Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Monday, March 3rd, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
Time change is coming and we’ve got a to-do list a mile long, Josh thinks he’d make a great first-gentleman, our fashion advice for 2025 is to pull your pants up, there’s a new interactive police incident map in Idaho Falls, the planet parade was quite the sight, the wild & crazy girl’s night out, Josh has a prancy walk, how to make your weekend last longer, Paul Simon & blueberry pancakes is a new core memory, Josh was a very nervous 5th grader, the boys made snow caves this weekend, task masking is a new name for an old thing, and the new space station sounds neat.
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Intro
(2:59) - Get ready for Daylight Saving Time
(9:24) - Josh would make a great first-gentleman
(13:55) - Plumber's crack is high fashion
(18:10) - Good News to Get You Going
(19:38) - Idaho Falls' new incident map
(23:59) - The planet parade was cool
(28:53) - The girl's night out was a night in
(33:31) - Josh has a prancy walk
(38:34) - How to get more out of your weekend
(43:53) - Paul Simon & blueberry pancakes
(47:03) - Josh was a nervous 5th grader
(50:48) - The boys made snow caves
(57:23) - Task masking
(59:52) - Would You Rather This or That
(1:02:27) - The new space station + outro
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Full show transcript:
Well, we're back. We're back. What's going on with your face? I'm just rubbing my eyes. My head feels foggy.
Why? I don't know. It just has for the past day or so. Mhmm. And then we're back.
We're back. We're back. Happy Monday. Yeah. It's Monday, March 3.
We're in March. Whoo. Time changes are coming, and we've got a to do list a mile long. Yeah. Quit doing that.
You brought it up. Well, I mean but you made a list. Well, yeah. Because you don't wanna forget. We could've just no.
You you want to forget. Quit making lists of things to do. Because it's Is it? Yeah. I can't find the list.
Now I lost the list. Perfect. Good. Good news. Josh thinks he'd make a great first gentleman.
I got some programs. I heard Yeah. That you can't steal Nancy Reagan's ideas. Just say no. Our fashion advice for 2025 is to pull your pants up.
That is that is it. Pull them up. Pull them up. Nobody wants to see that. Mm-mm.
There's a new interactive police incident map in Idaho Falls. Yeah. It's kinda fun if you wanna see what happened. If you wanna be a nosy neighbor. Mhmm.
The planet parade was quite the sight, although they didn't throw me any candy. Oh, fair point. Maybe it just takes a while to get here. And may Let's see if I'm gonna Google it. If you threw a piece of can I'm not really.
Go ahead. Alright. The wild and crazy girls night out. It was actually a night in, but it was it sounds expensive. We just got some snacks.
And? Sushi. And? Some more snacks. And you did some shopping, and you went to the grocery store.
Not And Shop you said you went shopping. I got one thing for Emery. Uh-huh. So it was expensive. She's expensive.
Yeah. Josh has a prancy walk according to our daughter. Yeah. What does that even mean? I don't know.
I don't think I don't agree. How to make your weekend last longer, give us an extra day. That's how. Three day weekend. Yeah.
Is is that it? Four day work week? Yes. Hey. If you threw a piece of candy from Mars to Earth And?
It would take roughly several months Oh, okay. To reach Earth depending on the planet's positions at the time it was thrown. So about May, I'll be expecting that piece of Laffy Taffy. Several months. Yeah.
May. Okay. Simon and blueberry pancakes is a new core memory. Who? Simon.
Paul Simon. Oh, Paul Simon. Okay. Paul Simon and blueberry pancakes is a new core memory. I was fine with it the first way you did it.
That was cool. Simon and blueberry pancakes. Let's go. Josh was a very nervous fifth grader. But I ate a lot of Tums, and that made it better.
Oh, the boys made snow caves this weekend. True. And couches. Masking is a new name for an old thing. Yeah.
We gotta quit doing that. That's a bad trend. We don't need that. Mhmm. And the new space station sounds neat.
It does. Yeah. It does indeed. We are Josh and Chantel. This is Wake Up Classy 97, the podcast.
Hope you enjoy the show. Well, well, well. Hi. Hello. And good morning.
Hello. I I was trying to make a whale joke, but nothing was coming. Whale. Whale. Alright.
Daylight savings time, has its days are numbered. Days are numbered daylight savings time. Why? Because Trying to get rid of it? Well, no.
That'd be nice. That would be nice. And we'll just, again, talk about that this year. But, no. It it it it's not happening.
Oh. At least not that I've ever heard. Well, you say it stays or numbered. Like, it's on its way out the door. Well, it's a I guess it's supposed to start because daylight savings time, will start on Sunday.
So so the This is the dumb one. That's right. This is the spring forward one. This is the one where you lose the hour. Yep.
I'm not a fan of this one. And now from what I've heard, if there is a a chance of getting rid of it, it would be getting rid of the fallback. No. Yeah. I like that one.
Okay. But then we would just always be in spring forward. And I think the point of the thing is you gotta adjust to one of them. We gotta stop changing it. Just don't do it at all.
I well That's my vote. That's what Arizona said, and they went, no. We're not doing this. Good job, Arizona. Yeah.
There's a few others. Where your head's at. But but they've they've probably the longest standing. Anyway, Daylight Saving Time, in fact, does on Sunday spring forward. Dumb.
And so I was reading through a list of things you should do around the house in addition to changing all the clocks. Oh, boy. You've heard some of these, I'm sure. Have I? I don't oh, like, are they, like, superstitious things?
No. No. No. These are, like, routine maintenance things around the house that you should do in addition to changing your clocks because it gives you an opportunity twice a year to be reminded that you should change the batteries in your smoke detectors, for example. I was gonna say that one.
Something that we probably need to look at. Yeah. Yep. Because we're not sure that ours is functioning. Yeah.
So that's important. Mhmm. Also your carbon monoxide detectors, if you have those. We don't even have those. We don't have, gas in the house.
Oh, okay. That's right. So and not that it couldn't happen. I would be interested to like, there's the is it radon that builds up in the basements? I'd be curious to know about that.
It says you should also, flip your mattress. Okay. Good time to help it wear evenly. So every six months, you should do that. Flip.
Right. But you could rotate. We've done that. Because recently, we did that. It's been a couple of months.
Look at us doing Right. Stuff. Oils from your face, dead skin, and dust mites accumulate in your pillow over time, so you should wash your pillows. Ew. Yeah.
Sick. Mhmm. I'm making a list so that on daylight savings day, we can do all this. Alright. I put wash windows instead of not on the list.
But that does need to be done. Take stock of the your, medicine cabinet and pantry. That way, you know if you have expired medical supplies We do. Those kinds of things. We do.
Clean your fridge coils. What? This is under the fridge where all the dust gets and stuff. Should vacuum, the coils. Helps your, helps your fridge work better.
It's on the back of the fridge, isn't it? Old fridges. Yeah. I think ours is on the back. I don't think it's underneath.
How do you vacuum underneath your fridge? You don't. You can't, like, turn it over. No. No.
You don't turn it over. That's not gonna happen. I'm not gonna do that. Unless it's on the back. It doesn't mention it here, but if your fridge has a filter like ours does that we've never replaced, you could do that.
Vacuum out the dryer vent and ducts is in here. I know. We've done that. Nothing happened. It says replace or clean the filters around your house.
Clean the oven is on the list. Ew. Yeah. And then lastly is to check your emergency kit. Make sure you have a good supply of flashlight batteries, bandages, your just in case stuff.
We don't have an emergency. I feel like we're You could also descale your coffee maker and deep clean your carpets in high traffic areas. Those are all things you should do, like, every six months. So that's why it's on the list. I got I made a list.
We got stuff to do. We already had stuff to do. I know. I bring it up because, in in one week from today, we are going to sound real unhappy about the fact that we had to wake up an hour early. Yeah.
And so I just I was just trying to set it up so that we knew why on the tenth, Monday morning, we go, man. And the sun was going up before seven, and now it's not, and that you know, all that. Yeah. Did you punch the table? Yes.
Okay. Just make a new already. I'm ramping my son up to be upset about it. Yeah. Because that's what you should do.
You should really just fill yourself with the negative energy a week early, just so that we can be ready to be angry a week from now. That's what I do best. Mhmm. Anyway, there you go. Now you know.
La dee da. Get yourself prepared. Start gradually waking up an hour earlier No. And going to bed an hour earlier No. This week so that it doesn't hurt so much by the time you get to the weekend.
No one's gonna do that. I'm just saying terrible advice. That's the best advice I could give. Well, nobody wants your advice. Just start practicing now.
No. For the time change is a coming. Oh. Good morning. It's Josh and Chantel.
Morning. I'm about to teach you something you did not know. Are you ready? Okay. The first lady of The United States does not have to be the president's wife.
I did not know that. I told you that you did not know. I was gonna tell you something that you did not know. Other women have held this title when the president was a widower or single. Okay.
It's happened at least 13 times, and it's always been a female relative of the president such as a sister, a niece, a daughter, even a daughter-in-law. It hasn't happened in over one hundred years. The last one that we had was Woodrow Wilson's daughter. Her name was Margaret. Margaret Wilson?
She was 28. Really? Yeah. Well, that's something. Isn't that interesting?
I did not know that. About that even. What if the the wife of the president doesn't want to be the first lady. Oh. She just gets dragged along for the ride.
That's a fair point. What if she's like, I I don't want this. I don't want this title. Make somebody else do it. Make your sister do it.
I mean, you and I were having a conversation once about, politics and and what would happen if I were the mayor, and you said I could never be the mayor's wife. That's what you said. You know why? Too much responsibility. I am a give me as little responsibility as possible.
Could never be the mayor's wife. The mayor. We're talking citywide politics, and you're like, no. Not for me. No part pass.
Find somebody else to do it. So, you know, on the nationals and global scale, you're you're absolutely out. Forget about it. Find somebody else. Go find a different relative to do it.
I don't wanna be president. So that's easily taken care of. Because I don't wanna be the first lady. Right. But do you wanna be the president?
I'll be the first gentleman. No. Because that sounds like a gig I could do. Oh, really? Yeah.
Why can you do that gig? Being the first gentleman? Mhmm. Oh, I think I would, I would do all kinds of fun dance parties, and I would have lots of, projects that I would be working on around the the White House. You say.
You can't just have dance parties. You gotta No. I get it. I'm just saying. Stuff too.
Like, there there have been past first ladies that have had initiatives that they've you know? I mean, you go all the way back to, like, say no to drugs. Good campaign. Who was that? Bush?
No. That was back at, like, Kennedy or so. No. That was Reagan. That was a Nancy Reagan It might have been.
Initiative for sure. Now I remember because that happened in the eighties. Yeah. Nancy Reagan? Was it yeah.
It was Nancy Reagan. You are correct. Yep. Yep. In 1982, she, went to Longfellow Elementary School in Oakland, California, and she was asked by a schoolgirl what to do if she was offered drugs by her peers.
She responded, just say no. And the just say no club organizations within schools and school, run anti drug programs began at that point in 1982. Wow. Just say no. Come on.
It's pretty straightforward. If they if they say, hey. You want some of this? Just say no. See good initiative.
I could handle stuff like that. Getting interviewed by school kids and answering their questions. This is stuff I could do. Well I don't need to be worrying about anything else. You're not gonna ever be the first gentleman because Because you don't wanna be president.
No. No. Be a fine present. No. Yeah.
Look at you. I don't want You hold grudges, so that'd be helpful. It would be helpful. I told you. I like as little responsibility as possible.
No. No. I don't want to. I don't want to. Okay.
Well, if you wanna run, you can. Okay. I'll support you. Thank you, dear. If we got good initiatives, I'm ready to roll out.
What initiatives? You don't have any I'll work on it, but I've got good ideas. He can't steal Nancy Reagan's. True story. If there's one thing I know, it's fashion.
Okay. Okay. That's a lie. I don't know anything about fashion. You know what I wear?
I wear things that are cheap and things that are comfortable. Yeah. That's fashion. I dress like a 13 year old boy. Mostly No.
You don't. You do not. Okay. The hot new trend? Oh.
At Milan Fashion Week? Alright. Do you wanna take a guess? Cardboard boxes. No.
Low cut jeans. Low cut's coming back. With a hint of plumber's crack, shall we? No. For both men and women.
No. It's that is not it. No. Diesel? You know diesel?
The jeans? They're still around? I thought they just made watches. Oh, no. That's Fossil.
That's right. Okay. Diesel makes jeans. Diesel Uh-huh. Debuted the latest collection.
They're responsible for this, and it is extremely low cut jeans. So low cut that they're almost sagging with yes. Crack. I don't. Plumber's crack showing.
We've gotta not do that. Plumber's crack plumber's crack is only you can only see that when somebody's Under the sink. Bent over. Right. That's the idea.
A plumber's crack is showing while standing straight. No. I don't want this. Nobody wants this. Nobody asked for this?
No. Nobody wanted this? No. Nobody do this? No.
Honestly, the pants look like they need to be pulled up, but there's no pants to pull up. Did you I I would see a picture? I would constantly be trying to pull my jeans out. That is dumb. Yeah.
I'm watching a video of the Yeah. The the runway. The whole time, I would be trying to pull my pants up. Like, what is happening right now? Okay.
This is the dumbest. The fashion is so dumb. Yep. I was looking at even just the shirts that they're wearing with those jeans. Yeah.
What even are those shirts? I don't know. It's just a front. That shirt is just, like, glued on. It looks fashion.
It looks like a the top that they're wearing Yeah. Is like a button up denim, but there is no back. It really is just the front of that shirt. I don't understand how that works. I don't either.
They had to tape it somehow, but it's all it's all, wrinkled. This is the dumbest thing. I shouldn't have even have talked about this. No. I don't wanna give this any more time.
Well, you already did. It's too late. Fashion is so dumb. I just this is not it. There's gotta be something else.
Like, normal pants that go all the way up. Yeah. Like normal pants. Because you're They're gonna charge a ton of money for those diesel jeans. I'm I'm not gonna spend money on it.
Me neither. You know why? Because I don't I don't do fashion. Can't be bothered. Bumpster jeans.
Yeah. Sure. Bumpster. Mhmm. Okay.
Let's let's not let's not fashion. Yeah. No. I'm I'm pretty good without it. I don't need any of that.
I'd rather take a mom jean over that. And you love a mom jean. I don't love a mom jean, but I sure would take it over that. Yeah. Yeah.
Full coverage. Yeah. Yes. Please. Well, thanks for bringing that terrible fashion trend to my attention.
Just listen. If you see it around town just know that I warned you. Yuck. If I see it around town, am I supposed to not say something? Gonna go and shimmy them up?
Yeah. But come on. Pull your pants up. You're not even a plumber. That's what you say.
You're not even you don't have your license. Yeah. You don't look like a plumber. Well, you do look like a plumber, but can you fix that? Fix it.
Yeah. Gross. Nobody wants to see that. No. No one wants to see it.
Full coverage, please. And thank you. You ready for some good news to get you going? I'm so ready. Let me tell you about Daniel Baggett.
He is a student at East Ridge High School in Florida. He's working toward being an Eagle Scout as a scout master. I know a lot of things that go into this. As parents of an Eagle Scout, we know there's a lot of stuff that goes into this. One of Daniel's scouting projects, for his Eagle, rank involved organizing a a food drive for local shelter pets, and he rallied support from local businesses, friends, family, fellow scouts.
He was able to gather a a pretty impressive donation of over 1,000 pounds of pet food Oh, wow. To benefit the animals at the Animal League, which provides care, medical treatment, and adoption services for abandoned homeless pets, in his community, which is pretty awesome. It is pretty awesome. Now he's getting closer to finishing up, his eagle rank, which is great. He will also have, a huge impact on the animals, at the shelter for a good chunk of time.
Thousand pounds of food probably goes a long way, especially if they have let's say you have 20 or 30 animals in there. You're gonna have a lot of food to go through. Yeah. That's fantastic. Yeah.
Good job, buddy. Great inspiring example to others in the community. Well to go well well to go. Well done. To go.
Way to go, Daniel. You did it. Well to go, bud. Yeah. Well to go.
It's good news to get you going. I'm clicking around East Idaho News, and they got, a link to the Idaho Falls Police and Bonneville County Sheriff's new joint, project. They've launched this public safety incident map, and I've been clicking around on it this morning. And it's pretty cool. It's really, really, full of information.
Okay. What? You gotta go back. What? Okay.
Go to eastidahonews.com. Do that. K. K? Right there.
It's the top story right now. Idaho Falls Police, Bonneville County Sheriff's Office launch public safety incident map. See it. Yes. Open that up.
I got it. K? Then down here, they kinda tell you how to get to it. You can get to it through the Bonneville Sheriff's website or the Idaho Falls Police website. But you gotta go open this thing up.
So if you go to the Idaho Falls website, you go up to information up in the top, and then you'll see public safety incident map. And I was at first, I was like, why didn't they just, come up with a shorter URL? Because that thing's crazy. But look at that thing. It just goes on and on and on.
But I don't well, I don't understand. You don't understand? I don't know what it is. Oh, so what you can do on this thing is you can put in a date range. So you can put in, like, the month of February if you want.
Okay. K? Okay. So, let's just do that. And then it updates.
And then you, go down here to incidents, and you can hit select all. And it's gonna pop up with everything that was going on in the city from the Idaho Falls Police and Bonneville County Sheriff's Department. And then you can go into individual incidents, and you can take out things. Like, if you don't wanna see traffic stops or maybe you only wanna see one thing or whatever, it's the nosiest little thing in the whole wide world. Just fuck it is.
Yeah. But that might reduce some of the No. It won't. Oh, no. You're right.
I thought I thought the same thing. I thought this might help Facebook give a little, exhale on all the folks going, hey. Hey. What was what happened here? At the corner of the phone.
Sirens. Twenty fifth. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Hey. An ambulance just drove by me. What's going on? Yeah. So between this and PulsePoint, I think you can you can answer all your own questions.
But it's it's weird how the city is broken up into a grid system. And I I don't know if that's on purpose or whatever. It probably is. But, like, as you zoom in once you have incidents, like, you can see everything's built into little squares. Yeah.
And then, like, you a month is a long time. Like, if you look over the last couple of days, like, March 1, like, just look through the weekend, you'll you'll have a better time because looking at a whole month of data is a lot. But if you just look at, like, Saturday and Sunday of this weekend, so just the first and second, it's more manageable, to to kinda see what was going on around the city in the past, and the county, in the past weekend. And it's kinda fun. Kind of interesting.
Okay. Time out. Because You're still trying to figure out how to make it work? Yes. Alright.
Well No. I see it. I see it. I see it. I see it.
There's a link. Yeah. I got it. Oh, you haven't even opened it yet? No.
Oh, man. I just had the the article from East Idaho News, and then it had that map. I thought you had to click on the map. No. That's a picture of the map.
I still don't see it. That's fine. I don't know how to work the Internet. Apparently. Anyway, if you wanna check it out, go to eastihohnews.com.
It's kind of an interesting little tool, that has been put been put out here. The Idaho Falls Police Chief Bryce Johnson said people wanna know what police officers are doing, what's happening in their neighborhoods, and this is intended to be a simple way for people to have information at their fingertips and increase awareness of what's going on around them, which I think is important. So you gotta go, go check out this new, collaborative interactive, public safety incident map. I'll just ask on Facebook. But What's going on?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I can't be bothered. They saw and find police cars.
Mhmm. Albertsons. What's going on? Yeah. Well, according to the incident map that everyone has access to, here's what was happening.
Cool. As a matter of fact, behind the Albertsons over the weekend was lost and found property and a welfare check Oh. In that neighborhood. Oh. So there were some things happening near the Albertsons.
Took a wild guess. Go check it out. It's eastIdahonews.com. We talked on Friday about the planet parade. Seven planets that we are supposed to be able to see?
Well, yeah, seven planets that you're supposed to be able to see and then five really that you're supposed to be able to see because two, you couldn't see with your naked eye. So you had to I see. Get a telescope or binoculars to see those. And some of them were kind of what they called horizon huggers. That's true.
I was, I was north of town and up higher, and had a clearer view of the horizon than you did in town. And so when I was looking at it from, the Island Park area where I was at, I could see Mercury and Venus and the moon, which was really cool. The moon was very cool. And Jupiter and Mars, and I couldn't find, well, Saturn and Uranus. Saturn was down below the horizon, and and the, Uranus was too small to notice whether it was a star or not.
It was kind of how it worked for me. But I never saw Neptune. I didn't know where Neptune was either. I think it had to have been below the horizon most of the time. Saturn?
You said you saw Saturn? No. Could not see Saturn. It was below the horizon before sunset. There was four that we could see.
You could easily see Mars, Venus Venus. Mercury, and Jupiter. Those were the four. But but here's what happened was, the Venus and Mercury and the moon were all kinda clustered together, and you had about a 30 window before they went down below the horizon. And then all you could see was Jupiter and Mars the rest of the night.
Oh, really? Yeah. So we were lucky that we got to see Venus and Mercury. Right. That's why I called you and said, hey.
Go check it out. Go look now. They took us a minute. Display. Yeah.
It was a fun phone call. I was, what is happening? I mean, I know you guys were in the middle of something, but but you did pause your show, and then you had to get on shoes. I had to get on shoes and coats and make sure the dog wasn't gonna run outside. Everyone wasn't as into it as I was, but it was pretty cool.
Yeah. It was kinda cool to see so many all in one viewing. You know? You don't usually get to see that many. So, that was kinda cool.
Yeah. It was it was especially cool because, you know, I was it was really, really, really dark where I was at. I didn't have a lot in, like, light pollution like you do in in town. And so, I was able to get far enough away that I I had a really clear shot. And the sun, not the sun.
The moon. The sun was lighting the moon so well. There was a sliver of a moon that you could see, was lit, but the rest of the moon you can see the whole moon, and the sliver was lit. It was really cool, really bright, really clear night, both Friday and Saturday nights. I think you're still able to see it.
I think you're you're gonna be able to see them for about a month, I think they said. Okay. So This parade of planets is gonna hang out for a month. So if you missed the opportunity, go see if you can check it out tonight. Yeah.
I mean, if you, if you get one of those little star maps on your phone or whatever that helps, But that was kind of what happened with me. It was below the horizon with Saturn, and that made it difficult. Like, you like, you've been able to see Saturn recently pretty well. But Saturn was really difficult to see. And and Mercury, we saw Mercury, but Neptune maybe it was just because Neptune's small, but Neptune was just above Mercury, apparently.
And I never saw Neptune. I never saw Earth. Well, you were on it. Oh. Come on now.
Hey. Bonus points if you go see the parade of planets and you sing the planet song from they might be giants. I did sing that. Did you? Well, I made reference to it, and no one else except for Beck was there.
So our our son, who who grew up on that with us, we were talking about the sun and the planets and stuff and and sun we were out on the snow, and the sun was just baking us, and everybody kinda got a little sunburned and stuff. It was it was pretty wild. But we were talking about the radiation and stuff from the sun, and it was just a nuclear furnace. Turns hydrogen into helium at a temperature of a thousand degrees doesn't guess. Of millions of degrees.
You know? Anyway, it was pretty funny. I love that. They Might be Giants is a band, and they had a a CD, an album called here comes science. Here comes science.
And we used to listen to that when Beck was little. Yeah. All the time. They have a planet song. How many planets, I think is what it's called.
I don't remember. Yeah. Yeah. That was my favorite part. Every planet has a different voice.
It's pretty good. It's a really good one. It's awesome. You're looking for a way to explore science with the kids. They might be giants.
That's a good answer. Evere and I had a girl's night out. Yeah. That was kinda the big talk on Friday was that, Beck and I were leaving. We're going to the mountains, and you guys were gonna have some sort of party or something.
I don't know what what happened. Girls night out, man. Girls night out? If it stays a girls night out. What happens at girls night out, it stays a girls night out.
If it stays there, it stays there. You know? We the weather was so lovely. So we spent most of the day outside. We went for a walk, took the dog on a walk, took the dog to the dog park Which is always an adventure.
Driving us crazy. So we needed to tire her out so that we could have our own fun. And then we did a little bit of shopping, and then we went to lunch, and then we went and got some smoothies. And then we had to go to the grocery store. Squeeze.
And we decided that we were just gonna do some movies. She was gonna pick a movie, and I was gonna pick a movie. She picked a scary movie. Yeah. And then I picked a musical.
Uh-huh. And I said, do you wanna watch the scary movie first, and then the musical will be our palate cleanser? Yeah. Uh-huh. But before that, we went and got a bunch of snacks.
Okay. We loaded up on snacks. It was awesome. Now how many snacks? Well, she got her own snacks, and then I got my own snacks.
K. So she got what did she get? She got Probably some chips. No. No?
She got honey buns. Oh. She got, sweet tarts. Uh-huh. She got a chocolate bar, like, the hazelnut ones.
What are those ones called? The? K. And then she got something else. Maybe did I say gummy bears?
No. I think she got gummy bears too. Good grief. Yeah. I said I don't want any of that.
We got dental bills. I bought Jolly Ranchers Uh-huh. Licorice More oh, more and more and more dental bills. Come on. Go on.
Jolly Ranchers? Yeah. I love Jolly Ranchers. Yeah. They're the best.
No. Except I just like to chew them. I know. Dental bills. And what was the other thing I got?
Oh, a Toblerone. Uh-huh. It was perfect. So we sat downstairs with our snacks. Oh, and we got sushi for dinner.
Good grief. It was awesome. Yeah. We had the best time. I said, let's get a tray.
We can carry all of our stuff to the basement and have ourselves a little pig out sesh. And we did. Well, good. And it was awesome. Great.
Super. It was fantastic. It was the best. We had a we had a good time. There were shopping.
There was snacking. There There was some movies. Uh-huh. There was some lunch. Uh-huh.
There was some sushi. Uh-huh. Smoothies. Smoothies. Laughing.
Uh-huh. Good. Scary movie, musicals. Yeah. It was great.
And then she said on our walk, she said, remember when I was little and dad would go out of town and I would sleep in your bed with you? And I said, yeah. And she said, maybe we could do that again. And I was like, yeah. Absolutely.
That's totally fine. She decided not to. She slept downstairs because she wanted to continue watching movies, and I said, no. I'm gonna go. I like sleeping in my bed.
I like my bed. So I I'm gonna go sleep in my bed. And I was happy to have I mean, in the theater, we have the giant couch. It's Yeah. A bed.
It is. Like, it's huge. It is. Okay. But it's not it's not my bed.
I like my bed. I understand. But I like my bed also. Pillows. Rude.
I was trying to convince you that having just a couple a couple of pillows on the big bed would have been fine, but no? No. I've slept down there before. It's not that great. I mean, it's fine.
It's just not my bed. I like my bed. Alright. Well, I'm glad you had a good time. That sounds fun and exciting.
I'll tell you in a little bit what I was up to. Exactly. And we'll hear your side of the story. What'd you do? I'll tell you in a minute.
I know you had some plum cake. I we'll tell you about it in a minute. Hold your horses. Alright? Alright.
Slow your roll, they say. Slow your honey buns. I didn't have honey buns. Either did I. Because gross.
They're good. It's like a cinnamon roll. Yeah. It's not my thing. No?
No. Give me the Toblerone. Okay. So Emery and I were out for a walk on Saturday. Yeah.
And she said, hey. Have you ever noticed that dad has kind of a prancy walk? What does that mean? Hold on. First of all, we went for a walk yesterday afternoon as well, and you two were giggling like crazy behind me and the dog.
What does that mean? Okay. Listen. I don't know. And I said, I laughed.
I said, what? No. I don't think dad has a prancey walk. And she goes, yeah. He kinda and I go, what does it mean?
And she said, Kenny, he kinda has, like, a little hip wiggle. And I go, I don't I disagree with you. I don't think that at all. So yesterday Yeah. When you were on a walk with us Yeah.
She said, see? Look at his he's got a little bit of a shake when he walks. And I said, I don't see what you're seeing. I don't think that you do. And and then I said, do you have any fries to go with that shake?
Mhmm. You're looking at me like I said it. I didn't say it. I'm trying to understand. And then I googled Prancy walk, and, of course, the first thing that comes up is the original Prancercise Prancercise.
Out, which with Joanna, she's the Prancercise queen. And then, it also said, did you mean pregnancy walk? Which, no, I did not. I did not, Google. That is not what I meant when I typed prancy walk.
I meant prancy walk, not pregnancy, not prancer size. And then it showed me prancing horses. The only thing that I could get out of her the only description I could get out of her of what she meant was that you have a little bit of a hip shake, but I don't think that you do. I think she goes, well, he's got his own walk. Like, it's unique.
It's unique to dad. And I said, alright. I get that. You do. You have your walk, but everybody does.
We all have our own little walks. We have a friend who kinda walks on his tiptoes. He's got a little bounce in his step. Why are you so quiet? I'm just trying to figure how to not walk like prancy.
I don't think you need to worry about it. I'm I'm all I'm gonna think about I know you are. From now on. I shouldn't have done that. How prancy do I walk?
I don't think you do at all. That's what I'm saying. Well, here's And believe me 10 tips to always walk with confidence. Maybe I'll watch that. You do walk with confidence.
You already do that. Uh-huh. You do. A a confident prance. No.
I don't listen to me. I don't think you do. And I've watched you walk a lot. For twenty years, I've been like That's a weird thing to say. What?
That you've watched me walk a lot. Yeah. Why not? Alright. Well, I didn't know.
I had a prancy walk. You don't. Now I have to now I have to go sort that out. No. I wouldn't read too much into it, Josh.
You know why? Because she's a 15 year old girl. Yeah. Who thinks I walk with a prance. But what does that even mean?
She couldn't even tell me what it meant. Right. You just got a little bit of shimmy in your shape. I have no hips. I mean, I physically have hips.
They're just not well trained. As you know, we took a dance class. I don't have hip rhythm. But you also don't you don't you don't shimmy your hips when you walk. You just don't.
I think she's just confused. I don't know what she means. Oh, no. Josh, don't think too much about this. Really.
I gotta I gotta get a new walk. It's like when when you practice handwriting to get better at handwriting. I'm gonna go practice walking You don't need to practice. Way. I'm gonna walk different ways.
I'm gonna I'm gonna learn different fancy walks, and I'm gonna walk different ways from now on. I don't think you need to worry about it. I don't. Alright. Oh, no.
I'm a go I'll start crawling everywhere. We're giving you a complex Yeah. Out. Yep. I didn't even say it.
I said there was nothing wrong with it for the record. I like your walk. I like the way you walk. Don't ever change. I'm getting a new one.
No. Yeah. I like it. Yeah. I'm gonna get a new walk.
Joshua. Yeah. Don't. I like it. It's time for a new walk.
No. Yep. You can't. Old dog, new tricks? No.
You're 43 years old. I will learn a new walk right now. Okay. Yep. Watch me.
Here I go. Alright. I'm gonna go walking. Let's let's see it. You know how they have you have Sundays.
What are they called? Sunday scaries? Yeah. When you're clocking into work because it's Sunday and you have to go to work the next day? Mine is always I have these moments on Sunday evening where I go, I didn't do enough.
I know. Two days You always do that. There's not enough time. I spend my weekend in this dilemma of I've get I've got these two days off where I have no responsibility. I mean, I have responsibility, but it's it's a combination of, like, I want to do this, and I have to do this.
The shoulds and the and the want tos. And then I usually do the well, I want to do this. I don't wanna spend my days off cleaning or running errands or doing the things that I couldn't get to during the week. And I want to go on a bike ride or go on a walk with my family or so or read a book in the sunshine. So I end up doing that because those are the things that bring me better happiness than sweeping and mopping the floor.
Because who wants to do that? Nobody. And then on Sunday night, when I look around the house and I go, I should have swept and mopped the floor. Then I have, like, weekend regret. So here's what I've what I'm researching because I've the Internet, has every answer.
Mhmm. And so here's here's the question is, how do you make the weekend feel longer? K. Which is a good question. Yes.
They said, does anybody else feel like the weekends fly by too fast? I always wake up late on Saturday. By Sunday night, I'm already stressing about the upcoming week, and it feels like I barely get any time to relax and recharge. Yes. And so I wanna hear tips on how to make the weekend feel longer.
And somebody said you should distribute your weekend chores during the work week, which we've talked about doing. This way, your weekends are for you and not for you to, just be filled with home tasks. Right. And somebody commented and said this was the biggest difference for me. I started doing a load of laundry every three days instead of three loads on the weekend.
The nights I don't do laundry, I spend fifteen minutes on one of the other chores, and it opened up my weekend in a whole new way. That makes sense. Yeah. And we have four of us in the house that could hopefully contribute to some of that. Somebody said I noticed that when I had plans for Friday night, rather than collapsing at home, it made the weekend last much longer.
And I would agree. If you have something going on Friday night, if we go out on a Friday night, it feels like an extra release for the weekend. Okay. I totally agree with that. Busy Fridays are huge, because, then you get a little extra weekend time.
It feels like a better kickoff to the weekend. Oh, if that's necessarily true. I've I feel that way. Do you? For sure.
If we go out and do something or we socialize or we have something going on on Friday night, I feel better about the weekend. I feel like the weekend gave me extra. That's interesting. Crashing at home on the Friday night. Really?
I don't. I like hanging out on the Saturday morning. I like the Sunday morning breakfast stuff that we do. I like those things. But it especially, like, as as the weather gets nicer, when we wanna go spend time outdoors Yes.
Being able to go Friday is going to make the weekend better. You get two full nights I agree with that. Weekend rather than one night being Saturday night because you just crashed out on Friday, and then you only get Saturday night, and then you're back to Sunday. So it doesn't feel as long. It's the same amount of time, hour wise, but you get more use out of it.
Right? Somebody said it's weird when I do nothing, the weekend flashes by. But if I make an effort to go to different events or go to the park or meet up with friends, it makes the days feel longer. You gotta fill them with adventures, not just doing the same thing you do all week long. No.
No. No. I get that. I I get that completely. You can't do the same thing.
I get it. But the has to still have to be done, and the want to's are what I want to do. And so I've gotta find yeah. I gotta figure out a way to get the have to's done during the week. And I don't Correct.
I don't wanna do that either. Well, there is a bunch of different comments about spending Friday night. You do your Friday night. Okay. We'll give it a full time of the world.
This person said, this is a this is an interesting schedule. I prep for Mondays on Fridays. I do my chores during the week. I wake up early Saturday, and it feels like if I, it feels like if I go to, and then I go back to bed. So they'll wake up early Saturday, throw in laundry or whatever, and then go back to bed.
And then if I don't feel like sleeping in, then I have, like, four extra hours to for me on Saturday. No chores eating up my time. That's interesting. Prepping for Monday on Friday is an interesting concept too, where you go, hey. What what do I need to make sure I get done for Monday?
Get it done on Friday. Yeah. That's not a bad idea. I don't mind that. Just don't eat up my Friday night.
I like to be social. Oh, do you? Yeah. That's me. And that is not me.
Big social Friday night guy. Look at me. My favorite thing this weekend was waking up on Sunday morning. Emery had decided she was going to make blueberry pancakes. She made blueberry and chocolate chip pancakes.
Woah. But the blueberry ones were my favorite ones. I had a lot of those. Did the did the chocolate chip ones get a little burnedy? No.
They did not. Yeah. Because that's been my my history with, with chocolate chip pancakes is that they they burn. Oh, no. She did a great job.
Good. I made the eggs and bacon, and she made the pancakes. And together, we were cooking, and we had some music going. Yeah. She was going on and on about real bacon.
What does that mean? We had bacon. We had real bacon. We had real bacon. Well, because, normally, we buy that already cooked bacon that you can just heat up in the microwave as a quick, like It's also real bacon.
It is also real bacon. I know. But we don't eat bacon a lot, and so we keep that already made bacon on hand for, like, a quick if the kids want some breakfast in the morning, they can quickly microwave it. Uh-huh. But we bought I bought real bacon.
I see. Whatever that means. Like, raw. It was raw bacon. Raw.
Okay. And then we were jamming out to Paul Simon in the kitchen. Nice. It was lovely. I was dancing with the dog so you can call me Al.
Okay. Making blueberry pancakes with my daughter. It was my favorite part of the whole weekend. Excellent. I loved it.
Well, good. It's one of those moments where you go, this, like Snapshot. Snapshot of this moment. Awesome. Everyone's happy.
Everybody's getting along. Life is good. Sun was shining in the windows. I had the window open. I heard some birds.
Uh-huh. I heard some kids riding their bikes outside. It was Correct. It was good. It was It was awesome.
It was a moment. Good. It was a moment. It was a moment. It was a moment.
It was. It was. Yeah. It was my favorite weekend moment. That's all.
That's all I have to say. It was perfect. Good. Paul Simon and blueberry pancakes. Awesome.
What could be better? Real bacon. You made it. You made it. I had real bacon.
You had real bacon. That's it. That's all I would've done to make it better, and you did it, so it's perfect. It was perfect. That's great.
Little breeze coming in the window. People playing in the sunlight. I know. Pancake, Paul Simon. Ain't nothing better.
Okay. Good. Core memory. Lock it in. I did.
Good. It's locked. Excellent. You still thinking about it? Yes.
You want some of those pancakes right now? Yes. They sound pretty tasty. They were delicious. I bet they were.
You missed out. I sure did. You're correct. I did. Nobody made me pancakes.
I had Dutch oven breakfast. Yeah. But I heard hash browns and the eggs and the sausage and stuff. And that is just fine. Okay.
People tried putting ketchup on it, and I went, no. Stop it. So gross. Is there anything that you were scared of as a kid? I mean, for a while, I like, when I was in fifth grade, I was having some pretty awesome panic attacks, and I had an ulcer Oh.
And a few other things because I was such a worried kid about everything. Oh. I don't know what got into my head, but I was worried about earthquakes and tornadoes and house fires and pick a thing. I was worried about it. Josh, what?
But, you know, my old friend, Tums, helped me get through it, and, I was able to, you know, find a way to process that. That transpired to our Beck was I remember Beck being terrified of weather, and I don't know where that came from. He anytime it rained or got really windy, he got he was up all night because he was afraid of the wind. Mhmm. And then there was a period where he was afraid of Japanese man of war.
Yeah. Like, anytime we talked about going to the beach at all, he was like, I'm not going. They got Japanese man of war out there, and I don't want that. I don't know where he heard about the Japanese man of war. Even just the beach.
It was, hey. We're gonna go to Jefferson Lake. Oh, yeah. I know. Anywhere.
We're yeah. We're gonna go ahead. Japanese man o' war there? Nope? Portuguese man o' war.
It was Japanese. I just looked it up. I think in our brains, we've been calling it that, but it's the Portuguese man o' war. Oh, okay. Yeah.
Which is, a jellyfish, but it's incredibly, painful if you get stung by it. Yeah? Yeah. Portuguese man of war. Okay.
Also just known as known as the man of war or blue bottle. Again, I don't know where I don't know where that fear came from, but he was afraid of that for years and years and years. Yeah. Mom, we can't ever go to California because they have Portuguese man of war there. Do they?
Because I don't think so because it's only in the Atlantic Ocean. Oh, well, he he was just a kid, so he didn't know where it came from. He just knew it lived in large bodies of water. Yeah. It's it's in the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean.
That's it. I was afraid of bears when I was a little kid. And I remember going to Yellowstone. My family went camping at Yellowstone. And we were watching Old Faithful, and I was eating a candy apple, and my tooth fell out.
Oh, no. And then my mom said put it under my pillow, but I was terrified that a bear would come and steal my teeth. Gonna smell that tooth. Yeah. I was I was afraid of bears.
A bear's gonna smell that tooth. No. And there's there's one thing we know about bears is that they love to eat. Teeth. Yeah.
They're gonna come and get your teeth. Oh, man. Woah. Oh, silly. Yeah.
It wasn't that. It was just mostly, you know, natural disasters. No. Home fires that got me. I don't know.
Something something happened in my fifth grade. Yeah. It did. Had a had a hard time, but I made it through. Look at me now.
Poor little. Look at me now. Thanks. You know? Yeah.
So normal. Just on the up and up. Calm and cool and collected. No problems. All good.
Good to go. So is Beck. He's not afraid of the Portuguese man of war. No. No.
Nothing keeps him up at night. Still weather. You think? Yeah. Well, even if it gets still a little bit, like, extra windy, it keeps him up.
And he's like, yeah. I heard the wind all night. I don't think it freaks him out as much as it used to, but I think he does get a little bit like, I don't love I don't love weather. Well, it's gonna be there whether you like it or not. Oh.
Oh. That's good parenting advice. Good one. Yep. So while you and our daughter were spending all the money and, eating all the snacks Yep.
I and our son, my our our son and I our son and I. Yes. That's proper grammar. Our son and I were, in Island Park. We were, on a scouting campout.
He is finished. He is an adult. He is, go he he went because he likes this campout. It was our, snow cave campout. And, and he and I, decided mid afternoon that we were gonna try to build our own, snow caves after watching the scouts and helping the scouts kinda do their thing.
We thought, let's go see what we can do. But to be fair, this is how it all started. He wandered out in the middle of the field where we were building the caves, and I've got pictures of him out there in the middle of nowhere just by himself. Oh. And, and then he comes back after a little while, and he goes, I built a lounge chair.
I said, oh, let's go check it out. And so we, trudged our way out there. And and there's quite a bit of snow. That's, trudged, trudged, post hold, whatever you wanna call it. Had snowshoes, didn't put them on.
Why? Because, forgot. Oh. And the area that we had started, in the morning, kinda tramping down and stuff had, had firmed up really good, so you didn't really need them. You weren't gonna fall through the snow.
There was a good layer of compressed snow and and and crust there. But once you got past that, to wander out where he'd built a lounge chair, was not the case. And you'd sink all the way up to your hip, when you were walking. So it was a a bit of a a slog to get out there. Okay.
And, what he had done was basically laid in the snow. And so he had, like, a like a you know, the chair in a hot tub that's kinda sloped and has the little thing for up under your knees? Uh-huh. That's kinda what he had, but he had just kind of fallen in the snow and went, it's a lounge chair. And I went, we could do better.
And so we went and got shovels and supplies, and we said, let's see what we can build. Let's build some furniture out here. So we built what we ended up calling the hot tub because he started with the hot tub lounge chair. It ended up being a, you know, three or four foot deep, down to the ground level snow, bench thing kinda area with some steps to get into it. Fancy.
And then we ended up building two snow caves in the side of that, all in about an hour and a half, which was pretty impressive Good job. Nice. We felt anyway. And everybody was like, you guys gonna stay out there? And we went, oh, man.
Oh, no. No. No. We'll be staying in the cabin. Thank you very much.
But but we did, in fact, build a couple of snow caves in what we called the hot tub. And it did get some visits. People went and sat and checked it out a couple of different times. They have to see. It, it it was it was also there in case some of the scouts didn't finish their shelters in time.
We had a couple extras built. So it was good. I don't understand. I don't understand camping in a snow cave. It just doesn't sound fun to me.
It sounds miserable. It sounds horrible. It sounds cold. So it the overnight low was 10. And inside the caves was, like, 50 degrees.
I I don't believe you. In and then you're in your sleeping bag as well with your body heat. Yes. You're I realize, and everybody who has ever done that said that it's it's warm, but I still don't believe you. I still don't believe you.
Super warm. And, also, how do you not I'm so afraid that the the top of that snow cave is gonna collapse on top of the It's not going sleeping. After the thing is done, we have to break down the caves. Uh-huh. We put every person who was there.
So we had 11 scouts and, like, six or seven adults standing on top of the caves and jumping up and down, all of us simultaneously. They don't cave in. It's still scary to me. It's very, very compressed snow, and it's, you know, 12 to 18 inches thick. It's it it it's not going anywhere.
Okay. We have to take shovels and break it up and put, you know, big damaging structural, integrity compromises into the tops of them to cave them in before we leave. It's they're not going anywhere. Alright. They're safe.
I hate you. Still not gonna do it. Airflow is always our biggest concern. We gotta make sure there's good airflow because we don't want anybody having an issue with airflow in the night. Oh.
And we did not have that as a concern this this time. It was great. So How do you get airflow? Well, depending on how you build your cave entrance and additional air holes in the ceiling, you can make it all work. No problems.
I never thought about that. Yeah. That's been the biggest concern is is there enough airflow. Not an issue this this go around. Do you inspect every cave?
We help make sure that they are safe before we allow the scouts to sleep in them. Okay. How many caves did were built? How How many caves did Well, so three caves, if you wanna call it that. Two of the caves were, caves for multiple people that had three scouts in them.
And then the other, setup was, you it's called a starfish. And you basically build a common area in the middle, and everybody builds a tunnel for themselves that that that they basically their body slides in, but your head is out in the common area. So you can still talk to your friends and stuff. And they're not you can't stand up in these. They're not stand up?
You can sit up Okay. But not stand up. Sounds awful. Sounds not my jam. It was pretty good.
We had breakfast. We had dinner. We had delicious dinner. I took leftover pizza for lunch. That was fun.
It was all good. It was all good. I even snuck in some sodas, which was a good time. I don't think Beck was expecting that. And I went, here, man.
Let's go have our lunch. And I went, Anne, I brought you a Doctor Pepper. And he went, what? Oh, fancy. I know.
And then you had plum cake. I think. We had cobbler. Yeah. It was a plum and yellow cake cobbler, and we had a chocolate cherry cobbler.
Yeah. It was a good time. Good times. Good food. Not bad at all.
Would recommend. Would do again. Probably will. I will not do this. Okay?
Better. I'll build you one. I don't I will not. I think you'd like it. Nope.
You don't know me very well. If you think I'm gonna sleep in that, you don't know me at all. There's a new workplace term kicking around. What is it? It's called task masking.
What is that? Basically, it's when you spend a lot of time just trying to look busy. Oh, how's it going over there? Good. I'm so busy.
Yeah. Tight. Tight. Tight. Busy I am.
So I have I have focused. Okay. I have some thoughts. What are your thoughts? People do this because, they are more productive in what could be four days than the five required days.
And so they don't want to take on more projects and more tasks to fill the time that they have to be at work, and so they, just pretend. Here's what I think. I think this has always been around. It has. Absolutely.
And I think it now just has a name. I think it's just, like People like giving names. They like labeling things. Quiet quitting. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. You know? Like, no. That's just hating your job.
Yeah. That's been around forever. Forever. But now it has a name. Yeah.
Task masking. Task masking. No. That's just called looking busy. Yeah.
Please. This is It's been called looking busy for decades. Yeah. It's like when people would put, like, their phone in their book. Like, no.
I'm reading Mhmm. When you're actually on your phone, please. This has been around forever. Or a comic book in your textbook if you wanna go real old school. What are you reading?
Oh, whatever. History. Physics. The history of the world, not Archie. Right.
Archie? Who's reading Archie and Jughead? Yeah. Okay. Did you ever read an Archie comic?
Once. Zero times. Once. Once when you were standing in the checkout lane at the grocery aisle, you picked up the book and went thumb through and went, that was pretty pretty cool art and put it back. Yeah.
That's not reading a comic book. You've never read an Archie in Juggernaut. Know my life. Forget about it. Of the high school?
Bayside. Wrong. That's absolutely wrong. I don't know. Riverdale.
Oh, I know that. No. You didn't. Have you you must read Archie then? I've read Archie time or two.
Aren't you cool? Also in the checkout lane at the grocery store. I've never owned an Archie comic book. Would you rather this or that? Would you rather sneeze bubbles or burp confetti?
Oh, no. Let me think about it. What do you pick? I'm gonna sneeze bubbles. You know, ma, how many times I sneeze.
Yeah. There would be so many bubbles. The whole room would be filled with bubbles. Also, that's kinda gross. Sneeze bubbles?
Yeah. You didn't say where they came from. Most of that's from the mouth. Right? Yeah.
But I also if I cover them up, if I like that, most of them are gonna are gonna pop in my elbow. Yeah. But then have you ever you've seen a bubbles make a mess, and the bubble concoction is sticky and Well, what are these made of? That's what I'm asking. I don't know.
It's just your game. Are they made out of your your nose stuff? My nose stuff? I don't wanna get too gross. Or are they just bubbles?
Is it just bubbles? I think just bubbles. But then that's gonna hurt your nose because bubbles are soapy. And then confetti Yeah. Is it gonna if you're burping confetti, is it gonna smell?
But I don't I don't burp a lot unless I'm drinking, like, fizzy sodas, like that fresh guy had. That gets me. And it's probably, like, what, two or three, if I have one of those, two or three, little belchies. So no big deal. It's like a party every time you belch.
Confetti. Yeah. And does it have, like, like, you know, the little confetti poppers? Does it have that kind of force? So even if you have, like, a little burp where you're just like, and it goes.
You're like, oh, no. This is a weird question. Yeah. Well Sneeze bubbles or burp confetti? What are you picking?
Did you pick? I'm picking sneeze bubbles. That's what I picked. You only picked it because I picked it. I don't think you picked.
I did too. I said bubbles. Sneeze bubbles. And then I changed my mind because I said, what is it made out of? Just bubble formula.
Alright. I'm gonna change. I'm gonna go to a confetti because I think that's fun. Oh. Oh, gross.
You're gonna have way more sweeping up to do. Yeah. I might have a slippery floor. Ew. But you're gonna have way more to sweep up.
So have fun with your confetti. Have fun with your bubbles. Okay. I will. They've been talking about it for a long time, and they may be one step closer.
What is it? NASA is gearing up for a big step forward in space exploration with the Gateway Lunar Space Station Oh. Which is the most powerful solar powered spacecraft ever deployed. This particular Gateway Lunar Space Station will serve as a staging point for future deep space missions, including the long term goal of sending astronauts to Mars. Oh.
Before any serious missions to Mars, astronauts will live and work aboard the station while researching or researching the surface of the moon. NASA has a target launch date of no later than December of twenty seven. That's very, very soon. Yes. It is.
Some of the components for this thing will, then go up into space, and then, will begin to orbit. And, this particular space station will be home to astronauts where they will then be able to fuel and research and do all that kind of stuff and deploy from there to further deep space missions. Cool. That's really super sci fi. Yeah.
It is. Really interesting. I wanna know what they know. I don't wanna go. I just wanna, like, take me along.
Become an astronaut. I might. And then you can find out. I'd like I said, I don't wanna go. I just wanna like, somebody take me along, like, FaceTime me.
Oh, I see. I'm sure they'll share whatever, they they find along the way. Should be interesting. Anyway, we'll see. It's it's got, like, what, a year and a half to launch or so, December of twenty seven?
I know. That's so soon. I guess that's two years from this December, so two and a half years. But that's, yeah, it's very soon. That's very, very soon.
These are just astronauts? These are actual astronauts going? It's not like a bunch of rich celebrities going? It hasn't been announced yet. Who will be in the crew?
Well, I hope it's just actual astronauts and scientists. Yeah. Right. And not Katy Perry. Alright.
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