Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Thursday, May 29th, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
Chantel has a stuffy nose early in the morning, Book It is back for the summer & pizza will solve all your problems, our annual motorcycle tradition was held yesterday, Chantel’s a sucker for a good memory, the studio was filled with reptiles and we even held some of them, all Chantel wants is a weekend alone, we make fun of each other’s weird collections, Billy Joel announced he has a brain disorder, and Chantel’s nose is upside down.
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Intro
(2:38) - We're a mess this morning
(5:55) - Good News to Get You Going
(7:28) - Book It with Pizza Hut is back
(12:31) - Pizza is the answer to all your problems
(17:18) - Annual motorcycle tradition
(22:26) - Arbitrary-versaries
(26:05) - Reptiles invade the studio
(31:22) - Chantel wants a weekend alone
(37:00) - Things you should have by your 40s
(41:42) - Billy Joel's sad news
(47:53) - Would You Rather This or That
(50:45) - Show recap + outro
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Full show transcript:
Just checked. Two eagles in the nest. Oh, good. Didn't even look today until just now at the very end of the show when we're getting ready to record the intro for the podcast. I looked this morning.
Did you? But then I kinda forgot. Yeah. I didn't I haven't looked until just now, and, they're ripping apart some meat. So that's happening.
I believe we're just days away. I've picked June 1 as fledgling day. I know you have. Have you made a prediction? No.
You don't want to? No. Because I don't know when it's gonna be. Well, I know, but I'm just guessing. I'm gonna pick next Thursday.
What's that? Thursday. That would be That's too far. I'm gonna pick the fourth. Next Thursday is the first.
Oh, no. No. No. It's fine. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Next Thursday is the fifth. No. The first is on Sunday.
It's the fifth. Yeah. I'm picking Sunday the first. I was looking at May. You know, calendars.
I know how they work. You're right. So the fifth. You're picking the fourth? Yeah.
Okay. That's my dad's birthday. You're picking my dad's birthday as Fledging Day. Got it. Okay.
Okay. We'll see what happens. Let's do the show. Let's do the show. Hey.
It's Thursday, May 29. I have a stuffy nose early in the morning. And you still do later in the morning. Hurts. Book it is back for the summer, and pizza will solve all your problems.
And you can read books and earn pizza. And then you can just get pizza. Just smell pizza. Reading and pizza. Eat pizza while you read.
Sure. That sounds awesome. I want pizza. And a book. Can I have pizza?
And a book. Our annual motorcycle tradition was held yesterday. That's right. That is fun? Yeah.
I'm a sucker for a good memory. You love it when Facebook says Oh, yeah. Here. Remember this? This?
Nine years ago No. The studio was filled with reptiles, and we even held some of them. Yeah. If you wanna see a video of that, make sure you check out our TikTok, at classy ninety seven k l c e. Follow us there, by the way.
All I want is a weekend alone. In the house or away from the house? Doesn't matter. You said all your stuff was a bad house. Right.
Because then I have my stuff. Gotcha. But if I if I have to go away to do it, then I'll go away to do it. I'm not mad. Okay.
We make fun of each other's weird collections. Yep. Billy Joel announced he has a brain disorder. Super sad news. And my nose is upside down.
Fix it. I can't. Alright. I can't even breathe out of it. We are Josh and Chantel.
This is wake up classy 97, the podcast. Enjoy today's show. Okay? Okay? Hello.
Do it. Enjoy today's show. Enjoy it. Aren't we just the pair? I was just gonna say we are something special this morning.
I'm I'm sneezing. I've decided that my face wants to have a bloody nose this morning. What what is that about? I don't know. I don't that doesn't happen to me.
And then you've got that voice going on. Sorry. No. Don't apologize. It's just a stuffy little voice.
You were dealing with it a little bit yesterday. Still dealing with it today. Yeah. Stuffy face. Uh-huh.
Foggy head. Yeah. Sore throat. All the good stuff. Here I am.
Yeah. Best form today. Feeling my best. You know, it, I think the the worst part, if there is a worst part worst part, is that you just came off of having a a pretty good weekend, camping, spending time outdoors, enjoying nature. Yeah.
And then, and then you get back into the swing of things, and then you're not feeling well. That's gotta be the pits. It is the pits. I mean, I I'm just sneezing. That's me.
Well, here's what I was telling you yesterday. I don't know if it's worse when you feel totally crummy or when you feel half crummy. Right. Because if you if you feel, like, sick as a dog, you're just gonna sleep it off. Right.
But if you're if you're just feeling You're half crummy. So you're like, well, I'm not sick enough to call in sick to go to work. I'm gonna go into work, but it's not gonna be my best job because I still feel a little crummy. Well, the good news is that today is Thursday. So you've got, like, today and tomorrow, and then it's the weekend again.
So you get a couple of more days of rest. Hooray. Yeah. If you can just get through today and tomorrow. I'll get through today and tomorrow.
Just watch. I I'm watching. Cheering you on from the side. Thank you. Sidelines.
Yeah. I'm right over here. Trying to make it happen. Close. I guess.
I don't wanna keep them close, but you you keep them right. I will. Yeah. I'm going to. Yeah.
That sounds good. What's going on today? Anything special? I don't think so. I heard rumor that at some point this morning, we should have some visitors with some exotic animals.
That's right. Over the long weekend break, I got a a text message from Victor. He's, the morning guy down the hall in K Bear. And he said, hey. You wanna you wanna meet some reptiles?
And I thought reptiles sounded good. And then yesterday, he was talking about bugs and all kinds of critters, and I'm I don't know how I'm feeling about it all. I don't wanna hold it. Like, I don't wanna hold anything. Then don't hold anything.
Guess what? You're an adult. You get to make your own decisions. Like, if they have, like, tarantula or something, just keep that over there. Okay.
Just say that. Yeah. I don't wanna touch it. Okay. It's alright.
Okay. You're gonna be fine. You know, it's in the room, so that's good enough. I'm excited to see him. Alright.
I don't know what I'll hold. Probably not a tarantula, but we'll see. Alright. Well, that's, later on today, this morning. It's Josh and Chantel.
Hi. Good morning. Some good news to get you going this morning. There are two passengers on Alaska Airlines flight, Kristen and Sam. They were flying to their wedding in Phoenix, Arizona.
Oh, I saw this. Did you? Yeah. I saw this on TikTok. Yeah.
There were a couple of flight attendants who said, you know what would be fun is if we turn their time on the plane into kind of a special little celebration. So the flight attendant shared the news about, the wedding with other passengers and invited them to jot down marriage advice on napkins. Yeah. And before landing, they were given the gift of a heartwarming pile of handwritten notes filled with wisdom, humor, and love. Kristen shared the whole experience with a video on TikTok, as you said, where she thanked those involved for making the trip to Phoenix so special.
Marriage advice from our fellow passengers. Thank you to the sweet angels on Alaska, for making this happen. All the people who shared advice will cherish these forever. They won't. So you don't think so?
No. They're on napkins. I mean But, I mean, if you hang them on the wall so you can read them often, you might Hang them on the wall. Yeah. If you yeah.
If you find a way. If you, frame them. You know? If you, put them in a stack in a box I'm not you're gonna forget. They don't appreciate them or that they didn't think they were sweet.
But cherish them forever? Forever. Probably not. What? Alright.
That was a nice, nice gesture. It is very nice. I saw the TikTok. It was very cute, and it went, aw. Yeah.
It's nice. And it's good news to get you going. How about that? Pizza Hut announced a Book It app. Okay.
Now they have the app already. Yeah. Says it's going digital for the first time in forty years. You can go to BookItprogram.com, and you can get the app. That's the app.
It's been there for a long time. Why is this news to me? I don't know. Because you can, in the app set goals, and you can track your reading, and then you can earn rewards and stuff. I don't know what the rewards are.
What's cool is that, like, your teacher has to kinda sign up first. They have it for parents, and they have it for schools. But, your classroom would sign up and then, and then say, alright. Here's the deal. But, yeah.
It is, it is a Pizza Hut thing. Yeah. One personal pan pizza per month in June, July, and August. They call it the summer slide. Oh, yes.
Of course. So here's the thing. Alright. I like where this is going because this is existing. Remember, we were talking about booking a few, I don't know, weeks, maybe months ago?
Yeah. And we're talking about how you could go buy yourself a personal pan pizza for reading a book. Yeah. Remember that conversation? When we were doing that, I looked at the BookIt website.
That's how I I still had it saved. Oh, good job. So I pulled it up because it was still right there in my history. But I like that they're focused on the summer slide Right. Because that, I think, is great.
Because they really need Apparently, in the summer, they lost they lose two years worth worth of book learning. Wow. That's fast. In a hundred days They're not reading. They're not learning.
Yeah. They're not doing the things that they would do in school. That's a fast slide. Encourage them, especially during the summer, to get to reading. Yeah.
I think so. Literacy is really super important, and I support it. And I think the book it program is awesome. And if I still had my book it pin, I'd wear it. Me too.
I love it. It's great. Pin. Yeah. A lot of people are saying, reading itself should be the incentive.
Why do they have to have pepperoni involved? Obviously, they didn't grow up with book it. Come on. I like to read, but not every kid likes to read. So if you've got a little more, like, hey.
Incentive? Sure. Here is a reward for when you complete a book. And it gets kids reading, what's to complain about? That's what I say.
But, also, I think everyone likes to read. You just have to find your book. Like, if it's biographies, if it's anime, if it's comic books, if it's you gotta find your book. Tech manuals. Sure.
There's a book for everyone. If it's nonfiction, history, if it's, you know, whatever it is. Yeah. For sure. That's why the the library is broken into so many different sections.
Exactly, doc. You gotta try different things. Bookitprogram.com. Yeah. That's the the website.
They do have the app in the App Store and on Google Play, and you can participate in what they're calling the summer of stories program. How old? What's the age group? Do you know? No.
Does it take 40 year olds? I don't know. But you know what? I can go buy my own pizza. Teachers can preenroll for the, for the, upcoming traditional program year that will kick off October 1 and run through March 31.
They have that information. So if you wanna do the if you're a teacher and you wanna do the fall preenrollment, you can do that at the website, book@program.com, as well. So you can preregister right now. But for parents, you just download the app and you can participate in the Book It Summer of Stories program. And it is a limit of five personal pan pizza certificates per family per month.
Oh. One certificate may be earned per eligible child per month for meeting the reading goal. Okay. Let me also remind you that the local libraries also have summer reading programs all the time too. Yeah.
Well and and you've tried multiple times to the book nerd thing. Yeah. I can't. It's too much reading. I just don't have time.
I'd want to I want to so bad. And I can't to do a book a month. How's that going? It's going great. Okay.
I'm doing that. Yeah. But the extreme book nerd, which is a book a week, I can't I don't have that much time. Is there really 52 books? Mhmm.
Holy smokes. I know. That's a lot of reading. If I didn't have a job, I'd be all over that. Unless you're reading, But the library Biggie.
Has all kinds of reading programs all the time. They have summer reading programs. They have year long reading programs. They have winter reading programs. Sure.
They have book clubs and all kinds of things. Your local library Yeah. Because they've got good stuff always. And read. And there's incentives there too.
And read. Just read. Reading is great. Yeah. It is.
Big advocates for reading over here. Go go read something. Alright. You know how on Jeopardy? They they ask they, I guess, they give the answer, and then the players have to ask the question.
That's how the game works. Yeah. Right? Mhmm. So I'm gonna give you the answer, and you have to figure out the question.
Oh, no. Okay. The answer is pizza. What is delicious? That's correct.
Yes. That's not the right, question, but that's a good one. Yeah. What is made out of dough? Well, now you're getting too technical about it.
This is a vague. This is too vague. So vague. Yeah. What has pepperoni on it?
True. What the Ninja Turtles eat? Ah, good one. I don't know. Well, apparently, it's the answer to stress.
Pizza is the answer to stress? Yeah. Feeling stressed? The answer is pizza. You don't need, outdoor nature therapy.
You don't need, like, mental health walks. You don't need therapy. No. You need pizza. That's right.
Over and over and over. That's right. Pizza is the perfect food, but scientists are saying that, the smell of pizza may be all you need to calm your nerves The smell. And improve your mood. Just the smell of it, not the taste of it.
Yeah. Really? Yeah. They used some real fancy science, biometric sensors, to track participants' stress responses and found that exposure to the scent of pizza triggered a noticeable drop in anxiety. Our brains associate the smell with comfort, warmth, and happy memories.
And so whenever we, smell pizza, we go, yeah. That's the good stuff. That checks out. I could go for pizza. I would like to eat it, not just smell it.
Well, right. Me too. Delicious. But even just the smell of pizza alone, calming. Stress Yeah.
Reducing. Mhmm. You should get a pizza essential oil. Oh, sure. Put it in your diffuser.
Yeah. Pizza scented, Yeah. We don't need that Lotion. Need that lavender to calm us down. No.
No. Pizza scented Pepperoni. Bombs. Yes. See now, the, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle fan in me is very excited.
Yeah? Yeah. Because the place should smell like pizza all the time. The place? Everywhere I go.
The house? Everywhere. The car? Walk to the grocery store, fresh pizza. But then it might lose its novelty.
You don't think? If everywhere smells like pizza, then all the stress inducing stress reducing components would be lost. You'd be like, I can't smell pizza anymore. I'm too stressed out. Pizza's making me stressed.
I you're you're not wrong. Opposite effect. I just So you can't smell it everywhere. Just I just want pizza. We end up talking about food early in the morning.
Much. But it's 07:30 almost, and I could go for a slice. A slice of pepperoni or a slice of breakfast pizza? Now what's a breakfast pizza? Oh, you put put eggs on it.
Okay. I mean, you could. You could put eggs and sausage and some gravy on there, some melty cheese. You could use gravy as the sauce instead of, red sauce. Yeah.
I could go for some fruit pizza. Okay. Like a tart? Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. That doesn't have the same, effect, I bet, as as just good old No. It's delicious. The Pizza pie.
For me. Yeah. Do you like when people call it pie? Pie. I gotta go get a slice of pie.
No. Because it's not pie. It's pizza. It's a pizza pie. We've talked a lot about pizza this morning.
From book it Yep. To pizza Yep. Guess what I want? A pie. I want a nice slice of pie.
Yeah. It's a thing people say. I I don't I mean, maybe. You've never heard them say that? Have, but it's not a regular thing people say.
You should do it. You that could be your thing. No. You could say, hey. Let's go get a slice of pie.
My thing is the pickle people. Oh, the best. People. Yeah. That's my thing.
Pickle gang. Oh. Pickle couple. Yeah. Pickle people party.
Yeah. All of those things. You got it. Yeah. Okay.
Get on the train. Yeah. Get on the pizza train. A couple of years ago, our daughter asked if you could pick her up from middle school on the last day of school on your motorcycle. Yeah.
I got it, Halloween of twenty twenty is when I bought the motorcycle. And so, yeah, '21. Was it was it '21? I think it was. Yeah.
It'd be that year. Yeah. In seventh grade year. Yeah. So for the past few years, yeah, I have, I've picked her up from school On the on the last day on the motorcycle.
Yeah. And we I meet you there Right. Because I got her helmet, and I have a place for her to put her backpack. Right. And we all ride together to go get ice cream on the last day of school.
The first year that you picked her up, you were late. And so everybody had kind of left for the day. I think the idea was that she wanted to look cool. Uh-huh. But it didn't matter on that first year because everybody had you were late enough that most of the school had emptied, and so nobody really saw her leave.
It didn't matter because we still went and got ice cream. It still was pretty special. Right. And you dressed up. You put on a bow tie.
Yeah. Got all dressed up. Fancy. Second year, eighth grade year when you picked her up, you were early then or on time, so she got to drive away on the motorcycle, looking cool. Right.
This year Yeah. She was late. Yeah. So by the time she got out of school, everyone was gone. The parking lot was pretty empty.
So as far as the, the idea of, like, being seen riding off on a motorcycle, yeah, it was limited audience. Very limited audience. I think the first year was really the first year that it was like, I wanna look cool. Yeah. Was that the consecutive years have just been like, it's our thing now.
Like, this is now our routine. She even said while we were eating ice cream, I like that this is our new This is our thing. This is our thing. It was fun. It is.
It's and it's no big deal. It's easy. Right? You just show up, hop on the back. Let's roll.
Put your helmet on. Yep. It was super sunny and hot, and I, had been wearing a jacket. And so I was super, like, overheated. And so it was it was sweaty.
I didn't I didn't care for that. And then, without the jacket, it was it was much nicer. Felt like I had air conditioning a little bit. Oh, la la. Yeah.
Yeah. So that there's that. Cute. I like riding behind you guys. She looks like a total bobblehead because her helmet's so big.
Well and and when we hit bumps and you have to, like, stand up. I don't know if you saw. We went over some train tracks, and and it was a real bumpy situation. Bouncing all over, which is pretty funny. And then, yeah, her head I don't know if it's just her she got a weak neck or what, but the the helmet will bang into the back of mine.
She goes, sorry. It's heavy. Sorry. It is heavy. Her weak little neck.
Yeah. She doesn't have a weak neck. Hold his helmet. So heavy. It is a fun little thing, though.
It's a nice, cute, little tradition, and I like that it's a thing that you guys have. And I'm just there for the carry my backpack. Yeah. Because it's big and full of stuff on the last day. So Mhmm.
So, yeah, here. Carry this. Maybe it'll get, easier. Maybe it'll get down to where she'll she won't have a huge backpack, and you don't have to do the ride on. Okay.
But here's the thing. You can. You're welcome. That this might be the last year for that because she'll have her driver's license next year. Mean she won't want picked up on the motorcycle.
You think? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Thought of that.
Yeah. Oh, no. I might still show up and say Let's ride. Let's ride. Go get ice cream.
I'll bring you back to get your car later. You could do the The Nicolas Cage gone in sixty seconds. Is that where that's from? Where he has his sleeves and he goes, and he pushes them out. Yeah.
Yeah. That's right. What that's from. Is that what that's from? Yeah.
Nicolas Cage gone in sixty seconds. Are you sure it's not from A Bug's Life? I am 100% sure it's not from A Bug's Life. I feel like there's a grasshopper that does that on A Bug's Life. Maybe not a grasshopper, but, something.
A flying bug. I think it's from A Bug's Life. I don't think so. Gone in Sixty Seconds did come out after A Bug's Life. I just had to do some research, but I'm pretty sure it's, it's from Nicolas Cage and Gone in 60 when he's getting ready to drive Eleanor.
Throws his hands. Yeah. Then Well let's ride. It could be from A Bug's Life. It I'll think it is.
I'm a look it up. Alright. Anyway, nice chopper? It's it's not a chopper. It's a cafe eraser.
But alright. Stop correcting me. Alright. I was just talking to, Victor from K Bear one zero one. Yeah.
He walked in the studio because we're trying to coordinate these, reptiles and things that are coming to visit. Uh-huh. How excited are you? I'm excited. Okay.
I don't mind reptiles. You're not excited. I, look, I'm excited to have them in studio. I'm excited to learn about what they've got going on because they do have, there's a, like, a reptile expo thing, that's coming up. So we're gonna learn a little bit about that, which will be cool.
And, we're gonna get to see some reptiles, and and I don't know, all the different reptiles that they're gonna be bringing, or if they're like, I'm looking through their Facebook page, and they've got, like, tarantulas and stuff. I'm not I'm not excited about that. You know, I I'll learn some stuff. I'm cool with that. If they if they bring in these newts, I'm cool with, like, a A newt?
Well A salamander. Not a newt. It's they're called Gemini dragons Oh. Which are kinda cool. And they have, these little, like, gecko looking guys Oh.
That are kinda fun. So I don't know who's gonna be here and what they're gonna bring in here in the next few minutes, but I'm I'm, my blood pressure's going up. I'm not freaked out, but I'm I'm not freaked out by spiders and bugs and snakes. I'm not I was just telling Victor from K Bear Uh-huh. That our son, when he went to elementary school, their mascot was the vipers, and they had a a corn snake.
Oh, not a viper. Yeah. Corn snake. Not a viper. Right.
It's an elementary school. And we got to babysit that Got to. Corn snake over spring break once. And then I liked it. I thought it was cool.
You hated it. You wouldn't even go near the tank. I wasn't excited. He had to feed mice to him. Yeah.
And he shed his skin on the first day. Yeah. Thought he was dying on the first day. Yeah. Turns out he was just shedding.
It's gonna be interesting. I I would say that. So I'm not freaked out. And I'm the spider killer in our house. There was a pretty large spider in our window this morning that I didn't have time to kill, but Okay.
It could have been a tarantula in our house. He was he was large. And you took care of it? No. I just told you.
I didn't have time. So he'll Now it lives in the house? Yeah. Now he's there forever. Oh, great.
He's probably gonna be in your bed. Super. Winning over here. Alright. Well, anyway, coming up here in, in the 08:00 hour, we will have special guests in the studio, and they are bringing with them reptiles and who knows what else and snakes and bugs and all kinds of fun things for us to learn about and share.
I like snakes and bugs. They're interesting. I agree. They are interesting. We'll try to do our best to capture some video so that, if you wanna, watch on our socials, you can do that.
It's, at classy ninety seven k l c e on socials. Make sure you're following us, and we will, share the video that we capture. Uh-huh. Just hold one snake. Just one.
You don't have to hold the train. They I saw a picture. It's a big snake. They have a very large snake. They're trained experts.
They're not gonna let you die. They're not gonna let you die. You're gonna be fine. Just give it a go. I'm gonna do it.
You're tougher than me. I know. Just shaking your head. You're making me laugh. Reptiles are in the building.
They just aren't over here just yet. So we'll be talking them, to them in just a minute. Do you wanna move on to the next thing until then? I do, I guess. Let's talk about this thing that people are calling arbitrary anniversaries.
What is that? Arbitrary arbitrary versaries. Arbitrary versaries. Arbitrary versaries. Very It's got a catchy name.
Right. Isn't it? Yeah. This is when you wanna celebrate, but you wanna take it further than just, like, here's our we're celebrating our anniversary, or we're celebrating, birthdays. It's we're gonna celebrate, the first day that you knew you had a crush on each other or the first day you went on your first trip or the day that you we kind of already do that.
This seems like a lot to remember, though. But I do this. Because you have it in the calendar. I do. And you love, love, love when social media says, look back on your memories.
I do love that. Remember this day? Now we don't necessarily celebrate. It's not like we have a celebration and go out to dinner and and do these big things on these days. But when it's like, oh, this is the anniversary of our first kiss.
Mhmm. I just remind you. And then I go, isn't that nice? Or I say, oh, it's the anniversary of the first time we met. Isn't that special?
Oh, I think I only have I have the first time we met and the first time no. Sorry. First time we met, our first date, and our first kiss. You love sending sending text messages, though, that have a picture, and you'll do it to the kids. You'll do it to me, and you go, you believe this was four years ago?
Holy cow. This was nine years ago. Yeah. Do you love that stuff? I do.
Nobody ever responds. Did you send one yesterday? Yeah. What was it? Because I can't find it.
It was you and your cousin and your grandma. That's right. It was a nice photo Yeah. From four years ago. And I go, look at this.
This is the best photo. Yeah. It's cute. Uh-huh. You didn't say anything about it.
I you showed it to me on your phone in your hand, and I did. I said, uh-huh. That was that was four years ago already. What a wild time. That's what you guys say.
You go, Yeah. I'm always excited to show the kids, like, look at this video from when you sang and danced with the dog. Remember that? How funny that was. There was a video I showed the kids the other day.
It was, Beck was, like, trying to do a jump, like a ballet jump across the living room floor. They were just little. And Emery goes, that's not how you do it. That's not pretty the way that you do that. And I laughed and laughed, and I showed it to the kids, and they both went, Yeah.
I just want some recognition for remembering that nice stuff. But you I mean, you've you stumbled across it or it was thrown in your face as a memory. Remember this? Yeah. It wasn't like you were like, oh, I was just looking through some old stuff.
Let's sit down and do that. Like, it's random out of nowhere. I know. And it's a nice surprise. It is nice.
I get that. But at the same time, I go, yeah. But what are we doing today? It is nice for a couple minutes to remember a a moment. Let's get back to that arbitrary verse.
We still are there. You don't Remember that time you danced in the living room? Do you remember our first kiss? Yeah. Okay.
Do you remember the date? Do you know the date? October. I actually don't remember the date. At the top of my head, I'd have to look in the calendar.
It was mostly hair because the wind Windy. And, and it was in a parking lot because, you know Romantic. Where you were saying goodbye. You were leaving. So I said, well, I'm gonna I'm gonna lay a smack down.
Here we go. Hair. Try again. Move your hair. There it is.
Did it was there a try again? Of course, there was. Okay. I don't remember that one. Yeah.
Yeah. But you'll remember this I will. Because if it came up in a memory on social media, you'd remember it. Yeah. I know.
I wouldn't. You might. And when it came up on my calendar, I'd be I'll say Mhmm. Hey. Anniversary of our first kiss.
Arbitrary anniversary. Let's celebrate. What is it? What are they calling it? Arbitrary versary.
Arver. Arver. Arver. Arver. Arver.
Arver. Arver. Arver. Arver. Arver.
Arver. We celebrate those. No. We don't. We You remind me of those.
We do a high five, and then we go, cool. Good job doing that. Yeah. Way to go. Remember when you were in that, Snow Pants song in elementary school?
Oh, yeah. Yeah. See? And then Beck says, yep. I do.
What's for dinner? Yeah. Exactly. That's how it goes. Exactly.
It's only a little stressful. Just a tiny little bit. I have a bearded dragon hanging on my Do you want the karantula back? That's alright. Did you get a good look at it, though?
Well, yeah. I mean, as good as I can get. He's kinda buried in the dirt. He's hanging out over there. He gets stressed out.
It's a small one. Quiet. Alright. Alright. A lot of guests in the studio, because there is a, an Idaho Falls Rec Reptile Expo coming up this weekend.
And, and so we have lots of guests in the studio hanging out with us. Who's on the mic? Annabelle. Annabelle. Alright.
Annabelle is in the studio with us. Hi, Annabelle. Hello. Tell us a little bit about the reptile expo. And then we've got a lot of friends in the studio.
We got a lot of folks and and, and all kinds of different animals. And animals. That's right. So kinda walk us around with with you you and who's everybody and who am I holding as is Gus. Right?
Yep. That's Alright. Gus the bearded dragon, hanging out on my shoulder. And then we have Exotic Evolutions here with us. Okay.
So Exotic Evolutions is here. Alright. And you'll be seeing them at the reptile expo and you can have a hands on experience with reptiles and play around with some snakes and lizards. Yes. Exactly what Josh wants to do.
Right. There's a whole bunch of other vendors if you would wanna buy a snake or lizard or spider or whatever. There's vendors. Gotcha. I was I was cruising through the event on Facebook, and I and I saw there's, like, there's, like, geckos and there's, I mean, all kinds of things.
If you're if you're into, I suppose, frogs or, insects, you mentioned, different spiders and stuff as well, arachnids. Are are there, I I like, is there a word for enthusiasts that are into this, into this thing? Herbatology. Herbatology. Alright.
Her her with a b? Herb. Herb. Herb. Herb.
Herb. Herb. Herbatology. Because I got the Herb. That's right.
Okay. Alright. There you go. Alright. Excellent.
And if people wanna get more information or if they wanna get tickets, like, where where do they go to find out about that? Find us on Facebook under Beast Pets of the Rocky Mountains. Right. Beast Pets of the of the Rocky Mountains. Okay.
Awesome. And that's the event that I'm looking at here. Idle Falls Reptile Expo. It's this weekend, Saturday and Sunday at the Bonneville County Fairgrounds. Turn around, Josh.
There's a snake right behind me. I'm sure there is. Yeah. There's there's a room full of them, so thanks, Peaches. I got this large one over here.
Did you see the big one? They're yeah. Huge. Huge. So so, tell me about that snake.
What do what do we have? Like, that's that's giant. Yeah. So this is a reticulated python, which is the longest species of constrictor in the world. K.
And it is a it is a python. Alright. So they do lay eggs. They don't give live birth. Oh, wow.
Okay. So that's the difference between pythons and boas. Boas will actually give live birth, and pythons lay eggs and incubate them. Really? And are you not afraid that it's gonna constrict you at any point?
No. So Not at all? No. So snakes will only constrict when they are meaning to eat. Gotcha.
And he knows that I'm not, you know, a good prey item. So he's not gonna waste that energy. Right. I think you're a nice prey item. How old is, how old is he?
He's about nine years old now. Nine and and what's the typical lifespan for, for a snake of that size? About thirty years. Thirty? No kidding.
Wow. Yeah. So this guy, he's only gonna be about 200 and maybe twenty feet long at his max. Wow. But And and where's he at now?
He's about twelve feet long and thirty five to forty pounds depending on, like, when he last ate. Yeah. Wow. And what do you feed something like that? Rabbits, sometimes piglets.
Oh, no. Oh, wow. We we do do everything frozen thawed, so we purchase everything already, you know, pre extinguished. Right. Yeah.
Holy cow. Alright. Well, fascinating. And then, this snake right here to to to your left. This is a ball python.
Okay. They're this is about as big as they get. Okay. And he's he's like, white. Like, kind of a white and brown color.
Yeah. This is from Special Breeding. Oh, is it really? Okay. Yeah.
And and his name is? Spencer. Spencer. Yeah. I I like it when things have, like, a just a normal dude's name.
Like, I gotta go, I gotta go feed Spencer. That's fine. Yep. That's great. You still got the bearded dragon?
I do. Gus is still hanging out. Gus has, his little bat wings on, which I think is funny because he's a bearded dragon and really helps sell the dragon. And he said it felt like a baby. It it's got the weight of a small baby, but it's got a cold belly.
Like, Jess has a cold belly, which is a little bit strange. But We do have a small baby for comparison. We do have a small baby. Comparison. Oh, that's great.
Well, this is really fun and exciting. And if people wanna get this kind of a hands on experience, we encourage you to go check out the Idaho Falls Reptile Expo again happening, this Saturday and Sunday at the Bonneville County Fairgrounds. All kinds of snakes and reptiles and bugs. Bugs and spiders. Yep.
Fun. Nice. Cool. And and you can check out the, the event on Facebook. Well, thank you guys for bringing in all this fun, exciting stuff.
For having us. Yeah. This is great. It was it was fun. I liked it.
I'm gonna I liked it. I'm not gonna catch that. My breath. You're freaked out. You're holding yourself very well.
Oh, thank you. Thanks for hanging out, Gus. Literally, just hanging out while I'm doing the whole thing. So there you go. Alright.
Get all the details on Facebook, and, go check at the Idaho Falls Reptile Expo. We went camping this past weekend, and Beck didn't wanna come. He'd think that's he thought it was too long of a camping trip. And so he spent Saturday, Sunday, and most of Monday alone, which as a 20 year old, you're like, that's great. That's awesome.
As a 43 year old, I go, that sounds like heaven. A weekend alone. A weekend alone? Can you even imagine what you would do with two and a half days alone? Can you even just think about it for a minute.
Just close your eyes and think about it. Well, here's the thing. Shh. Just think about it. Like, I I that's that's a longer time.
Like, it'd be it'd be quiet. You don't like to be alone. But is it you and the dog? No. Because that was his situation.
Okay. That was his situation. But the thing about if you or Beck are alone with the dog, you guys can tune her out and you shut her away and you don't think about her until it's like, oh, I'm hungry. The dog must be hungry. You do that quite often.
I I can compartmentalize. Sure. It's an organizational skill I have. No. It's a nice compliment.
Thank you. I I get what you're saying. Like, yeah, I have the ability to be like, hey. I can, worry about myself, and I'll worry about the dog when I worry about the dog. And the dog's doing its own thing, and that's fine.
The dog follows you around and will leave you alone. Because the dog knows that I can't compartmentalize, as you say. Okay. Alright. But even if it were just me and the dog Yeah.
That's still that's heaven. No. I get it. Here's You only have to worry about what you're going to eat for meals. You only have to worry about entertaining yourself.
You only have to worry about what time am I gonna go to bed. Yeah. You only have to worry about yourself, and that sounds wonderful. I see. I get what you're saying.
I kinda want a weekend alone. Alright. Fair enough. Doesn't that sound nice? Not to you.
You don't like to be alone. It's fine. I don't mind being alone. I just the quiet is like, I'm bored. Like, I would rather have stuff going on than No way.
But but, again, I do wanna do, like, my solo camping trip. Like, that's a thing. I come at there's been a bunch of people that I watch on TikTok that take solo vacations. And I think I mean, listen. I love being with friends and family, and I think that's awesome.
But I think there is something to be said about taking a trip by yourself. Yeah. I agree. And just doing what you wanna do, not having to worry about anybody else's happiness or mood. Especially as a mom, I think moms are naturally prone to be like, okay.
Who's hungry? Who needs to take a pit stop? Yeah. If I only had to worry about my own self, does not sound so nice. I just think it sounds nice to you, apparently.
It sounds It sounds like you want a weekend alone. Yeah. That's what I want. Mhmm. Yep.
Yeah. Loud and clear. Loud and clear. And then listen. After two days, I think I'd be like, okay.
I'm bored, and I'm lonely, and bring my family back. Like, everybody come back. I'm ready to see people again. Mhmm. Two days?
If I just had two days, wonderful. Okay. Well, I'm writing it down. I don't know how to wrap it, but I it's a good gift. It is a good gift.
Here's your gift. Thank you. Bye. Now am I going somewhere, or are you guys going somewhere? Great question.
I kinda just wanna stay at home. You want to stay at home? My stuff is. Okay. That checks out.
So you guys have to go away. Okay. Well, look. If I go solo camp Yeah. That's me out of the way.
Yeah. We just gotta figure out what We gotta figure out what to do with this. The kids gonna do for a couple days. Therein lies the problem. Yeah.
So I'll have to just run away too. You guys are taking a hiking trip this summer. Maybe it'll be during that time. Yeah. You're gonna go hike Table Mountain, Table Rock.
That's a day trip. That's not overnight. Really? Could be overnight. You could just Quit trying to get rid of me.
I read something today or yesterday that said by your four days, you should have four things. Oh, no. I have three of the four things. Alright. Let's see.
What do we have? Two or three good friends. K. They live miles and miles away. Okay.
Check and check. A chronic illness, check. Pet's ashes, check. Uh-huh. And a weird collection.
Oh, you don't think you, you you don't think you have a weird collection? I mean, I have collections. I don't know if they're weird. Do you think they're not weird because they're yours? What do you think that I have that's weird?
Oh, you just have a whole room of collection. I know. Yeah. There's buttons and ribbon Sure. Paper and yarn.
You have supplies. You have a collection of supplies. Yeah. It's not weird. Okay.
I mean, weird's so completely subjective. True. I don't think it's weird. And That's why it's subjective. That's what that means.
I do stuff with that collection Sure. Sometimes when I have time. Yeah. What weird collection do you have? Oh, you tell me.
I have a room. You do have a room. I have, Star Wars, dudes across the top there. Weird. I have some of no.
I I have some of my childhood toys. Weird. Not weird. I have a lot of fly tying and fly fishing stuff. It's not weird.
I have collected a bunch of things in the garage. Outdoor gear. I have You have a lot of a lot of gear. I I do have several tents. I I need to downsize my tents.
You have a tent collection. I need to downsize my tents. For a while there, we had a sleeping bag collection. You have We downsized that because we got newer, nicer ones. You've gotten rid of a lot of our sleeping bags, which is nice.
Like, we still we each have two. But we because we all have a zero degree bag for cold winter camping, and then we all have, like, a 15 or 20 degree bag for summer camping. But we don't use our sleeping bags when we go camping in our trailer. Correct. So we could probably get rid of those.
Nope. Why? You gotta have a sleeping bag. But two per person? That's too many sleeping bags.
Here's sleeping bag collection. Here's the thing that is gonna happen one day. One day, our children will have their own houses and their own lives, and their stuff will leave with them. I hope so. And then we'll have half the stuff.
Half is I think that's a lot. I think we're gonna have a quarter of the stuff. I think they're gonna take a quarter of our stuff. You think so? Yeah.
I don't think they're gonna take half. Because half the sleeping bags will leave. They'll each want a tent. No. I doubtful.
You don't think they're gonna want a tent? No. I don't. You don't think they're gonna tent camp? No.
You don't? No. I don't. Really? I don't think they're gonna camp at all.
You don't think so? No. Every time we talk about going camping, they're like, You don't think they're gonna go, I should probably go camping. I don't. I hope they do, but I don't.
The way I see it now, they hate camping. Each have their own backpacking gear. Yeah. They do. I got a lot of gear.
You have a lot of gear. That's a that's a nice collection. You have an outdoor collection. But I, you know, I I really think what what I need to do is just assemble, like, like, individual kits for them and go, here's your stuff. Take it with you.
See you. That's what I'm doing too with their stuff. Well, that's like mementos. Mementos. Okay.
I'm talking about, like, here's your backpack, here's your sleeping bag, here's your tent, here's your camp stove. Yeah. They're gonna move out with a lot of stuff. Adios. Yeah.
Here's your here's your skateboard. Here's your longboard. Here's your bike. Here's your Here's your Christmas ornament. Golf clubs.
Here's your stuff. Get out. And half the stuff leaves the house. I still think it's gonna be a quarter of stuff. I don't think it's gonna be half.
But I'm more depressed about the fact that, you think they're not gonna camp. You think they will? I would hope so. Well, I would hope so too. Like, I think there's such greatness in camping that that now I'm, like, worried that I've over camped them, and now they're they're gonna be like, I'm never doing that.
I'm just saying we talked about going camping this weekend, and both of them went, ugh. Yeah. Because it's not their idea. I think they're gonna they're gonna go, it's summer. I should be camping.
I don't know. We'll see. We might have out camped them, over camped them. Well, we'll find out. Don't be depressed.
I don't know about a weird collection. You have weird collection. The other things I I think I have, I have a collection. I we we have some pet ashes, which is super sad. I don't have, chronic illness.
What? What chronic illness do I have? I'll tell you off air. Oh, great. And then, what was the other one?
Friends that live miles and miles and miles away. Yeah. I could I could do with a couple additional friends, I think. I just want my friends to live closer. Well, yeah.
Live closer. I could do with more friends is what I'm saying. Okay. Like like, a good a good smattering. Is that the word?
Smattering. What's the word? Smattering. Spattering. That's why I got confused too.
Smattering. I think it's smattering. Let's find a friend that'll help us sort that out. Sad news from Billy Joel over the weekend. He announced on Friday that he has a brain disorder known as normal pressure hypo hydrocephalus.
What does that mean? It consists of a buildup of spinal fluid in his brain, which causes pressure on nerves that control various parts of his body. Now he was set to go on tour. Mhmm. I think he was set to go on tour with, Sting.
Okay. And they canceled all concerts and tours. Is this something that that is, there's treatment? What's what's the, I guess, what's the what's the prognosis? What's the future?
I don't know, Josh. Okay. Well, I'm I'm looking here. I'm looking at USA Today. What'd he find?
Alexis, which that's his wife. Right? Yeah. She said, we are so grateful for the wonderful care and swift diagnosis that we received. Bill is beloved by so many.
And to us, he's a father and husband who is at the center of our world. We are hopeful for his recovery. Okay. Yeah. And we look forward to seeing you all in the future.
They said that he is not retiring. He's not ready to retire, and he's not. And he hopes to be able to resume performing as his recovery progresses. So it looks like they're going to seek treatment. Obviously, they are.
Yeah. They he was advised by his doctors to refrain from performing during his recovery period. So I wanna see what treatment is like. Yeah. I don't know what the treatment is.
Okay. They usually, do a surgery to place a tube into the brain to drain that fluid. Oh. The shunt, as it is called, is usually inserted into, ventricle in the brain and then passed under your skin from your head through your neck and chest and abdomen. Like, it's a long tube.
Oh, man. Oh, man. That doesn't sound like a very fun process. That doesn't sound great at all. Well, I'm hopeful that, that he, is alright and that treatment goes well and that he's back to, you know, playing the piano and doing his thing real soon.
That's, that's big news. Very cool. And you said on Friday, you announced that? Yeah. That's wild.
Yeah. Well, take care of yourself. Take some time off. That's important. Rest up.
Get yourself healthy, and then get and we'll see you on the road again. Back to making music, piano man. Yeah. Eventually. Take your time.
Take your time, obviously. But, Billy Joel. I love Billy Joel. Yeah. That's, that's sad news.
Well, hopefully, hopefully, you can be on the other end of this thing real soon. So we're pulling for you over here. We got you, Billy. Yeah. Well, this has been an eventful day.
Has it? Has it? I I think so. Has it? Just looking back at the show, there was good news in there.
We talked about pizza a couple of different times. We did. We had some visitors in the studio. There was very exciting times with some snakes and, bearded dragon. Yeah.
Gus. Wings? Mhmm. Yep. And I learned, exactly what to get you for a gift.
Yeah. That's all I want. We we, told each other we have weird collections. We learned a little bit about a disease Billy Joel has, and, and here we are at the end of the show. The show.
I mean, there's there's more in there, but, also, you have an upside down nose. Things you learn about somebody. You know? Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I've got? On top of hats, they put this little button Uh-huh.
And it happens to be right where my headphones sit. And it's pushing down, and it hurts. Well, don't don't put your headphones there. Well, it's where my headphones off. Yeah, I guess.
Easy. Something else we learned today. That little button on top of your hat hurts when you're wearing headphones. This an easy fix, Josh. Yeah?
Just figure it out, bud. Okay. Hey. Happy Thursday. Yeah.
It looks like it gonna be a good day. It look like it gonna be a good day. It do look like it gonna be a good day. It's gonna be hot. I don't know if you've looked at the weather forecast for the the weekend and stuff.
It's a hot one. Is it? It's in the nineties. Oh, no. We have sunshine.
Sunshine, 85. Today, 85. And sunny tomorrow, 90. And sunny on Saturday, 85. It's clouds on Sunday.
Whoo. Yeah. It's a hot one. It's a hot one. Stay cool.
Heat wave. Hey. Stay cool. Stay cool. Stay hydrated.
Find some shade if you need it. You know? Go somewhere where there is air conditioning if you need it. Mhmm. That's my advice.
Wear sunscreen. Also good advice. Alright. Have a great rest of your day. We'll be back tomorrow on Friday.
I I love it. I like a short work week. Love it too. That's that's gonna be awesome. And then we'll have a weekend again, and then, we'll be back on Monday.
It's a whole thing. It's like, and then we'll have a full week, and then we're gonna go, full week. No. Sad. Anyway, have a great rest of your day.
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