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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Monday, June 15th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
The first official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizzeria is opening in Santa Monica, California, which happens to be very close to an idea Josh had years ago, the New York Knicks won the NBA Championship for the first time since 1973, a remarkable medical breakthrough where a wearable resistance robot helped children with spinal muscular atrophy stand on their own, a weekend backpacking trip to Aldous and Hancock Lakes, a memorable stop at the legendary (and cash-only) Kilgore Store, the great garden update, a hilarious grocery store scare, teens weighing in on AI tools and why they rank Claude above ChatGPT, your chance to win tickets to see Chicago at the Mountain America Center by playing Generations at 8:20 this week, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Ninja Turtle Pizzeria
(3:55) - Win Chicago tickets all week
(7:39) - Good News
(9:56) - Knicks win
(14:41) - Backpacking recap
(21:30) - Better then mom's spaghetti
(24:51) - Josh knows ball
(29:11) - Kilgore Store
(33:14) - Favorite part of the garden
(39:46) - Grocery store sneak attack
(44:44) - Would You Rather
(47:04) - Ai vs Ai vs Ai
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Full show transcript:
I just learned about something. I'm a little upset about it. I got to talk about it. Okay. My cousin and I had an idea. Do you remember our idea?
Yeah, you wanted to do a pizza joint that was all retro themed with Ninja Turtles. You wanted a Ninja Turtle Pizza restaurant.
The world's first official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizzeria is opening its doors in Southern California.
No kidding. Located in Santa Monica, the restaurant which officially opens next weekend will be decked out in wall-to-wall retro turtle decor complete with glowing green ooze and neon lights. Fans can look forward to a specialized pizza menu, a secret bar tucked away in the back that will serve up adult drinks on the weekends and merch.
That was your idea, Josh.
I didn't have the capital. I didn't have the way to do it. You blew it. What's cool is that this is actually officially approved by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. So it is literally branded Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizzeria.
So this could potentially franchise, which would be kind of neat if it did, but it is officially branded. I was worried that we weren't gonna be able to get that kind of a connection. And so if we were gonna do it, we were gonna have to do something that was little less specific. We're gonna have to be a little more vague. We're gonna have to call it like sewer ooze pizza or something like that. You're not really selling. No, but nothing sounds better than sewer ooze pizza.
You guys want to go to sewer ooze?
Yeah, otherwise. It's really gonna stick with you though. Otherwise you would have gotten a cease and desist. Well, right. Copyright. We don't want that. Maybe we call it foots. We're gonna open up another one. We're gonna open a pizzeria that is shredders pizzeria. We're gonna go the other way. We're gonna have foot soldiers serving you pizza. We'll have cring back there. Brain, but it would be cool. We'll have bebop and rock steady doing like dance moves, doing break dances out in the parking lot on cardboard. It's gonna work.
Who's Crang? The head guy in the box?
The head guy in a box? Yeah, I'm just gonna say yes because that's the best description of Crang I've ever heard. The head guy in a box. Yes. The answer is yes. That's him. He's the brain that has the big man and he rides around in like the belly aquarium of his robot.
Yeah. Or the head guy in a box. Yeah, that's him. But yeah, maybe that's what we do. Maybe we open shredders pizzeria next door. There you go. And we have like we do it better. It's all purple and black. Yeah, it's the... Oh, jeez. I don't know any of these references. I was thinking the light side versus the dark side.
Yeah, in Star Wars. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It'd be like Darth Vader versus Luke Skywalker. For sure. The good guys. Right. The foot soldiers are the bad guys. And shred. Yeah. Which side do you want to be on? Do you want to be on the good guy side? You want to be on the bad guy side?
We're gonna bring shredders pizza and we're gonna have a better pizza. That's the goal. I'm excited for the guy. I'm bummed out. I know. He's still your idea. TMNT pizzeria in Santa Monica, California.
Now we're gonna have to take a trip there. Gotta go to LA to go to TMNT pizzeria. Road trip. It's super cool. It's cool, man. Still my idea. Sorry, dear.
Here's today's show. Well, hey. Hey. Hey, good morning. Hey, good morning. What's up?
It's Monday. Yeah. I feel excited to be here. Wow.
I know. A dad is something strange.
Don't get... No, no, no. I'm always excited to be here. I'm just extra sleepy most days. I am sleepy. Don't get me wrong.
This is a convoluted message you're sending. I'm excited to be here. I mean, you know, it's weird. But also I work out good sleep, but I didn't get crazy. Don't get excited. What are you... Go ahead.
I'm just trying to be optimistic.
Oh, I like it. I like it. Some exciting things happening this week on the show. Okay. First of all, it's a four-day week for us, which is always nice. Chicago the Band. Yes. Chicago, not the Broadway musical. Let's be clear. Chicago the Band. With Peter Sotera. Well, is it Peter Sotera?
25 or 16-fold. No, I know Chicago, but is the touring group with Peter Sotera? I don't know. I'm just trying to make the people aware that what we're talking about.
Well, Chicago is going to be at the Mountain America Center on Friday, October the 2nd. We've got tickets to give away all this week. So for you early birds that are hanging out with us this morning, you can open up the app and you can tap the link right in that app, and it'll say Chicago, and you can enter to win a pair of tickets in our app. And then we're also today through Thursday while we're here in the studio, we're going to be playing a game called Generations. We play in that game at 8.20 every day, Monday through Thursday this week, and you've got a chance to score tickets when you play Generations with us. Your chance to see Chicago live in concert, which is pretty exciting.
That is pretty exciting.
It's a new game. It's a generational trivia game, and we'll play at 8.20, and all you have to do is get three out of four right to win a pair of tickets to see Chicago. If you know your generational trivia and you think you can answer three out of four generational questions from different generations.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can't just be your generation.
It's got to be... Let's say you're a boomer. You've got to know a boomer trivia. You've got to know a Gen X trivia, a millennial trivia, and a Gen Z trivia.
Oh, Gen Z trivia.
And you have to get three out of four to win. So what we're going to do is we're going to play, and if the first person doesn't get all four, we've got to take another call, or we've got to play with another person. It's going to be fun.
It is going to be fun. I'm excited.
Generations, 8.20 this morning for your chance to win tickets to see Chicago on Friday, October 2nd, at the Mountain America Center. It's going to be good. But go enter in the Classy 97 app, and you can sign up there for your chance to win a pair of tickets. Because we won't be here Friday, we have a pair of tickets to give away online, so you can enter to win those. Cool. Yeah. Cool beans. I know.
If you leave me there. Oh, look at Chicago. Now I'm just going to be singing Chicago all day, every day.
Well, play Generations with us at 8.20 for your chance to win some free Chicago tickets. I love it. What else is happening?
I think you got it all covered.
Well, there's a lot more to talk about. I'm sure about that, and we'll do that all morning. And according to my phone, you arrived here safely.
So, good deal.
Oh, here's some good news. This is really exciting. For children that are born with a disorder that is called spinal muscular atrophy, even the simple act of standing up from a chair has been an impossible dream, which is pretty intense. The condition causes muscles to waste away over time, and traditional therapy usually focuses on giving them robotic crutches or braces to help them move. This insanely brilliant team of scientists decided to try the exact opposite approach, and apparently it's worked like magic. They built a tiny wearable robot that weighs less than two pounds, and it straps onto a child's knees. And instead of helping them move, the robot actually adds resistance acting like a little weight machine.
So instead of assisting them, it prohibits them, which sounds backwards, but it's like a workout. And they've found a way to make it fun for kids between the ages of six and 10 who wore the devices while playing a video game where they had to kick virtual soccer balls. And after just six weeks of gaming against the robot resistance, the kid's leg strength exploded by 130%. They've strengthened their legs, and every single child in the study was able to stand up completely on their own for the first time in their lives.
Isn't that incredible? How many kids are in the study? It doesn't say, but that's so cool that they said, you know what we've got to do is we've got to find a way these kids exercise these muscles.
It's physical therapy, which is hard to do when things are painful and when it's not fun. And so by turning it into a video game, they were able to get the kids to play and they were able to strengthen their knees without even really thinking about what they were doing. The breakthrough is pretty relatively simple. It is expected to help thousands of kids around the world improve their mobility for years to come, which I think is just fantastic. That's amazing. Yeah, way to go.
That's a really good story to kick off the week. No. Oh, Josh. Oh. Good one. It's good news. The Knicks One.
Hey, congratulations.
Here's what happens. We were out of cell service for about 24 hours, and we come back into town and then we find out all of the news that happened while we were out of service.
That's right. Here's what I don't understand. You came in last night and you said, hey, have you seen the videos of the Knicks fans? Yeah. So here are the videos that I saw. And apparently you were on a different side of the news than I was because I was seeing an outpouring of celebration and excitement and love and just the city of New York in a whole new state of enjoyment and excitement. And people were talking about this as like the biggest thing to happen in New York City since 9-11, which is a major thing that happened in New York City at that point. And let's be clear, the Knicks have not won the championship in 53 years.
This hasn't happened since 1973. I saw people jumping up and down and hugging on the subway. There were people singing in the streets, like entire neighborhoods dancing and singing in the streets because the Knicks had won.
The videos of the crowd, like just people would go out on their balconies in New York City and record the audio as the game was wrapping up and just the cheers and excitement.
There was all of that, but then they also started destroying stuff.
That's what you told me. They were saying. You said it looked like Philadelphia after they win. Yeah.
I don't understand why Philly has to destroy their city when they win. I don't even know. It makes no sense. I still thought I'm like, New York, why are you doing this?
Why are we doing this? Right. They said, I saw a video where they were like destroying a taxi cab. They had baseball bats and they were just like smashing the windshield stuff. I'm like, why?
Why are we doing this? Apparently, allegedly, they set fire to some school buses that were hired to transport World Cup fans to the MetLife Stadium. This makes no sense. They injured some cops.
There was a lot of people that were arrested. I don't understand. Why are we doing this when we win? Also, our son told us that they were not destroying, but they were beating up Spurs fans. Let's not do this.
I just Googled Nix fans. Okay. And here are the things that pop up. Okay. Nix fanatics championship gear flying off the shelves in record fashion. Nix fans celebrate in San Antonio, saying it's the greatest day of my life. Historic Nix NBA championship has New Yorkers dancing in the streets. New Yorkers celebrate Nix championship with an all night party. Like, I mean, this is, these are the headlines. Now, there is also this one that says 63 arrested in New York City as Nix fans celebrate the NBA finals championship. You know, I don't know. I'm just like, I've, the point is,
I think the majority of people were celebrating the way they ought to. And there were a few outliers that were like, we're going to destroy the city.
They created news headlines.
But that's the way it always works, isn't it? I think so. There's just one person who runs it for everybody.
A bunch of bad apples spoiling the whole bunch. That's what they say. Takes one bad apple to spoil a whole bunch. Stay away from that bad apple in the big apple. Right. Okay. Ooh, ooh, ooh. Yeah. Yeah. Well, congrats to the Nix. Four games to one, right?
Yeah, they, they haven't won since 1973. So this was a big, big moment.
Here's what I know. Just to talk about the game, Jalen Brunson scored 45 points. Whoa. The Nix rallied from a 16 point deficit to beat the Spurs 94 to 90 in game five on Saturday, clinching the franchise's third title. It's only the third time they've won the championship and the first time since 1973.
That's pretty incredible. Some of the celebrity Nix fans who were in attendance at the away game because they won in San Antonio, Timothy Chalamet was there. Spike Lee, John Torturo was there. And then of course, Mayor Mamdani announced the championship parade will be happening on Thursday. So that is going to be a party in the streets in New York on Thursday, which is pretty exciting. So that's what I know.
Okay. Congrats, Nix fans.
And, you know, the Nix who did the work. You mentioned that we were out of cell service for about 24 hours and that is because we were backpacking. We went on a nice little backpacking adventure.
Yes, we did. About a five mile or so trip. We saw a couple of different Alpine lakes. If you can call them that, they're kind of just mountain lakes. I guess they're sub Alpine. That would be sub Alpine lakes.
Couldn't tell you. Yeah, because their elevation isn't like super high up there. They're sub Alpine.
Okay. Like going to a lake in the sawtooth mountains, not redfish, that's sub Alpine. But if you hike up into the sawtooth, those are Alpine lakes. Same with like, you go to Teton National Park and you hike up to like Jenny, that's sub Alpine, but you go up high and you see some of those big ones up in the mountains. Those are Alpine lakes.
So, up for Palisades, is that sub Alpine? It's sub Alpine. Oh, interesting.
I think so. I don't think it's elevation is high enough. Okay. Nonetheless.
It's still Great Lakes. We saw Aldous Lake. Yes. And then that's where we had planned to camp for the night.
I do like that we, like the name gets tossed around. Aldous is what I've heard and seen and everything. Some people call it Aldous because they, we got that like, yeah, we're from Idaho. So we call it Aldous.
I don't know what I'll do it.
But I do like to stand there and say, look at Aldous Lake. Look at it. Look at Aldous Lake. Stupid. Yeah. It's good.
It's funny every time we get to our campsite, we hiked up there with our packs. We throw our packs down and we go, okay, who wants to go on a, another short little hike. Yes. Less than a mile. Hancock Lake. That's right. I go, great. Let's go. Oh boy. That was a treacherous, not treacherous because it wasn't necessarily
dangerous, but it was a steep little jaunt. It had a couple of switchbacks, some gravel that was slippery. Yeah.
And the whole way up, everybody's kind of going, this better be worth it. This lake better be worth it. Get to the top of the lake. Yeah. It was not worth it.
No, here's the deal. Low water year is what I'm going to blame the state of Hancock Lake. I'm going to blame it on low water year because I think there just wasn't enough runoff to help with the clarity of that lake. The pictures I have seen of Hancock Lake look great. Really? Yes.
Okay. So you're saying we've got to try again a different year.
Yeah. I think this year it is muddy and chocolatey milk and it is four inches from the surface you can't see below it.
Yeah, you tried to fish and you're like, there's nothing there. Forget
about it. I mean, they're probably fishing there, but I don't know where they're hanging out because there were no signs of life in that water. It was pretty dirty.
You said it was so dirty they couldn't even see your fly. There's no way.
No way. I'm just pulled up some pictures because I wanted to look again. It looks great. I can see some of this is pictures of Aldous or Aldous, but this is a picture of Hancock Lake that I am looking at right here. And it's green and the water level is higher as we expected it to be. The other thing I noticed that the runoff that did appear, it had done some serious erosion into the lake and that's probably where all the brown came from too.
It was just the amount of erosion and mud that had been pushed into it. So it was not the most desirable spot of where we ended up, but it was nice to get there. We got there. I haven't ever been there before. We need to know what it looks like. That's right. Okay. And that is that, I guess. But sometimes the second destination that's harder to get to
isn't necessarily the thing you wanted to see. It was a little brown. But guess what? I'm proud of all of us. We did it.
I know. And you did it, which was great. You went backpacking. You went overnight with a backpack on your back and slept in a tent on the ground. How was your new sleeping bag? Let's talk about it. Let's talk about your new bag. Because last week I was really excited for you to try it because you hadn't yet. Right. And?
It was nice. My feet were cold, but other than that, the sleeping bag itself was great.
Yeah. Super nice. I like them. You glad you tried it out on the deck? Did that help? Yeah. No, it did not. Yeah. How can we help your feet be warm? I don't know what's going on.
Get some toe warmers. You got to get some circulation. Yeah, but that's not going to happen. So we've got to get some toe warmers.
What about a compression thing? I've seen people wear like a neoprene that's tight on their feet. That might help. That helps with a compression because your blood vessels shrink and that's why you get cold feet. Yeah.
You got shrinky blood vessels. Yeah. So we need to compress your feet. Okay. Get some of those. Okay. Okay. Look at that for next time? Yes. Or just every day. You might be like, wow, these really help my feet stay warm every day.
They're fine now. My feet feel fine now.
Tell you go to bed tonight.
Yeah.
It's when I go to bed. Every day. My feet are cold. Yeah.
But the bag itself, I tossed and turned and I didn't even get tangled up once. I know. That was great. That was nice. Yeah. Yeah.
Pretty good. I was so toasty. I love my sleeping bag. It's so nice. It's nice. I can sleep in it.
It's too hot for the house. I mean like every day. It's too hot for the house. I can sleep in it every time I sleep outside. It's so good.
But it'd be nice to have the bed be as comfy as my sleeping bed. I'd like to figure that out.
I didn't think it was that great. Like I liked it. But purely for camping. I'm not going to bring that sleeping bag. I'm not going to sleep in it every night. Just camping.
I just want the comfort of it.
I like my bed. My bed's pretty comfortable. It's fine. I like it.
Okay. Sometimes when you're camping with youth, they say things that catch you off guard. And you apparently wrote down one of those things. Because did it stick out to you? It did. One of the scouts had a backpacking dehydrated spaghetti meal. And it heated up and he was sharing it with another scout.
Well, time out. Okay. Because when you first saw that, that's what he was having for dinner. He was like, are you going to eat that all yourself?
Okay. Because listen, those meals are two to two and a half servings. And even if you're a growing boy, you, you, it's a lot of food.
Because it hydrates, it becomes much bigger than the little pouch that it's in. Yeah. And it will consume you. It's dense. We were in bear country. And so we had to put all of our food in a bear bag. Right. And we were like, you got to figure out a way to, if you're not going to eat that all, you're also going to have to pack that out, boy.
Correct. There's no such thing as leftovers. There's no throw it away because you don't like it.
Like you got to pack it in and pack it out. And you got to eat what you make. Right. That's like, we explain that and we try to explain that in meetings ahead of time. We say, look at the serving size on those things because you might think, I love spaghetti. I could eat a lot of spaghetti when I'm at home. I eat a lot of spaghetti.
Yeah. It's not rehydrated spaghetti for one and for two, two and a half servings of spaghetti is a lot of spaghetti. It is a lot of spaghetti. So yeah, he eats up the, he eats up the water, rehydrates the spaghetti all as well. He's eating. And then we were going, there's no way he's going to finish that whole bag.
So we see him sharing with other scouts who wants some of this because no one wants to carry it out. I did over here. This is what I wrote down because I went, oh no, I hope your mom never hears that. He's eating his rehydrated spaghetti.
It wasn't the scout who brought it, who said it. It was another scout who was trying it. Go ahead.
The spaghetti is better than my mom's.
And that is not good news. Oh no.
Let's be fair. Those rehydrated meals, they're fine when you're backpacking. They're not, they're not anything to write home about. They're just not.
Or to compare home about, listen, here's probably the deal. You've been walking all day. This is the same scout, by the way, that we figured out left his water bottle in the truck. Didn't say a word. We had a potential dehydration situation on our hands, but he was, fortunately he was okay. But he, he did like that spaghetti a good deal. It was better than mom's. This spaghetti is better than my mom's.
That's a thing you over here. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry to have mom. Don't take it personally though.
I don't, I just think he's been walking. He didn't have water. He was out of his mind.
For sure. For sure.
The spaghetti is better than my mom's. Hey, you know who's spaghetti? It's not better than M &M's mom's mom's spaghetti.
Mom's spaghetti. You know? I guess. I guess I know. Sorry mom's. Sorry mom's. We're sitting around a campfire. We went hiking with a bunch of scouts and so there was a lot of 11 to 17 year old scouts that were there.
Right. And we're sitting around a campfire and some of the boys started discussing Fortnite and you jumped right on in and you were like, oh yeah, I know about that. And they're like, what?
You know about that? They were blown away.
And I would know anything about anything. Like I was this old man, know anything about anything. And then you said, yeah, yeah, I know about that. I've played that before.
Yeah. I was like, where are we dropping boys? And I don't know. I know about some video game stuff. Yeah, you do. I play video games. I know what's up.
And then you started talking about some YouTubers and they were like, what? You know about that guy?
That's right. And one of the scouts said and this sentence has sort of eluded you because you're like, I don't even know what this means. I don't know what it means. He said, this guy knows, he knows Fortnite ball.
This guy. And you went, what does that mean? I don't know what that means. He knows ball. That's what that means. Like, you know stuff. I know, it means like he's in the know. He knows the game.
He knows stuff. I was actually kind of, I'm proud like sitting in the house like, yeah, like he knows stuff. That's right.
Hackey sack is a big deal. I think I talked about this. Yes. You want to impress a bunch of, a bunch of middle school and young high school kids, pull up with an old school Hackey sack and then, and they're standing around and you're like, oh, I got one of those. And they go, how do you have that? And I've had this. I know about this. I am this.
When you pulled out your Hackey sack, they were like, whoa, this is old. Yeah. Like, is it a dirt bag?
You see how all the little beads inside are broken down and it just feels soft like sand. That takes work. That takes years.
They were pretty impressed by you. I mean, you know, they were pretty impressed. And then I tried to jump in the game. Yeah.
Then you started throwing around a bunch of lingo. No one uses anymore like lingo. Yeah.
The word no one said. Yeah. No cap. And one, not the cap is still around. You were throwing out bussines still, which is not a thing. And one of the scouts said, I really don't like it when old people try to sound cool.
Yeah. I really don't like that. No one does. Old people listen to them. They don't know Paul.
They did ask us if we had hot Cheetos back in our day.
Oh, and then we did the research on that. It came out when we were like four or 11.
It became popular when we were about 12. Yeah. They invented it, but then it
didn't catch on till we were almost in our teenage years.
Did you guys have hot Cheetos back in your day? Yeah.
Back in your day. We're old. Was TV in color? Did they just have they just invented the radio? Like that was over 100 years ago. Come on. Kids. I'm not that old.
Hey, I sorry that I lost them in your street cried because you were like, no, that's your street.
They were like, this guy. Yeah.
Why he knows ball. Why'd he bring this old lady does know this old lady who brought this old one.
I was fun. It's always fun to surprise the kids when you know that stuff. And then you go, Oh, yeah, yeah. Like I know about that. It's fun. Like I keep up with stuff.
I try to know the trend. I try to know the language. I try to know what's going on on the internet. And they're like, how do you know about that? And I go, because I pay attention. That's how one day you too can be cool.
Like that's my favorite part is when they go, how do you know about that? We thought that was some exclusive club. No, you guys, come on.
Come on, guys. I know, I know ball. We, we took a drive up to I'll do his like, and you have to go past Kilgore. That's right. Is the name of it. Kilgore, Idaho to get to the trailhead. Right. We stopped at this little place called the Kilgore store. Kilgore store.
If you've never been to Kilgore, don't blink. You'll drive right through it. What's the population?
I just like 10 to 20, 10 to 20 people. Well, it says because it's unincorporated, the census counts vary by source, but they've got roughly 10 to 20 residents. But if you include the wider postal area, it's about 200. Oh, okay.
So this Kilgore store, I like that they call it an in an unincorporated community on Antelope Valley Road. It's on a road. It's like six residences and then in the store,
but they do have the Kilgore store. The Kilgore store, we had a couple of scouts that were there that were one of them was like, I wanted to buy a mount do, but it didn't look like. Yeah, they were a little concerned about 20 years old.
Look, I can't think you can just sell old stuff. I don't think you can. So there's that. But, but it was definitely, if you've not seen the Kilgore store, I mean, it's worth a stop by.
It is. The woman that was running it was very nice.
It is cash only. So be prepared for that.
It is cash only, but she is getting the internet next week or month.
At some point this year, she's getting the internet.
The internet is coming. That's a big deal to the Kilgore store. So she might be able to take some cards at that point. That was
the big news. The big news in the car was that the internet's coming to the Kilgore store. We were like, we were very impressed. All of us. We went, wow.
She does have a pay phone that does still work.
That is correct. And I think the scouts were pretty fascinated by that. They're like, we picked it up and it makes a noise. That's a dial tone. The noise you're hearing is a dial tone. And they were like, we pushed buttons, but it didn't do anything. And I went, no kidding. You got to put coins in, but you got to put a coin in there. It's cash only.
There was some noise.
Yeah, we picked it up and there was a noise, but it didn't do anything. And I went, yeah, no kidding. It went, bang.
Oh man, we should have given them a coin. They could have called. Who would they have called? One of their cell phones.
They would have just called themselves.
They would have called, yeah. Yeah, maybe. Just to see what it's like to hear the fuzzy like, like a old phone.
Like a crackling on the line.
Yeah. Well, anyway, it was still standing. It was still a place you can go.
If you need to use the restroom there,
there is not a restroom in the store. Because there's a washroom. There's a washroom, but it's clear out in the back. And I wasn't quite sure it was working properly. You had a bit of an adventure with the washroom?
Yeah. I started, she kind of pointed me clear back to the back at the store where the washroom was to use the restroom. And I went, oh, okay. And I started walking back there by myself. And then a couple of the other women that were along for the hiking adventure were like, we're going to come with you. And I went, thank you.
Strength in numbers. Yeah. Yeah. It's still there. You can still go. Bring cash. She's got stuff in there. Go supporters. She's nice. There's fishing stuff. There's coolers of refreshments. There's donuts. There's Twinkies. There's a lot going on at the Kilgore store. They had a onesie, little red, like jammies that said the Kilgore store on it with the flap. Oh. They were cute. I thought that'd be fun. Kilgore store. Bring cash. Bring cash. Bring some cash. That's cash only. Maybe that'll change once they get the internet this year.
Internet's coming, you guys. This is a huge deal. Okay. So anybody who knows you or anyone who's been listening to the show will know by now that you are pretty in love with your garden. You love what you've built. You've loved watching things grow. If anybody comes over, you ask us and the kids twice a day, do you guys want to go take a garden tour? You asked Emory last night, do you want to go take a garden tour?
And she said, So what? She goes, I've already been out there. I've seen it. When you haven't seen anything.
You're pretty proud of your garden. And you should be. You've worked really hard on it. It's pretty great. You were asked over the weekend, what's the favorite part of your garden?
I don't even know. The whole thing. You did say that. There's not one part that's greater than the other. I harvested 14 radishes. That's awesome. Who's counting? Me. Yes, yesterday. I harvested 14 radishes yesterday. I've got flowers on my snap peas. You know what that means? Snap peas are coming on soon.
That's what that means. My potato buckets, they're awesome. I got brand new gourds and birdhouse gourds growing. I got all kinds of squash doing its squash thing.
The acorn squash looks awesome. Have you seen it? I have. I've got two okras that are growing. I love okra. I got green peppers on. I got a few tomatoes going. I got one little tiny little yellow squash.
Doing good stuff. Yeah. Now you did take a visit to your moms yesterday and came back kind of disheartened because you're like her garden looks so good.
She's got big beets. She's got a strawberry pasture. She's got a lot of really nice strawberries. She's harvested three court ziplocks yesterday. I'm over here going I got 14 radishes. She's like, yeah, I got three bags of strawberries. I'm like, come on, man. Her onions look good. My onions look nice. I got one little runt onion. I don't know what to do about him. He's just tiny.
Did she offer you some helpful gardening tips or hints or anything?
Give them some sunlight and water. No, there weren't tips. She did better at covering her garden when we had the big freeze. She didn't lose the first one.
Yeah, the big one, the big 20 degree freeze. She didn't lose stuff. We lost a lot of stuff.
And I had to replant. And by the time I got to the nursery and stuff, the plants that I had purchased to replace the stuff I lost were much smaller.
So I lost a lot of my growth that I'd already had and started over a little bit on a few things. So my pepper garden looks great, but it's not like she's got two jalapenos on right now. I don't have any jalapenos.
It's okay, Josh. Oh, I know. I'll catch up. It's okay. Don't get disheartened. I'm okay. Your garden looks great.
I finally have the little pickles I'm growing. A couple of them kind of died on the vine. And I don't know what happened there. That was sad. They turned all yellow and dried up. And so I went, what's going on? So I got to figure out what's up with that. But a couple of the plants finally started trellising properly. So that's progress. That's great news.
I'm excited. They got their little, their little, wrappy little tendrils. Their little tendrils are wrapped around. They're going to start climbing. Oh. So I was happy to see that was happening.
You did plant more corn yesterday.
I replanted my entire corn. Well, except for the two that had come up. And when I turned all that soil, no corn. So I laid down a grid. It's basically a, it's a garden fence, but it's like a snow fence, but it's little squares. So hopefully that'll stop the digging that I think was an issue. And I also, the soil is warmer now. So I think sowing the corn seeds now should produce within the next week to week and a half. I should see way more corn in there.
Do you think this is just going to be a this summer hobby, or do you think this is going to carry on to next summer?
You think you're going to be. I started it last year. This much into gardening next year. Here's my hope. My hope is that like what I learned last year was I need more garden space. So that, that, that was the cause for expansion.
Right? That's why the garden has grown to the size that it has. This year I'm learning a lot more about timing and how to keep things from frost. And I've already learned a lot about that and planting cycles and nutrients in the soil. Like I'm trying to learn more about all of that.
I'm trying to improve my compost game. So I'm getting a lot of new education. My hope is that next garden next year will be very much better than this year in the previous. But I don't feel like I'm going to need a big expansion. But I'll be able to start seeds in the greenhouse. I'll be able to keep things alive longer. I think there's going to be.
So you're going to be this, you're going to be this passionate about it next year. Yeah.
Okay. But I, but I have the tools and the, and the foundation in place to excel in future years. Without having to put all of the investment and stuff into it. I got you. I just will have the maintenance and the building of it to new plants and all that stuff. Okay.
It's a long-term hobby.
Well, yeah, I think so. Okay. Food production, you know. I'm, I like the food production. I'm going to take over two thirds of the, or a third of the yard and not produce it.
Yeah. You'd be like, I'm bored with this.
I am trying to be lazy about it. So I'm trying to put things in place so that I don't have to be active with it. Yeah.
So you can, you don't have to babysit it 24 seven.
It waters itself. You know, those kinds of things. Okay.
So your favorite part is all of the things. All of it.
All of it. When that trellis, the, the big arch is covered in squash. I cannot wait. I can't wait to see that thing covered in green. The fact that I got little trellis and cucumbers makes me so happy because that's the beginning of stuff climbing that. Oh, it's going to be cool.
It's going to be so cool. Have you ever been just walking around the grocery store, minding your own business, and then something startles you and you scream out loud in the grocery store. And then people look like, what's going on with that woman?
You've never had that happen. Let me tell you what happened on Friday. After the show, we decided we were going to meet up at the grocery store to get the food we were going to need for backpacking this weekend. You had to pick up a prescription as well. So you went, you got there a couple of minutes before me and went, got your prescriptions. I pulled into the parking lot, saw where you were parked. I parked. I went to walk in and I saw you had just, barely as I walked in, you had just grabbed a cart and you were headed into the store. And because you gone, did the prescription thing then went back to get a cart. Is that correct?
Correct. So I saw you with the cart and I was kind of like, I better speed walk a little bit to catch up. And I caught up with you 30 feet inside the door. You were barely inside the store. And I walked up and I just put my hand on your arm and I went, like that. And you went, and everyone in the produce section looked over like, what happened to that woman?
And you said, I absolutely didn't.
And we laughed. We had to pull over by the deli and just stop and laugh because it was so ridiculous the noise you made. It was a cartoon scare. No one makes that noise, but you, just you and people in Scooby-Doo who see it goes. It was great.
I was so embarrassed. I don't even know why I made that noise. It wasn't anything terrifying. You just lightly, I think you grasped like my elbow.
I just put back your arm and I just went, ah, that's it. I made a little tiny noise and you went, your spirit left your body for a minute.
The second I made the noise, I went, that was loud. And I looked over, there was a woman shopping for tomatoes and she was like, what? Should I step in or should I?
Oh, it was so good. And you would just pulled out your phone too, like you were going to call me and ask where I was.
No, I think I was looking for my list. I was caught unaware.
I got you. Got you good. It was a crazy noise.
I don't know why. I am just naturally jumpy always.
I walked in the room just a minute ago and you went, whoa. And I was like, what?
What? I'll hear you walking down the hall. I'll know you're coming. Yeah. And then you walk into the bathroom and I go, oh. In the bathroom. Yeah, like if I'm in the bathroom. Oh, at home? Yeah, at home, yeah. You're walking down the hall. I can hear your footsteps. I'm like, oh, Josh is coming.
And then you pop your head in and I go, oh. I don't know why I'm so jumpy. I've never known myself to be loud like that. That was a surprise.
It was super funny. Did I think, what did I think was going to happen? It's middle of the day, very public place. Who's trying to kidnap me? Somebody was going to get you. It was a crazy ghost.
Settle down, Chantel. You're listening to too many murder podcasts.
Something. I don't know what it is. You've got your head on sideways. It's crazy. Anyway, I'm glad that you're all back together in one piece. Reunited with the soul. I'll try to be, no, I won't.
I'm going to scare you. No, you will. I'll just keep scaring you.
But I do. Like when we're at home, I will make noise and I will proclaim, I'm here. I'm walking down the hall and I still can turn into a room you're in and go, I really gave you a heads up. I really tried to let you know.
I wish somebody had recorded my face.
I thought about going and asking if they had footage of you leaving the spirit alone. It was crazy. It was nuts. Out of body experience.
Sorry. If you were casually grocery shopping on Friday afternoon, my apologies for freaking you out.
Do you think people a couple of aisles heard it away? It was pretty good.
I know the lady at the Tomatoes was taken aback. She was very aware. And then she ran away. She was like, I don't want any part of this. I'm leaving.
Would you rather this or that?
Would you rather always have a song stuck in your head or always have a sneeze that never comes out?
Song stuck in my head, which is just like any other day.
That's just the way it goes. Yeah. But what if it's a song you hate?
That doesn't matter. I'm going to take that over for then.
I know that's the worst.
You like to do that to me all the time. You will have a sneeze coming on and you make this face where you go like, and it gets all twisted. And then you open your mouth and I don't know what, you push your tongue on the roof of your mouth. And I go, no, no, no sneeze for you.
And then you go, hate it when you do that. You do that all the time and drives me crazy. You're so proud of it. Yep. Okay. I'm going to also get the song stuck in my head because I can't stand that moment of like, you're going to sneeze, you're going to sneeze, you're going to sneeze and then, you're going to sneeze. No, I hate that sensation. That's what I'm saying. Okay. Song stuck in my head. But what if it's the worst song ever?
What's the worst song ever? I don't know. I'm trying to think. The year of the cat. Oh, that's the worst song ever.
Now that's going to be stuck in my head.
Let's bungle in the jungle. That's another bad one.
No, I can't stand the, in the song of time. No, no, no, no, no, no. Do, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Do, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah. That song. Those are all great examples of songs that are going to be stuck in your head all day.
They are. The year of the cat. That all day or sneezes. Stuck sneezes.
No way. You love the year of the cat. The year of the cat. See? Like that. I don't know why it sounds so Dylan, but it does.
It does sound a little Dylan-y. Oh, the year of the cat. All right. We're both going with song stuck.
Yeah. I'm not going to do that sneezing thing. No way.
No, no, no, I can't. Okay. Would you rather this or that? You asked some of the scouts over the weekend how they felt about AI.
Well, they were just kind of talking a little bit about it. And I want to get young people's impression. These are like 13, 14-year-olds. And I'm like, what do you think about AI? Because I hear old people go, oh, AI. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I hear that all day. Yeah. So I wanted to know, like, what do young people think?
One of the youths informed me that he really loves it. He doesn't love Genetoriv AI. Correct. I think that's interesting. I think that the young people are like Genetoriv AI, which is what you use to create art or to create music or whatever.
The ones that are used to create video or photos of stuff. Like those ones, they're like, I don't care about that. I don't like AI slop.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But they were the one kid said that it really was a useful tool to help him study and summarize his notes and to be able to kind of help him formulate strategy to study, to be able to do better. And he credited AI with helping him get into honors classes in his next school year. And I said, what? And he's like, AI doesn't do it for me. And then he said, well, not all of it. And I went, all right. But he said it does help him a lot with studying and being able to turn his notes into a study sheet that can help him focus, which that's great. I think that's a cool use for the tool.
There is, according to them, a hierarchy of AI too. Like Claude is like top dog. Claude's awesome. And then chat GPT and then Grock is very, very, very bottom of the list. Everyone hated Grock. Right. Don't use that one.
But Claude's great. I use Claude more than any of the others. I made that switch a few months ago, actually. Okay. Yeah. Because open AI is just a little bit fishy with their chat GPT. I just wasn't feeling it at the time. And so I investigated Claude. I like Claude a lot. Nobody mentioned Gemini.
Gemini is the Google one. Which that's fine. I mean, whatever. Do what you want. Am I going to tell you what AI to use?
Have you ever like, has AI ever like summarized stuff for you? And you're like, I didn't need that summary of this.
I don't like when it does that in like an email that's two sentences. Yeah, in a teeny summary. Or it'll give me a suggested reply. Like, I can do that myself. I know.
Okay. Here's your summary of this meeting. I didn't need it. I didn't ask for it. I don't need it. Quit it. Yeah. I'll come. It's like a solicitor. If I want your business, they'll come to you.
That's what I'm saying. Don't show up at my house. Summarize this email. No, I can read it myself.
I didn't ask for you to summarize this. Go away.
No, I will say I've worked with some folks who can write a story email. It's a little bit long. And I might like a summary on that. There are some folks I would like a summary of their email. These days, I've worked with some people in the past that I'm like, this is a lot of email. You wasted a good hour writing this email at work.
That's the same as a meeting. I wish that some of the meetings would have just been like... Give me an AI summary of a meeting. I don't even let me go to the meeting.
Yeah, just send me the notes. Thank you.
Well, I'm glad that they're anti-generative AI. Yeah, I do too. Everyone to be making their own art. Totally agree. Don't use AI for art.
Right. We're all in efforts. Use it for mundane things that you don't want to do anymore. Yeah. Not for fun creative things. Yeah. Yeah.
Keep art analog. That needs to be on a shirt. Oh, yeah, it does. Yeah. I mean, there's digital art. And I'm not mad about digital art, but grab a crayon, you know?
Hold a colored pencil and a paintbrush. See what happens. Yeah. I like it. Pick up a guitar.
You know? Or a piano. Or a kazoo. Don't pick up a piano. You might hurt yourself. Or...
But sit down at it and give it a little... You know, you might be like, whoa, look what I can do. It's going to wrap up today's show. Thanks for hanging out with us. We'll be back tomorrow.
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