Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
It’s choose your own name day & we’re just going to keep our originals, it’s also national distracted driving awareness month, Josh built some garden beds, Chantel is going to get really into sourdough breads, we are spending a lot of alone time together, a weird thing about Josh is that he didn’t watch movies until he met Chantel, let’s unpack our adjectives, dire wolves are de-extincified, is ‘you clean up nice’ a backhanded compliment, Chantel is not a robot, and the cutest gender reveal ever.
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Intro
(2:55) - We're keeping out original
(6:02) - National Distracted Driving Awareness Month
(9:50) - Good News to Get You Going
(11:58) - Josh made garden beds
(16:06) - Chantel's sourdough adventure
(21:37) - We're alone together a lot
(27:31) - Josh didn't watch a lot of movies as a kid
(33:35) - Unpacking adjectives
(39:03) - De-extincted dire wolves
(44:20) - You clean up nice
(49:30) - Chantel's not a robot
(54:03) - Would You Rather This or That
(56:52) - Cutest gender reveal + outro
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Full show transcript:
What's up over there? Hey. What's up? What's up? Hey.
What's up? You're looking nice. You you said that the other day. It's still true. I'm just paying you them compliments.
Are those compies? Paying you the compies. Sure. Sure. Sure.
Sure. Do you like being complimented? Duh. Oh, okay. I just wanna make sure.
I didn't know if it was if it was, like, you know, maybe not the thing you like. No. Do you do you have problems accepting compliments? Yes. Why?
I don't know. That's a that's a session for another day. Oh, okay. Hey. It's Wednesday, April 9.
It's choose your own name day, and we're just gonna keep our originals. What are you sliding around over there? I'm sorry. Sorry. I'm so sorry.
It's also National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. The whole month. Drive, distracted. I think that's how you celebrate. Right?
No. Oh, okay. Josh built some garden beds. Look at me go. I know.
It's exciting. I'm gonna get really into sourdough bread. Can't wait. Please make me breads. Just keep waiting.
I'm I'm really excited about the potential for soft sourdough sandwich bread. Yeah. Just keep waiting. That sounds nice. That does sound nice, doesn't it?
Yeah. We're spending a lot of alone time together. Hey, buddy. Hey. What's up?
Hey. What do you wanna talk about? Whatever comes up. Should we just sit in silence? Yeah.
I'll eat. I've run out of things to talk about. Well, have you? Kinda. Oh, no.
A weird thing about Josh is that he didn't watch movies until he met me. Thanks for introducing me to the cinema. You're welcome. I mean, I did. I watched some movies.
Tom. Tom. Like Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. I'd seen that. Oh, that's a good one.
Add that to the list. To what list? The list that we're gonna show our kids. Oh, okay. Here's a list.
Let's unpack our adjectives. About ourselves. Yeah. Yeah. Direwolves are de extinctified.
That's the word you made up. Yeah. I like it. Extinctified. Yep.
Okay. It's good. Alright. Stand by it. Is you clean up nice a backhanded compliment?
We'll get to the bottom of it. I kinda think it might be. I kinda be. I am not a robot. That is weird because by the time we finished the conversation, you went full robot.
I did come home. So you might be. Blink twice if you're a robot. Oh, great. And the cutest gender reveal ever.
Awe. Awe. Awe. We are Josh and Chantel. This is wake up classy 97, the podcast.
It's episode do you know what number? Two zero eight. That's right. Our Idaho episode. Oh.
Let's go we don't really talk about Idaho in the episode. It's episode two zero eight. Enjoy the show. Howdy. Oh, hang on.
That's a totally different attitude. Howdy. Well And then you come at me with, like, hang on. Don't even because I've been like, good morning. I've been a little bit quirky this morning.
Yeah. I know. And you've come at me with a I said you looked cute this morning. You did? I said you look cool.
I go, that's you look great. And then I just I didn't I didn't hear any of that. Looking at your pants, going like, those are fancy pants. And I said, they're just normal pants. They're just normal pants, but you look you look great today.
You look cool. And I was giving you compliments, and you were just like, you too. I didn't hear any of that. Yeah. You've been kinda grumpy this morning.
And I've been like, hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey.
So hi. Hi. If you could, give yourself any name, if you could change your name, what would you change it to? I why? Because today is name yourself day.
And so I didn't know if, if maybe you wanted to go by a nickname or a middle name. Maybe you wanted to actually legally change your name. No. I didn't like it now. Call you something else all day.
Did not like my name when I was younger Uh-huh. Because people would mess it up. People still mess it up all the time. And I didn't something just fell. I don't know what it was.
Oh, I know what it was. Okay. No. I like it now. I've come to terms with my name now.
So you you would just keep your name? Keep my name. Alright. I I I agree. Years to?
I don't really I always thought as a kid I wanted to be Zach, but I was a big Saved by the Bell kid. And so I think I kinda just wanted to be cool. Yeah. You are cool. Alright?
Zach wasn't even cool. Listen. Zach Morris is trash. I mean, I understand. Videos.
Yes. And he himself is like, no. It wasn't a it was a very dark character. He was a terrible friend. But, but he came around.
See? He was he always had lessons to learn, I think, is is more about Zach's thing. It wasn't that he was vindictive or rude or mean. He just he had to learn his way through life every episode. Every single episode.
Every day, he was like, I'm gonna be trash again. Right. And they were like, no, Zach. You gotta learn, man. Yeah, man.
Just There's a moral in here. Screech is your best friend. He's nice to you. See. Be nice to him.
That's exactly right. So I that was the name that I always was like, if I could be anybody, I'd be Zach. No. You're not a Zach. You're a Josh.
I get it. You're cool, Josh. Oh, Thanks. I'm Josh. You're Chantel.
That's who we are. That's right. Up classy 97. Good morning. Who will always be.
Stop. Stop. Stop what? I don't know. Just want me to hit the button?
Yeah. Alright. Did you know that April is national distracted driving awareness month? I did not know that. It is.
I'm gonna remind everyone, especially young people, to avoid distractions in all forms behind the wheel. What's the dumbest thing you've ever done behind a wheel driving a car? I don't know. What's some form of distraction? I think there's there's a lot of distraction that happens even just naturally when you have other people in the car, whether it's conversation or kids fighting in the back seat or whatever.
I think there's plenty of just there's the it's easy to be distracted. I think, when you have teams in the car, you know, it gets even harder because you wanna be involved in the conversation or you wanna see what's happening or whatever. And if you're driving and you've got a group of friends in the car, it can be real, real distracting. Mhmm. Be safe.
Yeah. You haven't done I you text a lot when you're driving. No. I talk to text. My my radio will display it.
My screen will display it. I can hit the button, and I can talk and hit send. So I don't have to stop and read it or type with my thumb. Mhmm. What?
I've seen you do some things that are Like at a light and then and then had somebody decide to chase me down. That was weird. I did not care for that. Oh, yeah. That was that did happen once that Because I was sitting at the light in the middle of something, and it turned green.
And then I went to go, and then they decided to try to follow me, and I didn't care for that at all. Like, this is ridiculous, dude. I had a friend once who was trying to put on her mascara while she was driving. Mhmm. Yeah.
She got a ticket for that. While while in motion. Yeah. Yeah. That's not good.
No. Don't do that. That's terrible. But some distractions, putting on makeup and fixing your hair, changing your clothes. I've never, changed.
I've never done that. I've never done that in there. And needed help taking off a jacket because you can't you can't stretch your arm out with you know, and pull on the sleeve at the same time. That's a real awkward thing. That is weird.
Eating is pretty common. Yeah. One guy well, multiple people probably have done this before, but one hand to scrape your windshield by reaching out the side window because the wipers didn't work. No. Don't do that.
While you're in motion? Yeah. No. Come on. Don't do that.
Be safe. Everybody be safe. Yeah. National distracted driving awareness month, you said. The whole month of April is national distracted driving awareness.
Well, let's work on not being distracted then. That sounds like a good thing to focus on. I like it. If you want more information about, national distracted driving awareness, do you know where to go? No.
Well, let's find out. Okay. You can check out the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. How about that? Yeah.
You can. I just just I just saw that. Yeah. There you go. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Yep. They have a whole bunch of different things that you can you can actually, have yourself and you can have your friends pledge not to drive distracted. They have a way for you to do that. You take the pledge to help protect lives, by never texting or talking on the phone while driving, being a good passenger, and speaking out if the driver in your car is distracted and encouraging your friends and family to drive phone free. Big deal.
I like it. I like it too. Be safe, everybody. Alright. Yeah.
Be safe. Let's get you some good news to get you going this morning. This is about Natalie Hodge and her Springer Spaniel named Fleur. K. They ran an ultra marathon around the island of Jersey, which is in the English Channel, all with the goal of raising money for Jersey Mind, which is a mental health charity.
Natalie covered 30 miles, with Fleur running a marathon distance of 26.2 miles before needing a break. Okay. So the dog ran a marathon and was like, that's enough, Natalie. And Natalie was like, I'm not done. I got a few more in me.
So the dog took a rest. She kept going. Together, they raised about $2,300 for the mental health charity, which I think is great. Yeah. Not all breeds of dogs can handle long distance running like this.
Spaniels have high energy levels, and Natalie trained with floor for months to make sure that they were both fit enough to to do the marathon. Natalie said it was quite a sight to see. His friends and family cheered her on at the finish, saying that Flor has helped me through a lot, since they started running together years ago. So pretty cool. I I don't know that I've ever heard of a dog finishing a marathon.
Before the human. Well, not necessarily before. They finished together, but they Oh, but he took a break. The dog stopped at 26.2, and Natalie went to third. You're just saying you've okay.
I'm just saying I've never heard of a dog running a marathon. Our dog runs a marathon every day. There's not 26.2 miles. She could. I bet she could.
Yeah. Our Jack Russell? Yeah. Yes. Alright.
That dog doesn't ever stop. She would run the marathon, and she'd be like, let's keep going. What else? What else? Do 26.2.
I bet she would. I bet she'd lay down before twenty six point two. She might need to drink water. Well, of course. And that I'm curious.
I know they have, like, fuel refueling stations. They must've had dog bowl down there. They had to have. For floor as well. Anyway, good news to get you going this morning.
We've gone all week without talking about your vegetable gardens that you made. Well, they're not done. So I think that's probably why. Do you have to do? Well, I gotta get dirt.
I gotta level them. I gotta get vegetables. I got I got a lot more to do. I have, the rest of the yard to finish. So it's it feels to me like just I've barely started the project.
Now I know I have built two garden beds. Yeah. And I've placed them, and I've built covers for them, and I've done some work. So don't get me wrong. I know I've done some progress, but I'm just not totally, like, ready to go.
Alright. Let's plan them. I gotta get dirt. I gotta want to plant them. I gotta figure out where to get, a whole bunch of dirt.
And I'm sure it's like the nursery or the the place where you go to get gravel and whatever. I just need some garden soil. So I've gotta I've gotta deal with the trailer so that I can then fill the trailer with dirt and then shovel the dirt into the wheelbarrow and then take the you know what I'm saying? I know. It's just so much.
I know. So it you know? Yeah. Okay. I built them, and they're in place.
But there's, like I feel like there's more work to do now. Yeah. I know. But that's the thing about life. There's always like, the work doesn't end.
Like, you finish one project, applaud yourself, and then keep going. Okay. This is, like, one step of the project. It's a it's a step in the process. It's great.
For sure. I have a lot more to do, though. And I'm excited to start planting. We haven't had a garden in A long time. Couple of years.
It's been a while. It's been a long time. Yeah. And we've had we had a garden in our backyard, and then we wanted to expand our garden once. And then we had a garden at your mom's house because she had Right.
A larger land to plant garden. And then we were like, yeah. This is too much work. Yeah. Now we're back at it again.
Now we wanna do vegetables again. But I think, I think it'll be better. You know, when we tried to do it in the back, I think it we it was just not right. It wasn't a space dedicated for it. It was it just didn't work.
No. It didn't work. Feel like this has a better chance of being successful. Agree with you. What are we gonna plant?
We made a list already. I know. I don't know where it is. We're gonna plant food. Cucumbers and zucchini.
Because you it's probably in on the kitchen table or something because that's the last place I saw it. I was in the middle of drawing out measurements for lumber and stuff, and you went, here's the list of vegetables that we wrote down, and I went, I'm not even gonna touch that thing. So I left it on the kitchen table. I don't know where it went from there. Rude.
I didn't wanna be responsible for it. You handed it off to me, like, here. You have this. I just want excited. That's the part that I'm excited about.
It's the planting. Right. I think that's gonna be fun. Have you seen the, because, mathematically, these are essentially square foot gardens. Yeah.
The beds that I have built. Right. They're three foot by six foot. And have you seen that cool device that'll show you, like, how far apart to plant your Yes. I think we might need to get one of those.
That's really cool. We absolutely do. I like that thing. Because we gotta know how far park space time everything. A lot of the guesswork.
Yeah. It does. So I'm gonna see if I can find that thing. I'm sure you can find it. K.
Onward and upward. Next project. No. Get dirt. Well the dirt.
I gotta get some cardboard. I gotta get the dirt. I gotta empty the trailer before I can get the dirt. It's just a lot. I wanna rent a tractor, I told you.
Yeah. Because I wanna clear out that whole back area. To put some composting? To build compost bins. Yeah.
I got I got a lot to do. I got a lot to do. Never ends, Josh. No. I know.
It's craziness. Hey. What about that basement we were gonna paint this winter? Never heard of it. We've been talking about sourdough and how it feels like everybody's making sourdough but us.
And I don't know if I want to make sourdough bread. You you've you said you were thinking about getting a starter. You've had a couple different people say, I'll give you a starter. Let's let's get you going. Right.
I was talking to our friend the other day who has made us sourdough before, and he's made delicious sourdough before. And I just was like, hey. I've been talking about some sourdough. And he was like, do you wanna start? And I said, I don't know.
I just want you to make me sourdough. Uh-huh. And he goes, no. It's easy. It's so easy.
You can do it. And I go, I just don't know if I can. And he goes, no. It's totally easy. You can totally just do sourdough.
He's like, I'll give you a start. Just say the word. Yeah. And he's like, how come over? His own flour.
I know. It does. This is wild. He's very into it. I know.
Which I think is awesome. He said, I'll come over and help you do it. I don't mind. Because if you don't want me to come over, I'll do it over the phone. He's like, I'm happy to help you.
Like, I don't know if I want to, though, bud. I just want you to make it for me. He's like, I can do that too. So we might have some sourdough coming Is that right? In one shape or another.
He has, I I believe Sunday is his bread making day. Is it? That's that's what I understand. Yeah. He's a like, that's his weekend thing.
Because he works. And so and it takes some time to make bread, and so he'll make loaves on on a Sunday and hang out. Good for him. I might be making bread on Sunday with my friend, Javi. Oh, okay.
He was kind of into it. I think he was excited that I was asking. I think he's like, no. He's no. Really.
I'll come help you. I'll come help you. You're gonna get you're gonna get into sourdough in a a whole new way. I and here's the thing I know about sourdough. When you're in sourdough, when you're making sourdough, you're in it.
And you're trying all kinds of things, and you're doing new recipes. And Okay. Somebody was making bread, like, sandwich bread. Like, you can make sourdough, like, how you see it in front of the loaf. But then she was like, no.
Now I've made, like, soft sourdough, like, sandwich bread. These these sourdough people are in it. Yeah. I don't know how involved I wanna be in sourdough. Maybe instead of getting a start, maybe he brings over the supplies you need and shows you the process.
And he said that too. So that then you can go, okay. Now I understand. Sourdough lifestyle. He said that too.
He goes, I can give you a start, or we can start it from scratch. Whatever you wanna do. I think you should you should get an idea of what the sourdough life is like before you say, I'm ready for the sourdough life. I don't think I am ready for the sourdough life is what I'm already saying. I'm saying I just want some sourdough bread.
I get it. Also, when I watched some of these people that are making sourdough bread Uh-huh. And they've committed their time and their energy to making sourdough, I go, I feel like they all have their lives in order. Everyone feels like they've got their life in order. I don't have time to do sourdough.
Talking about? What are you talking? Because they posted a video of them making bread. They have their life together. That's what it feels like sometimes.
What an interesting interpretation. I know. I watch fly fishing videos, and I don't go, that guy's got his life together. Like, no. He's enjoying the thing that makes him happy or whatever.
Like, you know? It's just another hobby because I've got so much time for that. I don't know. On my out what the sourdough life is about before you get into it. I yeah.
I think that's what I'll do. I think I'll call him and say, hey, buddy. Remember we talked about sourdough? He's gonna be like, yes. Let's do it.
He's pretty excited that I was even asking him about it. I think he wanted to share his hobby with me. Yeah. He was like, yeah. I'll make bread with you.
Let's do this. Right. And then it turned into, like, let's have, like, a party of bread and foods, and we'll have just a bunch of people hanging out. That's all I really want. It's just to hang out It's just to with some bread?
Yeah. And he was like, I'll do Different jams. I'll do a Cajun boil. Yeah. I'm like, okay.
I'm down. He was like, do you like crawfish? I'm like, no. I don't. I'm good with shrimp, though.
I like shrimp. And corn. Isn't there corn in there? Yeah. That's a different thing.
That's like the the milk can dinner thing. I think it's all kinda the same thing. The the crawfish boil, I think there's corn in that. I don't know about that. Yeah.
I do. I'll text him right now. Okay. Well, anyway, let me know all your sourdough timeline so I can be prepared, to eat sourdough. Don't do the big sigh.
Waiting. Just keep waiting. Alright. I'm waiting. Hold your breath.
No. I don't think I will. Life is funny, isn't it? I guess. Yeah.
We have gone through life now together, you and me, for twenty two years. Years. Twenty two years, we've, known each other because we met in o three, and, we were married in o five. So, yeah, it's it's been twenty years this year Yeah. That we've been married.
Twenty twenty some odd we've known each other. Yeah. We've had little kids forever and ever and ever. Lately, as our kids are now both older, we find ourselves alone more and more and more. And and not that we're, like, there aren't people around.
They just don't hang out. Like, they're like Beck is working and then Yeah. You know, hooking up home. Completely different than ours. He still lives with us, but his he's working, and his schedule's totally off on ours.
And Emery is 15. Right. So she's off with her friends doing stuff. And if she's home, then she's like curriculars and all that. Yeah.
But then she's like Hanging out with you guys? Why? Why? I'm gonna go and do my own thing. Go listen to my music and Yeah.
Whatever. Yeah. Fine. But it's weird. What a weird time of life because we have just always had kids around.
Right. And now we're like, what do we do with I'm just doing hobbies. I me too, Willie. We're hanging out together. I've been tying hundreds of flies, which is great.
The last we've the last couple of months, we've had dinner by ourselves more than we've eaten with our kids, and that's a new interesting development in our life. Yeah. We just sat and stared at each other. Are you talking about last night? No.
No. No. No. Because we ate with our with Emory last night. Yeah.
The and last month, I said. I'm trying to think it was, like, a couple weeks ago that you and I just ate dinner by ourselves, looking at each other going, how's your dinner over there? Well, we have that long dining hall table where we sit at different ends. Who does that? I don't know.
You sit four miles away from me and enjoy your dinner. That's that's sort of scenario has always bugged me. Like, that's not a real thing. No. Right?
Like, no one has ever sat so far away from the other person they're eating with. I don't even want to know you have food. You be down there. Yeah. Don't even talk to me.
My point of this conversation is, like, it's a good thing we like each other because we're gonna be alone more and more and more and more and more. Like me? I do. What? Most of the time.
I'd say a good 80% of the time. Uh-huh. And what's that other 20 like? Just quiet. Uh-huh.
Just me avoiding you. Rude. Silent treatment. No. I don't do that.
Mhmm. Somehow, I think you do. I don't Like, I'm just gonna ignore this human being for 20% of every day. I told you, even when I'm mad, I still want you around. Don't talk to me.
Yeah. No. That makes no sense. Just still be around. It's that just makes no sense.
It does. I still want you in the same room. Just don't talk to me. Yeah. Okay.
It makes total sense. Yeah. It's real comfortable as well. It's You don't mind. Right?
Right. Right. Right. Right. Yourself anyway.
It's not that big of a deal. I will probably be oblivious to the fact that you're upset. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. You'll be like, I don't even want you around, but also don't leave.
And I'll be like, hi. What are you doing? You know, I'm just overhearing my thinking my thinking thoughts. No. No.
You know. Because you come in and you go, is everything okay? And I'm like, mhmm. Nothing up, I don't know if I believe that. Yeah.
I never do. I'll go, you're right. Everything's cool. Everything's totally fine. Yeah.
It's normal. It's normal behavior. Just know then now that we're alone more and more and more. If I'm quiet, it's not because I'm mad at you. It's just because I've run out of things to say.
Oh, okay. Which is okay. If we're talking all morning, and then we're just eating dinner alone at night. Yeah. Well, I also I I like that, we talked yesterday a little bit about a little bit about love on the spectrum, and that is something that is conveyed by, by their relationship coach when she started helping them.
She said, look. There are gonna be times in a conversation where quiet moments happen, and that's okay. You don't have to feel like, feel like you need to fill that silence. It's okay to say, hey. I'm having a good time.
I just don't have anything to talk about right now. Right. And they can they will, like, regurgitate that in real time and say the words, but that's fine. That's that's totally acceptable. You can be sitting in silence and be content.
That's okay. When we're eating dinner. Mhmm. Just content. That's right.
I like to eat. You do. You never talk when we're eating. I'm there to eat. I'm not here to conversate.
You have a goal in mind. I have a project in front of me. It's this plate of food. I'm gonna consume it, and then we can talk after I'm done. Well, Josh, I hope you still like me because we've got a lot of alone time in the next years of our lives.
Yep. Wanna keep hanging out? Sure. Alright. You?
Yeah. Alright. I'm in. Good deal. We've talked about this before.
When I was a kid, I was a latchkey kid. You were a TV kid? I was a Nintendo kid when I was inside. When I was outside, I was a mud kid. I was a bike kid when I was outside.
Was a bike kid. I was also a neighborhood, run around with the other kids in the neighborhood kid. Yeah. I did that. I did that too.
I feel like what we talk about in our life, I've watched a lot of movies. I watched a lot of movies when I was a kid. You had barely seen Star Wars, like, fifteen years ago. 20 well, I'm not 20. What did you say?
Twenty o six. Is that what you said? Twenty o six? Yeah. It was after, I watched them with Beck when he was, like, three.
So what is that? 02/2007 Yeah. Is when I finally got around to watching all of Star Wars. Star Wars. But I also hadn't seen Indiana Jones.
Right. I was not a big movie kid. Like like, we will because when we would go to the movie rental place, we would go to Walker's, because I grew up on the West Side Of Idaho Falls. So we would go to Walker's, to get all of my horses. I don't know what that means.
Yeah. It means it means, I've been here a long time is what that means. It's now a Walgreens, over by the Albertsons on the West Side of town. Anyway, when, when we would go there, I rented video games. I didn't rent movies.
I rented and played Nintendo games. That makes sense. Because my brother did that same thing. Yeah. But my brother also watched movies.
So I wasn't really big on that. I just wasn't. And Shame. I mean, I remember one of my birthday parties, there was a we had a little TV cart thing somehow. I don't know what it was with a VCR on it, maybe, is what we had downstairs.
I don't know what it was. But, anyway, we had Star Wars playing on that at one of my birthday parties in elementary school, but I wasn't watching it or paying attention. I don't even know why it was on. I couldn't tell you. It was, but I don't know why, and I never really I wasn't into it.
I was super into Top Gun when I saw Top Gun, and then I wanted to be a fighter pilot along with every other eight year old boy. And so that was, that was a huge deal. But that was, like, really it. I didn't do a lot of movies, and I I watched a lot of TV later on, but not until I was in, like, mid to late teens. Since we've been married, I've introduced you to some things.
For example, dirty rotten scoundrels. I don't know if I've actually finished it. Raising Arizona. With Nicholas Cage. Yeah.
I've seen it. Love that movie. We gotta write that down. I couldn't quote it or anything. I don't need to.
I love that movie. That movie is awesome. I'm gonna write it down to show that one to our kids. Okay. The reason I bring this up is because I'm I'm reading a book by Cary Elwes who is an actor in the princess bride, plays Wesley in the princess bride.
And he was talking about how he was working with so many different people on the show, like Billy Crystal and a guy named Michael Palin who is, he was on the Monty Python circuit. So, Michael Palin was also in a movie called A Fish Called Wanda. Yeah. Which you talk about a lot. I love that movie so much, and I have yet to get you to watch that with me.
Yeah. And I it's so funny, Josh. It's got Kevin Kline in it and John Cleese and Jamie Lee Curtis. Those are all great people. I know because that movie is great.
Okay. Please watch that movie with me. Every time I say, hey. Let's watch that movie, you go, oh, I don't know. It's so good.
It's so good. Please watch that movie with me. Please. What else? I mean, is that What do you mean what else?
The only movie where you're like, you haven't seen this, and this is a must see. No. No. No. I think I've shown you, like, drowning Mona was one that I've read.
With all the Hugo's? Yeah. Okay. Yes. Yeah.
It's got Bette Midler in it. Uh-huh. And I can't think of any of the actors' names right now. What's his name, Affleck. Right?
Oh, Casey. Affleck. Yeah. Ben Affleck's brother. Right.
Yeah. The yeah. There's somebody else in there that's important, but I can't remember who. Oh, Danny DeVito is in it. Uh-huh.
Okay. I'm reading this book, though. It's called As You Wish by Cary Elway, and he just talks about the making of the princess bride. But you know the guy that plays Vicini, the Sicilian? Yeah.
They wanted Danny DeVito to play that part. Oh, that's interesting. And the whole time, the guy Wallace Shawn is playing that part. The whole time, he's just, like, going, Danny DeVito would have been better. Danny DeVito would have been better.
I don't think so. I think he was fighting. Either. I know. The whole time he had this imposter syndrome about how he wasn't good enough and he was gonna get fired.
On the line? Yeah. I know. He did great. I know.
He should be proud of that. I hope he is proud today. I hope he is too. Inconceivable. Right.
I do not think Okay. Please watch A Fish Called Wanda with me. Please. Is it about fishing? No.
Wow. It's about a heist. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's good.
Came out in 1988. Yeah. I know. It's so good. Alright.
I'll think about it. I'll just watch it alone then like everything else I do in life. Do that thing where you turn it on. I'll just stand behind the couch with my arms crossed and then eventually sit down. Do that.
Yeah. Start it when you're in the middle of a project, and then you walk by and be like, what's that? That looks interesting. Alright. I'll sit down.
Josh. Yo. If you could describe yourself or if you overheard somebody describing yourself, what three or four words would you want them to say? Like straight up adjectives? Yeah.
Let's unpack our adjectives. Schoolhouse Rock style. Oh, I style. Would they would they be talking about, like, character traits, or are you talking about, like, he's a bald man? No.
No. No. No. No. No.
Like, character traits, not physical attributes. I'm just trying to make my way through it. Would you want somebody to say, he was bald? No. Like Is that how you want to be remembered?
No. Okay. These are things not what you say. Okay. If if you overheard somebody talking about you to somebody else, what are the three or four character traits that you would want them to say about you?
Does that make sense? No. I understand. Yeah. But, again, it like, I would I would hope that my, impression that I leave with any kind of person is a positive one.
Right. I wouldn't want anybody to be like, he's a total jerk. Yeah. I know. Nobody wants that.
Right. So don't be a total jerk. I I definitely, would hope that I, I am a positive person. I I bring, joy and and, like, I I feel good when I've been around him. Like, I think that would be I I think that's important.
I feel good when I'm around you. Yeah? Yeah. You're nice to me. Good deal.
I I would like to think that, that there's some kindness in there. Okay. So you would want somebody to say? He's kind. Kind.
Yeah. I think that's important. K. I mean, there's a list of 12 that's really easy to rattle off because I've memorized it and said it a bajillion times. Trustworthy?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All those. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, embodying that would be would be important. Do you wanna know mine? Sure.
Okay. You didn't even ask. Well, I assumed you were gonna tell me, so I didn't think I had to work that hard. I would want people to say I'm funny. Okay.
Or fun, I guess. More fun than funny, I would say. I've got some quips every now and then, but I wouldn't say that I'm all the time funny. But I am I would want people say to say that I'm fun because I am. I think that's the time funny.
No. Just I would also want people to say I'm kind. I would I would really want people to say I'm easygoing, but I'm not easygoing. No. You're high strung.
I am high strung. I don't want to be. Well, then don't be. I'm trying. I'm working on it with my therapist.
Okay. Settle down. Calm yourself. I'm trying and dependable, I think, is a good squad. Also, I think it's important for you to be, what's the word I'm looking for?
I don't know. Punctual. I wouldn't want to be described like that, though. She's punctual. No.
That's dumb. Okay. Like, I think that's important in my real life. Like, I want to be on time because I don't wanna waste people's time. But What about if they said you were, arrogant?
No. That's not. That's not aggressive. No. Or disrespectful, judgmental, disloyal, reckless.
Reckless? I told you my middle name is danger. It isn't. She is so reckless. Middle name is runs from danger.
We've discussed that too. Bossy. I don't think I'm bossy. My kids would say different. Lazy, manipulative, manipulative, deceitful, jealous.
Why are you saying only bad ones? I just looked up negative character traits because I wanted to throw a bunch of bad ones at you. I really wanna be described as easygoing. I'm trying to work on that. It's going great.
Is it how's humility doing? Good. Okay. Courageous. No.
I don't That's a that's a good one. I like that word. Yeah. But I wouldn't say I'm that. What happened to danger is my middle name there, courage?
Sometimes. Uh-huh. Okay. Alright. I think loyalty is important.
Oh, yeah. That's a good trait. And I think whether it's, people or ideas or values, intuitions, like, those kinds of things, I think loyalty means a lot. Yeah. Yeah.
Those are all good. Yeah. Yeah. But fun? Come on.
Number one. She was fun. What about confident? How do you feel about that word? Yeah.
Yeah. I embody that to the full extent. Change your middle name from danger to confidence. Chantel confidence. That's it.
See? Strong. Yeah. Big news in the science world. I don't know if you saw this.
They de extincted Which is a fun word. That's a real word. Yeah. The dire wolf. Which is, the dire wolf is a large wolf.
It is. It is, quite big. Yep. How long was it extinct for? Let's see.
It died out twelve thousand five hundred years ago. That's, quite a while ago. It lives again as the world's first successfully de extincted animal. So talk to me about this. What did they do?
How did they do this? Do you know? Yes. They took DNA from a 13,000 year old tooth and a 72,000 year old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies. They made three of them.
Dude. They are living on a 2,000 acre site at an undisclosed location Yeah. Enclosed by protected. A 10 feet tall zoo grade fencing. K.
They're monitored by security personnel Uh-huh. Drones and live camera feeds. The facility says that they've been certified by the American Humane Society, and they're also registered with the US Department of Agriculture. Okay. Yeah.
So, essentially, they used, DNA from two dire wolf fossils. Uh-huh. And they were able to assemble genomes and sets of genetic information, and they compared those with living DNA samples from wolves, jackals, and foxes Okay. And put together the genetic variants such as the white coats and long and thick fur. Uh-huh.
And So they figured out what made the direwolf special and they or made it unique in in its DNA, and they were able to replicate that, I I guess. Is that what I'm hearing? That's what I'm also hearing. But then it's like, if they can do this, what else what else are they gonna be doing? Next.
Right? Because I know that they're trying to de extinctify the mammoth. De extinctify. Yeah. Is that the right word?
I think you added some extra. Here's the thing. The they say the dire wolf was about the same size as the largest modern forms of gray wolf, the Yukon wolf, and the Northwestern wolf. So it is not necessarily huge huge. There were bigger wolves than even the dire wolf.
Like, oh, yeah. Yeah. For sure. And as a matter of fact, I believe it was I'm trying to think. I knew the name of the, like, the huge wolf.
What was it? I don't know. I I was just reading something that says, like, yes. They're they wanna do that. They wanna do the same thing to the wooly mammoth.
But Yeah. Like, how far are we going back? What else are we gonna de extinct? The dodo bird? They're they're I believe they found dodos.
Did they really? Know. Maybe. They're the The saber tooth tiger? Tiger.
That's the one they were talking about. Are we going back to dinosaurs? I don't know. Guys, I've seen these movies. I know.
It doesn't work. The the largest wolf in history was twice the size of the dire wolf. Really? What is what was the name of that thing? I'm gonna spell it for you.
It has the word epic in it. Oh, epic wolf. Well, they called it Hayden's bone crushing dog is what they the street name. That's a good band. It's a metal band.
Bone crushing dog. Yeah. Hayden's bone crushing dog. Yeah. Epicyon Haidenii is the science Hey.
What's up, everybody? We're Epicyon Haiden. Right. Yeah. These were eight feet long, and they stood nearly three feet tall at the shoulders.
Way. Yeah. And weighed between two hundred and twenty and two hundred and seventy six pounds. The largest one that was ever found, weighed in an an astounding three hundred and seventy pounds. Bro.
When did they live? December ago. Somewhere between that. I'm kinda nervous. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. They were roughly the size of a large grizzly bear or African lion. Oh, no, guys. Yeah.
By contrast, dire wolves were about half that size. Okay. I just read that they they're on track to introduce the first wooly mammoth calves. Yeah. That's looking like that's gonna happen in 2028.
Wow. And then it's gonna be the T rex. Is it? Yeah. You know that's what their intention is.
Come on. Don't even say it's not. I've seen these movies, you guys. Let's not do this. I'm scared of dinosaurs.
You are? No. Don't be Because danger's your middle name. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey. I need to ask you a question.
What's up? If somebody says to you, hey. You clean up real nice. Is that a compliment, or is that a backhanded compliment? Yeah.
I guess it depends on who's saying it. It's an old person thing. I don't think I've heard a young person say that. Okay. The person who said this to me was 50.
Okay. It's not that old person then. Yeah. I I was trying to think the last time I heard it was probably from someone in their eighties. Okay.
No. This person was 50. Okay. And I go, thanks? Yeah.
I mean, I would say Does that Are are they are they saying way to put in some effort today? Correct. Yeah. Like, oh I put in effort every day, but today, you notice? Normally, I look like a slobola, but today A slobola.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Strange way to say that. A slobola.
Like, you you it was like coleslaw, slaw, and then bola. That's what you said. Slob, bola. Interesting. Okay.
Now I'm not gonna disagree that most days, I kinda stumble out of bed, and I go, yeah. This looks comfortable. I'll wear this. Uh-huh. And I don't put a lot of effort into fashion.
I wear what's in expensive fashion. Wearing when you got this, sort of compliment? So the compliment was given when I had actually, like Put forth effort. I feel like I put a little effort in. Put before the more effort.
Unusual. Okay. Yes. Alright. But, also, again, it's not like I'm going around.
I do my hair and do my makeup. I I You're not a slobolo. Yeah. Exactly. Right.
I don't feel like I am. Yeah. So when she said this to me, I went, thanks, I suppose. Okay. Because I think the only time I've ever heard it is like, it it's some sort of event that requires you to be dressed up more than usual.
Yes. And so you're in a suit or you're in some sort of, you know, nice Nicer attire. Shirt or something. You're at a wedding or you're at a funeral or some sort of event where you you're dressed up a little bit more than usual. Right.
And someone sees you and goes, well, you sure clean up nice. And you're like, I clean up every day. Like, what are you talking about? I'm a clean person. A slobola.
Exactly. Right. Come on. And that's the comeback now. Anytime somebody says it and go, oh, because I'm a slobola every other day.
Slobola. Yeah. They really enunciate the two syllables. A slobola? And they go, what is that?
You wouldn't know. Yeah. You don't get it. And then you walk away. Yeah.
Only people that aren't slobolas get it. And if you happen to be be wearing something with a longer tail, like a shirt, you could Oh, you could like a cape? Yeah. Uh-huh. Not a cape.
That's what I should wear the next time I see her really dress up and be like, what about now? Do I clean up now? Or yeah. There was one time, I was living with some roommates in college. Mhmm.
And my roommate had gotten ready for the day, and our other roommate said, woah. You look great. Did you shower today? You go, yeah. It wasn't even did you you clean up night.
It was like, woah. You really put in some effort and howard. Yeah. But they live with you, so they've seen the worst. Not me.
They didn't say it to me. Oh. They said it to my roommate I see. And friend. Poor thing.
I don't know. I don't know if it's complimentary. I can't decide. I don't think it I I think it has good intentions. I think it's well intended.
I think it is, it is not the best thing you could say. I think it'd be better to just say, wow. You really look nice. That's more than enough. Yeah.
I don't think you have to throw in this, like, well, normally, every other day, you look like a junk pile, but today, you look like fancy. Good on you. I don't think we need to go that far. You know what I'm saying? Junk pile.
Ouch. Well, right. That's what it that's what it sounds like. Right? Like, oh, you clean up nice.
Because, every other day, you look like you're covered in dirt. Yeah. But now that I can see your face, you look good. You look great. Yeah.
That's that's rude. It's a little bit backhanded. That's what I think too, but it's okay. I'm not gonna hold on to it. What?
Yeah. You are. Yeah. You are. Guess what I found out yesterday.
What's that? You know that I'm not a robot thing? The thing I constantly have to tell a robot that I'm not a robot? Correct. So that little button that you push doesn't actually check whether you've clicked the checkbox.
What it actually does is monitor your cursor's movement as it's believed that a robot's movement wouldn't have some randomness unlike humans. Okay. Except that when I just tap the box on my phone, there's no cursor movement. So nope. Doesn't check out.
Yeah. It does. Because even on your phone, you've got a little bit of a movement. There's no cursor. I go bunk, and then it goes check mark because it's touch reactive.
What are you saying? I've got false information? I'm saying on a computer where I have to move a mouse maybe. But if I'm using a touch screen, whether that's on my Surface, my phone, a tablet, whatever, and I hit that little button, there's no cursor movement. What are you saying?
I'm saying that's not how it works. But what are you saying? Just that. Okay. What if I told you that it also checks your cookies and device history?
So maybe that's what it does on your touch screens. No. I don't leave I don't leave my cookies laying around. Yeah. That's what I do with them.
I don't know. Maybe. Guess. Sure. Why not?
Okay. Super. What else about it? That's all I ate. That's all I ate.
Okay. There are several different Debunked me. Well, so there are several different CAPTCHA is, is what it's called, completely automated public touring test to tell computers and humans apart. That's what it means. Okay.
CAPTCHA. Okay. Say it again? CAPTCHA, c a p t c h a. Completely completely automated public touring test to tell computers and humans apart.
I'm glad they just shortened that to CAPTCHA. It verifies that a user is human and not a row or not a robot. There are several different ones that do it. There's the checkbox. That's the easiest.
I don't like the one that gives me jarbled up hieroglyphics that I have to decipher and retype and get wrong four times, and then it goes, you get one more attempt. And I'm like, make it so I can read it. Or the one that says, how many bikes? Click on all of the bikes. Yeah.
I don't like those either. Sliver of a bike tire in the one picture. Right. And you go, does that count? Right.
Am I supposed to click that? Click all the traffic lights. And I go But there's a bottom of a traffic light. Does the poll count, or is it just the lights? Right.
See, then as a human, I have to overthink all of this. Yep. So there's that. Yep. The other ones I don't really care care for are the slide to solve the puzzle ones.
Yeah. Not a big fan. No. Those are the worst. Hey.
How about you ask a robot to do any of that stuff instead of asking a human? Yeah. Why not put in something that says only a robot will fall for this? Yeah. Yeah.
I'm fired up now. Robots versus humans. Who's gonna win? I don't know. I think they should make movies about that.
Like, at least a few. I haven't seen any. What movies? You haven't seen any movies where computers slash machines are against humans? Name one.
Terminator, any of them. Oh, I've seen Terminator. Yeah. And we win, didn't we? Matrix.
I've seen one of them. I've seen one Matrix. You've only seen the first Matrix? And revolutions. Revolution.
I might have not paid attention Uh-huh. And some of them. Have you paid attention in the first one? Yes. That was not confident.
And you're on me about not watching movies, and you haven't even seen the pictures. Brain can't compute. Cannot compute. What what just happened? You went robo.
Yeah. I did. Alright. Would you rather this or that? There you go.
Okay. I thought there was something serious coming. No. Okay. I just needed a minute I just needed a minute to move my mice around so I could push the buttons.
Good job. Well excited about stuff that wasn't even happening. I was being held. I know. My horses were being held.
Horses held. Would you rather Well, hold on now. If you tell somebody to hold your horses and then you take care of the situation, do you say, release your horses? No one ever follows through. That's true.
Hold your horses. And now you may proceed with your horses. How long do I have to hold? Right. You may Release.
Release your horses. Release the hounds. Go ahead. Okay. Would you rather be stranded in the jungle with a spatula or What for?
Be stranded in the jungle with a hand mirror. For what? You pick which one. Spatula. Spatula, hand mirror.
Why? I'll tell you in a minute. Where are we at? In a jungle. Lahungla.
That's right. We're in the jungle. I'm taking my spatula. Why? Why what are you taking?
And then I'll tell you. I'm taking the hand mirror. Why? Because you wanna look at yourself? No.
Because it's so vain. No. Because I'm gonna use it to start a fire with the sun, and you can signal planes. Okay. And Did you say you're lost in the jungle?
Stranded. Or you just okay. You're stranded. Alright. You can use it as a way to, distract the animals.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a trifold. Okay.
What's, what's probably I gotta see. What's the most common jungle disease. Well, why are you taking a spatula? Because, in jungle and tropical regions, the most common diseases include malaria, dengue fever, and a few others. Do you know what carries malaria?
Mosquitoes. Guess what I got? What? A spatula of flyswatter. Guess what you got?
Malaria. No. Yeah. Because the hand mirror can also work as the swaddler. It doesn't have holes.
It doesn't need to have holes. That's You can still swat them away with the mirror. No. Not as quick. You got too much drag on your mirror.
Plus, then your mirror's broken. And then guess what else? Can't signal anything with a broken mirror. Yes. You can.
All you have is shards. Yeah. You can still use shards to signal. You've chosen poorly. You have.
Would you rather this or that? Something I like to do is to watch gender reveal fails. Right. Because you're not a big fan of the gender reveal party. I mean, it's fun.
I just I I get what the point is, but, like, it's more fun because I I don't know if it's more fun. Here's what happens. You have, like, we're having a baby, surprise announcement stuff, And then we're having a baby that's a gender, surprise party. And then we're having a baby shower party. And then we had a baby.
Come see it. I'm all about celebrating. There's a lot, though. Celebrations. Isn't it?
Am I wrong? No. What are you saying? Right? A lot.
It's a lot sometimes. Some of these gender reveal parties have been known to start wildfires. That is true. So Because people like to shoot at things that blow up near weeds. Things and here's the thing that I don't like about like, I don't mind if you have a gender reveal party.
What I don't enjoy is when you try to do something that's gonna be viral worthy. Right? So people do stuff because they're like, I wanna get the biggest I wanna do the biggest most surprising because I wanna do it all for the gram. Right. And I don't care for that.
What I did find the other day was a video that I thought was adorable, and it was just a a mom and a dad, a new new parents to be. And they had their gender in an envelope, and they went to a diner. Mhmm. And they told their waitress, that their baby gender was in the envelope. And if it was a boy, they were gonna make a peanut butter shake.
If it was a girl, she was to make a strawberry milkshake. So they gave her the envelope, and the waitress made the appropriate milkshake and gave it to them. And they said again, if it's strawberry, it's a girl. If it's peanut butter, it's a boy. K.
And they took a sip, and it was strawberry. And it was adorable. It was so cute. It was just the two of them. See, that's really special.
It was so cute. That's them finding out, which I think is like, it's one thing to to do something like that or to go to the appointment or whatever it is and you find out. That's exciting for the parents. Yeah. Dragging everybody else into it.
It's like, just tell me so I can go shopping for a gift, but I'll bring you to the baby shower in a few months. I don't need this. I thought it was just adorable. Anyway, Chris very cute. That was involved in making the milkshake.
Like, when she delivered the milkshake, she could leave and hardly bear her excitement. She was like, oh. It was cute. I think that's really Cute idea. That's really fun.
Yeah. And, do that. Do more of that. Is it the end of the show? It is the end of the show.
Aw, man. I was just getting started. Oh, sorry, bud. What? Sorry?
Sorry. Okay. Sorry, bud. Well, have a good rest of your Wednesday, I guess. We'll be back tomorrow morning, and we'll do it again.
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You can, I mean, you can put it on your TV and just let it play while you're doing whatever it is you're doing? Vacuuming so you don't have to hear it. Well, that's rude. I just I mean, you could pause it, do your vacuuming, and then unpause it. I've just done that before where I've turned on a movie, and then I'm like, okay.
Now I'm gonna vacuum, so I can't hear any of it, which makes no sense. Like when I'm watching a show and then the vacuum comes rolling down the hall into another room, and it's just like, I'll just turn off the show then. I can't hear anything. You just have to push pause temporarily. No.
I'll just find something else to do. Or maybe that's a sign that you should get up and help. Oh, is that what it is? Mhmm. Man, with the things we could unpack right now.
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