Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
We are back from the extended Memorial Day weekend and we walked into a very stuffy studio, we pretend to be carnival barkers from the 1920s, no more pennies as the mints print the last batches, can you be too positive all the time, that lady was very determined to hog the hot spring, it’s difficult to entertain a 5 year old for an entire day, the secret book for our kids was almost forgotten this year, Josh’s burger is not on Yelp’s top 10 list but it’s #1 on Chantel’s, car surgery is a giant pain, and good luck to all the fledglings!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Intro
(3:07) - We're back and the room is stuffy
(5:26) - Close, but no cigar
(8:42) - Good News to Get You Going
(11:28) - No more pennies after 2026
(16:15) - Toxic positivity
(20:21) - The crowded hot spring
(27:16) - Josh caught some fish
(34:34) - Chantel entertained a 5 year old
(39:29) - The secret book we almost forgot
(45:21) - Happy Burger Day & Josh's burger is #1
(20:16) - Car surgery is a real pain
(56:20) - Would You Rather This or That
(58:41) - Good luck fledglings + outro
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Full show transcript:
Hey. Hey. Quick, NFL thing for you. Oh. Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow, or as you call him Burrows.
He recently complained that his team will once again play a prime time road game against the Ravens in Baltimore. Good blood. The third straight year that the Bengals visit the Ravens on a Thursday night. And lose. And Burrow said that playing in Baltimore for the fourth straight year in prime time isn't ideal.
Maybe we can get one of those in Cincinnati, please? No. It's interesting, though, because, a bunch of people from the NFL are like, you know, that's actually really true, and they're agreeing with Joe. And they're like, it would be fair to keep this back and forth going in prime time. What are we doing?
It's pretty wild. That is weird. I wonder why their how their scheduling works. But either way, Bengals against the Ravens? Yeah.
Lamar Jackson against Joe Burrows? Yeah. There he is. Burrows. Good for you.
Anyway, hi. We're back. I found football news, and I know you're ready for it. You're getting ready. No.
I'm ready for summer. Football means fall, and I'm not ready there. Okay. Sounds good. Sounds good.
I'm hanging out in summer right now. Okay. Hey. It's Wednesday, May 28. We are back from the extended Memorial Day weekend, and we walked into a very stuffy studio.
But I fixed it by turning on the air conditioner. Somebody had the thermostat. Look. Dad left the house, and somebody turned the thermostat up to 74. Come on, guys.
I can't 74. Can't breathe. Give me a break. We pretend to be carnival barkers from the nineteen twenties. Let's hear it.
I can't even remember the line. We're all waiting. I know. Hang on. Hang on.
Hang on. Close, but no cigar. That'll do. Why did you shrink after you said it? We'll have more impressions, in the show.
No more pennies as the mints print the last batches. That's right. Can you be too positive all the time? No. Yes.
Yes. You bet. Listen. You're great. You're great.
You're doing great. Fun. Smile through the tears. It's gonna be okay. That lady was very determined to hog the hot spring.
And she won. And she did. It's difficult to entertain a five year old for an entire day. I would know. I was fishing.
Yeah. We know. The secret book for our kids was almost forgotten this year. But but it was not. No.
We did it. Josh's burger is not on Yelp's top 10 list, but it's number one on mine. Hey. Thank you. Car surgery is a giant pain.
And I got a sunburn that's an also a big pain. And good luck to all the fledglings. What? Nothing. What?
Are you looking at me? What? Did I forget something? No. Why?
You didn't Your paranoia is strong. We are Josh and Chantel. This is wake up classy 97, the podcast. Hope you enjoy today's show. Enjoy.
What? Nothing. It's too easy. I don't even know how to start. I I don't even know what to say.
I'm hearing my voice in headphones for the first time in five days. Days. Yeah. That was awesome. Wasn't that an awesome break?
I mean, yeah. Every time I have time away from work, I go, man, I could I could get used to this. I could live this life very easily. Could get used to something like this. Yeah.
And then I realized that he had to get paid somehow. That's right. Yeah. Just just living a home doesn't pay the bills. No.
But man, oh, man, is it delightful. And you got a little stuffy nose? I know. I'm a little I'm a little stuffy. Not my best.
Not my best this morning. Well, keep it here I am. Keep it to yourself. I'm trying, Josh. But it's fine.
Speaking of stuffy, this room feels stunning. I know. Yeah. This is a little bit, and the door was open too, but it is a little bit congested in here. Yeah.
We gotta get some air in here. What do we need? It's hot. Is it hot or is it, because see, before I left, I had turned on the air conditioning, but it was cold a little bit. Not over the weekend, but, you know, anyway, maybe they turn the heat back on.
I bet they turn the heat on. It should be a heat bath. Go check it out. I'll go check it out. Somebody got chilly and turned on the heat.
I bet you. It's chilly. Oh, it's chilly. That's what they said. Yeah.
Instead of putting on a jacket, you're gonna heat up the whole place. Here we go. Sound you sound like a thermostat protecting dad right now. Go put on a jacket. Are you wearing every item of clothing?
Do you have a blanket? Go layer up. Yeah. Well, then it's not cold enough. Well, hey.
We're back in the studio. And we're back. Yeah. Yep. And we're gonna be here, all morning.
So morning. Thanks for hanging out. Hey, man. What are you doing? I don't know.
Sometimes sometimes I just don't know what I'm doing, Josh. That was one of them. It's Josh and Chantel. Hey. Good morning.
I just learned something. What'd you learn? And I'm gonna teach it to you. Alright. Have you ever heard hand drive?
No. Born to hand drive, baby. Do you know the hand drive? No. What?
I I know that look. Here's what I know. I know there's, like, a, like, a salt and pepper kinda move, like this one. Like, hand on top, like, flat hands. That wouldn't be the salt and pepper.
This one, which is, like, bumping sticks. Salt and pepper. Salt and pepper. Bump and sticks. And then you throw the salt over each other.
And then some thumbs. Yeah. I don't know how they You clap your hands. Clap your knees. Well, your thighs.
Okay. Yeah. So I know parts, but I don't know how it all comes together. You got it. You got it.
But it's not that. Have you ever heard the phrase close but no cigar? I have heard that. Do you know where that comes from? I don't.
I'm gonna tell you. It comes from the carnivals in the early nineteen hundreds when they used to give out cigar cigars as prizes for winning. There you go, kid. Win a cigar. Cigars were a common prize, but if participants didn't win, the carnival barker would shout close, but no cigar.
How about that? I tried to do the voice, but I can't do it. Try again. Close, but no cigar. Close.
Your carnival barker has rocks in his mouth. Yeah. Close but no cigar. Put those rocks down. There you go.
See? That's close, but no cigar. See? Is that funny? It is.
That that is insane. Know that. I didn't know that either. And when did they switch to stuffed animals and goldfish? Good question.
Right. I don't know the answer to that. Probably the forties. Probably. Traveling carnivals and sideshows.
How about it? How about it? Hey. You got close, but no cigar. Nah.
Oh, that was good. That one was much better. Saga. You had to do it like that. The the r is just drawn out as a ah.
K. You do it. Do the voice again. And then I'll Close kid, but no cigar. No.
I can't do it. Alright. You were doing good. I know. But I know.
With my stuffy nose, it's just not gonna sound right. Okay. And then it's gonna be for everyone to hear. I'll practice in my bathroom later today. No.
You won't. No. I won't. Because you know why? That's close, kid.
Close. Close, kid. I don't But no cigar. Not today. Just wanna pay 5 more dollars.
Not today, junior. All good. Was that good? Yeah. You gave him a name.
They always called kid junior. Yeah. Sorry, sport. There you go. Now step right up, champ.
Win yourself a cigar. Oh, close, but no cigar. Well, now we know that. We do know that. Thank you for that little bit of knowledge.
And now you go. Thirty in the morning. Bling bling bling bling. I saw this, video online, and I and it happens to be featured in good news to get you going today. Let's hear it.
And so I'm I'm excited to tell you this story. So this is a guy called Noah Simpson. He's from Bristol, Virginia, and he, he's gets excited about retro video games and stuff like that. So he goes to yard sales and estate sale sales and and so forth. And he showed up in an estate sale, on the lookout for some of these retro video gaming consoles that were listed in the ad as for sale.
He didn't get there in time to get them. Somebody else had got those. But he did find an old laptop that everybody was ignoring. It was $20, this old laptop, and he thought, well, this might be interesting. Well, turns out, he powered up the laptop.
The hard drive was still intact. It turned on. So he started kinda poking around inside the laptop. It had been untouched for, like, twenty years. Oh, no.
No. This is really cool. It is cool. But I'm It's cool. I'm waiting.
I'm looking. So he's scrolling around. He finds a little story that someone had written on here called a secret place. It was written by an 11 year old boy. It was signed Drew Smallwood.
This was like a class project. They had to write a a short story. Well, Noah shared the story in the TikTok. I won't share the whole story, but, was super touched by the story, and he said, we gotta figure out. We gotta find this guy.
Like, this is a 20 year old laptop. This this this kid who was 11 is now gonna be in his thirties, potentially. We gotta find this the kid that wrote this. The Internet sleuths got to work. They did.
Took about a week of reaching out to possible owners of the old laptop. And Drew, who wrote the story, is now 33 years old, got back to Noah and confirmed that the laptop was his. We were both very excited to meet and talk is what Noah said. We shared a lot of similar in similar interests and seemed to have similar upbringing, and it strangely felt like connecting with an old friend. The next step is for the two men to meet in person and check out the old laptop and share other stories and stuff together.
But I think it's really cool. That's great. Being, like, a twenty year old time capsule for for Drew, who, you know, wrote this story forever ago, and Noah who was like, I gotta we gotta find this kid. What is great? Really cool.
Yeah. Yeah. So, anyway That's cool. Yeah. Very cool.
You never know what you're gonna find, but this old laptop, this old Toshiba, $20 laptop, with a with a really cool story inside. You'll have to check out the they've they've got it all over the place. It's on people. It's on it's all over. But Nice.
Yeah. I wanna read that story. Yeah. Well, it's a good news to get you going. Last night, I'm laying in bed.
I'm reading the Internet, and I'm trying to do some research. And you're like, are you gonna, like, turn things off and go to bed? And I said, hold on. I'm reading about something to talk about on the show tomorrow. Uh-huh.
You did say that. And then I'm looking at the show notes this morning, and wouldn't you know it? The same thing? The thing I was researching is the thing you wanna talk about. Yeah.
Well How about it? Because I was trying to figure out, you know, officially, the mints have been instructed to make no more pennies. Right. The last round of pennies has been ordered. That's and then they're not gonna make them anymore.
And so people were saying, well, like, is this a big deal? Like, should I care? And and, ultimately, there are some collectible pennies out there. There are some pennies that that have some value, but the majority of the pennies, that are out there are, you know, essentially worth a cent. K.
And and the the decision to stop minting the penny, as I understand it, is that it costs more to make than it's even value. Almost 4¢ to manufacture. So it's supposed to save about $56,000,000 a year. Alright. Well, perhaps.
I mean, I don't know. But but that's the the idea behind it. Right? So, people were the thing I was reading is people saying, well, what do I do with pennies? Right.
I have pennies. What do I do? What is going to do with them? So here's the the thing. There was the article I was reading.
They had done an interview with the guy behind Coinstar, the change Oh, yeah. Counting machine. Uh-huh. And he said, look. He goes, I I I appreciate that you would wanna talk to me, and that's great.
And, of course, people can take their change and turn it into cash, dollar bills. Any but he did say, and I appreciate this, from from a business standpoint, probably not the best decision. But he did say, hey. If you have your own bank, they'll exchange it without a fee. So if you use a Coinstar, they keep a little bit off the top for processing and whatever.
That's how Coinstar makes money. Right. Cents on the dollar. Right? So if you but if you have a bank, you can go to the bank and you can say, hey.
Can I, change in these pennies? I got I got hundreds of these pennies. I'd like to get dollar bills. Problem. And they'll go cool.
Thanks. Here's your dollar bills. Coin for coin. Yeah. So if you've got even if you have five of them and you wanna go, like, can I get a nickel?
They'll do it. They'll they will? Yep. It's like that's what a bank is supposed to do. Yeah.
So, anyway, that's that's what the the biggest recommend of what to do with your pennies is turn them into bigger denominations of the bank. Do you know that it cost a nickel? Like, nickels, it cost 14¢ to make a nickel. How about that? So why are we getting rid of pennies?
I think it's because now we can get rid of that 99¢ thing. Everything's gonna be on the holes of the fives now. Yeah. It'll be a whole number or a five. Yes.
It is. And it's prone to go more, isn't it? It's prone to go So the 5. Well yeah. Instead of the years $5, it's gonna be $5.00 5.
I'm I'm curious to see what happens with a 6% sales tax. Yeah. You're right. Idaho, what you gonna do? What you what you gonna do?
Where you go down to five. I would like that. But, hey. You know, I'm not in charge. K.
The last pennies are set to roll off the production line early next year. So the $20.26 penny may be something of interest because it would be the last minting. The last of the penny. But I don't know what you do with that. You hold on to a roll for a thousand years, and people go, oh, that's when they quit making the penny.
I don't know. You got a whole roll of these pennies from when they quit making pennies. Mhmm. I'm just sad about all those, people, that business model where it's the map of the pennies, and you stick the pennies. You're sad for those folks?
Well, I just hope they didn't already make some that say, like, 2027 and 2028. Well, they had their heyday. Did they? Sure. Up until 2026.
People that have been coin collectors have used the little, trifold Yeah. Cardboard Yeah. Books to store their debt. Saying. I hope they didn't make it 2027 and in 2028 because they're not gonna ever fill those holes.
Sad. Sad day. Well, okay. Sad day for the penny. Yeah.
Oh, RIP, Penny. RIPP. Have you ever heard of toxic positivity? Is this where this sounds like instead of being a negative person, you're just a positive person to a fault. Right.
So Where you just you just positivity. But especially if something bad happens, and I'm like, I got fired today. And you're like, oh, well, just leave it on the bright side. Yeah. Just Yeah.
Let's check things out. Will come up. Yeah. It's okay to say that sucks. Yeah.
That's a bad day. That's a bad day. Right. Or if you lose a big game and somebody says, well, everything happens for a reason. That's I get it.
That's that's a passive positivity instead of a passive It's just I'm just saying that particular line. Well, everything happens for me. That's that's passive. It's it's not even aggressive. It's just passive.
So it's essentially you're telling, like, they they call it toxic positivity because you're telling others that they should be optimistic all the time too. But people going through something don't need to feel like they're I get it. Yeah. Being judged if they're having an off day. It's okay to be like, yeah.
This is this is a terrible day, and it's okay to be in a terrible mood. Yeah. Okay. Need your positivity all the time. Yeah.
We can have a little bit of To not be okay. I I think well, it is okay to not be okay. I think that's a really important sentence. So I was gonna say, if you've seen inside out, you know it's important to have all the feels. All of the emotions.
Yeah. You gotta have all the feels, not just some of the feels and not joy all the time. Oh, I love that movie. I know. That's what I'm You like all, both of them.
It's so good. Yeah. I need to watch those again. You do? I don't think I've seen Inside Out two since we saw it in the theater.
I think you're correct. Oh, no. Am I ready to cry, though? I listen. You don't have to cry.
You could laugh the whole time. Even at the the sad parts, just laugh. It's okay. It's okay to cry. Don't be cry.
Just put a smile on while you're crying. That's right. You can cry. Just don't make that, like, noise while you're doing it. Laugh while you're crying.
Laugh so hard you cry all the time. I don't think that Emery is an example of toxic positivity, but I think sometimes when she's having an off day, I'll say, I'm really sorry. That that stinks. Yeah. And she'll say, it's okay.
And I'm like, it's not okay, and it's okay that it's not okay. Right. It's okay to sit in the feelings of, this really stinks. Yeah. But I think that comes with the emotional maturity and, like, being able to process things.
Like, you've gotta like, there are times where things are hard, conversations are hard, stuff comes up, and I'll just go, you know what? I'm gonna sit in this, and it's not that I'm ignoring it. It's just that I'm gonna I'm gonna ponder it. I'm gonna think about it before I react because emotional reaction isn't necessarily the the right answer all the time. So I wanna I wanna think through this, and I think that's okay.
It is okay, Josh. Yeah. That's okay. Thanks. If you wanna be sad, I'll be sad with you.
But what if what if you were sad, and I'm over here going, hey. Be happy. Perk up, young kid. Yeah. Why you being so sad and glum?
Turn your frown upside down. Attitude down. Yeah. Come on. You know?
Why do you look glum? Yeah. Glum. That's good. It is a good word.
I need to bring that back. Nobody says that anyway. Glum. I'm bringing that back. I'm gonna bring back some of those old Some old timeies?
Yeah. Quit looking so glum. Hey, chap. That's it. That's the only one that's the only one I got.
Come on, chap. Chin up. And then you do one of those, like like, little soft punches. Soft punch. Yeah.
Chin up, young person. Chin up. No. Don't be so glum, chap. People will love it.
People are gonna love me. I know it. Let's talk about our camping trip a little bit. Okay. Over the weekend, we went to a beautiful area that we love to camp in.
And you said, hey. Just a little short hike. We'll be at a little hot springs. That's true statement. And we said, great.
Let's go up there. You and I took a drive first to see where it was and how far off the path it was. I've I've been researching hot springs, and there are a lot in the state of Idaho. There are a lot in the Pacific Northwest, but there are a good number in, in a lot of the area of Central Mountains. There's a lot of hot springs.
So I've been doing a lot of, like, like, mapping and, and and way pointing and looking at hikes and distances and all kinds of things to figure out where we could go. Okay. And this particular one, yeah, seemed real easy, but I could it seemed too easy to believe. And so I said, let's just cruise up here and go look at it real quick. You thought I wanted to show you a fishing spot.
I did. But I didn't. I wanted to show you where this hot springs was. And and it was indeed very easy to get to. And super cute.
Yeah. But there was a nice little hot springs. There was, like, a bench and a place to sit. Yeah. And there was nobody there when you and I first took a drive up there.
Right. But the hot springs wasn't warm enough. It was It is technically a warm spring, not a hot spring. So I was like, I'm not getting in there tonight. It's too cold right now to get in that warm that lukewarm hot spring.
Right. So I'm not doing it. The lukewarm spring. Yeah. So the next night, we go, great.
It's midafternoon. This will be a perfect time to go. Right. We go, and there's a bunch of teenage boys in there. 11.
Preteen boys. Yeah. 11, 12 year olds. And they've been in there for hours, we found out. Like, we've been here all day.
Okay. Like, it's the like it's the pool. So we get back to our car. We load up. We're like, okay.
This is fine. And then their sisters rolled up in a four wheeler and say, hey. We're we're here to pick them up. Like, you guys can get in there because we're we're here to get those kids out. They've been in there all day.
We're like, great. We unload from the car. As we're walking up, getting close to the hot springs, here comes two bikers. Yeah. Two mountain bikes cruise down the trail.
And, and the one lady was hot foot to get into the hot spring. Like, I'm like, I'm over on the side taking my shoes off because I'm just gonna, like, stand in there. It's only, like, two feet deep. I'm just gonna kinda, like, rest and and, and be cash in the hot spring. Totally cool.
Yep. And boy, was she in a hurry and just about cannonballed to get into it. She really did. I don't even know. She she had her swimsuit underneath her clothes, but I don't even know.
She just whipped her clothes off. I don't even know where they landed. I don't even think she knew where they landed. She was like, nuh-uh. I'm getting in there.
You can't even get in there before me. We're like, woah. Woah. Woah. Like, easy.
Settle down. She had a big mission. Like she'd been, like, off in the distance waiting for the kids to leave. And so then she was like, this is my moment. And I'm not gonna let these people get in there.
I don't know. So then there's this awkward time of, of our family standing around going like, well, we're we're here also, and you're swimming around in there. And it's not like it's big. I mean, it's it's like group of you know, eight feet feet across or something. It's not huge.
It's not big enough for a bunch of people. In our group of seven, only three of us got our toes in. The rest of them are, like, off in the corner, like, um-mm. While this one woman floats around while we're soaking our legs, It was a bit strange. It was a bit strange.
It was awkward. And so, I don't know, we sat in there fifteen minutes or something, and then we're like, well, this is clearly not gonna change from this awkward state. No. So I guess we'll go. I think it was each of us were trying to outlast the other one.
And all We way outnumbered them, but boy was she content about getting her whole body in there. My whole body's in here. I'm kicked back. I'm relaxed. You're not gonna outlast me.
Yeah. So we we last So I dried my feet off, put my shoes back on, and, and that was the hot spring. So relaxing. Yeah. Here's here's the I don't know.
I'm I'm still learning about hot spring etiquette and different things like that, but that felt a little bit rude. I agree, but who's who's in the right? I don't know. We both got there at the same time. Right.
It's not like one of us has the right away. Be a shared experience if if it would have been more, like, hey, guys. Like, how's your day? Like, if there would have been more conversation between the two groups of people Or But it was just that one woman floating around in there while we were just sitting there like, this is weird. You either have a communication like that or you keep to the your sides.
Right? Like, this is our side. This is your side. Yeah. No.
She was kinda, like, paddling around She was in the middle. Of the whole thing. Like and then commenting like, this water's perfect. Like, if if it was any colder, I'd get out, but it's just perfect. Like, you're being weird.
This is a weird thing to say. It's a weird conversation. And you're not even saying it to us. You're saying it to the people you're with. No.
You're saying it to the world because you want everybody to know that you're not getting out. This is it's, like, completely neutral. It's like my exact body temperature. I feel zero. Okay.
Good for you. Alright. It was a fun hot spring, Josh. Thanks for taking us to it. Will take you there on, like, any other day.
If it's a weekday, that thing's empty. Oh, of course. Of course, it is. Not that day. Yeah.
No. I have a whole bunch of them mapped out. We'll find more. We gotta get one that's a little trickier to get to. I think that's That's it.
And I said that about fishing, didn't I? And you said was it Emery who said, that's a good quote, somebody said, Because, people fish where it's easy. Yep. And the same goes for Hot Springs. Hot springs.
People hot spring where it's easy. You got a hot spring where it takes some work to get there. That is correct. Because not everyone's gonna get there. That is correct.
So your your probability of being able to float your body around in the pool without other people soaking their legs is higher. Cannonball. Next time. Take me to a trickier one next time. Well, okay.
Some of them are real tricky. Take me to a medium tricky one next time. Okay. There we go. I'll work on it.
I'll look at the maps. Medium tricky. K. Here we go. Do you wanna talk about your big catch?
I guess. Me. It's me. There she is. Look at her.
If I could hold you up and take a picture with you, I would. You would never smile that big in a picture with me. I think that's what the Internet says because they'll have pictures of, of men posing with their wives and girlfriends and things, and then pictures of them holding fish. And the smiles are much larger with the fish. Yeah.
And it isn't that, the that we don't enjoy time with you. It's that we had to work hard to catch that fish one time. You didn't have to work hard to catch? Yeah. But I like, catch catch of the day.
Look at the picture when we first met. Big smiles. Catch of the day. Mhmm. Yeah.
No. You you got a whopper. I I tell you, I I caught some fish this week. I'm so happy because you are not excited about going camping to where we go. This is typically where we go on Memorial Day weekend.
You don't like the fishing there. You get skunked every year. That's very true. It snows on us while we're there. Very true.
And, so you were not excited about going. Well and it's a three hour drive. And this year, I had other ideas in my mind Right. About what I thought would be a fun weekend. And so I was really putting out all the good vibes to you when you went out fishing that day.
Like, oh, if he just gets skunked, if he can't catch a fish, he's gonna be really mad. He already didn't wanna come here. You get back to the campsite with my brother-in-law and nephew. Yeah. And we go, hey.
How would it go? And I and I said, not not good. And I went, crud. Emery and I both looked at each other like Oh, I know. I saw.
He's gonna be in a bad mood all day. It was very intentional. And as we pulled up, like, right when we pulled up, I I told, my brother-in-law and nephew, I I said, hey. I'm gonna tell him I didn't catch any fish. And Clever joke.
And and your nephew heard me. Brother-in-law did not. And so as we walk over, how was the fishing? And I went, I didn't catch anything. And he looked bewildered, like, what are you talking about?
You didn't catch any fish. I saw you with fish. You're very excited about fish. What are you talk he was, like, really captivated by the the whole thing, and he's standing there looking like, what? Are you like, did I miss something?
Yeah. You did. So, yeah. No. I caught two fish on the first on on Saturday.
One of them was a And the the second fish that I caught was the the largest fish that I've ever caught. And that's saying something because beast. My Yellowstone fish was huge. And I will say the Yellowstone fish probably weighed more, but was not as as long as the the red band I caught on Saturday. Big fish.
Big, big fish. And, and I was very excited. And then we went back out on Sunday, and I caught in my net four more, had one break off. Yeah. So I was I was the fisherman of the weekend.
The fisherman, Josh. It was it was pretty good. It was a good amount of fish. God. I'm so happy.
Yeah. Because I was tired of hearing about you getting skunk. I I was pretty stoked. Fishing weekend. Yeah.
However, your nephew did not. I know. He did he had a couple hookup, but he did not actually catch a fish. And he was a little bit bummed out. And I was bummed for him.
I still am. I I need that I need him to catch some fish. And, and he'll go fishing again. I'm sure he has already gone fishing again and probably caught fish. But Well and he took a tumble in the water.
He did fall down when we were crossing the river. What I learned is when you fall in the water, those waders aren't seal proof. No. No. That's why it's important you wear a wading belt, not only for fashion so you don't look like a potato sack, but it also, it it helps, keep the water from getting down into the legs of the waders.
And if you fall down look. He we were doing a river crossing, so, it wasn't deep. I mean, it was only knee deep where he fell. But it you fall down and you're facing up stream, that's like holding a bucket upstream. It fills up real quick.
Real quick. And, and that can be a dangerous situation. If you're in deeper water and that's like, I won't go over my waist. If it's deeper than my waist, I'm not I'm not even trying. Because their the people's waders fill up, and then they're just standing there drowned underwater.
It's scary. That is scary. Yeah. Because their because their waders filled up. Because you're having a little bit of a river.
Yeah. You gotta be very, very careful. And it was swift moving, in spots, and you try to find what you think is gonna be the easiest place to cross. And sometimes that works out, and other times it doesn't. But Oh, and I was just gonna say, you also all of the fish that you caught were fish that you caught with flies that you tied.
That is correct. Yeah. Double high five. Which was which that's something. Like, that's that's pretty special when you when you make something with your hands, and then you go, I I hope that the fish think this is food.
And they do. I always tell you, whenever you show me a fly, I go, if I was a fish, I'd eat that. Right. And they ate it too. I was I was pretty excited.
So now I gotta go out and catch actual bugs. Good job. Gonna go catch some more fish. You haven't had your fill? No.
No. No. No. Nope. Not yet.
You got six. We're done for the year. We're done. We're done for the weekend. Fishing's over.
It was it was great. I posted some pictures. My aunt said, said that she, she said, wow, and then said, yum. And I first of all, I'm a catch and release fisherman in general, so I don't keep them. I don't eat them.
I don't like trout, to eat. I like to catch them, and then I put them back, and it makes people crazy. I know. But, also, it they're trophy trout, and there are signs on the the river that say trophy trout river catch and release only. So you can't even keep them even if you wanted to.
They're they're just sport fish Well which is fun. There's nothing we're gonna do with them because I'm not cooking that. I'm not cooking that. Yeah. No.
No take note. I put them back. I let them let them go to let them grow. That's what I do. But if you catch a salmon, I'll eat that one.
Oh, is that right? Yes. Well, there there are not salmon where I was fishing. I know. Now if I would have gone to the other side of the mountain, that is part of the, salmon migration.
However, incredibly protected. Right. Can't catch them there. Yeah. So Well done, Josh.
Good fishing. Thanks. While you're out catching fish, I was at the campsite Mhmm. With my sister. We were playing games.
She had her five year old granddaughter there. Have you ever tried to entertain a five year old for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours? I can I can say no to that question? I have I mean, we had children that were five at one time. So, yes.
Yes. I just But it's been a long time since I've had to entertain a five year old for hours and hours and hours. Most of the games that I had packed were not kid friendly. So I had to use like Yahtzee and stuff. Right.
I had to use some creative imagination. We played a little bocce ball. Okay. Yeah. That ended pretty quickly after she dropped a ball in a an ant's nest nest?
No. Ant's Colony? Colony? An ant farm? Yeah.
That's what it is. No? Yeah. No. It's a colony of ants.
I'm pretty sure. I like an ant nest. So she that ended bocce ball, and it wasn't even that we could play bocce ball anywhere else on the campground. It was nope. Mound?
Oh, there you go. Yeah. Nice one. They were red ants too. So they were red ant mound?
They were vicious. I played I had to pull out all of my resources. I played, I made a cootie catcher. I saw that. A couple of those.
We had to make a couple of those. K. We played MASH. Alright. Do you remember MASH?
Yeah. Do you? I remember, being around girls that like to play MASH and would ask me to do the thing, and I'd go, this isn't fun. It was fun for about ten minutes. You know me and hypotheticals, so that dates back to real young.
I did find somewhere stashed away, I had stashed, something that I had found. I must have gotten it as, like, a gift or something. Because I sometimes for Valentine's Day, we'll buy you, like, bubbles or different things. I found one of those little balloon things. I don't know what they're called.
They're like plastic balloons. Plasti balloons. Yeah. Yeah. The little tubes of stuff?
Yeah. Like, you get the tube of stuff, and then you get the little straw. Yeah. So that entertained us for a very long time. Okay.
That thing came in handy. I was like, oh, look what I found. Plasty tubes with plasty balloons. Yeah. It became what else you got in your trailer?
Uh-huh. What other cool surprises? Nothing. That was the last cool surprise I had. But when I pulled that out, that was that was an exciting time.
That was a big win. I'm trying to think, you know, without TV or without YouTubes and, you know, all that kind of stuff, what do you what do you do? Like, it becomes a big challenge. Yeah. It does.
Like, you actually have to work at it. Yeah. You have to entertain a five year old. And you taught preschool for a long time. So Yeah.
But, again, at preschool, you have paint, and you have toys. You have all kinds of stuff. Yeah. Here, you have to get rid of Did you nature walk? We did take a nature walk, and then, again, she got freaked out by the ants.
Okay. So she was like, I know the ants are around here. And we said, we're the ants are clear on that area. We're not going to that area. Yeah.
But I know there's more. Okay. I know there's more. There are more. There are ants all over the place.
We did good. I had a whiteboard with some Yeah. Dry erase markers, so we played teacher. She played what I like to play when my aunt had a trailer, you play restaurant Oh. Where you open the slide door and you take orders Ah.
And then you close it. So we played that a time or two. Okay. I liked to get real creative. Yeah.
She didn't understand my jokes when I asked for a cheeseburger with no bun or cheese or hamburger. Just lettuce nothing. Lettuce and tomato only. Salad. Yeah.
Well, I'm glad you survived. It was great. We had a good time. Five year old camping with a five year old is fun. I enjoyed it.
I think they're I probably would have been like, let's go on another nature walk. Let's let's cross the river and see what's on the other side. I'm not crossing the river. Nope. No?
No. But what's on the other side? We'll never know. Oh. Here's something fun.
Do you know what I'm gonna talk about? I do. Okay. So in the world of Pinterest Now let's let's rewind, though. Because this started kindergarten of our sons' No.
When did you start this? This started, like, third or fourth grade of our sons' year. Did you go back and get kindergarten, though? Yes. Because it was still the same elementary school.
Yes. I see. There was okay. I saw on Pinterest when Beck was in about third I think it was probably third grade. K.
Third grade. And he's been graduated for a couple of years. So this is, like, sixteen years ago. Yeah. I saw a night down Pinterest where you could get that book by doctor Suso, the places you'll go.
Uh-huh. And you can have teachers, coaches, counselors, anybody that's had an effect on your child through the years Yeah. Sign the book to leave encouraging messages and Yeah. You're amazing. You're gonna go far, kid.
So that when they graduate, you can deliver this gift. Correct. I saw the idea when Beck was in third grade. Mhmm. Emory was in preschool at the time.
So I went, I love that idea. I'm gonna do that idea. I was able to get his third grade teacher. I was able to go back and be, like, first and kindergarten teacher for Beck and said, hey. I know it's been a couple of years since he had him, but surely you remember a little bit about him.
And they're like, of course, we do. Yeah. They were luckily in the same school. His second grade teacher had retired, but I was able to get access to her. Like, the school, gave me her email address.
And I emailed her and said, is there any way that I could, you know, do this? And she was absolutely. Call me when a time works best for you, and and I'll give you the address, and you can pop over. I never did get that done. So he is missing his seriously?
Yeah. He's missing his second grade teacher. I didn't know that. Yeah. Here's the thing about that that dumb book.
It's a great idea. And when we presented it to Beck, he loved it when he graduated. Sure. He sat for a minute, like, reading all the messages, and he was like, oh, you got Yeah. You got missus so and so.
I can't believe you got this teacher to sign it. I can't believe you got this coach to sign it. It's a labor of love, this project. Really is. Every year, I forget about it.
Every year, I forget about it. And then the last week, I go, Right. I gotta get teachers to sign that book. And it was it was my reminder this year, and I went, hey. It's the last week We should probably you know?
And and then it was a mad dash to go, okay. Who do we need to make sure gets in this thing? Yeah. Yeah. So I emailed her teachers, Emory's teachers, and said, hey.
I know it's the last week of school. Yeah. I know you have finals. I know you have a million things that you have to do. But, hey.
You wanna sign this thing? Possible. Yeah. One of her teachers, I felt terribly extra bad about because Emery had asked her for a letter of recommendation. Yeah.
So she also wrote a wonderful letter of recommendation for Emery. And here I am like, hi. Here's one more thing. Can I have you do this one more thing? Please.
Please. Please. Oh, and I also need it this week because I know that you guys are out of school. So I dropped it off yesterday morning at the office and said, hey. The book is in the office.
If you could just swing by the office, sign it, that'd be awesome. When I took it to the office, secretary was amazing. She was like, I'll have a teacher aide. Just, like, take it down to each of their classrooms. It was done by that afternoon.
It's awesome. They're amazing. Yes. I agree. Here's what I would recommend for you.
Do it now so that you, don't have to think about it. Get your phone. Go to the calendar on your own personal calendar, not on the one because you don't wanna spoil it. And, and go ahead and add that to the calendar a couple of weeks in advance so that you can go, oh, yeah. What I need to do is on that last parent teacher conference Yes.
Take it with me to parent teacher conference and say, hey. While we're here Yeah. Can you write a little thing? Although, I don't know if people wanna write in it while you're sitting there watching them. Yes.
Write in this book. You know, that's Yeah. Now I get you. Add it to the calendar. Alright.
Put it in the calendar now. I know. I still have three more years left. This book is the bane of my existence. I'm done with one, so I'm happy that Bex is done, but I'll be so glad when I don't have to worry about this book anymore.
And I can't stop now. No. Right? No. I can't.
Yeah. But there's all but there is only three years left. Like, that's weird to say, but there's also only three years left. And I'm pretty excited. I was only missing one from Beck, but Emery's, I've had since she was in preschool.
Yeah. Every teacher since she was in preschool. If you could still get in touch with the same grade teacher. Make that happen. He still has it.
Yeah. But Be like, hey. Listen. Hey. Do you remember We never made that happen.
Like, yeah. We met this kid from Yeah. Of course. How many years ago? Sure.
Alright. Something. Like, hey, kid. How's it going? You're gonna go far.
Yeah. Good luck. Yeah. You've been graduated for a couple years. I see.
You need a new note. Here's one. Do your homework. Yeah. Yeah.
Right? You know, right over there? Just stretching. You were busy, talking earlier about, keeping a five year old occupied. Yeah.
I was, making food. Today is, National Burger Day. Is it? It is. And and, there's a whole list of hamburger places.
And I know you're gonna disagree with this this list. This is from Yelp, and they they ranked out the top 10. I'll give you, a few of these because some of these, we don't have. But number 10 on the list was Red Robin. No.
Five Guys was number seven. Freddy's was number six. Culver's is number four. Shake Shack is number three. No.
Habit Burger Grill is number two, and number one Is it In N Out? In N Out. Yeah. So wrong. I know.
I know. I knew what I said. You're gonna completely disagree with this list. That is a it's a on the list. Josh's Smash Burger.
Josh's Smash Burger, which is now officially five year old approved. It's endorsed by a five year old who if anyone knows little kids, they are picky eaters, but that little five year old ate your entire cheeseburger. The whole burger. The whole cheeseburger. I was pretty stoked about that.
It's five it's five year old approved. Yeah. That's high praise. Like, more than, like, Michelin stars. No.
No. Will a five year old eat the whole thing? That's, that's a true test. It really is. Yeah.
That was high praise. I felt pretty good about it. So did the 15 year old, by the way. The fifteen Fifteen year old ate the whole thing too. You got Five and 15 year old approved.
Double high praise. I mean, those are those mean a lot more than Michelin stars in my world. And me approved because I don't just eat But you go on and on. What do you mean? So I I hear about it from you often.
Oh. But when a five year old eats the whole burger without protest, that's that's what I want. Right? You won. Yeah.
I feel pretty good about it. You should feel pretty good about it. Pretty good about that. I didn't make the list of the top 10 according to Yelp, though. So does it count?
That that list doesn't matter anyway because their number one is In N Out. I'll never trust anything they say. That's interesting. In N Out. A frozen hamburger patty.
It's boring. Believe they're never frozen. Boring. I gotta find out because I don't believe they are. Tastes like it.
It tastes like a frozen patty to you? Yeah. They do not use frozen patties. They are always made fresh with 100% USDA ground chuck, which is good, and they, don't use frozen meat. And they do They don't use prepackaging, and they don't use microwaves.
Well So Why does it taste like they do? I don't know why you're so rude to In N Out. I I just don't know. I think they way overrated. You?
No. But I think it's crazy that the I feel like I'm crazy because the entire world is like, oh, it'll be out. Delicious. It's basic. This is a basic burger.
Makes it good. But it's not It's affordable on a budget. It's basic. It's delicious. It's it's everything you need, and you are so angry at it.
Agree with you on everything but the delicious. It's affordable. It's basic. It's a good burger. It's meh.
It's meh at best. Okay. It's never gonna top any of my top burger lists ever. Who's on top of your burger list? Yours.
I really like yours. Again, I appreciate that. I really like, trying to think of a good burger. I like Burley Burger. Okay.
They got a good burger. Yeah. I agree. Burger Theory has pretty good burger. Yeah.
I can't think of any other burger. Scotty's Burger. Yes. That's a great one. Yes.
Delicious. Yeah. In N Out. What about Never. What about that space burger?
No. You haven't had that in a long time. We should go to Tasty Treat and have a space burger. No. I don't want to.
It's been a long time. Yeah. I know. But I didn't like those. I do.
I mean, I'm great. Say it on air. That makes me feel bad by hurting their feelings. I see. But it's a good it's a good thing.
That's a tasty little, pocket. Probably better than In N Out. Oh, alright. There we go. Back on it.
Well, thank you, for for the high praise on my burger. I appreciate that. The five year old endorsement, the fifteen year old endorsement are also strong. Happy hamburger day. Do you wanna relive this moment, or you just wanna leave it in the past?
Rubbing my eyebrow, with my eyes shut because I don't know. Look. You look. Car troubles are not my favorite thing. They're not anybody's favorite thing.
And, and I do consider myself a bit of a DIY guy, a jack of all trades, you might say. Like, I know a little bit about a lot of stuff, but I certainly do not know everything about much. And car repairs is high on that list where minimal maintenance stuff, I'm good with, I can do, or I could pay somebody. Like, I I'm good with that. Like but when there's major mechanical stuff, I get real frustrated, and it gets real expensive, and I get really, like, I don't sure.
I can turn a wrench, and I can take out a bolt and put a bolt back, but it's not my favorite. It just is not my favorite. Especially now after how long did you spend working on our son's car? Seven hours or so. Look.
He he had, an issue, and, and he needed a new part to to fix the issue. And it wasn't detrimental to the, like, functioning of the engine or anything. It's a mod it's a modification. It's a piece that's added on to the engine. It's not factory.
It's just something that helps with the performance of the engine. Right. And that piece needed to be replaced. And so he wanted to get a better, higher performance piece to replace it. And in his words, it's just a series of hoses that have to be hooked up.
It's a bunch of hoses. It'll take an afternoon. It's no big deal. I'll do it myself. And I said to myself, this is the boy who took apart a Nerf gun and never put it back together.
I should probably be involved in this project. Yes, please. So, so I said, wait till I'm around. Let's make a plan. Let's let's get this going.
And you have to do some pretty big dismantling of the engine in order to progress forward with this project. And it it is a bunch of hoses that all go into, like, coolants and air blower hoses, and it's a whole thing. Yeah. It was the thing. The old one used four hoses.
The new one uses nine. Oh. So a bunch of new connections have to be made to things that were connected to other stuff or weren't connected at all. Not know that. Oh, yeah.
It was not plug and play. It wasn't take out the old one, put in the new one. It was take out the old one new hoses. And then there's nine instead of four. So you're gonna need five new places to plug stuff in that already has stuff plugged in.
So it was it was a bit of a project. And the first day was about four and a half hours or so, and we got to where there were three hoses that we couldn't connect. And I said, I don't know what to do because these three that we need to connect are connected to other stuff, and I don't know what to do with that other stuff if we disconnect it. Right. So talk to the dealership that we bought the car from, and those guys are incredible.
Those guys were amazing. Walked through it with me a couple of different times on the phone and in person, and then said, hey. If you just wanna pull the car here and and have us double check just for peace of mind, that's fine. So we did. We towed the car over, which was a project in and of its own.
You thought going 30 was, like, going a hundred miles an hour. Wanted me to ride with him while he was being towed. Yeah. The tow strap you had was very small. It felt like we were gonna crash 15 feet.
It felt like we were gonna crash into you at any minute. Which you weren't. 30 miles an hour being towed is a little sketchy. That is the top speed. Like, you don't you don't tow crazy fast.
Yeah. I didn't Like I'm going 30 with you and That's fast. And you're on the phone behind me going, woah. Woah. Woah.
Settle down. It's okay. But those guys at at at the dealership were awesome because they not only looked at it and and made sure that I knew what I was doing, but they also said, hey. Just work on it here. Yeah.
Like And they also If you need help, we're right here. Gave you some extra like, you had some tools that you need. Yeah. They let you wash your hands when you weren't done. True story.
They burped the coolant. That is true. Like, that's a thing. Thing you have to do, especially when you're disconnecting a bunch of hoses. So, yeah, anyway, it was a lot.
There was a lot to do, and, the second round was about two and a half hours, and I sunburned my lower back From bending over. Because my shirt rode up, and and it hurt. I got a sunburn back. I got, aches and pains because I was under a hood for two and a half hours. You did it.
You did good. Good job. Put the cars back together, and it and it's fine. Well done. Car surgery done.
Yeah. It is car surgery. Thanks to the guys at Mentor Motors because they did a great job of helping. Thank you very much for helping me out because I I couldn't have done it without him. I was I was lost, and I was worried more than anything because I didn't know what I didn't know.
And I'm like, I I could really mess this up. And they're like, no. You you're on the right track. This is exactly what you have to do. And then I was like, okay.
So what I thought I needed to do is what I needed to do, which is good. Bravo. But I'm I having the professional opinion helps a lot. So, anyway, thanks to those dudes. Would you rather this or that?
Would you rather have to mow your entire lawn using nail clippers or scrub your bathroom spotless using your toothbrush? I know my answer. I like your silence. I know my answer. What is it?
What is your answer? I'm gonna go with my toothbrush. Yeah. Me too. Because it's gonna take you forever.
No. It'll take as long as it takes. At it. It takes as long as it takes. We know, Josh.
But it is gonna take a lot longer to nail clip the front yard than it is to toothbrush the bathroom floor. Yes. It is. And that's why I'm going with that. And I just won't be brushing my teeth anymore.
Nope. Can't. So there's that. Camperatures are gonna get dull before you finish. Yeah.
That's awful. That is awful. Why would you ask such a terrible question? Oh, because it's Wednesday. Oh, good.
Makes no sense, but okay. We'll go with it. Yeah. That was an easy one. Toothbrush in the bathroom, hands down.
K. Me too. Ugh. Samesies. Terrible idea.
Be two disgustingly breath people. But it's all because of a would you rather this or that question that went crazy. Good answer, Josh. Good answer. You too.
No whammies. Good answer. Alright. Those are not the same game. I know.
I know. No whammies was from press your luck. Mhmm. And good answer good answers from Family Feud. Yes.
I was trying to So Remember what game that one came from. Survey says is also from Family Feud. And then and then the guys with the high pitched voices go What were those Whammies. They're called the Whammies. Yeah.
That's why it said no Whammies. What were they called? Whammies. I gotta go back to bed. I need a nap.
Oh, is that right? Your your brain's still on vacay? Yeah. My brain's kinda broken today. Would you rather this or that?
Whale, Chantel. Whale, Josh. As we, kinda get ready to wrap up the show here for the day, we made it. We did make it. Big deal because we, had five days off, and now we're back.
So I know. It's I feel like it's harder to come back when you have longer time away. Like, after two days weekend, it's hard. Yeah. But when you have five days and you have to come back, it's come on.
Yeah. Come on. This is terrible. Whose idea was this? I don't know.
Not mine. Whose idea was it to work every day? Like that, that, like, it's a Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and then it's another couple of days off. Yes. Like, that's cool.
I like that too. So I I like that. You've been an advocate for the four day work week. Let's see how three feels. Three is gonna feel awesome.
Yeah. I was gonna say to you, I do like hanging out with you. Oh, that's nice. So, I mean, it's not really work. I was just doing some stretching over there.
I haven't You've been doing studio yoga. Yeah. Hanging out with you, watching videos. So it's not I shouldn't be complaining that much. I'm having a great time.
Oh, good. Good to hear. Real quick, we have been watching the baby eagles. They're having breakfast right now, it looks like. They're having a little tussle over a fish We thought at the moment.
They were gonna fly away when we were out of town. Yeah. They're having a little battle over a chunk of meat. But they did not fledge yet. So, that's still have you have you decided when it is?
I think it's gonna be the June 1. I think we're just days away, but I do think it's gonna be June 1. I think it's gonna happen on Sunday. Okay. Maybe.
What do you think? I feel like it's gonna be next week sometime. I think we're still just trying to figure things out. So I think it's gonna be next week. They they have a stick that hangs out from the tree, at the front of the nest, they call the front porch, And both of them have been perching on that in pretty, pretty much all day, up until they just decided to fight over this chunk of meat.
But I think and you think the parents are ready? You think they're like, cool. Can you guys Yeah. Get out. Tired of being your fisherman.
So Yeah. You guys still can figure it out on your own. So I think it's soon. It definitely feels real soon. I mean, as one is flapping its wings right this second.
Like, yeah. Like, I'm gonna wait. They've outgrown. They've outgrown this nest. Yep.
It is time. Time to get out. And as you mentioned last week, a lot of people graduating high school. That's happening over the over the next few days and over the past few days, a lot of people fledging the nest. Yep.
It's a big deal. Good luck to have the little fledgers. Aww. Fledglings? Yeah.
Alright. Good luck, Fledglings. Good parallels you drew with, with the Eagles and graduating class of 2025. Congrats to all those graduates. That's great.
Yeah. There was some last night. Our nephew graduated last night. Congrats to him. There's more graduations today.
There's graduations tomorrow. There's graduations on Friday. Congratulations to all of the graduates. Best of luck. High school, all of it.
Just life. Maybe maybe you made it to today and graduated I graduated Tuesday. That's right. Congratulations. Alright.
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