We’ve still never decided. I know. And we’re back. Sorry. We really have not decided when we’re coming in on this whole business.

Like leech, I don’t know if there’s 11 of doing the most. With Scarlet. And Mitchell. Hey. You did your own name this time.

I know. Because I just I just kinda autopilot it, whatever you said, and then I just said my deal, and that was it. So this is a podcast, doing the most. Barely. Episode 11.

If you followed along with us, great. This week, I mean, do you did that note you sent me, was that like just some stuff you were thinking about? Or was this for this show? Oh. I don’t know.

Stuff I was thinking about for the show. Okay. You do that. Okay. So I do.

And then and then we’re kind of slowly turning along on there is a website, people. It’s scarletandmitchell.com. That is where you can go you could if you’re listening to this through Spotify or Apple Podcasts, you could go to our website as well and listen to it straight from a browser. You can leave comments on each individual episode if you want. You don’t have to do that.

And as of recently, we are we we were always on Blue Sky, but now we have our social media platforms are fully formulated now. Well, almost, I should say. So you can follow us on Blue Sky. Our handle on Blue Sky, Instagram, TikTok, and x, or Twitter. We’re working on our first TikTok.

Obviously, I’m pretty excited. I got caught up on that. So if you’re following, the, handle for that is less cats, please. That’s just less cats, please. I don’t know how to make it any simpler.

I well, I guess it could be simpler if it’s just one word. But less cats, please on the socials I was verging on the side of more cats, please. That was hard for me to get. I Oh. I told you, I went through the whole thing.

I thought you were just doing, like, a passive aggressive thing. No. Trying to find handles. Instagram is the killer. That’s the one where everybody has every handle known to man.

Because I went we went through well, I don’t know. I had doing the doing the most, do the most, do the most is less and then x is the problem because you’re limited to a 15 character name on x or Twitter or whatever. I’m sorry. Yeah. So that one’s like the limit of the size, but Instagram has so many variations already taken up.

Like everybody on the planet is doing the most. So, then there was doing more I just not gonna bore you, everyone, but less cats please. It was a struggle. Got it. I got that one.

Less cats please at less cats please. Yeah. That’s kinda well, maybe it’s my crying for help. Less cats please. So And then kind of a new update.

I’m slowly working on the website. If you do to go to the website and it looks crummy, that’s because it’s me and I don’t have a lot of time because I am doing the most with my life, and that’s why I don’t have time. So what I’m saying, slow it down. Wow. I feel like I’m trying to get a lot out of here.

I don’t have to cough. I’m really trying to hold it in. Well, we don’t have the cough button like you would in a real studio. Are you familiar with this? There’s a real Yeah.

From phrase about it on yeah. I knew you were gonna but it really does exist. There is a cough button. It just mutes the mic. So we are filming this episode.

We’re not live streaming it yet. That’s kinda Well, I thought about this, but right, I mean, I’m one man. We gotta ease into this. I know, I am one man. And so we’re filming this with two iPhones because that’s what I have.

And you don’t even know what you look like, but trust me, you look wonderful and beautiful. Why are you green? Oh, because that’s Or your hair’s green and your mic’s green? It’s showing those are probably focus points. Oh.

So anyways Okay. This, we are and it could go out of focus. I don’t know. I can’t I can’t run it all. I need one more That’s okay.

I need one more iPad. What? To be able Okay. To do all this. Is it still got red numbers scrolling?

Yeah. I never too worried about. Somewhere on the side, it has, like, I don’t know. That’s fine. And if not the the idea is to be able to post little clips, not the whole thing.

That’s my goal. I don’t have to edit this whole thing down. And if it doesn’t work out this time, lesson learned. Okay? Everyone, so look for clips of you’ve wondered what we look like.

You probably already know because, the three listeners all work with us. Be prepared to be disappointed. Yeah. The three listeners all work with us. So episode 11, it feels like I mean, 10 was a big one last week.

This one’s kinda like, oh, boy, have we got something planned for you. Am I right? No. You know what I was thinking about though? Just a little flashback.

I meant to, like, review old episodes, but you never even listened to him anyways. But I was like, man, that Loretta jeans pies, I was just craving some of those today for I thought you’d banned it. Well, why? Because Never mind. My cholesterol?

No. Oh. I mean Yeah. Yeah. No.

Is it a cost thing? Why did I ban it? Oh, no. Never mind. Great.

You give me that. Look. One, okay. And then, anyways, what I’m saying is I was just craving, like, but then I was like, oh, my whole cholesterol is a problem. So that’s going on.

I mean, I have mildly elevated cholesterol. Right? Have you told the listeners this, like I don’t know. 25,000 times. Have I?

I don’t know. That’s you know what I’m saying? Maybe it’s because I live with you And I say it all. And I share it all the time. Well, I have mildly elevated cholesterol.

So I’ll I’ve been really trying to cut out dairy You’ve been doing dairy You’ve been doing good. Meats, all that stuff generally. Okay. So not even creamer. I mean, I was having that skim milk that has, like, no has, like, like, cholesterol reduced.

I don’t know. I thought it was some magical skin milk. Taken out, so it’s So it’s essentially, like, it’s Only 5% of your daily recommended Right. Whatever. Is it it amounts to, like, if you were cleaning paintbrushes after painting something white and then you rinse them in a jar, that jar is what I’m using for milk.

Mhmm. Mhmm. Pretty much. Same quality of flavor and just kind of, yeah. It’s just like water with a little something in it.

So But that’s okay. It gives my coffee some color so I can at least feel like, oh, proud of that. That’s been tough. I’m not gonna lie. This cholesterol thing has been tough.

I’ve been trying to exercise a little more, and that’s tough as well. You know, and we talked Yeah. I’m not here to talk about my cholesterol, but these are things that some of you may be going through or may yet have gone through, and I never really thought this would be me. You know, I wasn’t like, oh, one day I’m gonna have a CPAP machine, and I’m gonna have a cholesterol problem, and I’m gonna have high blood pressure. By the way, I went to the dentist this morning, like 118 over 73 or something.

You know why they caught me off guard? I didn’t know they were gonna get my blood pressure. Oh, yeah, yeah. Because if they’re gonna tell me all that, I get wound up. But they’re like, oh, we’re gonna do blood pressure.

Oh, okay. Sure. And then I was like, boom. I put up some good numbers. Felt good about that.

But what was I saying? Just like, I didn’t think I was gonna get my blood pressure. Where your parents at Sunday dinner who’s like, we have brought our laundry list of doctor’s appointments visit from the week, and we are gonna talk about them. Well, that’s actually not was that was one of my points was I have now not only become the person with problems, but this is what I talk about. And I didn’t and I don’t wanna complain.

Like, that weird knot growing on the side of my knee that I had drained once is growing again. I didn’t wanna talk to you about it because I was like, all I thought was But here we are. I thought I am becoming my parents where You know what? It’s like you look up one day and everything that you fought to not become, you look around and you’re like, and I have become that. Yeah.

So, oh, dear. I mean, because then you look at your partner’s parents, and then you could shudder a little bit. You could have some fears. I’m just kidding. So, I mean, I know I guess what I’m saying really is like, because I’m a little sore here or there, and then, oh, and then I wanna bring up my thumb.

My thumb, my trigger thumb, which, okay, this is trigger thumb is undiagnosed, but I’m pretty sure that’s what it is based off of doctor Google. But now it’s like sore, and I’m just like, I guess I just live with this now. So describe to us what is what is your sleep getup now? What does it look like getting ready to hunker down for sleep for you? Okay.

Well, it’s not as extensive as it ought to be, but it starts with tooth brushing, you know, electric toothbrush. Throw it. In the bed. Yes. You No.

No. We’re talking about bed, hunkering down, or in the bathroom? We’ll start in the bathroom, I guess. Oh, well, I’m sorry then. Since we already started there.

Well, I’m saying like, well, great. I brush my teeth, and then I floss my teeth, and then I rinse with a cat a fluoride rinse because I need to get more fluoride apparently. And then while I’m rinsing, I prep my NetiPot so I can do each nostril with one packet, one NetiPot packet. And then I should, like, wash and moisturize my face, but I’m not there yet. Then well, I’m just saying.

Then I go and I lay down in bed, and then I say good night to you, or we watch a show, or probably not because we’re already like, it’s already really super late. It’s probably like 09:00. Yeah. This is pushing 09:30, 10:00. It’s like we don’t have time for that.

So then I am, well, often I need to moisturize my hands before well, here’s what I do. I put my I put my magical earbuds in, the really slim line ones that you can sleep with. Mhmm. I put those in, then I moisturize my hands because I don’t want them moisturized while I’m putting the earbuds in. Yeah.

Then I moisturize my hands, then I need to pick up my phone, turn off the lights with Alexa, and then I pick a thing from Oura, a sleep hypnosis. I’ve been using a weight loss one lately, and that’s really not working. And then and then I put on the, I put on a CPAP machine. Now I’ve got ears, CPAP. For a while, I was trying a night guard in my mouth, but I dialed that back.

And because and the other thing I was throwing into the mix was was I was putting the thumb splint on my thumb, but the problem is I had then I had to take my watch off my right or my left wrist and put it on my right wrist because I tracked my sleep with the watch. And then put the splint on so my thumb doesn’t hurt in the morning. And then if you’re watching a show, I put on a eye shield. So I got eyes, ears, mouth, and nose. Is that true?

Eyes And thumb. Ears, mouth, and nose, and thumb. Yeah. And then I lay down and put my leg in the crack. So Yeah.

Oh, and the crack is we have one of those old people beds. Yeah. It’s a split king. Yeah. It’s a split king because we have Or is it a united twin?

Let’s call it that. Yeah. Because we have the adjustable bed, and sometimes I like to sleep with my feet up, and sometimes we he likes to raise his head and read while I’m going to sleep. If I work that day, I go to sleep really early. He likes to read or watch his iPad.

Yeah. So and you’re My gosh. Where are your parents? I know. Adjustable bed and all.

And then and look. Oh my goodness. And Sue Oh my gosh. We never tell about my suit. Who’s your mother?

Yes. My mother, Sue. Dude, we have eye camera on this. Because we this is a fortnightly podcast, by the way. I asked somebody at work what that meant, and they go every two weeks?

And I was like, yeah. And they were like Yeah. They were like, well, I knew that. You I made a point. No.

We talk about the fortnightly every episode. Talk. Okay. So we had to squeeze it in there, guys. Yeah.

Brought to you by not fortnightly, because I totally lost track. Oh, my mother, this did we ever mention the CPAP before on this show? No. I’m fixed. You accumulated, acquired it, accumulated.

Well, that’s how most of the stuff. Accumulating CPAPs. Wait, yeah. We got a garage full Well, I went, it was like two years ago, three years ago. Two.

It was before I was still at OHSU working. Oh, oops. Spoiler alert, I don’t work there anymore. And I had gotten a home sleep study, because I was like, oh, better, you know, I’m not whatever. I don’t know.

You because you were like, you’re apneic. You stopped breathing. And for years, I had these night terrors where I the Oh, I’m pretty sure you would yeah. I’m pretty sure you would stop breathing and then you and your sleep would think that you’re, like, drowning or something. Well yeah.

And I would, like, catch you you would, like, either wake up or, like, not hit me, but just kinda, like, jar me. I don’t even know how to explain it. Yeah. I don’t know why I had to be involved in this. Because Or you’d be in the corner, like, you would get up and start pacing.

Well, I often think like I’m running. Forgot to take my medications. Oh, yeah. Which I know And I’m like, you don’t take medications. That’s the beauty of this.

Yeah. No. Often, I would wake up in the middle of, like, running or moving very quickly through the room and everything is Shoot out of bed. I don’t know how I don’t know. I guess, I’m just glad you’re not a sleep talker.

And Because Well, what would I say? It would be just as terrifying. Well, and then for me, the experience is everything is black and white in the room. I I know it’s dark at night is probably true, but it’s You have your night vision on? It’s actual black and white.

And I don’t know. And it’s usually I forgot something and that’s why I died or I’m dying because I forgot something. So those night terrors led to, like, hey. Or I don’t know. I’m sorry.

I don’t wanna throw night terrors out there for any real night terror people. This is these were my experiences. Not every night, but frequently enough that I was like, okay. Let’s get the sleep study. And they were like, oh, yeah.

You’re like mid level. And I was like, nah. Nah. Because they do one night, and that is just, like, not good data. I was a was I a shift worker?

Oh, was this all the way back prior? No. It doesn’t boy. It may have been while you were working at Kaiser. That’s why I feel like We should stop saying where we work.

Or was I it doesn’t matter. Well, whether you’re gonna At a K place. Well, this because I felt like I was a night shift worker. No. You were 6AM to 6PM then.

So I did it a study or somehow it doesn’t matter. Here’s what here’s what I’m saying. They’re like, you need to have x amount of sleep, and I remember just barely getting that amount of sleep. And it was a crap night of sleep. One night of sleep with the thing on your finger or whatever.

It’s weird. And you had the the oxygen tubing that’s not oxygen, but it’s just, like, monitoring your respirations and the thing, and they’re just like, hey. Oh, and then one night of crappy sleep, and they’re like It’s mild. It was like it qualified me if I wanted to go CPAP. I remember she’s like, it was a a nurse practitioner.

If you wanna go CPAP, you could, but we need it, but then there was something that I needed to do. Hold on. There was No. It was like, it was gonna take six weeks or something. That’s right.

And then I changed jobs. Mhmm. I never pulled the trigger because I can’t remember if they wanted me to go in and study. I don’t do do a study. Yeah.

Anyway, the end result was I was not gonna insurance change, whatever it was, I wasn’t gonna have the ability to get a CPAP through them in the nine month waiting period. And I was like, hey, my mom’s got one, and we know she doesn’t use it because she’s like, nope, I don’t use that, can’t sleep with it. So I take my mom’s CPAP. And And she had like years worth of Supplies. Yeah.

Yeah. So I just took that, and then I figured out online how to, like, reset the programming, and then I didn’t I just picked there’s an auto sensing one, and so there’s usually you’re supposed to have numbers, but I used the auto sensing one and started using that. That’s been a couple several years now. Yeah. And I embarrassingly not embarrassingly.

If you use a CPAP, good for you. I still have shame. Max calls it your elephant thing, your elephant mask. Yeah. So it’s embarrassing for me to have to put it on every night.

It’s not embarrassing. But speaking of so you were saying, oh, you’re we’re becoming like your parents, which is true. You snore sometimes, and you are might be in denial and you might be like my mother who’s like, I’m never gonna wear a CPAP. I’m just throwing it out there. You think I have sleep apnea?

I’m 35 years old. I know. It’s I listen to experts and they say it’s not sometimes it’s just genetics, like the formation of your body is just prone to sleep apnea. I don’t know. Neither of my parents, though my dad snores.

Like, I have never heard anyone snore. And he claims that he had a sleep study and it was negative. I know. What did he wear? Those those were his words.

Did he wear a thing on his thumb for, like, an hour? And it was like, they were like, well, you’re good. Knowing my dad, he probably, like, had the whole get up, and he was like, oh, I can’t sleep like this. And then he just yeah. And so oh, yeah.

There was, like, so much pain and suffering growing up because of his snoring. And, like, he will start snoring. He’ll be, like, in his recliner, and you know when he’s falling asleep because immediately. It’s like the switch turns on. The mouth drops open Yeah.

And the snoring begins. And the whole house, like, vibrates from it. I yeah. That’s mother, I love you. I know you sometimes listen to these.

That’s my mother. It’s and my mother is partially deaf. She’s hearing she’s hearing challenged. Okay? And so she doesn’t know, but it’s you when the first time I heard my mom, I literally was like and this is I’d moved out of the house, you know, I’m all adult.

And I remember hearing, thinking, oh my goodness, my dad must not be wearing his CPAP. It was just like loud and, you know, just, and then I think I saw my dad walking through the hall, and I was just like, oh, that’s not my dad snoring. That’s my mother. There’s a bear in that room is what it sounded like. So It just, like, amazes me how people can be so loud and they themselves sleep through it, you know?

Like, isn’t that crazy? But have we not? But, like, sometimes sometimes you will be in that kinda light sleep in the morning and you’ll, like, wake yourself up snoring. But here’s a thought, a question, because I thought of that too. Are you waking yourself up because it’s snoring so loud or because your brain needs oxygen?

Because I used to always think it was like, I woke myself up from the snoring, but now I’m like, I bet my body woke itself up from the lack of oxygen. Yeah. And it just happened to wake me up while I’m in the middle of snoring. I heard it, but nonetheless brought to you by sleep apnea. ResMed.

ResMed. Philips. Philips and ResMed. So that was really not on my list, but there is your long winded story about how I get ready for bed. So now I am slowly becoming a robot.

I just feel like everybody I don’t know what has happened to our species, but everybody probably should be sleeping with a CPAP. Amy Poehler does. Jack Black does. They talked about it on her on her podcast, which is shout out to Amy if you’re listening. When you think about our patients, you’re like, how many Oh.

Are you like, they almost all or it’s like, oh, he has OSA, but he’s non compliant with his CPAP. Or he doesn’t wanna use the hospital one. But Or Yeah. But they were like, he should really wear it. And then Yeah.

You know, you get those stubborn ones that are like, nope. I don’t do it. Oh, and then I work night shift all night long. If they had pulse oximetry, they’re beeping all the time for dipping down into the seventies. A bad way to live.

So bad for your heart. So dangerous. You gotta Yeah. You gotta watch out. I think, you know, I’m not just saying stressful on your body.

It’s high cortisol levels all the time. And I don’t feel like boy, I’m trying to think. I’ve changed so many things in my past five or six years that it’s hard to say, but I would say I sleep better now than I did five years ago. That’s great. And I think that might be lifestyle choices with the CPAP.

But, you know, that kinda, I don’t know, and I feel like And not working night shift? Yeah. That too. When you’re younger, I feel like you probably don’t think like, ah, you know, you don’t acknowledge what good or bad sleep is. Or all sleep seems good because you’re just young.

Yeah. Yeah. I do think Sometimes I wonder if your 15 year old needs a CPAP I don’t know. With the way it sounds. Well, I don’t know if he has I can turn if I ever get my own, I can turn him the family the family model.

I’ll hand it down to him. Oh, there’s a cough button, everybody. We don’t have it installed yet. Do I need to hold up something when that happens Oh. So you know to I don’t know.

So, what was I gonna say? Well, there’s so many wonderful things to talk about this week week. I have I got a lot. I went to the dentist this morning. Who cares?

Side note on this about the dentist because I have, like, 9,000 cavities, which is not how I used to live either. Right? Not really 9,000, but felt like it when they showed me the the sheet. Wait. Okay.

Preface this. I think we talked about this last episode or the episode before. We have not been to the dentist in, like, eight years. Yeah. I know.

So So we had it coming. A little off track. All I wanted to say was this. I noticed I was there while they’re working on me, you know, and you’re trying to relax, but you’re not. And it dawned on me, and you may not remember this, I grew up in a time when a dentist had a little, spit dish, a little ceramic I don’t even call it a spit tune.

It was a little sink. You don’t remember this? Like No. Which is funny because I asked the doctor afterwards. I said, hey, when did the whole side dish thing fall out of fashion?

And he’s like 25 and he was like, what? And he’s like, yeah. I haven’t seen one of those. I don’t I mean, he was like, those haven’t been around since I’ve been practicing. Like and I was like, I said, well, I know they fell out of favor.

And in retrospect, it seems like a horrible idea that everyone’s spitting into the same little tiny That’s disgusting. It was a little miniature sink. Like, anyway, they could it could move, like, yeah, next to you. And they’d give you a little cup. I don’t know if suction improved that.

Anyways, I don’t want to hear to talk about dentistry, but I if you remember, by the way, the little spit sink at your dentist, go ahead and send us a response. Send us a picture, a feedback, a comment, a like, a subscribe. You can do all of them, none of them. Shameless plug. Hey, I just wanna remind people, we are not sponsored.

We’re looking for sponsorship. But which means we don’t take commercial breaks. So we have to do this raw dog the whole way. Yeah. Okay?

So I actually had on here parenting and transformer. Ugh. Because but I don’t know if you I knew you were gonna bring that up. Oh, well, because it’s there’s more there’s always a good story. Bad.

Well, I feel like tell us the story of the transformers and our son, Max, who will be four next month. So there’s really not a story. There’s just we went to Fred Meyer. It’s a local one stop shopping place. The garden section is right next to the toy sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex And, you know, nice thing I know, like, we’re in the toy section because it’s right through the sliding doors.

And Max is like, oh, I want the there’s this bubble gun, and it was three dollars. And I was like, oh, yeah. Mhmm. Okay. That would be like, we he’s had bubblegums in the past summers, and they break.

They’re left out in the rain. I don’t know. For whatever reason, they start leaking. They’re crappy. Whatever.

They’re $5. They’re only good for one season. Yeah. So but instead, he finds the this like little, I would say, medium sized Transformer figurine, and it’s like the same price. And I’m just like, okay, which one do you want?

Well, I know which one I would choose. And then he was like, no. I want the transformer. Get the transformer. And for the it’s not even a transformer.

It’s a We probably have it so I could show you. Oh, it’s a transformer figurine, meaning it does not transform. It is already a robot in yellow plastic. It’s just yeah. It’s just like a little action figure.

And so he gets in the car and he’s bending it, and he’s like, it doesn’t transform. It doesn’t turn into a car. And I’m like, yeah. I told you, like, you had two options and this is the one you chose. And so he, you know, gets upset about that.

But then all of a sudden, he finds the magical power of pretend. Yeah. Because I’m like, just pretend it turns into a car. And all of a sudden, it’s like the best toy ever. He want there there actually weren’t as many tiers over that one Yeah.

As there were Over. The real transporter. And did we talk about my toy thing a long time ago when I bagged up all the toys? It doesn’t matter. I don’t know.

I might reference an old episode here because I got rid of and I’m like, we need lost toys when you got him a toy because he cried about it. And I was crying inside, right, about the yellow transformer. That he chose it? Well, no. Just in general that you broke down and got him a toy.

And then Yeah. I’m such a pushover mom. And then you went to Fred Meyer again. Yeah. And then With him.

And then what appeared this time? A real transformer. When did the bubble gun appear? Because it’s also you he is he’s probably like, yeah. Listen, we need more birdseed.

He’s probably the one getting rid of the birdseed, so we’re, like, needing to buy more. The bubble thing appeared when I just I needed to stop at Fred Meyer to get like three things. And I was just like, oh, he’s like, oh, can we go to the you know, and I picked him up from the school and he’s like, why do we have to go to the store? And I’m like, oh, well, we’re gonna go to the store. We can go visit the toy section.

And he’s like, oh, okay. Then all of a sudden, it’s exciting. And I’m creating a monster. I understand what you’re Oh, no. So I was just curious because I’m like, well, how many times I mean, this Fred Meyer is getting expensive So emotionally.

Yeah. So the new transformer that actually turns into a car that’s like, I don’t know, 12 inches tall. Yeah. Give or take. Yeah.

So I guess it well, the instructions were I don’t know. The fact that we even had to look at the instructions to figure out how to turn it into a car was probably, like, my first red flag. It was nine steps, I think, or 11. It was like that was my first red flag. But I’m like, you know what?

I feel like if we do it once or twice and he gets it, then Clear sailing. Nope. This is apparently the world’s hardest transformer to transform Yeah. Into anything, into the car But or back into the robot. Because you’re like, Danny’s gonna this and I’m sitting with the instructions going, I do not understand how this works.

Like, he’s almost poor, so he gets so frustrated. He’s a I think he’s a strong willed child. Well, he is. I don’t it’s no thinking. Okay.

He’s clearly a strong willed child. So he wants to do it himself. He wants to do it all himself, and then he will cry. And then he threw it across the room, and I was like, oh. You had that’s a trigger for you.

Yeah. Like, the toy throwing. Mm-mm. And so we, you know, we really I mean, there was like a good, what, eighteen hours of just, like, what just nothing but regret on my part. Just like, what have I done?

Yeah. This is the worst, like, blood curdling, screaming and frustration from him. And I’m like, I did this to myself. This is my fault. I I did this.

I have learned a valuable lesson from this. They were it was full blown, like, tantrums, like, we have not seen. A new level of screaming and, like And then we had to take it away. And We cut and But you know, it’s doing the get you to the don’t look at me. We’ve mentioned that before.

Don’t look at me. I do it. You’re like, oh, can I help you? No. And then my he’s so he gets so bent out of shape.

I’m sorry. I’m just thinking about how he just he’s like it is so he’s so it’s so vile to him if we wanna help but he doesn’t want help, he can’t do it. The stupid thing, the head, the whole the top unit comes off. If you’re if you’re frustrated, just ask for help. No.

I do it myself. And you’re just like, okay. God, please, if you exist, just help us through this trying time. And you’re like, I’m taking it back. And I was rolling my eyes because you weren’t.

You maybe thought you were, but I still have the box. I know, but I found the instructions somewhere. And I thought the box had all the twisties in the way of fastening it back in. That’s in the recycling. I mean, at that point, for $8, she would’ve just thrown it away, I think.

Right? Yeah. On principle. But then once, I feel like it’s getting better. He now it’s like the toy of his wildest dreams.

Yeah. It’s what it’s the first thing he wants when he slept with it that night Yeah. The first night that we got it. And he wants to show everyone. He’s so excited to take it to school on his back.

Yeah. He has to keep it It’s share day. So he yeah. So we took it today. It’s share day, so he got to take it to school today to show everybody.

I mean, he took it to school all week long, but it had to stay in his bag. He took that yellow one too last week. Yeah. So, anyways, what have I learned? Just stop buying my child toys.

I have one birthday gift in mind, and that’s like a small basketball hoop for outside. That’s it. So an outside toy. Yeah. I’ve not I’ve never And people are like, what can I get him?

I’m like, nothing. Okay. Yeah. Money. Oh, here we go.

We do have a college fund started Yeah. Or some sort of savings something. Currently, he’s gonna be able to buy a couple books currently at a community college at this current savings rate that we’re doing because his dad’s pouring all his money into a podcast. Yeah. So the trans well, that and now I grew up in a little different time.

The transformers when I grew up were, like, you think that that transformer he has is really stupidly simple. It’s plastic. It’s actually it’s it’s more hard to do because You talking about the yellow one or the No. It is very simple. The the white one.

But when I was growing up, they were die cast metal. Does that make when I say die cast? Is that still because when I was a kid, die cast meant something. It carried some you’re like, yeah. Weight literally like die is a die cast car.

Sounds kinda dangerous actually. Die cast. It sounds like it’s got lead in it, if you’re being honest with you. Anyways, die cast stuff, good. The transformers from my use in the eighties were made where they were die cast.

They were weighty and heavy. And like, they had like you like 400 steps and you had to like it was almost like doing a puzzle to transform it from one thing to the other. Now, I only know this from my friends because they were expensive, like really expensive. I don’t know what that means. Probably like $18.25 dollars, $30 for a transformer.

And that’s not adjusted. That is the actual price from 1984. I’ll just throw that out that age roughly. Right? So I my mother would not my mother, the thrifty woman that she is, frugal, thrifty Mhmm.

I don’t wanna say cheap, but she’s cheap. Anyway They drive a Mercedes. Because they saved all their money by not buying me a Transformer. I got a thing called And turning off those lights and keeping that thermostat on 74 degrees. No.

74, 64 degrees. 64 in the winter. Oh. 74 in the summer. I was like, that sounds really inefficient.

Yeah. So I got what’s called a GoBot. Now the GoBot, I don’t wanna say they were off brand Transformer because they still had a series that was like they even had a a song or I just remember the part where it’s like, oh, shoot. Oh, man. It was in my brain earlier.

There’s a song that’s like, something robots, something vehicles. Gobots is a mighty robot, mighty vehicles. Gobots, Something like that. So I my mom bought me a Gobot and the Gobot was the size of a matchbox car, Hot Wheels. Oh, wow.

That’s how big it was. It and it was it was a Lamborghini, a red Lamborghini. And to transform it, you literally flipped out like the two legs flopped around and then the arm just kinda popped out. And that was the it was, you know, maybe three inches tall, maybe two and a half. That’s how big my goobot.

That’s the only one I ever had. I I remember I said I had it still. I went and looked at my junk box, but I forgot earlier this year in my cleaning rituals well, the well, what am I rituals? Like, I threw that one out and a whole bunch of stuff. Oh, no.

So well, oh, don’t make me feel bad about it. I’m not. Yeah. I’m not. So I had that GoBot for roughly forty years, give or take, forty five, I don’t know, Years.

And I threw it away. That GoBot. But that’s the only thing I ever had. So I had a GoBot. So Max should be grateful that he has actual transformers, even if they don’t transform.

Well, they’re not metal. Yeah. I don’t know if they do that any of these days, the die cast. Maybe they do. I don’t know.

They probably do. They probably sell them at, like, comic book stores or something. Yeah. I mean, I looked a little bit into this. Like, actually, several brands.

Hasbro was original, but now they’ve licensed it, and there’s several brands that make transformers. Anyway So yeah. Valuable lesson valuable parenting lessons. Well, we’re still kind of sucking as parents. Maybe.

I’m sorry. I mean, we’re doing the most, but not in an effective way. Okay. I don’t wanna go on that. What do you got?

You got something I still got lots of stuff. I always have stuff to talk about because I’m doing them Well, okay. Let’s talk about You wanna go, fleas and cats or squirrels and birds? Oh. Pick a category.

So squirrels and birds. Although, like, I don’t know if you should talk about What? Oh. I don’t know. That might be fine.

Did that on camera. Okay. But this whole thing is not going out on video. Okay. I know.

No. I can talk about my disdain for this squirrel. Yeah. Wait. But what about the birds?

You don’t disdain them. No. I want more birds. I feel like I am trying to, like, get all the birds to come. I don’t know.

And I’m I mean, the chickadees are cute. I don’t mind the chickadees, but, like, how do I get robins or even a crow? Or a hawk. I want a crow friend. Well, I just know that, well, no.

So you’ve gotten more, bird bird feeders. Right? Yeah. A bird bath Mhmm. That the chickadee likes.

Hummingbird neck feeder. Hummingbird feeder. And that this is this is the point where I looked around and I was like, oh, and this is how I became my mother because she has like, her front porch is just cluttered with all manner of figurines and, like, I don’t know, sitting area and a porch swing and more figurines and bird feeders and, like, plants. It’s it is just like so it’s like I don’t know. Not hoarding situation, but it’s a little out of control.

It’s a cut. And she has chickens now. Like, right beside her front porch, she has a chicken coop. And you want chickens? No.

I want ducks. Oh. We talked about this. It’s a kind of hoarding, I think. Outdoor hoarding.

Well, I mean, inside our houses, really. Like, there’s not a single wall without three or four things against it, like, without pictures on it or console on it or drawers or some sort of table surface, like, with doily type things on top and Doily. I love that word. Yeah. Don’t use it enough.

Her counter is, like, never clean. Like, I’m I’m just afraid. I don’t know. Oh. I’m afraid and then there’s a there was like an elliptical in the living room and and granted my mom’s house is not large.

It is like a small double wide that my dad remodeled and made Oh, am I boring? No. The yawn sounds nice. Anyways, yeah. So that’s long story short.

I I kind of looked around and I was like, oh my gosh, like this porch barely has like, there’s something on every I mean, we talked along every wall. And I’m and I’m still just wanting to add more to it like I talked about today. Yeah. Well, I think So I feel like you should pick something. Now the problem was, you can blame me, I don’t, for the stupid bird seed because we were at Fred Meyer.

This was the fateful yellow transformer trip, I think. Yeah? Yeah. And, you were like, oh, I got this one. And then I was like, hey, me Oh my gosh.

Me like my mom, you picked out a little, like, I don’t know. $15.16 dollar bag of seeds. And I was like, look at this. For $20, you can get, like, 90 pounds of it in a feed bag that will, you know, seed an entire, you know, farm of birds. I was like, look how cheap this is.

And it was from the Audubon Society or whatever. Their brand seemed good. And that one They hate it. The squirrel Even look at it. But the squirrel loves what is it?

The sunflowers? There’s something in there the squirrel is going down. There’s like for every 10,000 weird mini pop corn kernel things, there for every 10,000, there’s one sunflower seed. Yeah. And that’s coral.

First, he just we took the top off the bird feeder that’s hanging, and then I saw him just literally hanging in his body’s in the top of it, and his legs are on it. We can post these videos for you. We’ll put them on our TikTok too. He’s just like doing his thing. And I’m like, oh, so I went and tightened the top down, and then I’ve been I usually go out there and try to scare him off, like, with banging the broom or just acting like a door getting it.

And the squirrel, we’ve called her Stevie Nuts, and now we’re calling her Shirley. Shirley? Yeah. I don’t know. I think I started that because I couldn’t think of of Stevie.

Oh, and I’m just like so she comes and now she digs she dug out that entire like, it’s one of those bird feeders, like, many that the bottom you, like It’s not squirrel proof. You pick out the bottom and then, like, that keeps falling down the middle. But she just went up there and dug out every bit all over the entire deck Yep. To get it all and now it’s all over and she sits out there and taunts me and just eats them and comes by. But see the irritating part irritating is there’s a big old mess of bird seed, and now she and she trumps through your plants, though.

She trumps over and around and And peaches. And the peach tree where once was a vibrant peach tree alive with lots of peaches. It has, what, four left? One of them has a bite in it? This little jerk, like, she knows what these peaches taste like, and she, like, still every time will, like, go for I think the other four are out of her reach.

She’s dumb. So she’ll take that pee so she took the one piece that she could still reach, took two bites of it, left it on the railing of the deck, like, I’m not gonna eat that. This was not good. Yeah. So I’m just gonna leave this here.

To let you know. Catch you later. Yeah. It was like a, I was here. So rude.

That and I know when she is out there because all the cats Oh, yeah. Will be laser focused looking out the window, and I’m like, she’s out there. She is out there. And now she She’s like Mitchell’s arch nemesis now. She catches over a glimpse of me, and she runs.

And that’s why I’m like, I need to get a big poster of me just in, like, a cardboard cutout on the porch. And then Shirley brought either Laverne or Charlie today. Yeah. Of course. Like, there was another squirrel with her.

I don’t know if it was male or female. I I thought I was with the scaring her off, it would go the other way. What? She’s no. She said she’s like, oh, hey, daddy.

Why don’t you come over here and I’ll show you where my stash is and where I get all the good stuff? And, oh, those peaches aren’t good yet. Let’s wait a little more before we can try one. I’m telling you they’re bad. Like, what’s that all about?

Tromps through the thing. Now we’ve got no. We do the humming. So here’s where I’m at. I will I’ll do the hummingbirds.

I like hummingbirds. That is, an enjoyable thing. The other birds, that’s fine too. The little chicken black capped chickadee, the dark eyed junco. That’s about it.

Oh, because remember oh, you were trying to one year we did have was it a sparrow? What was we had a little bird’s nest in one of our hanging planters. Three eggs. Yeah. It was like a common sparrow or something, but we had no idea what a little gift that was at the time.

I think because Max was, like, really little, so it kind of been, like, the mothering trenches. And we could look out the window and look at the top level window down into it, and we just steer it. Eggs, and they hatched. They all hatched. They were all healthy.

She was such a good mama. Yeah. And she perch yeah. You know what? I’m sorry, Anne.

Because now I’m seeing how that works, like, the perching up nearby because, well, of course, the nest is full because we see that with the eagle cam and with the osprey. It’s just kinda like, oh, it’s interesting to see how this works. Yeah. They wait up above and do their thing while the little ones are down there. So the birds and the the squirrel well, squirrels now, they just irritate me, the squirrels.

The birds, I don’t care about. Yeah. I don’t know what to do about the squirrels. And then that one nest, that one weird I mean, that weird how many feeders do you have? You have two hanging ones.

One’s coral proof. It’s also bird proof because none of the birds eat out of it. And two Well, three. You got that. Regular bird seed feeders.

We got the bird seed thing that’s a earworm collector as well. The plasticky thing. Oh, the new one. Yeah. The the earworm farm.

Right? What are you calling them? Earwig. Earwig. I’m sorry.

Earworm. I don’t know. Are they called earwigs here? Because when I grew up, that’s what I always say. Earwig.

It’s earwig. And it’s a weird name. I can’t get them. Yeah. Well Because it doesn’t make sense like, well, I where does that name because you’re like, oh, well, back in the seventeen hundreds, people used to wear wigs on their ears.

Like, what what kind of a name is earwig? I heard because they could crawl into your ears and like This is not that’s a Star Trek movie, by the way, you’ve never seen. But anyways, they put a thing in a guy’s ear like that. Sorry. Yeah.

I don’t know. Have you ever been pinched by one? No. They pinch you. Do you know that?

Well, I know they have pictures. Don’t they have pinched it on front and back? I don’t know. I just know that They’re just They’re like, ugh. They’re not good for And I had one on.

Good for nothing. Anyways, you’re Like wasps. Like, why do you exist? Had ear wigs. You know where the ear worms the ear does a different one.

A earwig is, you seem and like, if you pick up pine cones, be forewarned. They like to be in pine cones for some reason. So when Max will pick up pine cones, sometimes I’m like, oh, don’t they’re banging it down or something first because they like to go in pine cones. Yeah. Anyway, that’s them.

Your other one. So, yeah, there’s two hummingbird. The hummingbird ones, I can get behind the bird ones. I know we gotta get different bird feed. Maybe put that 90 pound bag of it out farther away from the deck so the squirrels can dig through it all and find the 11, you know, sunflower seeds in there.

Yeah. That was a fail. Oh, well. I’m sorry. That was my idea.

I was trying to be thrifty, frugal like my mom. Like, hey. Why not? This this Instead, you just bought us a big old bag of disappointment. Yeah.

Can’t be that bad for $20 and 90 pounds. It’s not 90, but it is. It’s like 20 pounds. It might be. Which you you’re like, well, that’s not no.

It’s like a giant dog food size bag. Shoulder kinda bag. Like, you gotta throw it up on your shoulder to move it around. Okay. Well, there’s that one.

Oh, wow. Well, I got a itchy head here. Now all this talk at your Oh. Please. What else?

Oh, you got a little thing is that you’re so tired of? Because I have one quick thought here, not thought. One quick thought. Wow. Words that have never been true out of my mouth.

I was in the shower the other day. Well, I do every day, but I was in there the other day, and my you know, you like that for whatever reason, you buy me big hunky bars of soap that are waxy and I thought you liked the Doctor Bronner’s or whatever. Yeah. I mean, it’s okay. It’s soap.

I do it because I’m trying to save us money. I’m like, a bar soap is much more cheaper than a body wash. Right? Well, it’s because you we’ve demonstrated the mini body washes. Anyway I’m listening.

And then that’s right. You can hear me without your headphones on. Then the body wash I don’t know what’s going on here. Then so I was like, oh no. Is this how you’re like trying to get more done?

Yeah. Okay. The body so my bar soap was down and I was like, oh man, I forgot to open up a new bar of wax to throw in here. So I went and I got the I can’t take you seriously, but that’s fine. I feel like I’m is this bedtime?

So I look and I’m like, oh, Scarlet has some body wash in here. So you have this wand and it’s I don’t know what it was called, de stressor or something. Yeah. And I poured some of that on my sponge. Uh-huh.

And that stuff’s I mean, I was like, this smells like a like a dessert icing or something. Like it? Yeah. It’s well, I liked it as a food item. It smelled really good.

I was like, this taste this smells really good, like, a little sweet and like I really was. I was like, this could be a donut icing or I don’t know. I used it though. And I was like, hey, it’s spring I’ve used it more than once because I keep forgetting to put a I did put a new bar of wax in there for me to use. The doctor In addition to your The doctor Bronner’s.

Well, I threw away the little slivers. The doctor Bronner’s Did you? Paraffin wax bars are in there. The reason they last forever is because they’re not actually soap. So but that’s the good news.

So, yeah. There you go. Question then, do you even like bar soap? Yeah. I guess.

I I just like I don’t know. I like I I don’t like I just don’t like how slippery it is. It’s just more convenient to, like, pour the soap on to my loofah and I’m sorry. Well, I mean, that is part of the definition, I guess. Well, not definition.

But soap is slippery. I mean, I prefer body wash over soap. Okay. Just because the application or the how it is. Just how, like, moisturizing it is.

It just seems to be more lotion y. If this is true, I’m just trying to save us money. I’m the guy trying to save money. But I think They make really cheap body wash. Well, I don’t need no suave.

I mean, I wanna I was thinking more like, Clean me. What’s the green one? It’s like Irish clean. Irish spring? Oh, yeah.

Irish spring. Because the Irish are known for their cleanliness. Irish spring. If you’re Irish, I’m sorry. Or pert.

Is that a thing? Is that a body wash? Or is that a hair thing? It used to be a hair thing. And prel growing up there.

Oh. Prel. Prel, prel. I sound like a oh, real prel. But anyways, so I like a good body wash.

I’m just trying to save us money. I don’t know how. But there you go. I make those bars of soap last forever till I get my soap bar compressor and make a new one. Yeah.

And okay. Now why this whole conversation’s taking place with you wearing a thing. It looks just weird. Because I never had time to do this. It’s literally what you’re doing.

I thought this was just part of your gimmick here. So I thought, like, we’d be done by now, but we got a late start because I was working on the TikTok, and I got distracted. So I put this on. Oh. Oh.

Is this now what’s the next one? You’re what explain to anyone who can’t see you on the thing what’s going on. Oh, I have my red light therapy mask on. And? It just looks weird from the front.

I take a picture, but my phone’s in you. And that’s it. Like, it’s just my red light airbnb mask. Has it been helpful? Yeah.

It’s been helpful helpful for my hyperpigmentation. Right. You’ve Like, for my the texture of my skin. Okay. Yeah.

Well and then you started a little note today. Oh, we wanna wrap this up. I get you. This podcast has gotten long in the tooth for you. No.

This isn’t like my bit of like Oh. This is not you. I’m so tired. I know that. This is just Well, we’re gonna wrap this up by talking about things that I forgot what I typed.

You wrote weird things your parents believed while you were growing up. And then the example you put was goobers, and then no working or shopping on Sundays. Yeah. And then you have traveling salesman season. Is that a different Oh.

It’s a different thing. No. I’m just, like, so mad because I’ve been finding so many flyers on our doors. Oh. And I’m just, like Usually, it’s just Am I not home?

Like, are you first of all, don’t you ever knock or, like, ring my doorbell? Because, like, the same anxiety our cats have when that happens is the anxiety that I have as well. Do you think they There should be nobody knocking on our door or ringing our doorbell ever. I think we’ve talked about this before. And then and then, like, Trevor came up one day and I was like, there’s somebody at our door.

What who died? I don’t know. What’s happening? I feel like I should be trimming my nails right now or something. To be, like, to do since you’re doing red light therapy I’m almost done.

I feel like I should be doing something here as well or just trimming toenails or something, which by the way, what is worse, finding a trimmed a bunch of trimmed nails or a bunch of, like, picked nails? Trimming, you know what I mean? If if you had to stumble across a bunch of stuff I guess picked nails is worse. Like but I don’t know why I thought of this the other day. I was like, would I rather come across a bunch of trimmed nails or some nail bitings or whatever?

But I I mean, probably the trim because you feel like at least it was someone who had a level of hygiene that they wanted to trim as opposed to bite or something. Yeah. I’m not a nail biter. 18 year old daughter’s a nail biter. I don’t understand that.

Like Yeah. A gal at work’s husband, a husband, an older person, nail biter. Yeah. I don’t know. Get a fidget spinner.

Get one of those little fidget rings that I keep seeing on my TikTok. Like, I’ve just never I don’t know. No. Wait. Wait.

I’m sorry. We didn’t talk about the weird things that your parents or your dad’s. So for your parents, explain what goobers are. Okay. A goober well, what it really I’ll just tell my mother, I grew up removing the goobers from eggs.

From when you crack an egg, you gotta remove the goober. We were required to do this in all but anytime we use an egg for anything, we had to remove the goober. The goober, for those of you who’ve never looked at a cracked egg, is like that white little kind of pearly It’s literally I mean, here’s the physics of it or this. When an egg yolk forms inside of a chicken or any fowl, I guess, the the the way the yolk spins creates these two kind of axes that spool off this little white spindle. Yeah.

Little white white things in the next to the yolk. So it’s kind of attached to the yolk, and she would get a spoon and get rid of the little white goober. Right? Because it just looks gross to her and her sister. And if you hard boil an egg Yep.

I was like, we gotta get to this. But if you if you hard boil an egg, this goober, that was once on the outside of the yolk transmutes into the very dead center of the hard boiled yolk. And so you cut it in half and you scoop out just a little tiny middle. You can see it. And you’re You can see it.

What? She claims you can see it. It’s like a little discolored area in the middle. You can’t see it. It doesn’t exist.

In the yolk. So so I grew up I don’t believe me or just that’s just what we did. And your mom makes deviled eggs Yeah. But she will not eat the deviled eggs. Oh, because she doesn’t wanna take the time to remove the cubers that don’t exist?

No. I think even I think eggs just in general completely gross her out. Well Unless they’re being, like, baked in something, she will not eat scrambled eggs. She will not eat hard boiled eggs. She will not eat deviled eggs.

Like, I’ve never seen your mom just eat eggs. Like, when we do breakfast for lunch Yeah. Her dinner. And we do scrambled eggs, she will not touch them. So I do think she has like an egg phobia.

It’s the goobers, you know? I mean, clearly. And she’s a goober really well. Her. So if she’s listening to this, which And she’s heard me laugh about this before.

It’s just her thing, and I get it. It’s just Her phobia. It’s not just like a thing. It is. So I’m not Yeah.

Sure. But anyways, so she’s got the the goobers. And I grew up believing in goobers. I mean, they exist. It’s just they’re not called goobers.

I what I would love to know Yeah. They anyone else besides her family on the planet. Yeah. Does anybody else’s, like Have an issue with goop with goopers? Let’s see.

It’s just so funny. We even went down this rabbit hole of, like, Googling what this piece of the egg is called, or, like, goobers and eggs. And we’re like, how is this? And like, no, it’s just something that her and her sisters just came up with. Yeah.

And it’s not validated by anything. Yeah. It’s just it is the same material that is on the outside of the yoke I believe in as it spindles off the ends. Yeah. But I love me some eggs.

I don’t care if there’s a little blood in there. I don’t care. No. I don’t care either. That’s I mean, well, I don’t eat a lot of eggs either currently because of my, you may not have heard, but my cholesterol is mildly elevated.

And I’m not gonna take a statin. So, yeah, the goobers. Well, what about I hear something though in general. Here’s something everyone can probably relate to is crossing your eyes. Why did if you cross your eyes, they’ll stay that way?

Where did this get started? Why was there a whole generation of kids with it? It’s just more empty threads that like what I call boomer parents like to make. But here’s the question. What is the what is the harm of crossing your eyes?

Now, if you said, don’t pick your nose so much because it could bleed, that’s true. Like, it’s probably not good to pick your nose till it bleeds, like, you can hurt yourself. But, like, crossing your eyes, like like I don’t know. They probably just didn’t like it, and they were just like I don’t know. They all stay there.

Parents are obviously a whole different generation, but there really is a thing about it of how they were like the worst parents. Oh, are my parents boomers though? I think my dad’s too old. My mother is a boomer. I think my dad’s boomers, but I wouldn’t say your parents are Typical boomer?

Your dad was, like, pretty absent. Like, he wasn’t, like, a participating father like you are. Well, what if he’s listening? He played catch with me. Thank you, dad.

Okay. Well, I’m not I’m not saying it was a different time. Right. Right. Well, that’s And my dad was kind of the same way.

I mean, he was he was not a boomer dad, but he was probably the generation after. Raised by them. Yeah. Generation yeah. Raised by them.

And he was very selfish and and not present. Well, and you that’s part of my theory of as, you know, like each generation improves upon some things, right, that their parents did. And now we are trying so hard to, like, improve. But there’s also the That we’re like Unimprove. I was just gonna say, like, I feel like then there’s also the the too far.

The maybe it’s laissez faire or whatever it is. I I don’t have a good example, but, like, woah, maybe kids need some of this stuff. Like, there’s a moderation, you know. Yeah. Boundaries are good, not just let them do whatever they want.

But But I feel like we are with an inch of their life. Right. But we are of that generation of where we are actually turning to ourselves and being like, are we bad parents? And we’re saying it out loud Yeah. As as opposed to, like, I just don’t think that happened before.

And, like, you as a father being like, am I just a bad when we’re just humans, and we’ve talked about this before, this is kind of what this whole podcast always comes back to. We are just humans doing our best trying to raise other humans who have no idea what they’re doing, and we kind of don’t know what we’re doing. We’re also trying to just improve ourselves as humans to be better for ourselves, for society, and for our kids. And we’re we’re torn in so many directions that there’s actually, you know, people out there talking about millennial parents and how millennials are the lazy generation. And no.

Like, we’re finally the parents who are, I guess, emotionally mature enough to be to, like, kind of be self aware that we are failing. Right. And it’s okay to say it out loud. And it’s okay to, like, figure out, you know, read books and figure out ways where we can improve our own emotional intelligence so we can also raise emotionally intelligent kids. Right.

So I don’t know. That’s And that’s why we’re doing the most. Well, I’m actually GYNX. But that’s also why I feel like we’re very snippy some days because we’re just like you know, some days you’re just like, I’m just so exhausted. I’m so exhausted of, like, figuring out his problems, figuring out my problems, figuring out your other son’s problems.

And just like then, like, you’re, you know, kids in school and, like, you’re you want the best for them. And this one’s trying to get in nursing school and you’re trying to give this one life advice. And it’s just like I don’t know. Yeah. There’s a interesting I’m still selfish, but do you think then sorry.

We gotta wrap this up, folks. But the earl do you think then my I’m not saying my father, but let’s say my father’s generation, were they more selfish or just they lack self awareness or is it a little bit of both? Because I still am selfish, but I do feel very like, like trying to be selfless is what I’m aiming for. I’m falling short, but I mean like that idea. I don’t wanna I don’t wanna write them all off as being selfish, but they were very hands off.

And I think they were raised to believe, like, oh, the father’s hands off and the mom do does all the parenting and the dad maybe disciplines Gets a belt out. Yeah. And, you know, I don’t know. So I feel like actually there’s probably a lot of daddy issues for some people of your generation centered around that because it’s like, oh, dad was never in the picture unless he was gonna, you know, beat me. Right.

Or spank me. Not Whatever. You know? Beating sounds pretty yeah. Okay.

Well, well, that took another turn. But, hey. Yeah. So we’re brought to you by Insights by Scarlet. And since we’re gonna cut out the Oh, we’re cutting out the the squirrel part.

I mean, not the squirrel part. The sleep part. Yeah. That part. I was just kidding about cutting it out, but I will.

I will to make you but now we can’t be talking about I’ll edit it down. Okay. I yeah. That’s fine. Okay.

So I grew up with I think your parents are still like this. As like, my my dad never worked on Sunday. Didn’t believe in working on Sunday. Wouldn’t even mow the yard on Sunday because he would be like, oh, bad things happen if you mow the yard on Sunday. It’s the Lord’s day.

It’s the day of the Lord. Blah blah blah. But then we would turn around and go to a restaurant for lunch. Right. And then we would go to a restaurant that night.

And let me tell you, those restaurants hate to see us coming because there are no worse tippers out there than A Shelton? At Oh, no. After church Oh, that crowd. Yeah. The worst.

You lived in Utah. You know. Yeah. You worked as a waiter in Utah. Yeah.

No. It’s the worst. And I grew up with the, like well, I was raised LDS. Right? Am I supposed to say that?

You were. Oh. Yeah. You were. I was raised independent fundamental baptist, so what I actually like to call bat crazy.

Oh, well, in in our case, the belief they they believe and I always I’m not I I don’t defend I’m disrespect, but their belief is you don’t work on Sunday, you don’t labor, and you don’t make others labor on Sunday. Right? You don’t like that’s why you don’t go they wouldn’t go to a restaurant on Sunday that for them that is the rule. Difference. Yeah.

You’re making other people work. That’s against the lord’s will. But then I’m also like, I work at a hospital on Sunday. Am I bad? Yeah.

Well, see, I used to be because I was a rabble rouser. Was it rabble rouser? But anyways, I was a rebel in my youth, and I’d always say, well, should we be using lights in the building? Because if you don’t believe that when you flick that light switch, you do if you don’t believe that there is somebody somewhere working to make sure that happens, you are Jesus. Misinformed.

I used to always be like, if you don’t think these toilets flush, like, we shouldn’t be No. It’s like these ideas are always, like, half baked. And it’s like, okay, but have you thought about your rationale? All have you thought this all the way through? Of course not.

Of course not. That’s too much to ask. I don’t feel like that I mean, I’m I feel like religion does that a lot. They kinda like you have to just buy into it, whatever it is. Because because I can’t imagine that everyone is so, you know, they’re they’re so ignorant that they don’t believe that, well, actually, yeah, someone does have to work for me to turn the lights on, and somebody does have to work for me to, you know, flush a toilet or there’s things that just happen.

That infrastructure isn’t just magic. There are people who have to make sure their systems are running. So I don’t know that they’re ignorant, but they just turn I don’t know. That’s where I’m like, here’s what I wanna say. People should live their convictions a 100%.

95% isn’t a conviction to me. That’s like, well, you’re not quite there. And I do that too. There’s many things in my life I’m not, but I feel like that’s one of my probably my issues with religion is that it’s just kinda like, ah, you know, why, you know, why do we stop at this point that’s convenient? So Yeah.

So I so for me personally, I was a kid and you’re always like, why and we couldn’t play with our friends on Sundays. Like, you weren’t supposed to. Like, oh, we’re not supposed to we’re kinda supposed to be a family day, and we’re home, and we’re all at home being angry that we I just showed her that we can’t be, like, why? And then everything What are you doing? I remember my mother would just kinda break because because even though we knew the rule, we’d still ask every Sunday, every other Sunday.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. And then eventually, she’s like, yeah, that’s fine. Just for an hour. And and in my head, I’m like, now as an adult, I’m sure she was finally just like, yeah.

I want some time. Oh, yeah. So get out of the house. Go down the street. Just do it.

Get out of here for a little bit. Like and they were trying to live their religion and do right, and I get that. But there’s that kinda interesting part where you’re just like, yeah. But I would love we need to spend an episode just talking about our religious upbringings. Oh, but in a respectful manner.

Because boy, do I have a lot to say. Well, yeah. Because you’re, you said Fundamental Baptist Christian or I I wasn’t really listening. Yeah. I mean, you said it, but I lived with you for a while.

Yeah. It makes me so angry. But Like, I mean, I feel like my my dad has come a very long way and he’s not quite like that anymore. And then he grew up even more, like, you know, my my aunts had to wear dresses. They can never wear pants.

Kind of crazy. Like, you can never go to a movie theater. He grew up like that. That’s a little I mean, he and the man I know of your father isn’t quite that way. Would you suggest He’s he’s definitely evolved.

Yeah. That’s, I mean, that’s interesting because I do think a lot about yeah. I mean and it’s fair to say we are not I hate this saying. We’re not religious, but we are spiritual. Right?

But, I mean, I feel like We are. We we’re all connected, and I don’t think it is white. I don’t think it’s black and white, like, heaven and hell or whatever. I often will say, I feel like whatever oh, go ahead. No.

I was just saying come and no. I just I think it’s funny because growing up, when the LDS people would come to our house, my parents would be so offended. Oh, okay. Yeah. So, you know, 1618 King James.

Like, they would come out and, like, like, don’t and, you know, they were just like, oh, Mormons just yeah. You know, they they got it all wrong. They believe in purgatory. And they they had these just crazy ideas of how Mormons are. Right.

It is I mean, it’s always fascinating to see how all the other side perceives the other side. Right? So and there and what’s maybe It’s hateful people. Let’s see. What’s kinda sad is that The the religion I grew up is so big.

These people are they they haven’t all evolved. That’s kind of probably what’s unfortunate. Although, we’re not here to put anyone down. If you’re a person who has not evolved religiously Oh, I’m here to put fundamentalist down. Send the hell.

Send feedback. I will. Follow us on the socials. Right? Well, okay.

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And I’m gonna comb through the video of this episode and see if there’s anything worth posting. Until next time. This is Mitchell. And Scarlet. And we’re doing the most.

The most. Oh, shoot. We didn’t okay. Do you wanna do it again? Oh, wait.

Are we saying it or just saying? Because you’re just like, bye. Oh, like, you’re gonna Oh. What we got out? That’s alright.

I’m Scarlet. And I’m Mitchell. And we are Doing the most. Bye. She’s not my girlfriend.

She’s acting like a leech. I don’t know what happened. We were walking on the beach. Was that wrong? No.

I don’t know. Did you get a picture of this set up? I can’t because my cameras are all beeping since She never You know, just for fun. Like, you you know, you put it on the bigger setting setup thing. Do you want me like a selfie or like No.

Just I don’t know. What? Oh. It’s just funny. That’s fine.

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