Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
We can't decide how best to enjoy potatoes, Josh wore husky pants when he was little, power washing is good news, somethings you buy just for the silly fun of it, Josh had a conversations with our daughter's coach and it was traumatic, someone spilled 3 gallons of water in Chantel's backseat, we can't remember how to write cursive, a man was stuck in a playground slide, Chantel and our daughter really hate confrontation, have you ever lost an adult human before, you can get a personal letter of encouragement from a dad, Would You Rather goes off the rails, and a woman in New York is actually turning her apartment into a Titanic shrine.
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Labubu butt lift
(2:58) - Potato talk
(7:14) - Josh was a husky boy
(12:45) - Good News
(15:54) - Pointlessly fun purchases
(20:52) - Josh & Coach had a convo
(25:35) - 3 gallons of water
(30:22) - Cursive letters
(36:56) - Feet & head first
(43:59) - Self-awareness Jamba Mom
(49:33) - The lost HVAC man
(55:16) - Dad letters
(57:54) - Would You Rather
(1:01:06) - Titanic apartment
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Full show transcript:
Hi, Chantel. What's up, Josh? You know the labooboos? Yes. You've seen these little crazy face stuffed animal dudes?
I've seen that. I'm just making sure you know what the labooboos are all about. I do. So there's a big craze around the labooboos, but did you know that people are weird with them? What do you mean?
There's a lady online who gave her Laboubu a Brazilian butt lift. What? And because it was so popular online, she's now put out an illustrated step by step guide to how you too can give your labooboo a laboody. How do people find time to do this stuff? But why?
Why does your labooboo need to have a Brazilian bug? He doesn't, but I'm also going, I just actually wanna have time to do the things that I enjoy, productive things Sure. Like reading or making a quilt Yeah. Or, creating other art or spending time with my family. And these people find time Yes.
To turn their apartments into the Titanic That's right. Or giving their boobooze a butt lift. Lift. Yeah. So you're gonna need some embroidery floss that matches your Labooboo's color, and then you're gonna need some regular sewing thread, a sewing needle, some very small scissors like eyebrow scissors, and then a little bit of extra stuffing because you gotta give it butt a butt with a little stuffing butt.
Why do you I don't know. I wish that you would never tell me. I know. I know. I know.
It's really happening, and it's a it's a step by step tutorial just to give your little stuffed animal a little stuffed animal butt. I'm so happy for her. Yeah. Would you make her happy? I guess.
Please. I mean, it's funny. Here's the thing. And to a point, like, I get the funny joke of the whole thing because then your labooboo has a butt, which is hilarious. Like, it isn't just a little stuffed body.
Yeah. So it's funny for photos. I get that. So, you know, the point of doing it and then taking photos and posting them online for laughs, like, I get that. But the fact that it was like people were like, I gotta know how to give my Labooboo a butt.
I wanna do this too. And then you went, alright. I'll drop a handwritten two page instruction of how to give your Labooboo a Brazilian butt lift. It's a thing. It's a People are very into it.
Okay. You do you again. Labooboo. You do you, Labooboo. Anyway, let's start the show.
Let's start it. Woah. What's happened? Woah. What's happened?
Hi. Was it my squeaky microphone? Oh, it was the it kinda bonked. Like, it hit something on the way. Sorry.
Yeah. It's a bonking sort of thing. They're they're so touchy. They like to just be left alone. I know.
Listen. I know. That's what I'm saying. Can you hear that? Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Sorry. It's a lot. Sorry. Just be soft with it.
I am that was soft. I mean, the first time wasn't soft, but this is soft. Happy potato day. Do you wanna go bake a potato? No.
You'll never get your life back. From baking a potato? Yeah. It is. Explain.
Oh, baking a potato takes so long. It really only takes, like, twenty minutes, but it feels like a lifetime. That's why you do it in the microwave. It's so much faster. I know.
You ever twice bake a potato? Yeah. Yeah. Twice as long. How's your favorite, way to take a potato?
How do you take your potatoes? Let me think. I like, I like funeral potatoes. K. Good pick.
Good pick. I think that's probably my favorite. That's your top? Or Yeah. Like a nice crispy hash brown.
I love a hash brown. Hash brown's a good pick. A scalloped potato is what you put in a funeral potato, but, but the potatoes au gratin, so good. I haven't had potatoes au gratin probably since I lived at home as a kid. Call your mom.
It comes in a box. Go get a box. You don't need to call. Hey, mom. What box of potato au gratin did you get?
It says au gratin on it. Yeah. You could just make them yourself too. You don't have to buy that box. I mean Twice baked potatoes is our daughter's favorite.
Right. I need to make those more often because she loves them. I'm gonna make a note. Oh, Groton is the process of creating the brown topping that is called gratin. So it's I thought it was French for something.
It's not. It's for browned topped potatoes. Groton. Groton. Sounds gross.
You're on a house of Groton? Sounds nice. Yeah. I do. I brought in potatoes.
I Groton. It's like a real rural Idaho way to say you brought the potatoes. Brought in the potatoes I've gotten. No. Thanks, uncle Stew.
Stew. Stew makes the best potatoes out, Grott. Does he? Uncle Stew. Yeah.
Okay. I'll take your word for it. Me too. That's a good way to have potatoes. Salad?
French fries. Oh, we found a potato salad that's so good. Yeah. Yeah. Potato salad.
That kind of potato salad. It's a red potato salad. So good. It was good. Mhmm.
I want some of that right now. Did you eat all of that? Oh, yes. I did. Dad.
It would have gone bad. I know. I kinda forgot about it. So it's fine. Because you also had a little container of it.
I ate that too. You did. Oh, yeah. That was my lunch potato salad. You left it behind.
It had been forsaken. That's fine. And I discovered it. Again, forgotten about. It was forsaken.
Yeah. No. It wasn't. Good job. Good job.
Fun. It's gonna be a good day. Celebrate your potatoes, but don't bake them in the oven Hold them up. Unless you have three hours. You know that viral trend where you put your phone in your mouth and you swing around the dog?
Yeah. Yeah. Do that with a potato today. Like, potato day. Uh-huh.
That's a funny joke. Potatoes. Potatoes love me. Nice. Do you ever wish that I was a little bit taller?
I wish I was a little bit taller. I wish I was a bowler. You are a vocal stim today. Do you ever wish I was taller? Do you ever think, like, man, five seven's okay, but what if you were six foot tall?
I don't. You don't? No. You don't ever wish I would, like, had five or six inches extra height? I don't think it's necessary.
Okay. No. I don't wish that. I've never been like, man, it'd be so cool to be six foot tall. I have never like, I was four foot nine until the ninth grade.
Between ninth and eleventh grade, I shot up to five foot seven. Wow. And that's where I've been forever. Right. It's fine.
It's great. My head fits right in your neck. Aw. It's the sweetest thing, isn't it? Nice.
Yeah. Well, apparently, some guys are traveling the world paying tens of thousands of dollars to have their legs broken Why? And surgically lengthened. No. Yes.
Why? To be taller. Ugh. Unnecessary, guys. It is a brutal procedure.
Yeah. I bet. Yeah. And it is offered in, places like Istanbul, Turkey. It involves months of pain rehabilitation Oh my gosh.
And metal rods. But almost all the men who endure it say that gaining a few inches is worth the agony, especially since it is improving their dating life, their self esteem, and their mental health. I'm taller now. That's crazy. I'm not doing this.
Do you ever wish that you were taller? No. I don't. No. It's unnecessary.
Was four foot nine and I was real short, yeah, there were times. But at five seven, I was still trying out for the basketball team. I was it's fine. Five seven is average. It's fine.
It's great. Thank you. It's average. No. You know what I mean.
I do. It's a fine height. It's all good. I have no problem with it. No problem with it either.
Are made in my size. Like, I don't have to, like, try to find long pants or big size sixteen shoes or anything like that. Like, I can't imagine having to deal with that. Right. That would be a pain in the butt.
Like, I have a couple of shirts right now that are short. Every shirt would be short. I hate it. You don't have to shop in the big and tall That's what I'm saying. I don't wanna be a big and tall.
Okay. Don't. Which why what's the deal with they call, men's large sizes big and tall. Women's, they call plus. That feels rude.
Well, because everyone hates women. But so does the word big. Yeah. That's true. No.
I don't know. It's all in the way you take it, I suppose. You go shopping and you look at the sizes. You go, oh, that's a small. That's a medium.
That's a large. Well, they even have XL. They have a petite. XL. They're petite.
For women. Petite and plus. That's your spectrum. Mhmm. They don't have a petite for men.
You know, when I was little, I wore a size twelve husky. There's a word. Yeah. That's Husky? Husky is not nice.
What are we doing? I shouldn't be and I wasn't husky, let me tell you. It isn't like I had hips and a badonkadonk at 12. I wasn't a husky boy. I don't know why I shopped for husky pants.
Oh, you're gonna need a twelve husky. No. You know what that is? It's time to move me to the men's section. That's what it is.
I've outgrown the boys section. Woah. Woah. It's time to go buy me some pants that come with numbers left and right. What are we doing?
It's early for this. I just I'm fired up about being called husky. Yeah. Sorry. What are we doing?
I I don't think this Forget about going and breaking my legs for improving my mental health. Get rid of big plus and husky and petite while we're at it. What are we doing? Would you feel more comfortable if if your clothes, instead of saying husky, said plus? No.
Absolutely not. It would be great if it ended at twelve, and then it you were just like, hey. Maybe if it doesn't fit over here, switch over to the men's section. Maybe you've grown. Husky.
You're a husky boy. Never was I a husky boy. And I'm telling you right now, that wormed into my head. I'm sorry. No.
Because I like and now as an adult, when I go look at pictures of me in junior high and high school, I go, what do you mean husky? I'm a skinny little kid. A normal growing kid. Yeah. Like, the pictures of me from Costa Rica, particularly the one where I'm flexing all tough at the waterfall.
I don't look husky. Not. I look like I probably should eat something. Why were you wearing husky clothes then? Can't tell you.
It's what Kmart had. It's the best I could get. I think you're really gonna like good news today. I'll make that decision myself. It's from Houston, Texas where two brothers turn their days off into days of giving.
Oh. That's a nice thing to do. It is a nice thing to do. I usually turn days off into days of running around doing a bunch of stuff I didn't wanna do. It's either that or, like, I should do this.
Right. But I don't. Daniel Martinez. What? Sorry.
Excuse me. Daniel Martinez, he works as a landscaper, and his brother Martin Martinez, who works in the chemical industry Uh-huh. Carve out one day a week to scrub sidewalks and driveways for free. Oh. Now here's the thing.
I know this is something you would absolutely do. Me? Yeah. Cleaning sidewalks? Uh-huh.
With a pressure washer. Oh, come on. Yeah. That's what's happening. I just want a pressure washer so bad.
And Daniel and Martin have a power washer, and they just go around cleaning stuff for free on their day off. I'll do that. I said you would do this. Let me tell you more. Can I power wash your sidewalk?
The inspiration for their mission of charity came four years ago. They were working a paid lawn care job when they met a client who admitted that she couldn't afford her medication. And Daniel said, from there, we said, we saw the look on her face and we said, no. We're doing your lawn for free. Oh.
And they shuffle their schedule to reserve at least one day a week for helping those in need, cleaning up neglected yards at no cost. They now offer pressure washing to those in need with no strings attached as well. They also share the stories of their work in their community on their YouTube channels, which they hope to encourage other people to go out and help people and spread kindness around the city of Houston. Now let me tell you, there's a guy I watch on YouTube and I was watching the a couple of his videos yesterday because it is like, I don't like the ASMR thing, but time lapse lawn care is okay with me. And SB Mowing has a good YouTube channel.
And Oh, he kind of does a similar thing. He does. He's been I think SB Mowing is probably the pioneer of this format, though. I think he's the guy who started it. It.
I because he walks up to people's houses and he's like, hey, I'd like to mow your lawn for free. And they're like, what? And he's like, yeah, I'm just out here. I saw it. You know, and he does it also on his day off or because he probably has a little bit of a crew, that runs his company.
Yeah. He or, you know, that work for his company. He's probably out there doing that. But he's a young dude. I agree with you, though.
It is it is satisfying to watch those videos that he does where he takes a terrible overgrown yard and makes it so pretty. I like it. Oh, no, Josh. I know. I gotta go sneeze.
Anyway, that's good news. Go pressure wash for a cause. I want to. Oh, no. Sometimes I'm scrolling the Internet, and I get into these, like, forums where people are having conversations about weird stuff.
And this particular conversation was about the smallest, dumbest purchase that you've made that brought you just a ton of joy. We were talking about your Nessie ladle Yeah. For example. It's just a soup ladle that the handle looks like Nessie. So when it's sitting in the in the pot of whatever, the head of Nessie sticks up over the pot, which is is the Loch Ness monster Oh.
For those who don't know. For for those that don't know. Don't know the nickname of the Loch Ness Nessie is what those of us who do know her call her. Okay. Good.
Great. Thank you for that. So I love that. Do you just I know. Do you have any others that you can think of?
Oh, I'm trying to think. All of my little musical instruments, I think, are I was gonna say the ukulele that we got Oh, yeah. Was pretty cheap, and that's been super fun. But, like, my slide whistle, my harmonica, the kazoo, like, those anytime I pull those out oh, it's a good time. For me for me, it's a good time.
Somebody said that they got, one of those, little bicycle shaped pizza cutters, and it's it gives me a good laugh every time I use it. Yeah. Which, of course. Right? They can't, like, you're a ham ride your bike along the pizza.
I need one of those. They make this little device that makes the sound of a cricket at random intervals that you can hide. So this person said I got one of those, and I put it in the ceiling of a mean coworker. It's been six months, and they talk about it daily. Like, that's that's a long time for somebody to be like, that cricket is still here.
That's brilliant. Somebody got a mini garbage can for their dryer lint dryer lint. We just have a garbage can. We don't have just a special lint garbage can. It's just the one that's in the laundry room.
It's a bucket. Right. It's not even a garbage can. No. It's a little tiny garbage can.
Oh. I think so. Yeah. I mean, it's just like a cheap dollar store. Yeah.
It holds the dryer sheets and the and the lint that we take Yeah. Take out. So that's all that's all good. Now googly eyes, always of good time. You do have some fun with some googly eyes.
You can put them on anything, and it makes that thing hilarious. So years and years and years ago, I made a wreath, a Halloween wreath that has sticky eye. They're they were glow in the dark eyes that was on there, but they were squishy. Right. And they were sticky.
Yes. And then for years, like, two or three years after that, I would have to, like, replace the sticky eyes because they bugs would get stuck on them I you're screwed up. Made it even creepier. Oh. But then everyone was like, can I get my own packet of googly eyes?
Right. And she when she was just a little girl, she would carry around these sticky Sticky eyeballs, throwing them at stuff. Yeah. They would get covered in dirt and but she loved them. So every year when I would be like, I gotta go replace my googly sticky eyes, she'd be like, me too?
Those gave her so much joy. I know. Yeah. Somebody got one of those little grabber grabber arms from the dollar store. I want one.
And I I don't want you to have one because you pinch me with it. I never. Every time. Never. Yep.
I hear this. Click, click, click, click, click, click. And I go, ugh. She got the little grabby hand. This person said they walk around pretending to be a robot and grabbing everyone that's in my immediate area.
Yeah. My kids hate it. I love it. 10 out of 10. It also helps me pick up stuff off the floor.
Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Why you gotta pester people with it?
That's what you do with those grabber things. Yeah. You have to. No. It's the law.
It's not. It is. With those grabber things, if anybody comes around, snatch. Somebody got a clown nose. They wear it while driving just to watch people's reactions.
That's awesome. Yeah? These are great ideas. Yeah. There's there's tons of little fun little purchases you can make anyway out there, but you're I want grabby hand.
I beg to differ. Aw. I do need a grabby hand. No one give her a grabby hand. Please, everyone.
No. Give me a grabby hand. No. Why did you Because I was just thinking, like, what if I walked out of the studio Oh. And people were, like, donating their used grabby hands.
And so then I got a plethora of grabby hands. No. So many. I only have two hands, but if I had, like, five, oh, man. Have you seen that, that T shirt that's got the T Rex on it, and he's got the grabby hands, and he says, I'm unstoppable.
No. No. I think it's fantastic because his little hands are now long hands. It's great. I want you to know that you ruined Emery's life last night.
Why? How? What did I do? You took her to back to school night. Yeah.
And then I met you guys there. Uh-huh. And then you had to leave, so she and I rode home together. And I said, how did it go? It wasn't there to see some of your teachers.
Oh, this is perfect. Do you know what Oh. I'm gonna say? I'm sure. I'm sure I ruined her life.
Go on. She goes, dad had an entire conversation with my teacher with a certain teacher, her pole vault Coach. Coach Yeah. And also used former English teacher. Right.
I also talked to her former math teacher as well, but that's fine. Go on. She didn't mention anything about that. No. I had a conversation with her too.
She was just so mad that you had an entire conversation. You wanna know why she's upset? Well, first of all, she's upset because you had the conversation, and how embarrassing that you have conversation with her teacher. Mhmm. How completely humiliating.
But then she said Let let me also say, like, I have had other conversations with her coach when we were at meets and stuff too. Like, I've talked to him before. Yeah. So it isn't like this was the first time I ever had more than a couple of minutes long conversation with him. Oh, but, ew.
Talking to your teacher at back to school night? Ow. Ow. Having your parents talk to your teachers? Oh, oh, so then she was mad at you because he said, oh, hey.
We're gonna have practice on Fridays. Yep. And you said, oh, that's fantastic. She doesn't work on Fridays. She can be there.
Yeah. This week. So yeah. Oh, yeah. I I totally threw her under the bus.
Life. Absolutely. Because she should have been at the last few points. Agree with you. And so he was he said, I'm probably gonna do practice, like, Wednesday or Friday.
He goes, I'm here anyway, so might as well. And I said, awesome. She doesn't work this week. And she went, I'm like, we'll get her there. She'll be ready.
That's what she told me to. I can't believe it. I can't believe he would have a whole conversation with him and then tell him that I'd be at practice. Yeah. Reading my life.
So terrible dad. I also one of her teachers this year is also the cross country coach. And I said, you should you should do cross country. She's like, I don't have lungs. And I said, yes.
You do. You got two of them just like everybody else. And she's like, I don't have lung capacity. I said, you'll work on that after you start training. It just takes practice.
It up. And I said she goes, I don't wanna run distance. And I said, it's not that bad. I I did it in high school. And she used to run distance in middle school.
That big a deal. That is. It's a good time. It's a good crew. I can't even believe you.
Yeah. Just out there ruining our child's life. I know. Having entire conversations with their teachers. You're gross.
I would have kept going too. She quit going to classrooms. But I was like, who else you wanna go see? Let's go talk to somebody else. Talk to anybody.
You wanna go meet the principal? Let's go talk to the principal. Let's go see what they're up to. No. Let's just go at home.
And then we had to fight with the locker for a little while. That was a whole thing, and, you know, they they made it difficult I don't know. My opinion. They're old. Those lockers have probably been there forever.
They're brand new? The locks on them are brand new. Yeah. Those are not old. The lockers themselves are in great condition.
They just remodeled. It's a whole thing. No. No. No.
I know that they've remodeled. They look nice. They don't look old. I just assumed that they were just old lockers that had been moved around. Nope.
Interesting. Mhmm. They I'm interested because they still have half lockers in high school. Yeah. I gotta have a big full one.
Why? Because we had them. I understand you had that, but why? I had full size locker too. Yeah.
But why? Why what? Why do you need that? There's so much unused space. Yeah.
That's true. Yeah. You only need half the locker space. Because you could put your backpack in the bottom. You can.
And then you could hang your coat on the back. If so It's just now that your coat and your backpack touch. Yeah. Come on. So a couple of weeks ago, Emery had to go work outside.
Right. And she was gonna be outside all day, and you did something very nice. And you filled up a three gallon jug of water for her. Yeah. It made her a nice, way to refill her water bottle.
She was gonna be outside for a lot of hours, and I thought, man, if I was gonna be outside for, like, an entire day, I'd wanna have nice ice cold water on tap whenever I needed to refill my water bottle. So I put that together and sent it with her, and she didn't take it. She didn't even use it. Nope. But it was nice of you.
But why didn't she use it? Was she embarrassed to take around a three gallon water jug where she was gonna set it down at a place she was working and then be able to check-in with it regularly? I think the idea was that she was gonna be embarrassed seen carrying it. Oh, boy. I don't okay.
So that three gallon jug of water got left in my car. That's right. Now my car has been kinda smelling when I get into it lately. And I go, I don't it smells like a little like sour milk. And I'm like, I know I didn't spill anything.
And, like Right. We haven't even gotten the groceries in my car in a long time. It's always been in your truck. Right. So I can't figure out what the smell is.
And then I looked behind me one day in the passenger seat, and there was a water jug. And I went, I bet that water jug spilled over. Sure enough, I go and look. That three gallon water jug was on its side completely empty. That's right.
Spilled. Three gallons in the back seat. I wanna know where it all went. I don't know. Like, it it had to have been sloshing around for a while.
You didn't hear sloshing? No. But I listened to my music very loud. You know? You covered up the sloshing sound, so now there is none.
You know that I initially heard the sloshing sound when I was taking her to work because you said this is not leak proof. So if it's if it spills, it'll it'll leak. Right. And I said, okay. So that first day, I did hear it slashing around a little bit, and I kept making sure, like, it was upright and then completely forgot about it that following day and days after.
What are you looking up? Well, I this person said I spilled a gallon's worth, water. Three gallons. I spilled a gallon's worth of water, in the back seat of my Toyota Corolla. Most of it was absorbed into the fabric flooring, but I have no idea where the water went.
So somebody said you should actually, like, try to see if you can carpet clean and get that water out of there because it's probably absorbed in there. Yeah. And it has potential to to mold that stuff. Yeah. Yep.
Somebody said, you know, on a hot day, leave the car outside in the shade. Let it dry out. Otherwise, you're gonna have to get, you know, dryers and fans and carpet cleaners and all that other stuff to kinda Air it out. Air it out. Okay.
Well, I need to do that before it starts getting chilly outside. That's right. You do. So I guess I gotta just, like, open up the doors, roll down all the windows, and just let that puppy air out. Yeah.
I touched the floor. The floor doesn't feel wet. Did you push down on it? Because it there's little grooves and stuff in the in the the floorboards where they like, where your feet go. There's little dips and stuff that the carpets are.
Those could all be full of water still. That's a lot of water. I know. Who gave me that three gallon bucket of water? No one gave it to you.
I gave it to her. She didn't want it and left it in the car. This is Emery's fault. You know what's funny is that the whole time you were filling that up, I go, she's not gonna take that. It's a really kind gesture, but she's not gonna take that.
And the second she gets in the car, I go, do you want your your water bucket that dad made you? And she goes, no. So I knew it was, like, a total waste of time anyway. Oh, well. And that's the whole thing.
It's just a waste of time. And now I have to dry out my car. What a waste of time. No good deed goes unpunished. I know.
Apparently. And all I was doing was trying to help hydrate. It was nice. It was a good gesture. Yeah.
Now go clean up my car. Okay. You went to buy some tires with our son over the weekend, and Emery and I were bored sitting there waiting, but you guys were our ride home. And so we just waited. And as we were sitting there waiting, there was a sign in cursive, and she said, I don't know how to read that.
And I said, let's have a cursive lesson. Right. So we sat down with some paper, and I taught her the cursive letters. You had trouble remembering a couple of them. Like the q, the capital q?
Yeah. What does that one look like? Like a q. Nah. It it does.
It's just a normal q. It's like a backward c with, like, a little curly q tail. I guess it depends on who you who you ask. But that's the thing about I don't know. Like, you learned cursive, and your teacher had all of those signs on the board when we were in school.
Yeah. There's there's several different handwriting styles. But then everybody makes it their own. Don't they? Yeah.
So, like, no two cursive cues are gonna look the same. But I'm looking at, like, several different styles, and almost all of them, it's just a normal cue. Now I I see one of them that kind of looks like the two that you're talking about, and it and it the two starts low, and it so it comes around like a full o and then does the bottom of, like, a round over two. That's the only one I see that, like, looks super number two like. The rest of them are a full circle the whole way and then the little queue.
Right? Little tail. Uh-huh. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
But I remember seeing vividly that flashcard on the teacher's wall. Yeah. And it was a, yeah, it was a backwards c with a little curly q tail Two. Yeah. It's That's the one I have.
Like that. Yeah. That's what I'm seeing. Interesting. A lot of.
I don't do my I don't do my cubes like that. Yeah. It does look like a two, but the the top part comes way closer down to the loop. What I need to do is find all of the letters. Like, I need some flashcards of them because mine don't look my cursive letters don't look like the flashcard letters.
Does that make sense? It does. It does. And they don't look like the fonts either. Like, all of the, like, scripty fonts are way different too.
And I feel like they changed these. Oh, no. There's that. This one's pretty close to what I remember as far as, all of the letters. Like, the f is right in here.
Yeah. The g is right. See, the d is is just a a a normal d, really. It's got a little bit of fanciness to it because that was the one I was trying to remember, and it's like that. Yeah.
But it's it's pretty much the same. Remember about the capital a is that it was just a bigger lowercase a. But then when I looked online at the car dealership, there was an a that was Like a tall stand up one? Yeah. Yeah.
I'm seeing it here as a as a big lowercase a. Yeah. For sure. How I remember learning that one. And the e looks like a backwards three.
The f is crazy. I don't know what it's trying to prove. It's not that tricky, actually, and I don't know why. I don't know. I don't know why we stopped teaching this.
Well, it's, it's coming back this year. Right? But then, all these kids, there's, like, gonna be a big gap in kids. Gap. Yeah.
Because they're not gonna how to do it. It's true. Because they were never taught it. And then when it got brought back, they were out of school by that time. Right.
And I They cheated. I write, you know, my own handwriting. Right? Like, I don't write in cursive. I just do my own thing, and it's a bunch of chicken scratch mostly.
I do a mix, which somebody told me is a serial killer way to write. Oh, great. I know. I because I do a little print, and I do a little cursive. I'm all caps pretty much all the time, in my handwriting.
And, and I I mean, it it's fine. It's it's legible. Like, you can read it. But you know, I your writing. I get a little bit lazy on when words are, like, long.
So I get some squiggles in the middle, and I go, I'll figure it out when I go to read it. And then I and then I find myself looking at my notes going like, what does that say? It says squiggles in the middle. Concourse? Concourse isn't even that long of a word.
Yeah. But, like, look how the u and the r are like one letter. Let me see. Concourse. Why are you writing concourse?
I'll explain all that later. But do you see the word concourse? How the u and the r kind of are one Yeah. Lumpy squiggle? Yeah.
I see that. Yeah. That's an example where I just get lazy. Yeah. It's it's it's just what you're you can tell when you start to write a little bit faster.
Yeah. Because I'm taking notes. Yeah. And then I go, concourse is a long word, and they're they've moved on. That's what happened.
None of this is in cursive, by the way. I said, I don't write in cursive. I know. It's crazy to me. All caps all the time.
Writing in caps all the time is crazy to me. Why? I don't know. That seems complicated. Oh, it's so easy.
You should try it. No. I won't ever because I like the way I write. Oh, okay. That's all.
Just fine. I mean, I'm not writing, like, you know, official documents over here. It's notes on a little tablet. If I wrote, it would take me forever to write in all caps. I'm not gonna do it.
Did you try it? Yeah. I wrote friendly in all caps. Oh, it's a good word. No.
I don't like it. I'm crossing it out. Let me see it. No. I don't like it.
What? I don't like the way it looks. Wow. Here. I wrote it again.
Yeah. I don't like it. That's cute. No. It takes me too long.
It looks so friendly. It's nice. This is your worst nightmare or one of them come to life. What? Remember, well, let's let's go through, one of your worst nightmares.
Give me one. I I can't remember. I was talking about this just recently to somebody. I go, that's my worst nightmare, and I can't remember what it was. But going to jail Yeah.
Okay. Is terrifying to me. Falsely accused and and ending up in jail. Yeah. That's that that's not this thing.
Okay. Being trapped somewhere. I don't like being trapped somewhere. Yeah. That that is part of this.
Oh, no. But there's more specific there's more specific fear in here. Okay. I don't know. Emergency responders were called to an elementary school on Saturday afternoon for a confined space rescue involving a 40 year old man stuck in a playground tube slide.
No. No. Yes. That is scary. I don't like enclosed water slides because that makes me feel trapped.
So there was, like, you're always afraid you're gonna get stuck, and then somebody's gonna come from behind and smack into you. They communicate between the top and the bottom of the slide. No. That's not what I'm afraid of. Send anybody back.
Afraid that I mean that it's stuck. And I have to scoot your way down. If somebody comes in and smacks me, they'll have enough force to shoot me back out of the slide. That's not what I'm afraid of. Okay.
I'm afraid of getting stuck in there and then having to wait and wait and wait to get rescued out. Alright. So let me tell you more about this guy stuck in the little tube slide. Upon arrival at the elementary school, first responders found the man wedged, get this, feet and head first. Oh, no.
Yeah. How did that happen? I don't know. What kind of slide is this? An enclosed little spiral slide down a playground.
What kind of playground is this? A normal, typical, everyday, run of the mill child's playground at an elementary school. How long is the slide? The one little twist. How to get stuck?
He went head and feet first. I don't I don't get it. I don't understand. They found him in that position in the middle portion of the slide. EMS personnel provided oxygen to the man who was in extreme discomfort due to the hot temperatures.
Ventilation was set up to help cool the space where he was trapped. One group of rescuers deployed tools for extrication, so they had to pull out the jaws of life to cut up the slide tube to get him out, while another used its aerial ladder to stabilize the section of the slide being removed to reach the man because once you take out the middle section, the structure is not great. The rescue operation successfully freed the man within thirty minutes of their arrival. I mean, that's I don't know how long you'd been there. That's a speedy amount of rescue time.
Was he by himself? Was he hanging out with his kids? What like, did he go, hey, kids. Let's go to the school. We'll go play in the slides.
School hours? Yeah. It was this was just on the weekend. It was Saturday. Oh, no.
So I don't know. Thought maybe it was a teacher. No. This is just a guy. Guy with there was a kid.
Pieces missing. Like, was he alone and was like, I'm gonna go down the slide all weird head and feet first because I haven't done that since I was a weird kid. But somebody would have watched a call and say, we got a problem. Yeah. Or was he with the kids, and he was like, guys, you gotta run home and tell mom I'm stuck in the slide.
Or maybe he had his phone on him, and he called 911 himself and went, I can't believe I'm calling you for this. I'm stuck in a slide. Anyway, after he got evaluated on the scene by EMS crews, he refused further treatment or transport to the hospital. He said, no. I'm good.
I'm just gonna go home and be embarrassed. Yeah. I'm just this story is gonna make national news. Oh, I'm not I don't mean to laugh because that is a that is one of my worst nightmares. Being just stuck.
That being wedged feet and head first in the middle portion of the slide. Like, I just don't understand what happened. You're gonna need that chiropractor appointment. You know what might have happened? Maybe he was showing off, and and so he was showing the kids.
He's like, no way. And he sat down to go down backwards. Feet and head first. Oh, maybe first. Not that still doesn't put you feet and head first.
I don't know, like, did he try to, like, touch his toes and then go down the slide like that? Like, I just I'm real lost on that position. Well, those tube slides are small. They're made for small human beings. So He would have been fine if he would have gone down in a normal slide position.
Yeah. Just But he folded himself like a sandwich. I think he folded himself and then just got And then he couldn't like, now he's been in trouble. Feet and head first. I can't get over that.
That's where he went wrong. His kids are never gonna let him hear the end of this. Like, oh, way to go. Feet and head first. That that should be his nickname from now on.
Feet and head first. I'm so confused. Oh, it makes my stomach hurt because I don't wanna ever get stuck on a slide like that. Well, he did it for you, so you don't have to. I never will.
And he's 40. So you know he's feeling it. That's what I'm saying. This Tuesday. This happened on Saturday.
He's still going, like, feet and head first. What was I thinking? I just don't understand. I'm so lost in how you do that. Like, figure it out.
Like, try. Try. Well Try to go down a slide feet and head first. You're trying to bend your body. You can't.
It can't be done. I was thinking if it was a water slide, it would be easy because sometimes there's a little bit of force. It'd be easier to go down feel and head first? Around. No.
It just kinda knocks you around a little bit. But if you're on a dry plastic slide Which he was. I don't understand how that happens because normally, it's like Yeah. It did that, and he was in their feet and head first when it did that noise. He was wearing cargo shorts.
That's not a great idea either. I'll blame it on the cargo shorts. That's why I'm saying he's he's got dad moves. Cargo shorts, feet and head first. He was showing off to the kids.
Watch this. His body went, no. You're not doing that. And then he went, uh-oh. Emery and I went school shopping this weekend.
And as we're in the mall, she goes, hey. I'm kind of parched. Would you like a refreshment? Which is something we hear every day. She Put her in the car.
Oh, are we getting a treat? Are we going to get a refreshment? And I said, there's not really anything here. And she goes, there's a Jamba Juice here. And I went, alright.
There is. And she goes, how about I buy a Jamba Juice? Let's go. Buying me some school clothes. And I went, I'm gonna take you up on that offer because Nice.
The amount of refreshments I've had to buy for that girl. And when do I get one? I don't know. Take her shopping. Okay.
So we're sitting in line looking at the menu, and, something happened. Emery calls it the self awareness Jamba mom. Oh, this is a new mom. There's many, many moms. Not me.
It's not you? It's not me. Oh. I feel like I've got some self awareness. Cell oh, say say again.
Self awareness. Self awareness. Jamba mom. Jamba mom. Who's the self awareness Jamba mom?
There was a mom in line with her kids. Yes. She jumped out of line. K. I don't for reasons unknown because we were focused on the menu we were trying to order.
She stepped directly in front of Emery and I. So in between us and the menu that we were looking at Okay. So this sounds like lack of self awareness. Okay. For sure.
Yeah. Or this is, like, no spatial awareness. There you go. Jamba mom. Yeah.
Okay. So she got in between you and the menu. She didn't know that you were there at all? I mean, we were two people standing there looking at the menu. Yeah.
And she just went right in front of I mean, like, I could've just without even reaching my hand out all the way, I could've just, like, poked her. You should've just tapped her and went Eri and I both looked at each other like a, okay. Okay. But Eri and I are both too polite to say any and what do you say? I don't know.
I would just say, oh, I'm sorry. Excuse me. We were just checking out the menu, and she probably would've been like, oh, I didn't even know you were there. Sorry. That's how you handle that.
So here's the other thing that happened then. You had spatial awareness Jamba mom or lack of spatial awareness Jamba mom, but then you had, avoids confrontation mom and daughter. Oh, yeah. We are we are those people for cheer. Yeah.
There was a a clashing of personalities. But I also was like, hey. I'm not I was here. I'm not moving. So it was like this awkward, like, I'm stuck.
You you know what you could've done is just moved a little bit closer and been like And breathed on the bed. Just been like, like, make a make a gross throat noise. And she'll be like, woah. Sorry. What happened?
These are things you can do to cause confrontation. I know. I don't wanna cause con. I want to avoid it at all costs. Yeah.
So then she kinda she's standing in front of us looking at the menu. Sure. And we're like, I I was also looking at the menu, but and so then she steps back almost into me, and I went, That's again when I would have gone. And then she went like, oh, and noticed that we were there. But didn't apologize, rather looked at us like we were the ones that had invaded her space.
And I went How could you? Oh. See Honey. You you should have made the see, that's a that's a noise you coulda done too. When she stepped in front of you and went, oh, honey.
Oh, honey. We can't see now and done one of those. See, that's passive aggressive mom and daughter. I do a lot of passive aggressive stuff. Right.
But do it out loud. See? Because you do it in your head. Yeah. That's because you want to avoid confrontation more than you want to be passive aggressive.
Mhmm. Mhmm. So you gotta let a little bit out. Just let a little bit out. Not all three gallons, just a little bit.
A little splash. And go like, oh, that's cute. Now you step back in line and almost stepped on my toes. Oh, I was also looking at the menu. Right.
Do it in that voice. It'll go over so well. Okay. So then get this. Okay.
Get this. So then we go order. Yes. We order our food. She goes, what's your name?
I go, oh, my name is Chantel. We step out of line to wait. They call my name, but it's like cookies or some kind of baked good because they were in a bag. Did she have the same name? Oh, we didn't order that.
And she goes, oh, it's a different Chantel. And it went that lady. No way. Yeah. That never happened.
I know. But I think maybe I don't know. Maybe they got messed up. I don't know. I don't know if she had the same name.
But I went I told Emery, I go, Chantels don't stand in front of people when they're trying to look at the menu. Sometimes self unaware mom does. Emery titled her Yeah. The self awareness Jamba mom. That's a good name.
Are you gonna talk about self awareness Jamba mom on the radio? Yeah. And I go, well, I have to. Right. It's my duty.
Good name. That's a good name. Well, I hope her name is also Chantel. That's fun. You do?
Yeah. That's cool. Is it? Yeah. How often does that happen?
Like, never. It happens. Like, never. It happens. Like, never.
This is going well. Have you ever lost, another adult human before? You at the store all the time. At the store? Yeah.
I lose you all the time. Oh, no. Because you wander off. I'm not lost. You're not lost, but I lose you.
You're the lost one. Alright. We've had this conversation before. I lose you a lot. I lost an HVAC man yesterday.
Not once, but twice. At my other job, it's an old building K. And the air conditioning units are on the roof. Okay. To get to the roof access, there's a long it's not that long, but it's a sketchy little metal ladder.
But it's like wall mounted. Right? Correct. And you just climb up through a hole. Yeah.
And the hole like, the door to the roof is heavy, and it's one of those Yeah. Like Yeah. Like a submarine. Yeah. Kinda.
Yeah. And it's heavy. And so the HVAC man, I called him. I said, hey. We're having some complications.
Man. We got some complications. Yeah. And he was up there for, at least three and a half hours. Yeah.
Wow. Three and a half hours. No word from him. And it's getting close to closing time. And I said, somebody's gotta climb up on the roof and go check him out.
I go, I'm not wearing the proper shoe wear. Oh, alright. I could never. My shoes won't allow I don't have really good balance, and you don't like me on ladders. I don't.
That's a different kind of ladder, though. That's securely attached to the wall. That's not a freestanding ladder, but I'm still afraid you might topple over. Yeah. I'm afraid I'm gonna slip for sure.
Well, especially an improper shoe. I know. So I had a coworker who said, I'll go do it. And I said, okay. So she climbs the ladder.
She's got her head poked out the roof door, and she shouts his name four or five times. And I'm shouts it shouts it loudly. She comes down and she goes, I don't he's not there. Did she just yell, HVAC man? No.
No. She shouted his name. HVAC man. We knew we knew his name. I know.
And so then I'm starting to worry because I'm like, did he leave and not tell us anything? And she's like, well, I could close the door. Like, he just left the door open. The roof door. Go all the way out there.
She did not go on the roof. Yeah. Because, again, she's not wearing she's we're not properly dressed to climb on top of the roof. We're dressed to wear the top of the office. Okay.
And I go, did you see any signs of him, like his tool bag or anything? And she's like, no. I go, did he just leave? I call him. He doesn't answer.
And so then I'm like, we gotta close. What what's the HVAC man doing? So he finally calls me back. He said, okay. I'm still up here.
I'm like, because I was afraid something had happened to him. Did he fall off the roof? Did he get heat exhaustion? He had been up there for hours. He calls.
I go, I'm so glad you're alive. I was starting to panic. He called from the roof? He called from the roof. Just down called your phone or just yelled down there?
I'm not No. No. No. He called me on the phone. He said, I'll be down in, like, five to ten minutes.
And I go, okay. I'm just happy that you're alive. I was really starting to panic. Yeah. Was he just sunbathing up there?
I don't know. I don't know. He's like, this is gonna be the greatest day of work ever. So then I close-up shop. The lights are off.
I'm ready to, like, bolt. We had back to school night. I was like, okay. Yeah. We got stuff to do.
Five to ten minutes. I'm gonna be a little bit late, but that's okay. Ten minutes goes by. Fifteen minutes goes by. Twenty minutes goes by.
We still haven't seen him. I go, what? I go, I'm gonna go check on him. I go upstairs. Roof door is closed now.
So I go, okay. He's down. But his tool bag is sitting on the floor upstairs where the roof access is. And I go, okay. Where'd he go now?
This is lost number two. Lost number two. And I'm shouting his name all over the place. Man? HVAC man?
No answer. Uh-huh. I'm like, where is this guy doing to me? What's he doing? Stop running away.
Did you find him, though? I finally I call him a couple times. He doesn't answer. He calls me back finally, and he's like, well, I had to go outside, but I was locked out. I'm like, why didn't you call me?
You have my cell phone number. Call me and say, I'm locked out. I go, I have your tool bag. And he's like, oh, okay. Okay.
I'll I'll come pick it up. I'm like, stop running away. Check-in with me. He's fine. He's alive.
Everything's okay? Everything's fine. Awesome. If you're an HVAC man Yeah. Check-in with somebody every now and then.
Right. Hey. I'm going on the roof. If you don't hear from me in two or three hours Come check on me. I'm probably just catching some rays.
I'll probably just be, you know, hanging out on the roof, checking out things. That's funny. Stop it. Well, I'm glad. Did everything get fixed?
Everything's working? Oh. You don't know? You didn't get a report? No.
I I didn't really get a report. Oh, good. So all of that. And you don't even know if HVAC man did his job? I did get a little bit of a report.
It's just gonna cost a lot of money. Oh, fun. But not my money. Well My company's money. Yeah.
That's the thing about HVAC, isn't it? It costs money. It's never good news. Not usually. If it isn't working and you call HVAC man, HVAC man's gonna come out and go, yeah.
It's expensive. And you go, oh. Oh. Thanks for letting me know. This is cool.
Listen to this story. There's a 30 year old woman named Rosie, and she noticed that her dad, age unknown, needed a hobby. Alright. She noticed that he has always loved sending her handwritten letters. So in July, she launched something called the dad letter project Okay.
Where anyone can request an encouraging letter from him. All you have to do is go to their website, dadletterproject.com. Okay. You fill out a form on the website and let him know what's going on in your life. It could be a breakup, a new job, maybe you're just struggling somehow, or maybe you're celebrating something.
Maybe you're like, I need some encouragement in this way. And he will send you a handwritten letter encouraging you That's very nice. About your journey. Yeah. I mean, if if you don't have somebody in your life, like, that's a big deal.
I know. And Other tasks. Don't even have, somebody in your life or maybe you have somebody in your life, but you're like, I they're not gonna do that anyway, but you want that. That's really a cool service. When's the last time you got a letter in the mail?
It's nice to receive nice mail. Always just get bills in the mail. Right. But a handwritten letter would be so lovely. Other dads saw the idea, and they're like, can we join too?
So there's other dads on the website too. There's four of them currently. But if you want to be one of these dads, there's also a link to apply to be one of the dads that writes a letter. That's cool. If you wanna write a letter or receive one, go to dadletterproject.com.
Well, that's a pretty great thing, and that's a it seems pretty easy. Mail that'll make you smile or cry in a good way, it says. Right. I think it's so cute. It is very it's very cool.
It's like a hug, but on paper, it says. A hug on paper. I think it's awesome. No. That's really cool.
I think that's way cool. What's the website? Dadletterproject.com. Alright. Well, hey.
If you got the time, go sign up. I am gonna do it right now. Encouragement. Spoiler alert. What?
You're not you're not a dad. No. No. No. I you can request to receive a letter from them.
You're gonna I That's what I'm doing. Need a dad letter. I see. I thought you were gonna sign up to write letters. No.
I may. I said, but you're not a dad. I'm not a dad. I mean, you're a great mom. Mom letters, is that a thing?
I don't know. Look it up. Okay. Alright. Is it time for would you rather this or that?
Time. Well, then, let's get to it. Let's do it. School edition still. Back to school edition.
Okay. Would you rather have a backpack that makes sound effects every time you open it? That aren't just No. Like a ouch. Oh.
Why is it gonna be so human? I Why can't it be like No. Like a cell phone ring or, you know, a a bunch of beehives? Why is it gonna be oi? It's that.
Okay. Because it makes me laugh. Alright. Every every time you unsip it, it makes a painful noise. Alright.
Or? Or a pencil that talks and just says, I'm just making this part up. On the spot? On the spot. Yeah.
So every time you write something with your pencil or pen, because you can't just use a pen Yeah. Anytime you use a writing utensil, it's, oh, are you sure that's the right answer? It's just it's gonna question you. What if as you're writing, it just reads out loud whatever you write Oh, or that. Including your mistakes.
Yeah. And then when you flip it over to erase it, it reads it backwards. That's annoying, but also kinda neat. Oh, you sure? I don't like it.
It's like, is that the right verb? Oh, no. You're pressing an adjective. Oi. Yeah.
That's but that would be, like, helpful if you were, like, trying to do grammar stuff. You forgot a comma. Don't forget to dot that I. No. It's not that.
It's not helpful. It's Yeah. It's just questioning everything you write. This isn't very good. Are you sure your name is spelled with a j?
Yeah. I'm pretty sure. Like, quiet down, pencil. I gotta open my backpack. Yeah.
No. These are terrible. I'll tell you. Here's the thing. I'm I'm gonna take the backpack.
Why? Because in school, I feel like I I was taking notes or I was writing way more often than I was opening my backpack. Right. You'd open your backpack once in the morning and once at the end of school. And I would I would end up carrying some of the more frequently used supplies outside of my backpack.
Right. Like a pencil, for example. What if you left something in your backpack accidentally and you're like, oh. In the middle of a test or one of those, group readings where they're like, alright. We're gonna we're all gonna read a paragraph, and then we'll move on down the line, desk to desk.
And right when it gets to you, you're like, oh, no. I left my book in my backpack. I got a oh, no. Sorry, everybody. It's just my backpack.
Like, what was that? Would you rather this or that? There's a woman in New York who's turning her apartment into a shrine to the Titanic. Oh, no. That's a thing that's happening.
Oh, no. Yeah. She's documenting the entire transformation online, and we're talking about everything from blue walls and blue carpet to mimic the ocean to a bunch of replicas, from the movie. There's, like, a metal gate to one of the hallways. Oh, no.
Yeah. Like, the little scissor gate thing. Yeah. Yeah. She said she is a huge fan of the movie, but the main reason that she's doing it is because she's bored.
I'm bored. So I can tell you my apartment into the Titanic. I mean, if that's what you're passionate about, go for it. I'm not here to judge you, but, there might be some poor taste. I think the the gate like, she put up portholes like these, backlit, like, windows, like, ship windows.
And then when you go into the, kitchen area, it looks like, you're going outside, and there's an iceberg in there. I'm not kidding. No. I'm not kidding. That's a that's a real thing.
I mean you can, you know, follow this person. If you wanna take a look at it, it's on TikTok, under Titanic apartment is the name of the Oh, see. Now I don't want to because now I feel like she's just doing it Oh, yeah. No. She's bored.
Likes. Yeah. No. She literally said, I'm just bored. I don't wanna give her that kind of attention, so I'm not gonna go check it out.
The So Is this a kitchen? I'm trying to figure like, there's this blue reflective, like, it looks like Mylar on the floor. So it looks like water icy water. And then there's, you know, like, ice structure to look like a Is she gonna put a big door on the floor? I don't know.
Maybe suspended from the ceiling? There's a lot of fabric in here. She's got some lights on, and there's a lot of fabric to make waves and stuff. Oh, there's even an actual replica of the Titanic in there. She's bored.
She said she literally said, I'm bored. I have nothing better to do, so I'm doing this. Okay. Alright. I mean It's a hobby.
She's been doing it for months, turning her New York City apartment into the Titanic one day at a time. And she's got, like, about 3,000 different videos of step by step what she's added, what she's doing. Thousand? There's there's over 3,000 videos, yeah, of how she's been transforming her place. And Yeah.
I don't want that in my algorithm, so I'm not gonna go look at it. But keep yours open because I do wanna see it. Oh, okay. Sure. Sure.
Sure. Sure. Yeah. Okay. We're gonna wrap up the show.
I gotta go turn the studio into the Titanic. Because I'm bored. Let's find some mods to do, bud. Let's get a different hobby. Okay.
I'm sure there's something more productive we could be doing. You think? Oh, for sure. Alright. Maybe.
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