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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Monday, April 20th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
It's Monday, and Josh and Chantel are back with a jam-packed episode that proves weekends are never actually restful, just a different kind of busy. Midnight gelato runs, a very suspicious daughter, did you know the beloved 90s PBS show Wishbone is getting a documentary, a 9-year-old named Noah is a hero with a new haircut, Josh accidentally put on the wrong pants, a new old man saying was born, we hit the postcard art show, brought home two new trees, discovered spawn points in our house, Madonna and Sabrina Carpenter teamed up at Coachella & so did Justin Bieber and Billie Eilish, inexpensive things that make your life 100% better, and so much more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Late night gelato
(2:31) - It's Monday, again
(4:19) - Wishbone documentary
(8:59) - Good News
(11:12) - Wrong pants
(15:43) - Old man sayings
(20:41) - She's going to be a junior
(25:49) - Post Card Art Show recap
(30:45) - Spawn points
(34:59) - New trees
(41:39) - Making the bed before everyone's out
(46:21) - The simple things
(54:43) - Sabrina X Madonna
(59:21) - Would You Rather
(1:03:02) - Mound of shoes
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Full show transcript:
I think my idea is better.
Oh, do you? Yeah. Why? Listen, we're getting ready to do the show here and I said I was going to talk about all of the highlights from WrestleMania 42 and you gave me a look like, I don't think I want to hear about that. I think you might just want to hear that John Cena hosted it and announced the attendance number as like huge, huge attendance at WrestleMania 42. So I think we're on the wrong side of caring about WrestleMania.
I don't. Okay. I'm happy to be on the wrong side.
Fair enough. Okay. Well, what's up?
You on Saturday night, we had a late night, which is surprising to us. We normally go to bed at 10 and then I was well past our bedtime. Yeah. 11, little bit after 11 and you said, I think I want to, I think I want to go to Winko and get some ice cream. No, you said I want to go get frozen yogurt.
Frozen yogurt. Right. Cause I'm on a diet. So I didn't want to eat ice cream at midnight, but frozen yogurt, I could excuse.
And I said, do they even sell frozen yogurt? And we looked it up. They do. Right.
So we went to the Winko at like midnight.
Midnight. And got some, we opted out of the frozen yogurt that all they had were frozen yogurt popsicles. Yeah. We don't want those.
But we found some gelato, which is nice.
Gelato is so good.
I forgot about it last night. I should have had another spoon last night.
I forgot. I forgot about it too.
I did like that we left and then our daughter sent us a message and said, where are you going?
Like, what's stopping me? We didn't tell anybody we were leaving. No, I'm not going to, because it's midnight gelato run. I don't need a babysitter.
Right. I'm an adult. Do what I want. I'm almost in my mid 40s. You know?
Yeah. Yeah. Where are you guys going? Nowhere. None of your business.
Crazy. That's what your mom always said. That's
what my mom always said. Where are we going? Crazy.
Anyway, late night gelato. It's delicious. It's a win. And now a little bit more about WrestleMania 42. Here's today's show. It is Monday. Here we are. Here we go. What's up? What's good? What's new? What's happening? What's crackle-ackin'? The weekend is over. I know it. Yeah. And I'm upset about it, but I'm also not so upset about it because it's been a busy one.
It was a busy one. We put in a lot of work.
And I have a lot more work to put in. So that's the part where I go like, I'm glad it's over, because now I can get back to my job from all the work. Yeah. But then the other part of me is going, but I've got so much work to do. It'd be nice to be home doing that work.
These are the weekends, and this is ingrained from somewhere somehow. But you know, when you have just lazy kickback weekends, and then you feel guilty because you haven't done enough, I don't feel that. Because we were non-stop. Go, go, go.
And we'll break it all down in the show today, but boil, bully. Were we busy? I don't know. Sometimes you get a wild hair and you go, you know, we should get crazy. And then you end up getting crazy. And then other times you go like, we should get crazy. Yeah, but what about sitting? Yeah. That sounds nice.
You were highly motivated this weekend. I was way motivated. And you got to take those opportunities when they come. Yeah.
Okay. Well, happy Monday.
Happy Monday. Happy Monday.
How long is this going to go on?
It could go on forever. Well. But I won't. I just did three. You get three. All right. Three is good. Good morning. Okay. Tell all the people why we have a Jack Russell Terrier.
Because they're super amazing breed of dog that I think are great and wanted one for a while.
Why did you want one for a while?
Probably because of a childhood show that I watched. Called? Wishbone. Wishbone.
Guess what? I found out last week I've been excited to tell you they're making a documentary. Serious. About that TV show.
I'm very curious to see that.
It's called What's the Story? Wishbone. Which is the song. Yeah. I don't know anything about Wishbone. I never watched it. Man.
Wishbone. Yeah. It was a Jack Russell. It's a live action TV series. I'm just reading this from the wiki right here. Okay. It aired from 1995 to 1997 and then did reruns for a while. They only had two years? On PBS. Listen. It's hard to spend a lot of time with a dog. Two years. That was like 14 years for the Jack Russell.
That's fair. Yeah. It's dog named Wishbone who daydreams about being the lead character in stories from classic literature. And so you learn all about different literature stories. So they are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the TV series. So they're doing a documentary behind the scenes effort to just talk about the show and how great it was. And it's set for release this year.
I don't know when specifically. But there is also a live action film that's been in development for a while. Mattel and Universal are working on it together. And it's based on the 90s series as well. Okay.
I didn't know Wishbone's real name.
Did they use one wishbone or did they use multiple wishbones? Really? Who was it? What was his name? Soccer.
Cute. Like the sport. Cute. His name is soccer. Jack Russell, an animal actor. Did a bunch of different TV commercials for Nike, mighty dog dog food. He was Wishbone. He was chosen for more than 100 dogs who auditioned for the role.
Cute. And he appeared in almost every episode of the show. He lived with his trainer on this ranch in Texas where the series was filmed. And he was buried there after he died in 2001.
Wishbone? Yeah. Soccer. Whatever your name may be.
Soccer. Now listen, I am imagining that soccer was named such because of a desire to play soccer, which our Jack Russell has.
That's right. You have often said that that's a soccer dog.
Yeah. Luna is the soccer dog, which is very fun to me that this dog's name was soccer.
She's a really good goalie. Our dog. And that's all she wants to play. We call it kick a ball.
Yeah. Here's the tennis ball. Kick it. Try to get it past me. And then she blocks it. She goes after it. She's a very good goalie. And she'll bring it right back and go, let's go again. Kick a ball. Kick a ball.
Well, I thought you'd be excited about that. What's the story, Wishbone? Okay. It's slated to air on public TV stations May 27th through June 9th. I don't have a firm date. Okay.
Well, I got to find out. Okay. Because I want to see what's the story.
I know. I was excited to tell you about it. We had a mutual friend who shared it on its Instagram story and I was afraid you'd see it before I could tell you.
I don't spend a lot of time on Instagram. That's a safe place to post things that I won't see. Excellent. Now, if you would have shared it, like on TikTok, I would have been like, wait a minute.
I don't spend a lot of time on TikTok anymore. There you go. Anymore? I was just wasting a lot of time on TikTok. So I said, I got to take a break.
Well, I'm excited for that documentary.
I'll watch it with you. Okay. Let's get you some good news.
This story is one that has been told a few times, but I don't think it's been told from someone this young. In Stout Market, England, a nine-year-old boy called Noah got a haircut to help the Little Princess Trust charity. They provide free wigs to children and young people who've lost their own hair due to cancer treatments and other conditions, which is a great cause. Right.
So here's the deal. Noah's haircut was a pretty serious makeover. He is nine. He has not cut his hair since he was three. Whoa. He hadn't cut his hair since the pandemic.
Okay. Which was six years ago. So he just didn't cut it. He let it grow out. He had very long hair with this vision. Long locks. I don't know. He was three.
Right. Like, did he know somebody? I don't know. Okay. Okay. Continue.
Or maybe as he got older and didn't get it cut, he went, no, I'm going to do something good. I don't know how all that came about. Okay. But I don't think a three-year-old went, I'm doing this thing. Right. In six years, I'm cutting my hair. Right. I don't think a three-year-old's looking at a six-year plan.
Right. But regardless, at nine years old, he cut his hair off and he has now donated a lot of blonde locks to the Little Princess Trust charity, which is cool. He says it's weird not having to tie his hair up for sports or spend hours drying it. He was excited to walk into school and shock his teachers and friends with the brand new look after spring break, which I bet they went, who's this kid?
We got a new kid in class? When you see the pictures of Noah, it's pretty, it's pretty stark. I mean, it looks like a whole different person. It's pretty great. And what a great cause.
So way to go, Noah. Cute. That's a big deal.
Good idea, nine-year-old. Good news. Wow. Now, I have a feeling you're going to not enjoy the news that I'm going to share. But I'm going to, listen, I'm going to tell you that it's okay.
Before I even tell the story, I'm going to tell you it's okay. Okay. I have a pile where I keep clothes that I intend to wear again later. Okay. Stuff that I like isn't dirty or like I didn't
like sweat or I didn't work in it. Yeah. Like it's still good.
Like I don't wash my jeans every time I wear them once. Like I'll fold them and put them away. I'll wear them multiple times because they don't need to be washed that often unless I spilled something on them or got dirty or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. So in my pile, I had, I rode my motorcycle today. So I had to wear some, some pants. And then my pile is my gray pants rolled up at the cuffs at the, at the whatever, the bottoms of the pant legs.
Okay. I put them on this morning and I'm gathering all my stuff, putting it in my pockets. And I put my phone in my pocket and I went, why doesn't that fit? And I put my chapstick and stuff in my pocket. And I went, what is going on with these pockets?
Okay. And I went, this, there's no way this is the right pants. So I open up the closet and I look and in the closet are my gray pants. And I went, who's gray pants are these?
Don't, don't even say those are mine. Don't.
I told you, you're going to be upset.
Don't. Don't. You just told everybody that you fit into my pants.
Okay. Let me tell you, I don't have hips. Those pants looked silly on a guy with no hips.
It doesn't matter. You were able to even, I had to put on a belt.
I was like, these are strange pants.
You had to put on a belt because they were so big.
No, because, listen to me. Stop. I said, you're not going to like this story.
Stop. No.
Oh, but they were also super short. And I went, what is happening with these pants? These pants are not clearly not my pants. So I went, oh, that's why you just told everyone.
And now what you fit into my pants. And then not only that you fit in them, but you wore them around
like, no, I didn't wear them around. Like, I immediately went, something's really wrong.
Doesn't matter. You were able to pull them all the way up and button them. I don't care for that. I don't care for this story at all.
I told you, you weren't going to like the story. But what's up with pockets? That was the giveaway. It was the fact that my phone didn't fit in the pocket. And I went, something's wrong. Thank you for noticing. Oh, I mean, I knew it was a problem.
Women's pockets are awful. Yeah.
So I put on my pants. Okay.
You know, it's funny before I left out is I wore those pants. Yeah, you found your pants on my side of the closet.
Right? No, oh, my pants were where my pants get put away. Your pants were in my pile.
How did my pants get in your pile?
And that is the real question.
I don't have a pair of gray pants. Yes, you do. I mean, I do, but I wore them last week. They've been in my pile. Okay, that's not the same gray, gray pair of pants with the rolled up.
They were rolled up at the bottoms like mine and everything.
I roll up my pants. Every pair of pants.
Because they're so short. I know. Well, they're long, but you're short. And so you have to roll them up a bunch. Yeah.
Otherwise they dry. I could get a tailor, but I can't be bothered. So anyway, don't don't say that to me again.
I'm wearing the right pants. Okay. Yours are laying on the bed on your side of the room. So you know. Don't tell people that.
You said the oldest man thing I've ever heard you say over the weekend.
You said in the backyard right after I said it. That was the oldest man thing you've ever said. Go ahead. Tell the folks.
I have some beautiful bleeding heart plants and last year something happened to them and they were very sad all last year. I don't know if it was some pesticide that are that our neighborhood sprayed in the field or if they were over watered or what happened, but we had that freeze warning last week and I said, I'm not, these are looking so good this year. I can't. Right. I can't risk them getting frozen. So we have been very diligent about covering them every night. There's been a freeze warning and making sure they stay nice and toasty. They're looking a little bit sad.
Well, the one on the end is the middle one looks really good.
I mean, a little bit wilty, but yes. So we pulled, we pulled the tarps off of them. They were painters. What are they? What did we use?
Yes, just painters drop cloth.
There you go. That's what we used because that was the only thing we had big enough.
Well, but it's also a nice canvas. It's good. Yeah.
Somebody said put a bucket over the, up. Yeah. What kind of bucket? I don't have a bucket big enough.
But you also said somebody was doing garbage cans. I don't think a garbage can.
No, they're huge. They're big. They're large. Yeah. So we pulled the tarps off and we looked at them and I go, they look terrible. They look so bad. They're never going to survive. And you said, you got to quit. You're looking at the caboose before you can see the engine. And I went, what? Yeah.
You were all depressed. Like they, like you were never going to see nice, strong bleeding hearts again ever. And you were looking all the way at the end of the train. And you can't even hear the engine is what I said. You're staring at the caboose and you can't even hear the engine. That's what you said. You're looking way too down the road. Why don't you just wait and see what happens? Have you heard that before ever?
No, I don't think so. I think that's the one I made up. That's a Josh original. You're staring at the caboose before you can hear the engine.
Yeah. Look it up. Is that a thing? I don't know. We are going to look it up. The whole point of the, of that is that you are looking so far into the future and staring at something going, no, it's, I'm telling you, it's the end of a train.
Oh my God. I understand.
But you don't even know if it's a train at all.
There is no saying like that. It's genius.
Look at me. I came up with a new old man saying, listen, here's, here's the deal. When someone is looking too far into the future and they're, and they're looking at their own picture of what the future might be and they're being negative about it, let them know they're staring at the caboose and they can't even hear the engine. It could be an airplane. It could be a school bus. It could be a Ferrari. You're looking down there going, nope, it's a caboose, 100%.
Quit looking at the end before you can see the beginning. That's right.
Or as I say, you're staring at the caboose when you can't even hear the engine. That's good advice.
It's very good advice. Old man. That's right. Living with an old man. It's really good advice, honestly. And I looked at them today or yesterday. I didn't look at them today, but I looked at them yesterday, those plants. They're going to be okay. Well, yay. I'm glad to know. They're going to be just fine.
That's right. Because they're not even a train at all. No. So why were you all staring at the caboose? I didn't share. Me too. I was trying to get you back on track. See. Staring at the wrong thing. Turn you around and make you look the other way.
Oh, there is the positive outcome. Don't look backwards. You're not going that way. Yeah. Remember that old saying. Never look back.
Walk away from the explosion. Like a cool guy. Anyway, it's going to be okay. They're going to be great. They are going to be great. You know why? Why? Because you're taking good care of them. That's why.
Well, they just need some warmth. Yesterday was good for that, my friend.
Yeah, I do too. I think yesterday was good for a lot of folks. I agree with you. Plants included. I agree.
I got an email on Friday that said, oh, register your student for the 26-27 school year. Yeah. What grade is your baby?
Your last child is going to be in? I know. 11th.
A junior. She's going to be a junior. I know.
I know. How did this happen? We have two years' high school left. And then what happens? And then adulthood? Welcome to the real world where people stop having fun and start getting real. Is that how it goes? The real world.
That's right. Welcome to the real world. Yeah, exactly. So that's the thing.
That is the thing. And it was a little bit crazy. Nobody says how quick time goes.
Oh, everyone does. Everyone tells you. No, no, no. They tell you, savor the little moments because it's going to go by so fast.
It's a blink of an eye, they say. It's not wrong. It's pretty impressive how quickly you go from kindergarten graduation to high school graduation.
It's wicked quick.
It really is wicked fast. So yeah, we have our last child. We have two children. Our last child in high school has two years left of high school. Yep. And then Vamuse. Or whatever.
I imagine she's going to want to go to school. Like, she's going to want to do a college thing. She's heard enough about your college experience. She's like, yeah, I gotta go. College is awesome. Yeah, I know. But I think like she's toured campuses and she's done a bunch of that stuff already. I think that's her thing.
She just doesn't know what she wants yet. She's got a lot of different ideas, which is fine. I don't think that you should have everything figured out yet. Right. You're 16 years old. You got plenty of time. I always tell them I'm 40 years old. I still don't know what I want to do. 40, 40 years old. A few years ago.
How hilarious. Yeah. As a matter of fact, that's coming up real soon. Are you excited? Why? Because I don't.
That's so old.
What is so old? You're having a struggle with this birthday?
I'm having a birthday coming up. Yeah. It feels, the middle of 40. I'm going to be in the middle of 40. Okay. Don't say the real numbers. Just say the middle of 40.
What? Why are you struggling with this one? You didn't struggle with 40. I don't know. But you're having a hard time with this one?
Yeah, because it feels real close to 50.
What's wrong with 50? I don't know. 50 sounds cool. Does it? Yeah.
I just feel like I'm just still pretending to be an adult. Everyone is. And so then I look at 50 and I go, I feel like I should be more figured out.
Well, you got years until then.
Everyone seems so figured out. Who does? Everyone. No. And I'm just over here like, I don't know what I'm doing.
I don't know who you think is figured out. Okay. Okay, good. Who's figured out?
It feels like everyone is. And then I'm over here like, hey.
Oh, you got to look around the room again. Take another look. Okay. Who's figured out?
Everyone? Not even close. Okay. No way. Yes, that way sometimes. I feel like I'm the only one that's like, oh, we're, we're adulting? Okay, cool.
Everybody's making it up, trying to figure it out. I
know that everyone's making it up. None of us really know what we're doing, but certainly feels like some people are better pretenders than others. Okay. Maybe that's my problem. Like I'm just not a good pretender.
Okay. Cause I'm like, I have no idea what I'm doing. When people ask me adult things, they go, I don't know. I don't, don't ask me. Ask another adult. Is there another adult in the room? Cause ask them. The chicks out.
There's got to be some other folks that'll be, you know, trying to figure out stuff at the same time. Have you checked with them? No, you should. Ask around next time you're in a room with a bunch of strangers say, hey, everybody else got this figured out or am I the only one? What do you think people would say? I think they'd all be like, no, like we're all just trying to figure it out together. You know, nobody knows it all. You can't.
Good advice, Josh. Wow.
Quit looking at the end of the train before you can hear it. It's, it applies here too. I'm going to talk about something we did on the weekend. We went to this postcard art show, which was really super cool. I had a couple of pieces that I was eyeballing that I really wanted to purchase and then, and we got there pretty early. We were like numbers 19, 20, 21, something like that. And we're waiting in line to go in and people are coming out and you could buy one or two.
And they had like a minimum purchase donation thing to help out the Happy ville farm. And as people were walking out, I'm watching. Nope, that's not it. Nope, they didn't get mine. And then I watched a guy walk out and I went, Oh no.
Meaning yours, the one you wanted to purchase.
The one I, the two that I wanted to purchase, I got to watch, walk out.
Not the one that you painted. That is correct. You were eyeballing some you wanted to buy, but there were also some that, I mean, you made, you painted a piece.
That's right. And so did you. Yeah, you didn't paint, but maybe some paint in it. Yeah. Yeah. So I was anyway, I was a little bit bummed out that the ones that I really wanted to purchase had been snagged before I got a chance to get in there. Now that being said, I did find a piece that I like and I purchased and I'm happy with it. You got a piece. Then yours is awesome. I really like the one you got. I think it's really and then Emory got one, which is awesome. She got the one she wanted, which was really cool. And so we walked out of there with three brand new pieces of art, little postcards, little five by sevens that we can frame and hang up or whatever we want to do with them. And we got to support a great cause. It was a really cool thing. I hope they bring it back soon.
Of course they will. I know they will. It was hugely successful. Have you heard a number yet? I haven't, but based on the amount of people there, and then I asked her because, you know, if you've been following along, you know, that I put in a piece of art in this postcard art show and I was afraid that mine would be the only one that didn't sell.
Right. So I asked her, I said, Hey, if, if there's somebody who puts a piece in the show and it doesn't sell tonight, could there be an opportunity for that person to come back on like Monday next week and buy that piece? Cause I don't want my little postcard to be the only piece that's just hanging out by itself, not being sold. And she said, we already have a donor who came in and offered a monetary donation and said, I'm going to pay this much and I will buy any piece that's left over.
That's awesome. So here's, here's how, how worried you were that your piece wasn't going to sell. After dinner, you said, Hey, can we go back by? I just want to see if it's still hanging there. And you're looking in the window and it was gone.
It was gone. So your piece had been purchased. Somebody had bought my piece, but you don't know who I have no idea. I know who purchased mine because they posted about it, which was awesome. I'm excited that I got to see who purchased the piece that I made. Have you kept, you keep checking? I do keep checking.
Here's the thing. I, cause I'm not a big poster. I don't do a lot of posting on social media. And so I'm sure the person who painted the piece that I bought is also like, who bought my piece? Who bought my piece? Good point. And I haven't posted anything about it. Yeah. So I can't be mad that nobody's posting about buying my piece when I haven't.
Likewise, I need to probably post about the one I got. Same deal. Cause I do know that the artist who, I don't know them personally, but I know of the artist painted mine. So anyway, it was super cool and it
was super cool because it's just a bunch of local artists that have come together and made some really, really beautiful work. It was cool.
Yeah. I'm excited to be a part of it again. I think it's really rad. And hopefully they'll do it again real soon. I bet they will. And we'll be able to jump in and make some more art for a cause. I agreed. What?
Sorry. You're rubbing on your microphone. Well, I, there was some stuff on it. I didn't think it was going to be noisy. It's noisy. My apologies.
It's literally picks up noise. That's its job. And then you rubbed on it. So, you know, it's its job. The microphone has one job, pick up noise.
Here, let me wash it.
Yeah, perfect. Yeah. Anyway, if it comes back around and you want to be a part of it, I mean, we'll, we'll, I'm sure we'll talk about it, but keep your eyes open. Yeah, make some art. Mm hmm.
Emery sent me a video that said, when you can't find mom at our typical three spawn points. So a spawn point is in video games when you die.
Or when you start. Okay. It's just whenever your character is revived or begins a level, where do they begin? Okay. Where do they start? It's a spawn point. Yes. Yeah. And so the question is, and you asked me, and I thought it was an interesting question.
It is an interesting question. You asked me, where are your spawn points? You said, where are my spawn points in the house? Yeah. If you need to find me, where, where will I be?
I asked you and the kids, you, you all gave different answers. There was one common room that you all gave, but then I said, give me your top three spawn points. You said in this order, bathtub, craft room outside. Emery said, living room on the couch, craft room, call dad, look in bedroom. Yeah. Beck said, bedroom, craft room, kitchen. Craft room was the number two for all of you, which makes me laugh.
Well, that's where you go. If you are like, here's, here's what happens. And did you read Emery's response yet? Yeah.
Hers was living room, craft room, call dad, look in bedroom.
And so here's what call dad is. I'm in kitchen or living room and she'll go, where's mom? That's what call dad means. And I'll say, she went downstairs and she'll go, okay, craft room, spawn point, got it. If you're downstairs, then that is for sure. You're in your craft space.
Yeah. Or I'll say, she went down to do laundry and then she'll go, okay, I'll wait for her to come back. Cause if she goes down and you're doing laundry, you're going to make her carry something back upstairs. So she'll wait. But if, if you're downstairs in the craft room, she'll go, she'll go there.
You should say, if I'm down in the craft room, leave me alone. I don't want to, I don't want to be bothered. Then we asked them the same thing for you, where your spawn points and they both gave the same answers. Yeah. Living room, couch.
Which they said was often, I don't feel like I sit in the living room that much. Do I? I mean, yeah. I mean, yeah. Well, I mean, that's what it's for.
They both said live room couch on his phone. So they specified Yeah.
what you were doing, which is unnecessary. That's just mean.
And then the bathroom. Right. They gave, they only gave two responses.
No, and fly tying table. That was the other one. I never heard that one. I heard that from both. Both of them. Those were my three spawn points.
They gave the same answer. I know. That made me laugh. Yeah. Man. I would say, if you were to ask me, I would say, fly tying bench number one, kitchen table number two.
Right, I feel like I'm at the kitchen table more than I'm at the couch in the living room, but whatever.
And sometimes you're hanging out in the bedroom on the bed with the door shut.
I'm just hanging out and enjoying my quiet.
You're on your phone usually when you're in there, but That's mostly because I don't want the dog to come in and bug me. No, that checks out. Yeah. Yeah. If I'm in the baths over the craft room, leave me alone. Just don't find me. Don't come and find me. I'm hiding on purpose. Yeah. I'm having some solo time meant to be left alone.
Right. I don't know where she is.
That's what you say. Oh, she left. Ran away. Yeah. Went to the grocery store.
She's not here.
Don't look. And then she'll pull up life 360 and go, no, it says her phone's here. She's here somewhere. I checked already. They always find me. Yeah. Those rotten kids. We went shopping for some new trees over the weekend.
That is true. And you can go and you can look at trees and you can wander through trees and you can go like, this tree's cool. And what about this tree? Wouldn't that tree be fun? And then you can turn a corner and you can see a tree and you can be like, that tree speaks to me and I like that tree a lot. That's what happened to you. Exactly what happened to me. And I saw a tree and I went, I kind of need that tree in my life.
You kind of fell in love with that tree. What kind of tree was it?
That one is the Canadian red... Choke cherry. Choke cherry. Yeah. Cool tree.
What about it? Cut your eye. What about it? I don't know.
I just, I looked at that tree and went, that is a good looking tree.
He really did. He spent like five minutes like, I love that tree. That tree is great. Look at the shade it provides. Look at the trunk. Look at the blossoms on it. This is a good tree. I like this tree. That's what you just kept saying. It's a good tree. It's a good tree.
So I brought that tree home. Yeah. That tree is sitting in its pot in the backyard and I hope to have it in the ground real soon. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm excited about that tree.
I am also excited about that tree. It's a nice tree.
Now you had a similar experience.
Yes. Except initially my tree, I was going to get a raspberry shrub. We didn't have any intentions of like you picking one and me picking one, but that's kind of the way it worked out. Right. I saw the raspberry shrub, not fruit bearing. That's just the name of it.
Right. And I was like, this is a nice tree. I like this tree. And then I turned the corner, same thing. And I went, nope, it's this one. It's the flowering plum is the one that spoke to me.
And it's so pretty.
It's so pretty and it smells so nice. It does. Also not fruit bearing, but it's so nice. I love that tree.
It's, we got a couple of trees and we're going to get them in the ground. We'll have a couple of trees in the ground.
Now, if you've ever bought a tree before, we haven't. Well, we have now. Well, we hadn't before, but they had to get a tractor out to load your tree. Right. Because it was big. And the only thing I could think of was, how are we going to get this out? If they have to put a tractor to use it to get it into the truck, how are we going to get it out of the truck?
That's all I could think about the whole ride home. Because you know me and moving furniture with you. I'm not great. I'm not great at moving heavy stuff.
Right. So the whole way home, I was like, what are we going to do? Am I going to get this tree out? I'm not good at lifting heavy stuff. I got no upper body strength. How are we going to get this out?
This is what's going through your head. Chill out. I drove home going 30 the whole way. I didn't want the trees to get beat up in the wind. And so like people were buzzing around me and I'm like, sorry. I think they probably knew why.
It's not, you know, normally you can't see why people are going so slow, but you could plainly sleep trees hanging out the back of your truck.
But then we got home and with a little bit of help of gravity and a wheelbarrow, we got them in the backyard. No big deal. No big deal.
No big deal at all. No tractor needed. No, we did it. We did it. I felt pretty proud of that.
Lifting some trees. Look at you stretching.
I know I was just like stretching my guns because my pipes are sore. Your pipes. Yeah, my arm pipes.
Your pipes are sore.
You know, my biceps, my pipes. Okay.
They're sore. Well, what's cool about this tree is that this tree starts out green. Which button? Yours? Yeah. Your choked cherry. The Canada red choked cherry. It starts out green and then it gets these little white flowers on it. And then all the leaves turn purple. And it's very cool.
I think it's very cool also.
And now I'm excited to watch that process happen. Look at us. Arborists. Look at us. Couple of tree nuts. What do you know?
I enjoy shopping for trees. I do. I don't like spending money on trees. Because boy oh boy, trees are expensive.
Yeah, that's true. Trees are expensive and tree trimming is also expensive. Isn't that a thing? What's the deal about that? What's going on with trees? I don't know. Why are trees taking money? They think money grows on trees? Trees? Is that the deal?
I think so. Trees. Now I'm just nervous though because I don't want to have anything bad happen to those trees. I do love them so much. Okay. I talk to them every day since we got up. I know you have. I touch them on the trunks and I say, hey welcome home.
I hope you like it here. And then I felt bad. There were three flowering plums and she said, which one do you want? And I went, I can't pick. They're all so pretty. And then I felt I had to apologize to the other ones.
I know. For not picking them. And you put your hand on their trunks and went, you're going to go home soon. I hope so.
That's why this is why I can't go to the shelter, the pet shelter. No way. I can't. I can't walk away from the pet shelter and see all those animals saying. The non-adopted animals. Yeah. Please take me home. If I feel bad about leaving trees behind, there's no way I can leave pets behind. No way.
I like that you know your limits. I just can't go there. If I go there, I will leave there with too many things. So I just can't go there. No. Can't. That's safer anyway. I can do it.
Arborists. That's us. A couple of tree nuts.
Well, we haven't really planted them yet. I don't think we're arborists until we plant them. Right now they're still in their buckets.
Yeah. They'll be okay for a minute. I've got to get them out of their buckets. That's project one of many this week. So here we go with my big projects backyard.
Woot. Usually I am awake before you. But not when was this yesterday or the day before? It was yesterday. I was in a silly mood. You were spying. Yeah. You were up and you were.
I got up and I was, it's one of those things that happens every now and then. My eyes open and I'm like, yeah, I'm rested. I could get up and I go, okay.
You let the dog out. Yeah. And then he came back bugging me and then he decided to make.
Listen, I came back into the bedroom to get my phone or something. And you had your eyeballs open. So I went, oh, she's waking up too. So I said, hey, good morning. How's your day? Can I make you breakfast in bed?
No, no.
Would you like me to dim the light and keep it quiet out here for you?
That is not. Is that something you'd like? No, that's the opposite.
Do you want me to get you a warm new blanket? Do you want me to turn your pillow over so it's cool on the other side?
You do not do any of that. That's what I said. You bang around in the morning. You're so loud in the morning.
Yes, wait, you are so noisy. I try to be so quiet. Well, you are not.
And then you decided to come in and just make the bed while I was still inside of it. Yeah. Your side. You made your side of the bed. So you were grabbing all the blankets and. Yeah. What's the big deal? What's that about?
So you've done that to me before.
I've never done that. Yes, you have. And it's, and I went, what are you doing? I'm like, I'm just making my bed.
So I said, I'm going to repay the favor. It's been a long time since you did that, but I thought, you know, it'll be fun. My bed needs made anyway.
You're not on my side. Just start making my pillows in the right spot. Line up the sheet and the duvet and get everything good. And then I put the pillows in place. And I went, all right. And you, as it's happening, you're going, what are you doing? Why are you doing this? Like, I got to make my bed. I got chores to do. Got things I got to get done today.
So much for a lazy morning. Made me get out of bed. Yeah. Ruined my comfort. I think you survived. Dude, when I'm awake before you, I leave you alone. I let you wake up so peacefully. I'm quiet. I shut the door.
I don't think you're that quiet. I keep the dog quiet. I say, shh, we have to be so quiet. Do not. Shhh. Don't disturb me sleeping. It needs his precious sleep.
We go out into a different room. Yeah. I leave her alone. Leave you alone. Not you. You come in, you make the bed while I'm still laying in it. Thanks, dear. Had to get my chores done. I would have loved breakfast in bed. You could have done that.
You would have? I mean, I made breakfast within an hour of being awake, so you still got breakfast. Yeah, no. You'd gotten up and come out of the bedroom.
Nobody likes breakfast in bed. Actually, I do. I don't like breakfast in bed. You're right about that because it's gross. Well, it's not comfortable to eat in bed. Right, it's not. And then you get, like, we don't have a tray or anything. A lot of people have those trays. We don't have that. So then you're just sitting there with your plate. Right.
Or your bowl, if it's cereal. What if I brought you a big bowl of cereal and went, here's your breakfast?
Thank you. You're welcome. But maybe if we had a tray, like a...
A lap tray? Yeah. It's still uncomfortable.
No, try that.
I thought I would like it. We've got the adjustable bed. I could sit it up. Yeah.
I'm surprised you didn't do that while I was still in it.
I should have. I guess time to get up. Time to get up. I'm going to do that one of these days. I know you are. Yeah. I'll start with the feet first though, so the feet come up. And you're like, this is annoying. And then I'll lift the head up. And then you'll kind of be trapped in the bed, in the bed valley.
That is absolutely something you would do. And I'm glad you didn't think of it before. But now I've thought of it now. Sad that you've thought of it now.
Man. The weekend's only a few days away. And then I can be like, hey, let's go. Get out of bed. Sometimes I stumble across stuff online. And it isn't necessarily like earth shattering, you know, big deal. But sometimes it's small and it's simple. And it's an easy question that I read the answers that people comment.
And I go like, that is so good. Here's the question. What is something relatively inexpensive that improves your life by 100%? And it's a cool question. But then you have to like sit and go like, well, what's inexpensive that makes like a big difference in my life. So then here's some of the comments.
It's kind of my brain going. A good chef knife. It says you don't need a whole block set. You need one sharp eight inch knife and a cutting board. And it'll change your entire kitchen experience.
True story. When I'm doing food prep, having a good knife makes all the difference. And there are a couple of good knives that I'd be like, man, I need that knife in my life. And I have a couple of good knives that I use regularly. But if I had like one real nice chef knife, that'd be nice. Be real nice. Somebody said just by 20 pairs of the exact same socks, you'll never have to match them again.
A pair of good socks is that's huge.
Yeah. But 20 pairs of the exact same sock, you'll never have to match socks again. If one gets a hole, you throw it away. The other ones will work with the rest. It's easy.
Perfect. And somebody said, when you need socks, you don't have to find like any specific two. You just grab two socks. You're good to go. They all match. Yeah. It's convenient. Makes your life 100% better. Very easy. A library card made the list.
Oh man, that's the best.
Yeah, right. And you can download audiobooks with your library card. Like there's a lot of different things you can do with your library card.
Yeah. And you can do, they have all kinds of classes and different things for free. I know. And I add, I have the library book right here right now with me. Yeah, you do. From the library. No way. Yep.
That's where you get library books. Yeah. Somebody said, going on walks or runs, being active doesn't cost much other than your time and the benefits are huge.
Yeah. It's good for your physical health.
Get out and move. And your mental health. You need some fresh air and sunlight. Yeah. It's good for you. Yeah. Good for your soul. Big for anxiety, depression, key points are being consistent and moderate intensity. You don't have to go sweat it out. Moderate walk. Good place to be. Okay.
That's what we typically do.
This is interesting. A nice looking basket for lightly worn clothes that you plan to wear again before washing. Keeps them off the chair, the floor and separate from your clean clothes. Yeah. So we have a basket, but you filled it full of blankets. So I throw all of my, I'm going to wear this again, clothes on top of the basket.
We have a basket for our dirty clothes.
No, I know. This is a basket for your lightly worn clothes that you plan to wear again before washing. We have a hamper where the clothes that have to be washed go. Yeah. I have a pile on top of a basket with blankets in it that is a second basket. It's basket two.
Why do we need a basket if you're already using the top of the basket?
Well, it just doesn't look tight.
We don't need another. Well then put them away somewhere else.
I do. I did yesterday. Where'd you put them? Well, I put the dirty ones in the hamper and the clean ones are back put away. Put away where? In the closet, ready to wear again.
Interesting. Yeah. You put that not so dirty ones back in the closet with the clean clothes. I don't know.
I'm going to wear them again.
They're not that dirty. I know, but I don't think that's a good idea. Why? Because then that's going to make all your other fresh clean clothes smell. Smell like what? Like I've already been worn smell.
That doesn't make any sense. If it was smelly, I'd put it in the laundry.
No, it's not smelly, but it's got that already worn smell. Do you know what I mean? It's fine. Go on. What else they got?
No, I don't know what you mean because if it smelled like it had been already worn, I'd put it in the laundry. I can't believe you're saying. A nice can opener, a kitchen scale, two twin sized blankets and duvetes. One for me and one for my husband, she says. Rather than one big king or queen blanket, no more pulling or fighting over blankets, we each have our own. It's made a huge difference and people in the comments are going like, yep, yep, life changer.
I don't think that we have this problem. Also on the list, an oversized bath towel.
You have one. I do.
It is.
100% better. It's so nice. Get an oversized bath towel. It is so nice.
Get one. To yourself. All right.
What else in here? I'm just looking. Oh, a good spatula, crucial for cooking on a pan. A spatula. Yep. Yep. Somebody said make your life 100% better when you learn to say no. Okay. Just tell me. A good sleep mask. Have you ever worn one? No.
I mean, yes, because my sister made me one once and I was like, oh, you went to the trouble to make me one of these. I'm gonna wear it. I can't. I can't deal with it. I don't like it. I don't like feeling trapped and it makes me feel trapped.
It does? Yeah. Just that thing over your face? Uh-huh. Interesting. You should try a CPAP. Do you feel trapped? No, but you're like way more constricted than an eye mask. And I have a hose connected to a machine. Tethered to a machine.
What if something happens in the middle of the night and we have to go check it out in our hurry?
The mask comes off in seconds. I know that. If I have to go check it out in a hurry.
Is it like a gas station thing where if you have to jump out of bed quickly, it'll tear off automatically?
No, it is not. Oh man. It's gonna yank you back. It's too tiny magnets. I go click and I'm out. It's not hard. Be careful is all I'm saying. Right. If I go for a run with my mask on.
Your hose is gonna get damaged if you jump out of bed in a hurry. Careful Josh. Or it's gonna yank you backwards.
Right. Like the dog when it reaches the end of its chain. Yeah. Probably that. Anyway, there's a whole bunch in there. I just thought it was nice to think about the simple things because a lot of times you're like what would make my life a big vacation? I'd feel better. Something like that. But small things that make your life every day.
I don't think getting you those is gonna make me feel better. You listed all those things and I just got them. The only thing that I agree with is a walk. A nice walk is fine, but I don't care about a chef's knife isn't gonna make me feel better.
Make your kitchen experience way better. Mm-hmm. Is it though? That would for me.
I don't care about that. Okay. A knife I have is fine. It does its job. What, a good spatula? Yeah. I don't. That's not gonna make my life better. Oh, you should see my new spatula. Yeah. No. I don't care about that. Okay. What was the other things?
There were many. Okay. Nothing you read I was like, oh yeah, great. Oh, the library card. That's, that one's good. Get a, go for a walk and get a library book. Great.
Everything else on the list, garbage? Okay. I'm gonna go tell somebody who wants to hear about how nice it is because I thought it was cool.
No, I think it's interesting. I'm glad you shared. Yeah.
Watching a bunch of social feeds over the weekend and I got some stuff from Coachella rolling in. I saw some performances. Did you see anything that stood out besides the one that I know we want to talk about?
I didn't watch a lot of Coachella, to be honest with you, because I didn't care. Okay. So I saw like a lot of people were talking about Justin Bieber's performance. Billie Eilish was there singing along with Justin Bieber.
That is correct, which was a big deal because do you know the history of those two? I do not. So when she, before she was huge, when she just had ocean eyes out there, people were kind of digging on it. She was doing some interviews and she was like, I just love Justin Bieber. I'm a believer. I would love one day to be able to meet him or whatever.
Huge Justin Bieber fan. So that's huge that this whole thing, her whole career has come a bit full circle. And she's done interviews with him and they've crossed paths multiple times, but that's where that all stems from. They are, they're bros, which is kind of fun. Got it. Yeah. The big one that I thought was pretty cool was Madonna showing up at Sabrina Karp.
I did see some clips of that.
And she performed like three different songs, which was just huge. And she looked great. She does look great. She sounded good. She did have like a 15 minute monologue about peace, which, you know, use your time on stage how you want. But she did spend some time kind of talking a lot about that, but Sabrina brought out Madonna.
And that was, it was pretty cool. Like it, she came out and did Vogue. I know she did live on a prayer. And then I think she did like a dance one, but it had been 20 years since Madonna had been on the Coachella stage. And the last time she was on the Coachella stage, she was in dance tent because she was doing a lot of that Madonna dance pop stuff, disco pop or whatever she called it.
And so it was kind of cool to see her on the main stage with Sabrina. Now here's the thing, Sabrina's short. Like she is not tall. And she's just shorter than Madonna. Like Madonna is like, I finally, someone who's shorter than me. Like that's crazy. When, when I saw them standing next to each other, I went, wow, they are both short. But they did great.
Yeah. I saw a couple of videos. So I was happy to see Madonna because she hasn't performed in a really long time either.
Well, she was supposed to be doing a tour and then a lot of it got canceled because of health stuff. And how old is Madonna?
I don't know. I'm going to guess 50, 60, 67, 67, 67. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Well, that's fun. It was exciting to see her. I was excited for the show, for their show. Yeah.
I saw a couple of clips. It was really, really cool. And it's blown up the internet over the weekend as well. So kind of fun. I like when they bring out the different, you know, surprise guests. Surprise? It's kind of fun. Yeah.
I wonder what it took for Sabrina to get her to come out. Like, I wonder what that phone call is like, do you know?
Yeah. Like, hey, I'm doing Coachella. You want to do it?
What if Madonna's like, I don't know who Sabrina Carpenter is? Yeah, right. Sure thing. She's Madonna.
Well, I get it. But you don't think Madonna pays attention to music still?
I don't know. If I retired, I wouldn't. I'd be like, no, I'm out. See ya. I'm going to live totally off the grid. I don't care about any following along with all the trends.
I don't think Sabrina's a trend. I think she's Trendy, but I don't think she's a trend. Okay. So sorry. No, I'm just saying. I think like, you're still going to know. I mean, she's everywhere. You could be watching Saturday Night Live and you're like, oh, there's Sabrina. She's always there. I don't know why she's always there. She is always there. I think she lives in the closet under the stairs at SNL.
I think she's just like, I got nothing better to do on my Saturday night.
She's like, I'm in New York. I'm going to be hanging out. I'm going to do a pop in. Yeah. She's always at SNL.
She really is. Agreed.
You know what? I mean, you could just not even know who she is and be like, why is that girl everywhere? Yeah. She's a cast member. Yeah. They never list her, but she's always around. Anyway, good job bringing out Madonna. That was pretty cool. Would you rather this or that?
Would you rather have your birthday in spring or your birthday in autumn? I'm going for spring and I'll tell you why. Two reasons. Because it is in spring? First reason because it's beautiful and you can have a birthday party outside. Autumn is beautiful too and you can still have a birthday party outside, but oh man, my birthday is in spring and it's the best.
You know, listen, I have a winter birthday and I would love to be able to do something outside for my birthday. Your birthday is in early May and it's still iffy.
It does get a little bit iffy sometimes.
There are some times it rolls around and I go, we're going to be able to make that work? We're going to throw a party and I'm planning on doing it in the backyard. It's going to be warm enough. You just never know. You don't.
The other reason is that if you have your birthday in spring, if you're younger, you're a kid, you've already established some relationships from school. But if it's say for instance, in the middle of September, like our daughters, school has just begun and sometimes when she was younger, it was like, oh, your friendships aren't necessarily established yet from school because school has just started.
So you don't know who to invite?
So you don't know who to invite? Is that what you're getting at? Yeah, that's what I'm getting at. Uh-huh. You see what I'm saying. I guess.
I mean, maybe the first year after that, you kind of have a crew.
Not necessarily. Not when you're young. I had a crew. When you were like seven?
Yeah. Third grade? I had a crew.
Third grade. I'm talking first and second.
Yeah, I had a crew. You did not have a crew. Not first grade. Second grade though, total crew. Doubt it. Yeah, we ran that playground. We were a crew.
Name them. Who? Your crew.
We didn't have a name. We just called ourselves the crew.
Name the members of your crew. Scott, Blake, me. You're making up these names. You said name them.
You didn't say tell me all the names of the people in the crew. Scott, Blake, me.
Spring or autumn. What? Would you rather have your birthday in spring or autumn? Are you just saying that to be different? No. It's warmer. Not always. Most times.
Well, fine. Have fun. Like September, October.
Have fun with your birthday in autumn. We'll be over here having spring. Why are you angry? I'm not. You're just lying to me about your crew.
No way. We had a crew. You did not. Yeah. Scott, Blake, me. Adam. There was no Adam. I thought you said that. No, there was a Patrick.
Now you're just start tricking it. Tim. Can't stop.
Lies. You don't believe me? No, I don't. There was a Darren. I don't believe you. Okay.
You yesterday threw a bunch of shoes into my room. You came in with a handful of shoes and said farm. Farmful.
And I said five. And then I looked around the room and then I went back out and I found a couple more and I said, do you know how many pairs of shoes you have out and about laying around the house? And you said, well, you said five. So five.
And I said, try again. Seven pairs. You had seven pairs of shoes.
I don't see what the problem is. Everywhere. I'm going to stumble over shoes. It's crazy. And every single pair is just laying there wherever they got kicked off. Like this is my home now. Yeah.
This is where I live now. Seven pairs of shoes. That's one different pair every day last week.
And then you got upset at me for putting your shoes away.
You didn't even put them away. In a pile in the bedroom. You just threw them in the room. Yeah. You could have put them away.
This was after I made the bed with you in it. Yeah. I then went and cleaned up your shoes.
That's not helpful. None of that is helpful. You have a lot. Of shoes? Yeah. I know. And they were all over. Yeah, I know. I put them there. Yeah.
Obviously, I know they're there. I know. Yeah, I know.
But then I have a pair that I used to just slip on when I need to go outside. Right. And those were gone and I couldn't find them anyway. Which ones are those? My sandals.
Yeah, they were underneath other shoes.
I couldn't find them yesterday. They were in the pile. I know. And I was like, where's my shoes? I can't find my shoes. I can't go outside. You were like, hey, come look at this sunset. Can't. I don't know where my slip-on shoes are.
I didn't say, come look at the sunset. I sent you a picture. And then you were like, apparently trying to find your shoes.
Yeah, I can't find them. You hid them.
Under the pile of other shoes. I didn't hide them. It was a lot. And I only bring it up because you said I have too many backpacks at one point because I had four backpacks.
I didn't even say that you had too many backpacks.
You said, what's with all these backpacks? That's all I said. Which feels like you have too many backpacks. That was just a, hey. So then I said, what's with all these shoes? Here's an observation I've made. Yeah. You have a lot of backpacks. Right. That's all. But see how I also cleaned them up and brought them to the room where they live.
Yeah, I threw them in a mound. You didn't put them away. That just made more work for me.
And now I can't. Convenient work. They're right next to the closet where they have to be.
But now I can't find any of my shoes. I knew exactly where they were when I kicked them off in the living room. Here's my shoes. Seven pairs of shoes. Right where I left them. It's crazy. It's a different pair every day last week.
My shoes always end up in the closet.
Oh, you're so better than me. When it comes to putting shoes away. Yeah. Yeah.
Top notch. I'm good at that.
You are good at that. That's just because you wear your shoes until it's time to go to bed.
And then I put them in the closet where they go.
I kick off my shoes a second I get home and that's why they're in the living room. I know.
I trip over them all the time. Pick up your feet. They'll wire these shoes here. Around seven pairs. Pick up your feet. Pick up your shoes. How about?
Man. Oh, Josh, it's been a fun one today.
You know, I agree. It's been a good one. It has been fun. There's plenty more to talk about. We didn't even get to everything. So there'll be more on the show tomorrow. Thanks for hanging out with us. We'll see you back here then. Remember, you can listen on demand anywhere you get podcasts. You can get Wake Up Classy 97 the podcast. So do that.
Do that and enjoy the sunshine today.
Yes, we'll be back tomorrow. Goodbye. Bye.
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