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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Should the NFL ever field an international team, this week's preseason football and the regular season opener rematch between the Patriots and Seahawks, a lucky IT-free morning, dreams about retiring in Massachusetts and a feel good story about senior women free diving to clean up Cape Cod's ponds, drum practice is on hold, a viral "Pow Chow Wow" family check-in, freezer food college dinner, what is "aura farming", schools are using phone jail pouches to bring back boredom, homegrown pickled beets, an early riser would you rather, why Chantel is unfit for war, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: NFL going global
(6:24) - Zero computer issues
(9:45) - Good News
(12:53) - Drum practice space
(17:48) - Pow Chow Wow
(21:57) - College dinner
(27:28) - Aura faming
(33:00) - Growing up looks fun
(39:39) - Hating on beets
(44:20) - Boredom is okay
(47:51) - Would You Rather
(51:41) - Unfit for war
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Full show transcript:
So
Football season is in preseason right now, the regular season, getting ready to kick off real soon. Yep. Uh Commissioner Roger Goodell, he says it is probably only a matter of time before there is a team in the NFL that is not based in the US. And that would then mean that it wouldn't be long after that the Super Bowl would take place outside of the United States. He says there are definitely international cities that could host something like that.
But we would like to see an NFL team in such a city first. So they've been they're playing where? They've been playing in London. They've been playing in Germany. Germany. They've been playing in, I think Ireland. They've been playing it all over in the UK over the past few years. Which I think is interesting. I think they're trying to take American football and expand it into other countries. Here's a thing that's always kind of bugged me. They the Super Bowl champion is crowned the world champion, but it's only US based.
So I feel like we're finally getting to, hey, let's make that a little more valid. World Series of baseball. There are the Toronto Blue Jays that play in the in Major League Baseball.
So that's at least two countries. Okay. But we aren't. Again, World Series. We aren't playing against Japan or any of the Latin countries that have baseball. So that's an interesting thing that exists.
World Cup is certainly soccer teams from all over the world, which happens every four years. If the Super Bowl were to do this, I mean, how do you feel? What do you think? What are your thoughts? What are your feelings about it? Good. Oh, good, good. Awesome. You care a lot.
I think I was just thinking about the preseason stuff for the Vikings. And we played the Giants. Yeah. Destroyed them. Oh, sure.
Not that it matters. Destroyed. 13-10.
But preseason doesn't. I mean, listen, their quarterback got sacked quite a few times. So destroyed. Destroyed Jackson's dark. Yeah. But that doesn't matter. Preseason doesn't matter. They don't like count those points. I mean, no. Tally those wins.
It's it's kind of scrimmage. It's scrimmage. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay. So I was thinking about that. But I'll think about what you just talked about. Getting more teams involved. I think it's great. In other countries. Yeah, it's specifically. great. Are other teams willing to participate? Do they want to participate?
Look, I think there's enough fan base for American football in other countries that they could certainly expand. But it's right now 32 teams. So what does that do for you know, there's plenty of people, but what does that do for the for the actual league? Like at what point is enough football enough? Because there's already a lot of games with 32 teams. Right.
What are we gonna do if that's true? More teams. You know, I almost feel like you want to start a European league and have European teams and then have the the Super Bowl is this is now we've played down to where we've got the champion from America and we've got the champion from Europe, and now we're gonna have like not the Super Bowl anymore, or maybe it is the Super Bowl, but it's whatever the game is that figures out who's America's team and who's Europe's team.
The Superist Bowl.
The Super Est Bowl. Now that's a name that'll stick. They could you know what they could call it? What? The big game.
The biggest case.
Yeah. I don't know. But I think that would probably be better in my opinion.
I think so too.
That's the same thing. And then you can move around, you know, and again, then you do it for other things. You do a South American one, and you do an African one, or you, you know, and then you have all of these kind of uh leagues that then it's like a world team. Then it's like a world club, yeah. With maybe, you know, whatever teams make it to the top in a tournament. I really don't want to see a series. I hope they don't go like, well, we could do best of seven. Ugh, yuck. Please don't.
Okay, I just checked to see when actual football games begin. Very soon. Saturday the 29th. Yeah.
So next week 10 days to real football.
It is the Panthers. And your favorite coach. Uh oh, he's so cute, isn't he? Yeah. He's not my favorite coach. I don't even know anything about him. He's just cute to look at. Right. My coach is KOC, baby. I know. Uh I don't know who they're playing. Okay. Hold on. Are you looking it up? You could probably look it up faster than me. Says they're playing in Dublin.
The first game is the Patriots and the Seahawks. Oh. On Wednesday, September 9th. That's the regular season opener. So you're not even close. What are you even looking at?
I said, when does actual football start? Okay.
Well, you didn't look at the biggest.
The Patriots and the Seahawks do the kickoff game.
Yeah, because it's it's the Super Bowl rematch. Ugh, gross. Yeah. I'll be skipping that one. You will be skipping the Super Bowl rematch. Yeah. The Patriots and the Seahawks Wednesday, September 9th. That'll be at 6 20 local time in Seattle on NBC. BC. Skip. Skip. Pass. Sam Darnold. Pass.
Yeah. Thanks a lot, Sam Darnold. All right. Here's today's show.
Today was one of those scary mornings where I thought uh I was gonna walk into a whole mess of technology issues. Yeah. Uh, because I get like emails when things uh are broken or go off air or whatever, and I had a stack of emails from like two in the morning. Oh no. And so I thought, oh no, I'm gonna walk in, and the very first thing I'm gonna have to do is a bunch of IT. Yeah. Ugh.
Which you know how to do. You just don't enjoy doing it.
That's the worst. Yeah, I know how to do, but you have to like run around the building and you have to figure out what's broken and you have troubleshooting, and you have to like reverse engineer stuff and turn things on and off, and you have to access computers that you only have to access like once in a blue moon. And so then I was like, okay, I'm gonna have to really remember passwords. I'm gonna have to really think about what has to happen. I walked in, everything was fine. And I went, oh.
That's why you don't you don't learn how to do that stuff, and then nobody counts on you to fix it because you're right. I don't know how to do it.
I don't think that's the right answer.
Oh, it is. That's how I'm getting through my life. I gotta teach you some stuff. No. Then I'm gonna have to do stuff. Yeah. I told you, the older I get, the less responsibility I want to have. I'm doing great.
I just I need the support is more about what what's going on. Like I need the I need somebody else to know what I know. So that you know what I really need is somebody who knows all the stuff that a couple of us in the building know, but that's like their sole responsibility.
That's what I want. So that they're they're responsible for it. For fixing it. Yeah.
And I don't I don't need to know it. Yeah, exactly. Like that would be nice. That would be nice. But no one's around this early except for you and me and like a couple other people. And and so, you know.
So yeah, when problems are broken, I I can't help. Right. So I sit here and I'm not gonna.
That's what I'm saying. It'd be nice. I know it would be. No, you don't.
I know you would like some help. I just don't wanna. All right.
Well, thanks for the consideration at least. Sorry.
Do you know that for you to teach me all the computer stuff that you know? It's like teaching me math. It would be so much more work to teach me how to do it than to just do it yourself.
You think there's a bunch of math involved?
No, I don't think there's math involved. I think it's as confusing as math. I see.
Uh it's not though. Uh, for you.
Oh you speak computer.
I do not speak computer. Anyway, I was I was kind of excited that I didn't walk into uh some well known issues that usually exist. I I mean I looked at the computer right when I logged in and I went, hey, this is normal. Yeah. Bravo. Things are okay around here.
Things are gonna be fine. You and I have uh kind of often, I guess, lately, as of the past couple of years, talked about how much we loved Massachusetts and how much we would like to like retire in Massachusetts because it's amazing. Well, I want yeah.
Oh, a house in Massachusetts and a house in San Diego. Right. When we retire.
These are our coastal homes. Yes. Yeah. Right. You know. Dreaming and all that. Yeah. Well, I figured out what you can do when we retire in Massachusetts. Okay. Senior women in Massachusetts have been making waves by free diving into local freshwater ponds to haul out thousands of pounds of submerged garbage. Yes. Yeah, I know. I'll do that. This is the old ladies against underwater garbage. Yeah. That's the group name, and they were founded in 2017 by what's the acronym? Old.
See ladies against Old Ladies against underwater garbage. Slug. You're not listening to me. Okay. Old ladies against against underwater garbage. Olog. I told you what it was.
And where was the S coming from?
I have no clue. That's why I said you're not listening.
I'll pay attention now.
85-year-old Susan Bauer was the one who kind of put this whole thing together. It's an elite team of about 30 women. They're all 64 and up. They kayak and dive across Cape Cod. They've removed over 6,000 pounds of garbage. They've pulled up everything from beer cans and golf balls to car tires and 80-pound toilet and more. Yeah.
It's crazy. Uh and to join, you have to pass a pretty rigorous swim test. Well, yes. Which you love to swim. I do like to swim. Now it is free diving. So you might be able to put like weights on or something.
It's gonna be the tricky part is the sinking. Right. Because I don't sink. Yeah.
But they also they're they're getting out there, they're doing the physical fitness thing. They're also doing some environmental cleanup. Susan said uh we weighed out of water, wetter, kinder, happier, and more empowered women. Yeah. It is the zen of trash picking. That's cool. I know. Um Shoot.
what was I gonna ask you? Oh no. It's gone forever. Okay. Well. Oh, uh is it always just garbage they find, or do they find like treasure? Treasure. I have no clue. I bet they find some treasure sometimes. They're having a good time. In Massachusetts? In Massachusetts. Oh, I bet there's all kinds of cool treasure.
In Cape Cod. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they have cool hats that say O log on them. Olog. I think that's so cool. Orange hats, orange shirts. They're working together as a team. They got on gloves, they snorkel, they get out there, they pull up the garbage. Uh this lady's holding a couple of fishing rods she found. Um treasure. Yep. Taking out the trash. These old ladies are cleaning up Cape Cod. It's a good group.
That is a good group. I want to be a part of that group. I knew you might. It's good news. We were laying in bed last night and you go, what are you thinking about? Yeah, I know.
I said, thinking about my just like staring off.
Yeah, well, I was thinking about drumming. Because why I am trying to learn how to play the drums and we went away for the weekend, so I didn't have time to practice on the weekend.
Right. And then Monday and Tuesday of this week have been busy. Yeah, they've already gone by. I haven't practiced in it's been four days now that I haven't practiced. When are you gonna do? I don't I've lost everything. Do I even know?
We also had to put the drum kit away for a minute. Yes, you know. You're gonna put the drumsticks back in your hand. You're gonna build the muscle memory, you're gonna be fine.
I was just building the muscle memory, though. It's all still just muscle memory new. You're gonna be okay. Okay. Yeah, we had to put the we had to put the drum kit away. First of all, drum kit was just in the middle of our living room. Yeah.
You couldn't, there was the traffic flow was around the drum kit.
Yeah, it was not a great setup. Right.
So we need to find a better setup. I know. What do you think the better setup is? Well, not the living room.
Not it can't be the garage because there's no room in the garage. It could be. Okay.
Someone would deal with those bins.
I that that is my problem. Okay. I'll deal with that. I'll write it down. Okay. I'll deal with it. I can't today because we're busy today. Right. But if I put them in my car.
Then they'll ride around in your car for months and then they'll end up back in the garage. So sure. Go for it.
I'll deal with the bins. I promise. Is there room in the garage if I get rid of those bins?
That's where the kit was before. Okay. I don't have to set up the whole band. I can just set up the drum kit.
If okay, it's gonna get cold in the garage soon, though. I know. That is a problem. Yeah. Also, the neighbors could hear if I'm in the garage.
You don't think that you can hear if you're in the house? I don't know.
Drumming away. Can you?
I don't know. We can put it in the basement somehow. Where? Well, there's a couple options. Okay. My studio that just sits there is an option. Or more of the family space or your craft room.
No, it's not. Can't fit in my craft room. That's for crafting, not drumming. That's a totally. I just need a room for all of my hobbies. Craft room is not a drumming room. That's a craft room. It's for sewing and art journaling. Can't fit in there.
So not in your space. Got it.
But your space is an option.
Yeah. I mean, it just sits there. I've got some serious cleanup to do. We got it. And I want to do some uh like the sh the the countertops in there and stuff. I think I want to pull those out. Oh. Yeah. Okay. How come? Uh because I want to do something different with that room, but I don't know what. Drum room. I was not thinking drum room.
It's fine. I don't I don't need that space for the drums. I I think it's fine in the garage. I just gotta take care of some stuff out there.
But then when when it gets cold, then what? I don't know. Yeah. So it's trying to get you a more permanent solution.
I know. If it gets cold, then I can like space heater, maybe. Uh-huh. I don't know.
Or practice harder, like a workout. And then you'd be like, I need the cold. Yeah. Because it keeps me from sweating so much when I'm drumming because I'm drumming so much. Not a bad idea. Yeah.
Not a bad idea. Work harder. Okay.
If The garage. If the garage is cold, work harder.
Garage isn't a bad idea. I'll clean it out. That'll be my goal. Because that's where the carpet is for the drums that we specifically got. I know. We did have a nice because we bought those drums for our kids. Right. And we made it when we first bought that. And a whole band set up. You had a whole setup.
It was cool. Still have all the mics. The mics down, the PA, it's all out there, the keyboard. Like there's there's tons of stuff. You could start the whole band.
I don't need the whole band. I just need the percussion. Percussion. Okay. Boop. Strings. Winds. What? Words. It's from Little Mermaid. Oh.
I haven't seen that in a very long time. Get with it. Get with it. Get with 1993. Come on.
I saw this thing on TikTok where a family does what they call pow chow wow.
Pow chow wow.
Yep. And then you go around the dinner table and you share your pow, which is the worst thing that happened to you this week. Okay. You share your chow, which is the best thing you ate all week. Okay. And your wow was the best thing that happened to you all week.
So this is once a week they do this. Yes. Uh huh. Pow chow wow. Pow chow wow.
Pow is the worst thing. Chow is the best thing you ate, and wow is the best thing that happened to you. Interesting. And I kind of think it's kind of fun because you could keep notes all week. Oh, fun. I was just thinking.
I wish I had a way to keep notes all week.
I wish I was taking notes. I wish I was doing something taken.
I tell you, I just wish.
You can uh there, this particular family says you can choose not to let's see, what does it say? I don't know. You have to answer all three. Okay. But they the family, the mom was like, I just think these like freaking not freaking. These frequent check-in moments. Okay. Are awesome for their family. It requires them to kind of just check in with each other. And what happened to you this week? Instead of just asking, how was your day? Yeah.
And you and I have talked about like after the kids move out and we have that empty nest and they want to come home and have breakfast with us. Like that would be that would be the moment.
Yes. Like where I would be like, we're gonna do pow chow wow at breakfast on Sunday morning. So come to the house. We used to do three truths and a lie. Two truths and a lie, but yes. Yeah.
It was that. It was that. Yeah.
And and that was a fun way to get the kids to kind of talk about their day. Somebody, uh, it was Beck, I think, uh, would always say, like the East garbage can was full. We're like, bro. What?
Does that even mean it was hard?
I was always like, oh, the East Wing garbage can was full.
I drank two chocolate milks at lunch.
Right.
His were pretty good. Yeah, they were really good. They were like, I he probably did.
And I don't know. That garbage can could have been full.
The East Wing garbage can be a few. I quite liked it because they were really creative with how they could come up with their truths and their lie. I miss doing that. Yeah. Well, bring them back.
It was hard for me to think of stuff to say. It was hard. Yeah, I know. For me to play that game.
Because you would go, I use two forks at lunch. No, no, no You go, no, you didn't.
Mine was always I'm not a very good liar, it turns out. And so it was always
you would tell your two truths, and then you'd be like, and then let's see. We go, those two are true.
Or I would come up with three truths, and then I'd be like, and then you would all say, which one is the lie? And I go, Oh, those all happened. Never mind. Let me think of something else.
Yeah, we're yeah, we we get it. This isn't your game.
No, it was not my game, but I like playing it with the kids.
Yeah, well, I like that, and I like pow chow wow. Should we try pow chow wow? I don't know.
Oh, I'm not yeah. Keeping notes all week.
Okay, that's fine. I will. I'm just telling you. You're gonna keep my notes? If I don't keep notes, no, I can't keep your notes. If I don't keep notes and we only do it once a week, I'm gonna completely forget what's happened during the week.
Yeah. Especially what I've eaten. What have I eaten this week? That's been a chow. Uh I made some pretty good tacos on Monday. They were pretty good. I'll write that down. I'll write that down.
Good thing. Keep a note.
We last night went to a river concert down by the river. Yeah, that's where they hold them. And then we got home and we were like, oh, we gotta figure dinner out.
Well, and uh like as we're getting ready to leave, our daughter's texting. I'm hungry. And I go, hi, hungry. I'm dad. Because I make that joke every day. You and every other dad. It's such a good one. It sure is. So anyway, I met Hungry in the living room when we got home, and we were trying to figure out what to eat, and I just wanted to fix something at the house, and we've got in the deep freeze, we had some taquitos and frozen pizzas, and I went, let's just make it easy. Let's just air fry some stuff. Yeah. It's easy.
It is so we had a good old-fashioned college dinner, is what I thought.
Yeah, that's nice. I I do like how we classed it up with the uh sour cream salsa combo. That was classing it up. Yeah, because you could just eat taquitos, but if you'd mix the sour cream and salsa on the plate so you have a nice dip, that makes a taquito that much. You know what would make it just a little bit better? What? Guacamole. I didn't have any guacamole. I know. That's really classing up the place.
I mean, between grocery store trips. I understand.
So it wasn't but that's why it was like, let's just figure out something easy. Make it easy.
We didn't want to cook, we didn't want to have to do the dishes more importantly, and it was just like here's what we got. Yeah, it's it was easy. The old college dinner. The old college dinner is what I called it. So we had some a bunch of random freezer food.
Taquitos. The kids weren't happy. No, I was like, listen, you guys both have your own money. You both know how to drive. Right. And you know how to cook your own.
But we also have like other stuff. Like if you didn't want taquitos and and little air fried pizzas, you could also figure it out. a corn dog. Exactly. Or we've got a ton of different kinds of chicken and stuff like that. Make yourself a sandwich. Make a kiss. We've got stuff. Make a mashed potato. Make a we had a nore pack of like chicken noodles in there.
Like the problem with our kids is they've gotten a little bit spoiled over the years, where it's it's been made real easy to just go get fast food or to have fast food delivered. I'm not paying for it. I'm not paying for it either. Right.
When we were kids, or when I was their age. Back when that was a field.
No, I'm serious. No, I did it. It was like you you had to figure it out, and you had to get creative with your food sometimes. And be like, well, I know my mom's not gonna pay for me to get fast food, and I can't drive yet. So I guess I'm having this. Ramen again.
Which was fine. I learned how to cook ramen. Learned how I like it. How do you like it? Uh not too soupy. And you had the bag ramen.
We always had the cup ramen. Because you were rich. No. You could get like four for a dollar or something.
We got 20 for a dollar in the little packs. So you were rich.
We were so rich.
Did you eat the vegetables or dump the vegetables?
Nobody eats the vegetables.
I figured rich people did. That's why I had to ask. Peasants throw them away. Ooh. Dehydrated corn and peas. No, thank you. Yeah. We were not rich, Josh. I know. But it's fun to make you think like you were. Your fancy Canadian waters and your and your uh cup of noodles.
Yeah, what else? What else rich did I have? Shared a bedroom with my sister. That's awesome. But we had one bathroom. Yeah. For five of us. Right. At least you had a bathroom. Oh, you didn't have a bathroom. You had to use the outhouse as a bag. That's right.
On the on the little plot of property that we possessed. Oh. Mm-hmm.
Dirt floor in your house. Now you get it. How'd you cook your ramen there then?
Over a hot rock that sat in the sun all day.
Did your parents ever like if they were making dinner that you didn't like? What what was the protocol?
Uh you ate it or you didn't eat it.
Exactly. That's what mine was too. Yeah. Ours was just like, this is what's for dinner. Right.
So deal with it. Deal with it.
And I'd be like, okay, I guess I'm eating this.
I was just grateful to have food on a plate.
I was so poor. I was having have food.
We we went had one bean and we sliced it real thin so everyone could have a bite.
No, we it was our kids were not having our dinner last night. So they shut themselves away in their room and then wait a real cranky girl. I know. And when I went to say goodnight, she was like, mm-mm.
I'm not even and I said, go eat something.
I'm not even hungry. And I went, uh, okay. All right. I beg to differ. Yeah.
I mean, look, you're you're 16 almost 17. That's a choice.
I am 16. going on 17. You ever heard of aura farming? Aura, but yes. Aura. Yeah. Aura farming.
Like I understand. Like, I think the word is probably pronounced our aura. Like it's uh it's it's A-U-R-A. Yeah. It's just like uh fishing for for compliments in a way. It's like uh it's like when you're when you're out like putting out the vibe, but you're maybe doing too much, and they're like, that guy's aura farming.
Yeah. It's deliberately performing actions, poses, or behaviors to look cool, charismatic, or impressive to gain aura points.
Yeah, in Dumb and Dumber, it's uh it's when Lloyd said, I'm gonna go put out the vibes and then went and leaned on the counter. That's aura farming. That's what it is. The kids say it.
Emery told me the other day that I was aura farming.
Whoa, were you fishing for compliments? Or were you trying to be nonchalant? Kind of a little bit of both. Yeah. So you were you're feeling like what you were wearing was was a good looking outfit, and you were like, what's up?
No, it wasn't even necessarily that. It was that I was I was trying too hard or doing too much.
Which she says you're doing too much all the time. You're doing too much.
Well, she's right in a lot of ways. Some there are days where I am doing too much. I got you. Where I I want everybody to have a good time. Sure. And I also just want everyone to like me. Oh, okay. And so I'm like, hey.
So if you listen, if you if you put on your new overalls and you go out into the yard and you're doing some yard work and you're hanging out in the garden and you're like, look, and you're doing like selfies and stuff, that's aura farming, but also farming.
Well, see, I just imagine here's what's gonna happen.
Farming aura farming is what I'm trying to say. See what you're saying. There you go.
When I put on my overalls, and I take my spade, not a shovel, my spade. That's what you call it. My tiny shovel. Your trowel. Yeah. Yeah.
That's not a spade, but go ahead. When you take your trowel.
A spade is a spade. Let me look it up. Hold on. Spade tool. Like there's a gardening tool that's a spade. Yeah. It's just a shovel.
It's a pointy shovel. It's a trowel. I told you. You carry around a trowel. You go, where's my spade shovel? And I go, you mean trowel? Here it is. Let's Go dig a hole. Plant a plant.
I could I don't even remember where I was going with this. Oh, when I wear my overalls and I got my trowel. Very good. And your 12 pockets. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just gonna, yeah, you're right.
I'm not gonna be able to do that. Farming or a farming farming. I'm just gonna be taking like, look at me, farming. Snap. I know. Snap. Look at me and my wildflowers. Because that's that's exactly what I do is I go out and I selfie it up. Aura farming. I don't, I don't do that.
You gotta go harvest my aura. My basket of aura is plentiful. You'll say tell her that. It'll be very funny. She'll love it, and she'll think you're hilarious. I guarantee it.
I think that's sarcasm you're putting down. Yeah. I'm sarcasm farming. I'm harvesting your sarcasm.
Oh, yeah. You're picking up what I'm putting down. That's what you're saying. Yeah. Uh I gotta look this up. What are you looking up? Uh aura farming. I looked, I just looked it up. No, I know. I want to see what comes up in images. Okay. Uh yeah, like people doing selfie stuff. People like making TikToks.
What constitutes like getting aura points? How do you get an aura point? How do you gain aura? Yeah. I would say asking for a friend. Oh, is that right? I don't need them. I don't need the aura points, but I'm I'm asking for a friend. How does one get aura points?
All right. So in order to get to gain aura, uh you increase your cool factor presence or aura points through confident actions. Okay. Uh level up your stats. That's what you gotta do.
How do you level up your stats?
Well, you've got to handle embarrassing moments smoothly. Easy. That because if you handle them uh in a non-calm manner, you're gonna lose aura points.
What if you handle them in an awkward manner? Is that cool? It's probably not. Dang it.
You gotta look sharp, wear clean, well-fitting clothes that match your style. You gotta walk slowly, keep your chin level, roll your shoulders back, improve your posture. Okay. Speak with a purpose. Think before you talk and avoid unnecessary complaining. Okay. Check. Check it each. Do all that stuff and you will gain aura.
I think I just gained some right now. I don't know. I think uh think I think I've got all of the aura points. I think I won the aura game. Yeah? I think. Okay.
Good job. Emery sent me a video yesterday about um. the I the caption on the video said, I'm not stressed about growing up because these are the d adults that I'm looking up to.
Oh, and it's a bunch of like dancing around.
It was two parents. Like dancing around, making dinner, dancing in the kitchen. That makes sense. And she sent it to me, and I go, What's this supposed to mean? And she goes, I relate to that video. And I was like, What do you mean? She goes, I'm not afraid of growing up because she's like essentially saying, like growing up, it looks fun.
It looks fun because you and I are the same as these two parents dancing in this video. Well, that's very nice. I thought it was what a nice compliment. It is a nice compliment. But it's also maybe it's maybe you should look to other people. More serious adults. Yeah. Because most of the time I go, I don't know who put me in charge of adulting.
But it's uh I think look, here's the secret. Everybody's doing it and trying to figure it out on their own. Nobody has like a book.
Like it sure seems like there are other people who haven't figured out.
No, they've figured out different things, but you also don't live with all these other people. You don't know their day-to-day struggles and challenges and and wins and hardships and all that stuff. And especially because social media is such a tiny snapshot. Like even like videos that we post. Like there's a five-second video or a 10 second or even a 30-second video. There's 24 hours in a day, and you're looking at a 30-second snip of a moment. A highlight.
And and typically a highlight in 30 seconds of a 24 hour day. Yeah. So you just don't know. Like you really don't know what people are actually dealing with and what they're going through and what what's good and bad in their day, right?
So I think that's probably the thing, along with like no one knows all the answers. Like people might know like, oh, I'm great with finances, and you go, like, man, they gotta put together. But they're probably like struggling with the laundry.
I mean, you don't know, right? Like you're like, yeah, but they but they have piles of clothes everywhere. I mean, I you know struggling with the laundry, struggling with your finances. But hey, you know how to dance in the kitchen when you do that.
See important things, different factors. You know how to entertain yourself, you know how to have a good time. That is for sure. Right. Like you and I can invent a game and and spend an hour and a half playing a silly who knows what game. Like because we came from like we didn't have a lot of means to go and seek out entertainment, and so we just had to entertain ourselves. What we do as a job and what they pay us for on this show is what we do for fun. We sit around and talk and make up stories and and have a good time. Yeah, it's a it's a blast. We just now they're like, we should pay you to do that.
For one, we just don't take life too seriously, I think. And there are serious moments where you have to buckle down and take life seriously, but for the most part, it's like eh, how can we make this more fun? Right. That's what I'm always trying to do. I'm like, how can I make this more fun? Yeah, this is boring.
What can we do that would be a fun time? I mean, there I like there are countless like memories of our apartment uh when we lived in Pocatello on Clark Street, and there was nothing going on. We had our son was a baby, and we were eating Totino's pizza, like there wasn't like we were gonna go do stuff, and we would uh turn on music and then turn on public access and watch the dancers dance to whatever music we wanted to play. We did that for hours. Like, because sometimes the dances matched up with the beats of the music, and we laughed and laughed and laughed.
Sometimes you just gotta figure out the best way to entertain yourself.
Or we would go to this way because uh cable was included in our rent, and so we would scroll to the music channels and try to guess the song faster than the other person. We would do that for hours.
I always won that game too, by the way. Whatever. Are you insane?
My point is like you you you find ways to entertain yourself and you don't you don't have everything put together. Nobody has everything put together.
Also, just have fun. I that's right. Laugh. Have a smile. Don't you seriously.
I think I think people get a little caught up in like, nope, I am a mature adult now and I can't have fun. And you go, stop it.
Who wants to be mature? I do not Right.
have a good time, right? Smile. That's way better.
And laugh. Somebody tell me I laugh too much, and I go, I'm not sure. No one's told you that. I don't think that any I don't think there's any such thing. There's no such thing as that. Why is that a bad thing?
Yeah, you laugh too much. You mean I have a good time?
I could laugh more if we're gonna be honest with each other.
There's that what you told them. I can do actually I'm not laughing enough. Yeah. Because what you said wasn't funny. Exactly. Try saying something fun. Let's see how your dance is.
I never laugh when I'm around you. Boom. Shaka Laka. Okay. I don't know what that is. It's like a firecracker. Boom shak a lot. And then I walk away in a cloud of smoke. Wow. Wouldn't that be cool? Like a magician. Yeah. Yeah.
Would that be cool? You're losing aura right now. No. You're doing too much.
I always do. I do It's too too much.
You don't have to walk away in a thing of smoke. Just walk away. Oh yeah. You think I laugh too much, huh? Well, I'm gonna go over here and laugh some more. And then walk away. That's it.
But a cloud of smoke would be better.
It's not that it's not at the moment. I just need to carry like smoke bombs. Smoke bombs in my pocket. And then you're gonna light them in a house. No. No.
I'll say, come outside for a minute.
Hold on, I gotta show you something. Come here. Light it, and then you're gonna go, smoke bomb and run away. And it's dark outside, so no one can even tell. This is your life. Yeah.
I was talking to a couple of people yesterday, and they were asking me about the beats that you have grown. Yeah. And they were like they said, We saw your beats, or we heard you talking about your beats. And I go, Oh yeah. And they said, Did you grow them?
And I go, Nope, Josh did. And they were like, Oh, well, are you pickling them? We heard you talking about pickling them. And I said, Yeah.
And they were like, Are you pickling them? I go, Nope. Josh is. And then I go, I just eat them. And they were like, Well, just Josh eat them.
I said, Nope. He grew them and pickled them for me. Yeah.
And they were like, Do you have anything to do with the garden or the beats? Or I go, nope. I just reap all the benefits. Yeah. Josh does all the hard work and I'm just there to eat them.
Yeah. And then I said, I'm a princess. And there is a gentleman, a friend of ours, who has often called me a queen. The queen. The queen. And I I fight back and I say, I'm not, stop. I'm pretty low maintenance. I am I'm not a queen. I'm not a spoiled entitled person.
No, but you're the baby of the family. But I feel like you have expectations.
I feel like maybe I am a little bit of a princess. You think? Yeah.
You're not quite the queen, but you're a princess. What's the difference?
I feel like I am a little bit spoiled and coddled in a lot of regards. I'm just I might be an enabler. Kinda.
I might have said, Well, grow your own beets, and you would have said, No, I'll just buy them in a can. I want beets. I'm not gonna go through all the work of planting seeds and making sure they grow and then watering and then harvesting and then cutting and then boiling and then skinning and then slicing and then pickling and and I just can't. Right. I'll just buy them in a can. Exactly. So you got two jars of uh fridge pickled beets right now. You got it. That one looks ready. You probably need to try them. Okay. Today. Okay. You gotta try the beets. I should oh, I hope they're good.
I think they are gonna be good.
The whole house smelled like boiling dirt, so they should be good.
And that's what everyone has been saying. They're like, we don't like beets because it just tastes like dirt.
Apparently, there's like a palate thing that happens. Same way some people have like an issue with blue cheese or cilantro or cilantro. Sometimes uh some people say it tastes like soap. Yeah, um, but I think there's like that's a that's a different thing. That's like uh something's wrong with your genes and your taste buds and stuff that makes it taste like soap.
It's not like uh like a like dislike thing. Okay, there's actually something in your body that's like reacting to the flavor of cilantro and making it taste like soap. Yeah, whereas I think beets and uh maybe even mushrooms and blue cheese and some of those like flavors, people start to enjoy those as they get older, and I think something happens with your body over time where you go, Oh, I actually like these flavors now.
And I I think I had the same thing. Like as a kid, I hated tomatoes, hated them, but I I really enjoy tomatoes uh and onions, like I I like onions in certain things in certain places, but growing up, and to be fair, my parents weren't huge on onions either, so it wasn't like onions were around. It was it was not common to have onions and stuff. And so when I was especially with you and your family, your sister loves onions.
I was looking for the text you sent because the the people that I was talking to yesterday were like, Why is Josh doing all the work if he doesn't even like them? I said, That's called love, baby. Yeah, that's called love, man. it's Love, baby. Thanks, Josh. Yeah, well, you're welcome. You can have beets.
I've got more to harvest, but I've got uh we've got a friend who wants to try a different pickling, and so I think I'm gonna offer up those beats for that other method. And I just say, hey, here's the rest of the beats. Yeah. Here's a jar. You do what you want. Just give me one jar of those beets.
Exactly, because I want to try his recipe and his method. Correct. I like beets. Thanks for growing me beets. Oh, yeah. You really do. They're not for me. No, you really do love me. Beats for you.
All righty. Enough with your beats. So here's a thing. We've uh talked about a little bit, but there's some some people that are taking some new steps when it comes to boredom. And as in they're trying to make people be bored.
And that's actually healthy. It is because you get to disconnect, you get um, you know, uh as it stands right now, the constant accessibility to phone and social media and games and whatever else, like if you go to a waiting room or you go to a restaurant and you watch people waiting for food, like they're just filling it with scrolling or whatever, uh, or playing games or whatever. It's called a dopamine loop that people are just in, where they're like, I just have to get my dopamine fixed, and then when my food gets here, I'll eat, or then I'll go into my appointment or whatever it is.
Um they're avoiding the discomfort of that and whatever. So uh there is a s uh teacher in a school who said, Look, I want you to be bored. So if you are caught using your phone for whatever reason in this class, I'm gonna put it into a phone jail and they've got a little pouch, and you can have your phone on your desk, but it's gonna be in this secured pouch for the m remainder of the class. You don't get your phone out.
I want you to be bored. And then if if the phone ends up in a pouch and the student's like, but I'm done with my work, why can't I be on my phone? And the teacher said, be bored, look out the window, do homework from another class. Like it's okay.
Boredom begets creativity and imagination. For sure. So you gotta be bored so that you can Yeah
but the teacher also said, like, if other people are done, chat, have a conversation. What?
Yeah, draw talk like to other people.
Do something that isn't your phone. Like I think this is really smart. I agree. Because it isn't like just escape to this antisocial like world of what's in your phone. Exactly.
Or whatever social thing you're gonna try to distract a kid in another class with. Like just be bored for a little while. Like it's okay. You're gonna be okay. Your phone's right there in its little pouch, it's gonna be okay. At the end of class, we're gonna take it out of the pouch.
You can have your phone back, but in here, you finish your work, be bored. Yeah. And I think that's awesome. I love it too. Yeah, I think it's really, really good. So um, I I like that uh people are kind of thinking that way because um what's happening in this class now is instead of trying to sneak phones back, students have started talking to each other, they've started asking the teacher questions. Um, they're uh coloring and doodling with gel pens that are available in the classroom. Like it's creating an analog environment again, which is super healthy.
I love it.
I know. So that's uh that's a fantastic thing that's happening, and I want to see more of that.
Put some board games in that classroom.
You know what I mean? And then people will have to get card games
with board game and ask another student to play. Right.
I love that finish up your work, and then you can have inside recess.
Which was great.
Everybody fought over the game of life in my classroom.
It was the game of sorry. Was it? Yeah. Yeah. I loved that game.
It's a cool little uh little thing that's happening. I like it. I hope more people do that. I do too. Yeah, let's all put our phones down. Just for a little bit, huh?
Yeah, I gotta do it. Over there. Put it over there. Okay. Okay. Be bored. I already am.
Would you rather this or that?
Would you rather have your child wake up three hours before school every day or refuse to get out of bed until 10 minutes before school starts?
Uh I'm gonna choose the wake up early because that is less stressful hassle. But I think I'm gonna have to be like, okay, if you wake up this early, here's a list of things you need to do. And uh, and they're gonna be getting yourself ready.
Like there's gonna be getting ready for school things, but then there's also gonna be like, and at this time, an alarm will go off, and that's when you can talk to me. So I'm gonna have to build some stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah.
I am definitely a let me wake up a minute before people start to interact with me. Yeah. I gotta you gotta give me like some time.
Yeah, if you're gonna be waking up, like if if school starts at let's say 8 20, and you're waking up three hours early, you're waking up at 5 20. I don't want to hear anything until 6 30.
Whoa, an hour? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
An hour to get yourself ready.
Sometimes I talk to you earlier.
Read a book, like spend some time working on some homework, like I don't know, be bored. And then 630. Come talk to me. my eyeballs will open, and I'll go, what's up? What can I do for you? Are you uh get out of bed?
Let's start talking kind of person. I actually don't know this about you. No. You're not. No. You are not.
I am a I like a slow quiet morning. I like uh like if I could get up and wander around and take my time and sit and uh just take it easy and then be like, okay, now the day could start. That'd be awesome.
How much time do you need to take? to take it easy? I don't know. A little while.
A wild, because you do do that on the weekends. And then I'm like, okay, let's get going. with something. I'm like, hey, Easy. It's been like three hours, and you're still like, I'm just taking it easy. I'm like, Yeah, it's the weekend.
Now let's do it. Because here's the five days of the week, Monday through Friday. Wake up, it's a hustle, it's get out the house, it's get to work, it's start talking. And then talk for four hours. And then it's like go to meetings, do stuff. And then what I like to do on the weekends is the absolute opposite of that. Go slow. Don't talk.
Be quiet.
I have had enough conversation for the week. If you want to hear me talk, there's a podcast I can point you to. You can hear me talk all you want.
Okay, Josh. No talking this weekend. Let's do it. Yeah, right. Don't talk to me. This is your rules, not mine. You better not talk to me. Don't talk to me. You better be silent. Watch it. You better zip those lips and throw away that key. For how long? This is your rule the whole weekend. Until I'm ready.
That's no, that's how it goes. It changes. It's not static. Like I'm ready to talk now.
No, you have to unzip. Oh, can't. You threw away the key.
Come on. What are you picking?
The waking up early because it's less stressful.
Yeah. Would you rather this or that?
Okay. Apparently there's a trend on Instagram where your husband tells you ten reasons why you're unfit to go to war.
Why you are unfit to go to war?
Yeah. If you can't think of ten, just give me just give me a few reasons why you think that I'm unfit to go to war. Okay. Uh the gear is heavy. Yeah. So that's yeah.
There's a lot of walking and marching involved. If you're, you know, infantry. Okay. You I have never seen you play a flight simulator. So I don't know that you would necessarily be like the top choice for like flying drones remotely. I'm at three. Okay. Umbat boots are heavy.
You already said that. You said gear is heavy.
Is that the same thing? But the boots are heavy and you don't like heavy shoes. I don't like heavy shoes. So that's separate from the gear, which is I mean, even the duffel bag. Like you showing up at boot camp with a duffel bag. Yeah, right.
So the gear is heavy as your duffel bag. Okay. Uh what did I say? Lots of marching. Yeah, you got those already. Slight simulator, heavy boots.
That's four. How are you around guns and ammo? Uh I think I've seen you shoot a gun.
Yeah. And you had a good time shooting targets, but I don't think you're gonna shoot toward people. I think that's gonna be an issue for you. Okay. And that's part of war. So I don't think that's a I don't think that's a real good one for you. That's five. Okay. I need five more.
No, that's four. You need six more. No, I have five. Okay. There's here's some that haircut. You're not gonna do the haircut. Okay. That's six.
Uh the food. You're gonna have an issue with the food is gonna be seven. Um the hot desert, uh, you know, of where of where you end up. I mean, it's hot everywhere, but you're gonna hate that.
Yeah. The sleeping in a cot part, you're not gonna be into that. So deployment's gonna be a real issue for you. And then also being yelled at by somebody through boot camp, you're not gonna enjoy that. Crawling in the mud, you're not boot camp's gonna boot camp alone. That's number 10. Boot camp.
Yeah, I don't want to do any of it. Somebody said you hate being told what to do. Yeah, there it is. Yeah. By the time you found and prepped all your equipment, the war would be over.
Yeah, it's I mean, you're gonna be organizing it all all the time.
Not trusting your male leadership. That's a fact. You're too nice and would be looking for ways to donate food and equipment to the enemy if they were losing.
That's true. I'm such a fan of the underdog. Really? I like an underdog story.
I'm not. I am not fit for war. I don't know.
How are you on boats? I was just trying to think. Like, let's get out of infantry. Maybe you're a speedboat? No. I like speed boat. No, I'm talking about like a battleship or an aircraft carrier. A tube, you're gonna be pulled in a tube behind a battleship. No. How are you about submarines? I don't know. I mean, it's a claustrophobic kind of space.
I would feel a little bit trapped. Yeah.
There's no air. I don't know if the navy's it. How are you about flying airplanes? I don't know.
Probably not so good.
So Air Force might not be it.
No. And I can't be walking everywhere. Right. Can't.
How are you with big tanks and stuff? Uh you feel like no, because you don't you don't even like to drive my truck because you said it's too big. So you're not driving a tank.
No. Or even a support vehicle. Like you're not, you're not doing the big like Hum V. You're not driving that. It's wider than the road. Yeah, I'm unfit. I'm fit. I'm unfit for war. Yeah.
Plus, also I'm just unfit.
Physically. They'll take care of that in boot camp while they're yelling at you. Don't yell. That's what you're gonna say. Hey, hey, you don't yell at me. Just crying. And they're like, why are you crying? I can't stop crying.
Stop telling me what to do.
See? Yeah. It's not for you. It's not for you. Let's wrap up today's show. Okay. Hope you have a great rest of your Wednesday. We'll be back tomorrow. Couple days left this week and more chances to win free stuff in the morning. 745 with Kid Smarts, 820 with Ho Ho. Hold on.
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