everyone (49:20) - Team USA update (53:58) - Birthday plans (1:01:49) - Would You Rather (1:03:59) - Adam Sandler award Visit our website: https://riverbendmediagroup.com/info-page/wakeupclassy97/ Email the show - wakeupclassy97@gmail.com Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Classy97KLCE?sub_confirmation=1 Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@classy97klce Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Classy97klce Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/classy97klce/ Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/classy97klce.bsky.social Follow us on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@classy97klce Follow us on X/Twitter: https://x.com/Classy97klce Full show transcript: Josh. Big exciting news. We will talk about it at the very end of the show. But because we record this part of the podcast after we finish the show and we didn't really do any big to do about it, I think we should kick off today's show by sort of kind of officially announcing that we have surpassed 400 episodes of the show as a podcast. Congratulations to you. And to you. You were talking about bringing in a confetti thing. Yeah. And I said that's a mess to clean up. No, but here's the thing, because the confetti disintegrates when it gets. It's biodegradable. Yeah. Are you sure? It says it is. We took that to a campsite one. I know. And made a real big mess. I know. And we were cleaning up the confetti piece by piece by piece for a while. But it was dry because it was I'm looking at the snow outside and I'm like, man, it would have been perfect. You think it would have dissolved. I don't know if it does. I think it probably does. We could have tried it. Nonetheless, celebration. Hey. It's a big accomplishment. Over 400 episodes recorded as a podcast. Now we've done more than 400 shows because you've been a part of this show for well over three years. Yes. And quick math says that's a lot of shows. That's a lot of shows. Three years worth of shows were probably at like a thousand shows. We have been talking about nonsense for a long time. Yeah. But hopefully fun. Hopefully we find it. And they keep paying us to do it. I know. And there are fools. There are five people who listen. Thank you. There are more than five. Thank you to the listeners. There are substantially more than five. So thanks everyone. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you to everybody who's checked out the show, stuck around, become a fan. If you want to reach out to the show, maybe you want to celebrate, you want to pass along some words of encouragement or something. Or you can email or advice and go, Hey, maybe quiet down a little bit. That's right. Let us know. Wake up Classy 97 at gmail.com. You can email the show. And here's to 400 more. Isn't that something? Yeah. What are you doing? I don't know about it. You're putting on perfume right now. As we're celebrating, you're like, I need perfume for this moment. Yeah. Okay. That's how I celebrate. That's about out. No way, dude. Yeah, tons. No. Okay. What kind is that? I don't know. What's it say? I don't know. Why are you so shy about it? Why are we talking about this? Because it's what's happening. Let me see it. Let me see. No, it's gone. Why are you all weirded out? Let's start the show now. Can we please turn it red? Why are you embarrassed? It's a weird thing to be embarrassed about. I'm not starting the show yet. Tell me about it. It's just perfume. Yes. What is the deal? What kind is it? I don't know, Josh. Well, now you have to get it out again. It's called grenade grenade. Whoa. That's hard core. Does it smell like grenades? I don't know. I don't know why this matters. Stop. We've been talking about nonsense for over 400 episodes. Thanks for hanging out with us. Here's today's show. Well, hey there. Hi. Good morning. Good morning. How's stuff? Stuff is good. Okay, well, it's Valentine's week that kicked off on Saturday. Valentine's Day itself is about what three days away. Yes. Today's promise day. Oh, and that is part of the Valentine's week, where it's all about making meaningful commitments to loved ones. Okay. Making promises. What's your commitment to me? Oh, I've already, I had a whole page of them 20 some odd years ago that I read off. Yeah. You still have a copy of that somewhere? Yeah, I think so. Oh, good. Where? Where is it? Yeah, I don't know. You used to have like a box of stuff that had like your bouquet in it and stuff. I'd imagine it was probably in that. But I haven't seen it in 20 something years. Yeah, I think it's in the shed. In your keep'sake tote? Yeah, we have a combined one now. Do we? I don't know. I don't know either. I gotta go find that. I gotta figure out, I gotta remember what you promised me. Remember what I promised? And hold you to it. Be like, hey. You don't think I fulfilled what I promised 20 something years ago? I bet I have. I bet I have. We're gonna take a gander. No, it's so complicated to go look in the shed. Is it? Yeah. I know right where the totes are. They're just not super convenient to get to. Yeah, it's not super accessible. Right. But I think that's where they are. I feel like they should be in a safer space. Where? I don't know. Where is a safer space than tucked away in a shed in a sealed tote? I don't know. And is that a document? Okay, so if we had like a fire safe for some photos, maybe some important documents, is that an important document you'd want to put in there? Yeah, something I would want to save. Yeah. Like the marriage license, yeah. Well, that's important. Yeah, that's just a copy of vows just as important. Yeah. It's a promise you made. Yeah. I gotta remember what you promised. A thing or two. You don't think? Do you remember what I promised? No. I promised some things. I don't either. Roll tape. There's video of it. No, there's not. We didn't save. Oh, that's right. We saved those for later. We just did the normal Sarah. That's right. You didn't read them in front of people. That's right. That means they're non binding. There were no witnesses. Now it becomes a he said, he said, she said thing. No, there's words. They're written. Doesn't mean anything. Doesn't mean that I didn't sign it. It's not a contract. You did to sign it. Did I? I don't know. Why would I sign it? I don't know. You sign everything. Great. I gotta quit doing that. I'm making promises. My body can't keep or whatever. Writing checks my, what is it? Body can't cash. Yeah, something. Is that how it goes? I don't know. Something like that. Like I'm trying to take risks that I can't handle is what it means. Okay. Yeah. Well, I guess you did that 20 years ago. You're writing checks your mouth can't cash. Stupid. Something like that. It's like when people are saying stuff where you go, there's no way that's real or there's, you didn't do that. You're telling tales or you're saying like, yeah, dude, I could totally bungee jump off that cliff. And you know, you're writing checks your mouth and body can't cash. Your mouth and body. Yeah. If you're talking about jumping off cliffs. I don't talk about jumping off cliffs. Right. Cause you understand the, the worth of your bank. Yeah. I know it's in that account. Yeah. You're like, no way. There's none enough to cash that check. Yeah. I can't, I can't get an overdraft. That check will bounce. All right. Well, hey, hey, make a promise today. I guess it's, it's part of Valentine's week. I'm going to make a note. I'm going to go find our vows. Okay. I was going to do this when we had our anniversary and I didn't. Yeah. Well, that's coming up again. Every year. Every year. So, uh, here are some ideas for Valentine's Day plans since it's right around the corner. Great. And we typically don't celebrate because I don't know, we're old and we just said, I don't need a special day to say I love you. But then is this a test? You were making a, it's a test phase. Like it'd be nice maybe to have a Valentine's Day date. Like that's kind of what the face was when I looked up at you just then. I don't necessarily need a Valentine's Day, but a normal day would be nice. What's a normal day? Like, you know, you said we don't need a special day to say I love you. So a normal time would be fine. I think we stopped doing Valentine's Day really early in our relationship because we tried to go out to eat and know where was taking reservations. And then we finally got to the restaurant and there was so many people. It was insane. Yeah. I think you're right. We went never again. No, we're not doing this. But that doesn't mean you couldn't have a cozy night in with takeout. That sounds great. You know what we could do. I know what we could do. What? I have an idea. Okay. We're gonna, because Emery has a dance. Right. She's going to be gone. Yeah. And she doesn't like the place that we like to eat. We're going to order in from that place. Cozy night in, take out to go. Good. Good. There's also a classic dinner and movie date, which we did early on. That's another option. A fancy date night is an option where you get dressed up and you go to a fancy dinner. No. No. No, I don't want to do that. Okay. A staycation, a romantic hotel stay. No. Here's what I want to do. I want to put on my pajamas in order to take out to go. Take out to go. An activity based date where you go do something active. Oh, what kind of activity? Oh, it could be anything. It could be a rock climbing or a swimming or a snowshoe hike on the outside. No. No. No. I don't know. Pajamas and fried dumplings. Take out to go. All right. Or nothing at all. These are the options. Do nothing at all? There are no other options, but these six options. And you're choosing a cozy night with take out to go. Yeah. Pajamas and take out to go. T-A-K-A. Wait. It doesn't mean that. T-A-K-E-O-U-T. You can take it out to go. Wow. You see? Yes, chapel I do see. My pipes aren't warmed up this morning. Hang on. No. Not waiting for that. So of the six options, you choose a cozy night with take out. Yes. In pajamas. Excellent. So our son's around. No, probably need to eat. Yeah. So there's that. Yeah. I mean, but at least he likes the place. He does like that place. And he'll take it to go in his room. Hey, take out to go. T-A-K-E-O-U-T. Nice. Thank you. Have they warmed up yet? No. All right. All right. Here's some good news for you. There's a Madison County animal shelter in Kentucky. There's a Madison County, Kentucky, as well as one in Idaho. But this one's in Kentucky and they're inviting people in the community to host a shelter dog for Valentine's Day from the 13th through the 17th. The event is called Sweetheart Sleepovers. It's a short-term fostering program that allows the dogs to get much needed break from the shelter environment that can be loud and stressful and let their true personality shine. And at the same time, it allows people a low pressure opportunity to get some cozy canine time. That's so nice. No obligation to commit to a long-term adoption, but of course, there's always the possibility to make things official and provide a forever home if the puppy is a love connection. That's what they say on the site. Sweetheart Sleepovers. They're calling it. I think that is nice. That's adorable. Yeah. I really like when foster programs do this kind of stuff. I know these happen from shelters around this area as well. I think that's really great. You get a chance to see how it would be to have an animal for a few days and go, is this a fit for the family or not? Right. And then you go, okay, yeah, we're good. We got our taste of it and we know it's not for us right now. And that's a good idea. We should have done that with our dog. Oh, you think? Yeah. Yeah. No, she's great. We love our dog. That is good news. When you were a kid, did you ever get to eat dinner at the couch? Oh, only occasionally. Occasionally, right? Yeah. Like there's a special treat when your mom was like, I mean, I'm trying to think. Break out the TV trays. Well, yeah, I'm trying to think about like our houses as I was growing up. And, you know, the ones we lived in the longest amount of time. And both of them were near the living room, but you couldn't necessarily see the TV. But watching TV while eating, I don't think that was necessarily a thing. It wasn't in my house. Right. When I grew up, it was like, nope, TV off. Yeah, we're eating dinner. Eating dinner at the table. Yeah. And then you had to eat everything before you could leave. You had to eat all your vegetables before you could leave. Were you a, can I be excused house? No. Neither was I. But you had to eat all of your food. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was standard. And then you kind of waited for everybody else to be done a little bit. I feel like we all finished around the same time. There was always fights about my brother not eating his vegetables. I liked vegetables. Yeah. So I was always like, look at Chantel. Yeah. Oh, yeah. This is where resentment nests. Oh, Chantel ate all the vegetables. But on the exciting days, on the special days, it was like, get the TV trays. We're eating dinner in front of the TV. Interesting. Yeah, I don't know that that happened a ton. I'm really trying to like rack my brain about it. But there was, I mean, we had like, sofa love seat thing. It was not like there was like a lot of places to sit, even if everybody wanted to go sit in the living room. Okay. Interesting. You know. We just the other day, I had made dinner and you were doing something with your truck. And so you had all your tools on the table. I sure did. So when dinner was done, I said, just find a place, get in where you fit in. That's what I told Emory. Well, I walked in and you guys were sitting in the living room eating soup. Yeah. She just said, just let's go eat it on the couch. And I went, it's a great idea. Yeah. Somewhere else to sit. Get in where you fit in. Right. She did. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I don't stress about that stuff. I think, you know, I'm trying to even think if I would have had to have, because if I was watching, you know, Saved by the Bell and stuff after school, Oh yeah. Then I certainly would have had cereal or something not in the kitchen. Was your mom home? No. I know. Same. Getting away with stuff. No rules. I'm not in the dining room. Yeah. Very Kevin McAllister moment. Yeah. Where you're like, I'm eating ice cream for dinner. Look at me eating toast on the couch. Yeah. Crumbs everywhere. Yeah. Or in my room, I probably would eat in my room. I don't know. I think I ate in my room a lot. I was always in my room. Yeah. It's the best place to be. Or outside. What? Outside. Yes. I was outside. What are you saying? Not saying anything. You went outside. Yeah. Yeah. I went outside. Sometimes. All the time. I rode my bike all the time. You can't eat cereal and ride your bike? Those two don't go together. What are you talking about? Now there's an invention. The picnic table? The picnic table? No. What's the invention? Something that lets me eat cereal while I'm riding my bike. Hey, but let's talk about that for a minute. The picnic table. What about it? What an invention. Somebody was like, people want to eat outside. How do we get a table outside? What? Let's make a picnic table. That's a good invention. What are you doing? I'm finding out who invented the picnic table. Because it's just a table. Yeah, but a special one. Charles H. Nielsen is credited with patenting the first often-sided modern collapsible picnic table with attached seating in 1903. It was inspired by an 18th century table design called the sawbuck. Okay. Early rudimentary versions existed before this 1903 design, but it made it practical for travelers to transport. So the picnic table itself has always been. Not always. Yes. But Charles H. Nielsen invented the portable one. Yeah, because when you went to a camping spot, they didn't have tables there. That's right. Someone has created an illustrated history of the picnic table. I'm going to watch that. Look, I'm looking at like paintings. Dude, all they had was let's bring a table outside to sit out while we eat. It's an outside table. Whoever invented the table invented the picnic table. No. Yes. If you were taking inside tables outside, that's not a picnic table. That's an inside table that you just carry outside. Dude. The picnic table is a special breed. No, listen to me. Table inside dining table. Table outside picnic table. It's not just inside table outside. It's now a picnic table. Throw tablecloth on it. Ba-da-bing picnic table. It's just a table. Ridiculous. You couldn't see the TV from outside though. All right. Nope. Unless you were near the window and then you could poke your head in and go, yep, they were on commercial. Why are you watching TV if you're outside having a picnic? What are you doing? When you're taking pictures, do you have a preference when you stand next to people? Do you like to be on the right side of them or the left side or does it not matter? I have zero preference. I used to be. It had to be on this like I had to have. Me on your right. On my right side. Right. I had to stand on to your right. To my right. Yeah. And it wasn't just you. It was everybody. No, I know. It's because I had a thing with my tooth and I didn't like my tooth. You're worried about it. But now you don't have a thing with your tooth and everything's fine. So I can go wherever I want. The other day, I was holding a thing with my tooth and I was like, oh, I'm going to go holding your hand and I was holding your left hand with my right hand and you were all confused. Your body was like, why am I on the wrong side of everything? Yeah, I feel like you're just always on my right side. I don't like it when you're on my left side. That feels weird. You're on my, you should be on my right side. I wasn't though. I know and it was weird. I like to be on the side. I like to have people on my right side when taking pictures because my hair swoops to the left. So then you get more of this swoopy angle if I'm on, if the people are my right. Does that make sense? No, I'm bald and I wear a hat. But am I saying? I understand what you're saying. You think you're able to hide a little bit behind your swoopy bang. Well, yeah, because I think I have a large forehead. You don't. You have a tiny head. You have tiny hands. You can't count it with your hand. Your hand is small too. Oh no. It's proportionate to your face. Oh no. Oh no, what? Let me, let me look. Look at what? How do you even measure your forehead? Mine goes all the way to the back of my head. So whatever you're trying to say is just rude. Okay, look at this part. What about it? That's your head. From eyebrow to top of hairline. It's about five fingers. That's four. No, but look, if I go here, there's room for another finger there. That's a five finger forehead. That's why. Oh boy. You bring down the hair a little bit. Somebody's on this side and then the swoopy bang is in the photo. So it looks like I've got a smaller forehead. This is a strange thing to worry about. I did see a thing where a guy took a bunch of pictures of like him and some friends and one friend, he extended the forehead just a little bit. Oh no. Just enough that that person was like, why does my head look so weird? My God, is that what I, but he had done it in like a handful of photos. Oh, that's so mean. And so the guy really thought he had like a jug head. You don't like to take pictures without your hat. Unless I've, there's an, there's an unless. And if I have recently shaved my head within two to three days, it'll be photo ready. Okay. What if it's been four days? The hair's too long. And it looks like not good. So if I have a big event coming up, I like, I like two days. That's when I'm like, yeah, my head looks good. Okay. So I will like, okay, I got a thing where I'm not going to wear a hat two days from now. I'm shaving my head today. Because sometimes I'll, I'll break out the camera. And I'll go, where's the hat? Spontaneously. And you're like, I wait, wait, wait. And then the moment's gone because you can't find your hat. Picture ruined because the moment's over. Picture not taken because the moment's over. Picture would have been ruined by hat less head. No. Moment was sweet. Listen up forehead. You can't say, you can't say that you don't like. Don't call me, don't call me that. Don't call you forehead. Because you were concerned about that. That's all. Do you have a side of you that you'd like more? Outside. Of yourself? Yeah. No one wants to see a picture of the inside. So yeah, outside. Okay. I don't, I don't have like a left, right thing. Okay. No. All right. I probably should, but. No, I'm looking at your face right now. And both sides of you, like similar. Nice. That's a good thing. That's a really good thing. Do you ever go grocery shopping and then you spend $300 on groceries and then you get it all home? And you go, yeah, I'm not cooking. Let's order some pizza. You can't go grocery shopping and cook dinner on the same day. You can't. That's a fact. Unless it's like a weekend and you do your grocery shopping in the morning. Okay. And then you have time and the evening to cook. That's the only exception. Yeah. If you go grocery shopping afternoon, early evening, forget about it. Right. You can't do both. You can't. It's against the rules. No, I understand. I get it. You could go to the grocery store, spend your money, have the car full of groceries and hit a drive-thru on the way home. You just can't also cook. I get it. Okay. Good. I'm glad we're on the same page. Yeah. And then sometimes you go, I got a fridge full of food I need to use. I just can't be bothered. Yeah, I got to defrost it. Somebody has to cut the chicken. Yeah. How many items on the menu do we still have stuff and recipes for? Is there two? Two. I think there's two. We got to cook some food. I know. I know. Send me the recipes. I'll cook. Okay. I don't have them. You never ask for them. Send me the recipes. Because I get home earlier. I can start cooking. Yeah, I know. Okay. I'll send you the recipes. Because here's the other part. I know. If you work all day, you can't come home and cook. No. No. You can't. You can't do it. No one can. It's too much. Right. If you work all day, you just on your way home hit a drive-through. Yeah. That's how it works. You can't. I just know especially grocery shopping and dinner cooking are not happening on the same day. Forget about it. How many hours between grocery shopping and cooking do you need for it to be justifiably okay? It depends. Okay. Are you going to one grocery store? Let's say it's the big trip where you got to go to the bulk store and the grocery store. That day. That day where you have to deal with people at multiple stores. I'm already done. I know. But how many hours? Because if you went there at 10 o'clock in the morning, by the time you got to dinner time, you'd probably be okay. On a Saturday? Yeah. No. No. What? I don't. You can't go to those big box stores on a Saturday. I'm just saying. I understand. Are you crazy? Do you hate yourself? No. Listen to me. I'm just saying. Let's say that's what you did. Okay. And so you did it. You went in 10 a.m. You were done before noon with both stores. You're at home. You put stuff away before you go to, you grabbed a lunch on your way back. You did a drive-through. And you said, I'm not cooking a lunch. So we grabbed a sandwich or something. Okay. And we went home. We put away the groceries. We had our lunch. And then how many hours later is it like, okay, I got to cook. All right. I feel like that's fine. Yeah. I think that's fine. If you're shopping in the morning. Yeah. Getting it done early. Done before noon. Yeah. Then you cook and dinner is acceptable. Okay. Say you get out of work a little early on a Friday, three o'clock. You're like, hey, I got to run and get some stuff for dinner tonight. It's three o'clock in the afternoon. And you only have to go to the one grocery store. Just to get. And you're just getting, you're getting all the groceries for the week on your Friday afternoon. Because that's a thing. No, I don't do that. I know. Just saying. It's three o'clock. You spend an hour doing the grocery shopping. You get home. It's put away by 4.30. Okay. You got to cook dinner at six. That's fine. An hour and a half? Yeah. I'll do that too. I'm not going to be happy about it. Right. But I'll do it. So somewhere between an hour and a half and six hours is the right answer. Yeah. An hour and a half is pretty close. Yeah. But on a Friday? Yeah. There's always stuff going on on a Friday. Okay. So I'm not cooking dinner anyway. It's just a thing. Say there's nothing going on. Or you're hosting. Well, if there's nothing going on, then I'm not cooking and I'm just going to say find something. I went grocery shopping. Oh, and yo-yo? Yeah. Yeah. Not cooking. Warm up a pop tart if you want. I don't cook on a Friday. Okay. Hold on. I have food rules. You have cooking rules. This is the deal. Yeah. You're not cooking if you're just tired. You're not cooking if you've had to go to the grocery store or worked all day. Yeah. Or if it's a Friday. Yeah. I'm not cooking. It's a Friday. Yeah. Yeah. What are the rules to when you do cook? Oh, Sunday. Oh, okay. I'll cook on a Sunday. All right. One day a week. Yeah. One day a week. I was at a drive-through the other day and they had a new fancy system where in the drive-through they had a machine and I ordered from the machine. It was a touch screen. And then it said, what color is your car? And I said, oh, my car is white. Yes. And it said, what type of car do you have? And I was ready. I was going to ask about this. Go ahead. I was ready to put in my Volkswagen Golf. Nope. Nope. It's not that. Nope. It said, what shape? Shape. Is it truck shaped? I know it. Wasn't truck shaped? Is it van shaped? No. Is it? What were the other options? A sedan? Okay, which it is also not. And that's why I was going to ask because that's the one you chose. Okay, because I didn't know. I know that it, I know what it's not. But then I was like, is it a coupe? Is it? So a coupe has two doors. A sedan has four. I have four doors. Okay. Keep going though. What other options do I have? What other options were there? There was sport. I knew it wasn't that. You're not in a white sports car? No. No. I went back and forth between the coupe and the sedan because I went, I don't know. I don't know. Your car is neither. What is it? A hatchback. I don't even think that was an option. You have a hatchback. A sedan and a coupe both have a trunk. Okay. You do not have a trunk. I don't have a, I do have a hatchback. You have a hatchback. I don't think that was an option. I'm looking at these cars because I said types of cars and it's got, you know, SUV, sport. Yeah, you're not an SUV. That's for sure. What did I pick? Sedan? Sedan. And I thought, who thought this was a sedan? I forgot that you have to put that in there yourself. Yeah, I didn't know. I saw the thing said white sedan and I went, I really toggled back and forth between the coupe and the sedan and I went, I think a coupe has two doors. I have four doors. So I have a sedan. Yeah. Compact, compact car would also work. Compact is what you should choose. Okay. You have a compact car. I think compact was on the list, but I don't think hatchback was. Yeah. Yeah. They have it listed. I was just looking up here and it says the golf is a compact car slash small family car. Okay. I don't think it's fair that people should ask you that. You don't? No, I don't know what it is. Well, it's not a sedan. Look up a sedan. Just real quick. I am. I'm looking at it right here. You're looking at sedans? Yes. And how many doors? Four. That's right. I have four doors. That is correct, but you do not have a trunk. Stupid. What a stupid. Just ask me what my make and model is because I can tell you that. If you look up a coupe or a coupé. If you're fancy, they have two doors. That's right. That's why chicken coops only have two doors. Because if they had four, they would be chickens to dance. And that was a free one. Emery has a dance this weekend. That's right. And it's our first dance with a boy. And she asked us last night, I don't even know how to slow dance. How do you even slow dance? You know, you gotta have arms out straight. Straight. No pending. That's right. Arms out straight. Hands on shoulders. On tops of shoulders. Yes. Both. Both. Partner's hands on top of shoulders. Arms out straight. Rock back and forth. Side to side. Don't spin. Just that. And look at the wall to the side. Don't look forward. That's important. You can look down or up as well, but not straight ahead. That's correct. These are good instructions. We're good parents. I know. I know. My favorite is reminding her that we are available to chaperone and have volunteered. And then she goes, what? Yeah, we'll be there. It'll be fine. Don't stress. She then proceeded to watch a video about how to slow dance. And here's the thing. We weren't that lucky when we were her age. We didn't have YouTubes. We just had to figure it out. We didn't have that internet. We had to figure it out on our own. That's right. And somehow we managed. I don't know how. I don't know how either. We figured it out though. School dances. Do you remember school dances? I do. I've been to many. To many? Yeah. Look at you. Yeah. Hot shot over here. Oh, whatever. I've been to many school dances. Yeah. Yeah, like five. Wow. Yeah. Big time. Yeah, you've been to way more than that. No, no. I mean, with a date or with friends. Because in junior high, we had dances, but I wasn't allowed to date. I was rejected in the ninth grade. Because I asked a girl to go and she told me no. She was just going to go with a group of friends. And I said, yeah, okay. So I didn't go. Not even with your bros? I didn't go to the ninth grade formal in junior high. No. Yeah, ninth grade was all, that was still our junior high. Yeah, it was still at Eagle Rock. So we're just going with friends. That's right. No, it was at the Berly Junior High School. No, it was at Eagle Rock. Junior high. Now ninth grade's not in there. But it was when I was in ninth grade. And we had the ninth grade formal. And we also went to Lagoon that year. We had a ninth grade trip. Fancy. It was a big time deal. Big time deal. You got rejected and you went to Lagoon. That's right. All in the same year? Yes. Wow. It was a big year. And we built bottle rockets. So huge year. Did you know how to slow dance before you asked that girl to the dance? I would have figured it out then. That would have been when I needed to figure things out. I didn't actually go to a dance then until I was 16. So, you know, years later. I never rejected a date. I always said yes when they asked me. That's a good way to go. I never rejected a date. And here we are today. Here we are. Never rejected a date. No, that was a rough go. That was a rough moment in my life where I went, that's hard. That was a hard one to deal with. I got over it. I'm fine now. You didn't just like want to ask anybody else? No. It was her. It was a one shot. See, they're you or I'm not going. That was it. Yep. Wow. I know. Did you ask her to any other dances? No. You're like, you're done. It dead to me. No, I didn't really run around in like any social circle. I don't know why. I don't even know why she was the one that I picked, honestly. Like, nothing bad about her at all. I just, I don't know why I was like, that's the person I'm going to ask. Maybe it seemed like a fun time. I don't know. That's interesting. I haven't thought about that. Why did I pick that person? Interesting. Well, you probably thought she was. No, I thought I was going to be a fun time for sure. I just haven't thought about that. Like, you know, why didn't I ask somebody else or why didn't I just say, well, let's just go as our bro group? Do you remember what the top songs were at the dances? Like you were waiting for that big slow dance song? No. I will tell you, it seemed a lot more likely to slow dance than fast dance. Fast dance would be like, I'm going to go wander over here and talk to some other people because fast dancing was scary. Slow dancing is easy. No. Yeah. I feel like slow dancing is a little boring. I understand, but it's easy. But it's you're like halfway through the song. And if you're dancing with somebody that asks you to dance, that you don't really want to dance with. But you never said no to a dance. This song is eight minutes long. They're not. And then you're, do you talk? Do you not talk? I always talked because I was nervous. And when I get nervous, I just, yeah. Yeah, I will. Everyone's like, don't ask Shantel. She does it. Yeah, you have a bad time. I'm a little bit of a weirdo. Yeah. Prove it. I will prove it. I'll tell you what I did yesterday. There is a wonderful young woman who works at the front desk here at the radio station. And she's adorable and charming and cute. And I don't know much about her because she comes in. Well, yeah, you don't have time to sit down and get to know her. I understand. Right. By the time I'm ready to leave, I've got to get to my other job. And so every interaction with her is just a brief exchange until yesterday when I was leaving. And I said, Hey, how are you? She said it. Good. How are you? And I said, great. And like, this is word for word, but I said, I said, great. The sun's out and sun's out. Guns out, you know. And she went, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I know. Goodbye. You are the coolest, smoothest person I know. I know. Yeah, I know. I mean, and I know some folks, but you, top of the list, it's smooth and cool. I know. Yeah. You know, sun's out, guns out. And then did you flex? Nope. You didn't even do that part? No, I had a vest on, like a puffy vest. So hold on. Doesn't cover your arms. I'm going to go ahead and throw that out there again for you. That's why my guns are out. You see. Oh, that's what you meant. Yeah. Okay. Well, and here's the other part is yesterday we had to film a couple of videos for some different social media things. And the lovely and talented Melissa comes in and says, Hey, is it okay if I film you guys? And I said, Yes, what do you want me to do? And she said, just be, just be natural and just be casual. Yeah. Easy, easy breezy, breezy casual. I think I nailed it though. My favorite part was when she went, Hey, Chantel, and you turned in your chair and went, Oh, hey, like you didn't know she was there. Like it was a sitcom intro set to music where you turned and smiled at the camera and it put up your name Chantel. Look at you. That's the name of the show. That's the name of the sitcom. Look at you. Look at you. Tonight on Look at You. Chantel. Oh, hi. Didn't see you there. Look at you. When did you come in? Yeah. My favorite new show. I don't even know where those are going to be posted at. If they're going to be posted. The internet. I told her, I said, Listen, if mine is to cringe, please feel free to edit it. Right on out. If mine's to cringe. She's like, Oh no, it goes on first. It'll be the first one that pops up. Hey, Chantel. Oh, hey. Oh, hey. Hi. Sons out, gums out. You know. You know. I think that was the worst part is when I said, You know. You know. And she looked at me and went, Yeah, she didn't know. No. She was like, Why are you talking? No one knows except you. And you know, and that's what matters. Sons out, guns out. You know. The other night I was talking to Emory and Beck comes and says, Hey, where's dad? And I said, I don't, I don't know. Go look for him. I don't know where he is. We have a small house. I bet you're going to be able to find him somewhere. I heard this entire thing. From where I was. Yeah. Cause we have a small house. Correct. So he goes downstairs. He finds you downstairs. Yeah. And you're just browsing on your phone. I was sitting in the basement in a comfortable chair that I like. And I was relaxing because I had had a busy afternoon and I said, I'm just going to go sit. I finished up meetings. I got home. It was kind of late. It was kind of getting to be bedtime. And I was like, I just need to decompress for a bit. I've had a run around kind of day. So I'm going to go downstairs where it's quiet. The lighting's nice and soft. I'm going to sit in the chair. I'm just going to chill for a little bit. Where's dad? I don't know. Why don't you just go look around and find him? And then I hear we've got a gate at the top of the stairs. So the dog doesn't go downstairs. I hear this gate move. To do to do to do feet coming down the stairs. Hey, what's up? Here I am. Well, what was annoying was I was in the middle of a conversation and he said, where's dad? And then when I didn't immediately answer, because I was in a prior conversation, he said louder, where's dad? And I said, I don't know. Go look. And then he yelled at me and said, Oh, right. I was just asking him. I was like, I'm in the middle of a conversation. Yeah, well. Okay. How dare you. So then I said, I shouted down the stairs. I said, Hey, I'm going to bed. And then you, I hear you come up the stairs and then you're all cranky. Laying in bed. Like, no, because he came downstairs to tell me good night because he was going to bed. And so then that meant the house was going to bed. That means everybody is headed into their bedrooms to call it a night. Yeah. Which means that's my cue to go upstairs and go to bed. That's, that's what that meant. That didn't mean that though. So I went upstairs and I said, good night to everybody. It's bedtime. And then I told you in the bedroom, it's time for bed. No relaxing. Just go to bed. You're all cranky about it. And I said, you said, I was just happy in the basement. Yeah. And I go, but now it's bedtime. Okay. Go back to bed. Everybody's going to bed. Everybody's going to bed. Nobody told you to go to bed. But one person can't stay up. That's why lots of people stay up all the time. If the house is going to bed, everybody goes to bed. The dogs in bed. Everybody's in bed. It's bedtime. There's, it's not one person stay up and keep guard. It's bedtime. You have to stay up and keep guard. If you wanted to keep scrolling for 10 more minutes, do your thing. No one was making you go to bed. It felt like it was everybody had to go to bed. No. I don't know. You were all cranky about it. Like we were all making you go to bed. Yep. Go to bed when you want to go to bed. You're a grown adult. Prove it. Well, considering that I still wake you up in the morning. Hey, hey. Appreciate it. Hey, wake up. It's time to go to work. And I go, no. Why? Like that. Can I stay home? Yeah. Five more minutes. Stuff like that. And I go, yeah. Are you feeling sick? You ask that a lot. Yeah. Yeah, but that was sick day. I don't have that. You did get told yesterday that you have a lot of time on. I know. That you need to take. Yeah. Your boss said, hey, you need to take some time off. Let's do it. The difference is that I don't get paid. I know. I'm just a part timer. Right. So dang it. I know. You get paid. I don't. So my checks are a little bit. That's right. Every time you're not, you could come to work. I'll go take some time off. Oh, I just already told you that I don't do this alone. I don't, I don't know how those buttons work. Well, let me show you. I've, I've offered many times. I know. You've been in this room for over three years. You got to start like pulling some weight. I am pulling weight. I am. Okay. Well, let's break down some Olympic stuff real quick here. Just so that you know the 2026 winter games are underway. Yes. 232 athletes from the U.S. Okay. United States is fielding its biggest winter Olympic team ever for this games, which is pretty awesome. We talked earlier this week about Breezy Johnson, one America's first gold medal of the games, the women's downhill, the figure skaters, the U.S. figure skaters team one gold in the team competition, which is a big deal. We talked about what's his name, quad God. Quad God. Yeah, we talked about him a little bit. Team USA brought home the most medals of any country at the 2024 summer Olympics. Norway came out on top in the middle of the last winter games. And Norway also holds the all time record for winter medals. I didn't know that. Norway. Yeah, Norway. Norway. Yeah. Every time we get to make this joke. Yeah. Every time. Yeah, that. Okay, well, here's the deal. Here's what happened on Tuesday, yesterday. Ben Ogden became the first American man to win an Olympic medal in cross country skiing since 1976. He got silver in the sprint, which is a big deal. Alex Hall took silver in the freestyle ski. Yes. Come on, guys. These are medals. These are medals. Alex. Yeah, I don't see you with any. How about that? I know. Jackie Wiles and Paula Moultsson won bronze in the team downhill event. Team USA had a shot at golden mixed doubles curling, but fell short against Sweden. Oh, no. And we'll go home with the silver. Yeah. So right now the medal count looks like this. Team USA has 10 total medals, three of them gold, five silvers, and two bronze looks like Italy has 11 in their total, which puts them in second place. Hey, two gold, two silver and seven bronze and get this Norway is in first 13 medals, seven gold medals for Norway. So far away to silver and four bronze. Hey, how did the Jamaican bobsled team do? I don't know if the bobsled events have happened just totally yet. Oh, I don't know the answer. So when the Olympic team, the USA team. I don't know. I don't know. You're asking. I know we haven't been watching a lot of the Olympics. I know. I've been getting updates from a couple of different people who are watching it, but. Yeah. Well, what's going on today? Today is Alpine skiing the biathlon. Now that's the one I think you could do. That's the cross country skiing and shooting. Yeah. Yeah. I'll do that. Curling has got the men's tournament is happening. Figure skating, ice dance finals are today. Freestyle skiing, ice hockey. Oh, that's right. There is some hockey. There's some Luge in there. The Nordic combined snowboarding and speed skating events today. So I don't know for sure when the bobsleigh stuff is happening. Women's mono Bob is on the 15th. So they must have already had. What's happening on the 16th two man is on the 16th and the finals for the women's mono 17th is two man and then down here in the 20th is two woman 24th 21st. That's the four man. That's the big one. That's when you want to watch for Jamaica and all that on the 21st. The 21st is the four man Bob. So when the American team. I think that was a that was like a trial run. Yeah, it was either practice or some sort of qualifying. Okay. Phew. I don't know. I don't know what that means, but anyway, so we still got February 21st is when the four man bobsled is so. Okay, I'm going to watch that one. I'm going to root for Jamaica. You are. Yeah, because you want to see Jamaica have a bobsled team. Yep. And you're bobbing your head because you know the song. Jamaica we have a bobsled team. Yeah, that's the one. All right. Well, that's the latest anyway. Norway leads the battle count Norway. There's 11 days before your birthday. Oh, you know, it's kind of sneaking up on me. It sneaks up on me too every year. My birthday or your own birthday? Your birthday. Why does my birthday sneak up on you? Because I feel like I should have something planned and I don't have anything planned. I'm old. What are you going to plan? Like a pizza party? No, no, no, it's what I was going to ask you. What do you want to do? I have no idea. We should probably do something. You're going to be, do you want to say how old you're going to be? 44. 44? Rolling on quads. That's two fours. Quads. 44. 44? Yeah, I'm going to be rolling on quads. That's what they say. Is it? For a whole year. What do you want to do? I don't know. For your big 44. I have no idea. And then we'll be the same age for about three months. Nine months? No. Oh yeah. Three months. Yeah. Yeah. You're nine months older than me. So we'll be the same age for three months and then you'll be older again. Don't say it like that. It's quick math. What, that you're older? You're way older. Don't say it like that. This is what you do to your sister. That's time. Your sister's so old. He's old. All right. And you're older than me. 44. Rolling on quads. That's right. What do you want to do? I don't know. I have no idea. Let's do some crazy. No. Why? Why crazy? You don't. You're not a crazy kind of guy. Right. You're low key. That's right. You're mellow. Some mellow and low key. That's what we do all the time. That's why let's do something outside of the box. Do something crazy because it's not your typical fare. Why? Because. Because it's not your typical fare. It's your typical fare. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I just feel like I'm an old guy. I don't know. I was looking at some stuff yesterday. There's not really a lot going on. No. That weekend. But we should do something. Like go away. Let's go away. Where do you want to go? I don't know. Let's go away. Where? What's going on outside of the area? I haven't checked, but I will check on that today. That'll be my plan for today. Okay. How crazy do you want to get? Not super crazy. I'm not a crazy guy. I know. You're just so chill. Is this a problem? I feel like you're upset about it. Not too upset. I just let's maybe have a time. Let's have a crazy time. What kind of crazy time? I don't know. You just probably want to go fishing. Yeah, but that's tough. Why? Because it's cold. I mean, we could take the trailer and go camp or something, but... Per. That's what I'm saying. We have a furnace. Yeah, but what are you going to do outside? Because it's going to be too cold outside. That's where the fish are. If we were going to try to go fishing. But that's, you know... I don't know. But you could go fishing any old time. That's right. Any old time. Let's maybe... Okay, I'll think of some ideas. Okay. What's something that people do for their 44th birthday? Nothing. You said a pizza party. I was just... You were like, what do you want to do? I was just making jokes. You want to have a pizza party? No. What did we do last year for your birthday? Do you remember? No. It kind of just came and went. I'm sure I did something cool. Didn't I? Didn't I do something cool? I don't know. I bet I did. I'm pretty good at planning your birthday. Yep. It's true. Okay, well... I'm just looking around. I'll do some looking around. We'll see what's up. What are you looking around? I don't know. Let's see what it's like to go somewhere. Where do you want to go south? Do you want to go north? Let's go somewhere warm. Okay. If we're going to go somewhere, I just don't know where. I don't think we have a lot of time. What's time but a construct? Just a thing man invented. What is time? What is a birthday? It's just a thing. Stop. Do you feel like you're 44? Yeah. You do? Oh, yeah. I hurt my toe. Did you hear about it? Yeah. That's a very 44-year-old man thing. How is your toe? You said that you could feel the cuticle. It's just a little bit freaking me out. That's all. I'm trying not to think about it. So let's just not talk about it. Okay. It's fine. It'll be fine. It's fine. Okay. I'm hopeful about my toe. I don't think I'm going to lose the toe. Success. I didn't say toe nail. I said toe. The toe's not going anywhere. The toe's attached. It doesn't hurt as bad today as it did yesterday or the day before. That's great news. Yeah. Positive. Toes up, buddy. Our dog really enjoys kick a ball. We have a tennis ball and she likes you to kick it around the room and she chases after it. Kick a ball. Is that what you named it? I call it kick a ball. You want me to kick a ball? Because she does. But I found out that if I kick it wrong with that foot, it hurts my toe. And she doesn't like it. You have to kick it right. I know. If you kick it lame, she goes, try again. She's a little picky. Yeah. She likes kick a ball. Okay. Hold on. I looked up some fun birthday ideas. Oh, for a 44 year old man? Yeah. For a 44 year old. It says, first of all, 44 is such a cool age. Yeah. Rolling on quads. You're young enough to do something adventurous but established enough to do it well. Oh, what does that mean? You could do a karaoke plus a themed dinner night. No. Pick a theme, 80s. No. Country Queens disco glam. Let's do a country Queens birthday party. Dress like your 20 year old self. Who did you ask? Did you just Google this or did you ask GPT? GPT. All right. AI wants me to do a country Queens birthday. Game night but elevated. What does that mean? Like everybody sits in tall chairs. What? Yeah. It's elevated. But elevated. Do you want glam? No. Do you want a birthday photo shoot? No. Do you want sunrise coffee plus reflection? No. Do you want a creative experience? What does that mean? Floral arranging. Cooking class. Interesting. Painting night pottery class. You got excited about the cooking class. That might be interesting. Let me see if cooking classes. I'll write that down. Write that down. See, that's feels sort of mid level. Kind of my speed. You don't want floral arranging? Not particularly. Okay. How about a mini overnight trip? Yeah, that's what I was saying. A cozy cabin in the island park. Interesting. A Boise getaway. Hmm. I haven't made a Jackson Hole in a long time. I know. Write that down. All right. You keep working on that. Would you rather this or that? Would you rather have a cold pillow or a warm blanket? Cold pillow. Warm blanket. Because here's why. Why? Your warm blanket is going to be too much as the night goes on. Never. Yeah. You can kick it off. No. You're stuck under it. Fine. It'll be okay. Sweat. They give you, I have to get an MRI every now and then. That is true. And sometimes they forget and I go, hey, hey, hey, hey. Warm blanket. Warm blanket. Yeah. And I go, oh yes. And I go, thank you, thank you, thank you. Yeah. A warmed up blanket is a nice treat. Yes it is. But I feel like it gets cold too quick. I agree with that. But it is nice when it's first delivered and you go, oh cozy on down. Yeah. I had a surgery a little while ago. It was nice to have a warm blanket in the, the hospital's got a good warm blanket thing going. They do. They really do. Yeah. That's a nice comfort thing. Yep. So I can see where your head's at on that. But I'm thinking about like a heated blanket all night long and I'm thinking that's too much. Well, yes. That's not, I didn't say electric blanket. I said warm blanket. Yeah. That's where my head went was heated blanket all night long. No, I was thinking just a, just a warm blanket. And that felt sweaty and I did not care for that. So I said cold pillow, which I do appreciate a cold pillow. It's refreshing. It's nice. I'm sticking with the warm blanket. Yeah. Yep. All right. Cause that initial, you do you when they first give you that warm blanket. It's so lovely. But then too much. It's never too much for me. Tell it is. But I have put my head down on a cold pillow and been, I've made this noise. That is true. That is true. But then you settle in and it's nice. It's too cold for my, for my head, my poor head, from a poor head. Okay. Well, would you rather this or that? Well, I just found out about this. What is it? So apparently the American society of composers, authors and publishers, we know them as ASCAP. We have to pay them lots and lots of money because we play music. So there's a couple of different organizations that we have to pay licensing fees in order to broadcast music on the radio. And that's one of them. Copyrights and stuff. Yeah. And they, they take that money that we pay and they distribute that through some system they have to the artists that create the music that we play. So that's, they're one of a handful of different people that get paid these royalty fees. So they have an award ceremony. It's happening tomorrow. And they have what's called a Founders Award. And the Founders Award recognizes songwriters who have made what they call pioneering contributions to music by inspiring and influencing their fellow music creators. People that have received this award in the past include Sarah Paul McCartney, Dr. Dre, Billy Joel, just to name a few. Okay. So good company. This year, the AS... Is bad company on that list? I have no idea. This year, ASCAP will be awarding the Founders Award 2. Who do you think? Oh. You're never going to guess, but I'll give you three guesses. Okay. Share. No. Uh, tell me, is it a woman or a man? It's a man. A man. You have two guesses left. Old or new? I mean, older, young. It's a man? A man older than us. A man older than us. Uh, Gene Simmons. No. Younger than Gene Simmons. You have one more guess. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Uh, oh man. I can't think of anybody. Bruno Mars. No. Adam Sandler. What? That's why I said you'll never guess. It's not even a musician. Yes, he is. Well, I guess he is. And he is getting the award for pioneering contributions to music by inspiring and influencing their fellow music creators. Songs like the Hanukkah song, the Thanksgiving song, Oprahman. Lunch Lady Land. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. And others. I fully support this. Oh, do you? Yeah, yeah. Joining the ranks of Sir Paul McCartney, Dr. Dre and Billy Joel is, please welcome to the stage, Adam Sandler. Look, he's made music. I'm not discrediting that. And it's simple, wet and stuff. He makes music. He tours doing comedy and musical things. Like he's done that and they've been incredibly pre-viral, viral moments. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like before the internet, viral moments. So, you know, good for him. I love it. He's getting a Founders Award, which I think is very funny. Of all the things. Like when a Grammy for a comedy album. Yep. Lock that down. When acting awards, for sure. This one seems a little straight. But good for him. I think it's great. Huggies and grinders, man. Huggies and grinders. Navy beans, navy beans, meatloaf sand. See, you know the words. It's, it's that influential. Exactly. Yeah. Anyway, I knew you'd be excited and surprised to hear that news. A fan from the beginning. There you go. That's going to do it for the show. Hope you have a great rest of your Wednesday. Tomorrow we'll be back in the morning to do it again. Podcast available anytime you can listen on demand. And officially, we didn't even make a big deal about it. Monday's show was the 400th episode. Oh man, we were going to do something big. We didn't do anything. You were supposed to remind me. Oh, well, it happened. I even put it in the calendar because you didn't remind me. Some reminder you said. Look at your face. Settle down. So, hey, happy 400. Happy 400. A couple of days ago. Doodadoo. Yeah. Over 400 episodes of the show available for you to listen to anytime on demand when you want. Come on now. For free. For free. Yeah. I know. This one you get for free. That's right. This one's free. Have a great rest of your day. We'll see you back here tomorrow. All right. Bye. Thanks for listening to Wake Up Classy 97, the podcast. If you enjoy the show, please share, subscribe and rate the podcast. Wake Up Classy 97 is hosted by Josh and Chantel Tielor and is a production of Riverbend Media Group. For more information or to contact the show, visit Riverbendmediagroup.com.