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S1 E275 Jul 22, 2025

July 22, 2025 | Wake Up Classy 97

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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025

Episode summary introduction:

Josh just makes a bunch of noise, no one in the room is a knife distributor, Tim is walking for men's health and that's Good News, the noodles were un-slurp-able, Josh took a nap in the middle of a project, Pocatello's new skate park opens on Friday, learning time with Chantel, should we dress up for the Weird Al concert, Chantel wants a duck, people from Idaho talk funny, Gen Z has weird texting rules, Chantel makes a silly noise when her hammock is in the sun and we've been married for 20 years tomorrow, we're looking for a secret beach in Would You Rather, and Pac-Man is celebrating 45 years!

Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Pac-Chan
(3:20) - Josh makes a bunch of noise
(6:34) - Knife distribution
(11:16) - Good News to Get You Going
(12:52) - Non-slurp-able noodles
(17:03) - Mid-project nap
(22:31) - Pocatello's new skate park
(25:46) - Irreversible binomials
(31:05) - Weird Al giveaway
(33:36) - Want a duck?
(39:47) - Idaho accents
(44:28) - Gen Z texting rules
(49:06) - Hammocking in the sun + 20 year wedding anniversary
(55:13) - Would You Rather This or That
(57:42) - Pac-Man Anniversary Atari + outro

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Full show transcript:

You're already laughing. I whatever. I've you said it sounded good. It sounds so good. Believed you.

Listen. At the very end of today's episode, we celebrate Pac Man's forty fifth anniversary Yeah. Which is very cool. They Google has they've made a little Pac Man board. Don't they?

Yeah. I'm playing it right now. Okay. And in the in our conversation about the Pac Man anniversary, what was that? My my Google Oh.

Was talking to me because I said Google. Alright. So in, in the conversation about Pac Man's 40, you said make the noise, and then you made the noise. And I made the comment that you made the noise so perfectly, there's no reason for me to make the noise. But see, I believed you at first.

And now having heard the noise, I don't believe you. So I took the noise you made, and I said if I stacked all of those back to back to back, it would sound like someone playing Pac Man. And I'm not wrong. The noise you made is good. It is a Pac Man noise.

And when stacked back to back to back to back to back, it sounds like someone playing No. It does not. Yes. It does. That's Pac Man.

That is Pac Man. I've never heard You made the Pac Pac Man sound. Stop. Stop. Stop.

Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop.

Stop. Stop Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it.

Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it.

Stop it. Stop it. I'm excited about it, and it sounds just like Pac Man. Why don't you believe me? Stop.

Oh, Stavagard. Hey. Let's get on with the show. You don't think it sounds like packaging? You can't even contain it.

I can't breathe. Why don't you think it sounds like that, man? That you are good at your job. I hate that you knew how to turn that into a sound effect. Why?

Because It's so good. So good. What level are you on now? Stop it. Oh.

Here's today's show. Uh-huh. What? What? Nothing.

Hi. Oh, hi. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Nah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Nice. I'm just gonna make noise this morning, apparently. Why? Because I went, uh-huh. Mhmm.

Yeah. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Mhmm. Mhmm.

You and I were watching a YouTube video over the weekend, and it was a travel a couple that were travel blogging. Yeah. And Thanks for watching our vlogs. She she did most of the work. Yeah.

And then the guy was in the background just making like, he would say sound effects. Yeah. I'd be like, hey. That's what his contributions were. And then, yeah, he'd make poses, and he'd be, like, pointing at stuff.

And he'd go. Like, that's all he was good for. And that made me say Rapids, Missouri. What's up, Grand Rapids? And I said what did I say to you?

Do you remember? I said that's kinda how my contribution to the team is I disagree. This radio show. I completely, 100% disagree. That's nice of you, Josh.

Now there are times where you're a, but not all the time. Yeah. Take this conversation for example. Yeah. Who started this?

I guess I did. Isn't it? Isn't it? Who started most of the conversations in the show yesterday? I guess me.

Isn't it? It is. Yeah. It is. Alright.

Yeah. It is what? It is, isn't it? Holy. Good morning.

Hi. Holy. Two things you like. What? Mangoes.

Yes. Hammocks. Yes. It's hammock day, and it's mango day. Get sub.

You gotta get a a cup of mango Yes, please. With some, chamoy. Yeah. Sure. Hang in a hammock and have some fruit.

Okay. Or Tajin or whatever you like on your mango. Sometimes I just like a plain mango. A plain go. You don't need all the extra frills, but sometimes those frills are quite lovely.

A little chamoy and tahini. Yeah. Delicious. That was not as exciting as one. That was kind of deflated.

Mhmm. Like, somebody brought the horn, but they were not really excited to push it. That sounded like when you lose on The Price is Right. That's just the song. Yeah.

But when you lose, it's sad. That's just the song. No. When you did it sad. But we are rare form this morning.

Good morning. Do you remember when we were, much younger? Let's say fifteen or so years ago, and and we'd be flipping through the channels. Right? K.

And there was, nothing on except the knife show. Yes. And there's this guy, on there, like, QVC style selling knives, and they're just, like, on a on a, rotating rotisserie, if you will, like a carousel. And and they're spinning around. And he would hold them up sometimes, and he'd, twist them a little bit.

To get the glint of the light. You could see the the light reflect off the shininess of the blade. Yes. I remember that. I just got an email.

It says, are you a distributor of knife sharpeners? No. But, apparently, they are a knife sharpener, whetstone manufacturer, and they are offering me factory prices. Hey, Josh. Yeah.

Wow. I do not distribute knives or knife sharpeners. Sharpener. Yeah. How'd you get so lucky getting that email?

I don't know. Christine got my got my info. She wants to send me a product catalog. Hey. Yeah.

I don't want it. We were very easily entertained in those years. This is true. Still are, honestly. There's not I well, I don't know why that's a negative thing, being easily entertained.

Sometimes it gets frowned upon. You're easily entertained. One of the greatest times I've ever had in my whole life was, turning on the public access channel when they had the dancing shows on. The local dancers? Yeah.

Or wherever they were from and, playing the wrong music because it was so funny to watch, you know, some sort of, ballroom or whatever it was, to Levitating by Dua Lipa, for example. It's just hilarious. She didn't that song didn't exist. You get my point. I get your point.

Watching traditional Russian dance to, Adele. Whatever. It it's hilarious. Yeah. That was pretty fun.

Yeah. Good times. If you're looking for something simple and real fun, go on YouTube, pull up a video of people dancing from anywhere in the whole wide world. The best is if it's just a local or not a local, but, like, what do I wanna say? Not professional.

Yeah. Amateur dancer? Yes. And, and then put on the wrong song and just sit and laugh. Sit just sit and laugh.

Yeah. You just sit in your chair just laughing because it's hilarious. It was pretty entertaining. Yeah. I deleted that email.

The knife email. I don't I'm not looking for We'll never get the catalog now. I'm not looking for the opportunity to distribute knife sharpeners. So thanks. Hey.

Are you a knife distributor? Mhmm. What if somebody approached you on the street? They could just tell by your face. You look like a guy who sells knives.

Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. I don't have the beard for the the guy who sells knives.

Or The guy I don't look like the forged in fire kinda guy. Or the belt. I feel like they all have pretty intense Belt. Belts. Yeah.

They've got some leather thick leather belt situations. You think? Oh, yeah. Because they had they put their knives in their belts, and so then they have to hold their knife knife sheets. Uh-huh.

So it's gotta be they gotta have a thick belt. I'm a knife distributor. You get it. I I do. I sure do.

Thick belt and also a look. I'm missing both. I think so too. You're not you're not the knife guy. I'm not.

But you could be. Christine, quit sending me emails. But you could be. That was on my work email. Like, who do you think I am?

Read the email. Like, what does it say? What's my address? Does it say Ann Knives? No.

Not nowhere is the word knife? No, Josh. They just found your email in the database somewhere, and they went send it to everyone. Well, quit sending me that. Okay.

I've deleted it. It wasn't even, an American number. Like, the phone number on there from Christine. It's not even a real name, is it? Should write her back.

Who is this? Who this is? Let me tell you about Tim Pereira. He is walking across America right now from California to Virginia Beach. Oh.

It's all to raise awareness for men's mental health and suicide prevention, which is a big deal. From 2016 to 2020, Tim battled a roller coaster of depression and anxiety. He said it was a scary time, but he worked his way through it, and he was inspired to call attention to the problem by walking across America. Wow. Yeah.

Tim. So far, he has walked more than 2,500 miles through five states, and he's worn out seven pairs of shoes. Oh, I wonder what kind of shoes he's wearing. Ultras or Hokas or something. Some kind of good shoe.

Skechers, the one with the s. Yeah. Yeah. I don't. He's wearing k Swiss.

I don't know what he's wearing, but, he should have a shoe sponsor. If everything goes according to plan, he will end his journey in Virginia Beach and will have raised $50,000 for men's mental health organizations all along the way. He says, I think the stigma is really strong for men. Providing is good, protection is good, and standing up for others is good, but the armor we carry and never take off weighs on us. Mhmm.

And that's a pretty big message. So Tim out there, doing great things, raising a bunch of money for men's mental health organizations, which is a super great cause. Yeah. And, way to go. Tim Pereira.

Good job, Timmy. California to Virginia Beach. Good job, Timmy. Yeah. He's good news.

You made delicious dinner last night, and I appreciated that you made dinner for everyone. So everyone was happy. I made, two different kinds of chicken, to go with pasta, and I made two different sauces because, we couldn't settle on just one. And what I found is I like both of the sauces. I liked both of them too.

Yeah. So I mixed them. Yeah. Me too. Crazy.

I know. I know. Now if you had a red sauce and a white sauce, you would mix the two, and you'd have a pink sauce. That's a real thing. Yep.

People are doing that. We had, a just a it was a garlic Alfredo, and then I added, bacon to it. So then it became a bacon garlic Alfredo. Yeah. And then, and then, yeah, pesto, Alfredo.

With fresh basil? My pesto. Yeah. You did that. How was that?

So good? Yeah. You love basil. I love basil. Yeah.

And then I I did these noodles. I found these noodles that I haven't used before. They were imported from Italy. They were, like, legit. And what I liked about them, they were they weren't a spaghetti.

They're it's something with a b. I can't remember. But they have they have, like, a tube down the middle. They're, like, they're hollow. I didn't even notice.

Yeah. There we were eating, you and me, because the kids were out. They came home later, ate dinner without us. But you go. Just randomly, you and I are eating.

You just randomly said, try slurping that noodle. Yeah. Why? I'm not typically a noodle sloper noodle slurper. So I tried it.

Impossible. It was impossible. It was? It was it was too thick for one. They're not thick.

It was thick. It was thick. Not like a fettuccine thick. Like, it's a it's a thicker spaghetti style noodle, but it is it is, hollow down the center like a straw. And so when you try to you can't because you just get air from the which I kinda like.

It's anti slurping noodles. And then everybody comes home later Yeah. Is eating dinner and goes, I hate these noodles. And I go, why? You can't slurp them.

Yep. Because every time because every time I try to slurp, I can't because it's just like a straw. But it was delicious. Thank you for making that. Uh-huh.

I got it for leftovers for lunch today. So I I'm looking forward to that. High five. Yeah. And, that's all I know about that.

The two different kinds of chicken, you like small little bits of chicken, so I cooked half the chicken that way. And then the other half was really tasty. You should've tried it, please. Should've tried it then. Because it was way good.

Wanted to because it looked good. The chicken that you made for you guys looked really good. And I was like, but I thought it was I what I thought was interesting was that Beck opted for your chicken, not the better looking chicken. Emery Emery was like, I want that chicken. That looks way better.

That chicken did look way better. It was super great. To eat the chicken that you made for you guys, the bigger pieces, but then I was like, he went out of his way to make me these small chicken. So I gotta eat these small chickens. But I want that chicken.

Well, I'm sorry. I I should've asked. Apologize for making dinner Yeah. And for cooking me special chicken. Yeah.

You should. Keep apologizing. Okay. You're right. Sorry.

Sorry. I made you I'll never, ever, ever complain when somebody cooks dinner for me. Ever. Well, sorry about the no slurp noodles. I didn't mind.

No. To Emery. To you, sorry about not giving you the good chicken. It's my it was my choice. It was my choice.

You all can cook now. No. No. I'm making carne asada tacos tonight. I have to go to the store, though.

I gotta get cilantro and onion. How did I forget cilantro and limes? I gotta go get those. Do you wanna make the list? No.

To my head. You're gonna forget something. No. I'm not. I'm all good.

Okay. Iron trap. So Emery wanted a dresser, and so we went and bought a dresser over the weekend. She is when she gets something in her head, you cannot convince her to do anything else besides that task. I think that comes from the both of us too.

I think you've got a a stubbornness that translates into into, like, no. I'm gonna do this thing, but I also have that, like, I'm motivated to do this thing, and I'm gonna do it and and watch out. Okay. So I think it's a combination of the two of us. I think she took the the motivation and the stubbornness and turned it into get out of my way.

And when you get in her way, she gets a little cranky. Yeah. So we she wanted to build her dresser, and you said, why don't you move your furniture and your room around first so you can determine where you wanna build your dresser? Well, I was just gonna build it in the living room is what was what I was gonna do. She was determined to build it in her bedroom.

So she was like, I gotta get the furniture moved. Why are you opening the dresser? So I and I said, because we can build it, then you'll know the size of it. And then you can, you know, we'll we don't have to move it in right away, but then you'll be able to go, okay. I need this much space.

You can visualize it better. I don't know what happened. Half the room got moved, and then she was like, alright. I moved it. I mean, and she was, like, muscling her furniture around.

I'm like, dude, you're a small thing. Like, what are you doing? And she's, I mean, she's rearranged her room a 100 times. So She's moved that bed a million times. That bed is heavy too.

But she did it. And so then she starts building her dresser, moves her muscles her furniture around her room, and then starts building her dresser. And I sit down to help her, and I'm looking at these instructions. I'm like, I don't even know these instructions don't make any sense. I hate these instructions.

What's a what did the thing The hidden cam? I'm like, what's a hidden cam? What even is that? It's just cam screws. That's all.

There's two parts. There's the the metal post, and then there's the cam that you have to drive. Show me a picture. And then I'll go had all the pictures. No.

You were reading the instructions and handing us the parts we needed. You've But I built enough furniture that I was like, just give me the parts. Like, I can figure this out. So I'm just, like, popping stuff in. You're like, you're you've gone ahead steps.

I'm like, that's because I can see this wood that is predrilled. I can tell where everything goes. It's okay. But then I I got tired is what happened. See?

So I I helped get the, main part of the dresser done. The structure of it then. And then I went and took a nap. Yeah. And their drawers still weren't built.

Yeah. And then I woke up. I was like, alright. Ready to build drawers? And you're like, no.

It's done. She's already moved in. I went. Cool. Nice.

Nice. Because drawers are the worst part. You don't know this part because you were napping, but she was very upset at you. Because I went to take a nap? Because you went to take a nap when you were trying to help her, and the project wasn't finished.

And she was like, I just wanted this dresser to be done. Listen. I didn't know that she was gonna be upset because she couldn't move into the dresser in that minute. She still had a lot of room to rearrange. Whole point is that she wanted to move into the dresser.

Right. That's the exciting part of the furniture. But the room still wasn't fully rearranged. That part doesn't matter. So I that could have been done during the nap time, and then I would be like, hey.

Cool. Let's paint some drawers. That's not the part she wanted done. That's the full scale of the project. She and I built the drawers.

You guys did great. She moved in. She's fine now. Yeah. Done.

Awesome. I she was very mad at you. Yeah? Yeah. She she had a lot of complaints.

Well, I I bought her a treat last night. She'll be fine. Yeah. She's I think she's over it now. But at the time, she was I was tired.

I went and took a nap. Needed that afternoon nap. It was nice. Yeah. I bet it was.

You should have taken it. I should have. Yeah. And then she would have been mad at both of us. Right.

But instead, I helped her. We built that dresser. We put those drawers in, and she said, thank you for helping, mom. Yeah. I didn't get a thank you for helping with the body part, but that's fine.

You know? The big part. Or helping move it. And taking down the the corner, suspended chair thing and you know? But whatever.

It's fine. I think she probably just forgot. No. I think she's still just mad because I took a nap. Mid project.

My part was done for now. I'll help you build drawers after my nap. That's no big deal. Drawers are done. We did it.

I know. But I'm it would have been fine if she would have just finished the rest of the room, and then I would have been like, alright. Let's do these drawers. I understand that. But that was she just wanted to get to be done so she can move in.

That's the exciting part of getting new furniture, Josh. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.

Come on. Pocatello is getting a skate park. Oh, nice. I don't know if you've seen the construction that they've been working on. I have not.

It's the Optimist Park, which is right by City Hall. Oh, yeah. That park, they built I guess they took one of the, baseball diamonds and built a skate park there. Yeah. So You used to play baseball there?

I did play softball for a season there. Yep. Yep. So the new Optimus skate park ribbon cutting and opening is happening on Friday, which would be very cool. And it's a cool looking park.

They did a concrete kinda swimming pool bowl, little bit of, like, a quarter pipe up, which is kinda cool. And then they did, like, a skate Idaho mural on the vert part, has the shape of Idaho in it, which is kinda cool. So they've done some really cool stuff. They put out a bunch of, new grass and stuff. They put the city flag, the Pocatello city flag is a part of the design.

So, one of the ramps up to, to a bar and and a and a I'm trying to remember all the little pieces of a skate park. It's been a minute since I've been on rollerblades and skateboards at a skate park. But, anyway, the rail the rail jam stuff, all that whole section has the Can jam. City flag. No.

The the rail jam section. Oh. Anyway, very cool, and and exciting for, for for the city of Pocatello to have a facility now dedicated to, skateboarding and, I'm sure, scootering and rollerblading. And I saw I saw yesterday a video of a girl on old school, roller skates at a skate park, and she was tearing it up. That's awesome.

Yeah. She was riding around the the rim of a of a bowl. She was doing all kinds of stuff. It was cool. That is cool.

So, anyway, yeah, Friday, the ribbon cutting and the grand opening for the Pocatello Skate Park. That'll be very cool. Awesome. Yeah. Optimist Skate Park.

Remember to wear a helmet. Oh, please wear a helmet. And elbow and knee pads. I mean, if you wanna look cool, wear a helmet for sure, and don't be afraid to wear, you know, as much protective gear as you need. Use a belt.

Put a pillow, around you so it doesn't hurt as bad when you fall down. That's true. Listen. If you think wearing a helmet makes you look dumb No. No way, man.

No. It makes you look hardcore. I wear helmet, snowboarding. I wear helmet bicycle riding. I I wear helmet on my motorcycle.

I wear helmet, I wear hard hat when I'm working with, tools above my head. Because you gotta protect your head. Yeah. You only get one. People are gonna look at you and be like, oh, he's gonna do some sick stunts.

Oh, that's true. They might think you're, you're gonna be a little more hardcore aggressive. I think they will. Look. He's wearing a helmet.

He must be dressed. Gonna do some sick stunts. That's right. That's what they're gonna say. They might say that.

Probably not. They will. Anyway, I gotta go check out the park. I think that, I should probably get out my my inline skates and go check out the park. Oh, I'll watch.

I haven't been at a park on my skates in decades. Let's see. Do some rail jams. Uh-huh. What's that mean?

Yeah. Okay. I learned something yesterday. What is it? What'd you learn?

It's learning time. Learning time with Chantel. Okay. You know how some words go together like peanut butter and jelly? Okay.

A pair of words that are used in a fixed order like that Ah. Are called irreversible binomial. Okay. So you don't say I'll have a jelly and peanut butter sandwich? No.

Do you say that? No. Who does? Oh, who does say that? Crazy people.

Crazy people. What about okay. So an irreversible binomial. The order of these expressions is so fixed that the phrase becomes a standard part of the vocabulary. Right.

There isn't one reason that determines the order, but there are patterns. So you have irreversible binomials with alliteration, rock and roll, sticks and stones. Okay. Well, hold on. Okay.

Slow down just just just a bit. Alright. Because we gotta flip them. The Rolling rock. Stones and sticks.

Right. See? Because that's that's what makes you go, ugh. And I don't know. That.

Yeah. I don't know how they get fixed in that order. Right. But Josh and Chantel. That's I was gonna talk about that next.

Hold on. Okay. We're still we're still learning. We're still learning. Right.

So here's more irreversible binomials with alliteration. Do's and don'ts, wet and wild. Don't do's. Match and do's. Match and mix.

That one's hard. Match and mix? Yeah. The birds and the bees? Bees and the birds.

Dine and dash? Well, that's gotta be in an order. Those are in a specific order of operations. True. True.

K. Then you have irreversible binomials that rhyme. Run and gun, meet and greet, fair and square, huff and puff, chips and dip, coffee and talk. Dip and chips. Dips and chips.

Some even have obsolete words that you can only find in an irreversible my my binomial. Alright. Vim and vigor. Those are old. Spick and span, aid and a bet.

Okay. What? Nothing. Oh, so then you have and not all irreversible binomials use and. So you have better or worse, win or lose, sink or swim Mhmm.

Now or never? Never or now. See how weird it is? You can also do this with people and characters. Alright.

Yeah. Good. Lewis and Clark Yeah. Kane and Abel, Bonnie and Clyde Clyde and Bonnie. Josh and Chantel.

That's right. Chantel and Josh. But you'll find that and Chantel. I was thinking about this yesterday. Like, think about any couple that you know in our in your life.

Sure. Relatives, mom and dad. It's always mom and dad. It's never dad and mom in my world. No.

I understand. Mom and dad. Right. Dad and mom. It's always like I think about Don and Todd.

It's never Todd and Don. What about, but do you think that's because your sister is is Don, so you associate that relationship first? I was gonna ask. But on his side, is it the other way? Right.

Like, I would imagine you associate it with the person you, are closest to or whatever, closest related to. What was I gonna say? Oh, washer and dryer wasn't on your list. No. But dryer and washer, you never say that.

That sounds weird. Right. Hot and cold. You know? Mop and brooms.

Cold and mop. Sweep and mop. That's what you say. I got a sweep and mop, which is in order of the things you do. Operations.

Yeah. Order of operations. Should we change the name to Chantel and Josh? I mean, I don't know why it was gonna be Chantel and that guy because of Carter. Sometimes, here's a kicker.

You can see irreversible trinomials. Oh. Ear, nose, throat. Okay. Hop, skip, jump.

Okay. Red, white, and blue. Reorder them. Note ears note. Throat, nose, ear.

Yeah. Wrong. Jump, skip, hop. Yeah. You can't.

You wanna go jump, skip, hop? Blue, white, red. Yeah. What? But I don't isn't it it's just funny to me.

I got all of this information, b t dubs. That's by the way. Right. From Merriam Webster. Merriam Webster.

The dictionary? TikTok. Yeah. Oh, they have a Yeah. They have a TikTok.

So you can They're teaching stuff. That's cool. Doing learning time right now. Do you have, on on your TikTok, do you have the stem feature turned on? No.

I don't know what that is. Do you have the app open? No. Oh, okay. I'll show you later.

Okay. But at the top, there's a stem button, and you can click on that, and it's all stem stuff. Cool. Yeah. I know.

That's cool. Learning. We are learning. Do you remember the name of the term I just taught you? Irreversible binomial.

Huge cheat. You heard of Weird Al Yankovic? I have. Have you? I I have.

You've heard of Weird Al, the Weird Al? The Weird Al Yankovic. Yeah. He is, gonna bring his bigger and weirder tour to the Mountain America Center. It's just a few weeks away.

It's happening Friday, August 8. We've got free tickets to the show. You bet we do. And you don't even have to do anything weird to win them. You you don't?

No. All you have to do is tap the Weird Al link in the Classy 97 app. Fill out the little form with your name and some info so we can contact you if you win. And then on July 29, we're gonna draw out three winners, and each winner will get a pair of tickets to go see the show. What?

Yeah. Come on. Isn't that easy? Are you gonna we're gonna go see the show. Yeah.

Are you gonna dress up? Like what? Anything. Any of his characters. Or No.

I have my crazy suit. I could I could wear my crazy suit to the weird could. Or wear a wig, a big curly wig. Yeah. Sure could.

That's I don't know. I just I'm sure dressing up for a weird owl, show is a thing. Right? Of course it it at court of I can't even speak. Uh-huh.

Of course it is. What was I gonna say? Do people dress up for Weird Al shows? Lots of Hawaiian shirts. Of course.

So many Hawaiian shirts. Do you think they're probably not gonna let people bring in accordions? But Do you have one? No. No.

But they have tiny little accordions that you can buy. Right. I kinda wanna buy one of those and bring it in somehow. Somebody said, yes. People definitely do dress up, and you wouldn't be embarrassed doing it.

Of course. Else said, embarrassed, maybe, but alone, no. I'm kinda just excited to people watch. Yeah. I think it's gonna be a lot of fun.

It's gonna be it's gonna be awesome. This person said when I when I attended my first Weird Al concert back in 02/2011, there was an entire row of people dressed up in Amish clothing. Oh, nice. Yeah. So there's there's a lot of, lot of options, if you want.

But, anyway, the show is coming up Friday, August 8 at the Mountain America Center in Idaho Falls. And if you want a chance to win those free tickets, go tap the link in the Classy 97 app and get yourself signed up. Go do it now. Hey. Do you wanna duck?

No. Why would I wanna duck? No. Do I need to? Is something flying toward my head?

No. Did you mean the noun? The yeah. Oh. A duckling.

A duckling. A baby duck? Yeah. No. I was trying to think of the what it is in Spanish.

A guitapato. Yeah. I say it's because that's the noise that their feet make when they're walking. Pato. Pato.

Pato. Pato. It it's not. It just makes me laugh. I know.

Yeah. Yeah. No. I don't, I don't want a duck. Okay.

When I was a kid, we had ducks. You did? We had, yeah. I'm sure I knew this. I just forgot.

We lived, out in the country, and we had, as I remember it, kind of a large fenced in area that had a couple of ducks in it. I don't know why we had ducks. Were we like adorable? Well, sure. But we weren't like we didn't eat them.

No. You would never. You would never eat a duck. I wouldn't. People do.

I know people do. But I'm not like, yeah. Let's have a duck. I don't like the idea of eating a goat either, but that people do that. And I know.

I like the cheese made from goat milk, but I'd I'm not into My aunt I had an aunt who had geese. Yeah. I think we had, we had a geese And they were a mess. They made a lot of a mess. Our daughter wants a duck really bad.

Too bad. She sent us a video today. I don't know if you've seen it. Not. It is six reasons why you should get a duck.

Well, I've got a 100 why we won't be getting one. Number two. The number two reason is they will always keep your shoes warm. So hang out in your shoes? No need for expensive foot warmers.

I don't have foot warmers. But, also, do they just hang out in your shoes? They will babysit your children when you go out for the day. We don't need that. No.

They always keep your ears clean? What do you think Luna would do with a duck around? Our terrorist dog Yeah. She would she would lose her mind. Have you seen ducks are real cute.

Yeah. Go look at them. Go look at a duck. I don't we don't need to own a duck. Don't try to convince me we need to own a duck.

Could we exchange No. The dog for a duck? I feel like a duck. Duck is to be less work. Didn't they have a duck on Friends?

Didn't didn't they didn't have a duck? What? They had a duck and a chick. Okay. And a monkey.

Well, yeah, that was different. That was different. Ross had a monkey. Ross and Chandler and Joey had the duck. Duck and chick.

Yeah. They had two? Yes. I just remember add duck. And a chick.

Okay. If you say so. It did. And it was adorable and easy to care for. No.

I'm not gonna have a duck walking around the house. I kinda want a duck. Too bad. Go look at ducks. If feels They're all over outside.

Go to a body of water and look at a duck. That's you do need a body of water for if you're gonna have a duck. I was sending you videos of people that have ducks, and I like that they were feeding them peas Oh, yeah. In water. I thought that was hilarious because they go They love peas.

They eat the peas, and it made me laugh. Doesn't mean I wanna own a duck. I'll just watch the videos. When I feel like I want a duck, I'll go, oh, look how cute that duck is. Move on.

Who has a duck that we could visit? I don't know. You wanna pet it? Yeah. Yes.

Because that's what it sounded like. Most most like, more than anything, you wanna pet a dog. It's like it's the same kind of thing. I want a boat, but I don't wanna own a boat. I wanna duck, but I don't wanna own a duck.

I said the other day, I said, well, then let's rent a boat. Can you rent a duck? Yeah. Because I don't want the responsibility, but I wanna when I wanna pet the duck, I wanna just be like, oh, okay. I'm ready for the duck.

And then somebody will bring it in, and I'll be like, alright. Take the duck away. This is if you win the lottery, there will be signs. Yes. Bring me my duck.

Bring me my duck and my boat, please. Can we give can we give the duck an, like, a real serious name like Clarence? Oh, I was gonna say, like, Gandalf. That's a serious name. That's a serious name.

Is there anything more serious? Or Howard. No. It's already a duck, isn't it? I like Clarence, though.

Or Huey? You'd have to call it mister Clarence. Mister Clarence. Bring me mister Clarence. And he'd have to have a bow tie Of course.

And a top hat. Sometimes. Only on special occasions. Man. Bow tie all the time.

Top hat for formal, you know, affairs, whatever. Going to a gala. So when we're rich when we're super rich, you snap them. Bring me Clarence with the top hat. Mister Clarence in his top hat with a cummerbund.

Cumberbund. Isn't it a bun, Kyle? I don't know. Cumberbund. I'm not wealthy enough to know.

The only time I've worn one is when I've rented a tuxedo that had one, which was, like, twice in my whole life. Cumberbund. Cumber is it Cumberbund or Cumberbund? No. A d.

I think it ends with a d. It's Cumberbund. Yeah. It is I was right. You were right.

On that duck, I am fancy enough. We're not getting a duck. Alright. Do you think Idahoans have accents? Yeah.

There are certain things that, that are very, Idaho. And and it's it's kind of a mush mouth thing, and it's not intentional. It's just that, like, certain words get sorta like they're not important to to fully enunciate. Yeah. When I was in radio school in Arizona, that's when I found out I have an Idaho accent Okay.

Because of just the way that I would say certain things. I don't say pillow, but a lot of people go to sleep on one. Yes. There's an I, not an e. Dill is a big one as well.

Like, oh, that's a big deal. It's a deal. I was just looking. I went to Reddit because Oh, okay. A lot of people will come out on Reddit.

Yeah. And a lot of people are saying the same kind of thing where Idahoans will leave t's out of things Okay. And they'll replace it with a d. Yeah. It's it's a little lazy watch now thing.

Oh, water. Water. Yeah. I gotta go turn on the water. You want a glass of water?

W a d d e r, water. Water. Yeah. And, like or I hear, and I don't know if this is just, I don't know if this is a local localism. Calocalist.

Yeah. Or if it's a or or if it's just a thing that happens in in our language in the country. But hunnered? Yeah. I'm not a big fan of that one.

How much does it cost? $300? 300. Huntered? Huntered.

I know that's not how you say 100. I just know it. And, you know, in radio school, like, what they kinda taught us was was to take your your your words and, like, you you can be local and you can relate to people, but to to just speak not eloquently, but speak like you know how to talk, I guess. You know? Does that make sense?

Yeah. That make sense. And and not to sound snooty or, like, you're talking above people ever, but to just be, you know, be real and, and try to make sure that everybody can understand you. Well, my thing I'm not sometimes, but I am constantly trying to work on my enunciation. Uh-huh.

It's like I And projection. You talk about projection a lot too. Yeah. I'm quiet. So I have a microphone now.

But Yeah. Right? Can we get this in everyday conversation? I was in high school, I was the only one in my school play that had to be mic'd for the school play because I couldn't that's the only direction I ever got was project. And I'd be like, I am.

Can we you know, the the little kid radio with the little coily cord in the microphone? Yes. You just need one of those you can carry around, and you can just hello. Hello. But I feel like when I do talk loud, I I don't want everybody to hear what I'm saying.

Not that it's anything private. It just it's a conversation between me and you. Sure. I don't wanna But in the car, I should be able to hear you better. Do you have a hard time in the car?

I I no. I just I feel like there are times where I have to go, what did you say? Or, like, even last night. I'm like, we have our kitchen and and living room are attached, but there's a wall between. And you were saying something in the living room, and I didn't know if you were talking to me or not.

I was in the kitchen. And you go, are you listening? And I went, I didn't even know you were talking to me. I just hear noise. What's up?

What? Is it, Josh, is it that I'm speaking too quietly, or is it just that you're not listening? I feel like that's become a a common phrase in the house. Yeah. I think it's just selective hearing, bud.

I don't even know what you're talking about. I hear everything. I hear stuff all over the place. I can be clear downstairs. I can hear conversations.

It's not when it comes to scrutiny. Listening. No. It's it's when you're and then you're talking over here, and I can't hear you. So good.

And then and I go, what? And then you're all upset because I I didn't hear, like, the last couple of sentences of a whole conversation. I'll go, you're gonna have to repeat that last part again because it trailed off. You lost the projection momentum. Yeah.

Go get me some water. Yeah. Water. Informed us Woah. Woah.

Sorry. Go ahead. Our daughter informed us last night that when we send her texts and we use complete sentences with periods, she feels like that means we're upset with her. Yeah. Apparently, that's a thing.

I do the talk to text thing because I'm old Yeah. And I don't like to type that much. So I will, you know, and hit the button and then do the thing and then send it. It automatically adds punctuation. Yours does.

Mine doesn't always. Give it a second. Do you do you talk to text often? Not often. Yeah.

You you're a swiper. Yeah. Yeah. Which I can't get behind. It blows my mind.

I don't know how it knows what you're even trying to say. Sometimes it doesn't. Yeah. And then I go, woah, Nelly. Slow down.

That's why talk to text is so much easier. And then I just send it, and it's good to go. Sometimes I don't proofread them. And so I go, I hope that made sense. It doesn't.

Read it out loud, it might. Sometimes I can guess what you're trying to say. What was I gonna say? Well Go ahead. I just when I I told Emery, our daughter, I said, well, if I don't use complete sentences and a period, when I'm not using a complete fully functioned sentence, that usually means I am upset.

Yeah. You said it's because you don't have time for for punctuation and grammar. I'm just angrily texting. Yeah. Exactly.

Yeah. So you better watch out if I'm not putting in punctuation. Uh-huh. So there. So You better load the dishwasher.

So I asked No period. Yeah. I asked, for some Gen z texting rules so that we could get caught up here. Oh, what are they? Brevity and visuals, short sentences and phrases.

They prefer concise messages over lengthy text blocks. As a matter of fact, avoidance of long text blocks is a big deal. Large blocks of text are generally avoided. Images, videos, GIFs, and memes are popular to communicate and express emotions. And they really just shorten everything.

Yeah. Everything's short. An abbreviation. Everything's short. Yeah.

But that's always been the case. Everything always got shortened. Even when people were sending messages to my pager, it was short. Your pager. Yeah.

I know. Because I was cool. Punctuation and grammar. Gen z texters prefer lowercase letters even for the first word of a sentence. Periods are sometimes avoided or used ironically as they can be perceived as passive aggressive.

Abbreviations and slang are common, and emojis are used, but often employed sparingly or ironically with reaction images and memes being preferred. And then there's So you're you're not having a real conversation. No. There's no depth here. Gen z may perceive certain responses like okay or k as passive aggressive or insincere, and a lack of punctuation or use of certain emojis can convey subtle emotional cues.

A lack of punctuation? Yeah. Well, she told us that the punctuation makes it seem Well, a string of 10 or more exclamation marks after a sentence may be used to convey sarcasm or amusement rather than genuine excitement. 10 or more? Sure.

The most I've ever done is three. Woah. Who has time to do 10? And you gotta make sure one, two, three, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten. Yeah.

Look. I'm just telling you what the rules are. How do they know all of these rules? Why are they changing all the rules all the time? Well and then alpha's gonna be right behind them doing something else.

Yep. And then every generation is gonna go, why are they changing the rules all the time? And so on and so forth. And it'll never end. Yep.

Generations. I can't keep up. Well, get with the program. Exclamation times 10. That's what you can do.

That's what you gotta do. I'm just gonna do that. I'm gonna write one x like, I'll do an exclamation x 10, and I'll go, you know what that means. Or That's my shorthand. You'll do it to the tenth power.

Yeah. I could I could superscript it if I knew how. Can you superscript in text? I don't even know what that means. Alright.

Did you, figure out how you were gonna celebrate the day yet? When? Today? Yeah. Yeah.

I I guess so. Just go to work, and then I'll have some dinner, and then I'll go to the river concert. Wrong. And then I'll come home and take a nice little evening walk. No.

That's just a regular day. That is a regular day. Special hammock day. And you have not figured out how to celebrate a hammock. I don't have anywhere to hang a hammock.

We gotta figure that out. Because it was hammock and mango day. That's right. Oh, you know what? I better go get a mango smoothie or something.

And a hammock. Yeah. I've got the hooks on the on the deck in the back. I could hang it up. Yeah.

I know. And we Well, but then I got the umbrella up. So And we've done that before, but there's no shade. I also need some shade. Mhmm.

That's Otherwise, you're just, like, laying in your hammock, like In the sun. Baking. That's a noise I make when I'm in the sun. I've heard that sound. And I go, get out of the sun.

And you're like, but I can't. There's no shade to escape you. It's a strange thing you do when you lay in a hammock in the sun. Yeah. Well And what's fun is, like, we'll be camping, and you'll be like, I'm gonna hang up my hammock, and you'll have a nice shady spot, you know, midday.

But then later on, the sun as it you know, as we as the Earth moves and the sun then is shining in a different spot. Yeah. Quit laying in the sun. Somebody move the Earth back. Yeah.

Rewind the Earth so I can be in the shade again. Instead of making this noise. Are you gonna celebrate? I haven't decided yet. I got some errands to run.

You keep saying that. Yeah. I don't know what that means. Well, I got some groceries I gotta go get for dinner tonight. Mhmm.

And then I got some other running around I gotta do. What's the other running around? Well, tomorrow's kind of a big day. Tomorrow is a big day. So I probably should do some running around.

I know, but, Josh I don't I I don't have any running around to do. Oh, no. Makes me feel very embarrassing for you. I know. Tomorrow's gonna be a weird one for you.

You did ask if we were gonna go to dinner. Yeah. Yeah. Well, tomorrow, you know, for for folks that, you know, don't exist in our relationship the way we do, tomorrow is officially our twenty year wedding anniversary Yes. It is.

Which is which is something to be celebrated. And this weekend, we're planning on doing some celebrating. But tomorrow being the official day, I can't let that day go by Me too. Without running some errands today. I don't know what that means, but I also don't have any errands to run.

So it makes me feel really nervous. We hadn't planned on anything, and we have long ago decided that we weren't plan is your own plan. For each other. I don't know when that was ever decided. But, anyway I'm gonna look like total jerk.

Maybe you should run some errands. I've been thinking about errands to run, and I go, I don't even know what kind of errands I would run. I don't know. I don't know. You might win this year.

Win? Yeah. It's not a competition. Know it's not, but I'm gonna lose. Fun.

It'll be a good day tomorrow. I'm excited. Hammock today. I'm gonna sign say what was tomorrow do. Tomorrow is just due the day as it was twenty years ago.

I mean, aside from the the wedding, we're not gonna redo the wedding. So so go have lunch at McDonald's? We we could go pick up our wedding cake. Uh-huh. We could go eat lunch at McDonald's.

Yeah. You could go geocaching with your bros. And scrape my whole face up under a tree. And that that manifested because you specifically said don't scratch your head. Yeah.

And immediately, I was crawling under a tree and did exactly that. I could get in a fight with my mom over some of my dress alterations. Okay. Do I know about that? I don't know if I know about that.

It wasn't really a fight. It was we were just stressed, and there were some last minute alterations. And I was like, ugh. It just why does it look like that? You could wear it tomorrow all day.

I could all day. I could. I actually thought about getting it out and seeing if it still fits. I think it'll be real because it's a lace up. Yeah.

So it's Guarantee it'll fit. Meant to fit. It's just hanging in the closet anyway. I know. You wore it twenty years ago, you might as well wear it to lunch at McDonald's because that's how we do it.

Oh, wait. Time out. Because it was also we got married on a Saturday. Right. The day before pioneer day.

And so they were doing the pioneer day parade. Correct. And so we totally had forgotten about that. And then our we were on the parade. We were living on the parade.

Correct. And then we were like, what are all these people doing? We gotta go pick up ours. We gotta go get our cake. I know.

They didn't even, like, hang a flyer on the door to say, hey. Just a reminder, there's a parade coming through your neighborhood. There was an entire parade. Not one of them said, hey. Congratulations.

I know. Yeah. Yeah. I I know. Because because the parade was to celebrate Us.

Us. Yeah. Okay. That's what it's for. Uh-huh.

Well, anyway, you know, couple things we can do today and tomorrow. What errands are you gonna run? Oh. Just tell me one. No.

Oh. Would you rather consider that? Would you rather hike to a hidden waterfall or find a secret beach? I'm picking a beach. I want a secret beach all to my own self.

Why? Because Here's the thing. Why not? What does a beach lead to? The ocean.

Yeah. There's not you're not gonna have a whole secret ocean. I don't need a secret ocean. I have my own little private beach. I understand.

No one else is on the beach. Okay. Except for the in my head, I there's no such thing as a secret beach. It's a sick it's a secret beach. No one else knows it's there.

It's the edge of land where it touches the ocean. It isn't you know what I'm saying? I don't know what you're saying. No one's gonna come there but me. Okay.

I get it. I understand what you're saying, but it touches the ocean, which is full of boats and people. But they're not gonna know that it's there. Why? Because it's a secret.

Look. I've played plenty of games, where I've been on a boat, and, you cruise around by the shores, and you can go all the way around. And I've seen every bit of land where it touches the ocean. There's no such thing as a secret beach. I understand what you're trying to say.

For one day, it's a secret beach that nobody bothers you. Aye aye aye. So it almost would have to be like an island out in the middle of nowhere for it to be a secret beach. Just a little secret hidden cove that no one for one day, no one knows it exists. And so for one entire day, you get to have that entire beach to yourself.

No one knows it's there. Happy? Alright. I'm taking the secret beach. Get out of here.

Get out. That was fun. Would you rather this or that? We are celebrating, an anniversary, and, it's twenty years. Tomorrow.

Tomorrow. Pac Man is celebrating its forty fifth anniversary. Well, hey, Pac Man. Isn't that something? That is something.

I like Pac Man. I know you do. They're going to release a special edition Atari 2,600 gaming system in celebration of this forty five years of Pac Man. It's gonna come out in October. It's a Pac Man yellow Atari, which I think is very cool.

And it will have illuminated ghost icons and wireless joysticks. So very, very cool. It also includes a double feature cartridge with both the original Pac Man 2,600 game and an arcade style Pac Man 7,800. Preorders are priced at let me guess. I'm gonna say 150.

Super close. $1.70. Hey. Hey. Yeah.

$1.70. And it's really cool, and I like it a lot. And, the fact that it is Pac Man yellow with a Pac Man yellow controller, and there's also a red, orange, pink, and blue controller. It's very cool. You're pretty good at Pac Man?

Cool. I would absolutely get the Atari 2,600 remodel, re relaunch, whatever, because it's super cool. Yeah. You're pretty good at it. Yeah.

$169.99, and, preorders open tomorrow. But what about missus Pac Man? Great game. Great game. Is it the same game?

Miss Beck. She just has heels on? What? No. She just has a bow.

Oh. And it's a little different. It's got a little it's got a little story to it. Great arcade game, though. You know what's cool about that?

It's, like, what a simple game. And it's never changed, and you can still play it, and you can still be entertained while playing it. Right. And it's just been the same basic concept for decades. Eat pellets.

Yeah. Run from ghosts. Run from ghosts. Eat fruit. Eat a big pill, and then chase the ghosts and eat them.

Yeah. It's great game. And over and over. And when you clear the map, you get a new map. And when you clear the map, you get a new map.

And when you clear it, you get it. I like it. Make the noise. Do it. That was a good one.

I'm just gonna leave it alone. No way. I don't know which one you were talking about, but that was a great job. I'm proud of you for that sound effect. Thanks, Josh.

Yeah. That's nice. Bravo. You never tell me bravo on a sound effect. That one was because most times your sound effect is.

That one, you did very well, and it sounded like a Pac Man. So good job. Thanks, Josh. If I take the little snippet of that sound effect and repeat it a 100 times, it'll sound like someone playing Pac Man. Nice.

Yeah. So good job. You still can't do the, I know. I can't do the fingers slap. Sure tried.

I'm gonna Again, it looks awkward when you do it. Yeah. Should we wrap up the show, though? Let's do it. Alright.

We'll be back tomorrow on our twentieth anniversary. Isn't that fun? Anything big in store for the day? I got a couple of ideas. Okay.

You're gonna run some errands? Alright. We'll see you tomorrow. Follow us on socials at classy ninety seven k l c everywhere, including YouTube. We got a channel.

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