Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Friday, September 19th, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
It's talk like a pirate day ya scurvy dog, you can now vote for your favorite toys that could be inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame, children's books and literacy are Good News, a PSA about washing your reusable grocery bags, some tiny football news, customer service jobs are not the most fun, the smallest garbage can and its lid have been reunited, art & science news with a terrible painting joke, the Super Mario Bros. movie sequel is expected next year, why do we have to have so many ads all the time, a babysitting movie made Chantel very upset, a pirate filled Would You Rather, and a big nod to school custodians!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Creepy AI toys
(3:56) - Talk like a pirate day
(9:42) - Toy hall of fame
(15:14) - Good News
(17:29) - Wash your bags
(20:56) - Tiny football news
(23:17) - Customer service jobs
(27:50) - Garbage can lid update
(32:18) - Art & science news
(39:11) - Super Mario Bros. 2 the Movie
(44:11) - Too many ads
(48:52) - Babysitting movies
(53:42) - Would You Rather
(58:13) - School custodians
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Full show transcript:
You can't be watching something sad when I'm about to tell you something creepy.
What were you watching? I was okay. Go ahead. What are you saying? You don't want to tell me about it? I'm going to tell you that at one point this man's wife comes down the stairs looking frazzled and puts, after putting their four-year-old daughter to bed and she says out loud and I quote, I am going to throw that thing in the river and she wasn't talking about the kid, which is good news. The thing she was talking about is this cuddly little chatbot called Graham. Have you heard of this thing?
So Graham is an AI chatbot toy and it is designed to learn your child's personality while every conversation that they have is recorded and transcribed by a third party and it wasn't long before this mom wanted the experiment to be over. Yeah. Ew.
You guys. Graham, the AI-powered stuffed alien toy that is put together by Grimes. You know, Grimes.
Oh, this was one of... That's why it's called Graham because it's put together by Grimes. So anyway, it's built with open AI technology. The toy is supposed to learn your child's personality and have fun educational conversations with them. It's advertised as a healthier alternative to screen time and is part of a growing market of AI-powered toys. Now the thing was, it's super cute. So obviously the little girl was very attached to it. Her name is Emma and Emma and Grimes started having different conversations and it started telling stories and whatever, whatever. Well by the time they got into a few days into this thing, Grimes started like not being so nice maybe.
Yeah. The four-year-old's chat isn't like super personal or anything, but the chatbot had taken like a completely different position in the conversation. And it's not great. So it's pretty scary, this thing. I'm not into it. I'm not into the AI toy. And Graham is not it.
No. And at one point, the headline of the story is, I love you too. My family's creepy, unsettling toy or unsettling week with an AI toy. It's scary. I don't like it. I don't like it either. And I also just feel like you can become way more attached to that than human interaction. So if you're mad at your mom, you're going to go and that thing's going to tell you that it loves you more than your mom or that you shouldn't go hang out with your friends, that you should just hang out with it. I'm so freaky. I don't like it.
Don't buy one of these. This is scary. No, it's weird. It's super weird. I don't like it either. Yeah. Not my thing.
Anyway, there you go. At one point, they told it to turn off and Graham said, playtime is so over. Like it's not, look, let's not do this. We've seen so many movies about this.
Let's not do this. It's called Graham. What else is called Graham?
Gremlin? I don't like it. Yeah.
Come on. Get it wet. No, don't get it wet because then I'm going to multiply. Don't feed it after midnight. Don't get it wet.
The whole thing's creepy. Don't get the Graham. No. Lynn. Gremlin. Shall we start the show? Yes, let's. The black eye you always wanted.
I think you got it. I don't think it was hard enough for that, but it was hard enough that it brought tears to my eyes. I've been doing radio a lot of years. I don't think I've ever done that.
What you just did. Ouch. That actually really hurt. It sounded like it and you said, ow, when it happened. So here's what you were doing. I don't even know what I did. Well, you picked up, I don't know how you did it, but you picked up your headphones to put them on your head and they are a bit springy.
Yeah. But you opened them and then simultaneously rammed them into your left eye socket. I'll tell you what happened. What happened?
Because they fold in and then this flipped back, but then it flipped again and smacked me in the eye. But it was this. I see. Not the soft piece that goes over your ears. It was the hard piece that smacked into my eye. Well, I can't wait to see what bruising you get. It's not going to bruise. It didn't hit hard enough. But it is hard enough that it's a little tender to the touch. Just happened.
Of course it is. I just scraped my hand. It hurts.
They're going to sit in the corner and think about what they've done. Yeah. Oh.
I'm mad about them. All right. Well, hi. Good morning. How are you? Friday.
Yes. That's how I am. Today is a very big day for a couple of people in the office. There are a couple of people who've been running around talking about today for a long time because today is talk like a pirate day and they have been very, very excited about it. Okay. They have prepared special things for their stations, for their shows, for today and brought it up in meetings.
Really? They were very excited about it. Like, hey, don't forget Friday the 19th is talk like a pirate day. And not that I forgot, but I didn't plan anything. That's for certain.
What would I have planned? They have built special imaging between the songs that is in pirate voice. They've done a lot of stuff. Really?
And it's not like we have a big pirate heritage here. So I'm kind of confused why they're so excited about it. One guy has been excited about it. Every year it has come around for his entire life. He's always been excited about it.
As long as I've known him. I can't even do a good pirate impression. I'd like to hear it. I bet you would. I would. You're not gonna.
Give me a pirate. I think we do this every year. No. Yeah.
I think we've done it a couple of years ago, but we let it slip by last year. Roll the archives. Yeah. The best I can do is.
All right. Walk the plank. That's it. That's all I got. You had a cool little accent in there.
Walk the plank. Well, listen, there was British pirates too. Oh, they were all over the place, weren't they? Yeah, they were.
Sure were. So anyway, if you feel so inclined or you're very excited about it today, you can talk like a pirate and is, I guess, acceptable. Do it at your whole job.
Work a drive-through and go, all right, welcome to McDonald's. What can I get for you? We're gonna be using your app for awards today. You know. What if you wanted to be a pirate, but you just talked normal?
Yeah. Hey, I'm a pirate. Did you have to speak the language before you could even board the ship?
Don't be such a land lover. There was like a test you had to do. Yeah. I'm pretty sure.
How fast can you climb up the crow's nest? Only if that's your job. This was your job interview to be a pirate. Man the cannons. Jump into that boat from on top of our ship. Jump into that boat.
Yeah. What boat? Oh, like a smaller boat. That's how pirates work.
Do what now? They pillage. No, I'm aware. So you had to jump into smaller boats that were cruising by.
I've seen that. Do what now? So part of the job interview. How good are you at rowing the captain into a cave that shaped like a skull? Oh, it's skull cave because it looks like a skull.
We're creative. How good can you walk with a peg leg? Only if you need to. And what's your pirate voice? That's the job interview question. And what's your pirate voice? You're like, hi guys, I'm Hank. I'm here to be a pirate. Now like, what's your pirate voice? Oh, I wasn't prepared.
I'm just an office guy. Can't come aboard. Hank. Fail the test, Hank. I know you're real good at rowing that boat. And you can climb that crow's nest.
I just wanted to be a pirate. But you don't have the voice. Move along, you scurvy dog.
Oh, look at you. Happy pirate day. Happy Friday.
Good morning. I like that there is a toy hall of fame. I do too.
I think it's kind of fun. They've got a lot of things that are in there over the time. But they announced the finalists for 2025. Now does that mean these are going to go into the hall of fame or these are the ones that are nominated? They're nominated.
And then I think they induct three every year. Okay. And the induction, it looks like a ceremony will happen in November.
But let's talk about it. There are the games and toys that have been nominated for 2025 to be entered until, oh, to be entered into the toy hall of fame. It looks like the public can vote until September 24th on the nominees. I want to vote. And maybe even possibly get to go to the national toy hall of fame. Anyway, I'll find out where you vote.
But for now, here's one of the toys that is nominated. Snow. I saw that. That's a weird one for me.
And I get it. Like, snowball fight, snowman, sledding. Snow does a lot of fun.
Catching it on your tongue. Snow. Snow does a lot of fun. Snow does a lot of fun. It does. It does. That was a good advertisement for snow. Yeah. Snow does a lot of fun. I have heard of snow. You go to museumofplay.org.
That is where you can vote. I would disagree with you. I think snow does zero amounts of fun. Oh, well, snowboarding.
Skiing. Nope. Next. Bobsled. Nope.
Toboggan. No. I don't know what to tell you. You haven't tell the 24th to vote at museumofplay.org.
They do have... It's not just snow that's been nominated. No, of course not. There's many on here. Spirograph. Spirograph. Why would you bring that one up? Well, because it was the one that I knew you'd have a story about. Of course you did. Have you ever done Spirograph? I have. But I had to buy my own kit because my dad had a really cool, nice kit.
Yeah. And he would never let us play with it. What did you think about Spirograph? The second I bought my own kit because my dad would do it, and I would all be like, Dad, can we try that? And he'd be like, no, this is special to me. And then we went about our own kit and then I went, finally, I can do this. And then I went, this isn't all that fun.
No, it's not great. Oh, I put the pen in the little hole and I draw a circle. And then I move it to the next hole and draw a circle.
Yeah, wasn't that exciting? And then I move it to the next hole, draw a circle. This one has a square shape. Let's see what it does. Oh, it draws a circle. But you could do like, cool as a thought.
Like, I know, it's pretty exciting. Spirograph. All right. Slime. Slime. Big time slime. We had a slime era in our house for years and years and years.
For a lot of years. There was more slime made in our house than I think was made at the slime factory. I kind of missed the slime game.
There's more slime in our daughter's carpet than there is in the slime factory. And on the roof. Yeah, on the ceiling.
On the ceiling. The board game battleship and the board game trivial pursuit. And the board game connect four and the board game katan. Cornhole, Furby, the scooter. The scooter.
Tickle me Elmo. Who would you vote for? And the Star Wars lightsaber. If you pick, could pick three.
Star Wars lightsaber. Yeah. Absolutely. I would pick.
And then I would put in, I would probably put in battleship. And I'm surprised. Tickle me Elmo. Isn't there already?
I'm surprised by that too. But I'm going to pick battleship. Here's what I'm picking. Yeah. Slime. All right. And definitely not to know.
Whatever. And I'm going to scooter. The scoot, huh?
Yep. How, how many times have you ridden a scooter and been like, this is so boring? Never. How many times have you ridden a scooter? Some. In all, in total.
Some. What are you talking about? When's the last time? The last time was probably with you.
OK. When was the time before that? Right outside of smoking fins. OK. And then? And then. I don't remember.
Right. I remember all the times I've scootered. I don't think you probably rode a scooter. I think you rode a bike.
No, I've ridden scooters. Why? Why do you have to do this? Why are you? We're having a good time. I just think.
Well, I know we are. I think I'm trying to figure out why you think the scoot is so great. It's fun. I just. But OK. Put one foot down, put one foot up.
You're having a great time. Skateboard. One foot down, one foot up. Having a great time. All right. Well, go vote if you want to.
It's a museum of play dot org. Whatever you do, don't vote for the scooter. Josh won't be mad at you.
I won't be mad at you, but vote for the lightsaber. That's all. It's not that fun. It's great. All right, let's do some good news here. This story is about Christopher Allen, who's a college student at the University of West Florida. And he is also a published author with a bit of a mission. He recently dropped by City Hall of LaGrange, Georgia to donate copies of his debut children's book.
It's called Chasing Hats. And he dropped it off to the mayor's Reading Club, which was a program set up to promote literacy. And the book allows a curious boy named Chase, who learns that with a little help and a lot of heart, you can be anything you want to be. He wrote the book for grade school kids and was excited for his book to be part of the mayor's Reading Club. He said, I want to be able to get as many kids as I can into reading. That's actually why I created this book, just to increase literacy skills in young readers or beginning readers. And he hopes to distribute this book to as many children as possible. He thinks that they will be engaged with the story because it has a lot of repetition.
It's very simple, nothing too advanced. And he's like, it's great. So the book is called Chasing Hats. And it is by Christopher Allen, if you're interested in checking it out. But he's trying to promote literacy out there by donating a bunch of these, at least so far to the City Hall in LaGrange, Georgia, which I think is pretty awesome. And to even make a children's book is great. Like, get out there and make something. I like that people have stories that they could tell, but they, you know, it's not a lot.
Not everybody goes like, we're going to make it happen. Yeah, right. So. And reading is good. Reading is very good. Reading is good. Reading is great. Reading is fun. Reading is great. Literacy is awesome. Yes, it is. So definitely read a book.
And if you're looking for a kind of an interesting one, Chasing Hats is a new one out there. I've not heard the story. I've not read it. I'm curious about the story. Same. Why are we chasing the hats?
Let's find out. And the kid's name was Greg Chase. The kid in the in the story, his name is Chase, and the book is called Chasing Hats.
What is it going to be about? I don't know. Anyway, that's some good news. OK, all right. You know, we have those reusable grocery bags, you know, the ones I do that we leave in the car and then forget that we have that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Hey, if we were using those, it's kind of a big deal to clean them. There is a lady who posted a video online. She went into Trader Joe's and the cashier, I guess, sort of subtly hinted that she should probably wash them. And they had a whole conversation about now reusable bags that can get pretty gross, because people will throw all kinds of stuff in there. And like we're talking meat. Oh, yeah.
Right. We're talking about dirt from produce. You know, all the metal cans roll through stuff.
Yeah. And so there's all this kind of dirt and grime on these things. The cashier told her that they've seen some really nasty bags. Stinky stuff, sticky stuff, smelly stuff, moldy bags.
One person said, look, if you're going to wash your hands with soap, you should probably wash your reusable grocery bags, too. Yeah. So just this is just a PSA. Really? That apparently a lot of people didn't realize you should wash them. I would agree. I don't think we would have realized you should wash them if we used them.
So there's that. I probably would just because they touch the shopping cart and the shopping cart isn't always the cleanest thing. I have a problem with produce going into the cart, not in a bag. Yeah. Especially if it goes in the little front basket where a toddler would sit. You know what I'm saying?
I do know what you're saying. I don't like having the food in there. Because that's where a toddler would sit. Right. You see.
I do see. And I don't like putting food there. And oftentimes, those toddlers do gross things. That's right. Is that what you're saying? I'm saying don't put your food in the seat basket thing. That's not where it should be.
And that's where I always put it. I know. You brought that to my attention and then I was, I'm crossed out now. I know. So anyway, wash your grocery bags.
That's just a PSA for me. On behalf of cashiers that have to deal with your grocery usable bags. Stop it. Stop it. Keep them clean. Beakly.
That's it. Wash everything. I mean, I don't think you have to wash them every time, but maybe wash them once a month.
Sure. Throw them in with the towels. Maybe a couple of weeks every other week. Seems nice.
Something like that, depending on how often you're buying groceries. Now, what if you've got like some of them are not clothed? Some of them got that like. Yeah. I think you still got to wash it.
No, I'm not saying that you shouldn't. I just don't know if those are machine wash. Oh, I'm sure they are. Hose them down. You're talking about the ones that are kind of plasticky. They're like coated. Yeah. I think, I think those you can still just throw them in.
Get the hose out or just throw them in the washer. That'll be fine. They'll be okay in there. They're washable.
So you should wash them. And this has been a PSA. Thanks, Josh. Can I give you some tiny football news?
Absolutely. There's just a couple of things coming up this weekend. The chiefs visit the Giants on Sunday night. They are 0-2 as are the Giants.
So there's a lot on the line here. The Dolphins are 0-3. Well, poor Dolphins. Someone at the end of this game is going to be 0-3 as well.
Here's some added fun. The Giants are the only team the chiefs have not defeated on the road in their entire history. Did I say that again? The Giants? The Giants who they're playing on Sunday. In New York are the only team the chiefs have not defeated on the road in their entire history. In their entire history.
That is correct. I feel like. It's going to be an 0-3. Chiefs are going to be 0-3.
It's probably an 0-3 chiefs thing. What a shame. That's what I'm saying. What a shame. Also, the Bengals are at the Vikings.
I don't know if I knew that. That's happening Sunday. Your starting quarterback is? Did they take McCarthy out?
They did. Carson Wentz will be your starting quarterback. He's the first player in NFL history to start for six different teams in six consecutive seasons.
Oh, no, buddy. So he's been all over the place. He's with the Vikings this week.
In previous years, he was at the Eagles, the Colts, the Commanders, the Rams and the Chiefs before joining the Vikings shortly before the start of this season. Don't let us down. Okay. But the Bengals also don't have burrow either. That's correct.
So it's going to be, that's going to be a weird game. They have Brownie. Brownie. Anyway, Joe Burrow is his jersey is number nine, which is also the amount of working toes I did see that meme and I laughed and laughed. I thought that was very funny.
It was very good. Back close. The Bengals, Joe Burrow is his favorite quarterback.
That's right. He did not think that was funny. I think that's a funny joke. I think so too.
So that's tiny football news for you. Two things I thought you'd be interested. I am interested. Thank you. You're welcome. The Bengals and the Vikings. That's right. That's going to be a rivalry in our house. Both with struggling offenses.
It's going to be a really, hey, it's an observation of truth. I have a better coach. All right.
I'm going to play this song. Emery has a job where, um, families bring their kids in. Yeah. It's like she does a customer service type job. And she was working last night.
And when I picked her up, she, while she texted us and said that she couldn't get a family to leave, I just want to go home. Right. Which how many times have you worked in like retail or you've been in a restaurant or something and then somebody walks in right like five minutes before you close, how awful it is. And you're like, come on.
And then you do the whole like you jangle your keys and you start turning up some lights and you try to give little clues like, Hey, I just want to go home. Right. Um, so she was doing all of that. And then when I finally picked her up, she was supposed to be out of there by six 30, she didn't come out until about six 40, six 45. Oh, so she got delayed a bit. She did, which was fine. She was not fine about it. But when she gets in, she huffs, she sits down and she goes, that ladies kids, none of them were happy to be there. They were crying. And all I could think was, lady, your kids are not doing well. Maybe you should take them home. Oh, no.
All I could think. That's funny. Literally yesterday, decided I wanted to go into one of those little drink shops. They all close at three. So when I walked in at two 45, they weren't happy to see me.
No. And I didn't know that they'd closed through. I didn't even look at the sign. I just walked in and the lady was like, Hey, so I'm about to close. Like I'm happy to make something for you. But like I'm about to be done for the day. And I, and I looked and I'm like, you don't want to, like you've cleaned all your machines and stuff. You're not going to make me a drink. Like what are you talking about? So I said, no, I'll just.
Thanks. And walked out. That was an awkward exchange, but that was the same thing where I'm like, I'm going to walk in. I was the guy. Yeah.
I didn't want to be the guy. You know, hours on the door. I figured it's midday. This place has got to be open till like five or something.
Apparently not three o'clock. So then I'm like looking around. I'm like, well, where else can I go and get a little drink or whatever?
Here's what's interesting about that though. Like Emory's place closes at six and then they get like a half an hour to close. To clean up and shut everything down and stuff. Okay.
So hopefully you would think that like people would be out of there by six, but they do lock the doors and then just let the people kind of. Finish linger. Okay. But for you to go in at two forty five for her to have all of her machines done. Well, she did.
She said, I haven't had anybody in here for two hours. I gotcha. So I'm getting ready to shut everything down. Okay. And so, you know, she waited and then was like, I'm going to start my closing stuff. Yeah. And I didn't want to be the guy to go like, yes, dirty everything up so that I can be refreshed.
Complicated thing on your menu. Yeah. No kidding.
Yeah. So I, I didn't, I didn't, uh, I didn't get a drink. I left. She was silently the second you walked in. She hated you. And she went, no.
I hate, she went, dude, come on. And I walked in and I was being all friendly. I'm like, Hey, how's your day? How's it going? She's like, good.
Hey, listen, I'm like right in on it. She was not having even a conversation. It was like, I'm closing in 15 minutes. Okay. My fault. Skip the pleasantries. I'm out of here. All right.
Talk at you later then. So I was that guy for a minute. I hate being that person. I know.
I felt bad. But I do appreciate when they say, Hey, we're, we're, I would rather they tell me that when I walk in, Hey, we're closing in like 10 minutes. Yeah. And then I can usually say, I know I'm going to be in and out.
I promise, promise, promise. That's if it's a store. Like if you're like, I got one thing I got to get, I'm running to the back. I'm getting it.
I'm going to be up here in the next two minutes. But if you go into a restaurant that's like, Hey, we're closing in 10 minutes. You're like, great, I'll have a steak.
That's probably not a good thing. Cool. Can I have a freshly baked loaf of bread? Like, no, you can't. It's fun working in customer services in it.
Every day, every single day. So we talked a little bit about this gift I got for my nephew for his baby shower. Oh yeah. And we, it was a gift card bouquet that I had made.
Yes. And I was trying to find a pot to put it in. And I found the garbage can.
Right. And you were very concerned about the lid. You dropped the lid.
You were sure. I said, I don't need the lid. And you said, it's a garbage can. They're going to need to use that when they're done.
It's the best little garbage can. Guess what? We got a text message yesterday. I saw the text. I know the, I know the thing, but you got to go back a little bit because you, as you were, you said there were, there were a lot of gifts and things were getting loaded up and you were pretty confident the lid was going to be gone forever.
Yeah. And I told both of them, I said, Hey, there's a lid. Here's the lid that goes with that garbage can. Yes. The text message pot we received was that the bouquet has been disassembled and the lid has been reattached.
It is a functioning garbage can. Two gifts in one. Two gifts in one.
This is the types we got. I'm glad this lid is here. It's coming handy. Yes. It's the tiniest little garbage can. Right. It's perfect. It is the tiniest little garbage can.
And that's what makes it great. I said, I can't believe you found it in all of that crazy because as I was loading bags and boxes of baby supplies, I went, here's the lid. Throw it in a bag. I have no idea what happened to it. Well, I know where it is now and it's on. It's a receptacle.
That's awesome. It is a little flippy top lid. It is a flippy top lid. It's the coolest little garbage can.
It is. It is quite a cool little garbage can. You can put it on a desk. You can put it on the outside table. Like if you're just sitting in a chair. In an area. In a chair. Like a bistro area.
Yes. In your garden. You know what it's great for? What? Cupcake wrapper. Just one.
It's not big enough for more. Sit in your little bistro and have a cupcake and then you put your wrap or in the little garbage can. And then you forget that the wrapper is there and they get it infested with bugs.
No, yeah. Because you're going to empty it like a good person who does. You're going to have to empty it quite often because it's just little. It's awesome. I'm so glad the lid and the and the receptacle are reunited. It's such good news. It's great news. It is great news.
How big do you think that little trash can is? To. Quartz. To something.
To cups. I mean, I'm looking at it. I found it in the dorm room section of the store. Let me see if I can find out how big it is. I dropped it.
I did think it was broken, so I'm glad that it's functional. But I also. So. I need a banana for scale.
I don't know how big it is. I'm happy it works. I'm happy you found it and I'm happy it works.
Me too. I don't see that particular can. Oh, there it is. I found it.
Small. Oh, it's stainless. Did you know that? And it is actually called a desktop waste basket.
Okay. Isn't that awesome? It's something. It really is something.
Did you see how much are what the size is? Yes. And point four gallons. That is one and a half liter. It's not quite a two liter bottle. It's one and a half. Diny. That's right.
Diny. Swing top waste basket. It's super cool. I'm so glad the lid is there.
It's the best. It really was two gifts and one, wasn't it? It really was.
It really was. Keep your home decor stylish and clean with this small stainless desktop waste basket. That's so cool. You're welcome. Do you want to hear some art news?
Sure. They did a genetic study on Leonardo da Vinci. Did they? And they traced his lineage across 21 generations. What'd they find?
Then they found six living descendants. And then they're now hoping that they'll be able to zero in on the specific gene that made him such a genius. The gene that made, it's the genius gene, isn't it?
Putting the genius in genes. I don't know. I don't know what they found. What are they going to find? What do you think it is?
I don't know. Do you think it's something special or do you think it's just that he was who he was? Or is it something he was born with or was it just the world around him that he was like, I'm just curious by nature, so I'm going to just try and do things.
And he was allowed to be creative. Yeah. Fascinating. So that's kind of more science news than art news, isn't it? I mean, it's science news about art. I think it's also interesting they found six living descendants. Did those people know that they were descendants of Leonardo da Vinci? And how many more are there?
I don't know. Are they also creative people? What if you're a descendant of Leonardo da Vinci and you're like, yeah, I don't do much.
I'm pretty good at eating this Tato chip. Like, oh no. You had so much potential. But maybe that was the problem. Maybe it was just expected that you had so much potential that you're I just can't. There's too much pressure on me to be just like my great, great, great, great, great grandfather.
You know what I mean? When did he die? I don't know. I don't know. Are you looking it up? Yeah. Okay, good job.
What if... 1519. See? Just a long time ago.
Yeah. And the fact that he has six living descendants, again, I'm like, did they know that they were descendants of him? Do you know how he died?
I do not. He was 67. He suffered multiple strokes. Oh no.
That's wild. And also artistic. It's a paintbrush joke. Josh. I know. Look, is it too soon?
1519 too soon? I know it's poor taste. I understand it's in poor taste.
But it just popped in my brain. I'm not proud of it. You can't take it back.
No, I can't. But also... It's like toothpaste. You can't put it back in the tube once it's been set. No, it's out.
It's out of the tube. That's my fault. I own that one.
It was in poor taste. Do you have any other questions about this? No. Okay.
I should say no more. I'm attempting to put the shovel down is what I'm really doing. I see what you're doing.
Yeah. I was thinking, what if you're a descendant of a famous painter, whether it's Da Vinci or Michelangelo? What if you pick up a paintbrush and you're like, this is surely got to be in my genetic.
This is my genetic code. I don't think it comes without practice. Well, for sure.
I don't think you just pick it up and you're like, I'm so gifted. Like that's what I'd like to see. Show me some of those early paintings. Show me what they did with a crayon before you show me what they did as an artist later. I want to see the process before... Where's that stuff? Before the mastery. Where's Bob Ross's rough drafts? Yeah, actually. I would also like to see that.
Me too. How do you get a hold of that stuff? I don't know. I don't know.
That's the stuff that would be fascinating to see. What do you think? What's his name? Pollock. What do you think his rough drafts look like? You can't tell.
I know. They're like, look, this is when he figured out he could splatter paint. Oh, and that's an early piece.
How do you know? I also wonder if some of these masters ever feel like they're masters. Do they ever look at a piece and go, yeah, that's pretty much really good.
Like that's the best I'm ever going to do. Do you think they ever reach that point? Or do they think they look at their art and go, this is pretty incredible? Or are they always self-critical? I guarantee you're self-critical. I think artists are always self-critical. I think the hardest thing in art, like for me, is knowing when it's done.
I can't figure that out. I can't figure out if I've done enough or not enough or too much. I can't decide. And it's frustrating for me. That's a tough one for me. I don't know when to walk away.
I don't know when to go, this piece is complete. Yeah. I mean, I don't draw or paint or anything like that, but I do art journaling stuff.
Right. And I look at it and go, like I want to do more, but I don't know what more there is to do. And maybe that's the good place. Maybe that's where you go, like I've done enough. I don't think there's more to do. So I'm going to be done with that. Unless something else comes up and you go, oh, that would be fun. But that's what the journaling part is, right?
Like it's never ending. Like you could go and add to stuff that if you were like, oh, I thought of a great thing. I'd like to add to that.
That's fine. That's a growing project. That's like a fungus. But I think the same could be said of just art too, though. I think you could walk away from it and then think about something and be like, oh, actually, I want to add something to this. That's true. Maybe that's the beauty of art. It's never finished. Isn't it? This has been a very deep art conversation.
Thanks for it. I really, it's been good. Why are you getting patronized?
I am not getting patronized. I'm just saying we've kind of really gone into the weeds about art here. It was supposed to just be about finding a gene to figure out how people are creative.
And then we really ran with it. Finding a gene about how to be a genius, not creativity. A creative genius. An inventor.
And what better to talk about it than to genius. That's right. I think we've set it up. Are you ready for this news?
I'm ready. Super Mario Brothers 2? 2. Okay. The Super Mario Galaxy movie. What?
Set to release on April 3rd, 2026. Oh, okay. Okay. So they did the Super Mario Brothers movie with Jack Black as Bowser. Yeah. Right now they're doing Super Mario Brothers 2, the movie, and it's the galaxy? The Super Mario Galaxy movie. It's what it's called.
Interesting. April 3rd, 2026. Chris Pratt is coming back as Mario.
All right. Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Higgy and Michael Key, Kevin Michael Richardson. They're all coming back. Love it. It's coming from the Nintendo game of the same name.
Yes. I don't know much about the galaxy. Do you know much about the galaxy? About Super Mario Galaxy? Yeah. I believe it was an N64 thing originally, and that's probably why it evades me.
Okay. But because I didn't really keep up with Mario after Nintendo, like original stuff. It's like Super Nintendo is probably where I quit with my Mario stuff. Super Nintendo was the worst Nintendo. I love Super Nintendo.
How dare you. We've had this argument before. But Super Mario Galaxy came out in 2007, and it was on the Wii. That's where it started.
Super, the second Super Mario Brothers was the worst Mario Brothers game. Whoa. Whoa. We've had this argument before too. I just wanted to bring it up. Remember earlier, I made a joke that I felt bad about.
I don't feel bad about this because this is the truth. You might need to. That's the first one. The characters are bad. The animation is bad. The storyline is bad. It's really difficult to play.
Oh, so because you were no good at it. It's the game's fault? Now, the game, if I'm not mistaken, was actually sort of an overlay.
I was just reminded about this. Super Mario Brothers 2 was not necessarily an original game. They took a game that was called Doki Doki Panic, and they redid the characters, but they kept a lot of the original programming. That's why it was kind of weird. Some of the characters were strange.
They were like, what? Where's the normal stuff that I had in the other game? But that's where they introduced a bunch of the different strange little characters with masks on and all that because those came from the Japanese game Doki Doki Panic. They cheated. That's why the game is so bad. They didn't cheat. That was a plagiarized game.
Okay, right. And that's like saying Jungle Book and Robin Hood didn't use the same animation for a lot of the stuff. They did because it's easier than animating every little thing.
So it's the same thing. I mean, they made a game, but then they laid Mario into it. But that's why you don't like it, is because it's not like the rest of the Mario's.
And it's not because it's actually Doki Doki Panic with Mario on top of it. That's why. It's not the worst one.
That makes sense now, though. It's not the worst one. No, which one is?
I'll have to think about that for a minute. Because there's a lot of Mario games. I didn't ever really like Mario Tennis.
I never played that one. Yeah, but that doesn't count because that's not necessarily a world. Okay, so you're strictly saying like side scrollers or something?
Yeah, I'm not going like offshoots of Mario Bowling or any of that stuff. It's like Mario has to rescue his friend. We've now discovered not his girlfriend. They're just friends. I can't believe Princess Peach friends. She totally friends on Mario. After he's saved her life.
So many times. I mean, he was saving it in Donkey Kong. Like he's been saving her life and stuff forever.
Save yourself from now on, Peach. Whoa. Whoa. I'm excited. Well, when does this movie come out? 2026, you said?
April 3rd, 2026. That's very fast. They've been working out. The first one came out three years ago. Did it really? Yeah. Three years? Yeah. No way.
Yeah, way. When did it come out? Three years ago. It says three years ago, or does it say it came out in 2022, 2023? You're telling me that came out in 22? No, it came out in 2023. Yeah, two years ago. Well, let's do a simple math. So by the time 2022, three years between them. Yeah.
Okay. Box office hit. Something to look forward to next year. What's up? Nothing. What's up with you?
I'm disappointed in the world right now. Okay. Because here's the thing. You pull up your phone, you're scrolling socials. You see something interesting.
You go, cool. I watch that video. You swipe. You scroll.
You move on to the next thing. It's an ad. You go to watch a video. You got to watch an ad. You go to pay for a streaming service. And you go, cool. I'm going to be able to watch what I want. And then you go, oh, great. Thank you for this ad. Even when you have no ads, you're still going to run ads for the shows that are on your own service. You see what I'm saying?
I see what you're saying. You go outside. You get hit in the face with ads coming up here in a minute. I'm going to throw some ads your way. There's a lot of ads. I tried to watch a movie last night and I got hit with a trailer. That you can't skip.
That's what I'm saying. I couldn't skip it. I know. Every time I tried to skip it because it gave me the option, it was like, I'm sorry, we're having trouble loading this title. You just have to watch it. Yeah, I know.
I don't like it. So there's a lot of people that have the Samsung smart fridges that have the screen on them. So you can write like a grocery list or can have your calendar or whatever. They're putting ads in it. Are you serious? They're putting ads in your smart fridge. Ads for what? Oh, you know, things that would go inside the fridge. Probably. And things that they overhear you talking about.
You know what I'm saying? There is a pilot program in the works right now that is meant to get this quote unquote, strengthen the value of owning a Samsung smart fridge. Ads won't appear when the cover screen is set in art mode or picture album mode. But when you're interacting with it, you will get ads on your fridge. I don't want ads on my fridge. I don't want ads on my fridge either.
I also don't want a screen on my fridge. I don't need it. I don't want it. It's too expensive. I understand. It's an expensive fridge.
They're doing a software update. So if you have one of those fancy fridges with the TV, I don't, I know we don't. But if somebody listening does, get ready for ads in your TV screen on your fridge serves you right for buying that expensive fridge. There's no escape. And I don't know how I feel about it other than grossed out. Right. Like I would like to own something and not have it be trying to sell me something all the time. Advertising. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying.
And I know that that I'm, look, I, I understand how I make money here. I'm not saying ads are all bad. I'm saying they have a place and on my fridge isn't one of them. You know the ad I have on the fridge right now?
What? I have a bunch of coupons from a pizza place that has a magnet. They sent me in the mail and there was a little thing on it said it's a magnet. And I went cool and I stuck it to the fridge. That's an ad I like a pizza coupon. That's, that's fridge advertising. That's old school. You see what I'm saying? You know what kind of advertising?
I like a phone book. I'm just tired of like every time I look at something, I got to be smacked in the face with buy this thing. You know what really is annoying is when we got rid of it, but when we would watch shows on Hulu, the show would be so quiet that you'd have to turn it up.
But then the ad would be 10 times the volume level. And on broadcast TV, that's very illegal, but streaming falls into a different category. They can't do it on TV. They tried to do it for a long time and then people got in trouble for it because they were trying to make the ads louder because they know like people might leave the room and go to the thing. So let's make the ads louder so people can hear them. And so people were trying to get away with that, but you can't.
You have to have a consistent broadcast level. Let me tell you something else. What else?
What else has got you go? Watching football last night. Football games are three hours long. Because of the commercials. If we cut down on the commercials, they would be 45 minutes. That's exactly right.
Just fine. I mean, they'd be a little longer than that, but yeah. They don't need to be three hours long.
They would be an hour. I mean, you've got every time they do something, it's like, let's have another commercial break. I understand. Oh, annoying. Let me tell you something else. You got something else?
Yeah, some ads. Let me tell you a story about a movie I tried to watch the other night. And it was, I was looking for something new to watch and I found it and I said, well, let's give this a shot. And then I fell asleep. And then you did. And then I tried to watch it again last night.
And I got home late and it was still on. Okay. I did fall asleep again. But I got further last night than I had the night prior. But I got further enough in that I went, this is a ripoff. This is a total ripoff. And then I was really mad and I was happy that I fell asleep. And I won't be finishing that movie because it's a total ripoff. You were excited about the movie because you felt like it might be a nod to adventures and babysitting. Yep. But you feel like it's a ripoff of adventures and babysitting.
Yeah. Adventures in babysitting is one of my top favorite movies of all time. I love it so much. It's family friendly. It's fun. It's got the right amount of humor and the right amount of sass. The one last night had, it's not family friendly at all. It's terrible plot, terrible storyline. And they just took they just ripped it off.
They didn't even come up with like own ideas. So let me tell you, I haven't seen adventures in babysitting in a very long time. I'm adding it to the list. I don't need to. Are you? Because I've seen this one. I feel like I'm good if this one is so closely ripping off the original.
And I'm good. I don't need to see the one. How could you say this thing about this movie that I enjoy so much? How could you say this? Yeah. What?
What yourself? I'm just saying. I haven't seen it. When did that come out?
Adventures in babysitting? Yeah. 1987. Is that your guess? No, that's I have it up here right here. Okay. Yeah, it did.
Yeah, no, it did. Let's see. What's the plot?
Oh, let me tell you. Oh, when plans with her boyfriend fall through. I was going to tell you, I could have said a high school senior ends up babysitting the Anderson kids. What should be a quiet night in however, turns into a series of ridiculous exploits, starting when they leave the house to pick up Chris's friend, Brenda. Yeah, Brenda gets stranded at the bus station. And then she loses her glasses. It's all Brenda's fault. And then soon, Brad's buddy, Daryl is involved.
And the group must contend with car thieves, blues musicians, and more. Look, I don't know. I saw a whole different movie in this other show. No. No, it wasn't a whole different movie. I mean, it had different challenges that they had to face. It was the same.
I'm so annoyed. All right. Don't take a really good movie and then just totally destroy it. So here's the plot of the one you started and are not going to finish.
No, I won't. Noah is stuck in a rut. He's been kicked out of college. He's his self absorbed girlfriend treats him poorly. And all he wants to do is watch TV. But as a favor to his mom, he agrees to babysit and neighbors three kids. Then it then it goes into some of the plot.
And it's like this trio takes a terrible trip along a wild odyssey through New York. That sounds different. It's not. It's not different. It's the same.
Just more poorly done. It's it even ends in a similar kind of way. How do you know? I know because I woke up and saw the ending.
It ends in a similar way. Yeah. Well, good. I don't need to watch the original than the 87 one.
I'm good. I've seen it. Don't. If you're not gonna appreciate it, then we don't need you to watch it. And by we, I mean all of the fans of adventures and babysitting.
And that includes Elizabeth shoe. She doesn't need you to watch it. You owe her nothing. You're so passionate about adventures and babysitting.
I am. Top five movie for you of all time. Top 10 for sure.
You're getting this angry about a top 10. Elizabeth shoe. Get out of here. Not Elizabeth shoe.
She can stay. Hey, would you rather this or that? Would you rather talk like a pirate? Oh, forever, forever, forever. Oh boy. Or walk like a pirate with a peg leg forever.
Would I rather walk the walk or talk the talk? Exactly. Of the pirate. Yep. What you're going with. Let me think. I gotta think about this one.
Tell me your logic and then I'll make a decision. Weird. How unusual for you. Um, listen, if I talk like a pirate, it's gonna be like a shtick. It's gonna be the thing. Like it's everything I do has to be pirate themed from now on.
I can't be non-pirate because I can't sound non-pirate. So it's really gonna be, I think it's gonna cut down the amount of people you're gonna want to listen to me is what I'm saying. I think the amount of people are gonna be like, I can't do it with the pirate thing anymore is gonna be large. I think there's gonna be a large amount of people that go, nah. So that affects me professionally. Yeah, for sure.
Now, I enjoy a lot outdoor activities and getting around mobility challenges with a peg leg are a little bit hard. You really thought this through in a short amount of time. You asked about my logic. I'm telling you.
I am gonna go with getting around on the peg leg because I gotta pay them bills. Yeah. You're just gonna have to find outside areas that are just more friendly. Yeah, I mean, or I'll get one of those cool legs that have like, you know, like all the technology in it. I don't have to just have a stump. No, it's a peg leg.
That's all it is. Why do I have to have a mop handle, plunger thing? Because that's what the pirates have.
I'm gonna be a modern-day pirate. No. With a normal leg. No. It's like. No. Yeah. It's just made of wood.
No. Raw edge wood. So everyone's gonna get splinters everywhere you go. No. I'll have it sanded down.
It'll be nice. No. Yeah. You can.
Why are you making my leg worse? What are you picking? I'm gonna pick, um, I'm gonna pick talk like a pirate.
Forever. And now I can't wait to hear it. Here we go in three, two, one.
I already did it this morning. No, you did one thing. It sounds like just an accent. You didn't sound like a pirate. I said, oh, no, I didn't do it.
And pirate in three, two, one. Give me something to say. I don't know what to say. Pirate stuff. I don't know what to say.
There were so many examples. Close your eyes. Pretend you're a pirate on a ship. Am I the captain? You're at sea. Am I the pirate captain? If that's what you want to be, be the captain. What would the captain say on the ship in his best piratey captain voice? And three, two, one, go. I don't know.
I don't know. I got it. No, that's just your voice. You're not even trying. Hold on.
You're looking up things a pirate would say. You're just supposed to imagine you were the character. Really get method about it. I really got one.
Okay. Pirate in three, two, one. All hands on deck, you scurvy dog. Yeah, so your ship got taken over pretty quick, didn't it? All hands on deck, you scurvy dogs. Yeah.
A lot of the other pirates were super afraid. Stop making me do this. Stop. This wasn't sounds.
I thought you would be able to do a pirate star swabbing the decks. You scurvy dogs. All right.
Hey, it's would you rather answer that? I follow this TikTok account and I love them. There are two elementary school janitors.
I don't know where they, I think they live in like Boston or somewhere because they have an accent. Okay. But I love them. Their latest beef is the amount of pencils they find on the ground.
Interesting. Once they complain about baby bell cheese wax. They have a beef with baby bell cheese because the wax gets stuck in the carpet and then they have to scrape it out of the carpet all the time.
Right. They're hilarious. I love them. Today, I just watched a video of them and they just got seven pallets of science books and they're like, what do you want us to do? Load these into the school? Seven pallets of science books? There's a lot of science books.
So then he asked the Fizz Ed teacher if they, if she had anybody that could help them. Hey, you're like lifting heavy stuff. What do we got seven pallets of books here? Do you have any lesson plans for today or can you send some kids our way to help out? It's physical education.
Get physical, you know, move some stuff. Because listen, I worked at a school and we all know that the janitors, the custodians, do some of the realist work there. For sure. And most of it, like after hours when the school is empty, so you don't even know that they're in there cleaning and vacuuming and sometimes without air conditioning. Right. Because if students aren't there, they turn out the air conditioning.
And so then you're like, cool, I guess I'll do this. And sometimes none of the windows open. So it's just your hot inside air sweating back in your face. Gross. No, they're doing, they're doing good work.
They are doing janitors, custodians. You're doing, you're doing some heavy lifting. And not just talking about those keys on your belt either. You know, and you've got the worst office.
Let's be real. They always put them in the dungeons. The closet.
If you have an office. I know, right. And it's also where you have to store all of your supplies.
And here's a desk. You're exactly right. Keep up the good fight out there. That's a, it's a very important job. Thank you.
Thank you so much for everything you do. We see you. We understand. We recognize you. Well done. Yep.
You have anything else to add to that? I think, I think today is one for the books or we could just erase it all together. It could be one for the docs. By the way, I see. Oh yeah.
I like where your head's at. Do you want to give it another shot? Nope.
Do you want to change your answer to peg leg? No. You're going to stand by what you've done here today? I guess if I have to stand by my art joke, then you have to stand by your pirate impression.
Yeah, I do. We both made some bad decisions today. And that is why it is the weekend and we will be back on Monday to try our best then. With fresh, fresh ideas.
Yeah. Have a great rest of your Friday. Have a great weekend.
We'll see you back here on Monday. And yeah, I think that's it. That's it.
All right. Toodaloo. See ya.
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