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S1 E320 Oct 02, 2025

October 2, 2025 | Wake Up Classy 97

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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Thursday, October 2nd, 2025

Episode summary introduction:

Josh and Chantel are fired up this morning! From Xbox’s shocking Game Pass price hike to a piglet named Peppa making a daring highway escape. They debate weird wake-up trends, celebrate the return of the ChocoTaco, and share the trials of teen driver’s ed. Plus, find out what it really means to have a “face for radio,” how Keith Urban stirred up drama with a song lyric swap, and why the Pringles mascot has a surprising name. A Halloween Would You Rather, a spotlight on hydropower awareness, and a Chantel fun fact!

Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Xbox Game Pass
(4:34) - Name your car
(7:41) - Scented alarm clocks
(11:44) - Good News
(15:17) - Tacolate
(21:14) - Driver's ed
(27:08) - Sleeping video
(33:06) - Face for radio
(38:51) - Spaghetti sauce jar update
(44:43) - Adulting
(49:25) - Keith Urban's new lady
(54:35) - Chantel fun fact
(57:28) - Would You Rather
(59:57) - Riverbend Awareness Project

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Full show transcript:

So last night, Beck is walking around the house and he's got his phone in his hand and he goes, no way. Xbox is raising the price of Game Pass again. I don't know what Game Pass is. So Game Pass, you pay, it's like a monthly subscription that you pay to Xbox so that you can play like all of the library of games.

Okay. So it used to be $11.99 a month and the ultimate Game Pass plan was $20 a month. Well now there are three tiers. There's a Game Pass Essential, which is $9.99 per month that has just about 50 games and then Premium has over 200 games. It's $14.99. And then the new ultimate plan is $400 or more games for $30 per month. It's $29.99 per month.

So the top tier went up $10 a month for the same thing and then they introduced two lower tiers. He was not stoked because you used to have to buy gold, right? Remember Xbox gold so that you could get online? Well now it's all just Game Pass, but it's $30 a month. Like it used to be like $20 a year to be able to go online.

That was $50. No, I mean maybe, but like I always like saved up and got a deal. Like I'd wait till like a Black Friday sale or something like that.

OK, then I'd renew then. That's insane. That is $30 a month just to be able to play your games online. But you don't own the games.

Well, now that's so if you have games that you own that you want to play with friends, you have to buy at least $10 a month. I was confused. I thought it was like a like a pass. It is to play the games.

It is. You don't necessarily own. So you basically have access to the online library of games. But if you have physical media that you want to play online, you still have to play with your friends. You have to play at least the 999 per month.

I see to play online. That's annoying. That's terrible, terrible. And so many people are upset that they've crashed the website, closing their memberships. Like I'm done. I'm not paying it. You can't like companies have got to stop gouging. Yeah, it's terrible. It is terrible.

It's nickel and dime. You don't own anything. It's like just to be able to access what you own. And what's the point of playing a game if you can't play with your friends? You just want to play online with your friends. That's what most of gaming is now. And so Xbox is really facing a problem right now. It crashed their website today.

So many people were unsubscribing from Game Pass. So we'll see if they end up backing down on this or not. But people have got to stop gouging their customers. I mean, we've talked about like how much we hate the loyalty thing, where it's like, I've been a customer with you since 2004. Quit making me pay more.

I've been loyal to you. Quit making me pay more. Or when they offer like new subscriber. New subscriber deals.

I'm like, what about the people who've been around here for a long time? Right. Give me a perk. And then I call in and I go, hey, I got to I got to make a change. And they go, whoa, what about if we gave it to you for three bucks?

Yeah, like if you can do it, then do it. Quit gouging. Exactly. Companies got to get it figured out.

They're going to lose everything. Josh is hot. I hate it. It's just it's consumer abuse and it's really rude. I hate it. Yeah.

Yeah, what's that smell? It's like making me consumer abuse. Consumer abuse stinks. It's like when you buy something, a subscription to something, so that you don't have to watch ads. And then they're like, yeah, but also you got to watch these ads. Uh huh.

Like stop it, dude. I'm already paying you to not have that experience. Give me new perks. Don't just give me the same thing or worse, but charge me more. Get over yourselves. P.U. $30 a month.

Can you believe that? Just be able to play your games online. That's it. Get over yourself.

Get over yourself indeed. I'm going to take a breath and we're going to start the show. That's what we're going to do. I'll be fine. I'll be fine. All right.

Oh, what? Hi. How's it going?

Super duper. What's going on with you? I don't know. Big guy. Big guy. Yeah.

I don't know. It's name your car day. I still haven't really named my truck. So maybe today I should actually do it. Yeah, get it done. I should get it done. Couple of suggestions.

Rusty McTrusty. No, it's not. It doesn't work.

Betty the beater. No. No.

Yeah, it doesn't really work. Lovebug Herbie. That's a beetle. That's already taken. That name is already taken.

Well, it just says Lovebug. Oh, you can't take that name. No, it's got to be something original. Don't look at whatever you're looking at.

You got to come up with something unique and original. The beast. No. It's not that.

No. The slug. Stop looking at those names. Those are terrible.

You got to come up with a unique one on your own. What about Green Machine? It's not green. I know, and that's funny. You know?

No. All right, I'll work on that. I have a car name.

I know you do. Zip. Or Zippy. She is Zippy.

She's a Zippy thing. There you go. But it's also German. Yeah, which we look up the word Zippy in German, and it's flink. Oh, yeah. That's right. And so, which is a good name.

You don't ever hear that. So yeah. Flink. Zippy in English, flink in German. That's right. Yep. Except in German, you'd say flink.

Because they're so mad all the time. Yeah. Yeah. Is that still a thing? Angry Germans? Yes.

Yes, that's still a thing. In Dutch, the word flink translates to considerable. Oh. So just so you know.

Just so you know. What was still a thing? What were you looking up? I was trying to find the translation. Yeah, it also translates to nimble in German. Nimble, quick, rapid. Yeah. Like my car.

Zippy. Yeah, okay. Well, name your car if you don't have a name for your car. I don't have a name for the truck. I'm gonna have to work on it. Yeah, let's see.

It's a Toyota. Mm-hmm. Hmm. Hmm. We'll think about it. Yeah, we gotta. It's too early to come up with something creative.

Yeah, no creativity this early. No. Forget about that. It's trying to wake up.

Yeah. Good morning. Happy Thursday. How do you like to be woken up in the morning? Oh, naturally. I like when my body finishes a sleep cycle and is like, you could wake up now. Hey. And then I go, eyes open and I go, yeah. I feel like I shouldn't be sleeping anymore right now. My body feels rested.

That's how I like to wake up. How often does that happen? Oh, not very. Not very often.

Not very at all. No. That happens.

Hmm. I'm trying to think when it happens most. Like if there's a season that it happens.

No, there's not. Holiday Inn Express are trying out a new scent based alarm glock. No, I don't want to wake up by smell. Why? Because what if it's terrible?

I think it sounds nice. What smells are they? Okay, let me tell you. It works like a diffuser and it releases the scent of your choice when it's time to wake up. So it's not available in the US yet, but in Australia and New Zealand, there are smells like coffee, bacon, or blueberry muffin.

In Japan, you can choose Nashi pear and in Singapore and Thailand, mango is an option. I think I would like to wake up to warm blueberry muffin smell. See, if it's good, like I want, I want warm blueberry muffin, but then I'm going to wake up and go, I want that muffin. Yeah.

Well, you can go have that muffin because they also serve continental breakfast. Oh, there you go. So you got it. You got it.

See, I would probably pick coffee because I love the smell of coffee. Yeah, you said growing up, like you, you would hear people talking down the hall and. Yeah. If we went to my aunt's house, there was like my aunts and my dad would be talking and there was the smell of coffee. That's very comforting.

Right. It smelled to me and then my dad would always make a pot of coffee. I always liked, I don't know, I always liked waking up to that smell. Right. It was like, oh, there's activity in the house.

Right. Let's get up. What's today going to hold?

I don't know. I like it. Yeah, I think that's, I think that checks out. So that's a big nostalgia hit for you.

Yes. Which is nice. Plus also it smells nice. Right. I get you.

Plus also delicious. Okay. And then you're going to wake up and go, I need that same deal. Well, I guess it could work, but would you want to change it every day? Like would you be like, no, because eventually you're going to become nose blind.

That's true. And then you're going to be like, I don't even smell muffins anymore. I just hate waking up. Yeah. And then you would, yeah, you would hate the smell of muffins probably because you'd be like, oh, no, I have to wake up. Yeah. And no muffin. I got this at home.

I wake up. No muffin. No muffin.

This is the worst idea ever. Yeah. Where's my warm muffin? But then you would associate muffin with waking up and be grouchy at the blueberry muffin, even when you had a blue berry muffin.

Here you go. I hate the smell of blueberry muffins now. You see what I'm saying? I get it. I don't know about this.

What are we going to do? Yeah. Well, it's not available. It's not available in the U S anyway.

So yet can have it. I'll stick to natural as my favorite way still. It's my favorite way. Natural. Yeah. It's time to wake up. Oh, yes it is. Feels like I should be awake now.

Good. And sometimes that's at seven. Sometimes that's at eight. Sometimes that's at five. It just varies.

It's rarely at five. Oh yeah. I know. Oh, who wakes up at five?

Crazy people. Ready for some good news? Yeah. This is a pretty cool story.

This is happening in Iowa in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Animal rescuers say there was this little pig, this brave little piglet. Who they've named Peppa Piglet. Come on. Peppa Piglet. I know.

They're calling the pig Peppa. It's fine. It's cute.

It's fine. Yeah. Peppa leapt from the back of a moving truck on the highway. I saw this video. There's a video?

Yeah. I don't have a video of the pig jumping out of the truck. I saw a video of a pig jumping. There's a little piglet. Yeah.

Okay. I haven't seen the video, but let me tell you what happened here. Peppa got a few scrapes and bumps.

Cedar Rapids Animal Care treated her and posted on social media that she is doing. So well. No, stop it. They also said, you've heard the Oink credible rumors. I know. Stop. They really throw them in. Yesterday, the brave little piglet were calling Peppa, decided she was destined for the hogging, for hogging the spotlight.

See. And they made a daring leap off of a truck on highway 100 with the help of friends at the Cedar Rapids Animal Care and control and a few other different agencies. She was safely rounded up and brought to them. She's got a few bruises, some road rash. Okay.

Otherwise she's doing well. I saw a video. I don't know if it was the same pig or not, but I saw a video of a pig jumping from the truck and the truck is huge. Like it's tall. Yeah. So the, he jumped and then he kind of rolled when he hit the pavement and you're like, Oh buddy, that was a very dangerous act.

What are you doing? It looks terrifying. He could have been run over. He could have died. Yeah. Oh man. I'm so scared for that pig. Well, he's fine now. Well, so Peppa spent her first day of freedom getting a bunch of warm hugs from staff, eating some grass, just kind of hanging out at the shelter.

Check this out. After hearing about the harrowing story, the Iowa farm sanctuary has offered to take her and give her a forever home where she will get to enjoy comfort care and you know, rolls in the mud and that. So that pig is wherever it was headed is not headed that way anymore. That pig is now headed to a sanctuary.

A life of luxury. That pig is going to grow old and big and chunky. Fat pig week. Fat pig week. Yeah.

Congratulations to Peppa. You took a risk. And it paid off. It has paid off big, real big. Yeah.

Good job. I mean, they wrap the pig in a blanket here. They wrap the pig in a blanket. I know. Did you see what you did there? No, I did.

Did you intentionally do that? Listen to me. It's on the internet. There's plenty of comments on this post. There's plenty of them talking about the pig in a blanket. That's the worst food ever. Pigs in a blanket? Yeah. Only when you smell it cooking while you're trying to do math.

That's cool. Gross. Anyway, Peppa, you pig, you're made good news. You did. Well done.

Way to go. I signed up for an email notification for tomorrow. Tomorrow's Friday. Tomorrow, I hope to be able to make a purchase. So I signed up for an email that hopefully will give me the details I need in order to sign or to actually make the purchase. It's something that's being released tomorrow. And I think I want to get my hands on it. What is it? It's called a tocolate.

Okay. You may have heard of this before. I have not heard of this before. Yes, you have.

You just don't know that you have. Is it a Chaco Taco? Taco Bell is teaming up with an ice cream company in Oregon that is called, where'd their name go? Oh, no. Salt and Straw. Okay. And Salt and Straw and Taco Bell are going to launch the tocolate.

Okay. If you'll remember, it was called the Chaco Taco, which was the first part of the word Chaco. But now it's the taco that gets the front. Taco. I get top billing.

Yeah, I guess. It is a frozen dessert inspired by the nostalgic ice cream truck treat, the Chaco Taco. After this announcement, they launched a website.

They've been doing a bunch of stuff on social media. Now I'm going to tell you right now, it's, it looks like bite size. It looks considerably smaller. I was looking at it right now. It does look very.

For what you can tell because they really like the blurred out image to kind of hide what it is, which I think is kind of funny. But anyway, it comes out Friday, October 3rd, nationwide. You can eat it in person at Salt and Straw shops that are in Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, New York, Oregon, and Washington. If you're outside of those areas, you should be able to order a six pack of these with nationwide shipping from the ice cream chain, cream chains website. I went and signed up for that email list. So I should be able to get notified when it goes on sale. Do you know much about it though?

Well, I know this. I know that it is a waffle cone filled with cinnamon ice cream dipped in chocolate. Cinnamon and chili ice cream.

Okay. Dipped in chocolate and topped with toasted brown rice. Yeah, which is normal. Then each order comes with two Taco Bell inspired sauces. That's right. You get a mango jalapeno and a wild berry cinnamon. Correct. And then you get a six pack that you can put on top of the chocolate and take a bite.

Interesting. So I want to order the six pack and have it delivered tomorrow. So I've signed up for the email and hopefully I get the notification so that I can go ahead and make that happen. Have it delivered where? Up here to my face. At what time?

The time when I'm ready to eat it. I don't know. They'll ship it. What do you mean they'll ship it? It's frozen, isn't it? Yeah, they put it in dry ice and stuff. They ship ice cream all over the place. Ice cream isn't made in every neighborhood. They move it about in refrigerated trucks and that. We ordered food that got delivered in a box from another state. It comes in with ice.

No, I get that. But I thought you were going to have it delivered from like a door dash from a local restaurant. If you live in those areas, you can do that. You can have it delivered, but we don't live in one of those areas. I thought it said that it was available everywhere. No?

No. So it's available at certain Taco Bells. It says right here. It says this says. You can find it again.

Like you can go to Salt and Straw Shops on October 3rd and you can have it there or have it delivered nationwide via, you know, from their shops. Okay. Let's back up a bit.

Yeah. Because you are not much of a sweet tooth. But I love a Choco Taco. But this is something that you're. I'm sad.

I didn't get a final Choco Taco. Sorry, bud. And this isn't going to be the same. It's going to be close, but it's going to be a little different. Maybe it's going to be better.

Maybe. Maybe you're going to be like, oh, I'm glad I never got my final Choco Taco because this hot dog. That's what you're going to say. It's not a hot dog. I don't go, I take a bite and go, hot dog. Hot dog. No.

Yeah. Not hot dog. Not dog. Not dog. Okay.

Well, I'll give it a try. Which, uh, Hot dogs. Stop it. Stop. You don't even have headphones on.

You didn't even get to enjoy it. Nope, I don't. You bring up hot dog. I have to play the hot dog song. I would say that you were just dancing to it in your head.

Are you going to try the mango jalapeno sauce or the wild I'm sorry. I was hot dogging. I know. What?

Are you going to try the mango jalapeno or the wild berries cinema? Yeah. Same. Yeah.

That sounds nice. So hopefully I can order them. That's the big deal. And I don't even know how much they're going to be. If it's like 20 bucks for six of them, I don't think I'll probably pull the trigger on that, but we'll see what happens.

We will see what happens. How much are you willing to spend? I don't know. With shipping 15. Okay.

We'll see. Because that's like two bucks a piece plus some shipping. I feel like that's probably appropriate. A six pack 15 bucks. I think it's going to be more than that.

I think you're probably like an upwards of 20. We'll see. We will see.

Find out tomorrow. Emory, our daughter, um, tried to do drivers that online and, uh, found out that that was impossible. She couldn't do it. She struggled. So we sent her up for an in-person class.

She started that last night. Um, Oh, what did they say? Stay off the sidewalks. Yuck. Yuck. Yuck.

That's a, that's an older relatives line. Oh, I started drivers that all stay off the sidewalks. Good one, Josh. Good one. It's like the, the uncle where you go, okay, but thank you.

Thanks for your input. Um, as we're getting there, getting her signed up last night, there's a couple of tables. Uh, and then as each student would register, each one of them would go sit at an empty table until there were no empty tables remaining. And then as we get there, and then people would be forced to go sit with strangers.

I just thought it was interesting. What is, what an interesting social experiment that people would rather go sit at an empty table than go sit by somebody that they don't know. And then when you're forced to sit by somebody, you have to say, excuse me, can I sit here? So as I'm waiting in line with Emory, I'm thinking to myself, oh, these tables now I'll have people at them because I would absolutely sit at an empty table before I sat by somebody I didn't know. You would.

Yeah. You wouldn't go make a friend. No, cause that's so scary. What if they don't want to be friends with me? Okay. But what if they do?

I know what if they do? She was not, Emory was tired. She had had a long day of school. She was like, I don't even want to talk to anybody. I don't even want to be social. I hope they don't pair me up with anybody. So as we're waiting in line and I see all these tables fill up, I go, oh no, where are you going to sit?

And I wasn't saying it to be me and I was really just curious, like, where would I sit if it were me? And she goes, I don't know. I'm going to have to talk to somebody and I don't want to talk to anybody. And I go, I feel you.

I totally feel you girl. So we get her registered. She goes and sits down next to another young woman and she goes, Hey, is it okay if I sit here? And the girl says, yes. So I'm leaving and walking out and I send her a text and I go, I'm proud of you. She goes, shush. Okay. But that's a big deal. It was a big deal. But it's also, I don't know.

It's always so scary when you put your kids into situations that you also would feel uncomfortable in. Yeah. No, I get that. I'm wondering though, like when she picked who she was going to sit by, how did she pick that person? Like, what was it about that person that she was like, you look to me like somebody who won't like cause me rejection trauma, right? Right. Because that is the next step in choosing. You got to look around the room and go, okay, who looks the nicest?

Who would I feel the most comfortable sitting next to? Yep. You have to play all those games. It is hard meeting new people, isn't it? Yeah. The good news is it gets easier as you get older. It sure does.

So you can just walk up to anybody and be like, hey, want to be friends? And it just works. And it just happens. It's amazing.

I almost feel like it gets, the older I get, the more introverted I become or am becoming. And so now I just go, I looked around that room last night going, oh no, all the tables are full. There's no empty table. But there were a bunch of tables with just one person at them.

Yeah. It's like when you go into a meeting or whatever and everybody is sitting with big gaps between them. And then they have to go, we're going to need everybody to squeeze together. We got people that need to get into the other seats here. Can you just scooch on down? And then you go, I guess I'll sit next to somebody.

I know. That's what people do, isn't it? I feel like every time that happens, I move over and then the seat that I was in just stays empty and I'm like, I could have just stayed. But now it would be rude of me to be like, I'm going to go back to my seat because I've already now moved over here and been like, how's it going? Like now I've made a connection. Now if I leave, it's awkward.

I'm going to go back. Have you ever got into a room and there's maybe somebody that you know, but not very well. And so then you have to do this. Do I sit by that person that I know, but they're not like a buddy of mine. They're just like an acquaintance, maybe a friend of a friend. And you're like, what I'm, what I sit and talk to them or what I rather sit alone. Make a, make a new friend. Sometimes I would just rather sit alone. Make a new friend.

Get out of the house, go for a walk, make a new friend. Good tips. Yeah.

Good advice. Yeah. It's easy.

It's all, it's supposedly all good for your mental health. Yeah. They say that. Who's they? Everyone. Oh, okay.

They're all out there. Hey, make a friend. Go for a walk. Get some exercise. Fresh air will do you good. I don't want to. I just want to stay inside lonely. Whatever.

No, you can't. It's too scary to talk to people. You get to be socially awkward today. I am always socially awkward.

Always. No, I know. I was laying there trying to fall asleep last night.

And I thought, here's what I think. I wake up in the same position that I remember falling asleep in. And so then I wondered how often I move around while I sleep. Why are you looking at me? I'm listening. I'm listening.

So I kind of want to video record. No way. I know. I knew you would say no.

I know. That sounds like a scary movie. I know it does. It is a scary movie. I don't want to be a part of that. I don't want to, like, because people will do that time lapse thing where it's like, it just takes a picture every couple of minutes or whatever throughout the night.

Right. That's what I want to do. And then they put it together and it's all jump cut. You know? Ugh.

I don't like it. And then in one scene there's a person standing there staring at your sleeping body. Yeah. Creepy. Yeah.

What if it's me and I'm like asleep but I'm standing there? Ew. I know. I don't want to see it. It's a scary movie. Well, you don't have to watch it. I'll just watch it. Okay.

You figure out how to film that. Okay. How are you going to do it? With my phone. Does your phone have a time lapse mode where you can tell it to take a picture every five minutes? No. I'll just record for the six hours that we're asleep.

You know how many frames go into one second of film? No, Josh. Tell me.

Well, typically 24. To make it smooth. Why are you being so mean about it? I'm not being mean.

You are. I don't want it to happen is why. I'm trying to make it not a thing. Why?

Because it's creepy. You don't want to know at all. No.

I don't want to know that night vision look and the whole. Yeah. I know.

I think it's fascinating and I want to try and see because do you think I move very often? Yes. You do?

Yes. Because you do. I don't think that I do.

Okay. How come I always wake up in the same position I fell asleep? I think you forget what position you're in when you fall asleep. No. No, it couldn't be that. No. No.

Never that. I fell asleep on my right side. I wake up on my right side. Sometimes I fall asleep on my back. Right. And I'll wake up on my back. No.

Yes. That doesn't happen. I think here's what else I want to record for because you are a mover and you always end up on my side. So I want to. Not even true. Oh boy. Oh boy. What a boy. Oh boy. I want video evidence that you're always on my side of the bed.

All you're going to find out is I have no blankets ever. Okay. Time out.

That did happen the other day. I know. I'm going to admit to it this time.

That doesn't really happen a lot. But I did notice that I had a lot of the blanket and then I quietly just went, there you go. I went, whoopsie.

Yeah. Have some of this. This is me every day. Oh. Just shivering away. It's 90 degrees.

What do you mean? Not over there shivering. It's not 90 degrees.

It's so cold. No. Chili.

No. It was cold last night. I was cold. I know. Yeah.

That's why you had all the blankets. All right. I'm going to figure out how to record this. Okay. I'm going to record it.

Okay. You're not the only tech savvy person in my life. You know, I can ask other people how to do it. Don't ask someone. Do the research and figure it out. Figure out what equipment you need. Asking somebody is research. I want you to get on the internet and I want you to figure out what equipment you need because I have all of the equipment. I just want you to tell me what you need. That sounds so boring.

I bet it does. Okay, what I meant to say is I want to record myself sleeping, but I want you to do it. That's what I meant to say.

No, I'm busy. And I also don't want it. So it's not going to be creepy. It's going to be fascinating to see how often you move over onto my side of the bed. Zero.

I move onto your side of the bed zero. Wrong. No way, dude. Yeah.

Totally wrong. The only reason I go over there is to get the blankets back. As you get to come.

You'll grab it and then roll. Like you already have plenty over there. You don't need to take all mine. And then you roll to your right.

Yeah. And then you'll come back. You'll be like, it's hot. And so then you'll like kick everything to the left. And then you'll go this way. And then you'll grab everything and go to the right again.

And then I'm like, well, I guess I'm out of blankets now. Got it. Thanks. That's what's going to be in the video.

That and something creepy. Okay, I'll do the research. All right, let me know what equipment you need. Hey, does somebody know anything about how to do this? Can you just email me or call me? No, no, don't tell her.

Please. No, tell her. No one tell her I don't want to do this research. Yeah, you want to not do the research. I don't want the video. Bada bing. Has anyone ever told you that you have a face for radio?

Yeah, I have a t-shirt that my sister made that says face for radio and it has an arrow pointing up. That's all rude. I know. I've heard that my entire career.

Have you? Yeah, I don't think that you have a face for radio. I think you have a voice for radio.

Oh, thanks. But, okay, your face is so nice. You have a face for TV? Well, do I?

I don't think I do. I think I don't think I have a face you could slap a bunch of makeup on to make it look like TV ready. Camera ready?

Yeah, I don't think I'm camera ready. This comes from the fact that for a long time radio people, you just had this like, no idea what they looked like ever. It was just a voice. Yeah.

And so it was like, they got to be hideous. Whoever that is, he's got to be real looker because he hides behind the mysterious radio. So that was the noise, the voice of like whoever says that in my head. That's what they sound like.

Oh, he's got a face for radio. Have you ever been told that you look a lot better when people can't tell what you look like or that you looked different? You look different than what I imagine you look like?

Yes, I have. I have had people so early on in my career. I had one guy who met me and he was like, I expected you to be a tall long haired guy. I'm a short bald guy. He's like, I thought you'd be tall with long hair.

That's pretty, that was pretty standard for radio DJs in 70s. To be tall with long hair? Yeah. I guess.

I mean, think about Howard Stern. Long hair. He was very tall.

Yeah. All of the dudes from that movie about radio. Which movie? That one was Philip Seymour Hoffman. What's that one called?

Pirate radio or something? I haven't seen that in a long time. Yeah, they all had long hair.

Really long time. I'm just saying that was like a think of any radio DJ from the 70s and 80s. They were tall with long hair.

I thought they looked a little bit more like cleaned up. No. There were times like we're talking old times. Let's go back to like 20s and 30s radio where you wore a suit and you had a stand up microphone and you'd go, you didn't have headphones. You'd have one hand behind your ear and you'd go, yes, we're broadcasting here.

Hello. And you'd deliver the news or whatever. So it was different or they would do like the theater stuff, which was really cool. The old radio shows with narration and actors and Foley and everything.

It was very cool. What did Casey Kasem look like? Casey Kasem did not have long hair. He had a lot of requests and dedications though.

He sure did. But Rick D's had kind of mid-length hair. Rick D's kind of had that like 80s, 90s hairdo. Yeah, he did.

He looked like Mark Summers and everybody else who had that hairdo. Rick D's. Rick D's in the Winkley's. That's the one. Yeah.

Yeah. And he would do the D's sleaze and all that stuff. Man, that was a while ago. But Casey Kasem was something else.

He was, I mean, a legend. I do know that there was one time that, oh, I'm trying to remember the exact exchange, but there was somebody who had recognized us in the store. And then she said, I thought it was you. It looked like you. And she said, I know because I wanted to see what you looked like.

And so I looked you up on Facebook. Yeah. Which is, that's what you do. Yeah, you would look and go, yeah, that's what they look like. I mean, you do that. I think it was Instagram.

I think it does not matter. I do that to singers all the time. I go, I want to see what they look like. And then you regret it sometimes.

Yeah, I go, yeah. You had a nice voice, but I don't like your face. But yeah, you got a face for the stage.

You got a face for performing at night. That's not nice. Hey, you know, if I have to get told I've got a face for hiding in a room and talking to myself, then they get to be told. Your sister said that. That's not fair.

That's not an accurate representation. I'm saying, but that's a thing people say. And then, and then you go like, yeah, I guess, I guess I do.

Your sister should say. I've been on the radio for a lot of years. So I guess I do have a face for radio. So that's a nice face. I like your face. I didn't say it was a bad face.

Okay. It's just a face for, it's a face for listening to not for looking at. Do people say that you have a voice for radio? No, no, I've heard, I've heard people say, you kind of sound like Kermit the Frog. And then I went, I don't know, whatever. And I've had people say you, you kind of sound like Seth Rogan.

And I go, I don't know, maybe, I guess, whatever. Owen Wilson. Oh, and Wilson. Yeah. Oh, wow. Sometimes that happens. But, you know, I'm good. I, I'm good with all that, whatever. I'm not tall with long hair. No, quite the opposite. You just don't have any hair.

I'm not tall, skinny with long hair. No. Say one nice thing. Hold your horses. Hold your horses.

I'm so excited to talk about this. No, you're not. I'm not actually. You're not because I was there last night when you decided to ignore the fact that you were very wrong.

And that I was, what did they say? Correct. I was correct.

And you were wrong. So, yeah, yesterday on the show, was it, was it around the same time? I don't remember what time it was.

Oh, or you just don't want to remember what time it was. Same. Okay, good. All right. Because you really want to talk about this, I can tell.

Yeah. We had a conversation about jar. Yeah, you said that, you know, you were talking about, do you keep jars? Do you wash out jars? Do you wash out old butter, you know, things in storm for Tupperware, those kinds of things. And we were talking about the fact that you have repurposed a jar and you have it in the bathroom and I thought it was holding combs.

Then I remembered it's actually holding Epsom salts. Not right now. Currently, it's empty. Yeah. But you have painted it like a, like a Robin's egg blue.

No, it's cream. Oh, it was that one. Okay. The, was the big one, am I thinking of the big one that was holding combs that was turquoise-ish? Yeah. Yeah.

Okay, good. But the little one that was holding the salts is like a, like a creamy white color. And then you paint it and then you sand it so that the, it looks worn. Is that the idea? Uh-huh.

And then the lettering on the jar is raised. Is that right? Uh-huh. And I know- It's actually, it's not raised. It's more like the inverse. So it's like- Oh, it's set in? Yes.

It's like him. Okay. Sure. Recessed or something. Ooh. Nice. Recessed lettering.

Okay. So it's regardless on the side of the jar, it has a name. And, and sometimes it'll say ball for canning and it'll say atlas, for example, like this one did. And, uh, and you brought it out into the hallway and proudly proclaimed, see, not a classical jar. And I said, no, that is a jar of classical pasta sauce. I'm telling you without a doubt. And you're like, no way. So I went to the cupboard to retrieve a jar of classical pasta sauce. And wouldn't you know it? They use atlas jars for classical pasta sauce. So, you know, we can mark that one down.

That on October 1st, I was right. It's a nice jar. It is a fine jar. It's a fine jar that you took that used to have spaghetti sauce in it and you cleaned it out and you painted it and sanded it and put some recessed lettering and you filled it full of epsom.

Hey, listen, that's just, that's just good recycling. I have no problems with it. I don't use the bath salts that are in it. I don't have anything to do with the jar. I just was correct about its origin. That's all.

That's all that matters in the whole wide world is that you, you were, I think embarrassed that it might have been a pasta sauce jar. Yeah. Why though? I don't know. Does it matter? No. No, it's a cute decoration and you're happy with it. It's just all in my epsom salt in a cute way.

Yeah. Open with dust in it as we discussed, which is the bigger problem. I don't care what jar you use, but it should have a lid.

I don't know why you're so concerned. If it had the lid, you would have been, you would have known right away it was a classical because it has this, the little tin classical lid. Well, I would have painted it if I had the lid on it.

You wouldn't have just left it like it's little brass looking classical lid. I want, here's the thing. I want to redo that bathroom anyway. Including that jar?

Yeah. I don't like, I don't like that, the shelving in there. I don't like any of that. The linoleum is pretty hot. No. Probably the thing I hate the most and the teal grain vent cover.

No, we got to. That's like a forest green because it matches the awesome linoleum. I know. We got to do something about that bathroom. Come on. Let's do something about it.

It's been the, we painted it and we put up the cool dictionary book page wall. That I've ripped half of it off. I know. Why? Because it was coming off and so I've just ripped it and then I was like, I'll just redo it. I haven't done it yet. And I still haven't put the trim back around the closet pantry thing in there. Yeah, I know.

It's a very unfinished bathroom. But you know what? It works and it's got a cute little classical jar. So. Yeah, it's cool. It doesn't say pasta sauce on the jar or anything.

No, it says Atlas, which is just the brand of jar they use. It's fine. Fine. You get one. You get this one. October 1st. You all heard it. I was correct once for the first time. Go me.

Go Josh. At what point in your life did you realize that you were an adult? Not. I think there are points where I've been like, oh, this is an adult thing. Like becoming a dad.

Like that's an adult thing. That's the moment in time, I think, that I was thinking when, I mean, because I was comfortable with kids. I had babysat. I had been around these Susan Matthews and little cousins.

So I was very comfortable with babies. Yeah. But I don't know that it's necessarily like, oh, I'm an adult now. It's just that I have like adult things that have to be done. Yeah. And that seems to be like my life.

But I just remember bringing our baby home, our baby back home and being like, like, I am fully responsible for this. Right. Yeah. Who left me in charge? Yeah, who did this? I know.

Who made this decision? You just sent me away with this baby and said, all right. I know. You leave the hospital and they're like, good luck. See ya. Have a good time. I don't know. I don't know what to do. Yeah.

Well, you know, good luck out there. Also, when I had to do my taxes for the first time as an adult, like with a real job going like, I don't, somebody gave me all this money. I don't know what to do with any of it. It's silly.

Yeah. The first time you get a paycheck, adult thing. And then you go, well, that's just money now. Now what? And then you make really non-adult decisions.

And then you go, okay, well, that was, now I got to be an adult about money. Oh, no. I don't want to. I still feel, I mean, it's true what you said when we first started this conversation. Like, no, I still don't act like an adult. I don't feel like an adult.

My age says that I should be an adult, but. Yeah, but what fun is that? Certainly don't know what I'm doing.

I'm a Toys R Us Kid. So. Always will be. Can't make me grow up. I won't grow up.

I never, never will. It's right. From the famous lines of Peter Pan. You were in Peter Pan.

I was in Peter Pan. Thank you for bringing that up. Did you deliver that line? No, because I played old Wendy. There you are, Peter. Peter. I think that was my line. Your line was just Peter. Oh, Peter. No, no, you had more to say than that. I did have more to say. There you are, Peter. It's one of my favorite lines in Hook.

He starts squishing his face. There you are, Peter. Oh, so funny. Anyway, that's a weird place to be when you're trying to figure out how to be an adult, but also trying to figure out how to like, but I like to have fun. I don't want to be an old Scrooge. I don't want to be a curmudgeon and just be cranky because being an adult is cranky. I've been told by people before that I act immature for my age. Oh, not recently.

This has probably been like, I don't know, in my, in my young 20s, I used to hear that a lot and I'd be like, so? Who wants to be mature? Yeah.

Why don't you hurry up and get old? Yeah. Right.

Sure thing. Why don't you take life more seriously? Yeah. What? That sounds awful. Yeah. Who wants to do that?

Like, uh, like nobody. There's so much fun to have. You've got adult responsibilities. Be responsible.

Take care of the things you have to take care of. Yeah. And, but also like, lighten up, you know?

Yeah. Like, what do you, what do you got to be so like, nope, you're an adult now. You're active to mature. You have a job. Okay. Thank you. I'm going to take that as a compliment because you mean I'm lighthearted and having a good time being mature is zero amounts of fun. That's what I'm saying.

Plus that sounds hard. Like it's so much easier to just be like, you know, go with the flow, lighthearted, do whatever, like all that stuff is way better. So when did I realize that you were an adult? Haven't. Same. But I, I heavily realize I have adult responsibilities. Yeah, I know.

And somebody pays me adult money and I go, hmm, bills or, or vacation. So did you hear the news that Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman are separating? No. This is drama. What?

I did not know that. Yes, you did. No. Keith Urban. I'm Keith Urban.

That guy, Australian country star, Keith Urban. And Nicole Kidman, they're splitting. I really didn't know that. I think they've really, it was all over the news. You knew it.

No, I didn't. I don't pay attention to Keith Urban news. They'd been together like 19 years or something. But listen to this drama. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Yesterday it says Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban split, inner circle believes Keith is involved with a new woman. That's what I'm here to talk about.

This is what TMZ says. Oh, I'm Keith Urban. I got a new girlfriend. Is she Australian as well?

I have no idea. So apparently he wrote a song about Nicole Kidman called The Fighter. Now, I didn't necessarily know this song because I don't listen to country music.

But I looked up the song and it's all about how like he, like she's been with men that have not treated her so well, but he's going to be the one that's going to be there to pick her up if she falls and he's going to fight for her. Okay. Okay. So he was singing that song at a show live.

Okay. And he swapped in the name of his guitarist, Maggie. And fans are upset. Drama.

Because they think. Did it used to have Nicole in it? I would assume so. I mean, it was written about her for her. And then it brought up the question, what do you do if you write a song about someone and then you break up with that someone?

What are you supposed to do? Never sing that song again? What if that song is like a super hit? And then every time you go on stage, you're like, I got to sing the song that I wrote about somebody that I used to be in love with, but I'm not anymore.

So I'm going to sing it, but it's not going to be sung with a lot of passion. Right. I guess so.

I mean, you know, if it's a hit, right? He wrote that song. It came out in 2016. They've been together for a minute, haven't they? 19 years, I think.

Yeah, that's pretty incredible. It does say here that they separated in June and it was Keith's doing. Nicole wants to save the marriage and is trying to keep the family together, but Keith seems to have moved on. To his good times.

He rented his own home in Nashville and is showing no signs of wanting a reconciliation. I'm Keith Ebbon. I want my own. I want my own house. I'm Keith Ebbon. This is my apartment. It's a terrible impression.

It's so bad. Anyway, that's really the question that I wanted to pose. What do you do when you have a hit song and you don't even like the person that you wrote about it? I mean, I guess that's why people write breakup songs instead of staying together with songs. Because then you can go, yeah, this is a breakup song. I get to sing it all the time.

Because every time I sing it, I'm salty. Yeah, I'm still mad at that person. That's right.

Yeah. You don't have to sing that one where it's like, I just love you so much. And then what if you wrote a song about somebody that you used to love and then you break up and then you meet a new person and you're like, I got a really good song for you. But it's the one that you wrote about your ex. Yeah, there you go. You just re-purposed it. So in 2016, they did a video.

I just found this on YouTube. Keith Eibben and Nicole are in the car. I think he's playing it for her for like the first time. Oh, no, they sang it together in the car. They did a little car karaoke thing, singing the song together for just a couple of minutes. And they seem very into it. Well, that was a long time ago.

Things have happened now. His highlights and his hair and stuff. Yeah, he's got bad hair.

And it's not a good look. It's like a weird mullet. Like straw. It looks like straw. Can we talk about scarecrow hair on Keith Eibben? This is way better. I'm Keith Eibben.

I got straw for hair. I just like talking about, he wrote that song for Nicole Kidman and then he put another woman's name in it. How does that woman feel about having her name put in a song that he wrote about another woman? Probably special. No.

Yeah. You didn't write that song about me. No, but I sang it about you. It's bad. This time. Bad.

Bad look, Keith Eibben. I got a fun fact for you today. Oh, a Chantel fun fact. It's a fun fact. A fun fact.

It's a fun fact. Okay. That's its own opening song? I can't remember the opening.

I had a song for it. It doesn't have to be the same every time. It's fun and it's a fact.

Fun fact. What you got? The Pringles guy, the guy on the can of Pringles. With a mustache? He has a name.

And his name shall be? Want to take a guess? Does it start with a P? No. Why wouldn't they do an alliteration? Like is his name Prince something?

No. Prince something, the Pringles man. His name is not Philip. Let me tell you that it started as a prank. The name?

In 2006. Or the guy. So his official name was Mr. P. Yeah. Until about.

Mr. Pringles. 2006. When there were two college students, Justin and Michael, and they were watching a football player. And they said, I think this is what we should call the Pringles guy. They were watching a Carolina Panthers game and they saw a player on the Carolina Panthers. And then they were like, we have to have a name for the Pringles mascot. They must have been. This was just two guys? Yes.

Okay. So they're not like an ad agency. They're just two dudes. Nope.

And so then somebody overheard it and then Pringles now officially recognizes this name. Montgomery. No. Julius. Julius. They were watching the player Julius Peppers. And they said, I think the mascot of the Pringles can should be Julius Pringles.

And it's stuck. Julius Pringles. JP. JP. PJ. Yeah. JP.

Huh. Julius Pringles. Pringles. That's funny. But that's what they, I mean Pringles themselves said his name, Mr. P. His first name could still be Julius.

We never, we never identified. He was just Mr. P. So they, you know, there's plenty of room to make Mr. P Julius Peppers. The company officially recognizes Julius Pringles as his name. And it's been his name. So these two, the two college students in 2006 decided to call him this.

And then it was officially recognized in 2013. How about that? There you go. Now I know. Julius Pringles.

Pringles or Pringle? Happy birthday. Is his birthday?

No. Why is this? It's just a fun fact. Fun fact. It's a fun fact. Fun fact.

Fun fact. Let's go ahead and do some would you rather this or that. Halloween edition. Okay. Would you rather have warts like a witch?

No. Or spider legs for fingers. What? Those are any bitty. Take the warts. Oh, all over.

You have all over. I don't, I can't deal with itty bitty fingers. I can't. I've got things to do.

You can still use them. They're itty bitty. Have you seen spider legs? Yeah. Tiny. But they can do so much with them.

No. They're just little. But look at what they could do with their legs. They can do so much stuff.

You'd be able to move them. What? Everything. Climb up walls for instance. Not with this old body and those tiny little legs.

No. They just be really long and skinny, but you'd still be able to use them. Even if they were tarantula size, they're still itty bitty. And they're hairy.

Yeah. I'm going with warts. No one would ever want to hold your hand. High five. You know? No, I know.

Warts all over your face and body, huh? I guess. Okay. I got to be able to do my job and little spider leg button pushers aren't going to get it done. I think you still could.

You could still push buttons. They're so tiny. They aren't little, but you could still do stuff. Even the biggest spider, those crazy ones in Australia.

Like they'd be like this long, but little bone. No. I got to have functioning hands. All right. Take the gross warts. Yeah.

I'm struggling with my decision. Okay. Because I'm tempted to go spider legs for fingers, but it's the hair that's grossing me out. Well, if they're tarantula, yeah. I know. I'm just going to go spider legs for fingers just to be different. You're different. You are different.

Would you rather this or that? So in addition to our show, which we also publish as an on demand podcast every day, there is the River Bend Awareness podcast that is out there. And every month there is a new topic that has to do with something going on in the community or some sort of health thing.

Right. And do you know what's happening in October? Breast cancer awareness. That is correct, but that is not the topic in the River Bend Awareness podcast this month. The topic is energy awareness.

Yeah. So they are actually talking about hydropower, how it works and its benefits. They've got the history of Idaho Falls hydropower plants, simple methods of conserving energy, how learning about and understanding the various types of energy sources and their pros and cons is important.

They've got some really good information in there in the River Bend Awareness project. And you can find that where you listen to Wake Up Classy 97, the podcast, or everywhere you get podcasts if you want to check it out. Very cool. Yeah, that is cool. And there's a whole bunch of different episodes. Last month was all about service dogs, which is cool.

Yeah, I know. So there's some great episodes. If you want to go back into the archives and check them out. But this month, the new episode that was just published yesterday is all about energy awareness. So if you're looking for something in addition to Wake Up Classy 97, the podcast that you can listen to, I recommend River Bend Awareness Project podcast. Yeah, just search for River Bend Awareness. I'm going to go listen to the service dogs one. But the hydro thing sounds interesting too.

I know. All about hydropower and how it works. I want to know how it works. Water goes through a hydro prop, a propeller, and turns it and it generates electricity. Draw me a diagram.

I will let you listen to the podcast. And they will draw a diagram in your mind. I'm sure they have way more information than what I just said. I'm sure they do. But go check it out.

If you're looking for something else to listen to, it is available everywhere you get podcasts, including wherever you listen to our show. Yeah, for sure. I think that's a wrap on the day. Is it? Yeah. Okay.

Sounds good. Do you push the buttons then? You wrap it up. You tell me what to do. End it. I'm going to take off my cans.

Oh, your headphones. You're calling them cans now? Because they are two cans hooked together with a string.

Two cans? Yeah, like a bird. You took them off. You can't even hear now. I can hear you just fine. You can't hear you. I can't hear myself.

Yes, my own brain. Yeah, it's not the same. So... I'm just waiting.

You're going to walk over and push the button? All right. I can do that. You're going to do it? Yeah.

Oh, look at this. This is a big day. Big day. Coming around. Coming around. Coming around. Okay. So do you see here, this is the next thing that's going to play?

Do you see how that says C? So we're going to turn this down to here, right? That's that.

Then you're going to hit that green button when you're ready. This one? Yeah, that's the one. Oh, it's this red button, too. Same thing.

Kind of. But go ahead. All right. We'll see you tomorrow.

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