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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Thursday, December 19, 2024
Episode summary introduction:
Happy radio anniversary Chantel, there are too many choices when it comes to choosing what to watch, Kirk Cousins has been benched, our kitchen is overflowing with treats and sweets, what is a bindle and why does our daughter want one, Boise State is headed to the Fiesta Bowl, Chantel’s grandma was a savage, we haven’t had time to make all the homemade gifts this year, Josh is building a mountain in the dining room, our family’s Christmas ornament tradition, the and secret pickle cookie.
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Full show transcript:
Hey. Hey. Hey. This is wake up classy 97, the podcast, and it's a replay of today's full show in about an hour. It's Thursday, December 19th.
Today on the show, happy radio anniversary to me. Happy radio anniversary. 2 years. 2 years. Look at you.
I mean, wow. What a pro. I mean, wow. What a pro. There are too many choices when it comes to choosing what to watch.
Yep. Kirk Cousins has been benched. Are you sad? Kinda, but he's not a Vikings anymore. So He's he's not a Viking.
You are correct. I feel sad for him. Our kitchen is overflowing with treats and sweets. Yeah. Would somebody eat all that?
And, yeah, my body is overflowing with treats and sweets. What is a bindle, and why does our daughter want 1? It's a bag on a stick. Stick bag. She wants to run away.
So there you go. Boise State is headed to the Fiesta Bowl. Yeah. Way to go, Boise. My grandma was a savage.
Yeah. What's her deal? Like, chill out, grandma. Oh, she would fight you for saying nothing. Would she?
Yeah. I bet I bet your grandma and I would get along. She's she'd be feisty, but I'd I'd be feisty back. You're not really a feisty guy. Unless I need to be.
We haven't had time to make all the homemade gifts this year. What what do you want to homemade? I don't want to homemade anything. Okay. Good.
Then we're good. Josh is building a mountain in the dining room. Yeah. Quit trying to tear down my mountain. Our family's Christmas ornament tradition.
Our family's what? Christmas ornament tradition. Christmas ornament. What did I say? It's fine.
What did I say? No. It's good. Go on. And the secret pickle cookie.
I don't want anything to do with the secret pickle cookie. Thank you for listening to the show. We hope you'll subscribe wherever you're listening and rate the show so we can let other people know about it. Find us on socials and our YouTube channel. Just search wake up classy 97.
Here's today's show. Hey. Good morning, Chantel. Hey. What's up?
Today, we're celebrating hard candy. Hold on. What? Today is is a big day for me. It is?
Yeah. It is. What's going on today? Today is the anniversary of the first time I started radio. Is that right?
No way. Yeah way. No way. Yeah way. It's your 2 year anniversary.
Year anniversary. No way. Way. No way. Yeah way.
We've been we've been doing this for 2 years. No way. Yeah. We've been doing this 2 years together. Correct.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, happy birthday to wake up classy 97 with Josh and Chantel. Woo hoo. Confetti.
Man, I did not know that. You know that now? I did not know that. That's, that's really exciting. Is it?
Way more exciting than hard candy Yes. Which I was about to ramp up and talk about. I was excited because I like hard candies. I know you do, you old man. But that's way cooler that it's, it's your radio anniversary.
My radio birthday? Uh-huh. You'd think you should think after 2 years, I would have gotten a smidge better at it. You don't think you have? No.
Just still fumbling my way through. I'm gonna see. I have I have archived Do you? The first show. I'm gonna go see if I can find it Okay.
And find out how many hard candies we talked about. How many? Yeah. Let's see. There's where there's original Sure.
There's those gross strawberry ones. There's the liquid sort of center? Like, they come in that strawberry Yeah. Wrapper? Yeah.
Those aren't great. Those are the 2 hard candies I can think of. This is just little hard candies. Like, there's red and yellow and orange and whatever ones. They've also sometimes been called boiled sweets.
Gross. I love boiled sweets. That's great. It dates clear back to as far as the ancient Egyptians who would make their own version of candy, out of honey that they would mix with a bunch of different nuts and fruits. Oh.
And, those hard candies were made almost, today's hard candies are almost exclusively just hard sugar. But back then, hardened honey with nuts and fruit in it Sounds delightful. Right. You might have liked it. Chip and hard candy.
Anyway. Anyway. Enough about hard candy. Get to talk some more about Man. Hard candy.
Wowza. I'm excited for you. What a big day. Big day. Big day.
So last let's see. I started my first show here November 1, 2021. Mhmm. So I've been here for 3. 4 Christmases and 3 years.
Yeah. Because there was a Christmas when I started. Okay. So this yeah. Anyway Anyway.
And then my very, very first day on the radio was, September 27th. 27th? 20 first? 100? No.
In 2001. Woah. Yeah. Barely out of the night. September 21st, I think, 2,001.
So I've it's been a You've been doing radio for a long time. Yeah. It's been a minute. That's the that's when I cracked the very first live microphone and was scared You're a like crazy. How many years has that been, did you say?
Well, that's been 23 years. You're an you're a young adult in radio. I'm a toddler. Aw. You're you're in your terrible twos now.
Barely learning how to walk. Congratulations. Super excited for you. It's a big deal. It's a big deal.
Oop de woo. When was the last time you scanned any streaming service and just desperately trying to find something to watch? Not that long ago. Oh. Like and then I landed on a show that I've been meaning to watch for a long time.
So that's been good and refreshing. But I scanned even last night, I was like, I I know I'm I'm gonna be falling asleep, and it's just background noise. I don't even I I almost just wanted to just randomly go and play. That's kinda how it felt last night because I just couldn't be bothered. There's so many times that I scan trying to find something to watch.
So you just search and search and search and search. And then I have an idea for a movie that I wanna watch that I haven't seen in a while or that I've been meaning to watch. Right. And then you can't find it. Not available anyway.
Right. And then I just usually end up going back to something that's familiar, a show that we've watched a bajillion times. And I go, well, at least I know this is good, so I'll pick this and watch this. Like The Office or New Girl or Yeah. Or a movie that you like or whatever.
Yeah. The average person spends a 102 hours searching for something to watch. A 100 and 10 hours. Too much to choose from. That's 4 and a half days.
There is too much to choose from, and I think that's the big There's just too much to choose from. Many options. And the quality Yes. Is always in question. You just never know if you're gonna hit play and and watch something that's worth your time.
Exactly. Well and there's too much. A lot of people are saying that there's just too much original content being produced. Right. We want Which is lower budget.
Yeah. Well and there's been some really great original content. Don't I don't disagree. There's been some good stuff, but there's it's too much of it now. There's too much options.
And and you'll get, you know, around other people that are like, oh, have you seen this? And you go, no. When am I gonna have time to watch that? I'm watching this other thing that somebody else told me was good. Like, the no.
I have not. I'll put it on the list and then maybe get around to it. But but this conversation that you wanna have about the thing you're enjoying, I can't have with you. I can't have because I have I've already spent a 110 hours looking for something else. Yeah.
My time is gone. Right. Wasted. Wasted my time. Wasted.
Wasted. Tell you? Looking for something to watch. Yeah. I turned on a movie last night.
I didn't finish it. It was a Christmas one. It was one with Ben Stiller. What was it called? You watched it for about 5 minutes and then got completely disrupted.
Well, I got, yeah, I got disrupted for sure. I don't know. It was something. The Nutcrackers. That the is that what it's called?
I think so. And it's, yeah, it's a movie Ben Stiller has. Yes. I'm trying to find different Christmas movies. Right.
That's a new one. There's a lot to choose from. That's a 2024 film. Yeah. I know.
And, Linda Cardellini is in it as well. And I know who that is. Yes. She Oh, yeah. I do.
She's great. She is great. Anyway, I was excited because I only spent I think I only looked through, like, 5 movies, and then I went, oh, here's one. Click. That's always exciting when you don't spend very much time.
Like you found like you found a secret treasure almost. Yeah. Yeah. And you go, oh, let's watch this. Yeah.
I like that. Too bad. You can't. You're gonna get disrupted. Well, maybe eliminating some of the streaming services would help make the decision making process That's true.
Better. We do have a lot of streaming services. Too many. We have too many. But I like having them all set up because if you can't find it on Netflix, then you can find it on Prime.
If you can't find it on those, then you can find it on Disney. It's expensive. It is expensive. It's crazy. It is.
I know. It's just crazy. I pay those bills every month. I get it. I know.
I know. I feel you. For the new year. That might be the resolution to, Cut back? To just to get to some essentials.
Alright. You know? Then what are you gonna pick? Which ones are you gonna keep? Which ones are you gonna throw away?
To think about that. I think the, the Disney bundle's too expensive. The Disney bundle has increased in price. And I don't think we use the Disney plus as much as the rest. I have lately.
I've used that one a lot. Oh, well, maybe I'm wrong. Because all the Disney movies are on there. I understand. I know what they call it.
Christmas movies on there. It's the most expensive. It is. And Prime is probably right there with it. And Prime?
Let's talk about that. Yeah. Because I pay for that one to be commercial free, and then they go, well, we're gonna give you commercials anyway. Correct. And a lot of that wanna pay for the no commercial version, which is even more money.
You have to watch Jeff Bezos is hurting. He's so poor. You have to watch 9 videos ads I know. You can't skip any of them. It's it's just crazy.
And then you watch half an hour, and they're like, oh, here's more commercials. The following presentation is brought to you with limited interruptions. And I go, oh, that means you got a commercial break or 2 in here, don't you? Rude. I hate that.
I hate the middle of a movie. Here, have 2 minutes of commercials. I know it. Stop it. Paid to not have this.
Stop it. Ugh. Yeah. We're so mad. Yeah.
I know. This story comes from Jacksonville, Florida. There was a, an animal service group there. Uh-huh. And they had to jump into action and, save a dog that was stranded on the ledge of the Myrtle Avenue Bridge.
What was that dog doing there? Stranding. He was stranded. I'm looking at this bridge, kind of a scary little bridge. Kind of, it's the Myrtle Avenue Bridge.
It is a historic bridge, but it is, it's kind of an arched, top. K. Big iron beam, bridge. Industrial looking. Scary to be on the ledge of that bridge.
Yeah. The dog has been, named Myrtle after the bridge. Was found by Jacksonville Animal Care and Protective Services in a precarious situation on the side of the highway bridge. It was a stray dog? Correct.
Didn't have any kinda That is correct. Dog. Yep. The t dog. The team, sprang into action using a net and a leash to safely lift Myrtle to safety over the edge of the, Scary Bridge.
The rescue was a delicate operation, but the team handled it with care and compassion. And Myrtle Myrtle is safe. Who, was terrified, of course, is now recovering from the ordeal, has gained a huge fan club among staff and volunteers at the Jacksonville Animal Care and Protective Services. And now, Myrtle is all good. Good job, Myrtle.
Look at the picture of Myrtle. Myrtle is, on firm ground and laying down. Good job. Which is where Myrtle needs to stay. Quit wandering while you're not supposed to be wandering.
I'm looking at a at a video here. Curiosity killed the dog. Man, what a scary situation. Shivering, scared. They've got video of of, where he was, and they that's that's wild.
So scary. He was a a good boy, though, because he didn't try to run when they were trying to help him. It it looks like it was a pretty good rescue. He was terrified, I bet. So scared.
Even in oh, they got him loaded up in the truck, and he's like, this is scary. He was scared. Merle's a scared doggo. But he's okay. We have a scared doggo.
She also had a terrifying moment. I mean, similar to Myrtle What happened? There was a laundry basket in the kitchen. Not a laundry basket in the kitchen. Woah.
No. She was Something new out of place that wasn't there 5 minutes ago. Yeah. Then she went, oh. Oh, man.
That dog. Anyway, that's good news. Good job. Get you going. Good job, rescuers.
This is some pretty sad news. Well, let's start off with that. Well, it's not necessarily news. It's okay. It's not sad like a dog is trapped on a bridge.
Okay. It's sad. Fair. Poor Kirk Cousins. Oh.
The former Vikings quarterback. Yeah. Well Now Falcons quarterback has been benched. It's sad for Kirk Cousins. The the Cousins family is kind of the reason you even got into football at all.
Yeah. You really like Kirk and Julie. And Yeah. What? You still can't.
Julie? Like, I talked I hey. I talked to Kirk and Julie. You never heard back, though? I did.
When I first started following football, I just liked the wholesomeness of their family. It was just refreshing to see. And I messaged her and told her that, nope. She never responded. Nope.
Nope. Like, who's this crazy person in Idaho? You know, we're Yeah. They were in Minnesota at the time. Now they're in Atlanta.
So it's it's, definitely a sad situation. I was just trying to pull up the the actual story. He has been playing not so great, and that makes me kinda sad for him. He's had a lot of interceptions. Yeah.
And then the draft so they Cousins was the quarterback for the Vikings, and then when the season started, the Falcons were like, we want you. And he was like, cool. Paid him a lot of money. Tons of money. And then in the draft, they were like, yeah.
We want this guy. Yes. So they pick up, Michael Pennicks junior, and they draft a new quarterback in the draft. And everybody, at the time went, what is he doing? You just paid Kirk Cousins a ton of money, and then you drafted, you know, a rookie quarterback.
Like, what? What are you doing? Yeah. So, obviously, Kirk, and Michael Pennicks junior have been practicing. They've been working together because you're you're on the practice squad Yeah.
As the backup. So you're still there. And if he if he, Kirk, would have been injured or something, Pinnix would have been, you know, put in. So he's he's right there. He's trained.
He's he knows the play. Well, and I wonder if this was the plan all along. And I don't know because here's here's the deal. The Falcons, did win their their Monday night game, and they but they had lost 4 games in a row prior to that. Yeah.
And, Kirk Cousins during that game, he 6 of his passes were incomplete Yeah. During the game. And he only threw a 112 yards, which is not a lot. Not when you've got guys, you know, that are doing 100 and 100 of yards. How old is Kirk Cousins?
36. I bet he's gonna retire. You think so? I do. I mean, isn't that the typical age that football players retire?
Late thirties, early forties, like Aaron Rodgers? You're kinda He just turned 40. You're kinda old, buddy. Well, there's that. The other thing is that on on Monday night, Kirk did not throw a single pass on a first down.
Oh. He did a ton of running stuff. He just handed the ball off and then, and then, didn't throw a lot. So that like, maybe you're not having a good week at work and your boss comes in, he's like, hey. You gotta get benched.
Somebody else is gonna come in and do your job and do it better than you. Well, I mean, there's a deal. He's to watch. He has a contract. Yes.
So he's still getting paid. Right. He's still gonna be there on the sidelines. He's still gonna be helping coordinate plays and everything else. He just won't be the guy throwing the ball for now.
Poor Kirk Cousins. We'll see if if Pennicks junior comes out and just Knocks it out. Starts going crazy for the for the falcons, it it might be wild, but I don't I can see. Poor Kirk Cousins. I still follow the Vikings, so I'm not a Falcons fan.
So Right. It doesn't affect me much. Vikings are killing it. So Well, good luck, Kirk Cousins. Good luck.
It's been a wild ride, you and the Kirk Cousins thing and I know. Him getting injured and you just struggling through the Kirk Cousins Kirk Cousins. Association. Yeah. Yeah.
Wow. What a ride. I'm having a problem. What's your problem? My problem is my pants are a little bit tight.
You said that yesterday. Yeah. Are they shrinking in the laundry? I have had some shirts do that. Yeah.
I think so. For a couple of years, I've had some shirts that just get smaller and smaller, and I think something's wrong with the laundry. I do too. It definitely is not all the homemade treats we've received as presents. It's not the Nope.
Pecan cookies or the peanut butter popcorn or the huckleberry jam or the homemade bread or No. It's not. It's the laundry. Animal cracker rice cookies treats. Is sneaking in and shrinking our clothes.
It's not fair. That's not nice. Everybody needs to stop bringing me treats. You have to stop. You have to stop.
I made, what, 6 dozen cookies the other day. Yeah. But that doesn't include all the treats we've gotten from No. I know. Neighbors and friends looking at the coworkers.
Looking at the kitchen counter yesterday, and I was going, what is happening right now? I know. It's chaos. It's chaos. It's candy chaos.
It's it's sugars and cookies and sugar cookies and candies and Chocolates. Chocolates and hodge. I can't I can't. Is it getting you through, though? Is it getting me through what?
The holiday? The stress? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm an emotional eater.
So Oh, good. Good. So so good. Yeah. Yeah.
Except now I'm gonna have to ask Santa for some new pants. Or New Year resolution. Good. Yeah. Yeah.
Do the do the old, lose 15 in 25 thing. Where's the fun in that? I'll tell you, there's fun in it, but there might not be sugary treats in it. Oh, no. What kind of life is that?
A healthy one. I mean, you can have a treat. You just you know, you don't have to go like, nope. That's it. No sugar.
Go hog wild. Yeah. You just have to I have to eat all of these treats in one go. Yeah. Right.
I was looking at the counter last night because there were so like, so many goodies, and I went, I do have kind of a hankering for something sweet. Oh, boy. Was trying to figure out what to pick. Do I want fudge? Do I want chocolate?
Do I want a cookie? Do I want I settled on the rice crispy treat. That's a good rice crispy treat. So That's a good I'm I'm really excited you shared that with me. That's a good rice crispy treat.
That's a winner. That was a winner. You need to get that recipe. Okay. That's a good one.
No. We're gonna be healthy. Remember? Yeah. Healthy and so happy with that rice crispy treat.
Oh. You know what we do instead is just say, hey. I'm gonna need you to go ahead and make that again. She said it's her specialty. Yeah.
I know. She's good at it. She knows that. Rather than get the recipe and make a whole tray of it, I'm just gonna say, hey. Listen.
Can you just bring me a slice here and there? Every now and then? Like, just make it, like, 3 more times in in the year, and every time you make it, bring me one. In the year? This year?
In no. Not yes. There's a week left. Bring me 3 more. No.
Bring me through the year 2025, I could eat 3. 3 more of those? Mhmm. That's what I'm saying. Just you've already set yourself a limit.
Right. That's how you're gonna be successful. I will eat 3 rice crispy treats in 2025 throughout the year. That's not enough rice crispy treats. It's enough.
It is enough, And it gives you something to look forward to. Okay. And you get to say, hey. Come around springtime, I better see one of those rice Krispy Treats. Midsummer, rice Krispy Treat.
Leading into, the Christmas season next year, Rice Krispy Treat. 3. See? That's what I'm that's what you gotta do. Alright.
I like your I like that idea. And then every day, you replace it with a different snack, and then you get 365 snacks. 365 delicious treats. That's not how it works. That's that's the opposite of what you should be doing.
Stop giving me treats, everybody. I can't take it anymore. We were giving our daughter some grief last night. She's 15 years old, so it's not difficult to give her grief. Nope.
She then decided that she was gonna run away. Yeah. She said, I'm gonna run away. Because I'm running away. I'm running away.
I said, okay. My life will be a lot cheaper. I will save a lot of money. And she, how could how could you? It's so rude.
But then she, immediately went to if I'm running away, I'm doing it Dennis the menace style. And I'm grabbing a stick, and I'm grabbing, a bandana, and I'm putting all my belongings in that bandana. I'm tying them to that stick, and I'm out of here. She couldn't I'm tying them to that stick, and I'm out of here. She couldn't remember what that stick thing was called.
Now you, believe that it was called a knapsack sack. That's what I was thinking. Which is not what it's called. What was it called? Do you remember?
Do remember, but I wanted to look up what a knapsack was, because, that's a different thing. So a knapsack is a carrying case or pouch slung from the shoulder. So it's like a backpack. Okay. K.
So that's a knapsack, which by the way starts with a k. Because immediately, he our son went and googled knapsack, and he went, that's a sleeping bag. And I went, no. No. There's a k at the front.
A knapsack. Knapsack. Yeah. What it's actually called, the stick with the, with this the little, bandanna pouch on the end, that's called a bindle. Yes.
It's a bag or a sack or a carrying device, stereo typically used by, the American subculture of hobos. The bindle is colloquially known as the blanket stick, particularly within the northeastern hobo community. So, it was called a bindle stiff. It's been called a bunch of different stuff, but bindle is what that's actually called. And that was something we learned last night because we did not know that it was called a bindle.
How do you spell bindle? B I n d l e. D l e. Okay. Bindle.
Alright. Bindle. Well You know what I mean? English. Bindle.
It's also known as a blanket stick. I said that. Blanket stiff, is what I have here, but I don't have blanket stick in there. This is blanket stick. Oh, cool.
Well, neat. If you're curious to know what that thing is called, you could say knapsack or you could say bindle or you could say blanket stick. Yeah. Bring me my blanket stick. There is a, Norman Rockwell painting called The Runaway Oh.
Which I think, which does feature the bindle. It was, it was used on a magazine cover in 1958, which is interesting. But it, specifically, I was I was trying to find this uh-huh. This is the one where you see the kids sitting next to the policeman at the diner, and he has a bingo on the on the floor next to, next to a stick because, see, he'd had enough of his parents giving him flack, and so he was running away. I was running yeah.
That kid was 9 years old. Our daughter's 15. Yeah. Same. If she just finished her driver's ed course, she could drive away.
Oh, right? But instead, she's she's gonna go fashion a Bindle and take a walk. Okay. Yeah. Bye.
We'll see you in 20 minutes. Look at all of my money. Yeah. I'm so much richer. Where is she gonna find the stick?
Good good point. Good point. She's gonna have to walk further to find the stick than she'll get walking away. And I don't think all of her face creams and her makeups and her hair stuff, it's not all gonna fit. There.
Plus comfy blankets, and she won't wear a coat because that's not cool. And her phone charger and her headphones, and she's gonna need 3 bindles at least. Good luck, daughter. Mhmm. No.
This is you, bud. What's me? Oh, so Fiesta Bowl, is a football game, and BSU made it to the football game. Do they determine who plays in the Fiesta Bowl? So depending on, my understanding is depending on how well you perform throughout the season determines whether or not you make it into a playoff game, whether you make it into, a bowl game.
Like, you're guaranteed certain things depending on how well you perform. Is the Fiesta Bowl the Super Bowl of college football? No. There are many, many there's the big championship game. That'll be that'll be the big one.
But the the, Fiesta Bowl just happens to be one of them. You've heard of the Rose Bowl. Oh, yes. There's the Orange Bowl. There's the Peach Bowl.
There's at Panda Express. Alright. There's there's many, many, different bowl games that happen in college. And the Fiesta Bowl happens to be, what, Thursday, December 31st. So it's gonna be on New Year's Eve.
Yeah. Thursday. And it's and it's gonna be yeah. What? Tuesday.
It's a Tuesday. I was gonna say Tuesday, December 31st. And, it's happening at State Farm Stadium, which is in Glendale, Arizona. So that's, that's what's happening. Okay.
In Arizona, they also have a horse racing track. Okay. And, they have what is called the National Thoroughbred League. It's a new horse racing format. And, the section of grass that is, at the end will be painted blue in honor of BSU Cool.
Making it to, Arizona, which is kinda cool. So when Boise State travels to Glendale, when I first read the story, I thought they were gonna be playing on their blue turf in Arizona. And I thought that's really cool. Like, the Fiesta Bowl's bringing the blue turf to Glendale, but that is not what's happening. They're just a small section of it.
Not even in the football stadium. That's okay. Nothing to do with the football at all. That's still cool. They're just honoring Boise returning to Fiesta Bowl by painting some bluegrass.
Is Boise playing? Well, that's not been determined yet. It it will either be Penn State or SMU. What's a SMU? It's a college.
From. Do some research. SMU. We were lucky enough to see a BSU game couple weeks ago, Thanksgiving week. Yeah.
Beck is super into football, and for his birthday, we went to a Boise State game. I really thought the blue turf was gonna be a little bit rough on my eyes. No. It wasn't that bad. Yeah.
No. No big deal. But it was super fun to watch, and we got to see Ashton Jante Right. Who I feel was robbed from the Heisman. Alrighty.
A lot of people feel the same way. I really think he should. And I don't know much about any of the players. I don't know much about the guy who won, but I do know from Beck what Janty has done, and it's pretty incredible what he has accomplished. And Yeah.
Unreal. It was cool. It is the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. That's SMU. Okay.
Notable alumni, Laura Bush. Laura Bush? Uh-huh. Okay. Kourtney Kardashian and Brian Baumgartner.
What? What? Notable alumni from SMU. Oh, uh-huh. Yeah.
So you can, never mind. Yeah. Those big you can buy away. Kathy Bates? I love Kathy Bates.
You also love Brian Baumgartner. I don't know who that is. Kevin from The Office. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Lauren Graham, and Aaron Spelling, all alumni Okay. From SMU. Wow. Well, yeah, you asked. You wanted me to do research on SMU.
Now you know. Now you know. If they Just wanted to know where it was. That's not about that sound. Dallas, Texas.
Okay. Anyway, there is, obviously a chance that, SMU makes it, if if that's what happens, or it'll be Penn State. Just don't know. Woo hoo. Go BSU.
I know. BSU 3 number 3 seed in, college football. Big big deal. That's awesome. I know.
Pretty cool. They're they don't have goal posts anymore. It was thrown in the river. No. That that had to get fixed.
They've they already had a different football game, I believe, at the stadium. Not BSU, but they had another game playing at, BSU Stadium at Alfordshire Stadium. New goalposts? Yeah. Like, quick.
They didn't fish them out of the river? I don't know if you can they were pretty bent up. I don't know if you can reuse it. Maybe reuse part of it, but you have to redo the post. I don't know.
That's somebody's job. Right. And that's also talk about littering. Sheesh. One big litter.
Those poor fish. They didn't even see what was coming. It's it's real shallow right there. I'm sure they got out of the way. This is just the Boise River.
It's not like, you know, the Henry's or anything. I've floated that Boise River before. Good for you. Good for you. Cool.
So my mom has told me a story before where my grandma I was only 8 when my grandma died, so I didn't know her very well. But she was, she had lived a life. Okay. She was she was a I don't even know how to explain her. Was she like Dan Campbell?
Dan Campbell, the lion's coat? Yeah. A rough and tumble kind of person? Yeah. She was a little bit like like, she was a powerhouse of a woman.
Funny. Been through a lot of life, and so she was she was kind of savage. Okay. So my mom has told me a story when she was a kid. They if they were not behaving like they should have been around Christmas time, my grandma would let them choose a present.
She would say, okay. Go pick out a present. And then the kids would all go pick out a present thinking that they were gonna open it, and then my grandma would say, okay. We're gonna go give that to somebody else. Wow.
Wow. They had no idea what was inside the present. They had Holy smokes. No. I mean, that's nice in the spirit of giving.
Right? It's a wild punishment. I know. She was a savage, my grandma. I told you, she was a rough and tumble cutaway.
That's what I said. She's a Dan Campbell. She is. I think Dan Campbell is a little bit nicer than my grandma. What's fun is there are certain words that I can say to you that will garner a specific response.
And I'm gonna start keeping a list of them. And to get you to say rough and tumble, all I have to do is say Dan Campbell. I don't even know. And you will say, oh, he's rough and tumble. I don't even know it.
Even know what that means. Either, but it's a thing you say. And, and so that makes me laugh. I just And I'm just gonna keep a list of these trigger words. I've seen Dan Campbell in interviews and stuff, and he's kinda just like a like a, we gotta come around the outside edges, and we gotta get him from the front.
I guess Yeah. I just when he talks about coming your football coach voice. That's good too. I'm from Detroit, and I gotta I was gonna show those niners who's boss. Is Dan Campbell from Well, I don't know.
He just coaches the Detroit Lions. I don't know where he's from. Funny that his real name he's from Clifton, Texas. His real name's Daniel. So it's it's kinda fun to call him Daniel Campbell.
Daniel Campbell. Oh, Daniel. It's not as rough. That's what I'm saying. Is it?
That's right. And he was like, no. I'm Dan. Like, alright. You're Dan.
He was born in Clifton, Texas. I bet I bet Dan Campbell and my grandma, Donna. Her name was Donna. Dan and Donna. I bet they could go toe to toe.
You think so? Yeah. I think Dan would be like, alright, Donna. We gotta come up with a play. And she'd be like, alright.
And tell them that if they don't do it right, we're taking away their cleats. I mean, she was if she would do your hair, she would brush your hair. Yeah. And if you moved an inch, she would Yank it. Yank it.
And she was sweet. She was a rough and tumble kinda gal. Rough and tumble. But you better have been a good kid around Christmas. Otherwise Forget about it.
Out of here. Forget about it. Whoo. Gam gam. Did you call her that?
No one called her that. Are you crazy? Yes, grandmother. Yeah. Oh, is that what you do?
No. Just grandma. Just grandma. Just grandma. Alright.
I typically make homemade gifts every year. I either bake something or, craft something. Mhmm. I have not done that once this year. I have not even made a single.
I used to homemade Christmas cards. Yeah. No. I have not crafted It's been a weird, busy It's been chaos. Right.
But I think having additional stuff between, you know, hospitals and, surgeries and all of the other things added on right here at the end of the year Yeah. In addition to the already existing hustle bustle of, just the holidays. I think not recommend. I think it's, it's been a lot extra this year. It's definitely been There has been than usual.
Years passed when our kids were small, I would I made Emery some homemade makeup 1 year. I don't remember that. Yeah. She was little. That's cool.
And then I we made remember we we got, like, a huge piece of, like, muslin fabric Yes. And we painted a car mat A whole huge city. Yeah. For Beck. Uh-huh.
That was a fun year. 1 year, sorted every LEGO. Yeah. We did do that. That was insane.
I don't think that was for Christmas. Uh-huh. No. No. That was think so?
That was just I think that was more than just a project. Yes. It was just a project. Oh. It was that was not Christmas.
That was just a project? Yeah. I thought that was associated with a gift. No. Oh.
Oh, what a tragedy that was. You ever sorted 4,000 Yeah. Yeah. That was kind of individual LEGO? Like, we had gotten some organization bins Right.
Dumped out all of his LEGOs, and we said, alright. These pieces go here, and these pieces go here. It was actually kind of therapeutic in a way that we turned on a movie. Been therapeutic if it lasted one day, but it Stretched into days. It was a lot.
It was a lot. And then he got home. He was excited about it, and then it lasted back in the bin. It lasted maybe a week, and then all back into one location. Yep.
Yep. He was too young to appreciate that. That's fine. I'm too old to appreciate that. That was that was a decision.
That was a lot of times. But, no, there's not I mean, I made cookies. That's probably been the extent of the and and I've made dinner a handful of nights, and you've cooked a couple of nights. So we've done that. That's been the extent of our home homemade anything over the past couple of weeks.
It's just been crazy. It has been a crazy year. Eventually, it's gonna slow down. Right? Hope so.
Like, it's we're gonna be able to, like, relax at some point. I woke up this morning, and I went, oh, it's been such a week. And then I went, it's only Thursday. Thursday. It's only Thursday.
I know. I've been saying that since Monday. Oh, what a week that was. Oh, it's Monday? Yeah.
Yeah. Hustle and bustle is a real thing. Take some time for yourself today Yes. Is the big deal. And I'm saying this to you, but I'm also saying this to anybody listening as well.
Exhale a little bit. Take even 5 minutes. Just do some breathing. Just go get yourself a a a little treat. Take a little something of the day and give it to yourself.
That's important. I don't need any more treats. I've had enough treats. No. You you do the breathing.
Okay. No. Not like that. Not panic, crazy adrenaline breathing. What was that?
That was like I need it. There was no rhythm to it. I need a paper bag. Sporadic. You were hypervent Yeah.
Hyperventilating. Yeah. Okay. Well, good luck with that. It's okay.
It's all okay. Everything is fine. I know what I want for Christmas. What? It's like 6 days away?
I know. Now? Yeah. Josh, this is gonna be something that's you can do this. This is fine.
I just wanna clean house. Oh, no. No. No. No.
No. No. No. Anything but that. No.
No. No. I just I need some sweeping. I need some mopping. I need the bathrooms cleaned.
We have brooms and mops? I just need we do. I just need your area. What's my area? Oh, you know your area.
I need your area to be put away. That's I was thinking of putting more stuff in that area. There's people have been stacking stuff up there for days. In my area? Who's stacking stuff in my area?
Me. Quit stacking stuff in my area. You have to move your stuff before I can move my stuff. I know. Because if your stuff's on top of mine I know.
I just I was looking around yesterday going The kitchen and dining room is a troublesome place. It is. It was hard to wrap some presents. We normally can do that on the, dining room table, but no. No.
That had to happen on the coffee table. So that's that's what I want. I just wanna be able to relax on Christmas, and I'm not gonna be able to do that if I've got a destructive house. I'll add more stuff to the pile. No.
Take the piles away. I'll move all the piles into one big pile. You never give me one of those. Mountain. Stuff mountain right there by the garage door.
Because all that stuff has to go out to the garage. Yeah. I know. So it's nearly there. It is nearly there.
Two more steps. Nah. You can do it, bud. Stuffed mountain. I don't want it.
I kinda think I wanna see if I can make stuffed mountain. You can make stuffed mountain in the garage. Great. Right next to the garage. It's cold in the garage.
Yeah. Just throw it out. Gonna build it in the dining room. I don't even care where it is in the garage. I don't care because the garage is not my public space.
Throw it out there. I'll shut the door. Yeah. No. I know.
I know how the garage works because the garage, I feel like, is my space, and it's constantly just stuff has been thrown everywhere in here. That's how I feel. Oh, really? So isn't that Yeah. Interesting.
Isn't it? Isn't it? What an impasse. Your dining room feel a little bit chaotic and cluttered? Yeah.
Yeah. Same as my garage. You never even go out there. No. It's cold.
I know. I got there in the in the warm weather. Then just throw it out there for right now, and then we'll clean it in the summer. No. Yeah.
No. No. If you don't do it, I will. And then you're gonna say, where's all my stuff? My stuff.
That's right. Quit moving my stuff. Then you move it. I'm making a mountain. One of our family traditions is that we pick out an ornament.
Each of us picks out an ornament that kind of describes something that's happened to us during that year. Yeah. Something exciting or something funny or Right. Some sort of relevant event that we attended or something like that. So years ago, when Beck worked at a pretzel store, he got a pretzel ornament.
Right. What did I get this year? I got something that was perfect. There's always something that's like, oh, that's perfect. It's perfect.
I don't remember what your ornament is. I don't either. What do you think it was? I don't remember. But I found it, and I went, oh, this is perfect.
This is perfect. You still had to find 1. Yeah. Emery still has to find 1. We found one for Beck last night.
It was a It was a BSU football. Yeah. It was perfect. Yeah. Ties into his birthday, ties into a thing we did, a Thanksgiving thing.
That's perfect. A big moment. Perfect. What was yours? 1 year, Emery, like, she just could not get enough of waffles.
She was just eating a lot of waffles. She went so far as to buy her own waffle maker. Yes. And then she found a waffle maker ornament. Yep.
They make everything now. Really do. And they make some that I look at and go, no one's buying that. Buy that. No one's buying that.
The year I got into football and I started liking vikings, we found a viking helmet ornament. Yep. Very cool. Get this year? What's my ornament this year?
I don't know. Oh, right. My brain, and I don't remember. Sandwich. I don't remember.
You still need to find 1. I know. Emery still needs to find 1. Mhmm. Here's the problem.
As we were at the store looking last night, we were like, where's the wall of ornaments? Yeah. They've they're they're shutting things down. They're moving on. Yeah.
It's good to see. It's almost Easter. They're all ornament. We got more candy to sell. It's almost Easter.
They're ornament piles. Oh, they got Valentine's Day first. It'll be Valentine's Day here in a minute. Oh, I'm kind of nervous we're not gonna find one for you and Emery. Oh, no.
Oh, no. Oh, no. Here's the thing. The tree is pretty heavy. Bec is 20.
Emery is 15. Right. We've been doing this for for a lot of years. Our tree is out of space. And there were years that we would do that.
We would find an ornament, and then we would make one. So that's And I've got ornaments that I've had since I was in elementary school hanging on the tree. Oh, no. I love it. There's all kinds of it.
Is a memory tree. Yeah. And I think it's great. And it's I think it's really cool. There's some really ugly ornaments that Emery has picked out when she was little.
A big, like, 12 inch butterfly. Man, that is that is a sight. And the pink little monster. I like him. He's fun.
And the ballerina that had her arm ripped off, but she was like, I love this. Yeah. It's fun. It is. It's just Nice fish.
There's little there's little, Easter eggs hidden throughout the tree. The little things, little stories. There's a c three p o with a red arm. Yeah. That's mine.
I know. There's He Man and Skeletor. There's Charlie Browns. There's all kinds of fish. There's just fun stuff in there.
There is fun stuff in there, but we gotta get you one this year. I'll find one. We're running out of town. 6 days. There's no need to panic.
There's no need to shout. 6 whole days. Maybe we can find one on clearance after the holidays. I'm a sucker for a deal. You know that.
Do I? I might just find one that I go, I got it on clearance. That's what made this one work because I love a deal. It's hideous. I know, but I got it for a deal.
I don't know if that's you. Are you always shopping for a deal? I, I will find a deal and shop. I'd like, I will look for a deal and or a deal will find me, and I'll go, that's a good deal. I should buy that.
That because it's a deal. A bad deal. I don't go I don't go finding the deals. The deals find me. And then I go, that's a good deal.
I should probably buy it. It's a good deal. Deals are just walking around like Oh, there's a guy. Hey. Hey.
Look at this. I'm a deal. Look at me. Yep. And then Pick me up.
And I go, I should. You were regularly a lot more expensive than you are now on a deal. I guess we'll find you an ornament on a deal. It might be the thing to do. That deal's gonna find you.
It might. Big guy. I got 6 days. Come at me, deal. I really wanna bake some cookies.
Go for it. But I want to bake some cookies that, I wanna try some new recipes. And so I was looking online yesterday to find some cookie recipes, and I found what they are calling a viral sensation. Oh. It is a pickle cookie.
I don't know why they're Oh, no. I don't know why they're pickling everything. Have you seen like, everything is pickles Doctor Pepper. Pickles in this. Pickles in that.
Pickles in cookies. Quit pickling the things. Like, the pickle company, classic Somebody is like, we gotta sell more of these pickles. Pickles and start buying pickles. Put pickles in milk.
Especially in winter months. We sell a lot of pickles in summer, but in the winter months, we don't sell any pickles. We gotta well, yeah, they do. There's so many veggie trays with pickles. That's true.
That's true. They're not having a hard time selling pickles. Pickles aren't struggling. I don't think there's a a pickle issue. I think somebody really likes pickles and said, what else can we put pickles in?
You like pickles on pizza? We are doing it. So this pickle cookie recipe I saw is basically just a chocolate chip cookie. Mhmm. So you take the dough and you fold it out, and then you put a sliced pickle in the middle of it.
You roll it back up into a ball, and then you cook it. So there's a secret pickle on the inside. Want secret pickle cookies. I I like that you call it secret pickle because that's actually accurate, but I don't want to have secret pickle cookies. Would you rather have chopped pickle cookies No.
Where you chop up the pickle and put it in the dough? Diced pickles in the dough? Yeah. No. I don't want pickles in my cookies.
I like pickles Would you rather have and I like cookies. Would you rather have a sliced pickle in the middle of your dough or a whole mini pickle in the middle of your dough? Baby a baby pickle? Mhmm. No.
I don't want pickles in my cookies. We're gonna play would you rather this or that coming up in a minute. Yeah. Is it gonna be this question? No.
I already asked you this question. I'm not gonna ask you this question again. Good. I just wanna know if I had time to study up on pickle etiquette because putting pickles and stuff that doesn't belong in sounds rude. Do you want a secret pickle cookie?
No. I don't. Do you? I I don't. Would you rather have a secret pickle cookie?
No. Or This game I don't want to play this game anymore. I would rather not play this game. About a secret No. Dilly bean pickle?
No. Both pickled items. I that's a green bean. Yeah. And I don't care for them.
They're too garlicky. You don't like dilly beans? They're not no. Not with my cookie for sure. But by itself, a dilly bean is I do have to cook some cookies this weekend.
Getting back on track. Are you? Do, need to Why? Do both of those things. Get back on track and cook some I've gotta make some, oatmeal raisin cookies.
Oh, yeah. So that's on my table. Cookie we're gonna leave out for Santa because, apparently, the sugar cookies that we've been making our whole married life, Santa doesn't like. So Try that pickle cookie. See how that goes over.
Surprise. Ugh. That's a lot of noise. Would you rather this or that? Would you rather watch Home Alone or Elf?
I think I'd rather well, you pick, and I'll tell you what I think. I'm gonna pick Home Alone. I was gonna pick Home Alone as well. I like Elf a lot. I like Zooey Deschanel.
I think it's a fun movie. I like the, the emotions that it brings. It's just great joy and laughter and fun, and there's a good sentimental situation, father and son stuff. There's good stuff in there. Right.
But But have you seen Home Alone? Home Alone is just that's from my childhood. Like, I could leave that on all day. It could be on re repeat. I'd be fine.
Oh, I don't need that. But it could. I'm like, ah, what a good movie. It it's alright. Yeah.
I mean, it's fun. But it just it's nostalgic for me. So that's why I'm picking that one. I'm not I'm just probably gonna watch it once. I'm not gonna leave it on all day like some weirdo.
I know. What? Just once is fine. I said I could. I didn't say later on tonight, I'm gonna.
Gonna? Home Alone for me as well. Alright. Good and easy. Good and easy.
Good and easy. Would you rather this or that? Holy shibbole. The show is done. Holy moly.
Yeah. Can you believe that? I can't believe it. I bet there are people that are like, oh. Final.
I can believe it. I can believe it. That's gonna do it for us. We do have the podcast. So if you missed any part of the show today, you can go back and, listen.
You can revisit parts you liked or whatever if you want. You can, show it to friends and family over the holidays. You can go, listen to these 2. You know what would be fun? Let's gather around the radio and listen to Josh and Chantel.
Come on, kids. Everybody gather around. Gather around. Yeah. Come on.
I don't think anybody's gonna do that. No. But you could if you want. You could. Absolutely.
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