It's Josh and Chantel, and this is wake up classy 97, the podcast, a replay of today's full show. It's Tuesday, June 25th. On today's show, we discover Destination Dupes, we need a dog groomer, Josh yelled at the scale, Why don't I feel at home in our neighborhood? Would you ever invoice a play date? The gnome update, how to save a choking raccoon, and we break down a tricycle fight.
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It's Josh and Chantel. Hello. Good. Today is goat cheese day. Goat cheese.
Not goat cheese. Goat's cheese. It's possessive. What? Yeah.
I've we've been saying it wrong this whole time. I'm kinda wondering if we have Goat's cheese? Goat's cheese. You know, it's delicious. Goat's cheese with the blueberry stuff on it on a cracker?
Yeah. Or with red pepper jelly. Mhmm. Oh, man, oh, man, oh, man. So delicious.
It is Elizabeth Peratrovich day. And? Celebrates women's fight for equality. Elizabeth Yeah. Was a woman who played a key role in passing Alaska's anti discrimination act of 1945.
Good for her. And led to yeah. It's a landmark law, which was the first of its kind in the US. So she's big civil rights, representative, especially for Alaskan native. So, good for Elizabeth.
And today, we celebrate quality and so forth. Ta da. Big thumbs up. National Catfish Day. The, like, the actual fish Yes.
Or people who are posing as other people? No. The fish. The fish. The actual fish.
Yep. Global beetles day today. I love a good stink bug. Nope. The beetles.
Oh, who's your favorite beetle? There is no favorite. Are you crazy? Yes. There is.
I like Ringo. I think he's weird. You like George. I know where you sit. I don't I thought he was your guy.
No. Paul. I thought you like George's stuff. I do like George's stuff, but I I like Paul's my favorite. Oh, okay.
But you like George's Yeah. He's got some solo stuff that I don't mind. Alright. I've got my mind set on you and all that. Was way off then.
I mean, I had a 25% shot. I just like at all. Ringo was so weird. I I think that's fantastic. Global?
Why does that have to be global and not Because they are well, they're all over the whole world. Well, right. But that would make it in there. Included. Wouldn't it?
It's strawberry parfait day, Chantal. Oh, strawberry fields forever. Okay. Fair. It is color TV day.
Color TV? Mhmm. And Did you ever have a I hated when my parents watched black and white TV. Oh, my parents would watch Nick at Nite all the time. Yeah.
I hated it. Bewitched was on and mister Ed and Andy Griffith show and Yeah. All of those things. I know. I didn't like it.
It's also World Vitelgo Day. Is that how you say it? Uh-huh. It's the the, pigment condition where some of your Oh. Is that how you say it?
Infantigo. Well, it's not What did you say? What did you say? That's not it. What did you say?
Whatever you just said is not it. It's VITI, legal. Oh, I don't know. Yeah. I I feel bad for not knowing how to say that.
It's a rare skin depigmentation disorder, and, that's what's happening today. Ta da. Listen to some Beatles and strawberry parfait. Why not? And, have some goat cheese.
Goats? Goats catch a catfish. Good morning. People are taking these, vacation dupes. Destination dupes is what they're calling them.
What does that mean? It means that vacations are expensive like everything else. And so instead of going to, like, a beach vacation in Bora Bora Mhmm. You go to San Diego. Love it.
And pretend that you're at Bora Bora. I would just pretend I was in San Diego. I know. Because San Diego is awesome. Right.
Like, I that's what I'm saying is I would just be like, like, oh, well, I couldn't go to Fiji, so here I am in Salt Lake City. There's a whole list of vacation dupes. Fiji or Salt Lake City. Yeah. Can't confuse those 2.
Nope. Okay. So you would go to, the beaches of San Diego instead of going to Bora Bora. Or you would go to I don't these ones seem kinda similar. Memphis instead of Nashville.
Memphis is cool. I I don't know. I've never been to Nashville, but I imagine they're pretty similar. You'd go to Napa, California instead of Tuscany, Italy. Okay.
Alright. If you're into wine and cheeses. Western Colorado instead of Iceland. Okay. That's interesting.
I've been to Western Colorado. I've driven through. Does it remind you of Iceland? No. I bet it's a lot cheaper.
Sure. There's also not a lot going on in Granite Junction. Going on in Iceland either. I bet there's a lot going on. Have you seen pictures of Iceland?
Yes. It looks like it's out of a video game. It's crazy. Myself feel better because I'll probably never go there because it's so gorgeous. You that's why you all go to I my eyes can't handle it.
It's too gorgeous. That's what's holding you back? No. No. Because I'm poor.
Oh. I love to go to Western Colorado. Poor. I'm so poor. You could go to Letchworth State Park, New York instead of the Grand Canyon.
It's cheaper for us to go to the Grand Canyon than go to Letchworth State Park, New York. Do they have a big canyon at Letchworth? I don't know. K. Look it up.
Leavenworth, Washington instead of Bavaria, Germany. Listen. These are all just nice ideas. Okay. Letchworth.
Create your own dupes. Letchworth is beautiful. Is it? But it is, look. We you can go to Twin Falls and see Letchworth.
You don't even need to go to Arizona. You can just go to Twin Falls. They have a minute they have a miniature parrying bridge over a beautiful waterfall. I mean, really cool waterfall, which you won't see in the Grand Canyon. Right.
Go to Grand Canyon has run dry. But this is beautiful, Letchworth Park. You're right. I would go If you can't afford to go to Letchworth, go to Twin Falls. Yeah.
It's because they've got a bridge. Right. Mhmm. They've got Shoshone Falls up in that same area. True.
Go check it out. Yeah. It's you don't need to go to New York. Let's just go to Twin. You don't need to go to Letchworth?
Nope. Where are we gonna take our vacation dupe? Secret. Never go on vacation. We're poor.
We're poor. There's a woman online who claims she's divorcing her husband because he overtightens all the jar lids. Oh, well, I wonder what that's like. She cleans yes. You do you tighten the jars way too tight.
She says, and I understand this, I would never divorce you for this. But she says it may seem like no big deal. But if every jar in the house is overtightened to the point where he is the only 1 that can be there to open him, it's so annoying when he isn't around because she can't get anything done. She's confronted her husband about it many times, and then it would slowly get better for a while before becoming an issue again. She thinks he's doing it on purpose to irritate her on purpose because she even had a neighbor come over and try to help her open some of the jars, and he couldn't do it.
And she smashed some jars in the process of trying to get them open. And then she discovered that jars that he never would have opened were overtightened. And she thinks she he was just going around and extra tightening every single jar in the house. He might have been. He might have been.
She said she lost sleep over it. She had a breakdown where she's vomited. Sleep over what? I know. I know.
No. I know. No. She claims that her husband was blindsided because there were literally no other issues between the 2 of them. He suggested counseling, but she refused saying there's no point.
I just can't get past the jar lids. He still won't even admit that he did it on purpose. He has given me no reason why he's tightened the jar lids. Maybe he just doesn't want things to leak. Maybe he just has super strength grip, and he's not doing it intentionally.
He just can't hold it. Looking for like, if I had a water bottle, I don't. But if I had a bottle or a jar or something, I would tighten it a normal tightness and see if you could open it. Your normal tightness is not my normal. Really wrench down on it and see if you could open it.
You have some grip strength. You do. There's jars. I'm like, what have you done to this? But you also know lid on.
That I can't open some of those, and so you'll you'll do them to a level that I can manage. I don't intentionally go around tightening jar lids. I'll tell you that much. I know you don't, Josh. I'm not that mad.
I don't think he did either. I'm sure. I'm gonna tighten every car. Imagine that guy just raging through the house while she's at work. I'm gonna tighten every single 1 of these.
She's not gonna be able to open anything. Where's that pickle jar? Mhmm. She got that open yesterday. Mayonnaise.
Mayonnaise? Yeah. Why'd you call it mayonnaise? Because he's tightening the mayonnaise. I don't know.
He's angry. Some of that good news to get you going. Let's hear it. Have you heard of, Jimmy Nolan? No.
Well, Jimmy Nolan has 1 arm. It's the result of an amputation 25 years ago caused by cancer. He's 40 years old. He never lost his competitive spirit. In fact, he has a ton more of it right now.
He is a golfer from New Jersey, and he's doing pretty amazing things on the course. His ambition is to make the PGA tour. Okay. And also to drive home the point to his young kids and no challenge is too great. Let me tell you the story.
So he works as a police dispatcher. K. I'm impressed by this guy. I can type. That guy has to type.
With 1 arm? With 1 arm very quickly. Yeah. He does. So he's yeah.
Yeah. I'm trying to do it. I know. You'd have to relearn the whole cordy system. He can he can fly on that keyboard to be a dispatcher, which is pretty awesome.
He has to. So, on his free time, he he loves to golf. He's gotten very good. He is 1 of 300 members of the North American 1 Armed Golfer Association. Things you learn about.
I know. It is open to anyone with an upper extremity disability. He says everyone has their own kind of therapy. Golf is mine. And just meeting this group and seeing how everyone's different, he said some people have cerebral palsy.
We have amputees. We have people who had accidents. He said it's beautiful inspire beautiful and inspiring to just listen and just see what other people do, watch a different perspective of life. It's that's really cool. He said the biggest thing that he's really into right now, he has a 4 year old and a 2 year old, both of the both of them boys.
And he says, I am showing them that there are no obstacles that are too great. Yeah. Of course he is. And so my oldest started noticing about a year and a half ago that I only had 1 arm. And I just kept telling him, I'm okay.
Right? I can still do things. Now that he's getting older, he's become impressed with some of the things that his dad can do. Aw. So that's pretty awesome.
That is so cool. No challenge too great. And Jimmy Nolan, congratulations, man. That's a that's a big deal. Good job, Jimmy.
I can barely type with 2 hands. I know. 1 on 1. And then golf. Yeah.
I'm barely making it through life. Real. He's killing it. Yep. Way to go.
It's good news to get you going on classy 97. We have a Shaggy, Shaggy dog. That dog needs a haircut. I know. That dog could use a little bit of some grooming.
I know. You were looking at some grooming options last night, and I feel like maybe you and I are in the wrong business. Yeah. Because I tried to, make an appointment, and I can't make an appointment for at least 3 weeks. Any day of the week, any hour of the day, not a single appointment available till the middle of July.
What is that about? I don't know. That's crazy. And it's and it's not, like, super inexpensive either. It's like, it's a pretty penny just for just for a haircut for the dog.
It's more than I pay for a haircut for my head. Well, yours is pretty easy. They don't have to get they don't have to cut around your eyes or around your ears. Razor shave. Yeah.
Yours is easy. Okay. Compared to a dog's. I'm not going to allow you to do it on my head, but grab a straight razor and see how easy that is. I'm not going to.
Right. Those professionals can do it. Yeah. It still takes time and effort and energy. I get it.
And I I would dare say harder than a haircut. You dared say that? Dared say that. I did. I did.
Those dog groomers are backed up. Yeah. Is what I'm saying. Right. So I'm I'm thinking I need to go commodity.
I I need to go a little more local, I think, is what what I need to do. I need to get out of the big box mentality for the grooming. I need to go local on it. Okay. And that then I might have better luck.
Local, not loco. No. I don't know what local local. No. You're gonna Local.
Local. Right. Local. That dog is a mess. I know.
She needs to get in. She can't wait till the middle of July. I know. What will she look like by then? She's chaos.
Right now, she looks like an old towel. There's nice, clean, put away towels, and then there's our dog who looks like an old towel. No. Like, could you do something with yourself? I wonder if we could do it ourselves.
No. I'm I'm not even gonna No. I'm not going to either. Play in that world. No.
I'll find somebody. She's got, like, a mustache growing Yeah. Which is pretty wild. And she's got old man eyebrows happening. Old man eyebrows, a mustache.
Her legs have, like, poofed out. Yeah. Her tail? Yeah. The top of her tail is like a like a fire, like a little, like a candle flame.
I don't know what is happening. The dog's a mess. She's so I gotta I gotta work on that. Get her in soon. Okay.
Because you can't stand looking at her? Or Well, it's because Go get yourself a job. The other dogs are making fun of her, and they just know it. Aw. They're like, look at you.
Last night, I was laying in my bed, and I hear you in the bathroom yelling at the scale, not in the way that 1 would typically yell at a scale, in the way that you said. What's the typical way? Typical way is like, you're a liar. Oh, I see. I can't believe you think I weigh that much.
You're a liar. So what did I say? You said no. No. Alright.
Hold on. Hold on. There's a lot more to this than, than you think. So there there's some research that's been done, and I and I had to pull it up because I knew you were gonna call me out for yelling at the scale. So here's the deal.
There is this research that's been done that, says, like, you know how dogs would go after the vacuum? Yeah. So the idea is that they're trying to protect their owner from the vacuum. They don't realize what's happening, that you're in control Oh, okay. Of the vacuum.
And that they think this noisy crazy thing is trying to get you, so they will they'll be afraid of the vacuum or attack the vacuum because they think it's attacking a person they like. Attacking. Oh. So they're being protective. That's nice.
So the idea is that you yell at the vacuum cleaner. You scold it so that then the dog realize, oh, you're in charge of that. It's not threatening you. You're making it make that noise, and they back off. Okay.
So our dog is very afraid of the scale for some reason, and I don't know why. I think it's because it's shiny and black, and she can see her reflection in it, and she doesn't understand. But she will look in a mirror? But she the same thing happens with the stove. Which is also black and reflective.
Yes. Because she doesn't like the stove either. So I don't know. But she had her ball was in the bathroom, and she stretches out. She's this little tiny 15 pound dog.
She's not huge. And she stretches out as long as she can to barely get her head in there or a hand that kinda pull the ball away from near the scale. And she's barking at me to go get the ball, and I'm like, you go get the ball. It's just a scale. And so I use I was yelling at the scale to see if it would work.
It did not. No. It didn't. She is still afraid of the scale, but I gave it a shot. I just liked from the bedroom of my hair.
No. Bad scale. I didn't say bad scale. No. Just said no.
I tell it bad scale every day. I think our scale is broken. Or maybe. It is. I thought maybe it was emitting a noise or something because it's a it's a fancy electronic scale.
Like, it'll measure your BMI and stuff. Yeah. Gross. Who needs that? So I I didn't know if maybe it was maybe it's making a sound that we can't hear, but it's it's scaring her.
Well, it scares me too every day. I also think it's broken. Well, it might be. Rating some numbers that aren't even real. No.
Last night, we were taking a walk around the neighborhood, and I was thinking it was giving me some nostalgia from when I used to be a kid. Mhmm. And we had a conversation, you and I, about how as a kid, your neighbor foot your neighborhood felt like home. Like, your home was your home, but you ran the streets on your bike or walking, and your friends lived down the street, and your friends lived the next street over. Like, you just knew the neighborhood, and so the entire neighborhood felt like home.
And when we when when you were driving home from grandma's house or your aunt's house or something, it was like when you hit your street, you're like, okay. We're home. I get I do. I I do. I get what you're saying.
I haven't lived in the, neighborhood, or neighborhoods, I suppose, that I grew up in, for a very long time. I I grew up in East Idaho. I'm originally from here, so, the whole town's my home. You know? The whole area.
It's just bigger now. John Cougar Mellencamp song about that. Yeah. Little pink houses and all. And all that.
Or that other 1, my hometown. There it is. Yeah? You did it. Which is the boss.
Right? Yeah. My hometown. My hometown. Yeah.
You know what I'm saying, though. But I don't feel that way as an adult. You don't that's because it's bigger. You gotta think bigger. What do you mean?
Like, it's not it's not just your neighborhood anymore. What is it? The whole town, the whole world, the whole wide world is your home. Get it, but the neighborhood felt like home. But you're not in your childhood neighborhood, and you haven't been for years.
I know, but I want the neighborhood that I'm living in now to feel like home, and it doesn't feel like home. What to tell you about that. I I feel great where we live. No. I love that.
There for, like, 13 years. I know. I'm good. I know. Me too.
I'm not moving anywhere else. Right. The interest rate on a house is enough for us to stay. To wander around more. Maybe you just need to no.
I know. But maybe you need more. Maybe you need to just go get on your bike and go ride. Find all the weird little alleys or whatever it is. I don't know what you need.
Whatever it's gonna take to make that feel like home. I don't know what I'm gonna need either. My home. I will say we were out when the street lights came on last night. We were walking down the street and the light came on.
I was like, oh, time to go. Time to go home. Yep. It's time. Gotta make it home.
Girl's mom's gonna be mad. She'll be on the porch yelling. No. Nobody was there yelling at us. Nobody was worried about us.
No. The dog got scared in the dark, though. That was interesting as the sunset. This is a whole show about our doc. Needs a haircut, afraid of the scale, got scared of the dark.
There were dark shadows. She was being very strange, plus all the fireworks. She's not a fan. She is not a fan of fireworks. Skittish, which is not great.
So And then there was some hooligan neighbors playing in the road. She didn't care for that. They had scooters. Yeah. What are these what are these up to?
Footballs and scooters? I don't know about these 3. It's time to go home. I I can't protect you guys any longer. Yeah.
You need to carry me. If she stopped and started being like, pick me up. Oh, boy. And I'm a brave dog of my god. There's 2 moms.
Let's call them Jamie and Natalie. Are their names Jamie and Natalie? Sure. I feel like it says Jamie and Natalie, moms who hang out together and bow around. No.
It doesn't, actually. It does not say that. Well, what's going on with Jamie and Natalie? Jamie had a little girl, and she went over to Natalie's little girl's house to play to have a play date. K.
And Natalie sent Jamie a Venmo to help out with her daughter's share of the expenses for the play date. Well, that's very thoughtful. $15. For how long was the play date? I don't know.
15 is a weird number. Well, I'll tell you. It was supplies and foods while the daughter was there. So How old how old are the kids? Natalie asked for an itemized list of items that were included.
I don't know that answer either. Young enough, like, $5 for food and then $5 to replace a toy that she broke. Oh. And then other items on the list were a dollar for chalk. Oh, okay.
Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I got the you got this backwards. I'm I'm I mistook I miss I misunderstood.
Okay. I was wondering where you were going. You said these 2 ladies got together. The the kids got together, and you said she sent a Venmo. The mom who had the little girl sent the other mom an an invoice.
Correct. Sent a sent a bill. Yes. Sent you owe me $15. Yes.
For your daughter's use of supplies. The way I took it was she just sent $15, and I was like, well, that's very thoughtful of her to do that. No. No. That the mom Right.
I'm misunderstanding. Yeah. Sent an invoice. Correct. And said, you owe me $15.
$5 for the food she ate. $5 for a broken toy. A dollar for the chalk she used, which an entire box of chalk is a dollar at the dollar store. I don't think she used a dollar's worth of chalk. I don't know.
Maybe they did a big painting. A $3 charge for 3 trips to the bathroom. Well, now come on. And a dollar charge for the wear and tear on the couch where she sat. Yeah.
Yeah. I look. I'm all about, hey. Listen. We're gonna have a play date.
We've we've agreed that we're gonna, like, trade houses. You can come here this time. We'll go there next time, and we'll just, you know, do a wash, and there's snacks involved or whatever. That's what you would probably do. Now if this was like, hey, it's the first time, you know, I know it's kinda maybe a little bit strange, but I feel like if you were gonna go do an activity or you're going to the park or there's gas involved or, you know, something where I'd be like, hey.
Let me do a little kickback. $15 is a weird number. But Especially But then I'd be like, hey. Here's here's a few dollars. I know you, you know, you went to you went and got a treat.
Let me give you back for that. When our kids were little and they used to I mean, they still do. When they go out with friends, it's like, hey. Here's $20. I don't know what you're gonna need, but take this.
Just in case you And they always came home with it. Right. Always. But the same kind of situation when we had the kid for the our kids' friends over Right. They always came with money, and they'd be like, oh, my mom gave me this money to help pay him.
No. Forget about it. Right. So that's, yeah, that's something else saying I've got this bill for you. I know.
That's, I bet they don't have many play dates. A lot of the times, I feel like I should pay the kids that came over because they entertained my kids so that I didn't have to. There's that, and they also ate the food and didn't complain about it. Exactly. Every time.
I love it. Every time. They were they were this food's amazing. I love when Beck's friends came over because they were like, can I have more? Yeah.
Yes. Absolutely. And our kids are like, this is even This is gross. No way. This is amazing.
I'd be like, Bec, invite your friends over because they like what we cook for dinner. Yeah. Maybe that's why the kids were like, no. I'm not bringing over friends because then you're gonna cook. Do you wanna tell everybody about your gnome update?
Yeah. I kinda wanna, if you haven't seen the, reel on Instagram or Facebook, the gnome was down yesterday. It's been about 4 or 5 days since the gnome was knocked over. The gnome gets knocked over by a stray cat that keeps coming into our yard Mhmm. And knocking over the gnome.
And I thought for a minute that maybe because it had been so many sequential days that the, gnome was still standing, that maybe the cat had moved on. Not so. No. I went to water the plants last night. You were out of the house.
Yeah. And I went, oh, no. Josh is gonna be so mad. That's so the news I arrived home to was the gnome was down. So I, I got video of the gnome face down in the path.
I have, stood the gnome back up, standed the gnome back. I don't know the right Stood? I think it's stood. I put the gnome back on his feet. Upright.
He's upright. Yep. And, and got video of that. So you can you can go, keep up to date with the gnome. Now if you haven't seen the gnome, let's describe the gnome because I'm trying to figure out why the why the cat dislikes this gnome so much.
I don't necessarily think he hates the gnome. I think the gnome is just in his way. I've moved the gnome forward and backward. Have you? No.
He goes after that gnome. There's this gnome, I've moved around, and he gets that gnome all the time. Isn't that interesting? Yeah. I don't know why.
He's, he's got a nice brown beard. He's got a red hat. He's carrying a shovel. Maybe he doesn't like the shovel. I don't know the deal.
It's the red hat. You think it's the red hat? Yeah. Does the other 1 have a the other 1 has a blue hat? I think so.
Maybe what if I put 2 gnomes next to each other? Like, he's got a buddy now. Like, there's A gnome bodyguard. The territory. Do you think he'd only knock over the 1?
Let's give it a go. I'm gonna move the I'm gonna put the 2 gnomes side by side as, like, a gnome gang. You know what I'm gonna do next? If this doesn't work, 1 of our neighbors has, like, a 3 foot tall gnome. Ew.
I'm gonna ask if I can borrow it. You're gonna borrow that big gnome? Build all this big gnome army. The cat's gonna show up and go, what is happening here? Gonna show up and be like, please.
Knock over all these gnomes. Anyway, the gnome is, is upright as of last night. I haven't looked this morning to see if the gnome is down again, but got home to it yesterday. Gnome face down. Poor gnome.
I know. Doesn't even do anything to get such treatment. Why the cat doesn't like this? You thought he was gone. You thought I did.
I thought I won for a minute. Nope. Not so. There was 3 dudes from Michigan. They were out just hanging out.
3 dudes, Tyler, Bill, and John was what we'll call them. Does it not say their names? Because that is their names. They said a raccoon, a wild raccoon approached them. A wild raccoon?
And they thought that they were gonna get attacked or they thought maybe he was gonna steal some of their food, but he appeared to be in distress. They said that he stood on his hind legs in a way that made it clear that he was choking. He didn't do the universal symbol for choking and, like, try to grab his neck? K. No.
He just stood on his hind legs, and they said, oh, he must be choking. Alright. That's about that's all the story. So So the solution is? Pat the back.
Pat the raccoon on the back. Like an infant. Yes. Did they pick him up or just where he was? There was Tyler who was patting him on the back, and then Bill said, no.
You're not doing it correctly. And he said done this before. Do it better. What does that mean? So then he started patting him on the back lower.
Okay. And then the raccoon coughed up a piece of cheese. What? Like, a big piece of cheese? I don't know.
Did the raccoon then try to re eat it, or did he just run away from it? Oh, gross. Or did 1 of the dudes pick it up? Alright. You didn't have to go that far.
That's awful. The raccoon eating it is 1 thing. 1 of the 3 guys going like, a snack is really awful. Oh, boy. Lucky day.
Lucky day. Raccoon cheese. Raccoon cheese. Raccoon walked away unscathed, ready to dumpster dive another day. The 3 guys high 5 and what that's it?
That's the whole end of the story. That's the whole I'm what other ending do you want to the story? What happened with the cheese? I'm 1 of them ate it. Who?
Bill. No. Tyler. Bill. No.
Tyler. No. Maybe they shared it. So gross. Do you wanna hear the new TikTok challenge?
Sure. Is it gonna get people hurt? No. It is not. That's a big deal.
It's pretty pretty simple and basic. What is it? It's basically, just zoning out on a flight. What? Mostly men are doing this.
I can do this anytime, any place. They're posting videos of themselves intentionally avoiding all entertainment for an entire plane ride. Oh, no. The only thing you can do is stare at the flight map on the seat back screen in front of you or look out the window, if you're sitting by a window. The real die hards won't eat or drink anything or even get up to use the bathroom.
Really? Well Some have claimed that they tried it and actually prefer it. Now they say it's almost like meditation. You just stare straight ahead, listen to the engines, and zone out. Okay.
I'm I'm kind of into it except for it's a long duration. Like like, that's the big deal is that guys are doing this on long flights. Yes. Like, they're doing this for hours. Left to your own thoughts.
I don't mind an hour in in the car quiet. Forget it. You'd be asleep in seconds. No way. Yes.
When you sit down On an airplane? Yes. Not when I'm driving, though. No. Not when you're driving.
But what I'm saying is I I do the the zone out, like, just quiet, just listening to the nothing when I'm driving. And I could do that for an hour at least. Not a problem. Just looking out the windows. But I also you also get bored really easy.
And when you get bored, you start to get a little bit sleepy. Yeah. So you would fall asleep. I don't think you could do it for an hour. I really don't.
I think you would fall asleep behind the wheel. No way. Think this is a recommendation for you. Yes. No.
Yes. No. Joshua, I know you. I know what you do. You used my full neck.
I use that when you're not listening. Oh, no. I'm hearing. I hear you loud and clear. I just disagree.
No. I I disagree with your disagreement. Oh, well, this is gonna get us real far. The idea of this is just to embrace the boredom. Yeah.
That's what I'm saying. I know. And, really, just to be alone with your thoughts. Right. But, again, you're gonna fall asleep in seconds.
I'm also with you. I could sit there. Here's 2 things that I'll do. 1, if I have nothing to do to occupy myself, I'll fall asleep. Or if I have nothing to do but sit with my thoughts, then I'll just rehash old things I've said that are dumb, old memories that I've done that are dumb.
Oh, okay. I live in anxiety where I'm like, what if what if my kids do this? What if what if Josh does this? All that kind of stuff. Yeah.
It's not for you. No. It is not for me. I'm I need a I'm good with it. I need a time occupier for sure.
I think I could handle it. Let's give it a shot. K. Okay. I'll drive so we can be safe.
We'll take No. That's not gonna work. Why? I have to have the the driving to do. If I'm a passenger, I hate being a passenger on road trips.
I hate it. Why? It's boring. That's the point. You're supposed to be bored.
You're supposed to embrace the boredom. No. This is why it's never gonna work for you. To drive. Listen to this story.
This is pretty hilarious. Okay. Okay. There was a guy in Florida on a tricycle. He has a basket in his tricycle cycle.
In his basket is a machete. Why? On his basket is a flashlight. K. K.
He's riding his tricycle. Bicycle, basket, flashlight. Machete. Machete. He's riding his tricycle down the beach while using the flashlight as a headlight.
So I think he's either got it taped No. Or he's holding it. No. He said it's in the basket. No.
No. No. His flashlight oh, yeah. Maybe it is in his basket. Okay.
He pulls up on a guy, and the guy says, hey. I don't like your light shining on my face, and they started arguing. It was at this moment that the No. That the guy, not on the tricycle, the other guy sees that the guy on the tricycle has a machete in his basket. So he pulls it out, and he stabs the victim.
He stabs the tricycle guy just lightly, and there was a struggle. The guy in the tricycle takes his machete back, but cut his hand in the process Well, yeah. And drives away on his tricycle. I can imagine just like What is happening? Squeaking.
Make a tricycle squeak. It's this isn't a child's tricycle. Like, I know that's what you see in your head. I know. But he didn't ride away on a on a tricycle ringing his little bike bell.
Right. That's k. Alright. He called 911, and then he was taken to a hospital where he was treated for his non life threatening injuries. They didn't have enough to charge the guy who grabbed his machete, but what what kind of world are we living in?
A guy can't even ride his tricycle on the beach with a machete. What kind of world are we living in? Here's another funny story. There was an amusement park in Tennessee. There was a concession stand and a bear wandered into the concession stand.
Everyone Was he looking for honey? Everyone was laughing because it was on the other side of the counter where it couldn't get to them. So the employees that were working there were like, oh my gosh. Look at that bear. Look at that bear.
This is hilarious. What they didn't do is tell another employee that happened to be walking in for her shift right into the path of the bear. She went in and opened the back door, opened it, came face to face with the bear. The bear was startled, so it did swipe at her, but she didn't get hurt luckily. She dropped a big pot of something hot, though.
Chili. Probably chili. She brought the office a big pot of chili and then then dropped it. And then the bear was like, free chili. Free chili.
And then everybody made a quick escape. No. That's not what happened. I don't know how they escaped. Because she dropped the chili.
And it startled him so much, distracted him. Yeah. Then you and they were like, I'm just gonna step around the bear here now. But here's a little word of advice. Maybe start to tell people when there's something happening.
I remember I worked at a I used to work at a school, and we had a lockdown drill once. And we we had to lock down all the side doors. Mhmm. But there was, somebody that was coming in for their shift, and we didn't tell them. Oh, they couldn't get in.
No. And she walked in. I think we had, like, police officers there that day too, and she was like, what's going on? Yeah. Yeah.
Stay in your car. Yeah. Well, don't come in. We probably should have notified you. Yeah.
That's important information. It is. What were you never allowed to have as a kid? A good time. No.
I don't know. I I don't I don't know that I wasn't, I don't know that I was prohibited from having anything. Really? Not not really. I don't think there was anything.
It was like, no. You you can't watch that or No rules at Josh's house. No. I don't think it was that. I just don't think it was ever an issue.
Like, I don't think I I don't think I was ever like, I just want a thing, and it was like, no. You just probably can't remember. It could be that. Memories. I wasn't allowed to have memory of my childhood.
We weren't ever allowed to have, like, sugar cereal, like, Captain Crunch, Froot Loops. That was never in our house until later, like, as I got to be, like, a teenager. Yeah. I we had that stuff. You did?
I did. Lucky. I only got that stuff when I went to my friend's house, and I was like, your mom lets you have Captain Crunch. We would go to my cousin's house, and they weren't allowed to have it. They only had, like, life.
Yeah. We had raisin bran Raisin bran. Yeah. And grape nuts. No.
I had I had Fruity Pebbles and, and, what are they called? Froot Loops? Yeah. Yeah. Cap'n Crunch.
Somebody said Grape Nuts taste like gravel, a gravel road in a bowl. But yeah. No. I I didn't care for the, the shredded wheat. I wasn't a fan of that.
That was a cereal. I was like, can we not get this? We had frosted mini wheats. Good for you. Was a treat.
Yeah. I was like, oh, I'm just gonna eat the frosted part. I liked, frosted flakes. Yeah. But then I also like to take a little spoon of sugar and put on top of it.
It was too much. Have you ever had that sugar milk where it's, like Yeah. Thick? Yes. Yeah.
That's good stuff. I haven't had sugar milk since I was probably 13. Gross. Gross. We didn't allow our kids to have soda when they were younger.
So any kind of pop for soda, no no no go. Till they went to grandma's house. And then they went to grandma's house where same grandma who refused to buy us anything but Grape Nuts. She was like, let's give them soda. And I was like, would you knock it off?
What is the matter with you? Have to pay the dental bills. There is a I Reddit. This was asked on Reddit, and there is an old I mean, she's 40 years old, and she goes, I've had McDonald's for the first time 5 years ago because I never got it as a kid. Really?
So I never ever wanted to eat there because there just wasn't the appeal for me. That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
It does. It is time for your would you rather this or that question of the day. Question du jour. Uh-huh. That's French.
For soup of the day? Yes. Would you rather have no elbows or no knees? Oh, no. Try and stand up with no knees.
Try it right now. Nailed it. This is a real inconvenience. Try to stand up with no elbows. That that alright.
I'm gonna say no elbows. I'm a say no knees. Are you? Why? How you gonna drive?
Oh, you'd have to get a special car. You can't drive with no you can't drive with no elbows or no knees. Put your hands on your hips. Like, what a conundrum. What a thing.
What are we gonna do? I can sit further back I could never put still reach. The the car's designed that if I had long legs, I could still reach the steering wheel. Steering wheel? But you would have to turn.
Nope. See? I just bent my elbow. That's what I'm saying. You have to You gotta have elbows.
I'm going no knees. I'm going no elbows. I'm gonna walk like a popsicle stick leg man. Like Frankenstein. Yeah.
Like that. Would you rather this to that? And you'd have to plop down, and you'd have to have somebody push you up plop down anyway. From behind. Hey.
I have to get up. Can somebody come push me? That's what you'd have to do. Help. Help.
Just yelling that from the other room. And you come in and go, what's up? You're like, I can't get up. Why? Why can't you get up?
I have no knees. I got no knees. Hey. It's time for your better today than yesterday daily challenge. Your challenge today is to create what they call an inner peace collage.
I would like an inner peace anything. It's images or videos that make you feel relaxed and calm. So you don't you can just put together an album in your phone that is, it's called an inner piece collage. And you put in there some images, maybe some, some different writings or screenshots of things that make you feel relaxed and calm. Uh-huh.
And then when you need a little bit of peace, you go into that album, and you cruise through, and you go, like that. I feel better. So it's an inner peace collage. I could do with some of that. I I think everybody could.
I think that's great. I need some inner peace. So get some inner peace today at your better today than yesterday Yesterday daily challenge. Hope you have a great rest of your Tuesday. We'll be back tomorrow on your Wednesday.
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