Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
Why are we working on a Wednesday when we’ve had the last two off, the grossest pillows on the internet, Chantel wants to play scary VR & Josh doesn’t, what should an Idaho candle smell like, our daughter is mad beefing with Josh, Chantel has signed up for a class even though we probably can’t afford it, Katie from Z103 tells us about Idaho’s #1 Baby Bump, Sunday game night went better than expected, enough with the pickles in everything, Josh is a very attentive partner and a great listener, Anne knitted a fence with curtain rods, and hang in there - you got this!
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Full show transcript:
This is wake up classy 97, the podcast, a replay of today's full show in about an hour. It's Wednesday, January 8th. On today's show, why are we working on a Wednesday when we've had the last two off? I don't know. Can we just not work Wednesdays?
Can we cut can we what would we call it? Siesta Wednesday? Yeah. Midweek break? I was trying to get some alliteration, but I can't I don't know if that's important.
I think it could have a name without having alliteration. No. It needs alliteration, like wind down Wednesday. Wind down Wednesday. This is why it doesn't need alliteration.
This is this is why I'm spitballing. That's just one idea. I'm not fire hosing. I'm I am. I am fire hosing.
Wind down Wednesday is not it. I just one idea. Rough drafts. Sheesh. The grossest pillows on the Internet.
Yeah. Why did you post pictures of your pillows? Gross. Where did you get them? From the dump?
Ew. I want to play scary VR, and Josh does not. No. I don't I barely wanna watch. It's fine.
I'll be the brave one. Wanna watch you and not what's happening on the screen. I'll be the brave one. That's fine. It's fake brave, but that's fine.
Go on. It's not fake brave. What should an Idaho candle smell like? Dirt and mud and And fish. Fish.
Dirt and mud and fish. Our daughter is mad beefing with Josh. Yeah. Why is that what she said? Did she say I'm mad beefing with him?
Those are her words. Care for that phrase. I don't either. I signed up for a class even though we probably can't afford it. That's not true.
We can afford it. I don't know. We can. You overspend. You better get a refund.
You're gonna have buyer's remorse and feel bad. I don't. I Oh, you might. What if it doesn't go the way you think? Oh.
Katie from z 103 tells us all about Idaho's number one baby bump. Yeah. Somebody's gonna win a brand new baby nursery and a baby photo shoot. Yeah. It's pretty great.
Yeah. It's pretty great. Sunday game night went better than expected. I know. That's a stretch.
It is a stretch. I had a great time. I I well, yeah. Because you won. 3 out of 4 people had fun.
Cheater. I didn't cheat. I didn't cheat. Enough with the pickles and everything. Yeah.
Now they're putting pickles in craft supplies. What's the deal with that? What's the deal? What's the deal? What's the deal?
What's the deal with putting pickles in everything? Well done. Good job. Josh is a very attentive partner and a great listener. Oh, that's a nice thing to say.
It is so nice, isn't it? Yeah. It's almost like you wrote this. Right. Prove it.
Prove it. Anne knitted a fence with curtain rods. Yes. She did. And hang in there, Joan.
You got this. Who's Joan? It's from Frozen. Hang in there, Joan. It gets a little lonely.
You know you know. You know? Does it actually say hang in there, Joan? Yes. Yeah.
It does. Because she's playing her. She kicks the Joan of Arc in the painting. No. I know.
Hang in there, Joan. And it's funny for a couple reasons. One, she's talking to Joan of Arc. Right. But 2, she also kicked the painting of Joan of Arc that's hanging on the wall.
Yeah. Uh-huh. Hang in there, Joan. Uh-huh. You got it.
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Howdy there, partner. Hey there, little lady. How you doing? The last 2 weeks Yeah? We've had this day off.
I know. We've had Wednesday off. Wednesday was, Christmas. It was also, New Year's Day. Yeah.
And, we had enough the last 2 weeks. So I'm struggling. It was Christmas Eve, was it not? No. Christmas Eve was when Tuesday.
Was was on a Tuesday. Mhmm. Mhmm. So we had this day off the last 2 weeks. The week 2 weeks ago, we had Tuesday and Wednesday off.
Yes. But this is the day the last 2 weeks we've had off. Right. The midweek break Was lovely. This is part of your we should only work 4 days a week schematic.
Correct. And so working today after having 2 Wednesdays off, you're not in love. No. No. No.
Not even kinda. There's not even a crush. Oh. I'm not in love, but I'm also this I'm not a crush, and don't have a crush on this 5 day work week. Mhmm.
There's not even an inkling of a like. Ew. I am not attracted to this 5 day work week. Well, I don't know what to tell. It's giving you ick?
Yes. Yeah. Yuck. Red flags everywhere. Yuck.
Yeah. No thanks. Yeah. No thanks indeed. Yeah.
Well, we're here anyway, and we're gonna be here all day. Yeah. I'm kinda required to be here. So there's that. It's it like, we'll warm up, and it'll be fine.
And we'll have fun. You're just not in the groove is what you're saying. Just Okay. Yeah. I could've slept a little bit longer for sure.
Oh, yeah. Likewise. I did not wanna wake up. I was like, nah. It's sleeping in.
It's Wednesday. Wednesday. Wednesdays are for sleeping in. My day off. Yeah.
Anyway I could've kept going. I could've kept sleeping. Same z's. Same z's, but though. I got up, and I'm here for the people.
Here we are. You're here for the people. I'm here for the people. Out. What a martyr you are.
No. That's not what I mean. That's not what I mean at all. I just mean I'm here. I'm up.
I'm awake. The phones are still broken, so we can't even take phone calls. No. Still. However, I'm trying to find ways for, for folks to communicate.
Obviously, we have the social medias. We don't talk about it often, but in the classy ninety seven app, there is a, microphone button you can use to email us a message. It's a one way communication, but you can send us audio if you, you know, got something to say. You can absolutely do it through the app. I got something to say.
I got something to say to you too. I heard you were here for the people on a Wednesday. You're not here for me. Yeah. You're it feels like you're only here for every other person but me.
It only feels like you're here for yourself. Aw. I hope not. But, anyway, if you wanna try that out, you absolutely can. Just tap the microphone button.
It'll walk you through recording a message, and then it'll automatically email it to us. So, that's a way you can communicate. You can send us messages in social media. And then, hopefully, at some point, we did find out that the phone issue is not localized. It is not our issue.
Okay. It's actually a much larger, backbone issue with the phone service provider, and it's affecting, other clients as well. Oh, no. So it isn't just our issue, and it is not our fault. It's it's we're just along for the ride We just till it gets fixed.
By standards. Yeah. By standards. By standards. That's what I meant to say.
Yeah. Yeah. But, it's early, and it's my day off to you. That's right. That's right.
That's right. Alright. We'll let everything slide today on the working Wednesday. Here we are. Alright.
Good morning. Good morning. It's Josh and Dan. Week. We're in the middle of it.
The middle of it. Aye aye. Let's go home. Shut it down. I do not think you're ready for this story.
I read it, and I said to myself, oh, I gotta tell Chantel about that one. Let's hear it. What is it? There's a woman who has, gone online to talk about a situation that she is in or was in. We got a situation.
She included, pictures in her online post. What's the situation? She is, unable to stay at her 28 year old boyfriend's house because of his old gross pillows Ew. That he admits that he has had since childhood. Ew.
Yeah. I'm looking at the pillows. Don't. Wanna guess what they look like? No.
I They look like they're from a pirate ship. That's what they look like. They are very weathered. They are uncased. They are Why do they have a dog case?
I don't know. I'm grossed out. I knew you would be. I don't wanna look at it because I can envision it in my head, but I kinda do wanna look at it. Brown.
Ugh. Yeah. They they look tea stained. That's why I said they look like they're from a pirate ship. Did pirates have pillows?
Sure. Did they? Not all of them. The captain sure did. She suggested bringing her own pillows or getting new ones.
He said, I can't get her get rid of these. They're sentimental. Ew. You don't keep your pillows as a sentimental icon. She went on to note that his cat regularly sleeps on one of the sentimental pillows.
You're gonna get pink eye, bud. What? And ringworm. He said he would be sad to see, that she would choose something as small as pillows to come between them spending time together. But, if that was what it was gonna take and they needed to go, they understood.
Ultimately, she stayed at home. Yeah. I would do that too. I wouldn't be able to sleep on gross pillows like that. Ew.
They're gnarly looking. Yeah. I bet they are. I'm envisioning it in my head. Gross.
I would not. I would not. Paint a picture for me. What are you envisioning in your head when I say they look like they're from a pirate ship? There's, they're t brown stained.
What would you, what would you think they look like? It would be I think it's a small pillow. Like These are regular size. Regular size? These are regular size bed pillows.
K. I think it's all lumpy. I don't think it's one solid pillow. I think there's lumps. How old is this guy?
He's 28. 28. And he's had them since he was a kid? Yeah. How often are you supposed to replace your pillows?
Way more often than this guy is. So I think there's lumps. I think there's patches of dead space Yeah. And patches of lots of fluff. Yeah.
At first, you'd think that's kind of an interesting color of pillowcase. But then upon closer inspection, you realize there's no pillowcase. Yo. Why isn't there a pillowcase? I don't know.
These are the ones they look like they were pulled out of the dump is is really what they look like. They're Okay. They're very old, very, very, very old pillows. And listen, if the guy wants to keep them around for sentimental whatever, fine. Why do you keep your pillows for sentimental?
Whatever. He's had them since he was a kid. I don't if that's your thing, fine. But don't use them. Hold on to them somewhere else.
Put them in a garbage bag. Say And then throw them away. Ew. They're really gross. And I knew you'd love that story.
I do love that story. Thanks for sharing. Mhmm. You're welcome. Good news to get you going is coming up next.
Interesting. There is a place called Magnetic Island. It's, it's in Queensland, Australia. And a mysterious stranger who, wishes to remain anonymous, wanted to do something special for the holidays and spread some joy. So he, cashed out $5,000 worth of $5 bills, and, he hid them all around, the island as a Christmas treat.
I wish there was some anonymous stranger that did that here. So here's what he did. That well, let me tell you about a guy, Nathan Johnson, who was visiting from the US who stumbled across a $5 bill and went, what is this doing? And then looked around and said, what is this doing? And then looked over there and went, what is this doing?
And he kept finding $5 bills. They were left on trees. They were put on posts. They were on tables, chairs, rocks, signs on top of different bins. Really hide them.
They were he just put $5,000 worth of $5 bills out and about. They weren't hidden all collectively. It was like a, hey. You found $5 kinda thing. Okay.
Yeah. But he he just kind of sounds like kinda went on a walk and went, here's $5, and I'll hide here. Put 5 But not really hiding. He just kinda placed them. They were intended to be found.
Yeah. That's cool. Yeah. So Nathan, obviously, his Christmas was made a little brighter, but a lot of other people discovered hidden $5 bills around the island and were a little bit smileier that day. Smiler.
Uh-huh. Yep. The stranger, again, who wishes to remain anonymous, hopes to inspire others to be charitable. His festive message, which was attached to each of the $5 bills, invited people to share on Facebook and to share the spirit of the holidays. Oh.
Kind of a fun little thing. Idea. Yeah. We took $5,000 worth of $5 bills, and we hit them all over the place. So if you're walking around and you find 1, you get to keep it.
That's cool. Yeah. And you just tucked them away inside different things just around so you could just all of a sudden stumble across 5 bucks. Yeah. I kinda wanna play that game except I'd wanna I wanna stick around to see them get found.
I'd want to see the reactions from people as they found them. I see what you're saying. I'd wanna remain anonymous, but I still would be like, woah. Yeah. I'd be, like, picking up from shrubbery.
Depending oh, really? Depending on And then I'd tuck back down. Mhmm. I see. And then I'd hide behind a garbage can, and I'd be like Yeah.
You would, actually. I I I can see you doing that, poking around corners. I know where you found that one. Found that one. Yeah.
Well, anyway That's cool. Kind of a fun little idea. Yeah. It's good news to get you going. Yesterday, I was talking to, Victor, the guy who hosts the Kay Bear Morning Show just down the hall.
Uh-huh. He's letting us borrow a VR headset. We talked a little bit about that. There's a game that he let us borrow. I was I was telling him that we were having a good time and that you really liked, Astro Bot, and you got to walk around and be in the level.
And it was really cool, and you were like, I want a Mario version of this. Yes. So I was kinda telling him a little bit about that, and he said, have you played any of the other games? And I said, no. We've really just kinda played that one and and, you know, played a a couple of different mini game things and whatever.
He's like, dude, there's some scary games in there that that he let us borrow. Yes. And he said one of the games like, he loves, like, horror movies and and haunted houses. I love haunted houses. All that stuff.
Yes. And he said that game was one of the first times he actually felt very scared. I don't wanna play that one. Yeah. You do.
But is it? I'm gonna watch. What's it called? I'm not playing it. Something evil.
Resident evil, something like that. I don't know. I don't know. It's a game that he said it's very scary. I like scary things.
I'm not into the scary things. I know you are not. I am. Yeah. In the VR world, remember what you know about Yeah.
Being immersed in the world. And you have to move around, and you have to run from things, and you have to battle, and, like, I just it sounds not great. I think it sounds awesome. Another game, the one that has there's that VR gun thing that I that he let us borrow as well that's charged up on the on the speaker thing. Okay.
There's a game that uses that. He said it's giant, and he said over and over, giant spiders, attacking you, and you have to shoot them. And he said, that one of his daughters was he like, through the headset was like, no. So, yeah, there's a couple of scary VR games that you might be interested in trying out. We haven't, we haven't even We haven't even dabbled in the scary VR world.
I let's do it. You're not a fan. No. I'm not. I've seen a a whole bunch of of different videos of people being scared in VR and, people walking on a plank and getting to the end where they have to jump off and actually, like, jumping and falling in their houses or, you know?
I I don't want you to break the TV. I'm not gonna break the TV. What do you think I'm gonna do? When you're in the VR world, who knows? If something scary happens and you turn to run away, what's gonna happen?
Because you don't physically have to run away. It's in your controls. I get that. But you're sitting. Aren't you sitting?
It depends. Or is it Because this is a full immersive world, so you probably need to stand because it's a 360 degree dimension that you're in. Oh, wacky. I know. Emory plays a game.
It's job simulator. It's hilarious. And she has to It's a little robot guy. She stands, and she moves, and she puts stuff away. It's like that.
She's been given an area that's considered safe that she can be in. Correct. I like to stand next to her. To her and then get bumped into bump into me and be like, what are you where did you come from? She thinks it's hilarious too.
No. She doesn't. She does not. But, anyway, we'll have to dabble in scary VR a little bit. That's awesome.
I'm not super excited. I'm totes excited. I'll play. Totes excited. I'm totes excited.
Yeah. That means totally excited. No. No. I know.
I I'm up with the slang. That's a cool way to say it. Is it? Yeah. I don't know if it is, but It is.
I know what's cool and what's not. Okay. Follow me for more cool slang. I'm like totes. I'm like totes.
Alright. I was scrolling social media yesterday, and I was influenced. I didn't purchase this, but it it it showed me an ad for a it's called Homesick, and it's a candle. Homesick? Homesick.
Candles. Yes. K? And it is candles that smell like the state that you live in. Oh, is that right?
So for example, Texas smells like leather pine in the state. Say probably some leather. Delaware. Why pine? Do they have, are they known for a pine, situation?
I don't know. I don't know. Delaware. What do you think Delaware would smell like? I have no idea.
I've never been to Delaware. Strawberry, musk, river water Okay. Orange zest, moss, and vanilla. Okay. So they have all of these states that you can get that, it smells like South Dakota.
Okay. Okay. Rosemary and sandalwood and tonka beans smells like South Dakota. Uh-huh. They don't have an Idaho one.
Okay. They have South Dakota. They have Delaware. They have Southern California, Arkansas, but they don't have an Idaho. So then I thought, what would Idaho Well, you've you've listed off a couple of things.
I feel like River water? River water was one of them. Sure. River water and pine. Pine for sure.
And then meat processing plant. That seems to be a hot a hot scent these days. Only in East Idaho. That's true. That's true.
Let's go statewide, not just just locally. Statewide, we've got Potato sellers. Spud sellers as you like to call them. Yeah. I love that.
Spuds. Spuds sellers. My dad was a potato truck driver. Yeah. And so he always called them spuds.
He didn't drive potato trucks. He drove He does. He he drove an 18 wheeler that carried processed produced potato product. A spud truck is a different kind of truck. He didn't drive a spud truck.
Well, okay. That's fair. He drove He drove potatoes. He drove an 18 wheeler long haul semi full of frozen potatoes that he turned into tater tots. That's potatoes, isn't it?
The old tater tots, not spuds. He didn't drive a spud truck. He always called them spuds, so it doesn't matter. He's VC said spuds? I gotta take these spuds.
You spuds. Okay. So what do we got? Smells, river water for sugar. That's that's the one.
There's gotta be something. Okay. So they have here's what they have on these candles. There's top notes. Top notes.
Right. K. And then there's mid notes, and then there's bass notes. Alright. This is a play a song.
Hey o. Hey o. Good joke, bud. Yeah. Thanks.
They actually this this company makes a lot of different candles. They've they've done Texas and Florida and whatever, but they also did Dodger Stadium, Wrigley Field, Gryffindor. Gryffindor? Yeah. This I looked up an Idaho scented candle on a completely different website.
This one has Idaho smelling like lime, basil, and mint. That's just the herbs they found laying around. I don't think it's fair that this company didn't even make one for Idaho. New York. What does New York smell like?
Well, hold on. So I like this right here. So the there there we could take hints of log cabin, which which has blue spruce. I think that's that's appropriate. Spruce.
It's the lightest. Flannel. That's it. While you were sleeping reference. Oh, good.
Flannel. Flannel. Yeah. K. Chimney smoke.
A k. Firewood. K. And, and then they threw in some winter birch to give you that sort of, barky feel. Okay.
I think you could pick up on some of that along with spud cellar river water and, you know, dirt. Fish. Wife I mean, I Trout. Trout. Bear skin.
No. No. No. No. Nobody wants that.
Nobody does want that, but also nobody wants river water either. River water isn't terrible. Are you insane? Stagnant gross puddle water. River water's great.
When you walk down to the river, you can smell it. You're smelling stagnant puddle water. You're not smelling river water. Go stand in a river. I have.
In the mountains. I have. You have. Yes. I've stood in the river with you.
Look at your face. I don't like I don't like when you say you have. Yeah. All sassy. Oh, yeah.
Like, I don't believe you. All sassy? That's zesty. It's different. Yeah.
That's what it would smell like. I think this It's a great candle. If you go up north, if you go toward Lewiston, it could smell like that paper factory that they have up there. That's gross. Is it yeah.
That's true. Let's think of nicer smells, though. Idaho smells great sometimes. That's why I said, you gotta make it smell like the wilderness. Yeah.
If you wanna if you wanna encompass the state, I feel like you've gotta make it smell like Like the woods. Like the woods. Like you're out in the woods. Like a camping trip. Yeah.
Like s'mores. Make it smell like s'mores. You could have a hint of, schmallo in there. A mid note of toasted schmallo? Maybe a maybe a low note of, a bass note, whatever you call it, of, like, chocolate and gram.
Yeah. With a hint of shmallo in there. There you go. But then also spud cellar. It's gotta have that going.
I kinda actually do like the smell of not necessarily a spud seller, but I like that smell of, like, dirt. No. I know that about you. You like dirt. Yeah.
I got home last night, and, Emery was like, what should I make for dinner? And we have, like, some recipes, and I said, I don't know. She's been cooking a lot more. She asked if she asked if she oh, how do I wanna say this? Okay.
Are you saying are you trying to say what you told me? Well, yes. Yes and no. So she asked if Okay. Because you mostly do the cooking in our house, and I do the cleanup.
I don't enjoy cooking. So you love to cook, and you have mostly been doing the cooking until recently when she's taken over and been cooking a lot of dinners for. The way you explained it was that she wanted to get better at cooking. She wanted to try different cooking things. She wanted to try new recipes.
So I'm cool with that. That's fine. What are I get home. She goes, what are we having for dinner? And then she said, do you think dad is mad that I'm taking over dinner responsibilities?
And I said, I don't think so. Right. That's what you asked me. I think he's happy to help if you want him, and he's happy to do it if you just don't feel like it, but I don't I don't think he cares. Then she says, well, I'm mad beefing with dad right now.
Why is she mad beefing with me? He is. Why is there mad beef? If there's mad There's mad cow disease running through the house right now. There's mad beef.
There's mad beef. What's the mad beef? She said that you were gonna go downstairs and tie some flies. She said that you told her that, and then you went downstairs and just proceeded to lay on the couch. I didn't And I didn't fall asleep.
Well, for 1, I didn't fall asleep. For 2, I never said anything to anybody about going anywhere. And for 3, I went and sat down in the nice family room we have downstairs because it's a nice space. Well, she was mad beefing at you because know why. She had a long day at school, and she was getting ready to cook.
And she was upset that nobody was around to help, and you were just casually laying on the couch Yeah. Like you didn't have a care in the world. I had been working all day. I had picked her up from school. I had brought her home.
Said mommy, the tables have turned. I went to, relax after a no one took off my shoes for me. Why would they? Exactly. It wasn't that kind of situation.
It will never be that situation. I don't want it to be. It's weird. But my point is it wasn't like I was like, well, I'm in for the night. Just gonna go tucker away and have a nap.
Like, it wasn't any of that. It was I it was, like, 4:30 in the afternoon. I knew you were gonna be home soon. I said I got, like, a half hour. I'm just gonna go kick my feet up a bit.
And so I went and, hung out downstairs and laid back on the couch, playing my silly little game on my phone. She was mad beefing. Well, beef on, lady. I don't know what to tell you. I got I've got no advice for you.
She got over it pretty quick. When she started cooking and started turning on her music and singing along, she got over it. But then Oh. She really was mad beefing with you at the grocery store. Why?
When you wouldn't let her get the soda that she wanted. Oh, yeah. What's the deal with soda prices right now? No. It was ridiculous.
And I said, I'm not paying that. I'm not paying that. Whoever's in charge of that, I'm not paying it. You're charging too much. Yeah.
That is too much. And so I said, no. We're not buying that. We've got delicious water. And that was that was a mad beef.
Yeah. So she forgave you for a minute, and then real mad beef. Yeah. Well At the end of the day. I'm not paying that price.
I'm happy that I'm not on the end of the mad beef line because I'm not gonna pay over a dollar for a can of soda. It's not happening. We we know. You've told us. I'm just saying.
Whoever's in charge of that, fix it. That's ridiculous. You don't need soda anyway. I I don't. I'm just drinking water.
Yeah. But she wanted to have something else to drink at the house, and that was her idea. And then I said, well, look. There's all these other things that don't cost a $1,000,000. They have a 1,000,000 things of sugar in them.
Correct. But that wasn't it. No. She didn't want any of that. No.
That's not it. Okay. Sorry for the mad beef. Don't apologize to me. No.
I'm saying, sorry. You have to witness the mad beef. No. I like it. Look.
If she's upset, that's okay. I like being a bystander when she's mad beefing with someone else. Because I don't wanna spend a ton of money on soda. My bad. My fault.
Mad beef. Mad beef. Part of a goal for me for 2025 is to learn a new skill. Mhmm. And then another goal I have is to, pay off some debt that we have.
Okay. These are good goals. A new skill that I want to learn is expensive. So how do I justify that goal And not spending money. Exactly.
Is is this the the skill that we've been talking about? Yeah. And you wanna take a class, and the class is is a little expensive. Yeah. It's pricey.
You're also paying for 2 classes, are you not? Correct. So split the cost in half because you're getting 2 classes. It's still the same amount. No.
I understand it's the same amount. I'm just saying that, like like, I took a class. Yeah. Right? And and it was a several weeks long watercolor painting class.
Mhmm. And I don't remember how much it cost, but but that was one class. If I were to take 2 parts of that class, I would've had to pay again for the second part. Right. My I'm trying to buying 2 classes at once.
But I'm trying to justify the financial responsibility of paying for that. I don't know how to help you. How do I meet both goals? Do you know what I'm saying? I understand that.
Do I meet? If I'm I've I have a goal to learn a new skill, but I also have a goal to try not to spend unnecessary money. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. I think you justify to saying this is a necessary spend in order to further my goal of learning a new skill. This is a skill I've wanted to learn for a very long time. Right.
Do you see No. I don't. I understand where your head's at, but I don't I I I think you just need to decide if you're gonna do the class or not. You have a deadline to sign up, so make the decision and then do that. Right.
Well, that's why I said it out loud so that you could help me make the decision. Just do it. Take the class. I do wanna take the class. Then take the class.
Alright. I'll take the class. That was easy. That was easy. You need more brain busters for me?
Well shot. But then I worry here's what I worry about because it's an online class. Yeah. I'm taking an online class right now. I know you are.
I'm worried that it's not going to be what I want it to be, and then I'll walk away with not as much knowledge about the skill as I had hoped. And so then I feel like that was a wasted cost. Aw, not wasted. Wasted. Not that.
Do do you see my conundrum? Well, you can't control that. All you can control is your experience in the class. So, you know, advice that you asked for delivered for free. It's been for free for 20 years, Josh.
Yeah. You've been giving me advice. The same advice. I've been giving you the same advice for free forever. That's true.
You have been. You can only control what you can control. At one point, you'd think I'd start to listen to any advice. We're not gonna start that conversation. So what's the answer here?
Take the class. What if it's not what I want it to be? And I've spent all this money on this class. You make the most of it. It's if you do your homework and you do your studying, you can make the class what you want it to be.
Okay. Okay. That's good advice. And if it's not what you want it to be, you can tell the adviser, I'm sorry. This is really lower than my expectations.
You should do better. Do better. Yeah. Because that's something I do. Look.
2025. New year, new you. The year of you being empowered to say the things that are hard to say out loud. Okay. Okay, John.
And sometimes it's, I spent a lot of money on this, and what I'm receiving is less than, exceptional. I expected a lot more out of this class than I'm getting. Do better. I'll probably not say that. Well?
But okay. I think I am gonna take the class. This is something that I've talked about doing for a very long time. Go for it. And I'm just gonna do it.
Go for it. I am gonna go for it. I'm gonna sign up right now. Okay. We have a guest in the studio, Chantel.
It's Katie Lee. Special guest, Katie. Katie, let me turn on your microphone. There we go. Yeah.
You looked over there. The other mics and was like, dude, come on. Hey. Hey. There's 3 of us in here, she says.
Alright. Wanna be a part of this too. I know. Hi, Katie. Hi.
How's it going in here? Good. So, Katie, you're over at z103, our sister channel, and you guys have, a great giveaway going on. We sure do. It is Idaho's number one baby bump delivered by Mountain View Hospital's new NICU.
Basically, what we got going on is that if you are rocking a baby bump or you know somebody that's rocking a baby bump, then go take a picture, get a picture of it, go submit it through any of the classy apps, and you could be entered to win a all the things that you're gonna need for that baby's nursery because And you've got all the stuff Oh, yeah. Just down it's just down all the way. Into a giant castle in there. I saw that. It's just huge mountain stuff.
K. So we got a crib glider rocker chair, changing table, swing, lots of diapers and baby wipes. Those are the essentials. Yes. Lots of other kind of stuff.
So the basically, the essentials for your nursery. But then, also, this year, we decided to throw in a newborn photo shoot from a local photographer. That's cool. That's really cool. So is this in hospital, or is this something you can schedule afterward?
I'm just trying to understand where the newborn photoshoot takes place. Basically, as long as you're pregnant now, the photographer is gonna work with you to schedule the photoshoot whenever you have your baby. Oh, great. Awesome. Cool.
Well, that's, that's really exciting. And, so is, like, $1,000 worth plus a photo shoot that this like, this is a huge, huge giveaway. And do you have any idea how long zone 03 has been doing Idaho's number 1 baby bump? Probably before I was born. Since since you were a baby bump.
That's great. That's very fun. So if you want a chance to win all of it, as Katie said, all you have to do is tap the, baby bump link in the Classy 97 app. You'll upload a picture of your belly. Of your rocking baby bump.
Rock that baby bump. And Come on, man. Fill out the entry form, and, and you've got a chance to win. And it's all delivered by Mountain View Hospital's new NICU. So go sign up.
If you are expecting or if you know somebody who's expecting, tell them to go sign up. And your photo does not have to be, like, professional grade. You can literally go into the bathroom and take a selfie in the mirror. It's it doesn't have to be extravagant. Yeah.
Because it's a grand prize drawing, so you're entering into the drawing. Now are there chances to earn extra entries? You're doing the voting thing. We're gonna have the voting period here in just, maybe a couple weeks. Yeah.
Once we get the voting period to end, we're gonna, you know, let everybody go and vote. We'll pile all the votes in, and then we'll pick a winner from all the top votes. Nice. Okay. Cool.
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Entered. Entered. Entered. Thanks, Katie. Hey.
On Sunday, we decided that we're gonna turn it into kinda like a board game day. And, we have not played Settlers of Catan in a very long time, and, we were pretty confident that our 15 year old had never played it. Not that we haven't played it in 15 years, but because she was little when we really got into it. Yeah. And so, she was, like, playing different games, and it was a little bit on the adult side or whatever, when we started playing.
And it's just been in the game closet forever and ever and ever. And so you dusted it off, and we set it up, and we played Settlers of Catan. And, our 15 year old loved it, didn't she? She was she was like, let's play again every day. I really wanna play Settlers of Catan again.
Here's the thing. She is a lot like you in so many ways. So many ways. She you are a very strategic person when it comes to playing games. You like those types of games.
Mhmm. You like puzzles. You like challenges. You like code breaking. She is very much of that same mind.
So I thought she would be all in on this game. She is like you in the way that she doesn't like to lose. Nobody likes to lose, but she doesn't like to lose when it's out of her control. If she puts up a good fight and she feels challenged and she feels like she's put her best foot forward and she loses, that's fine. But if she loses and it's because it's been out of her control or she hasn't put up a good fight Right.
Then she doesn't like that. Yeah. But also like you. There's a lot of strategy in the beginning of that game that really helps throughout the entire process. Correct.
You have to set yourself up for success in the very beginning. She didn't know that you had to do that because it was her first time. And out the gate, she was like, well, this Right. She was like, I'm gonna be frustrated this whole time. Yep.
And she was. Right. But that's kinda the that's how you learn. I mean is correct. That's how you learn.
And play again. But I bet if you got the game out and went, hey, guys. Let's go. Catan night. She's gonna go, I'll be on my phone in my room soon.
Enough time is next. Yeah. I think we need to give it more time because she checked out. She was done halfway through the game. She bet.
I'm way losing. There's no way I'm gonna win. Correct. I didn't do this correctly, and I know I didn't do it correctly. And I feel cheated.
I'm out. Right. She was done. She played the whole time, but she was done. She was yeah.
Play. You barely won. Not barely. Not barely. It's the first to 10 points.
You had 10, and I had 9, and you got there before me. Yeah. I think every time we've played that game, I've beat you. Oh, is that right? Mhmm.
I don't think that's true. I knew you were gonna say that. Fine. Because you say this every time. Thing we document it, we don't.
I think I it's not that important. I'm only competitive when it comes to you. That's what you say. That's what you say all the time. I'm not a competitive person except for when I am all the time.
No. Only if I'm competing against you. Right. I knew you were gonna say that. So gotcha.
No. Stop it. You didn't get anything. I know for a fact on that game on Sunday night. I'll tell you that much.
Beat you at that game more than you have beat me. Well, let's play Scotland Yard then. Let's see what happens. Or Dominion. I like Dominion.
We should introduce Dominion to Emery next. Sure. Well well, the first time. What could go wrong? Those are bad games.
We haven't played Risk in forever. It's been a very long time. Been so long. This is why we're competitive people is because we play these games, and then, one of us gets the major tilt. And we played the 2 of us played a lot of these games.
We we played, Canasta for a long time Mhmm. And backgammon Mhmm. And risk. We played, like, all the time. And, yeah, that's that's healthy competition, but I think you you do have a weird competitive streak thing when it comes to me.
It's not weird. It's That's it. It's weird. Strong. It's a strong competitive thing that you have against me Yeah.
When it comes to things like that. Anything. Any kind of game that I can compete. Video game, board game, physical game, weird game you made up with a belt. Who knows?
You'll be like, yeah. This is a game, and I'm winning. Okay. Well, that's the thing. I don't care if I lose to anyone else.
Am I there having fun? Yes. Am I losing? I don't care. But if it's me?
Is Josh winning? Mhmm. I don't like that. How do I beat him? Yeah.
Put a put an end to that. Come on. There is a new obsession on TikTok. I saw this. I just saw what you wrote in the show notes.
I saw this. I thought about talking about it. It grossed me out. I I don't know how I feel about it. I saw the video.
It's all gross. It does look gross. It's all edible, but the new thing I don't know what the thing is lately, but, like, pickles are everywhere. I don't know. I don't get the pickle thing either.
Thing, pickle flavored everything I think everywhere. I'm I'm kinda thinking pickles are in on it. I think you might be aware. Like, guys, we got too many pickles. We gotta find weird ways to get Nobody is bad at all.
Doctor Pepper. Get pickles in Yeah. Their diet Cokes. Get pickles in their potato chips. Yeah.
Make pickle flavored things. Pickle flavor all of the things. Grab some edible glitter and chuck it in a pickle jar. That's the new name. Know.
Is glitter pickles Glitter pickles. Or Glickles. No. Let's just stick with glitter pickles. Glickles.
It's not good. Isn't glicking glicking is that little That's Gleek. Gleek. Is that right? It's gross.
It is gross. I could never do it. There were kids in the school that could do it. They could do it? It was called Gleek.
It's gross. It is gross. Do that. Don't do it. It's disgusting.
I do it unintentionally. Yeah. Like, when there's citrus around, my mouth goes, But this and you know what? A glickle might make me glick. It might.
Anyway. Yeah. You really just open a jar of pickles, you dump edible glitter in there, and then you And it's a snow globe. Yeah. Yeah.
It's dumb. And it's the fanciest pickle you've ever had. It's not that great of a thing. Apparently, Jimmy John's jumped in on the bandwagon. They course they did.
They did a video, but they got called out for using nonedible glitter. Here's the thing. You gotta use edible glitter because if you wanna eat it. Well yeah. That's the thing.
Care for this. I'm looking at this I've watched the video a bunch of times. It just doesn't make sense. It doesn't make it. Like, what's what's There's no point.
There isn't a point unless you're trying to just decorate something. But then I don't know. Have you ever had edible glitter? No. I don't I haven't either.
What does it taste like? I would be kind of freaked out to I bet it tastes like nothing. Eat it. What's it made from? Chopped up shiny sugar.
Microplastics? No. It's it's edible. It's food. It's probably just chopped up sugar.
It's crystallized sugar all ground up. Is it? That's what it's gotta be. I'm gonna look it up. Sugar, cornstarch, gum Arabic Yeah.
It's about sugar. Maltodextrin. That's all. Oh, great. Good.
Food safe color additives. Yeah. Neat. That's not it. You can also make your own edible glitter using gelatin, food coloring, and rice paper.
Mhmm. We really could make our own homemade glitter. Three ingredients. Yeah. So we could make our own homemade glitter.
We could make our own homemade pickles, and we could make our own Glickles. I just don't under oh, some somebody made a joke and said that these are a staple in the Cullen household. That's an old throwback to a vampire movie about glittery vampires. Way to throw that one out there. I'm just reading through comments.
A lot of people are saying it's pretty pickles. Knowing who the Cullens were. I know enough. Do you? I didn't.
For a minute, I had to and I read those books, and I watched those movies. You're right. Glitter gherkins is another word. Pickles are called that. Pretty pickles, pickle snow globe, which I said as well.
Glickles. I hate that word. It's that's a gross word. I don't like that we're starting off the year with that word. I don't like that we're starting out the year with this food.
Me neither. Let's let's do some notes. Yeah. I agree. Like, anything.
Just leave Anything else. Leave the pickles alone. The pickles alone. Just keep them pickles. Yeah.
They're fine by themselves. I just need you to know that I heard every word that you said. You were reading a whole thing to me, and I was listening because I'm a good listener, Chantel. Mhmm. Uh-huh.
You sure are. You didn't have to repeat it. You just I got it the first time. That's not what happened at all. That's not what happened at all.
You, you you've signed up for this class you were talking about, so you're gonna learn a new skill in this year. You're excited about it. You're going through the syllabus and reading some of the instructor notes because you've signed up for the class. And as you were reading the thing, you paused. I thought you were done.
I moved on. I was working on something else and then realized that you'd been talking for a while, and then I went, I didn't hear a word that you said. So I asked politely if you could repeat what you said, and you said, I don't even remember what I said. I said a lot of stuff. A lot of things.
How far back do I need to go? And I said, well, I heard listening. I heard this and this and this, and you said, I said a lot of stuff since then. And I said, well, say it again. I'm a good listener.
Here's a skill that you have that I I do get a little bit envious of. Mhmm. You have this ability to hyperfocus on whatever it is that you're doing. Meaning, that if you're reading something, if you're looking at something, if you're working on something, that is you have blinders on, and that's the thing you're working on. That's the thing you're doing.
And if something is happening outside your blinder zone, you don't see it. You don't hear it, you don't see it. So if you're doing something, you're reading something, and the kids come in and, dad, I cut off my arm. No. I would hear that.
You wouldn't. I would hear, dad, I cut off my arm. You wouldn't. That would pull me out of whatever I was working on. I doubt it.
Listen. You listen. If it's important, I hear it. The other thing is that I can also hear everything. You do hear everything a lot of the times, but there are times you only hear the things that I don't want you to hear.
Isn't that a thing? That is a thing. I hear everything. I just let you know when I'm hearing the stuff that you think I shouldn't be hearing. I hear it all.
You don't. You do I'm a good listener, and I hear it all. You do hear a lot of things, a lot of the things that I don't want you to hear. You 2 will be 2 rooms away, you and our daughter, and you'll go, and I'll go, quit talking about me. How did you know?
But then I'll be right next to you, and I'll be saying something. And then Was I doing something else? Yeah. But you're always doing something else. When 2 rooms away, I'm whispering to Emery.
I'm just sitting there waiting for you to start talking. I know you are. I'm just, like, leaned up against the corner of the wall going, they're gonna start talking about me. I know it. So I just hear things.
My ears go, That's something I should pay attention to. But when you were going on and on and on, I was doing something else, so I didn't hear what you were going on about. Going on and on and on. Yeah. And so I had to have you go on and on and on part 2 so that I could hear it that time.
And then I was actively listening. I was looking in your direction and listening, and you looked up at me and said, why are you looking at me like that? That's my listening face. So It didn't look very welcoming. I was focused No.
On the on the words that were coming out of your mouth. What did I say then? About what? Can you repeat what I said? About what?
About what I just said. When? Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it, Josh. I'm a good listener.
You are. Mhmm. Mhmm. I get, oftentimes, I get different craft ideas, and it's part of my algorithm is to see different, crafty ideas. Yeah.
So I stumbled across this craft idea that this woman from Scotland named Anne. Oh, sure. She you know this? I'm looking at at some things right now to catch up. I see what I'm seeing going.
Is passionate about knitting, specifically Shetland lace knitting. Uh-huh. And she decided to knit a fence for her garden using curtain poles as her base and strong twin, which is normally used for fishing nets. Okay. And she So the curtain poles were her knitting needles, it looks like.
Oh, you're right. Because I'm seeing this picture of her with curtain rods in her hands. You're right. That's what it is. Knitting, knitting fishing net, material, Strong Twin.
That sounds like Scottish. A strong twin. A spool of strong twin. Yeah. Yeah.
You do. Or I think maybe twine. It is. It's pretty funny. The person who posted it said, spelling it, that's twine.
Twine. Strong twine. Strong twine. But strong twin sounds Scottish. Give me a spool of strong twin.
And then they went, oh, twine. Right. Got it. Shetland what is it called? Shetland Lacenace.
Lace. Yeah. Have you seen the picture of the fence? Yes. So she she made, a like, in between the beams of the fence look really ornate and, and pretty and but also, I like the stitching that she did because it isn't, like, like, dense, but it's also not lacy like a doily.
So she did do some, like, real It looks hard work. It looks great. It's It's very cool. Pretty. So Shetland lace knitting, there's no cast on or cast off edge.
When you knit, I know That means nothing to me. Information about knitting. There was an old woman I used to work with who tried to teach me once. She was a little bit grumpy. Okay.
I kept trying to make jokes. She was having none of it. The 2 of us were not a good pair together. But I know that you have to cast on when you begin, and then you cast off when you end. So Shetland Blaise knitting, you don't do that.
You start from a single stitch with your edges knitted on the bias rather than size of the something to someone. Knit diagonally. Great. Somebody said, when grandma knits you a fence, you install that knitted fence. Because when grandma knits you a sweater, you wear that sweater.
So Because that is taken. That is a labor of love. You bet. I think it's so awesome. Good for her.
It is really cool, and it does have kind of a lacy appearance. It's really, really fascinating looking. But I but my favorite picture is her sitting in her comfy chair I was just gonna say that. With her giant, curtain rod knitting needles. That's that's great.
I mean, those things are 4 feet long. Yeah. She probably just, lathed them. She's she's Scottish. She probably has a lathe.
She she made them a little pointy so that it was easier to knit with. It's it's really cool. Good for her. Anne. Anne, what's her last name?
I just wanted you to try to pronounce it. Eudenson? That's it. Let's find out, which you would prefer between two things. It's would you rather this or that.
Would you rather be able to speak all languages fluently, but only for 10 minutes a day? Or Or I can only speak non English for 10 minutes? Correct. That that one. Oh, man.
Or have unlimited money. Minutes at once or 10 minutes throughout the day collectively. Let's say at once. Yeah, ma'am. Yeah, ma'am.
Or have unlimited money, but only be able to spend it on things that are completely useless. Lame. I like both of these because they're lame. You're lame. No.
I'm not lame. I'm These options are lame. I know. I I oh, let me think. I think I'm gonna do the unlimited money because I think it would be funny just to just buy things for people.
Look what I got you. What am I gonna do with this lamp? This $1700 lamp. Lamp is useful. That's not useless.
What's useless? Everything has a use. Oh, there's there are a lot of useless things out there. For example, the thing we talked about yesterday with the little cat thing that blows on your Don't need it. Your hot soup to make it cool.
$25. Don't waste. That's the kind of set that use. If a lamp has a use, so does that thing. I would beg to differ that a lamp and that thing are Comparable?
Yeah. I would say they are very comparable and that they both have a use. Their uses are not comparable, but they are comparable and that they both have a use and a purpose. Okay. They were invented to do something.
You know what doesn't have a purpose? Purpose? Yeah. What? That silly little box with a switch on it, and you flip the switch, and a little hand comes out and hits the switch and goes back in.
What are you talking about? I don't know what you're talking about. It's a little box with a switch on it. And when you flip the switch, a little door opens, a hand comes out and pushes the switch back, and it goes back in and shuts. That's all it does.
Well, there you go. Useless. You could buy that for everyone you know. I don't want that, so I'll take 10 minutes of foreign language. Thank you.
Okay. Don't you go buy me that useless box. You're gonna have 70 of them. Want them. I suppose we should probably, wrap up the show and Supposedly.
Call it a day. It's a Wednesday that you didn't plan on working because you had the last 2 Wednesdays off as we started the show. Now it's complete. How are you feeling? I was not complete.
I mean, this this section of the day is complete. I still feel still feel like I should go home. That's never gonna change. During during the past couple of weeks, you also, did not have responsibilities at your second job. Correct.
And so after you got done at the on the show, you went home Yeah. And just had time there. It was awesome. Yeah. I've told you before, I wanna be a kept woman.
Yeah. That's expensive, though. It is expensive. Can't afford that on my own. I just can't afford that on my own.
See? Because it's I mean, it's radio. Right? Like, let's be realistic. I get it.
If you wanna have nice things Okay. And take classes Hold on. And I just looked up the definition of that. That is not what I thought it meant. What?
I don't even wanna say it again. I okay. A kept woman refers to a woman who is financially supported by a partner. Yeah. Okay.
But there's other definitions. And you don't like that. I don't want that part. I see. I just wanna be financially supported by a partner.
That's the part you meant. Is it additional definitions, or is it all part of the one definition? There's additional definitions. I see. So But you don't want that?
No. I just I just want somebody else to pay my bills while I stay at home and do nothing. Okay. Alright. That's that's what I want.
Well, let's maybe explain it that way instead. From now on, I will. Yeah. The you just want better do better. Okay.
I know better now. And that's not what you meant? Correct. Alright. Good.
Great to know. I just wanna I just want somebody else to do all of the work while I get to do what I want. That's all. Josh is never gonna go for that. No.
No. No. No can do. Day at work, I suppose. I can't go for that.
Suppose. I can't go for that. I've been I sang the whole song. No. I know.
I can't You did? Yes. I did. When? Oh, while you were being a good listener.
That's when. We're just recapping the whole show. Hey. Let's wrap this up. Alright.
Have a great rest of your day. We'll be back tomorrow morning. Monday, Thursday everybody, hang in there. Poster. Yeah.
Like that old cat poster. Mhmm. Hang in there. We'll see you tomorrow. Thanks for listening to wake up classy 97, the podcast.
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