Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
Josh is obsessed with an empty inbox and Chantel’s NyQuil-fueled survival stories, ridiculous parking lot rants, and why Whoppers might just be the worst candy ever (depending who you ask). Plus, a dog was reunited after 10 years, a surprising snowstorm in Montana, a reminder to wear pink Wednesday for Breast Cancer Awareness, and more.
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Josh's clean inbox
(4:16) - Chantel's back
(8:15) - Bald & free
(12:39) - Good News
(15:13) - Snow in Montana
(20:07) - The worst parking lots
(26:55) - Chantel's lazy weekend
(30:43) - PSATs and parent teacher conference
(36:46) - Lonely dinners
(42:15) - Wear pink tomorrow
(44:35) - Halloween candy
(49:42) - Grass clippings
(53:59) - Would You Rather
(56:13) - Ray Ray the cat
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Full show transcript:
I am very proud of something I accomplished last week. Oh, what'd you do? I went through my email and I was able to complete every single outstanding email that I had like a follow-up to or like something I was saving that I hadn't filed away yet or you know, whatever. And so now I have literally one email in my inbox right now that I have to take care of and I plan on taking care of that today and my email inbox again today will have zero emails. That's pretty incredible. Isn't that something? And you told me that, you were pretty excited about it and I said, I can't even believe that you just delete emails willy-nilly.
I don't necessarily, okay, so let me be clear. I have multiple folders so anything that I need to save goes into a folder. So like I have stuff for, you know, like like contracts I hold on to, they have a folder, meeting notes go into a folder, stuff about our podcast goes into a folder, anything that has to do with voiceover work or whatever.
Like I save things, it's organized into a folder system, but my main inbox is like stuff I need to take care of or respond to and when I'm done it's gone because I don't need it anymore. Good job. How many did I tell you I had? I had to look back too many. I have 8,381. Emails in your inbox.
And they're not organized. Are those unread or is that total? No, they're all read. I can't stand unread emails. So I'll read them as quick as possible because I don't like it when they're unread.
But I can't, I'm too afraid to delete them because what if I need them? How did you pull up that number? Oh, I just looked in my inbox. Oh, because you use Yahoo. No, it's Gmail. No, like I'm looking at my inbox, it doesn't tell me how many pieces of mail I have.
I can show you. Is that your work email? Yeah. You have that many in your work email? Well, for my other job, yeah, for this job I have 112. It's right at the top. It tells you right at the top. That's too much.
That's way too much. No, because I've often had to go back and look for stuff. So long. Like that are years and years old.
And you can search all of your mail and it'll search your folders and everything. I know. I just haven't been very good at organizing. And that's on me, but I can't. I got to keep. You know what I can do right here real quick?
I have 89 spam messages. Let's get that cleaned up. Ooh, yeah. That's always the one I like deleting because you can get all of that in one swoop. Yeah, I'm just going to go ahead and delete all spam messages right now. And then that'll help. That's good.
And then let's see. There's this folder of updates. Oh, those are all filed away. That's OK. Those are moved into different folders. See, I can tell which folders they're in here. So I don't need to worry about that. That stuff from other, you know, what I can do is just mark them all as red.
And then I don't have a number there. They're done. Taking care of. Good job. What a good clean email I have. Wow. I know. So impressed. I know. Once I finish this one email and it'll have a little flag in there and it'll say, there's nothing to see here.
And I go, this is the best day. There's no email. No email. I do like that. Nothing to see here. Yeah, you enjoy that. But I'm in too deep now. I didn't start organizing until. I did a big email cleanup project while you were sick over the weekend.
I took an email inbox from over sixteen hundred unread emails down to one hundred and sixty unread emails that I think are important to hang on to. Big project. Good job. Proud of you, bud. Took two hours.
Well done. So you can devote time to it. I don't want to. You ever get one of those times where you're like, I'm bored at work. I don't have anything to do.
Yes, you do. Clean up your email. I'll never ever want to do that. Never? No.
It's the best. I'll find something else to do. You get down to no emails. No emails. No, thanks.
It's the best. You want to start the show? Let's do it.
All right, here we go. Well, here I sit on my little chair. Slightly less lonely than yesterday.
Why only slightly? Well, because you're here. Yeah. But I'm I'm nervous that your participation today is going to struggle for you. Just because you're you're not 100 percent. No, I would say I'd say 80 percent. 80 right now. Yes, let's see how the morning goes.
I also had a fear that because once you start talking, I've been doing this for a minute, once you start talking and your vocal cords start loosening up in your throat because you haven't since Friday, the end of the show, where you were starting to get a little bit sniffly, you haven't really done a whole lot of like forward communicating. Yeah. So I I'm imagining it's going to be. It's going to be tough for you. And there's probably going to be moments where you need to pause and clear your throat and take a cough and those kinds of things.
Yeah, they're so I think we need to develop a system because coughing in the microphone is not great and you have no control over your microphone turning on or off. So you're going to need to give me some sort of signal that you need to. But I'm not going to be able to give you a signal until it's too late. Maybe maybe a look or it doesn't have to be verbal. It could be a point. You could point up like if you do like a one. Okay.
Maybe that you're going to have to do a higher. I could bear there you go. That's right. I barely saw a fingertip. Okay. The top of it.
Yeah. So it doesn't have to be like a pogo stick. You can just hold it up. Also, I'll know what it means. And then let's test.
So if if you hold up the one, okay, you didn't do it. Well, hold on. Okay. Okay. And I'm going to turn your microphone down and then clear your throat. Let's see what happens.
Yeah. See nothing. That's now your mic's back. There we go. Yeah.
How about it? So maybe give me a one to turn it down and then another one when you're ready for me to turn it up. So a two to turn it up?
No, I don't need a two. Let's not make it complicated. Let's just go this and then you do this and I'll turn it back up. Okay. How about?
Yeah. What if I forget? Oh, no. I'm just trying to make it a better experience for you because I know that's hard.
I know. I feel like here's what I feel. I feel like I probably should have taken another day. Oh, do you? Already?
Yeah, but it's okay. I'm here. We're going to we're going to plow through. Okay. Um, I feel chilly and then I feel hot and then I feel chilly. Yeah, you're still going through it.
I'm still going through it. But it is warm in here. It is warm. And I also went to bed at eight o'clock last night. I took some night. Well, yeah, I want to talk about that. Okay.
Cause I got questions. So later on, I'm going to ask you about that. All right.
We'll see. Okay. We'll have a conversation about dinner and night will. Okay.
All the things that transpired last night. Okay. But I'm glad you're here. It's nice to have you in the room. It was real sad yesterday. I'm sorry. I couldn't figure out what to talk about. I was having conversations with myself and I, I told a fun story and you texted me, which felt like thank you for being a part of it, but no one knows that you had things to say.
I was listening for a little bit and then I fell back asleep. Yeah. Which checks out. That's what you should have been doing. Yeah.
I could do more of that. We'll take it easy. We got a signal in place now. We've got a plan. We've got a plan to make it through, through the show today. Here we go.
Okay. I'm glad you're here. Thanks, Josh. So they said today is Bald and Free Day. Hey.
And, and be bald and free. Congrats. I don't know what to do with that. You, that means you wear proudly your bald head. No, I get that part. What I don't understand is how people confidently are just like, yep, I'm bald and free.
Let's give it a try today. It's rare that you go out in public without your hat. Right. Unless I have prepared my head for public appearance.
Because otherwise I just have that like old man haircut with hair on the sides that wraps around the back. Yeah. Big whoop.
And then nothing on top. You have a nice shaped head. I appreciate that. It's a nice thing for you to say. I feel like it's, it's a big like, with this haircut, it's a big eyesore. It's not.
I think you're just, um, sensitive about it. Potentially. Sure.
So let's give it a try today. Bald and free. Be bald and free. Yeah. Take up your hat and just roam free. I don't know. Give it a shot. At work?
Yeah. I don't mind doing it at home. That's not being bald and free. You all can look at my bald and free head. That's not being bald and free. I understand. That's just being, because you're comfortable at home. That's right. And we've seen your head and we still love you.
Correct. Are you afraid something's going to make fun of you? Oh, I've been made fun of. It's not if. It's just when will happen again.
And it'll be here. Okay. With these people I work with. Yeah, but that guy down the hall is also bald. No, I know. And so is that guy.
No, I know. It's not from other bald people that, bald people don't make fun of other bald people. It's from the hair elitists that think they're better than everybody. Yeah.
Like look at my luscious locks they say. Don't be mean. Yeah. Hair. Don't be hairist. Yeah.
A bunch of hair having bullies. Yeah. If they are. Yeah.
So it brings a tear to your eye, you know. Anyway, it is good advice to try to be bald and free. So far just bald. I'm trying to just, you wore a bald head when we got married, didn't you? No, I still had a little hair. Yeah, you did have a little bit of hair, but you didn't have a hat on.
That's correct. I mean, you were pretty bald. You had a little bit of hair, but you didn't.
I was definitely balding, but I had more than now. Absolutely. Did we have a big discussion about whether or not you were going to wear a hat? No, I think the only discussion we had was I shouldn't scratch my forehead, which was a very specific thing to say.
Yeah. And the very specific thing that happened. That's really strange that you would specifically say, don't scratch up your head. And then I would go out with some friends and I would be digging underneath a bush. That sounds weirder than it actually was. It was just out geocaching with some friends while you were doing the like, get ready to be married thing. I had all this extra time because I didn't have hair and makeup and all this stuff to do.
So I went out and dug around under some bushes and a limb swung back and scraped my forehead. Right before pictures. Very specific thing for you to say. I guess maybe I should have said go find some money.
Don't go finding money. Yeah. There you go.
See, you didn't give me the signal. It's after you got to do it before. There's not time. I was quick because I saw you turn in your face. So there's, you just got to the same time you're turning your head. See, now I didn't know to turn it back on. I don't know if you were done. We got to work on this.
This was our first go. I know. It's hard. We're going to get there. It's also a million degrees in here.
Yeah. I think somebody messed with the thermostat because people were cold. Somebody got, somebody's touched it and turned it up and they're not here.
So we need to go adjust it again. Okay. So be bald and free.
Oh, I'll work on that. Take off your hat right now. No, I can't because it's got my headphones on. Take your headphones off. Take off your hat. That's too much work.
Bald and free. So this morning I'm looking for a story for good news and there's two of them about pets being reunited with their families. Oh, I like those stories. One of them, I'll tell you real quick was about a cat who was living at a Lowe's in Richmond, Virginia. Oh no.
Yeah. And he ended up climbing on a delivery truck and traveling 85 miles away. Well, he's back. His name is Francine and Francine was like the store mascot.
And anyway, Francine's back at the Lowe's. That one was a quick one. But I like this one.
This one's pretty crazy. There's a lot of stories about animals being reunited after going on big adventures for miles and miles and miles. Right.
I've not heard of a single one where the dog was on this little journey for 10 years. Whoa. Yeah. What kind of journey was he on?
Well, let me tell you, this one's pretty big deal. So a Chicago man has his beloved Pete back home after he disappeared 10 years ago. Pete was recently brought into a shelter in Indiana after he's found wandering the streets.
They checked the microchip in a Lincoln 51-year-old Edmund Lighthall. Now Edmund was convinced that he was contacted and couldn't believe that Pete had been found. He told them that Pete disappeared from his backyard 10 years ago and the family believed somebody took him.
Well, the next day he drove to the shelter to pick Pete up and brought him back for a welcome home party. We went to the park. We did a picnic. We introduced him to his sister dog and a couple of other poochers from different family and friends. It was a great experience. Wait.
Yeah. Where was he? Back at the shelter after 10 years. He's not telling.
Oh no. He's been doing something for 10 years. Pete, what you been doing?
Probably trying to get away from this Chicago man. Named Edmund Lighthall. And he's like, no, you gave me back. I got away once.
No, I'm sure it's not that. Pete appears to be settling back in. Edmund said it's like we picked up where we left off. I'm happy. He's happy. Everyone who hears the story is happy. And I'm so thankful for the folks at the Animal Control. They got me my dog back.
Like it's what a great story. 10 years. Pete. And you'll never know because they found him wandering the streets. Pete, what you been up to, Pete? I think Pete probably been wandering the streets for 10 years. Pete. You Scallywag. Yeah.
Pete the Scallywag, full show. Anyway, some good news for you. Hi. Hello. Welcome back. Thank you. It's nice to have you.
It is. Me? Yeah, you. Little on me? Yeah, yesterday there was stuff I wanted to talk about that had happened over the weekend I didn't get a chance to.
And this was one of them. Our friends to the north in Helena, Montana set a new snowfall record for October 12th. No. Yeah, it's the earliest October 12th they've ever had. How dare you say that to me? I know. I know. Reports of six to 10 inches of snow on the south and west sides of Helena over the weekend on Saturday or Sunday, I think.
What was that? The 12th, yeah, on Sunday. Isn't that something? No. I thought that was just something. That's nothing. Yeah. I hate it. Yeah.
I hate it. Record snowiest October 12th. The previous record was set in 1981. That's the year I was born.
Yeah. Set in snow records on the year I was born. Yeah, isn't that wild? No, I hate it.
I hate the snow. Yeah, this is somebody post, I mean people in the comments were posting pictures and stuff and they're like, yeah, we got eight inches or more in southeast. Eight inches. Hell in it. Yeah.
People were saying it was between six and 10 inches. Yeah, in Helena, Montana. Yeah. And then I heard that there was some snow happening.
Here's why this is a big deal. This weekend, I'm trying to head to a mountainous area to do some very important fishing. And I can fish as long as the water isn't frozen. I can still fish. But it makes getting in and out of the river sometimes a little more challenging. Check your ass.
If there's snow on the banks. And burr. Ooh. Yeah, but that's fine. But you're also headed south. Yeah, but I'm headed south, but then I'm also headed up into the mountains south.
So that makes no difference. I'm headed to Utah, but then I'm headed up into the mountains of Utah to fish. You don't fish in downtown.
Downtown. Right. All weekend, I felt like you didn't even care about me at all. Why? Because you were like, I can't get sick.
I'm going on a fishing trip. I know. I can't get sick.
I can't. And I was all alone. Lonely. Oh, come on. I was like, is anyone going to ever check on me?
And then you would come in and you would like arms length check my temperature. Yeah. I'm not getting close. I got fishing to do. I got a big fishing trip coming up. I can't get sick. I can't be down for days.
And then be like, well, I'm still going fishing. No way. Stay away. Your disease. Oh, oh.
It just needed some kind of TLC. I understand. No, I don't think you did because you didn't want to get sick for your big fishing trip. It's going to be OK.
But little did you know that snow could also be coming for you. Well, I did know because I've been keeping an eye on it. Of course you have. Let me look at it really quick because I haven't checked this morning. Let's see. Here we go.
This is about where I'm headed. Let me look at the daily report here. I don't mind rain today and rain and lightning tomorrow. Thursday a rain snow mix. Friday partly sunny and 51 Saturday the day I'm fishing partly sunny 55.
I'm in good shape. Oh, it's going to be great. Come close. Let me breathe in. No, you stay away. You stay over there.
On the other side of the room. Man, that's great. You just needed a hug.
Yeah, that sounds like a good way to pass your germs. It's fine. I don't want to come in the way of your fishing trip. Don't mind me. I'll just be over here dying. No, you're not. It's fine.
You're being dramatic now. So lonely. I just needed some care. I let you sleep as much as you absolutely wanted. I left you uninterrupted. Sleep. What a treat. All you've ever asked for.
I just want to be able to nap and not be interrupted. Sweet. I'll keep the dog out. I'll keep the door shut. You did keep the dog out. You can just sleep it up. Except for that one time when the dog came in and I said, somebody come get the dog.
Yeah. I don't know how she opens doors. Clever girl. Anyway, it's happening.
I did see in the local East Idaho forecast a potential for snow on Halloween. And I went, yeah, that fits. That checks out. That fits.
That checks out. So I don't remember what day and that's not important, but we decided that it was time to go grab some lunch. And this must have been maybe Sunday. I don't know.
Doesn't matter. We went to the sandwich place that is on the east side of Idaho Falls in one of what has to be the worst parking lots designed in history. I don't think it's necessarily a bad parking spot. It's not big enough. It's not big enough. Agreed. But also I think people just decide that they just can park wherever they want to park.
Yeah. So this particular parking lot has a very clearly defined in and out, which is right next to one of the restaurants in this sort of strip mall of restaurants. And it has a very clearly defined in and out. And then it has a drive through. So there are three lanes, one of them is a drive through. And people decided, I'm going to park right here in the one way that is to come into the parking lot, which is there's no parking there. And as Emery pointed out, the first person who was a big black suburban, I saw you, when you parked, you then made it okay for other people to follow behind you.
Yeah, there are people who are like, come on. And then there were like four cars parked behind you, literally in a road. And the only way to get out is to drive through the drive through area.
The wrong way. Right. Or as I did wait for two cars to come in on the road, I should be able to drive down to get out of the parking lot.
So what I'm saying is we got to, we got to start paying attention, folks. You can't just park wherever you want. And I'll tell you, there is parking directly across the street. I know you're going to have to walk across the street, but you can park next to coals and walk across the street is what I'm saying.
Park at coals, walk to the east to get your sandwich. Don't park in the road into the parking lot. And it happens every day because that parking lot is small and people can't be bothered. And so they just park wherever they want.
You're having a park here. You can't, you can't just park there. That's a road. A drive-thru road, even. I know. It's a drive-thru. It's the, it's the, just the, I don't know if it's the ignorance of it or the, just the lack of awareness of where you are, where you just went, this'll do. And you put it in park and got out.
Like, no. Not realizing that when you get out, you're in the drive-thru. You're in a road. There's no parking in the road. You don't just drive down the road and then go, this'll do and get out. Stop doing that. If there's nowhere to park in the lot, go across the street at Coles and walk across. You're going to be okay. It's less than a hundred feet.
Yeah, it's not that. You're going to be okay. Your car's going to be like, I'd be worried about parking there because your car is in the way of You're in a road. I was, I was half tempted to find the sign that had the towing information.
Like they'll put on the back of the building that says, you know, car's towed at owner's expense. And I was going to start calling. Well, I can't deal with people doing that. It really set me off. I know it did.
The whole afternoon, I was very bummed out. As our daughter is in driver's ed, now she sees all the things that everyone's doing wrong. That's right. And she's reading signs and she's like, those people shouldn't be parking there. Even our driver's ed kid is like, you guys are doing something bad. I mean, there's literally a sign right there. There's two signs. Yeah, there are multiple signs that say no parking or unloading at any time. That means you.
Black suburban that started the chaos. That's for everyone else. Yeah, no. Hark it, coals and walk across to get your sandwich. Or go somewhere else.
Don't park in the road. It's a simple, simple thing. I like it when you get mad about stuff. I just don't like when people just free for all the world. There's, there's rules. Because we have to, we have to, as a community, agree that there's structure that helps us function, that keeps me even keeled. And that would be great if I could just go through, like if I could go through a day and be like, nothing set me off today.
That would be amazing. But the older and grumpier I get. The older you get, you for sure, you for sure get tipped off just a little bit more every day. Yeah, little curmudgeony things. You are.
Like people just free for all parking. Get it together. Like I'm usually like the one that's a little hot tempered sometimes. You're usually the one that's like, all right, settle down, settle down. I, look, I can give people, I can give people grace. I can give people time. I can, I can give people the benefit of the doubt until you do something like that. Like you're literally in a road.
You can't just stop the car and park it. My mind is blown about the process where you went, this'll do. And then other people behind you went, that seems good. Yeah, that seems like a good place to park. One guy was parked like completely on the grass. Well, so there's two little like parking spots that you can back into right there. I don't think they're parking spots.
They are. I think originally it was probably intended for like a dumpster. That's what it looks like. It's where the dumpster would have a dumpster house.
There you go. But I don't think they ended up building it that way because they went, we probably should give them two more parking spots. We'll put the dumpster out back or something. And so there's no dumpster house there. But there's, so it's wide enough for two small cars. It is not wide enough for an SUV and a truck. So the truck's wheels, yeah, we're on the grass as he tried to back into that spot as well. That's the worst parking lot. Those two parking lots right there, worst parking lots in town. You know what I'm going to do from now on? What's that, Josh? I'm going to park it close myself and just walk across the street.
That sounds fine. Because then I'm not contributing to that horrifying parking lot. Those are the two worst parking lots in town. The two worst, what two? That one and the one right next to it.
Just closer to the high school. Oh, okay. So there's that one, terrible. Terrible to get in and out of, crammed in there with spots.
There's not enough of them. And then the one right next to it, just past the Dutch, that is also terrible. Horrifying parking lot. Park it close.
Park it close and walk. That's what I'm trying to say. We get it. All right. How was your overall lazy weekend? It was dumb.
I hated it. No, I know. You said a couple of different times that you really had felt like you were just wasting the weekend, which you always kind of say that stuff. But then this was a little extra. I had big plans for this weekend. Yeah, you said you were going to do stuff that was fun. And last week was rough for, it was just busy last week and Emery was struggling at school and she was just a little bit stressed out.
She had had some big tests and I said, okay, wait for the weekend. We'll go do some pumpkin patch things. We'll go do some, we'll watch some scary movies.
We'll do like some fall activities. And she was like, okay, okay. And then you were going to be out. Yeah, I had a camp out.
Yep. I had a scout camp out. So I was out of the house. It was really just you and her kind of doing your own thing. Well, and she also had to work and so I was going to do some sewing. I was going to do some crafting.
I had big plans and it was a three day weekend because I didn't have to work at my other job yesterday. Oh, that's right. And then at all. So you were just going to have the show yesterday morning and then have the rest of the day off to continue your weekend. And then Friday afternoon, I went, I'm not feeling so great.
Right. And then it just Friday night. And then you were, I mean, you slept a lot, which is good. I saw a thing this morning, this lady posted, she said, my husband had a cold and he's talking about the future like a man dying in battle. He said, I'm going to heal up and I'm going to smoke us some ribs. Doesn't that sound nice?
Some smoked ribs, just like we used to have in the spring, me and you. I'm going to get better. It is like when you're in the moment of being sick, you're like, I'm never going to feel better again. I'll never be able to be myself again. I'm never going to have a good weekend. Yesterday I got up and showered and put on some makeup for the first time in three days and I went, what is this life?
Yeah. I walked in the house and I saw you and I went, who are you? I haven't seen this person in a long time.
Who's this? You're just used to me stumbling out of bed. You got any soup? Yeah, I do. You need me to make you some soup?
Yeah, I do. Well, go get back in bed then. I made you breakfast on Saturday before I left for the camp out. I brought it to you and you're like, I can get out of bed neat. And I went, no, you can't.
Just eat it here. Yeah, I did. I'm going to say to you in bed because I couldn't. I tried to, other than I had like a whole camp out where I had to be places, I tried to take care of you as much as I could and check in on you, but I also just tried to give you some rest time. That's what you needed.
Nothing to do with me going fishing and everything to do with you healing up. So you could be here. I felt a little lonely. You could have checked in a little more. I was letting you sleep.
I'm not going to bug yet. Hey, how's it going? It's fine. I'm on the up and up. Good. Look at me go.
Here I am sitting upright for extended periods of time. I know you're like almost two hours in on this thing. That's pretty good. I just feel like I need another weekend because mine is ruined. It was ruined. Well, I'll tell you what, I'll leave town. You can have the whole weekend. I know. You will. It's fine. That's the plan.
If you don't get sick. We'll be out of your hair. Stay away from me. We're good. It's weird, but we're good. Okay.
I couldn't hear anything and now I'm okay. Okay. Listen, so our daughter is going through a couple of things at school. We had parent teacher conferences last night and there's also the PSAT that happened. And so we didn't get a chance to talk about this beforehand because you weren't here so we couldn't tease that it was coming up.
But let's just, let's just recap real quick. PSAT, not a fun experience for her. Not her favorite thing in the whole wide world. Well, one, they don't, she doesn't typically go on Mondays unless she has like an intervention. Yeah, she needs to go in or whatever.
Yeah. So she was upset that she had to go in on a Monday when she doesn't typically need to. So that was the first complaint. Second complaint was that her proctor, her teacher proctor didn't know how to sign them up properly.
For the PSAT. They all started 30 minutes after they were supposed to. I didn't know that. I pulled into the parking lot to pick her up and she was standing there and there were like five other kids and I'm like, where is everybody? And you said, well, everybody finished at the same time and people ride buses and stuff like that.
And I went, no, I know, I get that. But what, like if everybody in her class was taking this, there's, there should be like at least 100 or 200 kids out here, I would think. But there were like five. And then, yeah, I found out the group she was in ended up having to start 30 minutes late. So they got out 30 minutes late, made a mess. They did make a mess.
Yeah. And she didn't have a good time. But she felt like she did good at the math part because she enjoys math. She did not so much enjoy the paragraphs for the reading portion.
And then she said at some points she was like, I didn't want to read it all. So I just guessed and I went, I don't know if that's the best way to handle. I mean, this is the PSAT. I know, but that's, that's what I did on every math question.
I was like, seven. Is that right? The answer was 12 X.
But okay. I don't even remember what I got on my SAT. I actually didn't take the SAT. I didn't take the SAT either. I took the ACT.
Same. But now it's required. And now they administer the SATs in school. When you and I were in school, you had to go, you had to pay money. Right. And you would go in on a Saturday on your own time to do it.
After studying and working, you know, really hard to be able to feel confident. I did ask her, I said, were there still those questions that were like, this thing is to this thing as this thing is to what? And she said there were only like one or two of those questions, but I feel like that's how it was sort of built before, which is just logic. And Apple is to an apple tree as an orange is to what? It's not that easy.
An orange tree. No, I know, but that was, that was like just the example, right? Like, but you just had to figure those out. Anyway, those were just logic questions.
So I would have probably been fine with that, but that was a long time ago. Do you think you could do it today? No, I don't even want to. Do you think you could do the PSAT?
No, I don't even want to. Does it stress you out thinking about it? Because I don't do well under tests.
I have test anxiety. Yeah. I don't like it.
Especially the math portion. No. All right. I could handle the English just fine, but the math portion, I'd be like, huh, no. I can't.
I'm starting to sweat thinking about it. You are. Yeah.
I don't do well with math. Okay. All right.
Sounds good. And then parent teacher conference last night went real well. We got a good kid. We got a good kid. She's working hard.
It was fun because a couple of her teachers were like, listen, I know you're not the type of student that pulls these lower scores. Did you know you can make this stuff up? You can redo it.
You can go and do corrections and stuff. And, and she was kind of unaware of that. But I guess what?
That's going to eat up a Monday. Yeah, it is. So, but yeah, she knows that she's not that student and she's stressing that she's got some of those lower grades and her teachers are like, yeah, we won't accept this from you. Right. Do better. Yeah. Which I think is great.
Because we know you can't. Yep. And she will hopefully as long as she can focus long enough to do it. I think it'll be good. Yeah. I mean, she's, she's on a good path. So we do have a good kid. It worked out pretty good.
It's always nice to hear positive things from your kids as teachers. I always liked that. Yeah. And we learned a little bit about Hogan's heroes as well.
That's right. Wasn't expecting to learn about Hogan's heroes. Were you? No.
I wasn't either. But you learn a little bit, a little bit as you go. What was the other show she liked? I was trying to remember the other one. Oh, I can't remember.
It wasn't Apple dumpling gang. No. It was something like that. I don't remember. Whatever teachers was jamming out to Hogan's heroes. Yeah. That was awesome.
Yep. Anyway, parent teacher conference in high school is a lot different than elementary school. You were talking about that too, which I thought was interesting because in elementary school, like you go to the classroom, you like, you have a scheduled time, you show up and you get to look at all their art. You get a whole folder of stuff.
And now you walk in and they're like, here's the graze. Here's what it looks like. We're using this rubric. It's all boring. It's all structure.
There's no like, look at the art they made. We had to hurry and get the classroom all decorated before you got here. Look at all this stuff.
This is where my coat lives. Oh, nice. We don't see any of that stuff anymore. I know that's sad. Yep. High school parent teacher conference is boring. I know.
Show me some art. I had a pretty lonely dinner last night. I walked in. It was about 10 o'clock when I got home last night. It was a later evening at the scout meeting, but I got home and you had made some pork. And then I walked in and I went, I don't know even what dinner is. So I didn't know if I like had to like do more to it or like if it was supposed to like be a part of like a taco.
Like I didn't know what it was. And so I walked in and the crock pot was on keep warm, which I appreciated. I had warm dinner and then there was a little Tupperware of mashed potatoes sitting next to it. And I said, okay, well, it must be mashed potatoes. And then this is like a barbecue pork thing, I guess. And so you figured it out. I grabbed a plate and I put some mashed potatoes on there and I went, I think I'll put the pork on top. Like that seems like a thing to do.
So I'll do that. And then I was like, is there more? Like am I missing something? Is there a refrigerated part of this meal? And so I opened the fridge and I'm looking around and I'm like, nothing looks like it goes with this. And then I saw you had made some leftovers for your lunch.
And so I opened it up and I went, no, it's potatoes and pork. I got it. Okay. That's all there is to it. There's not like a sauce or anything.
The sauce was on the pork. No, I got it. I figured it out. I went, all right. I got like a barbecue pork thing and some potatoes.
Super. And so I made my plate. I sat down at the table and I had been there for about two seconds. And then Emery came out of her room and she heard that I was home and she said, hey, and I went, hey, what's going on? Like it's late. Shouldn't you be in bed? That kind of thing.
And she was like, I'm just lonely. No. Mom took Nike will at eight o'clock and then went to bed. And I said, oh, well, you can sit down while I'm eating. I said, did you have some of this? I had ramen.
And I went, oh, you didn't. This is now multiple three meals in a row. And she's been like, I'll eat something else. But at least this time she cooked something instead of just went to her room and she did try it this time. Did she try it? She tried a tiny little piece and then went, no, I don't like pork.
All right. So, so she didn't sit down with me. She just said, well, I'm going to bed. Good night. And I went, all right, well, see you then. I also ate dinner alone.
See that pork was supposed to be for Sunday, but because I was feeling so terrible on Sunday. Okay. I didn't make it. And then by the time I remembered to tell you about it, it was too late to cook it. And so then I said, yesterday there was like a spring in my step around lunchtime. And I said, I have enough like gumption that I can throw this in the crock pot and do that.
And so I did. And then about seven o'clock when we got home from parrot teacher conference, I went, I forgot I made this pork. Now I got to do something with this pork. So I shredded it all up. It took every last will in me to shred it up and make potatoes. And I went, okay, I got it. I'm going to eat this.
I'm going to bed. I feel terrible. I might have done too much.
The night will was sitting right next to the crock pot as well. So it doesn't even seem like you went far. You were still in the same space.
Yeah. So I ate my dinner by myself. Emory said, no, I don't want that back said, no, I don't want that. And I, so now I have this big three pound pork roast being wasted. It was tasty.
Yeah. I ate it. I made a leftover thing with the, with the rest of the potatoes I had. And so I've got that for lunch today. And then I took my shot of night quill and I said, sorry guys, I'm going to bed.
When dad comes home, tell him that dinner is right here. I should have texted you. It's fine. I figured it out.
Crash out at eight o'clock. I just, like I said, I didn't know if there was supposed to be more. That's why I was like, is there like a salad or is there some sort of other? It was pork and potatoes.
Got it. The very most I could do was just to shred that pork and make some potatoes. And then take night quill and go to bed at eight o'clock. Okay. Check's out.
Check's out. So, yeah, lonely dinners for the two of us, but you know, I didn't mind. I quickly ate mine and then I was excited to have my night quill and then just crash myself out. All right. And I did. I don't even remember you coming home. Nope. Couldn't hear you. Didn't hear a word. I was like, I'm out.
Yeah. No, I was quiet. Again, I'm good at letting you sleep. You want to sleep? I'll let you sleep. That's fine.
You're good. So thank you for dinner. Nonetheless, that was, it was nice to come home and have some to eat.
That was great. Sorry. I appreciate that.
It was fine. I just didn't, you know, I figured it out. Yeah. I was like, he'll figure it out. Yeah.
There's a pot of warm pork and some potatoes right here. Yep. That's exactly what I found. You're welcome.
Thank you. Tomorrow, kind of a cool special day. It is a day called breast cancer awareness day. All month of October is breast cancer awareness month, but tomorrow on Wednesday, we wear pink.
That's right. We want to see a pink wave across the community in support of women and men who are fighting the fight against breast cancer. So wear your best pink outfit to show your support. And then if you'd like to post your pink wearing selfies on Riverbend Media Group's Facebook or Instagram page, we'd love to see it.
Yeah. If you want to show us you wearing pink on the classy page, you can share it there. We want to see it. We'll be wearing pink.
Yes. And we'll show that off tomorrow. But if you want to join us and wear pink on Wednesday for breast cancer awareness day, it is tomorrow.
And we'd love you to be a part of it. So you can find more details and everything at our socials if you want. But really a big deal is just wear pink tomorrow. And if people go, why are you wearing pink? You go because it's breast cancer awareness day. It's important.
Yeah. So let's go ahead and wear pink. I gotta clean up my pink shoes. Oh yeah.
Yeah, you do. On Wednesday, we wear pink and that's tomorrow. So join us. All of our Facebook page will turn pink. It's going to be a whole pink thing tomorrow. I wish I had some pink pants.
I've got pink lights going in here. Do you have pink pants? Do you not have pink pants? I have purple pants. I don't have pink pants. I don't have purple or pink pants.
You have red pants? No. Yeah. Nope. Yeah. No, I don't. Yes, you do. Wrong.
Yeah. I'm sure of it. I'm sure that I don't. Are you sure?
Yes. I thought you had red pants. Years and years ago, I did. That's the ones I'm talking about. Where are they? Oh, I gave those away a long time ago. We'll get them back. I don't want them.
Oh. Somebody said they looked like ketchup. Who did? Somebody.
Who? It doesn't matter. I never said that. I know you did it. Somebody did. And so then you never wore them after that? Because one person said they looked like ketchup?
I also didn't like them. Point is, I don't have red pants. Well, they would clash with pink pants.
Exactly. Wear pink tomorrow for breast cancer awareness day. Join us on Wednesday. We wear pink. How much candy do you think we're going to go through this year?
Less than a bag. Okay. Let me say this.
Let me ask it this way. How many times in the past have I had to buy Halloween candy? Each year? Yeah. More than once because you buy it and then you eat it.
And then you have to buy it before Halloween. Yeah. Is that what you're trying to get at? Correct. Yeah.
Okay. They did a new poll by CVS and they said that an average family stocks up on candy early, but they'll eat through that entire staff. That's correct. Not once, but twice before they make it to Halloween. No way.
Yeah. One in four people said they've even had years where they've had to restock three times or more until Halloween. I've been doing so good this year.
Normally I buy candy early because I like to put it in my pot that I have. I've got it. Yeah. I know. You have a little trick or treat pot thing. Yeah. And it's cute.
It is cute. And then you didn't have candy in the house. And so then you took my Werther's Originals and my Butter Rum lifesavers and you put them in there because then you went, see now there's candy in there. I went, yeah, my old man can. Yeah, I know. I'm not, here's the thing, Josh. And I said this when I put it in there, I said, I'm not going to give it away or eat it.
I just need it to fill the pot. It's my old man. I know.
No one's going to eat it. I just needed it. I needed it.
I didn't think you'd mind, honestly. Well, I looked at the table and I said, why are all of my Butter Rum lifesavers in the candy dish? Because it was the only candy we had in the house.
Right. My old man candy. And then I found. It usually lives in the pantry.
And then I found some old candy from last year at Halloween. Is that what that is? Yeah. Oh, I'm not even, I haven't touched a piece. I haven't either because it's gross. It looks old.
It's, it only doesn't look old. Skittles and starbursts. Ew. Who wants those? I haven't seen skittles. All I've seen is starbursts and nerds. I found some of the skittles yesterday.
No, nobody wants that. Through those in the pot. Yeah. No, it's not that.
No. So I buried your old man candy. Under gross old candy. So now I can't even get to it. Yeah. You got it. Yeah. You got it figured out.
I see you've posted the question on Facebook here. How much Halloween candy have you already eaten? Mine is zero. I'm trying to think.
Oh, I know yours isn't zero. Why? Because I've seen you and Emery eating candy out of the candy ball, this old candy.
It's not old. She was eating nerds the other day. It sounded like she was chewing on rocks. Okay. But I haven't eaten any candy from that.
Yeah, I have. What did I have from there though? I don't know. I think I ate some skittles. M &Ms, some old M &Ms maybe. No, I never eat M &Ms gross. I think I ate, I think there was some skittles that I was like, maybe I like skittles. And I tried them and I went, no, still hate skittles. Well.
So I've eaten only. Skittles and starbursts are the same candy, right? Yeah, there's a lot of them. One is a byproduct of the other.
Yeah. I think skittles were invented first and then somebody squashed it and they said, let's make this another candy. I think starburst was invented first and they had little bits that were, when they formed it into a log that then they cut into a little piece, they had scrap left over and they said, what can we do with the scrap? And they said, well, those guys down at the M &M place, they've got that hard candy shell on top of chocolate.
What if we just put a hard candy shell on it? Give it a go. And they said, let's see what happens. And by the bings, the inside is a starburst. Gross. I hate skittles and starburst.
That's what I think happened. If you like skittles and starbursts, I feel bad for you because there's way better candy out there. If that's your number one, that's a, that's a rude thing you just said. I know it is, but let's expand our palette a little bit more.
Beyond the skittles and starbursts. Yes. All right. Into what? Milk chocolate?
Snickers. Yeah, there it is. Oh, I'm enjoying.
Yeah. Milk chocolate. Not a fan. Of milk chocolate? I'm not a fan of milk chocolate. You like Snickers. I'll deal with the Snickers, with the Snickers, but I don't like, I don't like the milk chocolate. I like a dark chocolate.
That's more my thing. Oh, guess what? What? I just remembered that I bought a bag of candy and I ate a lot of candy from that bag of candy when I went on a road trip a couple weeks ago.
There it is. So how much Halloween candy have you had? Some. A bit. A bit. Quite a bit? A sum. Quite a bit.
You can chime in on the Facebook page. Hey, have you ever mowed your lawn and then blown grass into the street? Never. Apparently that's illegal.
It is. So if you have done that, then shame on you. That's why I said never. Yeah, you're not supposed to do that. Same with the snow. When you shovel snow, you're not supposed to throw it in the street. You're supposed to put it in your yard. Yeah.
And then you've thrown it in the street. Yeah. What are you doing? I don't know.
I didn't know it was illegal. Honestly, I did not know that grass and because here's the thing, you can blow your leaves into the street into a nice pile because then they'll come by and pick them up. They'll come pick them up. Yeah. So I guess I just assumed not that I think that people are coming by and picking up grass clippings.
Right. But I did not know that was illegal. Do you know why it's illegal?
Ooh, good question. No. Okay.
Let me tell you why. And is this a state thing, a city thing? Is this a country-wide thing?
I'm unsure. Where is it illegal? It's got to be a city or... You've got to check into your state. It's got to be a city or... State.
State or different. But it creates dangerous slippery hazards for motorcyclists, bicyclists, and pedestrians. Sure. And it will also clog storm drains. It is considered a form of littering and there's a potential liability, so you can be held liable if a serious accident is caused by grass that you have blown in the street. So I know that not a lot of people are still... Especially motorcyclists. I didn't know that grass made the road slippery.
Right. And bicyclists. Yeah, so in Idaho Falls, it is illegal to place grass clippings, rubbish, or any other debris on public streets or rights of way.
It's part of the city's litter and weed control ordinance and is enforced by the out of Falls police code enforcement. So yeah, you can't do that. Interesting. Now, I wouldn't empty my bag into the road. Like I, that seems crazy.
Right. What about like my, my trimmings after I do the weed eater thing? And I come out with the leaf blower and go and blow them if they go in the street. Like I'm not, I'm not talking like dumping my whole bag of grass out. But I, I feel like somebody can come by and tag you for that.
Be like, Hey, you're blowing grass in the street, bud. Daily fees for continued non-compliance, $35 for the first day, 75 for the second day, $150 per day thereafter. Don't do that. Don't do it. That's illegal. Yeah.
And if you don't resolve the fees, they can put a lien on your property. Whoa. That's crazy. Don't put your grass in the street. I'll tell you that. They're pretty serious about that.
I got to see if, if other cities, let's look at Pocatello. They have the same rules. I don't know. Here's what I'm finding out.
It is illegal to place sweep or blow grass clippings and other yard waste into the street. Same deal. I think that's it right there. Sweep, blow grass clippings. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can't do it. It's dangerous.
This applies to both homeowners and professional lawn care services. Don't do that. Or snow.
Don't do the snow either. And I feel to you doing that. But now I know better.
So I'll do better. Wet grass clippings on the road can be as slick as ice. I had no idea. That's crazy. Now you know something, don't you? Yeah. Is Rexburg in the same boat?
That's fine. They got to be right. I bet so.
I bet it's illegal everywhere. Yeah. This is cool. If you're still mowing your grass. I mean, yeah, don't put it in the street.
Yeah. Ordinance number 725. It says sweep up any clippings that land on the street.
Be mindful of safety and clean up after yourself to prevent accidents. There you go. Good to know. Don't put your grass in the street. Sweep it out into your yard. Do the leaf blower thing back into the yard. Keep the roads not so slick. Thank you for the public service announcement.
You're welcome. Oh, would you rather this or that? Did you do this or that? No. Yesterday? No, I didn't. Oh, sad. I didn't. Sad day. I did good news.
Kidssmarts gave away haunted passports. And I did about 12 or 13 minutes of talking for the entire show. It was a very sad time for me.
Today so far, we have talked well over 50 minutes. Look at us. Yeah. Okay. Today's would you rather is a trick or treating one. Okay. Okay, your trick or treating. Would you rather only get whoppers or only get raisins? Whoppers. Ew, serious?
Yeah. Ew, no raisins. Ew, no whoppers. Ew, no whoppers.
Why are people still making whoppers? Malted milk balls? Oh, nobody likes those. I kind of like how they the first crunch when they break in half and it goes and then the rest of it's not great. No, but I do like that first bite. It's a satisfying first bite. And then the rest of it, I'm like, now my tongue feels slick.
You go anywhere. They've got a bowl full of candy. Yeah.
Whoppers are the last thing remaining. You think so? Yeah, because everyone hates that. I don't think they're the last thing. Who likes whoppers? Your dad. Who likes them?
What's wrong with my dad? Like a whoppers. Ew. They're good.
What do you mean? Ew. No, I take a bag full of raisins of our whoppers. No way. A bag full of raisins? Gross.
No way, man. Those are just dried out grapes. He had no. They're grapes that couldn't grape anymore. And they were like, I guess I'm gonna raisin now.
You can make raisin pudding. No, you didn't say that. Yeah. No. Yes, I did.
You read the question. You're trick or treating. What do you get? Raisins or whoppers. Raisins.
That's it. You didn't say raisin pudding. You get raisins. Fine.
I'll eat my box of raisins over whoppers any day. No way. Gross. Whoppers all day. You're wrong.
Would you rather this or that? There was a family in Pennsylvania. They went on a road trip last month.
Where'd they go? They drove 100 miles and pulled over for gas. And they noticed that there was a cat on top of their soft cargo carrier. On top of their car. And they'd been there for 100 miles? They'd been clinging there for at least 100 miles, just holding onto the fabric. Going upwards of 70 miles per hour.
Okay. Was there no one else on the road with them? I don't know. To go, hey, were they traveling at night by themselves? Unsure.
I don't know any of that information. So they named the cat Ray Ray. What?
They were trying to avoid the heat of the day. Probably. You said the name the cat Ray Ray? They named the cat Ray Ray.
Ray Ray seemed unfazed. So they continued on and decided to bring them along for their epic vacation, which included running a marathon in New Hampshire and then driving to New York to see Hamilton. Okay. Of course, they needed supplies for a cat they didn't expect to get. So they went to a pet store, picked up a litter box for in the car.
I guess. Food and a cat. Well, I imagine they were staying at like hotels and stuff. So they probably had to have somewhere and a cat backpack. Correct. One with like a window so you can see out.
Those are awesome. I hope so. Then they shared his vacation on social media and it seems like Ray Ray is like, Hey, I picked a good car to jump a hold on. Look at this life I got.
Ray Ray is an indoor outdoor cat and they did sneak him into their Airbnb, which technically they didn't know they'd have a cat with them. Okay. Yeah.
So they wouldn't have booked ahead, but they they snuck him in. Yeah. And Ray Ray is now their forever pet. Okay. Did they get him scanned for a microchip?
I'm sure. And where did he come from originally? We don't know. Sure. Ray Ray just showed up. Yeah. They always say that, uh, that when you, um, when a cat chooses you, it's like a big moment. It is a big moment. And it sounds like this cat was like, this is it.
I'm choosing this fam. Well, that's neat. It is neat. Ray Ray's got a new forever home. Ray Ray, you picked a good car to grab a hold of bud. Yeah, you did. Hey, you picked a good car to be a hold of.
What's that mean? This show right here, look at you clinging. I'm clinging to life right now.
I'm going to get you a litter box. I could just probably use a nap. Yeah, that's probably true. I feel like maybe I jumped back into real life too soon. Well, we're going to wrap up the show.
Okay. You did successfully complete the four hour show. And a full podcast. Onward and upward.
That's a big deal. Tomorrow I'm going to be 95%. You said you started out at 80, but you got around the 70 by now, right? You're kind of down in the 70s.
Now I feel a little bit draggy. Yeah. Not that this is difficult work.
I'm sitting in a chair just talking. Right. But my head is going, hey, we've been in bed for the past three days. Yeah, maybe you should lay back. Maybe we should go back to bed. Yeah.
Why is my head on a neck and not a pillow? Right. I see. Well, I'm proud of you. Onward and upward. You did it. Choo-choo.
Onward and upward and then choo-choo like a train. Yeah. Which doesn't ever go upward. Right. My brain is vibing.
Makes sense. It's the fever. It's the fever. You don't have fever. You don't know. You checked this morning and you didn't. Otherwise you wouldn't be here.
That's true. I'm good. Solid gold, baby. You know, and the finger system totally worked.
I think. I only had to use it a couple of times. But it worked out.
It did. Maybe we'll keep that around. That's a good idea. Yeah. It is. All right. Well, hey, have a great rest of your Tuesday. We'll be back tomorrow morning.
Fingers crossed. 90%. 90. I said 95. Whoa. That might be pushing it.
Let's go for an 85-90 and see where that gets us. Yeah. Let's give it. Yeah. That sounds fine. Yeah. All right. All right. Okay. See you tomorrow. Bye.