Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Wednesday, September 17th, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
It's chilly outside this morning and defrosters were used to clear the dew, New Haven is the pizza capital of the US, a nine year old neuroscientist is Good News, Chantel does her best to recreate some top TV theme songs, we've done so many hugs over the past few days, Chantel accidentally deleted years of text messages, 4 pound of pumpkin pie might be too much, Josh talked fly fishing at a funeral, Chantel was starving and chewing gum wasn't helping, we have different priorities when it comes to cleaning the house, we now have a 16 year old, pickles vs onions in Would You Rather, and the American Falls Reservoir is so low you can see the 1920 town!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Idaho man wins Alone
(2:26) - It's chilly
(6:08) - Pizza party
(12:14) - Good News
(14:06) - TV theme songs
(16:56) - So many hugs
(22:43) - Text be gone
(27:25) - 4 pound pumpkin pie
(30:24) - Fishing spots
(36:24) - Chewing gum
(40:22) - Cleaning priorities
(45:25) - Sweet 16
(51:10) - Would You Rather
(53:55) - American Falls Reservoir
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Full show transcript:
Hey, there was a man in Buol, Buol, Idaho. Okay.
Is Buol, uh, south of Twin Falls? Is that where that is? I think it's north of Twin Falls.
Hmm, let's look on a map real quick. Okay.
I know it's in that general vicinity, but I don't- Okay, it's, it's west.
It's quite a, quite a bit west, actually. Okay. Uh, okay, anyway. Now I know where that is. Okay.
This man's name is Nathan, and he won the History Channels Reality Series alone. Okay.
I saw this story.
We like this show.
I really like the- We haven't seen this season. I know. Uh, this- But that's awesome. Was in South Africa's where they filmed this. He lasted 34 days. So the idea of the show is that you go out, you have 10 supplies that you can bring. Right. And you have to outlast the rest of the contestants. And that means you've got to build shelter, you've got to build fire, you've got to hunt food, you've got to do everything to stay alive. Alone. Yep. In isolation, in the wilderness for as long as you can without, uh, you know, knowing if other people have quit, how many have other quit, uh, if this is your data quit, like it just is, it's crazy. The mental game alone in this alone show is probably
what would give it- And 34 days is actually small compared to how long some of the other contestants on the other seasons have lasted. Uh, he said having raised here in Southern Idaho, running around in the South African desert was where I felt at home. Oh, interesting. So he said that helped him. And he, he won.
Well, that's awesome. Good for him. I'm excited to watch that season, even though I know this information.
Hold on. Now this is other information. He's in the first Idaho and succeed in the series, nor is he even the first member of his family to appear on the show. His younger brother Luke lasted 22 days in Saskatchewan during season 10. Oh, interesting. Oh, no. Well, we got to check out that season 12. We haven't seen that season. That's the season his brother was on? No, that's the season this guy is. Oh, I see. One. Okay. Good job, buddy. All right. Congrats to you. Let's kick off the show. Let's do it.
Hey, you. Oh, ho, ho.
Is that like, like not quite Santa. Right. Close.
Is that what that is? A pre Christmas.
Are you feeling that? No. Okay.
I mean, I mean, you said it. I'm feeling that because it's chilly this morning. Yeah. And I almost had to scrape my windows.
I did not have to scrape. There was some, some dew, but there was not frost. Yeah. Because, because it wasn't cold enough to turn the dew into frost. I did turn on my heat
in my car on the way here though. And my defrost.
That's right. I turned on the heat to defrost. Burr. To get rid of the dew. The dew. That's right. I did see it's supposed to be getting warmer over the next few days. So for what it's worth. Like it's still mid seventies today. We're going to be back in the eighties for like the next week or so. And then we'll, you know, continue to have some fall weather as we move into the seventies, like late this month.
So we've got, we're looking good. I'm not complaining.
No, I'm saying like our overnight lows are a little bit chillier because they're in the forties. That's what's getting right.
That's what's getting you. We were hanging out outside last night and it was chilly. Put on a fire.
We did have a little bit of a fire and some blankets. It's jelly.
Yeah. No, I heard.
You've told me I've heard that all night. And then even now today, you're still, you're still saying the same thing. All right. It's jelly. I go, yeah. Yep. Yeah, it is. What are we going to do? Put on a sweater, have a blanket, light a little cozy fire. It's chilly. Tell me about it. I've said the same thing last night and now this morning.
I don't remember saying that last night.
You don't. No. You don't remember saying it's chilly and every time you said it, I said, no, it's cake, but keep saying it. Because I said it at least three times.
All right. All right. He's a wheeze.
It was, it was almost like a character thing for you. You just kept saying it. Like it was your one catch line. All right. Like in a sitcom, you know. I
get it. I said it a lot. I get it. You've made your point.
I was just saying. No, no. You were like a sitcom character. Stop it. Stuck in a loop. Like, did I do that? It was your line.
It's chilly. I got it. I got it. Move along.
Oh, wow. What happened?
Why you, uh, because you just keep pointing it out. I'm so sorry I bothered you with speaking. Father me. I'm repeating the same thing. So sorry. What was it that you said? I don't remember.
Yes, you do.
Maybe you could tell me since you heard it so much.
That's what you said. All night. All night. I'm glad you brought it up this morning so that I could.
I honestly don't remember saying it. So it probably was just like a, I don't know. I don't know. It was probably just, I was saying it out loud, but speaking mostly to myself.
Sorry. Sorry to have bothered you. I don't know why you're apologizing. There's nothing to apologize for.
Sorry. Starting the day out great. Sorry. It's chilly. Thanks a lot. Starting to show off. Great.
Well, it is chilly outside. So, uh, good morning.
It's too bad we weren't in New Haven, Connecticut on Friday.
Well, what happened in New Haven, Connecticut?
Well, it's New Haven, Connecticut. So that would be cool just in and of itself.
I've never even seen what that town looks like. I haven't either, but it sounds nice. Okay. Just because it's called New Haven. Yeah. Okay.
It sounds like one of those little communities that you read about where like, you have to bike to get your groceries. Oh. You know what I'm saying? I do know what you're saying.
Uh, go ahead. On Friday, they had the world's largest pizza party. Really? Yep. Guinness was there for it. And it's official. They have the record for the largest pizza party. Okay. How many people showed up? Four Ninja Turtles. All right. No, there wasn't any Ninja Turtles
there that I know of. Well, then there was no pizza party at all.
4,525 people showed up. Okay. 9,000 slices were eaten.
So everybody had to or so? I mean, yeah. Okay. I mean, that's a party. Two slices per person at a bare minimum is a pretty good party. Who made all the pizza?
I don't know the answer to that. Hmm.
Because that's a lot of pizza. That's a lot of pizza. That's a lot of pizza. And did they serve it hot? Were they just throwing it in the salamander to heat it up? Did they, uh, was it, you know, I mean, you could, you couldn't make all that pizza fresh right now. It would take way too many ovens. Yeah.
I was trying to find more details.
Like I feel like they would have had to have spent like a week making the pizzas. Yeah, probably. And then heat them up and hand them out. Yeah, that sounds like. So it was the biggest leftover pizza party. Let's, let's get this right. These weren't fresh pies.
So you're, are you saying you want to attempt to have like a large, just fresh pizza party?
I'm saying they should get largest leftover pizza party. The largest fresh pizza party record is not being.
What I am finding out is that New Haven is the pizza capital of the United States. No way. That's what they say.
I'm looking at a picture of New Haven in the fall.
And that is beautiful. That's what I'm saying.
It's beautiful. They have, uh, about 150,000 people. How many? In New Haven. About 150,000. Okay. So it's not terribly large.
Why are they called the pizza capital of the world?
I wonder. Great question. Well, probably because they have the leftover pizza party record.
No, I think they had this record before this. I think this is why they wanted to do the pizza party because they were like, we are the pizza party of the world.
They have it on signs and everything.
And it's what I'm saying.
They have art as you walk around downtown. There's big pizza pie statues.
Why? Why do they have pizza statues?
Uh, their exceptional quality in history.
I'll tell you why. Their unique A pizza. Yeah. It's a, or a pizza. A char crusted thin crust style pizza that was pioneered by Italian immigrants and iconic pizzerias including Frank Pepe Pizzeria and Nepali and Sally's a pizza and modern a pizza.
That's why they're the pizza capital of the world.
Okay. Yeah. They just had their biggest pizza party.
Look, I mean, apparently the community is very enthusiastic about pizza. If they're doing art and they're doing all this other stuff about the pizza.
They like the pizza there. Pizza. They love the pizza there.
4525. Okay. But here's the thing. If they're doing those little charred ones, they might be able to make enough pizzas. Enough pizza. Okay. And how big is a slice? Josh, I don't know. Because they're not doing a New York style is what I'm saying.
I feel like you need to be a judge for Guinness. Maybe.
Because you. I might be too critical. I think you're pretty critical. I might be like, look, you're not going to get the biggest pizza party world record.
If you're serving leftover pizza, if you're serving leftover pizzas, you're going to get the biggest leftover pizzas served record. You might get a different one, but you're not going to get biggest pizza party because who goes to a pizza party and expects leftovers zero.
You don't know if they had leftovers.
I'm just saying to make 4000 slices of pizza. No, 9000. Yeah. 9000 slices of pizza. They're not doing it fresh. Unless they're doing these little char ones and cutting them into like 16. They're double cutting. Everybody's getting a sliver of pizza. That doesn't count as a slice. I have criteria.
If all three of the pizza restaurants chipped in and they were just cranking them
out all day, there's got to be way more than three. If you're the pizza capital of the world.
You said the first like those were the.
All right.
So is our we have fewer than 175,000 people and we have more pizza places and I understand that's not whatever.
We're not the pizza.
Oh my gosh. Just move on. Sorry, I brought it up. Louise.
I don't know. You're losing steam on it.
All right. You asked too many questions. Well, I like to get to the, you know,
I like to like to know all the info.
Good story. It is a good story.
Thanks for telling me about it. I kind of want to go there. It looks beautiful. I know. I'd like to check it out. I've never been over there. Looks nice.
I know. I could have some pizza while I'm there. Don't get a leftover. Please. No, give me a fresh one. You get it.
You get it. Here's some good news. This is about a nine year old named Aiden Wilkins who's making history as the youngest student ever at or Sinus College in Pennsylvania where he is studying neuroscience. Whoa. Alongside students twice his age. Yeah. He's nine.
What in the world? His goal is to become a pediatric neurosurgeon and help kids through some scary medical conditions. Of course Aiden has had an unusual childhood. You can imagine. I was going to say. He explained I could just read when most kids at my age at like two could barely even speak. He could read. Whoa.
His mom Veronica said he was reading signs and correcting people's sentences, writing algebraic equations, all at a very young age. What? Yeah. So Aiden figured out that he was interested in medicine and he had the support of his family early on mainly because he said I always like helping people around my age and I was always fascinated by the anatomy of the brain. He said it's sad to see kids around my age with neurodisabilities. So I want to help him out. He's nine. He's nine years old.
Well, good job Aiden. It's wild. I know that's insane. He's nine year olds in college studying neuroscience. Neuroscience. Yeah. To focus on the brain. Yeah. To help kids his age because he can. He's an old soul.
Of course he is. What? Wow dude. I feel great about my life decisions so far. Good job nine year old Aiden. Yeah. Aiden's good news. I'm going to have a quick quiz for you.
Okay. There have only been five theme songs, TV theme songs that have hit number one on billboards top 100. Full house. Nope. Not on the list. It's definitely not anything that you think it's going to be.
I'll say that. Oh, okay. Because it's not because they were theme songs. It's because they were great songs that were used as theme songs. Like the song from Scrubs for example. The I'm no Superman. Right. That's a song but then was used as the theme song for Scrubs.
I'm not quite sure. Okay. Okay.
I thought for sure like the Friends theme song would be out there.
That's Rembrandt's right? Yeah. No. It's not listed. Okay. Help me out.
Okay. I'm going to start at number five. How do you talk to an angel by Jamie Walters? This was on the show from The Heights. Okay. Anyone ever heard or seen that show?
No. Wasn't The Heights like the OC?
Maybe. Sounds like it could be.
I feel like it was. I do know that song. And it might have been after you.
No, you don't have to sing it. No, we know. We knew it. Nobody did. No, we knew the song. No. And you had a lot of nose in it too.
All right. I'm a little stuffy nose. No, no, no. I'm not going.
Number four.
Number four. Miami Vice theme.
Oh, okay. I was going to say that was Axl F, but that's not true. No. That was the Beverly Hills Cop.
I can't even think of the Miami Vice theme.
It was after my time. I'm going to have to pull that up. Okay. Okay. Welcome back. From Welcome Back Car.
Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back. Right. Okay. Number two is the theme from SWAT. From SWAT. Again, I don't know this show. Okay. And the number one theme song to make it to the Billboard Top 100 is the sound of Philadelphia, the theme from Soul Train. Oh, how about that?
Never heard it. No.
So I can't sing it for you. You don't Soul Train? No, I'm sorry that I can't sing it for you. I bet if I hear it, I'll be like, oh yeah, I know that song, but it's not.
It's not on the tip of your brain. It hasn't lodged itself in my brain. I got you. As the others have done. Yeah. So, so. There you have it. Well, thanks for that list.
And for singing a couple of them. Really helped me out.
Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back. I was feeling a little bit sniffly this morning. And you said, as you were blowing your nose, I said, are you also sniffly? I said no. He said, yeah, we've had a lot of contact with a lot of people lately. This is true. We had a funeral yesterday. Right. So there was a lot of hugging happening.
This is true. Now, let's talk about hugs for a minute. Okay. I, there are people who are huggy people. Yeah.
And people who are not huggy people. Okay. I am kind of in the middle ground. I like a hug. Yeah. I'll never refuse a hug. Okay. But I'm never going to initiate a hug. Okay. Unless it's to you guys.
I would say never is not true. You initiate hugs. Okay.
But that's not like there are people who like barely know you and they're like coming for a hug. Okay. And they hug you maybe a couple of times during the time they hug you. When they see you, they hug you when you leave. Okay. I'm not that person. I'll hug you once. Okay. And that's fine.
I don't mind. And it's interesting is that I grew up in not a huggy household. And so it was when I started hanging out with you and your family is a hug like see you have a good safe trip hug family. It's not a welcome hug and a goodbye hug. It's usually just a goodbye hug.
Yeah. But that's very typical in your family. And I didn't grow up in a household that was like, let's give you a hug before you leave. And so that took me a while to get comfortable. I didn't mind. It's fine. I'm good with it now.
It took a long time for me to get like, I'm comfortable with it. But now like over the past few days with all the family and different, you know, acquaintances and different people that it's a comforting thing, right? Yeah. A hug and a nice embrace to help you through this time kind of thing. Yeah. It's been a lot of hugs. It's been a lot of hugs. But I'm not, I'm not like super upset or anything.
No, I'm not. I think it's nice. I'm not either. That's not the impression that I was trying to give. Okay.
Stop hugging me. Okay. No, that's not what I'm trying to say at all.
I just, I do appreciate that there are people who are like, I'm coming in for a hug. Yeah. Because I'm not necessarily the type that's going to initiate a hug.
When it comes to like a welcome hug and a goodbye hug and maybe an in-between hug. Correct. Okay.
I mean, I do to my family. Yeah. But like other people, I don't, am I trying, am I saying what I'm trying to say?
No, I don't know what you're trying to say. I'm trying to follow along. I'm learning. I'm listening. I'm learning. I'm paying attention. I'm actively listening. Tell me more. Help me understand.
Did you do a lot of hugging to some strangers?
A lot of hugging to strangers. A lot of hugging to people that I had just met or that I hadn't seen in a very long time. That's for sure. But lots of hugs. Okay. So, you know, I don't know.
Well, the thing that makes me talk about this, sorry, go ahead.
No, I was going to say, I don't know where the, if the sniffles came from the hugging, because I feel fine. Okay. I think the sniffles might have come from the campfire that accidentally started last night. There were several things that might have made my nose a little bit more stuffy this morning.
The reason I bring it up too is that our son is not necessarily a hugger. That is very true. And so as he's getting hugs from all these people, he's kind of, you can see him stiffen a little bit and be like, yeah.
He's like a one-armed side hug or like a, like even to me, like I go, hey, good night, dude. I think we do a good night hug. Right. Like this is, that's a thing. And so I go in to give him a good night hug and it's like a three or four pats on the back. And then he's like, okay, that'll do.
That's enough. If somebody did come up to me and said, he doesn't really like hugs, does he? I'm like, nope.
Nope. He's not a big hugging guy.
And I don't know why I hugged him as a kid his whole life.
Oh, we hug him every night. Good night, bud. People who like him and people who just are meh about them touching.
So like, touching.
It's true though. I mean, there's been a lot. There's been a lot. Would you say that you've received a quota? Have you reached a hug limit? Or are you like, is it a daily thing? No, I don't think that I... Or are
you just like, like you're ready to have more hugs? No, I feel like I'm socialed out. Ah. Like I heard a couple of different times yesterday. This, I've eaten out more than the last couple of days than I have.
This is true. It's a long time. This is true. We've had a lot.
I'm ready for a home cook meal. But I also just want like some quiet, right? Is that like you just feel socialed out? Okay. Like my social battery is full. And so maybe it can be depleted a little bit.
Or I think it is depleted. I think it's... Oh, okay. It's the other way around. You need to recharge your social battery before you can use anymore. You're out of social energy. I think is what you're trying to say. But I don't know. Maybe you're like over...
I felt a little overcharged last night. And then when we laid in bed, I went... Okay. That's fair. That's fair. You're going to fess up to this thing that you did? I already did. I mean publicly.
I don't know what I did. Actually, I deleted, accidentally deleted our entire text thread. Yeah.
You didn't delete it from my phone. I still have the history. And I tried to go back to the beginning to see how old this thing was. And I got into like 2021 and I just stopped scrolling because it's forever back there.
It makes me so sad. I don't even know how I did it. But I got nothing.
And I wondered if you had any kind of backup or anything in there. And I don't know.
Everything that I could tell like it could go to your cycling bin, but I tried to look there. I can't find it. I don't know. And then I said, I'm really so sad. And I said, there was some good stuff in there. And you said, I still have it all. And I said, I've just been thinking of all the nice texts you've sent. And you said, I do that. And I said, sometimes that's why I needed the proof. Yeah. Well, all gone.
They're all gone. I still have it. So that's, that's good. But I can't look at it.
You may have it, but I don't have it. I'm so sad.
Well, I'm sorry to hear that. I do have it. I mean, I'm looking at it right now.
I don't even know how one does that.
How does one know how it's easy to archive it? That's the crazy part. I don't know how you deleted the whole thing. Yeah. That's the, that's the thing that gets me. I'm trying to see. Yeah. I mean, I'm trying. Can you do, hmm, you didn't block me because we can still talk. I don't know.
I don't either. Believe me, I looked through it. And my favorite part, oh, I think I just, I think I just. Did you just find it? No, I think I just deleted everything that we had. Again? What button are you pushing? Okay. Well, I thought, hold on.
I thought I archived it, but then I went, I started my archive and I went to unarchive it and it's not listed in there in my archives. Hold on. Oh, no.
We're going to, here's what happened. I'll tell you what happened. They redid or updated our, our software on our phones and that always throws you for a loop. Right. And that's probably what ended up getting you because you were used to tapping a certain, you know, screen or whatever. And then something happened and now you've, you've gone and deleted it because, because they changed the way it looks on your phone.
No, I've, okay. I found the new, this one. I found that one. I just sent you a text so I can have it. But I, the original one that I've deleted, it's, those are all gone. Gone. I know. I'm so bummed out. I still get sad. There was an old phone that I had when everyone was a baby.
And we were out of town. Yep. And I went to change her diaper in the back of our car. Yeah. And I stuck my phone on the roof of the car, changed the diaper. And then we all drove away and we searched for hours looking for that phone. And then we had some friends that lived there who spent days. I mean, every time they would drive, they would look for that phone. Well, and we even tried to track the phone and we, you know, we thought we kind of knew where it was. It was a, what a mess.
I still get sick about that. Yeah. Cause all of the pictures. I know. Sad. At least you still have a history of.
I do. I have the. That's exactly right. I do have all the nice things I have ever said in an archive.
Just the text versions. Yeah. It's all there.
But I must have a backup somewhere because I've got a new phone since 2021. So somewhere exists. Right. Some sort of backup that loads when I get a new phone. But you don't have that or something. I don't know.
I can't find it. Hmm. Now we'll never know. The nice things I said. Oh, okay. Cause I don't say any new nice things.
Just the old ones. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. I did see. In, in, in TikTok world, whatever that is called, there is the big pumpkin pies at Costco or back and people are now just trying to see how much of them they can eat.
I wouldn't go. Well, sort of. It's a four pound pumpkin pie. Oh my gosh. And it's six bucks and they are there now and people are going nuts all over the internet about these things because it's a good pumpkin pie. It is good. It's a good pumpkin pie. Are you ready for pumpkin pie? If like it's available now. So would you go buy one now or do you only eat it around Thanksgiving?
I mean, I typically only eat it around Thanksgiving, but I could go for a pump, piece of pumpkin pie right now.
You could? Oh yeah. I mean, people are like just buying them and grabbing a fork and then just going to town. Like it's pumpkin pie time. That's fine. I like the, I gotta have the real whipped cream though. That's important.
I know you are a real whipped cream snog. I can't do the. That stuff is good too.
It's fine in a pinch.
I am not so much a fan of pumpkin all the things. Okay. But I do enjoy pumpkin pie where it belongs or a pumpkin cake roll. Okay. Or pumpkin bread.
Or a pumpkin cookie. Oh yeah. Or pumpkin all the things. Yeah. What about a four pound pumpkin pie? Yeah, sounds great. Okay. Here's the thing. If there's four of us, which there are in the house, you think we're each going to eat a pound of pie? No way. You're right. You'll eat too when everybody else will get to split the other. That was rude. I know. Why would you say no way? You don't think everybody's going to eat their portion?
I don't think Beck likes pumpkin pie, so I don't think he's going to eat his portion.
I don't know. He accidentally ate a bunch of zucchini bread. I know. I know. No. So there's a good chance he might be like, I kind of like this pie.
I like this pie. Oh yeah, it's pumpkin.
We got to give it a go. I didn't know I like pumpkin pie. I didn't love it.
He thought it was banana bread. Yeah, well. Jokes on you. Yeah.
There's vegetables. It's delicious. Every time I go to the kitchen, I get a slice. Really? How about those veggies and sugar and chocolate chips and everything else that makes it so it doesn't taste like zucchini? That's pretty funny. Same thing. How about all that stuff that makes it not taste like a pumpkin?
Pumpkin pie. Cinnamon and nutmeg and sugar.
And all the other parts that go into making pumpkin pie not taste like a pumpkin. Exactly. Because who wants to eat a pumpkin? Nobody. That's who.
We were at a funeral yesterday and as people are coming in and you're like, I don't know that person. I don't know that person. I don't know that person. Oh, I know that person. And then you see one or two faces that you go, I've seen that person before. Wherever I've seen that person before. And you went, you were not next to me, but I go, I've seen that person before. How do I know that person? And then you walk over and you go, Jimmy's here. And I go, that's how I know him. And I'm like, no way.
And I have had several conversations, but not in this context. And so, yeah, that was kind of cool to run into a fly fishing legend of East Idaho. Yeah. Yeah, pretty big deal.
And then back comes over a couple of minutes later and goes, Dad's talking fish in spots. That's right.
Exactly right. Hey, when the opportunity comes up to talk about fly fishing with a fly fishing legend of East Idaho, you take that opportunity.
You take that opportunity. When it's presented, you don't, you don't, you take full advantage. That's what I'm saying.
I felt very, very privileged to have that conversation. It was very good.
I've been meaning to ask you about it, but there hasn't been time. Oh. Did you get some secret insight? I'm not telling you anything. I'm not going to steal your fishing hole, but... I'm not telling you anything right now. Well, okay. Right now, right here? Right now, there's listening ears. That's what I'm saying. All you have to say is yes or no. Okay. Did it give you fishing insight? Well, yeah. Like, spot insight?
Not necessarily. Okay. But some information, sure. Huh?
Yeah. Oh, and then you found out that you can make your own fly fishing rod.
Man. That was awesome. Well, which I've known, but I didn't know how easy it was to access the stuff to do it. And relatively inexpensive, relatively. It's another hobby is the problem. Great. Right. See, that's where I thought you would be like, oh.
Great. Yeah. But boy, does it look awesome. Like to make, to make my own would be really fun because I get to pick out all my own colors and all my own threads and I can build it to specs that I like. I can choose the hand grip I like and there's so many great options. Is it price per piece?
Well, no, it's for the, for the kit. Okay. It's basically a kit that you purchase that has all the pieces and then you build it. Okay.
So it's like a standard price based on what pieces you use
or like it's sort of like building a lightsaber.
No, I know. I get that part of it. Right. What I'm saying is like if you wanted to add like a more expensive handle, right, is the price just going to keep increasing?
Well, yeah. Because you had more expensive stuff that would, wouldn't it? I don't have all the details yet. I haven't shopped for it. So I don't know really what I'm, where I'm at, but I have, I have an idea of what I'd like to build. There's an in between weight that I don't have that I would like to build myself that I think would be a lot of fun.
And what's the in between weight?
Well, I have, I have a six, a five and a three.
So there's a missing one. I need that four. I have two fives. I have a six, two fives and a four and a three. Excuse me. I don't have a four. I want to build a four.
Not needed. What?
In my opinion, or I could go big time and build a steelhead one, which could be a lot of fun. I've never done steelhead fishing, but to build a steelhead rod would be really cool. Big fish. I know, I know. Big, big, huge, big fish.
And how much weight do you need on your fishing boat?
I could go eight, nine, 10, real big. Wow. I know, I know. Wow indeed. Wow. It'd be fun. I don't know. It's another hobby.
Do I need another hobby? No, you sure don't. Do I have time for another hobby? I mean, that's up to you. How you use your time is your time, but I don't necessarily think that's what I'm thinking. I think you have time for another hobby.
You don't have time for another hobby. Okay, fair. Well, I don't have time. What?
You don't have time for the hobbies you do have now.
This is true. I need, I need to devote more time to my hobbies. I've been doing the garden this year. The garden's been taken a good little chunk. Yep. And I want to make a bigger garden next year. I'm already thinking about it. Yep. Yep. Correct.
Everything you're saying is correct.
More time for more gardens. More time for more hobbies. More time. I'm just, that's all I'm going to do is hobbies.
That sounds fine. That's like a perfect life, isn't it?
Yeah. Just how are we going to pay bills if all I'm doing is hobbies?
I know. Same. That's why I have to keep coming to work. I want to just hang out and do my hobbies, but I can't.
Yeah. Because of job.
What's the deal with job? Can we cut down on job to make more time for hobby? That's the job and hobby need to balance out a little bit better. That's all. Agreed. Okay. Do you have any other questions about my, okay.
I mean, I do, but you can't say them on air.
Very good. Very good.
I was starving yesterday. Starving. Okay. And it was going to be a long time before we got to eat. And so I guess how many pieces of gum I chewed on.
I have a couple of questions. Okay. Go ahead. First question.
Oh, I don't even know the first question to ask. Second question. I have so many. Second question. Why didn't you just go get food? Like, okay, I understand. But like, you could just like dipped out for a minute and just like ran and got like a granola bar or something
in the middle of the funeral,
not in the middle of the funeral. Like I'm saying like in between things, you could just be like, Hey, I'm just going to run to the store real quick and just dip out for like five minutes
because I didn't want to miss out on anything.
Right. I understand that your FOMO I get it. I'm just saying like you could have dipped out and grabbed a granola bar.
No, I couldn't have. No, I just pop it more pieces of gum like thing to how's your jaw feeling?
Fine.
Cause I, I, my jaw hurts if I chew gum too long. And so then I would just spit out the gum when I was done. I was like, mm.
And, and then also gums not going to satisfy an appetite.
No, I know that, but I was trying to convince my brain. I was trying to trick my brain into thinking that I had some.
Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Yum. I got all this food. I'm chewing all this chewing. Must be full. I don't think that's how your body works.
Chewing gum when hungry can help control appetite. You look at it up and promote feelings of fullness because the active chewing stimulates the brain and sends satiating signals. Oh good. How's it going? How many pieces of gum do you think I ate? Six. Four. Oh. Granola bar? No. I know. That would have been the, the smarter choice would have been to pack myself some snacks.
That's it. That's what I did it. That's the ticket. That's what should happen. I know. Like anytime we leave the house, we should have like a grab bag of snacks or take with us.
We should have a grab bag of snacks just readily available in the cars, both of our cars.
That's how you get critters and stuff. I don't want it to live in the car. Not if they're like, I just want it to be like ready to grab off the, like out of the pantry. I just need like a ready to go snack bag. It's got just some chips.
Not if the snacks are sealed and in a Ziploc bag, we're not going to get critters.
I don't want critters.
We're not going to get critters. What are you talking about? I don't know.
I know. I've, I've worked with a lot of people. I've worked at different radio stations where people leave food in the, in the vehicles and you get critters in there.
Not packed and sealed snacks. Oh yeah. Doubt it.
They get in there. They can smell through the papers. They're crazy. They're critters. Listen.
Did the gum work? Is that one of your questions?
Sure. Did it work? No. Yeah. Cause I didn't think it would. No matter what the internet says about it.
I just kept going. Yeah. I'm just having another piece of gum. Maybe I should have swallowed the gum. No. Maybe that would have helped.
It's not Easter candy. It was real gum.
No to some next time. Back snacks.
Yeah. We just, like I said, we just need like a little, a little bag of even like a gallon, a gallon Ziploc bag, throw in like some of those little peanut cashew things, throw in some granola bars. I think I got some Nutri-Grain bars.
Well, if that's the other, other people were hungry too. Wouldn't it be awesome to be like, I heard your stomach. Look at my snack bag.
Maybe some instant oatmeal packs. Just in case you want to heat up some water real quick. A couple hot dogs. I mean, whatever. Just so you got, you know, if somebody's like, somebody's like really into it, you could be like, I got a frozen corn dog. You could nuke up. Or eat cold. Bag of ramen.
Whatever your fancy. Snacks. Yesterday we had some surprise guests that we're going to come over to our house. I mean, not surprise. We kind of anticipated that we were going to have guests, but we didn't necessarily know if we were going to have guests. Anyway, regardless, we had to do some quick cleaning and we only had about an hour and a half to do it.
That's right. And in my head, I was like, I got to, I got to sweep them up. I got to vacuum the rug. I got to clean the bathrooms.
I think there's laundry all over. I got to quickly put that away. So I had a list of things to do running through my head. And I was like, I'm not, I don't know if I'm going to have time to do all of these things.
Like I'm going to need everyone to pitch in real quick to make sure this is all accomplished in an hour. And you say, and I was annoyed with you, you go, I'm going to be working on the garage. And I went, that's not a priority. I was so annoyed.
It actually was a priority.
But I'll tell you why. It turned out to be a priority. Yeah. That's why I said I didn't bring it up because initially I was annoyed because I was like, bro, cleaning the garage is at the low end of priorities. So I was annoyed at you for that. Why are you so short? Because the chair is broken.
Oh, okay. I just, you're, you're like, it looks like you're drowning behind computer monitors. Like your nose is sticking up trying to get air. I know. Okay. All right. Well, go ahead. I can only see forehead. I know.
Because I was sinking because the hydraulics in this chair, I, okay, I'm with you.
I just, I looked up and all I saw was forehead and it was silly. Go ahead.
No, I think I've said what I needed to say. No, go for a head.
Go ahead.
Go forward, forehead. Stop it.
Okay. No, but here's the deal. A couple of weeks ago, maybe even three weeks ago, oh, it might even be more than that. I had an outing and I still hadn't put away all of the stuff in the garage that was sort of in the pathway to the backyard.
None of it was in the pathway, which was why I was annoyed.
But it is. It's on both sides of the pathway and it's an obstruction and it's gross looking and it just needed to be put away. And it's been on my to-do list for a long time. So I said to myself, I said, I got to get this stuff out of here. I got to go put this in the shed. And so I put it all away and swept and got that all cleaned up and I pulled out some chairs so that we would have plenty of seating. I'd already mowed and taken care of the lawn, but then I needed to go out and clean up any little treasures that Luna the Wonder Jack Russell may have left behind. So I was doing that. And I was trying to just get everything outside prepared because you were kind of like, let's just have everybody hang out on the deck or something. And I went, okay, that's fine. And so I focused my efforts on that while you were working on the kitchen and the bathroom.
Which I appreciate. Initially, and here's what always happens. We always have a lack of communication. So when you say, I want to go work in the garage, I went, cool, cool, cool, cool. Don't worry about me cleaning the bathroom so that we have a clean place for people to use.
Right. But I was also taking out all the garbages. I know that now. And I was breaking down cardboard. I was doing, I was doing, like when I said the garage, what did you think I meant?
I thought you were just going to be tinker in with your stuff, but your stuff, like your tools and stuff away.
Organizing the workbench?
Yeah, stuff that's not important. And I was so annoyed. It's fine. It all worked out. I'm just telling you initially, like maybe we just need to have a conversation where I go, hey, listen, I'm going to be doing these things. What are you going to be working on? And then you could say, I'm going to do this because of this. That way we know. And then when I'm done with my projects, I can come help you. And when you're done with your projects, you can come help me.
I have another approach. Say. Have faith that I'm going to do the job that needs to get done and not just disappear to tinker with my tools in the garage, which has never been a thing I've done. So let's go ahead and put that aside and just know that tinkering with my tools in the garage is not a thing I do.
And that's not a bad approach.
I mean, you know, maybe, maybe just know that like I probably have something going on in my brain that's going to end up getting you the end result you're looking for. This always has. I will try that. All right. I can now only see your hair.
I know. Keep sinking further and further. I thought we were going to get new chairs.
Yeah, I was supposed to have it like in June. Yeah, I know. I'll send another email.
Our baby turned 16 yesterday.
Can you even believe it? No, I can't even believe it. I'm, I'm still, I'm still trying to process that information.
It's nuts. Our baby. I know. Our last born. Of two. Like 12.
Like, ah, the, the, the run to the litter. Like, no, this is just number two. Uh, but yeah, she is officially now 16, which is strange information. Like, I know that like from here to senior year of high school is a blink. Like I totally know that.
And so I'm trying to, uh, I'm trying to put that into my brain and understand what's happening now. But yeah, she's 16 officially. We're not old enough to be this old. Well, that's our youngest. Our oldest will be 21.
No, I know. That's what I'm saying. Which is even stranger to say. We're not old enough to be this old. I sure don't feel mature enough to be this old. I'll tell you that. That's what I keep saying. Who gave me all of these responsibilities? Right. I'm not mature enough to make decisions based on my financial future. And who gave me the keys to responsibility?
Uh, life did.
Did you, we kind of talked about this a little bit. You didn't have a sweet 16 birthday party.
I don't remember doing that. No, I don't think I might have had like, uh, some friends over
or something, but I don't remember doing huge. No, like remember that show that they used to have on MTV called my super sweet 16.
Yeah. Where people got like huge parties and then a car and they were bright.
Not even just a real car. It's like a BMW.
Yep. She didn't get that. Our daughter didn't get that. No. No. No. No. She wishes. I bet she does. We have a great car for her already. Paid for the tires are flat. The windshield is cracked. It's a great car. A couple of flats, you know, learn to drive. Who's working on it?
I know. Yeah. No, that's, uh, that's the way it goes. That's the way it should go. You should be humbled by your first car. I think that's the road. Your first car should not be a Land Rover. Your first car should be. Exactly. This. It should be old. It should be a bit of a beater.
It should be junky. Right. It should break down on the road and you have to call somebody to help you out.
Right. See, I had a friend in high school and, uh, he had a lease. So he had a, he had a really nice truck that he had on a lease. What? Yeah.
You had rich friends. I had rich friend. Rich friends only hang out with rich people. So you were also.
No, no, we've had this conversation. I drove a 1965 Ford, not a new lease. I drove, but that is why we took his new truck everywhere because it was real nice. It was a single cab.
Uh, did he have a job? Is he paying for it? Yeah.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. He was working.
Okay. Okay. That's responsible. That's respectable. Right. That wasn't just daddy's lease.
No, I mean, I'm positive his parents co-signed on the lease.
As a teenager? Yeah. So that he could, he could get that. And I can't imagine what his insurance must have looked like
to lease a vehicle as a teenager, but he was, he was paying for it. Okay.
He was working at the family business, but he was working.
I'm not just crediting him at all because I got to ride around a really nice truck and we had a good time and pick up chicks. No, we picked up fried rice, uh, because we then sold it at the school.
And so we would, we would get out of our class early to run to the Chinese food restaurant, pick up the rice that we would then sell at the lunchtime. Which was your markup? I don't remember. It was just the little boxes of them.
Um, but it was. Very entrepreneurial.
Well, it was part of the business class we were taking. Was it? Yeah. You had to do that? Yeah. And we volunteered to go pick it up. I bet you did. Because we got to ride in a nice truck and we got to leave the class early to go get it. Geniuses, I'm telling you. Geniuses.
At all fronts.
That's right. That's right. And we had to, we had to drive less than a mile to go get it and drive it back to the school. So it was probably a $2 or something. It wasn't expensive.
And you sold it for five? Say you pocket three.
No, no, no. I'm saying it probably cost $2 to sell. Like that's how much we charged. Oh, I. It was super cheap. It was, it's rice. It's fried rice. Settled out. Wasn't like a whole meal. Settled out. And it was the nineties.
So, you know, sorry, would you like fried rice? Passionate about your fried rice.
I'm trying to remember. I think we only had to man the selling part like three or four times. We were the delivery guys. And then we do our own lunch thing. That was probably another reason we volunteered for it. Cause then we didn't have to sit there and sell it. Who wants to do that? Not me. I'll go pick it up and bring it back.
Smart. Look at you. Look at the brains on this one.
Geniuses, I tell you.
I think it's a would you rather time.
It is. It is a would you rather time. Okay. It's a time where we ask, would you rather this or that?
Would you rather smell like onions or smell like pickles? Pickles. Why?
Well, I think vinegar in the pickling, whatever has a less, worse smell, a less worse smell than onion. Onion is so potent. It is. And vinegar itself is very potent, but I feel like pickle vinegar, like a pickle, you know, I know. Smells better than an onion. I like onions. I like the smell of cooking onions, but I also cooking.
Where am I from? I like to smell a cooking onion, but I think smelling like a pickle. Yeah. That's where you're going with that's, and I don't, I don't know how to explain myself,
but yeah, it's smelling like a pickle.
Yeah. Smelling like a pickle rather than smelling like an onion.
I think so too. Just because my logic is good. People are just more. Cause it's not. No, it's not. People just, I don't know. I feel like everyone would stay away from you if you smelled like onions versus if you smelled like pickles. Yeah.
Like onion, you know what I mean? Like if somebody walks in and smells like onions, you go like, whoa, bro.
And then everybody would probably start crying.
No. Yeah. Because of the smell is so bad. Like, leave. No. It's onions. I know. I got it. I know. It's trying to make it not the obvious reason they were crying. See, if you walk in smelling like pickles, they're like, that's strange. Why are you smelling like pickles?
But they aren't, I don't think they're like, I don't think they're like, whoa dude. Right. Like they're going to be more curious as to why you smell like pickles. Or if you walk in smelling like onions, they're like, bro, you stink. Right. Well, good. Shake hands. Shake hands.
Never in the history of time have we shaken hands. Let's go ahead and shake hands.
What? We agreed on one though. It was fun. We agree all the time. Yeah, I know, but today it's put your hand away.
It's weird. Shake my hand. It's weird. Put it away. It's strange. Your extended hand is weird looking. I don't know what to do with it. Shake my hand. No, put it away. What is it?
Would you rather this or that? So I'm looking at the Bureau of Reclamation. We've talked a little bit about the water levels because we went and looked at palisades. It was super low. It's even lower now. It's at 14%. That's like an additional 10% from when we were there last. There's only a couple of weeks ago, which is pretty amazing that it's at 14%. American Falls Reservoir is at 4%. Oh no.
Full. There's very little water in the American Falls Reservoir at 4%. What that has now allowed to happen is that the original town of American Falls is now visible. Really?
Yes. Because before they built the American Falls Dam in 1926, there were residents and businesses that existed where the reservoir is. No way. Because the water has gone down to now 4%, you can see all the old foundations, grain silos, like a bunch of stuff that was the 1920s American Falls.
We're going to have to take a drive.
Yeah, because the water level is there. There are some pictures and stuff. East Idaho News.com has a story they've been talking about. Flood towns, I believe is what they're called. Several different towns around the country existed, but because they were building these dams, they had to relocate people, residents and businesses to higher ground in order to make space for these reservoirs to hold water, which is really cool. The original town of American Falls was gradually covered by the rising waters as the reservoir filled up.
And now it is considered a drowned town that has been underwater and has remained underwater for a long time, but it hasn't been this low, I don't think, for a very long time. So it is something that you can actually see. There's foundations, there's sidewalks.
You can see the street grid. The big grain elevator is fully exposed. So you can see the giant concrete silo that was way too difficult to move, so it still stands. And normally a section of it sticks out of the reservoirs. You can normally see the top part because it's a giant tall grain silo. But now you can see the entire thing is completely exposed, which is pretty interesting. So anyway, if you want to learn more about what's going on there, see a couple of photos. I would like to see it in person.
I know. It's really neat, but you can read more about it at eastidohannews.com. Drowned towns, they call them. But 4% at American Falls, which I am, I don't know the last time I've seen 4% on the water in, in American Falls.
It looks like the only reservoir that actually has a pretty substantial amount of water is going to be Rye Re-Reservoir right now in Blacktail, that area. Uh-huh. That's 65%. That's about the one that's got some water, as far as I can tell. And Lake Walcott, if you want to head a little bit further west, is at 80%.
That's where I grew up.
That's what I'm saying. There's some water in there. It's not huge. It's not the size of Palisades or American Falls by any means, but it does indeed have some water in it. So I'm thinking about boaters, boat recreationists, people that go out and wakeboard and stuff. That's got to be tough this year. It's got to be a real tough. Be careful. Yeah. Don't, uh, don't hit the bottom because there's no water in it. That's good.
Good advice, Josh. The reservoirs have turned to roads. Crazy. Anyway, that's going to do it for the show. Yeah, that is. Have a great rest of your Wednesday. Yeah, and we'll be back tomorrow morning. Check out the podcast everywhere. Podcasts are available. You can listen to the show on demand.
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