Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Friday, October 17th, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
Today's episode starts with a spooky Halloween treat with kids saying the creepiest things and a 30-year-old pumpkin mystery in Montana! There's a heartwarming story of kindness that started with a fender bender, Chantel’s “cartographer crisis,” Josh’s middle-schooler wig antics, 'Crocktober' recipes, and the it's the kickoff of Hallmark’s Christmas movie season!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Spooky stories
(2:46) - Mulligan day
(5:48) - Good News
(7:32) - Universal kidneys
(12:54) - Montana's pumpkin mystery
(18:21) - Josh's wig
(23:34) - Chantel's map
(30:21) - Random questions about Chantel
(37:05) - Secret family recipes
(43:10) - Who's cooking dinner?
(48:30) - Christmas is coming!
(54:04) - Would You Rather
(56:37) - Weekend plans
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Full show transcript:
Every time we make an episode of the podcast, we start out with some bonus material.
Yes. Exclusive for the podcast listening audience. Today, I would like to start with kids saying creepy Halloween things. I love it. You're going to be creeped out.
Okay, let's do it. One sunny afternoon, my wife Lauren stepped out of the back door when our son Phoenix pointed toward the pool deck and asked, Who's the man standing over there? She saw no one and said, Well, what does he look like? And Phoenix said, Well, he's waving. He's wearing a blue uniform.
Lauren's father had passed away before Phoenix was born and he'd spent his life as a mailman in a blue uniform. Ew. Okay, wasn't it that's awful that you die and you have to wear your work uniform? That's true. Good point. Good point. Good point.
Sorry, you have to spend eternity wearing this awful under or oversized costume. My daughter, two years old, woke up crying in the night, which was quite rare for her. So I went in to calm her down and I finally get her to stop crying. The room is pitch black and she says very seriously, Mommy, who's that lady?
I ask her what lady and she says the lady in my room sometimes after that we got her a nightlight, but she's never mentioned it again. Ew. One more? Yeah. I got it.
I got a bunch of it. While staying overnight at a friend's house, I had the most unsettling dream about a woman in blue who kept appearing and pulling me through what felt like a never ending roller coaster. I barely slept. I woke up feeling nauseous and shaken. And the next morning my friend's young daughter asked how I'd slept. I said the lady in blue told me she was in your dreams last night. Ew.
Later I learned the guest room where I'd slept, the one with an old thrifted cabinet, was where the little girl often saw the lady in blue herself. Ew. Let's go. Ew. Creepy.
That is creepy. I don't like it. I don't like it. That was a bad idea. You were so excited.
I don't know. I was spooked out. I don't like it. I said they were going to be spooky kid Halloween stories. All right. Well, should we start the regular show? I'm going to get out the sage and we're going to. Oh, we're going to cleanse the room and stuff. Okay.
All right. Enjoy today's show. Hey, good morning. Oh, hey. Hi. Hello. Howdy. Hi. Hi, folks. Hey, it's Friday. Oh, it is.
Yep. I'm excited. I like Friday. I like Saturday. I like Sunday. I like the weekend. So you're saying it's close to the weekend. Yeah, I'm stoked. Would you say you've been working for the weekend? Yeah.
I don't. Yeah. Yeah.
You had Monday off because you weren't feeling well. Yeah. That doesn't really count though, does it? That you had Monday off? Yeah.
Because it was so long ago? No, because if you're sick, it doesn't really count as a day off because you're not really doing anything but feeling terrible. I wasn't saying, oh, so you had vacation on Monday. I was just saying you didn't work on Monday. Plus also, I was sick all that weekend. I know. So I didn't even get last weekend.
That's right. And then you came in to work on Tuesday and you were not at 100. Wednesday not at 100. Felt good yesterday. Felt good yesterday.
I felt better yesterday than I actually do today. Is that right? Yeah, I got a little bit of a headache. Oh. That's okay. I'll be okay.
I thought I heard you rattling around to Thailand all this morning. Yeah. I did. Okay.
Because my head hurts. Does it now? Kind of. Oh, okay. Well, let's take it easy. Let's take it easy this morning. That's all I try to do. It's not overdo it, you know? I do. Today is Mulligan Day.
Do it over a day? Yeah. Second chance.
Mulligan, which is a golf term. But if there was anything this week you could do over, is there anything you would do over? Yeah.
I would not be sick on Monday. No. I'm saying that you can control. Not necessarily that.
Oh. Anything that I would do over this week. Like you did it and now you're like, Mulligan, I'll try again. I'm trying to even remember what happened this week. Yeah. I was a little bit irritable on Wednesday. Okay. So maybe I would probably change my attitude on Wednesday. Change your attitude. Okay.
Yeah. I'd probably do that. That's my Mulligan.
What's your Mulligan? Hmm. I'm trying to think. If there were, if there were any, anything that I would do, I'm trying to think if I spent time working on something that I would rather have spent the time doing something else.
Oh, I always do that. I know. Like that's about all I can come up with.
I'm sure there were external projects that I would rather have been doing something else. Yeah. You know?
I do know. Yeah. Yeah. But otherwise, no, pretty good. Okay.
Pretty good week so far anyway. Okay. Yeah.
All right. Well, hey, we're here in the studio. It's a Friday morning. It's Josh. It's Chantel.
It's wake up class of 97. What else do you need? That's it. You got it. All right. You got it, babe.
All right. So we're going to grab some good news here real quick on your Friday morning. Have you ever been in a little fender bender? Yes. Yeah. It's not a good time.
No. Usually there's some expensive repairs, maybe some insurance premiums go up. That's kind of what makes this story a little bit unusual here. So Destiny Smith was leaving her church one Sunday morning when she was rear-ended by a car that was driven by a 97-year-old man named Jim.
Oh, no. And Destiny obviously could have been angry. She got rear-ended, but instead she asked if he was okay. And that simple act of kindness sparked something extraordinary. It turns out that Jim lives just two minutes away from Destiny's, lived alone since his wife passed away.
And he has no other family nearby, which is forced him to fend for himself. And that did not sit right with Destiny. So she promised to check in on him often. And she did a little more than that. She rallied her social media followers. She got Jim some essential household items like a new bed. She connected him with a social worker. And now Jim has some aids and regular care, which he didn't have. He's 97.
He didn't know how to handle this stuff. And so she's really stepped in and kind of taken care of him. And the two are now great friends. Destiny visits him, takes him out to eat, celebrated his birthday with him. Aw.
All big stuff. Yeah, because, you know, he rear-ended her. So there's that. That's nice.
I think that's very, very nice. And obviously, you know, he was in need of some help. Not that that's why he rear-ended her, but I'm glad that he, I'm glad that the two met. I'm glad there was a connection, mate.
Yeah. That's a nice story. It is a nice story. That's why we call it good news. It is great news. Because it's good news.
No. I just read something cool. What is it? Are you ready to hear about it? Yeah. There's a team of researchers and they figured out how to make international kidneys. What does that mean? Which means that they're still kind of perfecting it. But... Yeah. It's huge for people that are waiting on transplants.
Anyone can give you a kidney no matter their blood type. Oh. Is basically what this means. Interesting. Yeah.
So it means... They figured out how to make the kidneys... Well, they're still working on it. Are they, are they, okay. Hold on. They take someone says, hey, I'm willing to donate a kidney.
I say that. Hey, you can have a kidney. Uh-huh. They can take that kidney then and they can make it work with any recipient. Correct.
Wild. They're trying to make organs compatible with all blood types. And then this is huge for people waiting for transplants.
Oh, this is giant. Because you have to make sure that your blood type... Yeah, it's a match. ...accessed in your immune system won't kick it out. Yeah. But that's huge. So they've successfully converted a blood type A kidney to a universal type O and they transplanted it into a patient. And that was a huge milestone because that was successful. And so they're still working on it. They're still trying to figure out how to convert the rest of them.
But... Isn't that pretty incredible? Isn't that pretty fascinating? Yeah. No, that's... That could be humongous. Giant implications for that.
I know. But who's doing this research? It just tells me an international team of researchers.
Oh, okay. So it's a collaborative team of researchers around the world. That's really, really cool.
Good job, scientists. That's very cool. I like that.
Keep that up. Basically, do you want to know the science behind it? Yes, please. I love telling you about science. I know. I like it. Let's go.
Let's hear about it. What's the science behind it? They enzymatically... Mm-hmm.
Good word, right? They use enzymes. Convert a non-O blood type kidney into a universal O type by removing the blood group antigens. Of course. Totally makes sense. I know, right?
No, but here's what I'm thinking. What? Like, in order for an organ to function, it has to have blood pumping through it, right? Yeah. So what I'm wondering is if it's sort of like, think about it as an engine a little bit. We've got this engine over here and it's got oil in it. We want to put this engine in a different truck, but this different truck takes different oil. That doesn't make exactly the sense because the engine is dependent upon the oil, not the truck. But let's say the truck has a different kind of oil. Mm-hmm. But you want to put that engine in there.
Can you flush that old oil out, put the engine oil that the new truck has in it, and then that engine can run on that new oil? That's the question, right? That's sort of in my brain an analogy that made sense.
Okay. It doesn't because it's not how engines work. And it's probably not how organs work. And that's why they have to use enzymes to change the organ so that it can accept a different blood.
But that's the big deal. It's blood. It's got to flow through that thing. So if it's made out of different blood. You know what's interesting? I wonder when they first discovered that people had different blood types. Great question. Isn't that something interesting to learn about?
And was it because they put like they tried to do a transfusion or something and it didn't take and they went, why? Yeah. This is blood. This is blood. Why?
What's different? Yeah, yeah. And then they were like, and then how do they figure that out? Like they look at under a microscope and they went, well, this blood says, oh, and this blood says A. What blood type are you? I don't remember.
I know. I give my blood drawn every three months. You should ask. I should ask. How do they, how do they know? They read the serial code on your blood and it says right there. It's like a VIN number.
See, it's like a car. There's an identification. No, I don't know. I don't know. I got to ask because I don't know.
This is way outside of my knowledge. I push buttons for a living. We'll do some talking.
I say, I said enzymatically converting. That was nice. That was fancy. That was fancy. That was a big, I know about science. That was big fancy words.
Enzymatically, which I assume means they use enzymes because of the word enzyme and enzymatically. That's what I figured out. Good job. But it could be wrong. That could be a completely different process.
Like, yeah, you'd think it was enzymes, but really what we do is we give it a nice hot bath and a massage and we call it enzymosis. Nice one. Yeah. Anyway, well, thanks for sharing the cool science. It's very cool. Yeah, that's really neat. I thought it was super cool this morning.
Yep. It's cool every morning. What?
Not even just this morning. Wait. It's cool. That's really cool every day.
I hope they figure it out. That's huge. So thanks.
Dumbs up. Want to hear a spooky story? Okay. It's not too spooky. So if you're a kid, don't worry.
Don't get too stressed out. A spooky story. It's not that spooky, but it is a little spooky. Okay. All right. A little spooky story.
It's the University of Montana, which is just, you know, close by. Yes. They have a 30 year old Halloween pumpkin mystery.
Oh. This is how old? 30. 30 years. 30 years old. For the past 30 years.
Yes. They have been trying to figure out. There is a mysterious pumpkin that appears every fall stuck on the top of a spire, high atop the University of Montana's main hall in Missoula. And it's not what you think of it. It's not like somebody just has to climb like a simple, like onto the roof.
No, no, no. You have to climb a multi-story clock tower and then scale the spire and then stab the pumpkin with it. It's a really perilous climb. And the University has tried to hire professionals to get the pumpkin up there safely because they're worried about people like students maybe climbing up there and doing it themselves. But they can't really find anybody to do it safely.
Not even necessarily safely, but like easily, right? So nobody knows who does it supposedly. And no one knows if it's just like a series of students and maybe it just gets handed down through the generations or if one person has just done it every year, every year, every year. Do you want to know? Ooh, do you know? Say.
13 hours ago. Oh, they put a camera? No. I don't know. So this tradition began in 1995. An anonymous climber recently disclosed how the nighttime prank works. He was, he sent this to NBC Montana. Apparently the route starts at a rear fire escape and involves just using parts of the clock until you're right at the top.
Okay. They said the green roof is just some sort of roof tile that if it has any condensation like it usually does in a fall day or fall night, it's pretty slippery. The operation requires multiple lookouts all throughout campus. The middle of the night, two climbers up top, everyone looking out for University of Montana public safety officers. They have radios.
They have group texts. The university has hired some outsourced people to put it in safely and not put students at risk. But being climbers, we still race them to do it first. So it is a group of actual climbers that are doing it safely.
It's not just offensive like frat boys. I don't know that that's not true. That might not be true. But I like that they're climbers because that makes me feel like they know kind of what they're doing.
Yeah. We've hung out with some dirt bags because that's what climbers are. We have hung out with climbers in the past. And yeah, I mean they know safety. They do.
They take very good care to be safe. Yeah. That's so interesting. Well, now you've just ruined the mystery.
No. The mystery is still, it's an anonymous person. They still don't know who it is.
Just that they are climbers and that they know what they're doing and that they are racing to get that thing up there before the college gets it up there themselves. I would also like to know how it comes down. Well, it probably rots right off.
Gross. It's a big pumpkin too. If you're looking, I know that's the other part. You have to climb while also holding a giant pumpkin.
That's right. On a slippery roof. I mean I guess you have it in a backpack. It's big. It's probably a duffel bag. It's big. Yeah. And then you've got to, ooh, and then you've got to hoist it on top of the spire.
That's right. When you're looking at, do you see the spire? Have you seen the picture? Oh yeah.
It's very steep. Yeah. Holy moly. Yeah.
These climbers. It's interesting. You know that old- And then they got access to the building. Like they know the route. Oh, they've got an insider. Somehow, someway, somebody, somebody knows something.
That's what I'm saying. Isn't that interesting? That is so interesting. Huh. Told you it was spooky.
Good on them. It's not that spooky. Well, you ruined the spookiness because you said who did it.
I don't know who did it. Yeah, but you- An anonymous climber and his friends. Exactly. You said it was a climber. Okay. My theory was that it was just some, like, headless horseman that was like, ooh. Yeah.
Incomboid crane does a, does a Kobe from the back and throws his head up on there. That's how it works? No. LeBron James.
You got it. You kind of have a Halloween costume. That's not really a Halloween costume, but you found a wig. Yeah. This wig is a little, it's brown and it's curly and you put it on your head underneath your hat.
Yeah. And- I put it on backwards underneath my hat because the back is a little more curly than the front. The front, if I put it on the right way, it kind of is old lady, but if I flip it around and put it on backwards, it's got broccoli. Middle school boy. Broccoli haircut. That's right.
Looking like broccoli. It really turns you into an alter ego middle school boy. Yeah. Because then I put on my tall hat and let it ride on top of my broccoli hair and then I put my hoodie up over that and then all of a sudden I can shoot baskets with anything. Like I got to throw something in the garbage. I can go and then I can smack the doors every time I walk through them. I can reach everything. You're just constant, let's go. Let's go? It's pretty great. And then, you know, what did Beck call me last night?
I don't know. The Riz King? So, you know, the best thing in the whole wide world happened last night. Yes, it did. I was going to talk about it. Right now?
You want to talk about it right now? Because I'm wearing this and we have to go pick up our daughter from her driver's ed class. Who hates you being this middle school boy.
She does not like the middle school boy character. I think it's very fun. I think it is awesome. I agree. It makes me laugh. She sent a text and said, hey, we're almost done.
You guys should head this way. And I said, what did I say? I got to remember the exact verbiage because I thought it was very funny. And I said, you know, we already pulled up, bro. And she didn't respond. And then she got into the truck. And I said, well, so what's up?
How to go, you know? And and she said, oh, no. And then she was OK. She just was not happy about it until we said, well, let's run, grab you some tea for dinner real fast.
We went through a drive through and then she realized that I was wearing that and it was going to have to pull up to the window to talk to them. Here's the best thing in the wide world that could ever happen. Couldn't have predicted.
It's so good. Kids, listen up. I'm dressed as a middle schooler. Not really. You just have a wig. Settle down. I'm you look like a body.
The personality of a middle schooler. And I pulled through the drive through and I order a chicken sandwich and a curly fry. Guess the total. Guess the total. Guess how much the total was.
You're never going to guess. Six dollars and seventy six cents. That's right. Six seven.
Oh. And then she was really upset. She was really upset that the total for the drive through was six seventy six, six seven, six seven and and I looked like that and I was so excited and I couldn't wait to get to the window to get the food. Oh, it was fantastic. I love I love that you kind of look like a middle schooler, but you also have a full beard.
That's right. As most middle schoolers wish they had. I just wish. Here's the thing. Have you ever met a middle school boy?
Man, the confidence that middle school boys have. I just want it just one day just to walk around be like, yeah, I know what's up. I just and the charisma, which is the full version of Riz. I don't even need the carers.
I just want the confidence to be in like a nothing going to break my stride. What? I own this place until my mom tells me what to do.
Oh, no, I don't want to. It was so good. She tried to rip the wig off. She did. I think it's funny.
It makes me laugh. Kobe. Kobe. Let's go. Anyway, that was pretty fun. So thanks for, thanks for allowing me to wear that for Halloween.
I don't know. It's pretty easy costume. It is. It's pretty great.
I don't know. The Riz King is pretty fun. Maybe I'll go as a middle school boy. I'd be hilarious. Then I can just embody confidence for a day. You wear it. I haven't seen you in it.
No, I could, I could, I could rock that wig. Kobe. I forgot what we were talking about. I had to look. I am basically a cartographer. Oh yeah. Is that right?
A cartographer, for those of you who don't know, is a person who makes maps. That's right. So take a good look. Take a good look. Listen.
What? You had to make a Photoshop map. Here's the text I got yesterday.
I might need to learn Photoshop. And I said, okay, that's fun. What are you working on? I have to make a map. And I went, okay, interesting, specific. And you're like, but I kind of need to know it right now. Like I don't have time to learn.
I need to know. And I went, well, this is a problem because Photoshop takes time. And you don't have time is what it sounds like. No, I didn't. And so you had the task of building a map that shows road closures and different things.
Is that right? Not road closures necessarily. Just construction zone. Sidewalks closed. And arrows that point where you could find the sidewalk next. Got it. So you had to make a map that then the city can go, okay, we understand what's happening. This is like an official document. Correct.
I didn't know it was like, okay, here's what happens. I contacted the city and said, here's my issue. And what do you need us to do? We're going to be blocking off some section of the road. Gotcha. What do you need us to do? And you, is this a normal procedure that you have to follow if you're going to be closing off part of a road?
I believe so, but I haven't ever done this before. So I didn't know what they needed. And he said I needed a traffic control plan. Oh, a TCP as you called it. Yeah, I like that. I'm like, hey, go ahead and give me that TCP ASAP. All right, thanks. Basically a map.
That's how city guy sounds to me in my head. Go ahead and send me that traffic control plan, that TCP. Give me that ASAP.
Give me an ETA. I don't want to be that TCA. I talked to him. He didn't sound like that. I bet he did.
No, he was very nice. It's nice to talk to you. Go ahead and send me that TCP ASAP. And he said basically I need a visual of what's going to be shut down and kind of like explained. So this is then just done on like Google Maps? So I just printed a Google map of the building and I highlighted the area.
I just highlighted the area and said this is what's being closed. I just sent it back and he said, well, we need something a little bit better than that. And I went, okay. And then he said, here are some examples.
And the examples he said were intense, like real like graphic design stuff. And I went, oh no. And so then I was like, okay, okay. Rolled up my shirt sleeves. I was like, I can do this. And I printed out a map and I printed out like traffic cones because I needed to show where I was going to traffic cone spaces. And I printed out some sidewalk clothes signs and I was going to cut all of those and put them on there. And then I was going to scan that copy and paste it over. And I couldn't figure out how to get my aspect ratio down. And so my signs were too big. And I was like, this is going to take me all day. This is going to take me so long.
So then I just quickly went into a photo editing app and rudimentary, rudimentary, very haphazardly designed a map. And I said, here it is. Please, please don't make fun of me. Please don't take this map around your office and say, look what this idiot did.
No, listen, I don't think that happened. He's a nice guy. He is a nice guy. You got him as TCPA, say P. What if I told you that there's like a whole bunch of different softwares that you couldn't use that have all the signs built into it? Don't even say that because here's what I did first. I went to chat GPT. Oh, that was your first mistake. And chat GPT was like, whoa, you don't have the proper like, I don't know, tools to do it. He said chat GPT is a boy, I guess. I guess, sure. Why not? And then so then he said, here's a bunch of codes that you can use to get the programming that you need.
And I went, I just don't want to do this. Yeah, no, you just need to make a map, which there are several different softwares. What kind of softwares? Oh, like if you just seriously just Google traffic control plan real quick.
And the very first thing is, is like software that literally lets you like drag and drop the stuff onto the map. Yeah, you're kidding. No, you are absolutely kidding. No. Oh, no, no, I mean, there are companies.
No, listen, there are companies that exist for this because when they're doing major construction around the country, like people have to do this. That's why this exists. But somebody said, let's make this easy. Hold on. My temporary chair is falling. Hang on. Okay, that is so you can't even, you can't even know the frustration that I'm feeling right now. Create your mandatory traffic control plan in minutes.
Oh, with software, you can draw and edit your own traffic maps easier, faster and more efficiently. You've got to be kidding. No, you have got. Okay, whatever. I submitted my plan and it got approved and I went, I saw. I was so excited.
Your first plan is 100% free. Dang it. And it's just a map and you drag the stuff over. Oh, that's hilarious. That's really, really sad for me. Oh, that's fun. Oh, well, because guess what? You are a cartographer after years and years of therapy. I'm not even going to let it get me down.
No, I just think it's really funny. You got that TCP and ASAP. It is a okay. Good job. I got some random questions.
Oh, here we go. Random. Sometimes it's, it's fun facts. Sometimes it's random facts. Today it's random questions. It's random question. Random questions. It's random questions. I want you to answer these about me. About Chantel.
If I were a kitchen appliance, which one would I be and why? Is it multiple choice? No. Oh, no. You just have to pick. Oh. I'll let you think about that one for a minute.
If you were a kitchen appliance, which would you be? Boy, this feels like the really slippery slope and I'm trying to find out how I benefit from this conversation. I'm not, listen, this isn't a trap. Because listen, here's the thing. I get understand that this is pretty harmless.
It's just for fun things. For now, until later on, we're like, you called me a fridge and said all I do is store food. See what I'm saying? It's not, that's not it. I know. What? You could be the stove.
And why? I thought you were going to say you could be the stove because it rarely does anything. Whoa.
No way. Because it's hot. If I had to survive in the wild, how many hours do you think I'd last? Seriously?
Seriously. What kind of gear do you have? I have all the gear that you would take to survive in the wild. I just don't know how to use it properly. I'm very, I want to see, like, I don't want to put you into like a dangerous survival situation where you have to like build a shelter out of tree limbs and stuff. No, I could never. You could, but I don't want to put you in that situation. No, I don't want to. I am curious to say, hey, we're going to go camping, even if we're pulling the trailer. Okay. You do it all.
What do you think, where do you think your limit is? I have to pull the trailer? You have to hook up the trailer.
No. The sway bar, the whole thing. Oh no.
You gotta do the whole thing. The sway bar is so heavy. I know. I can't believe.
You gotta put the hitch in the truck. Oh no. Yeah. And so I'm real curious like where the limit is. Like are you immediately like no. I feel like.
Or do you like give it all your effort. Where do you, where do you get to and you go, and you can ask for help, but I want you to do the things that I normally do. Okay. Let's take the trailer out of it. Tent trip.
Okay. With or without cuts, backpacking. Pick your thing. And you plan it and load the gear.
Okay. I'm curious to see what that would look like. If the trailer is involved, then I would probably, I feel like I could probably get to the point where I'd be fine until I had to back up the trailer. You think you could get it hooked up? I think that if I was able to ask questions. Of course you could. I'd be okay until, until it would take a while, but I think that until I had to back up the trailer. No time limit.
It's not a race. I'd be okay until I had to back up the trailer into that tiny little camp space and then it'd be like, oh no. Get a pull through. Get a pull through spot. Okay.
I would do that. So there was no backup required. Right. Get a pull through. I don't think I'd last very long. In the wilds. You don't think in the woods?
No. If, if we were doing a tent camping or a backpacking thing, you don't think it'd last very long? How many hours do you think? I think you would make it at least two days. Two days? Really?
Two days. You have a lot of confidence in me. Look, I think, I've camped with you. I know that you can do two nights. That's two nights, three days. I've, I've hiked with you two nights, three days. I know you're capable of that.
I, I want to get you to a longer hike because I've done week long hikes where everything you need for the whole week's in your backpack. Yeah. And they're amazing. You're so disconnected from reality. It's phenomenal.
No, I know. I think that's awesome. But I think you could do that. That's the right preparation. That's nice of you, Josh.
Okay. More random questions about Chantel. If you could replace one of my limbs with something completely random, what would you pick? This is a strange question. Probably be like a leg or a foot. Does a foot count as a limb or is it a whole leg? Limbs are arms and legs. Yeah. So you got a whole leg.
One whole leg I would replace with. Hmm. Something cool. Make it something cool.
Hmm. Like if I get in some kind of accident and they say, we got to get rid of this leg. Then we can put anything in the whole wide world. But it has to be you that has to decide. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to give you a guitar so you can actually play your leg guitar. Josh, you really do love me. I know.
Because there's nothing better than you swinging that guitar leg up and going, whee-ree-ree-ree-ree-ree-ree-ree-ree-ree-ree. You're the best. I know. I know you. All right. Last one.
Okay. If I joined the circus, what would my act be? I think you'd want to be one of those clowns. I think a clown would be awesome. I think you definitely, you would want to be part of the clown army that rolls out of the car.
Yeah. Would you want to be the head clown or would you just want to be one of the clowns? Probably just maybe one of.
Yeah. I'd be like the clumsiest one. They're all clumsy. That's part of the shit. But I'd be the clumsiest one.
Hmm. The actually clumsiest one. Not the one pretending to fall down. You'd be like, no, I really did trip.
No, really. I can't walk in these big old shoes. Don't put me near the elephant. Or you could be that fancy horse rider that stands on the saddle and balances. That'd be cool. No, no. Yeah. That's too dangerous.
And like stands on the side and the horse runs and yeah, that'd be neat. That's too dangerous. You don't think you could do that? No.
Big core strength. Got it. Wait, wait, wait.
I was going to talk about something, but now I can't because we got to talk about something you just said. My shirt has a button that keeps popping open and it's driving me crazy. You said it was a trick button. Yeah.
It's a trick button. You know? Like somebody just placed it there to annoy you? Yeah. Oh, okay. No. It's just... I don't know.
Okay. It's just frustrating. I'm sorry, Josh. Let me talk about... I didn't know this was going to be a problem for you. I'll go on to what I was going to talk about. Okay. Since you're so sad about it. I'll be okay. Here's the issue. For some reason, my belly is like, hey, let's push open this button.
Your belly is like, I need to breathe. Yeah. And I don't appreciate it. That's really what it comes down to. I got an issue with that. Okay.
So... I'll be fine. All right. There is a woman, a woman, just one.
Uh-huh. Who went on TikTok a while ago. She was visiting somebody at the cemetery and noticed that there was a recipe on the back of one of the gravestones.
Oh, interesting. And she was like, oh, that's cool. And she went home and she made the recipe and then she was like, okay, this is my TikTok niche. I'm going to...
This is what I'm going to do. And she... Because she noticed that there's quite a few recipes on the backs of gravestones. Around the place? Around the cemetery, yeah. Around this same one?
No, no, no, no. I don't know where she's from. I don't know where she's from. So she would go home, she would go to the cemetery, she would see the recipe, she would take a picture of the recipe, then she would go home and make the recipe. Then she just decided that she was going to travel around the country or maybe even her state and find some of the best recipes that she could find. And she just came out with a new cookbook and it's called To Die For.
Oh, that's funny. A cookbook of gravestone recipes. Okay. Let me tell you why I think this is great. Why I think it's great to put these recipes on the back of your headstones because there are so many people who say, no, this is a secret family recipe.
And I don't understand the point of that. If you're at a party and you're like, oh my gosh, this dip is the best thing I've ever eaten or this chili is incredible. Can I have the recipe?
And someone says, no, I'm sorry. I'm almost guaranteed that that recipe is already online somewhere. So your secret isn't really a secret. The dip I make that's super yummy is literally on the bottle of the hot sauce that goes in it. Like you can make it.
It's gonna be stingy. If somebody really likes what you've made, be like, absolutely. I'll share this with you. Now I do understand that I don't like giving my recipe to people and then they claim it as their own. So I get that point, but I'm also like, I don't know that I feel like that kind of stuff is meant to be shared. So I like these women that have like, or men that have passed on and they're like, yeah, this is my, my favorite honey bar recipe. Put it on the back of my grid.
Like everybody ranted about this recipe. Put it on the back of my grid stone so that everyone can make it. I like that idea. I think it's, I do too.
But if it was like, I'm trying to think of, of a recipe, like what if it's like the Frank's Red Hot Chicken Dip? It's just, it's widely available. Everybody makes that. I know. It's not a secret.
Put that on the back of the headstone. This is a secret recipe. And it's just Frank's Red Hot Chicken Dip. I'll just put a picture of Frank's then. Yeah. With the bottle.
And you can read the recipe on the label. That's what I'm saying. Like it'd be hilarious. It was just something like that. Like it's, it's a, it's a recipe for a grilled cheese sandwich and it's butter a couple of pieces of bread or use mayonnaise if you prefer and then put a cheese between it and make it hot.
Like it'd be really funny. Don't cook it too hot. That's a secret recipe.
Yeah. Or like pancakes. Like grab a box of, box of Bisquick mix in the water per the box. Throw it in a hot oiled pan. Cover with butter and syrup and enjoy. Make as directed.
Yeah. It's just like, like famous pancake recipe and it's like as instructed on Bisquick Box. And everybody for years and years and years thought it was like this big secret because what you do is you take all the powder and you put it into a different container and then you show up and you're like, I got my homemade pancake mix. And they're like, what is it? And you're like, I'll tell you later. I'll tell you when I die. It'll be on my headstone and it's just the bis, bisquick box. It's like make as directed on box.
Drop an egg in to make it a waffle. Oh, that's it. Huh? I think that'd be so funny. Okay.
Good. Or like a baked potato. It's like put it in foil or put it in the oven.
Don't forget it's there or else it'll shrivel up. Oven. How much time you got all day to make a potato? That's why it's called a baked potato.
What do you mean? When was the last time you baked a potato? A hundred years.
Exactly. Who has that much time on their hands? It's been so long since I've eaten a baked potato, let alone made them. You know who loves baked potatoes? Our daughter.
Holy smokes. We could get her to eat a vegetable. She's got to make a baked potato. That's it. That's simple. Who has that kind of time? We were having a real struggle last night about who was going to make dinner.
Nobody wanted to. And I had a menu that I had already prepared. I already had the food. I know. Well, and we had done additional grocery shopping.
I know. Like, and then we got home and went, football's on. And it was cold and it was rainy. And, but I got, I want food.
Yeah. My stomach says, feed me. Why is this like every day? I don't know. Every day we got to go, what do you want to eat?
It's a fun thing. The plan was to make, because I don't know if you've seen this, but it's crocktober. No, I didn't see that. I heard about it this morning when your phone kept going, Hey guys, it's crocktober. And I go, did they say crocktober? And you said, Oh yeah. And then you were scrolling and immediately went, Oh, hey, that's my recipe.
I've been wondering where that was. There's a couple of different websites that are doing this crocktober thing. And so I've been saving these recipes like, Oh, that looks good. Oh, that looks good. So the idea is you make all this food in a crockpot, right? For crocktober. Right.
You get it. Not that you wear crocks while you cook. I mean, you could. Not that you have to go to Florida, the Everglades and have a crocodile nearby while you're cooking. It's crocktober. That's what they should do on Discovery Shark Week.
And then in October, it's crocktober. Oh, present that idea. I just did.
To them. Oh, pay me. Okay. So I saw this recipe for a crockpot chicken euros and I went, Okay, that sounds nice.
So I bought. I didn't know it was even crockpot. I, well, I forgot because you said, I think all we have to do is heat up the chicken and then make a tzatziki.
And I went, Okay, well, you can sounds awful. Basically the olive, I don't want to make it doing in the crockpot was cooking, but I didn't have three hours to let it cook in the crockpot. If I, that's why you have an instant pot. I know. Okay. I'm glad you know, still requires effort. And here's the thing. I was like, I have recipes saved on Pinterest.
Yeah. I know my favorite websites to go to where I get recipes. I have recipes saved on Instagram.
So sometimes when I go, Oh, do you want to know one of the greatest inventions of all time? Besides the instant pot. Do you want, is it instant or insta? It's got to be instant. I think it's instant because insta pot would be owned by meta. Listen, one of the greatest like Instagram, one of the greatest inventions is the jump to recipe button.
Yeah, I know. I know every website that has a recipe had better have that jump to recipe button because while it's great, you wrote a blog about how much your family loves the carrots that you grew in your garden. It's also really, I don't have time. I'm here to cook the recipe. I don't care.
I just send me the recipe. No, you might, but not every time. I agree with you. If it doesn't have a jump to recipe button is awesome. Forget about it. I'm not scrolling through your words and words and words. Right.
Sorry. And I also like when they do that, it's important to me that they give me all the ingredients and the recipe instructions. And then after that, go ahead and do a step by step with photos.
Oh, that's fine. Don't do the ingredients and then step by step with photos as the instruction. I want the snapshot recipe card and then you can do all the blog and all the cutesy stuff on your page you want. Just give me. You know what I'm saying?
I do. All right. Are you done? Yes. You want to step off your soap box? I guess. Okay. So I'm scrolling last night like, oh, I got to find that recipe. Hold on so we can make dinner and make that chicken. I couldn't find it.
Couldn't find it anywhere. And I was like, all you really have to do is make the tzatziki sauce. I can find a recipe for tzatziki sauce and I just need to grow up that chicken.
This morning I'm scrolling through Instagram of things that I've saved. Found my recipe. Guess what? We didn't eat last night. We didn't make it.
We didn't make chicken. I just heated up some frozen pizza because you know why? Because I can. Because we're lazy. Because I couldn't be bothered.
Yeah. Because I hate making dinner. Do you? Yeah. Who is the person who said, oh, do you want to work all day and then come home and then go to the grocery store to make stuff, find stuff for dinner?
And then unload it into your house and then cook it and then clean up. I know. Ew.
I know. What's the worst? It is the worst. Who invented that?
It's dumb. A chef. Oh boy. Oh boy.
Oh boy. Are you ready? Are you prepared?
What do you got? Well, today is the day that Hallmark's countdown to Christmas kicks off. Woohoo. Are you ready?
I'm so ready. Yeah. Yeah. We're talking about those sappy, predictable plot. Okay, hold on. Horny. Exactly all the reasons people watch the Hallmark Christmas movies. Yeah. Right.
I, there's a couple that I want you to check out for real because I actually have a friend that's in some of these movies. Hold on. Stahl. What do you want?
Well, listen to not be undone. Netflix said, well, we've got some Christmas for you too. So Hallmark kicks off their countdown to Christmas today.
On December 3rd, Netflix has a new movie called My Secret Santa. Oh. Yeah. It's about a single mom who's desperate to get hired as a seasonal Santa.
Okay. Isn't Netflix the one that did the snow hunk last year? That's not the actual name. Iceman. Yeah, I think you're right. So this one, this one's called My Secret Santa.
It's a single mom who's desperate to get hired as a seasonal Santa at a luxury ski resort who disguises herself as a man to get the job all the while falling for the hotel manager. What? All right.
I love the plots of some of these. That one's December 3rd. I'm going to throw down a couple of Hallmark movies.
Okay. A picture perfect holiday. A picture perfect holiday. And then there's Sister Swap Christmas in the City and Sister Swap a hometown holiday.
Check all three of those out because my best friend is in those movies. All right. So I want to see. Oh.
Oh, go ahead. I found the full schedule. So I was going to see when they come out. Okay.
So let me see. You said what one? I said a picture perfect holiday. Picture.
That one's not listed. Go ahead. A Sister Swap. Sister. There's two of those. Christmas in the City and a hometown holiday. And then, oh, he's in more.
I don't see those. A fiance for Christmas. Fiance. No. Destined at Christmas. Destined. No.
The holiday stocking. No. Santa maybe.
No. Dishing up love. Dishing. No.
Wrapped up in Christmas. Holy cow. No. Oh, okay. Well, so anyway, that doesn't mean they don't exist because they do. Obviously, you just have to find them.
What I'm seeing is that, I mean, they put together like a bunch of different stuff and they run these things all the time. So you've got several of them. How many was that? Like six? Yeah, there's a lot.
Yeah, six or so. We'll have to see if we can find a better website that shows. Oh, that was, I found a list of only the new ones for 2025. That's why. Oh, okay. A Royal Montana Christmas is new. Oh. Holiday touchdown.
A Bill's love story. What's the one that they did last year that was like centered around the chiefs? And a Grand Ole Opry Christmas. There's also a new series called Unwrapping Christmas during July 2025 and other holiday films throughout the summer. There was a bunch of unwrapping Christmas.
Anyway. I can't believe we're in this season already. It is here. Just as a note, because we're here next week, you and I on the show during Kids' Marts, we are going to be giving away all week long tickets to Trans-Siberian Orchestra during Kids' Marts. I know that's a big news. That's big news.
That is big deal. We'll be giving those away all next week. And then we've got that show on the 20th and I'm telling you, Thanksgiving's right around the corner. Christmas music is coming to Classy 97 real soon.
I am in like full preparation mode for Christmas right now because I got to build it all and build in the playlist, working on the songs, working with our music director, working with building all the stuff to make Classy 97 Christmas extra special this year. It's a lot of fun. Yeah.
You've added a couple of new songs that we've been talking about. Yeah. Yeah. Some stuff that was new late last year, which sounds so good. So yeah, I'm really excited about it.
And it's weird because it's like mid-October, but you sent a little Christmas walk in there for a minute. I'm excited. I'm excited about it.
I'm very excited about it. Christmas is right around the corner. Yeah, that's it. Got to add more jingle bells, you know?
Anyway, it's coming. Would you rather this or that? Would you rather have bat wings for arms?
I already do. Or a tail like a black cat. So just a black tail? It's just a normal tail. It isn't like, oh, black cats have a totally different tail. It's a superstitious tail.
It's a magical tail. No, it's not. Yeah, it is. No.
No. It's just a normal cat's tail. When they walk by people, that tail kind of like, like sachets against their leg. Yeah, that's what cats do. No, but a black cat one is different. No, it's not.
Quit doing that with your eyebrows. It's different. You know, it's not. It's the same as every other cat tail. It's just got black fur on it. No, it's magical.
No, it's not. No. Full of mystery.
No. Magical Halloween mystery. What are you picking?
I'm going to pick a tail. You know why? Why? Thanks for asking. Because you can sashay it on stuff. Chachay, sashay.
You know, hold on. OK. No, a black cat's tail is not functionally different from any other cat's tail, though its appearance can vary just like a black cat's fur can vary. It's the same. It's just got black hair on it. No, yeah.
Excuse me. Janet Jackson wrote a whole song about it. About the black cat, not the black cat's tail. Part of the black cat is the tail. So she, in essence, wrote the song and included the tail. So the question is.
Read it again. Bat wings for arms or a tail. Or a tail.
A black cat tail. Or bat. Are they functioning bat wings? Can I fly? No. What's the point?
They just function as like your arms. Well, that's lame. Well, that's what you get.
No, you don't get the black cat tail. Why? Because you've made such a fuss about it. No, I just wanted to know why you thought it was so special.
Because it's not. It's just a cat tail. It's a Halloween black cat.
I'm having a cat tail. That's what I picked. That's my choice. It's my time now. It's my choice.
Would you rather this or that? What? Hey, hey. What does that look for? That's a look that says, uh.
You didn't write anything in this spot. Because you are typically. Yeah.
You do the beginning and the ending one. Yeah. So just waiting on you there, Chap. Okay. Well, listen, it's almost the weekend.
Let's kind of, let's kind of debrief a little bit because. You and I are kind of going different directions this week. I'm staying put. I know. And I'm going a different direction. So I'm not going to see you for a couple of days. So I just want to touch base on what's going on.
What, what do you need? How are we doing? You feeling good? I'm going fishing. So I'm excited. Talking about, here's what happened.
I got sick this early this week. Yeah. And you said, I got, I'm staying away. Yeah, I got fishing to do.
I can't get sick before my fishing trip. And I never saw you. You didn't check on me.
That's not true. I checked on you. Maybe barely. We have, you have poked me with a stick.
No, I did not. Through the door. Are you in there? Are you live?
That's not what happened. We have a thermometer that you can check thermometer from a distance. So I did that to see how you were doing. I should have got the barbecue one with the laser on it to check you. I could have checked you from across the room. I'm surprised you did it. I just now thought of it. Oh yeah. Medium rare.
Okay. It felt like the Grinch. Don't touch her with a 10 foot pole. Whatever. Yeah, that's when you were like, I can't get sick.
That's for real. I didn't want to, but I was still around. And I checked on you and I made you breakfast and I brought you food. You made me breakfast and then you like brought it in and said here.
Yeah. And I pushed it with, with the little grabber hand and I pushed it over to you and then I left. That didn't happen. I brought it in. I made sure you were okay.
I felt like Josh. Oh, how do you know? You were asleep most of the time. Yeah. And then I'd wake up and be like, does anybody care about me? Yeah.
I'm caring about you by letting you sleep and keeping it quiet in the house. What do you mean? Yes. I was busy. Doing other stuff. I packed last night.
You did. After work, I was like, I guess I'll try and get myself ready because it's pretty quick this afternoon that we're leaving. But here's the deal.
So I've, I talked about this a few weeks ago. I'm doing the Utah cutthroat slam and you have to catch four species of native cutthroat trout in their native waters. And so when we went last time, we got three of the four and we had driven 600 and something miles to get those three fish because you have to go all over the state.
Right. And, and I got back and now my truck is like, you need an oil change. And I went, no way. Like I'm not supposed to have that until December. But because of the miles, I went, this is crazy.
So now I'm headed back to go get the last of the four fish. And do you remember what was happening? The bullying that was going on in here? Oh, it's still going. What do you mean the bully? Oh, you're not going to catch a fish. I know all the support I have around here.
Crazy. So all I have to do, get this, all I have to do is catch one fish. I have all day Saturday to catch one fish. Okay, but you're going with two other dudes. Do they just need to catch the one fish also? That is correct. Okay.
That is correct. What river do you have to go to? We're going to, it's hard to pronounce.
I always get it wrong. I think Dushane River. Oh, thanks. Yeah, it's Dushane. This water is from the Dushane River.
Dushane, Dushane, something like that. It's a Utah river. And so anyway, yeah, that's where I'll be in that area. Hopefully fingers crossed, catching my Colorado river cutthroat trout. You have to catch the Colorado river cutthroat in the Utah river.
Okay. Listen, so there are four fish. We got all day. I got all day to tell you about this.
There are four fish. I know. Okay.
Yeah. This one has to be caught on the Colorado river tributary. So all of the, like the green river is empties into the Colorado river. It's all connected. And so this particular river is a tributary of the green river. Therefore is a tributary of the Colorado river. You see? Uh-huh.
And so yes, that's where you're going to find the Colorado river cutthroat is in a tributary of the Colorado river. Best of luck. Thank you, buddy.
I'm really hopeful. All of the research I've done, there's some brown trout in this water. You like brownies.
I do love catching brown trout, except when I'm really trying to catch a Colorado river cutthroat trout. No. And that's the problem that I could see. Here's my fear. I show up, I spend all day catching brown trout and I'm upset about it. Or yeah, you can't catch one and everybody else catches one. That would also be frustrating. And then you'll... That would also be frustrating. But you don't give up until you get... Oh no, I will be there. Oh. And if I have to go back on Sunday to a different body of water or something, I will be prepared to do that.
I hope not to, but I'll be prepared to. Just remember, you forget when you fish with other people that they get hungry sometimes. So it just takes you snacks.
I have packed all kinds of sandwich supplies. Okay. So I'll be...
I've got a cooler ready to go. As someone who's been fishing with you, you just lose track of time. And that's okay. But sometimes the people that are with you get hungry.
Maybe I should just pack like an extra backpack of snack food. Yeah. And then have that available for people. Yeah. Would that help? Yeah, it would.
I'll think about that. But here's what I would love to have happen. What I would absolutely love to have happen is the very first fish that I catch is the Colorado River cutthroat.
And then the rest of the day, I can catch whatever I want for fun. I was talking to a guy yesterday who said, when you get this done, what are you going to do? Like you...this has been like such a thing you've been working on.
What are you going to do after this? Yeah. And I said, fish for fun.
Instead of being so strategic, I'll just go fishing for fun. You guys need to... Okay. It's you, your cousin JR and your buddy Jason. That's correct. The three J's.
Yes. You got to come up with some kind of fun, catchy like... So I think this time I'm going to try to do a little bit of video blogging because I'm not driving. So I'm trying to figure out what am I going to fill the time with. So I thought maybe I'll try a little bit of like YouTube kind of content creation. That would be awesome.
You guys could do some TikTok trends. I know. Well, no, no. We're not going to do TikTok trends.
No. I'm going to make fishing videos. This is what I'm going to do. No. You can do the three J's. The three J boys. Three J boys. I mean, come up with something cooler than that. Three J boys. That's pretty cool.
I know. Three J boys. How do we spell it? With a Z. Yeah, and an I instead of a Y.
Three J boys. Yeah. Uh-huh. Sure thing. Boys not out. All right. It'll be fun.
Let's start every video like that. No. All right. Boys not out. No.
No. Anyway, I'm going fishing. You're staying here. You got big plans with the kids. I do have big plans.
Which I think will be fun. I'm excited to get back together on the show on Monday where we get to kind of, please, please catch a fish. Please catch a fish.
It's going to be real depressing if I don't catch the fish and have to plan another trip. Because it's only getting colder. I know.
You have to get it this year. No, no, no. I don't. But I want to. No, I get it. Because 2026, I'm doing the Wyoming cutthroat slam.
Oh, no. So I've got to finish Utah this year. Does Montana have a cutthroat challenge? I don't know if Montana does. Idaho needs to get it together. Yeah, Idaho needs to. The fact that we live in such a fly fishing mecca and don't have one is crazy. We need to figure that out. We need some sort of fun fishing challenge.
I bet Montana doesn't have one. Don't look into it. I'm going to check. All right. Everybody have a good weekend. Good luck to Josh. Thanks.
And stay warm. Montana has no official cutthroat slam. Knew it. All right. Have a good weekend.
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