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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
It's the last day of September! We take a behind the scenes look at life at a radio station, Josh's dreaded day of soldering audio cables, a middle of the night leg cramp, morning grumpiness, the eternal challenge of finding something to talk about every single day, Jake Laser turned a robot dog into an off-road wheelchair so his dad can get back on the trails, the Fat Bear Week champion, pay tribute to Dennis Haskins, beloved Mr. Belding from Saved by the Bell, a night out seeing Gravity, weird things we believed as kids, an old college roommate encounter, which topic each could talk about for an hour with zero prep, a granola bar grievance, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Soldering day
(4:46) - Late night leg cramp
(8:30) - Good News
(10:10) - Fat bear champ
(13:52) - Worst best feelings
(18:31) - Gravity
(23:20) - Josh doesn't bring content
(30:26) - Weird kid beliefs
(37:49) - Reminders
(41:57) - 1-hour presentation
(48:27) - Granola bar
(52:22) - Please alert me
(56:32) - Would You Rather
(1:00:24) - RIP Mr. Belding
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Full show transcript:
A
lot of things go on behind the scenes in a radio station that we don't really uh talk about. And it's just because it's I mean, it's not like glamorous or anything. Uh you and I do the show every weekday from six to ten. So we're in here for like four hours, and then uh you take off and I stick around and do the rest of my job for the day.
Right. Uh for another, you know, four hours or so. Past couple of days, it feels like I've been putting in, you know, another six or seven hours after um the show, but uh it's been um uh kind of a build up to today. Today's kind of a really big day because tomorrow is an even bigger day. Uh and so there's a lot that has to be done today, and it's gonna be really hectic. One of the things that I get to do today is solder a bunch of audio cables, um, which is a skill that I picked up over my years and years and years in radio.
Um, and so I get to do that today. And I'm not exactly looking forward to it because it's it's a bit of a pain. It's a tedious uh process that is involves little tiny audio plugs and little wires and little hot thing, and you gotta melt solder onto it. It's a it's a pain.
Why do you why do you have to do that?
Uh, because I'm the one in the building who knows how to do it.
No, but why I don't understand why you have to solder them.
Uh would you rather I just twist them together and hold them with tape? No. You gotta do it. You gotta do it right. So there's little plugs that plug into the back of all of the stuff. And they have little metal pins on them.
And you take the wires and you connect the wires to the little pins with solder, and then the other end connects to something else with a pin with soldering. It's a it's a pain. That sounds terrible. It's gonna be a long day because I have to make a bunch of them. I gotta make a whole bunch of cables today. Um So it's uh it's gonna be a day for me.
Are you the only one in the building that knows how to do that?
There are two of us in the building that know how to do it, but the other guy does not feel confident in his ability, and I'm a little bit cleaner with it, and so he wants it done professionally and clean, so I get to be the guy.
This is why you just do things terribly, and then no one ever asks you to do them.
That is true because there are some bliss for blissfully ignorant people that I get to work with. Not you. It's me. No, I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about other people who have been in the industry for a lot of decades that should have picked up on some of these skills, but that don't care, and they're like, I'm not ever gonna learn that. And so don't ever ask me for help in that department. Okay. They have other gifts.
But soldering isn't theirs. So I get to do that today. Um, and I'm you know, it's one of those things, like I'll get into it, I'll get it done, and hopefully I do it right, and uh and then I can move on with my life. But it's gonna take some time. It takes a long time.
It's a tedious, time-consuming process. And so I'll be sitting behind a vice with a little plug in it, holding little wires. Do you have your glasses? I have my glasses. Okay. So I'll be wearing them. Do you have a water and snacks?
No. Oh.
I I have no beverages and I have no snacks. Oh no. I haven't even had breakfast, as you'll learn about in the show, and neither have you and you need it.
I have had breakfast at granola bar and cheese.
Which you'll find out. I did not like. But you're about to leave because we record the beginning of this show, this bonus break. We record after we've done the whole show. You're about to go have a cinnamon roll, and I think that is rude. Nope. No excuses.
You can go get your own cinnamon roll. Okay, I got soldering to do. There might not even be any cinnamon rolls left, Josh. I might be walking into no cinnamon rolls.
So But you're literally footsteps away from getting a fresh one if you want it. That's true. I have to like put in effort.
You have to put get in your car and drive. Ugh. It's the same effort. It's the same effort. It's not. It's the same effort. Same effort. It's more effort. It's the same. I want a burrito. All right. Here's today's show. Good morning. Hi. What what's going on? I don't know. Middle of the night.
I hear a bunch of noise, and my eyes open up. I've got my mask on, looking real cool. My eyes open up. And I look over, and you are like in pain. Yeah. Your leg had cramped or something in the night. Yeah. And you were like, ah. And I'm like, what is going on?
I actually forgot about it until you just reminded me this morning. But that was painful.
Well, I asked how you were feeling. You said, I'm pretty tired. And I went, Well, you had a leg cramp in the middle of the night. And then you're like, oh, yeah, I did it. I did.
I How you would have forgot. It seemed like you were kind of in agony. I was. What was going on? Just a Charlie horse and a calf, or was it was it thigh? What happened?
No, it was a Charlie horse in my calf. In your calf. And it was awful. Was it left leg, right leg? Left. Left leg. That's typically where I have them. I gotta eat a banana. I didn't have any. It was so miserable. You know how like you get a Charlie horse and they say rub it, but you can't even touch it.
Oh, I could have punched it for him. No, you can't. I heard that helps. I think I think that helps with bruising too. I heard that helps. Yeah, push on him. Push on him. Yeah. Good idea. Yeah. Don't do that. Josh. Use your platform for good. Okay. My platform. Yes. Please. Join me on my platform. No, I woke up.
My leg, I couldn't even move it. You know how like you get those, and then you can't like no position is good. So you just have to kind of go, uh it wasn't even restless leg.
It was just a straight up cramp. Yeah. And it was strong enough that it woke you up. And you can feel it. Yeah.
Like I reached down and felt my leg and I was all locked up. Yeah, it was like tight.
So how long did you deal with that? Because I feel like I went, oh, it's she'll get it and went back to sleep. No, I don't know how long it took. Was it only a few seconds? No, it was minutes. Minutes.
Like 10. No way. Yeah.
And then you just went right back to sleep. Yeah, I think so. Well, that's nice.
And then you could you kind of forgot about that, it even happened. So Lottie Dah. Laddie Da. Well, I'm sorry you're feeling tired today.
Yeah. I'm feeling tired today just because I've been working my little brains out. So I'm a little exhausted mentally, which is kind of dragging me physically a little bit. But uh, you know. Well, nah, you'll get it figured out. La-di-da.
You'll figure it out. I'm going back to bed.
Last day of September. Here we go. Oh no. Yep. Tomorrow is October. Today's the last one. Last day of September. Bummer deal, dude. Why? Because no.
Life is just moving too fast.
Yeah, you got to get those fall decorations hung up. I know. Time's a ticking. It's gonna be snow before you know.
I know. Snow before you know. Yep. I heard the poem I wrote.
Right after I said it, I said, that was good. Yeah. Write that down. Wow. It'll be snow before you know. Good morning. What day is it? Wednesday? My dude's. Oh, only Wednesday. It's Wednesday. Only. Yeah.
Feels like it should be Friday already.
I this has been a blitz of a week. This has been one long Monday. Just nonstop Monday. I'm still on day one. It's crazy. You'll get it figured out. Lottie Dah. All right, let's get you some good news this morning. Uh, Jake Laser, cool name. Uh, is an engineer who's popular on YouTube where he's known as Jay Laser Video. Do How old? Do we know how old?
I don't know. But his dad was an avid marathon runner before uh multiple sclerosis. Uh it confined him to a manual wheelchair for the last two decades.
And Jake recently fulfilled a childhood promise to his dad. He turned a 10 or excuse me, a hundred thousand dollar industrial robot dog into a high-tech off-road wheelchair. This is all to help his dad get back into the great outdoors. So Jake reprogrammed the four-legged robot, mounted a custom illuminated racing seat on top, and equipped the motorized wheels to its feet.
The bionic leg chair glides down paved roads, steps over rocky riverbeds, climbs steep dirt hiking trails. And so now during trail runs, Jake Dad is beaming ear from ear because he is the king of the road, as he proclaims himself. And he has conquered nature trails that he hasn't been able to visit in over 20 years.
That's awesome. Because his son was like, ah, I'm gonna engineer you this really cool uh wheelchair that he can now ride. Uh and it takes him all over the place. It's really cool. Yeah. Oh. Really, really cool.
I'm looking at some video and some photos and stuff. And uh, yeah. It's uh it's pretty awesome. That is pretty awesome. Yeah. It's pretty great news. Yeah, way to go. I'd call that some good news for sure. Yesterday was the final round of voting for Fat Bear Week, and we have a Fat Bear Chunkian, not champion.
Chunk chonkian chonk chonk. Who is it? Is it the female that I wanted? It was Bear 89 backpack. No, wrong. Backpack wins. You were vo voting for Bear 109. Yeah. You logged on and voted for Bear 109. You forgot. Yes. Well, I like Bear 89 backpack won by one vote. I'm kidding. I don't know the votes. Okay.
Because the one I wanted to win was a female, and she had adopted a cub. Yeah. And you love a good story. I like a good story. And plus also she was a chunky little thing.
There were 16 bears who involuntarily participated in Fat Bear Week. Involuntary. They ate, they napped, they fished, they grew enormous. They understood the assignment. Runner up, bear 910. Uh, you know, congratulations. You got second. Who? Backpack?
No. 9'10. 9'10 got got second place. Bear 89 backpack. Heavy is the crown. You know. 29 years old.
Backpack. Uh survived a serious leg injury as a yearling. Has quiet strength, not an aggressive bear. Okay. Son of a former champion. Do you know how he got his name? No. Okay.
Yeah, he is the son of 2019. 435 Holly. Who he used to hitch rides. No kidding. As a cub, which is where this name is.
He's called backpack. Not because of the backpack he packs, but because he himself were a backpack. Yeah. Isn't that something? So there you go. Now that's pretty cute. And then what?
Does he get like something? No. No.
He gets to hibernate like every year. A lot of people uh in the comments that I'm reading on uh Facebook are pretty upset 910 didn't win. Did 910 the lady? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I liked her. Apparently, Backpack has his own website. I did not know that. Anyway. Fat Bear Week. That's right. And a family legacy, I might add.
Yeah, that's true. Way to uphold the crown, buddy. Way to go. Your mom is so proud of you. You are the Chonkian. The Chonkian.
That's right. That's the National Park Service who made that joke.
Can I be the Chonkian of the people world for Fat Human Week? No. Why? I'd like to. I would like to just snack on some snacks for a week and then hibernate for about a couple weeks. Fine. Man, oh man, why that being.
But you don't have to be the chonkian. Just make that decision. You're an adult woman. Anyway, that's uh that's the finality of Fat Bear Week has come to a close. Congratulations. Backpack. You did it. Well done. You did it. And you didn't even know it. And yeah. You were just living your life. Telling about your day. Plumping up for winter. You did it. Way to go. You're the plumpiest bear. Woot.
I had one of the worst slash best feelings in the world this morning. What is it? This morning? This morning. Early this morning. My alarms were going off, and I went, no. And then I I went, oh, I gotta get up. I gotta get up. And then I was really sad because I had to get up and I knew that it was pretty late.
And I looked at my clock and I went, ooh. It's only my second alarm. I still don't have time to sleep. Oh, so you went back to sleep. And so I did this. I even think I made this outwardly noise where I went, oh, I'm so excited. Yay. Well, good for you. Thank you. It was good for me.
I didn't hear a single alarm. No, I know you don't. Because you have the same alarm sound, and I have tuned it out years ago. You gotta change it up.
And I'll go, what is that? It works for me. Yeah. So I haven't tuned it out. I mean, you getting out of bed wakes me up. And so then I go, oh no. Not always.
No, because here's what happens. My eyes kind of open one at a time, and I go like, it's still dark. I kind of scan the room. And then I look over, and then I go, Oh, she's out of bed. It's time. That's what happens. Sometimes I've fully dressed, ready to have shoes on.
And then I go, hey, Josh. Hey, you want to wake up? Hey. Hey, Josh. Yeah. Hey. And I go, no, not today. I want it.
Uh, but no, that's usually how I wake up is I I I probably the rustling around I hear, and then I look over and you're not there, and I go, man. Fine.
I was thinking this morning. I go, because I had to take off. It was a little bit chilly last night. So I wore bed socks. So I was taking off my bed socks. This morning. Yeah. Yeah. I threw off my socks and I went, it would be nice if Josh could be the one that wakes up first. Whoa.
You're mad at me, and I don't even know because I'm sleeping. You gotta at least wake me up and be like, it'd be nice if you woke up first. What would be the difference if I woke up? Because I have sometimes. Occasionally. Yeah. But what's like I'll get up and then I go to the bathroom, I come back, and you're like, I don't want to go.
That's actually stressful. When you're up first, it stresses me out because that's when I know that we're running really late. If you're the responsible one, I'm like, it was a bad morning.
So why would you want that then? Why would you be this morning going like it'd be nice? I don't know. It's not like you have to like do anything. Like I get up. You don't even have to like talk.
Brush your own teeth.
Yeah, like what do you mean? Like it'd be nice if he got up. Well, I'm not a hindrance to you moving about in the morning at all.
I was just mad at waking up, and you were the closest target.
Yeah. You're not mad at me. I know. You're mad at the daylight.
Sometimes I'm mad at you. Okay. Did you take out the garbage? Yeah. I was mad at you for that too. Because I didn't do it. Got it taken care of. I was driving away from the house, and I went, You better get that garbage. What is going on? I was just mad and You were a close target.
Sorry. Why are you angry at me? I didn't even do anything. And I also didn't not do anything. This makes no sense. What is going on? What time is it?
Listen, people who are married get it. They know. I don't get it.
Well, I married to you.
There's a lot of women out there who are like, yeah, I get it. It makes no sense. They get it. Get controlled. I oh I'm full in control. Just don't make me mad. I didn't do anything.
But I also did not do anything. Exactly. Oh, it makes no sense. This is one of the worst, not best feelings ever.
It's fine now, Josh. I'm fine now. I'm not cranky at you anymore. I wasn't even cranky at you. You were just there, and I went, blah. I wasn't there.
You were mad in your own car. I wasn't in it.
I know. And I said, Hey better get that garbage out. It's a lot to deal with.
I'm gonna have to go think about what I've not done. No, it's fine. Or what I have done.
Don't worry about it. It's over. Time has passed. I'm good. I'm solid gold, baby. Okay. We went to a show last night. Yes. Called Gravity. Yes. And it had three actresses slash singers from West Ends. Yeah. All right.
West End uh in London, which is the Broadway of New York. Correct. Yeah.
And they had each two of them had played Alphabet. Right on West End's Wicked, and one of them had played Golinda. Golinda. And it was awesome. It was very good. My favorite part is when they played for good. Yeah.
I was seated between you and our daughter. And uh when they started talking about the song, and you both realized they were going to sing for good. Both of you were like, eyes locked. Like it's gonna happen, and you're gonna cry.
I like to sit alone in my feelings. So when I knew they were gonna play it, I went, okay, retreat into yourself. And she actually reached out and looked at me and was like, Mom, and reached out her hand, and I was like, All right, I'll hold your hand through this. And that was sweet.
I think she was trying to hold your hand. Because she knew I was gonna you
were she was gonna be my emotional support.
Daughter, yes, your emotional support daughter. So she was trying to uh reach out to you. And you you held it together. I'm sure you had some alligator too. But then at the end, you went. I did not. Yes, you did. I was sitting right next to you.
I don't think I've ever gone. You did.
I was sitting right there and you went.
I don't think I've ever done that.
I wish I would have recorded it. It happened. You didn't you didn't go like, oh like you weren't bawling, but you you sniffled. You went. No, because I'm a quiet crier. Yeah, no, I heard that in my own ears. And then I I went, oh no, she's really after it. Like she's really crying this time.
No, I wasn't really crying. There were a couple of tears, but I wasn't really crying. Oh, get over yourself. At least I cry.
You have a heartbeat of stone. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Calm down. I'm not saying your reaction was bad. I'm just making an observation about how you reacted.
I'm sorry, Josh. I'm a little bit You're on edge today.
You're upset about the garbage that I did take out. I have a little bit. on edge. You're upset that I did get out of bed on my own. As usual. I don't know how to win.
You're not losing.
Don't tell that to my feelings. I'm sitting inside by myself. I'm sorry, Josh.
I might have done a little bit of crying. Yeah. And that's okay. Sure. That's okay.
I'm getting a little frustrated by these lights in this room. Okay. I don't know what happened. Change of subject. I just, it's a really distracting. Uh we have LED strip on the ceiling so that we can light up the room and it looks real cool. And uh it's decided today to flash on and off every few seconds and it's making me cranky.
Oh, who's on edge now?
The lights are doing it. It's the lights' fault. I'm not taking it out on you. See, I'm I'm I know where to direct my anger. It's at the lights. I'm not like, man, I hope she goes over there, unplugs that.
I will. Where do you need me to unplug it? Don't worry about it. Okay. Oh, you just want to show everyone that you're the good guy.
No, I'm not showing anybody anything. I am merely stating the fact that I am too frustrated and uh I will handle it my own self. So that's all. That's all. Anyway. Anyway. It was a great show.
It's a great show.
And if you missed it, I'm sorry. Wicked.
Either the play production or the movie.
The musical on getting live and in person is incredible. You won't be disappointed. No. I didn't even know where my breath went as we were building up to intermission. And then I was just, I was gobsmacked. When you saw the live production? Yeah. Oh, yeah.
When we were sitting in the chairs on Broadway, and I was like, what just happened? Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Anyway. uh Okay. What else you got? I think it's about it. I'm gonna go fix these lights.
One of the trickiest parts about doing this job is just this job. this job. This one here. Got it. It's coming up with stuff to talk about. Yeah. Well, and here's sometimes it's a winner. Sometimes it's not.
That's true. And here's I was just gonna say, here's the hard part. What? The hard part is that we do it every day. Every day. So not only is it like, you know, we gotta talk. Like we can't just be like, what do you what's up?
What's new? Because we live together. Like I know. Uh like and not everything that we live through, not every minute of our life is worthwhile to talk about, or is is something that we want to share, or whatever. Like we select things that we share on the show when it comes to our life. Some nights are pretty low-key. Some weekends are pretty mellow. And then we we come in on Monday and go, well, we didn't really do anything. What are we gonna talk about?
Yeah. Because there's not a lot to share in in that instance. Now, sometimes we do have exciting things to talk about, and that's that's fun. Uh, but we've got all of this time, basically an hour's worth of talking through the four-hour show that we've got to fill with content. And so, yeah, it's tough sometimes to find things to talk about.
Would you would you say that I come up with 90% of the things to say?
I would say you do the the big heavy lifting on the show. Yeah.
But I'm the one that brings the idea. Yeah.
Or if we lived through the same experience, you take the note and you'll go, oh, we we want to talk about that. We want to talk about that. And I'll help tell the story. But but sure, yeah. You write down the notes and you bring, if you want to call it that, the individual topics that we talk about.
What I have to remind you is when we're not together and you're doing something separately, as in this past weekend. Right. I said, hey.
You didn't remind me this week. You have in the past. Like when I went backpacking, you said, make sure to write down anything fun to that happened so you can talk about it on the show.
I think you brought back one thing to talk about. Yeah. I know. You were gone away. I lead a boring life. No, that's not true. There are things that happen in those circumstances. Even yesterday. Like you, I guess Monday and Tuesday. Yeah. Of this week. Like you had talked about, it was probably Monday. You had talked about your weekend, but it was just one thing that you had brought. I don't even remember what it was.
It was about how I uh couldn't figure out what to do with my day because I had to work. That's it. And I didn't end up doing it.
And then last night we're driving, and you go, Oh, here's a fly that I got from this fly tying thing that I went to. And I went, I didn't know that you did that. Settle down.
Shaking the whole room. And you went, oh yeah, I went there for a little bit. Yeah. Not that I need to know your whereabouts all the time, but I'm like, that could have been something that we could have talked about on the radio.
About what? I went and watched I went and watched a guy that I follow on YouTube, tie some flies.
The point that listen to me. The point is riveting. What? The point is when you're out and about and going throughout your day, conversations that you have with people. If something's funny or something's intriguing, write it down. And guess what, Josh? We can talk about it.
No, I know. I know how radio works. I've been doing it a long time. I think maybe it's that too. You've got this newness. You've got this excitement and this organization and list making skills. So I let you shine. I let you do the part that you love and are good at. I'm being serious. You're good at that. I'll go. I will send you a note and go, hey, add this to the show because I don't want to forget. And I'm terrible at writing stuff down. You are bad at it.
But Josh is a lot of pressure to be the only one
who's going to be able to do that. Well, listen, the other part stuff. The majority, not the only one. You do bring more than I do when it comes to things to talk about.
Absolutely. But my algorithm is like boring. All I get is like hiking videos, fishing videos. I got a thing about uh Philly cheesesteak pizza. That's that worth talking about.
I don't think so. Like I get I get like food videos. Like it's not like uh every minute of every day, I'm like, that's something to talk about. I go through my work. I was here until five o'clock yesterday, a little after five. That's two plus hours over when I normally should leave for the day, but I was here extra hours because I'm in the middle of a giant project. And as I'm working on this project, my brain is like very focused on it. Yeah.
And to the point of exhaustion. Oh no. And then I go, like, well, nothing that I've done today, from the time you left to the time I saw you. There's nothing that happened that I'm like, that's worth talking about. All right. I got home about two minutes before you yesterday. I started doing my chores. And then you came in and you're like, what's up? What's going on? How was your day? I'm like, oh I'm tired. And I've been home for two minutes and I've got chores to do.
You had you had a big brain day yesterday. Huge brain day. And then guess what? I show up at the house and I'm like, hey, hey, hey, let's talk. You want to talk about stuff? Yeah. Sure thing. No.
Right. So, you know, I show up today and you're like, what do you bring in? What do you want to talk about? I'm like, we already did. I've got nothing. Nothing happened yesterday that I'm like, man.
I had lunch. That was neat. Right.
Fascinating. What do you have for lunch? I had a sandwich, like a panini, a chicken pesto panini. From where? You went.
Just down the street. What? What is that noise? Chicken pesto panini sounded nice. Yeah. Yeah, with fresh sliced tomatoes on it.
Yeah. It was a tasty sandwich. With some nice battered fries. It was nice. That's what I had for lunch.
That sounds nice. Yeah. Well, good. Glad we could cover that.
What else do you want to know about my day yesterday? I don't know. I think that's about it. That is about it. Oh. Thanks for bringing something to talk about. Good job. You're welcome. A plus. A+.
Was there something weird that you believed?
Oh no. Now. Now I have it. I forgot to hit one button. You're okay. Go ahead. You were just talking like you weren't in the room. Go ahead now.
Was there something weird that you believed as a kid?
Something uh well, like if you ate gum and it would stay in your belly for seven years. That's not true. I tell you that all the time because you eat gum. Josh. What?
You don't have to tell everybody
all the weird things that I do. You eat Easter candy. You like the weird little gum egg carton and you swallow the gum. Yeah, I do sometimes. Every time. Not sometimes. You specifically seek out that candy around Easter time because you gotta restock your guts with gum.
Yeah, my gut health isn't great. Yeah, quit eating gum.
I had uh a candy the other day that was uh it was it was like those bottle cap uh candies, but it turned to gum. I hated it.
I can't remember the name of that frazzle. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't like it. Okay. Don't get it.
But uh the the second it turned to gum, I went, Shantel likes this and she swallows the gum.
I don't I don't like that candy. But I if I ate it, I probably would eat the gum. Did you? I didn't have it. You didn't? No.
It starts as a powdery candy, and you think you're eating a regular bottle cap, and then it turns to gum. And I was like, why is this gum now? And I it really was surprising.
I didn't know. And then I looked at the little package and it said, turns to gum. And I went, it did. And then uh immediately after I realized that it did that, I went, This is a Chantel candy, and she will swallow the gum.
You don't know me at all.
I absolutely know that's exactly what would happen. And I don't know why you would do that. You could just spit it out like I did.
Okay. Um moving on.
What about you? What's something weird you believed as a kid?
Well, we went camping when I was a kid. I was like six or seven years old. We went camping in Yellowstone. Yeah. And we had a tent trailer. Okay. And so we couldn't we couldn't camp in like the hard side.
I was gonna say I'm surprised they let that in.
There were specific areas where we had to camp. Yeah. And I remember hearing the warnings of like there's bears and you can't camp in this area and make sure that you got you know, proper gear. Gear. And I lost a tooth on that camping trip.
Oh. And I was certain that a bear, because they told you all the things like bears can smell things from miles and miles away. I was like, they're gonna smell my tooth, they're gonna come forward. Gross. And my mom. Why'd that tooth stink so bad? I don't know.
Why you why do you have a stinky tooth? They're gonna smell that tooth.
But my mom said, put it under your pillow and then the toothberry. And I went, no, I can't.
I don't know what I did with that too. Smell that tooth. Yeah. Did you swallow it with the gum? Mm-mm. I didn't. I know where to put that tooth. I'm gonna eat it.
I don't know where I put it, but I believed that for a long time. I was like, that bear skin tooth. I So I believed that. Yeah. Anything else? Dome light. Yeah, in your car can't be.
You can't turn that in. You can't turn that on when the car's in motion. That's a stopped only thing. And that's uh that's the way it is. I still to this day, when the dome light is on inside, I'm like, oh, we're gonna get pulled over. I think that too. Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Stresses me out.
Wait me. I think that too. Yeah. Anything else? Um, I don't know.
Those were the kind of the two that stuck out from when I was a kid. Same. Well.
Okay. You well, you when you were a kid, you always thought your house was gonna catch on fire.
Not always. I had a traumatic fifth grade. That's all. Why did you think that? I don't know. I thought we were gonna get tornadoes. I uh somewhere along the way, natural disasters really weighed heavy on me in the fifth grade. And I spent a lot of nights trying to deal with that.
Well, you passed that down to our son because when he was little, he was terrified.
Fifth grade, though. He was much, much, much younger. And you know, it it seems completely rational at the time because you're super worried about it.
Our son was terrified of Japanese man of war.
Yeah. When you learned about that, you said, I'd never go into the ocean. The big Japanese man of war is in there. That jellyfish is gonna get me.
We had we were planning a trip to I think San Diego, and he was like, We can't go. We can do it. The Japanese man of war. And we were like, they don't.
They don't there's jellyfish in that water. We can't go. Don't go in the ocean. They'll get you.
Where do they even live? Japanese gotta be Pacific Ocean. Man of war. Because that's where Japan is. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Uh yeah. Yep. Good job, Josh. Thanks. Way to put that one together.
Well, I just assumed. I don't think it's gonna be an Atlantic jellyfish.
It's a big old jellyfish. Have you seen them? No. They'll get you. Stay out of the ocean. Okay. Well. Okay. Anything else? No, I always believed that I heard somewhere along the way that like you ate like seven spiders in the in a year.
In your sleep. I remember hearing that.
And I believed that.
And so then like they're just crawling in your mouth.
There was a There was a time that I would always fall asleep with the covers over my mouth because I was like, mm-mm. Not today. You're not getting me. It's healthy.
I'm worried about house fires. You're worried about eating spiders. You know.
Well, the things you hear as a kid, and you're like, oh, I'm gonna take care of that.
I don't think that's a real statistic. It's not. They've debunked that. They have to have. Yeah. I also heard that you're never more than three feet away from a spider.
I believe that. Are you a spider? Look around. I don't see any. They hide. Look, my arms are longer than a three-foot circumference. You're telling me there's spider somewhere in my three-foot vicinity.
Yeah, look on the floor. No. There's no spider in here. That's what you think. That's what I know. I can detect them. Oh. It's a skill I have. Then I go, hey, there's a spider, Chantel, come get it.
Yeah, exactly. Because I'm a big brave man. I am the spider killer in our house. This is a fact. I bumped into an old roommate of mine last night. Yeah.
That was cool. Old roommate, which we've had such weird path crossings with her specifically. We were looking for an apartment. We ended up touring an apartment, uh townhouse, and as we were looking at it, you were like, wait a minute. I know this family. I know this person. It's my college roommate. We ended up not getting that townhouse, got a different apartment.
And then when we bought our house 14 years ago, she lives like two houses away. It's so strange. Anyway. Just Yeah. That's what I used to call her. That is correct.
Because that's her name. So that would make sense. Yeah, I know, but I know I know. That's how you said it. I get it. But it's funny that you would say I called her that because yeah, that's that literally is her name. It isn't like her name was like Margaret and you called her something else.
My best friend that I had known in the dorm that I had met in the dorms. We lived in the dorms for a couple years, and then we moved into an apartment together. And then we lived together for a couple of months, and then Chelsea moved in.
Right. And when Chelsea moved in, we were like, what is it? What is she gonna be like? And then we kind of were like she's my gosh. She'd moved some stuff in and we peeked in her room. We were like, what's she like? That's creepy. It's not creepy. We didn't like go through her stuff.
We just peeked in her room. Chill out. Note to self.
Guard your stuff. So she Chelsea comes up to me last night. We gave each other a hug.
We were chatting, and she says to me, Hey, I showed my kids a movie, and this movie always reminds me of you and and Christina. Right. And I went, oh no. When somebody says this reminds them of you. Yeah. You're always a little wary, like, oh, it's also good. to hear a bad thing.
It seemed like it was a happy memory.
I think so. So she had introduced her kids to a uh a little known movie called Happy Texas. Okay.
Now, you guys had a thing uh in your apartment where you would take your mattresses out of your rooms and put them in the living room for movie night. So she was reminiscing about that, and apparently this movie was one of those movie nights. Uh-huh. Okay.
And on movie nights, we would yeah, we would we would take our mattresses and put them in the living room. But then we would also do like interpretive dance. Yeah, and steamroller. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. This is Steve Zahn, William H. Macy's. Happy Texas. I I'm sure you've had me watch this. I just don't remember.
I came out in 1999. Okay. And it's about two escape convicts, and they try to to hide out by pretending that they're organizing a children's beauty patch. I remember this. That movie's amazing. Yeah.
Got it. Because Steve Zahn's amazing. Steve Son is amazing. Yeah. Um, yeah, so that was good. I was I was pleased when she said that because you never know what somebody's gonna say that. You're correct. Yeah. you of that.
Oh, yeah. The other day I was thinking about you because here comes a terrible list of things that remind me, uh, remind you of me. Got it.
What I remember is that both Chelsea and Christina had boyfriends who were currently serving missions at the same time. Got you. And so it was my job. When I would hear sad music coming from their rooms, I'd be like, oh, you guys.
They're missing their boyfriends. Let's let's go. So you were the fun brother.
So I would I would round them up and I'd say, quit wallowing.
Yeah, let's just snap out of it. Got it. Well, good for you. Way to be there for your people. That's that's that's a good team player.
They were probably like, just let me cry. Yeah. No. No, I can't have this. We got happiness to be had.
There's too much Sarah McLaughlin coming out of here. We gotta move on.
Richard Marks, excuse me. It was Richard Marks. My fault.
What is something that you could talk about for an hour with zero preparation? Uh definitely fishing.
Fly fishing, uh, fly tying, some some of that action I could talk about for a while. Um trying to think what else. I could talk a lot about uh different hiking and backpacking uh techniques and gear, map reading, uh route preparation, topography. I mean, these are riveting subjects. I really enjoy them. I have books I could reference, I could show things.
Uh You do. how to use a compass. Uh how to use a compass, how to use a GPS, uh land navigation.
I could talk about how poor I am at water navigation because water makes no sense. Nautical miles. What? Traveling speed is knots. What? Just why you gotta have a whole system.
Why can't it be the same system? Yeah, because boats are weird.
Stuff doesn't make sense on the water. The distance from where you are in the water to land makes no sense. It's so far. It's really far. And then you just keep paddling your canoe thinking you're getting closer and closer and closer, and you're not. It takes forever. And then you realize you're miles away from where you're supposed to be, and you're like, this was not where I intended to be.
What happened? And water, it makes no sense. I'm no good at it. Land, I got you. You are really good at land. at land. Things make sense on land. I get on the water, I'm lost. Nothing makes sense.
So don't talk about water navigation.
I could tell you how bad I am. Okay.
If I had to, if I told you, hey, you have to do a presentation. You have to do an hour-long presentation right now. Okay. What would be what would be the topic that I would pick for you? I have to choose the topic for you. I would pick. Yeah, I'd pick fly fishing. You would? Yeah.
Over uh because I like I could talk about it. That's fine. I certainly could. I mean, uh what what level am I talking about? Just these people have never heard of it, or they have, but I'm talking about my techniques.
Like I well, you have to talk for an hour. I bro. This is not hard.
I feel like I would uh like I could fill an hour talking just about the six days I spent in the sawtooths this year. That that's not the topic I gave you. I understand. I'm just saying, like that's that's a very specific thing that I know I could I could talk about the preparation that went into it, the gear. That's not the topic I gave you. I know. You gave me fly fishing. That's why I said this is a vague topic.
I need more specifics because I can work fly fishing into a discussion about backpacking and how to prepare for that. No. That's not the topic. I understand. No, you don't. I do. I know the topic you've given me. It's vague.
You've given me a wide open topic. Talk about fly fishing, and you go, well, I could talk about hiking. No, listen to me.
I'm trying to give you other options. No. To talk about.
I gave you the option to talk about.
No, you gave me the broad topic of fly fishing. What about it? The gear.
Yeah, the gear. Okay. Where to go? Sure. How to tie it? What do you fly fish with?
Sure. Entomology, all of those things. All of that. Sure. You could do that. Yeah. For an hour. Absolutely. Need to bring it. I could do this trying to talk to you about what topic to talk about for an hour. I can talk about radio. I could talk about how to build radio. What topic about would you give me? Huh. I'm trying to figure out what thing you've studied.
It doesn't have to be something I've seen.
I would give you 90s movies. Okay. Ooh. I know you could talk about the movies you love from the 90s for at least an hour. Okay. Most of it would just be quoting the movies.
No, that's not true. I'd say here, like I would say, here's a list of the top movies that you need to go watch. But I'm going to go. According to you. Yeah.
Yeah. And you're going to go through each one and who was in it. Yeah. And what your favorite parts were. Yes. And it was so funny when this part happened. And do you remember when this happened?
That was hilarious. And oh, you haven't seen it. You've got to see it. You're missing out. It's a great movie. Yeah, that's what that would be like for an hour.
But you could do it. That's why I said I gotta figure out what do you what do you studied? What's what's your thing?
What's your studied thing? It's that. It's it's movies. Specifically 90s movies. And there uh there's a list of like 12. No, there's more than that. 12's all you have time for. Oh, an hour. Yep.
No way, dude. I could talk about so many more than 12 in an hour. Do you know how long an hour is? Yes. How many minutes? 60.
60 minutes. 12 movies. 12, 60 divided by 12 is five. You get five minutes per movie. Oh, okay. Yeah. No kidding. Hey, hey, hey. Chill down. You're gonna talk for four hours, and you're not even gonna know it went by. You get one hour. Chill down. Yeah. Okay.
I gotta come up with 12 movies to check about.
This isn't a real thing. Hypothetical. Stop it. I gotta prepare. No. For what? That's presentation. You're not giving a presentation. I wish I was. Why? To who?
Somebody in our house needs to go to the grocery store because we are out of groceries.
Yeah, I know. I don't have breakfast today.
No, I know. I was trying to scramble to get some breakfast this morning. And normally I'm really good about packing stuff the night before. Right. But I didn't have time last night. So this morning I'm scrambling and I'm looking around, like, oh, everything.
I have to prepare everything and I didn't have time. So I looked in the pantry and there were some granola bars in there. And I said, Oh, they were granola breasts, the granola bars that you had bought. And I said, Can I have one of these? And you said, knock yourself out. Yeah, I said, go nuts.
Have a ball. And you you were like, I was gonna be owning these. Like uh, first of all, there are some other ones that I really do like. These are not them. No.
Um, because I don't like the texture, they're super crunchy and they're just not it. And so uh when you were like, can I have this? I went, have them all. I hope you like them because they're gonna sit in the pantry for another four years if uh if nobody likes them.
I just opened it and ate it, and I went, these are crispy. Yeah. Yeah, that's why I didn't eat them.
Because they're they're too much. They're like um, they're they're literally like pressed granola, um, really really crunchy granola pressed into a cube.
Yeah, they remind me of those Nature Valley bars. Yeah, because they're real hard. Yeah, like that. But made a mess.
Um, I have the same brand has some breakfast bars, and I really like the breakfast bars. The blueberry one is really good. Um, I'm trying to remember the other flavor.
The reason I bring it up is you could have warned me and said, Oh, I don't like those because.
No, you said, can I have this? I said, Yeah, go go for it. I'm not gonna tell you that you're not
gonna be able to do it. I didn't even give you a warning.
I'm not gonna tell you why I didn't like it. You didn't ask. You said, can I have this? I went, Yeah, go go crazy. You didn't say, Did you do you like these?
What did you offered that information? It didn't seem necessary.
I didn't know you weren't gonna like it.
You could have given me a warning, is what I'm saying. And said, This is crunchy. Yeah.
That seems weird. That's a weird thing to say.
Oh, yeah, I don't like those. You can have them all. And I would say, why don't you like them? And then you would say, Oh, because they're too crunchy for my taste.
You said, Can I have this? I said, Yep, go nuts. That's what I said. And you did, and you went, Oh, it's crunchy. The point of the story. Maybe we should go to the grocery store. Yeah, no, that's true. Because we need some groceries. Yeah, that's true. There's nothing to eat in this house. Sound like the kids.
There really isn't though this time. No, there's plenty to eat. It's just you gotta make it. And who wants to do that?
I gotta cook an egg? No.
And prepare something.
You have to for a while we were eating these delicious egg bites that you were making.
Yeah, I don't have any. I haven't made those. I know. Maybe maybe you want to. How about you? But you didn't like the way I made them. You said mine were gross. Mine weren't so good this last time either. Did you put cottage cheese in your?
Yes, I did. Let's do that again, because that's extra protein. I know. That's why I made them that way. Okay, let's do it. But you didn't like it. Well, I need it. No kidding.
That's why I made them that way. And you were like, no, I like mine better. And I went, okay, I won't make them again. Well, I do like mine better, but I need that extra protein.
Okay. So I'll make them. I'll need some breakfast for tomorrow. So either.
I think you need breakfast now. You're feeling a little on edge. I think you need something to eat. Because that granola bar didn't cut it. I Like you're kind of in a mood where you're like, I could use a pancake. See, I knew it. You were alerted. Thank you. You want to talk about this? Yeah. Okay.
I do. See, I brought content. You just didn't even know. I had to run down the hall into uh a conversation uh real briefly. And I didn't want to miss uh talking on the radio with you.
It's important. So I said, hey, would you alert me when we're a couple of minutes away from when we have to talk? And you said, okay. And then said, please alert me in quotes like that's a weird thing to say. Please alert me. Why would you say that? What?
Alert. Alert's one of those words. The more you say it, the weirder it gets. Try it out. I have. Alert. Alert. Why is that a weird thing to say?
Because why wouldn't you just say, just let me know? Hey, that was such a formal text. Please alert me when it's our turn to talk.
Okay. What's the problem with please alert me?
I don't know. Just say, hey, let me know when it's.
Hey, let me know when we have to talk. Nine words. Please alert me. Three words. So much faster.
Please alert me. Well, guess what? You were alerted. I was alerted. You were almost late.
You gave me a lot of things. I said when there was a couple minutes. You did. And you gave me one minute.
I know, because listen, I looked at, I wasn't really paying attention, and I looked at the song and I went, oh no, we have less than two minutes. My fault. I listen to me.
You were almost late, she says to me, like, it's my fault that I said, please alert me with a couple minutes.
I gave you extra time. It was like a minute and a half, and I said, one minute. I gotta get you food. You are riled up. You need a snack. I had I've had a granola bar. That you hated. And a cheese stick. How was it? Fine.
Not nope. Nope. You need something else. Hard boiled egg or something.
Oh no. I do not need that. You want me to be more on it?
Alert. She's hungry. Alert. Get This woman a donut. I don't know what you need. There it is. Cinnamon roll. Oh, yeah. I think you have one waiting. They're not all gone.
We, well, not we. I am in a solo cinnamon roll club.
You kicked everybody out.
You kicked yourself out.
You need a cinnamon roll real bad. I've never known anyone who needs a meal more than you right now.
Listen to me. You kicked yourself out because you didn't like the way that I wanted to do cinnamon roll club. Emory thought the name was dumb. But let me tell you that there have been quite a few people who are like, hey, I'll be a part of your cinnamon cult.
Yeah, that's because they don't know who's in charge. And the second they find out who the self-appointed president is, they'll be like, never mind. Whatever. And then you're gonna go, how come nobody wants to play with me? And it's because they don't play the same way you want to play, and you can't handle it. That's why. Whatever, dude. Whatever. Whatever, dude means I am kind of whatever. Get this woman a cinnamon roll. I had one yesterday. You did?
Yeah. And I was gonna send you a text and say, Oh, look at my cinnamon roll. Cinnamon Roll Club, day one check. I can't even believe you. It was presented to me. What does that mean? She said, here's a cinnamon roll. And I went. Thank you. And I ate it and I liked it.
Whoa. I need to go think about things. Would you rather this or that?
Would you rather have your fridge always be full? Yeah. Or your gas tank always be full. Gas tank right now. Okay. Do it. Hold on. I want the fridge always to be full. Hold on. It's because you like foods. I do like food.
I'm I'm a little torn, actually. I know. It's a tricky one. Because where am I going? Exactly. Like, you know what I mean? Uh gas if I was like uh like a like if I had a commuting job or a traveling gig, or if I was like, my truck's my office, you know, like I was out and
about if your gas tank's always it's not like you could always just go somewhere. Your gas tank's always full. You never have to worry about filling up. No, I get that'd be awesome.
Yeah. And my immediate reaction was in in uh in reaction to the gas prices. So I went, oh yeah, I guess. Um, because it's expensive. Food also expensive. Yeah. But uh, but you've been struggling with the house not having your food. And I'm gonna tell you right now, I open up the fridge. I don't have room to put away groceries. There's food in the fridge. The fridge is full.
You just have to do something. What's it full of? Food. Pickles. That takes up a tiny section on a shelf. Don't blame the pickles. It's not the pickles' fault the fridge is full.
My question is, do I I hate going to the grocery store and I hate going to the gas station? Okay. So which one would I rather not have to worry about?
I'd rather not have to go to the grocery store. I know. Yeah. Wandering the eyes.
I know. Well, and then people will say, Well, you can do grocery pickup. And I go, I know, but that feels complicated too. If I never have to think about food, yeah, that'd be awesome. Yeah. You're right. What are we gonna have for dinner?
What am I making for breakfast? Food security. It's called food fatigue. No, food decision for the code. Not having to worry about food is food security, which would be nice uh if everyone had that. But when we open up the cupboard, and I've got all the noodles that I could think of. I've got macaroni and spaghetti and fettuccine and bow ties and pennies. I've got enough to make stuff. I've got garden fresh tomatoes and basil. I can make pasta like this quick. Like make a cream sauce if I wanted to. So do it. I don't want to.
Okay, what are you picking?
A full fridge. I'm gonna pick the full fridge after second thought. Yeah. Because I think typical. What? I think I'd like to be able to open the fridge and have all the things I need to make a meal. Right now I have everything I need to make a sandwich. Guess what's the most complicated thing to me right now? Making a sandwich. I know.
That's that's what I thought this morning when I looked in the fridge. Well, I'm like, make a peanut butter and honey sandwich.
I we have meat and cheese and mayo and mustard and pickles.
You have to get it all out. I know put it all away. That's what I'm saying.
And who wants to do that at first thing in the morning so I can have a sandwich for lunch hours later? No. That's a I'm at home, I'm gonna make a sandwich and eat it right now kind of thing.
So then that's not solving the problem then. If you have a fridge full of food. Right.
I need also need the fridge to travel with me.
But also you just need somebody to make the stuff for you. Anyway, what are you picking? Fridge? Yeah. What are you switching? Yeah.
Would you rather this are that?
I heard some sad news yesterday. So I grew up with Saved by the Bell.
Oh, man. Every day after the school. Every day after school, I was watching Zach and AC Slater and Screech and Kelly. And Jesse and Lisa. And Mr. Belding. And Mr. Belding, Mr. B. Mr.
Belding was played by Dennis Haskins, and he passed away on Sunday, I believe. Right.
I saw this news yesterday. Mario Lopez posted it. Uh, and he said, I'm heartbroken to hear about our old friend Dennis Haskins. Uh he played principal. Uh, but Dennis was the biggest kid on the Save by the Bell set. If you knew him, you loved him.
And uh if there was karaoke, you knew he was getting on that mic. He said, I'm grateful for the laughs, the memories, and the friendship we shared all these years. Rest easy, my friend.
You'll always be part of our Bayside family. Uh, which was really nice. That was how I learned the news yesterday.
And then you texted me and you're like, Mr. Belding died. And I went, I know, but it happened like a few days ago.
It was on the 27th, and they were uh the family just kind of didn't talk about it, I guess, until it was made a little more public on uh yesterday. But super super sad, man. Mr. Belding was uh that laugh. He had that maniacal principal laugh when he got one over on Zach, and you were like, oh man.
Uh so yeah, super super sad. Um spent a lot of after school afternoons learning from Mr. Belding. Same. Hey, did you know Mr. Belding's first name was Richard? Nobody knew his first name's Mr.
What do you mean his first name's Richard? He didn't have a first name.
Bayside High's principal was never Richard Belding. It was Mr. Belding. Uh anyway. Uh yeah, really sad. Sad news for Mr. Belding. He was there the whole time because he was there through good morning, Miss Bliss. Uh-huh. He was through Save by the Bell, and he was in the new class, which went all the way until 2000. I forgot they had the new class. Yeah.
We don't need to talk about the new class. Okay. But he was the principal
the whole time, from 87 to 2000. That's great. He is the principal.
He was. There was no other principal at Bayside High. No way. Just Mr. Belding. Anyway.
As uh it was said, rest easy. That's uh that's a big deal. On that sad note. Yeah. This was a I would like to call today's show a hootin' nanny.
It was chaos. Today's show was a hootinny. It was a little bit chaotic. Yeah. We talked about a lot of nothing, but that's kind of our MO. Do you know the term Hootin? No, what is MO stand for? Motive.
Our Oh no, it's our something operatus. Our median apparatus. It's like our it's the way we operate. It's Latin. Modus operandum. That's it. Method of operation. See, I knew I knew. Yeah. Our MO Yeah. is nonsense. Nonsense is our Latin word for operation.
Yeah, but a hootin annie is an informal social gathering where people come together to play folk music, sing, and dance with a lot of audience participation. I feel like that's what we had.
We played no folk music. I felt like we did. No, exactly. I'm exhausted.
I feel like the Hootin Annie was a hoot. You know?
I mean, I had I had a great time, but it was a lot of nonsense. That's the way I like it. Same.
Have a great rest of your Wednesday. We'll see you back here tomorrow. Uh that's it.
I got nothing else. I got nothing else, also. Have a good day. Goodbye. Adios.
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