Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Friday, March 21st, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
Why does Josh keep saying crunchy taco, maybe Chantel should put on her headphones, how much should we be tipping and Josh has some helpful tipping tips, there’s a new steam vent in Yellowstone, we saw Hello Dolly last night, our daughter is filling us full of WWI facts, looking cool when cutting onions and other life hacks, people actually iron their sheets, NCAA men’s basketball bracket update, Quarterback is coming back to Netflix, Chantel thinks she’s going to dig a hole for a marital duel, and it’s fun trying to find Chantel in the store.
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Intro
(3:30) - Crunchy taco day
(7:05) - Put on your headphones Chantel
(10:56) - Good News to Get You Going
(13:30) - Tips for tipping
(17:13) - Yellowstone's new steam vent
(21:31) - Hello, Dolly!
(24:46) - WWI facts
(27:45) - Everyday life hacks
(33:13) - Ironing sheets
(38:15) - NCAA men's basketball tournament update
(43:41) - Quarterback is coming back to Netflix
(48:45) - The history of the marital duel
(53:54) - Would You Rather This or That
(56:19) - Finding Chantel in the store
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Full show transcript:
Oh, hey. Look. A Friday. What are you doing? Well, I was I was doing Why why are you waving your hand around like that?
I wanted you to stop. You wanted me to stop talking? Because I'm doing a text to text to speech thing. Oh, you are? Yeah.
Go ahead. You do your text to speech. I'll hold on. Go ahead. No.
No. No. Go ahead. Do it. I'm ready.
Stop. I put it away. No. I'm being quiet. Go ahead.
Stop it. Do your thing. It. Do your text to speech day. Friday Yeah.
March 21. Why is Josh so annoying? Whatever. I am not. Why does Josh keep saying crunchy taco?
I don't know why you had such a it's crunchy taco day. Taco. Just It's crunchy taco day. But if you say taco, people naturally assume it's crunchy. Disagree.
I disagree with your disagreement. Well, and that is where we are at a crossroads, Bone Thugs and Harmony. Maybe I should put on my headphones. Yeah. Let's try that.
And stop blabbering. I I mean, the blabbering is fine. Oh, it's nice. I tolerate it. How much should we be tipping?
And Josh has some helpful calculating tips. That's right. Tips for tipping. Tipping tips. Tipping tips.
Mhmm. There's a new steam vent in Yellowstone. And you're pretty worried about it. It's totally fine. It's fine.
Why are you so worried about it? It's just a steam vent. Yeah. But it was a surprise steam vent. I thought they knew what was going on.
Steam vent surprises? No. I thought they knew what was going on underneath. Do you know how big that area is? There's a crack in the Earth's crust.
Yeah. And steam's coming out. Yeah. Yeah? It's cool.
It is cool. We saw Hello Dolly last night. I thought we saw a different show. It wasn't My Fair Lady? It sure wasn't.
Oh, no. Completely different story. Well Our daughter is filling us full of World War one facts. Uh-huh. It's cool.
They shall not pass. It's a Balrog. Yeah. We did find out it is actually a Balrog. Balrog.
And you're a % a nerd. That's the only thing I know about Lord of the Rings. No. It's not. That and Gimli is gonna go over it.
Here we go. Rolling out facts. Looking cool with cotton onions and other life hacks. Yeah. Those goggles really fit your face.
People actually iron their sheets. What is that about? I don't know. I don't know. NCAA men's basketball bracket update.
How are you doing? What does NCAA stand for? National College Athletic Association. I made that up. I don't know.
That makes sense. Checks out. I'm not gonna fact check that. I believe you. Good answer.
Quarterback is coming back to Netflix. Yes. Yeah? I like that show. Yeah.
And Kirkie. Oh, Kirkie. That's what you call him. I don't ever call him that. Cousins.
Oh, my Kirky. What? I think I'm gonna dig a hole for a marital duel. I am gonna dig a hole for a marital duel. No.
You're not. For a marital duel. No. You're not. And it's fun trying to find me in the store.
We we do have a good time. We have a good time. We are Josh and Chantel. It's Friday. This is wake up classy 97, the podcast.
Hi. Enjoy today's show. Enjoy. Hey, Friday. Uh-oh.
Alexander Graham Bell over there. Uh-oh. You still got that email this morning. I just had to go through and delete it. I've now used instead of their subscribe link, I have used, my Gmail button to unsubscribe.
So we'll see if that does any good. If I have that email buddy. In the morning again. You're gonna what? I'm gonna call What are you gonna do?
Gonna call the company, and I'm gonna say, what is the deal with your unsubscribe link not working? What What do you think they'll do? Nothing. Exactly. Because they just love sending me marketing email.
They do. That's their favorite thing. Marketing. It's all their marketing budget, Josh. Yeah.
Well, go bug somebody else. I don't want it. What's happening today? What is happening today? I was just kinda looking through.
It shouldn't be crunchy taco day because it's not a Tuesday, but it sure is. Can we talk about the modifications that our daughter makes to her crunchy taco? And and I'm not trying to be critical or judgmental or anything. It's just something unique. It is very unique.
Like, you think about a crunchy taco. It's got the hard shell, and it's got the taco meat. And then you can add on from there, cheese, lettuce, tomato, maybe sour cream, whatever you want. Why do you keep saying crunchy taco? Because it's a crunchy taco day.
What do you mean? I don't know. A taco is a taco. It's always I mean, not always. Soft taco is not a crunchy taco.
Okay. Okay. A street taco is not a soft taco, nor is it a crunchy taco. A street taco is my favorite kind of taco. Right.
But do you see what I'm saying? Yeah. There are different kinds of tacos. We're talking about the crunchy one with the hard shell. Okay.
Sorry. Continue, please. So she swaps out the the meat for refried beans Mhmm. And then gets no lettuce. Yes.
So it's refried beans And tomatoes. Cheese, tomatoes, sour cream, hard shell. It's very unique. It's not gross. She loves it.
I know she loves it, but I would not like to eat that. But but you like a crisp bean burrito or or a plain soft bean burrito. That's true. So what's the difference? It's just the shell that it's delivered in.
Yeah. I think? Yeah. I do. I do.
I replace my meat with black beans Right. Because that's delicious. See? Also strange. No.
It is not strange. Yeah. I think strange you eat the meat. What? So how about that?
How about that? And, again, it's not strange. It's just unique. Everybody's got their own tastes, don't we? That's very true.
It is true. Have a crunchy taco however you like to do. Crunchy taco. Who's gonna give me a crunchy taco? The taco place.
I just I'm not gonna say crunchy taco anymore. I just didn't say taco. Why can't you say crunchy taco? I don't You're having a moment with crunchy taco. I don't know.
When it's taco Tuesday and I say, hey. Let's go get tacos. What taco do you think of? What taco do I think of? Yeah.
Let's you say let's go get crunchy taco? No. I just said it's Tuesday, and I say, hey. Let's go get tacos. It's free taco.
Right. Not a crunchy taco. You've gotta specify. It's crunchy taco day. Hooray.
Hooray. Are you with me? I'm here. I have my headphones on this time. This'll help.
Tell everybody why wearing headphones is important. Well, listen. It's real important, not only because you get to hear yourself and and whoever else is talking on a microphone and make sure that you know, for me, I get to make sure levels are equal and that we sound as loud as one another and there's a good balance. And then, you know, as we are talking and, I decide to that, you know, we've talked enough, and I hit a button to start the song, and there's a little bit of a ramp that we talk over before our Luke Combs starts singing, about fast cars and stuff. We get to be quiet when he starts singing, unless you don't have headphones on and you have no idea that that's happened, and then you just wanna keep talking.
So what were you gonna say at the end of the last conversation when you said this is a whole change of subject? Hold on. My whole my my favorite part was watching you just shake your head like I'm like, no. No. Stop.
Stop talking. I'm gonna turn the mics off. You're gonna be mid sentence. I didn't have my headphones on because I have a little bit of a headache this morning. Uh-huh.
And sometimes the headphones and, like, listening to myself in my head Oh, I I get it. What were you saying? What were you gonna say? Say. Just say it.
Oh, you're so Sometimes hearing your own voice, what? I I agree. Sometimes hearing my own voice. You're so grounded. I know.
I touch grass. Listen. Go on. Get out of here. What were you gonna say?
I was gonna say, I, for the first time in a very, very long time, last night, I slept all night through. Is that right? Without I've been tossing and turning and waking up. There's been things that have woken me up. Last night, when my alarm went off at five, I was like, woah.
What time is it? I was so out of it. It was amazing. I wanna check my sleep. I haven't checked because, I haven't had my watch on overnight for a few days, but I did last night.
So And did you sleep? Well, I'm trying to find where is it. Oh, man. That was the best sleep I've gotten in a long time. I don't even know where to find it.
You and when we went to bed last night, you you were at the kitchen table doing something. Right. And I was like, I'm going to bed. Enough with this day. I'm going to bed.
And then I was like, I'll wait. I'll stay awake until until you come into bed. And then you came into bed, and I was couldn't even keep my eyes open. Yeah. You were pretty toast, but that's fine.
I was pretty toast. I mean, I I only got five hours of sleep. Really? Yeah. It's not enough.
I don't think that's accurate. I it's pretty accurate. I just don't think it's accurate. Well, you don't you think I got more? I think you yeah.
I think you got. I don't know. Mine says no sleep detected. I think that's wrong. I was wearing my watch unless it died.
I bet it died. No. It's it's never going. Maybe it hasn't synced up yet. I don't think it has.
Yeah. Well, anyway, I'm glad you got a good night's rest. Thank you. Sorry about the headache you got going or whatever that's causing you to feel like, like, you can't wear your headphones. It's important.
When I listen to myself in the headphones, my voice goes. It, like, vibrates in my head. Is that right? Does mine do that as well, or is it Yeah. Hello.
Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Thanks.
That's helpful. What? If I make it bounce around? Yeah. That's real nice.
Thanks. Interesting. Interesting. Hey. Guess what?
What? It's Friday. Yeah. It is. I'm excited.
Okay. Woo. Good deal. Good news to get you going today comes from eastidahonews.com. There's a story.
It's called Step Up. And here's the deal. 302 lucky students from Hawthorne Elementary in Idaho Falls each picked a new free pair of shoes on Thursday yesterday. Three hundred and two? Three hundred and two students.
Yep. That's awesome. Yeah. It's very cool. This is kinda fun.
First grader Laura Lee, she said when we put the shoes on, we can play with them and run because they're faster, which is true. That is true. New shoes are faster shoes. And They are. Laura Lee chose a cute pink and white set, that matched with her friend, which is kinda fun.
Aw. They got to, come and shop for the color of shoes. They got to, check their size so they made sure all the sizes were right. They got to have ownership in the process, and then they get to take them home. And every kindergarten through sixth grade student at the school received new footwear.
That's amazing. Yeah. Which is pretty cool. Now you may ask yourself, well, where did these come from? I was asking myself that.
So it's an annual initiative part of Operation Warm, and it is sponsored by Mountain America Credit Union and the Mountain America Center. And they work together with the community. And, every time the spud king score a goal, more, shoes are put into the pot, essentially, is kinda how that works, which is pretty cool. Awesome. Yeah.
Over the past twenty five years, Operation Warm has provided more than 6,000,000 shoes and coats for kids in 4,000 communities across the country, which is really, really cool. One of the, kindergarten teachers said that some of her students have shoes with holes in them, and they come back from recess with wet feet. So this is a she said this is a lot, for the kids who have less materially, and some of them, their shoes are just falling apart. So it's a big deal, which, of course, it is. So that's pretty cool.
This also, ties into Idaho State University football and basketball teams. They have a similar deal with the as the Spud Kings do, where they get to donate into this program, when goals are scored. I love it. It's kinda fun. Yeah.
So, pretty awesome. And, one fifth grader said, these look really cool. I love how they fit so nicely. So you know how good it is to have new shoes. Shoes are the best.
And, and this is great. So, well done. And if you wanna read that story, it's @eastIdahonews.com. That's awesome. When you're out at a restaurant and you have to tip, what's the percentage you typically leave?
So I've I've just recently figured out a real easy way to, to figure out how to tip 20% Okay. Or to be real close. So What is it? Let's say the give me give me the price of of the bill. How much is on there?
$53.49. 50 3. So what is 10% of 50? 20 5. It's 5.
0 5. Right? It's $5. I knew that. That's fine.
I was thinking half. So if I just double that and do 10, that's 20% or real close to of of the bill. Oh, I see what I'm saying? Yeah. I just take out my calculator and I get it.
And you're gonna be I mean, you might be off by some cents, but it's a really close way to get between eighteen and twenty for me. Because what I what I was doing before was taking the, the tax on on there, which is we have a 6% sales tax. And if you multiply that by three, that gets you 18%. So you typically do 18 to 20%? That's typical.
Yeah. That's good. Yeah. I think that's what I do too. But I just found new fast ways to calculate it without having to pull out my phone or something.
Tell say it again. Multiply the tax by three, that's 18% because the tax is already 6%. Good job, Josh. That's smart. Or take 10% of the first numbers, if it's $50, that's five, and double it, you got 20%.
The average tip is 18% now. Okay. Men tend to tip a little bit more, and women tend to tip a little bit less. The average is about 18.9. Remember when the average was 12, and then the average was 15.
Yeah. Years and years and years ago. Millennials tend to be the biggest tippers, and Gen z is next, followed by Gen x. And then boomers They're the worst. Are the worst.
Really? But a lot of them have fixed incomes. That's that's true. But I would say and when we say worst, I would say lowest. Not not worst.
Okay. They're the lowest tipper, but it's probably at what percent, does it say? 16. That's not No. That's low.
It's not like I mean, we're talking about a 2% difference here. It's not like they're tipping a dollar versus somebody tipping 10. It's it's just fractions of percentages. Right. Yeah.
I do I do tend to leave a little bit more. Like, I 18 to 20 is my base. And then if the service is good, then I'll leave that 20. If it's not my favorite, then, yeah, I'll do that. Cut to 18?
I see. Well, now you know how to really quickly figure out what you're gonna do. Just triple up the sales tax or, 10% times two. Or I'll just pull up my calculator. Or just keep doing what you do.
That. Or just read the little suggested tip number and hope it wasn't lying. Or that. I mean, there's that. That's always an option too.
I just like, I hate when it's, like, with little change attached to it. Like, it's, oh, 18% is twelve eighty eight. Like, stop. Like, just say it's 13. I know.
That's I do that. Just round. Just round it up. I do that. Just round.
Because I'm not gonna write $12.88 in the tip. And then they're gonna take 88¢ home. Do you see what I'm saying? Somebody wants that. Right.
Just write it in whole numbers. Just I I do. Round up. Me too. I do.
Yeah. Same. Good job. High five. This is big news.
What is big news? A brand new volcanic vent opened in Yellowstone. What does that mean? Well, here's the story. So, there's it's a big volcano.
We know about that. We live on the caldera, the big one they call it, all of those types of things. Well, so listen to this. While driving south from Mammoth Hot Springs toward Norris Geyser Basin, early on August, a park scientist noticed a billowing steam column through the trees and across a marshy expanse. The eagle eyed scientist notified the park geology team to verify if this was indeed new activity.
It was. The steaming hydrothermal vent is located at the base of an ancient lava flow, and geologists measured its temperature at a 71 degrees Fahrenheit. It could be newly spawned activity from a steaming feature previously found nearby in 02/2003. So it's this is the view of it. Here's the vent.
Okay. It's a steam vent, and, it's new. There's a new steam vent. But what does it mean? The vent remains active this winter, but subdued as water has drained into the opening, come spring, it may robustly light up again.
The activity from these features waxes and wanes with time, and you might even say that some of them pick up steam So said the article. Are they concerned that it might erupt? Well, we do know that, that we have volcanic activity underneath, and this is just a new vent. This is a new crack in the crust, that's letting Cool. Letting some steam out.
That's not terrifying. Yellowstone's last volcanic eruption happened some seventy thousand years ago, and the events weren't giant eruptions on the scale that it would deposit ash over a huge swath of The US. If it occurred tomorrow or next year, they would have minimal direct effect outside of Yellowstone National Park is what they have said. Now that's why we keep talking about the big one. Right?
So, anyway, it's interesting, and I saw this, and and I went, okay. We've got new New activity. New steam. We got new volcanic vents opening up in Yellowstone. It's just a crack in the Earth's crust.
No big deal. Fine. Just letting some pressure out. No big deal at all. Everything everything is just great.
I don't feel nervous at all. You don't sound it. Not one bit. You should not have told me. As a cucumber.
Any of that. Why should I have not told you that? Because now I'm anxious. What's been going on since August, that's when it was discovered. It's been going on since before that.
I know. It was just discovered in August. Ignorance is bliss, as they say. By a scientist who went, I don't have a vent mapped on my, my science logs in that location. Yes.
I just just walked in by and investigate. Oh. New steam. Smoke in the trees. Yeah.
New steam. Let's let's walk over and check it out. I will say when I spent six days backpacking in the depths of Yellowstone, it is a bit unnerving to know that, like, I'm in a tent on top of all of this. Yeah. Yeah.
Like, this is this is interesting. This is interesting. And also bears. You fools. Yeah.
It was it was hard to fall asleep some nights I bet so. Talking yourself into crazy things. Meanwhile, danger. Chantel Danger. Oh, there she is.
The one who's afraid of steam. New steam. Danger's my middle name, and my between first and middle name is runs from. No. Yeah.
Clumsily trips away from. There it is. We were lucky enough to go see a production of Hello, Dolly last night at the Center Theater. That is correct. It was a it was a great show.
Center Stage. Yeah. Center Stage Theater. Yeah. Really, really great show.
They always do such a great job. They do. But the sets, I'm always blown away by the quality of their sets. The acting is is super, super good. And and I was, in costuming, I'm looking at them going like, somebody did, just a smash up job.
Their costumes. I couldn't keep my eyes off the costumes. It was Unreal. The dancing? I'm like, it is It's a great production.
So good. Right. Very high quality. There's one scene. I'm not gonna give away any spoilers, but when that happened, the whole audience was like, woah.
Like, they the set piece that they had, the prop piece that they had, everyone was like, what? I heard one guy go, where'd that come from? And I'm like Yeah. Where did they store that? No.
That from behind it. This is where it came from. It's awesome. Yeah. Very, very cool.
And I don't know if maybe he looked away or he was paying attention to something else. And then when he looked back, he went, what? Woah. Where what happened? Yeah.
Really fun. Really, really cool. So well done. And and, you had purchased tickets a while ago for that. I forgot it was coming up, and then you were like, hey.
We're we got we got my fair lady. And I went, oh. Not my fair lady. What did you say? Hello, Dolly.
Hello, Dolly. You know what I'm saying? My brain. Again, still, what did we see? It's fine.
There was at intermission, we went to get some snacks. Yeah. When we came back, there was a gentleman sitting in our seats. Right. And so I calmly, politely, I thought said, oh, those are our seats, actually.
And then he kinda jumped up and said, oh, I was just gonna see what the view looked like from here. Well, how'd you like it? And then, of course, I sat there thinking for a minute, and I overthink. And so then I had to ask you if I said it mean or if I was nice about how I said it. You were pretty nice.
Okay. Good. It was fine. You just said, actually, those are our seats. It was no big deal.
We saw Hello, Dolly? Yes. Oh, is that why they were singing the songs about hell oh, the whole time, I'm like, I thought this was different. It's no big deal. Thanks for clarifying that just now for me.
My also favorite part was that right before we left, we were eating dinner, and I told Beck, our son Yeah. Hey. We're gonna go see Hello, Dolly tonight. And he went, did you buy me a ticket? Me too?
Me too. And I go, no. I know that you don't like musicals. Okay. Good.
He missed out. It was lovely. It was very cool. Great choreography through a bunch of the scenes. And I I mean, especially, like, toward the end in that second act with all the, all the servers and stuff, I was like, what is happening right now?
I was, like, overstimulated. There was what do I watch? Yeah. There's so much going on. Very, very cool.
Live theater, always great. Always love to support it. So, go see live theater. Support it. It's it's a big deal.
It is big deal. And thanks for getting tickets too. It says, hello, Dolly. You got it. Alright.
Thanks. I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget. It's a good show. Emery is in a history class. Yes.
And in history class, she's learning about World War one, which means we also get to learn about World War one. Yeah. We, learned a little bit about trench warfare. Yeah. Every day she comes home, and it's actually pretty fascinating because some of the stuff you forget from when I learned it in school and the fact that she's so interested in it and she comes home and she relays information, like, that's interesting.
She she'll come home and say, did you know that in trench warfare and then she'll rattle off Mhmm. Something from World War one. She told us last night that Lord of the Rings was written in a trench. Yeah. And the Hobbit is the the Hobbit, specifically, Tolkien frequently attempted to incorporate aspects of his personal life, particularly the experiences he encountered in his service during the first World War one or first World War into the writing of the hobbit.
He represents these events variously through the eyes of the protagonist Bilbo Baggins and his quest through Middle Earth, which I think is really interesting. Now, as far as the Lord of the Rings being written there, that's what I wanted to find out. It's clear that his experiences of war were the catalyst for the Lord of the Rings, causing him to write a collection of stories that were unlike anything the world had seen before. So that is that is probably true to to say that he took aspects of his time there. I don't know that he was in the middle of battle down there writing things down.
That's not what I think either. But I'm sure there is also some times in war where you're just sitting around waiting for your next directive, and things are going through your head. You're thinking of things and plot lines and Right. You know? But but they also, have said that j r l, j r r Tolkien did not write Lord of the Rings as an allegory I see.
For World War one. However, experiences from his own life surely would affect him would have affected everything he wrote. I see. So it is again, it's not necessarily that thing. But the the story that, she told us was that he did have a commander or something that, while they were fighting, he said, they shall not pass, and that that became something he had to write into the book.
I don't know if that's true or not, but that's a very fun story. That's what she's true. I think that that's it's a good line. And then he took his big bow staff and Yeah. They shall not pass.
And a big dragon came. It was a whole thing. It was a Balrog or something. Cool. Roll that dice you got sitting over there.
Why don't you? Come on. I'm gonna give you some life hacks. Are you ready? Sure.
Sure. Sure. Sure. Open bags of chips from the bottom. I already know that life hack.
And here's do you know why? Because the heavier unsettling, the heavier chips go to the bottom of the bag. Untrue. Okay. On settling, they go to the top of the bag.
The bigger chips are at the top of the bag, and the crumbs are down at the bottom. But if you're going to dump the chips into a bowl and you open the top and you dump them in a bowl, all the crumbs are on top and all the big chips are on the bottom. Oh. So if you open the bottom of the bag and dump it in a bowl, all the crumbs are at the bottom and all the big chips are on top. Good job, Josh.
So that's why. If you're just gonna snack on a bag, open it from the top. But if you're going to Dump it into Dump it into a bowl, open it from the bottom. Put a slice of bread in your mouth while you're cutting onions. The whole slice?
They claim it absorbs some of the compounds that make your eyes sting. Okay. I've also heard that you could leave, like, like, a wet sponge or some sort of, like, cup of water or whatever nearby because something has to do with, with that whatever it is in the onion that makes it make you cry, it it it attacks moisture. And that's why it goes for your eyes because there's moisture. And so if you have something that is more moisture it's like getting struck by light.
If you're the tallest thing out there, you got a better chance of getting hit by lightning. But if you've got taller things around you, the lightning goes, no. That let's avoid him. He's not taller than me. Moisture today?
Exactly. So It's for your eyes. Yeah. It attacks your eyes. Or you could just wear those onion goggles.
I've seen those. They're a good look. It is cool. It is cool. I mean, if you were, like, a kitchen staff person and you were gonna be cutting cutting Cutting?
Cutting pounds of onions, if you were gonna be cutting, like, a lot of onions, I would say, yeah, those goggles would have their place. When I worked in, in fast food, we had, what was called a tomato witch. And, it it slices all the tomatoes Evenly? Evenly in in, like, one shot. I need that.
The tomato witch is very cool. It's a it's a piece of industrial kitchen equipment. Tomato witch is very cool. Yes. Yeah.
As a kitchen nerd, the tomato witch is very cool. One of those. I can never slice a tomato accurately. See that. I've seen that.
Alright. You might like this one. Microwave everything twice as long at half the heat. So instead of two minutes on five percentage on wait. Wait.
What? Wait. Okay. So you you cut down your full power. I don't even know how you do that.
You hit the power level button, and then you can change the power level. Yeah. I didn't know that was a thing. Yeah. So when when microwaves have, like, a soften butter feature, that's what it does.
It turns down the the wattage of the microwave and so that it and then runs it at a lower power. I never used that feature. Well, we don't have that button, so you'd have to manually do it. But okay. Super.
Duh. I don't use any of the buttons on our microwave except for You don't even use the add minute button. No. You just you hit time cook one minute, and I go, what are you doing? It's all I do.
There's a one minute button. Hit it. Add minute. Go. Alright.
The last one is people claim that if you put a packet or two of sugar in your mouth without the packet, like, just empty the sugar onto your tongue, it helps your hiccups go away quicker. I heard that that helps the medicine go down. It does. I heard that too. Who told us that?
I think she had a big bag. Yeah. There was an umbrella involved too, I think. Anyway Anyway. Stupid.
Yeah. But that'll help you it'll help you stop the hiccups. But I I have also heard there's so many wives tells on this because I heard that if you drink water upside down, that's supposed to stop your hiccups. That's a challenge to do. But I think here's the thing.
I think the reason that drinking water upside down works is because it forces you to concentrate on how in the world am I gonna drink this upside down. And so as you I think try to figure out that problem, your brain focuses on something else, and your body goes, oh, I need to give all attention to figuring out this problem. And then your body goes, oh, my diaphragm's okay. I'm gonna just yeah. Exactly.
Tricked my body. I don't think it has anything to do with actually drinking upside down. I think it has everything to do with refocusing your mind's attention Probably. To that issue. You're probably not wrong.
I'm right at that. And that's a conundrum. What a conundrum. Figure out how to drink upside down without getting it in your nose. Good luck.
No. No. No. You just you take a drink right side up. Way.
No. And then you Figure out how to pour it in your mouth with your head upside down. Oh, I'm not going to do that. Try. That's like water torture.
No. You have to instead of putting the cup on your bottom lip, you have to put the cup on your top lip. That's how you do it. And then hiccups be gone. I had a friend tell me that she went to her parents' house, and her mom pulled out the sheets from the dryer and started ironing them.
Who ironed sheets? I don't know. That's why I wanted to talk about it. Is that really a thing? I think it probably was way back in the day.
I don't think anybody is I think there's a large percentage of population that is not doing that. Do I think that there are people who still are? Yes. I just can't even imagine the the amount of time and why. I know.
Because they're just gonna get wrinkly the second you sleep on them. Do people actually iron their bedsheets? And there are, like, online things. How to iron your sheets the right way. Right?
I don't know. I don't even iron. I have an iron. I use it for quilting. I have not used it very regularly for even clothes.
You used it for a shirt not too long ago, but there's no way. There's no way I'm ironing my sheets. I'm not I'm not doing it. Don't make me. So this is from a linen company.
So take that into consideration when I say that ironing cotton bedding can actually improve the quality of your sheets. Not only does the heat help seal up any gaps in the fabric to enhance the structure of the material, but it can actually make the sheets smoother and softer over time. It makes the sheets soft and smooth. Yeah. Interesting.
And smooth. Like conditioner. Should I iron my So then I looked up, like, things that people had like, odd things that people have been known to iron. And then there's, like, people who iron their cash, like their bills. A lot of people are like, I'd like a crisp bill.
And then a lot of people are like, there's so many germs on money that this is my way of, like, applying heat so that the heat will kind of, like, kill some of the germs on money. But, again, I go, I don't I don't have time. I don't have time to do that, nor is that how I wanna spend my time. You know what I'm saying? I don't somebody said the reason that they iron their money is because it's the final step in laundering.
Pajamas. People will iron their pajamas. I don't And I don't pillowcases. I don't I don't hate wrinkles that much. I don't either.
Towels? Some people iron their towels or their underwear. I'm a I'm super I don't have time for that. Right. I said that.
Nor Yeah. No. I just don't. I'm not gonna spend my time doing that. This is my personal time.
I'm not ironing sheets that I'm gonna just That feels like self inflicted busy work. Yeah. Iron my sheets. Why? I remember I got my mom irons a lot of things.
She does not iron her sheets or her money, but she all most of her shirts, she irons every day. She's always got the iron out. And she'll put the she's got, like, a fold up iron, and she'll put the iron on the table, and she'll just iron there on the table. A fold up ironing board. That's what I meant.
Okay. I was like, what's a fold up iron? So when I graduated high school, that was a gift I got. Was it iron? Yeah.
And I said, oh, I'm never gonna use this. So I think I I either took it back or gave it away. I'm like, I'm not I'm not ironing. I don't know what you think I ironed. If it's wrinkled, throw it in the dryer on the wrinkle press with a wet washcloth.
Irons or wrinkles be gone. Iron Your everything. Iron your jeans. No. No.
Those guys that starch them out? No. And they they look all crunchy, and they walk like, yeah. Look up starched jeans. These guys, they're doing it right.
I don't know who gave me that gift for my, graduation. It was a terrible ID idea. Yikes. I can't talk today. Yeah.
Starched jeans? Yeah. They're starching them out, so they could they basically could stand up on their own. It's a it's a whole look. It's a big, it's a big thing in the in the country world right now.
I see. Cowboy starched jeans. How do you sit down? What's sitting about? I guess I'm wandering around this here rodeo.
If you if you have starched jeans Yeah. And shoes that you don't wanna crease Right. You're not gonna be able to do anything. No. Just stand in one place.
But you'll look good. You will, I guess, look good. I'm just gonna be over here in my wrinkled clothes. Yeah. I don't I don't because I don't care.
Yeah. I can't I can't devote the time. Can't be bothered. No way. Don't do that.
I'm getting ready to talk on the radio. Josh Yeah. Chantel. Because I see that we have five seconds Yeah. Left, and you are still looking down.
No headphones on. I know. Because I was busy. Yeah. I know.
Listen. I just, spent a few minutes updating all the, NCAA brackets that, we've got going on here at the office. I updated our our sons, except for a couple of games last night, couple big upsets in the tournament so far. Upsets. That's right.
Clemson is out. They were they were are they one seed? No. Oh. No.
They are not. Clemson was a five seed, and they lost to McNeese State a 12 seed. 12 seed. So and it was a close game. They lost by two points.
That was a very, very close game. Let's see. Another upset that happened, Arkansas beat Kansas seventy nine to 12. That's a 10 seed, beating a seven. Let me tell you.
I love those upsets just because I'm always for the underdog. I get that. So now I I want McNeese to go Further. The top. Okay.
That'd be something to see. That you know what they call that? A Cinderella story. I know it. And then movies get made about that.
That's right. That's true. So that one was a a pretty big deal. Let's see. Utah State got knocked out, which was too bad.
I was excited that they were in. I know. Yep. BYU did win. They won over VCU by nine.
VCU. Where's VCU? Great. Good question. The VCU Rams.
I don't even know where McNeese is. I just they're in Louisiana. Who? VCU or McNeese? McNeese.
Oh, good. They're in Louisiana. Yeah. VCU, I'm sure that's a Virginia. That's a that's what I would I would guess, because it's it's typically what the v stands for.
Virginia. Let's see. Who else was a really close game? I know there were a couple other really close games in there. Listen.
I just need I have two brackets in. I need Houston Okay. Or Florida. Alright. So today is a big day for a lot of teams.
Don't you have Baylor in one going pretty far? Pretty far because I like Baylor. Okay. I know nothing about Baylor. I was talking about this to a coworker yesterday.
She actually went to Clemson. So her heart lives in Clemson. So she was pretty shaken up by that. Bummed out, I bet. Yeah.
And I said, I just I like Baylor. I really want Baylor. And she was like, why do you like Baylor? I was like, I just like the name. Okay.
She she said, do you know anybody that's gone there? I went, nope. I know literally nothing about it. I just it sits well in my mouth. Okay.
I just I like Baylor. Alright. I don't know. K? Well, Duke plays today.
Kentucky plays today. UNC made it in. They're playing today against Ole Miss. Florida's playing today. Too.
I just like the name of it. Yeah? Yeah. Ole Miss. No Ole Miss?
They're the Ole Miss rebels too. Oregon plays against Liberty. That's the last game tonight. So that is the game at 08:10 this evening. So there's a lot of basketball happening today as we finish up the first round of the, of the the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
Second round will start tomorrow. So we'll have a bunch of games tomorrow, and then we'll have the rest of second round on on the twenty third. I don't put a lot of stock into this. I know nothing about college basketball. Mhmm.
I made two brackets. One with just, like, the, like, the winning teams. I was like, yeah. This is a four seed. I'm gonna pick that over the 10 seed.
Yeah. And then I picked one just based on the names. Okay. I was like, I like the name of this college. I'm picking that one.
Okay. I don't I don't care. There I've got $2 in That's right. I don't care. But now I'm kind of invested here at the one in the office because we were talking to a coworker.
Fun. And he said, he doesn't really care about this bracket because this is his Yeah. He's like, this isn't my big money bracket. So now I just really wanna beat him. Alright.
Well, okay. Your brackets are hung right next to his, so you can go and take a look. You both put in two brackets. Best of luck to you. That's your goal is just to beat Jacob.
Beat him. Yeah. You're gonna I just gotta beat Jacob. Doesn't care. Okay.
And I'm like, oh, now I'm gunning. Uh-huh. Because you wanna make him care. Yeah. Can you You wanna make him care to at least compete with you.
I wanna take his money now. Oh, I see. Alright. Okay. Well, I'm gonna tell you right now, there's some, much much better brackets than both you and I have hanging on the wall.
There's some good bracketing happening. So, like like, there is, there are two brackets up there that only have one or two games that were not picked, and they weren't even upset games. It's fine. Yeah. There's still a lot of basketball to be played.
Oh, Arkansas beat Kansas. That was one. Arkansas? Mhmm. Beat Kansas?
That's right. Wow. Yeah. So that happened. That was a 10 beating a seven, and that was 79 to 72 that game.
So, anyway, we'll see what happens. Lots of basketball today. And, you know, if you're playing along, cool. If you're not and you're like, that's boring, I don't care. That's fine too.
Then root for me. Because yeah. Then you can just root for Chantel. Just be like, I hope she wins it all. I hope she takes that guy's money.
Yeah. Good luck. Just a couple of years ago, you, were introduced to a TV show on Netflix called quarterback. Yes. And this documentary series, is what really pushed you over the cliff of becoming a football fan.
Well, that and I it was a way to connect with my son. I understand. He he said we should watch this show. The original, season of quarterback had, Kirk Cousins, Patrick Mahomes, Marcus Moriata. Is that who is that it?
Those three? No. I feel like there was one more. But I can't remember who it was. Maybe it was just the three.
I think it was just the three. Interesting. And that came out in July of twenty twenty three, and it followed the twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three NFL season for those players. Yes. They did a a show called Receiver, which was, kind of a a play on this, a similar, but it wasn't as it wasn't as engaging, I think.
We didn't I don't even think we finished it. Yes. We did. Did we finish receiver? Yeah.
Because it had it was it had Justin Jefferson in there. Yeah. It had Deebo Samuels. Oh, yeah. It had Kittle, George Kittle.
That's right. He finished it. It was also very good. And AJ Brown? I don't remember.
No. Maybe not him. Oh, Aman Raw. Aman Raw same Brown. That's who he was.
That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I remember because him and his dad are fun.
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I remember that. Well, so quarterback is coming back for its second season.
Yes. So they've gone back to quarterback, which is a big deal. I know our son is incredibly excited for the second season because he is a Cincinnati Bengals fan, and Joe Burrow of the Bengals, quarterback of the Bengals, is in the show this season. Excited to see it too. Which is really great.
Kirk Cousins is coming back. Now here's an interesting thing about Kirk coming back. He was the coach or the coach. He was the quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings, which is how you became a Vikings fan. And you you really like Kirk and his wife.
What's her name? Oh, golly. And you messaged her even on Julie. That's right. And you sent Julie Cousins a message I did.
Because you really appreciated her little family and all that stuff, which I think is fine. Yeah. And she never wrote back, which is a shame. We we're still here for here for you there, Kirk and Julie, just so you know. But Kirk is now at the Falcons.
This season is also going to feature Jared Goff of the Detroit Lions. Yes. So you're gonna get Burrow, Goff, and Cousins, and it will follow them through their twenty four, twenty five NFL seasons. Now I don't know when that means it's gonna premiere because it's going to follow them through these seasons. It's probably going to be in July then, but it's following them through '24 to '25, which is last season.
So that means all the stuff on the show you're gonna see is from last season, not from the current upcoming season. Interesting. Right. So now for Burrow, he had a great season. MVP season.
Killer season. And Goff did too. Actually, Kirk Cousins did not have a great season. But it's gonna have the entire story of Kirk going from Minnesota to Atlanta, which I think you're gonna be fascinated by. I will enjoy that.
And the homecoming game where Yeah. Are gonna see all of that stuff. Yeah. So I think it's gonna be really, really interesting. They asked him to come back instead of getting somebody else.
But I think that's why. I think it's because they he was an endearing factor in the first season, and it it like, so much so it attracted you to watch football. Yeah. So I think there's enough story there. And with him and his cute little family changing completely changing their lives to move from Minnesota to Atlanta, I think there's a lot of story to tell there.
So I think that's I think that'll be interesting. Alright. I'm I'm gonna watch I love they do such a great Yeah. Like, the way they edit it, the way they present it, it's just so well done. I just love it.
Anyway So I'm stoked. So I'd imagine it's probably gonna be July this year if it falls in line with what happened with the first season. But I could be completely breaking that up. What I'm curious about, they've made a quarterback show, a couple of them now, and then they've made a receiver show. Yes.
When are they gonna make a kicker show? Poor poor kickers. Well, I just don't know. Poor kickers. What would you I mean, it's another game where we didn't even score a touchdown, so I didn't even go on the field.
Oh. Said Baker May not Baker May. Not Baker May. What's his name? I don't know.
From the Chiefs. I can't even think of his name. It doesn't matter. Butker. That's his name.
He didn't play that game. I looked this up to see if this was true. It says there's not really evidence, to suggest that this existed, but there really isn't evidence to suggest that it didn't exist. Okay. Well, I like that you did a little bit of, of research before you decided to just present something.
So you're you're saying that it may be true, but it may also not be true? Right. There's not evidence. They say it's highly unlikely, but they also have sources that said, well, it could have. Like, there's no evidence either way.
Okay. Help me out. What are we talking about? It basically is called a marital duel. A marital Yes.
Duel? And if a husband and wife were at odds with one another, they could fight in a marital duel. Wait. Wait. Wait.
So you're saying this may have actually been a thing in history Correct. That that husband and wife would duel. Yeah. And I don't say duel with, like, swords or anything. That's where I was gonna get is what does this mean?
It's not like a duel to the death either. Okay. But is this also the same as, like, slapping someone with a glove? I challenge you to a duel slap. I love it.
K? And this was legal. This was, like, a way to legally settle their disagreement Okay. And potential divorce. So the man had to fight in a hole with one of his arms tied behind his back.
Okay. The woman was allowed to move freely within the confines of the area, but she had to wear a cloth containing weights. Okay. As for her weapon, she was usually given a sack full of rocks. Alright.
The man was provided with three clubs. However, if he touched the side of the hole during combat, he had to forfeit one of his clubs. Wow. So there are and and there potentially was, someone who was A judge. Yeah.
Like, a referee. Yeah. This is somebody. Keeping track of whether you were following the rules or not. They were usually given a month or two to settle their differences before they went to The dual crown.
That. Yeah. And then the duel would only take place if they couldn't compromise and make peace with one another. Interesting. If the husband lost a duel, which probably if he lost, I guess, he probably would have forfeited all of his clubs or total KO.
Oh. Total knockout. He would have to have his head cut off. So I guess it was a duel to the death. No.
I mean, potentially If the wife lost the duel It's very praying mantis. She would be buried alive. What? No way. Yeah.
But, again, I don't I don't know. And maybe maybe there was some liberties taken. Right? Like, if there's no evidence to exist for this either way Woah. Like, maybe people are like, let's embellish the story a little bit.
That is extreme. I know. I mean, look. You you you get married. You pass around the camcorder, and you go, you have any advice for the happy couple?
And they go, never go to bed angry. This is where it comes from. Right? Because if you do, you're gonna end up in a marital duel. One of you will either lose your head or be buried alive.
That is crazy. And at first, I thought it was just, like, to get a divorce granted. Like, that was the end of my goal, was to just divorce. Well, these two are clearly at odds. You lost your life, but not just that.
You lost your life in a very violent way. Wow. So Okay. But, again, let's run back to the beginning here and say, we don't have proof that this actually happened or that it it didn't happen. Correct.
Okay. But I appreciate that you did at least try to find out before you were like, listen to this fact. There was Yeah. There is a handful of sources that mentioned judicial duels is what they caught called them, Fought between men and women. Most famously, there was a book written, called it's this happened in Germany a lot of the time.
It translated to fight book, and it was written in 1467. Woah. So I kinda wanna read fight book. Fight book? Different than fight club.
Right. Which is Fight. Well, not that much different, actually. Wow. That's wild.
And, again, that story, like, I don't know if that's, you know, it might have just been a fight to get divorced. But Yeah. I mostly wanna dig a hole, put you in it, and then I'll stand up and fight you with a bag full of rocks. Right. But I can't touch the edge.
No. We should try this with something nicer. Like, I'll get a bag full of socks. Uh-huh. And you could just get, like, a blow up bat.
So it's not gonna hurt. But then what kinda hole am I gonna be in? I'll dig one for you. Okay. Good.
So that'll never happen. Sounds good to me. How about some would you rather this or that? You wanna do some of that? Yeah.
K. Go for it. You would you rather would you rather be able to predict when a rainbow will appear or make flowers bloom just by touching them? I know exactly what I'm gonna pick, and it's probably the same one you're gonna pick. The flower?
Absolutely. Yeah. Isn't that cool? Yeah. That'd be a cool that'd be a cool, ability.
Poof flowers. You're just making the world prettier, brighter, and smiley. I know. Yeah. No.
That's a really cool power. I don't need to I don't need to predict a rainbow because I kinda can. Is it raining? Oh, is is it during the daytime? Better rainbows, is it coming?
Light refracting? Yeah. Yep. Yep. And there is.
So I think I could probably get pretty good at that without having to have some special ability. Now being able to predict when the rains are coming would be a would be really helpful. My bones already decaying. I get I get that wonky knee moving, and I go, oh, feels like rain in the next fifteen minutes. And I'd be like, you better put it away.
Let's get bundled up. Let's get things put away. Rain's a coming. Rain's a coming. But that would be helpful.
It would be really cool just to, like, surprise people if you could just make flowers bloom, wouldn't it? I'd just be like Just on a walk with your friends. Boop. Yeah. Boop.
That'd be really cool. And I planted daffodils years ago. They've only bloomed once. You get a little tiny couple of them. They didn't bloom at all last year.
They didn't? No. I thought you got, like, two. No. Because they're by the chair.
Yeah. In the front yard. Yeah. Because we have a chair as a decoration in the front yard. Yeah.
I know. Why are you saying it like that? Nothing. It's fine. Put a planter pot on it and call it a chair holding a pot.
Yeah. I know. It's a little wooden chair, and it's paint it needs a paint job. I gotta repaint it. Why?
Because It's a lawn ornament. Why does it need a paint job? Because it's all the paint's rubbed off. So it now it just looks like old It's an old chair. It's an old wooden chair.
I wanna paint it. You would paint an old wooden chair. Painting things. Why do you want everything to be so drab? Called a patina.
It's called color. Okay. You need some in your life. Apparently. Wow.
I'll get it by making flowers bloom just by touching them. That's would you rather this or that. So yesterday, we decided after work we were gonna meet up at a store. So, our daughter and I, drove over to the store. You were already there.
We walked in, and, the lady at the counter said, can I help you find anything? And we said, just looking for, my wife. And and she said, well, if you need to, we could embarrass her and page her. And I Emery, for a minute, said, that actually would be really funny. Like, we both really thought, like, we could walk around.
It's not a big store. There's what? Twelve, fourteen aisles in this store? First of all It's not huge. That's not gonna embarrass me.
I don't actually love that. If it was like Chantel, your family is waiting for you at the front, Chantel. In the middle of the store, I'd be that's me. Like, I won a prize. I'd be so excited.
Interesting. We really thought about it for just a half a second. Would've loved it. Man, that would be really funny. I said, I think we can find her.
But then we walked down the aisles we thought you were gonna be in and didn't see you and then started walking back. Like, we might actually go page her instead of checking the other half of the store. And so we started walking back, and we we saw you. But then, you know how you will see someone at the store, meaning a family member after you've walked away to grab something and then walk back up to wherever the the family's at, and you'll go, hey. Hey.
And you'll yell clear across the store. So Emery was like, when we find her, we should do that. And then we found you, like, as she was going through, like, that's what we should do. We should just yell her name. When when we find her, we should shut down across the whole store.
But we but we found you before before we could fulfill either of those things. But we had great ideas about how to embarrass you in store. Things are not gonna embarrass me. It's cute that you think they will. Those things embarrass Emery, which is why I do them to her.
Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I see. But they are not embarrassing to me. Well, she wanted to do them to you to embarrass you.
So that's that you might have to fake it or something. K. Because she was she was really wanting to get you. That's funny. Yeah.
I think it would have been awesome if you paged me. I haven't been paged since I got lost at Kings in 1988. Chantel, your parents are waiting for you at the front. Chantel, quit looking at the Barbie dolls and come upstairs. Oh, man.
Yeah. No. We didn't have Kings. Oh, you didn't have you didn't have Kings with a basement? Nope.
See, we did. Yeah. The one the one that was on Holmes, that's now an auto parts store, the basement is where the toys were. Oh, okay. Yeah.
I was always jealous of those Kings, but no. We just had a huge blow. Tell you what was on the main level because I don't think I ever walked around. I never walked around the upstairs of Kings. I always we went in the door, and we went straight downstairs to the toys.
And that's where we would hang out the entire time the parents were shopping at King's. I loved that store. Hey. Happy Friday. Yeah.
That's gonna do it for the show. Welcome to our weekend, kind of, sort of. I mean, we still have the rest of the day to get things done Yep. You know, work and all that. But, it's been good hanging out.
It has been good hanging out. You know, we'll be back on Monday bright and early. It's been good hanging out with you for the past twenty years, Josh. Uh-huh. Let's have a marital duel.
No. To the death. That's fine. You you get you get started on digging that hole. I'll just watch.
I'm not helping. Okay. Even though I have good sturdy gloves for running that shovel. I don't run shovels. Yeah.
That's why it's gonna take you a month to dig that hole. Have a good weekend. We'll be back on Monday. Check out the podcast everywhere podcasts are available, and we'll see you later. Bye.
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