Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Monday, January 20, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
It’s cold outside but that doesn’t stop us from coming to work, Chantel thinks she’s got the thighs for breaking watermelon, Josh doesn’t think about pickles that often, what do you do when you finish binging your show, Chantel has auction anxiety, what are all the chunks in the couch cushions, Chantel's big scary VR adventure, you can volunteer to translate cursive for the National Archives, gardening 101 tips, there’s only two football games left, Chantel’s taking an ASL class, and you gotta earn that social media time.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
2:35 - It's cold outside
6:01 - Watermelon thighs
11:26 - Good News to Get You Going
14:29 - Mr. Picklesworth
21:05 - What to binge watch next
24:06 - Chantel's auction anxiety
29:24 - Chunks in the couch cushions
35:55 - Chantel's big scary VR adventure
41:08 - Can you read cursive?
45:50 - Gardening 101 tips
50:18 - There are only two more football games
56:12 - Chantel's ASL class
1:01:18 - Would You Rather This or That
1:03:54 - Get steppin' for screen time
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Full show transcript:
This is Wake Up Classy 97, the podcast. It's a replay of today's full show in about an hour or so. It's Monday, January 20th. On today's show, it's cold outside. Baby, it's cold outside.
Well, that because this stuff's over there, homie. Stop us from coming to work. Yeah. I know. You were all like, I want a snow day.
Oh, I wanna stay home because it's cold. Yeah. Not today. I know. I think I've got the thighs for breaking watermelon.
Do you? I do. Them a watermelon breaking thighs. Watermelon breaking thighs. Gee.
Josh doesn't think about pickles that often. It's not as often as social media thinks I do. I think you probably do. I don't. Pickles quite often.
I don't can. I don't pickle. I'm not a pickle guy. You're not pickled. You're not pickled to be tied?
Fit to be tied? Pick No. What do you do when you finish binging your show? Because I need to know. Apparently, you're crying.
Yeah. I'm I don't know what to do with myself. Myself. You kept going. Were you gonna keep rhyming?
What do you do when you finish binging your show? Because I need to know. I don't know what to do because I don't know where to go for the new show. I didn't do that intentionally. I'm sad about that.
I have auction anxiety. Yeah. What'd you bid on? Nothing. Are you sure?
Move at all. Do we owe a bunch of money? No. I didn't bid at all. What are all the chunks in the couch cushions?
I don't know. I don't know. We're gonna find out. You're gonna find out. My big scary VR adventure.
Oh. Mhmm. She just got sick and took it off and then laid down Yeah. And died. That's it.
I'm just gonna lay here. You can volunteer to translate cursive for the National Archives, and I'll find out. Yeah. I registered. Paul Revere's secrets.
1 or 2 of them, anyway. It's not a anyway, you'll see what happens with that terrible joke. Gardening 101 tips? Those are good ones too. Good ones.
Yep. There's only 2 football games left. And you're gonna watch them both. Nobody cares about it. Sunday, football Sunday.
Blah. I'm taking an ASL class and What what does this mean in ASL? What does it mean? I love you. Aw.
That's nice. And you gotta get steppin' to earn that social media time. Steppin'. Steppin'. Get steppin'.
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You know the things to do. You do. So go do them and enjoy the show. Boy, is it cold out outside. Bird.
I mean, it's it's bad when when the truck has a hard time starting and then, doesn't even get warm on the drive in. Normally, I'll get about halfway here, and I can start to feel some heat. I mean, it's only it's a short drive Yeah. To the studio. But, how was it in your ride?
You've got heated seats. Well, I have a diesel engine, and so I was worried that it because sometimes diesel engines struggle in the gulf. For sure. So it did okay. It was putt putt putter and trying to start this morning.
My heated seat got nice and toasty, but my I bet that was okay. Didn't ever warm up. I stopped at a stoplight with my I I put my hood on my hoodie on, and I was wearing gloves. And I was like, I'm really cold in here. It was my my thermometer or whatever on the dashboard said it was negative 6.
Oh my goodness. Which is wild. Real weather number. Let me tell you right now because I I was curious about this. Pocatello has got a negative one temperature right now, but with wind chill and everything, it's negative 5.
Oh my gosh. Negative 13 in Idaho Falls, with a negative 15 wind chill. Ugh. Negative 14 in Rexburg. Extremely cold with a negative twenty 7 with a wind chill right now.
Gross. That's wild. And, of course, we do have some school closures because it is very, very cold, these frigid temperatures across eastern Idaho, today. So what I show right now on the list by the way, this is east eastidaho news.com. You can see this updated list.
We have a delay for West Jefferson School District 253. They've got a 2 hour delayed start. As far as closures, Alturas Preparatory and International Academies are both closed. Blackfoot Charter and Blackfoot School District 55 are closed. Clark County School District 161, Fremont School District 250 t 215 are both closed.
Idaho Science and Technology Charter School, Snake River Montessori, and Teton School District 401 all closed today. So Lucky. That's what we know so far. Again, that information is from eastidahonews.com. They have an updated list.
So if you wanna get the most current list of school closures, that's where you're gonna find that. That's where we get it and pass it on to you anyway. So, if you wanna check it on demand anytime, eastidoneews.com has it. Stay warm. Bundle up.
Bundle up. I had to wear my real cold. I had to wear my big coat today. I have, a a little, like, one of those thread spots in my jeans that people pay good money for. Mine are just worn out.
And when the when the cold air hits it, oh. Oh. I don't care for that. Chili, chili pillows. Oh, I was I was hoping, maybe I should have worn some thermals or something.
You should have. It's cold. It is very, very cold. So, do your best to stay warm. It's cold out there.
Be careful. I know some folks work outside. I can't imagine. You can't do that. Imagine.
Get a new job. Get get a different job. Thank you to those of you that do work outside. Do your best to to bundle up and take extra layers and, and, stay warm. Find places to stay warm today.
It is very, very cold. And that's all I have to say about that. Yeah. Bundle up. Bundle up.
Ladies and gentlemen I can say good morning officially. Good morning. It's Josh and Chantel. Here we are. You are looking for a Guinness World Record.
I'm always trying to. I think it'd be cool to have the thing framed on the wall. I've got a spot on the wall right here I hear you. That I'm just reserving for it. Because you get that cool framed plaque make one.
Just a pretenses one. That is not the same. I get it. I'm not a world record poser. Well No.
I want a real one. Listen. I have just the one for you because this is something we actually talked about a while ago. And you were like, yeah. I could do that.
I could absolutely do that. And then all summer long, I saw these, and I was like, let's have an opportunity. Let's give you a try. I don't even remember. Know what I'm talking about?
Oh, the most watermelons crushed with your thighs Oh, yeah. I think I could crush 1. How many do you think you could crush? I don't know. I wanna start with 1.
And then? And then see how it goes. I don't know. The world record, the female world record Yeah. Is a woman in Turkey, and she crushed 5 watermelons in 60 seconds.
It's 1 every, every few seconds. She has a line. She's on, like, a tarp, and there's a line of watermelons on either side of her. And then she crushes the watermelon, wipes off her thighs, scoots on down the line, crushes, wipe I think she she could've done more. She's got she's got an inefficient machine.
What how would you do it? You have to wipe. Otherwise, it's gonna be too slippery. I don't know the I don't know the answer to that. Those things are gonna pop out of there.
I feel like when I've seen people break world records, they might have, assistance or a team involved, or they have things prepped Okay. To where prepped? I know, but she's got a lot of time wiping and then sliding. She needs to she's doing one every 12 seconds. She needs to tighten that up.
She can get more than 5. How many do you think you could do? I don't know. I really I don't know if I can do one. I have confidence that I feel like I if I squeeze my thighs hard enough, I could pop 1.
I think I could pop a watermelon. Then we have to try this. You keep saying you can do it, and then I say, there's a watermelon. Let's give this a go. And you go, I don't I don't know.
Waste the food. Oh my. I don't I don't think you can do it. I just don't. Prove yourself.
In listen. In in all the schematic of things you need to be successful at anything, one of them is a strong support system. And you're saying, I don't think you can do it. Because I need to see it. I need not a motivator for me.
Bro, I have been so motivating. Every time I see a watermelon, I go, hey. Let's give this a try. You've been encouraging Yes. But you have not been motivated, and you've not been a strong support system.
I don't think you can do it. Let's just make you a fake framed record for the guy who said, I won a world record more than anybody else the most amount of times. That there you go. Yeah. Achieved.
Right. See? It's not that I don't think you can do it. You just said, I don't think you can do it. Kind of reverse psychology, I was trying.
I know. And I I told you that's not a motivator for me. That's how you work. I don't rise to the challenge of someone going, you don't you can't do that. And I go, you're right.
I'm I'm not even gonna do it then. Let's just get a watermelon and try. I'll try it with you. It's not watermelon season for 1. So there you gotta wait till it's watermelon season.
I understand that. I saw a guy over the weekend Uh-huh. Break a world record for jump roping. And? It was, like, 286 jumps in, like, 30 seconds.
I'm not even a lot of jumps. It's insane to watch. I don't know how you can get that many jumps. Wild to watch. 30 seconds?
Yeah. 286 jumps? It's crazy. The dude is he is in speed rope mode, and I he's moving so fast. Like, that guy deserves the world record.
Well, yeah, they all deserve the world record. Around on a tarp on your side squeezing 5 watermelons feels a little lackluster. She needs a better system. Alright. She's not on her side.
How's she doing it? She's on her on her bottom, and she's just scooting. Yeah. Then she needs a better system. And then she puts them between her legs.
She squeezes, wipe, squeeze. No. She needs a better system. I thought it was a pretty good system. I think she could I think she could break her own record.
If 5 60 is the record, I think she can do better. The this is a female record. Yeah. I don't know. Like to see her double that.
I'd like to see her get 10. I'd like to see her cut her time in half, but she's gonna need a better system to do it. Okay. I don't have the male watermelon crushing record, so I don't know what you would have to beat for the male one. Listen.
I just wanna I just wanna see you do 1. That's all. Yeah. I'll do it with you. Okay.
Let's see who can do it faster. Do you think you got the thighs for it? Absolutely. I do. There is a a group, called working mom notes.
Are you familiar with this? This is an Instagram, page No. Called working mom notes. Okay. And, online members of this group have started a campaign to recover special toys for kids who've been affected by the California wildfires.
So the project is called the LA Wildfire Stuffed Animal Recovery List, and it is described as a community effort to bring comfort to children, which is a nice sentiment. But this isn't just let's collect stuffed animals for these kids. What they're trying to do and what they're putting together is a very detailed spreadsheet. They've invited evacuated families to list special sentimental toys, like special stuffed animals that were, that they got at this event or a thing that was very, very specific. Yeah.
So that they can try to see if people out there have some of these or know where to get some of these and would donate them so that these kids could have their Their special toy. Very beloved special toy back they may have lost in the wildfires. Right? The organizers and those donating, obviously cannot return the originals that were lost in the fire. But with this spreadsheet, they're hoping to be able to, accommodate some of this stuff.
So, like, I'm looking at some of these, like, a a jelly cat unicorn, which is very, very specific. Jelly cat unicorn. And then they they have, like, a link to where some of these, exist online, and you can see exactly what it looks like. Or So you can try and see if you've got it. Try and replace it.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, anyway, kinda cool. There's, there's also so there's a list of people that are like, these are stuffed animal and and recovery things.
There's also these businesses that can go on and say, hey. Look. Here's things we can do. Here's where we are. Here's how we wanna help.
So they've got that going on this spreadsheet as well. So, if you are a business owner, you wanna help out, if you're a family looking for help, they've kinda tried to bring everything together, through this online spreadsheet, which is kind of a cool thing. Anyway, the Facebook or excuse me, Instagram page is called Working Mom Notes, if you wanna get more details about it. Kind of a special little thing that's happening right now, to help out these families. So That's great.
Anyway. What was your special toy as a kid? My glowworm. Aw. Still have it.
Yeah. You do. He's put away in my, in my foot locker. But In your memory bin. In my memory foot locker.
Oh. But I still have my glowworm. Does he still glow? Yeah. Well, I mean, if you put batteries in him.
Oh, yeah. But, yeah, he will. I'm squeezing him, and he lights up. Did he have a name? Glowworm.
Oh, cute. Remember, I was an imaginative kid. You know? Really took a long time to think about it. Anyway, there you go.
It's good news to get you going. Let's get you up to date with the school closure situation because of the frigid cold that is happening, outside this morning. By the way, let me just, quickly refresh these. In Rexburg right now, with the wind chill, negative 27. Oh.
Idaho Falls, negative 15, and negative 5 in Pocatello. So nice and balmy and sunny and warm in, the Pocatello area this morning. But because it is cold, we've got several different school closures happening. Alturas International Academy and Alturas Preparatory Academy are closed today. Blackfoot Charter and Blackfoot School District 55 are closed.
Clark County School District 161, Fremont School 2 15, Idaho Science Technology Charter School, Snake River Montessori School, and Teton School District 401 all closed. West Jefferson School District, that's 253. They have a 2 hour delayed start today, so that, hopefully, temperatures can get a little bit warmer before they say, let's go to school. But that's the latest we have if you wanna stay up to date. Eastidahonews.com is where we get the info, so, you can grab it there as well.
We've also shared it on our Facebook page, so you can grab it there. And let me tell you something. I don't know what's going on with my Facebook page. I'm just depressed. Why?
Because it's cold? Because it's cold, and all of these kids get out of school And you're at work. And I come to work even when it's cold. Yeah. Even when it's cold.
Adult life. I know. Something's up with, with my Facebook feed. Oh. I don't know if you're seeing the same thing, but I'm getting, like, just a bunch of random weird stuff.
Yeah. Like, it thinks I wanna see pictures of spaceships taken off. Do we I mean, do we not? I'm not mad about it, but it's also not something where I'm like, I went to see that. But then I get, like, just some weird, weird stuff.
Like, I got a page suggested to me, that is pickle addicts. Hey. Yeah. I'm not. I'm not that into pickles.
I don't really think about pickles all that often, but this page is full of people that just love pickles. People that have homemade dill pickle gummy worm recipes, for example. Rook boop. People that have all of this pickle flavored stuff in their fridge, people that have pickle tattoos, people that find pickles all over the place, go, look. I found v 8 with pickles.
Okay. Because it's always listening. Our phones are always listening. You and Emery had a pickle conversation last night. I'm not I don't I'm logged in to Facebook on my phone.
Oh, that's true. So no. It just and and if I was, wouldn't be this profile. I'm just listening. I'm trying to get to the root of the issue here.
Let me tell you. There's there are people that take their old pickle juice, and they pickle things in it. Yeah. I've heard that before. This guy, Zach, on on this page, he is, after 3 days of soaking in his pickle juice, string cheese has tried it out.
I've seen this. He said after 3 days, I tasted the string cheese. It's super good. It has a normal texture of string cheese, but with a nice subtle pickle flavor. I'm gonna leave them a little bit longer and see how they develop.
See. I feel like if I I feel like the cheese would have gotten soggy. A little like a mushy. No. You could put boiled eggs in there.
There's this there's a picture of this lady. Your eggs? Dilly beans? Who's a pinball wizard. She's at, like, a pinball tournament, and she's just got a jar of pickles just drinking the juice.
I Wow. I'm it's just a wild thing. People putting glitter in their pickles. I've heard about that. I feel like pickles have had a resurgence.
Somebody took This year. I don't know. Last little while. Like, the last 6 months. All I see is pickles.
Pickles, everything. Pickle flavored potato chips. Pickle flavored Somebody took Yogurt. A Snickers and put it inside of a big pickle and then sliced it and said, what's wrong? You haven't even touched your Snickle.
Ew. No. No. No. No.
You don't want a Snickers pickle? I don't. These guys made individual little tiny tater tots sliders. They're the size of a pickle, but they have little golden crowns for buns. People have too much time.
Here's here's a a a manwich. You love a good Sloppy Joe No. With a bunch of pickles on the side. I like pickles on my even get it. Sloppy Joe.
And I do have Sloppy Joe's, though, or like my pulled pork sandwich. Pickles are nice on that. Listen. I do enjoy a bread and butter pickle. I'm not into those.
Kind of my favorite kind of pickle. What's your favorite kind of pickle? Just a just a good, dill. I like a real pickle, though. That was the conversation that, Emery and I were having last night, where she pulled out this jar of baby dills, which, it doesn't say pickle anywhere on the jar because they're not They weren't biggills.
They weren't baby dills. Uh-huh. Yeah. They're not allowed to say the word pickle, and I can't remember why. There's something up with, like, the word pickle requires you to have a specific thing.
And if you don't have it, you can't call it a pickle. And a majority of the the pickles on the shelf at the grocery store are not pickles. You'll read it. It'll say cucumber spear. It'll say a bunch of different stuff, but they can't use the word pickle.
But why? You can't remember why. There's something there's there's a reason. And and if so if you go to the refrigerated section, you can find actual pickles. They have to be refrigerated.
So much to learn about pickles. Yeah. Well That guy that put his string cheese in his pickle juice Yeah. He should just slice up some cucumbers. Put the cucumbers in the pickle juice, and see if that pickles properly.
You know what I'm saying? It would. I wonder how long he'd have to leave them in there for. Aw, Picklesworth? Just a great name for somebody.
That's a character in a book. Mister Picklesworth? Mister Picklesworth? Yeah. Anyway, I don't know why the Internet thinks I needed any of that information.
But thanks thing you said was I don't think about pickles that often. Yeah. Liar. I don't. But, apparently, the Internet wants me to.
Always thinking about pickles. I don't really I don't care. I don't can things. I don't think picklesworth I just recently finished a series that I'd been watching for a while now. It's 8 seasons long.
And this was the second watch through. This was not the first time you'd seen this show. But it it was almost like it was the first time because I couldn't remember anything that happened. Even, like, you're watching the finale going, I don't even remember any of this. I thought this went a totally different way.
I know. It was all brand new. So you and I watched the show for a long time. You I don't even know how we started going on through the 2nd watch through, but did, made it through, and you've been wandering around the house all depressed all day yesterday. Yeah.
Because we finished it the other night, and then you're walking around like because you would carry it around on your phone while you were doing other things. You were watching like it was your buddy. Yeah. And then you don't have the show. You would always say, you could put that on the big TV.
And I said, I know. But if it's on my phone, it's portable. So I can turn it on and Yeah. Wash the dishes. And then I can if I need to go to the restroom, I can get to the restroom.
If I need to go downstairs to do laundry. You're doing all kinds of stuff. Portable. So it was with me all the time. That was the thing I heard you say yesterday was I'm alone.
I my buddy. I don't have my buddy. Whenever there was downtime, turn on the show. Right. And now I feel so lost.
Those characters were my friends. Alright. But now you and you I don't know what to do. Starting a new thing, whether it's reading a book or starting a new show or I do. Like, you just don't like starting a whole new thing.
This is why. Because if I've just finished a book or I've just finished a show, those characters, I like them. Right. You've been in it. Yeah.
You've gotten to know them. And now you have to get to know new characters. New people. I don't wanna new backstory. I don't wanna learn new stories and new people.
I want my old people. Well, I don't know what to tell you. I know. So now I don't know what to even watch. I don't even know what to do with myself.
I did some sewing last night, and I when I was doing sewing in different crafts, I had that show on. You're right? I'll be fine. Be okay. I'm sneezing a lot.
And so last night, I went downstairs, like, didn't have my show. So what am I gonna listen to? So I listened to a podcast, but it wasn't the same. I'm so lonely. I'm so lonely without my show.
Gonna be okay. I know I will be. Just a show. I know. They aren't real people.
Need a couple of days, and then I'll and then I'll be okay. You are having a moment. I know. I got these sneezes. Live radio, I tell you.
We turn on the microphones. We're live. We're in the studio. We're just, you know, here existing, and I'm sneezing. It's a real thing.
It happens. I'm not a robot. Are you done? Maybe. We'll see.
Never can tell. No. I'm gonna go sneeze some more. Okay. I think I'm over my sneezing thing.
Are you? Yeah. Hallelujah. I know. And to you too.
Whatever. So I happen to be at an event on Saturday. Yeah. At this event, there it was a fundraiser, and so they had an auction, a live auction. And what I know at live auctions, because I've been president at live auctions before, is I'm always kind of afraid of moving.
Oh, because you don't wanna accidentally bid on something. And I know that there are expert auctioneers that are like, we know that you're just reaching for your water glass. We know that's not a real deal. That kind of an intense auction where if you would have just done, like, a little, hat thing, that would have I don't know. That would have been, like, a signal to do you wanna bid on that thing?
I really, like, keep my hands down, and I when it starts to climb in the 1,000, I go, oh, don't move. I don't I don't I'm not accidentally buying that. Anybody to think that I'm bidding. Right. Because normally, a place will have a paddle with a number or something.
Did. And, again, people are using their battles, and they're doing what they should. So and I know they're expert auctioneers, and I know that he's like, I get it. You're not bidding. I see these people who are actively bidding.
I'm totally I realize that you're just scratching your eyebrow, but I still there's this fear inside of me that's like, oh. Yeah. I think you're probably just fine. I know. I know.
Done anything you wanted. You could've stood up and danced around. Like, I don't think you would have been like, no. She's making a bid. No.
But there's a small part of me that's like, don't move. The anxiety of my day. The thing. And even if he was, like, maybe mistook my eye scratch for a bid, I could be like, oh, no. And he'd be like, okay.
Okay. Okay. We get you. We get you. I don't think it's But I don't know.
Like, you weren't bidding on, you know, 100 of 1,000 of dollars worth of cars or something. I don't know where that irrational fear comes from. Either. That's a it's a weird one because or a catalog auction. Like, there's there's there are things that get auctioned that you've probably seen in your life, and you're like, wow.
These guys are just flying. Like, this stuff is is is hot. People want this item. And then you you're at an auction for, you know, a fundraiser or something, and they're and they're just it's a casual environment, and they're going, alright. Do I hear 300?
Alright. 350. It was moving up a little bit 400 here. Yeah. Okay.
Right. Like, that kind of thing. Right. You're probably in in more of those than any other kind of auction, and they're so low pressure where they're just like, just give us a bid. Come on now.
No. Yes. That's true. Those are the ones I'm at. Also, I will say that I do feel there's a slight, like, thrill in being like, what if I did bid?
Like Oh. I kinda wanna bid. I wanna Well, bid when it's low just for funsies. Just for funsies? Yeah.
When they're when they're like, can I get a 150? You're like, heck yeah. You can. Here's a $150. I got you.
Know somebody's coming right behind and going 200, I'll take it. And you're like, whew. I almost spent a $150. But my competitive streak would might kick in, and I'd be like, no. I'm gonna win, bud.
Oh, no. That's I'll give you That's dangerous. Shoot right to the top. He'll be like, I'll give 200, the other bidder. I'll give 200.
I'll be like, you're not gonna 650. Yeah. See, you can't go doing that. You'd gotta move up with them. I know.
You can't be you can't be crazy like you're trying to save somebody from a bad bachelor date or something. It's nuts. You've seen those shows No. Where yeah. Oh, yeah.
You have. I guarantee it. Where they've got some sort of, like, we're gonna auction off this this dude as a date. Oh, okay. Yes.
Like, that's my boyfriend. I can't let him go on that 650, and you end up losing anyway. You've seen it. It happens. That.
It happens. I've seen that. I've never seen that in real life. No. Because nobody really auctions off dates with people.
They should. Why? I don't know. Because it's thing. The highest bidder gets to, like, take you on a date.
That's a strange thing. It's for charity. I don't know. It would be weird to be the person that's being auctioned off for a date. Yeah.
Because the auctioneer has to say nice things about you. Like Alright. But they do I've seen dating things where where you go it's single people that go to these events. Yeah. And the your friend has to be the auctioneer for you, and your friend puts, like, a power plant together and says, here's all the amazing things about my friend.
Okay. And then the the people in the audience are like, yeah. I don't wanna date that. 650. 50?
Then you gotta go on that date. But then I'd be so sad. What if I'm standing there and people are like, $50? Can we go lower? I mean I'm on a budget.
25 is the best I can do. How about she pays me? Yeah. Yeah. Come on.
Okay. Whatever. You are so brave. Why am I so brave? So very brave.
Okay. I dropped something in the couch cushions. Oh. A dresser doesn't take bravery. Yes.
It does. No. I dropped a pair of tweezers in the couch cushions. And you were sad about it, and then we went to the store. No.
No. And you said, I'm just buying new tweezers. They're gone forever. And I said, what? You just dropped them in the couch cushion.
That's no big deal. And you went, no. I put my hand a little bit in there. They're gone forever. And I went, what?
Did not take any bravery at all to reach in there and pull those things out. You said, it's our dirt. It shouldn't be that gross. These are our crumbs. Yeah.
I know. But it was still gross. I stuck my hand down in there, and I went, no. I can't do it. And then I went, yeah.
I can. Come on. It's just crumbs. A big deal. And I got down in there, and I went, no.
No. No. No. No. No.
What? And now our gouge, if you can take the couch cushion off, that's fine because then you can see what you need to see, grab your thing, and then you can do a quick So you're going in full blind because the couch cushion doesn't That doesn't move. Yeah. So you can't handle that you have to go in full blind. Can't see what I'm touching.
I don't like that. I don't like the mystery aspect. Uh-oh. I don't know. You know what it was?
Tweezers. That's what it was. No. I wasn't. I couldn't find them.
That's because you were looking in the wrong spot somehow. I don't know how because they were on the side, not in the back. I'm thinking I really think that's a different pair of tweezers. Well, that's very possible, isn't it? Yes.
I think there's probably multiple pairs of tweezers in there. You gotta stop losing tweezers in the couch. I don't know how I keep doing it. You reached in and pulled them out. You were like, here they are.
There you go. Thank you. Moving on. Now I have a double pair of tweezers. Oh, boy.
You got the new pair that you just bought. And a travel pair. Wow. Travel tweezers. You're crazy.
You think that's heroic and brave? Yes. Why? Because I don't like touching that stuff. It's just crumbs.
Mystery crumbs. Where do you think they're from? I don't know. We don't really eat out there. That's what I don't understand.
Couch glitter. I don't I don't know. I really couldn't tell you. Let's get a handful of it and see. Let's see what it is.
Couch glitter? Yeah. Anyhow? No. We've talked about that before.
Sweetheart. And and, no, we're not gonna we're not gonna fluff it in anybody's direction. But I do kinda wanna know what's in there. Like, what's it made of? The couch glitter?
Mhmm. Dust mites? No. Yeah. And hair follicles.
What? Yeah. Dead skin. It's I'm not kidding. This is what it's made out of.
These are the things that aren't being in the couch cushions. No. Yes. The it's something else. What is it?
I dropped popcorn. Okay. Yeah. It's that. That's in there too.
A a piece of a pretzel. Listen. When I took when I put my hand down there, ice felt like tiny, tiny crumbs. And then there were bigger crumbs, and I'm like, I don't know what those bigger crumbs are. What I'm saying.
What are they made of? I don't know. Lego pieces. No. Our kids are old.
There hasn't been LEGO pieces in the couch for the last. Time you cleaned out the the cushions. Never since we've had it. No. That's a lie.
How dare you? I've done I've cleaned out the couch cushions multiple times since we've bought it. Are you serious? I'm so mad at you right now. When was the last time you've cleaned it out, Sam?
Haven't. I that's what I'm saying. It doesn't get done. I have done it before. Now it's been a while, but maybe you should have ventured.
I'm telling you. Let's just scoop out whatever we can find in there. Who knows? A a lost coin, maybe. A lucky penny.
Who knows? No. It's not gonna be money. A pen cap. There's all kinds of craziness that could be in there.
Magic. Yeah. Couch glitter. Couch surprises. Yeah.
Mostly dead skin cells. I don't think so. But I The big the big chunks are not dead skin. No. I know what the big chunks are.
I wanna know what the big chunks are. I don't know. Reach in and pull out a hand off. What I'm saying. You do.
I'm not gonna do it. Well, you gotta be there for it. Okay. I will. Because you're gonna go.
I won't. I don't get that grossed out. I just don't like to touch things I don't know what they are. If I reached my hand in there and there was a wet substance, that would be the worst. It's a slime.
We haven't had the slime around for years either. Slime and Legos. I kinda miss seeing slime and Legos in the couch. I don't. I do.
Who knows what's in there now? That's what I'm saying. Mystery couch glitter. We're gonna get to the bottom of this thing. I can't wait to find out.
We'll report back on our findings. Maybe we'll start, that'll be our our trend. You'd have everybody reach in your couch cushion, pulling a handful, and show everybody what is. What's in your couch? I like it.
Gross. Do we have the same things in our couches? Maybe the couches are consuming all the same things. Socks. You think there's a sock in there?
Could be. It's possible. There's been baby socks in there before when the kids were little. Little little. We have, like, old kids now.
I know. We don't find anything good in the couch cushions now. You don't know what we're gonna find. You might find a Cheeto. Snack.
Delicious. A whole Cheeto. You get extra points if you eat the snacks you find boy. Oh, boy. In the couch.
Alright. No. I'm not I'm not into eating it. What would it take for you to eat a Cheeto if you found 1 in the couch? I would have had to have dropped it moments ago.
What have you when was the last time you had a Cheeto? Long time ago. So it's been sitting there for years, I bet. Not eating a years old couch Cheeto. It's been more recently that I've vacuumed that couch out.
Okay. It hasn't been years. I bet it's been a it's been a couple years. Bro, I'm gonna fight you right now. But it's been a couple years.
It hasn't been a couple years. Has it been a couple years? Might have been a couple years. It's been a couple years. Couple years.
I'm telling you. We have a borrowed VR. Virtual reality is what that means. Yeah. For the Yeah.
Yeah. We have this VR headset hooked up to the PlayStation. It's the first edition of their VR, that, Victor from K Bear Down the Hall is letting us borrow and try out because we didn't we haven't done much VR, and he was like, hey. It's sitting around. Why don't you, try this out?
I put you in scary VR VR. What the heck of a hiccup? What is going on today? You're a mess. Sneezes, hiccups now.
What is in the world? Go back to bed. I guess. I put you in scary VR. Yeah.
It's I don't even know the name of the game. Some resident evil pirate game. Is it vampires? I don't know what it is. Zombies.
I don't know what it is. Some scary game. Yeah. And the idea was, was that you would, wander around the VR, and you would get scared. That's the whole point of the scary VR game.
Right. So you put the VR on me, and I'm walking around. Well, I'm not walking. I'm standing still, but my character is walking around, and it's kind of very cool because it is a complete 360 Yeah. In front of you, above you, below you, behind you, everywhere.
Anywhere. And you're encapsulated in the the virtual world. In the game. Yeah. So I go into this scary house, and it is it is a little bit, jolting, jarring to be like, you have to push open the door, but it really feels like you're pushing open the door.
Ah. You're not actually pushing open the door, but you're kinda in it. Okay. Here's the thing that I learned very quickly. It makes me a little bit nauseous.
Yeah. And so it made my head a little bit swimmy and my stomach a little bit upset. Got a little bit dizzy. A break. I did have to take a break.
Sense. It's it's disorienting. I had to take a break before it even got scary, though. Because you were disoriented. Yeah.
A little bit. Yeah. Then what I also learned very quickly was that I don't know how to play those games. It was dark. Yeah.
And I didn't know where I was. And I'm looking around. At one point, you go, hey. Move your controller up. So you're looking up and not at the ground.
Look up, dude. You're just stare every time you turn a corner, you're looking at the ground, and I'm like, is this how you go through life? Lift your head up. Look ahead of you. There was too many controls.
This one was to walk. This one was to move around, like, your head. I couldn't I had to fight a guy at one point, and I couldn't even I didn't know the controls, and you guys were like, you have to defend yourself. I'm just gonna lay here and die. That's what I did.
I I didn't know how to fight him. He cut off my virtual leg. Oh, no. I just laid there. I had to, like, crawl around a little bit because he cut off my leg, and I I found the exit, but I was like, I can't get down there.
I don't have a leg. And the screen was, like, pulsing, like, my heart. Yeah. Because you were not doing well. You were not healthy.
I can't I don't know what to do. And Emery was sitting next to me, and she said, so you're just gonna lay there and die? I said, I don't know what else to do. So I I just laid there and died. Well, that's too bad.
I know. Not a great virtual reality experience for you. Got attacked by a guy, cut off my fake leg, and then I just laid there. What's funny is I did find before he cut off my leg, I was hiding in the garage area. Mhmm.
I remember that. Garage. And I was just walking, and you guys both were like, why don't you run? I'm like, I don't know how. Just walking past the guy.
I did just See you later, dude. Thanks for letting me visit your house. Just hiding in the garage. Yeah. And I could hear him say in the game, I'm gonna find you, and I was like, you're actually not.
You don't know where I am. And then Did he find you? No. Well, he did, but I left the garage. That was because I left the garage.
Into the hallway to wander around? Because I'm like, this game is like, I'm in charge of the game. Yeah. So it's not like I like, I either have to find a way out of here or something. Well I can't just stand here and hide.
Hiding in the garage was going well till you lost that leg. Oh, you poor thing. It was fun. I had a good time. I just would rather watch somebody else play.
I see. And then my other spot. I'm like, I'll watch from out here, but then there were times where I was like, oh, I'm not really like watching this either. I feel like I'm just gonna go in the other room. That's the thing.
You did you weren't a fan because you don't like scary things. Yeah. Does, and she was watching, but there was a couple of times she was like, nope. Nope. I'm just gonna pay attention to my phone.
And I said, somebody else needs to play this in both of you. I'm not. Yeah. You're good. Clearly not.
I'm just gonna lay here. No. I crawled for a minute, and then I went, I don't I can't I don't know what to do. I'm just gonna die. Cool VR experience.
I found a new job. You did? I did. What what job did you leave in? The United States National Archives and Records Administration K.
Is looking for someone to read cursive. I heard about this. It is a It's old, old, old cursive, though. You've gotta be able to read, like, old documents. I can.
I can. Old stuff. I can. Reading cursive has now been added to the list of most wanted skills. That's very interesting.
I can read and write in cursive. Look at me. I'm so skillful. What? But, yes, they they are archiving the country's most precious records and documents.
Yeah. So they're looking for volunteers. I was gonna say it's a volunteer position. They're not paying people. Dang it.
I didn't see that part I I had heard about it, and I was waiting to tell you that it was a volunteer position, but go on. Usually, volunteers come with some perks though too. So I wonder Yeah. You get to read old documents. That's a perk.
I think it's cool. 200 over 200 years worth of documents. The majority of the handwritten documents that need transcribing are from the revolutionary war. Yeah. That's wild.
That's so cool. I want to do this. Then do it. I wanna do it for I don't know how you I don't know how you Have they scanned the documents? Are you reading scanned documents?
Is it something you can do from anywhere? I feel like that would be smart for them to do that. Okay. Here's what it is. You have to you have to register for a free online account at the National Archives and then begin reading available documents that are ready to be cataloged.
Yeah. There's no application. You just pick a record that hasn't been done and read the instructions. Go wild. I'm doing this.
Well, then do it. It's easy to do for half an hour a day or a week. Yeah. I think it's something cool. Like, if you've got downtime and you wanna just help, like, it's you're helping the National Archive, which is cool.
Like, you can be like, yeah. I translate Yeah. I did that. Old documents. I transcribed that.
Yeah. And who knows what it is? You have no idea what you're gonna get. No. You could read so many so much business.
So much? Look at all these other people's business. We know the business. I'm in the tea. That's funny because it's a revolutionary war thing.
That's why I said it. Oh, is it? It was a joke. It was about that. Joke?
Mhmm. Yeah. Mhmm. Spilling that tea. Guess what Martha Washington wrote to George.
Never know till you start reading it in cursive. I am absolutely Some of that stuff's really hard to read because it wasn't regular cursive. Like, they've they've very, very flourished. Cursive. It's old handwriting.
It is. You think you can do some of that? I Go for it. I'm willing to try. Sure.
If there's like, it's just for free. And if I pick 1 and I go, this is this is too hard. Never mind. Well that's the noise you're gonna make? Oh, well.
Yeah. Alright. Okay. Alrighty. All you need is the willingness to try.
Right? That's right. And the confidence and the support system and Mhmm. Yep. Yep.
Yep. That's all you need. Alright. Oh, cursive. I I really am gonna I'm gonna do this.
Do it. K. Where do you find Probably the National Archives. That's where I'd start. Yeah.
Yeah. It's hard. Never mind. No. I'm doing this.
Alright. I can't wait to hear what you, what you decipher. What if I stumble upon something and I go, oh, this is serious? Yeah. Do I have to let somebody know?
Well, yeah. You're gonna fill it out. You're gonna, like, fill out all the papers. Yep. You're gonna you'll be like, I found out so What if it's top secret information?
Yeah. It might be. Hey. I gotta I gotta tell somebody. Who's the director of the CIA?
Like Well, I don't know. You guys need to know. You I just Martha Washington was a alien. Oh, crazy. George Washington's teeth were made of wood.
What? Come on now. It wasn't a lie. Wow. And he did chop down that cherry tree.
What? The truth. Well, good luck with your adventure. Thank you. Can't wait to hear all about it.
I gotta find out where I can register. The National Archives. Yeah. But I don't where do I find the National Archives? The Internet.
K. Alright. Good luck. Over, on eastidahonews.com, in the garden is one of the feature sections. We've been talking a little about this.
I was telling you about the rolling your, produce at different parts of the year. Yes. They actually have a whole thing, gardening 101, and it's everything you would need to even get started gardening. And so I've been reading through this. Oh.
Because I know we've talked about our soil. Yeah. And there's some soil preparation that needs to happen. We have some pretty rocky soil. Well, it's not even the rocks as much as it is.
I just like, the weeds are terrible. Yeah. Like, it just it's bad dirt. Although And it's just untrained. Necessarily that bad because I bought a hydrangea plant a couple years ago, and they there was a woman behind me at this nursery, and she said, you're gonna buy that?
Yeah. You're gonna plant that Yeah. In our soil? Yeah. I said, yeah.
She goes, but there's not enough alkaline. Well, it it came back. I planted it, and it's still thriving 2 years later. So Meh. Ne.
Yeah. Soil is not that bad. Well, this is, you know, specifically when we talk about gardening, and we've been talking about, the space next to our shed that we wanna turn into a raised bed, and I wanna do a compost. And you wanna do a greenhouse? Wanna do it.
Yeah. I've got big ideas for a garden this year. And, anyway, they're they're talking all about, like, ways you can, you know, really work your soil preparation, and make sure you have a nutrient rich soil so you get strong and productive plants. And so they talk about some of the tools you'll need. They're talking about tools you need for watering, tools for planting and transplanting, tools you need for pruning and trimming and weeding.
So they've kind of gone through this is really That's just for help. 101. Yeah. This is all the tools you would need to get started. So, everything from sun protection to, you know, keeping yourself safe and comfortable.
Oh. The the knee pads or or the little kneeling pads, those things, I saw those at the store yesterday. Some of those. We're out and about. I saw they got the spring stuff out, and they had some of those.
I was like, this is good. This is good. Are thigh pads. What? And I'll tell you why.
Because pads. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because, listen, we have in our backyard the the gentleman who owned the house before us was somewhat of a rock hound.
Yeah. And he had built a retaining wall. He had built it rock made of rock. And it's a raised bed. It's not you stand to weed, but your knees and your thighs bang up against the rock wall.
My thighs don't bang up against that rock wall. My knees, for sure. But if I had a knee pad, I'd be able to put it on the on the edge, and I would kneel on that. I would I just need a I need a whole leg pad. Sure.
Get some hockey gear. Okay. Why not? That would work. Anyway, they've also got everything for, tools and maintenance, tools for maintenance and organization on here.
So everything that you could really need for tools wise for getting started in gardening, they've broken it down. Gardening 101. The tools you need to get started is the article. You can check it out in the garden in the feature section at eastidahonews.com. And, it's it's good info for 1, but for 2, it's kinda getting me excited because I really wanna do that raised bed thing this year I do too.
And get, and get some garden going. Yeah. Now if we can just get above 0 And compost and all of that. Yeah. Yeah.
You're right. The compost, the soil, gotta treat the soil, gotta get the good dirt in there, gotta put down the weed block or stuff, all that. Mhmm. All that. Every year, we say, this is the summer of our nice backyard.
Slow process. It is a very slow process. We've made little improvements each year. Right? Alright.
Little more this year. I gotta redo those poles around the fire pit. I got an idea for those because they keep falling over. Yeah. Because it's windy.
So I got a I got a solution. Fantastic. Look at you getting prep work done. Thinking about it. I'm doing a lot of thinking.
Now put it into work. Yeah. Put in my thinking into action. What's that saying? A plan does not a goal doesn't work without a plan.
That's it. You got it. Action. You can go read that article. It's in the garden section, at eastidoneews.com.
Football. What do you wanna talk about? Because, there's some upsetting news. There's some Oh, there's so much upsetting news. I can't even with football anymore.
I I'm over it. Well, so we're down to 4 teams left. Yeah. And who cares about any of these teams? Well, let's slow down a little bit.
Alright? Because your teams have not advanced. No. Your Vikings lost out last week. This weekend, you were rooting for the Lions.
They they lost to the Commanders Yep. Which was an unexpected turn of events. Although, when I I had to work this event over the weekend Yeah. And, there was a couple of games being watched on some cell phones, and so I was able to take the opportunity to check-in on the Lions every now and then. One gentleman that I spoke to was a Giants fan, and so I said, sorry.
At least I'm not a Giants fan. At least there's that. So, here's here's what's what's happened. You've got the Bills who beat the Ravens last night, which didn't make you happy. No.
You really like the Ravens. They're kinda your second favorite team Yeah. Behind the Vikings. And so you were sad to see that I was really sad, and that was a really good game. Yeah.
And I really like the Bills too. But, Lamar Jackson is so good, and he Yeah. They just didn't It it was it was really close. It was. Couple of missed opportunities on some, two point conversions.
It was it was wild. You had the Eagles and the Rams, and the Eagles pulled off that win 28 to 22. That was yesterday's game as well. Saturday, Commanders beat the Lions, as we said, and the Chiefs have advanced beyond the Houston Texans 23 to 14, in a much controversial game because controversy follows the Chiefs everywhere they go, it seems. Mhmm.
From, Mahomes, flops to, refs are on their side. I've seen so many, different memes today of refs wearing, Chiefs colors, and and it's just wild. So that's kinda where we're at, though, is with, with the 4 remaining teams being the Bills, Commanders, Eagles, and Chiefs. And now, you move on to the, conference games this weekend, which will determine yeah. So this will determine who is the AFC champion And who is the AFC champion.
And those are the 2 that go to the, the big game, the Super Bowl that will be happening, in February. Do we know where that's happening? It's February 9th. It's in Vegas. It's in Vegas?
Yeah. I no. I believe so. No. Yes.
It is. Is it? I'm sure of it. Yeah. It's I think it's in New Orleans.
But Oh, it might be in New Orleans. You're right. But, you know, same. February 9th, is when that game will be played at 4:30 in the afternoon. So this weekend, both games are on Sunday.
The Commander's Eagles game will be at 1 PM, and the Bills Chiefs game will be at 4:30. New Orleans. Yeah. The Caesars Superdome. There it is.
So that's what's happening. That's what's left in in the entirety of football this season. Our son, he's a big Bengals fan. He didn't care about any football over this weekend. You wanna know what I heard him say?
No. I wish it was April. Yeah. He wants the draft. He's like, I'm just ready for the draft.
Can we just get to the NFL draft? I'm just ready for the draft. Because He's like, I'm done with this season. I don't care. He does he he's excited for, Daniels, the quarterback of the Commanders.
Jaden. He's a rookie. And so he's like a rookie quarterback, hasn't been in the Super Bowl. He's like, that would be really cool to see. Be very cool to see.
And the Commanders are are good. That would be something else. I think everybody, except for the Kansas City Chiefs fans wants to see a Commander's Bills game. That would be cool. I would be I'd be down for that.
I would like to ask that. Likely do you think it's an Eagles Chiefs Super Bowl again? Court. 90%. Likely.
You say 90% likely? Yeah. 100%. 100%? I did say 90%.
I'm trying to get your what's your number? I'm going back to 90. 90% is Eagles Chiefs. Yeah. That's what you say?
Yeah. I just it is hard when you're you, like, really root for your team. You're like, my team's doing awesome. My team's not doing awesome. My team's doing great.
And then you go, okay. My team's out, but I got this other team that I really like. They're doing so good. That's just being a fan. And then then they're all out, and then you go, I don't care about it anymore.
I don't care about any of these teams. Well So much emotion wrapped up into football. You who knew? Who knew you'd be you'd be like this? But here you are.
Here I I am. All wrapped up in it. Alright. Well, we'll see what happens, this weekend. Two games left, and then we, we go to Pro Bowl, which happens, the week before When did they do?
Super Bowl, and then the Super Bowl is February 9th. Like, the MVP awards and all of that. Do you know? The NFL awards ceremony happens somewhere in between Super Bowl and and that as well. So yeah.
And then you and then they'll have the Super Bowl, and they'll have MVP of that game as well. And, and they usually get, like, a free truck because Oh, because they can afford it. So here's your free truck. Look at you. I'm so mad.
Oh, fun. So much football yet to be played all on Sunday. And then what am I supposed to do when it's over? Oh, you wait till the draft, and then you you get ready for September August when it comes back. I'm gonna be done with Super Bowl or football.
I'm done. I'm out. We'll talk to you in September. We talked about this a couple weeks ago. I was thinking about signing up for a class.
Yeah. It was part of your kinda New Year's resolution to do something, that meant something to you, do some things that you've wanted to do, spend some more time doing the things you wanna do, those kinds of things. Yeah. And this was part of it. So you signed up for A sign language class, ASL.
I'm doing I've got my they release a couple of lessons a week, and so I started this last week. So I've I'm 2, maybe 3 lessons down. Okay. And? Going great.
So far so good. So far, I'm learning the things that I already know. Well okay. But you gotta start somewhere. But you you you started at fingerspelling, which you knew, but you've also learned some new things.
Like, how to do double letters. Yeah. Things I didn't know. Big deal. And then I learned more, like, they're teaching me more about the deaf community itself.
And so, like, things that the deaf community does and what they learn and what you're supposed to do as to not offend them when you're signing. So that is really, really cool. Yeah. Well, I'm I'm happy that you're doing it. You seemed excited.
You, you ran into the bedroom, after you finished your class yesterday, and you said, I just finished my second or third class, whatever you said, and you were way excited. Good. Yeah. It's you're you've gone back to school a little bit. It feels good to have a goal and to just complete it.
Right? Like, I'm not complete with the class, but every time there's a lesson, I'm like, yeah. Feels good. I know here's the thing. I know I often say this.
I know enough ASL to speak to toddlers. I learned a little bit when my kids were little, like milk and more and Sure. Hot and Cookies and apples and all. So I know enough about that. And you spend a a long time in child care, in the child care field working with little kids that you were able to put some of that into into practice to help them start to be able to communicate.
Yeah. So I know what's up with that, but now I wanna, like, learn sentences and have conversations Right. With people. You're just gonna have to translate for me because I I'm not taking the class, and you already will, like, fingerspell at me, and I'll go, yeah. I I can't read it that fast.
Just say what you need to say. Just How am I gonna learn if I can't just do it for you? I I'm sure we can find, I mean, we know other people that speak ASL well enough that you could definitely have conversation Yeah. I know. Which would be cool for you, I think.
I do have a friend who has a deaf brother. Right. So he knows ASL, and I do have a friend who, who's parents are deaf. Yeah. Yes.
And I have another friend whose parents worked at the blind and deaf school in Gooding. Sure. So You're you've got you've got an audience. Some practice. You can definitely get some practice for sure.
And and immersive learning is really where it starts to come together. Like, when I did I did Spanish for a lot of years, but, you know, having the knowledge of it in a classroom setting in high school is one thing, but when I went to Costa Rica and had to use it Right. That's a whole different thing. And you learn it so much quicker by immersion. You do.
And they have these videos of these people speaking ASL, and they say, watch first. Yeah. See if you can pick up signs that you know. If you're struggling, use the closed captions. Oh, okay.
Right now, I don't know enough, and so I am using the closed captions, but I'm trying to watch and see. But, again I'm trying to pick up on stuff. So quick that I can Right. I you're 3 you're 4 you're 4 words ahead of me. I just barely saw the word for b.
Yeah. B. Slow down. C a t cat. Like, you got a you got a real basic going, but that's good.
You gotta start like I said, you gotta start somewhere. So good for you. Thanks. You started a photography class. How's that going?
Well, I'm on my second unit, which goes until Wednesday, so I still have to do my my unit 2. Uh-huh. So I've got a couple of days. I'm okay. I'm on track.
Okay. I'm just fine. Yours was free. Yeah. So if you decide I'm behind I don't, But I can still catch up.
It's all on my own time. Okay. So I'm not gonna miss out. Like, I will just have to do, like, a couple extra lessons a week if I get behind or something. So but that's fine.
I'm still on unit 2 of, like, 26 or something. Like, it it goes for weeks. Oh, okay. I'm I'm barely started. Mine was some money.
Yeah. And so if I get behind and don't complete it, then it is it's a big deal. Right. Because then I'm out money. But you're gonna finish.
It's gonna be great. Because this is something I really wanna do. Going great so far. Well, good. Thank you for being up in the books.
Week week 1, a couple assignments down. Look at you go. Doing great. Thanks. That means good job.
Let's go ahead and ask the, the old question. Would you rather this or that? It's kinda crazy that it's already This time of the show? Yeah. Yeah.
Would you rather this or that? Okay. Would you rather fight a goose the size of a horse A horse size goose? Or a 100 horses the size of geese? I've heard this in reference to horses and chickens.
Yeah. But I I You just made it a goose. Because I feel like geese are more meat. Have an attitude. Don't they?
Saying. That's why I picked them because I think they're just a little more steep. Why am I fighting? Because because. To start.
Can I just walk by? Nope. That one horse sized goose is gonna be cranky. They are all gonna be cranky. You gotta I think that's why I'm gonna go with the 100 horses the size of geese because that horse sized goose, oh, he's gonna be mad at you.
I don't know what you did. But he's just gonna honk and chase me a while. Yeah. But have you ever been bitten by a goose? Goosed?
Yeah. No. I've never been goosed. Well Well If you get bit by the a goose that's a horse sized goose Yeah. And he might web foot you.
Oh. Yeah. He can't sneak around. I'll tell you that much. You're gonna hear that guy.
Long ways away, you're gonna hear those big old clompers, webbed feet clomping away. I'm going with a 100 horses. I wanna see the 1 horse sized horse sized goose. I wanna see that. Okay.
So I'm gonna fight it just because I wanna see it. I don't But it's also 1. I feel like you're not gonna win. You gotta fight a 100. I have to fight 1.
Yeah. You can kick it. You're gonna get tired. How many horses are you gonna be able to kick before you're tired? 2.
Yeah. And then you're tired, and then you're gonna get trampled by a 100 goose sized horses. I'm still going with the I'm still go so are you picking 1? I'm doing the I'm gonna fight 1 beast. Okay.
Just look up. Gonna be a horse sized goose. I just looked up a picture of a horse sized goose. It's pretty large. Yeah.
It's the size of a horse. Come on. Would you rather this or that? Just a few minutes ago, you said I am done with social media. I'm putting it away.
I don't wanna be on there today, which is fine. You don't have to. No one's making you. But I do also want to encourage you, to do something productive instead of social media Right. Or before you social media.
Okay. There is, there's a new app called Stepin. There's a new app called TikTok. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. In fact, there's this new app called Stepin', and it's a new app that was created by, this guy called Paul English. He also created the app KAYAK. Okay. But it locks you out of your social media platforms until you walk a certain number of steps.
Oh. So you gotta go Stepin' before you can doomscroll. Do you get to pick the number of steps that you take, or does the app? Well, Stepin' is different than other apps that will lock you out of social media because it aims to boost both physical and mental health by making you walk in order to earn your social media time. There's even a leaderboard so you can see who's using social media the least among your friends.
Oh. You can set your own step goals. And if you really need to access an app, there is an override option. The app is free for now, but eventually does plan to have a subscription model. Future updates will let you, log other activities like yoga, and stuff like that to earn screen time as well.
Stepin. I like this. Like, I gotta call this something. Steppin'. S t e p p I n.
It's Steppin'. Anyway What you doing? I'm stepping. I'm just stepping before I can be scrolling. Stepping and scrolling.
Stepping and scrolling. I like the concept. I think it's a good idea. I think that people people need to be a little more healthy and that's a cool way to do it. Plus, it'll cut down on your screen time unless you just override all the time, which is cheating.
Exactly. Don't Yeah. Don't cheat about your step in. Step in. Get stepping for social media.
Here's the thing. If I got that app, that's all you'd be doing all day long. What are you doing? I'd say, I don't wanna tell you, and you'd say, I just stepping? Stepping?
You're doing some stepping so you can do some scrolling later? Stepping. Stepping to be scrolling. Mhmm. Anyway, it's a real thing.
I like it. I kinda like the idea. Good concept. I think that's cool. Alright.
Well Well, hey. I just wanted to post an update that I did sign up for the, National Archives. Yeah. So now I can start transcribing all those letters on the revolutionary war. The weird stuff that you get to learn.
That would be I hope you learn something fast. I hope I learn something cool. Maybe you'll make some big discovery. That'd be cool. What I'm saying.
Yeah. I know. I was gonna say, I know this. Paul Revere's secrets. Oh, Paul Revere?
He's got so many secrets. Does he? Yeah. I bet he does. Yeah.
1 or 2. I bet it was just That's a really good joke. What is But anyway, that's fine. 1 or 2 secrets, Paul Revere? Yeah.
1 or 2 secrets. He'll tell you one secret, on land to If by sea. On on the ocean. It doesn't matter. It was a 1 or 2 joke, and it's fine.
It's good. No. I didn't One lantern or 2 lanterns, one joke or 2 jokes. It's a 1, 2 joke. I know you didn't get it.
I didn't. And and I was proud of it, and then you made me try to explain it. And then it just lost all of its I'm sorry. I fluff. I'm not smart enough for that joke.
It wasn't it didn't require any brains at all. It was not we're gonna end on a bad joke. We're gonna end on that. Guess so. Have a great rest of your Monday.
Stay warm. It's supposed to be cold again tonight, tomorrow morning. Why did you shiver? You're in the sun. It's already cold.
I look outside. Yeah. Alright. Have a good rest of your day. We'll see you back here tomorrow morning.
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