Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
Josh decided to wake up annoying today, a dumb life hack with a watermelon, a 102 year old biker is Good News, a mother-in-law decided to bring her own cake to the wedding, a zoo in Demark wants to feed your animals to their animals, a new Vikings documentary has Chantel excited, our daughter bawled her eyes out last night when she finished her book, there's a new rope course opening in the Boise area and it looks rad, Josh did some sidewalk chalk art and impressed the children, whales are crazy, 90s back-to-school trends and some unresolved trauma, bacon vs glitter in Would You Rather, and a harmonica festival wrapped up last weekend.
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Feeding shadows
(2:18) - Josh is annoying
(5:28) - Watermelon on the vacuum
(10:25) - Good News
(13:01) - Mother-in-law's carrot cake
(18:09) - Denmark zoo
(22:03) - Vikings documentary
(28:05) - Sad books
(33:59) - Vertical View ropes course
(39:46) - Sidewalk chalk
(43:39) - Whales
(48:21) - 90s back-to-school trends
(55:43) - Would You Rather This or That
(58:05) - Yellow Pine Harmonica Fest + Outro
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Full show transcript:
There is a video I posted this morning on my TikTok @joshtielor, and, I posted it because, you told me to. You said, this is what you should be posting on TikTok. You've posted some weird things before, but the thing you showed me yesterday, I was like, now this is funny. Alright. So, went to lunch with our daughter, had to do some, running around some errands and stuff.
And we stopped at, McDonald's, and she got chicken nuggets, and she had a couple left. And the sun was really bright yesterday afternoon, and there was a truck parked outside, and the sun was reflecting off the windshield right into the restaurant. And it was super, super, super bright. And so it cast, like, perfect silhouettes of the people that were sitting next to us on the wall that was immediately to my left. And so, I decided it would be fun to play with the shadows, and so I started picking up food and my drink.
And, and the guy who was sitting right next to our daughter had, his head down. He was on his phone, and so it looked like his head was just stationary. And I kept feeding food shadows to his shadow face, and our daughter laughed a lot. So if you wanna see what that looks like, you can on TikTok. It's a it's a real thing I did.
It reminds me of do you remember that guy who would feed Ryan Gosling? Yeah. He wouldn't ever take food from the spoon. Yeah. Same same energy.
You're exactly right. But this guy didn't turn turn away. And at one point, I gave him a drink, and he kinda licked his lips a little bit. Oh. And that's when, Emery was like, I gotta film this.
I have to get this on video. Get the goods. Oh, there was some I mean, we've been doing it for a couple of minutes before I started filming, and we're having a good time. So, anyway, she kinda caught the end of it, before we kinda finished up our lunch. But I had fed him and, you know, give him drinks of soda and stuff.
And I would do it, and then I'd, like, wait. And then, you know, he he just sat there the whole time we were eating lunch looking at his phone, and so I just kept feeding him stuff. He looked hungry. Good job. Yeah.
Way to feed the silhouette. Yeah. Anyway, you can check that out on my TikTok @joshtielor. It's t-i-e-l-o-r. You ready to start today?
Let's check the show. Okay. Good morning. Oh, good morning. How are you?
I'm dandy. What was going on on the drive in this morning? What do you mean? Kinda, like, fast, but then you were, like, slow, and then you were, like, in this lane and then this lane. I got stuck behind a bunch of people.
I know. But, normally, you would, like, go around. Yeah. I know. But there wasn't room to go around.
There was slow people on both. I can't You can't even focus if you were Just grab the plug. Plug them in. Oh, that's funny. You were trying to pass me the plug for your headphones.
Yeah. But I thought it'd be funny to not, like, actually grab it and instead, like, just keep feeling for it. And so your hand is, like, trying to hand it to me over and over and over. That was funny. I was trying to hand hand it to you over and over and over, and then also trying to answer your question.
Right. My brain couldn't focus on both of those things. Right. That was weird how your brain couldn't do that. You're a big multitasker, so that short circuited you a little bit.
That's fine. Mostly, I was just mad that you weren't grabbing it. Couldn't find it. All he could find was the fingers. I don't know.
I was just doing this. Whatever this is. Just that's like a An annoying hand thing is what I was doing. Funny. It's like a octopus thing, like a squid Yeah.
Tentacles Except it's wigglier. Anyway, you were saying that you got stuck behind somebody or something. People in both lanes. Uh-huh. I was one of them.
And, normally, you would have, like, zipped in front of me, but you didn't. No. Nope. I just I didn't. You're right.
I'm just trying to understand because, normally, you're a little bit, zippier, so I didn't know what was going on. But okay. Oh, I got stuck behind people, and I was not happy. Sorry to hear that. We didn't talk about it yesterday, but yesterday was, chocolate chip cookie day.
Okay. And there's a plate of them. I know. And I forgot to grab some. They're so delicious.
I was just now thinking I would like one. Our daughter made cookies. Yep. She she's become a little chocolate chip cookie expert. Yeah.
She's very good at chocolate chip cookies. She's super, super good at it. I don't like it when she makes them. And she makes them just the right size so that you can eat six and not not realize you're eating six. Yeah.
She's good at it. Yep. Yeah. I know. I went, Emery, why'd you make these?
Like that. Is that what you did? Yeah. I said that. Okay.
It's the same noise you made when you were like, take my headphones and plug them in. Same thing. Well, hey. Good morning. We're here in the studio.
We'll be here all day. So good to see you. Do you wanna hear, one of the dumbest hacks ever? Oh, okay. Sure.
I don't know if this works. This is untested personally, but there are people who are claiming it does help. If you're worried that your vacuum is not picking up enough dirt Uh-huh. Put a watermelon on top of it. Put a watermelon on the vacuum.
Correct. Okay. Okay. They claim that it weighs the front of your vacuum down I'm not gonna use a watermelon. So that it'll pick up dirt.
The woman who first talked about it Uh-huh. Did it first with the carpet cleaner and said this works like a charm. I'm gonna try this on my vacuum. So you just toss a full uncut watermelon on top of your vacuum and vacuum like normal. Well, good for her.
Why don't you wanna try this? Because it doesn't have to be a watermelon. Have to be a watermelon. That's why. What would you use?
Oh, wait. Something flat, not something round. It's gonna roll right off as I'm vacuuming. They did say For starters. They did say you have to vacuum really, really slow.
Otherwise, it is just gonna roll off. Yeah. So Uh-huh. Mhmm. Wow.
Settle down. Not that it look. It's not a bad hack to put a weight on your vacuum if you don't think you're getting good suction. Yeah. But not a watermelon.
No. Was that the only thing this lady had around? What can I put on here that's kinda heavy? Something heavy. Oh, a watermelon.
Life hack. No. Yeah. But, again, as we know with these videos, it's just people do dumb things because the dumb things get the most views. So this actually might be a smart thing to, yeah, put a weight on it, but she's like, I could put a weight on it.
Smart way to get Internet likes. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. It's a terrible hack. The wait is a good hack.
Yeah. The watermelon. Is unnecessary. Unless you want those views. Which is not the point.
The point is to have clean carpet. No. The point is for her to get paid for posting dumb videos. I lost the point. I don't even know what the point is.
The point is, pick up those dust bunnies. Oh, okay. If the point is dust bunnies, put a weight on there. I Use a bowling ball. Do you see?
She just didn't have one around. A bowling ball? Gotta vacuum slow or else it'll roll right off. Use something flat. Or I just like that you're a toddler.
Have a toddler stand on it and hold on to the handle Yeah. While you vacuum. What if you don't have access to a toddler? Use a watermelon. Yes.
I don't know. In the fall, you can switch to a pumpkin. Oh. Oh. Genius.
Yeah. Come on. You were right. Bad hack. I told you that from the beginning.
It's not a good one. But now I kinda wanna try it with something. Why? Not a watermelon. Our vacuum works fine.
Yeah. It does. The thing. You know how, like, you're vacuuming and there's, like, that one tiny piece of paper? You could just pick it up, but you go over it a million different times with your vacuum.
And let's try it this way. Let's try it this way. Now let's go this other way. I could just pick it up, but, nope, I spent ten minutes trying to pick up that one piece of paper. I've not had that issue.
You've never had that issue? I didn't say never, but I've not had that issue with our vacuum. I do all the time. You got the thing lifted too high. No.
I put it down all the time. This is not my fault. It might be. Oh. Or you could just pick up the paper if that's that big of a deal.
Saying. I've not had that issue, but I don't know what to put the dog on it. The dog? She likes to bite the vacuum anyway. Yeah.
She might just sit on it. She might. Have you tried? No. I'd have to Put her in her little harness.
Oh. And she because she just freezes and stands there, and just put her on the vacuum. And she did she'll hate it. Maybe. She might love it.
No. No. And then every time you get up the vacuum, she's gonna be like, yep. Put me on the vacuum. Ready for my ride.
Ride. Yep. And then the whole thing's fixed because now she wants to ride the vacuum all the time. See? Done.
Good hack, Josh. Good hack. This year marks the eighty fifth annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. '85? Yeah.
Believe that? I did not realize it was that old. I didn't either. Eighty five years this thing has been going on. South Dakota's Black Hills, again, this year will become home to Sturgis and home to 109 year old Hazel Bomburger.
A 109? 109 year old Hazel, who happens to be the oldest living South Dakotan, met 700,000 other motorcycle enthusiasts when she rolled in on the back of a bike to join the fun in Sturgis. That's awesome. She has been attending Sturgis for decades. She was actually there for the first one in 1938 Really?
When she and her husband, Art, heard about dirt track races in the Black Hills, and they went to choke on the dust for a few days. Let's go see what that's about, and it's dusty. 1938. Mhmm. Since those days of simple dirt track races, the event has grown into a world famous biker party, and Hazel has been along for the ride visiting whenever she could.
Motorcycles fascinated her. This is according to her 79 year old niece named Sandra. She said, I don't even know why. She loves the chrome. She loves the noise.
This is her home. What's her name? Hazel? Her neigh Hazel is the, is the 109 year old. Yes.
Hazel Bomburger. Hazel. Mhmm. You're doing some good, cool stuff. Hazel.
This one right here. Get that girl a leather jacket. I'm sure. Already has one. There's no way she isn't full leather down.
Hazel? Vroom vroom. Actually, I'm looking at a picture of her, and she's wearing a nice polo. So on the back of the motorcycle. So she likes the wind in her hair, and it is perfectly permed.
Does she wear a helmet? You know, I'm gonna tell you right now, I'm not seeing a helmet on Hazel. Hazel. She should be wearing a helmet, in this photo, and they and they are stopped. It looks like they are, parked.
But I do not see a helmet on the person driving the bike, and I do not see a helmet on Hazel. Shame. Shame. Shame. I just see her wind blown 109 year old hair.
I guess if you're a 109. I guess. Anyway, it's good news. Congrats, Hazel. Hazel.
This story that I'm about to tell you is quite a ride. Oh, okay. There's a wedding happening. Okay. It's the bride's big day.
K. Everybody's there. Everybody's hanging out. Things are going on. Ceremonies happened.
We're hanging out at the reception, getting ready to have cake, and the mother-in-law walks up to the microphone. Oh, no. And she says, that cake is too dry. Slaps her homemade carrot cake in a Tupperware down on the table and says, you're welcome. What?
Yeah. And that's it? Hold on. Okay. I mean, there's more I hear to the story, but this is it.
Like, this is this is where the mother-in-law said, I told you that cake was gonna be gross, and you didn't listen. And so she brought a Tupperware container with her homemade carrot cake in it, dropped it on the table, got on the microphone, and said, that cake is too dry. Clunk. You're welcome. And according to wedding guests who've shared the story online, people legitimately started eating the carrot cake.
One groomsman says, yeah. This is better than that cake. The bride walks out. The groom follows. The mother-in-law smiles like she won.
The person who posted said the bride didn't speak to her mother-in-law for months. And things are better now, but the couple has since banned unauthorized desserts at family events. And, yeah, the Tupperware cake is still a sore subject in the family. Well, okay. Yeah.
Of course, it would be. It doesn't matter, mother-in-law. It's the daughter's day. Like, it's her wedding day. If that's the cake she went with, that's the cake she went with.
That dry cake cake. Cake is dry. Sorry. You gotta deal. You gotta deal with it.
But why? Here's my homemade carrot cake. It doesn't You're welcome. Matter. It's not your day.
It's not your day. Take your carrot cake. Welcome. No. And for you to stand up and make it all about you I know.
That's Right. No. No. I think you should try that carrot cake. It might be really good.
It doesn't even matter. The other thing. I wonder if she was like, why don't you just have me make the cake? I make great cakes. I'm sure she did.
But that's not the issue. Bride's like, no. We're gonna go with this other cake. That's fine. That's the bride's choice.
She went with it. You eat the dry cake, and you don't get a microphone and bring your own cake to the wedding. If she brought her own cake and just put it on the table she was sad at Yeah. Fine. And started eating it with a fork.
Fine. That's fine. It's the it's the standing up and saying that cake is awful. It's the standing up good cake. You're welcome.
Making it about you, doing a I told you so I mean, it's really about the cake. No. It's not about the cake at all, is it? I feel like it is. No.
It's about it's about a look. I'm right, and you're wrong, and I'm gonna show you in front of all of your friends and family. Yeah. And that's tacky. I don't like it.
I wanna try this cake. I don't. I think this cake sounds nice. I got you a carrot a carrot cake for a wedding is weird. Unless it's, like, the best.
Yeah. I know. But it's still weird. It's a good cake. Carrot cake is very particular.
It's only a particular amount of people who like carrot cake. You think so? You wouldn't feed that to a crowd of people. I would. I bought you It's delicious.
I bought you a carrot cake once. Yeah. And it was good the first day, and then the second day, it tasted like paint. It was weird. The frosting tasted like paint.
Yeah. We had, like, a couple of slices, delicious cake. Then? Not good. Good cake.
No. I wonder if the lady who lived above us was trying to poison us. She didn't make the cake. No. I know.
Maybe she had access. We weren't home, and she came and put paint on the cake. She did not like us. That's for sure. I know.
I'm a get rid of these two. Put cake on their paint or paint on their cake. You know what I'm saying. I get what you're saying. Yeah.
Anyway, alright. Well, I guess you're on the side of the bride on this one then. I'm on the side of the cake. I I'm not on the side of the mother-in-law. I think the behavior is bad, but they should have had better cake.
Well, maybe they should have, but that's not your decision to make, is it? You go and you go, this cake is dry, but Yeah. It's free cake. Okay. There is that.
I didn't pick it. Was the carrot cake. It's not my wedding. This is the cake the bride went with. It's kinda dry, but whatever.
Free cake. Free cake is free cake. It's true. You have a point about the free cake. I didn't pay for the cake.
Yeah. So you do. Alright. Alright. Alright.
Have you heard this story? There is a zoo in Denmark who wants people to donate their small pets to them. Alright. But why? Not to be exhibits in the zoo, but to help feed No.
Some of their larger No. Animals. Way. Yeah. We.
No way. That is terrifying. Yeah. People are not pleased with that. Not happy with this.
Said, listen. We're not we're not talking like we don't want your sick pets. We need healthy pets. No way. No.
That's you've made this worse. And they said, okay. Okay. We're not even talking about your dogs and your cats. We're talking about your hamsters and your guinea pigs and your rabbits and your small horses and your chickens.
No. I know. I know. I read the story yesterday, and I went, no. Denmark Zoo.
Don't do this. This is not nice. They said that some zoo animals, including big cats Yeah. Should be eating animals whole, fur and all, and it's what they would eat in the wild. So it's better for them.
Look. I'm not a zoologist, but I don't think this sounds right. I don't think this is it either. And if you're having a problem feeding the animals, perhaps you shouldn't have a zoo. Exactly.
Exactly. Exactly. I don't think you go, hey, community members. Over here at the zoo, we want them to have real organic meat. You know?
We want them to, like, chase stuff around. So bring them some stuff to chase around. Not please. No. But there are some people who are like, hey.
This is not a big deal. Like, you people that are upset are just soft and naive. This policy makes sense. Look. I get it.
It's a tiger. It's a lion. It's a wild animal. It shouldn't be in a zoo. Correct.
I mean, step one. Step one. But if it is because it's, like, a rescued animal or there was some reason that it was, you know, necessary to put it into captivity, you gotta keep that animal alive. That animal is not out in the wild anymore. Right.
And that's that's So don't let it cosplay as a wild tiger. It lives in a zoo now. It doesn't need to have that experience. The zoo said, look. Look.
Look. Look. We promise we're gonna gently euthanize your pets. No way. I don't know.
Way. I know. I know. No way. I know.
I saw it, and I went, this can't be real. And I did some digging, and I went, oh, no. Yeah. It's real. This zoo, it's the Aalborg Zoo in Northern Denmark.
Boy. So if you are upset, contact me. Or hearing a lot about it. I'm sure they are too. The the comments that I read online were people are not happy.
Yeah. I imagine they're not. That's so sad. It's so sad. And they said small horses.
So it said they'll accept pets sorry. Rabbits, chickens, guinea pigs, and small horses. No. That that's just my one answer. I know.
It's terrible. Yeah. No. No. No.
No. This is kinda old news. Alright. I just found out about it. So it's new news to me, but it's big news.
Old And Old news, new news, big news, and? Exciting news. Excite I had to look exciting new to you old news. I had to look it up to see if it was actually real because there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of false information I got you. On the Internet.
K. So I had to look it up. It is true. They are Netflix. Netflix?
Is releasing a documentary Okay. Series Uh-huh. About the Minnesota Vikings Really? Titled Vikings, the legacy. Okay.
So let's let's talk about this. Let's talk about it. When was this announced? I think it was announced in March. Old news.
That's what I'm saying. News to you. You're a big Minnesota Vikings fan. Yes. Big news.
That's what I'm saying. Are we going back to the beginning of the team? Yes. It's going to dive into the team's history Alright. Highlighting their successes, challenges, and iconic moments.
So why did they pick this team? Because what other team would you pick? I don't know. One of the other 31 available teams. The Vikings have been around for a long time.
And Yeah. They've been to the Super Bowl how many times? Not enough to win as many as other teams. That I honestly, as a new Minnesota Vikings fan new. I mean, three years.
I'm three years in. The Vikings have appeared at four Super Bowls. I was gonna say that. It's not that I mean, it's more than some, but it's not that many. They haven't won any.
They have never won one. That is correct. They have never won one. Okay. It's also going to feature insights from players and coaches and fans.
They wanna capture the team's legacy and the impact on their community. It's supposed to be released in late this year Mhmm. On Netflix. Team isn't even that old. Who would you pick?
I'm just say look. I'm I'm not there's there's plenty of talk about other teams. My my point is it seems strange to just randomly pick the Minnesota Vikings. I think. They the team formed in 1960.
They're not that old. So? Okay. That is when the franchise was founded. Who's the oldest team in the NFL?
I just looked it up. Do you wanna take a guess? Sure. Take a guess. I was gonna say the Green Bay Packers.
It's not. Okay. Is it, like, the Giants? No. No.
It's the Arizona Cardinals. Really? Yeah. In 1898. Yeah.
Did you just look it up? Yeah. I did. That's wild. I wouldn't have guessed that.
Not even kinda. Because, they they were a part of the Morgan Athletic Club in Chicago and became a charter member of the NFL in 1920. So, really, that's when they joined, I mean, the NFL, 1920. Or I would have said probably, the Lions would have been one of those students too just because it feels like the Lions been around for a long time. Well, so the NFL started in 1920.
That is that is when it very first started. Yeah. And what were some of the teams? That's what so that's what I was curious because there were like, the the NFL and then there was, another league. Was it the AFL?
I can't even remember. No idea. And then they combined forces, and that's when they became what they are today. Okay. Okay.
I found out. 14 teams. So the Arizona Cardinals, they used to be the Chicago chargers. Okay. And the Chicago Bears.
Yes. Those are kind of a lot of the new the old teams. Who were the Decatur Staley Yeah. When they first started. Yeah.
Arizona Cardinals, and then, yeah, then you had where the where the rest of these? The Acron Pros, the Buffalo All Americans, the Canton Bulldogs, the Chicago Cardinals, the Chicago Tigers, the Cleveland Tigers, that's a problem, the Columbus Panhandles, the Dayton Triangles, the Decatur Staley's, the Detroit Herald's, the Hammond Pros, Rochester Jeffersons, Rock Island Independence, and the Muncie Flyers. Do you wanna watch the trailer No. For the history of the Minnesota Vikings? Really?
Why? Are you gonna watch this show with me? I don't know. I don't know if I will either, honestly. And I'll tell you why.
If you're gonna turn it on, it's gonna be a sports documentary, and you're gonna go, no. It's not this. Because it's not what you're in football for. I hear you. You're not in it for, like, and then the coach changed the the game.
No. I'm lucky. Oh, really? That they are doing this because they had such they've had such success with quarterback and, things. Yeah.
I understand they're trying to ride the football hype, but that's why I'm like, why did you pick this team? I was like, it's fine. It's a fine pick. It's because they they looked at the algorithm and went, there's this lady in Idaho who really likes the vikings. I know.
Yeah. That's the thing. Trendsetter. So they're like, we gotta we gotta make sure Chantel has what she wants because she'll talk about it for forty five minutes. Yeah.
And you have. Good publicity. Yeah. But it didn't pay you for it. I got you Netflix.
Yeah. Yeah. And Vikings. Right. Okay.
Skull. Alright. You and our daughter need to get it together. Oh, we're we got it together. Okay.
It's together. Is it? Yeah. Okay. Why do we need to get it together?
Well, we decided as we were sitting on the living room couch hanging out with the dog that we were gonna go bug Emery Right. Because she was missing out on the fun. And so the three of us, you, me, and the dog started walking down the hall. You went to her bedroom door, knocked, opened up the door. She is, reading a book, and she is starting to, like, well up in tears.
And you immediately said, nope. Nope. We're not going in there. She's reading a sad part of her book. We'll come back later.
I know what this is. I know what this is, and you walked out and shut the door. And then we started doing other stuff, whatever. And, I don't know, fifteen, twenty minutes later, she came out of her room sobbing in tears. She had finished her book, the saddest book.
She is, crying, sort of laughing through tears, and saying that it's the dumbest thing she's ever read and that, she can't wait to start the second book. Right. Which is from the perspective of the other character. Right. There's, like I I don't know the story line.
Two characters, and you're gonna read it now, so do I get to see this twice? That is that's fun. So but but there are two characters. The the story that she just finished is told in the perspective of the one, and the other book is the completely other side of the thing, I guess. Yeah.
Whatever. I don't know anything about these books. These are books that she found on her own. She's been reading them, and it's very sad, apparently. Apparently?
But I told her. I said, I've been here. I've done this. I've read a lot of sad books. Right.
But, typically, I like to do my crying in in private. You you said, you had told her that one time you finished a book, and you just sat and sobbed on the bathroom floor after you finished it. Yeah. I don't know if it was on the bathroom floor. Yeah.
But I remember I just went to the bathroom because it was a place with privacy. Right? That one fish, two fish? I cried at that one. Did you?
No. No. At the bathroom door, I knew that people would leave me alone, and I was like, I just need some I just need some time alone. And I just went in the bathroom with it. Books are sad.
I've read a lot of sad books, and they hit you in the core. They hit you in the guts sometimes, and you're like, because you love these characters, and you've spent time with them. Yeah. You know their backstory. You know their history.
They're like your friends. Got it. They're your friends. And then they die. Book friends.
Yeah. Or or they something happens to them or whatever. Yeah. No. I get it.
I understand. So when I walked in and saw her reading quietly Yeah. With tears in her eyes, I went, no. She's she needs some alone time right now. Yeah.
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna spoil anything, but I know you have a a a coworker whose family is going through the Harry Potter series. Yeah. And at one point, you got a text that said our house is not okay. Yeah. They're on the last book.
Yeah. And things are not good. Things are not okay in the house. So it's a thing. I get it.
You're not good. I totally get it. Yeah. I was gonna say Hey. I know the stories out there.
I just don't wanna I just not everybody's read it. Right. There are still people who are getting surprised by some of the things that happened. That's why I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say anything. I don't wanna I don't wanna ruin somebody's whole story, especially if you're trying really hard to avoid spoilers.
It's it can get tough. So, anyway, I get it. She was having a moment. You've had moments before. I've had lots of moments before.
Make you have moments. I told her that. I go, I'm gonna read this book, but I've been reading a lot of sad books lately. So I need something a little lighthearted. I'm reading an autobiography right now, which I know is going to take a turn.
And not not, like that, but it's going like, I know this person, and I know enough about this person's story that I know there's gonna be a moment in this book where I go, I don't wanna read this part. Which part specifically? The part where he's diagnosed. It's gonna be very, very challenging, I'm sure. Because it's gonna build up through all this, like, I was a kid in an, you know, in a air force family, and my dad was an engineer.
We lived in the desert, and it's all you get to know everything in, you know, very good detail. Like your friend? You're gonna read the parts that you know are down the coming He becomes your book friend. I know. And then you go, no.
I know. How could you do this to me? And then you get mad at the author, and you go, I can't believe you just did that. Why did you do that? That's what I'm saying.
It's gonna be tough. Now the cool news is that I do know that he survives it because he's still around today. Right. So you have a happy ending. And you know that your ending is gonna be happy.
It's a nice memoir, though, and I'm I'm I'm sad I didn't get to read last night. I'm actually happy because it's been a long time since I've seen you read a book. It's been a minute. Well, I read two books earlier this year. Fishing books.
Yes. It still counts. I still read two books. Couldn't put them down. Read them both in one day.
Those are sad too because those fish get caught and released Sometimes. And they go back and tell their family about their cool adventure. Sometimes they get hot and eaten for dinner. Sometimes they become food for eagles that you get to watch on camera. That's what happens.
That's true. Maybe the Denmark Zoo isn't all wrong. No. Don't. That Denmark Zoo, Terrible.
You have done a high adventure that I have not done. Do you know this? You know this. Well, yeah. I know this because that's my middle name is danger.
So yeah. Okay. Alright. You have done, an elevated ropes course. Yes.
And Well I I get sort of. You attempted, but you've done that adventure. Yes. You've climbed the ladder. You've done some things.
You've zip lined. You did some stuff. Yes. And I have not done that particular high adventure. It's a challenge.
It's a personal challenge. You've gotta get over some stuff in your head. You gotta, like, get through shaky legs. You gotta do some crazy stuff. Yes.
And it's this course is, like, 30 feet off the ground. So you're up there, Oates. Mhmm. And you're traversing from, like, pole to pole with different, bridges and different rope challenges to, get yourself from point a to point b around this course. Right?
Yes. Fair? Yes. That's that's the whole the whole thing? Uh-huh.
I have not done that. It's terrifying. Is it? Yeah. Yeah?
Yes. Okay. There is a place opening on Friday in Meridian. Really? It is called Vertical View.
They have an indoor rock wall and stuff. Okay. They are opening a ropes course on Friday, and this looks awesome. I like rock climbing. We haven't been rock climbing in a long time.
It's well, I went, a couple of months ago, but I just belayed. I didn't climb. I stayed on the ground. But but I I enjoyed that part too. That's fine.
I like helping people and motivating them to get up the up the wall, building a trust. It's a there's a there's a lot that goes into rock climbing, in that way. But this course looks awesome. I would love to see something like this. Yeah.
In East Idaho. So if you go go to, verticalview.com K. And you can see, their stuff. They also have a Facebook page. That's where I'm looking at.
Video. Do it? Absolutely. Okay. Absolutely, I would do this.
Are you sad that you haven't done it yet? I kind of am. A little bit, sad that I haven't done the ropes course, but this this is cool. So what they've built, this thing is it's all built out of metal, and it it has a big, like, sun awning over it. It's huge.
It is. It's Very light. Huge. And it has over 80 different obstacles, for you to traverse. And, again, it's all safety stuff, two points of contact, cargo nets, ladders, like, all the stuff you would expect from a ropes course.
Big challenge. And it is a personal challenge experience. And when you're done, you get to zipline down off the thing, which I think is a ton of fun. Well, that's the reward you get for That's exactly right. And then I did go ziplining.
I spent, a week in Costa Rica, and I did get to go ziplining through the rainforest canopy. So I've done that, which was unreal. Like, absolutely amazing. This is a whole different level. Okay.
Well, they had okay. A couple years ago, we went to that place in Boise called Wahoo's. Wahoo's? Yeah. They have the little indoor.
They have a small indoor one. Did you do that one? Yes. A lot. I I went all over that thing.
Yeah. And that one's 10 feet tall, maybe 15. It's half the height. Okay. But still Yeah.
You're up there a little bit. Yeah. And that can be that can be a situation. This one, you're up way high. You're not afraid of heights?
Not in this instance. Like, not where I have a harness and stuff. Where I know I'm secure, I'm all good. Yeah. I'm not afraid of heights either.
I just sometimes don't trust myself. I get that. I trust the equipment, but I There are situations where I go, I should not be this close to the cliff edge. Right. Like, there are times, like, even even, like, a 10 foot drop, I go, what am I doing?
Like, back up, dude. But I'm also, like, super I'll find a way to mess it up. I will. I'm klutzy. I'm clumsy.
So it's But that's okay. Even the best equipment can't save me from myself. I mean, you think you can get up that rope, the the rope net to get up to the top to start? Probably not. Yes.
You can. The rope net? Why is it a net? Yeah. Have you seen the thing?
No. I can't. Like the one they have at, like, kids' playgrounds. It's, like, just the white little, square cubes for your feet in your hands, and you just climb the rope ladder. It's just a big net.
Okay. Well, that's how I got up the last time when I did this. You did the net or you did the ladder? The ladder. Like a and the ladder is an interesting thing because you think you wanna you wanna climb it like a regular ladder, but you don't.
But you can't. You can't because the thing swings. Because it's swinging. So you have to, like, climb the side of it Yeah. Which is something you don't even know.
That was a struggle. Was it? Yeah. Yeah. Or, like, you could have picked there was three options when I did mine.
You could pick that rope ladder. Or the giant ladder. You could pick the giant ladder. No. Because of the reach.
You have to reach real high. Is that what what was preventing you? And then the other way was just to get belayed up. Right? They'd pull you up.
No. No. No. There was another challenging way. Oh, what?
Oh, it was that vertical one. I don't remember. It's like the, anyway. I think it's cool. I would like to do it.
Let's go check it out sometime. I mean, it's, you know, it's only a four hour drive. No. But we have people that we know that live there. I understand.
And it opens on Friday, so it's gonna be packed anyway. But, if anybody wants to build one of these around here, I'll go. I'll go too. Somebody should. It's a very cool thing.
It is cool. Anyway, that's all I have to say about that. Terrifying and cool. Yep. It's two two two things of fun in one.
Yeah. So we were at my family's over the weekend Yeah. And you happen to see some chalk laying on my sister's sidewalk that her grandkids play with. That's correct. And you said, I'm gonna draw a scene.
And you drew an underwater scene. And then I said, well, I wanna get involved with this. And I drew the only thing I knew how to draw under the sea, which is a crab. And then when I first grabbed the chalk, you said, oh, are you gonna draw a pig? Listen.
Because that's the really the only thing I know about. A pig and an elephant. Those are your two doodles. They they're your go to doodles. Those are my go tos.
And an elephant. Yeah. Which is great. There's a whole book series about a pig and an elephant. That's true.
Figure out the pigeon, and you're good to go. That's somebody else's idea. I'm just saying you got two thirds. You might as well just copy the whole extra third and be done with it. Here's what really happened.
I was loading things into the truck, and I kept having to step over the box of chalk that was laying on the sidewalk. Okay. And I and there was a piece that was out in the driveway by my truck, and I picked it up because it was like, I don't want the the kids to run out and try and grab it out of the parking lot area. Uh-huh. I'll just move it with the other stuff.
And And as I was walking back with it in my hand, I went, I'll draw something. So I drew the octopus first Okay. Just by itself. And I was like, that was fun. And then I went back inside to continue loading stuff.
Just did a little doodle. And then, we were kinda standing around as we were getting ready to leave, and that's when it was like, well, there's just this one octopus sitting here. We should probably draw some more. So we started drawing some watery plants, and then Emery was like, I'm gonna draw a fish. And she did the whole triangle, you know, simple little fish.
And then I was drawing fish with her, and she was like, I don't like that one. And she tried to erase it by scrubbing it out with her hand. So then there was just a white shadow in the water scene. And then you were like, I'll draw the crab. I got the crab.
And that's when that happened. And then we had to try to figure out how many legs a crab had Yeah. Because you wanted it to be correct. And then, and then you drew a pig. Yeah.
Just because you were teasing me about it. I was like, well, I'm gonna draw an underwater pig too. And so you did. This morning, I got a text. The grand piece But that I drew the big astronaut too.
That's right. That I drew, like, the big life size astronaut on there. Why'd you draw an astronaut in the ocean? It just came to me. It it wasn't associated with the ocean.
Oh, okay. It was just a big astronaut. Okay. I I like the helmet. So the grandkids showed up this morning Mhmm.
And my sister sent me a text and said they were going nuts about what you drew with chalk. And she she said, I don't know what she was saying because she's two. Okay. And so she was just kinda babbling, but she was loving it. And I said, but what did she say about the crab?
Yeah. How did she feel about that? Because the text was they were going nuts about what Josh drew with chalk. Mhmm. What did she say about the crab?
Specifically about the crab. And I don't think did they say anything? No. No. I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to steal the thunder with the with the big astronaut and the octopus and all that. It's a good crab. It was a good crab. It was a good crab. You gave up on the one claw.
I And I'm gonna tell you, you didn't. That claw, I liked better than the other claw. Really? But what happened is because you drew the jaggedy parts of the claw. Yeah.
And then all you do is do the arches over the top, and you woulda had a perfect claw. But you you thought you had drawn it wrong, and you didn't. You just didn't put the rest of it together. That was a good looking claw. Thank you, Josh.
Yeah. Wow. Thank you. You're welcome. Get a load of this.
Okay. Humpback whales Sure. Are out swimming orcas to play what they're calling underwater superhero, and no one knows why. Okay. Hold on.
They're so humpback whales are much larger than orcas. Correct. So, seals are, like, hunted by orcas. Correct. And while they're being hunted lately in this this specific area, humpback whales show up.
And over 100 times, scientists have watched these humpback whales rescue animals that aren't in their species. So seals, sea lions, even fish. The humpback whales will come up and body block the orcas, or they will lift their prey out of the water on their backs, and sometimes they'll charge the orcas just to break up their hunt. Okay. And they're getting nothing in return.
Like, they they don't they don't eat these animals. They don't Yeah. There's no reward. The researchers are baffled. They're like, what is the deal?
What's going on? Real strong theory. And if it's true, it's really genius because the humpbacks would be playing a long game to protect future generations of humpback whales. So the current theory is that the humpback whales are trying to train the orcas to stay away. They're gonna they're by doing this, they're telling the orcas, you aren't going to be able to get food when you're around us.
You're not gonna get seals, and you're certainly not going to be able to get our humpback calves, which is what they're also hunting. And so by making like, you mess with their food, they're gonna go, we can't go where humpbacks are because they are gonna push away our food every time. So it's a it's a weird that the humpback whales are thinking like this, but what do I know? I'm not a humpback whale. They could be geniuses.
The story that I was reading just thinks that it was, like, a level of empathy that they didn't quite understand. So it's more like they because they're not they don't care about the seals. They don't hunt the seals. They don't hunt the seal or hunt the sea lions. Right.
Yeah. The humpback whales don't eat those. They they eat, like, creole and stuff. The other part. They're even spotted traveling long distances just to intervene.
Yeah. I think they're doing it as a strategy to teach the orcas stay away from the humpbacks because we're gonna mess with your food. And and that is diplomacy. Like, that is that is a a really interesting way to say, don't mess with us. Like, there is actually, like, documentation.
A pack of orcas killed a baby humpback, and they, like, consumed it in front of the pack of humpbacks. And that's not cool. No. Like, really not cool. The herd of humpbacks, whatever they're called.
Yeah. And, and so if there's anything I know about dolphins and whales and and, you know, these types of marine life is that they hold grudges and they seek revenge. Like, they sink boats in the ocean because somebody attacked a wave. Right. Like, they're not forgiving people.
So this could really be, this could really be a revenge thing to say, yeah. We're gonna mess with your food. Don't ever Don't come in our area. Ever come near the humpback babies again. I didn't think that they were hunting the humpback calves.
Yeah. No. My article Orgas eat baby hunkbacks, and that's not I did see that. Yeah. My article, though.
There is a long standing rivalry between all other whale species and orcas. Oh, shoot. Yeah. There's some whale drama in the ocean. The orcas are kind of the bully.
Yeah. It sounds like it. They're kinda the everybody goes, look at how cute they look like pandas. They're black and white. How cute.
And with the rest of it. Willie. Yeah. Michael Jackson on the big rock with the wave. Oh.
Yeah. You know. Oh. Yeah. That's it.
I don't even think that's the right song, but you're doing it. You got the name. Yeah. That's it. Yeah.
That was the part that was the part that finally kicked in. Right. I don't know the words. Nuh-uh. I got some bad news for people.
School is coming up soon. That's bad news? I mean, there's a lot of kids that think that's very bad news. I see. Bad news for the kids, but I think exciting news for the parents.
A lot of parents are pretty excited. Yeah. What was the in thing Oh. When you I know there was lots of years we went to school. What was sport backpack.
Okay. That was, like, the thing. And it had to have the brand. It had to have the JanSport backpack. I still have mine.
It's yellow. I had a green one. But that was the thing. Did you have the leather bottom? Yes.
See, you had the fancy one. I know. I was very rich. I know you were with your fancy Canadian water and your Disney Channel and your leather bottom JanSport backpack. I always thought it was pretty cool when kids would roll up with that giant mega pack of crayons with the pencil sharpener in it.
The 64. Yeah. That was a big deal. With the crayon sharpener in it. Oh, man.
When you saw a kid pull up with that, you were like, oh, man. You got the good crayons. Those were good ones. If if anybody had Crayola and didn't have, like, RoseArt, they were already on a good on a good start. You know?
Like, oh, you got the real crayons? Yeah. Rosehart. Man. Trapper Keeper's in my day.
That was pretty sad. And if it was a Lisa Frank? No. Trapper Keeper? No.
No. No. It's too real. I don't know that Trapper Keeper did Trapper Keeper do a collab with Lisa Frank. Lisa Frank?
I don't know that that happened. I think Lisa Frank made her own version Okay. Of Trapper Keeper. I don't believe you had official Trapper Keeper. I think you had Lisa Frank's name.
Let me tell you about the Trapper Keepers that I loved. They had, like, the, fish eye characters on them. So there was, like, a surfer dude. Oh. There were there were some with, let me see if I can find the one.
I'm just looking for it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right there.
There's a vintage one, and he's surfing, and he's holding on to a shark fin. Woah. It's very cool. He looks like Guile from Street Fighter. He's got that big blonde spiky hairdo, flat top.
You know the one. I do exactly know the one. Yep. There was also the skateboarder one. There was the no rules version.
No rules. Those were the ones the the no fear. No fear was a big deal. Yeah. No fear.
No fear. I I think I still see people rolling around in, like, older trucks that they have that above the windshield in that crazy font. No fear. And I go, woah. That guy's cool.
Shoes that you could pump up? I had I had pump up basketball shoes. And you say that I'm the rich and fancy one. But They weren't the real Nikes. It doesn't matter.
I never had pump up shoes. Payless ShoeSource knock off ones. Doesn't matter. I never had those. Well, you had something else.
I don't think they made them for you. Why would they make them for me? I don't think they made the them for the girls. I think they made the they were the boys' shoes. Checks out.
This is the old times, man. Stay in your section. I didn't go buying Lisa Frank. You don't go buying pump shoes. Fine.
But you could have had Lisa Frank if you wanted it. I know. I I understand. But I instead, I was looking for the no rules stuff. There the no rules, trapper keepers also had the bear that that was, like, tearing into the baseball, and it had the tiger with his hands on the basketball.
There were several of those. They're very cool. I didn't know. Very cool. If anybody showed up in Doc Martens, that was also a very, very social status.
Yeah. That was, like, popular kids' status. I knew a girl who liked to kick people in the shins with her Doc Martens, so I don't care for them. Was she popular? No.
I have nothing more to say about that. Tarama. A lot, actually. Should I should go talk to somebody about it? So there's a lot of history there I need to work through.
What color were they? Green. They were like a forest green color. Should I go get some green, Doctor Martin? And kick me in the shins?
I won't kick you. I'll just wear them around. No. You should not. But here's the thing.
You can do that and eat Cool Ranch Doritos. Oh, what a win. Solid combo. Woah. Woah.
Rigor warning. Let's take some deep Oh, I'm fine. Breaths. I'm totally good. It sounds like it.
Just chill. You're chill. Bring up Doc Martens around me. How could you? I'm so I'm gonna get you over the trauma by buying the same pair.
Yeah. That's it. And then I'm not gonna kick you in the shins. You'll just walk around. I'll tip around.
No. No. No. No. Clomp around.
You're gonna tiptoe. No. And I'll be like, No. That's not the solution. No.
I don't want that. So, anyway, the the original question, it was the JanSport backpack. The okay. Okay. Let's let's call my therapist.
Oh, anyway, It's a good one too. I like that backpack. It's simple. Here's the thing about the JanSport. It's just a bod it's a backpack body.
That's it. With a little pocket on the front. It doesn't have 700 dividers on the inside. Doesn't have all that extra, like, padded organization stuff. It's just a simple backpack.
Do you know what I just realized? What's that? The backpack that I had, my Jam Sport, my green Jam Sport with the leather top Yeah. That I had my It was a fuzzy leather too. Yeah.
It was. Was. But listen. The one I had in high school, my last year in high school, I carried with me to college Yeah. And I was wearing that backpack when you proposed to me.
Are you serious? I think I have a picture of it. No way. Where's your transport? I think I got rid of it.
No. But that's way. Bro, that was twenty plus years ago. Still have mine. It's in the closet.
I still use it. It's I don't use it. Quality backpack that my parents invested good money in. How could you just throw it away? What a what a disappointment.
I'm kidding. How? Your mom had spent good money on that, probably on a credit card to get you the backpack you wanted, and you just threw it away. It's old. This is why I have so much stuff.
I can't Yeah. You can't throw it away. Mentality. Throw it away, bud. I can't get over things, clearly.
Clearly. Hey. Would you rather this or that? Would you rather have to wear sunscreen that smells like bacon or one that makes you to or get to? Because come on.
Or one that makes you sparkle like glitter. I already made my choice. It sounds like it. Yeah. You're gonna smell like bacon all summer.
That's right. There are only certain times that's a real inconvenience. When I'm in the woods in bear country is the top of the list. Bacon, says the bear as he chases me down the trail. You think a a bear knows what bacon smells like?
I think it smells delicious, and bears know what delicious smells like, and it would be me. So, yes, that's a problem. That would be a problem. I agree with you. I'm trying to determine I think I'm gonna go sparkle like glitter.
Oh, yeah? Yeah. You don't wanna smell like bacon? No. I wanna look like Edward Oh, I know.
From Twilight. Woah. When the light hits you just right, you sparkle and shimmer. Are you a vampire? No.
It's my sunscreen. Yeah. Are you a breakfast? No. It's my sunscreen.
It's my sunscreen. Yeah. I just mostly don't wanna smell like bacon all day, all summer. But bacon's so good. But is it okay?
Burnt bacon? No. You didn't say that. It's just regular bacon. Good, delicious bacon.
Perfectly cooked bacon. You know the stuff. Perfectly cooked, perfectly cooked is a subjective term. True. My bacon is crispier than the way Emery likes her bacon.
Right. I don't like it chewy. A little yeah. Still a little bit like You know? I don't like it to be like that.
I like mine just a little bit more done than yours. You like it extra crispy? Extra. I didn't know that. Did I know that?
Yes. I didn't know you liked it super, super crispy. Like, dried out crispy? I just want it to be cooked cooked. Yeah.
Would you rather this or that? Oh, this is exciting news for our son. What what do you know about our son and his musical taste? That they are not like mine. Okay.
Very good. What else do you know? That he likes, I can't remember the the name of the genre, but it's, it's a lot of just music Mhmm. Without, like, lyrics. Oh, the progressive stuff?
Yes. Progressive. The prog rock? Yes. Yeah.
Okay. He likes that kind of stuff. Yep. A little bit harder music than my taste. Sure.
What do you know about the music he doesn't like? What are you getting at? Just tell me what you're getting at. Last weekend was the, Yellow Pine Harmonica Festival. The Yellow Pine is in Central Idaho, and they had the actual Harmonica Festival.
And he missed out on it, but it will be back next year. It's gonna be so bummed out. This year was the thirty fifth annual. No kidding. I know.
Thirty fifth annual harmonica festival happened this last weekend in Yellow Pine, Idaho. Wow. That's a lot of harmonica years. Yeah. Yeah.
You should be a part of this. I'm not good. Maybe you don't have to be. But okay. Have you listened to any of the other harmonicas?
What is a harmonica Player? Player called? I don't know. This was a four day festival with, two stages and additional things happening at the community hall, like a beginning harmonica boot camp, which I could take for just $95. Hey, Josh.
And then I would, later on be able to take the intermediate harmonica boot camp, which is $125. Josh, take the harmonica boot camp. Yeah. I know. Okay.
I gotta find out what is a And then the advanced harmonica workshop is later on and is $50. They also teach gold panning and children's harmonica lessons. You and Beck could take it together. He's not a child. Yeah.
Right. But he's almost 21. It is a harmonicist. A harmonicist. Very good.
And then the then it all culminates with the open mic jam. Or I'm sorry. Or a mouth organist. Oh. A harmonicist?
Harmonist? Maybe it's Sure. Harmonicist or a mouth organist. Anyway, there's a lot of stuff going on. 30?
It's in Pine, you say? Yellow Pine. Yellow Pine. Yellow Pine, Idaho. Where is Yellow Pine?
Central Idaho. It's up by McCall. Oh, hey, Josh. Yeah. Let's let's wow.
Wow. Indeed. I mean, if I got good at the harmonica, could you even imagine? I can imagine. Wouldn't that be something?
Can imagine because talk about some real nice harmonica that you know about. Piano man has a harmonica in it. Billy Joel. Yeah. Tom Petty's got some harmonica.
John Popper. Yeah. Right? And then you've got, a lot of harmonica from Alanis Morissette, which is his favorite. I don't know if he's heard any of the other harmonicists.
I think he's just heard threw on some John Popper. He wouldn't know what to do with it. So If I if I pulled out my Blues Traveler do I have the cassette or the CD? I don't know. I'll have to look.
But if I pulled that out and went, let's throw this on, and he would I bet he'd be into it. He might be surprised to hear some he hears harmonica, he goes, nope. I'm out. I'm checked out. Anyway, we'll have to look forward to the thirty sixth annual Let's make a plan now.
Festival. It will be at the very July, August, Yellow Pine, Idaho. Hey. We're gonna go. Three days of music and activities outdoors in the beautiful backcountry of Idaho, they said.
Three days of harmonica. Oh, doggy. Yes. You wanna know more about the festival's history? Not really.
Well, it started in 1989 when at the time, Idaho governor Andress made a challenge to towns in Idaho to develop a celebration of statehood for 1990. And Yellow Pine said, we're doing Harmonica Fest, and that is what happened. Now you know. Thank you. You're welcome.
That's gonna do it for the show. Have a great rest of your Tuesday. We'll see you tomorrow. Goodbye. See you.
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