Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Monday, April 7th, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
Hey hey hey it’s Josh & Chantel, when’s the last time you wrote a handwritten letter, it’s mulch week & the season of smells, ‘preesh, we sat through a Minecraft Movie, the girls measured all the things in the hardware store, our daughter says Chantel can’t watch the movie until she finishes the book, we love Love on the Spectrum, Josh wears grandpa socks, Chantel’s dancing is too much, and we’ve got an Easter dyeing hack to save you money.
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Intro
(1:52) - Hey, hey, hey... it's Josh & Chantel
(4:12) - Handwritten letters
(7:49) - Good News to Get You Going
(9:50) - Mulch week and the season of smells
(13:11) - 'Preesh
(16:00) - A Minecraft Movie
(21:21) - The girls measured the hardware store
(26:23) - You can't watch the movie until you finish the book
(30:36) - We love 'Love on the Spectrum'
(33:56) - Josh wears grandpa socks
(38:06) - Chantel's dance moves are too much
(43:17) - The Frontier Center renovations start today
(46:53) - Would You Rather This or That
(49:34) - Easter marshmallows + outro
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Full show transcript:
Oh, hey over there. Oh, hey. Howdy. Hi. Hello over there.
Hey. Hello. Hey. Hey. It's Monday, April 7.
Hey. Hey. Hey. It's Josh and Chantel. Yes.
It is. Good morning. Hey. When was the last time you wrote a handwritten letter? High school.
Yeah. You could write me a love letter. That I wouldn't mind. Really? Yeah.
Just l and then a couple weeks later, o. That's a love letter. See? It's mulch week and the season of smells. You don't like my idea.
That's fine. Just move on. I am just gonna move on. Fine. Happy mulch week.
Preesh. No. More like this. Preeesh. Preeesh.
Preeesh. Yeah. We'll explain that. We sat through the Minecraft movie. They call it a Minecraft movie.
A Minecraft. That's right. Interesting. Uh-huh. Meaning there's gonna be a sequel?
Perhaps. More than likely. What will the second one be called? Another Minecraft movie? Chicken jockey.
Chicken jockey. The girls measured all the things in the hardware store. Yeah. I'm just trying to shop, and these two, yay hoos. Come on.
Our daughter says I can't watch the movie until I finish the book. That's just the rules. I guess so. We love Love on the Spectrum. So good.
So good. Josh wears grandpa socks. So good. And my my dancing is too much. Yeah.
According to our 15 year old, you do you're doing too much. And we've got an Easter dying hack to save you money. Just in time for Easter. Boop boop. Yeah.
And we are Josh and Chantel. This is wake up classy 97, the podcast, episode two zero six. Enjoy today's show. Yeah. Yeah.
Oh, hi. Oh, hey. Hey. Hey. That's, that's a fat Albert, isn't it?
It is fat Albert. Yes. It is. Well done. Here's the thing.
I never plan what I'm gonna say when we open this. It just just words just come out. Is that right? Sometimes I'm a quartet from the barbershop. Sometimes I'm Fat Albert.
Sometimes. Here's the other part about this is that, we've been asked before, how do you guys, prepare? What kind of like, do you rehearse? Do you talk about what you're gonna talk about and then go on air? Do you do you practice?
No. Come on. It doesn't sound like I rehearse any of this. No. Guys.
Wouldn't that be something? If this if this entire conversation was pre planned and I okay. You're gonna open with the Fat Albert thing, and then we're gonna talk about it so that people think it's not It's good. The people think it's not improv you know, improvised. It's all written down.
We're reading from a script. We're that good. You're gonna open with the Fat Albert thing. Yeah. Hey.
Hey. Hey. Hey there. There she is. Look at her go.
Well, hey. Good morning. The weekend has come and gone. I know. Always sad.
And yeah. And at the same time, I finished some projects. I started some things, that are not finished. I've got, a lot still in my mind that I didn't get accomplished, and and that's kind of the way it's gonna be forever, I think. I was thinking about that yesterday as I was working on some house projects going, Kyle, are we ever gonna be finished with projects?
No. No. Because you finish something, and then you're gonna go, oh, yeah. I meant to get to that a hundred years ago. Or something will break, and you'll have that project, or styles will change, and you'll need to renovate and you know?
Yeah. I do. I do. Projects. Well, hey.
It's Josh and Chantel. We are in the studio. Good morning. Hey. How are you?
Hey. Hi. How are you doing? Happy Monday. Let's get back to this week.
Oh, boy. Let's get to it. Alright. Josh, when was the last time you've handwritten a letter? Oh, wow.
I'm trying to think. It's been it's been quite a while, I imagine. A hot minute. Yeah. I was thinking about this because I just read a thing that said 20% of Gen Z ers have never written a handwritten letter.
I was thinking of all the notes I wrote to my friends in high school. Oh, yeah. That was that was constant, but we didn't have texting. So I imagine texting would have been a lot easier than, writing out a note and then folding it into a triangle and passing it to somebody in a hall. A triangle.
Something more complicated than a triangle. We had all kinds of fancy things. I was real basic. You were getting triangles from me. Have you ever been getting notes?
You could tuck the little tail in, and then you said pull, and then you could pull the little thing out and open your little letter. But you had to sneak it from your teacher. Yeah. I'm pretty sure I just made triangles. Boring.
Well, you know, like the little football triangle. That was it. That was it. That's all I ever did. That's fine.
Your note can survive in there. And then this made me think of the one time that I got a letter. There was a boy that I liked named Tyler in high school, and he sent me a letter. Okay. And it had cologne on it.
Oh. And then I was pretty stoked. And then, like, three days later, I was like, this is fake. And I was heartbroken. Was it fake?
Yeah. It was totally fake. I don't know. I really don't know whoever sent it, but it certainly was not him. Somebody playing a joke.
I really like you. It wasn't even a think that's rude. It wasn't even a funny joke. That's not even funny. No.
Somebody was pranking you. Yeah. Lamb. Rude. So that's Well yeah.
That's immediately where I went to when I read the story about handwritten letters. Did you ever have a notebook you passed back and forth between people? No. I had that. That that seemed to be a little more efficient.
You didn't have to find loose leaf paper Okay. And write it and fold it. You just had a notebook, and then you would write your thing, and then you would pass it to the other person. They would write their thing and pass it back, and you could just yeah. That seems easier than passing a note, actually, because a teacher's not gonna suspect.
Here's your notebook. Yeah. Thanks for letting me borrow your notes. Genius. Genius.
That is pretty smart. Yeah. Was that your idea? I couldn't tell you. Or her idea.
Probably not my idea. It was you and a girl, wasn't it? Yeah. Cute. Super cute.
I was just thinking. You know what's cute? Passing a notebook. So cute. You've never passed a notebook with me.
No. You've also have phones now. Never written me a letter with your cologne on it. Because no one does that. I I know that now.
It's not war times. What? Send a mail with perfume on it. Oh, smells like home. Oh.
It's not war times. You see? I do. I see now. Right.
You've educated me. I kinda wanna write a letter. Well, then write a letter. Let's write a letter. To who?
Each other. Oh, can I just tell you instead? It sounds so much faster. I know, but then I'll always have a letter forever. Forever.
Okay. How about some good news to get you going? This story is, from New Jersey. It's about Nihal Tamanna Okay. A 15 year old from Monroe, New Jersey who's made a pretty remarkable impact on the environment by recycling over 625,000 batteries, through his nonprofit group called Recycle My Battery.
Oh, nice. So he's 15. He started this, about five years ago when he was 10. He was inspired by the dangers of batteries in landfills and decided to take action. So his results have resulted in over 1,000 battery bins being placed around the community in schools, libraries, and business is making recycling accessible to a lot more people.
So the and they're advertised as got old batteries? Dump them here. We'll take care of it. And his efforts have even impacted people around the world, as he now has partnerships in Germany and Australia as well. So he's gone global.
He's 15. Wow, buddy. I know. Pretty amazing. Right?
While still collecting and recycling batteries, he's now working on a project to extract leftover energy from used batteries to what are called power recycling plants, where they can drain the batteries and put them into potentially other batteries or whatever they can and then throw away the dead ones, or recycle the dead ones. He has a thousand youth volunteers working with the Recycle My Battery nonprofit, which is incredible. This is wild. Yeah. It is.
His mission is to educate the public about the harmful effects of just throwing batteries in the trash. He said, if I can make the earth a better place to live, you can. And if you can, we all can. Oh. I think that's really cool.
Good job. Yeah. Nehal Tamana, fifteen years old from New Jersey, making huge impacts on the world. So really cool. I know.
I like it. It's good news to get you going. It's mulch week, in case you didn't know. Is it still mulch week? Did mulch week just start?
Did mulch week just end? I'll tell you, as a guy who happened to wander through the aisles of the store and found out it was mulch week, I was a pretty happy guy. Mulch week is pretty great deal. Because we usually buy bags of mulch, the beginning of the year, and they were on sale. And I don't know.
Of the season? Yeah. Yeah. At the beginning of spring and get the yard ready. And when you plant flowers in May, the beds are good.
Anyway, I saw mulch on sale, and then I noticed that the sign said it's mulch week. And I went, that's a name. I didn't even know mulch week was a thing, but I'm pretty stoked about it because, yeah, it was on a really good sale. It was, I mean, half price. So we got bags of mulch.
That's right. On mulch week. Also, I was thinking as I was walking through the store Yeah. I was like, this is the season of smells. Like, this is Mhmm.
I love I love spring. I like hearing the birds. I like seeing the spring flowers. I dig it. But, also, the smells of mulch, the smells of dirt Mhmm.
The smells of freshly cut grass, like, all of the smells. May trees when they start to move stuff's gonna be gonna be popping. We've got a couple of trees in the neighborhood that already have some leaves growing. Ours takes a while to get a minute. But boy does it grow some leaves when it does.
Holy cow. But anyway, that's, yeah, that's all happening. That's exciting times. Fertilizer smell. Not my favorite.
No. You're allergic to fertilizer. Don't smell it. Well, I haven't it hasn't really affected me walking down the aisle. I don't know if there was maybe a product that isn't around anymore maybe, but I sure do know that, like, walking down that aisle as a kid was a bad time and into my twenties.
And it would make you, like, your throat close, didn't it? Terrible. I would sneeze. I would hack. I would yeah.
It was bad. But it that hasn't happened, and I've gone down fertilizer aisles since then. They say your allergies change every seven years. Yeah. They do say that.
They do. But that's a possibility. Know. But I'm no expert on allergies. And now what do they call that person?
An allergy expert? Mhmm. What do they call them? An allergy expert. I don't know.
Do they have a name that they call them? Are you looking it up? Yeah. Am I talking to myself? Yeah.
What is it they're called? Oh, there's two words for them, an allergist or an immunologist. More commonly referred to as an allergist. Well, la dee da. Fancy.
Fancy. So you could call yourself an allergist. No. I'm not, though. I am not an allergist.
I'm not an expert. I said that. Were you not listening? I thought you said you were. No.
Oh, I'm I messed up. Yeah. You did. It's fine. And this has been me messing up.
And this has been me talking about all the smells of spring that I love. As an allergist. No. Oh. Stop.
Mulch week. Go get Go get some mulch. I saw a TikTok. You sent me a TikTok where a woman hold held open the door Right. For a man.
Yeah. And then he walked through and said, preach. Yeah. And I said, I don't I don't know what that means. I asked Emery.
Before I asked you, I said, hey. Do you know what this means before I ask dad? Because I wanna seem like I'm cool too. And she said, no. I have no idea what that means.
So then I asked you, I said, I don't know what that means. I don't know what means. Like that. Not just. Oh.
You gotta say it like that. You gotta go, preesh, which I'm kind of into. It's gross It is gross. Because it's like, ugh. But at the same time, it's short for appreciate you.
Appreciate you. Appreciate you. Appreciate you holding that door open for me. Hey, presh. Preesh.
Appreciate you. So it's shortened to presh, and that's why you have to say it like that. You walk through a door that someone's holding open, and you kinda close your eyes a little bit too, and you kinda look over your shoulder and you go, It's gross. It is gross. But at the same time, it's so fun.
And that's kinda why I like it. I think it's hilarious. You kind of slipped it into conversation a couple of times I did. While we were out and about over the weekend. And it's super embarrassing.
And Emery hated it. I like my favorite was when we went to get a, refreshment. And she goes, can we get a refreshment? And so we, we went to one of those little drink huts and grabbed a refreshment. And as, as I was walking away from the window after we ordered, she was like, alright.
We'll have that right out to you. I said, thanks. And I turned toward the table to walk away, and I went, preesh. She about crawled under the table to disappear. She about ran away.
Preach. I love it. I think it's hilarious. I think it's kinda gross. It is gross, but it's funny.
And it's also funny because you're saying it. Some middle aged man who's trying to sound cool That's right. You need to say it to the scouts. I'm a work it in. Yeah.
They'll they'll hate it. They'll hate it. Preesh. Oh, girl. I gotta remember to do it in conversation because it makes me laugh every time.
Anytime you're gonna say, oh, thanks. You just go preesh. Hey. Hey. That's get it get it right.
It's got attitude to it. It's got a little swagger. Okay. I gotta practice. Do do some of this head bobbing, and then you go.
Preesh. So gross. Why do we have to shorten everything? Because it's so much easier to say Preesh than it is to, I appreciate the thing you did for me. You're right.
It is so much easier because talking is hard. Mhmm. I do it all day. Oh, we went to see the Minecraft movie this weekend. Okay.
Let's talk about, the fact that this movie is, like, the biggest movie to come out this year so far. Well, it's something I get it. Barely April. I get it. But the biggest weekend, Minecraft, a hundred and $57,000,000.
It's crazy. I know. I tried to get us tickets. Everywhere was packed. I know.
It blew away. What they say here is that it blew away the earnings projections making a hundred and 50 7 million in its opening weekend. It's the best debut for a video game ad act adaptation and the biggest domestic debut of the year. Interesting. Yeah.
I was entertained. That's, I think, the biggest point. Heard that it was supposed to be super cringey, and Emery said that it was really cringey. Young people say. I think so too.
But I didn't understand a lot of the jokes. Okay. Emery was dying laughing. She has played Minecraft before. She has She's done the story mode stuff.
She follows a bunch of YouTubers. Here's the thing, that I that I really appreciated about it. I know that when the trailer came out, everybody was like, no. This is not what it should look like. This is not how it should be.
Why is Jack Black and everything? Everybody has I'm talking from the youths. Okay. The people that are the target audience for this movie were like, this looks horrible. Okay.
It made a hundred and $57,000,000. There were kids in the theater we were in. I don't know if you heard them that were like, this is my third time seeing it today. Really? They kept going back.
This movie is is sweeping. Wow. It's huge. It was projected to make 70 to 80,000,000. It made a hundred and 57,000,000.
There was a joke in there that the whole crowd was like, chicken jockey. Yeah. Yes. I don't even what? What is happening?
There's all these memes and stuff that have, like, bled into it. There was a YouTuber, who played Minecraft. He was a streamer. Yeah. And he, between YouTube and Twitch was constantly that was a game that he did.
He was well known for it. He was a young kid. He got cancer. He ended up dying. They put him in the movie.
I know. That was cool. I mean, Emory told us that later. That was really cool. There were so many little cool Easter egg things.
I was like, this is this is fascinating. Like, it's it's an entirely different culture. And knowing nothing about the game other than when we invented it, when we went into the theater, I'll explain that in a second. When we went into the theater, I sat down going, like, I I know very little about this. I don't know what I'm walking into.
I'll probably be bored for an hour and a half. I was not bored. It was so good. And it's Jared Hess who directed it, who did Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre in those films. And it takes place in Idaho, which I think is hilarious and, was a bit unexpected to a lot of people, I think.
Chugless, Chugless, Ohio. Chugless, Idaho. Anyway, worth seeing. Now let me jump back into the we invented the game story really quick, because when we were cub scout leaders together, you and I, we had a group of eight, nine year olds, that were our cub scouts. That we listened to a lot of Minecraft stories.
Yeah. Because, and I don't know when Minecraft came out, but it was probably real hot and popular for these eight year olds. Yep. Like, it was new. Yeah.
And, we somehow convinced them that we invented the game. I don't know if we convinced them. We convinced them enough that they weren't sure we didn't. Yeah. They couldn't necessarily prove that we hadn't, but they were like, why do you live you would be a millionaire.
Why do you live here? Well, like, they Well, I wanna keep a simple life. Yeah. Right? We excused everything away.
It was fantastic. And now, the game we created all those years ago is a movie. I made it too. Look at us. All those royalties we're gonna get.
It's amazing. I wish I could, have a a text chat with those with those, scouts and go, hey, dudes. Can you believe it? The game that I invented is now a movie. Like, they would I bet there's some heavy eye rolling.
Far that we were like, oh, the copper at the bottom of the level, and they're like, there is no copper. And we're like, oh, you haven't reached that level yet. Sorry. And then they released And then years later, they had copper. I know.
It's so good. So funny. Anyway It wasn't it was entertaining. Yeah. I was enjoying myself.
Feel like I wasted money. No. Jack Wright was great. Jason Momoa was great. I think Emory and Beck are planning on going tonight.
Again. See, this is what's happening. The kids are like, I'm going to that movie again. Yeah. I know.
Like, it's so funny. Anyway, blew away all expectations. It is the biggest movie of the year so far and the biggest video game adaptation to a movie. That's really interesting. Yeah.
That Not Mario. Fortnite's coming next. You know it is. You think? Oh, wow.
Be a Fortnite movie? Come on. Yes. Come on. Alright.
I'll go see it. We had to go to Lowe's yesterday to get some supplies. A couple of times. A couple of times. We went there.
We took a couple of different trips. That's okay. It's fine. It's okay. My favorite part was when you had your tape measure attached to your hip.
Well, I had to measure some lumber, and I only had it attached to my hip for about thirty seconds. And then Emery thought it'd be fun to snag it off my belt and went or out of my pocket and went clink. And then she carried it around, and I went, I'm not carrying that. You can carry it. We did some measuring of stuff.
What'd you measure? We measured how long the cart was. We measured how far away you were to us. I felt that one because, the pace of which I was walking versus her, she was walking, faster to try and catch up with me. And then when I slowed down, it jabbed me in the back.
So We took it across, you know, how you're in that big aisle. The big aisle. The big aisle, and then there's sections of stuff in the big aisle in the middle. Okay. So I took one end.
She took the other end, and we measured how far apart we were walking through that aisle. How'd that go? It was fun. Do you remember any of the measurements? Nope.
Like, how big the cart was, for example? The the cart was four feet. Four feet. No. It was not.
Six feet? Nope. It was the other way. There's no way that cart was six feet. And six feet what?
High? No. No. I'm not. Feet long?
No. I don't remember. Well, it wasn't six feet. Did a lot of measuring. We were measuring stuff.
Yeah? We were doing some measuring. Okay. It was fun. We had a great time.
Sometimes I gained a little bored in Lowe's. I look at all the plans. I look at the stuff that I look at. Like, our third trip because I kept forgetting things. Yeah.
No. That was, like, on the second one. It was okay. We made it fun. As we do.
Because what's your what's your saying? How does it go? I don't know. It's something, something along the lines of, like, anything's as fun as you make it. Yeah.
Something like that. Yeah. I think is what you say. Life is as fun as you make it. Yeah.
I say that all the time. Life just in general is What? Why you know, what's the fun in being a fuddy duddy? Enjoy it. Life is meant to be enjoyed.
That's wasn't it fun in being a fuddy duddy? Life is taken too seriously sometimes. These words. So just have fun. Yeah.
No. I agree. If you have fun, you're gonna have more fun. I told there was a person in my life that tells me he does he doesn't tell me very often anymore, but he's told me on occasion that I laugh too much. There's no such thing.
And I said, what? Okay. Too much joy. Yeah. You.
Okay. Thanks. How dare you? Calm down with making, everything happy. With being happy.
Yeah. What a weird thing to say. I know. He said, well, you can't be happy all the time. I said, no.
You're right. I I have emotions. But right now, I'm happy, and I'm locked in a pot. Gonna sit in sadness. I'm not gonna sit in anger.
I'm gonna be happy because that makes me happy. I would rather be happy than sad or angry. Yep. So So So I'm also gonna measure stuff. Yeah.
To keep yourself entertained. Exactly. That's good. I also I needed to get some plastic, and I was looking on the app to find where they keep it. And they had relocated it, But it was I knew it was gonna be in the same section.
Yeah. And so I said, I'll just wander through. And you said, did you ask anybody? And I said, no. Of course not.
Said, well, that's the problem. And I said, it's not a problem. I'm going to find it. It's around here somewhere. And so I, was wandering and you wandered over and asked someone, and they told you it was one aisle away from where I was.
And I'm like, yeah. I know. I would have found it. And you went, I didn't think about looking by the paint. And now that's where I'm at.
It's literally what I'm standing looking at. They just moved it, and they put car oil there for some reason. Car? Yeah. Really?
They have oil filters and oil and stuff. And I'm like Really? Yeah. I wouldn't have expected that. I expected to find what was in the app on the aisle and bin that it told me it would be in or bay.
And it was like, aisle this, bay this. And I went, okay. So I'm standing looking at it going, this is oil. But one aisle away Which I appreciate the organization. I appreciate the the the organization of the hardware store to say this is the aisle.
This is the bay. It's like the Dewey Decimal System for hardware. Yeah. Except when it's wrong. Yeah.
Like it was yesterday. But that's fine. If you're going to look for plastic, it's on six, not four. Just heads up. Preach.
One of my favorite books is the princess bride. Yes. One of my favorite movies is the princess bride. That's right. You have said before that, reading the princess bride is the, like, the only book you, like, laughed out loud reading.
Yes. Yeah. Okay. If you haven't read it, it's amazing. If you haven't seen it, it's amazing.
So, we showed that to our kids years and years and years ago. Right. And Emery does not remember watching it. So I'm like, we gotta watch this again. We went to that special screening too.
Do you remember that? At at the theater, it was, it was sort of a it was like a talking point with it's Rob. Right? Reiner? Mhmm.
Yeah. He was the director. Did kind of, like, an interview thing. And then they had some of the actors as well, that were talking before and after the film. And it wasn't like a q and a thing.
Like, they weren't there. It was just in the video. It was a special screening, that had, like, just end caps of And we went to that? Talking. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. I got us tickets. It was it was a promotional thing we did. Anyway When was this?
Two years ago. Not that long. Couple years ago. I have no memory of that. Yeah.
We also saw a puppet show once, but you don't remember. No. I don't remember that yet. Holy moly. Yeah.
But, anyway, so, that was really cool. And then I couldn't remember if the kids went. That was why I brought it up. I was gonna say, did they go to that with us? But I don't think they did.
I think it was just you and I. Are you sure I went? I didn't go by myself. I don't have any recollection of that. Okay.
So I'm reading the current book that I'm reading is a book about the making of the movie written by Cary Elwes who plays, farm boy. And Dread Pirate. Shh. Spoiler. Fun movie.
It is 30 years old. It's more than that. It was made in, like, 1985. Forty years old? So Spoilers.
I'm reading it, and I go, we gotta watch this movie. We gotta watch this movie. And Emery doesn't wanna she doesn't think that the movies that we like are she's not into our movies. And so she keeps kinda blowing it off and blowing it off. And then her final her I was like, let's watch let's watch the movie.
We've got some time before it's bedtime. Like, we can start the movie and get it going. And she goes, no. You've gotta finish that book first. Oh, now you're locked in.
You can't you can't watch till you finish your book. That's what she told me. And I go, I've already seen the movie. It doesn't matter. I've already read the book.
I already know what happens. It doesn't matter. She goes, you didn't let me watch Harry Potter until I finished all the books. Oh. So you can't watch the movie until I finish your book.
And I went, fine. Do you promise once I finish this book, you'll watch the movie? And she goes, I guess. But I know she's gonna go back on her word because she's done that before. That girl, I think she purposely doesn't like things just to spite me.
You think? What was your first clue? When I introduced her to my girl, and she went, no. And I went Yeah. She needs to watch it again.
I know she does. But the same thing happened. I I wanted her to watch the Matilda the musical, that's on Netflix. And I for a long time, I've I've seen it a couple of times and couldn't get her to watch it, couldn't get her to watch it. And I walked in one day a couple of weeks ago, and she's in the living room.
It was during her spring break. And I walk in, and she's watching it. And I was like, let's go. And she was she loved it. Yeah.
And I'm like, come on. I know you will. Admitted that she loved it. Well, it she really liked it. It was very good.
But it wasn't until after we'd seen it live on stage, that then she was like, oh, this is really good. And then she watched it, and I was like, yeah. It's one of my top fives. It's a great musical. It is.
Fantastic. And I know she'll like the princess bride. I know she will. Because if you don't, you're crazy. You're crazy.
I had to scoot my chair forward. I got stuck. Get it together. Alright. Hey.
There is a show that we love. It's called Love on the Spectrum. It's fantastic. And they just released season three. That's right.
And they only had seven episodes, which I am so sorry about that. Super quick. It's such a great show. I love it so much. What a it's a wholesome wholesome show.
And you, you had an an interesting, sort of, not necessarily change of opinion, but you were you were telling me that you felt like the show, seemed to be, like, this close, like, right on the edge of, is this exploiting these people? But then you're like, but they don't engage. Like, they're not forcing it. It's not scripted. Like, it's it is just these people in their lives, and you're kinda watching.
And so I think there's a real fine balance. On the autism spectrum that are trying to find love. That's correct. Yeah. And and I think that, that I agree with you.
It's it it's it's weird because it's such a, like, what are we watching? But then at the same time, you go, but we're really 10,000 feet view. Like, we aren't invasive. Like, it's it's interesting. So, anyway, fantastic show, and I wish there were more episodes to watch because it's it's adorable.
It is adorable. Such a great show. I I don't I laugh and I cry. Right. And I feel so good about Yeah.
Life after I watch it. It's very very good show. Very sweet, enjoyable show. Mhmm. I've It's on Netflix.
Right? It is on Netflix. Yeah. I enjoyed, trying to find all of them on net or on Instagram. So now I follow them all on Instagram, all of the all of the people that have Been on the show.
The show. So you're following relationships? Yes. The one the one character I love the most, he and his mom have a relationship that makes me laugh so much because it reminds me so much of the relationship I have, Connor. Yeah.
Connor. And you the relationship you have with our son. Right? Yes. Yeah.
It it's volatile at moments. It is. It's the mom just doing her best to try and be a cheerleader and and her son just being combative for no reason. Mom. Like, I I get that.
I know that. I can relate to that. Right. But I also just love that mom. She's amazing.
I think she's hilarious, and she's So if you've never seen the show, you've got three seasons. If you are all caught up like us, then you know exactly what we're talking about. It's such a sweet little show. I love it so much. I'm sad it's over.
I've got, like what's it what's that feeling called when something's over and you don't want it to end? Sadness. Yeah. I know. Grief.
Yeah. Withdrawal. A lack of, like Yeah. No sense or purpose to the world. Yeah.
You're like, what is what am I gonna do now? And that's why you follow them on socials. You are a deep diver as well. Yeah. So, which is pretty funny.
So, anyway Check it out. Yeah. It's a good show. It's it's worth a watch. All three seasons.
They're great. It's Go ahead. Go ahead. No. You say.
No. No. You go. I was gonna say this morning, I had to spend a little extra time making sure I picked out the right socks. I've I apparently now have to do this.
Two days in a row, I've had to make sure I'm picking out the right socks. Two days in a row? Yesterday and today. Oh. I have to make sure I have appropriate height socks because I got told that I look like a grandpa.
Yeah. Your socks are too high. Higher socks. And guess what? I didn't call you that.
I know. A youth didn't even call me that. No. A friend It was one of our own friends. Told me that I looked like a grandpa because I had ankle socks on Poor job.
With my shorts. Poor Josh. So now I have to be careful what socks I wear. They weren't even that tall. Like, they just went, I mean, before your half.
No. They weren't, like, tube socks. No. They were just an ankle height sock. But, apparently, that's a grandpa sock.
Apparently. And it might be because it was black also. But gross if they were white. Gross. I was just gonna say that.
I didn't think they looked like grandpa socks. I think you looked cool. I should have been wearing tube socks rolled down like a doughnut. Or to it's gross. Yeah.
Or tube socks that were scrunched up like they used to do in the where you pull them up, but then you wiggle them down a little bit. Scrunch them down. I can't stand the way that feels on my calves and shins. No way. You're why are you gonna wear them that high, though?
You're not. I'd have to get those, like, sock garters to hold them up. Yeah. You would. And now that's a grandpa.
And that is cool. No. Why did you wear those socks? Do you I don't I literally grabbed a pair of socks. I just grabbed a pair, and I put them on, and then I put on my shoes, and I left the house.
You typically wear, like, no show socks. That's what it typically looks like. Low ankle where my ankle is, is not covered by sock, not a high ankle. Yeah. That was one of my high ankle socks.
Now listen. Are those appropriate with pants? Probably, because no one's gonna know. Right. Are they appropriate with shorts?
Apparently not. I didn't mind. I didn't think they were that bad. I didn't mind. Don't listen to her.
What does she know? She doesn't know anything. Well, yesterday, I made sure to confirm that I was wearing appropriate height socks, and she said good job. So You're just you just need our validation? I I when it comes to socks, apparently.
Yeah. So today, again, I am wearing appropriate height socks even though I am wearing pants, and you don't, you won't know. Good job, I suppose. I guess. I mean, they weren't even, like, a a fun pattern.
They weren't an argyle or anything. Like, they were just a black ankle sock. I typically wear that's all I wear is no show socks because, one, I hate wearing socks, and two, I don't like to see them. I know that the new like, the fashion is to wear socks for women. Tall dudes.
It's for dudes too. It's tall dude socks. I just can't get behind that fashion. I know. And then they'll throw on sandals with them.
And I go, what are they doing? Yeah. But, again, I I'm sandals with them. And I go, what are you doing? Yeah.
But, again, I I don't care about I wear what I like, and I wear what's comfortable, and I've never just never followed fashion trends. So that's me. You do you, Josh. That's the whole point of this story. You do you.
If you wanna wear big socks, wear big socks. Don't let anybody get you calling them big socks? I don't care for that. Big socks. Tall socks.
They're not tall. Okay. It's just a low ankle. I wasn't complaining about them. I'm on your side.
Big socks. I'm on I got you. I'm on your side. You're not mad at me. I'm not mad at all.
So there's that. Anyway Good job picking out your socks today, Brad. I got the right size socks. Thumbs up. We went to see a really cool group called the Gangsta Grass on Friday.
Yeah. Blue Grass meets hip hop rap. Yeah. Kind of a cool, cool idea and a really good show. Yes.
Really good show. There was some people dancing, and I wanted to dance. Emery came with us to the show. She was embarrassed by my dancing. That's not hard to do.
It's She said that I do too much. One of your, one of the people that was near us said, it looks like your your daughter would would like to be anywhere else. I said, yeah. Pretty much. That's pretty much what's happening.
Yeah. At some part with her age, that's emotionally Mhmm. Developmentally appropriate. Yeah. Because we got up and and stood in the aisles and, you know, over but kinda by the wall, and we're having a good time.
And, and she was sitting not wanting to be there with us having a good time. If she knows anything about me, she knows that it's easier for her if she just participates. Because if you don't, then I'm gonna really embarrass you. I'm not gonna humiliate you, but I am going to just keep pestering you until You layer it on. Mhmm.
Yeah. No. I've I've never seen that. We finally, I was finally able to get her to at least stand up and take a picture with us. Yeah.
I don't think she did a lot of dancing. Well, that's wrong. I did get her to do a little bit of dancing Right. In a joking manner. She was doing some Snoop Dogg.
Oh, that's right. Yeah. I remember that. That's right. You did get her to do the little driving the wheel thing, and then she was doing a couple of, Fortnite emote dance moves, which that was good.
Yeah. I don't Progress. Get up and move. Have fun. Anything is as fun as you make.
And if your mom is doing too much, let her. Just let her. Let your mom have fun. That's my message to all the kids Yeah. Everywhere, even adults.
Let your mom have fun. Let your mom have fun. Quit it. She deserves some fun. Quit being a joy thief.
Just let your mom have fun. If she wants to dance like a mom, let her dance like a mom. It was fun to people watch as well because it was there was some mom dancing quite a bit. There was also some dad dancing. Let's talk about dad dancing.
There was some dad dancing. Dad dancing doesn't get talked about as much as mom dancing. There was some lack of rhythm from a few folks Yeah. Which I thought was great. Because you get the crowd going, and everybody's clapping, you know, and they got, like, a beat Yeah.
And not everybody can keep it. But you know what? You're having a good time. Just enjoy it. And that's what matters.
Let your dad have fun. Let your mom and dad have fun. Let your parents have fun. They deserve it. Let your grandparents have fun.
Let yourself have fun. Just let everybody have fun. Have fun. Ease up on the pressures of life and just have fun. You wanna dance like, out of your own rhythm and do your own thing?
Cool. Have fun. I will. Thank you. Yeah.
I don't need your permission. What was that move? That was my Alright. I can only see your head moving, so I don't want your arms are doing. Oh, I got some stiff arm.
But That was a question you asked was, what do you do with your hands? Because I keep them in my pocket. I know. That's what I always struggle with always. If I'm at a concert or I'm just dancing some like, what do you what do you do with your hands?
It doesn't feel natural to have hands. It doesn't feel natural to have hands. When you're dancing Alright. Feels weird. So then I do what?
Like, I do a little jazz hand. I'll do some snapping. Okay. I'll do some clapping, and then I go, now what do I do? I have hands.
But what I really like is we've been at concerts before. I like when you're in front of me. Uh-huh. And then I can just, like, tap you on the back, and then I feel like I've got something to do with my hands. Make me bongos.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's how that's when it works best.
That's when it works best is when you're playing the back bongos. If I feel like I don't have anything to do with them, I'll put them in my pockets, but then that looks kinda like I'm not It looks unapproachable Uh-huh. And, like, I'm not having any fun. Even though I'm smiling and I'm moving along, but my hands are in my pockets Yeah. I think that's fine.
I think if I was standing there with my arms crossed or sitting there, like, that means I'm not having fun. Uh-uh. But if I'm up moving, whatever my hands are doing has nothing to do with it. So raise the roof. Oh, there you go.
Yeah. Really, people do that. I do a lot of this too. It's Yeah. What is that?
Like a I don't know. How would you explain it? I can't. I'm at a a loss of words for whatever that is. Like a wash the window.
Is that what it is? Yeah. Uh-huh. With both hands. Wash the window.
That's a wax on, wax off more than, than a wash a window. You're kinda doing circles. Wash the window. Wash the window. Yeah.
Alright. Hey. Have fun. You know? Have fun.
I will. Okay. Big news. Woah. Turn me down, Josh.
Turn me down. Go ahead. Okay. Big news. They are starting renovations at the Frontier Center.
Okay. Construction staging begins April 7. So today. So that means they're gonna start putting up fencing. They're gonna start getting, equipment in place.
Safety and security, temporary fence, all of that. This renovation is going to triple the size of the lobby. Well, okay. So I've been in this facility, first of all. That's good news because after a show, like Newsies, for example, trying to get in and out, trying to find your kid, trying to take photos, trying to do all that stuff, it's a cramped type space.
So a three times larger lobby. Great. Cool. What I also really love is the essential ADA upgrades. Oh, that's a big deal.
Accessible restrooms and a ramp for easier access. I have a problem, and I am a abled bodied person. Yeah. But walking down those steps to go to the bathroom is a little bit terrifying. So are they doing main level restrooms then?
Because there's something cool about traveling back to the forties and fifties when you go downstairs to use that restroom. And I and it'll probably not look like that. No. It's not going to look like that. They're also going to improve pickup and drop off areas.
Okay. So they're doing some parking changes then too. Okay. So they the city is saying, hey. In the coming months, like, please have some patience and and plan ahead.
Yeah. These improvements are greatly going to enhance the overall experience. So just Yeah. Be patient with us while we work through this. So there won't be any shows then until this is done.
Is that correct? That is not correct. That is not correct. There are still shows happening during construction. Okay.
They will have primary access through the north and stage entrances Mhmm. And the west entrance via the high school doors. Okay. Alright. That makes sense.
And then the lobby itself will be kind of unavailable. Sure. Maybe. I'm not sure. It doesn't really say.
I mean, if it's under construction, it's gonna not gonna be because they're doing a whole, like, remodel of the face. Like, the whole front of the building is different. Right. Okay. Right.
Right. Okay. Good. Confirm. Alright.
Super. There is a story. I got this information from East Idaho News. So if you wanna go read more Sure. You're welcome to do that.
Do they have pictures of the proposed finished product and stuff on there? They do not. Okay. Well, maybe maybe I can find some of that. I'm I'm curious to to see a little bit more about what they what they have in mind.
But I I think it's there. Do. Oh, good. I'll go read the article at east Idaho news dot com then. Great.
Thank you. No problem. Anything else? Yeah. I have other questions.
Okay. What? What does this mean for the, impacts of the fourth of July? Because I don't imagine the construction will be done before the lineup of the July 4 happens in that parking lot and on that road. It doesn't say in the article.
Okay. Or does it? No. I know. I know.
I'm just kidding. Just kidding. But I'm I'm curious what the impacts of that will look like, but that's, you know, that's also not my problem. Be patient. Somebody else has to worry about that.
And, be patient. Yeah. Alright. I'll be patient. Would you rather this or that, Chantel?
Would you rather be stuck in a broken elevator with sweaty sumo wrestlers or be stuck in a broken elevator with the Kardashians talking on their phones? I'm going sweaty sumo wrestlers. Look. I I understand. I I get where you're coming from because I can't.
How many How many what? Sumo wrestlers. Sumo wrestlers, let's say four. Four of each. Woah.
There's four sumo wrestlers. There's four Kardashians. Ugh. Sumo. I'm going sumo, dudes.
At least I'm not yeah. I'm going sumo. The only reason I'm not going sumo is because I'm curious to who the Kardashians might be talking to. I don't care about that. I you're gonna have to deal with it.
Hear some of that weird fake gossip. Yeah. I bet. You're gonna have to listen to them. I know.
I know. And I don't That's okay. Don't I don't wanna listen to them. I like a good vocal fry. No.
What? You know? But they could be talking to somebody really neat. And I think being, being kinda privy to that info might be might be interesting. Because here's the thing.
Like, you're stuck. They're gonna be complaining about being stuck. Exactly. Yeah. So am I.
So that's that. That they're gonna be complaining the whole time. And how dare somebody stick them in a broken elevator. No. I can't.
I cannot. Yeah. I'll take that. No. Only because I'm curious about all of the things.
I'm not curious about anything they do. So Because I might be able to be like, listen. I know you have somebody's number in in your phone that I would be curious about texting. Like, give me one number. Nope.
Nope. I don't care. I don't even care. Even if they had Paul Rudd's phone number, I wouldn't I wouldn't not. If if they said, yeah.
We have Paul Rudd's number. Would never give them his phone number. Let's get that straightened out. But let's say they do. Never.
Let's just say one of them happened to have Paul Rudd's number and said, yeah. I'll call Paul right now. Call Paul right now. Yeah. And you can tell him about how you're stuck in an elevator.
And you'd be like, hey, Paul. Listen. Hey, Paul. Please get me out of here. I'm stuck with the Kardashians.
Please get me out. Right. He'd be like, I got you, girl. Yeah. See?
Way better than four sumo restaurants. I know. I'm taking the sumo. Would you rather this or that? As Easter is right around the corner, a lot of people are, dealing with the price of eggs and going, am I really gonna hard boil a bunch of these and dye them and do the Easter egg dyeing thing?
Yeah. I've seen people say, like, they're gonna use potatoes. Yeah. That happened a few years ago too. I think that comes around.
Yeah. Because people were saying eggs were expensive then, and they were going, oh, eggs are too expensive. We're gonna dye potatoes because potatoes are listen. Paint a potato, paint a rock, dye an egg, whatever. Yeah.
Here's an idea that I hadn't seen before, and I thought, this is kind of new and different and, smart and, easy and gives you the same experience at a fractional the cost and a sweet treat. Is it peanut butter, the peanut butter eggs? No. Emery sent me a recipe for peanut butter egg that you can make, and then I can't I didn't watch the whole video. Uh-huh.
Okay. Did you tell her you did? Yeah. Alright. This is, just dying jumbo marshmallows.
Oh. So you do the cups of water instead of vinegar, and you use little drops of food coloring. And you can get plant based food coloring if you don't wanna use food dyes. But you, just color the water, and then you put the, marshmallow on a toothpick or a skewer. And you, dip it into the color, and boom, you got a colored marshmallow.
And you can do half and halfs. You can do different designs. You can use a new paintbrush, not a, you know, an old paintbrush, but one that's new and of out of a package, and you can paint designs on the marshmallows. And then you just you get, like, a a sheet of styrofoam or some sort of, thing you can stick the toothpicks with the marshmallow and up, into so they can dry. And then, it takes about thirty minutes for them to dry, and you got, they won't be sticky or tacky or anything, just colored marshmallows.
That's an interesting idea. Know. And then you have marshmallows Yeah. Which are gonna last longer than the eggs. You're not gonna have to worry about a bunch of hard boiled eggs.
You got 18 hard boiled eggs. Yeah. But you're gonna also worry about a lot of sugar. Well, yeah. But, again, you Yeah.
You're not gonna you moderate eating an egg, what moderate eating a marshmallow. But it's a a nice little treat instead of, instead of an egg. If, you know, if you if you need to grab a bag of of big jumbo marshmallows and dye those because eggs are not happening or you don't want 18 hard boiled eggs sitting around in your fridge, then that's not a good alternative. And it's not a potato. Or do a yeah.
Just do a small pan or Or Do whatever you want. Yeah. Do whatever you want. I just like that it's, that's a fun way to get that same kind of experience Yeah. No.
No. No. Dying eggs. It's a good idea. That's cool, and and, still get you that creative thing, and you get a whole bag of them.
So it's really easy to be like, here, you got five of these or 10 of these or whatever, and you color them. Go go nuts. Have a good time. Fun idea. That's a good idea.
Yeah. And you don't have to worry about, you know, buying tablets and vinegar and all that other stuff. So there you go. There you go. There you go.
Idea for you. I saw it online. I stole it. I didn't come up with it. It was pretty cool, and I thought I'd share.
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