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S1 E316 Sep 25, 2025

September 25, 2025 | Wake Up Classy 97

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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Thursday, September 25th, 2025

Episode summary introduction:

Josh and Chantel kick things off with a heartwarming viral moment at a Green Day show, then dive into the good news story of Mr. Thomas—the beloved 81-year-old Walmart vet whose community changed his life. They celebrate National Daughters Day, debate the best one-hit (and two-hit!) wonders, and share hilarious reactions to the new “supergroup” on the block. Plus: a recap of the Spud Kings’ big win, dance cam mom moves vs. dad moves, generational flirting advice, Oktoberfest’s crazy Devil’s Wheel, and the world’s strangest tattoo red flag.

Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Good guys Green Day
(2:28) - Cheers to the day
(4:53) - Good News
(6:41) - New supergroup
(13:12) - Magic shows are for kids
(17:45) - Spud Kings game recap
(23:19) - Dance cam
(29:13) - One hit wonders
(35:01) - How to flirt
(40:17) - Fantasy Football
(43:51) - Background kids
(49:04) - Oktoberfest
(52:14) - Would You Rather
(55:37) - Tattoo red flag

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Full show transcript:

There was a mother and she took her 16 year old son to a Green Day concert. They actually went to Riot Fest.

Okay. And she went to the bathroom and was unable to locate her son upon her return. Her son had a sign that said, Hi, it's my 16th birthday. I'm autistic and Green Day is my special interest. Nice. Can I come on stage and sing Know Your Enemy?

Okay. So the mom gets out of the bathroom. She can't find her son and she says, I can't find my son.

I don't know where my son is. Meanwhile, Green Day is on stage going, Oh, hey, we're getting ready to sing a song. But I got a really bad chest cold. The front man, Billy Joe Armstrong says, I've got a chest cold. I'm a little bit sick. I need a volunteer.

I'm here. Who knows the lyrics to this song? And then they bring him out.

And then they bring him out. How cool is that? That's my son. I found my son. He's on stage.

That's so cool. His name is Argyle. And he, he had been waiting at the front of the stage all day and they pulled him up and said, come sing the song with us. And he did. And it was awesome. And mom and son are reunited. Yeah, that's pretty fun.

That's great. I was trying to see if I could find the video of it because I want to see that, but I don't see it right here. But I'm sure there's video of him on stage.

Of course there is because there's there's a bunch of that. When I saw Green Day and they've they've done this a lot and Blink 182 does it as well. There's several different bands I know that do this kind of thing. They'll bring a fan up on stage, have them be a part of the show, whether it's playing a part of a song or playing one of their, you know, more simple riffs or whatever. And then they end up giving that person a guitar, which is pretty fun.

That's great. And so Billy Joe does that and Tom DeLonge does that, which is it's always fun. That is I just think that encourages so much in the world of music. And I think it's great to see.

So well done. And it's very punk rock. Yeah, it is way to promote music so punk. That's super cool.

I like that stuff. So anyway, you want to start the show? Let's do it. Hello. Well, hello.

It doesn't matter. Just just that. It's just that it's just the the long sigh of of a slow morning behind people in traffic. Just the just the.

You know, where you're yeah, it's just all just all piles up and then you just go right. Here we go. Okay. You know, welcome. Welcome to Thursday.

Yeah. National Daughters Day is our daughter going to be expecting something. Oh, no, don't tell her. Okay. Good. Good. Good plan.

Good plan. She expects things every day. I know. Special treat. Can I have a treat? Can I have refreshment? I feel like we should go get a refreshment. I go, what day is it?

A birthday? No, no, I just deserve a fresh fresh. I had a test. I need a refreshment. Yeah.

Oh, okay. Cooking day as well today. Maybe we could have her cook.

That sounds like a great idea. Hey, daughter. Hey, daughter, get to work. Yeah. So we'll honor you the most.

You cook something. And I won't complain the whole time I'm meeting it. Exactly. How about that? I like it. That's a win.

One hit wonder day, which we're going to talk about this later on because we have got to talk about some one hit wonders. So let's work that into the show. Okay. For sure. For sure. For sure.

All right. And, you know, that's probably good enough for Thursday. But hey, it's kind of our Friday. I mean, it is our Friday because we won't be here tomorrow.

So today is our last show of the week. Yes. So that's fun. Hip hip hooray. Yeah. We got that to look forward to your hands on your hips.

Okay. Put your left hip out. Put your right hip out. And then throw your hands in the air. That's hip hip hooray. Hip hooray. Cute.

Good morning. In Yorktown, Virginia, there is a Walmart battle of Yorktown. This is just the story about the Yorktown, Virginia, where at a Walmart, a bunch of customers know Mr. Thomas. Oh, Mr. T. Mr. Thomas is an 81 year old Walmart receipt checker and Vietnam veteran. One shopper named Sandra recently struck up a conversation with Mr. Thomas and learned that he returned to work after spending his life savings caring for his ailing wife.

Even though he walks with a cane, he shows up, he helps customers in a friendly way while working long shifts. Well, Sandra was so moved by his story that she started an online fundraising campaign to help him. And she was hoping like, Hey, what if we could give him a thousand bucks?

Like, wouldn't that be something? Well, and donations quickly started pouring in and just two days, the fundraiser surpassed $17,000 more than 10,000 of that raised in the first 24 hours. That's incredible. So Sandra went back to Walmart to tell him the news. And he was overwhelmed with gratitude. Sandra said when I showed him what everyone had done for him, he was amazed at the outpouring of love. He said this was going to bless his life in ways we can't even imagine.

So unbelievable. Mr. Thomas, you're 81 years old, and you're out there doing what you're supposed to be doing, but you should be at home doing what you're supposed to be doing. And hopefully you can do that now. That's awesome. I think that's really, really great. So a way to go.

The community in Yorktown, Virginia. I like it. Way to go indeed. Some good news.

Good job, Mr. T. Are you sitting down? Quite literally. Yes. Big news this morning.

All right. That I just read. There's a new supergroup on the streets. A supergroup? A supergroup.

What's that mean? Oh, like a like a conglomeration of band mates from different groups. Okay.

Supergroup. Okay. Before go ahead.

Are you ready? You just said on the streets. On the streets. Like they're, yeah, they're on the, they're on the town.

They're in the streets. Yeah. We're called Howl Owl Howl.

Howl Owl Howl? Yeah. Well, is that what they're really called?

That's what they're really called. Okay. And who's in this supergroup on the streets? There is Mike Mills from REM. Okay. Blip the black crow's drummer, Steve Gorman. Okay.

And Darius Rucker from Hoody and the Blowfish. All right. Howl Owl Howl. There's got to be a better name. Not for this supergroup. It's not that catchy. It's terrible.

It's a terrible name. And also it wasn't Michael Stipe. No, I know. And Darius Rucker. I mean, Hoody and his own solo country career, I might add. Right. Okay.

I don't, yeah. And then the drummer from the black crow's. Supergroup on the streets. Coming to your town. Supergroup.

Hey, or new group. They describe their sound as. Oh, good. As owls. Roots rock.

All right. Hoot Owl Hoot Hoot. Is that what they're called? Yeah. Hoot.

No. Hoot Owl Hoot. Howl Owl Howl.

Hoot Owl Hoot. Okay. So Roots rock with an alternative flair. Flair.

All right. Their first single, My Cologne. My Cologne. It's going to drop on Halloween.

All right. And then they're going to go on tour. On Howl Owl. Oh, nice.

Howl Owl Halloween. Yeah. I'm looking at this band.

Yeah. Listen, I don't want to discredit any of these people. I'm sure they're fine musicians.

Darius Rucker says it feels great to be singing in a rock band again. It's like, but he's getting together. Did he, hold on. Did he think Hoody and the Blowfish was a rock band?

I think he did. Hold on. Look, I saw Hoody and the Blowfish in Tempe, Arizona. You did.

On New Year's Eve 2001. You did. I did. And they put on a good show. But are they really considered a rock band? Hoody and the Blowfish, according to Wikipedia, is an American rock band.

Look at that. Do you know they formed in 1986? No, I did not. Well, you do now. How about that? You know how you look at pictures of like, I don't know, I'm trying to think of like a picture of a, like a picture of the band, Bread?

No, no, I don't. And you go, wow, I bet they were kicking at one time. But now they just look a little bit old. I'm looking at this picture of this. Is it the one where Darius is leaning against the wall?

No. Oh, he's got like a brown jacket on. Okay, so there's him and the guy from R.E .M.

and the black cross drummer. And I'm just looking at them going like, Oh, no, guys, it look a little bit, look a little bit middle aged. The only picture Oh, I see where he's wearing the jacket here. Yeah. Look at look up the other picture where it's from the same day because they're wearing the same outfits. And Darius is leaned up against the wall.

So they did like promo. And he's got his hands in his pockets. And he's looking very nonchalant. And then yeah, I think he's like, Oh, I'm going to stand here and look in the other direction. Like he looks like he's snuck up behind the two guys taking a photo.

Like if you cover up the drummer, it's a nice couple's photo. I wonder, I wonder if he's going to be like, Oh, I'm going to stand here and look in the other direction. Like he I wonder if they're going to release anything good. Look, I'm not trying to give them all a bunch of grief, but that's pretty funny. Yeah, the touring starting November 3rd through the 15th Indianapolis, Chicago, Washington, D.C. New Jersey, Boston, Massachusetts, New York, Philadelphia, and then a couple of dates in Athens, Georgia.

So staying on that side of the country for now. But if howl, howl, howl is something that you might be into. And hey, listen, if you guys, like if you want to sound cool at school or in your office or wherever you're going, be like, Hey, have you guys heard of this new supergroup? Howl, howl, howl. Have you guys heard of howl, howl, howl? Did you just have a stroke? Like what happened to your voice when you said howl, howl, howl?

Howl, howl, howl. It's got to be a better name. No, it has to be. Not for this supergroup.

Group. I want to hear it. I'll give them, I'll give them a chance.

You'll give them a spin. Yeah. Huh?

Isn't that what the cool kids say? Sure thing. I'll give you a spin. And then you go fling with a button.

No one, no one's ever said that. There's a magic show tonight that I asked the family if they wanted to go to. Yeah. And I said, Yeah, go. And Beck said, No. And I said, Why? He said, Because I'm not eight years old. Well, no, I mean, he's right.

He's not, but I'm not either. And I was like, Let's go. Magic's awesome. Yeah.

No one else. What? Magic's awesome. That's what else. I mean, he's almost 21.

So like that checks out. But he used to be really into magic. He had a magic kit.

He would do performances for us. He also said that he was magic doubt because he'd seen one magic show this year and that was enough. Yeah, that's right. So he said, No, I don't need to see more magic quotas. Yeah, I've seen, I've already seen a magic show. So I don't need more. I used to perform magic shows. You did.

I've never seen any. And by perform magic shows, I mean, one time I performed a magic show. How old were you? And what kind of magic did you do?

Good kinds. It's like 12 or 13. And I set up chairs for my my parents and my grandparents came and sat in the backyard.

Big crowd on a show. Yeah. Yeah.

What'd you do? Magic. I don't know.

But what kind of magic? I don't even really remember. Was it Cartrex? I probably had some of that in there. I had I had a top hat. Did you pull a rabbit out of it?

Probably some scarves. Did you make yourself disappear? There's a picture of me doing the show. I have these really cool I have a tucked in white button up shirt.

I think a tie. Whoa, my top hat. But I am wearing ready. I'm ready denim shorts. But they are like two tone stripes, dark blue and light blue stripes vertical sick, bro.

That's what a magician wears. You see, I don't see but I will when I find that picture. It's around. I'm surprised you haven't seen I'm sure I have I just don't remember it. I remember it in vivid detail. I bet so. Well, here I have to pull out some of those magic tricks. I'd like to see them.

I have a practice. And those denim shorts, man. I wonder if they still fit. Well, I've got a pair of cutoffs. I could do some bleach work. Good. And I could make the stripes in them. I have those only to annoy our daughter and it works every single time.

Throw on those cutoffs. And she's like, no, immediately. No. And I go, I'm going outside.

No, you're not. Yep, going to the store. Go change.

She says, yeah, well, I should take her with me. Guess what I've never done. Magic, any kind of magic. Maybe that's your thing. Maybe that is my thing. Maybe I just try some magic.

There's so many things you haven't tried. What if sleight of hand is like your ultimate? What if that's like the thing that I'm really, really good at? That'd be awesome.

That would be awesome. What trick would I do? Oh, so many. All the tricks. Hmm. I gotta think about it. If you got accepted into the the council, the magic council, and got like, yeah, I got to go to the castle. Would you bring me? Because I would love to go.

Well, I don't know if you can take a plus one. Oh, it might just be for the magicians. I'd like to go. Probably not their guests. I'd really like to go to the place.

Yeah, I bet you would, but sorry. They only take real magicians. Doing magic since I was a kid. No, one show. How many shows have you done?

None. But when I do do one, it's going to be amazing. And they're going to be like, wow, come into the gathering. Man. Get it. There was a magic, the gathering, a different kind of magic club. We're done. We went to see the Spud games last night. The Spud games? Yeah. Is that what you're going to call it? Yeah, that's what I like to call it. Spud Kings and the Casper Warbirds.

Yeah. They were on the ice last night. Within the first 30 seconds of the game, Spud Kings were up 1-0. It was quite the action packed game. It really was. That was one of the funnest ones I've ever been to. It was super good. Lots of action on the ice. It was fun. Spud Kings pulled out the win 4-1, which was really good.

There was some aggression on the ice. Yeah, you're always in there for a good fight. I really am.

I really am. If it's played fairly, I will say that I was feeling kind of bad for the Casper. What are they called? Casper Warbirds? Yes. I was feeling kind of bad for them. And then, no sir.

No sir. Because there was a tussle between a warbird and a Spud King. And then when the warbird got up to stand up, he used the Spud King's head to kind of boost himself up. I saw that.

Push the Spud King's head into the ice. And you don't like that. And I don't like that. And so I went, well, now you're all dead to me.

You don't get to be mean to people. One moment of the game, you were like, you said out loud, like, oh man, I feel bad for these guys. You felt like they were underdogging it a little bit. And then that happened. And you immediately went, no, I felt bad for you, but not anymore.

No. Because you don't get to play dirty. I don't like that. Play a good fight. Play fair.

Play clean. You know what I'm saying? You know what I mean? I don't like that.

Play good, play clean. Somebody told the Casper Warbirds that now I'm mad at them. They know.

They should. They got the email that you were upset. I will say, we were trying to get to our seats or we were a little bit late. Well, only because we had to put away a table and some stuff like that.

Right. We were set up with some stuff and then we had to get some snacks. So we were a little bit late going to our seats. And they were right in the middle of the people.

Of a row, yes. And I don't like doing that. So I'm sorry to those people, but they were also kind of mad at us.

Well, yeah. Because I made them stand up so we could get to our seats. And then one lady said to me, hurry up, hurry up. And I go, just please settle down. The gentleman said to me, you're not supposed to be moving when the puck is moving.

And I said, no, I know. But there's nobody with the sign at the stairs. Like normally they have somebody there who says stop. And then once the puck is not in action, then they let you through.

But there were none of those people at the arena last night. Also. So I just figured I could do whatever I want. Right. And also, hey, guess what? It just started. It's true.

This was like, you know, they'd already scored one. Yeah, you're going to be okay. Right. I think there might be a safety thing there.

Because Oh, maybe. You know, we did in fact see an actual hockey stick leave the ice and flying to the crowd. Someone caught it, which I've never seen that happen before.

But that happened. I have never seen that before either. Yeah. So I imagine there might be a safety thing involved in that. Like, you know, because, because the puck could fly up. And if you were walking through and not paying attention, Fair.

You might take one to the dome. That's fair. But also, I'm apologized to those people, but also just settled down. I'm trying to get to my seat as quickly as possible. I promise. Yeah. No, I'm intentionally making you have to move so that you miss some of the action. Like, but we stayed in our seats the whole time.

Yeah. Were you nervous about it? Like, what if you had to use the restroom? Like, were you thinking I'm going to have to walk back past those people? No, because I, I really try to not.

Once I'm sat, I'm sat. Okay. I don't like to get up unless I'm on an aisle seat, because I don't like to push past people. I get that. At one point, you said you were going to bet me a dollar if I would eat the lady next to me, next to me had popcorn. You said you were going to give me a dollar if I had some of her popcorn.

Yeah. I said, I'll give you a buck if you just reach your hand in there and get some popcorn. I didn't, but I did, however, get her to let me hold the bag and take a picture with it. So, does that count? I do think it counts. So I'll give you a dollar.

Yeah. I'll give you a dollar for that. I got a dollar. I got a dollar. Hey, hey, hey. Congrats. Thanks.

I'm excited. You didn't. I got a dollar. Good game.

Good, good Spud games. Oh, working top fell on the ice. Oh, at one point. Crown fell off. That was kind of my favorite part. Not because they wanted them to be in pain or anything, but it was pretty funny to watch that. And then he tried to stand up and that was pretty funny. Well, he had to stand up. Poor King Kong. I like how the crown just kind of like rolled on the ice.

Like, oh no. It was pretty, pretty good moments. All right. Thanks for having us, Bud kinks. Good time.

Good game. We were at the Spud King's game last night and they did a section of, you know how they get the jumbo tron and they do like a mustache cam. Yeah.

And a kiss cam. Yeah. Yeah. And they did a mom moves. Oh, no, it was just the dance cam. Oh yeah.

It was just the dance cam. I thought it was just my kids weren't sitting next to us as we discussed yesterday. You told them they couldn't sit by us and you, you aren't, you can't. It's not what I said. It was, but that's fine. You're not sitting by us and it was a whole thing. So they were across the ice from us, but we could see them and they could see us and we were taking far away pictures of each other, which is always funny. And at one point the kids had during the dance cam, a lady, a couple of ladies who were doing their best to get on the dance cam and succeeded by the way.

Yeah, they did. And they were doing some serious dancing and Emory was like, whoa, these mom dance moves. I got to tell you, and then she delivered a one, two punch right to your gut. She always does, but this one was especially harsh.

They have worse, they have worse mom moves than mom. She said. Yeah.

And I went, Ouch. Yeah. But if you're thinking that these mom dance moves are bad, then you've got another thing coming. Were they pretty good? They were pretty good. Yeah. I mean, they were good enough to get on the screen.

They got on the video. She said, I wouldn't classify your moves as good. That's what else she told me. Whoa. I'm just saying that's rude. I'm just saying.

Mom moves are the best moves. All right. In fact, Bob Seeger wrote a song about it. Night moves. No, it's called mom moves. No.

Working on the mom moves. That's not it. Yeah, it is. No. I don't know what song you know. What is the, do you do the teapot one still?

Oh, I love the teapot one. With the hand on the hip and then you do the one finger. A finger point? Yeah. And you move your hips like a teapot? Yeah. Yep. That's a good one. And then you get like, sometimes you get like a shoulder shimmy.

I can't see you. Oh, it's just a shoulder. Like a.

Okay. Sometimes you can even like make your hands like a swimmy motion. Like a wave. Yeah. Like a feeling this feeling this vibe.

Okay. Feeling it flow. Feeling it. Nice. Okay. I see it.

I see it. Feeling it flow. Feeling it moves.

So, I mean, if you don't think those moves are good, I don't know what moves are good. Do you, do you ever throw in some, some disco, some like wavy down point up? Sometimes maybe. Okay.

Depends on the song. All right. What are dad moves? What moves you got?

Dad moves or rad moves. Let's see. Let's see what you know. Sometimes there's a shoulder shimmy. I think a, a probably start doing some of the umpire dance moves you like from Savannah bananas. I love that.

I think those are, those are dad moves. Okay. I can get behind that. Yeah. You were a little bit put off by the fact they were playing a pony from Genuine as the song for the, for the dance.

Right. You, you said, why this, why this song? That was not a family song choice I would have picked.

Okay. What about what song would you pick? Like, like, come on, ride the train. Yeah. And right, like that's a similar vibe.

Or party shuffle. Okay. I don't think that's, I don't think that's what's called, but all right. What it's called.

We'll go with it. It's party shuffle. I don't know what it's called. Party rock. Party rock. Party rock. Party rockin. But party shuffles fine. Party shuffle in the house tonight. You did ballroom. How are these your dance moves? Oh, did I ever tell you that I was good at ballroom?

Yeah. You won trophies. I won one trophy and I honestly think it was because I had a really good partner and my partner was really good.

Okay. But that means you had to be a good dancer too. It's not just one person's trophy.

And I will also add that the reason you didn't win more trophies is because after you won the one, the partner was traded out on you. Yeah. And that's not okay. That's bad coaching. She was a very bad coach. It's bad coaching. It was rude.

You guys had something going and you would have been even better and better and better. I know. Because that was probably the first time you were comfortable actually following. Yeah, because I had a hard time. Yeah. Right. Yeah, you're right.

And then she took that partner and gave him to her daughter. Oh, nepotism. Huh. Yeah. Yeah, it was. And then she stole all her money and ran away.

She really did. All right. Well, that went way off the rails.

But there you go. Party shuffle. It's National One Hit Wonder Day.

I wonder. I think that you should just play all one hit wonders all day. We play a lot. Like I'll go through the list that I pulled up here of some of the one hit wonders I know we play. Soft, Seltan of Love, Chumbawamba Tub Thumping. I think we play that maybe not.

Low Stylrio, Macarena, Dexys Midnight Runners. That's come on Eileen. Carly Rae Jepsen call me maybe. Let's see. The Buggles video killed the radio star, which by the way was the very first song they played on MTV.

Let's see. Remember that song from Baz Lerman that everybody's free to wear sunscreen song? Yeah, that was everybody's graduation theme.

That was yeah, 99. You play Return of the Mac by Mark Morrison. Simple Minds, don't you forget about me. Proclaimers, 500 miles. Norman Greenbombs, Spirit in the Sky, which you only know from a movie.

No, you know that song. Play that funky music from Wild Cherry. Tommy Tutone. What's the song from Tommy Tutone?

You just said. What's the song? Play that funky music. No, that one's from Wild Cherry. Oh. What's the song from Tommy Tutone? Tommy Tutone is, give me a hint.

8-6-7-5-3-0-9. Oh yeah. That's the name of the song. Jenny. Jenny, Jenny, who can I turn to? That's right.

My Charona from the Knack. It's kind of sad, honestly. Here's the other part though. These people have one hit, but what if you're a star and maybe you have two or three hits? Okay. Like, you haven't really made it huge like some of these others. Let's look up.

What's a two hit wonder? Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. A two hit wonder.

So, A-Ha Take On Me is the one hit. They also have, The Sun Always Shines on TV. No one's heard. No one knows that song. They're a one hit.

They're not a two hit. Rembrandt's, I'll Be There For You, the song from Friends. And they also have a song called Just The Way It Is, Baby. No. Which no one's heard. But they're calling them that. Okay.

Wild Thing from Tone Locke. Also, No. Yes. Funky Cold Medina.

Oh, okay. So that's a two hit wonder. Good job Tone Locke. You got two hits. Okay.

Katie Tunstall, Two Hit Wonder, Black Horse in the Cherry Tree and Suddenly I See. Oh yeah. Good job.

You did too. Spin Doctors, Two Princes and, I know this one. Little Miss Can't Be Wrong. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Which I would argue is better than Two Princes. You think Little Miss Can't Be Wrong is better than Two Princes? I do. Interesting.

Men Without Hats, they had The Safety Dance and a song called Pop Goes The World. No. No one knows that one. Sorry.

Okay. Men Without Hats, you get the one. You only get the one.

You get to move back into your one hit category. Next. Let's see. I'm looking.

I'm looking. Blues Traveler, Run Around and Hook. Yeah. They get two. Good job Blues Travelers. You made it to two.

Okay. It's like they graduated a little bit. Golden Earring. What? Yeah, they had that song Radar Love. Oh yeah. And they also have a song called Twilight Zone. No.

Yes, they do. Two hit wonder. Twilight Zone. That one?

Let's just see if you can sing a different one. What? What different one? I don't know. What else?

What else would Twilight Zone be if it wasn't that one? I see what you're saying. Just keep making up stuff. I like it. What are the words of that song? I think you're doing great. Twilight Zone. Seven and a half. Seven and a half.

You're doing great. Somebody said the Beatles are a two hit wonder. Oh no. Yeah. And then a bunch of people got mad at that person. I bet so.

And you know that person only said it to get a rise out of people. What about three hit wonders? Do you have any of those? Now you're getting crazy. Now you're just talking about hit makers. A three hit wonder. Oh, they're saying Mr. Mr. was a three hit wonder. Yeah. Broken wings and Kiri and is it love?

Oh, Mr. Mr. A lot of people when you look up three hit wonders, they're like, this is so arbitrary. What are you doing? Why? Because if you have three hits, you've kind of done something. Yeah, but you haven't really made it. Three hits is three hits. That's not a lot. It's more than me for sure. It's more than one or two.

Deep purple. They are saying is the three hit smoke on the water. Correct. Hush.

Yeah. Kentucky woman. What's Kentucky woman? Let's hear it. I don't know. Make it up. Twilight zone. No, I was not making up Twilight zone.

I knew that one. Well, make up Kentucky woman. Kentucky woman.

That's it. Mama Latterby. No, that's American woman. You've messed up.

Is Kentucky not in America? Same. But you, it wasn't that. Same.

No, it's not. What's your best flirting advice? Flirting.

Yeah. Like if somebody said to you like, say our kids come to you and they're like, dad, they're never going to do this. But just imagine that they come to you and they go, dad, I don't know how to flirt. What's your best flirting advice? How did you flirt, dad?

Dad, tell me how you flirted back in your day. I have one bit of advice for anybody who's trying to, to get into a relationship with somebody. And it's don't try so hard. Like don't try so hard. I had a roommate in Arizona who was like really interested in this, in this lady and he was like really like laying it on thick and I went, you got to stop. You're doing too much. Reel it back dude. Like, and then, you know.

Yeah, but if you're too laid back, too aloof then. Right. But it was a lot. Yeah, people don't like it when you come on too strong. You got to like, be cool. Yeah, be cool. Like settle down. I know it's an exciting time, but calm yourself.

Tell your inner, inner whatever to just be quiet for a minute. Somebody for the writer for the huff post. Oh, okay. Asked people from all generations what their best advice in flirting was. Yeah.

And the boomers said the most like they kind of took a little bit of everything from. Excuse me. A cough on her. That's the answer.

It's cough on her. Be yourself and be respectful. Okay.

Big time. Good advice. Jan X said be funny, interesting and interested.

Yeah, I would agree with that too. And again, but don't try so hard. Don't try to be funny.

Do you see what I'm saying? Like just be yourself. Just be yourself. The millennial said be friendly and witty. Okay. And Gen Z said be complimentary, cheeky and authentic. Okay.

Good. I can find some similar threads in each generation here, but again, it's about be in yourself, be authentic, be real. Don't make up a bunch of stuff. Not so serious.

Just be yourself, have fun. Right. Chill out. Right. Easier said than done, right?

Of course. But also calm down. Calm down.

It's going to be okay. I was thinking about like my flirting days. One, I didn't ever know how to do it. I never knew how to flirt. And then I never knew when somebody was flirting with me. And then I'd be like, after they would walk away, I'd sit there with my own thoughts going, are they flirting with me? No, they couldn't possibly have been. And then later, like weeks and weeks later, somebody would say, yeah, they were flirting with you.

And I'd be like, hmm, didn't know that opportunity. So maybe try a little bit harder when you're trying to convince Chantel. That's a good note for me. What you really need to do. I need to try harder.

Hey, I'm flirting with you. Just lay it out there at the beginning. Be real blatant. I'm going to flirt with you. Are you ready? Here it comes. That's funny.

And maybe some people need that. You're not alone. There are other people that can't read the signs. I can read the signs, but I'm also like, can you?

No, I can't. I mean, I know that there's some flirting happening, but then I go, no, maybe they're just being nice. Maybe it's not flirting.

It's just politeness. You could ask. I could. Are you flirting?

I mean, you know, again, we're talking about the past here. Like when I'm flirting, it's, it's gross. Like it's like, Hey, what's up? And you're like, are you flirting? I'm like, yeah. Cause I don't try hard, right? Nowadays.

Cause I live in my own advice. I don't try hard. So my flirting is, is like, Hey, I don't even know the last time you flirted with me, Josh.

Oh no. You should probably try a little harder. That's what I'm saying. Cause Hey, how was work? It's not doing it.

No, that's not, that's not it. Bring a little bit more to the game. Hey, what's for dinner? Is that it? Is that a good one? No. You did say this morning as I was leaving.

Yeah, you're looking cute. You did say that. Yeah. Was that flirting? Probably.

Did I say it? Did you feel like it was flirting? I was a nice compliment. It didn't feel flirty, but I went, Oh, it made me feel nice. Flirting.

What it looks like now. You look cute. I like that. What you're wearing. Well done outfit. Well, go about your day.

Flirt. I am projected to win. It's you and me. Baby. Listen up.

Projected means nothing. Mono E mono. No. How much are you projected to win? 52%. No, I know it says numbers. Give me numbers.

52%. No, I don't know it. I've, there's a lot of numbers. I don't know what it'll show you the points.

Oh, okay. Projected points. I'm one 20 year one 17. That's three points. That is not that much different. It's still something, isn't it?

I mean, I guess. Still more. If I have three more dollars than you, I still have three more dollars than you.

Yeah. You already owe me a dollar. So you can't have three more dollars than me. Cause you owe me a dollar. What do I owe you a dollar for? For popcorn. Oh, yeah.

Listen. I changed my name of my team to the year of the cat. And, and then I put, what's his name? Al Stewart as the team logo. Yeah.

Cause his hair looks kind of like a helmet. Yeah, it does. Cause kind of, I don't like that song. Right. And you know, I don't like that song.

And that's why I named my team that so that when you lose to the year of the cat, guess what song I'm playing as a victory song. Oh, really? Yes.

Well, maybe I'm going to change mine too. To what? Give it away. Give it away.

Give it away. That song's awful. Yeah, I know.

Ugh. There are a lot of great Red Hot Chili Pepper songs that ain't one of them. Well, maybe that's going to be my team name this week. And then that's what I'll blast or the distance by cake. You also hate that one.

Yeah. Way better songs from cake. Listen, so the year of the cat is, is a great song. No, it is not a great song.

You are not saying that honestly. It is also the name of my team for this week against you. Looks like you've got a questionable player. Yeah.

I want to check that out. That means nothing. It means nothing.

I had to take one of my guys out because he's doubtful. Okay. That's, that means something. Does it?

Yeah. See, I have Josh Jacobs and he has an ankle injury, but he practiced on Wednesday. It's fine.

He's going to start. It's all good. Okay. It's fine.

It is going to be fine. Do I have anybody playing tonight? The answer is no. Me neither. I don't have a single person on my roster playing tonight.

Me neither. So, what? Is Xavier worthy back? Oh man. Back after being taken out by his own guy?

Yes. What, what a dumb team that is, huh? What? Well, we might be making a change here anyway. Oh, funny.

We'll just have to see what happens. Anyway. Anyway. I digress.

Good luck to you too. Well, I don't know. The year of the cat. Give it away, give it away, give it away now. Give it away, give it away, give it away now. That's enough. That's what you're going to be doing to me. You're going to be giving away all your points to me. Give it away, give it away, give it away now.

You're done. You're giving away the win to me. I'm not.

I get what you're saying, but it's not happening. Yeah. I was reading. What was that? Sorry. Settle down.

Leave some air for the rest of us. I was reading a thing that said this woman that was talking about her daughter mostly and she said, I have a background kid. And she said this, this child, these background kids are the ones who always follow directions. They aren't shouting out all the time.

They're fine with not having the spotlight. And she said, I've got kids who are like me, me, me, me, me, me. And she goes, and I have kids who just are kind of these, what she calls background kids. And it's these kids that are like, yeah, I'm, I just quietly do my thing.

I do what I'm asked to do. And I feel like you and I both have like our kids are background kids. Yeah. And I like that. I like the me, me, me kids too.

Like, don't get me wrong, but I, I like this. I don't, I don't know if I love the terminology of it, but our kids are very much quote unquote background kids. I would say they just quietly go to school. They do what they need to do. They don't draw attention to themselves. They just quietly do what needs to be done. And I don't think that means that they don't lead extraordinary lives by any means.

They just aren't, you know, that type of extrovert. Right. Correct. That's all I have to say about it. That's all I have to say about it too. Yeah. I think it's an interesting thing.

I just haven't heard anything about that before. I agree with you. I don't like the terminology. Right. Background kid sounds harsh. It sounds negative. Yeah.

And I don't think that being less introverted makes you less of a, of a person by any means, or less extroverted. Excuse me. You and I are both, I would consider myself a background kid also. I'm a background adult where I just like, no, I'm fine. I don't need to be in front. I don't need to take a leadership role. I'm happy.

I'm totally happy just being here. But in order to be a leader, you got to have people lead. And if you're a good follower and a good supporter of leadership, that's just as important. Same. I am. No, I'm not.

No, not same. I was talking about you. Right. I know I was agreeing. Yeah. I meant to say agreed.

Right. Not same. Same. Same idea. Yeah. Like I don't mind leading.

It's fine. Like if I, if I'm in a position where I, I feel confident enough to lead, I'm fine with it. I don't have, I don't have an issue. That's, that's okay. I can deal with that.

But I think there are people that are like, no way. Like I don't want the responsibility. I don't want the title. I don't want anything to do with it.

I don't want people to rely on me for that kind of stuff. And they're like, but I'm happy to be a part of the team. Yeah. That's me.

That is absolutely 100% me. Got you. I don't, as little responsibility as possible as my motto. It doesn't mean you're going to have less responsibility.

You may have more than the leader because the leader is, is tasked with managing the people and making sure the task is on task. Okay. That's fair. The person doing the work may be doing more work than the leader because the leader is over the whole team.

So it's different. And that's, I like, that's what happens in careers. People, you know, I've been in radio for like 25 years.

I've done a lot of different things in radio. It doesn't mean that I'm not learning every day. It doesn't mean that I'm not challenging myself. It doesn't mean that I know everything by any means, but I, I've been around and I know enough and there are new younger people entering the field and entering into this industry that I could say, Hey, let me guide you and help you with things as a, as a leader position.

And that's could be more beneficial to the team than me doing the work sometimes. If that makes sense. Yeah.

No, that does make sense. But it's hard to make that transition because as a person who can move through it quickly and knows how to do it, you've got to be able to go, I'm going to let somebody struggle through this process so they can learn it as well. And that's hard. That's hard.

Or I'm like, I could just have this done four days ago. But here we go. But that's being apparent, isn't it? It's, it's everything. Yeah.

To background people. Yeah. Interesting concept. Yeah. I don't like the term, but here's to background people.

Yeah. We support you. We see you. You exist.

I'm standing next to you. What are you shaking? A Maraca? A quiet one.

A quiet Maraca. Because I don't want to draw attention to myself. Very good. It's a gourd.

You're shaking a gourd. Good job. Cheers.

Our daughter is in a German class and her teacher has been telling her about Oktoberfest. Yeah. And she came home the other day and she goes, that sounds like a lot of fun. It's a party. It's a party.

It's like a lot of fun. And then you started talking about the Devil's Wheel. Yes. The Devil's Wheel.

That's a fun thing. Do you think that you could do this? Do I think I could, I could survive on the Devil's Wheel? Yeah.

How many other people are on the wheel with me? Okay. Time out. So let's do a quick.

Okay. So this is a floor. It's a platform thinking like the Hamilton stage, but it turns faster. And it spins. It rotates.

And then at the same time it's rotating. Spectators are, you know, or people that work there or whatever are trying to do everything they can to get you to fly off of the rotating wheel like the Gravitron. So they throw ropes to try and pull you or they have like a big pendulum. It's a big, like big pillow, medicine ball type thing hanging from the ceiling that they can then throw and try and knock you off of the axis so that you fly out of the center.

And it starts slow and then it speeds up. That's right. Right? As it goes. Yep. I'm watching this currently.

This is from 2023, I think. Okay. There's nobody, it's just people on the wheel. There's nobody trying to throw things at them. It takes a little bit of time. So they, like, cause once they start getting up to speed, people start sliding off. Yeah. And they start with like 20 or 25 people or something.

It's a lot of people, maybe not quite that many, but quite a few. I don't think you would do this because you don't like spinning things. I don't. You get sick on spinning things. You're right, I don't.

So you wouldn't do this. See, now I've got people flying off already. Cause I'm watching one as well. People are sliding every which way. Yeah.

So it'll get down to where there will be like three or four people in the center and that's when it gets real interesting. This is like, it looks like it make you sick. It does look like it make you really sick. It doesn't look like it's going that fast, but really people are flying off of that thing.

But you can see, I don't know which video you're watching, but you can see all the ropes and stuff over on the edge and they'll start like throwing those out to catch people. It's a good time. Oh, there goes the ball. Yeah. The big medicine ball.

That thing's crazy. Smack that person right in the head. Oh, I don't want to play that game. You don't?

No. I think it looks cool. Devil's Wheel.

It's a terrible name. Yeah. That thing just bops people right in the face and then do you see them throwing the ropes yet or no?

Yeah, I did. See, that's how it works. And then I don't even know what you win. Is there a trophy? No, you just get to say I won. Yeah.

I won the Devil's Wheel. Interesting. Huh. Well, Oktoberfest and that. And that. Hey, would you rather this or that?

Sure thing, pal. Would you rather sneeze pumpkin seeds or cough up candy corn? What? How often? And like whenever.

Whenever? So just normal amounts of sneeze but every time I sneeze pumpkin seeds come out? Correct. Papitas.

Oh, I love papitas. Not from my sneeze. Not from your nose.

Papitas sneeze. I don't think you want that. I'm going to cough up the candy corn. Interesting. Why? I don't want pumpkin seeds coming out of my nose. But also, candy corn, mouth full of candy corn.

Yeah. And then you just throw it away. You just have to remember to get it. Keep in the pumpkin seeds either.

What do you mean? And then you just throw it away. Yes, same as a sneeze.

And then you just throw it away. Do they come up with the force of the cough? Yes.

And the force of the sneeze? Yes. So like if I go, ha-cha! Like I do, pumpkin seeds are going to go, plaa!

Yep. How many? A handful. Of each? Yes. Hmm. It's tough.

I know. That's why I'm going candy corn. I'm going to tell you why I'm not going candy corn. Why? And why I'm going pumpkin seed. I sneeze, and when I sneeze, I sneeze quite a few sneezes.

Yeah. And I probably, how many sneezes would you say I do in a month? In a month? Yeah. Like, not individual.

Like how many times do I have a sneezing fit in a month? Maybe twice. No. No way. Yeah, way. No way. Yeah, way.

I'd say at least twice a week. No way. Yeah, way.

No way. If it was twice a week, I wouldn't be picking it. It's not that, it's not that awful. Yes, it is. No way. No way. I'm going to start.

But here's the deal. If I get sick and I have a cough, uncontrollable, and then I got to deal with candy corn and I'm sick with a cough, a sneeze happens whether you're feeling good or not. A cough, usually you're not feeling good. And I don't want to have to be dealing with mouthful of candy corn every time I cough when I'm not feeling good. So I'm taking the sneeze. Okay. Good for you.

Twice a month. No way, dude. Yeah, way. Oh, way.

Yeah, way. Just this week, you've had like three sneezing fits. One fit. Uh-uh.

Uh-uh. We're going to start counting. Okay, starting when? Starting today. All right, so far zero. I'm going to, seriously though, you have to start counting.

When you have a sneezing fit, mark it down, write down the date and the time. Why? Because this is research. Just to prove a thing? To prove that I'm right, yes. That it's more than twice a month? Yes.

I know it's not twice a week. Bro. Bro. We're going to find out, aren't we? Bro. I guess so. Why did you choose candy corn cough?

Because I don't want seeds coming out of my nose. Got it. Would you rather this or that? All right, before we go, I'm going to share a weird story with you. There's a guy who posted online that his fiancee surprised him by getting a tattoo. Okay, of? His deceased brother. Okay. He is still grieving the loss of his older brother who died in a motorcycle accident three years ago.

Out of the blue, his fiancee, who only met his brother a few times, decided to surprise him with a large realistic tattoo of the brother's face on her upper arm. Okay. Why is what?

I don't understand. These two are engaged. She'd only met him a few times. She got a full on portrait tattoo of the brother. Yeah. Of his deceased brother on her arm.

Okay. The brother's nickname was Snoopy. So there's a small Snoopy icon as well.

And his birth and death dates underneath the portrait. And she had never met the brother. She'd only met him a few times.

Okay. Instead of feeling touched, the guy has kind of creeped out. Yeah, it's a little strange. He tried gently to tell her the tattoo made him uncomfortable. She got defensive and accused him of being weird and ungrateful.

Oh, no. And now the relationship is strained. He's questioning everything. No. It's a whole thing.

It is a whole thing. And I'm sure she was just trying to do something nice, I guess. I understand you are trying to do something nice, but typically, I don't know, if you've only met him a couple of times. That's a weird thing. But also, like maybe you should have consulted him first. Yeah. But it also would be different if he did it.

Right. Like it's his brother. It's his brother.

It's weird that the fiance got a tattoo of his deceased brother. Yeah. That's strange. It is very strange.

Yep. Like maybe if you said, hey, let's go get a tattoo to commemorate him. I want to do that with you.

And went and did a thing, you know, just say, hey, we recognize, you know, or maybe I'll get a little tattoo and you get something to remember your brother. Like that's something different. Uh-huh. But no, this is a weird one. Yeah, that's strange.

A full-on portrait of his face. Yeah. Yeah, that's strange. It's a weird choice.

Because it's there forever. And then if this relationship falls apart because of this decision, and then you got for the rest of your life, you have this story where people go like, who's that? And you go, oh, my ex-fiancé's deceased brother. That I only met a couple of times. Twice. And what if the brother who passed away didn't even like the fiancé?

Right. What if he was like, oh, that's the wrong choice for my brother? And she was like, no, I got your face on my arm.

Yeah, dude, right choice. That's a little crazy. That's a crazy one. Yeah, that's odd. It's an odd one. It is weird.

Would you say it's a red flag? Yes. You would. Yes.

You'd say that's crazy. Yes. All right. Well, we're going to wrap up the show on that note. I hope you enjoyed.

I did. We will be back in the studio live on Monday. We won't be here tomorrow, but we will be back and we'll have all the usual jovial fun. Yeah, we will. Make sure you follow us on socials at Classy97KLCE. We're on YouTube. You can watch our Wicked Trailer Review.

It's pretty wicked awesome. Reaction, I guess. Not review. We aren't like, ah, that is a six out of 10. We don't do that. But I did do.

I would give it a 10 out of 10. Yeah, we didn't watch it again on the big screen yet. So we're going to have to do that. But anyway, you can check out our reaction video to the new Wicked Final Trailer. It's a very good trailer. It is good. And I can't wait for the movie.

And that is going to do it for us. So have a great rest of the day. Have a good weekend. And we'll see you back here on Monday.

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