October 16, 2026 | wake Up Classy 97
Wake Up Classy 97 The Podcast

October 16, 2026 | wake Up Classy 97

B1IntermediateOctober 16, 202654 min
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Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh & Chantel from Thursday, October 15th, 2026 / A study on boredom and aggression and why Chantel gets shovy, a five year old Michigan boy saved his dehydrated grandmother, a surprise new wrinkle, why you can’t tickle yourself, a taco cup dinner that could have just been a regular taco, a math lesson on converting fractions to decimals, the TikTok floor time wellness trend, whimsymaxxing, a Raspberry Pi and 3D-printed Lego sorting machine, a life tracker spreadsheet and the quest for 10,000 steps, the best gas station foods, we're hitting the road for a family weekend in Bu...

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This is an interesting study they did and they found out that people that are bored are more aggressive. It's interesting. The way they figured this out was they had a bunch of people and they had half of the

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group watch this 25 minute documentary about a local park and the other half of the people watched a 25 minute video of a man folding laundry. And then what they did is they had all the participants come out and they said here's a punching bag go nuts and the people who watched the dole videos ended up

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hitting the punching bag harder and more frequently than people who watched the interesting video so the park the people watch the video about the local park were like I'm gonna take it out on this bag and the people who watched a man-folding laundry also boring but a little bit more engaging were not as

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