Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Wednesday, March 5th, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
We might be old people because we live old people lives, why is it so hard to get going in the morning, choose a partner that will sit with you at the hospital, Chantel doesn’t like sitting at the dinner table alone, Josh has a mid-life beard, our daughter ate the special sandwich, we play recreational trivia but maybe we should play more competitively, things that you loved as a kid but don’t really like as an adult, it’s time to dig into spring cleaning, Chantel’s tips & tricks to prepare for a doctor’s visit, shop classes are making a comeback, and hard knocks will not feature a college team.
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Intro
(2:40) - We live old people lives
(7:15) - It's hard to get going in the morning
(12:16) - Good News to Get You Going
(15:40) - Pick a hospital companion
(20:43) - Chantel's lonely dinner
(26:10) - Josh's mid-life beard
(31:38) - The moldy sandwich was eaten
(33:53) - Competitive trivia
(40:58) - Things you loved as a kid but hate as an adult
(46:27) - It's time for spring cleaning
(51:13) - How to prepare for a doctor's visit
(55:13) - Shop class is making a comeback
(58:51) - Would You Rather This or That
(1:01:41) - Hard Knocks new season + outro
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Full show transcript:
It's Wednesday. Hi. How you doing? How you doing over there? Fine.
It's good? It's fine? It's already March 5. Can you believe it? It's the March.
Wasn't yesterday the Ides of March? No. Are you sure? I think that's, like, March 16. Fifteenth.
Well done. Thank you. Well done. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I know my stove sometimes. We might be old people because we live old people lives. And we like old people things. That's fine.
There's nothing wrong with that. Slippers and nice sweaters. Listen. I'm just saying. An early bedtime.
It's lovely. Gardening. Hummingbirds. I know. That's all nice things.
Fly tying. Quilting. Oh, lovely things. Why is it so hard to get going in the morning? Because my eyes like to be shut and asleep.
Choose a partner that will sit with you at the hospital. That's good advice you gave. Good advice. Yeah. I don't like sitting at the dinner table alone.
But but how are we gonna fix it? You just told me to eat faster, so I just told you. But how I guess so. Are we gonna fix it? I will try to eat faster and not communicate with my family.
That sounds right. That's the that's the plan I'll put in motion. Right. Then you won't be there sitting alone. Yeah.
So sounds like a good plan. Sounds fine. Josh has a midlife beard. I don't know what that means. Nobody does.
I've had a beard for a long time. This isn't like a new thing. Nope. Our daughter ate the special sandwich. Yeah.
She did. The whole thing. We play recreational trivia, but maybe we should play more competitively. Yeah. You wanna win cash?
Kinda want to. Things you loved as a kid but don't really like as an adult. Now you mentioned roller coasters on that list, but as we find out at the end of the show, you kinda like emotional roller coasters. So maybe roller coasters is not like emotional roller coasters. Well, you turn go on them.
I take them a lot. Yeah. It's time to dig into spring cleaning. I'm only sort of looking forward to it. I hope we're all just sort of looking forward to it.
My tips and tricks to prepare for a doctor's visit. Yeah. Basically, cheat and lie your way through it. That's, that's the prep. It's how I do lie.
Okay. Sounds good. Shop classes are making a comeback. Great news. It is great news.
And Hard Knocks will not feature a college team. Great news. Spoiler alert. Well, great news. We are Josh and Chantel.
This is wake up classy 97, the podcast, the Wednesday show. Enjoy it. Enjoy. Okay. That's like the the guy on Nick Junior.
Remember him? Face? Yeah. I love that guy. Yeah.
Just a face. Alright. Enjoy the show. Hi, Chantel. Oh, hello.
What's up? Nothing. What's going on over there? I told you today Mhmm. Today was a day where I it's not often that I get, like, uninterrupted sleep these days.
Uh-huh. Right? Yeah. It's been a long time since I've had uninterrupted sleep. Because you have kids, and then you wake up, and then you have a dog, and then your body is getting older, and then you're have to use the restroom a lot during the night.
I had some really good uninterrupted sleep last night. It was awesome. So you were in So you were in the mode where you just wanted to keep that going. Day of all days. I went, no.
I'm not I'm not doing it. I'm not getting out of bed. You can't even make me. You can't go ahead. Keep me out of this bed.
I got out of bed. Yeah. Here we are. Here we are. Bright eyed, bushy tailed, wide awake, excited, and ready to start the day.
Oh, yeah. From all of those things. Was I did I sell it? Yeah. Did did you feel like that was true?
Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, yeah. Here I am. Maybe we, should embrace some old people habits, and that would help.
What are some old people habits? Well, ignore the clock, eat when you're hungry, sleep when you're tired. That's an old people habit. K. I think we do that.
Grunting when you stand up. I do that. You do? I mean, yeah. K.
I bent over yesterday, and I went, I've seen you, doing a doing a little bit of this. Take your shoes off of the door and step right into your slippers. I've seen I've seen you walking around the house in some slippers. Yeah. My feet were cold last night.
It's great. What's wrong with that? I'm I'm just telling you. These are things. Carrying ibuprofen around, I always have it.
I didn't know that was an old people thing, but I do. It's around. You gotta take it on the daily. Is it closed captioning on anything you watch? I think you're an old people.
Yeah. Nothing wrong with that. Wanting to stay home Yes. Followed by the sentence, have them come to me. I don't really want that either.
What? Just leave me alone. There's always room for ice cream. Yes. Sewing and crocheting.
This is just a list of and then it's gardening and then waking up early. No. All of these things are old person habits. There's nothing wrong with those things. There's absolutely nothing wrong.
I agree. This is a great list of life. Even when you're hungry, go to bed when you're tired. Yeah. Duh.
Yeah. That just makes sense. Put your slippers on the minute you get home. Fantastic. Spend your time sewing and gardening.
I know. Right? See, I like my slippers except when I walk around, they they make a noise, and I don't care for that. Does it really bother you that much? It kinda does.
I don't know how to help that. I don't either. I don't know why they gotta make that noise because they're comfy. They're they're warm. They're nice little sleeping bags for my feet.
Does it make you not want to wear them, though? Makes me wanna walk around in them. So then you don't wanna wear them. You just wanna wear them while sitting. I suppose.
I could just wear them while sitting, and I wouldn't hear the every time I take a step. Just don't get up at all. You're gonna have to have people wait on you. Have them come to me. Yes.
I like it. I've never not worn a shoe because of the sound they make. I disagree with you. I think you've had, some shoes that this is a long time ago when we were much younger that made a noise that you didn't wear. What noise did they make?
I do not recall this pair of shoes. Well, it wasn't like a like a screaming goat or anything when you took a step. Like, but it was it was definitely like a and so you wouldn't wear them. Because nobody wants to wear those. No.
Every step. You can see my dilemma, but I I don't remember those. Unfortunate. I would wear them now. You would?
Yeah. Just for fun? Yeah. Yeah. Just to see who's gonna notice.
Well, good morning. We are in the studio. It's Josh and Chantel. Hope you have a great Wednesday. We're here.
Yeah. Here we go. When you wake up in the morning, what's some of the first things that you do? What's your routine? I try to open my eyes.
That's first. And then that's the hard part. Yeah. And then once I go, alright. I've accepted my fate.
Then, I, I go to the bathroom, and then, I get dressed, and I brush my teeth, and I'm out the door. That's pretty much it. That is pretty much it. There's not a lot more to it. I'm there to say that's true.
That's all 100% true. Mhmm. He's not lying, folks. Yeah. But here's the thing.
I I could go downstairs and use that bathroom to get ready at the same time you are, But instead, I wait for you to finish, and then I'm like, alright. Now I'll get out of bed. Oh, I'm sorry. So take your time. That's what I'm saying.
Oh. Because that's when I'm fighting my eyes opening. Is that is that time when when I know, okay. She got up. She's doing her thing.
I'm just gonna lay here until she's done, and then I'm like, okay. That's interesting because when I come back in the bedroom after doing my brushing teeth, washing my face routine, I come back in the bedroom, and you're just, like, snoring away. Like, you haven't even thought about waking up. I'm aware of what's going on. Yeah.
I'm just fighting the I'm fighting the sand in my eyes. You know? There are things that make you miserable in the morning that you're not supposed to do. Such as? Immediately looking at your phone.
I don't do that. K. Good. I mean, I look at it to see the time. I don't know if that necessarily counts.
Yeah. I don't I don't open any apps or look at emails or any of that kind of stuff. I get in here. Right. Correct.
But I I do look at my phone to see the time, and then I go, no. And then I go, that can't be real. And then I do a double take. And then I say, no, again. That's how that goes?
Yeah. Okay. Now. Also, if you start off your day with complaints, that's gonna make you miserable. With complaints.
Yeah. Like, I don't wanna go to work. Oh, it snowed again last night. I see. Don't do this.
Okay. Alright. I'll work on that. It's a little positivity first day. K?
Rushing through your morning without some kind of breakfast or is some kind of fuel, whatever it may be, a protein bar, a protein shake. So you go through your morning, go through your morning, go through your morning. No food. I try to I try to get some food in there at some point. I try, like oatmeal or something.
Good job. But that's that's much later in the morning. That's like eight. Yeah. I mean, we've been awake for three hours already by that point.
True. So three hours. A two and a half. Alright. Two ish and a half.
And if you avoid all physical activity, they're not saying you should go out and run a five mile or a five k, but you should do some kind of exercise in the morning just to get your just to get your body Moving. Woken up. Yeah. Some stretching. Yeah.
That's why we, we we created studio yoga. And you you did that yesterday. Yeah. We haven't done it in a long time. You haven't done it in a very long time.
I know. But I saw my yoga mat over here, and I went, ah, we gotta use these. I know. Studio yoga is a good thing. It was.
Doing doing morning stretches feels good. It did feel good. Yeah. I like to do it before everybody gets here. That yeah.
I get that. And yesterday, I didn't have a chance to, and so I had to kinda do it in the corner because I don't want people coming in and being like, what are you doing? So today, I'm gonna try and do it before everybody gets here. Alright. So it's not weird.
Studio yoga. Studio yoga. It's a good time. It's good for you. It's good stretching.
It feels nice. Get some breakfast, have a fruit or something. I don't have any fruit. Oh, You'll be okay without a fruit? I do have some breakfast, though.
Oh, no. Oh? I just realized I ate my last rice cake yesterday. Oh, bummer. Dang it.
Those are the noisiest things. I know, but I love them. They're so good. Oh, man. Oh, man.
Yeah. What a sad day. That is a sad day. It's alright. I'm not gonna get down.
Avoid Yeah. Keep keep it positive. Keep it positive. No no early morning complaining. That's a good little, good little list of tips.
Thank you, Josh. It still makes me wanna fight my eyes being opened. Well, I think that's never gonna change. Do you think that's ever gonna change? No.
I don't think so either. Well well well, thanks for the list. You're so welcome. Hey. It's time for good news to get you going.
Let's hear it. So during the Super Bowl parade last month in Philadelphia, there was a lady there named Amy Ranabarger, cool name. Lots of lots of consonants in her name. Ranabarger. She stumbled upon an old Philadelphia Eagles jacket.
It was hanging on a light post, in downtown where the parade and stuff was going on. Post that was still standing? Well, yeah. One of the few. Those two go standing.
Crazy. The jacket pocket was a note. And it says, if you found this jacket, do not return. This jacket now belongs to you. So the note went on to explain that the jacket was found during the twenty eighteen Super Bowl celebrations when the Eagles had won, and the previous owner decided to enjoy the jacket until the next Super Bowl victory and then pay it forward.
So he found it in 2018. Decided to pay it forward. Back this year. Amy Ranenbarger found it. She now has the jacket.
The the Eagles, when they go on to win their next Super Bowl They won't. Amy plans to keep the tradition alive, and she'll enjoy wearing the lucky jacket and release it back into the world when they win the next time. They won't. It's a cute story, though. It is kinda fun Yeah.
That there's this mystery I'm here to tell you. Ego is Lucky jacket. Crazy. I don't know why you would destroy your own city when your team wins. Because that's how excited they were.
Yeah. But stop. What are you doing? Win or lose, we're going to the streets. I know.
We're gonna light stuff on fire. Turn cars upside down. Break bring down the city. Hey, guys. You won.
Yeah. Stop. Yeah. We won. Look at us celebrating.
Let's celebrate a different way. How about Well, anyway Well, that's cool. Congrats to Amy. Fun story. Yeah.
Was there any money in there or just the jacket? What? No. There was no money. It was the jacket in the middle.
Asking. No. It's a cool lucky jacket. If you found a jacket and there was a note inside the pocket that said, hey. This is for would you wear it?
I mean, I don't what kind of jacket? Eagles jacket is right. I would I would've left it on the pole. I wouldn't have thought anything of it. I don't know if I'm just gonna wear a stranger's jacket.
Obviously, if it's something nice, I'll wash it and then wear it. But I don't think I'm just gonna pluck it off the light pole and be like, oh, cool. This is mine now. See what I'm saying? Yeah.
You're looking at me like you don't see what I'm saying. I see what you're saying. I'm trying to figure out, how Amy decided that maybe she should look in the pocket. In the pocket. Exactly.
It's kind of a weird story when you think about it now. Yeah. The more I the more I think about it, the more I'm like, Amy, what are you doing? Why are you just picking up random coats? If you see a random coat, I'm gonna leave it there and say, oh, somebody left their coat.
Mhmm. I'm gonna leave it here. Well, it's good news to get you going anyway. I like this I like the sentiment of a traditional Yeah. Coat being passed around.
But It's too bad it's the wrong team, but it's okay. Oh, man. It's good news to get you going. I saw something yesterday. I sent it to you because nothing is more true than this.
Here's the least romantic thing you'll read all day and the deepest truth I know about love. Pick a partner who you can sit in a hospital room with. Yeah. You sent me that. And I said, that is that's pretty true.
It is true. Because, you are going to have nothing to do. The conversation is going to be minimal because someone is in the hospital because they don't feel good Yeah. Or they're hurt or whatever. And, yeah, you're just gonna be there.
As a support. You're gonna get bored. You're gonna be there for hours. Yep. We've we've done that a time or two.
We've sat in a hospital room with each other. Yeah. I mean, through the the birth of two children, that's an event. You've slept in the hospital rooms with me, so that's nice. And I'm telling you, they gotta do something about that chair or that bench or that little chair that they like, they've got like, there's got to be They don't make it comfortable for the support team Right.
Do they? And that's the thing. I understand you're trying to take care of the patient. The patient's your number one priority. But the patient's support team should have a little bit more comfort.
Yeah. Now the last time we were at the hospital, you were at the hospital, so I was sitting. I was the support system. And they were lovely to me. We went to a couple of different places, and each place was like, do you need anything?
Do you need a blanket? Do you need a water bottle? And I was like, no. But that's nice of you to think about me. Sure.
You could bring me a nicer chair. Yeah. I don't need any water, but you could bring me a chair. But then they'll ask you, like, can we get you anything? Water, snack, anything like that?
And I'll go, I could do something. And they're like, you can't have anything. Can't have anything. You get nothing. Okay.
Alrighty. You get nothing like Wonka. Yeah. Exactly. No.
You can't. You can't have water, but I'll ask somebody when you can, and then they never do. They come back with no water. Unless they have to give you pills, and then they're like, here's the tiniest cup of water we could find. Enjoy.
That's because you're hooked up. They don't need to get not to go to the bathroom or anything, I think. I don't know. I'm making that up. I don't know why they don't want you to have any water.
What I know is that you and I have been in enough hospitals together to know that, sometimes I like to make jokes. Sure. Sometimes you don't respond very well to those jokes. Not not when you're in the pain. That's my coping mechanism, Josh.
Okay. That's how I handle stress. Yeah. There was once upon a time, I had, an infection in my foot. Right.
And it was very swollen. Yeah. And I kept trying to touch you with my swollen foot. Didn't well, I didn't care for that. You weren't a very nice support team member that time, were you?
You were being kind of a gross patient. Not true. I didn't want your floaty foot on me. That's all. That's a simple thing.
My foot wasn't bloaty. You just said it was all swollen. It was swollen? Yeah. I mean, it's bloaty.
Bloaty sounds gross. It was. Did you see the thing? It wasn't that don't say that. Don't say that.
Don't put it on me. How about that? Don't put your bloody foot near me. I gotta find that video. Of you putting your bloody foot on it?
Yeah. Because I took a video of it. Of course, I did. Why would you take a video of that? Because it was hilarious.
I wasn't a fan. It was not I don't remember you took a video. What I'm here to say is that's all you gotta do. Find somebody that you can sit in a hospital room with that's gonna be supportive and nice. It's important.
It is important. Yeah. You gotta have a good support system. That's what a relationship is. Yeah.
Alright. Sitting in a hospital room while the other person lays down trying to sleep or whatever. It's 03:00 in the morning. Are you sure you need to go to the ER? Right.
We're gonna be there all night. Are you sure? Because I was getting some real good sleep. Yeah. Fine.
Yes. I'm sure. To the ER. And then they go, thank you for your monies. Yeah.
That's the other part. Yeah. Find somebody that's gonna pay your medical bills. Yeah. Hey.
I wanna pay my bills? Wanna sit in this uncomfortable chair for a couple hours? Bring your phone charger. You might want that. Yeah.
And a snack. Yeah. Yeah. And maybe sneak some water to the patient. No.
You can't. I know. I know. They wouldn't let me. Quit trying to sneak stuff when the doctor says no.
I was thirsty. It's parched. Too bad for you. When you were growing up and you would eat dinner with your family Uh-huh. Did you all have to sit there until everybody was done?
I we didn't we weren't one of those, like, can I be excused households? But I also don't remember I don't remember for sure if it was, like, eat your stuff and then and then leave the the table. I really don't remember I don't remember, honestly. I don't remember either in my house. I know that, like, as we got older and busier, like, each of us would have to go our separate ways.
So there was a lot of times it was like, you just ate when you got home from your activity or you ate before you went to your activity. So as we got older, it became less and less time that we spent at the table together because we all had our different activities we were involved in. But I was trying to remember when we were younger, and I just I don't But I always thought that, like, asking permission to be excused thing, which was an old school sort of, I don't know, head of household kinda thing. I always felt like that that seemed strange to me. Or or Yeah.
You'd see, you know, in TV shows where, it was, like, the rudest thing to leave an unfinished plate, and I'm going to my room and just leave. Like, I don't Yeah. We never had any We never did that thing where it was like, can I be excused? Or you had to the reason I bring this up is because I was eating all alone last night. You weren't.
Yes. I was so. You were finishing your meal alone. We were all there at the beginning. You were just slower than everybody else.
I'm always slower than everybody else. So then I just sit there by myself going, oh, this is a lot of fun. And you know why I'm slower than everybody else? Because I try to have conversation with everybody while I'm eating. And everybody else is just eating.
Yeah. And then they get up and they eat, and then they go, okay, see you. And then they peace out, and I sit there by myself going, nobody asked me anything about my life. So Yeah. We had somewhere to be at the end of dinner, and so I went to go get ready.
I had plenty of time. I understand. And and so I Even if we didn't have anywhere to be, that's what happens. You typically are the one who gets up first. Because I eat quick.
You do eat very fast. You get down to business. And then Beck and then Emery, and then I sit there alone. Maybe eat quicker. Eating my little taco.
Eat quicker. I don't want to eat quicker. I like eating dinner with you guys at the table. Yeah. Slow it down.
I like having that conversation with everybody. You slow it down. You never will. I've known you for a very long time. You eat so fast.
Been a fast eater. Always. Even when you were a kid? Yeah. I've always been a fast eater.
You should sit down. Yeah. I'm good. It's probably because there's other things to do. Eating is just a thing you have to get out of the way to keep yourself alive.
So I'm gonna do that, and then I'm gonna go do something else. No. But we're having conversation. I was asking about the kids' days. Uh-huh.
You're not an active participant in that conversation. You get down to business. You eat you have one goal in mind, and that's to eat as quick as you can and then get out of there as quick as you can. That's your goal. You're asking questions I've already asked or conversations that I've already had most of the time.
That's not necessarily true. Like, if I pick up our daughter from school and I go, how's your day? And I hear about it, and then you get home later than I do, and then we're eating dinner and you're asking those questions. I've heard that story. You can't hear it again?
You can't be bothered to hear it again? Yeah. But There might be additional information. Maybe. I'm just okay.
Whatever. Oh, what? I don't okay. Okay. I don't whatever.
I mean, I get what you're saying. And I and I do appreciate the time with the family at the table. Sure sounds like it, Josh. I know. I know what it sounds like.
I've already heard this conversation. I've already had this. Yeah. I have one goal, and that's to eat and get out of here. Oh, I enjoy that.
I never once said that. You did too. No. I didn't say. That's what you've said I said.
See what's happening right now. Know what's happening. Are you upset because everybody left the table? That's the thing. Yeah.
And you were alone sitting there Yes. With your half eaten taco Yes. By yourself Yes. Because everybody else was done. Yes.
Pick up the pace, man. I can't. I I can't eat faster. You can. I can.
I don't know how. Let's try to help you out. But why do I have to why do I have to change my behavior? Because the rest of us are fine. Okay.
But if you guys finish, why can't you just sit there with me is what I'm saying. And just watch you eat? You don't have to sit there and just watch me. You can continue conversation. Okay.
Okay. Alright. This is yeah. This is gonna make a change for sure. Yeah.
It is. We picked up Emery from her track practice last night, and she told us that a boy that she goes to school with, a boy that you know from scouts, who That is scout troop. Uh-huh. Told her that you have a midlife beard. Yeah.
I gotta figure out what that means. I gotta I gotta have a discussion. So on Monday, I might see him tonight because I have a meeting tonight, but I don't know if I'll see him tonight. But if if I don't, then when I see him next week, I'm gonna have to find out exactly what that means. I'm gonna say, what's a midlife beard?
What do you what do you what is that? You asked her my favorite part is when she said that, and you said, what? Yeah. What does that even mean? So I look here, at midlife beard online Yeah.
And it says, as men as men age, their beards may change in a number of ways, including slower growth growth, gray hairs, reduced fullness. I don't feel like I have that. I've got a big full beard. Now it does have some gray in it. I think that's what he meant.
I don't think he meant I don't know. I don't know what he meant. It's hard to determine what he meant. But then there's all of these people that are talking about, like, midlife crisis beards and crisis beards that are being worn by a lot of, like, a lot of people. Are you having a midlife crisis?
I'd not that I'm aware of. I think you'd be aware if you were. But then there's also midlife crisis mustache. What's that? That's when you just grow a mustache and not the rest of the beard.
I don't know. Let me see your beard. Hold your face up. I don't think it's a midlife beard. What does it mean?
I don't know. I don't know. Let me see it again. Hold your face up. What?
Hold your face up. Well, I can't see. There's a computer in my way. Yeah. It's kinda crooked.
It it's not crooked. It's because it's it's got, like, bed beard. Oh, brush it out, bud. Brush it out. I have a crooked beard.
Okay. Here's the thing about beards too that I noticed. Well, I didn't notice, but I have a I have a friend who said that he and he has got a pretty substantial beard. And he said that he will randomly from other, like, bearded dudes Yeah. Like, bearded dudes will just randomly come up to him and be like, oh, I like your beard.
What kind of oil do you use? And he goes, listen. I don't wanna talk about my beard with strangers. Okay. That's I just thought that was interesting.
I've I've been complimented, like, maybe twice on on my beard. But if anyone wants to know, I use Layrite. Layrite? Yes. That's your beard oil.
Oil that I use. Yeah. It smells nice. Yeah. You don't use that all the time, though.
Every time I shower? I don't I don't I don't smell it very often. I could smell it more. I like it. I like the smell of it.
Come closer. What I really like is when you go to When I go get barbered? Yeah. Yeah. That's when it's nice.
I know. She takes care of your beard. That's right. Yeah. So I was looking at the the comment from a friend of mine who said that, yeah, like, he he from bearded dudes Mhmm.
They'll throw, like, a head nod or, like, he'll walk up and talk like they're part of a secret beard club. Yeah. I don't know. The beard you have is, the more nods you get. I think that's true.
I think the compliments come when you've put in effort and time into a Effort. Yeah. Growing hair is not effort. No. But you have to brush it, and you have to trim it, and you have to shape it, and you have to having a beard isn't just laziness.
You gotta keep a good to have a good beard. Lazy beard. Correct. But to have a good looking beard, that takes time and and effort and money and sculpting and care. It's a thing.
Is your mid midlife beard I have a lazy beard because I haven't shaped it. That's why I've got all the scraggles on my face. Means by midlife beard. I don't know. I'm a have to talk about it.
I don't know. Midlife. Maybe because it's not long? I don't know. I don't either.
You're gonna have to ask. But I've had a beard for a long time, so I don't know if he's saying that I have a midlife beard as if it's some sort of, like, like, negative. I don't know. I'm gonna have to find out. I just don't know.
You've been receiving a lot of compliments this week. Everything that you had a prancy walk. Yeah. Like, like, weird compliments. A scout said that you had a midlife beard.
Yeah. I gotta get this figured out. Something's going on. Thumbs up. I think everything's fine.
Do you? Yeah. Look at your beard. It looks fine. It looks fine.
I like it. You said it was crooked. Well, hold your head up. No. I have a moldy bread update.
Oh, the moldy sandwich that you made for our daughter. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What's the update?
So just a quick recap. We had two pieces of bread left in the bread bag. One of them was the heel. Right. And then when I got them out to make the sandwich, there were two tiny pieces of green.
Little green fuzz. So I cut them both out. Right. So there was, like, a a chunk of her sandwich that was missing. And, also, the cheese container had been opened a little bit, and so there was a corner of her cheese that was hard.
Hard cheese, moldy bread. What's the update? So we thought maybe she would get her bring her lunch home, and it would be Uneaten. Uneaten. Yeah.
I asked her about it. She said she ate it. Well, okay. And she said it was good. I'm surprised.
Me too. So there you go. She must have been hungry. Yeah. There I think there's that.
I think, ultimately, she was hungry. But here's the best news. The best news is that we now have bread again in the house Yeah. And it's not moldy. And fresh cheese?
Okay. Alright. The cheese is I didn't buy cheese. We have cheese. We haven't opened the new package of cheese.
Uh-huh. So I'm just still using the opened cheese. It's fine. Once you put mayonnaise in that bread over the top of it, it softens up the cheese. Sure.
It's just a corner of it that's hard, and it's just chi it's just cheese. Sure. It's fine. No big deal. I'm not worried about the hardened cheese.
Okay. It's the moldy bread that concerns me. Alright. That makes sense. She's got fresh bread now.
We got fresh bread in our house. Alright. We made a grocery stop visit. I feel like a better mom. Things are great.
Good. She had a delicious sandwich this morning. Lunch taken care of. Yeah. And she was fine with what she had.
Yeah. She was. We're good. It's all good. No stress.
I did have some people asking. They were like, did she eat that sandwich? Well, now you know. She did. We did some trivia last night.
Yeah. And there was a Star Wars quote in there. I'm trying to remember what the quote even was. We're not allowed to have our phones. Otherwise, they would have taken a picture of it to remember.
I cannot remember. You seem to think that it had hate in it. Yeah. And so when I I said Star Wars, quote, hate Right. It pulls up use your aggressive feelings.
Let the hate flow through you. I don't think that was it. I feel like it said something about impressive. Impression? It is, right here.
The full quote from Darth Vader, says, let the hate flow through you. Only your hatred can destroy me. No. That wasn't it. Yes.
It is. I don't think that was it. It it it is because we had a long conversation about it. Well, when you say we had a long conversation about it, I wasn't included in that conversation. I looked at the Yeah.
I looked at the Star Wars quote, and it says, what what movie is the Star Wars quote from? And I said, I'm checked out. Yeah. I know nothing about star I know a little about Star Wars. The the main point is that we got the question wrong because we spent too much time talking about it.
And then we turned in an answer. It was just the wrong answer, but we spent a long time debating about whether that quote came from, Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi because we were trying to decide if it was the there is a there is a scene in each of those movies. In one of the movies, Darth Vader is telling Luke, this is the only way you can destroy me. Let the hate consume you, etcetera, etcetera. Darth Vader told that to Luke?
Right. Who is his dad? Hey. Easy with the spoilers. This movie is from the seventies and eighties.
And then, in in, return of the Jedi, the emperor says it, that Safe date. Let the hate consume you. Yes. And so we went yeah. Right?
So we went back and forth about whether or not it was the emperor or Darth that said it or Vader, and so we just really, we we ended up choosing incorrectly. What did we It was not a proud moment. What did we pick? We picked return of the Jedi. It was the quote from Vader in Empire Strikes Back.
Oh, shame. Which is what we had written down initially and then decided to change our mind. Shame. Shame. I know.
I need a new team. Oh, okay. You guys don't even know Star Wars quotes. Come on. Come on.
We did know the quote. We just didn't know which version of it it was and which movie it came from, and there were two options. And we struggled last night. I feel like our team is typically very, very intelligent, and we typically do pretty good. But last night, some questions were tricky.
Like we lost. No. No. No. No.
I'm not saying that we lost. And we came from the bottom Yeah. To the I mean, we were in second where we were in first for a moment. Were we? I didn't see that much.
One one point, and then we immediately dropped to second and then third in the in the last couple of questions. But that's fine. No big deal. We're pretty good. We're pretty good in trivia, I think.
Just don't ask us any Star Wars questions. But you just want said you wanna jump teams. What's the deal? We're pretty good, but, you know, I could use a different team. That was just a joke.
Yeah. Okay. I don't wanna feelings. I don't wanna swap teams. We're we got a good thing going on our team.
I mean, we don't play what did you say? We don't play you said something last night. You say we just play recreationally. Yeah. We're just there to have a good time.
I don't know how the how any other way you could play. Oh, no. Because they do leagues and stuff. Do they really? Yeah.
You knew that. But I didn't know that people actually did that. Yeah. And then they do a big, like, trivia bowl where you play against other teams all across the state and in the region and stuff. Why don't we do it more seriously?
Because we play recreationally. Competitively. And you you have to get so many points in order to qualify for the for the big bowl, and then you go and it's a big trivia bowl, and you have to compete with people from all over. Let's do that. We would be so good.
We're so smart. I don't know. I mean, we're we're I think we're probably, all things considered, if we were because there's a Tuesday and a Thursday league. And if we competed in the Tuesday league, I think we'd we would probably do better than the Thursday league. The Thursday league has more teams.
I think there's a Monday league too, isn't there? I don't know if the Monday has a league. Tuesday and Thursday do. Okay. But that's that's I feel like our team, though, we've got a good range of knowledge on our team.
Yeah. I agree. A sciency guy. Right. We've got a a mathy woman Yeah.
Who also knows a lot about geography and other things. K. She's very smart. K. We have very smart friends.
Yeah. How do I contribute? You have contributed. You know things. It's not like you don't.
I know pop culture things. So I've I've come in clutch a lot of times when it's been, like, a music question. Right. Lyrics. Weird random facts about shows that only you've watched.
Yeah. True. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a good teammate.
Yeah. I contribute. Last night even, there was a question about a there was a music question. What was it? I don't know.
And you guys all picked something else, and I said, I don't know if that's it. And you changed it right at the very end. Yeah. Yeah. Right at the very end.
I didn't turn it in, and I said, I don't think it's this. I think it's this. Right. And it was right. Okay.
Good job, team. Yeah. Third place team. Good job, trivia team. Yeah.
You're doing so good. But you wanna play competitively now? Yeah. Alright. Don't you think that sounds fun?
It sounds What's the prize that you could win? Oh, it's probably money. Oh, I let's play. For money? Yes.
I mean, if we have four or five people on the team and it's a $500 prize Come on. It's a hundred dollars each. Yeah. It's not bad. I'm game.
Let's play competitively. For cash. Throw away this recreation thing. Let's play seriously. Okay.
Get down to seriousness. For cash money. Okay. I'll get the details. K.
Oh, we gotta ask our team. Yeah. They, yeah, they might not be into it. Yeah. What is something you loved as a kid but hate as an adult?
Oh, that's a tough one because there's things that I appreciate as an adult that I hated as a kid. Yeah. Oh, we're gonna talk about that. And that that list is easier. Which one is that list?
Like, well, as a little kid, you hated a nap, but now I love a nap. Right? Like, that's that's easy. I think food wise, there were certain vegetables I probably didn't like that I really like now. Yeah.
I'm trying to think of some other things. Canceled plans. I love as an adult, but I hated that as a kid. When you had a plan to do something and it's got canceled, as a kid, you were like, no. As an adult, I go, oh, too bad.
Yeah. I don't know if I have a real horse in that race. I Oh, okay. I mean, there are times when I'm like, I really wanted to do that thing or I really wanted to see those folks or whatever. I So sometimes that's a bummer.
Used to love roller coasters as a kid, but I don't necessarily love them anymore. They make me a little bit sick now. I've had to take Dramamine to go on a roller coaster for forever. Oh, really? Oh, I've always had problems with spinning rides.
I loved going to the grocery store as a kid. I don't enjoy it now. You did like it as a kid? As a kid, yes. Are you crazy?
That was fun. You got to ride on the bottom of the cart. Yeah. I don't think I enjoyed it that time. Wine to get something and your mom would buy it for you, and you didn't have to buy it?
Your mom bought it? Now I have to pay for everything, and I don't like that. I liked when my mom paid for everything. Yeah. Okay.
I hated taking a bath as a kid, but I love it now. Yeah. I don't like baths. I'd at all. I'll take a shower.
Hated taking a shower when I was a kid too. I couldn't be bothered. There was no. I got too much to do. Okay.
I got too much playing to do. Leave me alone. Vegetables was also on the list. Yeah. Vegetables, I appreciate now.
I like there's some great veggies. I loved vegetables as a kid. I didn't mind them. I always ate them except for peas. I didn't like peas.
Also, chore. I mean, I was gonna say chores. I I didn't mind doing chores as a kid, but I also got paid to do chores. As a kid? As a kid.
Lucky. Yeah. But you grew up in a rich house, so that's why. I didn't. So You like doing chores?
Well, yeah, because I got paid to do it. I don't like doing it now. Nobody pays me to do them now. I mean, you just get to have a clean house now. Yeah.
It lasts temporarily, though, doesn't it? And then I have to keep doing them. I have to do the chores every day. That's gross. I did a bunch of chores yesterday.
Our daughter cleaned the house the other day. I know. So I don't know what you're even talking about. You guys are awesome. I appreciate it.
Thank you very much. Do you have anything else? I'm really struggling to think of things that I loved that I loved as a kid that I don't like now. Like, I I would say I there was probably, like, sour candies and stuff like that that I could do without now that I'm just like, nah. But I've I've never really had, like, a giant sweet tooth.
So, I've never I'm trying to think if, like, my candy taste changed. Like, if I was like, oh, I love peanut butter cups, but I didn't. You know what I didn't mind? I'll tell you. The when it comes down to the Reese's cups, the little small ones in the foil Yeah.
I don't totally hate those. Oh. But that's probably because it's a smaller little amount than the big the big ones. I don't like the big cups. Because the peanut butter is sweaty.
It's sweaty peanut butter. And the and the chocolate's not that good. The chocolate tastes kinda sour, like spoiled. Like, it's it's not good. I don't really like those.
But the little ones, I'm kinda thinking about that little one right now, and I kinda think I'd eat one of those right this moment. Oh, let's go get you some Rolo sized ones. You know? Yeah. I know what you're talking about.
Just get one or two. You have to buy a whole bag. You you just want one? Yeah. I only want one.
Oh, well. And then I'll be good for years. Okay. So if somebody else had a bag of those around and they were like, here, have one. I'd be like, that's a sweet little treat.
That's that's what I need. Just one little thing like that. Okay. I don't have that. So Okay.
Not today, pal. Alright. Are you saying okay. Never mind. You loved that as a kid?
But No. I just was thinking about candy, and that came into my brain. Oh, okay. There you go. Yeah.
I don't know. I I that's what what did you love as a kid that you don't like? I told you. Chores. Chores.
Roller coasters. Oh, okay. And scary movies. Yeah. I kinda like scary and going to the grocery store.
You liked scary movies as a kid, but don't like them now? You still love them. Well, I don't love them. I they're fine. I don't love them.
I think I liked them as a kid because we weren't allowed to watch them. Oh. And so it was like a taboo. You were being a rebel. Yes.
Wow. Look at you. Danger. I know. I told you.
It's that time of year where the sun is shining a little bit and you're tired of being cooped up, so you open the windows to get some fresh air in your house. You open the doors to brush out the dust in the cobwebs. Spring cleaning time. Not not a favorite. Although I where I do have big hopes and dreams for the backyard, I've been watching the snow melt.
Yesterday, I was, I was in a mode when I got home, and I did some cleaning on the side of the house. I hauled some stuff to the dump. I've gotta make a donation to, one of the, whatever they're called, thrift shops today. So I'm excited to get that started at least. I almost got the rake out and started raking the grass in the backyard.
Really? Thought about it, but then I In the backyard? There's still snow in the backyard. Not everywhere. And there's a lot of raking that needs to be done.
I And you remember that cat that I, have an issue with? Yes. Yeah. He's been in the gravel by the fire pit. Oh, no.
And I'm very upset. I like the feeling of spring cleaning. I don't enjoy the process of it, but I like it when it's done and you feel lighter. Right. But, yeah, like, I've got in addition to spring cleaning, like, just the yard work ahead of me Mhmm.
That I'm that I've got between raised garden beds and compost and all the things that I wanna get done this this year. I've got a I've got a lot of a lot of things, and I wanna get started on them because I'm I'm anxious. I'm ready. I'm I'm ready to go. You did a lot yesterday.
Like you said, you took some you took a truckload to the dump. I gotta get some lumber. I wanna I gotta fix the deck. I've got some staining I wanna do there. I got I got so many projects.
Long to do it. So many things I wanna do. And then and then we never painted the basement either. That was our winter project. Winter project.
And now we're not gonna wanna do that because we don't wanna be inside. We have the yard to do. Yeah. I know. The list never ends, does it?
No. Sometimes I I wish sometimes that we just lived in an apartment again so we didn't have to worry about that Christmas. That. That'd be nice. Yeah.
It would, but it wouldn't. I get it. Also wouldn't have, you know, area. I get it. No.
I get it. But I also gotta take the Christmas lights down. Like, that's gotta happen. Well gotta get up on the roof. Today looks like a great day to kinda do some of that stuff.
Look at it. The sun is shining. We were supposed to have a winter advisory. That's tonight. It's supposed to start at 08:00.
It's supposed to get snow and rain and stuff starting at 08:00 tonight and going until Friday morning. Well, let's enjoy the sun while it's here. It's out there, and we're in here. How are we gonna do that? Open a window?
What do we do? Get a sunroof? Retractable? Like, like a stadium? Like a football stadium?
That'd be awesome. Let's do that. How do we get that? I don't know. Gotta talk to somebody.
Send an yeah. Hey. We'd like a retractable, roof for the studio so that we can have the sunlight in the inside, not just on the outside. Yeah. We need some vitamin d.
Right. It would be helpful. It'd be very helpful. What's on your spring cleaning list? Just following you around Oh, is that right?
And doing the projects with you. Oh, okay. Planting I wanna plant stuff. I always wanna plant stuff. That's still that's not till May.
I know. Your, your, bulbs started pushing ground. I I saw that yesterday. Tulips are starting to sprout. Mhmm.
I mean, there's too early, buddy. They're just pushing up. They're not gonna sprout for another couple weeks. That's true, but it's still a little bit early. Bloom, I suppose.
But, yeah, it is early. But they're pushing ground. They got warm. Leaves are coming up. Weekend, and they said, oh, it's time.
Yep. It's not time, buddies. Go back to bed. No. You woke too early.
Yeah. It was fall spring. We got fifth winter coming. They're not hardy. They'll survive, but that means they won't last as long as I want them to.
Which is always the case every year. You go, they don't last very long. Nope. It was exciting to see some green in the I know. In the grass, though, in the flower bed.
That was exciting. It is exciting. I'm tired of looking at brown. Yeah. Dead plants and foliage.
Yeah. Everywhere you go, brown. Give me some green. I know. We need leaves outside.
It's all it's all coming. Spring's on the way, and then you'll feel better about things. I know. And then the wind will be here. Hooray.
When you have a doctor's appointment and it's looming and you know it's coming, do you anticipate that appointment and then prepare, so to speak, for it? I what would I prepare for? Like, if it's is it just a checkup, or is it more serious or what? It's yeah. It's just a checkup.
So it's months away, and you know you've got a checkup coming. They're gonna check your blood, so they're gonna check your cholesterol. Do you purposely go, I gotta change my eating habits for the next couple of months? Ah. Or like me, in high school, when I was supposed to wear my retainer and I didn't, and I knew I had an orthodontist appointment coming up for about two weeks before the appointment.
I'd be like, oh, I gotta wear that retainer. And then I would go, and he'd be like, have you been wearing your retainer? And I would say, yep. Every day. Every day, doctor.
And he'd go, well, it doesn't look like it. Well, it sure doesn't look like it. Because I I'm I'm in your mouth here, and I can see, no. You haven't. You wanna try that again?
This time, tell the truth? When you have a doctor's appointment coming up like a wellness exam, you go, oh, I'm gonna stop eating processed foods for a couple weeks, and I'm gonna exercise for a week. Then he's gonna know that I've been healthy. Mhmm. I'm gonna I'm gonna work on my reflexes so that I can make sure when the hammer hits, I I have good kick.
No. I don't prepare. Oh. No. I haven't as an adult, but certainly as a kid, if I knew I had a specifically, a dentist or an orthodontist.
And I knew that the dentist was gonna be asking me if I flossed, I'd be like, yes. Again, they know. For the last three days, I've been flossing. I, I think, like, I will brush my teeth. Like, that's a thing.
Like, I'll be like, I don't wanna roll in there with all day breath. Oh, so before your appointment? Yeah. Like, just as a courtesy. Yeah.
Yeah. I'll be like, you wanna I think they appreciate that. I would hope so. And most dentists have toothbrushes in the bathroom when you go so that if you have forgotten, you can do a quick brush in the bathroom there in the office. I did not know that.
I've done that before. Seen that. Oh, I've done that before. The orthodontist that I used to go to had that option too, and then they would have those little, you know, those little it's like a little bottle brush where you can poke down in between your braces. Oh.
You didn't have braces, so you don't understand. I don't know what that is. Braces get it. Okay. It's that little tree looking thing.
I get what you're saying. Get up in there and be like, oh, look how clean my teeth are, doctor. I've been taking care of them for years. You know? Again, they know.
I know. They you can you can try and hide all you want, but they know the truth. I know. I know they know. I like to pull a fast one out of it.
An upcoming appointment you're preparing for? No. I don't. I need to. I that's on my to do list.
I need to call my dentist. Okay. It's been a minute since I've been in there for my cleaning. I love that day. It's the best day.
I love going to the dentist to get a cleaning. It's the best. A lot of people are afraid of the dentist like you. I love it. I've got my cleaning coming up next week.
Hooray. Oh, I love it. Hooray. You're either gonna feel so good. Boy.
And they're gonna let I always go into the car after the dentist cleaning and go, look at my teeth. Oh. It's like I wanna smile at everybody. Is that right? Look at my teeth.
Well, we'll see how it goes. I don't feel that way. I don't feel like I'm gonna be, look at my teeth. You will. I promise you.
We'll see. You will. You will. Okay. I don't ever think I do.
But But you will. Okay. Because you say so. I think it's kind of exciting news that, people are, kind of fed up with not having things to do in school. What do you mean?
Well, they're talking about bringing back woodworking, welding, auto tech, all of those kinds of classes. Fantastic. Yeah. What they found out is that high school shop classes are now making a comeback because some educators seem to recognize that every not every student is a perfect fit for college, and there's a lot of trades that need skilled workers. We have what they're calling what it was called a skills gap.
So there's all these good paying jobs that people just aren't trained in the skills of because they quit showing that people could be interested in these things, like, by by removing these classes. And the future job market, they're saying, is quite unpredictable, especially with AI and all of this. But AI isn't gonna be fixing your car. No. AI isn't gonna be a plumber.
AI isn't gonna be building houses. Like, there are certain things that takes skilled labor to do, and so they're talking about reinvigorating these types of hands on training classes that could go a long way toward, addressing this growing demand for skilled trade workers, which I think is fantastic. A lot of people, learned a lot of things in shop class. Like, I learned things I still could use today. I did plastic mold injection.
I programmed robots. I did welding. I built electrical circuits. I didn't do any of that. I programmed CAD.
We had a little radio station in my junior high. I got to play around with making radio. We had TV editing equipment. We had all kinds of cool stuff That's that we could really cool. Play with.
And I don't know if all that stuff is still there, if they're still doing that stuff because it's been a lot of years since I was in middle school and high school, but that was a big part of, like, one of my favorite things was getting to learn how to do that stuff. We had to build bridges and learn engineering and test their strength, and there were so many things. And it was really, really good. So I hope that that's true. They wanna bring that stuff back.
I think it's very, very important, and, hopefully, that, that becomes a trend that happens across the country. I think it's really important, for people to learn these things, and to be able to get their hands dirty quite literally on some skills. Yeah. And I did find a career. I didn't do any of that stuff that you did, but I did take a shop class, I wanna say ninth or tenth grade, and I built some stuff.
Yeah? Yeah. It was cool. I liked using my hands to do stuff. It was a change of pace from sitting in a desk and doing assignments and listening to a teacher.
I liked the hands on approach. It was it was certainly fun and different. Our shop teacher, mister Heath, he had a Mister Campbell was a TV that was up on the up on the, like, very top above his office, area. He always had the NASA channel on, so we're constantly watching space shuttles take off and land. It was very cool.
That is cool. Yeah. Always learning stuff. It was important, to me, anyway. So it's making a resurgence?
I hope so. You're saying? That's what they say. They say that high school shop classes are making a comeback. That's what it says.
It's a big article in the Wall Street Journal about it. So, hopefully, that, is a thing. I hope so too. And Good. Let's let's do music and art too.
Well yeah. And I know that there are tech high schools, and there are different things that have been built to kind of accommodate, but not everywhere has programs even like that. So, more hands on stuff and in skilled trades is it's good for me. I like it. It's time for would you rather this or that.
Would you rather spring edition? Would you rather this or that spring edition? Okay. Alright. Would you rather have a backyard pond with frogs and lily pads or a treehouse with vines growing around it?
Alright. I didn't know my answer. What's your answer? I'm going with the backyard pond with frogs and lily pads. You are?
Yeah. You seriously are? Yeah. Tell me why. Because I think that is nice.
We here's what happened. We put in a pond. Uh-huh. We had some beautiful lily pads from your grandma who had grown them for years. Yeah.
They were gorgeous, and I loved them. Right. And I And they bloomed, and they were very cool that one year. Ian and the problem was that I didn't properly take care of them during the winter. Well, they froze.
Regret that. We put them away how we thought we were supposed to, but they froze. They froze. And And that's that was the end of that. I know.
And I regret that ever since. And then I also we didn't properly take care of our pond. The pond, you have to put chemicals. Work. And it's a ton of work to have a water feature, and the chemicals are not pet friendly.
And so And our dog would take out of the pond. So you can't it was a whole series of things that happened. So I know you know. If I do that again, that's what I want, but I want somebody else. I'll hire a landscaper to take care of it for me.
All of those reasons are why I chose the treehouse, because those the reasons that you mentioned as to why we had a failed pond are the reasons that I would take the treehouse. First of all, because we would have a big tree, big enough to have a treehouse, which I think is great. And a big treehouse, like, that would be an Airbnb I would do. Yes. But you're also gonna have to take care.
You're gonna have to maintain that. The vines, you're gonna have to trim and take care of, and then you're gonna have to also make sure that the treehouse is stabilized. It doesn't come without its work. It's gonna have, it's gonna be a good treehouse. I know, but I'm safe.
And it'd be in a big mature tree, and I don't think mature trees grow as fast as juvenile trees. I I don't know that. I'm not an arborist, but I'm assuming that once a tree reaches a certain age, it slows in growth. I wouldn't say no to either one of these things. But the treehouse with the little string lights and the comfy place to hang out.
Yeah. Sounds nice. That's sounds way nice. Yeah. It does.
Plus a ladder to get in there. Plus. And a floor hatch. Plus. You know?
And a scope to to spy out of. Mhmm. Yeah. Treehouse Adventure. All day.
That's my would you rather. You know that show, Hard Knocks, that, we watch during fall season? Yeah. I love that show. So you're not gonna love well, you're I'm gonna take you down an emotional, road here.
Oh. Oh. Bill Belichick. Ew. I yeah.
I said this is gonna be an emotional thing. He is, the former coach of the New New England Patriots by way of the Jets, the two Bills, all the things. Right? Yes. He, is now coaching University of North Carolina football.
Right. And they were in, negotiations to be featured on Hard Knocks. No. I don't want that. Why don't you want that?
Because it's college, and I don't want I don't I don't want that. I don't want that. I don't watch college football, so I don't care about it. And I also don't care about Bill Belichick. Well, the deal fell through.
Oh, good. Because an agreement between the producers and the school was never finalized, and there were reports swirling that some NFL owners did not appreciate the NFL owned show Yeah. Featuring a college team even if it's led by Bill Belichick. Good. That's not what hard knocks is.
Doesn't work for the NFL NFL anymore. Correct. That is correct. Guy out of here. Yeah.
Get out of here. Get out of here, Bill. Yeah. So, so the good news is for you, and I said it'll be an emotional roller coaster. That deal fell through.
I don't have emotional roller coasters. Right. And, and it will not be, the college football Good. Hard knocks. Good.
It will be something else. I don't know what, but it will be something else. Egypt. This season was the AFC North, which I thought was interesting rather than focusing on just one team. One team.
Yeah. This the season prior to that, was the Miami Dolphins. And I felt like the the season with the Dolphins being the focal point went longer than the season with the AFC North. Agree with you. I think they started earlier in the season to record what was happening.
Mhmm. But that's it's tricky because you don't know who's going to make it to the playoffs. But that's why you gotta start with a team earlier in the season. Yeah. I think you're right.
And they didn't this time. They started late, and then, fortunately, a bunch of the teams made it and and did fairly well. And so, anyway, I I think that's kinda neat, that it'll be back, and it will be an NFL team and not Good. College football with Bill Belichick. I think that show would have tanked.
And I don't have anything against college football. I just don't watch it. And I really like hard knocks, and I like watching that show. I think it's a very well put together show. So that would have made me sad.
And, also, ew, Bill Belichick. Well, if you wanna do a college version, then do a college version for people that wanna watch the college verge version. Yeah. But also do a team that's not like, he doesn't need that. I know.
He doesn't need it. He doesn't need it for the notoriety. He doesn't need it for the publicity. He doesn't need it for the money. Pick an underdog.
That's why I liked hard dogs. I feel like they picked underdogs. The Dolphins were a little bit underdoggy. Yeah. Bill Belichick is not an underdog.
Alright. Please. Please. The emotional roller coaster has successfully arrived back at the station. Go ahead and remain seated, and keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle until it comes to a full and complete stop, and enjoy your day here at the morning show.
It's always fun with me, isn't it? What a delight. I am. You're you're great. That's gonna wrap up the show for today.
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