Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
We really like long weekends, a grown up spelling bee is Good News, pancake soup sounds like a potentially gross food, In N Out fries are not it, Chantel went to a butterfly sanctuary in Utah, Chantel needs some new bits, Josh wants to blow up his wardrobe, Josh went to Formula Drift this weekend, a toddler told Chantel that she's annoying, we played Mexican Train dominoes, we agree on sound logic in Would You Rather, and it's Telephone Tuesday.
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Email the show & too young to be grandparents
(3:40) - 3 day & 4 day weekends
(7:09) - Good News
(9:51) - Pancake soup
(14:56) - In N Out fries
(19:12) - Butterfly Biosphere
(23:42) - Chantel's bits
(29:03) - Josh's wardrobe
(35:10) - Smoke show
(42:26) - Chantel's annoying
(46:41) - Mexican train dominoes
(50:19) - Would You Rather
(51:58) - Telephone Tuesday
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Full show transcript:
Hey. Hey. You and I listen to a lot of different podcasts and over the weekend we were listening to one that we like a lot and I noticed something and I feel like we don't do it enough.
So as we kind of kick off the show today and as we kind of move forward, I want to hear from people who listen to the show and we don't get a lot of feedback because we haven't really asked people to provide feedback. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So I set up an email address last night. Did you?
I did because I want to hear from the people. So if you want to send us a note about the show, you got a question you want to ask. You want to just say, hey, I'm listening from Nova Scotia or whatever it is.
Nova Scotia? I don't know where you're listening from. I set up an email address specifically for the show so that you could reach out. So you can send an email to wakeupclassy97 at gmail.com and you can reach out and talk to us that way, which would be fine. If you have questions, what I would like to get to is where we can take those questions or those comments, we can share them at the beginning of the show or in the middle of the show or whatever and have it be something special just for the people that listen to the podcast.
Not something we talk about on the show on the radio part, but something special for the podcast audience that is built in for the podcast audience. That's cool. Anyway, wakeupclassy97 at gmail.com if you want to reach out. You can message us. Okay. So it's W-A-K-E-U-P-C-L-A-S-S-Y-9 the number and seven the number.
Wakeupclassy97 at gmail.com. That's right. Okay. So now that was just something I wanted to tell you about. So reach out. We'd love to hear from you.
Cool. Here's something that happened on Facebook that I am not prepared for. Oh no. Yesterday, a former coworker of mine became a grandparent and he's like a year older than me.
Oh no. And like my cousin who's what five years older than me, something like that, he's been a grandparent for a few years. Yeah. But this is somebody. My best friend from high school is a grandparent. This is somebody so close to age. Like this is a first for me. Someone you know, you probably had this feeling already.
Yeah. I'm a little bit freaked out because I'm like, this guy is 44 and he is now a grandparent, which look, our son's going to be 21. Like there's no reason we couldn't soon ish be grandparent. I mean, yeah, we had him when we were what 23, 22, 23, something like that.
So yeah, like it's, it's knocking on the door as a potential possibility. I'm not ready to be a grandpa. Grandpa?
No way. We're too young for this. What in the world? Congratulations to, to this guy and his wife and his family. I think that's amazing.
But the guy I used to work with and his dad who I used to work with is now a great grandfather. That's wild. That's wild. Anyway, congrats to the fam. Big day. All right. Should we jump in? Do the show?
Yep. Both feet jump in. Oh, no, no testing the water with no egg. Just go. All right. Here we go. Oh, hello. The long weekend has come to an end. Yeah. The long weekend. Weekend. Yeah. You're a little out of breath.
Well, she's the wreath. What a morning. I mean, you know, what do you have four days off and then you got to wake up early after not waking up early for a minute?
Like what is going on? And then you only hear one of your alarm clocks. Yeah. Oh, no.
Yeah. It's all right. Here we are.
That happens. We're here. We are. What was the thing you said? We'll be back.
Bright eyed and bushy tailed. How do we do it? Oh, I did say that. Yeah. How's that going? Not so good.
No. I can see your eyes. They're bright.
They're here. Because your hair's kind of up and then in like a bushy tail situation. I just threw on a hat. I know you get it so easy. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah, it is.
Okay. I mean, I do have to deal with what's under the hat. What do you have to deal with?
Being bald. It's not a big deal. You make it seem like such a big deal. It's not a big deal.
Being bald is beautiful. Did you enjoy the long four day weekend? Of course I did. Right?
I always enjoy a long weekend. Sure. We'll dive into some of the activities that took place as we get kind of wrapped up into the show here.
We sure will. Because there were plenty of things to discuss, I'm sure. Yes. Things that I don't even know about that happened in your weekend. I think you know about some of them. Some. You weren't around for some of them, but I think I discussed some of them with you. A lot of times you'll just take notes and write things down and be like, I want to talk about that. And then our daughter, Emery, she'll say things like, can I tell dad that story or are you saving that for the show?
So there's often times where I'm like, I, we don't even talk as a family anymore. I know. Everything's for the show.
I know it. I don't even get to hear the whole story until after it's on the show. And then I go, that was five days ago. It's crazy. It is crazy.
Yeah. Well, we'll see what happens. Hopefully you enjoyed your extended Labor Day weekend.
If you got to have one, hopefully. I know retail still kind of kept going and that's frustrating. And first responders are always going. Right. Good point. Good point.
Nurses and doctors are always going. Yeah. You know, what? We had the four day weekend. I would like to have a three day weekend and a four day weekend and a three day weekend and a four day weekend every weekend. Internationally, that'd be amazing. Wouldn't that be nice?
Yes. It's kind of like you work four days, you get three off. You work three days, you get four off.
That sounds heavenly. Yeah. That's a better system than your four day weekend. Yeah, it is. Four day week. It is a much better system.
Yeah. And just think how happy your employees would be. Oh, so happy.
Oh, I would be so happy. So rested. Yeah. Yeah. That sounds nice. Well, let's make a change. Let's get everybody, everybody on board.
It's time to make a change. Oh, good job. All right. Good morning. Ready for some good news? Let's hear it.
All right. The Lee County Literacy Coalition. Do we have one of these around here? If we don't, this is like a job for you. Okay. Promoting literacy. Yes. Putting on reading workshops.
Working with kids, reading. Yes. And the Lee County Literacy Coalition in Alabama recently hosted its annual great grown-up spelling bee. I told you. I want to be a part of the great grown-up spelling bee.
I know you do. It brought together local businesses and educators to raise awareness for adult literacy. It was a fast-paced, speed-spelling showdown in front of a rowdy crowd.
Oh. There were eight teams of two battling head-to-head to the bitter end, and the winners ended up being two professors at a nearby community college, Heather Johnson, who teaches English, and Doss Bukaloo, who chairs the business department, Alabama. Doss Bukaloo. Doss Bukaloo. Okay. Spell that.
Easy. D-A-S. Nope. D-A-W-S. Nope. D-A-U-S. Nope.
I'm stumped. D-O-S-S. Doss. Oh. Dang it.
Okay. Bukaloo. Bukaloo. B-U-C-K-A-L-O-O. Nope. What?
L-E-W. Bukaloo. That's not right. It is right. It's his name. You can't spell names. That's different.
All right. Well, anyway, the professors, Heather Johnson, and Doss Bukaloo, ended up winning. Heather and Doss are reigning champions for the next year, until the event swings back through town for more fun and more awareness to help for adults in Lee County who struggle with literacy. I think that's awesome. I think we've got to figure out if there is a literacy coalition in this county. If there's not, you've got to start one and host a spelling game. I might have to.
I mean, I might just have to. Literacy is a huge deal. Yeah, it is.
And being able to read and write are huge in being able to communicate. And I just think it's awesome. Plus, you love spelling so much. I do like spelling. I'm pretty good at spelling. I have to say. Yeah, you proved it this morning. Here's spelling.
Doss Bukaloo. That's not. That doesn't count.
I know. Anyway, very, very fun and very cool. And literacy coalition, what a cool thing. That should exist everywhere. It should. I think that's great. Anyway, that's some good news.
G-O-O-D-N-E-W-S. Nailed it. There's a 1975 recipe that's going viral online and it's not a TikTok stunt. This was an actual recipe.
From 1970. Does it involve Jell-O? It does not. I figured it was going to be some Jell-O hot dog thing or something gross. No, it involves pancakes. Pancakes? It's called pancake soup. It's a German dish called flattelsupp. Okay, pancake soup.
All right. Basically, you make pancakes on a griddle in baking grease and then you cut them into quarter inch strips. Okay, so so far you've got pancakes cut up for kid on a griddle, got it? Then you put them into an actual broth made with bouillon cubes in water.
No way, really? Heat them up and then serve it. Interesting. There's a lot of ways to do this and some look more appealing than others. Some people have taken the pancakes and kind of twirled them up to make kind of like a pinwheel thing. Yeah, and that looks very appetizing and not not weird at all. The other one, the other way you can do it is to just put it in a soup. And it looks like a bowl of lumps.
Yeah, it does. I've seen a couple of them that don't look great. But the pinwheel thing is interesting to me and they are cutting the pancake into strips.
One of them left them, they didn't coil them, they just kind of left them like a noodle. So that's really what it would be. It would be like a bready doughy kind of dumpling sort of like noodle in your broth. I was thinking like a like a dumpling, like a gnocchi kind of situation. Yeah. Except I think gnocchi is potato.
Yeah. But the other thing is that like a German pancake is really super thin too. It's more like a crepe. It's a little thicker than a crepe actually.
What is? A German pancake. The ones that I'm looking at like just look at like a normal German pancake. And you'll see they're thinner, they're like tortilla thickness. Okay. And so when they say pancake, they aren't talking about a bisquick flapjack. So get that out of your head.
You get it out of your head. It's more like a it's more like a sliced up crepe in a broth than it is. Still, but even still a crepe in a broth does not sound delicious. But it's not a crepe because you've had a crepe and you're thinking about a crepe and you're going like I don't like that in chicken broth. No. But it's not a crepe.
It's a German pancake. I heard that. I heard you say that. I'm just giving you a sort of a thickness to think about. It's not like a piece of bread floating in broth.
Okay. It's like an unc... Well, I mean, they do cook it. It's like a pasta, but it's a pancake. Yeah, I know. It's still... So what are people saying about it? Are they liking it? People are saying it's delicious. Some are like, well, how creative.
Some are saying, okay, this is to pressure or written all of it. It absolutely does. Someone says, if you change the bouillon broth to a... What broth? The bouillon? Bouillon? Bouillon. It's like when you take a wad of paper and you slam it into the garbage can right over somebody's head and then you go bouillon. Bouillon. But bouillon that you use in this soup, that's a different thing.
If you change that to a black tea with a dash of milk and honey, it would make a delicious breakfast. Someone said that? Yeah. I don't think so.
Someone says, no, thank you. The soggy texture would be disgusting. I don't think it would be that soggy. Beef stock with pancake pieces floating in it doesn't sound delicious. That's because they're thinking about pancakes.
They aren't thinking about German pancakes. Okay, well then give it a go, Josh. I don't want to. Okay, maybe either.
But I get it. I always think it's interesting when these old recipes make a comeback. Not that they make a comeback, but when people are like, hey, check out this recipe from 1945 and then you go, oh, what were people eating back then? They were eating pancake soup.
Yeah, I know. Thin, unsweetened pancakes. Like they aren't sugary. Like that's the thing, people are going, ooh, sweet and savory together?
No. It's like a pasta and it's cooked in bacon grease, as you said, but sometimes with different herbs so you could hit it with some rosemary and thyme. And then you could let them cool and then you would roll them up and you would slice them into strips just like noodles.
It's just chicken noodle, but instead of using pasta, they're using a German pancake recipe for the noodle, which is less expensive than yeah, making flottle. I don't even know if that's the correct way to say it. It looks right.
I am part German though. So that's right. Boo-yawn. If you've been here long enough, you know that I am not a fan of in and out.
You like in and out and here's what everybody says. Oh, you just haven't tried it animal style. You just haven't tried it. Yes, I have.
It's still just meh. Okay. I was, we over the weekend, you were doing a racing thing. Yeah. I was hanging out with some friends.
Right. We had eaten a delicious Thai lunch and then we ate our leftovers for dinner that evening and you said, hey, I'm going to run it in and out. Do you want anything? I said, no, no I don't. You said you gross. Yeah. No, thanks.
No, I'd rather starve. Wow. Well, it's not good. Stop saying it is. It's good. Oh, you just haven't tried it animal style.
Yes, I have. You bring home everyone at some fries. So you bring Emery some fries.
Right. Those fries looks like the worst fries I've ever seen. They're not great. I never said the fries were good. It's a good burger. Weak fries.
Oh, I'm going to say that. But have you gotten them animal style? Also had raisin canes, good fries. Raisin canes is the chicken of the in and out world. Wrong. I would rather have Popeyes over in and out.
Well, you can't. Or not in and out, over raisin canes. They're Texas toast. Delicious. Yeah. Chicken. Yeah.
Delicious. We even went to the- Post Malone Canes. We did. We did go to the Post Malone Canes. That's in Sandy, Utah.
Big pink building. It's still the same. Still tastes the same as all the other raisin canes. Well, yeah.
I just- But you can order it the posty way. Which was? Two pieces of toast and two sauces and a collector's cup, which I got. And stickers. Do you get stickers with everything?
I got the when you order it at the Post Malone Raisin Canes, the posty way. Whoa. Yeah, that was cool.
That was a big deal. Look, it's good food and everyone's entitled to their opinion even if it's wrong. It's fine. It's not extremely delicious.
It's not just- It's just- It's both of those places, in my opinion, IMO are overrated. Okay. Well, you heard it here again.
Not first, but again. But don't- Look at those fries that you brought home for- Oh, I told you. Those weren't great. They looked like they were- They weren't great fresh. No. Their fry game needs to be better. But oh, you're right.
Animals coming in. Now listen. Okay.
Now listen. Maybe that's the thing. Maybe- Because I've done the fries animal style too. I just wanted fries.
I didn't want to eat fries with a fork was kind of the big deal. So, you know what I mean? I guess. Yeah. Because I would- I don't know what it means to get an animal style, just extra sauce or something.
No, no, no. They put that sauce that I brought home. Yeah. They put that on it. And then, you know, it's all gooey and delicious.
It's got the sauce. Okay. Now- You're not sold. No. I'm not sold.
We had listened to a podcast on the way home from Utah and it had a Tiberel in it. Yes. And I said, listen, he lives in Utah.
Right. Would you rather bump into Post Malone who also lives in Utah or Tiberel? And I said, I'd rather bump into Tiberel. I'd like to bump into either one of them. Yeah, me too. I think either experience would be cool. I think so too, but I love Tiberel.
I love Post Malone too. That's all. Is that it? Yeah.
If you're wondering if I still hate in and out, I do. Yeah. Okay.
Well, good to know. You heard it here again. Again.
Again. I got to go to the butterfly biosphere. Now, this is your second butterfly excursion this year.
Yes. Because in Pingree, there is the butterfly haven, which was your birthday. It was a Mother's Day? No, it was my birthday.
My birthday. Yeah. And I couldn't remember. But that was a fun time.
You got to explore and you got to play with button quail and all that fun stuff. All right. And then now over the weekend, you and your friends while I was watching cars go real fast, you went and checked out the butterfly biosphere. Tell me about it.
It was awesome. As I've seen a couple of pictures. The thing that I get concerned about is that you can go through the butterfly garden or the butterfly biosphere and you just worry because there's things that you're not supposed to do. So you're not supposed to, you can touch the butterflies, but you're not supposed to touch them by the wings. You're not supposed to pet them. You're one finger or if they fly on your shirt or like there was one that was on my friend's bill of his hat.
Okay. And now you can kind of just carry them around. Like my friend had one on her finger and she carried it around most of the time while we were there. It's very exciting. But I watch people and I go, ah, you're not doing it right. You're stressing out the butterflies. Stressing me out. Yeah.
Okay. Go softer. Go softer. Chill out. Soft.
Soft touches only. It just makes me nervous. If I had, if I was in charge of that or if I worked there, I would just be too stressed out. I'd be too stressed out to work there because I'd be like, ah, you're doing it too hard. You're going too hard. Settle down. There was one little moment that I was walking with my friend's little boy who is nine and he's sweet little boy and we noticed together, he and I noticed that there was one that was on the ground not flying and he very delicately, very delicately tried to pick it up so that it was, because it was kind of upside down and he was very soft delicately and he's nine.
And I mean, you have a softer, sweeter touch than most of the adults that I see in here. Well, but he also knows the rules and he's going to follow those rules. Yes, he does. Right. Anyway, so he tried, but something was seriously wrong with that butterfly.
But then a bunch of people crowded around and they were like, what is happening? What? Let me touch it. Settle down. Now go away.
Right. Was it packed? Was there a lot of people hanging out? There were a lot of people hanging out, but it was beautiful.
It was awesome. If you haven't been to a butterfly sanctuary, biosphere, haven, go. It's lovely.
It's a great time. But here's my rule. Be gentle. Right.
Be soft. Well, and I think the one that we went to in Pingree, like you have to like check and make sure, like you're not supposed to hold them there. Is that if I remember right? Like if they landed on you or whatever, it was like, okay. But also, I don't think they were really into like landing on you. They were really into the flowers. Well, yeah. And some of the ones at the biosphere were there into flying and getting food and stuff too, but every now and then they land on you because they're everywhere. Yeah.
It was fun. Button quail or no? No, button quail. Were you sad about that?
Yeah, of course I was. I love those button quails. I want a button quail so bad. Well, but I can't just have one button quail.
No, you're going to have an army on them. I know. I know. They move in a pack. I've seen it. And they follow you around. Yeah.
Cheepin' at ya. Were they? I don't know that they said much.
Oh, yeah, they did. Okay. To you. Yeah. And only you.
They were like, Hey, pal, be our buddy. I kind of already have a button quail. It's just a little bit larger. Yeah. And it's a dog. But it follows you everywhere.
And it doesn't chirp. It goes, yes, it's a lot of huffing. Huff everywhere it goes.
Stop huffing at me. And that is Luna the button quail. That's the large, the large, the large button quail. Yeah.
Overgrown button quail. You and the kids think that I have bits and not only that I have bits, but that I need new bits. Yeah. You were pretty judgy yesterday. No, no, no, no. That's not a bit. But you think one of the bits that I have is, no, we were driving yesterday. And I thought, I heard you say something.
No, you didn't. But here's the thing that you do. You just go, what's that? And I know immediately that that means you want something, but you just thought that it'd be funny to say, Oh, I thought you said this thing that I want. Which no, I didn't. And you know that.
And rather than just say, Hey, would you mind driving my car through the car wash? You say, what's that? What'd you say? And I go, no. Oh, I thought, I thought you said you were going to drive through the car wash. I thought that's, I thought that's what you said. No, I didn't say that. But apparently that's what you want to happen now.
So, so that's the bit. And you do it and have done it for a long time. And so now, when out of the blue, you go, what?
What's that? I don't say, huh, I didn't say anything. And you go, Oh yeah. So I don't play your bit anymore. And that was frustrating to you.
Yeah. Because I, it's a fine bit, but I know the bit. No, everybody's onto my bits. So I came home. It was just you and me when I thought I heard you say that you were going to take my car through the car wash. But I didn't.
And I didn't hear that. The kids go, Yeah, that's a bit you do. And then I said, What other bits do I do? And then go prank master.
Right. So there's a bit where I play silly pranks and then I go, Oh, you don't even play pranks. You'll be like, I threw away the garbage. Oh, prank master. And then they came up with another bit I do, which is where I unzip somebody's arm. Yeah, I pretend to unzip somebody's arm. Right.
Take out a pretend chapstick and put my chapstick on and put it back in their pretend pocket and zip it back up. Which is weird. That's a bit. And then back said, Oh, here's something else you do. He said, if you see a football player and it just has their middle initial by their last name, you just invent names for that.
That's true. So if I see Pima Holmes, I go, Oh, Peter Mahomes, Peter Mahomes. You just make up a first name. Even though you want to know well, it's Patrick.
Sometimes I don't know. I know. Well, I know.
And so then I'll just really just make up a name for them. Right. D ruckus and you'll be like, to marry in ruckus. Yeah. No, it's not to marry in ruckus.
It's Donald. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. So I think I need new bits.
Oh, or don't. Because my family's on to all my new bits. They aren't new.
Are my family's onto my old bits. Right. So.
And then all of the little cues, the little vocal stimulant cues that happen. There's about a billion of those. So are you saying that you guys are sick of me? No. We're just on to your bits.
And it's frustrating you because you're not having any fun because nobody's playing along anymore. What did you say? Nope. What? Nope.
Oh, I thought I heard you say you were going to go get me some candy. Nope. Didn't say that. That's what I thought. But usually that's what it is. It's usually, what's that? Oh, you want a refreshment?
Yeah, me too. No, I thought that's what you said. And it's never that. But also, you could go get a refreshment by yourself anytime. I know, but I wanted to be your idea, you see?
No, I don't see. Because I don't think in refreshment gaps. When's the last time I had a treat? Time for a treat. Yeah.
I don't think like that. Oh, bro. You need to start. I just go through life.
No, I'm good. Like every time I go out in my car, I don't have to go get a treat. That's not every time I go in my car, but it certainly is. If I like have to make an errand, I go, yeah, I deserve something. Yeah, see, I just ran the errand. Oh, you're living life wrong.
Or am I? Who wants to ride with you to go get an errand? No one. Or who wants to ride with me? And everyone.
Exactly. It's fine. Mine's a much quieter ride. And ours is quiet too.
Because we're sipping on a refreshment. Yeah. All right. What? No, I don't. I'm done with that bit. You said to me over the weekend, I think I want to blow up my wardrobe. Yeah.
I'm not happy with what I got going on. I know, but this is after like days after we had a friend that said, Hey, Josh, I think I want to start dressing like you. Can you send me a picture of your shoes? Well, that was more specifically about shoes. You do have a sweet collection of shoes. I have a lot of shoes.
And I did reply to him and sent him the kind of shoes he's looking for. Because I do have a lot of shoes. A lot of shoes, a lot of jackets, a lot of bags. I'm kind of that guy, like hats, shoes, bags. I like the accessories that go with the clothes. The clothes themselves, I'm not super picky about. I think here's the deal.
Okay. I've been in shorts a lot. And I enjoy shorts. I really, I prefer to wear shorts.
But I'm limited on the shorts that I have that I like to wear. And they don't, like they're fine. They're comfortable.
I'm good with it. But they don't really, they don't give me like a real style. It's just a casual shorts and t-shirts thing all the time. Short shorts and a t-shirt. Yeah, that's what you wear. Short shorts and a t-shirt. And I want to have more than that.
What are you looking for? Well, so as the weather starts to change here, because we're in now toward the end of summer, we're going to start transitioning into the fall stuff. And that's when I get to start wearing some of my pants and I get to wear my sweaters and stuff.
I'm looking for some texture, I think, is the big deal. And there's certain fabrics that fall brings out that I like a lot. Flannels, great. My sweater collection, great. You know, like those things. But then I look at like the tweed jacket thing with the little elbow, you know, that kind of thing. And I go, that's a great accessory. It is. You can't do that with shorts. So no, you can't.
I can't be running around in golf shorts and in a tweed jacket. It's also still very warm outside. Correct. So you're not going to be wearing... You're right. I'm not going to want to be wearing that. You're correct. You're not going to, yeah, it's going to be too high.
You're going to be sweating to death. Right. But I'm looking for textures, I think, is the big deal. Okay. Because I'm a little over shorts and t-shirts right now.
Because I've been doing it for a long time. I'll never be over shorts and t-shirts because... I'm not over the shorts and t-shirts weather.
I'm happy. But I like, we're walking around the mall and I'm looking at stuff and I'm like, man, I need some texture in my life. Because of just a t-shirt and some shorts. Like today I'm wearing, you know, shorts and a t-shirt.
A t-shirt. Yeah. Great.
Super. That's pretty easy though. It's very easy. When you wake up you go, yeah, wear this and this. Easy done.
And I have, you know, I don't know, six different pairs of shorts or something like that. But I just go like, it's boring. There's nothing exciting happening. Okay. Well, let's... And I'm ready for some wardrobe excitement. Let's blow up your wardrobe. I don't want to blow up my wardrobe. I just, I'm ready to... You just want to add some pieces.
Maybe... Some texturally pieces. I don't know.
I don't know what I want. That's what you just said. I know. But I think also I want like the log cabin that goes with the flannel. Yeah, you said. And that I can go out and chop some wood. Okay.
Settle down. You know what I mean? It's more than just the aesthetic.
Like I want the stuff that goes with it. Yeah, you did say. You said, I just want to be cozy. I just want to have some cozy time. Don't you?
Like doesn't that sound nice? Yes. Right? Yep.
A fireplace. That's what I need. Yeah. Big window. Yeah.
Some trees that are changing color. Right. A nice cup of warm tea. That's it. Maybe I'm just ready for fall vibes.
As they say. I'm kind of ready. I don't... But I don't want the fall weather.
I kind of... I'm not ready for the cooler temps. But I am kind of ready for the cooler temp weather to give me the wardrobe I want and the coziness that I am lacking.
I want the coziness. Here's the thing. Fall is always tainted for me because I know what comes after fall.
I know. And I hate what comes after fall. That big W. Don't even say it.
The season that shall not be named. Oh, okay. All right. Because it lasts so long. And every time it comes, I say, why do I still live here? Right. Because of what we're living in right now. I know. Because the other three seasons are magic. Mm-hmm.
It's that last one that I just go, who invited you? So, yeah, maybe it's all that. I don't want to blow up my wardrobe. I'm just ready for things to start changing in the weather. And I'm a little ahead of it.
But I also don't want it. So all of that's a conflict that I'm dealing with internally. All right. Well, we'll get it sorted out.
Okay. No, we won't. But, you know, I'm not saying I'm ready for like car hearts.
Like, I'm not ready for that. But I wouldn't mind having a pair of overalls. Not like the denim ones, you know, with the little buckles.
Like, I want, there's some nice ones. Have you seen them? No. I'll show you. Okay.
They're real cool. Let's go shopping. Maybe. We'll think about it. Maybe in a couple of weeks. Yeah.
Give us a little bit of time. Okay. While I was hanging out with some friends over the weekend, you went to a smoke show. Now, you live with a smoke show. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on.
Hold on. I went to a car racing event called Formula Drift. Right. Where, yes, tires do burn and make smoke on the track. It's a smoke. I mean, it's a big part of it.
It's called the smoke show. Okay. That's fine.
Calling yourself a smoke show has a different attitude toward it. That's funny. It's a new bit.
Oh, is it? Great. How was the, how was the race? The drift race?
Yeah. So Formula Drift. It's less of a race, I guess. I mean, there are two cars on the track at the same time, and they are sliding, drifting around corners on the track very close to one another. But there are only two cars going, and it's an elimination style. How fast are they typically going?
Well, so this particular track in Utah happens to be the fastest Formula Drift track in the series. Real. Yeah. And there are eight tracks in the series. This is the seventh event. So there is one more event after this, which will be happening in Long Beach, California, in LA and in October. And so they have between now and then to work on their cars, get things back, you know, operational, do a bunch of other stuff, get ready for the next the next event, the finals. So how fast are they going? This on this track is the the only one in the series where they're doing 100 miles per hour or greater when they go into the first turn.
Oh, serious? Because they have enough runway to get the cars moving. That's fast. Before they hit that. They're flying. That's faster than I thought they were going. Very fast. And and and they are putting out a ton of horsepower on on slick little tires, and they are like skating around these corners. And I'm talking in close proximity.
Yeah, very, very close. And that's part of the thing. So there are there are essentially two heats in every race because you have to lead and chase. And then you go back to the start line and you switch positions. So then if you were leading, you then chase vice versa, right? So you're you're you get two races.
And then the judges look at those two side by side and they decide who advances in the tournament until there's one car standing. And it's awesome. And it's loud and it's just smells like burning tires. And it's a good time. OK. And it's a long day out in the sun in the desert south of the Great Salt Lake in the mountains. It's it's cool. It is hot.
But there's water and there's cute little umbrellas that we all get to hold to keep ourselves in the shade and works out great. And Beck got to meet his. Yes, his dude.
Yeah, so he's been watching Formula Drift for a lot of years, and I've only been kind of paying attention to it for the past couple. And this was my second time going. He went a year before.
So this was his third experience. It's a great time. Like it's a really cool. You said he was nervous when he got to meet his guy. It was cool.
Yeah. One of one of his favorite drivers who also is a big YouTube personality, big time, was there. And and and he has like a big like flag of this guy's car that's a real nice high quality flag, too. And so he got that signed by the guy. And he was talking to him for just a few seconds about, you know, how much of a fan he was and how long he's been watching his stuff on YouTube. And the guy was kind of like, whoa, you've been even around for a while. It's funny because like our son is almost 21, but he looks 15. And so people are like, how is that even possible? That's like, if I shave, I look 12.
So it's the same thing. And so if, you know, he's he's talking to him about watching him since, you know, this years and years and years ago. And he's like, how have you, you know, whatever, like really? Kind of the attitude.
It was really, I'm excited that I got to meet him and talk to him. Yep. Yeah.
Really, really cool. But he did not win, correct? He took third. The guy that we we both like a lot ended up podium, podiuming third. We'd hoped that he would have gone further, but he still is in the running to to podium in the finals, which would be really cool. Now, his his girlfriend also races in that ex girlfriend.
Sure. Did they ever race? No, so she races in in the amateur like the one step down in pro spec.
So there's there's the pros and then right below that is prospects. That's why we go both days. So on Friday is pro spec. So you get to go see all the guys who are trying to make it. And they have like four women drivers in pro spec right now, which is awesome.
It is awesome. And then and then, you know, as they if they do really well in pro spec for a couple of years, they get invited to go join the pros or they what they do is they get their pro license. And then they can drive in the pro races, which would be a lot of fun. There's there's a driver in pro spec who is 13 who started driving when he was 11. That's insane. Yeah. And his whole family drives his older brother drives in pros.
His sister also drives in pro spec and he drives in pro spec. Unbelievable. Great time. Really good time. Good time at the smoke show at the smoke show.
Yeah, I guess so. There is there's an announcer. His name is Jared and he's been doing the announcing for a long time. He's a lot of fun to listen to. I want his job.
Ask him if you can have Jared. I want your job. I don't want to take his job. He does a phenomenal job. I just want that gig like that's a good gig. You travel around, you do announcing for shows.
You got a little, you know, GoPro YouTube channel thing going. You do interviews, you do some podcast things. It's a good gig.
It's a good gig. And he also does other stuff for different like he does Red Bull stuff. And he does like the they do a rally thing on that same track, whether they jump, they have a big gap where the cars jump over a gap every every year. They do that in October. That's a cool thing. And he announces that one as well. Anyway, it's a good gig. Ask him if you can have it. Jared, if you need a fill in, I got you.
I could do this gig. I'm just saying. If you're all right. Anyway, it was fun. And I look forward to next year and see what happens in the finals in a month or so. It'll be good.
Go team. Smoke show. I was told by a little kid. That I was annoying. Was I being annoying? Yes.
All right. But did I also just go on a treasure hunt with said little boy? Is this the treasure hunt I witnessed with the map? Yeah. That I saw being drawn?
Yeah. And the treasure that I saw? But what where did the treasure end up being?
Because I saw it was on an island and marked with an X. But we got lost at one point. Oh, that's an adventure. It was an adventure. We went on an adventure. Eventually.
Did you go inside and outside? Yes. Oh. It was a multi-part treasure hunt.
All right. And eventually the treasure was a bag of diamonds. Yes. I saw the big gems.
Huge ones. In the toy box. Oh. We found the treasure. Nice. And then we were building some stuff.
We were making a house. Yes. Out of some little magnet cube. Yeah.
They were like Minecraft blocks, but they were magnetic. And I kept trying to help even though he didn't want my help. Yeah. You kept wanting to put on the roof.
Yeah. Well, he said I could help with the roof, but I had to wait my turn and I kept trying to put the roof on before it was my turn. I see. And then he said, you're being annoying.
And I said, fair enough. It's just like three or four. Like you've annoyed a three or four year old.
I annoy a lot of people. I know I know that. But after the treasure hunt, after we got lost in the treasure hunt together.
Listen, I have gone on several adventures with you and had a great time and then been annoyed by you immediately after. What's that? Huh? What? Oh, I thought you said you were going to be annoying after this adventure. Yeah.
See, it's. Crushed. Oh, you'll be fine because you'll move on and do it again. It'll be fine. I will. You bounce right back. I have no fear.
And so does everybody around me. Yeah. You're annoying, but I kind of want to hang out with you again.
Maybe tomorrow. Yeah, I mean you're fine, but tone it down. I don't know how. Just take it easy. Just stop.
Right. Just quit. Stop being you. No, not stopping you.
Just stop doing the annoying thing that you're doing. All right. It was a good lesson. Was it? Yeah.
Did you learn it? Yeah. I think so. Temporarily. Yeah, until the next time. Well, you know, good job finding the treasure.
Thank you. I never saw where he had put it. Oh, we did. No, I know you found it, but did you see where he had put it?
No, not initially. I didn't even know when he put it there. I don't need that. Like you moved quick. Yeah. He had it. He's like, you want to go on a treasure hunt?
You want to make a map? Let's go. And then paper happened and I never saw the gems leave. I saw a map get made and then I saw you guys found the treasure. You didn't even see us get lost? No.
We got lost. Outside? Yeah.
Yeah, that happens. I was inside. He said, oh, we're lost. And I went, oh, no, what are we going to do? And he said, let's follow the map.
That's a good way to get un-lost. At one point I found some goggles and he said, oh, these are going to help us find the treasure. But then he didn't use them for very long, so they didn't help us find the treasure. Was that before or after you got lost? That was after we got lost.
This might have helped you. So in the beginning you wouldn't have gotten lost if you had the goggles. I tried to wear them to see if maybe I could help find the treasure, but he said, no, I wasn't allowed to wear them. Yeah, right. I think that was the point where he started to be annoyed by me. Real early on.
Yeah. Lesson learned, buddy. Lesson learned. We were taught a new game over the weekend called Mexican Train. Yeah, it's kind of like a Domino's game, but with a really fun kind of cool spin to it. Yeah, it was fun. I've never played that before. That was good. When I was being told the rules, there was a line in there that said, make sure you put the right Domino down.
And I said, oh, go. It seems pretty easy enough. Yeah. Guess how many times I put the wrong Domino down. Every game. Yeah. Yeah. I was just thinking, was it every game?
It was. Sometimes they look the same. Okay. So I was just looking at different sets because I'm sure this is a game that we probably want to get and play with other people and stuff. Yeah. It's a good time. It's fun.
They have other sets that actually have like the numbers written out. Oh, that's not any fun. You like playing when it's difficult? Yeah. All right. Here's the thing.
It wasn't even that difficult. There were just some that had one extra dot than the others. If they made them different colors.
They are. Some of them weren't so subtle. Every one of them was a different color.
They were different colors, but like some of them were like a gray and then some were a black. Yep. That's true.
It's absolutely true. It was fun. I liked playing it. I liked playing new games. It's been a while since we've learned a new game.
Yeah. That one was super easy and a lot of fun and neither of us won, but I did do better. But you were upset because I didn't play the first game. And so you're like, whatever. You had fewer points because you didn't even have a whole game that we played.
Yeah. I was probably would have done really well in the first two games. I was doing great. And then I went downhill from there. Saw that. But I didn't get last. Nope.
So high five. Did you get second to last? No. I think you're pretty middle of the pack with me.
I think so. And that's where I like to be. Middle of the pack. I would have preferred to have won, but middle of the pack is fine.
Well, everybody prefers to win. Anyway, it was fun when I put down the right domino. Yeah. When you were paying attention, that was always the other thing.
Every time the game stops, it's like, whose turn is it? Let's guess. Yeah, that happens. That's one of your bits. This one of my bits.
Not pay attention when we're playing a game. It's a bit. I'm so annoying. Just doing a bit. We're learning a lot about you today on the show.
It's pretty good. I'm a lot of fun. Anyway, no, that was fun. We haven't had a good board game playing in a long time. That was fun. Yeah.
Now we just got to get a copy of it and then find some people to play the game with. That's easy. There's four of us. Yeah. We could easily do it.
Sure. The kids don't even know the game yet. Exactly. So we could teach it to them. They'll put the right dominoes down for sure. And they'll call you out when you don't.
For sure. Anyway, what's it called? Mexican train dominoes. Yeah, fun. Fun game.
Highly recommend. Two dominoes up. Which ones? Different ones?
Same one? How about we do some, would you rather this or that? Sure.
Let's do it. Would you rather have a locker that won't open or a backpack that keeps ripping? And it keeps ripping.
I'm trying to think which part keeps ripping. Let's say one of the handles. One of the handles? Like one of the shoulder straps.
Okay. So you can't carry it fully, correct? I'm going to go with a locker that won't open. Why? Because then I can just carry on my stuff in my backpack. Easy. Yeah, I like that logic. Settle down.
You would pick the same one as me. No, it makes sense. It does make sense because my logic is sound. And solid.
I got solid logic. Yeah. No, I can't disagree. I think that's the better answer. So, I'm taking it as well.
Ooh, nice. Look at us. You picking the same one as me for a change.
Well, that's only because you went first and you picked the better of the two. I don't want a broken backpack strap all day. Forget about it. What good's a backpack if the straps are broken?
I just want to say it. Can't carry it at all. All right. Easy peasy.
Would you rather this or that? It's telephone Tuesday. What does that mean? Do you know what telephone Tuesday is? Is it on this day the telephone rang for the first time? No. On this day the telephone was invented? No.
On this day? Telephone Tuesday is a loose observation much like Black Friday. So, it's not like a real thing, but it's just kind of an observation.
Okay. It's a real thing. Where businesses get most phone calls. It is the top day for phone calls all year. And this is today? The Tuesday after Labor Day.
Yes. Why is everybody calling? Well, what they suspect is that everyone's back from a long weekend. The kids are back in school.
Okay. Adults are finally free to kind of tackle their to-do lists. So, it's kind of essentially when the world wakes up, but they're like, summer's over. Our routine is back in session. And they say, yeah, let's take care of some business today.
All right. That makes sense. So, they call offices, businesses. Everybody's going, let's make appointments. Let's get stuff done. Exactly. Exactly. Busy phone day.
Yes. Telephone Tuesday. So, who started this? Unsure.
Okay. The reason I'm asking this is because... Like, is it a phone company that was like, we noticed there was more traffic on these days? Oh, I don't know. I do not know. Apparently, does not have a specific founder. It is a marketing and advertising industry term first noticed by the advertising analytics firm, Marchex, to describe the surge in inbound calls that businesses receive on the Tuesday after Labor Day.
It's a busy time for phone calls due to summer ending school starting and approach to holidays. So, I said that. I said all of that. But it doesn't have a specific founder.
That's why I went, blah, blah, blah. A marketing and advertising industry term. Telephone Tuesday. There you go. Huh.
Well, and here's what's happened. This might change now because more and more businesses are using automated menus to direct people online. Oh, sure. Or like a lot of businesses will have, if you go to their website, they have chatbots.
Yeah. So, you can ask your questions in the chatbot. Or if you're like, my doctor's office, you can just text your appointment. You can text refills. Mm-hmm. You can do all of that. So, it's rare that you even have to call to talk to somebody anymore.
Right. Well, apparently, it has a lot to do with the holiday season. People are now officially in their heads going, all right, summer's over.
Yeah. And now we're going to think ahead about holidays and the end of year stuff. Here's our routine. And so, everybody's going, all right, let's get some things buttoned down. And that seems to be the reason is because everybody really just wants to kind of wrap up their year starting today. Interesting.
Mm-hmm. Well, if you work in customer service or you work in a business where you've got a phone, good luck to you. It's going to be busy. It's going to be busy. Or has potential to be busy anyway. It might not be busy.
It might not be. And if you're out there getting stuff done, good on you. Yeah, way to go.
Good for you. Let's wrap up this show today, huh? Okay, let's do it.
All right. Good to be back in the studio. We'll be back tomorrow. And it's already Wednesday. I know.
Bada-me. Woot, woot, woot. Four-day work week. Love it.
I agree. Let's make this a thing. Every week. Yep. Okay. Have a great rest of your day.
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