Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
From new iPhone features that finally catch up to Android, to donuts that just don’t cut it... Josh & Chantel debate everything from high cholesterol and radio DJ fashion to why we avoid things everyone else loves (looking at you, Taylor Swift’s new album). Plus, a 14-year-old hero’s quick thinking will restore your faith in humanity, and the very real dream of a four-day workweek.
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: iPhone still releasing old tech
(2:55) - A power event
(5:57) - Chantel's driving mistake
(10:47) - Good News
(12:23) - Radio DJ fashions
(19:40) - Texting the doctor
(25:23) - Alarm clocks
(30:33) - Avoiding popular things
(37:30) - Passive aggressive moves
(42:04) - Busy work
(45:47) - How to fee confident
(50:49) - Would You Rather
(52:48) - Donuts
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Full show transcript:
News from the iPhone catching up with the Android file. Oh. Yeah. So iPhone in their latest operating system update, they've added a new feature that lets you ask someone why they're calling before you even answer the phone. So it's a call screening and I've had this on Google and Google Voice for years. For years I've had Google Voice that would say, please let me know who's calling. I could screen calls. Google now, I can make the phone hold for me. So like if I call a number and they're like, your estimated wait time is 10 minutes, I can hit a button that says hold for me. I can set my phone over there and it'll ring when they actually answer. I did not know it. Oh yeah.
You want to call an automated phone system, it'll pull up a whole text of what the automated system is going to say and you'll see all the button options before they even finish talking.
No way. Oh yeah. You'll have to show me how to do that on my phone. It does it automatically. Oh I didn't know that.
You haven't called a customer service number lately. No. Yeah. Call a customer service number on your Pixel. What happens? I don't want to. I know, but it's great. It is, that is cool. So you know, hey, way to catch up. iPhone. I like giving iPhone a bunch of crap.
I do too and the only reason I do is because people have often teased me and bullied me about not having an Apple and this is my response to them. Oh really? Yeah.
Yeah, yeah right? Here's what's going to happen is a whole bunch of people are going to get really annoyed about this feature. Like I turned it off a long time ago. If you're calling me at this point you're either scam call or you're actually calling to talk to me. So if it's a number I don't know I answer because I get all crazy like that and they'll go hi is this Josh we were calling about and I go I'm not interested thanks and I hang up.
Oh, you're so dangerous. I don't have time for it. What are they going to do? Call me back and I'm going to go no really I don't have time remove my number from your list.
I still have mine turned on because my-
The thing that says who is this that's calling?
Uh, I mean yeah because I get like phone calls and it'll say possible scam.
Oh no no I'm not talking about caller ID. What are you talking about? I'm talking about when you call and it says the Google voice subscriber you're calling would like to know who it is. Oh yeah. This is an unrecognized number. I see. I turned that off.
Yeah I don't have that. That's exactly what this is. It's the same thing but I used
that- Had to event twelve years ago. I've been using that for a long time. Anyway, iPhone rolling it out in their new operating system. See there's something to look forward to.
Congrats iPhone. Yeah, people are going to hate it so you know probably don't turn it on.
You ready to start the show? Let's start it. There must have been a power event that happened because so many things in this room are different.
Oh like the power. Yeah. When you set a power event I was thinking like some kind of like wrestling,
fighting- Oh yeah I have a big power event. I have a big power event.
No I meant like electricity. There must have been an electrical event. Is that a better way to say that?
An electrical event. Like electric.
Yeah it's electric. Boogie Woogie Woogie. Because the lights are all different. So we have a bunch of different lighting in the room and the fact that the one behind you and the one behind me are even turned on means there was an electrical power event and then the colors changed on the ceiling lighting.
I like the colors. Do you? Yeah it feels brighter in here. Okay. So I looked around and went, oh god it's bright in here. Is that what you did? In my brain. And I went, oh look at all this light.
Yeah. It's different. It is. Yeah you can see. Now normally because sometimes when we walk in it's just dark like every other day but not today. Today it was like hey. Welcome.
Nice of you to be here. Let's start a show. That's what it said. Yeah. Hi.
Hey. Hi guys. How's it going? Welcome to the studio. I'm ready. Are you ready? Here we go. That's what the studio said. Let's make radio. Let's do a show. Huh? Here we are. Yeah. Doing it. How you doing? I'm great. You were just saying that you don't feel like you're ever not tired anymore.
Yep.
Tired every day. Every day. All the whole day or does it kind of come around?
That comes in waves. Yeah. Uh huh.
Which wave are you on right now? I'm in the tired wave. I feel like the tide is out. I feel like it's just a beach. There's just sand. The water's way out there. Eventually it's going to show up and it'll be like whoa there's an ocean here.
What does it mean when the tide is out? That means I'm tired?
I'm saying that's what it means. I'm making it up. I know you are. Because I think when the tide is high there's water and there's activity.
Oh here we go.
I should never have ever said a song lyric ever. Because you have, here we go. You've got one of those brains that for some reason is able to take anything that anyone says that is a lyric and you get distracted by the entire conversation because you have to sing the song. Yeah, it has to come out. Right. What do they call that?
Adult ADHD. That's what they call it. Good morning.
I witnessed something this morning that made me a little smiley. You and I are driving to work this morning and there is a semi truck in the lane that you're going to need to be in in order to turn into the parking lot. And you decided that you were going to be able to get in the left lane instead of the right lane and buzz around the semi truck and be able to get in the parking lot before the truck would pass.
And I could have done it too if it weren't for that pesky Jeep.
Yeah, okay. We'll get to that here in a minute. When you made the decision to move into that lane, I thought to myself, this is the wrong light to make that decision. Listen, hold on, because I've made the mistake a couple of times. I've done this exact same thing and it happens and then I go, oh no, I'm never going to make it and then you have to sort things out. And so when I saw you move over, I went, that's the wrong light. You don't have enough time. There's just not enough time from that.
But there would have been time if there was nobody in front of me. But there was a car in front of me and he was going, oh no.
So that's probably where you would make the judgment call is if you were going to move into that left lane, you would have to have been at the light right next to the semi at the front because they're slow to take off. And so then you could have gone and gotten into that lane. It's just too close.
I think that I still could have made it. I really do.
It's barely even maybe a quarter of a mile.
If it weren't for that pesky Jeep.
It's not even that far. So if you're going to make that decision, you need to make that decision one or two more lights back. You can't make that decision. So so willy nilly.
No, I could have done it. I'm telling you, I'll do it again. No cars in front of me. I'll do it again.
I said that's the only way to make that work.
But I could have been in the right lane, moved over, got in front of him.
You're correct. But that was not the case. There was another vehicle there that you can't control. But I still that's going to choke you out. And that's what happened.
There was. Okay. Here's here's what I know. There was another car in the left lane and then there was a car in front of me. Yeah. And then the truck in the right lane. Yeah. The car in front of me moved over and I went.
And yeah, that if now there were two cars in front of me, stay put.
And then I could have but but but I I hold fast. I think that I still could have made it. I still could have if both of those cars had gone just a little bit faster.
I really still could have made it. Would it have been smart? No, because I would have caught off that semi and hurried and turned into my lane. It wouldn't have been a smart, safe idea.
No, but I could have. But you made the wrong decision ultimately. And then and then I see you past the parking lot because you can't because now the semi is in the way. And so then you just go keep going straight. And then I see you get into the left turn lane and I went, well, she's not going to be happy about this whole thing.
This was not the way she saw this going. And then I park, I'm walking into the building and then here you come, turning into the parking lot. And I can I can see the steam from inside because you're seething a little bit like I can't believe
I had to do that stupid left turn. I just wanted to get around that. So that Jeep was being pesky in front of me going so slow.
And I can hear it all the grumbles. And then you park and you get out and I go, hey, well, how are you? And you had to look at me like it was my fault that you made that decision. And I said, so we're going to have to talk about that. And you said, no, we're not.
You said, you made a bad, you made a bad decision. Or would you say, you said, you made a mistake.
You made a bad decision this morning. No, I didn't. I said, we're going to talk about it.
No, we're not. Everyone around me made a bad decision.
Oh, right. Right.
All right. Got it.
So anyway, you made it to work. Here I am. Yeah. Glad you're here.
Pesky, other cars on the road. Move out the way. Right.
Cause it's their fault that you made the decision poorly this morning. You should have just stayed behind the semi. I know.
Don't talk about it anymore. Okay.
Here's some good news for you. A 14 year old named Layla Warren was traveling home on a bus from a friend's birthday in Birmingham, England, when a young woman had a severe epileptic seizure and then stopped breathing. So Layla quickly called 999, which is England's 911, right?
Yeah. And performed CPR under the guidance of the dispatcher by keeping calm and staying brave. Layla helped revive the 22 year old and kept her stable until first responders arrived, which is just. That's awesome. Incredible thing. The local head of the police named Simon Foster, uh, praised Layla's bravery. It said what she did on that bus was nothing short of heroic. The rescue effort resulted in Layla attending the, uh, excuse me, attending the outstanding citizen award ceremony earlier this month, where she was formally recognized for her bravery and dedication to her community, which is just awesome. So 14 years old, uh, jumped in, called 999. Started doing CPR under the guidance of the dispatch and then ended up saving that woman's life. That's amazing. Just, um, yeah, absolutely incredible.
I feel like Eric, Eric Clapton should write a new song about her.
He already has a song called Layla, but he needs to figure out where you were at on that. That disconnect was strong. And then I got it. All right. Good job, Layla. You're good news. Good job. Layla. All right.
Yesterday you had a coworker. Well, we had a coworker because I work here too. Um, we had a co-worker tell us that most radio DJs look like they just rolled out a bed. Yeah.
And then I started looking around the office and I went, you know, you're not wrong.
This one over here is throwing on a hoodie and some, some pants. So that's nice. This one's thrown on a jersey and some pants. This one's got on basketball shorts and a T shirt. This one's got on T shirt and jeans. This one's got on like, uh, T shirts and jeans threw on a flannel. You know, and then, uh, and then, uh, you know, I try.
He did say that. I said, Josh doesn't look like he just rolled out of bed.
He said, no, Josh is the best one. No, he's not the best. He said one of the few. Josh is definitely one of the few. And I went, all right. So yeah, I mean, I, I do, uh, try to, uh, you know, not dress up, but I have on like nice pants. You try to look nice. And, uh, and I'm wearing like, you know, a nice shirt.
And then I threw on like, uh, like today, this little wool jacket that I have. Uh, you know, I, uh, but I'm, I'm not like going out on my way. It's not like I'm, you know, shaving every morning and combing my non-existent hair. Like I throw on a hat. Like it's, it's real lazy. And I can be ready to go in about five minutes. That's great.
I envy that actually. Um, I was reading something that said it used to be that a radio DJ could look like the bottom of a shoe and it was fine because nobody saw them. But now everyone can see you because you've got social media and people are posting videos and he said, this guy that wrote this article said a lot. Capital LOT of radio morning shows feature average looking dudes and a woman who's beautiful. And I said, okay. So not this show.
Why not this show?
I do come in looking like I rolled out of bed.
That's because you literally did. And then you put it together in like, uh, you know, the 45 minutes or so.
Yeah, I do put it together. Yeah. Thanks, Josh.
But that's part of the plan for you. That's the day because who's doing this at five in the morning. And there are people. Let's be real. There are other people like people that we know that wake up at four o'clock in the morning to get ready so they can be at work at five 30 fully ready to go for the day.
Looking so fresh. Yeah. If we jumped in and we started to record immediately, then yes, I would get ready at home, but I can't listen. Ugh, I'm glad we don't do that because I like just rolling out of bed, packing my lunch, letting the dog out, driving to work.
And then, and then doing it.
And then yeah, I get right here.
Uh, but you're right. If we had cameras rolling that early, uh, if we were doing a full video version of the show every day, then yeah, we'd have to be top.
We'd have to be ready to go. I would be. I would do my best. Yeah. I don't know if I'm ever top notch ready to go. There's always a part of me that's like, uh, something's off about her top notch ready to go.
And then, um, huh. Interesting. Yeah. Interesting.
Interesting. What? Nothing. Oh, okay.
Just you. You're interesting. Thank you. You're an interesting lady.
Thanks. I suppose. No, you're welcome.
Anyway, uh, somebody did say, I did hear somebody else on this article commented that said, you gotta, you gotta get a stick and stay with your stick. So he said, I wore Hawaiian shirts.
So I was the Hawaiian shirt guy and I went, I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that either. Yeah. No, I'm not. I don't need that.
This, this is my stick. What is me? This weird.
That's not a stick. That's just you. Yeah. Like there was that sports guy we had on TV for a while who wore crazy pants. Remember him? I do not. Yeah. I think that was, uh, that was years ago in, uh, in Pocatello and Channel six, they had a sports guy who wore lots of crazy pants. I saw him at a couple of different golf tournaments back in the day and he was wearing like crazy golf
pants, but you wore them all the time. Okay. Yeah. No, that was his stick. He just, his stick was silly pants, but it was his stick or was it him?
No, no, that was his thing. It was his thing for the TV. That was, uh, he was going to stand out in the community and be recognized. Didn't it work? Well, it works. Yeah.
What was that guy's name? I don't know. I don't even know what you're talking about.
I'm going to find it really quick.
Uh, uh, do you want me to help? Sure. Todd, Gary, Michael, Brad, Chad.
Let's see. I don't know if I'm going to find this guy.
This was years ago. Let's see. Brian. Brad, I already said Brad.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to find it. It's okay. But anyway, there was a sports guy who, uh, who had crazy pants. It was his thing. I remember it well.
Okay. Congratulations.
He had a stick. I don't need that. I don't. It's what I was getting at.
I know what you were getting at. Yeah. We didn't need to go on his Google search. Different hats. Hey, you could have that stick.
Then I thought about it and then I went, I don't want that many hats. That's a lot of hats. Like, because then I'd have to have a top hat and. Cabby hats and a bowler. And, you know, I'd have to bring in a whole hat rack. I, that's too much work. Can't be bothered.
That's also not your personality. Just stick with your personality. What, what are you going to have a stick? Yeah. This chair.
That's my stick. Okay. It's this chair making all this noise. All right. I'm not going to do the thing, but I will keep dressing fairly nice.
I was just looking at myself going like, okay, I look better now. Yeah. I rolled out of bed, but now I'm looking.
There you go. Fresh. We're filling out the requirement. Again. A goofy looking dude. Check. And an attractive woman.
It's that average looking dude, not goofy.
An average looking dude. Yeah. Got it. And an attractive woman. There you are.
We have one check. An average looking dude.
I'm saying one nice thing. Take the compliment.
Thank you, Josh. Yeah. Thanks. You're welcome. You'll hate this, but I love it. What is it? You can text our family doctor, our primary care physician. Sure. You can text appointments with him. Yeah. And I love it.
I use the app. I don't, I don't do the texting. I use the app to do the appointments and to fill, refill my prescriptions. Wait. Yeah. What?
Yeah. What app?
The doctor app. I don't have a doctor app. Yes, you do. Show me what app it is. Okay.
I'll show you. Cause I just text and the texting is pretty amazing. And at first I thought, no, I'm not going to text you. This one. Oh, I have that app. I know you do. I didn't know you could make appointments from that.
Absolutely. You can. You can do that. You can refill your prescriptions. You can also message the like front desk and the nurses and stuff. You can get all your results from all your lab work, like all of it. Wow. Wow.
I did not know this. Yeah. Okay. You're going to have to show me how to make appointments on this. Interesting. Yeah.
It's just that calendar.
Look how easy this is. I know. It's fantastic. It is fantastic. I texted to make my appointment and
did you find the book appointment thing? Yeah.
Yeah. Simple. It is simple. Yeah. That's pretty awesome. Um, what was I saying, Josh? Oh, you're texting? Yeah. I was like, this is going to be awesome. I'm just going to text my appointment because sometimes it's not convenient to call. And so I just texted and it was awesome. And then I had to go do some blood work yesterday in preparation for my appointment. Okay. And my blood work came back and my cholesterol is high.
Oh, so you got my blood work.
I know. And I'm kind of bummed out because the last time I went to the doctor last year, because I go once a year for my wellness checkups, he was looking over my blood work and said that my blood work, he is about the same age as me. And he said, I'm kind of envious of your cholesterol levels. It goes, they look really good.
And then, and then boom. So, uh, I think what needs to happen is probably diet. Like I think, and then I don't think we're eating the best food.
No, no, we haven't been. We could do much better. I agree with you.
So I think that's probably the big deal.
I don't want to have high cholesterol. You have, you have the high cholesterol out of us. Sorry. HIPAA writes.
I just said, you got my blood work.
Okay. I did have to fill out some paperwork yesterday when I went to do some blood work. And it asked me if I wanted to share my HIPAA with anyone. Sure. I put you.
Oh, that's nice of you. Thank you. Wow.
Whether or not. Don't ever say I didn't give you anything, kid.
Oh, you gave me access to your medical record. Cool.
You're welcome. Yeah. Thanks. It's a gift. It's a special gift. Really appreciate it. Do I have access to your health record?
No, it's locked down. Nobody has access but me. I have no idea, probably.
What if you don't want to share that with anybody? I think there was just like you had to pick somebody. I don't think you do. Maybe you don't. I think you just say no. Oh, so I could have put nobody. I didn't though, Josh. I didn't. I chose you. Oh, that's very sweet. You are the keeper of all my health records.
No. The doctor's office is the keeper. I just have access to look. And there's maybe a time when you need that. I don't know. Like in a regular day to day, I have no need to be like, what came back from the blood work?
Let's go take a look. She would. She's hiding. Yeah. Every day I wake up and I go, ah, that hurts. You'd probably rather me not tell you about my health problems. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. Can't fall asleep. Then I'm too tired. I want to wake up and then my back hurts. And then I got a tummy ache. Oh, and then I need a snack. You know, yeah. All those things. Those are ailments.
I do need a snack. Right now? Yeah. Do you have one?
No. I heard you eating something just a minute ago. Yeah. What was it? A muffin. Why was it so loud? What was it loud? I heard you eating it. I don't know why it had to be loud. It wasn't. The muffin is soft. Why was it so loud?
I don't know why it was loud. I was trying to be very quiet. Is there crunchy in the muffin? Oh, you've given me such a complex. I'll never eat in public again. Taking you off my hip, all right.
Oh, great. No.
You have a clock radio. We talked about this when you first got it. Yeah. And it was pretty exciting.
Right. So Monday we woke up to the clock and my phone. Last night I said, I can't do that. I can't have the phone go off and be all that and then have the radio as well.
I just want one. So I turned my phone alarms off and then just had the radio. And how do you think it went better? Except you still have alarms on.
I don't think that I'm going to be able to just wake up to the radio. You don't. Mm-mm. And I noticed this is why I'm bringing this up. Your radio went off earlier than normal this morning. I changed the time. And I didn't care for that. Oh. I was kind of annoyed by that.
Okay. Wait a minute though. You just said you didn't think that you would be able to wake up to that alone. But then you also said it woke you up by itself.
No, I did not say that it woke me up by itself. I didn't say that. Okay.
I'm confused then. What happened?
My alarms.
I have once I have a couple that went off.
I know three had previously gone off before your radio kicked on. And so I was already kind of half awake, right? Hit in the off button.
The reason you were annoyed then was because it was too much in sequence. Correct. You need to get rid of the early alarms. Listen to me. Get rid of the early alarms. So we just have the radio and then keep that late alarm that says, no, no, now you need to get out of bed. That's what we need. I don't know.
I wasn't a fan of it this morning. I don't know if that's because it was like playing music that I didn't like, but I was kind of annoyed.
Or is it just because you were tired?
Probably both. It put me in a kind of a funk of a mood.
Interesting. Yeah. It's only day three. I know. We got to give this like a two week run.
But today for some reason it was especially annoying. I don't know what it was. Again, maybe it was just the song choices, but I went, ah.
But it's also like five in the morning. That's why. Another is why. It's because it's five in the morning. I don't think it has anything to do with what the song is. I think it has everything to do with the fact that it's five in the morning.
And it's no fun getting up at five in the morning. No, people do it for fun. I don't because they have to. They just do it because they like it.
Maniacs. That's who does that. So anyway. All right. So you're saying I'm saying turn off the early alarms so that we just have the music, which I think is a softer wake up. I also think the volume was a little too loud today. So I adjust. Maybe that's why I adjusted that down.
Maybe that's what was annoying. I just went, oh, I don't even remember what the original song was, but then there was a song that was, it came on blind melon, no
rain, which you don't like that song. And then I think there was a Bon Jovi in there too. If I remember, there was a journey that there was a journey. That's right.
And I didn't mind that one, but I, I don't know. Normally, like in between alarms, I can fall back asleep, but I couldn't do that with the alarm on. And I think that's probably why I was annoyed. Cause I went, I could be getting like. Like extra sleep during this time.
Yeah, so there was hooting the blowfish, there was tape McRae, journey, train, Harry Styles, Selena Gomez, Blind Mellon. Like there was a lot of stuff that played. I was annoyed by all of it.
No, I heard. Well, and here's the other part too. You don't typically get out of bed before me. This is true. But you got out of bed to use the bathroom anyway. That's right. Now I got to get out of bed. But I also had to get out of bed to use the bathroom.
And then I got back in bed.
I was hoping that you would actually. You were. If I come back in the bedroom and he's getting ready, I'm going to be so sad. So I was so happy when I went back in the bedroom and you were back in bed. I went, yes. Yeah. I didn't know.
Yeah. This is laying there listening to music. Until your late alarm went.
And then I went, ah, crud. I know.
So that's, that's what happened.
All right. I'm willing to give it a go. I really am.
Yeah. I think, I think we're just trying to find the groove with it, but it's going to take some time and adjusting. That's why we're tweaking every night. I tweak a little bit. I go, there's a little too loud.
I love it when we're grooving together. All morning. It's Kenny Rogers, bud. You know when things start to take off, like TV shows or music or a book or whatever it may be, and then everybody seems to be talking about it.
And then like maybe you are the one person who hasn't read it or seen it or, and now everybody's talking about it so much that you're like, no, I'm going to stay as far away from that as possible. K-pop demon hunters? We tried to give that a go.
I'm not really. We didn't really commit to it. Yeah.
I saw enough.
We barely turned it on and we're like, I just would rather watch something. Exactly.
That's not what I'm talking about really. I'm talking about like, like Yellowstone for instance. Oh, the show Yellowstone. They came out, everybody was talking about it. And I had a vague interest when it first came out. And then because so many people had talked about it and said so much about it, I went.
I was hearing about that everywhere.
I was hearing random conversations at the store between people. Like everybody was talking about it around. And I just went, no, I don't, I'm done with it now. Like I'll never watch it now.
I watched the first episode. Did you? It was like an hour and a half long. I'm not kidding. It was forever long. Was it good? It was fine. Okay.
My whole topic today right now, why do we do that? Why do we avoid things that other people talk about so much?
Give me a more current example.
A more current example would be Taylor Swift's new album. Yes. I was just going to say that. Yeah. You're avoiding it. I am. I absolutely am.
You've only heard a couple of songs. Yeah. Enough for you to be like, I'll make an opinion based off of that. Correct. It's interesting. And there's a lot of division over the, the, the, this album, this new album, Life of a Showgirl.
Is it? There's a lot of people that just love it. A lot of Swifties that are very, very big fans. A lot of people love it. And a lot of people that are like, she's done better. Oh.
So there's a lot of. The two songs I heard I was not impressed by.
Yeah. There's a lot of people that are kind of upset. You sent me a thing yesterday from a guy who was like, I think she being the superstar that she is probably owes the fans more than this album because this album isn't her best. And I think that's hardcore. That's a hardcore stance.
It's a hardcore stance for sure. So why do we avoid things that everybody else likes? I don't know.
I know. Maybe, maybe because we feel like we missed the boat and catching up sounds like homework. Maybe. So there's a natural diversion to be, to a version, a version to be like, uh, no, thanks.
Yeah. I'm late to the game. But we were late to the game when lost came out.
Not that late. We were only like one, not even full season late. We had to do catching up on maybe like five episodes. And then we were hooked for eight seasons. Yes, we were.
So it's just interesting. I don't know if that's just a human nature thing that everybody is talking so much about something that we're like, Oh, no, thank you. No, thanks.
Yeah. I don't, I don't need to have to make an opinion about that. I don't know. I would say the true, it's true the other way though, where you hear so many people talking about something. And then so like Twilight, for example, books have come out, the movies had come out and everybody was going crazy about it. And you wanted to be able to form an accurate opinion. Yeah. And so you said, I'm going to, I'm going to read it.
I was making fun of people for reading it.
So you read it and watch the movies and then felt completely vindicated making fun of people because you went, I've devoted myself to it and I didn't like it. So, but I think that is the proper way to do it. If you want to have an opinion about it, you got to fully consume it. You've got to, you've got to be involved. And I appreciate that you took the time to do that before you.
That's time I can't get back. No, I get it. There's a lot of time. What's her name? Myers. Stephanie Myers.
Is that her name? Good job. I just had to think about it for a second. I don't know in that. Yeah. I know stuff. You do know stuff.
I don't know if she's written anything else either.
Great question. Has she?
I don't know. I do not know. I just said, I don't know if she's written anything else. And you asked me, has she? I just said, I don't know. Let's see. Oh, yes, she did. She wrote a book called The Host. Okay.
Yeah. That came out in 2008. I didn't read that one. She's released a book called Midnight Sun in 2020. Oh. Trying to see. There's more twilight-y stuff. There was a book called The Chemist. And then The Short Second Life of Bre Tanner. So she's got several books. Okay.
I just never heard about any of them. Yeah. And then of course all the collector's editions of Twilight and the Twilight journals and the Twilight saga, and some good deluxe edition. I mean, really, Twilight.
But other stuff as well. So anyway, I don't know. I don't know why. It's a philosophy thing. You're asking me questions. I don't know. I need a philosopher. To somebody who's studied human nature to tell me, why do we do that? Why?
Why do we do that?
Why do we avoid things that other people are obsessed with?
Or why do we also let peer pressure take hold and jump in on everything, on something that everyone's talking about, where we go like, I have to get into it now. Oh yeah. I mean, that's influence, right? That's what that is.
That's because somebody you watch online says... Something works and some time as it doesn't.
Because maybe it's enough to pique your interest. And maybe it doesn't take much. Fascinating. And inversely, maybe it doesn't take that much to make you go, nah. Not for me. It doesn't. I'm really good at going, nah.
Yeah, me too. Nah, I'll just keep doing what I like. I'll read a little something and then I'll be like, nah, thank you.
Yeah, like when people are like, you'll love the Big Bang Theory and I go, nah. No, I won't. Not for me. Like that.
Human behavior is interesting, isn't it?
Yeah, you could study it all day. You could make a career out of that, I bet.
I don't want to. There's too many people that are already doing that. No, there you go. I stumbled upon a TikTok that someone said, you'll love your husband, but he made you mad. What are you passive aggressively doing to inconvenience him enough to let him know that you're mad?
Mostly just being silent, I think is the deal. And I go, clearly I know something's up. What's the problem? And you're like, I don't want to talk about it. And I go, okay, I'm not going to ask again then until you're ready.
Some of these comments, I was like, that's brilliant.
I'm going to try some of that. Oh no, really? Such as? Such as somebody said, I'll turn the thermostat up a couple degrees higher than his comfort zone. Rude. Make him sweat a little. Rude. I check the bank app to see what he had for lunch. And then I make the same thing for dinner. Wow.
When we're talking, I casually keep glancing up at his hairline, but I don't say anything. Like I'm distracted. What hairline? Yeah, that one won't work for you. I wait until Saturday morning and then I shampoo the couch so he can't relax all day until it tries. Who shampoos the couch? I don't know. That's too much effort.
Yeah, that's passive aggressive. That's like, cool. The couch has been shampooed.
This one I love every so much. It says, I log everyone in the house out of the streaming apps because he's the only one to log back in. He's the only one that knows all the passwords. And then this one is great too. I touch the inside of his window with my dirty fingerprints, the windshield in his car.
Why would you do that? I'm so mad at you. I'm going to put little fingerprints on the inside of your windshield right where you have to look out. That's awful. So rude. Passive aggressive. And really difficult to remove. Because that angle's all wrong.
I didn't see though, because my inside of my windshield is a mess and I saw something. They have like a little brush that you can use so you can wash the inside of it. I want it.
Can't you just put a sponge on a stick?
No, it's not going to be as good as this thing that I saw.
What is it? I don't know. A sponge on a stick? Yeah.
I don't have a stick.
You don't have a ruler or a dowel. I have a dowel. And a rubber band. Yeah. Bada bing, you got sponge on a stick.
Whoa. You better be careful.
I saw somewhere, somebody said you could use like an eraser, like a dry erase board eraser. So I bought one to try it.
The angle's all wrong. Yeah, I know. Nothing works the way that it should. That's why this one is all the one I saw has like, it's a triangle shape, but it's not necessarily. It's a sponge on a stick. But the shape of it, Josh. What about the shape of it? It's just that it's a square. So it's a square. Yeah. So then you're not going to worry so much if I touch the inside of your windshield.
Yeah. I just have to get sponge on a stick. Just don't make me mad. Righto. What do you do when I make you mad?
What? What do you do when I make you mad?
You never make me mad. So I never have to do anything.
What you looking at so intently over there?
Nothing. Just doing my own thing, not making you upset.
I never get upset. That's the real answer. I do. I'm easy breezy. I never get upset, especially not at you. Roll tape. To win. Monday. What happened Monday?
Oh good. We've forgotten. That's great. I like it. What happened? Nothing. Not a thing. Nothing to worry about. Gotta go.
You know that I've been a proponent for a four day work week for a while. That is true. And let me tell you, I've got some research to back this up a bit. Okay. On why this should happen. Because American office workers estimate that more, a little more than half of their day goes to busy work.
That's very true. I think when they cut things down, people become more efficient. Because if you know that you have five days to do stuff, you're going to take five days.
Yeah. Absolutely.
And if you have four days to do stuff, you're going to get it done in four. So yeah, people fill time. They dilly dally, whatever.
They read, write emails. They have their data entry, searching for files, pulling teeth to get the materials needed for your time. Like you just kind of dilly dally. Did you say that? Yes, I did. Good word. Good usage of those words. Thanks. Dilly dally is a fun one. Troubleshooting, aging technology, filling out forms, expense reports.
Right. A bunch of stuff gets expedited when you have fewer hours to get it all done. Absolutely. You're going to find more efficient ways to get the job done. And eventually what's going to happen for the countries that are adopting this four-day work week, what they're going to find is productivity is not going to slump. They're going to, if nothing else, it will improve. It will be where it is or better. And then they're going to go, what if we did three?
I know. Or what if we did four on one week and three on the next? Like that's what's going to happen. And then they're going to go, look at all this productivity we get for way less. And happier employees.
I know. And that's the big thing that's going on in England. In 2026, they're switching the whole country to a four-day work week. And it has a lot to do with people's happiness and ability to live a life.
You know, we work, work, work, work, work. This report that I'm reading is like, yeah, these employees are burnt out.
Everyone's burnt out. Everybody's tired. Yeah, I get it. Four-day work week is where it's at.
I know. How do we make it happen quicker? Couldn't tell you. Because if I retire and then they say, I mean, I still have years and years and years and years and years before I retire. But if I retire and then they go, yeah, I think there's something to this four-day work week. I'm going to be so mad. I'm going to be passively, aggressively touching the inside of everyone's windshields. I'm going to be so mad at everyone. You better not make me retire after working five-day work week my whole life. I'll be so mad at you.
What are you reading? I'm just trying to decide why you feel that way. Why do I feel that way? You're slighted because you didn't get to take advantage of the thing. Like, you're retired at that point. Yeah. Yeah.
So I'm just processing. It's an interesting thing where you go like, I didn't get a four-day work week, so no one else should. No, everybody should.
Everyone should, absolutely. It just took as long as it took to get there and it's after you had the opportunity. You know what I'm saying? That's all. I'm just processing. I'm just listening. Don't roll your eyes at me.
I will. I'll do what I want. Okay.
Well, four-day work week. Come on, yeah. Happening soon in other places.
In an office near you. Hopefully.
Hopefully. Did you know that you have confidence concerns? What? I just didn't know if you knew that sometimes all you need is a little boost of confidence.
Okay. Here, I found something that had, like these are ways to have a little more confidence. Right. That no one really talks about. That's what I'm saying. So there's a thing called, well, it's not called anything. You just move in slow motion for a while. Wait a minute.
What? Listen, when you walk, gesture, or even drink water a little slower than everybody else, it makes a signal to your nervous system that you're not rushed or desperate or in any kind of fight-or-flight mode. I feel like that's going to ruin the mood. And then it makes people think of you as being grounded. Let me try.
No, it's not. It's going to make everybody go, what's wrong with you? Why are you moving so slow? And I can't even see you.
Oh, I just took a drink.
Oh, good. Yeah, it's strange. I feel calm. I feel cool. You feel confident? I feel in control of the conversation. I'm talking slower. I don't like it. There's got to be something else. Is there more tips?
Yeah, there's more. So then you can reframe your inner voice into third person. So instead of saying, I can do this, you can do this, you've got this, you've got this, you say your name. So instead of me saying, I've got this, you've got this, I say, Chantel's got this.
Your name's got this.
Yeah. Your name's got this. This instantly reduces stress and makes your brain process challenges more clearly. And it makes it feel like you're coaching yourself. Like Chantel, you got this.
And it helps if you're looking in the mirror and you snap and you point. They call that positive self-talk is what they call that. Okay. And that's been around for a long time. Okay.
What else you got? Okay. What else I got? What else does Chantel have? You go out and you pick a stranger without speaking, you hold their gaze for just a second longer than usual. And then you, I know it's weird, right? Yeah, right. That one's so weird. Yeah, right. Listen, listen, listen. It says that moment of controlled intensity feels electric and reminds you how powerful your presence is. That's weird. Well, don't do it that way. Don't do it all weird.
It's weird no matter how you do it.
Okay. This is the one that I really like though. Oh, I'll read this one first. Hold back from feeling silence in conversations. People who are comfortable letting silence breathe are automatically seen as more self-assured.
I'm very good with the silence. You are not. I am not. I am so good with like, let's just sit here and let that permeate a moment.
Let's let that. No, we gotta do that. Let's feel that for a moment.
We gotta feel all of this silence. We gotta, what should we do? Should we dance? Should we laugh? Should we play? Let's do something. I can't. Okay. Here's the one I like the most. You have to whisper to yourself every night one thing that you did bravely that day, no matter how big or how small it is. Why do you have to whisper? You don't have to whisper. You could say that a lot if you want. Hey, you did a good job today. Like what? Why?
Hey, hey, hey, hey. That thing you did today was so brave and so good. That's straight.
But you have to use your, your voice.
Because I'm also, I'm also in the room. Hey, hey Josh. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Shantown, you did so good today.
No, you have to do it. You have to say yourself.
Hey, yourself.
I like that one and I don't care if you make fun of it. Are you going to be a creepy whisperer? I might not whisper it, but I might say it out loud. I actually won't.
I'll be walking down the hall and I'll hear you in the room going, hey, I'll go, what are you saying? And you'll go, nothing. I wasn't talking out loud. Oh, okay.
Yeah, I just move along. Yeah. This is a B conversation. So see your way out. I'm smart enough. I'm good enough. Yeah. Yeah. And people like me. Shantel, you talked to that. You held that stranger's gaze for a really long time. I'm not going to say anything. That was so great.
That was so weird. I'm so proud of you. You got this. That was weird. Snap point.
I met a stranger. You did it.
You took that drink really slow.
Yeah. And everybody thought you were really grounded. I don't know if that's the confidence cure. I would try something else. Would you rather this or that?
Would you rather hear ghost whispers in your ear?
I do all the time. You do? Or?
Or see shadows moving when no one's there. I see that too. You do? Yeah.
I'm really in tune with the whispers and the shadows. No, have you ever seen the shadows? I've seen shadows. The shadows are weird. Like when it's like off in the distance and you're like, what was that? Mm-hmm.
What was that? That. And you hear the ghost whispers? You hear those too?
I don't necessarily hear the ghost whispers. No. I see the shadows though. I don't care for it. Which one would you rather have? I wish they would mind their own business. The shadows?
Yeah. I think they are minding their own business. I don't mind seeing them. You're the one that's not minding your business.
I'm not going like, I'm going to go check out that shadow.
I'm going to pick the shadows. Because I'm already doing that. I already see shadows move. But I don't hear the ghosts.
So you're sticking with shadows only? Smart. I've adjusted to shadows. I don't need whispers. Exactly.
And then when it's the same, same, same. Yeah, see.
And you can't make out words. You just hear the noise.
You hear whispering and you can't really tell where it's coming from or who's saying it. Oh yeah. Plus also, I'd have FOMO forever. I'd be like, what? Yeah, speak up. What are you talking about? Are you talking about me? Yeah, what? What'd you say?
You don't want to have ghost FOMO.
I don't. I really don't. You'd be like, speak up. Yeah. Stop talking about me. Yeah, see, it really would start giggling. I'd be like, get out of here ghosts.
Yeah, I'll stick with shadows too. I don't want that. Would you rather this or that? Somebody brought in donuts yesterday. I just had one. Not good. I've had better.
I looked at those this morning and went, oh.
I warmed it up. That helped a little bit. This one has frosting and sprinkles on it. I don't like sprinkles. I don't like sprinkles either.
Yeah, I'm not a fan. I have not been a fan for a very long time. I don't like, if something has sprinkles on it, I'll say pass. Yeah, they're like, I'll scrape them off. I don't like them. They're kind of, what's that flavor? It's not even the flavor. It's just the texture of them that I can't stand.
Well, they were weird hot, but they also, they have like a, I'm trying to, I'm trying to place it. You know what it is? It's the same as the frosting. When the frosting on a cake gets hard, and it's just too much frosting flavor. What's that flavor? Too much. You know the one. It's the too much flavor. The too much. They taste like that. They taste like they're doing too much.
I get it. Yeah. Hundreds and thousands is what they call them in England, which I think is a better name.
Do you? Yeah. They also call spray paint rattle can. Yeah, I like that too. Because of the can that rattles.
Has anybody seen the rattle can? I like that better.
But anyway, this doughnut, not where it's at. Back to your donut. I liked it warm. The warming it up helped.
I saw those this morning and I went, oh.
Yeah. The maple ones looked wet. You just brought one in and I went, you're eating one of those? Yeah. Not the maple one. I don't like the maple. I don't know if we've talked about that. I don't like maple.
I do know that about you. So if you're bringing Josh a donut, no maple. Right. And no sprinkles.
No, my favorite doughnut is. Is an old fashioned. Okay. I love an old fashioned cake doughnut. Absolutely. Cause I'm 90. Yep. But I also really like. A Bismarck. The Bismarck. Yeah. With the Bavarian cream in there. Not the like white marshmallow cream. It's got to be the. Right. Good custard.
Right. I know this about you. Yeah. That's a good doughnut. I know what my baby likes. Oh yeah.
Gross. I'll tell you what I don't like. What? A long John. I didn't even know what that is. That's what that is. A maple long John. That big long donut. There's only one time I've liked those. And it wasn't maple. They were chocolate.
I like. What's my favorite? I mean, I don't say no to any donut, but.
That's not true. You, you like the fritter. Yes. You're a big fan of a fritter. You like a berry filled something. No. Like if it's that little like round donut with the little circle of filling in the middle of it. Not usually.
You wouldn't eat that. I would. I'm just, it's not my favorite.
Not the lemon one. You would eat the berry one.
I'd say apple fritter and then the custard filled Bismarck. Yeah. Those are my top two. But then everything else goes after those.
Yeah. Then it's just a donut. Then it's like. You like a long John? Yeah, I do. Yeah. So I was at a camp as an adult a few years ago and our buddy Karl and I. Yeah. We're working together.
Yeah. And the weirdest thing happened. They had all these donuts, the big chocolate covered long donuts. And they had them in the, in the kitchen. And every time we had to go somewhere, the kitchen was on the way.
It was the craziest thing. Wow. And the weirdest other thing was that pretty soon all those donuts were gone. Yeah.
It was a sad part of the week when the donuts were gone because up to that point. It was awesome to stop by the kitchen.
Oh, hey, need a donut?
Oh, I guess. No, we just walked through and we go, hey, the cooks, we'd go, hey, everybody, just pass them through. It's weird. We've been in here a couple of times a day already. I know. We'll see you later. I'm sure. And then we just keep walking. And then all of a sudden the donut was in your hand. It was like, what?
Magic. Magic donuts. Yep. Pretty cool. Well, enjoy your.
I got one bite of it left. I got one bite of it left. Okay. You've enjoyed it then. It's not been bad, but the sprinkles were too much. So just I could do without. That'll wrap up the show for today. Let's, yeah, let's, let's call it a day. Tomorrow we'll be back. Hey, if you want to hang out with me today, noon to two, I'm going to be an Ammon at the brickyard for the Sarah Noni luxury blanket warehouse sale. I can't wait. Those are the best cozy little blankets.
Be careful because you might find a corner and cut along down.
That's what I'm saying. Cozy blanket. Yeah. If you find, if you can't find me, check underneath a pile of cozy blankets. I'll probably be there. That's nice. Anyway, things open it up in just a few minutes. It opens at 10. And then I'll be there noon until two. So you can stop by brickyard event center on Ammon road. That's where we'll be hanging out today with Sarah Noni luxury blankets.
Enjoy your, what day is it? Wednesday. Yep. Enjoy your Wednesday. See you tomorrow. Bye.
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