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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Monday, January 5th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Josh & Chantel are back with peak New Year energy and kicking things off in with surprising data that shows people actually think they could survive a fight with a grizzly bear, they bid farewell to the Idaho Falls water tower, get disgusted by mushroom jerky that absolutely did not pass the vibe check, share a heartwarming act of kindness, some chaotic family game action, the Boise potato drop had an issue, MTV lost to the radio star, a wild Stranger Things finale theory that's still kicking around, and so much more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Bear fights
(2:41) - Okay Monday, hi
(5:13) - Idaho Falls water tower demolition
(8:09) - Good News
(9:52) - Nylon instructions
(14:34) - Mushroom jerky
(18:42) - Dude baskets
(24:11) - Idaho potato drop explosion
(28:02) - Grabby hand games
(33:17) - Multi-tasking games
(37:32) - Goodbye MTV
(40:51) - Read ALL the rules
(44:59) - Medical shows at night
(50:33) - Would You Rather
(52:57) - More Stranger Things?
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Full show transcript:
This is Wake Up Classy 97, the podcast with Josh and Chantel. This is the place to be. Yeah, it's 2026. Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you guys. Thanks for hanging out with us on the show.
You can email us anytime, wakeupclassy97atgmail.com is how you get a hold of us. This is one of those things where you were talking about, this was like a year or so ago, that men believed that they could land a plane, if they could get on the radio and be instructed to do so. A good majority of men were like, yep, absolutely. And I think I could do it. I really do. I actually think you could do it. I think I would figure it out. It would be scary. My stomach would be all twisted and knots, but I think I could pull it off.
I think you could do it. I have every faith in you.
Too many Americans, and I'm going to tell you, it's only a 3%, but that's too many. That means if you got 10 in a room, three of them are like, yeah. Right.
I get how percentages work.
3% of Americans believe they could win a hand-to-hand fight with a grizzly bear.
Get out of here. No, you can't. No, you can't. No, you cannot. No, you cannot. 3% of people say that.
3% of Americans say that. They go, oh yeah, absolutely. Wrong.
You're wrong.
Okay, what about a kangaroo? No way. Absolutely not. No. 4% go, yeah, I could beat up a kangaroo. Bro. Have you ever seen a kangaroo? Especially the wild ones in Australia?
Dude, they are ripped.
Plus, they're really tall, and their tail is all muscled. And they lean back on that thing and push with their feet. Dude, you get too close to a kangaroo. You're in another room. I know.
Oh, I know. Forget about it. I'm not over here saying I can win. No. You're fooling yourself, people. If you think you can win a grizzly bear and a kangaroo, you're out of your mind.
That's like saying you could like ride bareback on a giraffe. Yeah, right. Good luck. Yeah. No way, dude. They whip those necks around. That's a weapon. You're not getting close to a giraffe. Forget about it. Oh, man. Yeah, you're all fools. I saw those stats this morning and I thought, no way, dude. No way, indeed. You're not fighting a grizzly bear.
Nope. Wait, if you do, you're going to lose. So. Guaranteed. So sorry to you. Yeah.
All right. Well, hey, should we start the first show of 2026? Let's do it. Here we go. Here it is. Hello, hello, hello.
Oh, happy 2026.
What's up? What's up, 26? How are we doing? So far so good. You got a little froggy in the throat there.
I did a little bit. I think I'm not used to doing this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's been a little while since you've had to put on headphones and talk into a microphone. What, four days? Okay. So after three days on and then five days off before that. So over the past two weeks, nine days off. Yeah. Isn't that weird? Awesome.
I mean, yeah. I was going to say. Yeah. But that'll take your voice and make it a little bit weird, I bet. It makes sense. Yeah. It's okay. Yeah. We'll be good. Yeah.
Oh, I know.
I'm sorry. Let's not do that. Okay, I'm sorry. That's not friendly. That's like a sneeze. I always try to mute the microphone when I have that happen, which is pretty regularly. You sneeze pretty regularly.
Good job. Just like the rest of us. Yeah. Josh, he's just like the rest of us. A real human. Jesus regularly. He's a real human man. A human. Uh, bird day today. Bird day. Whip cream day. Keto day. Happy bird day. Yeah.
Yeah. Bird day, whip cream, keto. And also, it's national. Thank God it's Monday day. No, whoever says that. Yeah. The idea here is you flip the script and you go, yeah, no, today it's Monday. Give it a hug. No. Yeah. Embrace Monday.
No. Yeah. No one ever says that. Yeah. New year, new you. Say it. No. Well, it is a new year. That's right. New me. But I'm never going to embrace Monday.
Oh, here it is. Monday. Oh, good to see you. Give us a hug. Embrace Monday. That's the idea anyway.
I'll give it a thumbs up, but that's all I can muster. Hey. Good job being here. Thanks for being here Monday. Yeah. All right. One thumb up, not even two.
Just one. Yep. And it's kind of like, half-hearted. Like, you're not like really up there. You're kind of just like, yeah, okay. Yeah. Good job. Good job. Just a meh. Good job. Glad you showed up. Yay. Good morning.
It's Josh and Chantel. Well, today is kind of a big day and I would say that this month is going to be a big month as today kicks off the decommissioning and I'm trying to figure out the right word, demolition I suppose, of the old Idaho Falls water tower.
I read about this.
Yeah. So the new tower was turned on last Tuesday and the old one was deactivated and now the plan is to move in the cranes and begin the demo project of the old tower. That is supposed to begin today. And what they've said is that traffic will experience minor interruptions due to flagging operations on Capitol Avenue as the equipment is delivered to the project site. They'll be moving in some crane trucks to assist with the tower's tear down. And the start of the tower's removal is expected to begin in earnest on January 9th, they say.
Oh, okay. So today we'll be prepping the work site and building the crane and all the things that are going to be required to remove it. January 9th is on schedule to be the actual let's get crew up there and start making moves. I kind of wonder what. I know, isn't that going to be fascinating? I hope as much as they did a time lapse for the build of the new one and the raising of the actual water tank part, I hope they do something similar with the tear down of the old one. It's scheduled to be completed by February. So over the course of this month, the Idaho Falls Skyline taking a little bit of a change as the new tower becomes the only tower.
It's people are upset.
I mean, there's a lot to say about it. It's an 89 year old water tower. Again, the Idaho Falls Public Works Director has said we're ensuring safer, reliable water service for our community for generations to come. The project is an important investment in the reliability and resiliency of Idaho Falls water system. So it's a necessary thing.
It's necessary. I just want to watch. I think it's fascinating how they take it down.
Yeah, it'll be really interesting because as I would assume it was built, the blue frame went up and then the tank was added on top and fitted to the pipe. That would be my understanding of how it was built. So I would imagine the tank will come off first and then the pipe will come out and then the blue framework will come down.
That'll be really interesting. Anyway, now you know. Now we all know. That's the plan. All right, here's some good news because nobody wants to be at an emergency vet, especially on Christmas because first of all, it's stressful and scary as it is.
And it's also expensive. And so there was an anonymous man who knew this. And so he spent the holiday paying emergency exam fees at the Wheat Ridge Animal Hospital in Colorado. So on Christmas morning, he walked in.
He didn't have a pet with a problem. He just told the staff that he was going to stick around for a few hours in the lobby and he had a stack of plain white envelopes in his hand. And inside every envelope was a check for $200. And one by one, his family's came in with dogs and cats. He would hand them an envelope. How sweet is that?
Pretty awesome, right? No names, no strings attached, just paid for the cost of their exam in full. And the staff had no idea what was coming and the pet owners had no idea who he was. The hospital staff said that the lobby turned into a scene of pure emotion. There were obviously some tears, hugs. Some people were so moved, they tried to hand the money to the person sitting next to them to keep the chain of kindness going.
By the time the man had left, he'd covered the bills for 10 different families. So that's too grand. That's awesome. Right? And just for good measure, before he left, he dropped another $400 into the hospital's charity fund. He said the next pet in need can use this and then he walked out.
What such a nice thing to do. Yeah. That's such a clever way to help.
And a sweet, sweet kind gesture. That's so nice. You know what else it is? What? Good news.
I put on some nylons on New Year's Eve. It's been a long time since I've put on some nylons. OK. So I break them out. It's a brand new package. I open the package and inside is an instruction sheet. Hey, I've never seen an instruction sheet.
I was going to ask if they came with that all the time. And you just haven't ever read it. It's possible. So what is it? Put one foot in, put the other foot in.
Yeah. Roll them up. Basically, like roll it down. Yeah. Roll it all the way down so you can put your foot inside of it. And it tells you how to put your foot inside of it. I wish I would have kept it. No way. Toes first. No way. It says that for real. It says toes first? Yeah. It says angle your foot so your toes go in first.
I know. And then it says get your first leg. Roll up your tights, your nylons all the way up to your knee. And then do the same thing with your other leg. OK. Once you get to your knees, both of them to your knees, you're going to have to stand up. Yeah. I wish I would have kept it. Because I went, well, who doesn't know how to put these on?
Apparently people.
I feel like it's pretty common sense. It's a nice convenience. I mean, look, maybe people, it's their first time. I don't know. I get it, but it's still pretty self-explanatory. It's like pants. Right. Really tight pants. One leg and then the other leg. Right.
So then once you get them up to the knee, you stand up. And then what? Keep going. And then you pull them all the way up. You keep going. Just like pants. Just like it. Isn't that something?
And then it said, because these particular nylons had a pattern on. Okay. It said, if your pattern doesn't match up, take off your tights and do it again. Repeat the process all over again.
And I went, how about that? I never would have thought about that. I never would have thought about trying it all again. That's interesting. I was floored. I was flabbergasted.
That's a weird thing. I mean, I figure it's just, I think I could figure it out.
I think it's pretty self-explanatory. Yeah.
As I said, if you're familiar with socks, same. If you're familiar with pants. Right. It's like pants with socks sewn on the bottom of them. Yeah.
Yep. It's pretty easy.
My fishing waders are very similar. They did not come with those instructions. They have feet. Yeah, they do. I have to put my feet into the feet and then pull them up and do up my waiting belt. And then I have to pull them up even higher and then do straps over the top.
Like your big potato sack. Yeah. Yeah. If you don't have a waiting belt, you do look like a potato sack. That is a fact. If you do have a waiting belt, you look like a potato sack. A lot less though. A cinched potato sack. That's right. How did you learn to put on your waders?
Well, I've put on socks and pants before if you can believe it. So I didn't really struggle.
You can be sure that I read through all of the instructions because then I went, maybe I've been putting on nylons.
What if you would learn something new as you went through? Did you go through step by step or did you just read them all at once? I read them all at once. Maybe you should have tried the step by step.
Instructions. What do I need instructions for? Let me read all of this. So I read it all and I went, no, I've been putting on my tights exactly the way I'm supposed to.
Well, good job for you.
I'm proud of you. Thanks, buddy.
It's good to know you've been doing it right all along.
It did not give me instructions on how to take them off. What was I supposed to do?
It didn't say to remove, just do these steps in reverse.
Nope, it didn't.
Maybe they're the kind you're just supposed to wear nonstop.
Are there kinds like that?
No, but they didn't give you instructions for taking them off. Now there's people walking around in their nylons or whatever going like, I guess I just wear these now because I don't know how to take them off.
There's no removal instructions.
Did you try looking on the back of the page? Like sometimes when I get a new tent, it's like, here's how to set up your tent. And then on the backside, it's like, here's how to tear down and fold up your tent.
I didn't look on the back.
I put them on the back side. That's where it is. Yeah. What do you think it says? I just take them off. Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. Good job.
I bought some mushroom jerky.
Yeah, I know.
Why do you act like that? You didn't even try it.
You did. And I saw enough.
I saw this, this particular store that we go to sometimes hasn't. And every time we go, I go, I kind of want to try it.
You got Applewood barbecue flavored mushroom jerky. That's right. I did. It says, uh, it has a meaty chewy texture. Yes. That true? True. How was the flavor? Try it and find out. But it made you go, oh, and then the color of your tongue was not very appetizing.
Sorry about that, but, um, the it did have a chewy meaty texture. I think the texture was the most off-putting part. It was very chewy. Yeah. Yeah. The flavor, not so good. And then I was regretting, maybe I should have gotten like the teriyaki or something.
Cause what flavor did I get? Applewood? Applewood barbecue.
I don't know why I got that one because I don't even like barbecue. So maybe I should have gotten the teriyaki flavor. It probably would have helped. Here's what happened. I purchased it and we were with my sister and brother-in-law and in the middle of the lane, like they were checking out next, I opened it and I said, this is gross. Want to try some? Yeah, you shouldn't have done that.
And I said, no, you should have said, oh, you got to try one of these.
And the cashier was kind of laughing the whole time. Right. I think she knew that it was bad. Yeah.
She sold it to me anyway. You want to know how you know it's bad? It says it right there on the front. Mushroom.
I like mushrooms. Mushrooms are good for you. Well, here's the bag. I don't like mushroom jerky. At least that flavor. Yeah. I'm going to try again a different flavor.
Well, it does say on the back here that you should try our other. See? Try our, where'd it go? Don't forget to check out our other mushroom products.
What other mushroom products do they have? Just jerky or do they have other mushroom products? You'll have to check them out. I will. I will check them out.
From our family, yours. Enjoy.
See, I don't know. I keep thinking maybe it was just the flavor that was off-putting, but I think it was the texture of it that is also gross.
Well, the first ingredient is a dried shiitake mushroom. So I'm out. Number one ingredient. I'm done.
You don't even want to try it.
No. Just to see. You're not even a little bit curious. No, I am zero. I am negative amounts of curious.
I am so curious about all this kind of stuff. Nah. No thanks. Where's your sense of adventure, pal? Not in that bag. How come you have it? Are you bringing it to the K-Bear dudes who will eat anything? That's right. Okay. They live on the edge. They have adventure. Good for them. Just try one. No, thank you. There's a small piece in there.
That's just still a mushroom.
If you don't want to eat it, just lick it. No. So you could get the flavor. No.
Absolutely not.
No sense of adventure.
Yes. Plenty of sense of adventure. None of it involves that.
Chantel, middle name danger. And Josh, middle name. No fun. Absolutely wrong. Funny, dirty. No. Josh, funny, dirty.
Not funny, dirty. I just don't like mushrooms.
You've never even eaten them before.
Yeah, I did. When? When I was little. They were in the backyard. And then I had to walk around very sick. And I've never had a mushroom since.
You were eating the wrong mushrooms, my guy. Yeah. They're all gross. Wrong. Yep. Wrongo. Mushroom jerky is gross.
Or at least the applewood barbecue flavor.
Zero out of 10. Do not recommend. Just a couple of weeks ago, I was shopping for my sister, my niece, and my daughter and I exchanged little book baskets. Right. Yeah. Or a burr basket. A lot of people call them burr. Like a winter basket. Like it's cold. So it's like just a basket full of like your favorite things. Okay. And a book in there. A treat. And you were giving me so much flack for it because you said not everything you see on TikTok needs to be accomplished. No, no, no.
Yes, yes, yes. No, no, no. You did say that. No, I said that. No, listen, I didn't say it because you were doing the basket. Okay. Do the basket. I don't care. Okay. I was saying it because you also do this and you also do this and you also do this. And I said, hey, you've got like six different things you're doing.
We have two. We do the baskets. Maybe. And then we do an ugly ornament. Two things. End of things that we do. One and two. Okay. Next.
Keep it going. Games plus this. Plus games. I'm just saying all of these ideas are great, but not everything you see on the internet has to come to like your party. That's what I'm trying to say. I don't care what you do. Go nuts. Have fun.
I just saw, I saw all of the things that you were worried about. I got to do this. I got to do this. And I got to do this. And so I was offering a suggestion that maybe, maybe everything you see on social media doesn't have to come to life in your life. Okay. Maybe it can just live on the internet. You go, those guys look like they're having a fun time. Cool. For them. And that's okay.
That's what I was trying to say. Well, that was like a weeks ago conversation anyway. And so then imagine my surprise after that conversation. When I see you gathering some things, some dude things, and I go, what's that for? And he said, Oh, I think I kind of want to put like a, like a little outdoor thing together for my brother-in-law and my nephew. And I went, Oh, isn't that interesting? Yeah. After you were giving me so much flack about putting together some baskets for the people that I love.
Yeah. So we put together like a little box thing with some flies that I tied a little like small flashlight and some, some snacks. It's just like a little like, here you go. It's a little, little thing. Little thoughtful thing.
Imagine my surprise.
I didn't go, here's a blanket and a candle and a candy and a book and a.
It's not that intense, bro.
It felt like you were going through some intense emotions. And I think you've quickly forgotten the intense emotions you were going through prior to Christmas. That's what I think is happening. Right now you're going like, no, I could do all these things. I could balance all this. I'm good to go because you forgot over the course of the two weeks of Christmas break stuff here that you were super stressed out about it. And I was offering help. But now I'm the bad guy because all you remember is you were telling me I shouldn't be doing all the fun things I like to do.
Well, you were out there doing fun things too. Nope. Not what actually happened. That is what actually happened. That's my, that's the way my memory serves.
And this is why people have 18 kids because they forget. And then they go, no, it's not that bad. They go, I'm never doing it again. That's not that bad.
See, it just goes like this. I don't understand. I don't understand. I don't know what you're talking about. I was cool, calm, collected before Christmas. I'm stressed. Don't even know what that means.
I'm going to go back and roll some tape from
prior conversation when we talked about the fact that not everything on the internet has to, and you were like, you know, that's a good thing. That's actually a good advice. Thank you for saying that. I needed to hear that. I don't think I said that.
Well, I can tell you what episode it was in.
If you want to go back and listen to it on the podcast, it was probably, if I had to guess. I will say there was an instance over the weekend where you and I got in a little bit of an argument because you thought you were right. I thought I was right. And you said to a woman sitting next to us, did we know a friend of ours? What do you think? And she goes, I don't want to be involved.
But also that you were wrong. So I don't want to get in the middle of it, but also Chantel is wrong. And you said, well, for the first time, and I went, again, that memory, I just tell you, funny, isn't that funny, Josh?
Well, your dude basket was cute.
Well, thanks. It was, it was the fun little thing to put together. It was, it was all good. Okay. I haven't found it yet, but it's, it's in there. If you want to go do the research for me, no one's going to do it. Wake up, Classy 97, the podcast.
It's available everywhere you get podcasts and you can go find the original conversation where she was very accepting of my advice, but hasn't since forgotten. It was a little bit of a scary moment in Boise, New Year's Eve when they did the big potato drop. Yeah. So basically they have a crane set up and on top of the crane, they have a big potato and this potato is lowered as it counts down to the new year. And right when it hit, you know, zero happy new year, the fireworks go off. Something either malfunctioned or someone miscalculated the amount of powder they put into one of the explosives and a fireball happened. And it shattered windows on buildings across the street from the capital where the potato drop is happening. Okay.
I heard about this because there was like people that were injured. Yeah.
There was at least one kid who in this video was injured from falling glass and debris who was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. But yeah, no, it was, it was kind of a big deal. This explosion that happened because of bad pyrotechnic or bootleg fireworks or something. I don't know what.
So who's responsible for that?
I don't know. They reached out to, who did they say they reached out to? But they got no comment back. Um, yeah. So I interesting. Yeah. But paramedics were on site, which was great. So, uh, you know, everybody was able to be, uh, taken care of very quickly. Um, but they, you know, there, I don't believe any public comment has been made.
Um, but people were definitely hurt. It was a 17 foot long potato. By the way, it's a pretty big potato. Big ol potato. Yeah. And it, uh, and it drops down off the, uh, the little crane. There's some video online. If you want to see the actual incident and the glass charge.
Like the potato didn't cause any kind of damage.
The pyrotechnics. Yeah. The, uh, something happened with the pyro that caused a bad explosion to happen. And to be fair, like no one running the drop new, like the fireworks still went off.
Everything was fine. Uh, as far as the show was concerned, but there were some people that were impacted quite literally by the explosion. Apparently it was like a big boom that like people were like, Oh yeah, I felt it in my chest. It was so big. Like it was a big deal. Right.
I would assume so if there's glass exploding around you.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, and I was trying to see like, it damaged the building right across from the capital, but I don't see, like I didn't see if any of the windows in the capital building were broken, but they, they certainly, I mean, it's right on the lawn of the capital.
And then here's my other question. Okay. Who, who's responsible for it? Right. And then who, if there's damage done to your building, who gets to pay for that? Certainly not me and my insurance cause it's not my fault. Yeah.
I don't know. I don't know who's in charge of that. I mean, I'm sure they're like the building is going to file an insurance claim. Of course. But I don't know. But I don't want my
premiums to go up because of your faulty pyro.
They might not use the same insurance agency. You don't know. I'm just, I mean, I wasn't there. I didn't like the pyro. It wasn't my fault.
But who did? That's what I'm wondering who gets to pay for all that damage.
I'm glad that no one was severely hurt and everybody seems to be okay as far as the news story I'm reading. Um, but yeah, be careful with your pyro. That's what I always say.
Especially when you're dropping potatoes. I'd like to share a piece of your advice. It's advice you give the kids. It's advice you give anyone any day of the week. And that advice is it's as fun as you make it.
Okay. So when there's a lull in conversation or a quiet moment with family, you're pretty good at going, we should probably play a game or something. But then you don't reach for monopoly or shoots and ladders. No, no.
Why would I? You reach for whatever's around and you go, here's a game. Yeah. And this weekend it was one of those robot grabby hands with the little squeeze thing and the hand goes, you know, and, uh, and you were very excited to create several games with the grabby hand, which listen, I'm just glad you found something to do other than bug me with it.
Well, that's, that's what had to happen, didn't it? Because initially I was like, Ooh, grabby hand, guess what I'm going to do? Bug Josh.
Every time we go to a store that has any kind of like, uh, Grabby hand. Whatever you want to call them. Some of them are pretty pro. Yeah. Like therefore like people who have mobility issues or height issues or whatever trying to like be able to grab things. You grab it and then you bug me. Yeah. Like that's the game.
It's my lot in life.
To bug me? Got it. Well you're succeeding.
Excellent. A plus. So then when you said stop bugging me with that, I got imaginative.
When I said that, like you say it like when you nonchalantly said it one time, stop bugging me with that. No, this was after minutes and minutes of minutes of pestering. Trying to wrestle it away from you. Multiple secondary and tertiary attacks with robot grabby hand. Tertiary. Yeah. That's third.
The game I invented. The games I invented. We're actually pretty awesome. And here's what I know to be true. What's that? When I come up with these games, everyone around me goes, oh really? And then guess what happens? People join in and they start to have fun and they go, actually that wasn't too bad. And I go, yeah. Get over your cranky attitude. The game was my sister had some wooden trees on her table.
Yeah, like wooden Christmas trees.
So the game was you had to pick up the Christmas trees and put them back in order on the table.
In a very specific placement order. Yeah. And then it was a timed event. Oh yeah. And let's be clear. This wasn't like a super tactile grabby hand. No. This was a little plastic toy one and the fingers and thumb don't ever meet. So it only gets like this much grip. There's not a lot of grip on this thing.
You had to get creative with how you use the grabby hand.
That's right. To be sure. Yeah, you had to find a good strategy that would work for you.
Second game, put all the mints in the bowl.
No, it was a make melt away peppermints, right? Yeah. Okay.
You had to pick up the mints with the grabby hand and however many you could do in a minute. Right. We have some people that were pretty good at it.
Yeah. But again, I'll reiterate the thumb and fingers don't touch. So it's really a big challenge. It was something up when you have no and the thumb is stationary only the fingers move. And the pinky was a little janky out there. So really you get like this much movement. It's not a lot.
It was awesome. We had a great time. Did I win? No. No. Did I win? No. No.
No. You didn't even win at your own game? It's fine. You invented it. Did we have fun? Yes. Well, everybody played. Do you have the scores? No. Those are at home. You don't have them with me? I don't have them with me. I was curious if I got like top three.
I think you probably got top three on the mince one.
I don't think I did very good on the I think there were faster people for sure on the trees because I couldn't remember the pattern. That was my hang up. There were four trees had to be placed very specifically. Yeah, they had an order pattern. Sorry, Charlie.
Pay attention. Yeah. Pay attention to the pattern. That's right. My fault. It's my fault. Well, good grabby hand game. Thank you for saying that.
Next time. Everyone was complaining about it. Just start with the game and don't bug me with it.
No, I can't. Yes, you can. No. Where are you even looking? I told you that's my life to bug you. Maybe get a new one. Can't. You can't. When you're with a large group of people of varying ages, it's hard to find a game that everyone can play.
That's fair. Everybody wants to play. Okay. But I like to include everyone. I want everybody to have a part in the fun.
So when Emery suggested that we play Texas hold them. Sure. And the five year old said, well, I want to play. That became a little tricky.
Right. Because teaching Texas hold them to a five year old is a big challenge. Big challenge.
So on my left hand side, there was a game of Texas hold them that I was actively involved in actively. On my right hand side, there was a game of memory that I was actively involved in after a game of.
You were actively involved.
Yeah. So I was playing two different games. That is correct. I lost both games. Let me just say that. That is true.
And when you lost, you lost at Uno, then you lost at memory. And then you only had poker going for a minute. And then you lost at poker and then you were like, I'm going to go play with the kids and you went to play with the five year old. You left the table.
Well, yeah, if I'm out of the game, I'm out of the game. Yeah. All right. So I said, well, guess what? You've taken all my poker chips. I guess I'm done. Yeah. What I learned was that it's very difficult to play two games and be actively involved in both games.
Yeah, you can't be present in both. You can't. I kept having to say, Hey, blind, put in your blind. Go ahead and put in your blind.
That was on my left hand side of my right hand side. It was Chantel draw two. Hey, you got to draw two. Hey, you're supposed to draw two. Yeah. I can't keep track.
I don't know. But I wanted everyone to feel like they had something to do. I wanted everyone to feel involved in a game. So I tried to multitask and you ended up failing.
You ended up paying for it.
Yep. Here, let's be real, though. I don't care about winning and I never have and I never will. What's the point of playing to have fun?
No, that's not the point. The point of playing is to win. Because if you aren't winning, what are you even doing? Yeah, that's not true. I don't care about winning.
I never have and I never will. So what? I disagree.
Why? I think there are times when you care very much about winning and you go, I just want to beat them. I hear that sentence. A couple times a month at least.
All right, fine. So, okay, I guess I do care about winning a little bit. That's what I'm saying. I know. I know you. I never have and I never will.
Except when you do, which is often. And that's okay. It's human nature to want to win.
I know, but I don't necessarily care all the time. There's just sometimes I do care if I'm playing a game one-on-one with you. You don't
care all the time, but when you do care, you care all the time. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right. That's total sense.
Right? Got it. Locked in. I understand. You are very easy to understand.
For you, yeah, you've been with me. You're my translator because you know me so much. So sometimes when I go, I can't explain it. Josh, explain what's happening in my head. And you do. Yeah.
And I'll say she doesn't want to care, but she really cares. So it's going to be okay. It's all going to be okay. That's it. That's all of it. Okay. Everybody's going to feel involved. You're going to win a game sometime.
Someday. I might win someday. Yeah.
But it's not all about that, except when it is. And then it is all about that. See? Makes sense. Total.
MTV, you know MTV. Music television. You grew up with MTV.
Which has not played music in a very long time.
Do you know they have MTV owns one, two, three, four, five, at least five different channels.
Well, aren't they part of FIA-COM?
I don't know. I don't know. I know that they have MTV music. They have MTV 80s. They have MTV 90s. They have club MTV and they have MTV live. These channels have all ended. They ended on New Year's Eve, December 31st, 2025. These were the channels that played music videos 24-7. Yeah. Okay. And they've all closed down.
Okay. So FIA-COM was purchased by Paramount. So it's all part of the Paramount group now. But FIA-COM, CBS owned MTV, Nickelodeon and VH1 back when we were watching all of those channels. Oh yeah. VH1. What was the behind the music?
That one was very cool too. Rock and Roll Jeopardy? Yeah. There was some great stuff. I loved it. VH1. I felt like VH1 was like my dad's music channel and I was the MTV guy. It was very much like MTV was geared toward my age and VH1 was my dad's channel.
They would do VH1 honors, not MTV's video music awards. It was very different attitudes. Okay. Well, MTV is still around. They still have mostly pop, reality TV and entertainment shows, pop culture and entertainment shows. But all of their channels that are playing music videos 24-7 aren't done. Gone, done so. Correct.
So really what is MTV at this point? Right. Because well for a long time I thought it was like Rob Deirdic's network. But now Rob Deirdic has sort of exited MTV.
They've put, they're done doing ridiculousness. He had some great shows though. Like him and Big.
What was his name? Big. You know. People let me tell you about my best friend.
You know the show? They were great. Rob and Big. And that was good. And then he had the factory one where he had his skate place. He had like four shows going at any time. And so it was kind of like Rob Deirdic's network. But he has since kind of taken a consulting role now, he stepped away from it, which I think has been interesting. He did a whole thing. Like this was just last year. Now I can say that. It was in 2025 that he stepped away. Anyway, interesting that MTV is now shut down all of their full-time music channels.
They ended their final broadcast with video killed the radio star.
Oh, how it all began. Here's a fun thing. Guess what still stands? What? Man, guess what they didn't kill? The radio star? That's right. That's right. That's right. Radio wins. Radio wins. In the battle against MTV. Radio wins. For now.
We picked up. Go ahead. No, I was just going to say one bit of advice.
Okay. Whenever you play a new game is to read all of the rules. And you were going to say we picked up a new game.
Yeah. And we wanted to play it. And listen, whenever we have a game, I'm kind of the rules guy. You are the rules guy. And I was not around when you started opening up the game and reading the rules. And I thought that you had read the rules like previous to this weekend.
And so this new game, I thought you were like all well versed on how to play. But then you had all these like questions as we're starting to get things going. You're like, I don't really know.
And I'm like, what do you mean you don't know? You read the rules. So then mid game, I'm like, let me reread the rules. And then all of a sudden the game made a lot more sense.
Yeah, I scanned the rules.
That's not how you learn how to play a game.
I thought this game seems pretty easy to figure out. No. I don't remember the name of the game, but basically you have to. Giant's moving tiny furniture. That's it. Good job. And you have to pair up with a teammate. Right. And use your pinkies to move this little furniture. That is correct. It was a lot of fun.
It was a good time. Yeah. I found out I got strong pinkies. Do you? And good cooperation skills.
I found out I was on a team with my son. Yes. But we are not good teammates. And that's okay because I'm good teammates with other people, but he and I do not move furniture very well together. Well, did you have fun? I had a great time. Right. I knew I wasn't going to win that game.
Now your five-year-old niece was playing as well. Yes. She does not have a lot of pinky strength. No. There's not a lot of dexterity in that pinky at this point. So it was kind of barely holding on. So your sister was having a real hard time with the five-year-old as her furniture-moving teammate.
They did better than me in the 18. Not 18.
He's 21. He's 21 now.
They did better with me in the 21-year-old. Right. Well. It was fun. That's a silly little game, but it sure is a lot of fun.
What do you think your downfall was?
We had poor communication. Okay. I think that contributed. We did not have a plan of attack. It was just, I think that goes along with poor communication. Sure. We did not discuss the plan of attack before we just started moving furniture. Yeah. And then he was going low.
That was the thing I was going to bring up. How come you guys moved the furniture so low?
He did. And so then I had to match where he was going.
Why are you blaming it on him?
What was I doing? You think I did it?
I'm just saying there's two pinkies involved. And as a team, one of you can go no up. But both of you just kept, your furniture went from the box to the table to near the floor. And then you went, how are we going to get it back up to the chair?
I don't know. Maybe start higher. It was hard to watch. That was a challenge for me to understand because I didn't have the same issues with drooping furniture. So I didn't understand what was happening there because you're both in control of your own body.
I understand. Keep it high. But you also don't know what your teammates going to do. And when your teammates going low, you're like, where are we going so low?
He was yelling at you for going low. I felt that he was going low.
And therefore, down goes the furniture. Poor communication. It's okay. I want to play that game again with a different teammate.
Is that right? Yes. If you play with another teammate and your furniture drops low, guess what? What?
It's my fault? It might be your fault. It probably was my fault.
It might be your fault. It's a very fun game though. It is. And they're not a sponsor of the show, but it's a good one. Yeah.
Super easy and fun. Yeah.
And even a five-year-old can play. With very non-strong pinkies. But she did do her best. She did a great job.
Yeah, no kidding. Somebody is burning the toaster oven in this place. Yeah.
Hey, you know what's a bad idea? What's that? For a guy with medical anxiety. Yes. Medical shows. Especially right before bed. Okay. I couldn't fall asleep. Terrible. Okay. I'm not a fan.
So if you're going to watch your medical shows, you're going to have to do that elsewhere. I found out. Okay. Did not enjoy it. Oh, why? I didn't like any of the energy. Stressed me out. And then I went, no, this is not good.
I started watching The Pit.
Yeah. Which has got great reviews.
You know the show. A lot of people love it. I see it all the time. Yeah. And I just turned it on the other day as background noise while I was wrapping some presents.
And then I went. Well, I walked in and I said, is this ER or Grey's Anatomy? Like what are you watching?
You would think it's ER because the guy played in ER and this show. Uh-huh. Yeah.
No more Wiley is his name. Is that it? Yep. Yeah. Cool. Not for me.
Look at y'all stressed out.
Was there a specific... The energy of it. No. Just the whole, they're in a hospital. It's high intense. You hate hospitals. Everything is going on. People are bleeding everywhere. It was just, there was so much.
And I was like that. No. I can't watch medical shows. So I can't do it.
All right. And then you were like, here do you want the remote? Cause I'm gonna fall asleep. And then you did. And then I was like, well, I can't just turn this off.
Why? Because there were only a few minutes left in it. And then there was stuff happening. And then I'm like, this is not it. I'm stressed out.
So then I turned on relaxing fishing shows and watch that for a while to try to ease my mind. Okay. Which helped. But then I was up way late. Oh. I couldn't, I couldn't shut down.
You just can't win. Well, here's the thing. We, I've been thinking about doing this for a while. We need to not watch TV while we fall asleep. Fair. That's a problem. Very good point. And it's been a problem. Yeah. We've just become so accustomed to it.
It's hard to break that routine. I just can't figure out when people watch shows.
I can't either because we don't typically watch TV until we're in bed. Right.
So I don't know when people watch shows.
Cause we're actively doing stuff until we go to sleep. Right. I know. That's me too.
How am I supposed to have stuff to talk about if not watching shows? Exactly. Right. You gotta watch shows.
When do you watch shows?
I know when I watch shows, but it's not the best time. Because I like, they, they say you should have an hour of no screens before you fall asleep to help yourself have a nice.
They say a lot of things. I know. They say that you should drink water. Okay. That's, that's important. They say that you should eat vegetables. Also a good idea.
Yeah. So far they know what they're talking about. I'm waiting for the example of where they got it wrong.
I'm just saying they say a lot of things. Do I follow any of the rules? No. Okay.
Well, I think there is definitely. There's, there's gotta be something better than medical shows. Like, like really the fishing stuff was, was nice because I watched people, you know, do some fly fishing and talk about where they were at.
The hospital, the energy of it, the whole thing. It's all intense. The doctor just needed to use the restroom and everybody kept bugging him, bugging him and bugging him. The whole thing I was like, I'm stressed out. This guy, the episode ended. He didn't get to use the restroom. Oh no. That poor guy. The whole thing. It's just too intense of an environment. And then there's all the medical stuff on top of it. I'm like, I can't do this. Now I'm up.
Meanwhile, I'm over here like, there's a lot of.
There's no intensity. I'm going to, I'm going to fall asleep to the intensity of it snoring away enough. I wonder when your sleep study is, are you serious? Yeah. You think I snore? I don't think.
So let's start there. Prove it. Record it sometime. I need to hear. Hey, I still need to record us. Remember?
No, I was going to put a camera. I'm ready to see what, how often we move in our sleep. Why don't you like that idea? Because it grosses me out.
You've just seen a lot of horror shows where bad things happen when people are recording something.
All of a sudden somebody's standing over the side of your bed. I don't want that. I already have enough issues. I don't also need that. So no.
Stop making it hard to sleep. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Take a breath. Hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey. It's just a television show.
Yeah. Based on the reality of a working ER.
Yikes. Settle down, Josh. Here we go. Take a breath.
Hey, first one of 2026. Would you rather?
Would you rather never eat pizza again or never eat tacos again? Oh boy.
I'm going pizza. I'm picking pizza because I think I like tacos more. I know why I'm picking tacos. Why? You're going to change your mind.
Because there's different pizza. Is that what you're going to say?
No. Because all the ingredients in a taco, you can have in a burrito or a Mexican pizza or a million other ways. So you don't have to have a taco to get all the flavors of the Mexican cuisine that you can get in a taco.
And therefore I'm going to say I won't ever have a taco again. But guess what I will have? A gordita. A burrito. No, it doesn't.
It's not a taco. You're ridiculous. That's my very sound logic and also why you're going to change your mind. Unless you're going to not change your mind out of spite to prove me wrong because you like to do that.
You bring up some very valid points.
One valid point. It's one valid point. And it's that all of the ingredients in Mexican food are pretty much the same in a different form or another.
Yeah, a different vessel to get to your mouth.
Because does a fajita count as a taco? Because you build it yourself? You see? I see what you're saying. They call it a fajita, but it's just a build-it-your-own taco with a sizzling plate of meat.
You're not wrong. That's good logic. You bring up some valid points.
So yeah, I'll give up a taco.
All right, I will too.
Because if I want to get pizza flavor in something else, it's going to have to be like a pizza sub. Not even close. No. See?
Not the same. All right, I've switched. Are you happy?
This guy, he knows how to do this game. Who's got two thumbs and knows how to do what you rather? This guy. That's who. Cool job, buddy. Thanks. You and I and our daughter watched the finale of Stranger Things on New Year's Eve and into New Year's Day.
I stayed awake. Yes, you did.
Kind of. Kind of. And then you went, I might have missed a part. Listen, the thing was like two hours long. Yeah, and it was late. Okay, I get it. So, but we finished the show. You would agree? Yeah. You feel like the show was done?
I think they, I think they wrapped everything up in a nice little bow. Okay. There was one question that I had. Okay. I said, oh, hey, they didn't.
They didn't maybe address to the fullest. There are several things that I feel like didn't get addressed. They had a writing change after the first couple of seasons. Okay. Like maybe season three was they had like one writer through those and then season four and season five were written by somebody else.
Okay. And, and so they had some changes. They had some stuff go on.
The Duffer brothers have said it's done. Thanks. Enjoy what we created. Have fun. Here's that's it.
That's it's over. Okay. Here's our new projects that we're going to do. We're launching side series.
We're doing a bunch of stuff doing an animated thing. Like we're going to have more stranger things stories, but that story is done. The internet, however, is overwhelmingly loud about the finale and fan theories and my personal belief, my own theory is that there's so much social media buzz around this show and people trying to decipher clues and what's going to happen and all of this. They say created an online alternate reality for the show filled with their own theories and people have fallen in love with those theories more than what actually happened in the show. Oh no. And so they are now going, like we want this ending that we collectively as a community created, not what we were given. Okay.
So why don't you just be happy with what you created and move on your merry little way.
So here's the rumor. Oh no. The rumor is that conformity gate is a real thing and that not just the characters in the show were under some sort of mind illusion, but all of us as fans watching the show are also being taken for a ride. And we will on January 7th receive the real finale of the show. Are you serious? Because what we saw was the version that we were forced to see not the actual version of the ending of the show.
I feel like maybe people are a little too involved in stranger things. Yeah. I think maybe you just watch the finale and say, that was a good show. Yeah. What else can I watch?
So the rumor is that January 7th, which is Christmas in I think Russia, because see the finale and all the Christmas tie-ins and all the things, they would be like, we didn't lie to you. We said it was going to happen on Christmas.
Just not your Christmas. So there's all these. Get out.
Very, very, very. It's also seven days from when we got the finale and there's all this numerology stuff worked into it where they're like, there's seven of these and seven of these. And this was seven minutes and this happened for seven hours and this was seven days. And so there's all of these sevens.
It's too much. And then at the end of the show, there's like sevens involved and there's like all of this stuff. So everybody's like, no, this is all clues. It all adds up to we're going to get another episode. It's conformity gate. Everything is happening. We're going to get more stranger things. No.
I don't believe it.
I don't know. I just don't. I think it's done. There are other people that go, look, if this actually happens, like the Duffer brothers who created the show would be geniuses because they made everybody believe that that was the end of the show. And then they go, actually, here's the real ending and you've been fooled the whole time, which I don't know. There's a show that's ever done that. But then other people are like, they're not going to do a theatrical release for a fake finale. I agree. There's so many like combative pieces of information.
I think it's done.
And the Duffer brothers go, it's done. That's it. Yeah. There is no more.
I think it's done. Sorry to all the people disappointed in a couple of days. It's over. It's done.
Well, we'll find out for sure. We did because here's what's going to happen is going to go. No, January 7th. Oh, we were wrong. It's actually January. It's just going to keep moving. Exactly. Where have I heard this before? Anyway, we'll see what happens, I guess, or we already saw what happens.
We saw what happened and we just have to accept it. Be over be done. Okay.
Hey, be over be done with the first show of 2026. Here we go. Yeah. Congratulations. You've survived.
We still have a lot of day left. We still have a lot of week with the show.
Yeah, I know this is a full week after two weeks of not full weeks.
Good luck to everyone.
Yeah. Hey, welcome back to your actual reality. Thanks for hanging out with us. We do have the show on demand everywhere as a podcast so you can listen to it on demand whenever you want.
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