Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Thursday, July 31st, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
The cotton blends of today are not the same as the old days, Josh made a delicious salad, giving back to the community is always Good News, Josh was reminded of some childhood trauma, sloppers and their AI need to go away, Chantel accidently threw a moth at our daughter, our friends are moving away and we're really sad about it, what makes you feel like a kid again, we're headed back to the homesteading frontier, the top 10 grossest foods, a bunch of ways to trick your brain, an agreed upon Would You Rather, and we want to try macaroni & cheese pizza but not pizza macaroni & cheese.
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Beanee Weenees are still viral
(3:19) - Someone is shrinking Josh's shirts again
(6:32) - The avocado salad
(9:16) - Good News
(10:39) - Josh's skeleton trauma
(16:32) - Sloppers
(21:13) - The moth prank
(26:45) - Our friends are breaking up with us
(32:22) - Childhood feels
(39:19) - We're going back to 1880
(48:17) - Gross foods
(53:09) - Tricking your brain
(56:58) - Would You Rather This or That
(59:23) - Macaroni & cheese pizza + outro
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Full show transcript:
Hey, Chantel. Hey, Joshua. I just wanted to give you an update on the Beanie Weenie video because it's out of hand. It's just absolutely nuts. Where do you think it is right now?
I'm gonna guess 50,000. 353,000. No way. As of right now. No way.
Yeah. This dumb little video that you've made. I know. 353,000 views. I don't I I don't even know what to say about that.
I don't either. It's been favorited almost 1,700 times. It has over 13 and a half thousand likes and a 143 comments. I don't know what to do No. About the beanie weenie situation.
So dumb. I'm I'm sorry to tell you that video is dumb, and I cannot believe that it's reached that level. It gets hundreds of views every few seconds. Oh my god. It's nuts.
It's crazy. The Internet makes no sense. I know. And I said that yesterday in the show, and I'm standing by it today. I have actually tried with content many times.
I have really tried to create stuff. I've really tried to, like, you know, put stuff out there. Now it's a silly beanie weenie video that has just taken off. I don't even know what to do about it. I I've seen other creators, other people online that have, made stuff, and they're like, you know, you just gotta put stuff out there.
You never know what's gonna hit. You just gotta throw stuff out there. And so, you know, I feel like that's what this is. I A long time ago, I heard the sound. I saved the sound.
I said, I'm gonna use that one day. And that day came to me last week, and then, I posted it just a couple of days ago, and now it's over 300,000. Crazy. It's nuts. It's crazy.
I don't even know what to do about it. It's this eight second video being linked. Out of it. Well, I I'm not monetized. And Okay.
Because I don't have enough followers, You have to have at least a thousand followers in order to monetize. And I will say I now have over 200 Woah. Which is great. From this silly video. It's insane.
Yeah. The Internet is crazy. I know. So I'm I'm working on it. I'm gonna see I I thought about going live today on TikTok because I can.
I do have that capability. So I may go live and just talk to people that maybe wanna talk about the Beanie Weenie video or something. I don't even know. What are they gonna say about it? I have no idea.
Okay. I don't know. Congratulations. Yeah. I feel like I could at least do thirty minutes or an hour live on there talking to people.
An hour? Why not? I just I just, you know, pop it up here in the studio. I can just go live, and and talk to people that, you know, wanna reach out or whatever. I don't mind that.
Oh, well, I know, but what are you gonna say for an hour? Whatever. Okay. Talk about beanie weenies. Sure.
I mean, what do we talk about for an hour? That's true. Enough. That's true. Alright.
Well, should we start today's show then? Yeah. Let's do it. Here we go. Here we go.
Well, hi. Well, hey. Good morning. Good morning. How's everything?
You tell me. Well, the other day, I, told you. I said, hey. If you are ready to leave the house before me, just go. Yeah.
I did. And then, today, you did. And I went, oh, fine. Just leave me behind. I see how it is.
Well, you you gave me permission. You didn't need permission. I didn't. I just and I had thought about doing that many, many times ago, and I was like, that seems kind of rude. But, otherwise, I'm just felt rude.
I'm sitting at the house waiting. Just kidding. Come here and get started setting things up. Yeah. Yeah.
No. I I don't I'm not mad at you at all. I just I just turned the corner and expected to see you standing by the door, and there was just no one, no car, just gone. And I went, oh, alright. Yeah.
See you when I see you, I guess. Catch you on the flippity flop. Now I asked how you were because yesterday, you were in a curmudgeon y mood. Yeah. How's your shirt feeling?
Not as tight today. Good. Not as tight. Everything's a little tight these days. Are you shrinking my laundry again?
Mhmm. I knew it. Mhmm. Mhmm. Just yours, though.
I know. I separate yours, and I go, yeah. Hot. Run these on hot. Yeah.
Extra hot in the dryer. Right. Shrink these puppies. That's what I say. Yeah.
I don't think cotton ever I get it shrinks. I don't think the cotton they make shirts out of now shrinks down like, you know, the comics of old times where you would have a little tiny itty bitty shirt. Like, I think that was that's for more like wool sweaters or something. Yeah. I'd buy into that.
I don't think the cotton blends of 2025 The cotton blends of yore. They do they do shrink a little bit. But some of the clothes are prewashed too now, so I think they take some of the shrink out of them. You know? Yeah.
Fascinating. I'm just making this up. It sounds it sounds right. You think? The cotton blends in old timey is different than the cotton blends now.
Yeah. You get it. I do. So my shirt's not as tight, and that's fine. And, and my attitude feels a little bit better.
A little bit better? Yeah. I mean, I didn't have a bad drive in. Yesterday, I had a bad drive in, but today's been fine. Okay.
So Great. Alright. Well I don't need to sing the turn your smile upside down? No. Turn your frown upside down?
No. Turn your smile upside down and frown frown frown. There it is. We'll do that. I made a salad yesterday.
You did make a salad. It had avocado in it. Yes. And today is avocado day. So you're you said jump ahead on the day.
Yes. Okay. So here's the deal. We were going, to have some dinner, and somebody was making some salmon. Yes.
Friends were making salmon. They said, could you bring a salad? And you said, you better bring a pretty good salad. I said, you better bring a sick salad. Like, sick as in good, not sick as in bad.
And so, I, I guess, you got home from work, and and you were like, did you put together a salad? I said, yeah. I put together, an avocado, goat cheese, fifty fifty mix, and then I got a, Fuji apple vinaigrette. And you went, just from a bag? Come on now.
You know I didn't just bag it. I know. I know that about you. But for a minute, when you were telling me about it, I was like, I think you just got a bagged salad. No way.
That's not a sick salad. I asked you to make a sick salad. Yeah. That salad that you made Yeah. Was pretty sick.
Yeah. I could've I could see see how I could've added a little bit more to the salad to make it bad. It needed a crunch. It needed a bacon trumbles is what I was gonna say. Bacon.
That's not a bad thing. An apple slices. I thought about the apple slices, but then when I did the Fuji apple vinaigrette, I thought that's gonna be too much apple. Okay. I did think about that.
But bacon, I didn't think about. I got really nice bacon. Would've taken me a little while to cook it up, but that's not a bad pick. You had some time. Right?
I didn't have much time. No. I had about an hour. Well and then when you got home, you took an extra, like, half hour or so. So I probably had time You had time.
Only because the time after you got home. I was under the impression we were you were gonna get home, and we were bombing out right away. Well, sometimes I need just a little decompress when I get home from work. I gathered. So Yeah.
Decompressed for just a minute, and then we bombed out. Right. That's the way it goes sometimes. So, anyway, that is, that is what's up. It's National Avocado Day.
It's chili dog day. You like a chili dog? I mean, I haven't had a chili dog in a long time. Mhmm. When was the last time you ate a chili dog?
It's been a very long time. I have not had a a chili dog in a very, very long time. Gonna play Jack and Diane all day? I should. Do I have it coming up?
I don't think I do. Put put avocado on your chili dog. Oh. And then, and then yeah. That sounds awful.
That does sound awful. Let's not do that. Okay. So PJ Woodland is a pretty exciting football player. He grew up in PJ?
Yeah. PJ Woodland. He grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and he now plays in college for Louisiana State University. While he is enjoying a great success at LSU, you've heard that school before. If you don't know, that's where Burrow and Chase and Jefferson came from.
Oh, okay. It's LSU. He hasn't forgotten about his hometown, and he wanted to do something to give a boost to the community. So he hosted a back to school drive, in Hattiesburg. And he handed out more than a 150 backpacks to local kids, which is really cool.
PJ remembers all the support that he received while growing up and playing football in high school. And for years, he wanted to give back. He said, growing up, I always look forward to doing something like this. I always had my, I always try my best to lead by example. And now that I've had the opportunity to do something like this with my team and my guys, we just got it done.
And, that's pretty awesome. That's awesome. So 150 backpacks out to some local kids in Mississippi, thanks to PJ Woodland. Remember that name? PJ?
Yeah. You will. You'll remember it. I will. And PJ's good news, by the way.
That's great. Yeah. Great news. Oh. Uh-uh.
Should we rename it? Great news. Okay. You know that 12 foot skeleton that you love so much? I do not love it very much.
What about it? They are making a six and a half feet tall skeleton, so a little bit smaller, but they're calling this the ultra skelly. Why? Because it comes with an app where you can oversee the animatronic elements like a moving mouth, and you can also equip it with some prerecorded dialogue. You can record up to thirty seconds of, sound.
Uh-huh. So you can make it talk and also move its mouth. Six and a half feet tall skeleton. It's not that big. It's not that big.
It's that's the scary part for you is the giant It's the size of the thing. It's so ominous. It's tall as a house. It is as tall as a house. There's there's one in our neighborhood.
Yeah. And I was gonna say, they have a two story house. If we put that in our backyard, that thing would be creeping over the roof. I know. It's awesome.
It's not. I'm not into them. I think they were cool. So do you wanna get the six and a half foot moving mouth one? I bet it's just as much money.
No. It's it's about $20 less. Oh, it's the same amount. $279. Make the big one talk.
Oh, you'd really hate it then. I know. There's one in our neighborhood that keeps it out all year long. I know. It lives in the front yard.
Because where are you gonna store it? Where are you gonna put it? You can't put it away anywhere. Does it come apart? I wonder.
Well, it went together, didn't it? They don't drop them with a helicopter. Yeah. It comes apart. If it goes together true.
It comes apart. What was I gonna say? Uh-huh. Oh, sometimes we go on a walk in our neighborhood, and we come upon that house with the skeleton, and you steer clear of it. You Oh, I walk on the other side of the street.
I don't like being there. It's not my favorite thing. I think it's cool. I want one. Skeleton.
Skeleton. Skeleton? That Skeleton. Yeah. Do I want to talk to you?
Skeleton. Yeah. I don't I don't know. But the talking one is is just an animatronic. It sounds cool.
Does it? It sounds super cool. Alright. Ultra Skelly. We're all ready to talking about Halloween decor?
If you It's not even August. Right. If you bought this, what would you have it say? Beanie weenies. Yeah.
You would. I would. Where is this thing available from? Home Depot. Oh, I see it.
He's got, like, a light up, inside. He's got some LEDs in his in his rib cage. His hands move too, I think. No? Or he's posable.
I can't tell. How are they moving his eyes? $280. He's got creepy LED eyes. Out of stock.
So Oh, seriously? Oh, yeah. Dang it. Yeah. People go nuts for this stuff.
People go nuts for Halloween. Yeah. But they really just go crazy about this guy. Ultra Skelly, $279. Limit one per order.
Really? Yeah. I can't $280. That's just crazy. I told you that.
I told you all of these things. I know. Okay. That's a lot of money for a skeleton. The LED skeleton.
The LED eyes are spooky. Oh, are they? Yeah. One time, I was a kid, Halloween. We're driving around visiting grandparents' houses and things.
We were headed away from, one of my grandparents' house. We're over by Melaleuca Field, the baseball diamond. And there was a a tall man, and I mean wicked tall. A real man? No.
Well, I it was all I could see was the skeleton. This is where it comes from. I just found my trauma. Big, tall skeleton guy with, like, a cloak thing looking all grim reaper ish. Okay.
And he was tall. Like, I think he was walking around on, like, drywall stilts or something. K. And it we stopped, to look at it or whatever, and it got down low and looked in the car window. And I think I had a panic attack.
This is why I don't like haunted houses. This is why I don't like tall skeletons. It's all because of that dude. A real dude. In a costume or whatever on Halloween traumatizing children in the back seats of cars.
Super scary. Yeah. That's what happened. The eyes? Thanks for the reminder.
Because you said LED eyes. He had lit up eyes, which there weren't LEDs back then. This was the eighties. Ew. Josh, that's spooky.
Yeah. What happened? What were you? I don't know. Seven, eight, nine, ten, something like that.
You were just a little boy. Yeah. Frightened dude in the back seat of a car. You were in a car. Yeah.
You weren't outside. Right. So he got down and looked in the car at you. Correct. Oh.
And I'm in no control of my existence. I can't run away, can't do anything. Skeleton face. No. Thank you.
No. Thank you very much. You're right. That is terrifying. Yeah.
And you should be traumatized. Yep. Justly so. I'm sorry. It's fine.
Do you need, to go lie down in the corner? No. No. No. I'm fine.
I just don't want the big skeleton at our house. That's all. Okay. Thank you very much. Have you heard the word sloppers?
Okay. I've heard of slippers and flip flops, and so I'm thinking this is something to do with a combo. No. Flip flops Nothing to do with slopper. Nope.
Nothing to do with footwear. I've heard of sloppy joes. Have you heard of no. No. Nothing to do with meat.
I've heard of, pigs eating slop? Nope. What is it? Have you heard of AI slop? Yes.
Okay. I have. So People that create it are known as sloppers. Correct. Okay.
Mostly people who use AI to do everything. Oh, I see. You answer an email. What's Perfect. What's AI gonna do for you?
I know some folks like this. Yeah? Uh-huh. Sloppers. Now you've got a new job for fantastic name.
Is that slapper? Yeah. You know who you are. I think that's, I think that's appropriate. Like, you've gotta have, some some sense of human in there.
Like, you really do. Like, in your in your communication, especially. If if you're using AI to do everything for you, like, you you are no one. You don't exist. Like, who are you as a person?
Right. If everything is a prompt that you type in to get some sort of output that you're then gonna copy and paste, there's no you in there. Another term that people are using is it's interesting that you said prompt because they're calling them prompt zombies. Yeah. I think that I think both are great.
Green or Gen AI sheep? Gen AI sheep. Yeah. Woah. That's too much.
I like I I don't mind sloppers. Sloppers? Yeah. I I think that, like, there are people that make the, like, the images and the videos and stuff. That's the stuff that that is AI slop, because it's just it's just stuff.
It is stuff. And it's not stuff. Imaginative. Right. It's not creative.
You you put something in probably a terrible prompt too, I might add. Yeah. And then it created something for you that's not even great. I get it, man. I get it.
There I've seen some creative things people have have done, and I know that writing prompts isn't easy. But what I'm saying is in person to person interaction Mhmm. If you're using AI to conduct that communication, there is no there is no you in it. Well, I heard a story. There was a story once that I read.
This was just a couple of days ago. This guy was on a date, and he was on a date, and the woman pulled out her phone and asked chat g t b chat GPT what she should order. So she couldn't even order her own food. She was like, what should I order? She's a robot.
And he said, we're not gonna go on a second date. Yeah. And they didn't. Right. I can see that.
Dun dun dun. Yeah. Yeah. It just look. I understand it's there as a tool, as a resource, you know, but living your whole life on it, that's too much.
You're you're doing too much. You need to have a sense of self. Are you gonna call them out? The people that you know that do this? I think I think I should.
Like, quit being a sloper. Another name here's another name that I found, a bot liquor. Oh. I kinda like that one. I get it.
I get it. It's a play on on, the boots instead of bots. I get it. But You got it. Yeah.
Yeah. Man. But you like slapper? That one or the prompt zombie. I like prompt zombie because that's really what you're doing.
P z for short? Yo. Peas. Yeah. That's what you're doing.
You're just, you know, typing away, letting the machine do all the heavy lifting. And, again, there are reasons, and and it's a great tool for a lot of things. But it's it's great for fun. There are professional applications, but using it for your everyday functional life, there's a problem there. And then you just rely too heavily on it.
That's what I'm saying. And then you're never gonna be able to answer anything by yourself. Your brain. You won't be able to make your own decisions Right. All that stuff.
AI. Y I y I y I y I y. You were talking a little bit earlier about something that traumatized you as a kid. Mhmm. And I'm pretty sure I traumatized our daughter last night unintentionally.
Alright. She had a moth in her bedroom. Right. And she was not excited about it. She she was kind of spooked out like it was a spider.
Like, you think it was like a giant foot long spider. Right. It was not. It was just a little moth that was flying around in her room, and then she lost the moth, but knew it was in there and refused to go to bed. She's like, I'm not going I'm not sleeping in there.
There's a moth in there. And then she started, like, moving things around, and the moth reappeared. And she went, and you went in with a piece of paper and a cup and caught the moth. Yeah. Did you just, did you put the cup over it on the wall?
How did you is that what you did? That's what I exactly what I did. She was freaked out by the moth. I was like, it's just a moth. Guess what?
He's got a lifespan of, like, six hours. He's gonna be dead in a few minutes anyway. That's my experience with moths. Okay. And moths are no big deal.
I'm not freaked out by moths. Are you freaked out by moths? No. She was very freaked out by moths. Are you sure that their lifespan is only I don't know.
No. I know it's short. I might have exaggerated on the shortness of their lifespan. Lifespan of a house moth, varies significantly from a few weeks to several months. Oh, no way.
Yeah. How about that? Yeah. They live much longer than I thought. Yeah.
So anyhow Anyway My favorite part of the whole thing is that as you had the paper and the cup with the moth I was carrying it outside. You were walked out of her room. You walked down the hall. I was, behind you and behind her, and you turned around, and looked at her like, this will be funny. I'll jump at her and go, and and that's what you did.
Yeah. But the moth escaped. And so when you turned and went, the moth flew directly at her like a like, no. And she I've never seen her more scared, more teary eyed. You you absolutely put moth trauma into the child last night.
I know. I know. I didn't mean to. I was just trying to play a joke. It didn't go over well.
It was wild. She was she was half laughing, half crying. It was that was a lot of emotion. She had more emotion in that moment than I've ever seen. Yeah.
There was a lot of emotion happening. I apologized. I hugged her pretty fiercely. Yeah. I'm sorry.
I didn't mean for that to happen. It was just gonna be a harmless little prank. I mean and to be fair, we're talking about a moth here. Right. But, boy, did it take off like like you had set it free.
Like, it was She came face to face with that moth. Yeah. And I was standing right there, and I watched it went, like, right toward her. Scariest thing she ever had seen was that moth in her room, and you shot it at her face. I know.
Here it comes. I know. I'm a bad mom. No. You're not.
It's not it's not your mom abilities. There was It was a mistaken prank. That's for sure. There was a moment when she was little. I mean, maybe two or three years old.
And two and three year olds aren't always the easiest to deal with sometimes. Mhmm. And she wanted some water, and I gave her some water, and it didn't have ice in it. And so I gave her another cup of water. It had ice in it, and she said, no.
And now it has too much ice. You you know how toddlers are. And Nothing makes sense. She sat in the middle of the kitchen floor and just started crying and screaming, and I had a tiny little glass of I of water. No ice in it.
And this is not my It was a proud moment. Proudest mom moment. Yeah. But I I just You splashed it. Splashed a little bit of water on her.
And so last You felt the same? She brings that up all the time, but last night, she goes, I don't know what's worse. Oh, no. Splashed water on me or when you threw the moth in my face. Oh, yeah.
This one this one will be remembered forever. It was the night you threw the moth at Emory. It was fantastic. Write down the date, July 30. No one will ever forget it.
No one will ever let me forget it. At your daughter. Unintentionally. No. You intended to throw the moth.
You just didn't intend the moth to get out. Fair. Yes. That's Like, you did go through all the motions to throw the moth. The moth getting out was an unexpected outcome, and boy did it change the whole course of events.
It sure did. Yeah. Bad mom. She'll be okay. Have you talked to her this morning yet?
No. See if she had nightmares about moths? If she even got any sleep at all? Yeah. She's in the corner crying.
Gonna get me. Yeah. Exactly. Beetle position? Right.
My mom. My mom. Sitting in the dark because if you have a light on, the mom will show up. Yeah. Yeah.
We have friends that are moving away. I know. It's super sad. It is really sad. Yeah.
I've been dealing with it for a couple of days since I found out. I'm not okay. How have you been dealing with it? Not well. Not well.
It's it's, it's the sudden, like, it like, it's happening now. Yeah. That's the thing. Right? Like, you know and then we start looking at, like, okay.
We've invested years into developing this relationship, and then they're like, whoops. See you. It's not like that. You know what I'm saying. It's hard.
It is hard. Yeah. And we have friends, like, my best friends live far away. Right. So we don't get to see them very often.
And it's hard as an adult to find friends, especially as we were talking. It's not always like, you'll have friends, maybe friends that you meet through work or something. Sure. And then we get introduced to their spouse, and, like, I don't necessarily get along that great with their spouse. It's rare to find, like, both you and I get along with both him and her.
Right. I get what you're saying. Yes. It is a challenge. It is a very big challenge.
And and it isn't like here's the other part. Like, you're you you don't have all these, like, social opportunities to, like, meet new people. So that's adults. That's the hard part, I think, because you're busy with life. You got you got work and you got life and you got hobbies and you got all these things.
And so, yeah, it's a challenge. And then you go, okay. Well, we found some people we're gonna hang out with, and then you hang out over the years, and then they just up and leave you. Yeah. You said it feels like a breakup.
Does feel like a breakup and not like a like a violent, like, we had a a a falling out breakup. It's not like that. It but it is like a there there is a a sense of loss, and that's, and that sucks. I'm not happy about it. I know.
You're having a hard time. Yeah. I know. I'll be alright. The you know?
Why is it so hard to make adults as to make friends as adults? I think it's because you're not you don't have the least common denominator as easily as easily as you do when you're kids. Least common denominators are easy when you're thrown into a a setting where there's a whole bunch of other people, your same age, and everybody is really easily influenced by the same stuff. Okay. So you're all, you know, in elementary school watching the same shows, and junior high, you're all watching the same stuff.
Like, you're like, all of your like, you start building individuality as you age. And then as you sort of find your thing, that's where you're going to spend your time. And so whether that's working out at the gym or maybe you like going out on the town or if you're I think also. Socialite type person, all of that is where you might need to find time to do stuff as an adult too. Absolutely.
Not that you don't want to. But it you know, we got work and kids and other responsibilities, and then it's like, hey. You wanna do something? No. I don't because this is my only night free.
So it's hard to have friends because they're like, well, we don't wanna do anything either. Right. Because we're tired. Yeah. And we're adults, and we're in our forties.
It's old people stuff. So it it is, it is a big challenge, and it's not it's not like you have the ability to be like, okay. Let's go meet some new people. It it that's the like, there's there's this lost thing. There's this and not that we aren't gonna see them ever again.
Right. It's just a challenge. It becomes a long distance friendship, and that's harder to maintain just as it would be in a romantic relationship. Yeah. So it's, yeah, it's it's it's frustrating.
It's sad. Yeah? I'm mad about it. I are you? Yeah.
I'm mad. Well and here's the thing. We knew it was coming because they told us they had been looking for a new job somewhere else, and we were like, okay. But then it sort of fell apart, and I was like, sweet. Yeah.
It was like, oh, we can't find anything. Oh, that's too bad. Yeah. Oh, no. Oh, shoot.
That's oh, no. And then they were like, oh, we found something, and we're moving next week. Yeah. What? I know.
What? I can't believe it. Me neither. I'm I am I'm without words. They're not.
They're very nice people. They are nice people, and that's why it's so sad. I know. Because we like that. Yeah.
Selfish, for them to leave us, but, you know, good luck to you. Hope hope it works out. Yeah. I hope the best for you. Yeah.
See? These are all the stages of of, relationship breakups that we're all going through. Stages of loss. Yeah. It's fine.
I'm just mourning friendships. It's fine. I know. So now we just gotta move closer to some of our friends. Or something.
Or find new friends. Yeah. I know. That sounds like work. That could be work.
Alright. Fine. Go off. Live your life. See you later.
Have a good one. Bye. What is something that instantly makes you feel like a kid again? Oh, I think there's a couple of things. Like, if I hear a song from when I was younger, maybe that might Like a take me back a little bit.
Theme song to a cartoon? Yeah. For sure that. Or, you know, with a a TV show theme song. But I'm just even thinking, like, if I hear a song from when I was building my cassette collection or my early CD collection Oh oh.
Mhmm. That can take me back pretty quick. Sometimes there are smells that you'll get that I'll go, like, immediately go like, woah. Like Play Doh. That's a childhood smell.
Yeah. Or or I'll drive past a place. Yeah. Like, just just down the road from the studio is, where I went to day care slash kindergarten. And and it's weird because it's still a daycare, and it's like a few streets away.
And I drove by oh, it's been a couple of months ago. But I was I was working with the station. We were hauling some stuff, and we drove down that road. And I went, that's weird. I have a picture of me on the first day of school with my little lunchbox and my backpack standing out front.
I should recreate it. You should. The buildings looks the same. You should. It's weird.
And then you should knock on the door to see if you can see inside and see if it smells the same. Oh, it's gonna smell like a daycare. I know that. But here's the thing about it too is, like, that's where I remember having my very first squeeze it. Oh.
Yeah. Oh, boy. I know. And do you remember, did you ever have those popsicles that were in, like, the plastic tube? And I'm not talking, like, otter pop.
They were in, like, a harder plastic, and then they came to a point in the center, and you twist them apart. No. You not know what I I don't know what those were called. But I had those there too, and they were pretty good. Big day at daycare.
Yeah. But that's what it's stuff like that where I go like, oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it brings back memories or it brings back, you know, a time.
Yeah. That's I don't know. What about you? Well, I was just thinking anytime there's, like, a water balloon anything Okay. I'm like, okay.
Big deal? Like, I get that's, like, a kid thing, but did you do that a lot as a kid? I think I did it a lot. But anytime that water balloons enter the scene, I'm like, oh, yeah. This is about to be very, very fun.
And then it just makes me feel like A kid. Yeah. Yeah. Like, the spring of youth. Oh, look at you.
I there were a few times where the family would would break out into a water fight, and it always ended with my parents, one in the front yard with a hose and one in the backyard with a hose. And then they would try to spray each other, and we were just bystanders at that point. But Yeah. But there were plenty of water fights growing up. I don't think that my yeah.
I don't think my parents were ever involved in any of the water fights. You should get them to do a water fight now. Now? They're in their seventies. Get them to do a water fight.
In late seventies. Yeah. Let's have give them give them each a hose and go go crazy. That's so that's what everybody needs in their life is a good water fight. That's not terrible idea.
I mean, it really. When was the last time you had a water fight and you were like, this is the dumbest thing I've ever been a part of? Water fights always turn into fun. Yeah. If you, if you are, that, like, bad mood grump about a water fight, you need to reassess your life.
Frown upside down. There you go. Yeah. It's a water fight. Have some fun.
Let loose. Yeah. How about a, a tire swing? No. What?
Why? What? You don't like them? No. Or they just doesn't make you feel like a kid?
Both. How about a swing a regular swing? They're okay. We were swinging not too long ago Yeah. At our nephew's graduation party.
Right. And that was fun. It was fine. You were giving me underdogs and You hated it. Yeah.
It was scary. It's not scary. I'm not eight feet tall. It's not scary. But then I tried to do when I was a kid, and you had two swings close together Yeah.
The problem is that that they weren't that close together. I know. But did you ever play that? No. Ah, that was a girl thing.
You could turn your swings. You could swap your swings so you were facing each other. Crossing your feet. Feet in each other's swings, and then a person could sit on their legs. The girls did that at the playground.
So much fun. You never did that? No. I saw people do it. But you crazy, though, I was the best.
That's fine. I was hanging out on the slides and stuff. I was on the slides too. Yeah. I was doing monkey bars.
I was very good at monkey bars. Too. I was not very good at monkey bars. But I got blisters really easy because I got soft hands. They're strong, but they're soft.
I fell off the monkey bars once and then got the wind knocked out. Oh, that's a rite of passage. And then I never went back on the monkey bars. Right. Because that's what you do in life.
You fall down and get the air knocked out of you one time, and then you just quit. There's a lesson in there. What is it? Get your wind back and try again. That's the lesson.
You might you might be the greatest monkey bar person in the whole wide world, but you never tried again. No. I have tried again. When? Not too long ago.
I tried it again with the kids, like, maybe a year or two ago. When? A while ago. Where do you even find monkey bars? Any any playground has them.
Yeah. No way. Yes, Wayne. Too risky. They barely have a slide and maybe one or two swings anymore.
It's not a metal slide to be sure. Yeah. Those were hot. We grew up on those metal slides. Burned our legs all the way down.
Yeah. Or froze our legs all the way down Right. Depending on what you see. Even, that slippery unless you had like, if you got skin on the metal, you went Yeah. Yeah.
You didn't slide. Yeah. So I think that's a bit another big reason they got away from the metal ones was that the the friction was all wrong. Unless you waxed them. Who's doing that?
Nobody. Mommy's out there waxing the hot metal slide. Sounds fun. Yeah. Until you get the wind knocked out of you.
And then you just quit. Back when I was in college Mhmm. My roommate and I stumbled across a show on PBS that we I don't know if she loved it as much as I do did, but it was the best show ever. It was called Frontier House, and it was a couple of families that traveled back. I mean, they didn't travel back, but it was almost as they traveled back to the eighteen hundreds, and they lived in a frontier house.
So they ditched their modern amenities. They ditched their modern clothing, and they they lived in a frontier house. So they learned how to, like, kill a chicken and pluck the feathers. Oh, okay. They had to churn their own butter, and they had to do, like, all of the stuff from the eighteen hundreds.
Okay. What? I'm just reading about this. Okay. It was a six part hands on history series.
Yes. They took three modern day families back in time to live like eighteen eighties homesteading pioneers in Montana. Yeah. The family's headed west in May 2001, and they live there until October with just the tools of the period at their disposal. And then the the show sort of captured their trials, triumphs, simple pleasures, and daily rigors.
Very interesting. I've never heard of this show. Loved it so much. And then they had House. Yes.
Okay. And then they had, and that I feel I I feel like it came out in early two thousands. That was 02/2001. Okay. And then they had a show that was similar called Colonial House.
Okay. Same premise, but Different time. Different time, different house. So that one was, like, a nineteen hundreds house, a Colonial House nineteen hundreds. I feel like I feel like there was also one where they were in England, like, an old house in England.
Okay. I can't be sure of it. But the I remember the the mom went into the house, and she was like, I'm supposed to cook on this stove. I don't even know how to turn this off. Like, what am I Awesome.
What am I supposed to do with this? Figure it out. That was awesome. I loved it so, so much, and I've been desperate to, like, find that show again and watch it again. Well, guess what?
It's on DVD. No. Oh. They have a show on HBO right now Okay. Called Back to the Frontier.
Okay. So they're doing a new version of it. Correct. Tell me about it. It's the same thing.
Families will leave the twenty first century behind to live as 1,800 pioneers Okay. In this bold social experiment that will test their strength, stamina, and sense of humor. Interesting. I know. It's kinda interesting too because if you think about it, like, early two thousands, we had cell phones, but they didn't do what cell phones do now.
That's true. So now these families are gonna have to go back. Yeah. You have no Internet. You have no AI.
You have no like, there's a lot of technology you're stepping away from today to go back, into the eighteen eighties. Alright. So, I I was just looking at this. This is put put on by Magnolia. This is the gains.
Oh, is it? That's their I mean, they have their own network, the Magnolia network. So it's Chip and Joanna have put this thing together. I did not know that. Or at least they, because that's their thing.
Right? Magnolia? Yeah. Yeah. So that's neat.
What I know is the original was not put on by them. No. No. I understand. But maybe they original.
Maybe they are also fans and went, hey. We're gonna we need to do this thing. Maybe. Interesting. Yeah.
So we gotta watch it. Are they doing it in Montana as well? Do you know? Unsure. I I don't know.
I've given you the information that I know. I mean, it kinda looks like it. I mean, it looks like the West for sure. I mean, and that's kinda where the frontier was won out on the West. I'm so excited.
I really wanna watch this show. I don't know why it hit me so hard when I first saw it in the early two thousands. I just I think that's a really interesting so much. Was that, there was also that show where where they, had taken, like, Amish kids. And and when they turn 16, they get to go do, like, sabbatical or whatever it's called.
Yeah. I can't remember what that's called. That show? Mhmm. And it would, like, followed them as they kind of did the opposite and left, you know, the the Amish settlement and went to sort of explore life in a big city.
Right. What I also know is there was a show MTV tried to get in on this too Mhmm. In the early two thousands, and they had a back to the nineteen seventies. Oh, the house. So that It was like a Brady Bunch style house, and they had to drive the old station wagon.
I remember that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they all they were, like, young adults that were all living there.
Uh-huh. And they had to cook, but there was no microwave. Right. And they were like, where exist. Well, how do I heat up food?
How do I heat up this can of soup? In a pot on the stove. That's fine. What are we supposed to eat without a microwave? Look in the fridge.
You'll figure it out. That was kind of fun too. I don't know. I think I just like I think it's because I wanna do it. Do you?
I wanna have the experiment. You wanna do eighteen eighties homestead? Kind of. Oh, interesting. Forever.
But No. I get it. I think the hard part hardest part for me would be the hunting gathering thing. I think so too. That would be the biggest challenge for me.
Not that I can't go fishing. I'll see you later. Good luck in the house. I'm going fishing. It would not be hard, for me to do that part.
It would be very hard for me not to just catch and release because I'm that's what I do. Yeah. You don't like to kill them. No. So that would be very difficult for me to go, okay.
Here we go. But we're so hungry. I know. I know. How long's this show?
Are we gonna make it the whole time with no food? Yeah. It depends on I saw deer everywhere. Didn't shoot a one of them. Like, what is wrong with you?
Yeah. Because then you have to clean it. I know. And then you have to cook it. Cool.
Now how now are there there's three families. Are they all working together, or are they all just doing their own family thing? The the one that I watched before, they were all just doing their own thing. I don't know how this new one is. But the But they didn't, like, work together as a community.
Don't think so. I mean Because maybe there'd be a guy who was super into it. And I could be like, I'll go catch the fish, but I'll put them on a stringer. Somebody else is gonna have to deal with it after that. I'm a feel terrible doing it, but it I'll bring them back on a stringer, and somebody else can handle that part.
I'll cook them when you're done cleaning them. I just can't be the one that I I don't mind cooking. I'll do that. I just can't be the one to Right. Do the dirty work.
I can't. It's not for me. We all have our skills, man. Yeah. Yeah.
I'll go catch them. I'll make us some nice bedding. Oh, nice. Out of what? I'll find some stuff.
Because you're gonna have to weave it. You're right. You're gonna have to harvest it from the sheep, and then you're gonna have to spin it to thread and yarn, and then you're gonna have to you know, there's a whole thing. There is a whole thing. Yeah.
Also okay. So we're gonna watch this new one back to the Frontier House. Okay. And then I'm gonna find the original, and then we're gonna watch that one too because it was so good. I just loved it, and I kinda wanna do it.
I don't know. Seems hard. If I came home and I said, hey. I signed us up for this reality show where we have to go live in the eighteen hundreds. Are you in?
What would you say? Yes. I mean, I can build a fire. I've got skills. You do have skills.
It's just food. The food's the hardest part for me. It's the food. I can live. I can build.
I can I can do all those things? I'm not good with horses. Mhmm. I might be good with horses. I just haven't been around them enough.
I shouldn't discredit myself. I may be great with horses. You might be. I just am not super comfortable with horses. It's gonna be a challenge.
That's the point, though, isn't it? It is. Alright. It's not supposed to be up. Let's see what happens.
Okay. I will. Oh, no. America has spoken, and America has told us what the top 10 grossest foods are. Alright.
I have had four things on this list, and I like two of the four things that I've eaten. So so 20% of the list, you actually like. Yeah. 40 of the list, you've tried. Correct.
60% of the list, you've never eaten? Correct. And I don't think I ever will. Let's start at number 10. Number 10 is sushi.
I've tried sushi. I'm not a huge fan. I like sushi. Yeah. It's fine.
Number nine is chitlins. I gotta look that up. It's pig intestines. No. I haven't had that.
No. Number eight is blue cheese? I don't like blue cheese. I don't like blue cheese either. I I have, our a coworker who recently started enjoying blue cheese, like, very recently.
He's like, it was disgusting until, like, the last six months, and now I really like it. Your tastes change all the time. You do. So you gotta try this out. Maybe I just have an, more advanced palate.
Oh. And I went, you're eating mold. Stop it. It's not for me. Oysters is number seven.
I've never tried it. I've never either. I think it's a texture thing. I look at it, and I go, no. Yeah.
I'm not gonna No. Thank you. I know. I agreed. Caviar is number six.
I've tried it. Yes. I don't like it. Salty. It's so salty.
I don't enjoy it. Yes. Not not really my favorite. Mine either. Squid?
I've had squid as as, like, calamari. Oh, I guess that counts. So I have had that. I had And, like, breaded isn't bad. I haven't eaten it like like you see those videos of people just biting it.
Yeah. No. Thank you. No. Thank you.
Yeah. I've had calamari, but it's I don't like the texture. It is a little bit rubbery. That's what it sounds like when you eat a Yeah? Okay.
Tofu? I've had tofu. Tofu is not bad. I've had some when it's when it's prepared properly, tofu is not bad. You gotta make it you gotta fry it, and you gotta make it not fry it.
But, like Some of the breaded, tofu is super good. You gotta make it a little bit crispy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
And then it's great. Mhmm. Sardines? No. Thank you.
No. Thank you. I I've never tried them, but I'm not going to. I got an I got a guy I go backpacking with who loves that stuff. Oh.
Like, you'll you'll bear witness to that in September. Great. Yeah. He loves it. That's his lunch.
Crackers and Kipper snacks? No. He brings, like, sardines and oysters and all kinds of canned fish, and it is not for me. No. Thank you.
Number two is liver? No. My parents would make that. Really? Yeah.
Never. Number two worst grossest food is liver. I'm I gotta tell you. I'm not a fan. I'm not either.
I have never had it. So I might Just seeing it come out of that little container, Just looking at it. Yeah. I go, oh. No.
Thank you. No. Thanks. And number one, grossest food. Supposed to be really, really good for you, though.
Bad bet. Gross. Number one grossest food. Grossest food, Anchovies. Okay.
That's the same as sardines, which was number three. Not according to this list. I mean, it's a different fish. So it's different. Still a little fish with its head on that you just eat.
No. I don't like it in a, like, Caesar salad. There was a place that that we ate long time ago, that's not even in business anymore. But they they had a real authentic Caesar salad that had anchovies in the dressing and stuff. It was not good.
I don't like it. I don't like my salad to taste like a raw fish. It was not good. Try it again. Taste change.
You might like it now. No. Give it a go. I can smell it right now. I'm still upset about it.
You are? Yeah. That was ten years ago at least. Long time ago. Fifteen years ago.
That was fifteen years ago. Get over it, bud. Think about that salad, though. Think about it. I think about it sometimes, and I go, ugh.
You say I do. That's a gross out one for me. That was not a good salad. I'm traumatized by that salad. Oh my we've had a lot of trauma today.
Yeah. Let's bring out all your trauma. Man, that gross salad. Just keep talking about it. Mm-mm.
That salad was sick. Fish heads. Ugh. Creepy guys located in cars when you were a kid That's right. On Halloween.
Yeah. I mean, it was skeleton. Skeleton. Skeleton? He probably smelled like anchovies in a salad.
Gross. This is cool. Listen to this. This is, something I stumbled across called how to trick your brain. K.
Little ways to trick your brain. What are we tricking our brain into doing? A couple of different things. So if you have anxiety spirals Okay. So if you're overthinking, obsessing about something that's coming up, try to do literally anything backwards.
Walk backwards. Brush your teeth with the wrong hand. Say the alphabet in reverse. This disrupts your brain's automatic anxiety patterns because it's too busy trying to figure out what you're doing. That's interesting.
Right? Yeah. So I'm gonna give that a go because I sometimes have anxiety spirals Okay. And overthinking. Also, your emotions have an expiration date.
Emotions chemically last exactly ninety seconds in your body. Is that right? After that, you're choosing to keep feeding them with your thoughts. So next time you get, like, upset about something, just set a timer for ninety seconds. Let your body feel the emotions and then be like, okay.
Okay. I've heard about some of that stuff. Emotion. Let's let's let's move on. Like, sometimes, you know, that's the letting the scary win for a few seconds or whatever.
I've I've I've heard of that. Yeah. Okay. Complimenting random people is better than therapy. Interesting.
UCLA's UCLA studies show that doing kind acts for strangers gives you more dopamine than self care activities. Really? Your brain gets addicted to seeing other people smile, so complimenting strangers is the most selfish thing you can do that doesn't feel selfish at all. That's very interesting. Isn't that nice?
Yeah. Penn State researchers found that setting aside fifteen minutes a day for worry time reduces your anxiety by up to three five minutes. Worry time. Please don't bother me. So when your intrusive thoughts pop up, you say, not now.
We our appointment's at three, and your brain will wait for its turn. Seriously? So you reschedule your overthinking for a certain time and set it for, like, five minutes, and then, like, okay. You over five minutes. Let's move on.
And then let's see. If you chew gum, it increases blood flow to your brain. It improves your memory, your attention, and your reaction time. It doesn't last forever, but it's a nice little I don't like chewing gum. I know.
But maybe you could chew something else. You just don't like chewing it all? I don't like I don't like gum. I don't like gum. Yeah.
I just thought that was interesting. Interesting little tip. Really is. Yeah. Yeah.
His brain is fascinating, but I read something the other day that said your brain looks for evidence of what you tell it. Yeah. So if you're constantly telling yourself bad things about yourself, your brain goes, oh, yeah. Here's evidence of this, and here's evidence of this, and here's evidence of this. Interesting.
But if you tell your bright nice things about yourself or other people Mhmm. Then you're like, oh, there's evidence of that, and there's evidence of this, and there's evidence of this. And I like that. Okay. I'll I I those are good brain tricks.
Thank you. Yeah. I didn't come up with them. No. I understand.
Cherry. They're from universities and things, but that's interesting still. Yeah. Set aside some time to worry. I like the, the appointment thing.
I like you you know, it's not your time now. Yeah. Go away. Later. Oh.
What's all that? Sorry. That was a weather Oh, is there a weather news? A red flag warning coming back today. There you go.
Alright. It's hot and dry. Don't Yeah. It is. Don't light fires.
Good tips. There you go. You're ready to answer the, would you rather this or that question today? Because I think I'm ready to answer it. Alright.
I don't even know what the question is. Summer edition all summer. Well, that makes sense. This one is a good one. Okay.
Would you rather wear the same damp swimsuit all day? Gross. Okay. Been damp. Like, there's been times where we've gone floating or we've gone swimming, and you have to go up to the snack bar or whatever.
I don't like being damp. Yeah. You just have to sit in your car, and it's Yeah. You lay down a towel on your seat, but it doesn't matter because it isn't actually, like, really that waterproof. Exactly.
So that's a pretty bad option. What's option, b? Have melted marshmallows stuck in your hair. What what hair? For you, it would be your beard.
No. Ugh. No. Which one? They're so bad.
Okay. Hold on. Them are so bad. You have to be in damp shorts all day Yeah. Or how long do you have the marshmallow stuck in your beard?
All day. All day? Yeah. It's an all day situation for both. I'm gonna go with damp swimsuit.
Ugh. Yeah. Because I don't like I don't like being wet, but I also don't like being sticky. So but I think I hate being sticky worse. Alright.
So I'm going with the damp swimsuit. Oh, it's gonna be so cold. It's gonna be gross. People are gonna be like, why are you so I'm gonna take the damp swimsuit as well. Same here.
But here's why. Okay. Because I feel like if I'm rolling around a whole day with marshmallow in my beard, I'm getting way more weird looks than wearing moist swim trunks. If you have marshmallow in your beard, though, instant snack all day long. No.
You just I don't even like marshmallow that much. So and here's the thing. If it's stuck in there, like, it's gonna be tugging. It's gonna get drier throughout the day. Yep.
No. I'll take the awful shorts. I don't want to. They're both terrible. I know these are both very bad options.
But I think I'll take the shorts. K. I'm going with that too. Would you rather this or that? You were talking about some gross food earlier.
Yes. And then I found out about a macaroni and cheese pizza. And I and I'm kinda into it. That doesn't sound terrible. So it's not, I I guess this is this is what's happening.
Kraft mac and cheese is made a pizza mac and cheese. So it's a mac and cheese that has a pizza flavoring in it. Oh. But I think I'd rather have a pizza with mac and cheese on it. Agreed.
Yeah. I would yeah. Uh-huh. I'd rather have pizza with, like, macaroni noodles covered in cheese sauce. Right.
Because you can do a red sauce with, you know, like a marinara pizza style pizza style sauce with macaroni. That's not a weird flavor. Or would you eat macaroni and cheese with bites of pepperoni pizza in them? The crust too? No.
Or just toppings? Just toppings. Would I have pepperoni and sausage and little pieces of ham and stuff to eat my macaroni and cheese? Pieces of ham and stuff like that. It's like you have a piece of pizza, yet you have to eat cubes.
Crust as well. And then you said no. Not crust, but you've got, like, the There's a crust at the bottom of the pizza. If you're yes. The crust too.
That's why I said crust too Yeah. We say crust. I think of, like, the the curled up edge. It's a pie here. Just There's a crust on the bottom.
Just saying. It. Otherwise, the toppings would just be in your hand. Just say bottom. The pizza bottom.
It's not called pizza bottom. It's called pizza crust. Come on now. Okay. Alright.
I don't want chopped up chunks of pizza, crust included, in my macaroni and cheese. Would I have toppings from a pizza in my mac and cheese? Yes. Okay. But I still think I would rather have a pizza with the sauce with macaroni and cheese with shredded mozzarella over the top.
Yes. That sounds interesting to me. Good. I would I would try that. Me too.
Might have to get creative. Pizza flavored macaroni and cheese, not so great. Right. That's what I'm saying. Kraft has done a pizza mac and cheese.
Here's what they have to say about it. It's a bold combination of cheesy macaroni with garlic and classic Italian spices. They always say bold. Yeah. Anytime there's a new anything.
Oh, this is a bold combination. Look how bold we are. With notes of pepperoni. They always say notes too. A bold combination with hints and notes of I could write food reviews.
Yeah? Food definitions. Bold. Bold notes of ham. Yeah.
Best served hot. Yeah. Cold macaroni and cheese. Nobody wants that. Now hold on, though.
What? Leftover pizza is good cold. Would you do cold mac and cheese pizza leftover? No. No?
No. Why? Here's what's interesting. Because you eat pasta salad cold Sure. So why can't you eat macaroni and cheese cold?
You can. There are no rules. Everything's made up. It's like pasta salad, but with cheese. Yeah.
Isn't it? There there are no rules. You You can do whatever you want with the food. Everything's made up. Cook it.
There are some rules. Okay. But I'm saying, like Don't eat raw chicken. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. You gotta have healthy food habits. Sanitary conditions and Healthy food handling. Yeah. Uh-huh.
Yep. But So there's some rules. Sure. But when it comes to pizza and mac and cheese, no rules. Throw the rules out the window.
That's it. That's what I'm saying. Don't even cook the pasta if you want a little crunch. No. This is the worst pizza I've ever had.
Interesting. They they do make spaghetti pizza. People do that. So this is not a far stretch. People are getting creative, aren't they?
Yeah. Yeah. They are. Alright. So let's call it a day.
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