Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Wednesday, November 11th, 2026
Episode summary introduction:
It's Veterans Day and we offer a giant thank you to the men and women who have served our country, two Newport Beach fishermen rescue a cruise ship piano player who treaded water in the ocean for nine hours, Kirk Cousins is headed back to the Minnesota Vikings, Josh’s reflective jacket makes evening walks safer, a game night with chili & friends, Chantel’s take on being the chill girl, which cartoon duck would make the worst roommate, Volkswagen’s sausage business, the garden has been put to bed for winter, burgers vs fries in Would You Rather, borrowing shoes from a teenage daughter a curling iron mishap, Chantel’s best friend Dave, why Josh should never call Chantel while she’s driving, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Burned neck
(2:16) - Veterans Day
(5:31) - Good News
(7:59) - Chantel's best friend
(12:01) - Kirk Cousins is a Viking again
(16:30) - Don't call Chantel
(20:01) - Reflective jacket
(22:56) - Game night & chili
(27:06) - Chantel is not chill
(30:48) - Cartoon ducks
(34:02) - VW sausages
(38:14) - Garden sleepy time
(42:14) - Would You Rather
(43:45) - Sharing shoes
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Full show transcript:
I was doing my hair this morning and I my curling iron is at 360 degrees. It's hot.
Is that pretty hot?
It's pretty hot.
Water boils at 220.
I know.
So that's hot.
And it touched my neck.
Yeah.
And now my neck hurts. And now I'm gonna have. Have you ever burned your neck with a curling iron before?
Nope. No, I have not.
Everyone will say to you, oh.
Nice hickey. Yeah.
And then you go, it's I'm 45 years old. That's not that's not what that is.
You're like, I don't let Josh get that close to me. What do you mean it's a hickey? Not in a million of his dreams. Is that a hickey? That's what you should tell him. You go, oh, you think you think Josh got to give me a hickey, you're insane. Yeah, right.
That's mean.
I know. Yeah.
Well, like it's kind of here. So my think my hair will cover it, luckily. Because yeah, everyone will say to you. Oh. Oh
then you go, you're right. Are you 16? You're right. It's a hickey.
You're absolutely spot on.
You should say, don't look at my hickey. Like you should you should preempt. No,
but
my hair cover my hickey.
Nobody look at
what I've been doing. Yeah. Yeah. You should own that instead. You should be like, someone sucked on my neck. That's that is a weird thing.
It is a weird thing.
That's a weird thing.
Yes.
It is. I don't know. Like put a cold spoon on it.
Is that what you're supposed to do? I've heard.
It's not safe, though.
I heard too. Yeah, because it can be dangerous.
It can?
Yeah. Plus also eating.
Also, of all the times I've known of all the times I've known people to have hickeys. I don't think I've ever heard anybody like having a health condition from it. I think I think some old person was like, you could die from that. And then like spread like wildfire. And so then people were like, yeah, you could. You know, you could die from getting a hickey.
Yeah, don't do it. Gross.
Yeah. Ew.
Well.
On that note, Cantel has a hickey. And here's today's show.
It's a good day's show.
It is Veterans Day.
Oh, yeah, it is.
Yeah, it's the 11th of November. Um, what is that? 1111. Uh and uh every year on 1111. Uh we get to honor the men and women who have served our country. Um there are several different places that are gonna be closed today. All your post offices.
Oh your federal offices, uh, some schools, banks. It's uh bank holiday, so it's uh
it's uh you know, a little bit of time to not do usual business, I guess, on like a Wednesday in the middle of the week. Whoa.
Sorry.
That made a neat noise. That was cool.
It was cool.
Yeah. Uh a whole bunch of different restaurants. Um uh offer uh big discounts or free products today for veterans as well, which is uh which is a thing to take advantage of if you have you know your driver's license, state ID, uh your veterans organization membership card, your VA card, your military ID, uh those kinds of things uh you can show at different restaurants, and uh there's a ton of different places that have benefits for uh for veterans. So anyway, thank you so much for uh for your service today and to the the men and women who have uh
served our country I tell you really appreciate you. And today's your day. It's veterans day. Yay, thanks, veterans.
Right. And how are you?
Me?
That's right.
I'm good.
You yeah, it looks like we had a power situation in here.
Oh
Um.
I've looked at it.
everything's fine. I just I've noticed little things that I go, yep. This had powered off uh the whole board and uh that computer had had rebooted. So that was a thing that I
just I just took care of it. I did not notice
any of that. Yeah,
I wouldn't have known that So
So it was turned on, but you you didn't notice that it was completely logged out.
I just assume that's what it looks like
always. Uh I
never go over there.
Okay. That's a good point. You don't really ever come over here. No. Yeah.
You showed me how to plug in our headphones.
That's right.
How to log into the music.
Yeah, the automation.
Automation and how to get the board live.
Yeah.
And that's all I do.
Yeah. That's that's big. That's a big step.
It's a big step.
Do you want to add one more?
Nope.
Well.
That's enough.
I just want one more thing.
What's the other thing?
Uh you sit here and push all the buttons. Mm-hmm. Oh. Mm mm mm.
That's a big thing.
Oh. No.
I'm good.
It's one little thing.
You're doing such a good job.
Oh, is
that right? I would never want to take your I would never want to take your position. You do it so well.
Right.
Keep it up, buddy.
Well, you're welcome to. Anytime you're like, I'm curious.
Oh, I know. I'm a good.
I'm good. Good morning. Let's get you some good news. This uh story comes from Newport Beach, California. There were two fishermen who were off the coast. Uh and they happened to be in the right place at the right time. They spotted and saved a man who had been treading water in the Pacific Ocean for nine hours.
No way.
No No No way. Nine hours, first of all. This wouldn't be me. No.
Because I can't tread for nine seconds. No, you you're a sinker.
Yeah. Sean Norton and Grant Garrett. They were heading home from a morning fishing trip near Catalina Island when they spotted the man nearly 20 miles off the coast. Sean and Grant quickly hauled the man aboard, and they learned that he was on a crew or he was a cruise ship piano player. Uh he had fallen overboard in the middle of the night and was able to stay afloat until the fisherman intervened.
Dude, okay. So many questions.
Uh yeah.
One, did nobody know that he was missing? Two, how do you fall off a cruise ship? Three, I think that there are people who fall off cruise ships pretty regularly.
That's crazy.
I know. How do you fall off one?
I don't know. Stay inside.
Also,
like hello.
Nine hours of treading water.
I bet that dude was exhausted. Yeah, so while the piano player endured a terrifying adventure, he caught a few lucky breaks. Being spotted by Sean and Grant was a big one. And so was the water temperature. The ocean water was not dangerously cold. So he avoided hypothermia. He was taken to a nearby hospital in stable condition to recover and rest up.
Was
he crazy?
Was he um sorry? Was this in the middle of the night?
No, it was well, he'd been there in
in the night because he'd been there for nine hours and they went out fishing in the morning. Dudes, the ocean at the middle of the night is terrifying.
No kidding.
Oh, so scary.
I'm trying to find out more about uh the cruise ship. I don't know.
I don't know what that's wild. It is wild.
Yeah, there's no information about the about the boat. Anyway, insane.
That is insane. That is a crazy story. Well done, fishermen's.
That's good news. I got to hang out with uh a couple of people last night. One of them, your best friend.
My best friend.
Your best friend Dave. Uh and your best friend Dave says hi.
I love my best friend Dave.
Yeah, you haven't seen him in a minute.
No, I haven't.
You want to know how crazy it was? I haven't seen this guy in in a long time. And he was like, Oh, how's how's Beck? How's your son? And I said, Oh, yeah, he's good. He goes, How old is he now? And I said, Oh, he's 22. And he went, What? Like, we haven't seen each other since it's been probably five years.
Oh, man.
That's crazy.
Oh man. Yeah, he was like, Oh, I thought I thought he was still like maybe working on his eagle project. I'm like, no.
No. It's been a spell minute, Dave. It's been a minute. His son's 24.
And I'm like,
what is going on?
What is going on? He retired. I knew that.
Last year.
I knew that.
So we talked a lot about that. And then he uh he asked about the show. He said, I think that's so cool. You guys get to do the show together. And he says, I know it probably takes a lot of prep work and stuff. And I was like, I don't know what that means.
Yeah.
Said, said, What do you what do you mean by that? He's like, don't you have to like you know, really work on like things to talk about? So I show up and and somehow we have this cool uh outline of the show, and it gets filled in every single day. And I don't know. It's a magical thing. What I really said was I mean, Chantel does like a lot of hard work on making that happen, but for the most part, we're just talking about our life and the silliness that goes on every day. So uh anyway, it was uh it was a cool reunion, got to chat with him for a uh a few minutes, and he says hi.
So I'm gonna tell why he's my best friend in case you forgot this story.
Okay,
so we were at a leadership training for uh
leaders for adult leaders, adult leadership training.
And there was a like it was a camp, so you stayed the night there for a couple of days, and you could like send your fellow participants mail.
There's the little mailbox and you could send them mail.
And then I got a mail package one day. Like it was like a hefty little gift. Right.
It wasn't just a letter on a scratch piece of paper.
It was a gift. And I opened it and I was like, this is really cool. And then I go, who is this from? And then I opened the letter and it was from Dave. And I I stood in the middle of the room and I go, Dave's my best friend. And then I found out
he'd also given everybody else a gift. Right.
Which didn't diminish. No,
he's still your friends. Yeah. But now whenever I see him, I go, Best friend. Yeah, and he literally said, Tell my best friend. I said hi. So uh yeah, that's really fun.
He's the best.
Yep. So that was cool. Uh, but but he also kind of knew that somebody around here was doing some work. And I couldn't, I couldn't stomach to tell him it wasn't me. But that's it. Yeah.
But I You are doing work. Your work is just the different. I bring the content and you push the buttons.
Okay. It's a good that's a good balance.
It is a good balance.
Yeah. Takes both of us to put it together. And it wouldn't be any fun if it was just one of us. Correct.
Right?
Right.
If you could tell the same story, but if no one was around to
bounce it off of, it would
be
way less.
It would be pain. Totally lame.
Because here's how the story'd go. Don't chime in. I go, oh man, got to see a buddy of mine who I hadn't seen in a lot of years. Uh, who uh is best friends with my wife. And see how it just drags it's boring.
It's not the same.
It's nice.
I know.
Or a good team. What's your hand doing?
You're holding out your hand like I'm handing out MMs. What are you holding your hand out? No, just like team work.
Okay. Whatever that means. My algorithm went crazy yesterday afternoon.
It hasn't stopped.
It's still full of Kirk O chains. Kirk Cousins, the nicest boy in football.
Yeah.
Is headed back to quarterback?
Dare I say the n the nicest boy in America.
Okay.
So he's the nicest boy.
And he is headed back to quarterback the Minnesota Vikings. He was at the Vikings when you fell in love with football four years ago or something.
It's the reason.
Yeah.
That I became a Vikings fan.
You're not wearing the jersey. I said last night, I said, you're gonna have to take out the jersey and wear it in celebration.
No, I'm not gonna wear it today.
That's what I said though, but you didn't.
Oh no, I'm
not
sorry. No.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Uh big exciting news though.
We talked about terrible quarterbacks yesterday.
Yeah.
Just yesterday. And then shortly after, like maybe two or three hours after the show ended.
Well, there was the trade deadline.
I got a message
from a former coworker that said, Hey, didn't you like Kirk Cousins?
And I went, Yes. And then he sent me the news, and I
was like, that's not true. And
I looked it up and I went, Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The Vikings traded uh a draft pick for Kirk Cousins. He's coming back. And the and my feed's been just filled with videos of him. Uh, you know, a reporter said, What was it about Atlanta that wanted it made you want to leave Minnesota?
And he said, That's not even the right question. Nothing about anything would make me want to leave Minnesota. I don't want to leave Minnesota. I love Minnesota. My family has roots here. Like this is this is our place.
And so you're asking the wrong question. Um, but then he explained uh, you know, kind of how it all went down. Uh he got injured, he was on the healing thing. They they were trying to figure out they the Vikings were trying to figure out what they were gonna do moving forward. They needed to pick up a quarterback, they needed to do all this stuff. They had you know, the whole JJ McCarthy thing.
Like there was so much stuff going on that they said, like, look, we can't guarantee that we won't trade you away. And Atlanta was signing him for a three-year deal. So he was like, I've got three years of consistency or a weird year-to-year deal at a place I love. And he said, I need stability. So he
left.
Here's the craziest part. So yesterday was the trade deadline.
Yep.
Um, I follow both Kirk and his wife Julie.
That's right.
On Instagram. And they made a post last night, 13 hours ago.
Okay.
And it said, one hour until we leave for Minnesota, and our son wanted one last bat at his little league playoff.
Oh, there you go.
So he got the call. Yeah.
And then they were like, We gotta, we gotta go. Yeah.
You gotta start training.
Yeah,
you have to be here. And I like the, you know, he the family's going with him. I think that's a big deal.
Um he wasn't like, I'll you guys enjoy Vegas for a few weeks. I'm gonna take off and I'll see you guys there. It was like, no, we're all going. Like, we're all going back to Minnesota.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's that's cool.
So then he went to I there was a video of him at he gets his haircut at Great Clips.
That's right.
Because he's just a regular guy.
Okay. And And he buys his clothes at Kohl's. Yeah, go on.
And his hairdresser was like saying goodbye, and then she did like a school.
Oh,
that's a big deal. It is a big deal.
Wow.
I'm so excited. Jefferson and Cousins.
It's gonna be, yeah. I like there's gotta be video of of him walking back into the building.
Like, it's gonna happen. Right, or last night, or whenever he walks in uh to practice.
It's that's gonna be huge. Uh here's the other thing that's kind of crazy. I told you this, but he is returning to the game this weekend at Lambeau Field against the Green Bay Packers, and that is where he was injured three years ago. His last game with the Vikings was at Lambeau Field. His first game back with the Vikings is at Lambeau Field three years later.
It's kind of kind of a story. There's a bit of a story going on here. Anyway.
The reason you fell in love with football and the Vikings is all back together.
I know it.
You're healing. I
know. Look at you. I showed you a video yesterday. Do you remember what the video was?
Uh is this the music one?
Yes. Yeah.
And uh, and then I said, so I should call you when you're driving home. And you said no.
I said, take note of this.
Yeah. Uh and in the video, the guy uh is driving home singing along and just having like the best time.
Oh, yeah.
And uh
that's my performance time.
Oh, and then when
I'm driving in my
car.
That's my that's me time.
Right.
Th that's That's when I crank up my tunes and I sing along.
So I'm gonna call you.
It makes me so mad. It makes me so mad.
Right in the middle of a of a
of a
banger. Sure. Yeah. Whatever. Uh, right in the middle of of a a big breakdown of a song. Here's what I'm gonna do. Because we've got the uh life 360 app. I'm gonna watch for you to leave your work. I'm gonna wait until I know you're like decently like, yeah, she's had time to like figure out what she's gonna listen to. She's she's got it picked. She skipped a couple. She had to sit at one light, she thinks she's in the clear. And then right when you're kind of just traveling and you're like in the zone.
The only one who ever calls me is you.
I know.
And I go, This is the noise I make every time because every time I am jamming along to and I go, and I have to answer.
What if it's something important? Oh, what if it is?
So I have to answer, and I go, what?
Well You can answer it.
And then I'm gonna go, what's for dinner?
No, that's what I'm gonna say.
You usually just I don't know. I don't know what it is, usually but then like then the conversation ends, and then I'm like almost home. And then I go, well, now there's no time to get back into it. You've ruined my whole drive home.
That's strange because when you do pull up to the house, it's still loud and you've still been singing along and you're still into it. So that's not true.
Yeah,
that's the sound.
Yeah,
that is the sound.
Don't call me when I'm driving.
What's
so great? Hey. I hate talking on the phone. Don't call me ever. Ever. Our friend called us last night, and I went, what?
Phone calls, man.
When my phone rings, I go, who is what is happening? What's this phone supposed to do? Not call on the phone.
Okay. Well,
you were gonna say something.
I don't even know. I'm just I'm excited to call you later on today.
Dude, I'm not answering the phone. I'm gonna put it on. There's a green button and a red button. I'm hitting that red button.
How rude.
You better not be in serious.
It's still it's still going to ring. It's still going to interrupt.
Not if I hit that red button.
It's still ringing. You're still gonna do one ring. Yeah.
And then I and then you're gonna call back, aren't you? If I decline you.
I gotta make sure you're safe.
I'm gonna turn my phone ringer off. Do not disturb.
I can't even believe you.
I can't even believe you.
What if it's an emergency?
You know, that's my time. We took a walk last night,
as
we often do in the evenings.
Right.
Um, and it's getting dark later. I look
earlier. Oh,
yeah. That's what I meant.
Yep.
I like to walk on the road because our neighborhood is very dark.
Yeah. And
if you walk on the sidewalk, the sidewalk is uneven. And I'm a tripping hazard.
Right.
I'm a fall risk.
That's right.
So I have to walk on the road where it's a little bit more even.
Yeah.
And it's there's been a couple of close calls sometimes. We try to get over, but a couple of times people don't move over for us. And it doesn't help that we wear black hoodies when we're out for a walk.
I fixed that last night because I dug out of my uh my closet. I have a reflective jacket. And when I say reflective, don't think safety vest.
No.
The entire jacket is made of reflective material. It's called dark reflective, something like that.
I can't remember.
Um, and it just looks like a gray jacket, but when the light hits it, it glows like crazy. And uh yeah, so I I put that on last night because I thought we should probably be visible because cars come around. And I'll tell you, I did feel safer last night.
I did too.
Cars I think were like, what is that?
Even one guy drove by and he was like, I could barely see you.
Yeah, yeah. He was like, almost missed you.
It worked.
Yeah,
you gotta keep wearing that jacket.
Yeah, that jacket is uh definitely. I have pants that match. I should wear the whole suit.
Wear the whole outfit.
And people be like, dude, what if what are you wearing? The head to toe reflective. Like, you better better see me.
I love it.
You should wear the whole shebang. I should. It glows like crazy, though. And uh, and I've never I've worn it, and you can't see the reflective when you're wearing it. So I'm gonna have to put you on it, uh, in it, and then I'll drive and uh and see how bright it is. Because I bet it's crazy. Like I bet it is insane. But I did notice people were slowing down, they were moving over.
They were giving us a lot of space.
Yeah, which is not normally the case.
No, so we were definitely visible. Well, we've gotten out before, and you're like, oh, I'm like, people can't see us, and you're like, oh, what the dog has a reflective.
Well, she does. She has reflective on her harness and on her leash. But boy, that jacket made a difference. So yeah, I'll definitely be wearing that. Uh and then yeah, if I do the pants and the jacket, boy, that would be something. I should do it.
I think it tonight.
Tonight.
If you need to find Josh, he's the reflective guy.
With the giant glowing beam that you're like, what is going on? You turn the corner and all of a sudden there's just white. That's me.
That's Josh.
Yeah. Good to see you.
Don't run us over.
Please.
Trying to get together.
Go ahead.
Oh, sorry. We've been trying to get together with some of our friends for drinks and dinner.
Okay.
And so I I've been trying to talk to them, and it's really difficult as an adult to get things scheduled.
Right.
And you have to get all your schedules to match, and you've got to like make sure it all works. And I said, hey, we finally got some time this weekend. Would you guys like to get together? And our friend said, Yes, I'm available. And then we never heard anything from our other friend.
Right.
And then I put a crickets in the
Oh, yeah, yeah.
city. Because I was like, you better respond to me, dude.
Yeah, this is in the group chat that I uh am very, very slow to talk about.
Yeah, you you are you do not respond.
Yeah, I'm I'm bad at texting.
You are really bad at texting. Um, so I got a phone call last night from our friend, and he said, Hey, I'm I'm available on Saturday. Let's get together.
And I was like, fantastic. Let's get together. And then he said, Where should we go? And I said, I don't know. We like, you know, we like to eat dinner at this place, or we like to eat dinner at this place. And he goes, Well, we just got a really fun game. Like what we should do is just have game nights. And I go, that's a great idea. Yeah.
Let's have a game night. Bring over your game. We have a bunch of games. Just come over to our house and let's do a game night.
I don't know. I didn't think about that. So now it's turned into like we're gonna have uh meal.
Well, he said, he said, let's do game night and chili. And I go, chili.
Yeah. Yeah.
Chili.
Right.
What are we eighty-five?
What's wrong with chili? He makes uh he does like a smoker chili. So he'll like smoke the meat and then the chilies down below, and then the meat gets all into the chili.
It's like a whole thing. Right.
Yeah.
So it's not just like I didn't know that at first.
Yeah, it's not just like uh let's open up some cans of chili and throw it in a pot on the stove, and then we could have chili. It's a little different than that.
The chili was not something I anticipated him to say.
So I was giving him a lot of grief for that. And then Well, you've got a pretty good cornbread thing that you could bring to the to the table with chili where it belongs. This is a major throwback. I don't even know how many years ago this was.
Last Easter, last year at Easter.
25, Easter 25. If you go back into the uh podcast archives, you can find out how Chantel wanted to bring cornbread to Easter to go with pulled pork.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Cornbread still, I still am adamant that you can have cornbread with pulled pork. It's still delicious. It's still a good side for pulled pork.
No, don't you? Hey, hey, me.
It's still good. Okay. So then we decided, I was like, why don't we just do like we could do tacos?
We could do we could do a pulled pork. We could even order pizza and keep it easy.
Well, I was like, chili.
Yeah. Chili. Anyway, so now we're hosting. Yeah.
Yeah.
It'll be fun. It will be.
It's gonna be exciting. I don't know if I'm not gonna even think of that. Because sometimes it's hard if you want to go out for dinner with your friends. You've got to figure out how many people do you have? Do you have to make a reservation?
Do they have enough room? Right. Is it gonna be busy? And then you end up like tying up a table for a long
time or your rush to get out of there because they're trying to get rid of you. I'm like, just come over. That's a good idea. Yeah.
Just come over. It's so much easier.
I know.
All right. Well, uh, is it chilly then for sure?
No, it's not chili.
Oh, okay. It's we still haven't decided. Well,
because
I then you started making puns, that's right. You said we can taco about food tomorrow.
Yeah, he said, I don't know what to eat for dinner. Let's do about it.
Stew about it. We can taco about food tomorrow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember.
Hilarious.
All right.
I saw something yesterday, and I've never related to something more.
Okay.
So I was a woman who said, I spent years trying to be the chill girl.
I always wanted to be like, oh, I'm I'm I'm chill.
So easygoing. I'm so chilled.
All right. Hold on. Before you say another thing, what characteristics does the chill girl have?
What makes her what makes her so chill? Just kind of like a laid back, easygoing personality.
Okay.
Um, W Well,
well, like what do you mean?
I don't know how else I can play out.
Because I'm trying to, I'm trying to I'm trying to envision this person. What's this person wear?
Just I don't know.
Don't just say chill clothes, because I it doesn't help.
There that's not what they wear is not that's not part of their personality.
Okay.
It's just
so you walk into a room, where are they? Let's say you walk into a house. Where are they where are they hanging? On the couch. They're they're on the couch.
They're just chill.
I I know. This is I'm just trying to paint paint me a picture. I took it.
I walk into the house. This this chill person is on the couch. They got their feet up.
Are they are they relaxed?
Yeah, they're relaxed. Okay.
It's a relaxed person who's just very just
go with the flow kind of attitude.
All right.
Nothing really upsets them, nothing stresses them out.
Right.
I know. I spent a lot of time trying to be that person.
You did?
I still do every day. And there are certain parts of the day where I go, yeah, I feel like I'm a pretty chill person.
And then what happens?
And then I remember that that's not who I am.
Okay.
So this woman said, I am not particularly chill at all. I am a high functioning anxious
girl.
I think a lot. I cry a lot. I feel a lot. I notice everything. I overthink. I replay conversations in my head. Uh I get excited about little things, but I feel deeply emotional
to everything.
And yeah. I that is me.
That is you, huh?
I am not the chill girl.
How do you uh how do you achieve that? Is that something you want to to be still?
No, I think listen, I'm 45 years old. Like, you can't train this old dog new tricks.
That's not true.
I just I am who I am. It's like Popeye. I am who I am.
What's what What? What is it? What? What? What happened?
What?
Would you would you like to do that again?
No, I wouldn't. Would you like to change that up? No.
Because I think he says, I yam. What I am. But but what you said was great.
I don't even remember what I said.
I am what I am. like. Popeye. Yes.
Yeah, you get it.
Uh-huh. And then immediately you were like, see how chill I am? That's exactly what happened. You were like, I am what I am. And then you went, see, so chill.
Totally chill.
The chillist. Yeah. Okay. Well, good luck on your chilling out adventure.
I hope uh I hope it finds you. What cartoon duck do you think would make the worst roommate?
Okay, so let's run through this.
We've got Scrooge McDuck.
You've got uh Daffy Duck, Donald Duck.
Yes.
Uh Huey Dewey and Louie. Uh those are some ducks.
Uh Um, what
are some other ducks?
Daisy duck.
Oh, okay.
Dark winged duck.
Oh, dark winged duck's very fun.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, all the ducks from DuckTales.
Mm-hmm.
Ooh woo.
There's there's a couple that I don't know either. There's like Bill from Sitting Ducks.
I don't know what that is.
I don't know that one either. And there's also a Drake Mallard.
Okay. And
Duck Dodgers. We're just gonna stick with Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, Scrooge McDuck.
Yeah.
Daisy Duck.
Yeah.
Darkwing Duck.
Yeah.
And Huey Dewey and Louie.
All right. Who would make the worst
roommate?
Roommate.
Uh-huh.
I'm I'm probably gonna say uh Donald.
Yeah. That's what I was gonna say.
Because of the noise that comes out of his mouth, but also he has a temper.
He's just a grouch.
No, I know, but he has a temper. Like uh there's uh an old cartoon where the faucet has a drip and it and it goes blop.
Uh-huh.
And he's trying to sleep, and he loses his mind.
Yeah.
I can't I can't live with that. The guy's a maniac. Bloop. And he's like, no, no, no, no, no. I'm like, chill, dude. You You know what I'm saying?
I do.
That's why I'm thinking he'd be the worst. That's it.
I agree with you.
The answer.
Yeah, that
is
although Daffy Duck would be kind of loud and annoying too.
Doesn't he doesn't he do the when he talks? I don't care for that either.
Right. It's pretty spitty. I can't.
I just wouldn't ever talk to him. I'd be like, shh. No. Keep your weird duck tongue put away.
If you lived with Scrooge McDuck, because he's rich, you'd live in a big house.
But he does not share his wealth.
No, I know, but that is true.
You might have a larger house.
But your rent payment would be huge.
Yeah, and he'd expect it four days early.
Yeah, he would.
Even though he's got that whole coin swimming pool thing going on.
If you lived with Daisy Duck, it would just she's kind of high maintenance.
I I think so. Plus the amount of bows.
Like I just can't deal.
And her shoes, they're huge. She's got huge duck heels.
So she'd clack everywhere.
Oh, no. no.
They're clacking everywhere. These ducks, none of these ducks would be fun to live with.
Huey Dewey and Louie would be a riot.
They would be loud too, though.
Yeah, but they're just little ducks. They'd have a party.
Yeah, but have you seen that Christmas episode of Mickey Mouse's
Christmas Carol?
They're loud.
Yeah, they're kids.
Ex Exactly. I ain't living with no kids.
I live with no kids.
But I'm with you. I think Donald Duck is the worst.
Yeah, he's a maniac. Thanks for asking that strange weird question.
So yesterday we were talking about how Subaru owners can like trade cows.
Yeah.
It's a Moo Moo Subaru. Jeep owners trade ducks.
Yes.
And I was trying to figure out what Volkswagen people could swap.
And I don't necessarily want a bunch of stuff that's gonna like sit on my dash. Okay.
So I found out this morning that Volkswagen also makes sausages in Germany. And they smell and they sell more of them than they do cars.
Well, probably. I mean, you're not buying a six-pack of cars, but you would buy a six pack of sausages.
So
yeah, it would I could see why they would sell more sausages than but why does Volkswagen make sausages?
I'm not sure.
Bratvist.
But that is what Volkswagen owners need to exchange.
You start exchanging sausages? I don't know. Do they really make sausage?
Yeah. I'm watching. Who's the you know the guy on top?
Curry worst.
You know the guy on top gear, the little guy.
Richard Hammond,
the hamster. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The little guy.
Go
ahead.
I'm just watching a video of him at a sausage factory in Germany.
And it's yeah, there's the Volkswagen logo on the colour. Volkswagen sausage. I'm looking at it right now. They do a curry worst. And I bet that is so good.
I bet that's really good too.
I really want to try that. I don't know where to buy it. I mean, I know we could probably go to Siegfried's in Salt Lake and uh and get some sausages, but I don't know if they're gonna carry Volkswagen sausages. Why did you sigh when I said let's go to Siegfried's in Salt Lake?
Because he loved that place.
The German deli. I mean it's delicious.
I know it is. I know you love it. Ew, it's kind of gross watching them.
No, You're not supposed to watch how the sausage is made. That's literally a rule about sausage. You never watch how the sausage is made. Literally. Like there's metaphors about it. Like you're over there going, ew. They're squeezing all that meat into that casing. Yeah. Quit watching it.
Yeah, it's pretty gross.
Yeah.
But that's the thing. That's the thing that Volkswagen owners are going to exchange. Forget about your cow.
Forget about your duck.
We got sausages.
You know, your brother-in-law is has got a big German heritage uh in his family.
Mm-hmm. And
they uh he and his twin brother and his family used to do like a big like family let's make sausage thing.
Uh-huh.
I've never in all the 20 whatever years we've been together, never tried one of those sausages.
Are you serious? Well, they haven't done it in a long time.
Because. Because the families haven't
trembled.
But but in all the years, I've never tried Really?
have you? Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
It's delicious.
I bet.
And they would make brock.
Yeah, I like that.
I like that.
Yeah, that's good stuff. I haven't had that in a long time either. Uh, but anyway, that's I always felt like it needed a gravy. I like it. I like the cabbage roll with all the pepper and the and the beef and stuff in it. It's delicious.
Yeah, it does need a little bit of a dipping.
Doesn't it need a it needs a gravy of some kind?
But I don't know what.
Like it look kind of like its own au jus.
Yeah, but a brown gravy wouldn't taste the same.
Well, it's not not a gravy, like a like an ojou. It needs a dipping sauce. But anyway, like a German dip, you know?
Yeah, I get I get what you're saying.
So if you wanted to literally see how sausage is made, I know he knows how, and you could actually assist. I don't
want to
in the stuffing of the case.
I just think it's funny that Volkswagen. Here we go.
We're gonna exchange sausages. Where would you store them? Hanging from the rear view mirror like they're drying out?
Exactly.
That's disgusting. You're gross. It was almost a little bit sad yesterday. I had to put the garden to
bed.
Um it's a project
I've been meaning to get to for several weeks.
Um, and I finally had uh a minute of free time yesterday after work, which it's been so busy. I don't know what's been going on, but I just have been like, I've been working late. I I mean, even yesterday, I was still here for an extra 30, 45 minutes or whatever.
So I got home, I did a couple of my usual chores, and then uh we we got our food box delivery thing, so I put all that away, and I've been saving the boxes
um in the greenhouse to lay down cardboard that uh then uh I will plant on top of. And so uh it it works as like a great weed barrier and all that kind of stuff. And so I've been saving all those. We took the box out to the greenhouse, and while I was standing there, I was like, I really should take care of this. Like I've meant to finish pulling out the plants that are done, put them all in the compost. Like I really need to put my garden beds to sleep.
Put the new dirt in, put the straw on top. And so I finally was like, I'll just do it. I'm here. It's not gonna take much time. Let's go. And so I did. The garden is put to bed.
None.
Uh, yeah, all of the eight beds are put to bed.
There's still strawberries growing.
I do still have a few strawberries uh laying there. I had some raspberries that I harvested.
I ate those.
Um were they still good?
Yeah, they were okay.
I mean, not great. I mean, they they've been out, uh they should have been pulled, you know, a couple weeks ago.
There was one
I spit out in the garbage, but
everyone the rest of them tasted okay. Awesome. Yeah.
Um, I still have more work to do because I got to get back into where the blueberry uh bush is at, and I've got to pull those uh black eyed Susans that grew. I've got I still have more to do. And the good news is that the weather's still kind of working with me, so I've got some time, but it's uh it's quickly running out. I know it's gonna be snowy eventually.
Any day. I can't believe we haven't had snow yet. It's November 11th.
I'm shocked we haven't had snow yet. So I have I'm a little bit behind, but I could plant garlic right now.
Ooh.
And I would have garlic growing over the winter in the beds. It will grow through the winter. So I I've thought about throwing some of that in so I
can get a head start on next
year on the on the garden for next year. There's a few things. I could plant carrots. Um again, I'm a little late on a couple of these things, but I could get this stuff started. You can grow carrots through the winter and they'll be sweeter because the cold does something with the sugars in them.
That's the cold does the opposite to me.
It doesn't make you sweeter.
No.
Yeah, no. No, you're right. It does not. Does not. Anyway, the garden is uh
is officially put to bed until the
spring, uh, which is a big project. Eight garden beds. It was it was a lot.
It was a lot.
Yeah.
You did a lot, but you learned some things.
That's right.
You know what you're gonna do different this time.
I have many ideas. I have a lot of ideas. I definitely need to work better on my spacing of some vegetables. I think I overcrowded a lot of my beds, so I need to be a little bit more careful about that because I thought uh I'll I'll cram it all in there. And I think I used too many resources in the soil with the plants that I had, and they struggled to produce fruit and a couple of other things.
I just didn't have room to grow. Um, so uh, you know, I'll I learn I'll do better. It'll be good. Now I still have to do the entire uh greenhouse inside. It's a disaster.
But the projects never end.
No, they don't. Never would you rather this or that?
Would you rather give up burgers or give up fries?
Fries.
Interesting. What about burgers or tots?
Why would you?
To make it even trickier.
That is a ridiculous question. Never will I give up burgers or tots.
You have to give up one.
No, you said burgers and fries, I gave up fries.
So you burgers or tots.
You can't change it. It's Well What's your answer?
You should have started with tots. I blew it. Um I'm gonna give up burgers.
Because I could live without a burger. A beggar. You could live without my smash burger.
You didn't say smash burgers.
That's a burger. A burger. You know.
Yeah, I'm giving up burgers.
Burgers. Why? You're gonna give up. I'm gonna make the whole family a burger, and you're not gonna have one.
No, I'm gonna say are there fries anywhere? Because that's all I can eat.
No, I don't make fries. I make burgers. And tots.
I'm gonna give up burgers.
I can't believe it.
I can't believe you.
Wow. Wow. I'll have the the meal over the side.
I'll have the side over the meal.
Well, you what? Oh, you told me. Would you rather this or that?
One of the best things about having a teenage daughter is the ability to share shoes.
You like that? Because you both have the same size of feet. Yeah. Yeah.
It's the only thing we can share. It's the only thing we share the same size.
I don't know that I've ever been like, man, I hope I can share shoes with my son. I don't never thought that.
You could though, because you guys share the same size shoes.
No, we do not.
Oh, you don't?
No, he has smaller feet though.
Okay. Well, this morning I was like, I wear the same, and I have a closet full of shoes. But I go, I just feel like I wear the same shoes and I wanted something a little different today. So I snuck into her room to say goodbye to her, and then I said, Hey, can I borrow your shoes? And she goes, which ones? And I go, the the black ones. And she goes, Yeah. I was like, yes. Because you gotta catch her at a good time.
Yeah, like five o'clock in the morning when she's half awake. That's a that's exactly the way to do it. Hey, can I borrow this? Like, whatever. I'm going to sleep.
Well, she told me once that I could borrow her shoes whenever.
And I think that's a big old lie.
Yeah, whenever. She if I just walked in there and took her shoes, that would not have ended well for me. So then she sent me a video and she said, Well, since you borrowed my shoes, I borrowed your shoes.
Mm-hmm. Oh, today?
Yeah.
Did she close our bedroom door? All the way.
Can you make sure? I think she did because the dog was sleeping on the couch.
She said yesterday she was sleeping in our bed in our bed. Yeah.
Because the door wasn't closed yesterday.
I know.
Yeah.
Ridiculous.
I'm not a fan of that.
I know. She's like, oh, it's still warm here. I'm gonna go sleep in here.
Get out of my room.
You die. That's what I'm saying. Gotta make sure the bedroom doors closed. The dog doesn't go in there. Anyway. Uh, so you're wearing her shoes.
Do you feel like
you kind of like know what it's like to be her for the day?
Walk a mile in my shoes.
In my Louvittans. Yeah. Do you feel like uh like that? You feel like I have I'm walking in your shoes today. It's like uh freaky Friday.
Exactly.
Right.
It's exactly like that.
You're having a freaky Friday. You get to learn about all the dramas of high school again.
And she has to learn about being an adult. Would you rather be an adult or be in high school?
Mm-mm.
Adult. I'd rather be an adult.
I don't know. Knowing what I know, like when I go back to high school, I probably would have been more successful in high school because I just would have been like, you all are nonsense.
That's true.
Yeah.
Knowing what I know now, I think you're right.
Well to wrap up today's show. Hope you have a great rest of your Wednesday. We'll be back tomorrow on your Thursday. Again, happy veterans day. And uh thank you so much to all of those men and women who have served our country. We really appreciate
100%.
Really appreciate you. Uh thank you. Um, and uh we will talk to everybody tomorrow. All right, have a good one. Goodbye.
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