Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
There are 12 days of summer left and now there's sunscreen ice cream, Cracker Barrel is totally caving on their planned updates, a fire department gets a land donation in Good News, TV dinners were not that great, we made a list of cold things, Chantel threw an adult tantrum, what is the ultimate best baby shower gift, why are compliments so hard to receive, the good news boogie is a great trend, there's a bonus episode of the podcast that features a conversation with Al Pitrelli from Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Luna the wonder Jack Russell is a picky eater, a baby girl will break a 108 year long streak, ears vs nose in Would You Rather, and there are a lot of names hiding in Frederick.
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: New Girl Scout cookies
(2:56) - 12 days of summer
(8:41) - Cracker Barrel updates
(14:51) - Good News
(16:17) - TV dinners
(21:41) - Cold things
(24:45) - Adult tantrum
(28:28) - Best baby shower gift
(32:43) - Compliments
(38:36) - Good news boogie
(41:55) - Trans-Siberian Orchestra interview
(44:28) - The picky dog
(48:59) - 108 year streak
(51:21) - Would You Rather
(52:32) - Frederick
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Full show transcript:
The Girl Scouts revealed a new cookie for next year. Oh, really?
They're called ExplorMores. Okay, is it a smore flavored cookie? It's not. They already have a smore flavored cookie, I believe. In a way. I think they do.
Since when? Since... ExplorMore is the only name for a smore cookie that is acceptable. What is this cookie? This one is a Rocky Road inspired cookie. So it's got chocolate and marshmallow in it, so it's smores. It's a chocolate cookie with a creamy feeling with notes of chocolate marshmallow and toasted almond flavored cream. Interesting. Sounds like a cookie you'd be into.
Yeah. You love a toasted coconut, almond. There's not really a cookie that I'm not into, really.
What about a meat cookie? Oh, yeah, I couldn't see that. See?
I knew it. I could find a cookie you don't like. It's got meat on it. This is a cookie I made.
It's a peanut butter cookie, but it's got a piece of chicken on it. You'd be like, why? Ew, yeah. See? Okay, hold on.
They are mixing the Girl Scout smore cookies. They do have a...what? No, I was just gonna say. It probably wasn't a good seller, but what they should have done is come up with a better name for the smore cookie.
Like, I don't know. The name you just gave to a Rocky Road cookie. Which, hey, can we just for a minute talk about all of the other things that you could talk about with rocks and roads? Like, how about it's a hiking trail companion cookie? There's rocks all over in the trail. Make it about a trail. If it's gonna be Rocky Road inspired. Come on, marketing people.
Let's go. You can't make the cookie sound like it's a smore cookie and then have it not be that kind of cookie, is what I'm saying. They're also getting rid of the toast yay cookie. Toast.
Yay. It's a French toast inspired cookie dipped in icing. Oh. It wasn't a big seller, apparently. Apparently. Hmm.
Interesting. Because people like the good ol'... They didn't even have the name for the smore cookie.
They just called it the Girl Scout S'mores. That's it. Right. See? Hmm. Yeah.
Guys, yeah. What's going on with your marketing team? Come on. You gotta get this together. You have the perfect name for a smore cookie now.
And you're gonna make it a Rocky Road cookie. What are you doing? Explore Mores. Explore Mores. Mores. Come on. It's all there.
It's laid out on the table in front. Explore Mores. Mores. I'll probably still eat it. Settle down.
But I'm gonna be upset. Every bite I take of it, I wish this was a smore cookie. It's named after a smore cookie. I'm not gonna be that upset because I don't necessarily love s'mores.
So... I like s'more cookies. I don't like s'mores.
I like s'more flavored things. Okay. Let's start the show. Okay. Here we go. Hey there.
Hi there. What's going on? Oh... Let me look. What's going on? You gotta check? What are you looking at?
The calendar? No, I'm not really looking at anything. I was just looking around the room. What's going on today? Alright. I don't really know what's going on today.
It's... I mean, summer's not quite officially over. There's still 11 days of that or so. I was just gonna ask... Like what the... How soon should we get full decorations out? We saw somebody who had full on Halloween decorations out already.
Full on. And I went, that's more than a month away. But then I got to thinking like, you know, when people decorate for Christmas, they put that out a month away. They do? I mean, you want to... I like to have my stuff out for a month just because it takes...
I don't know. It takes a minute to get it all down. Fall is different than Halloween.
They overlap because fall will go up at the same time Halloween does, but Halloween will come down and fall will stay. Yeah. I typically do that.
Right. But, and here's what I always want to do too. When I get out my Christmas stuff, I have winter stuff. Mm-hmm.
But I don't leave my winter stuff up. Some of it. Just those two paintings. Oh, I do leave those up. I didn't put those up last year. Did I decorate for Christmas last year?
Yes, we decorated for Christmas. First day of fall will be Monday, September 22nd. So there are 12 days of summer left, I guess, officially.
Okay. So you'll be happy to know the fine folks over at Carnival Cruises have come out with a new ice cream. They worked with that Van Leeuwen ice cream. I guess.
They make the weird flavors. We're switching gears? No, no.
I'm still in summer. Okay. But they do that ice cream, like the mac and cheese, and they do like the weird, weird flavors, remember? Okay. They did a sunscreen flavored one. What? So that you can have coconut cream, coconut butter, vanilla extract, and sea salt, the essence of the beach in a pint. Mm.
It's not actual SPF, but it is ice cream that tastes like sunscreen. Why wouldn't they? Okay. All right. Okay.
I mean, it might not be real. When you first said sunscreen, I went gross, but then you started talking about it. Coconut cream, coconut butter, vanilla extract, and sea salt. Those are the flavors. That sounds surprising. It's delicious. What's that smell? Mm. Sunscreen.
What's it taste like? Yeah. Well, they... Sunscreen. It's probably just a promo for carnival. I was gonna say. It probably didn't really make sunscreen ice cream. This is going to be confusing to some people.
Yeah. And some people are now going to want to eat, if they eat the ice cream and think it's delicious, then they're going to think the sunscreen is delicious. And then we're going to have people eating sunscreen and getting sick after sunscreen.
Let's not do that. I'm saying, this is a confusing marketing ploy. And I've seen people do dumber.
There's a warning on the curling iron that says, do not put to tongue, which means... Someone did that. Someone has done that.
And then sued because I didn't know you couldn't do that. Exactly. What were they trying to do? What were they trying to accomplish, you think? I don't know, Josh. People do silly things all day, every day.
Yeah. We're just trying to... We're all just trying to figure it out. Just trying to figure it out? Life. Yeah. No, I get it.
I'm just saying, what are we trying to figure out? Some of us know better than to not eat sunscreen. Not all of us. But if you're a three-year-old and you're like, I want the sunscreen ice cream, then you're going to grab that bottle of sunscreen and think it's ice cream. You see what I'm saying?
I do see what you're saying. So get your Mr. Ick sticker and have it nearby because you might need that. You don't even see those anymore. Can you get them?
I don't know. I want some. You want some Mr. Ick stickers? Yeah.
I could use some help in knowing what's poison and what's not. Yeah. His name is Mr. Ick, not Mr. Ick. I thought his name was Mr. Ick, but it's Mr. Ick.
It's green. Yeah. And it's just Y-U-K, Mr. Ick. And his sticker says, stay away. And then there's a whole bunch of them.
They've made a ton of them. Mr. Ick says this. Mr. Ick says that. They've made new ones that have different faces on them. Oh. Yeah. I need to get some of those.
Yeah. I don't have kids in my house anymore, but it doesn't hurt to know what's poison and what's not. There are still some poison centers throughout the country that still offer Mr. Ick stickers. Nice. Do you know the poison control number?
I do not. It's actually really easy to remember. What is it? 1-800-222-1222. Nice. How about that?
Good job, poison. I wonder if that still works. Center?
What's it called? Poison control center? Yeah. Grateful I have not had to call that number. I know me too. That's kind of a cool, I mean it's not a cool job, but it's cool to say that you work there. What do you do for a living? Poison control. Poison control. I am Mr. Ick when you call the number. Indeed.
All right. Don't eat the sunscreen. Sunscreen ice cream might not be real.
Summer is 12 days remaining. And we're here in good morning. I think that recapped everything.
That was a lot of things. There you go. I've read something somewhere recently. I don't know if this is true or not, but Grunker Barrow was going to change their logo. Did you hear about this?
I did. I mean it was kind of obscure news. Oh yeah, no one was even talking about it.
No one. Yeah, no, that was the thing. And then they said, no, no, just kidding.
Yeah, because everybody threw a fit and they were like, what? You can change your Grunker Barrow logo. Okay, well, apparently. Because I own half of the company. Yeah, who cares? Who cares? And as I've said before, they could have changed that logo overnight and no one would have even noticed.
Well, except the one person got upset. If I had asked that person what the Grunker Barrow logo was, they wouldn't have been able to tell me. I know. Come on. I'm with you. Okay, so they were also going to remodel some of their operations, some of their restaurants.
Okay. Well, they had already. They were modernizing them, taking down all the trinkets off the walls and stuff. And people threw a fit.
Yeah. And the Grunker Barrow said, okay, we won't, we won't, we won't, we won't, we won't. Okay, look, I've been to a TGI Fridays. I know they cover the walls with stuff.
They're very, very big on that. You walk into an Applebee's. There's a lot of things hanging on the wall right there in the waiting area for sure, not necessarily throughout the rest of the place. Here's what's happening.
And I saw this somewhere and what is going on with reimagining the spaces for even stuff like McDonald's or Pizza Hut or whatever. Change needs to happen sometimes. Yeah.
No, it's just, it's just moving forward. But what's happening is you get these guys in these big meetings and they go, look, it's really hard to resell a McDonald's when it looks like a McDonald's or a Pizza Hut or whatever. Like those buildings look like that and you can see them everywhere. You go, that was a Pizza Hut. That was a Pizza Hut because they still have the little hat. And the Pizza Hut hat building. And so what's going on is these guys in these meetings are going, we need to be able to resell these buildings if we decide we're going to move out of here.
But people can't just refurbish a Pizza Hut in the McDonald's building to look like something else. So I think that's probably what's going on. They're looking at it from the same aspect and they're going like, To remodel?
Yeah. For the remodel and they're going, let's clean up these buildings because if cracker barrels locations start failing or shutting down, another restaurant tour who's going to move in here might not want it to look like. But not only that, like the bayou. Sometimes you have to just change the inside. You got to just change your look sometimes.
You got to grow, you got to adapt, you got to carry on with the time. You don't like it when you walk into a place and there's like, barrels. And saws and stuff on the wall and washboards and things. But people, like I said, had a fit and cracker barrels said, okay, okay, okay, okay. You shared your voices, not just on our logo, but on our restaurants. And if your restaurant hasn't been remodeled, don't worry.
It won't be. Well, don't add a new food item. They had planned to remodel 660 restaurants.
They were only able to remodel four of them. Yeah. I would like to go to those four only.
I know. I would like to go there and go, no, no, I don't go to any other cracker barrel except the newly updated one. Yeah, they were just gonna- The food tastes better here.
They were gonna freshen up the design, clean up the inside and barrels. Have you seen the pictures of them? No. Oh, they're really nice. Like it's really nice.
And here's their, they were like, we want to spruce up the look to make it like more attractive to younger customers. Nope. You're keeping your old ones because you're caved in to the old cranky ones. Yeah.
No, they're really super nice. There's a couple of pictures. They updated the menu. They updated the walls. It still had like a, like a, you're coming home feel.
The tables and chairs were still the same. They did some improved lighting so you could actually see when you're in there. And it's nice.
I'm not mad about it. You know, the old lattice work with the pictures in black and white and stuff. I mean, it's a vibe, but it's dark in there. Like it's not like super like, come and eat. And it feels a little bit dingy to me.
And people like dingy, I guess. I don't know. The new one was bright.
Listen. It looked nice. I have only eaten there maybe twice.
Right. I'm like one or two times two. It hasn't been that great. And so I've never been back. So yeah, you're right. It doesn't matter if you change your logo or you change your insight.
You got to change your food too. Wait, right. I'm just, it's not. And then people are really going to have a bit. Well, you can take away my country.
My country. Hey. Yeah, exactly. Here's some about the gravy. It's different. Oh, never changed.
Cracker barrel never changed. They won't because they tried that once and they'll never try it again. So anyway, good luck to them. It really doesn't make a difference in my day. It really doesn't. I know I'm never going to complain about a restaurant. Yeah.
At least not publicly. You could the things you complain about are when they bring things for a limited time and then take it away from you. Yeah. Like I want that all the time.
Don't make it a limited time. Yeah. That's what bugs you. All right. Settle down. No, I'm calling them out because you will really like that Wednesday frosty. Yeah. It's gone now that Raven's blood frosty.
Right. It was so good. You said you wanted it last night and you said that's the best thing I've ever had on the menu. That's my favorite frosty for sure.
Yeah. They might still have the syrup. You could go ask.
I could. Because they might use the syrup in that like frosty twist thing. They might just be able to squeeze some in the chocolate for you. So good. You're just going to have to ask. Yeah.
If you're going to bring a menu item, just keep it. Because I love it. No. I'm in love with it.
It's really a limited time. Stoop. See, you're so frustrated. Hey, here's some good news. Back in 1980, George Clay, he is from Macon, Georgia, and he was crushed by a runaway tractor while working on an apartment project.
That's not the good news part. The fire department was first on the scene. They lifted the machine off of his body. They saved his life. So fast forward from 1980, 45 years to now. George is now 92 years old. Okay.
He's giving back to the fire department 45 years later by donating four acres of land so that the fire department can build a new fire station and public safety center. Right. That's nice.
I know. The fire chief, Shane Edwards, envisions a station with three to four bays with a possibility for expansion in the future. Shane also announced that the station will be named in honor of George, uh, who's excited to give back to the community and to the men and women who made such a big impact on his life all those decades ago. Isn't that cool? That's really cool.
That's a nice story, George Clay fire station, I suppose is what it'll be called. Pretty cool. That is cool. Nice story.
Yeah. Way to go, George. Georgey. Nice. And it's good news. Georgey.
It's national TV dinner day. Okay. When's the last time you had one of those? I don't know. I was just looking at a kid's cuisine.
Okay. Did you ever have these? I had them far too often.
I did too. Because here's the thing. My parents both worked full time and they were involved in some extracurricular things as well, like, okay, responsibility, bowling leagues, bowling leagues. Yes.
My, my parents run a bowling league. And so we had, it was easy. It was an easy meal, right? And I think they thought that they were giving their kids like a delicious, healthy, because they had a vegetable.
And I bet that thing is so full of sodium. It's not even for sure. But in 1986, no one cared. Well, so they were introduced in 1989. So. Oh. You're right. Nobody did care in 86, but in 89, they did.
That's funny. I just opened that up because I was like, when did this start? So yeah, I was eight. So I had that as an eight year old.
Oh, absolutely. I had kid cuisine. That little penguin guy. Yeah.
And you would get that brownie that was hard as a rock. Yeah. You didn't care because it was.
I wasn't, we've talked about this before. I hated the hot apples. Yeah, you did. I am not a hot apple guy.
They're not it. Anytime they're like, here, have microwaved hot apples. So, OK, let's talk about like beyond kid cuisine.
Yeah. Did you eat these? And I'm talking about like the full meal. Oh, because I know there were times where it's like, hey, grab a Marie calendars for lunch. And that's still a thing. Like, that's fine. And I ate a lot of Marie calendars.
Alfredo. Because that one was an easy microwave lunch for like 80 cents or whatever. I was never big on the little chicken pot pies. Not not for me. Is that considered a TV dinner?
Absolutely. You pop that thing in the oven on a tray, put four of them in there. Family dinner.
Yeah, we had a lot of those. Sit in front of the TV with your little tray. I think that was why they started calling them TV dinners. Because you'd have that fold out tray and then you would take your little dinner on its little microwave plastic thing to your TV tray to watch TV while you wait.
Be careful because that plastic film. Oh, that's very hot. That's right. And you poked holes in it with the fork. I forgot about that. Steps.
It's been a minute since I've had a TV. Or you could peel it back a little bit. You could open it. OK, sometimes you would like they would say take the brownie out.
Oh, yeah, they did say that. So you'd have to cut around the brownie and take it out, but leave the plastic seals around that section. Oh, man, our kids will never know what a TV dinner is. They can. See, but that's the other part, too. Like you were saying that like they were busy, we had this thing. They were doing this because it was a quick way to feed us. We chose that. We wanted them. We were like, can we get kid cuisine?
That's true. I like those green beans. Hungry man. Yeah, my dad ate the Salisbury steak. Yeah, yeah. I'm not about to have Salisbury steak TV dinner.
I'd be a hungry man. I think that's how it goes. This ravioli looks real bad. I'll do.
Look at these. There's like ravioli. And then they did like the microwave fry thing. Do you remember those? They're individual packaged little boxes of fries that you could microwave. They never tasted great, but I kept trying. Because they came in like a bulk little pack. You got like six or eight of them or something. Those things were something else.
The air all of this is something else. Ah, interesting TV dinners. These actually existed in 1950. Well, for sure they did.
Like the fried chicken ones and like a lot of these existed early on. As TV became kind of the center of the home. That was definitely a focus. People wanted to spend time with the TV and wanted to eat at the same time.
And since you couldn't. Quick meal. That was before they invented the roly-cart for your TV. Because this the set was huge. It was way too big. You couldn't you couldn't move that around. Yeah, that way you loaded that in on the floor and it never moved. That's right. You vacuumed around it. That is correct. You vacuum your shag carpet around the TV.
That's exactly right. And then there was a few pieces of corn and a carrot sometimes. From your TV dinner that fell off your tray, you know. Got to keep it clean. And a carrot. Oh, well TV dinner celebrate the day by having one, I guess.
I think I'll pass. There's some good ones in there. Well, I was just looking at one of these kid cuisine ones and there was like a red they made like a turkey dinner one. And so there was like a red cranberry sauce in one of them.
That doesn't probably look good. No, I loved it. Oh, you've always been that kid, huh? I yeah, I always have liked cranberry sauce. I loved it.
You could heat it up. No, no. No, thanks. I'm a pass.
I kind of want it right now. You're so gross. I was reading something that said it's cold. It's getting colder. This morning, it was a little chilly when I left and I don't like the cold and the person who wrote the article also does not like the cold. And they were like, what are some other cold things that are disagreeable? Can you name any beyond cold weather?
Uh huh. Uh, cold, cold sleeping conditions. Like if it's cold in the bedroom, some people like to sleep warm. Some people like to sleep cold. Uh, how about when you get into bed and your sheets are cold?
That's the word. I'll warm them up pretty quick. I'm a warm, I'm a warm, blooded guy. Uh, cold showers, not a fun time.
Oh, that's a good one. Cold feet. You don't like cold feet. Well, but also that's a term where people say, oh, you've got cold feet. Like you're afraid to do a thing. To get married. Yeah.
Typically that's where it is. You got cold feet. Cold showers. I just said that. Oh, you did say that. I don't like it when a swimming pool is cold. Okay. I would prefer the swimming pool be a little bit warm.
Yeah. I like a little bit warm water. I like jumping into a cold thing, like jumping into some of the lakes at scout camps and stuff. Oh yeah, those will take your breath away.
Yeah. I thought I was going to die once. It was crazy. I did. I thought I was going to drown. I know you did. It was scary. And you told the lifeguard. I said, I'm not doing okay. And he's like, you're almost there.
And I went, give me the pole and pull me out. I'm not making it. I'm not doing okay right now. And I can't touch the bottom. Give me help. Oh, keep going, buddy. Keep going. You just need a little more. He's like, you're not going to finish it if you grab on the, I went, I know. Quit talking me out of this. I'm not all of a sudden going to be able to swim more.
And then you're going to really have to save me, buddy. How about cold sores? Who gets those? I do. I hate them. Yeah. Better than a warm sore, I guess. Is that a thing?
No. Well, I think blisters are probably warm. Where a cold sore is also, you said it feels hot. Like you can feel it. Yeah.
In addition to like the pain of it. That is the worst. Yeah. That's no fun.
But that's not the same as what we're talking about. What about cold rejection? Cold hard truth. Oh, cold hard cash. That's a good cold thing. I cold lemonade on a hot sunny day. That's good too. Nice. Well, these have been cold things.
Thank you for listening to us make a list. You were making fun of me last night because you thought I was throwing a fit. You were throwing a fit. I was not throwing a fit. Talking about the drive-thru.
Yeah. When you were throwing a fit. Because you were, first of all, we had a roundabout conversation for about 35, 40 minutes about where to eat, which is always my favorite. I just love driving around and trying to figure out where to grab dinner quickly. And no one can pick because no one, one person doesn't want to eat there.
So it gets vetoed and the whole group has to just try again. And it goes on and on forever. It's the worst game.
It is the worst game in the world. And so finally it was decided that we were going to hit two different places because not everybody wanted to eat at the one. So it was like, well, we'll go to this other place. But then you were like, I'll compromise. I'm going to go to this other place. Even though it's worse than the other two, three, four options that we decided. Anyway, we're in the drive-thru and you're having a bad time.
Yeah, I didn't want that food. And so you do this thing. I'm going to try to, I'm going to try to paint a picture. You make a fist with your hand and then you sort of slow punch your thigh. And at the same time as it's about to hit, you turn your head and look out the window with like a grumpy sad face.
And you go, pow. Like that. It's like a toddler. It's also, you're the baby in your family. You're the youngest child.
And it is 100% the youngest child who would do this thing. And you go, hmm. That's because I never get anything I want. And I can't deal with that. So I said, you gotta chill out.
You gotta stop freaking out. I just mostly, we're, you know, it was mostly done as a joke because, mostly, not entirely, mostly because this place that we chose to eat at just doesn't have enough, like it's, the food is just a little dry. Right. And so I said, can I get like a little more sauce on that? And she goes, no, you can't, because that's how it's made. It's already tossed in the sauce. You can't add more sauce.
We can't have it as a side. Right. Yeah. And she, she presented a challenge to which I said, okay, that's fine.
Thank you. And then she came back to the window and said, however, we have all of these other sauce options. And I went, look at you with solutions.
Look at you. At first you were like, no. And then you came back and you went, how about these options? Isn't that nice? It was nice. Yeah. Not the sauce that I wanted.
Right. And so I was unhappy that I had to eat that place. I made the compromise. And then I was double unhappy because it was going to be dry food.
Powdered. So I just went, oh. Yeah. I know. It's ridiculous. Calm down.
It's not that big a deal. It's just dinner. You're going to be okay. Was it okay? Was your dinner okay? It was fine. It was fine. Was it worth all the fuss?
No, it wasn't even worth the money I spent. Okay. All right. I would have rather just eaten at home, actually. Well.
But we were out and about and we didn't have a dinner plan. And so I went, just go here. That's what happens. I know. I would have just rather eaten at home. I'm glad you, I'm glad you've settled.
Sounds like you're just okay with everything now. No more thigh punching. No. I'll just keep compromising and thigh punching. I don't want it. I have a nephew getting, well, he's having a baby.
That's right. He is, there's a baby shower happening. He is, yeah, he's getting to be a dad. Yes. Right. And I don't know why I'm putting so much pressure on myself to come up with like, I want to have the best gift. Oh, okay.
It's a lot of pressure. I know and I don't know why I'm putting this much pressure on myself, but I, he has the same kind of sense of humor that I do. And I think that's why. Right. So you want, you want to play a funny angle, not necessarily be like, I got the most expensive baby gift. Correct.
You want, you want to have like, the most fun. Yes. Okay. Absolutely. And I think that's why I'm putting the pressure on myself because I do want to have the, the, the best. The best gift, like the funniest. Okay.
It's a lot of pressure to uphold. I don't, I've been racking my brain for weeks trying to think of something fun, but also something that's usable. Right.
Yeah, sure. I don't want to buy something fun that's just going to be tossed to the side. It's got to be usable too. So I, I've come up with something that I think is meh.
It's like a six out of 10. I'm like, I know I could think of something better, but, but this is all I got right now. And I don't want an idea that somebody else like, you know, you can Google some things and be like, okay, that's like a dad survival kit.
That's a cute idea. Yeah. I'm better than that. Okay. I can come up with a better idea. Okay. So what are we doing? I don't know. I can't say on the radio.
Oh, I see. What if somebody hears it and goes, that's a good idea. I'm going to, I'm going to take that idea. I see. Okay. And also, what if I say on the radio, my idea, and then at the last minute I go, no, that's a terrible idea. I'm not doing that idea. And then somebody takes that idea.
No way. And then everybody takes that idea or if somebody steals my idea, if I say it on the radio. And then at the shower, everyone goes, oh, that is such a cute, clever gift. I'll be so mad. That was my idea.
You stole my idea. I see. So your gate keeping the baby shower.
Oh, for sure. And trying to outdo everyone for what? For what's the point?
For why? I don't know. I don't know, Josh. I really don't. And here's the other part that I know is that at the end of the day, no one's going to remember who brought what and what.
What goes where and who's got the best laugh. It doesn't make any difference. It really doesn't.
I feel like I have something to prove and I don't know why. It's so dumb, right? It's so dumb. I mean, you have your reasons, I guess. I'm not going to argue with you because I don't want you over there getting all cranky at me. No, go ahead.
No? I'm not going to be cranky. Just say what you're going to say. No. Say. I have nothing to say. I said. I think you do have something to say clearly. I don't want it.
No. I think here's the other part is that I was talking to his baby mama and a couple of weeks ago and I said, oh, I got to come up with the best gift. And she had already been receiving some gifts and she was like, I go, both my sister and I were looking at the gifts with her going, oh, they spent a lot of money. Oh, they spent a lot of money. And I said something to the baby mama and said, listen, I'm not going to.
I can't spend a lot of money because I don't have a lot of money to spend. So don't get too hyped up about that. Right. But I got to have the best gift.
And she said to me, you will have the best gift because you're funny. There you go. So there's all the pressure. Yeah. Got it.
I get it. So now I have a lot of I got to prove myself. Okay. Well, good luck.
Crap. I received. I saw something a while ago that said, what's the best compliment you've ever received?
Okay. And at the time I was thinking about compliments that I'd received and I always get like, oh, you have really pretty eyes. That's when I get a lot. I have a nice smile.
People say, I've heard a lot of people say you have a great laugh. Yeah. That's a good one. I actually hear that too. Yeah. Because you do.
See. But I heard a compliment yesterday and this came from one of my best friends and it was so nice that I didn't necessarily know how to respond. I'm trying very hard to just accept compliments. Okay. I think you instead of being like, no, no, no. Because that's what I've been trained to do my whole life. All right.
But the compliment I received was that I emanate joy. Whoa. I know, right?
That's big times. It's heavy. It's not heavy.
It feels like. It's actually very light. It's very nice.
Right. It's so nice. And then he told me that when I talk about things that I'm excited about, it makes him want to get excited about them too.
Even though he's not excited about them at all. And it was so nice, but I don't know what to do with it. Well, you say that's very nice.
Thank you. I did say that. And then I think. And then you go about your life. But then I was like, when I said that after I said, thank you, that's so nice of you.
Yeah. Then I go, that's probably not a proper response to that really nice compliment. And then I overthink my response to the compliment.
Well, I'm going to tell you it's not transactional. So it isn't like you requires you to say, well, there's a nice thing about you, which is what you do. You go, I say one nice thing. You say one nice thing.
And that's not how compliments work. I know. I know.
I know. It's a fun bit. I like that bit where I tell you to say nice things. You forced somebody to give you a compliment. No, I forced you to give me a compliment.
Oh, here's what else. Like people say, like, because the thing I read a couple of weeks ago was like, what's one of the nicest compliments you've ever received. I did ask this question to you not too long ago. And you were like, men don't get compliments. Women get compliments. It is certainly not as frequent.
That is absolutely for sure. Like I have a new shirt on today and you've said a couple of times, I like that shirt. That shirt looks nice. It does look nice. I appreciate that compliment.
That's nice. I think spouse to spouse are complimentary. I think it's probably awkward for another dude to give another dude a compliment. No, I'm going to walk out of the room and the other dudes in the place are going to be like, dumb shirt. Yeah, I know.
I'm not going to go, okay. My wife likes it. Yeah.
Nobody like, yeah, looks like you took it from her closet. They'll say stuff like that. Do they sell that in the men's section? It'll be stuff like that. Like I get a ribbon all the time. I don't get like a, hey dude, that's you look sharp today. You get a ribbing? Not a ribbon? Right. A ribbon. Apostrophe at the end. R-I-B-B-I-N. Not R-I-B-B-O-N. You get like a blue.
No, I'm getting a ribbon. Yeah, they aren't like first place. We're looking like a geek. Good job. I don't think you look like a geek.
No, I know. I think you look nice. Well, I appreciate that. That's a nice compliment. Thank you for saying that.
You're welcome. Yeah. Now say one nice thing. No, you say one nice thing to me now. I said one nice thing to you. I had to hurry and say it before you did. That's what that was. Oh, fun.
No, but that's what you do. You just say, you say, hey, well, that's really nice of you to say. That makes me smile.
Thanks. Here's my challenge to you, Josh. If you walk out of this room and some of the dudes here are like, what are you wearing your door? They're not going to say that. Then you just say, give them a compliment. You're like, oh, hey, thanks. I really like your shoes. Those are some really nice shoes. Give them a compliment and see what that does. I don't like their shoes. I know.
I love them. Like one guy wears like big black orthopedic shoes because he walks bad. And the other guy, he's just wears like old worn out shoes or hey dudes. And I'm not a hey dudes guy. So I'm not going to be like sweet.
Hey dudes, because it's not authentic. Well, right. Don't say that because that is going to sound like you're making fun of them.
That's what I'm saying. It's hard to compliment. It's hard to get them. It's hard to, it's hard to give them. It's not my fault.
It's just the way of the world. Okay. Well, say something you like about them. Yeah. And maybe not the shoes. Yeah.
Shoes was a bad choice. Okay. So just say, hey man, that project we worked on the other day, that was really cool. The way, the idea that you have.
I'm just going to say that word for word was, hey, that project that we were working on together the other day. Wow. What a great idea you had. Is that good? Did I do it right?
It was a good run through. I think that's going to work. Yeah. I think that's going to work. They will definitely not go like, okay, weirdo. So I'm stoked. I think it's going to go well. You're right. This is going to go really well.
We're going to start a compliment revolution. Right. I can see it on the horizon. It's all happening.
It's coming our way. Hey, hey, hey. Remember when we went to lunch the other day? You drove really well. I drove.
Oh. I drove pretty well. You were a great passenger princess. Good job. We're going to take over the world with compliments. You and I. Yep.
I can see it now. We do a segment on the show called Good News. And it's just a good story that we talk about every day.
It's 645. And I was on tic-tac last night just scrolling and I saw this video. Is this when you were texting me saying you were lonely and what are you doing? Yeah.
You should hang out with me. Okay, got it. Okay. So there was a video on there that said it was just a woman dancing.
And I can't even remember the song that was on, but it was a happy like get your booty up and shake it. Okay. All right. And it said there's so much bad news. Yeah.
Like every story is like sad, like horrible news constantly. Right. And so she said, I'm going to start a good news boogie. Oh. And so she was just dancing and then she would put like, here's the good news that happened in Philadelphia.
Cool. Here's the good news that happened. And I just the music alone was enough to make you be like, hey. Okay. Hey. All right. So I'm wondering maybe we should add some fun upbeat music to our good news section. All right. Have a good news boogie. Okay.
Like this one, a waitress in British Columbia. I was unprepared. I don't have the good news.
Happy music. Hold on. All right. I've got some old stuff laying around here. Let's see. Is that fun? Let's see what we've got. How about this one?
It's got to be fun. Is this it? I mean, this could be it. I mean, I'm feeling good about it. Go ahead. Read the news. All right. A waitress in British Columbia was on her shift and she looked outside and saw a raccoon.
Whoa. Go underwater. The raccoon was in the ocean. It was a baby raccoon and it went underwater and she went, I got to go save that raccoon. So she didn't even hesitate.
She jumped in the water, saved the raccoon and then went back to work. Whoa. Good news.
It's a good news boogie. I don't know if hot dog is there. No, hot dog is there. It might not be hot dog. We'll have to try something else. Yeah.
I think so. I mean, hot dog's a beat. It's got a lot of energy to it and it's, it's got a good thing going, but it might not be the right one.
But it doesn't. Yeah. It's like you got to, you got to dance to it. It felt like I was doing a lot of this move. I was doing some shoulder bopping.
Yeah. But I'm also in a chair. So it's hard to boogie in a chair. You can chair boogie. I mean, I am chair boogie right now.
So the music in my head. All right. Well, we'll work on it.
We'll get some, we'll get some stuff working out here. Also, good job to that waitress for saving that baby raccoon. And then getting back to work. I mean, she could have, her boss could have said, hey, good job doing a good deed. Maybe take the rest of the day off or go change your clothes. It was like, hey, your plates are up. You're getting water all over the floor. Come on.
Deliver these and grab them up. So yesterday was kind of cool. I got to talk to Al Petrelli. He is one of the founding members of Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Yeah. And I got to have a nice little 15 minute long conversation with him over the phone because Trans-Siberian Orchestra is coming to the Mountain America Center November 20th in Idaho Falls. And Classy 97 is presenting that show.
Got to chat with him. So there's a bonus episode of Wake Up Classy 97, the podcast. If you follow the podcast, maybe you got alerted to that.
But if you don't and you want to listen to it, you want to learn more about Trans-Siberian Orchestra and what the show is going to look like and what to expect. We got into kind of, we got talked about football. We talked about like his favorite thing in the whole wide world that he would put in a time capsule.
There's all kinds of stuff in there. It was a good interview. You did a great job. Yeah, it was fun.
It was a nice little conversation for about, like I said, 15 minutes. So if you're looking for a quick little listen and you want to learn more about Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Al was really cool. He was a cool dude. Yeah, really cool. Been in a lot of different bands too.
So then I started checking him out on like Instagram and stuff. And he is doing, like he's a crazy good guitarist, crazy good. Well, I feel like he'd have to be in a Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Right. And he... You know, just accept any Shlomo.
Yeah. He's also like a brainiac when it comes to music and he's sharing a lot of that in his social media and stuff. So if you are like a music person and you really want to learn about guitar and how he puts together stuff and you want, like he does like, here's how I play this part of Wizards in Winter and stuff like that. Like it's really cool.
You can, you give him a follow on socials. It's pretty rad. So anyway, Al Petrel is his name. And if you want to check out that bonus episode of the podcast, it's available everywhere you get podcasts. And hey, while you're clicking around on the internet. Also, also.
Yeah. Enter to win tickets to go see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra at the Mountain America Center. All you have to do is click on the link in the Class of 97 app and fill out your information and then by the being by the boom, you're entered to win. That's right. Tickets do go on sale to the general public on Friday, day after tomorrow at 10 a.m. So you can purchase your tickets. But if you want to enter to win them before you can buy them, head over and do that right now in the Class of 97 app. And one winner is also going to win VIP meet and greets with the band. So you can actually meet Al Petrel. At the show, if you're that lucky winner. So tap the link and sign up. It's in the Class of 97 app. And good luck.
Yeah, for sure. We have a 15 pound Jack Russell terrier. Terror, a Jack Russell terror. Terror, yes.
Yeah, right. She never stops. She is a go, go, go. She's always hungry.
This is true. I don't know why that dog is always hungry. It feels like she has to have constant snacks and treats.
Like what kind of a little round football dog would she be if we fed her as much as she thinks she needs to eat? But she's constantly running too. She never slows down. No, she does have that high metabolism.
Burn it up. She's Luna the Wonder Jack Russell. Anytime we have any kind of food, she's there like, hey, what about me? Yeah, what? Are you going to drop something?
Because it'd be cool if you drop something. Hey, hey, hey, what about me? So constantly this is what I hear in the kitchen. Hey, Google, can dogs eat insert food? Hey, Google, can dogs eat a donut?
Google's like, well, according to pedigree.com, it's not good to feed your dog a donut. Yeah, that's exactly what happens. All the time. So I was making my lunch last night. I was cutting up some fruit and she, we found out she likes watermelon and yes, watermelon is safe.
Right. She can eat the watermelon. She loves watermelon. She doesn't say no to a lot of food. She doesn't eat broccoli, right?
I can't remember. I don't feed the dog people food. I am kind of on the entire other camp where I go, quit feeding the dog people food. She has her dog food. That's what she's supposed to eat. And, you know, if there was listen, if there was like a, like a pepperoni or something like that pedigree, no, a pepperoni. I'm saying if there was a pepperoni that fell on the floor, I would be like fine, you can have a pepperoni.
Yeah. Or like if I'm cooking in a piece of cooked chicken, not the raw stuff, but a piece of cooked chicken jumps out of the pan and she's like runs over. She's fast.
She is quick. I'm not going to be upset about the protein. Okay.
But here's the thing. Pedigree. I said pedigree initially, which made me laugh.
That's Harry Potter. Pedigree. Peter pedigree. Pedigree sometimes will say like, yeah, they can eat that. That's fine.
And that actually has antioxidants that are good for dogs. Sure. So sometimes people food can be fine too. They're like hardcore no-go's.
I agree with you. And that's why we ask all the time, we did find out that she likes cantaloupe. And again, we only feed her.
I don't want like animal activists coming after me. It's always in moderation. It's never like we're overloading her with people food. Right. But she doesn't like raspberries.
We found out. So she likes cantaloupe. She does not like raspberries.
So chalk up raspberries to the Luna does not like. She's picky. She's not picky. But she's picky about very specific things.
There are two things she does not like. Raspberries and broccoli. I think it's broccoli.
Broccoli is on the okay list from what I can see. We've asked. No, I know. I don't just feed her stuff without asking. I understand.
I hear it a lot. Hey, Google. I want to feed my dog some people snacks. Can I do that? Yeah, look, you can apples, bananas. She doesn't like bananas.
It's a texture thing. Also, you cannot don't feed your dog grapes. No, ever.
Don't ever. Those are really bad. Very bad.
Not safe. Here's a quick list of not safe foods for your dog. Avocado, apple cores, bacon, bones, chocolate, caffeine, citrus, coconut, chives, dairy product, eggs, garlic, grapes, medicine is on this list. Also, alcohol. Don't feed your dog alcohol or medicine.
Don't feed your dog raisins, which are dried up grapes, plums, peaches, onion, salt, yeast, dough, or raw meat. Okay. Seems easy enough. If you have a question, just ask. Peter Pettigrew will help you out. Peter Pettigrew says, you can feed your dog a green bed. Green bean. Thank you, Peter.
I wish we could rename our Google. To Peter Pettigrew? No. Just Peter. Peter was a terrible person. I just wanted to name it Peter.
Okay. Hey, Peter. There you are, Peter. Earlier, we were talking about a baby shower that you're going to.
Yeah. There is a Texas couple who are getting ready to have a baby as well. They're expecting a baby girl. Yeah. How exciting is that? It's not very newsworthy by itself, but here's the big deal. This baby's arrival will break a 108-year streak. Did you see this?
I did see this. 108 years, this family has had boys for 108 years. Since 1917, they have only had baby boys.
Girl born was their great-great-aunt, Orah, born in 1917. That's right. Yeah, I read this. Isn't that wild?
Yeah. Michael is the guy. Michael Sherman and his wife. How do you think you say her name? His wife, oh, Jackea. Jackea? Yeah.
Okay. Michael and Jackea are having the baby. Michael said, I just feel honored. We're the ones bringing the baby girl into the world. Finally, after over 100 years, it's amazing.
That's so cool. Yeah, they're expecting the baby girl to arrive in March. The first girl in the family in 108 years.
108 years. Isn't that crazy? Apparently, the family went nuts at the gender reveal.
I bet they did. What? I bet everyone was like... That's when you have a gender reveal. Exactly. When it's been 108 years since you've had a girl, you go, hey, let's do the gender reveal, buy a bunch of blue stuff because that's the way it goes.
And then the pink smoke comes out. What? Yeah. Well, congrats to the family. That's very exciting for them. Yeah, they are checking to see if they might qualify for a Guinness World Record. For the longest time since a girl was born, who gets the record? The baby or the family. That's what I'm saying.
Yeah. The baby gets a world record for just existing. I can't get one for trying to do stuff.
The baby just gets born and gets a world record. Come on. You haven't tried to do anything.
Let's be real. No, you're right. I'm not giving it a full effort. No. I could do better.
You could attempt anything. I'll work on it. Okay.
I'll work on it. Would you rather this or that? Would you rather have a nose that hunks like a horn when you sneeze or ears that flap when you're excited?
I'm picking that one. Ears that flap when you're excited or what? A nose that hunks like a horn when you sneeze.
Oh, I sneeze so much. Could you imagine? That would be so annoying.
It already is annoying, but I want ears that flap. Like, who's that Disney character? Dumbo. Is it Dumbo? Yeah.
He flew with his ears. Oh, man. Everyone would know when I was excited. I'd be like, ha, ha.
Like a tail wag. Yeah. But it's your ears.
But it's my ears. How fun. That's what I'm picking. What are you picking? Yeah, I don't want to honk.
No, that. You sneeze so much and it's already so loud. It'd look like alfalfa though.
With your ears? Alfalfa. Yeah.
Would you rather this or that? Do you know anybody named Frederick? I don't think so. I don't know any Freds. No, Frederick specifically. Like a Fred might be short for a Frederick.
It might be. It's the best name because it has six names in it. Fred? Yes.
Rick? Yes. Red? Yes. Ed? Ed. Derek? Okay.
And what did we say? Fred, Rick, Red, Derek, Ed, and? Ick. Eric.
Eric. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It's not cool. I mean, I guess. I kind of want to know what Frederick. So I can be like, what do you know your name has so many names?
I could call you anything. Is there a female version of Frederick? Frederico. Frederica.
Frederica. That's it. And then it has another one because then it also has Erica. Oh, nice.
Good one. Frederica has 17 names. That's a fun fact. I know it's a fun fact.
I saw it yesterday and went, man. I wish I had a name that had six names in it. Let's look at your name. What else is in your name? Shan. Ant. Tell. Yeah.
L. Cha. Yeah. Chant. Okay. Chant.
Good one. Yeah. I just looked up my name. I just Googled my name. Yeah.
There is a reality TV show called the Family Chantel. Whoa. Did you know about this? Negative. I didn't either. Cool.
I'm glad that we know nothing about it. There's five seasons of this show. Where was it at?
It's on Hulu. Who? Lou? Nice one. Yeah.
There's two names in there. Let's wrap up the show. All right.
All right. Check out the podcast. If you have a podcast or available, thanks for hanging out with us. We'll be back tomorrow morning, bright and early for you. We'll see you then. Okay. All right. See you. Bye. Okay.
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