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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Tuesday, April 28th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Icy cars and heated seats this morning, a heartwarming story about a man in Sheffield, England, who's giving senior citizens joyrides in Ferraris and Lamborghinis, the unspoken etiquette of taking a bath at someone else's house, the surprisingly brilliant hack of using seed packet descriptions to write your dating profile, should you pay for the stranger behind you in the drive-thru, Emery's taking her driving skills test, a London Marathon runner's foot literally exploded (and she still finished 7th!), Where's Waldo raised money for homeless youth, prom dress culture gets a fresh take, it's Global Pay It Forward Day, so go do something nice, should you destroy your mail, and more!!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: You remind me of...
(3:35) - Sheets of ice
(7:21) - Good News
(9:44) - Bedroom posters
(16:22) - ATMs need to get with it
(23:07) - Neighborhood gossip
(29:28) - Guest bath
(34:39) - Vegetable dating profiles
(39:14) - The mail is in the sink
(45:56) - Be a better bowler
(51:36) - Pay it forward
(55:36) - Prom dresses
(1:00:41) - Would You Rather
(1:03:22) - Exploded foot
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Full show transcript:
Do you know how like some people, some people will say to you, oh, you remind me of this person or you look like this person or you've said that to somebody like, oh, you remind me of this other person I know.
Yeah. I know a guy who reminds me a lot of Bill Hader and I gave him that as like a, you remind me of Bill Hader and he was like, that's a really nice compliment. But like Bill Hader is on a whole different level of like existence.
Like that's nice though. Thank you. Sometimes it can be not taken as a compliment. Sometimes you find that that somebody said, oh, you remind me you look just like this person and then you meet that person and you go, oh,
Look, we've got some friends that, oh, I see what you're saying. Some personal thing. I was gonna say, we have some friends that say you look like Scarlett Johansson. You look like Scarlett Johansson and you go, okay. I know. Yeah, because we're sisters.
I don't want some like that too. Yeah. Don't like that.
I'm Chantel. That's not what you said like at all.
I used to have red hair and mostly people would say that when I had red hair.
You look like Black Widow.
I know. I'd be like, yeah, you should see me in my leather outfit because it's hardly indistinguishable, the two of us.
I mean, I mean, listen, I'm gonna say I like to see that. Go ahead. Go ahead. What were you saying?
I was just gonna say, I reminded, I told somebody once that they reminded me of this other person and then when her husband met the person, he was like, no, no way. Nope. That's offensive. I don't like that. And then later I was like, yeah, that was kind of offensive because that person actually is not anything like this person.
But maybe it was like one interaction you had that was like, boy, this interaction reminds me of
an interaction I have with this other person. I think what it was is like I was longing to hang out with the person that I did know and then I was like reaching, I think, a lifeline and I was like, oh, that's kind of you share so many similarities with that person that I'm grasping onto that because I really like that person's personality. So I'm like, you remind me of this person and then I went, no, actually, the longer I hung out with her, I was like, no, actually, that's not it at all. Right. It's always tricky though when you're like, oh, you remind me of this person.
Yeah, but that's why I keep it to famous people. Yeah.
That way they're not going to run into them. I always what I like to do is there have been times where people go, oh, you remind me of my granddaughter or you look like and they go, oh, they must be amazing.
Yeah, I've heard you say that line. I've heard you say that.
Because what are you supposed to say to that? OK. Thanks. Yeah, oh, they must be rad.
I remind you of someone rad. Yeah, that is cool. Yeah. Yeah, or maybe just have your interaction as it's given to you.
You're a standalone person.
Yeah. Yeah. You don't remind me of anybody but yourself. Yeah, look at you are something special. Hey, let's go ahead and start today's show. Well, let's just cover everything with a nice little coating of ice first thing in the morning. I think that sounds like a fun way to start the day. I didn't get that. Let's just walk outside and then try to start a car and then have your door go.
Uh huh. And then you finally get in and you're like, great. And you get things started and then you go to run your wipers and he goes. Everything made a terrible noise this morning. And then it was like, all right, let me scrape this and it doesn't scrape because it's just a solid.
Sheet of ice. Yeah, pretty thick ice.
That was it was. Well, here's what it looked like. It happened. It looked like it had rained and the rain had like run down the windows and streaks. Yes, as it does. And then that froze. And then it got more kind of condensation due on top that froze as well. It was this multi-layer terrain of ice. Yeah, it was awful. Yeah, agreed. How long did it take you for you to defrost before you could fully see?
Well, I didn't drive my car today.
Yeah, I drove Emery's car. I drove your car. I know, she's so cute. I told you, you could drive your own car. We're going to the same place. We can switch here.
I didn't necessarily know how her buttons worked. So I turned on the defrost, but I bet I could have made it work faster if I knew what I was doing.
Did you find the heated seat? No. Oh, that's a bomber. I did.
Yeah, mine's so easy. Oh, heated seats.
Yours is even easier in Emery's cars right there.
Oh, yeah, that's right. I did know that. Blew it.
Well, there's always next time. Anyway, that's no fun to start the day. No, it sure is. Just so you know, if you're listening and you haven't gone out to check the car, don't you run out and heat that baby up?
Why don't you just stay in bed?
That sounds way nice. That's a better place to be. That sounds way nice. Yeah. Yeah. Well.
Well, what else is going on today?
I don't even know. I know it's Tuesday. Tuesday. I know.
Tuesday, Tuesday.
I got a lot of running around to do today. Yes. So there's that. Just get the morning going. That's really where I'm at right now is let's just get the morning going. Let's just get started. Yeah. Let's go. Yeah. Let's go. When your voice cracked like that, was that a part of it?
Yeah, of course it was. Let's go.
It sounded like a very young hound dog. Let's go.
Who's the hound dog in Fox and the Hound? Is it Todd? Todd? Or is it the other one? Now I can't think what the other one's name is. Maybe the fox's name, Todd? Copper. Copper. That's right.
Todd is. Is the fox? Must be. Kurt Russell is the voice of Copper and so is Corey Feldman. Oh, and he's a little kid? Yeah. Cute. Yeah. And Mickey Rooney is Todd with 1D. I'm Todd. And then Chief. Yep. Good old Chief. Yeah. Good old Chief. Well anyway, let's go.
All right, I got you some good news. Let's hear it. Mark Cody, he's in Sheffield, England. He is a sports car enthusiast who decided he wanted to make a difference in the lives of some senior citizens so he is taking them on joy rides and supercars. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, right?
He started a charity group. It's called Grand Burgini. Cute. Yeah. He pairs seniors with supercar owners for some high speed spins and Ferraris, McLarens, Lamborghinis. The whole idea is to give retirees a chance to feel young again while feeling the roar of those V12 super engines. That's cool.
Yeah. The inspiration for the project came from a promise that Mark made to his own grandmother to take her for a ride in a Lamborghini. He sadly never got to fulfill that before her passing so now he's making sure that other seniors get the chance.
Thanks to Mark and others who have joined in the fun with their supercars, the senior citizens get out, they connect with people and they get to go real fast down the road. They also leave their worries, loneliness and isolation in the dust, they said.
Yeah. Which is like pretty cool. Get out of here. Grand Burgini. Cute. Yep. Where's this at?
This is in Sheffield, England. Okay. Yeah. Pretty cool. I like that.
Does he take them on the Autobahn? That's in Germany. No, I know, but it's ... That's a long drive.
It's not that far, actually. Well, it is because you got to go from England through the tunnel to France and then you got to go back up to Germany. That's a long drive.
You could still go there. I mean ... It's not unheard of.
Not in an afternoon?
Oh, right. Settle down. Just a simple question.
The answer is no. I'm going to say that they do.
They don't. But I'm going to pretend that they do. Okay. I kind of want to go on the Autobahn. Why? I don't want to drive, but I do want to be a passenger because it's so fast. It's not.
It's regular speed unless you're in the fast lane. Yeah.
You're going to be in the fast lane. Driving what? Life in the fast lane. What are we driving? My golf.
No. Why? That'll be in the slow lane. Anyway, that's some good news.
What posters did you have on your wall when you were a teenager?
I actually had ... I don't know. I had a lot of ... I'm trying to picture my bedroom because I had painted on my wall, not a mural, but I had painted this really cool wizard guy. I know.
You're looking at me like you did what? Cool. Yeah. I had a big green wizard that I had painted on my wall. Why a wizard? That's a solid question. I don't know the answer other than apparently I knew how to draw a wizard.
I actually ... It's cool. It's cool that you painted a mural in your bedroom.
I think what had happened is I had done in our family room for my nephew, I had painted like a whole bunch of stuff. I had done a tree and a whole outdoor park scene kind of thing.
Cute. Then there was like a little toddler tree swing that we had lag bolted into the ceiling on one of the branches of the tree and stuff. Anyway, I had done that. I had painted like a ladybug mural thing on a wall at a childcare center. I had done a bunch of little stuff like that. I think it was more like, well, I paint something for myself and it happened to be a green wizard.
I really don't know why. Maybe I just had forest green. How long was it in your room for? Till I left.
Okay. It might still be on that wall. I don't know. I don't live in that house. My parents don't live in that house. If it didn't get painted over before the house was sold, it might still be there.
Okay. If not, hey, there's a green wizard behind some layers of paint. You didn't have any band posters?
I'm trying to really think about my room.
Cute actresses? No. Oh.
No, I certainly didn't have that. Me neither. I had some stuff I brought back from Costa Rica with me hung up. Most of that stuff, like pictures of family and friends and stuff and little things like that, I took to Arizona with me to hang on my wall there to make my room feel
a little Did you have any posters hanging up there?
No, I had pictures in my- You didn't have posters ever?
Oh, man. I mean, I probably had some posters in my apartment later in life, but movie posters. I don't even remember what movies they were for. In
the 90s, it was all about posters. I had posters all the time and then they were cheap. So I was constantly switching them out. Jean-Glade Van Damme?
Yeah. Yeah, that's right. I know I had something because I remember using postpins. I just don't remember what posters I had. That's weird.
My brother had a huge den for Broncos one. Yeah. Of all of the players. Yeah, I didn't have that. John Elway was featured prominently.
Yeah, I didn't have a sports team. I really, it's weird that I don't remember.
That is strange because most teenagers in the 90s just had posters. I'm sure I did. If you got magazines, like Seventeen or
Tiger Beat, I didn't- I got Rolling Stone magazine. I listened into Tiger Beat, but I couldn't afford Rolling Stone. It was too classy for me. But they would have pictures of the actors that you liked in Seventeen and so you could rip out that page and put that on your wall. Yeah, for sure. So I had Leonardo DiCaprio and, oh man.
My sister had made for a school project, like a school ceramics project, she had made these masks, like these ceramic masks. And they looked like Mardi Gras masks, actually. And she had those hanging on the wall.
She and I shared a room for a while. And then she had those hanging on the wall for a while. And then she was like, these are ugly. I hate these. And I was like, those are actually really cool. But I thought everything my older sister did was cool. Yes, I said older. Older. So I was like, can I have them? And she was like, yeah, take them. They're gross. And I was like, yes.
Well, is she like 12 years old? And I had those stupid masks hanging on my wall for ever and ever and ever. And then I went to college and I was like, should I take these?
I did not, thankfully.
I'm struggling to figure out what I had. I had a big entertainment center and I had all of my model cars were on that. And I had...
You didn't have band posters or anything?
No, not that I can think of. Oh, man. I'm really trying to think. I guess I did because I had a Green Day and Blink 182 poster because I still have it. Of course you do. Yeah.
You have all your stuff still.
No. Well... No, I don't. I have a whole bunch of stuff I don't have. But the stuff I do have, I still have around. But like... Everyone... I don't know. I really don't remember everything.
Everyone my age, like all the teenage girls had that Brad Pitt poster from Legends of the Fall. Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah. Did you? No, because everyone else had it. And I was like, I'll just go... I
can't. I can't have everything everyone else has. You've always been a trendsetter.
No, I don't think it's that at all. It's just that I wanted to be different. So I had ceramic Mardi Gras masks. So, cool.
Now, did you ever take the faces of famous people and put them behind the Mardi Gras masks so you had their eyes poking out?
No, that would have been hilarious.
It would have been creepy. Like, who's behind the mask? Oh, who could it be? That would have been awesome. It's Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
No, I never had him. No? Nope. I did have Robert Downey Jr. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. What's your room look like now? No posters. Not a one. Do you want to change that? No. Okay.
No, thanks. Big news in our house. Big news. Emery took her written driver's test yesterday and she passed. Yes. And then today she is going to take her driving, her skills test. That's right. So that girl may have her driver's license soon.
Or is all of the older people in the family say, Oh, stay off the sidewalks. That's a good one.
Now, we don't ever have cash in our house. I pay everything. I can't keep track of cash. I understand. And so when somebody says, Oh, you're going to need to pay that in cash. I go, Oh, this is a big to do. And true. Not only is it just like a $20 bill, we have to pay $28 and 50 cents.
And it has to be exact change. That is correct. To the skills instructor. And I'm not complaining about that. I'm just complaining that it's 2026. There's got to be a better way. Yeah.
So then I have to go to the bank and pull out. We managed to find a $20.
And we said, I got a $20 bill. And I went, great. Now we only need $8 and 50 cents. And she said, I have 50 cents. Great. Now we only need $8. So let's go to the bank. Let's go to the bank and pull out $8.
I got creative because you were like, Are we really going to ask for $8? And I said, or you could ask for 10, get a five and five ones. I get $10. I need a five and five ones. That's it. It's easy. Now you can make $8. And guess what? $2 bonus.
Bonus. What are you going to do with $2? It's a $2 bonus. Those $2 will live in my purse for, I should take, here's what I'm going to do. What are you going to do? I'm going to put it in the calendar that those $2 have been in my purse starting yesterday.
And it will keep track of when you use them.
Because it's rare that I ever use cash. Ever. Ever.
Ever, ever. Here's the thing. It's going to be somewhere that has like a vending machine or an arcade game or something. And you're going to go, yeah, I'd like to maybe play that.
You're right. Because I do that so often. And then you'll turn that into quarters. It won't be you. It'll be the kids who go, do you have any quarters?
Because they still do that. They've been doing that since they were four. Do you have any quarters?
Okay. Here's the question I really want to ask though. Because we have been spending a lot of money on our backyard. Our big backyard beautification bonanza. Yes. And I often wonder sometimes if when you go to the bank and you pull out money, if the bank tellers are like, I don't know if that's a wise idea.
Like you should probably keep that money. You're going to need that. $10.
But do they ever look at your balance and
go, I bet they look the other way for low balance because they probably see that. And they go, yeah, that's, I bet they see that more often. But when the high rollers come in, they go, whoa, look at that. That's a big number.
They never do that to us.
You don't think they big number us? Look at you. You should go sit in our leather chairs. They're in a separate waiting room. Yeah.
For people like us, we just get the blast.
They're like, you can have a bench. It's wood.
We bought it secondhand. You're in the double digits. You can go sit over there.
There was a church that was going out and they wanted to update their pews. And so we bought off the old pews and you can sit in one of those.
Do you, you don't ever wonder that though, if the bank tellers are
ever judging you based on your balance? The only reason you wonder that, the reason you think about that is because you would do that. That's why. No, I don't think about that.
I kind of would, that's why I probably shouldn't work in a bank ever. Because I would look at balances and I'd be like, what have you been spending your money? It would be so judging.
And the answer is none of your business.
None of my business. But I am curious. Yeah.
That's a lot of milk. Why'd you buy so much milk?
The amount of times they judge our kids for what they spend their money on. Oh, I absolutely would be like, maybe you should keep a little bit in savings. Yeah. Okay.
You weren't worried at all last night. Okay. I was like, oh, don't pull out $10. She's probably like, guys, getting real close to payday. It was a lot of work to get $10. I know it was. There was a whole verification thing that had to be done. It was crazy. It was crazy. We're gonna try D and we're gonna need to know, you know, which account. Oh my goodness.
Also, why still the year is 2026. Why in 2026 do you have to go talk to somebody to get $10?
Yeah. Why don't they put more denominations on the? In the ATM.
On the automated ATM.
Yeah. Why doesn't, why does the ATM only spit out $20 bills? Exactly. Why? Yeah. Why can't I get 10s, 5s, 1s? Uh-huh. Why not? Why can't I go to an ATM and say give me $12?
Some of them do, but not all of them. And then it's, I remember they said once that there's like specific ATMs that will dispense 10s.
The charge is 7% surcharge and they're in a gas station.
Or a casino. Yeah.
Sure. You can get as much or as little as you want, but it's gonna cost you. I just want to go to the branch of my bank and have it give me
20s, 10s, 5s, and 1s. I know. It'd be so convenient if I could go get $15 instead of having to get 20. And then go to a different place. And then have to go somewhere else and break it.
Yup. Somebody at the bank figure that out. That'd be great. Appreciate it. The ATM company. More like. No, it's the bank. Well, yeah, and probably whoever made the software. They got a team up. Team up for the sake of convenience. We all want to be able to get not just a $20. Exactly. Or 50 or 100. Sometimes you might want to pull out a five because you don't have a 20 and you can't. There you go.
You see. Yeah, because there's not 20 left in your bank account. That's what I'm saying. Listen, I know I got five bucks in there. Let me just pull that. Right.
Let me just get my $5. I'll put more money back in again later. I promise. Yeah, it's almost payday. We already covered that.
Let's talk about your neighborhood gossip buddy that I didn't even know existed until you called our insurance company. That's right. Yesterday because we needed to make sure that things were in a row.
For today. For Emery's driving test today. Right.
And she said, oh, you can actually find that on the app, on the website. Right. And she was kind of helping you log into that. That's right. And then she just out of the blue goes, okay, Josh, I have to ask you.
Yeah, that started all the neighborhood gossip.
What's going on with the neighbors?
The hot guys.
Like you don't know. I know what's going on with the neighbors and I'm curious about the neighbors. I had no idea one that the insurance agent. Lived in the neighborhood and also knew that you lived in the neighborhood and that the two of you have already discussed. It sounds like you guys have already discussed the neighborhood.
I feel like I learned a lot yesterday in a conversation about the neighborhood. I don't know a lot that's going on, but I know a lot more about what's going on now than I did before that phone call.
Uh-huh. Yeah. There have been some police at that particular house. Yeah, it's hot goss. That is hot goss. Both Emory and I were just sitting there like, what is going on? The two of you just gossiping about the neighborhood.
I had no idea. Yeah. None idea.
Well, now you know. What I know, which is that there's stuff going on in the hood. I was unaware of, but I know a little bit more about it today.
My favorite was that you were just desperately trying to log in and you're like, listen, I do want to talk about the neighborhood.
Well, I'm just also trying to get this to log in.
I'm like, I don't know what's going on. And she was like, no, no, no, we got to talk about your neighbors first.
Did you hear about this? And I went, no, but also my password isn't working. Hold on. I'm trying to do two things at once and I'm not a very good listener.
So let's go ahead. I'm not actively listening because I'm trying to.
That's right. Let me, let me pull up this app. Hold on. I just finished installing it. What now?
You did. You did tell her at one point you said you need to actually talk to Chantel because she's going to want to know all of this. I'm like, I'm here listening. I'm, I'm right here.
I said, tell me all the goods. Because I know you are a neighborhood looker outer.
I think everybody has to be, you have to be in some way or another. You got to know what's going on in your hood.
Look, I just, oh, can I just do this? Let me just do this. Please. Okay. What are you trying to do? I'm trying to log in. This is, I just wanted to give a real time example. Oh, thank you.
Perfect. So this particular neighbor, they've been moving in.
Hold on. I'm trying to hold on.
No, but have you guys seen the neighbor that's just down the street?
I need this and then I have to pull up this. And the police have been there multiple times. Okay.
I was able to pull up my, Josh, what's going on with the neighbors next to you?
Listen up, Chantel. Take this phone call while I figure out this app.
That's what I should have said here. Hold on. You guys talk hot goss so I can do this.
I was struggling a little bit, but we got everything covered. I think so.
It reminded me and she's very friendly and nice and we love her. We mean no, no bad. Not at all. She's the best. But it reminded me there's a, you know how sometimes you go to like any kind of government office and there's kind of a receptionist there and she just wants to shoot the breeze with everyone who comes in and she's like, have you heard about Judy? What's going on with Judy? Then she'll have a whole conversation with this person about Judy. Next person will come in and she'll be like, oh my gosh, hi. Hey, have you heard about Susan?
What's going on with Susan? I just heard about Judy. I love it. There's too much hot goss.
There is a lot of tea in the world.
That is right and it is being spilled.
And in our neighborhood, our insurance agent wants to really know what's going on in our neighborhood.
Well, and I'm all about it. Me too. Now I know. I know which house to not walk by.
I also want to know more. We know more than we did.
I know who you can call and you can ask all the questions.
But she doesn't know all the answers either.
She might know more than she let out. She was asking you. She was like, what's going on with your neighbors? And we were like, I don't know. But maybe it sounds like you do.
We got no ones in the neighborhood that just moved in. We got moving trucks all over. We got a lot going on. I know. That's what I'm saying. And I mean, that happened on the weekend, but there's a lot going on every day.
Who's the nosy neighbor?
Is it the one town that calls herself?
No, from Bowich. The nosy neighbor from Bowich. Mrs. Kravitz. Yeah. Yeah.
Not Cardin. Who? The lady with her last name is Cardin. She's the nosy neighbor in Idaho Falls.
No, I'm talking about the one from Bowich. Dicey. Who was actually, she was always like, what's going on? Mrs.
Kravitz. Yeah. That's my mom always calling people that. Because they were peeking out the window. Yeah, oh, look at them. Look at that, Mrs. Kravitz.
You just got busted. Yeah. Oh, look at, I'm looking out the window at all the other people looking out the windows. Go outside.
See what's going on. Go strike up a conversation. No, I'm never going to do that. Never. Never. Depends on who it is. Okay. We should go meet our new neighbors.
We do have new neighbors. I know, they just moved in. I don't want to.
Why? Because I don't like talking to people. Why?
I did. That's a confusing thing you just said.
I was staying with some friends over the weekend and I had mentioned that I had taken a shower and they were like, they overheard me say that I had taken a bath. And they were like, you took a bath?
Well, you were just telling me the story and I said, you took a bath? I had the exact same thing happen. I thought you said the same thing. No, I did not take a bath. I think I had some time to kill so I took a bath and I went, you took a bath? As a guest at a house, you took a bath?
So that started a whole conversation of why just taking a shower at someone's house feel normal but taking a bath at someone's house?
It's like you don't do that. It feels strange. It feels strange, doesn't it? I wouldn't run a bath. I mean, oh, no thanks. I don't like a bath anyway, but that's real not it.
But then it turned into like this really funny joke of like you're just at somebody's house and you're like, I'm going to go take a bath at cool with you and then just watch their face.
I wouldn't even say that cool with you. Like it's way better if you go like, I'm going to go hop in a bath
or what if you start running the water, you leave the door open and you're standing at the edge of the tub like feeling the water temperature.
And then I'm standing. Are you running a bath? What? I have a good bath. You got any bubbles? Yeah, do you got any Mr. Bubbles under here? You got a bath bomb?
I really like to decompress when I'm at other people's houses.
I mean, okay. What if it was like not a friend's house? What if it's like a family member? What if it's your old house? What if it's at your mom's? Like your parents' house? Uh-huh. Would you bathe at your parents' house?
Yeah, because I used to bathe there before. That's
what I'm saying. But you haven't in a long time. No, I haven't in a really long time. I wouldn't. I wouldn't bathe at your family's house. I just wouldn't be comfortable. I don't bathe.
At any of that? I shower. I can't do a bath. If you hear me running a bath, something's wrong. Or I'm running it for somebody else. Who's he filling a bath for? Because it's not him.
But why is that so weird?
I don't know. There's something about it.
Taking a shower is normal. But taking a bath is like what?
Yeah, I'll take a shower, but running a bath.
Way to drain all my hot water, bud. I'm gonna get my toesies wrinkly. And then we thought about how funny it actually is to hear like this. If you have a guest in your house and they've decided to take a bath, and then you just hear them sploshing around.
Right, or that scoot noise when their skin's hitting the bottom of the tub. And just, like, no. Why are you bathing in my house?
Or strange noises that sound a little like extra air.
Yeah, bubbles. No, I know what you're getting at. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.
I kind of want to do it just to see the looks.
You want to take a guest bath.
Yeah, just to see the looks I'd get. Like, hey, I'm gonna go. Maybe you have a shower caddy full of your own bath salts. And then you're like, how's your hot water? Do you guys have hot water on demand?
Yeah, are you an on-demand system?
That tub looks real nice. That tub is calling my name.
What if you just showed up? Like, just down the street from us is an old college roommate. What if you went to her house with your shower caddy and were like, hey, I'm just gonna pop in and take a bath real quick.
You know what we should do? My nephew really loves to take a bath. Yes, he does. We need to go to his house, show up at his house and be like, hey, I'm here for my...
I heard you got a good tub. What? A good tub. Oh, hilarious. Yeah, I don't think I could do it.
I just want to see people's faces when I say I'm gonna take a bath.
Hey, I'm gonna run a... I'm gonna go run a bath. But you got to commit to the bit. You got to say it like that and then immediately stand up and start moving. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's like, don't wait for the reaction.
Yeah, I think I'm gonna go run a bath. But then I also think that you have to leave the door open while you're feeling out the temperature of the bath. You have to sit on the edge of the tub while the water is running, with the door open.
Like, it's a little warming up. That's it. I'll plug it now. That's gonna take a minute. I'll come back to you, bathtub water. Go get my stuff. Got my own loofa. Oh, weird. Yeah, no, don't do that.
We were eating dinner the other night and there were some seed packets on the table because you've been plending out a garden. And I was reading the back of the seed packet with the description of the vegetable that was on the front. And I went, that's kind of funny. And I told you that if I were to ever have a need to write a dating profile to describe myself.
And the look on the kid's face when you said that. Like, if I ever have to fill out a profile for Tinder, go ahead.
Listen to this. It's a good way to describe yourself.
Based on vegetables?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. This is a carrot. A long cylindrical with blunt ends. Sweet, plump and cordless.
Oh, yeah, it's cordless. It's a good trait.
Corless. Corless. Then there's another one. This is a tomato. A sprawling vine with coarse aromatic hair. Yes. It's a strong look. I know these are really good. Shapes vary from thin to thick. Okay.
That's facts.
That's facts. If you ever have need of, you know, you don't know what to write about yourself. Look at a vegetable seed packet. All right. What are some others? You'll come up with all kinds of stuff. This one is a pepper. Small white star shape. Oh. Blooms in early summer.
Oh. I bloom in early summer. Many peppers change colors. They mature, which is true for a lot of people. Which kind of vegetable are you looking up? Pumpkin. Okay. What do you got?
I'm still looking. Looking specifically because I wanted to find something that had like kind of a, you know, that kind of a vibe to it. Uh-huh. Those are pumpkin seeds that you can eat. That's not what I want.
The zucchini. Here's a description of a zucchini. It can grow quite large. Okay. That's true. It can. That's true of me.
All right. Here's the back of a pumpkin. Sprawling vines with enormous orange pumpkins can weigh hundreds of pounds.
No, that one's not as good, Josh. I tried. That one's not a good one.
You've pitched a terrible one. I tried.
Thousands of varieties categorized by texture, starchy or waxy and skin color.
Named for the town it was developed in in 1871. It's a gardening favorite ever since. What is that? That's a carrot.
Oh, see the carrot I think has probably been the best. It's also good at describing a carrot, but also describing a person. I see. Shaves may vary from thin to thick. That's depending on the time of season. That's true.
That's true. What about some of the flowers? Have you looked at flowers? Oh. Those might be a little more dainty.
They might be. Go check some of those out.
Highly adaptable natives with smooth foliage. Let's see. Late season nectar source. Dear resistant, drought and salt tolerant. That's not bad.
I feel like this is what dating profiles need to be. Salt tolerant.
Yeah. Dear resistant. What's this one saying? An easy to grow, cultivated worldwide as a food crop. Grazing fodder. Medicinal herb. Nutrient dense. Highly beneficial for supporting overall health and wellness. See?
Yeah. That could be a person on the dating website.
That's a wellness garden, by the way. Yeah. So yeah, you can look at seed packs for ideas for different ways to describe yourself.
If you're struggling with your dating profile. Sure. Or you just need some tips on how to present yourself. Check out a seed packet.
Yeah, go to the garden section and just read the back. Steal some adjectives. They got plenty of them.
My mom always told me to rip my mail into a million pieces because someone could go through the trash and put it all back together. Okay. And I... This is a cool paranoia?
Still do that to this day. She would get so paranoid sometimes that she would get a bowl, fill it with water and put the pieces of the mail in the bowl.
What is she hiding? Your mom has some skeletons. I'm telling you.
What's in this bowl? And she'd be like, what's just the mail? That's weird. I know. That's weird.
She has got a weird paranoia. She watched a dateline once. But anything, yes. And it changed her whole life.
But because I grew up watching her do that. I don't soak my mail, but I do. I rip it up into pieces depending on what it is, honestly. If it has my name on it or any other pertinent information, if it has like... If it's like a credit card statement or like a bank statement, that gets ripped up into tiny, tiny pieces.
Yeah, it gets shredded. But the... Like, I'll get you qualified or pre-qualified for a card. I rip those in half and put them in the garbage. That's more for my own satisfaction. I rip those in half, too. I like to rip mail in half. Do ya? When it's that kind of stuff, when it... Like, you know what's coming in the mail today? One of those.
A credit card? Yeah. You've been pre-qualified. Quit sending me that stuff. So I'm gonna rip it up and I'm gonna throw in the garbage can. And I like doing that. And you're gonna feel good about it. I like doing that.
I go, you wasted all this money and trees. That was great of you. Thank you. Garbage. Garbage. I hope you feel better. I wish they'd quit. I do, too, actually. If I want a credit card, I'll reach out. So, I don't need you to send me stuff in the mail like that.
But you've been pre-approved. I don't care. We looked at your credit score and it looks good.
Yeah, quit looking at my credit score. Yeah, exactly. I'm gonna throw this away. That's my personal information. Quit printing stuff and mailing it. Stop it. I throw it away every time. I rip it in half. We heard. And I throw it away. We heard. I get to do that today. Capital one.
Are you excited about it? A little bit. Capital one. Yeah.
Do you rip other pieces of mail? What's in your garbage? That. Nice job. Do I rip other pieces of mail? Yeah. I don't know. Those every time. I've heard. Not really.
Okay. Did your mom ever soak her mail? I don't know where she got that from. I need to maybe ask her because I didn't think about that until.
That's a dateline thing for sure. I'm telling you, she watched some news show and she was like, everybody's trying to steal my identity. People are going through my garbage. Going through the trash. To figure out who I am. That's strange. I mean. Or it wasn't mail and it was secret other mail.
Like love letters. Don't tell anybody. From a secret admirer.
Could be. And she's like, that's just the mail. Or she could be like one of Charlie's angels. Like a spy. Yeah. And so it's like secret messages that she has to destroy.
That's the best she's got to destroy it. She's a super government spy and she's like, I soak it in water. I got to get rid of this mail. Let's put it in water for a day. Here's the problem. She would soak the mail.
Yeah. And then you'd go to like get a drink of water and you'd be like, mom, the bowl of mail is still sitting in the sink. And it would be there for days. No way.
What in the world? Maybe she was making paper.
Maybe possibly.
Did you ever see her with screens like taking the pulp and laying it out? No. No. Well, it's not that. No, it wasn't that. She's not making paper.
Get your mail out of the sink, mom. You got to do the dishes.
Get your mail out of the sink.
Oh, man. I just always wonder sometimes my parents did weird things and now I just wonder what our kids are going to, when they look back, are they going to be like, oh, my mom always did this weird thing. What do you think it's going to be? What do you think our kids are going to say? We're pretty normal. I don't know about that. I really don't know about that.
Here are reasons why people would soak their mail to remove the stamps for collecting. No. She wasn't a big stamp collector. No.
She really would. She would just rip it up and then put it in a bowl of water to get rid of all the ink, Josh. No. No. Disappearing ink.
Something happened in the 1990s. There was some sort of date line about mail fraud and she got into it.
She ran with it. She was like, we got to do that.
A prominent 1990s date line investigation focused on mail fraud involving Brian Ross confronting scammers who targeted elderly citizens stealing millions in fraudulent campaigns. Other cases featured Steve Commissar who ran a 90s mail scam selling solar powered clothes dryers that were actually clothes lines. These cases highlighted widespread fraudulent solicitations mailed to customers. But I'm trying to figure out where they were told to soak their mail. I'm just not seeing it. I'm seeing where people were like scammed through the mail, but I am not seeing where anybody was digging through your garbage. I know.
I'm about to keep digging. Yeah.
Okay. Well, I mean, if it makes you feel better, soak your mail if you don't want people to know your information. Sure. Sure thing. I'm throwing this question old school. What's that mean? That means think about our first date. What would you tell yourself on our first date if you had the chance? Like if you could go back now as yourself now and see that young Josh on his first date with me, what would you tell him?
Could I go back? Run. No. Can I go back just a couple of days earlier? Sure. I can? Yeah. What would you say? Go to the bowling alley and practice real quick. Go to the bowling alley and practice so that you can do better.
No way, man. That's totally your style too, isn't it? I was telling a coworker yesterday. She said, do you guys ever rage at video games? I said yes, Mario Kart, but only when Josh wins because there's a long-standing history of him staying up late to practice so that he can beat me the next day.
Yeah. So on our first date, we've been bowling. And you what, you don't think you performed well? I could have done better. Well, we both could have done better. It's not like I got it.
Yeah, but I could have done better than you and that would have been better for me to do better than you. We've had a competitive thing throughout the entirety of our relationship because whether it's foosball or Mario Kart, Ricky Carmichael, the motorcycle game that I stayed up way late to get better at than you.
And then the next morning went, oh, look at how good I am. What's going on with you? Why can't you keep up? What's the problem? Because here's the thing. When you are winning at something, you're pretty gloaty and you're kind of nose in the air about it like, oh, I'm so good.
That's because it doesn't happen very often.
It happened a lot. And so then when I got better and then gave you back your own medicine is when you were like, I don't like this and I'm the baby. Why are you being? Just let me win. Yeah, exactly. Right. That's so that's fun for me.
So that's what you would do. You would go back three days before our first date and say, go practice bowling.
Maybe understand a little bit more about how bowling works. Maybe. I thought. You thought I'd say something nice.
Something cute and nice.
Is cute and nice how we work?
Ever. No, but I kind of wanted to sometimes. Just kidding.
Look at that picture of us. There's a picture of us in the studio. Cute and nice. Look at. Yeah. That's cute and nice. We do cute and nice stuff. You know, it is.
It says great music, good vibes. Yeah. Real fun. That's right. Are we having real fun? I think so.
I think real signifies authentic. And I think we're having authentic fun.
Here's how you can also know it's authentic. If, if Chantel smiles really big. Yeah. You can see a lot of her gums. Oh really?
Are you, are you feeling bad about that photo?
Kind of. Why? Cause it's a lot of gum. Okay. My gums are in full force in that photo. It's a nice healthy gum.
I honestly didn't notice that at all. Well, now you are. Well, yeah, because you pointed it out. Now that's all you're feeling. I was looking at your happy eyes and my very bald head. I've been told this photo because this is the same photo that's on the billboard. If you're driving around town and you see us on a billboard, that's the same photo we're talking about.
Yeah. And we have billboards in Idaho Falls and.
Pocatello. That's right. And as I was driving around, all right. I, as I was told by someone who was driving around, you really hairy arms. Oh, and I went, who told you that?
Well, I'm a mammal. I don't think they're abnormally hairy. Okay. That's a normal amount of hair.
I like the scratch on my, on my forearm. That's a good look. We could have, we could have doctored that up a little bit.
Why are we picking apart pictures of ourselves? I mean, cause we're cute and nice. Real fun.
Yeah. Real fun. Good vibes. Great music. Great music. Yeah. You know.
You could go back. You could go back on our first date and say, listen, listen, listen. Younger Josh. Somebody someday is going to say, you should do a radio show with your wife. It's very important that you say no. Why would I say no? It's been a great decision. It has been a good decision. I'm having a great time.
Great music, good vibes, real fun. You know.
That's what it says. Yeah. That is what it says. And that's what it is.
I mean, is there a better description? Not. Good one. So do you remember the license plate that I used to have when I had the Tacoma? Do you remember what it, what it said?
Yes. What did it say? Pod. Which, okay. Which stood for? No. Which eventually was translated to? Pod. It didn't say pod. Yes, it did. It said P4WD. Yes. Pod. Which stands for? Pod. Pay forward.
No. I was trying to think of something cute. Right. That it would stand for. Because pod wasn't a good idea. Yeah. And I said, I could be paid forward. That's a good one. And then you kind of ran with that idea.
That's great. Okay. Pay forward. Okay. So where did the concept of pay it forward go? Well, today's pay it forward day. Is it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's why I was bringing it up. Yeah. Not the movie. I want to know like where did the, where did the actual, the idea come from?
Did the idea come from the movie? No way. Or did the movie come from the idea?
I think the movie came from the idea.
Chicken or the egg.
Which came first? Pay it forward as an expression describing the beneficiary of a good deed, repaying the kindness to others rather than paying it back to the original benefactor. It's called serial reciprocity. Reciprocity.
Reciprocity. Yeah. Interesting.
The concept is old, but the particular phrase may have been coined by Lily Hardy Hammond in a book published in 1916 called The Garden of Delight. Okay. So that is, it's old. Okay. And so the movie was based off of that concept of paying forward to another person.
Okay. Paying forward the kindness. Why are we talking about it?
Because today is paying forward day. Global pay it forward day. Okay. So it's a good day to pass on some kindness and some compassion because you know everybody could use a little.
We all could use a little kindness and compassion.
Me especially. Do you have ways that you know that you could pay it forward?
I was going to say you could buy for, you could pay for somebody's drive through order. Right.
When you're behind that. Not behind. You can't pay for somebody in front of you.
Oh, that's true. But I've heard that restaurant people don't necessarily like that. That gets a little confusing.
I'm sure it does because it can cause a chain reaction of people paying it forward. Right.
We've done that before. It is kind of fun.
It is kind of neat. Where you just go like, hey, how much was the order behind me? And they go $44 and you go, never mind. Never mind. Have a nice day. Yeah. No. Thanks for letting me know. I was going to think about paying if it was like 10, but that's more than my budget.
Yeah, that's my, I can't afford that.
Anyway, that's, that's a thing people do. They've got six kids. Mentorship is a way to pay it forward. Sharing your knowledge or training for someone. You're passing on things that you learned in the past.
That's a big deal. Donating used goods to charity instead of throwing them away is a way to pay it forward. Helping a stranger with a task like fixing a flat tire or carrying heavy items, small acts of service, those can be ways to pay it forward as well.
So anyway, on global pay it forward day, we just want to encourage you to do something a little extra nice, do something special and help somebody because it's the right thing to do, especially today. Yeah. Pod. Pod. POD. Pay it forward.
It was a four, not an A. Pay it forward. Pay it forward. So prom season is here. We've been out doing some dress shopping and I was talking with some friends the other day about prom dresses and sort of how they've kind of become this one time use thing. Yeah.
It's an expensive one time use. It's expensive. Well, and we just had a sweetheart's dance. Right. And we bought a dress for that. Yeah. And I mean that was what in February. Right. And then I have to buy another dress for prom. Right. And these two dresses are going to be, when are you going to wear this dress again?
Right. So listen to this. Tell me. There is a woman in England who just walked down the aisle wearing the same dress she wore to her high school prom 13 years earlier.
Well, why not? I know. Why not indeed?
She originally bought the gown back in 2013. And even though her mom wanted that white dress that she'd chosen, she said at the time it looked a little bridal. She was like, yeah, but I like it. So she wore it to prom. She got engaged years later and then she went, I still have that dress tucked away in the attic. I should go dig that thing out. And she did. And it looked bridal.
Save money. I mean, why not? That sounds awesome. Right. I just saw a thing where there is a school library and I think it might even be Idaho Falls High School where they have a kind of a dress shop. If you want to donate your dress, they take it and then people can come in and shop for dresses in the library. And then you essentially loan it out for the night and then you bring it back and other people can enjoy, which I think is fantastic. I do too. That would have a great idea. Because fashion is like one of the top wastes in America.
Right. That makes sense. I mean, if you're buying these, like did you have prom dresses? Yes. How many? Just one. You had one. And so that you wore? Once. You did only go to one prom? Yeah.
Thanks for rubbing it in. Whoa, easy. Do you want to keep talking about it?
That's not what I was asking. What I was saying is you had one dress, you went to one prom. Correct. But you went to, I thought you went to all kinds of dances.
Well, I went to like Sadie's, Sadie Hawkins and I went to the Valentine's dance. But prom, I only went once. Okay. Homecoming? Yeah, homecoming. So that's a formal? It wasn't formal. It was semi-formal. Oh, okay.
But prom was the only big formal one. Yes. And you went senior year? Yes. You didn't go before that?
No, stop talking about it. I went once. I had one date to prom.
Hold on, hold on, settle down, settle down.
You went one, but really did you go any other time? Just the one? I'm just trying to. Just the one time? You just went once. Nobody asked you any other time? That's not what I said.
I'm just trying to get a lay of the land here.
You got the lay of the land.
I heard, this is the first time I really have understood you only went once to prom because you talk about all the dances you went when you had a whole group of friends and everybody had a great time.
Yeah, we had Sadie Hawkins. We had a Christmas dance. We had homecoming. We had a sweethearts dance.
Right.
You went to a lot of dances. I went to one prom. Okay. No, you should. Stop asking. I did.
The point I was trying to get to was that you didn't wear the one dress to multiple dances. You only wore it one time to prom. Not the one time. Just one time. Yes. Got it. Man. Simmer down. I'm simmered. I don't think you are. You're still boiling.
You should. Man. I will not be should. Calm down. Tell me to shush. Tell me to shush. You should. You want to know how many dates I had total? Here we go. Sure. No. No. I don't know how many dates I had total. Because it was so many. No. It sure wasn't.
You can count them on. One hand. More than four or five hands. Yeah. Anyway. All right. Well, you can reuse the dress is what I was trying to say. You can also wear it to multiple dances. Because no one cares.
No one cares.
No, I know. You don't have to have a new dress every time. No one even knows except you.
Especially since those dresses are expensive.
Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Wear it more than once. Wear it all the time. Wear it just for fun. Wear it because you feel like you want to dress up. That's a great idea. That's what I'm saying. Wear it. Even if you only get asked once. Wear it. Would you rather this or that?
Would you rather lick a subway pole or eat a raw onion? The whole thing. Get your face. This is awful.
Lick a subway pole. Yes. Like at the sandwich place? Nope.
Nope. I'm going to go with eat a raw onion because I feel like as disgusting as that's going to be, it's not going to be disgusting. Yeah. How long is the lick?
How far.
You have to go from the ground to as tall as you can. So you have to lick from ground up.
So it's a vertical part. Not the hand part. Now you're changing things up. It's going to be gross at the bottom.
Oh yeah. That's going to be the worst at the bottom.
I think. But not a lot of people are grabbing the vertical part. So it's not going to be as gross as the handrail. Oh, okay. Hold on. You're talking on the subway.
Yes. All right. Yes. The one that everybody is on. On the actual subway car. Yeah.
I was picturing like a handrail down like a staircase. Oh. And it's a metal thing. Yeah. But then it curves and goes to the ground. Oh yeah. So I was thinking about that vertical part. But you're talking about the actual. Yeah.
On the train. On the train car. The things that people hold onto when it's really full. No.
Do I have a time limit on the onion? No. I'm going to eat that onion. Yeah. Same. Over the course of a year.
No. It has to be a day.
You said I have no time limit.
Okay. Well, I changed it. No. It's an hour and a half. No. No. Josh, it can't be too easy.
You're not stressing about the onion.
I like onions. It's going to do some damage when I'm done because me and onions do not sit well together. Yuck. So it's going to do some damage to you really. Yuck. It really messes up my gastrointestinal.
And then it's just bad news.
But I love them. They're so delicious. So I would eat it.
I'll do the onion. Okay. High five, bud. I'm happy about it. Would you rather this or that?
Alrighty. Okay. So this is one of the reasons why I don't run. There was a runner in Britain, Britain, in Britain. Her name is Eilish. And she just ran the London Marathon and part of her foot exploded. What does that mean? I don't know.
Like it's so strange. There's pictures of it. But there were, she was running and then all of a sudden her foot like started to get blood and her, basically her toe ripped open. You can see blood all over her shoe, all over her socks. She says it felt like her foot exploded. I don't know. This is why I don't run.
That's crazy. Are you looking at it? Yeah. Like what actually happened? I don't know. Not long after halfway, I had a really, really bad blister in my foot. And it sounds strange saying it, but the only way I can say is it felt like my foot just exploded.
She said that she had new shoes, new socks, or they weren't new. She's worn them all year for her training.
Okay. So they were broken in. Zero issues with those. They weren't too small. Her toenails were totally fine. Part of her toe was ripped open and she wasn't sure why because it's never happened before. She's thinking maybe my feet were swollen and then it just kind of, I don't know.
It was the first time she's ever encountered this kind of a thing. I've worn the shoes all the time. I don't know why today my foot decided to be indifferent, but it was just covered in blood. I had to go see a doctor after the race.
I couldn't put any pressure through my foot and it was just totally covered in blood. This is wild. I know. It's just frustrating. It's frustrating to run the same sort of time as I did last year in my debut. So she's frustrated that she wasn't faster. After all this, she's like, well, this whole dang foot.
But even this, she was the fastest European and British finisher. Wow. So even after all of that, she still came in. Let's see. I don't know what place she got, but she's still finished pretty good time because she was the fastest European and British finisher.
Dude, and the brain thing that's going on in your head when you have an injury, I can't even imagine like my foot exploded. Like, should I keep going? And then finishes anyway?
Yeah, no. She's a machine. I know. I wouldn't. That's why I don't run.
Wow. That's why. That's why I don't run. Oh, yeah. Can't be bothered. My foot will explode. My foot's gonna explode. Well, at the London Marathon over the weekend, there was a runner named George Anthony who ran the 26.2 mile course in a sort of live action game of wears Waldo. He was wearing the wears Waldo striped hat and shirt. He had the whole thing. The glasses and he was raising money for charity as he was doing this.
Okay. He was inspired by his mom who for a long time worked for the Salvation Army's Young People's Homelessness Services. She did that for 30 years. So he grew up seeing firsthand how the charity group helps young people. And so he said, I'm going to run his Waldo and generate some buzz.
He had a wave of donations that are going directly to providing housing and support services for homeless youth, which is super cool. So that is the other side of what's going on at the marathon. You got one woman who's running a four-time Olympian, by the way, Eilish, and her foot exploded and she finished seventh. Seventh. Seventh?
With an exploded foot. Get out of here. You're insane.
And Waldo's over here raising money. Yeah.
And I'm over here like, no. I can't run. No. No, I couldn't be bothered. Don't wanna. Yeah. There's shows to watch.
Hey, speaking of shows, this one's wrapped up. Yes, it is. Have a great rest of your day. We'll be back tomorrow. Check out the podcast everywhere podcasts are available and have a good rest of your Tuesday. We'll see you tomorrow. Bye.
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