
September 3, 2026 | Wake Up Classy 97
Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh & Chantel from Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 / A viral 40 year old Super Mario Bros. glitch has Chantel very excited to play again, a feel-good story about a stray cat turned Japanese train station master, the sad TikTok spiral that hits different depending on who you ask, Gen Z's love of old things, the golden age of record stores, a new and questionable pheromone based dating trend, fair food vs. work, confessions about past pickleball and mountain biking overconfidence, a tomato soup recipe that earned five out of five stars from the whole family, Chantel needs a...
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- 96% of the words are B1 or easier.
- 161 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
- 89 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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