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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Wednesday, July 1st, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
Josh and Chantel kick off July with hot dogs and ice cream, celebrate a brave 3-year-old who saved his great-grandmother's life, debate booking a stay at the "world's most dangerous hotel", the bizarre world of celebrity super fans paying big money to be buried near the stars, reminisce about lost childhood treasures, hash out their Fourth of July parade plans, a CPAP mask marital spat, a nostalgic "would you rather", the latest Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce secret wedding conspiracy theory, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Josh was on time
(3:16) - Hot dog month
(8:22) - Good News
(10:32) - 16 seconds to Top Gun
(15:07) - Frying Pan Tower
(21:01) - Celebrity burial plots
(25:57) - Longing for old toys
(30:23) - Do we go to the parade?
(35:45) - Josh's deep sigh
(39:32) - Snoring was too much
(44:59) - Never got to do it as a kid
(48:45) - Would You Rather
(51:21) - Taylor Swift wedding theory
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Full show transcript:
As long as I've known you,
um, you have been a you're not a morning person. You're just not. You it's not easy for you to wake up.
I'm not a five o'clock in the morning person. I'm a 7 o'clock AM guy. Especially in the summer.
Lately you have been in the last maybe 10 years or so.
Yeah, I like 7 a.m.
But you haven't always been a 7 a.m. person either. Um you had a you were going fishing with a friend on Saturday. Yeah. you were leaving it six That's right.
I had to be at the the rendezvous point at six.
am I Because this has happened in the past where you've missed or you've been late to stuff. And so I the night before almost thought about saying, Do you need me to set an alarm to have a lot of
time? I got my alarm set, mom. Thank you, mom.
You did get yourself up and moving on time.
Yeah, I was early. I arrived at the rendezvous point about 10 to 15 minutes before I was supposed to be there. I got up, I got myself moving, I made my coffee, I got my gear loaded, I got out the door and to the rendezvous point, and I was like 12 minutes ahead of schedule. And then I sat in the parking lot going, I could be at home for a little while longer. I could have had the breakfast. I have plenty of time. You were just excited about fishing.
I was very excited about fishing, but I also was more anxious about holding other people up. Yeah. Because I don't want to be known as the late guy. So I uh do like working hard. No, not in this circle. No. In this circle, I'm very on time. I am very I am on time uh for fishing appointments and obligations.
This guy doesn't know you in other aspects of your life.
Nope, but in this circle, I am uh punctual. That's the word yep. I'm gonna have to have a chat with him.
I'm gonna have to have some of our other friends say why are you so important that you get Josh early? congratulations Uh congratulations, dear. Thanks. Good job. You know, I'm proud of you. Thanks.
Uh here's the thing. I thought it was gonna take me longer to get to the rendezvous point than it did. And so that's partly why I showed up so early. Was it was a lot closer than I like I left the house going like I gotta be, I gotta be on time. I gotta show up on time, I gotta be there.
So I got everything loaded up. I kissed your forehead and I went, I'm out, and you were like, I'm going back to sleep. Oh, yeah. And then I drove to uh the rendezvous point, which ended up being about four minutes from the house. And I went, well, that did not take that long at all.
What am I supposed to do now?
And so I waited, and then uh they actually showed up about three minutes late. So I am not my fault. I was on time. Congrats, dear. Thank you. Let's start today's show. Let's get to it. And just like that, it's July.
Just like that. Oh man. Yep. I gotta redo my calendar. Yeah.
Because it's a it's outdated. So I'll be working on that this morning or at some point today.
Working on that. Does it take you a while to do your calendar?
I gotta wipe off all the dry erase from the existing one. And then I've gotta write July, and then I've gotta put in all 31 days. That takes a little bit of time. I know. And then I've gotta put things on the calendar.
I know, Josh, because I do the calendar at home. Yes. doesn't It doesn't take that long,
but I'm gonna I'm gonna take my time with it.
You make it look so nice.
I mean, it just looks like a normal calendar with some writing on it. It's nothing real crazy going on there.
July, dude. Yeah, I know. Or in July.
So 4th of July coming up in just a little bit. We know that. Our anniversary is coming up this month. Yes. We've got plans for that. Yes. Uh, which is exciting. Yes. Uh what else is happening in July? In July. Those are the two big things I know of.
I think those are the two big things that I also know of. Yeah. Yeah, that's about it. Okay. Well, all right. Well, hopefully, we've got some outside time in there camping.
Yeah, can we can we book some weekends? Yeah. Can we can we look at them and actually like make some plans to go? Oh, yeah. Some places. Yeah, yeah. Okay. I'm game, buddy. Me too, dude. gotta get Gotta get that going. Uh what is this month? Do you know anything about this month? Is it like a hot dog month or something?
I feel like July is a hot dog month.
What are you talking about? This month. Yeah. Oh, I know what you're saying. Like it's hot dog month. International Women's Month. Or right I don't know. Hot dog? No. No? No.
It's gotta be something here. Let's look. July. Well, this is the whole, this are these are the days. Today is blink 182 day. I don't know why, but that is a thing. Postal workers' day. Yeah, yeah. Oh, postal workers. These are all day, day day. Where's the where's the months? I don't know, Josh. Month-long holidays. Ice cream month. There we go. July is ice cream. Yes.
Now that I can get into.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Uh it is anti-boredom month. Yeah. What? Anti-boredom month. Boredom. Yes. Okay. I just didn't know what you said. Independent retailer month. Come on now, small shops. This is your month. It's national picnic month. Oh. All of those make a lot of sense.
No hot dog day. No hot dog month. When is hot dog month? It's not. It's not a thing.
July is national hot dog month. Yep. It's a month long celebration of America's favorite summer comfort food, the hot dog.
Listen to you. You're so proud of yourself.
I knew July felt like it'd be hot dog month.
I don't think we need a month to celebrate hot dog.
All month long. You can celebrate with a hot dog DIY bar. No, I'm okay. You know, those exist at every gas station. Hot dog bars? Yeah. Yeah. And the hot dog rollers. Just keep them going. Get yourself a hot dog. Every day this month have a hot dog. It's hot dog month. What what do you think your body would do if you had a hot dog every day for a month?
Your cholesterol would be through the roof. I know what mine would do. Yeah. What do you think yours would do? Everybody's would. It would not react well. Your body should not handle that many hot dogs.
Only a few triglycerides in each one. Yeah, don't. Don't do it. A little bit of sodium in there.
Listen to Josh's advice. Don't do it.
Celebrate National Hot Dog Month appropriately. Have ice cream every day. Oh, okay. Right, right, right. Because it's ice cream month as well. Dip your hot dog in your ice cream. You're so gross. You drip fries and frosties. That's the same.
It's not even close to the same. Feels the same.
What would you get if you had ice cream and a hot dog dipped together every day? What would your body do? It would hate me. Cholesterol and diabetes. Yeah. How many days in? Two weeks? Half the month? You're like, nah, I don't feel right.
You'd feel right after two days. You'd be like, something's up. I can't figure out what's going on. Thumbs up. What have I done? Well, welcome to July.
All right, I got you some good news. This is a cool little story. Uh this is about a three-year-old boy who is now being called a hero. Let me tell you this story. His name is Bridger Peabody. That's a great name.
I'm Bridger Peabody. He's three years old. He was alone with his 77-year-old great-grandmother. Uh she was outside and she fell. She hit her head on a concrete step and couldn't get up. Uh and she didn't have her phone nearby, and so she wanted Bridger to get it. It was out in her car. And uh and so she yelled for Bridger, and uh it was dark outside, and Bridger happens to be afraid of the dark.
Oh no. And he's three, and so he was super, super, super scared. So uh in the uh security camera footage uh that is outside the house. It shows him giving himself a pep talk. He says, Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, don't be afraid. And he walked to the car, grabbed the phone, brought it back. That allowed his great grandmother to call 911. She was taken to the hospital.
She got 22 staples in her head, and she's recovering at home, thanks in a large part to Bridget. Bridger and Paw Patrol, who taught him don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. And he did the job. Bridger. Well done, buddy. Yeah.
Oh, that's awesome. You were so brave.
Good job. He said that uh he was inspired by the rescue characters from his favorite show, Paw Patrol. He said, I gotta do the rescue.
Yeah, I gotta do it. Bridger, today you were superhero today, Bridger. Isn't that great?
that's Oh, that's cool. Bridger Peabody.
I'm sorry, don't you mean Mr. Bridge?
Mr. Bridger Peabody. Yeah. He's a big show needs to write in a bridger character. Bridge your peabody. That's a great name. Anyway, that is good news.
I was getting ready for bed the other day, and I was trying to figure out what to put on the TV. And you were in the kitchen. Yeah. And I saw a show and I went, hmm, this will be a funny experiment. So I turned it on and I said, I'm gonna count and see how long it takes for Josh to come in after he hears this music. Music loads up. You want to know how long it took for you to come into the bedroom? Go ahead. Sixteen seconds. That's pretty quick. It took sixteen seconds.
I didn't arrive in the bedroom because of the music. It was bedtime. I was headed that way anyway.
No, but I think that put a little pep in your step.
Plus, I think we were waiting to watch a different show. We weren't when I think I was working on making that happen. You weren't. You were just like doing something else.
No, you're just on your phone in the kitchen. You weren't doing anything. It was bedtime. You just heard the top gun theme, and you're like, oh, I gotta go.
Well, you can't turn on top gun and not expect me to show up.
I mean sixteen seconds is all it took. Is that is that fast? That's pretty quick. And it was like the second one.
It's the maverick, yeah. It's top gun maverick. Mm-hmm. but it But it still has that same epic opening. Yeah. Do it. Do what? The opening. That's just the it's the same uh music that I want to hear every time I'm pulling into a car wash. I want to, I want to set that music up.
Maybe that could be your get up and go music. It could be. Like your yeah have it play on your phone every morning instead of alarm. It's like you're I could make that happen. I know you could. Like, okay, we go. We gotta get on the flight soon. You would hate that. Of course I would hate that.
What's your wake up get 'em and go. Hmm. don't I don't know. I don't know.
I'd have to do some thinking about it. Yeah. Silence. Just silence.
That's what we have now.
No, and we do not have silence. We have a dog who's like, hey, I gotta go outside. Right. And we do not have silence. Silence. I want nobody. I want nobody to bug me. I want like a full hour of just silence. That's asking a lot. I know it is.
You're gonna have to wake up at four. And then you can have that. Because the dog will still be sleeping. The dog will bug you.
It's the dog will still wake up. There used to be a time when I would wake up before everybody else, and it was glorious. Yeah. I would make a cup of tea, maybe a couple bites of toast. yeah
Maybe right Quiet House. It was awesome. When was this? Years and years and years and years ago. Right. How long ago? How long ago? I just said years and years and years.
I'm just I'm trying to put into uh my mind a frame of life of our children. Five.
It was about five years ago. Just five years ago? That's the earliest, yeah. But I've done it when they were little too.
I was I was imagining them being little and you were waking up and I wasn't working mornings and you weren't working mornings. We didn't have to be to work till like maybe nine or something. That's kind of what I had in my head. And you were like, ah, the kids have to be at school around eight something. No, but it's a good one. If you woke up at like, yeah, and if it was summer, they would sleep in. Right.
Glorious.
Glory. That's your wake-up song. It's just silence. Silence. What woke you up in the first place, though? Alarms. Yeah. So you want something nice instead of an alarm. Yeah, I know, but like uh the sound of a magpie, for example.
You're the top gun music isn't your alarm. It's just your I'm awake and now I'm I gotta get energized. It's your energizing song.
But you said I was gonna use it as my alarm clock.
No, like you're just gonna put it on your alarm clock phone or whatever. It's just gonna be set somehow, some way, so that when you're awake, it's like get up and go, buddy. Yeah. Okay. That's all it is. I see. It's not your alarm. It's your let's get pumped. Let's get pumped. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. all right All right. You know, you know how you do.
And you're get pumped is silence. Okay. Yes. Got it. Checks out, I guess. Okay, picture this.
You're 35 miles off the North Carolina coast. Okay. You and 11 of your friends. Atlantic. Yeah. You and 11 of your friends are in the middle of the ocean, shark-filled waters, right in the middle of hurricane territory. What are we doing? You're lifted 80 feet into the air onto a platform. And once you're on the platform, you're stuck until a boat or a helicopter comes back to get you. Okay.
This sounds like a Mr. Beast challenge.
You have to sleep there on this tower. Okay. In this hotel.
There's how many. Hold on. Whoa, whoa, whoa. How many people?
You and 11 people.
So 12 of them. 12 people. How big's the platform? Um. Like is it as big as a house, or is it like as big as uh as big as this room? Is it as big as this building?
I mean, it's like a house. It's as big as a house. Okay. It has eight bedrooms. Okay. So hot showers. Wi-Fi. There's a full kitchen. You can even go fishing and snorkeling.
How high is it off the off the ocean? 35 miles. No, I'm sorry. It's 35 miles from shore. Yes. How how tall is it? 80 feet. It's 80 feet. How are you getting down and up to go fish in it? Snorkle and stuff. Okay, anyway. All right. It's pretty tall.
You uh can stay there for three nights and it starts about $600 per person. Oh, this is a thing. Oh, this is absolutely a thing.
I thought you I thought you were saying this was some kind of like challenge because you were like, you got you and 11 other people and you've got a few.
I mean, it kind of is a challenge. You're like smack dab in the middle of the ocean. And you don't get to leave until somebody comes to get you. I don't know how you get down to go fishing or snorkeling. Okay.
There's got to be a ladder of some kind. But even just getting down, like you can't leave. You're stuck there. Yeah, I'm looking at this thing. It's called frying pan tower. Oh, okay.
Well, it's pretty decent. It's pretty good. Yeah, there's a ladder. It looks like an old oil rig. Uh is what it looks like. Looks like they turned an old oil rig. They took all the like the big tower of that thing off. And
so it's just this kind of old sort of 70s-ish, 80s-ish looking building with like a flight tower for helicopters to land or something, uh, kind of out there. I kind of want to. How do you get there? You have to get there by boat. They don't fly out, huh?
I don't think they fly out. There's nowhere for it to land. We'll land on the roof. On the roof. Yeah, there's plenty of space. Yeah. I don't think it's about the space. It's about the weight capacity.
Oh, I'm sure it's fine. They build uh helicopters land on top of buildings all the time. Yeah, because they've been already. Yeah, this one probably is built. Okay.
Frying pan tower. Which is interesting. Stay there. Uh I'm looking at the actual website for it. Like, I'm not huge on the ocean.
Like in the middle of the ocean, too. Yeah. Yeah. It's a decommissioned steel light station. Whatever that means. Duh. Oh, okay. You don't know. No. interesting Ah, interesting.
I don't know how you how you stay there. There's a big sign that says frying pan. Yeah.
They call it the world's most dangerous hotel. It's a three to four hour boat ride. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, they can land helicopters on the roof, by the way.
How did they get everything out of here?
It has a helipad on the top.
Is what I would like to know. They have a pool table. You can I know, but then how do they hoist it into the house? Like how did you get a pool table? You can hit biodegradable golf balls made of fish food off the deck. Doesn't that sound fun? Kinda. I kind of want to do that.
I mean, I could I can go get out golf balls and smack them at anything, but not from 80 feet above the water.
No, that sounds super duper fun. Yeah, it's like top golf. And it's biodegradable. So it's like feeds the fish. Fish friendly. Fish friendly. I kind of want to go. Do you want to go? I don't know.
It's expensive. You said it's like 600 person.
Yeah, but that's not nothing big. If we get That's nothing big. Okay, it can it can hold 12 people. There's eight bedrooms. Okay, six hundred times twelve. That's only seventy two hundred dollars. Only. Like you got that laying around. Oh, don't you? No. Let me tell you a secret. I do. No, you don't. I don't.
I There are there are like other places I'd rather go before this place. Like where? Uh somewhere tropical.
Okay. That sounds better.
But I mean, I would go stay in like a tropical rainforest tree house if you want to get up off the ground or something.
I'm kind of looking at some pictures of inside this place. It doesn't look that great once you're inside. Like it's not necessarily a comfortable looking space. And oh you're right in the middle of hurricane territory, so you're gonna get if you're if you stay there during hurricane season, you're gonna get smashed. I know. I don't want to go there. I changed my mind.
I found a tree house hotel in Costa Rica. Let's do that instead. That sounds awesome. I know it does. Okay, I'll rather do that. That's what I'm saying.
Is there a celebrity that you love so much that's currently deceased that you would spend a lot of money just to be buried next to them? No. I know, I can't think of anyone that I'd be like, yeah, I gotta be.
listen I gotta I gotta have my final resting place next to them.
Let's say there's someone alive right now who I'm a big fan of. Okay. First of all, it's gonna be weird if I'm like, wherever you go, I go. Like that's stalker weird.
Yeah, and they don't even know who you are.
Right. And I don't know them in life. So just because I'm a fan, like that's a strange thing. Yeah. Like I'm not gonna be like, I want to be buried next to Christina Ricci. Like that's that's weird. That's super strange.
That's really weird. Like that is some weird behavior. Don't do that. No. Also, how would you feel about that? Yeah, I'd be like it was his last wish.
Honestly, though, I'd be like, oh, okay. I mean you do you. How would I ever know? But also, she's gonna be like, I know. Hey.
That's strange. Uh so no, that's so it's weird behavior. Now, if I was to be buried somewhere and then come to find out it was next to a famous person, that would be one thing. But to try to plan it and be like, I will be buried there. There's the that's weird.
This is what's happening. There you have these celebrity super fans, and they're spending serious money to be buried next to the people that they love. One Marilyn Monroe fan paid 195 for a cryptography.
195 dollars.
Oh, sorry, 195,000. I'm like, it was 200.
And you're like, listen to this. This guy's crazy. He spent 200. Serious money. He spent almost 200,000 to buy a plot. Uh near. Right.
And who knows? I don't know how near it is, but it's probably not even that. No way. There was a Judy Garland fan that spent more than $50,000 on an urn next to her. Uh he's not currently dead yet, but he filled like his urn, it's an urn niche. So it's like the little cutout thing where you can put an urn. You know what I'm talking about? But he in the meantime has filled it with like messages to Judy Garland. She's dead. Bro. if you If you want to be buried near Miles Davis or Duke Ellington, I do because you love Jams. Yeah, like Jams. Those
are over $70,000. That's bizarro. It's kind of strange, isn't it? Yeah. I just want, I just want to be buried so I grow into a tree. Have you seen those things? I love those.
Tree pods or whatever they call them. Yeah. Yeah. Those are cool. I like those.
I don't need to be buried next to a celebrity. And I can't even think of anybody that I'd want to be buried next to.
What if they're really Who would you not want to be buried next to?
Miles Davis and Duke Ellington. What?
You don't like jam.
Mostly the saxophone. Oh.
What am I? I'm gonna surround you with saxophone music.
What's the whole thing? All day, every day. This is supposed to be a rustic place, and I can't stop hearing the saxophone. Yeah. Who would you not want to be buried next to? Uh I don't know.
I don't really I mean, it's weird. I don't know. It's weird to think about. Who's a celebrity I don't like?
Any of the Kardashians. Yeah, why?
oh I was Somewhere I want, you know, something peaceful. I don't want to be in like a high traffic, like Beverly Hills type place.
Something peaceful. Charlie Chaplin. The greatest silent actor alive. You'll have so much peace.
You'll have peace and quiet no matter what. Just I just don't want to be in a high traffic area. I don't want to be where like where a lot of people are gonna come visit a grave site.
I don't want to be maybe that's why these people are doing it. Like they know that Marilyn Monroe is gonna get so much traffic.
And they're gonna say, Oh, and who's this person next to them? No, no one cares.
I bet they were best friends. Yeah.
200,000 best friends. Holy moly. Yeah, nah, that's a weird, that's a weird behavior. I don't care for that. That's strange. Okay, don't do it then. I will not. Okay.
Do you have a possession that you loved and then got rid of, and now you think about it sometimes, and you're like, ma'am, I wish I wish I still had that.
I'm trying to think if there's anything like I I there are times I wish I had some of my childhood stuff. Like I wish I had my pog's collection. Um I had uh a whole bunch of like model kits, uh like cars and stuff. Yeah.
Um, I had some uh some books, like some comic books. I had like Calvin and Hobbes books and stuff that I really liked. And uh so there's there's some of that stuff that I just it's been misplaced. I don't know where it ever ended up. Um that's the stuff where I go, eh, uh that would be cool, but I don't know where I don't know where that stuff is. So
uh at one point we had uh an original Nintendo, we had a Super Nintendo, we had an old Atari, like that stuff would be cool to have kicking around. I don't know where any of that ended up. So there's some stuff like that. I go, I just like but as far as like adult things, like are there things that I've been like, I should have kept that. I don't know, not necessarily.
There's two things that I can think of. One is a dollhouse that my uncle made me one year.
I know that about that, yeah. I wish I still had that. That was awesome.
I missed that dollhouse. Second thing, I had a Steve Irwin doll. Oh, yeah.
I've heard stories about the Steve Irwin doll.
Straight from the 90s. This was from the 90s, and he had a pull string that when you pulled it, he would say, cracky. Is that right? Yeah, and he said, There's a couple of other sayings that he had, and he had a hat, and I think I lost the hat, but I still had him. And I he I think I got it for Christmas one year as like a as a joke. But you loved him. But
I love I thought the crocodile hunter was so funny. And he came with me to college and he hung out with me in college at my dorm in my apartment. Didn't you make movies with him? Yeah. Okay. my good That's good. My roommate and I made a couple of different movies with him.
Did he have uh did he have uh like a weird cartoon head? Like I just did poling Steve Irwin doll, is what I Googled here, and I'm looking at some images, and I'm just curious which one it might have been. Because there's several of these on uh on eBay. You could replace him.
I could, but it's not the original. I don't know why I got rid of him. I'm sad about that every day. Every day I go.
Well, that's why I'm saying you could probably replace him, and it wouldn't be too much.
It was the no, it wasn't the cartoon one. It was like it just looked like him.
Well, I these all look like him.
Well, I'm gonna have to show you.
But did he have this like like surprised looking face, or did he have like a normal looking head?
It was a normal looking head. Yeah, it's it was this one.
I can't see your screen. But you found the one. Yeah, yeah. It's only sixty dollars. That's what I only. There's gotta be more than just that one for sale. Anyway. Talking Steve doll. That's a squeeze one, not a pull string.
Maybe it was a yeah, maybe it wasn't a pull string, maybe it was like a button. I can't remember. It regardless. He talked.
And it was a talking Steve Irwin doll. Yeah. It was cool.
I think I I don't know what happened to him. I don't know why I got rid of him. I don't know. I don't either. But every day, every day I think about him and go, where are you, Steve?
Well, he's doing things. I this is chaos. They're mowing the lawn outside right now, and it's like shaking the building. Absolutely ridiculous. Holy smokes. Let that happen.
Not trying to run a radio program or anything.
It's not like you know, doing a thing that involves audio. Like, yeah, we gotta mow. It's 8 30. Gotta get it Got other places to be after this. Good grief. All right. Anyway. We'll find your doll. We'll replace it. You can have your Steve Irwin. They still have them available.
But it's not. No, it has to be mine. It will be the original. It's got to be the original. It's fine. It's fine. So for the past couple of years, we have not gone to the Fourth of July parade. Are you giving away our secret? I am not giving away our secret because I won't be. I don't want people to get the odd idea.
because we've noticed We've noticed that our idea is becoming more popular. It is. But that's fine. Well, there's just so many people in the town. And a lot of people come to town. And
so I think there's a lot of people that are like, yeah, we're in town. Let's do that instead. And I think that's what's happened. Uh
is that the popularity of what we have tried to do instead of going to the parade has become the thing. Now, I will say I wouldn't mind doing that on our own at home. That sounds fine. So there's that. But anyway, go ahead.
Um, so you, because you've been in radio so long, you've always uh often had to be in the parade. Oh, yeah. And when the kids were little, it was fun to go to the parade. And then as they got bigger, and then different radio groups that you worked with, it was like, oh, we're not doing the parade. And so over the last, I don't know, what would you say? Five, six years.
Well, uh, I've been here for five years. Uh and we and we haven't done the parade here. Um so we've been freed up on Fourth of July morning, but then we're at Riverfest like all day.
But we haven't done the parade and like we haven't gone to watch the parade. True in about five or six years. Yeah. Um our kids have been in it a couple of different times. Sure. What?
I was just gonna say, we're gonna be at Riverfest like all day on Saturday on the fourth of July. Uh huh. And so if you you know, bump into us, like say hi. We'll we'll take pictures with you and stuff if you if you see us. You know, I'm just saying, like, if you don't, if you wanted to, you were hoping like, oh, I hope they're in the parade or something. I don't want you to feel like you're missing out. We'll be at Riverfest.
We're accessible. I want to say hi, but I don't want a picture with you.
That's fine. You don't have to. You can just say hi. I was just saying that like if you if you were hoping to to bump into us or something, we'll be at Riverfest all day. I
didn't want to like when I say like we're not in the parade, I didn't want people to be like, well, I'm not going to the parade then. you know You know? Yeah. Because that's a big staple. It's a big deal when you get to see people that you that you know and you get to wave at them and stuff. I always like that part of a parade when you go, I know that person. Yeah. Wave, right? And you try to get their attention. Yeah, and you go over here. Look over here. Yeah, and then you're yelling names.
Because you feel like the most popular person in the world.
You know what I'm saying? Yeah, you're like, I know them, and they're in the parade.
I know somebody in the parade.
So I'm just saying, if you're feeling like
Well, this year we do know somebody in the parade. I know. And so we're trying to decide if we're gonna go or not.
I mean, we should, maybe, right? Should we?
It's just where do you even go? I don't even know where to go. We used to have a spot, and now we don't
even have a good still have that spot.
I don't know. We haven't gone in so long. I don't even know what the rules are anymore. I don't know what time you need to go to set up. I don't know what time we can do.
I heard the big deal is to go. We should have our chairs set up now. People like to do that. We should go set up our blanket and chairs and put out a little line right now. Let's go, let's go do that. People will talk about us on the internet if we do it. Let's go set up our stuff now.
Yeah, I think it'll be okay.
No one will move in.
No one will kick it over. Nope. It'll be fine. Nope. And especially if it's in front of somebody's house. I like that the most.
I really like to put my stuff down in someone's front lawn today on the first, so I secure my spot so that come Saturday I know exactly where I'm gonna be because I claimed it. I'm a prospector out here claiming land. I
planted my flag and I am gonna sit here on the 4th of July. Yeah, that's I gotta go get that done today. I'll get that done after the show. I'll go pick our spot. We'll have a spot. Okay. I'm gonna claim it today. Are we parading or are we not parade? I
don't know. I think we should. We should support the people we know in the parade. Now we don't have to stay the whole time. We
could see the float go by and go, ah. That's the other part. If you're closer to the beginning, you get to leave sooner. Fair.
If you're toward the end of the Fourth of July parade, then you gotta wait for it to get down there. But you don't have to hand you have to wait for all, you know, 200 floats together.
Yeah, but everybody's I don't know. It's been so long since I've been at the parade, I don't even know how it operates anymore. I just don't know. Do you want to be in it? No. You don't? No. No. Nope. Not even toward the front. Do you want to walk it?
Or do you want to ride in like a cool FARS car? I don't want to be in it. I'm good. We could get it in a Farz car, I bet. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm good. Yeah? Yeah.
Let's, you know what we could do? We could get with the Shriners and bring back the little go karts. really I really like those. Those are fun. Yeah. Okay. To be determined. Still.
If we're gonna go, yeah, you guys go. I'll just hang back and sleep in. What about all right to be determined?
All right. All right.
One of my favorite things about you is that when somebody asks you to explain something that you know a lot about, you don't ever make people feel dumb for asking questions.
Okay, well, that's nice and to say.
And you explain things in a way that doesn't make people feel dumb. Okay. I've seen it with me when I ask, and I often go, I have a dumb question. And you go, no question is dumb. Right. And
then you explain it in a way that makes sense without making me feel dumb. And you always have done that. And you have done that with our kids, and you do that with other people. And that's nice. It's
a nice character trait. Now, I asked you something. I can't even remember what it was, but I said, Hey, can you explain this thing to me that I don't understand? And
you did this. am I That was the first time ever since I've known you that I went, oh never mind. What was it? I don't I don't even remember. I don't remember.
Was the sigh warranted? Was I in the middle of something else? Was it like, why did I sigh?
I don't know. I think you were actually in the middle of something, but I so I don't think it was like a personal attack against me. But it was the first time that I ever went, oh sorry I asked.
was it Was it a technology technologia thing? You know what?
It probably I I really am racking my brain to try and figure out what it was. Yeah. I'm sure it was. And it probably more than likely was something that I've asked you to do before. Like something that I've asked you to explain to me before. And you've probably explained it like three or four times already. Like
how the speed of light works and stuff. No. No, no. It was probably more like I can't get this, I can't get the TV to work or something. And you went. And I went, oh no, I'm sorry I asked.
I'm sure it's not you. Oh, I don't think it was. positive it's just that I'm like I'm tasked out for the day No, I know. And then you're gonna go, oh hey, here's a here's a technology thing. And I'm like, come on. It couldn't be something like I can't open this jar.
We were the other night sitting on the deck, and our daughter came out. She has a little toolbox and she sticks her little hair things in there and it got wedged in there. What I like about her is she never straight up asks if you can fix it.
No, she walks out with it in her hand.
And she'll just kind of fiddle with it in front of you until you grab it. And she does that all the time. She's like, I just can't get this to open. Fiddle fiddle.
Next time I'm gonna say, well, go mess with it somewhere else. I'm not I'm not helping. I'm not fixing this one. You gotta figure it out. But you didn't. You took it. Yeah.
But you kind of with her, even were like, let me see it.
but then She goes, but then she sits there on the uh on the deck with us and she's like, see, this is why I bring stuff to dad to fix. Yeah. Yeah.
Because you fix it. You're the fixer in the family. She
put too many uh hair clips in there. Yeah. Is what happened. And then the drawer, one drawer wouldn't shut, and one drawer couldn't open, and they were all jammed in there. Chaos, maybe it was chaos. All right. Well, I'm gonna practice the big size. I'm gonna do more of those, I think. I like them. No. you Here we go.
You forgot to put on your CPAP mask last night.
Well, I it was so hot, and I didn't want to be under the blankets, and you were like, I'm cold, and I couldn't get comfortable. So I ended up spinning around. I had my head at the foot of the bed for a while because I just couldn't get comfortable. And I'm gonna tell you right now, terrible night's sleep. Yes, same. Horrible night sleep.
You know how a couple of nights ago I was like, oh, you didn't wear your CPAP and you're and you're like, I loved it.
You know, Yeah.
Because you had some gentle snoring, and it was a little bit comforting. Yeah. That's not what happened last night.
That snoring was not good. Terrible night's sleep. I was not good.
Loud. It was obnoxious.
It was a million degrees in the bedroom. And you were freezing. And I'm like, I'm dying. Like, I need some air moving. I gotta turn that fan on. Did you turn it on? No. Why didn't you? Because I uh didn't want to get out of bed. I was finally comfortable, but then I uh you you were shaking me about.
I know you said that I it was rough nudging you, and I really was not. There was two times I remember one I grabbed your leg and the other one I grabbed your shook it arm and shook it. I did not I did a light squeeze and I said, Hey Josh. Yeah, hey Josh.
Look, I have the solution, and it was all prepped and ready to go. I just I had fallen asleep watching the show because I had gotten comfortable and I fell asleep, and then uh at some point I turned around and put my head at the head of the bed.
Yeah, that's the first time when I said, Hey, you forgot your mask. So that's when you grab my leg.
Yeah, because it was closer to reach than my arm.
And you didn't put on your mask. And you went.
Oh, really? Oh, really? And that's when you showed me.
Because my sleep is now interrupted. Right. And that makes me real cranky.
And that's when you usually go, put on your mask.
I but I was nice. I really was because you said that I haven't been so nice. So I was trying very hard. And I grabbed your hand and I said, Hey Josh, you need to put on your mask. Oh, you talked to me? Yes. I didn't hear any of that. I said, I think the first time I said, You need your mask. Second time, after you moved, I said, Hey, you're snoring.
I didn't hear you saying the words. All right. don't I said, I said yeah I Yeah, yeah. I I imagine I did. You did. yeah and Yeah.
And then you said, back to sleep. Yeah. And I went, I'm gonna go put that mask on myself. Oh, you should.
Do you think you could you've seen it on me enough you could figure it out? No. No. You should try. I will.
Most of the time I fall asleep before you, so you put it on after I've already fallen asleep. Right. So I have no idea. I've seen you in the morning when I wake up before you and I see you wearing it.
Looking like flight control.
It's a thing of beauty. I know. I know. I know what you like. you like You're like a silent night and
a guy in a CPAP mask when you wake up. It's it's pretty uh pretty romantic. I know. will I will do better.
I need to wear it tonight. I know you've like not done it the last couple of nights.
Well, because I fell asleep all weird.
The thing that made me so mad last night was that I said, hey, you need to put on your mask.
And then you won't reach when I get down. No, listen to me. You moved.
And you still didn't put it on. And I went, now I'm so annoyed. You have one job at night.
That is not true. I have six jobs, and they are on my schedule, not yours, and they annoy you. I have to drink my water. I have to take my night pills because I'm an old man. I
have to put in my distilled water. I have to turn off my lamp. I have to put on my mask. These are all things I have to do. And you're like, you couldn't do this before I was trying to fall asleep. Because you whatever. We're not getting into this.
You wait until the last minute to get those things started. Right. And I'm already like settled in. Yeah. My eyes are heavy.
And then you go, I'm not asking you to do any of it.
It doesn't matter. You are not quiet. And then your lamp is still on.
This is why I get shaken in the night. You take it out on me. You go, ooh, no, I'm gonna shake you.
I was nice last night. I promise. There have been times I haven't been so nice, I'll admit there I know that I've nudged and kicked, maybe. Uh-huh. But last night I was like, I'm gonna be nice because he thinks I'm always mean. That didn't work. So guess what? What? Going back to Yeah, back to rude. I'm abused in my sleep.
Who do I report that to? I don't know. Go call your mom. Wow.
What was something that you wanted to do as a kid, but you never got the opportunity to.
You are having a nostalgia today. Kinda. Uh, I don't know what's on your list.
Well, initially I thought like playing the piano because like everyone I knew had a piano in their house, but our house was just too small to have a piano, and so I always wanted to learn how to play the piano. Now I have a piano. Yeah.
What's holding you back? It's hard. Okay. Okay, but then the other thing I thought of was I never learned how to water ski, and I always wanted to do that. Really? Mm-hmm.
I wake boarded and I was okay at that. Because it's not too dissimilar to snowboarding. So it was no big deal. It was okay.
There was like people, friends that I had and and people that I knew through church and stuff. Everybody had a boat. Everybody knew how to water ski, but again, we never had a boat. I
never had the opportunity to learn. But man, oh man. What if I was so good at water skiing? You might be. I know I might be. Not now. Why? Because. Because why? What's holding you back? I don't know anybody with the.
you know I know somebody with a boat. With a water skiing boat. Yeah. You can water ski behind whatever can pull you. It just has to have enough uh propulsion to get you standing up. That's it.
But if I was so good at water skiing.
I know. What if you were like doing jumps and pyramids and I know like all the crazy water ski stuff? What if you were one of the barefoot water skiers?
Oh man. Or a one-legged one. A one-legged one. Yeah. Yeah, like could raise one leg. No way.
I thought I thought you were gonna chop a leg off. Like, what if I was a one-legged water skier? Well, what if? prefer I prefer you to be a two-legged one, but you know. If you were doing tricks and stuff, that'd be cool.
I just I we were talking, we were having this conversation over the weekend, you and I about how like you kind of as a kid grow up with the hobby that your parents do. So, like if you're if you're big into hunting, your kids are probably gonna be big into hunting. Because that's what they're born into. Makes sense. It's too bad I wasn't born into a water skiing family.
What hobbies do your parents do? Because now I'm trying to bowling. Okay, but your mom. Your dad was not big in bowling. No. So what's your dad's hobby? What's my dad's hobby? I know. What? Making lists. And you took on that hobby, didn't you? Big time. You're a big list lady. Yeah. That's what your dad would do. Make lists. Yep. So you got that going.
Bowling and list making. That's what I grew up in. I just wanted to be in a piano water skier. Piano playing and water skiing.
What about combining them? Whoa, Guinness Book of World Records. Here you come. No, it's too late.
No, it's not. It's never too late. Water skiing pianist. Look at you. Man, oh man. Never seen that before.
I know it would be so awesome.
Wow. Look at look at what you could be. Put it on your vision board. Let's get it done.
Okay. I'll make it tonight. Yes.
Would you rather this or that? Okay.
Just remember or just try to imagine that our kids are small again. Okay. Would you rather be in charge of bedtime for a month or homework for a month? How little? Uh, let's say our kids are five years apart. So let's say they are two and seven. I'll do homework. Oh. That's fine. I'll do bedtime.
Badtime's great, but uh I feel like that's the arrangement we had. I think that is the arrangement. Because I mean, not that homework was super prevalent at seven.
Seven, but yeah, that's fine. Okay. I'll do I'll be in charge of bedtime. I like to be.
You imagine two-year-olds and seven-year-olds. Like, now we have 21 and 16. Like, that is 14 years ago.
I know it. Don't you?
We didn't even live in the house that we're in 14 years ago. Like it was well, actually, we did. That's when we moved in. Emory was two and Beck was seven. Yep. So that's right when we moved into our house. That's a long time ago.
I know I'm sad about it. You are? Yeah, I kinda wanna go back to bedtime. Didn't do it. Surprising. All right. Ready for your back. go Let's brush your teeth. Do it. Pick a story.
Listen, I'm gonna I'm gonna say this out loud. They need it. They need it. They need to put the screens away. They need help doing the hygiene. They need the they need the mom. They need the two to seven year old mom right now. It's important. All right.
I'll tell I'll get with them tonight and say, okay.
And I'll go and I'm doing homework. So let's go.
You want you want bubbles tonight? What story are we reading?
It'll be really funny when you go back. You gotta go get in the bath. I already ran it for you. The bubbles are waiting. Put all your favorite toys in there. Let's go. Get in the bath. Um sad. Why?
Because I miss my kids being little. Yeah. I here. I hate saying that because I love I've loved every age that our kids are at. Of course. And this is a super fun age that they are at right now. It's
very independent. But I certainly there are there are days where I miss just different stages in their life. I get that. Yeah. I get that. hmm I am nostalgic today.
You are quite nostalgic today. Would you rather this or that? There is a theory that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are already married. Oh. And that the entire thing this weekend at Madison Square Garden is just the reception. I wouldn't be. And public ceremony.
Interesting. I wouldn't be surprised by that. Yeah, me neither. Have you seen the they saw people saw them loading in a bunch of stuff? Yes, the garden party. Yeah. And there was two large white staircase banisters and trucks labeled garden party. Garden party. Yeah.
Which checks out. Uh that is very on theme.
Their guests were forced to sign an NDA. But they're not holding them to it. Right. I learned about that too. Yeah. Uh they also weren't asked to sign away their rights to appear on camera. So it sounds like there's not going to be streaming for a documentary film.
That's what I what I read okay I don't care that there's is or isn't. Uh here's the deal. The the theory is that they got married on June 6th. Why?
Uh well, because there's math involved, of course, because so many people do the math. And so they added up 662026, and it adds up to 2038. Oh. And two plus zero plus three plus eight equals thirteen, which is Taylor's favorite number.
Oh, of course it is. Moly. That's right. So much. Listen.
The math never lies in the Taylor world. Just the Swifties know. I can 6'6, 2026 adds up to 2038. And 2 plus 0 plus 3 plus 8 is 13. Listen to me. That's what?
Sometimes I can't even with the Swifties. I sometimes I can't.
And there were fireworks over her place. And oh, and and Travis and Jason took that week off from the podcast, which they've never taken a week off.
Oh my gosh. Yeah, I know. I know.
All the clues are there. All the signs are there. They're already married. Got married on June 6th. Okay, good. Because it equals 13. Congratulations. Yep.
And this one this weekend is just for show. I'm sure it's the garden party.
Everything they do is for show. Get out of here. Yeah.
Plus the dress she wore to the Toy Story 5 premiere had knots on it. So they've already tied the knot. The clues are all there.
I'm over it. I'm over all your hidden clues, Taylor. I think it's annoying. I said it.
huh Everything has a reason. There's there's nothing. Nothing's consequential.
But it's annoying. I'm annoyed. Now I'm annoyed. I hope you have a good wedding. Party.
Garden party. It's a garden party. gonna wrap Gonna wrap up the show for today. Have a good Wednesday. We'll see you back here tomorrow. Goodbye.
Okay, goodbye.
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