Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel -
Episode summary introduction:
The wild “Taco Bell 50K” ultra race, a frosty Idaho morning full of seat-warmer debates, squeaky studio chairs, soup season, Kleenex hoarding, and the eternal “is cooking dinner together really a date?” argument. Plus, find out why their teen’s driving instructor thinks only “old people and teenage girls” drive a certain way, and how Benson Boone hopped on Portland’s “bike bus” for some wholesome community fun, and more!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Taco Bell 50K
(3:03) - Frost & a full moon
(5:57) - Chair business
(10:14) - Good News
(11:54) - Not much of a weekend
(16:41) - Kleenex pockets
(21:48) - Too many decorations
(26:46) - Soup date
(33:22) - Driver's ed
(39:03) - Benson Boone & the bike bus
(43:15) - Door decor
(48:57) - Yearbooks
(54:41) - Would You Rather
(57:09) - Old clock radio
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Full show transcript:
This past weekend, there was an ultra runner race in Denver called the Taco Bell 50K.
The Taco Bell what now? 50K. Okay. It's 31 miles. Yeah. And it includes mandatory stops at 10 area Taco Bells where you have to order and consume Taco Bell. Nothing will go wrong here.
Hold on. Do you have to order something specific? You have to order something at each nine, oh, at nine of the 10 Taco Bells.
So there's one that you can skip, but you have to order something at nine of the 10 Taco Bells. And when you say something, what does that mean? Uh, okay.
Let me tell you. You've got to actually eat the food. So, uh, the list includes one Chalupa Supreme or one Crunchwrap Supreme by the fourth stop.
No way. One Burrito Supreme. Do the Chalupa.
Okay. Don't do the Crunchwrap. The Crunchwrap is way too much food. One Burrito Supreme or one Nachos Belgrondae by the eighth stop. I would do the Nachos. Okay. You need to finish the 31 miles within 11 hours and you have to keep all your receipts and wrappers and drinks do not count as food.
Okay. So you can just have like, I'm just grabbing a soft taco. I'm just grabbing a soft taco. I'm just grabbing a soft taco. Now I have to eat the Chalupa. Yeah. You have to eat.
And then back to soft tacos. Yeah. You've got to keep it all down too. There's a zero tolerance policy for vomiting.
Oh no. If you do, you're immediately disqualified. Uh, you're banned from on-course stomach medicines like Pepto, Pepsidaceae, Alka-Seltzer, Mylanta.
You can't do any of those. Okay, but what if you have, what if you have a prescription for like, oh, meprosal? I don't know anything about it, but what if you do? I'm just asking. You know?
Uh, you are able to use the bathroom as much as you'd like, but you can only use Taco Bell restrooms along with one other approved public toilet. Holy cow. It is in its eighth year. They haven't announced a winner or any final numbers, but they're expecting around 600 participants. Uh, it's uh... Taco Bell 500K. Yeah. 50. 50K. 50K. The Taco Bell 50K. Yeah.
Zoinks. That's wild. For the record, Taco Bell isn't affiliated with this in any way. They won't even comment on it.
The organizers say they believe that it's probably hung up by their legal team because if they endorse it, they may have some liability issues. And uh, there you go. Well now I know what I'm doing for lunch. Training for the Taco Bell 50K. Gross.
Could you imagine? I wonder, do you have to sit down and eat it or do you have to eat it while you're on the move? You would want to eat it while you're on the move. Ugh. Blah.
Sounds awful. Let's start the show. Buenos dias. Hello. Hello.
Uh... And good morning. I think the main news this morning is Frost on the Wind Shows. Primary news.
Uh, allow yourself more time to defrost if you don't have a garage. Primary news. Yep. This has been big, big deal news for the morning.
Breaking. Uh, yeah, be ready for that. I was uh, I was expecting it because I looked outside last night. It had rained and then the temperature had dropped and I went, I'm going to have ice. I'm going to have to deal with ice. Yeah, it was cold last night, wasn't it?
A little bit. I turned on your uh, seat warmer for you. How was that? I appreciated that. Thank you. Yeah, I bet you did.
I did. What's that like? Having a seat warmer? Yeah.
It's awesome. Would you rather have the seat warmer or the backup camera? Seat warmer. Yeah? Yeah.
I can back up without a camera all day long. Hmm. I've been doing it for 20 years. Okay. Okay, you. Slow down.
Yes. Also, you're not uh, 35, 36. Shhh.
I've seen you've been driving for longer than 20 years. How dare you. I just wanted to put that out.
Question of woman's age. How dare you. Oh, there is no question. I know what I'm talking about. Thank you for the seat warmer. Yeah.
Warm. Dup. You're welcome.
I had to push one button. I know. Big deal. Well, you went and started my car too.
I appreciated that as well. It was nice and toasty when I got in. Was it? Yeah. Were you defrosted enough to drive right away?
Yeah. I was not. I had to stay at the house a minute. Did you? Yeah. I'm sorry.
No, you're not. But it also, by the time I got in, it was just uh, foggy on the inside and outside. So I wasn't dealing with like I had to get out and scrape or anything.
I just had to deal with uh, with the leftover uh, whatever, fog. Um, hey, how about the moon? The moon was pretty awesome this morning. I mean, I turned the corner and went, hello. Yeah. If you look to the west, the moon is like, hey.
Look towards the westward sky. All right. We don't need to. It's the moon, not the alphabet. It's okay.
You can look at the moon and think it's pretty amazing because it was. Yeah. Very, very cool. Um, as you're driving west today or walk outside and look west, it's a big old- You'll see it. Can't miss it. It's almost full.
It's like 97 or 98%. She's showing off this morning. The moon's like, what's up? I'm here. So are we. So are we. What's up?
We're here. Just a few seconds ago you said, oh, I'm shrinking. Uh, which means your chair is sinking. Sinking down. So you say sinking or shrinking? I said sinking. Ah.
Yeah. But, but either way, uh, you, you have an issue with your chair where the hydraulic lift in it, uh, because this is a tall countertop. It's like a standing desk. And so we have these tall drafting chairs that we sit in and yours likes to sink.
Sink. Randomly. Not every day. Sometimes a couple of times a day. If you shake around, can you make it do it? No, it's so random. I never know what's going to happen. What a weird thing.
But then all of a sudden you're like, whoops. Here we go. Yep.
Later bye. Um, mine, uh, late last week, I leaned over to set something down on the counter and I thought I was getting ejected because the chair like leaned and then like something bent and it stuck that way. And now it makes a cool noise.
Have you heard it? Oh, I can't lean that way. There it goes.
Yeah. Oh, it's bad. Don't move like that.
If I move around, if I try to scoot, it makes that, that noise. Isn't that great? That's nice.
Especially, you know, when you're, uh, doing things in audio, to have a chair making all that racket, like it's part of the show. I don't care for that. Third go out. I know. Yeah.
Yeah. Welcome to the studio, the third member of the show. Play down chair. Stop doing that. It only does that when you make that motion. I told you, it's when I scoot, when I start scooting.
Well quit scooting. Anyway, I gotta do something about this. We've got a situation. We do have a situation. And now this is the same chair that you and I have sat in.
Uh, well, I've sat in this chair since I started here in, uh, almost four years ago. How about that? How about that? How about that?
How about that? Pretty crazy. How fast time flies. Um, and it's time for a new one. Cause I have no idea how long this chair had been in this, uh, room before the four years I've spent in it. Right.
I've been complaining about my chair for a while. Yeah. At least a year, I'd say.
Yeah. Mine's been stable. The arm started falling apart, which I don't care for. Uh, cause then I get a little black stuff all over my shirt.
Yeah. And then it does that. We hurt. It feels like, uh, like it should be a rocking chair. It's not even moving. It's just making that noise. It's so tired of my weight. It's had enough. Yeah.
New chairs are on the table. Yeah. We got it. We got to get this taken care of. Is that the right thing I want to say? On the agenda. On the agenda. Whatever.
We got to get this sorted out. It's bad news. I've been talking about it for months. We get it, Josh.
I'm barely even moving at this point and it's doing it anyway. Let's talk to the boss. Hey, boss. Hey, boss. I got to get some new chairs.
Hey, boss. Like that. I'll see how that goes. Eight o'clock's, you know, sort of around that time. I'll go, Hey, boss.
Got any chairs for me? Boss. It's a good approach. I agree.
Okay. See what he does. Can't wait to update this and go, Hey, boss gave new chairs. He gave a little bit of a concern. New chairs.
New chairs for the studio. Dumb, dumb. Anyway, I'm dealing with that.
I know occasionally. It's like a creaky boat. You have a sinking issue and I have a creaky boat, a couple of ocean chairs. We're just paddling away. We'll keep paddling.
Here we go. Here's some good news over the weekend in San Luis, Abyspo, uh, Abyspo, California, roller derby teams there got together for an event they call the fall brawl. This is my kind of event. A family friendly evening of roller derby action.
They had two teams, the witches and the ghosts. That's awesome. Yeah.
They battled first followed by another match between the central coast roller derby and the Santa Cruz harbor. Hillcats. Yeah.
They're crazy. Fall brawl, uh, had a lot of roller derby action, but organizer set up a specific raffle with all the proceeds going to parents helping parents, which is a charity that offers support resources and community to parents dealing with challenges, raising children with special needs. Aw. It's a very cool cause. Uh, central coast roller derby members Don Marie Little, uh, who's known as pinball on the track. That's a great name.
Yeah, it is. Uh, said the group tries to give back to a different charity every game. She also encouraged people to check out roller derby whenever they get a chance. Uh, she said these games are so much fun and they're fun for everybody. It's action packed the whole time. You get to see some really fun antics as well as some really athletic sportsmanship, which I agree. I would love to see some roller derby. I would love to see roller derby in person.
I've never gone and I really want to. Very, very cool. So, uh, and what a great cause. Really cool.
I didn't know about parents helping parents. What a great group. Yeah, that's really neat. Uh, so good cause and a lot of fun and they had the witches and the ghosts.
Oh, yeah. Very fun. Uh, charity roller derby is good news. Did you find out yourself had a nice relaxing weekend or no?
Not really. Yeah, mine was super busy. I don't feel like there was a weekend.
I agree. It was stressful. Uh, last night yesterday, uh, because I overthink all of my football decisions and then, um, you know, there's a competition going on and I want to do well and I, uh, I won one of my two. I lost the other one.
I'm sorry. How'd you do? I won both. Oh, you're only in one. I'm only in one. You're only in one.
I can't handle two. Yeah. And did you feel like you won pretty early on? Yeah.
So you didn't have a lot of the stress like I did. No, and here's the thing. I don't care as much as you do. Yeah. You said at one point, uh, who taught you to play fantasy football because you were worried about me.
Yeah. Because you were taking it way too seriously. I just want to perform.
I want to do well. You're taking it too seriously. The guy that I was playing was for no.
And now he is not. Good job. That's pretty good. I know. I know. Sometimes those people at the top need to be humbled a little bit. That's right.
By a guy who was 0 and 2. Congratulations, Josh. That's why it's stressful. But I lost the, I lost in the family one, the money one. So I'm a little bit, uh, sad about that. Um, we, we both went in two and two. Somebody had to lose. It was me. And it's a bummer because I had the points on my bench that I could have won. You just made the wrong.
Way too seriously. It's fine. Um, let's see what else was going on. Oh, uh, general conference this weekend.
So I had to pay a lot of attention to that on Saturday and Sunday, uh, because in order to put that broadcast on the air right here, somebody has to do that. That's me. I'm that guy.
You are that guy. I do that. Uh, so this weekend, uh, was spent focusing a lot of time and energy on that as well.
Um, and so, and then, you know, just between family stuff and work projects and all that other stuff, I feel unrested. Yeah. Yeah.
It was a hectic week and school of rock on Friday. Right. That was great. So even, I mean, it just was a nonstop go, go, go.
It really was. All weekend. And now here we are back in the studio. Back at it again. I was busy. I like it. I'd like that it was busy. I, you know, just having a bunch of downtime sounds like meh, but there was some stuff we didn't accomplish because we were so busy. What? Like, uh, our daughter wanted to go on a walk.
I know she's been begging to go on a fall walk. I've got it. We've got to do that tonight.
Yeah. But that's just something we just didn't have time to squeeze in. Uh, and so, you know, um, that's okay, but whatever, just not much of a weekend for me. I got to get the air conditioners out of the windows so that you can close the windows or leave them open and just get fresh air to get some fresh fall air. Sounds nice. Doesn't it? I mean, yeah, sure.
Can't. It was so cold. It was chilly last night.
So I don't know. Um, but yeah, we got a little bit, a little bit more work to do. We got to get stuff put away for the winter because apparently that's where we're headed. I got to, you know, if I got to figure out what I got to do to the gardens to get them prepared, do I strip them? Do I let everything, you know, continue to do its thing even though some of it's going to be frostbitten now? I still have a lot of tomatoes that are still trying to grow. Do I just leave them and let them do their thing? I don't know what to do with the garden at the end of the season.
I've got to sort that out. Do you have to greenhouse it? Just put a greenhouse over the top. No, that's not the same. Okay.
If I had like a full functioning greenhouse, that would be cool because then I could continue to grow things, but I don't. That's okay. You had a pretty good harvest last night. I did. I went and pulled in some, some of the stuff I'd been leaving out there for a while because I went, I might not get another harvest. I pulled a lot of broccoli.
I was very excited about my broccoli harvest. Yep. So I had a little bit of time for that, but other than that, it's been just go, go, go for a long time. I need a weekend. Can I have a weekend now? Yeah, you'll have one next weekend. Yeah, next weekend. This weekend I won't, but next weekend. Next weekend. Hang in, bud. It's coming. Thanks.
Can't wait. I often feel like an old lady. My body sometimes moves in a way that goes, yeah, you're not a spring chicken anymore.
What's that face? Oh, I'm physically biting my tongue. Go on. I think one of the main things that qualify me as an old lady is I'm randomly finding Kleenexes in every pocket. It's gross.
It is gross. Throw them away. Why are you carrying them around? Because I need them.
There's a whole box of them right there. Well, yeah, but why do you put them in your pocket? Because what if I go somewhere that doesn't have a Kleenex? I'll need Kleenex. Do you have Kleenex here? Yeah. Do you have Kleenex in your car? No. Yes. I have napkins. Okay. That's not soft.
Okay, but it counts. Do you have Kleenex at your other job? Yes. Are there Kleenexes in the house?
Yes. Where are you going? That doesn't have Kleenex. I don't know. I don't even know why I keep them in my pocket.
Because it's gross. I know. Throw them away. I know. I fully understand they're gross. And sometimes I don't even realize I put them in my pocket and then I just go, I'll reach into my pocket and I go, oh, when did I put that in my pocket?
No matter. Let me use it to wipe my nose. And then it comes in handy.
I keep mine in this box I just dropped. I know. You're making all kinds of commotion over there.
Well, I was trying to get this, I needed to open a new box and I just haven't yet. So, ta-da. Look at that.
Look at that. New box. Good job. Ready to go.
Good job. So, even if you run out. You've got to back up.
I've got a brand new box right here. That's what I'm saying. That's what I was trying to say. So, I can check any matter of my pockets. Gross.
One will be there. It's gross. I know. I was leaving work last week and I happened to find one in my pocket. And I go, I find Kleenex in every pocket that I ever have. And a coworker of mine goes, you never know when you're going to need it. So she was in a grudge that I should carry my Kleenex with me. I think the only like real acceptable reason is if you don't have something else readily around.
If you go into the grocery store and you know you've got the sniffles and you need to throw one in your pocket while you're shopping just in case. Yeah. Great. Yeah, that's what it's there for. Then throw it away on your way out. Okay.
There's a garbage can at the door. Yeah. If it's heavily used, then I'll check it. No. If it's a light used. If it, no.
Throw it away. Okay. Yes. There's more to that Kleenex to be used. No.
There's not. It has served its purpose of being there in case you need it while you were at the store. As you leave the store, you throw it away because where are you headed? The car. Where you have another one. Napkins. Ready if you need it. Napkins are Kleenex.
It doesn't matter. Those are car Kleenex. Drive through napkins or car Kleenex. Fact. They are because it's just out of necessity. Right. It's not first choice. Absolutely not. So I should probably get some Kleenex for the car. You don't have a little pack in your purse? Mm-mm.
I have two in my truck. What? Yeah. You're holding out.
No. I'm prepared because car napkins are not first choice. I'm not holding out. I'm prepared. Yeah, I want some. I'm stocked up. You have some. No, I don't have Kleenex in my car. You have little packs. Yeah. I have one and then a backup.
Share, buddy. No. Because then I won't have them. You had like, the pack had like six. I took two.
You've had the other four. Where'd they go? I have no idea. Where did they go? I remember buying that.
I know. I took two and put them in my truck. Have you used them? I think I probably used them. I think they're...
There's only like four or six napkins or Kleenex in there. Yeah. So, that's why I have two. But my truck in the console has a little holder for it and everything. Oh, fancy.
I know. Would you rather have a seat warmer or a Kleenex holder? I'd like to have the seat warmer. It's nice. I bet.
I bet it is. Here's the problem. When my nose gets cold, it just runs. So, I have to have Kleenex everywhere. What? Little catch in my mouth. Come on. Come on, you. I have some Halloween. I almost said Easter.
I have some Halloween decorations. And they are either plug-ins. Some of them are plug-ins. Some of them are battery operated.
I have so many that it's become kind of a hassle to turn them off at night. And then I thought to myself, why did I do this to myself? Yeah, you did this to yourself. Yeah. You got pumpkins that light up.
Yeah. Do you want to know how many I have? Oh, okay, sure. I have seven things that require batteries.
Okay. Well, more than that, because I've got hanging candles. Yeah, but we don't turn all those off.
No. Because we can't be bothered. We just let the battery go dead. Yeah. But then when the battery does go dead, I replace them and that's kind of a pain.
Yeah, and expensive. So, I've got seven different battery operated things and two outlet things. Three outlet things. That's a lot of things to have to.
That's only 10 things. I know, but it's a lot to have to remember to turn off at night. I have to go through and be like, hey, turn that one off. Yep, turn that one off. Yep.
Okay. Do we have more or not as many Christmas decorations? I think most of the Christmas decorations are just outlets. Right. I don't think I have any. But do you think you have 10? No. No. Okay.
Because all of the outside lights are on a timer. Right. So, those do their own thing. Yeah. I think it's just Christmas tree lights. I've got one garland with the light and then outside lights. I think that's it. And the tree.
As far as Christmas. I have no battery operated light. Tree is foot pedal. Yep. That's genius too. Whoever invented the foot pedal switch so you could just reach your foot in there and clap it to turn it off.
That's right. That's the best invention ever. It's so smart. It's a good one. I know it is.
I know it is. I guess if I turn on all of the lighting, like my studio light, the sink light, the theater light, the stuff on the fireplace mantle, if I turned all that on, we'd have more stuff all the time. What are you talking about? Like those are permanent fixtures we've put in place. That if I had those turned on, I'd have to go through and turn those off every night. But we don't turn them on every day. Yeah. But they're permanent ones. You know what I'm saying? No.
I'm saying you have a few now that are going to go away, but there are some permanent ones that we have around the house that if we turned everything on. I see what you're saying. Like different. Like every day we could have this issue.
Yeah, we could. If I turned on the things in the theater, the things in my studio, the things in the family. Because you have a mountain scene light in the theater and you have. And the movie ticket thing. Yeah. You're right.
That's what I'm saying. We can make it worse for ourselves. I don't want to. Let's not make it worse for ourselves. I know.
I don't want to either, but I'm saying we could. But here's the part that I mean, I'm, it's worth it to have to have it be a pain to turn it all off at night because you like it. I enjoy the lights. Like yesterday it was kind of gloomy in the afternoon. Yeah. And I was like, I'm turning on the lights.
It's dark enough that it'll, it'll cause a nice little glow. Yeah. And I like it. I was like, it's dark enough in here. I'm turning on these lights. It was two o'clock in the afternoon, but I went, turn on the lights.
I don't know why we don't have just lights in the house like that all the time. We can. I know we can. You can do whatever you want. You're an adult. I am an adult. And I can do whatever I want. Yeah.
We could absolutely have a bunch of battery powered light stuff all the time. Yippee. Sounds cool. It does sound cool.
Thank you for saying that. What would be better is to get it so it's all smart lights. So then you could just turn it all on and all off with a tap of a button on your phone.
That sounds awesome. Yeah. It does. And it would be. Then let's do that. You're in charge.
Sure thing. You got the budget for it? No. Okay. Then we'll stick with the battery. Little lights then.
I don't have the budget for that either because batteries are expensive. I know. You keep replacing them. Well, they keep dying.
That's the thing about them. The thing about batteries. What's up? Why are you looking at me like that?
You're looking at me like my computer's broken. And I don't know what I wrote in the notes to talk about. I did. I really did. That's what you looked at me like.
Here's the deal. You made a couple of soups. Oh, that's right. And I made a mess. We both made a mess because I harvested broccoli and then made a broccoli salad.
Yeah. Was there a reason that you decided to do that right as I started to cook dinner? But I was just curious why you decided to do it the same time I did it.
Literally just to annoy you. No, I harvested the vegetables. I wanted to wash the vegetables and clean up my mess that I would and then make another mess in the meantime.
That's all. I just really wanted to be a part of the mess making. But you made two different kinds of soup. Yeah, because I had some butternut squash that I needed to use.
And it was a gloomy kind of chilly day. And so I said, well, I'm going to make this finally. But I knew that you guys wouldn't want to eat that. And so I said, well, I got to make another soup so that you guys can actually eat dinner.
So I decided to make a potato soup as well. Right. Which was delicious. They were both delicious. They both were very good.
I'm not going to, I'm not going to, whatever the word is, I'm not going to lie about that at all. Both soups, including the butternut, were very good. I think the butternut soup was good because it gets pureed.
It gets turned into like a bisque. And I think that was really nice. If it would have been like chunky, like the potato soup, it might have been a little more off-putting. But because it was all blended, it was nice.
It was really nice. They were really good soups, both of them. Soup season is here. I love soups. I know. You're a very soupy lady. I am a soupy lady. Thank you.
You're welcome. There's one thing I know about you. You're a soupy lady. But we don't have a large kitchen.
No. And as I'm trying to make two different kinds of soups and cutting vegetables and cutting potatoes and... So was I. I know. I went, oh, this is fun. You in here. I had a good time.
Also. I don't know what your problem is about it. I thought it was fun. And then get this. I saw a thing online as I was scrolling on TikTok. It was like, ideas for fall date nights. And I said, well, this will be fun.
Maybe there's something in here I can put together. Guess what one of these suggestions was? Cooking. Cooking together.
Making soups together. And I said, hey, we did that. Date done.
No. I saved it for this conversation so that I could get credit. Cause we did a nice thing together.
You were frustrated about it. I thought it was a nice date night fall activity and you were upset. That does not count as a date. No. It was listed as a suggested fall date idea.
It doesn't count. And I'll tell you why. Because I'm the one who decided to do the soups. I went to the grocery store to get all the supplies. I went to the grocery store with you, much to your chagrin.
You didn't think I helped much. But that was also part of the date. That was not part of the date. That was not a date. That doesn't count. It doesn't count. Because I'm really upset by this.
Why? Cause if you think that counts as a date, you're totally wrong. You have to plan something else. That doesn't count. Why doesn't it count? Because you were mad about going to the store. I wasn't. Cause you were missing football the whole time. I wasn't mad. I volunteered to go.
I would rather you hadn't volunteered to go. Bro, that doesn't count. But why not? I just said all the reasons why not. I feel like it counts. It doesn't count. But could it count?
No. What would it take to make it count? You plan the soups that we're going to make and then you have to do the planning. I did all of the planning. That right for the date. It was a good one.
You tilted your head sideways. This was a good date. I had a good time. And we got delicious dinner out of it and leftovers and a broccoli salad.
It doesn't count as a date. Because guess and guess who did all of the cleanup? I helped. You helped a little for sure. Yeah. I didn't just stick you with all the bad stuff. I understand. But you only came in when parts of the football game weren't being broadcast. Right.
But I helped. That's not a date. It's not a date. But the internet said it was a date. It's not. After we did it, then it said make soups together is a great fall date.
It would be. That is a great fall date. And I went, I had a great time today. We had a great time. No, that's a great date. They're not wrong that that's a fun date. That what we experienced last night was not a date. That was me cooking dinner.
Yes. And of what happened. I felt like I had a good time. I had a great time. It was not a date.
So cute. Because I didn't say beforehand this is a date. Because you didn't do any of the planning. Do better. Do better.
Shut it down. Do better. I'll do better. You will do better. I'll do better. You will do better. You're going to actually plan a date.
It won't be soups. Okay. Because that was too much work. It wasn't a very good date. It's too much work. All that cleaning.
Yeah, I know. And then I had to get into cupboards that you were standing in front of and made you very happy about that. And you went, why are you doing this now? And I said, well, I've got all the vegetables out. I'm not going to put them away and then get them out later. No, let's do it now. When it's a date.
Stupid. Our daughter is in driver's ed and she had her first drive over the weekend. And her instructor told her that she needed to keep her hands on 10 and two. And she got chastised a little bit because she started, she started out at 10 and two and then she moved her hands to the bottom of the steering wheel and her instructor said, put your hands back at 10 and two. And she said, Oh, sorry.
I just see my parents always driving like that. And he said, don't call me out. And he told her that only old people and teenage girls drive with their hands at the bottom of the steering wheel. That's rude. I feel, I feel attacked.
I felt attacked also. I said, the only people who drive at 10 and two are people who are learning how to drive. Fair or grannies. Right. I said, I don't ever drive at 10 and two. It's very rare that I drive at 10 and two.
10 and two is if it's like a real sketchy road, right? Like if you're driving in the snow, you really got to focus. But shouldn't you be the whole time? Focus the whole time. I am focused the whole time. Not if you're not at 10 and two, because 10 and two is focus hands. I'm pretty focused the whole time.
What do you typically do? You're a one-handed on top of this. Yeah. I'm a left-handed noon kind of fella. I'm a left hand at seven most of the time. Why? Seven or nine?
How is it at seven? What do you mean? What do I mean? You're in your car right now. Put one hand at seven and see how comfortable that is.
Not. That's how I drive. One hand at seven, fingers up, fingers down. Like this. Fingers up.
Yeah. Or nine. And I do nine like this.
Nine's on the side. Yeah. You do it through the middle?
Yep. I put my fingers through the middle. You're dangerous. That's not dangerous. You have no control of that wheel.
Yes, I do. Not with one hand. Oh, nine. You're saying you have more control at noon? Yeah.
Oh, absolutely. I have full range of left and right turn. If your hand is down here at nine, you're limited. No way, man. Yeah, way, man.
I have full control. No way. Left, right.
No way. If I need extra support, I'll bring my other hand in to turn. I hope you can do it in time. I will do it in time.
I've been doing it in time. Because sometimes there's potholes. And sometimes you don't have enough time to move right hand into the action to assist with the range you don't have with single hand at nine. She also crossed her hands when she was going to turn. I don't know what she was doing. Yeah, I don't know.
I'd have to see it. But she got in trouble for that too. He said, don't cross your hands. She was also speeding. I don't know where she gets that from. This is why she's in class. Really?
Really? I don't know where she gets that from, she says. Probably you.
Right, because my car is called Zippy. There might be police officers listening. Quiet.
Follow this one. Don't say what my car is. People will be watching out for me. Your car is a silver Tacoma.
No, it's not. She also had drifting problems. Right, because I believe that usually comes from your hands and your car, therefore, tend to go where your eyes go. So if you're driving and you start looking off to the left, your body has this natural tendency to lean to the left and then you go, whoa, that just will get corrected over time with experience, I think so too. And turns.
She struggled with turns. Because of the hand over hand thing? I think so.
It has to be. Yeah, why are you turning like that? Who taught you how to do that?
No one. I don't do that. You don't do that.
I learned it from watching a cat drive. Yeah. You remember ToonSys? Yeah, from Saturday Night Live.
That's right. I learned how to drive from ToonSys the cat. Two hands. ToonSys.
The driving cat is ToonSys. All right. I've completely derailed you.
What was I saying? Exactly. I don't know. Yeah. Oh, I know what I was going to say. So now she's like itching to go again.
All she wants to do now is do more driving. I'm like, yeah, it's fun. It's a blast.
It's a lot of fun. And that's it. That's all I have to say about it. All right, good deal. Ten and two, everybody.
So much fun cats like it. Here we go. Ten and two. Over the weekend, I saw that Benson Boone, who we just played here just two seconds ago, joined the bike bus. Yeah. And the bike bus is a thing. Where did I say that is? Do you remember? Washington?
No, that's in Portland. Okay. Yeah. So the bike bus is really this cool thing. And it's a neighborhood ride to school on your bike.
So cool. And the whole community has rallied around bike bus. And it started with this guy who he's got the coolest mustache and darkroom glasses looking very Portland. And he was like, we need to get people to be active and ride their bikes to school. And we need to find a way to do that in a safe way.
Right. And so he goes through the different neighborhoods and they everybody just joins at like different bus stops in front of their house or different street corners that are on the route and they get into the bike bus and they ride to school. And then at the end of the day, same deal, we ride home, but he's got big speakers. So there's lots of music playing and people in the community and parents and different people will block off major intersections. So they've got on like yellow raincoats and they go out and they're like, okay, bike bus is coming through. So everything's really safe.
And they all have a lot of fun. And the guy who drives the bike bus is up front and he kind of tells me, we're gonna have to slow down here, you know, we're gonna have to come do a stop up here. So he's kind of like directing and then the traffic all behind him kind of flows together. But parents and kids and everybody just joins together on the bike bus to go to school every day.
And they just pick kids up along the way like there's kids waiting for the bike bus and they'll be like, Hey, good morning. Jump in. Let's go. Good morning, bike bus. It's so cool. Well, Benson Boone hopped in over the, I guess, you know, on Friday, joined the bike bus, which is very, very cool.
And obviously, beautiful things, a huge song. And he got he got in on the bike bus and had everybody riding with him. He looked like he had like a crazy little rental bike. I don't think he had his own bike. So they rented a bike for him.
Yeah, which is fine. He had like a city bike. But he was riding with the with the bike bus, which I think is really fun.
But it's it's cool. You can see the videos all over the place. We just look at Benson Boone bike bus. It's long.
The bike bus is long. Yeah. I love it. And I you showed me this video and I loved it so much. And I was like, this is exactly what communities are supposed to be doing.
I just think it's so great. We're supposed to be here to help one another and encourage one another. And what better way to do that than to be like, Oh, you want to ride your bike? Let's do this safely.
Let's do this in a fun, safe way. So there are now hundreds of children riding Portland's bike buses. There are now multiple.
So it all started with Sam Balto. He's the teacher who started this thing in April of 2022, with about 75 kids when he started. Now there's over 150 students by late 2023.
So now there's more. He's closing on like 200 students riding the bike bus. That's amazing.
As of August this year, there are over 25 Portland schools that have a bike bus now. I love it. I think it's the greatest thing.
I think it's so so cool. So they actually got a big federal grant. They got over a million dollars last year in a federal grant to boost bike bus programs in North Portland specifically, which is cool. And then they have a city bike bus for different routes throughout Portland, including one that rides downtown. And that event is sponsored and supported by various local organizations, which is kind of fun. So they do a citywide bike bus as well.
Just for people to hop in, ride bikes with people. I think it's so cool. I do too. I would join out bike bus in a second. Yeah, bike bus is very cool and good on Benson Boone for hopping in on.
On Benson Boone. Right. Just getting all those kids to sing your song. Genius.
Genius. You said something offensive to me. I said what?
You said I don't like your door decorations. That is not what I said. That is what you said. No, that is not what I said. It might be what I said, but it's not what I meant. I didn't mean that you have terrible door decorations. What I meant was they're inconvenient for me.
And I think you feel the same way. So don't be just, you know, point now what I said when I'm pretty confident this is not a just me issue. No, I'll tell you what the problem is. The problem is the flight risk dog.
That's fair. And we can only open the door a tiny bit because we don't want her running away. And so because we can only open the door a tiny bit, the large decoration on the door gets in the way. If we could open the door wider, it wouldn't be a problem. You're not wrong.
It's because we have to sneak out. But also it's too big. I know I'm going to move it. We've had the conversation about the wreath. Are you planning to put the wreath on the door? I didn't put the wreath on the door because you always complain about the wreath. You think the wreath is too big. I love the size of that wreath.
I think the wreath is a great size. I think you hang it sideways. And so then it's too wide. And I like it when it's taller. When you hang it the way you hang it, it covers up the key pad for getting it in and out of the house.
I never have a problem getting it in and out of the house. I do every day. So I said, well, this year I won't hang up the wreath because he hates the wreath. And so I hung a cute little basket door hanger with some fall foliage that hits me in the eyeballs. It is too large.
I will say that. It blows in the wind and then it gets all topsy-turvy crooked. And it makes the dog crazy. It's a little bit top heavy. So I am going to replace it.
But I don't know with what because you hate everything I put up there. No. Yeah. No, I like what you're doing. I like where you're at. I like your decorations. I think they're cute.
I think that's all good. They're just inconvenient for me. So you need to find a better, more convenient one because here's what's going to happen. You're going to move that basket of foliage to the one going to the garage. And then it's still going to be in the way because that's a tiny walkway space. It's not going to be in the way at all.
It's a tiny walkway space. It's going to hit me in the face still. It's not going to be a problem. Watch. Watch. It won't be a problem. Lift up your face. Why is your face going to get in the way? Lift up your face.
What are you talking about? Lift up your face. Why is your face going to be in the way? Because I walk there and it's going to be sticking out into my face.
It won't. Because I'm taller than you. And so you go, I can walk under it.
Not a problem. It's not going to be in your face. Give it. Fine. I will bet. Give it one day. If it annoys you after two days, give it two days.
Why two days? If it annoys me once, it's coming down. And I'm going to take a photograph of it and I'll hang the photograph of it on the door so you don't miss it. It'll be just the same, but won't get me in the face. Okay.
Here's the, okay. I need you to get down my wreath. So I tried to get down my wreaths on Saturday and I couldn't. I don't know what you've done to put them on the hook that you put them on. Yeah. I can't get them down. Did you get a ladder?
Yes. Why were you on the ladder? That's dangerous for you. I know. You shouldn't be on the ladder.
Well, I need to know. And then I noticed the ladder was still out. I put it away yesterday. Okay.
But I needed to get my box of pumpkins. Yeah, I put it where it goes. Or is it just leaned up against the wall? No, I put it away.
Up on the hook? Yes. Okay.
Good deal. So you need the wreath bag so that you can get out that wreath that you're going to hang sideways. Yes. Great. I'm not going to hang it sideways. I'll hang it the way you want it hung. Don't roll your eyes like that. Look, stomp that way. I make it to hang that way. I made it to hang the wide way. Move the bow. Ta-da.
Stupid. It fits the doorway better. I'll hang it the wrong way and everyone will be happy. No, one of us won't. Wanna get to? Yeah, me. Yeah.
No, really? This is the things I get for trying to make our home look so festive and cute for the holidays. And all I get is I hate that door decoration.
I didn't say that. I hate this door decoration even more than I hate the prior door decoration. That's what you sound like.
I hate this door decoration. Don't sound like that. Yes, you do. I'm just going to go do my chores. I hate everything you do. No, that is not what I sound like.
That's not what I said at all. Stop trying to decorate. All right, enough. I ordered our daughter a yearbook and I'm only saying this out loud because in May, you're going to say, did I order a yearbook? Yep. So I'm going to need you to remember this moment in time. Yes, I did order a yearbook. And also to tell you about a little story about the yearbook because we, they're expensive. Yearbooks are really expensive. And how often do you look at your yearbook from your high school? Oh, I don't know.
A few times every five years. Exactly. They're in a box in the shed. They rarely come out and they're expensive. So our son, when our son was in high school, he wasn't really involved in a lot of extracurricular activities at the school.
Correct. And so he always was kind of like, well, I want a yearbook, but not really. And I was like, well, I don't want to spend $75 on a yearbook. If you're not into it.
If you're going to have one picture in there and it's going to be the school picture that you took at the beginning of the year. Right. And he was like, yo, I get that. I get that. Which we have copies of.
You can go look at. Right. Yeah. Right. So I didn't order him a yearbook for, I think I did maybe his senior year.
Yeah, senior year felt like an important one to spend the money on. Yeah. And he was fine with it at the time or so he said. And then when we bought our daughter a yearbook last year, cause she was involved in some school activities.
Correct. And I said, well, you're going to have more than one picture in there. Let's buy a yearbook. He was upset and said, well, I, I didn't get a yearbook.
This is why Emery is your favorite. You got her yearbook, but you didn't buy me a yearbook. And I went, we had this discussion before I even bought it. He was like, I know, I know. It was just teasing.
Okay. So cut to last week when they sent an email about the yearbooks and I go, oh, I haven't done that yet. And I texted Emery and said, Hey, do you want a yearbook? And she goes, Oh, I don't know. And I go, no, really, do you want a yearbook? And she said, well, yeah, kind of, but Beck will be mad if you buy me a yearbook. And I said, he will be, but big whoop.
And so I bought her a yearbook. So when do we get to hear about it from him? When it gets delivered. I see.
And then he'll say again, Oh, she gets a song for your book. Oh, great. I know. And now I feel like a bad mom. But I think, I think you're definitely in the right though, because she is involved in more than just her one photo. She's in other organizations and clubs and sports and stuff. So she's going to appear in more places that you might not get all those photos. So that's nice to have that as a right. Well, and maybe he wanted the yearbook so he could look back on his classmates and that's a good point. I know.
But the senior one, I think is, is definitely a good one. Like we did that. I think that's more important. Also, why are yearbooks so expensive? Yeah, I don't know.
I'm in the wrong business. I'm going to be in the yearbook business. Why are yearbooks so expensive because of high printing costs for durable materials, like thick paper, full color ink and hardcover binding? Oh, durable paper. Yeah. I mean, they can make them out of like a little paper and just do that little plastic binding thing. Yeah.
And then, you know, yearbook. Yeah. Yeah. Just do that. Sure.
Copy paper, black and white photos. Yeah. Maybe they should have like a tiered thing. Like if you want, if you just want a photocopy yearbook, you can get it. Oh, yeah. But if you want like the real hardbound one.
Well, and then I'm on the website behind the yearbook and it's like, oh, do you want to personalize this for 10 extra dollars? No. No, I don't. Oh, do you want to get like the cover for it? The personalized cover for it? No.
No, I don't. They kept trying to upsell me on stuff. Who's doing that?
The yearbook company. No, no. I'm saying who's buying that. Oh, no.
Who's going like, yes, we've got the best days of your life right here in high school. I don't know. That's also wrong. I know. I know. I know.
If your best days are in high school, I feel sorry for you. Yeah. Some people peak, you know, they get there early and they go like, hey, this is it. This is the best. This is the best time I've ever been in my life. And then other people find that later, you know, and that's fine.
And those are the people that are doing that. Also, I wasn't involved in that much stuff like I did cross country. I did Spanish club.
I did BPA, Deca, that kind of stuff. But I didn't do, I didn't do like all the sports, spring and fall. And you know what I mean?
Like there are a lot of people who'd like do all the things and student government and, and, and, and. Yeah. I also didn't do all that. So I go like, yeah, I did a few things.
I feel good about that. That was my high school experience. I did a few things. Same. I tried some stuff. Same. I tried some new things. And then I moved out.
But here's the online. I don't ever look at my yearbook. Sometimes I'll go back and be like, Oh, what was that guy's name? Oh, yeah. I don't be like, Oh, I used to think it was so cute. Oh, not anymore. Oh, no.
Sorry for that guy. Would you rather this or that? Would you rather be wrapped in mommy bandages forever, or covered in cobwebs forever? Forever. Let's not say forever. Let's say six months. Six months. Yeah.
Mummy wraps. Okay, why? Because there's no spiders involved. There isn't spiders involved in the cobwebs.
Where did they go? I don't want that. I don't like the feeling of spider webs.
I don't need there. I'll take the wraps. Are the wraps tight? Are you going to be tightly wound? Are you going to have some freed up? Are they going to be a little loosey-goosey? What are you looking at?
It says here, ancient Egyptian mummy wraps are applied meticulously and tightly. Yeah. See, I don't like to be. I don't like to be trapped. The tightness varied by era and the wealth of the deceased.
I'm going to say, what am I going to say? I'm going to say mummy wraps. Did you know they also throughout the wrapping process applied hot resin to the layers of linen to help bind them together as they hardened? As like a glue? It's like a cast. Yeah.
It's like a, it's a full on cast. No, I'm going cobwebs. I changed my mind. I don't want to be tightly wound. I mean, my personnel, I'm already too tightly wound. Too tightly wound.
I need to calm down. Yeah, that's you. What you doing walking? Yeah. I'm sitting right now. Thanks for asking. Nice. Josh. Okay.
I'm going cobwebs. All right. I'm sticking with my mummy wraps.
Okay. Because I don't like the feeling of the spider webs. I don't like being tightly wound.
No, thank you. I don't want to be- I'm tightly wound. Why? Why did you choose that impression to come with? I don't understand.
I acquired a new old retro alarm clock. And I've got to ask you, what do you think? Oh, what do I say?
Well, here's the deal. You walked into the bedroom and you sent me a picture of it and said, what is this? What is this? Because I had the radio on. And so it is a, it's like a retro Sony alarm clock thing. And what's nice is you can set it up to fall asleep to the radio. You can also set it up. So the alarm is the radio.
You were pretty stoked about it. It's just old technology. Yeah. And you, you had it go off this morning at 5.40 to the radio. Well, and I should have said it earlier because I felt like it should have been at 5.30. Because I was already wrestling about and I was going, I wish that had gone off earlier.
So yeah, it needed to be happening. But anyway, I didn't mind it. I actually thought it was quite lovely until you turned it off. Why did you turn it off?
Oh, interesting. You didn't know that you turned it off? No, I did turn it off, but I, because I want to see what the button did, but the button was like a snooze button. And so it didn't actually turn it off. It just snoozed it. And then it came back about five minutes later. But that, so that was interesting.
I was already up by that. No, I know. But I was playing with the buttons to see what they did because it's new, but it's old. So it's new old, but it's neat and it's cool. And I like it. You know?
Yeah. I didn't mind it. The only time I minded it is when we were doing our bedtime routine, like getting ready for bed and then I turned it on. And I was like, wait, I don't, I don't want to listen to this right now. I was setting the volume and I was trying to think how loud do I want this in the morning?
Yeah. Because that's something that you're not going to know until the morning. And I still felt like it was a little bit too loud. I, I didn't think it was too loud.
I thought it was actually just right about perfect. Yeah. Yeah. So I did adjust it down a hair. I didn't mind it. Huh.
It was quite nice. It's a little different than waking up to an alarm. Yeah.
Waking up to, and what's cool is unless you're in Groundhog Day, it'll be a different song every day. I got you, babe. Right. If that, if that starts happening, it goes, Hey, hey, hey, campers.
And then plays Sonny and Cher. Yeah, we have a problem. I don't think it's enough to wake me up. Like that alone isn't going to be enough to like arouse me.
But it's enough that I'm like, all right, like I can, I can slowly start to get moving. I kind of like that about it. I do too. Yeah. I felt the same.
I thought this is a much better way to wake up. Anyway, so I've been playing around with that. We'll see. We'll see if it sticks.
So far, so good anyway. But I got to adjust the time. Yeah. A little bit earlier. Yeah. Oh yeah, definitely.
Definitely a little bit earlier. And that's going to wrap up the show. Have a great rest of your Monday. We'll be back tomorrow morning, but we'll be not in the studio because we are going to be out and about. Tomorrow is break for the cure so you can find us at Teton Cancer Institute from 7am until 9. We're going to be there. Make plans to stop by on your way to work or school or whatever you've got going on tomorrow morning.
Yep. Just drive through, grab a little bag with your breakfast and some great important information about early detection and breast cancer awareness. Swing through, grab that on your way in the morning. 7am to 9am, we're going to be there.
Teton Cancer Institute on 17th Street. That's going to be great. So stop by and see us and we will look forward to waving and seeing you tomorrow morning as we're out and about. Sounds good to me. All right. We'll see you then.
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