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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
The big news in our home: our son has officially moved out and emotions are high, 25 unmatched socks were found under a mattress, “uninclude yourself” advice from our daughter, a hearing dog named Storm saves his owner’s husband, a theater is using hypnosis to make people forget a movie so they can watch it again for the first time, Josh’s office makeover, why stairs are all the same height, Bon Jovi’s vocal surgery, a rough day in customer service, the loofah vs. washcloth debate, free McDonald’s vs free Chick-fil-A, an early look at the Christmas wish lists, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: We're collectors
(2:28) - Look at me when I'm talking
(4:43) - Good News
(6:11) - Hypnotized for the movies
(11:33) - Josh's office update
(18:02) - Our son's room is pretty empty
(23:20) - Chantel is nice on the phone
(26:32) - The history of stairs
(30:52) - How washcloths work
(34:01) - Josh is motivated
(38:16) - Bon Jovi's voice issues
(40:27) - So many socks
(43:59) - Would You Rather
(45:54) - Christmas lists already?
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Full show transcript:
As we're moving in our son last night, I just start to look around at his new room and
I go, "You know, Beck, you don't need to bring all this stuff over here.
You could leave some of this at home.
I just mostly don't want him to fill up his room with stuff he doesn't need."
Well, and he's got more space in the house overall.
In his room at home, he has his bed, his clothes, and then his computer, like his PC and
desk are in there, and he had his guitar amps and his guitars, like, and in like a 10 by
10 space, like a very small space.
But he had like everything he's into into that space.
So he just had everything he needed to live and survive and entertain himself and everything
in one area.
But now he's got a little bit more area in a house to be able to kind of stretch out a
little bit.
And I think he's still kind of in his head like, "I have this room."
Right.
But he hasn't really expanded outside of that yet except for the guitars and amps.
That stuff is in the guitar amp space in the basement, which is kind of cool.
They've got that set up so they can jam and I hope he does.
I hope he gets a chance to play his guitars more.
I hope so too.
And loud, right?
Like, have fun with it.
Right.
So I'm excited for that, but he's not got that stuff in his room as well.
So I think it has a potential to kind of be a better overall space for him as he starts to
lead out into the rest of that.
Well, I was looking around his room and he's got, you know, so many collections.
He's got Hot Wheels collections.
He's got these Gundam model collections.
Yup.
And a bag.
He's got tons of stuff.
So much stuff.
And he just looks at me and he's like, "I know I'm a collector.
I have autism."
Well, everyone's a collector.
I've got a studio full of stuff.
I've got fly tying stuff.
We got a garage full of stuff.
I got garden stuff.
I got a greenhouse full of stuff.
We all have stuff.
We all have our collections.
Mine is fabric and buttons and beads and paper.
And we're in.
Yeah.
Anyway, we all have a collector's problem.
His just was on display because we're moving.
Right.
Anyway.
Alright, well hey, let's start today's show.
Hi.
Hi, you're awfully chipper this morning.
Well, chipper, chipper, chipper, chipper.
I don't even know if that's the right word.
I am.
What a day yesterday I had.
You had a day.
I mean, we're going to break down a couple of things later in the show to kind of explain.
I'm amazed I'm moving and my body kind of is sore.
So I got that going.
You killed it yesterday.
At a lot.
You did a lot of projects, but we'll talk more about that later.
But hi, good morning.
How are you?
Good.
And you're doing good.
I'm doing great.
That's awesome.
Yes.
That's so good for you.
Do you have a little bit of resentment toward me?
I have no resentment toward you.
Okay.
You're not even looking at my face.
Where is it?
I can't even see you.
There's all this debris in between.
Hi.
Do you remember we used to have the monitors over here and you couldn't see me and we would
just talk like we weren't in the same room.
Yeah.
And sometimes I'd have to like look.
Yeah.
Are you even doing over there?
How's that going now?
I feel better you can see.
I mean, yeah.
Kind of.
Because I like looking at people when I'm talking to them.
Yeah.
And I like looking at people when they're talking to me to show that I'm actively listening.
So when I was over here, that made you feel okay.
Made me feel like you weren't listening.
Yep.
Yes, it sure did.
Mm-hmm.
Nice.
I don't even know what day it is.
It's Wednesday.
We got a busy, busy day.
We do have a busy day.
So yesterday was was a huge project day.
Today's busy, just nonstop.
Lots of appointments today.
I take the day off to go hit some appointments.
Yeah.
Well, I'm glad you're here for a minute anyway.
I'm glad I'm here too.
Because aren't you leaving here?
Yeah.
What time?
Two.
Like 8.45.
You got to be kidding me.
Sorry.
Sorry.
So much to do in two hours.
I know.
Oh, man.
All right.
We'll better get busy.
Good morning.
Good morning.
All right.
Let's get some good news going here, huh?
Sandra Donnelly.
She's from Staffordshire, England.
She suddenly lost her hearing due to a rare condition.
And she was matched with a specially trained hearing dog called Storm.
I didn't know they had a hearing dog.
I knew they had seeing dogs.
Well, since then, Storm has been much more than a companion.
He's been a true lifesaver for the family.
Listen to this story one night.
Just after midnight, Sandra was asleep when Storm jumped on the bed and refused to leave
and unable to hear what was happening.
Sandra immediately sensed that Storm was trying to tell her something, like something's
going on.
So she followed Storm out into the hallway and discovered a very frightening scene.
Her husband, Gary, had suffered a serious fall down the stairs and was lying unconscious
at the bottom.
And because Storm raised the alarm, Sandra was able to call for help right away.
And emergency crews rushed Gary to the hospital.
He spent 24 hours recovering from his injuries.
And thankfully, he has since returned home.
And Sandra says that she'll always be grateful to the hero dog whose quick action helps
savor husband's life.
Isn't that amazing?
Stormy?
Storm is awesome.
You are the best.
I hope you got so many treats.
All the treats.
I'm belly rubs for Storm.
That's a big deal.
Way to go.
Good job, doggo.
Yeah.
Yeah, Storm is making good news.
There's a theater, like a movie theater in the Netherlands.
And it's going to use hypnosis to make people forget about a movie and then have them watch
it again.
So it feels like they're watching it for the first time.
Is this a scientific study?
I don't know if it's science.
This is an interesting thing.
It's got to be for science.
I don't know what else it would be for.
So the idea is you go to the movie.
Okay, so there, yes, next Monday, there's a specific date that they're doing this on.
Next Monday, they're taking 30 willing participants and hypnotize them.
I'm glad that they're letting them know.
Yeah.
And yeah, and hypnotize them so they temporarily forget about a movie they've already
seen.
Then those people will watch that movie and feel like they're seeing it for the first
time.
Ideally, the volunteers have four movies to choose from.
The Matrix, seven, la la la, I see an inner stellar.
So you have to have seen that movie already.
Correct.
Then they're going to wipe your memory and then put you in to see it again.
Yes.
I thought it was going to be like, you're going to go in, we're going to show you a movie.
Then we're going to hypnotize you to make that movie disappear and then we're going to
show you that movie again and then we're going to test the results.
But the idea here is we're going to clear your mind before you watch it for the second
time for the first time.
Yes.
Interesting.
That's interesting.
If this works, then you would be able to tap into first experiences anytime.
I know.
Hmm.
Like, there's a lot of times that we talk about like hearing a song that we really have and
being like, remember when we heard this song for the first time?
The first time I heard the Goatie song, it was like, this song is unreal.
I've never heard anything like this.
That song now I've heard a bajillion times.
And it's not as good anymore because you've heard it so many times.
But you want to hear that song?
Is that one of them?
For the first time?
That one comes up in the conversation a lot.
That one does.
What movie would you want to see for the first time?
The one that comes to my mind is Momento.
Okay, that would be interesting.
Sixth sense would be interesting to see.
I think anything that has some sort of big twist.
Reveal?
Well, that's seven.
Oh, sure.
And this is on the list with Brad Pitt.
Yeah.
Because there's a, there's a whole bunch of twist.
Yeah.
Always a twist.
Something involving a box.
Okay.
All right.
You haven't seen it.
Yuck.
I haven't seen Interstellar.
You've got to.
I know.
I fell asleep, which is hilarious because isn't that the one about the dreams?
No.
No, what's that one?
I have no idea.
The one with Leonardo DiCaprio?
That is a inception.
That's the one I'm thinking of.
I fell asleep in that one too.
I better write these down.
I'm sure you already have them on a list.
He's tied too.
I'm going to write this down so I can lose this list too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Interstellar inception.
What movie would you want to see again?
I mean, what if you could see like the first Star Wars again?
No.
I was okay.
I'm okay.
That's the one you would pick.
There's so many great, like the whole series.
Like if I could watch it all again with fresh eyes, like I'd never seen it, would I still
not like the originals?
Well, not the originals, the, the first three.
One through three.
Would I still be like, hmm?
Yeah, because that's how everyone feels.
No, but if I didn't know that, if I didn't have any input, my brain has been wiped from right
the second and then I'm going to walk in and watch it.
So I would have no opinions influencing my doing experience.
No Star Wars opinions.
Hmm.
I don't know Josh.
Like I'd be meeting the characters for the first time.
I think it's funny that that's the movie you picked.
Like the one I want to watch for the first time.
It's an epic, giant film franchise.
You wipe your entire memory of Star Wars and you get to go walk in and walk it for the
first time again.
I'm good.
That would be massive.
Okay.
Anyway, it's interesting.
That's an interesting metaphor.
Yeah, the four of these, which one would you want to see again?
The Matrix 7 La La Land or Interstellar?
Not La La Land.
It's a weird one to put on the list.
I didn't like that movie.
It's kind of boring.
Okay.
And I really like sleep during that one.
I really like Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone and musicals.
So I was surprised they didn't like that one.
The Matrix.
That's the one I'm leaning toward.
Revolutions.
Funny.
Okay.
Well, let me know.
I just follow up on the results.
I'm curious how it goes.
Don't know what.
They're doing this.
Science.
Who's their financial backer?
No idea.
I thought I'd go ahead and give you an update on the office because it's kind of been the
topic of discussion over the past end of last week and this week.
You remember I had a tiny desk, a little baby desk.
Yes.
I now have a big boy desk.
You do?
Well, it's not.
I mean, it's partially in there.
I've got the top isn't on it yet because I'm still working on a little bit in the room.
But the room is painted.
It looks good.
I peaked in there this morning.
Yeah.
It looks great.
I spent a lot of time yesterday doing that.
Two coats on all the walls.
I've decided I like cutting edges with the paintbrush more than taping.
Yeah, but you're not always good at cutting.
Go check it out.
Right now.
I mean.
Okay.
You've painted it in our house before.
I know.
Have your skills been?
Yeah.
Here's the thing though because it has, there's a couple of things that played into my
into my advantage.
The ceiling is a false ceiling in here.
And so the little aluminum or whatever, the strip is that all the ceiling tiles sit in
has a tiny little gap.
And so as I was doing my cutting, the brush would go back into that little gap.
What made me pretty happy is that as I'm cutting in the ceiling, I can see whoever painted
the room that awful brown color before did not cut very well.
However, your skills were all fine.
I did.
I did real well on the ceiling.
I'm going to go inspect.
You should.
Maybe taping and painting too because although it is satisfying to rip that tape off.
Yeah.
Sometimes.
Sometimes if you've taken too long to finish it up and you know, it's been a, like we're
going to leave it overnight.
We'll do some more tomorrow.
And then the next day you finish and then you pull the tape off and it starts ripping and
stuff.
I don't care for that.
But I also, you know, it's not meant to be their long term.
So I understand the tapes doing what the tape do.
But yeah, I taped one edge of baseboard and then I was like, I can't do this.
I can't be bothered.
Yeah.
That takes so long.
Yeah.
It takes forever.
So I got rid of it.
And then I just did it by hand and I feel like I did pretty good.
Okay.
I think it looks great.
Do you like the color?
I do like the color.
Yeah.
The green is a great compliment to the brown trim.
I picked that.
Um, you didn't pick this green.
Yes I did.
No, you picked a different green and then I sat there and held them and I went, I think
I like this one better.
That's the one I picked.
You were busy naming other yellowy browns and trying to figure out what the room color
was currently.
No, what I was busy doing was making fun of the paint gollars.
Yeah.
Cause it's ridiculous.
Right.
Right banana.
Excuse me.
That's what I said.
Oh, I didn't hear you say that part.
I said right banana.
And many others.
What's the name of that color that you put in there?
I'll have to go look.
I don't remember off top of my head.
Press plum.
No, I did have purple funk.
It was going to be like a grayish purple, but that one, it was very purple when I put it
in that room and I went, it's not going to be that.
I would recommend to anyone if you want to know what color is going to work in your space,
go get the swatch and bring it home.
What I will say is I'm surprised you didn't pick this color earlier because this is, if
I had to pick a color for you, this is you.
That's what you said.
I sent you a picture and you said that looks like you and I thought I looked like an
office.
You look like that color of green.
Yeah.
And when you bought that color of paint, you had that color of green on your shoes, that
color of green on your hat, that color of green on your pants.
It's a lighter color than the olive that I wear.
I'm wearing olive pants right now and I have a different kind of gray olive hat, I believe,
yes.
And I'm not one more in bright orange shoes.
Because I'm a fashion guy.
I like my fashions, bright and bold, mixed with a bunch of earth tones.
It works.
It just works.
It just works.
Well, good job on your big boy desk.
Yeah.
So I got the big boy desk, hoping to finish that up today.
I've got computer wiring and stuff to do.
I've got some stuff from home I got to bring in.
I'm struggling on the decorate thing.
What do you need?
I don't know.
Okay.
I can't figure out what to put on the walls.
Do you want me to just print out a bunch of pictures of myself?
Mm-hmm.
I'll do that.
I'll do that.
I know you would.
I know you would.
I would, because here's why I know you would do that.
Years ago I had an office and you came in and you don't even have any pictures of the family
in here.
And then I went and bought a special frame so that I could have pictures of the family
hung in my office.
Yeah.
And then I did.
Okay.
You said I know you would print pictures of yourself because here's what you did.
Yeah.
But it wasn't anything that I did.
No, no, you said you don't have any pictures of the family in here.
Oh yeah.
So yeah, I would see you going like, hey, you know it would be cool as if you had a picture
or a collage or an entire wall of murals.
Just me.
Yeah.
No, I know.
Making goofy faces.
Yeah.
I feel like I have that.
I have a bunch of that.
You have that in real time.
That's what I'm saying.
I get the live show.
I don't need the photos and memories to, I'll never forget.
Yeah, Josh, I just don't want you to get lonely.
Okay.
When I leave for the day, I just want you to be reminded of my elegance and beauty.
Oh, wow.
I don't think I could ever forget.
I just don't think I could.
Don't worry.
I'll cook up something special for you.
All right.
Okay.
The other part of my day yesterday, after I got home, was to load up a whole bunch of stuff
and move it across town.
Big furniture this time.
This is cause quite the stir in the house.
Our son has been in the process over the past couple of weeks of slowly moving things from
the house to his new place.
And last night, it was, let's move the desk and the PC and the bed and the big stuff,
the shelf.
So there's some major furniture not in that room.
And last night, he stayed at his new place.
Not as like, I'm going to sleep over.
This is my new spot.
As like, my bed is here now.
I live here now.
This is, this is a lot more serious.
Like, I don't live in this house anymore.
And that caused a bit of a thing.
It shook our little family, didn't it?
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, I would say so.
And you were talking to him last night and you were like, you know, like, I know it's been
slow and I know it's exciting.
I know all these things.
But like, this moment in time feels sudden.
Like it was all of the sudden here.
So that was kind of interesting.
Well, that's what I told him.
If you have a kid that's going to school, you kind of have an exit date, right?
You're like, I have to be to school, right?
To have to be to college on this date.
So I'm probably going to move in.
And there's moving dates like for certain college students.
So you have kind of an idea.
And so you're working toward that.
But because he was moving out so slowly, we didn't really have like a finalized like end
date.
Right.
Until he was just a couple of days ago.
Like, yeah, I think today is going to be the day.
Yeah.
And then it was like, oh, okay.
Here we go.
Right.
Well, last night, so it was, it was go pick up a desk for the office.
It was a build and paint and get the office ready.
And then it was come home, eat quickly and then move big furniture for a good portion of
the night.
I mean, almost till 11 last night.
Yeah.
You guys did, you killed it.
Yeah.
I tried to help what I was told was.
Did you take, you took notes?
Yeah.
Oh, I took a lot of notes.
I was told by every to uninclude myself.
Whoa.
Hey, maybe uninclude yourself.
What does that mean?
I don't know, but that's a pretty wicked slam.
Yeah.
Hey, you should uninclude yourself.
That is straight from the mouth of a 17 year old.
Hey, uninclude yourself.
Yeah.
That's exactly.
She just quietly said you should uninclude yourself.
I walked away and I went out in what?
In conversation.
No, I was, I was kind of putting some stuff.
I was picking stuff up and being like, hey, what is this?
Where should this go?
And he was like, I got this.
I don't need you to do.
I've got a plan for everything.
Right.
And then that became a stop.
You're doing too much, mom.
Yeah.
Uninclude yourself.
Wow.
That's insane.
And then I was told by Beck that I was a kid.
Why do you have to act like a child?
I'm just trying to have some fun.
So, so the 17 year old said uninclude yourself and the 22 year old said quit being a kid.
Yeah.
Got it.
Got it.
So, I saw where I was not needed and or wanted.
And my strong bits of advice.
Please take me home.
I'm going to take a shower and get myself ready for bed.
Yeah.
And then I took another load.
That's when we loaded up the bed frame in the mattress and off we went.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, it was a big deal.
I helped him kind of, you know, get his bed made and set up and all that stuff.
So he was good.
We made sure alarm clocks were plugged in because we got work today, which, you know, those
are important things.
Yeah.
So, anyway.
Yeah.
It made our daughter real sad.
She was awfully crying last night.
Yeah.
And he told her to stop it.
He goes, stop it.
You got to quit crying or else I'm going to cry.
Stop it.
Well, and it's not.
He's still in the same town.
I know.
And he's coming over tonight for dinner.
Right.
He's like, I got more clean up to do.
I'm coming over and you were like, well, I'm making tomato soup and he's like, yeah, I'll
be here.
I'm having dinner here.
So we're going to see him like right after work like normal.
Yeah.
So, anyway, big change though.
And then there were three.
I know.
Well, 0.5.
Because he's.
No.
No.
No.
The dog.
The dog's not a half a person.
The dog's like as big as a half a leg.
He's still not fully like like, you know, we're.
Yeah.
He's still very much.
He's still got some stuff.
That's what I'm saying.
So anyway, big changes.
How you doing?
I'm doing okay.
Okay.
It's sad and it's a shake up, but it's okay.
All right.
I was cranky yesterday.
Mm-hmm.
Haven't a really bad day at work.
You sent me a text and you were like, enough with this day.
You said, do you want to run away?
Which the answer is always yes.
But then I just stayed at work.
But let me tell you, you know what yesterday was?
I mean, I was super busy.
I was swamped with these projects, but you know today is going to be the same.
Some days looking really good.
These are boat days.
The boat could be on the water.
Let's take the boat on the water.
I don't have time.
I'm too busy.
I know.
So I, my other job is customer service.
And I most of the time enjoy working in customer service.
And I enjoy talking to people and I enjoy, like I like my job.
I do.
But I had the dumbest questions yesterday.
And I couldn't even, I just when people were calling in.
Yeah.
That's frustrating.
And then there was a couple of rude people and I don't like rude people.
And so then I was like, I'm over this day.
And then there was a couple of other things that happened.
I was like, I'm done.
I'm going to burn it all to the ground.
I was such a bad mood.
I know.
And then I was talking to some co-workers who were also not having a very good day.
And I go, what is with today?
Is it a full moon?
No, that was a couple of days ago.
Okay.
So it's not the full moon.
But we were all just kind of sitting in our little negativity house like, oh, did I?
In our negativity house.
Yes.
We were just complaining, complaining, complaining.
And then the phone rings and I go, hi.
Hello.
How can I help you?
That's funny.
And then it reminded me of when, when we all got shut down for COVID.
Yeah.
We had to do school and work from home.
Sure.
I had a customer service job back then too.
And so they routed all of the phone calls to my phone.
That's right.
And so our kids would be at the table working on their school work on the laptops.
I was downstairs recording in the home studio.
I would be on my computer doing work, answering phones.
And I'd be at the table being like, stretch school work.
You're yelling at my kids.
Hello.
And I remember them saying, you're so nice on the phone.
Yeah.
I'd be like, yeah, because I'm getting paid to you.
You want to pay me to be nice to you.
Go for it.
Yeah, I've got all this homework to do.
Can you be nice about it?
Here's a 20.
Yeah, all right.
Come on now.
Get that work done.
I did ask my coworkers.
I go, I feel like I'm in such a bad mood.
I feel like I'm being short with people.
Is that coming across on the phone?
And they were like, no, you sound pleasant on the phone.
And I go, OK, because if you called my office yesterday and spoke to me on the phone, I'm
real sorry.
Yeah.
It was a struggle yesterday.
What are you doing better today?
So far, so good.
Yeah.
Don't anybody blow this up.
Yeah.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
I was walking up the stairs yesterday and I thought, who, how, did the height of a stair
get decided?
Isn't it required that they, I mean, first of all, they all have to be the same height.
You can't have any stairs that are a different height because it creates a tripping hazard
because your body sort of subconsciously goes up and down the stairs.
And if a stair is the wrong height, you'll trip on it, right?
So that's an issue.
But then I think it's somewhere like seven inches?
Yeah, seven to seven and a half inches.
Good job.
Yeah, I think that's right.
But while I've built stairs, that's why I knew that.
10 to 11 inches is the how deep it is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's how the human leg naturally lifts and strides.
This is kind of fascinating.
Now that I'm reading about this.
Yeah.
And it's all done based off of the average human, but it was figured out a long, long,
long time ago.
Yeah, they figured out French architect and civil engineer.
And he created a mathematical rule to design comfortable staircases.
For sure.
So the rule is twice the rise or height plus the tread depth.
Okay.
Whatever that means.
Well, so it's triangles is what it means.
Like everything is, you have, stairs have a right angle, right?
Yeah.
You have a 90 degree angle.
So this other angle has to be that math.
So your height and your depth have to, it's, it's just a triangle.
That's all it is.
Stairs, stairs are a, stairs are a triangle.
So yeah, it says that human walking is a natural vertical rhythm and a comfortable leg
lift height.
If a riser is too tall, like 12 inches climbing, like galing a ladder, right?
If it's too short, under four inches, like, like, like, it's ridiculous.
It becomes a tripping hazard because the foot drags and the brain fails to register the
tiny step.
Correct.
Fascinating.
Yeah.
That is why there are some houses that you'll go, go into older homes, where people have
like done their own DIY stuff.
And you're like, I can't get around in this place.
Everything's uneven.
And it's because there's no consistent, there's no building code.
Well, enforcement.
Yeah.
This is what I think is interesting.
The brain and nervous system automatically calculates the height of the next step before
your foot.
That's what it all happens in your brain.
And that's fascinating.
Fascinating.
And it is very fascinating, but that's why everything has to be the same.
Because if one step was, was an inch or two taller or shorter, you'd, you would go,
like, it would break the rhythm.
Well, your grandma had some deck stairs.
Correct.
That's what I'm talking about.
And they were all kinds of wonky.
Right.
And that was, they were way over seven inches tall.
And fusing.
Yeah.
And not my brain was messed up.
Right.
They're too tall and they weren't deep enough and they were inconsistent across the whole
thing.
And that's what I'm saying.
You've got to have that consistent thing.
And railing, like railing can help with some of that.
Like if you have a way to hold on to stuff.
But yeah, that first step is well over, it is a doozy.
So a first step is a doozy.
It's over seven inches.
And then it's not the depth you need.
All the rest of them are the same.
But that first step is wrong.
The landing is wrong.
But that's fine.
The reason I even thought about this is because I was walking up the stairs in our basement
last night and I tripped up the stairs.
You fell up the stairs?
Yeah.
It's always a good noise it makes when you fall up the stairs.
Because it goes, come on, come on, and then everybody around goes, you all right?
And you don't know.
Not.
Yes, carry on.
And so I went, hmm, who decided to stay right?
Well, now you know.
Now we know.
Yeah.
A French architect.
Forever ago.
A French wall, blonde.
That's the guy.
That's him.
For us, what?
France, what?
Remember that.
You may need that in a trivia thing next time I point in your life.
Yeah, that's true.
It's French wall bar, what?
Whatever you said.
We have been moving our son out.
And last night we ran to the store to grab a couple of things and I go, oh, do you need
a towel?
Like we didn't think about you like taking a towel over there.
Yeah.
And he goes, yeah, I guess I kind of need a towel.
And then our daughter was like, you could take the bad ones from the house that we don't
like.
And I go, those are really bad towels.
And he said, I like those towels.
And I went, you're welcome to take those.
Or, yeah, or it's like $10 like five times.
I use some new towels.
Right.
So we got a couple towels.
We got brand new, nice, soft towels.
As we were looking at the towels, you go to, you need some washcloths and he goes, I don't
even know what I would do with a washcloth.
Because we all have, you switched the whole house over to a silicone scrubber instead of
a lufa because the lufa's hold bacteria and stuff.
And you were grossed out by lufas hanging around the showers.
So you got rid of lufas, the little, a tool lufa, and a bundle with a string on it and switched
us all over to these silicone thing.
And now look, both he and I are body wash guys, not bar or soap guys.
And so you put some body wash on there and you scrub and you rinse off and you're good
to go.
Right.
So that's what a washcloth would do.
Well, he goes, I don't know what I would do with a washcloth.
I mean, you'd wash your face or that's what we were telling him and he goes, I don't,
I, no one's ever taught me how to use a washcloth.
I'm like, no, no, no, no, no.
It's not that we didn't teach you.
You just didn't do it.
Well, but he didn't need to.
He was like, I wash my face with the water in the shower or whatever.
Right.
And so then as we're walking out of the aisle, he goes, well, I guess I'll get some
washcloths.
I go, no, if you're not going to use it, don't get it.
He did make it sound like he kind of missed his regular loofah.
He's like, mom got rid of the loofah.
I'm like, okay.
All right.
I'll make a list of what things he needs.
A loofah.
I don't think he needs a loofah.
He's got his little scrubber.
He's good.
He switched over.
If he wants a loofah, he can go spend 99 cents and get a pack of six or whatever.
And then he's like, oh, he's got a loofah.
Yeah.
He's got a loofah.
He's got a loofah.
Yeah.
He's an old man now.
He can buy his own loofah.
Oh, God.
Where am I?
Loofah.
Yeah.
I used to have this cool black loofah.
I liked a lot.
Don't have that anymore.
I got this thing I could scrub myself with and also take a hot pan out of the oven.
Ridiculous.
I know.
It is ridiculous being a parent sometimes.
Isn't it?
You think you're doing it right?
And then one day your kids go, hmm, I don't know what a washcloth does.
What's that for?
Oh, buddy.
Yeah.
Maybe I haven't done such a great job.
Yeah.
We got to go back to the drawing board with this one.
You told me yesterday you came home and said that your boss said that you were a motivated
person.
Yeah.
He said that you are a very motivated human being.
And I said, yeah, occasionally, I can do that.
He was mostly talking about the fact that I was like, I got here early.
I had a bunch of stuff I had to do with the show and after the show.
And then it was like, I'm going to work on this office and I'm going to get things done.
We went and picked up the desk.
I had the desk literally sitting in the hallway for a good portion of the day.
That's a fire hazard.
That's not a good thing to have happen.
So I said, I don't want to leave this here.
I want to make sure I get enough of the office done that I can move the desk in.
And originally I said, well, I'm just going to finish two walls.
The two walls that the desk is going to touch.
And then I'll worry about the rest later.
But then as I got started and I finished up those walls, I went, I'm already here.
I'm already, I've already got the stuff out.
I don't want to wash the paint roller and the paintbrush and then do it all again the
next day.
That sounds awful.
I'm just going to buckle down and get it done.
So I got way done five o'clock almost and he comes down and he says, dude, you are way
too motivated.
You are a motivated guy right now.
And I said, yeah, all I have left is my second coat of cutting in.
I've already done two coats on the roller.
I just have that and then maybe some touch up and stuff.
I'll worry about that tomorrow.
And he was like, well, don't stay too late.
And then I finished up the rolling part that I was working on and I went, I'm just, I don't
want to wash the paintbrush and the roller and then have to get it all out again tomorrow.
So I'm going to go ahead and finish it all.
And so your text is going, where are you?
And I'm like, I'm wrapping up the paint thing and then I'll be home.
That was kind of how that went.
But I was very motivated.
I think when you told me that I kind of looked at you like, you are.
You are to a point motivated.
If you get passionate about a project, you'll buckle down and get it done.
If you get bored midway through a project, that project will stall and it won't get finished.
Like when I do a trim work or if yeah, or if you get stuck because you're like, I don't
know how to finish this.
Then you go, I'm stuck.
I'm just going to, I'm just going to leave it.
But I would say that once you get started, you're like, yep, I'm all in until you hit
a roadblock.
And then it completely stalls.
Yeah.
I know.
Like trim work.
I hate it so much.
I have the trim laying next to where it needs to be.
It needs to be painted.
First of all, I hate that.
Yeah.
Then I have to get the air compressor and get the Brad nailer and the whole thing all
rigged up.
Then I have to line that stuff up and I have to cut little angles and I have to go,
and then it'll be done.
I don't want to do it.
I'm bored by that project.
I don't want to get out the saw horses and paint the boards, bleh.
That's a part I don't mind.
Go nuts.
I will.
Okay.
And then I'll do the nail cut.
Nice.
Look at you.
Bravo.
Thank you so much.
Have you seen those videos where they're like, what sound does the Brad nailer make?
And then they, somebody go, and then they'll put it to a video of them using the Brad
nailer.
And it doesn't make that sound really.
I love that.
We should do that.
Yeah.
What sound does the concrete drill make?
And they'll go, perfect.
And then it's a video of you using that drill and it goes, yeah, it's exactly the noise
it makes.
Like a dinosaur noise.
Yeah, which that video exists?
What's your dinosaur noise?
Wow.
What's that?
What's that?
What's that?
So John Bon Jovi, or Bon Jovi, as you know him, Opao Bon Jovi, you know, you know, he
has some problems with his voice right now.
No, I did not know that.
Yeah.
Apparently, he was in Australia and he was on a current affair, the talk show.
Yeah.
And somebody said, do you have any regrets in your career?
And he says, I never modulated a song at the end before.
And so when we did live in on a prayer, he said, let me try this.
And he said, when you're young and dumb, you're like, yeah, I could do this.
There's this weird key change thing that happens in the song.
And it has taken a ton of damage on his vocal chords over the years as he performed living
on a prayer.
He is now as of 2022 undergone vocal chords.
Certainly.
Because of this one song, the band is doing a bunch of different touring right now.
They've got like 15 shows between this year and next year and then February of next year,
they're in Tokyo for more.
They're still out doing it, but he's had to have vocal, vocal chord surgery.
He's wrecked his voice because of living on a prayer.
Have you ever heard that song or sang along to it or, you know, party?
I'm sure he's had to end every show with that song though too, because that's one of their
top songs.
So guaranteed.
I blame Richie San Borra.
How?
Because he didn't do the vocals at all.
John did that himself.
He probably wrote it.
You know what'd be fun, John, is if we did a thing here, but it's interesting.
Though, like, you don't think about the way singing is going to affect your body.
It was like, yeah, it was young.
I was 24.
I was like, yeah, we can do this.
We're happy there, man.
Whoa.
Stop it.
So as our son was moving stuff out last night, he moved his headboard and there was a sock
there and I go, just one sock.
Yeah, just one.
And I go, oh, there's that sock you've been missing for.
He's been missing for weeks, months, years, decades.
And he goes, oh, well, he always got a dog on me.
And then I didn't hear that interaction.
That's hilarious because he was like, why are you begging on me for real?
We lifted the mattress and I'm not kidding you.
I don't understand physics well enough to understand how in the world, two dozen socks
unmatched socks ended up under the mattress.
There were 25 socks under there.
And I lifted the mattress and I went, bro, here's all your socks.
Look at them all.
Have you been missing socks?
And he was like, no, not really.
I'm like, how are you not missing socks?
You have 500 pairs because there's 12 pair right here in front of me.
So what I'd like to know is how come you don't get in trouble for saying something?
Right.
You said it about it when I said it.
Yeah, no, I got in big trouble.
I got kicked out of the room.
You should uninclude yourself.
He said the way that you do it is more fun.
Oh, I bet it's because I have whimsy.
I'm sorry.
This is a reference to yesterday's show.
When I was told I didn't have any whimsy.
He did tell me.
Because I asked him, I go, how come dad gets to say that, but I don't.
And he goes, well, dad does it in a nice way.
I go, I didn't in a nice way.
I don't understand.
I don't know.
I didn't get it.
You don't want to know what else I don't understand?
How 25 socks end up under a mattress.
It was crazy.
He's finding gift cards all over.
He's like, I found this card in here.
Oh, look, another gift card over here.
My dude, what is going on here?
I am very excited about getting in that room and getting that real nice and clean.
The amount of dust.
You have no idea.
You have no idea.
I cleaned the window sill because I couldn't even look at it and the dust rag made mud.
I'm not even kidding you.
What has been going on in there?
Places of disaster.
No, no.
I got to get in there and real, really clean that place.
Yeah, well, if you need a sock, I know where a whole bunch are.
And there's going to be more.
We're going to find more.
There's going to be more socks.
Oh, yeah, for sure there is.
It's crazy.
Don't say anything about it though.
Well, I can.
Yeah, you can.
I'll keep my mouth shut.
Oh, and include myself.
Hey, did you go do your load of socks in the laundry and you go move your 600 socks?
It's crazy.
Does he just buy new socks?
If no idea.
What's going on?
I don't know.
I don't know who raised that kid.
I don't know.
Was it us?
No, no.
Did we do something?
No, I raised my kids good.
Okay.
Would you rather this or that?
Would you rather have free McDonald's for life or free Chick-fil-A for life?
I'm going to choose McDonald's, but I want you to choose, then I'll tell you why.
Because of the variety, I think is what you're going to say.
What are you choosing?
I'm going to pick Chick-fil-A just because I think there's more of a variety of healthier
options.
Okay.
I understand what you're saying.
There's a couple of different salads that they have on their menu.
You can get a grilled chicken thing.
You can get the chicken wrap.
Yeah.
Chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken.
I think McDonald's has a big variety of other options.
That's what I'm saying because then I could get a fish or a chicken or a beef.
I think Chick-fil-A has better, healthier options.
That's what I'm saying.
If I'm eating McDonald's for life, no, no, no.
That's not what you said.
I did.
No, you said you get it for free for life.
Yeah.
It doesn't mean that's the only thing I have to eat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I can still go have Chick-fil-A.
It's just whenever I go to McDonald's, it's free.
Okay.
So that's it.
Okay.
It's just the free part of it.
Okay.
No, me?
I do.
Now, if the question is, what is the, if you get it for free, but you also have to eat
every meal is from there, then I'm choosing Chick-fil-A.
How come?
Because of the different varieties of chickens.
Someone told me they had a, like, a grilled thing or a salad.
Oh, they also have soup.
Okay.
And they have frozen lemon aides that are nice.
Yeah.
You know?
Would you rather this is that?
Our daughter has been telling us what she wants for Christmas for the past month and a half,
I think.
Sure.
Ever since her birthday.
Her birthday went by in September and then she was like, I want this for Christmas.
Because you didn't get it for your birthday?
Got it.
So yeah, we've got some Christmas wishlets coming in hot.
Now, here's what I think is funny.
Our daughter is, and I don't mean this to be mean.
She is very much like, I want this.
I want this.
I want this.
I want this.
Meanwhile, you just told me that our son needs a new quilt because the quilt he has on his
bed is pretty...
It's paper thin.
I don't know how it got so thin.
Our son does not ask for stuff.
I know.
And so...
Well, even, you know, we were doing some shopping to get him like a shower caddy and, you
know, stuff like that.
And it's like, dude, like, you need these things.
Yeah.
And he's like, I don't even know this was a thing.
Like, he doesn't shop.
No.
Necessarily.
He doesn't just wander the stores and go, oh, I didn't know they made that.
Like, that's one of the things I love to do.
I go, oh, they...
Look at this new thing.
And you love to walk right by me and look at all the things with me.
I know.
I've seen you there.
Just happy to be there with me.
It's just the difference in our kids sometimes makes me laugh.
Just emery on this side.
I want this.
I want this.
I want this.
And then me asking our son, hey, do you need anything?
He's like, no, good.
Not everything I need.
Yeah.
And if I wanted, I'll buy it myself.
Right.
To.
Yeah, I'll just stop by the store and pick that stuff up.
I'm good.
And I go, okay, dude.
Yeah.
So, yeah, that is interesting.
But they sent out that catalog that gets circled.
That's been circled.
The Elfster wishlist is getting updated regularly.
We're getting text messages about items like, oh, this is cool.
I like this.
I would like this.
I want to refresh it.
Anybody want to go to Dutch with me?
I want to go to Dutch.
Anybody want to go to Dutch?
Yeah, it's a constant.
I want this.
I want this.
Yeah.
That's the way it's the difference between the kids.
Kids.
Yeah.
But Christmas wishlists are coming in hot.
It's also nice is that we're now into the season where when the kids go, I want this,
you know, Christmas is coming.
We're now in that zone.
We are in that zone.
Oh, Christmas is on the way.
Oh, you need new toothpaste?
Well, I'm better.
Tell us.
I don't know.
Wait, tell Christmas.
Put it on your list.
Christmas is a month and a half away.
Well, you better.
I'm out of socks.
I can't find them.
Put it on your Christmas list.
All right.
Let's wrap up the show.
Have a great rest of your day.
We'll be back tomorrow morning, bright and early on your Thursday.
All right.
That's it.
See you.
Adios.
Bye.
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