We’re back with episode 14. You’re in the right place, by the way, people.
That’s right. Because if you’re like, where’s that other music I’m used to?

I’m not by myself, by the way. So please I’m taking it in. Oh. I’m trying to This is like a YouTube intro. It might be a little we’ll have to work on this.

I’m dancing a little bit. I think it slaps. Let’s do this. I think it’s almost ready. Oh, maybe not.

Let’s do this. Whoo. That’s so exciting. You know okay. Well, by the way, this is Doing the Most with Scarlet Mitchell, a podcast, episode 14.

If you don’t follow us, we’re at less cats, please on the socials, but I’m Mitchell. I’m Scarlet. And, of course, these are on YouTube, and we have a special guest in the studio today. Olivia? Oh, wow.

Wow. We’re doing the most with Scarlet Mitchell and Olivia. Who is this? Who is this person? Yes.

Who is Olivia? Tell us who you are. I’m the 18 year old daughter. Okay. You’re my 18 year old daughter, and this is you know what I you know, I have spent so much time setting up all the stuff in the studio.

Right? And is the light too bright or not bright or not? You have no idea. I just wanna, like, film it one day and then do, like, the, you know Oh, it’s yeah. I could do the little, time lapse of me setting this picture up.

That’s exactly what I mean. It’d be, like, you know, twenty four hours of me doing Yeah. And adjusting this camera and adjusting this camera. I spent so much time fiddling and all the stuff that I didn’t actually work on the show, But I’m calling this the back to school special. Okay?

Oh, great. Okay. Which is why Olivia, I kinda like oh, so Olivia, you’re 18. Just graduated high school. Not just.

Graduated high school. Yeah. Just graduated. I mean, yeah. And now and so I don’t know if you consider yourself a freshman in college yet, but No.

But, I mean, you’re headed there. We’re headed there next week. Actually, when this episode drops the next day, we’ll be on the road to where are you headed? Minnesota. Okay.

Well oh, is that it’s just Minnesota. Minnesota State University of Mankato. Okay. Go Mavericks. Yeah.

Okay. It’s and that’s not a middle college, by the way. I did did you notice that? Today, we were driving down 80 Second Avenue. Plaquemines Middle College?

Yeah. And I admittedly so part of me is kinda stupid because I was like, I don’t know what a middle college is, but it’s I guess it’s better than the bottom lower college. Community college. Well, I mean, it’s Which is not a bad choice. You’re like, oh, I’m going to a middle college.

What’s the in between? I guess that’s what I thought. Yeah. It’s the in between. Maybe it’s between junior community college and real college.

You’re like Community college. It’s like, oh, we’re just transitioning. We’re just a middle college. I don’t know. They don’t Seems like a for profit scheme or something.

I it feels like something that would be in England. You know? They’re like a middle college. Yeah. Isn’t that or I mean, I think of Middle Earth, which has nothing to do with anything other than I think the Lego movie.

Right? Lord of the Rings? Oh, yeah. Lord of the Rings. What’s in it?

The Lego movie. What is in the Lego movie? The New Zealandy like it’s like, okay. Never mind. I don’t know.

Wow. Lord of the Rings? No. Is it referring to? But it’s not it’s not called Middle Earth that has a funny name in the Lego movie.

It doesn’t really matter. Isn’t it called like middle doesn’t matter. I’m not I know what you mean, but I don’t know what it is called. There is something like, oh, we’re going to whatever. So moving man, my mic is always super nice and hot because I got that golden voice.

Not really. Okay. Cameras are alright. About your breath. Oh, is that a reference to a previous episode or today?

Oh. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Wait. Wow.

I don’t know. No. You’re good today. You’re good. Well, Olivia’s closer.

You flossed. You So you know swished Mhmm. And swashed. Speaking of and when you both are looking at me, speaking of which, I needed to go to Walmart today oh, to a store. I don’t like to say the Walmart, to get some more ACT.

Since I went to the dentist, I don’t know if we ever talked about that, but I have been flossing every day. Well, every night, I floss every I haven’t missed once. Except for the day I went to the dentist because I was like, oh, I think they clean my teeth really good. But I’ve been using the Act Fluoride, so and I’m almost out because someone else has been using it. Do you use it twice a day?

No. I just use it once a day because you’re not supposed to eat or drink for thirty minutes afterwards. And then I use that toothpaste where you’re not supposed to for thirty minutes and I Mhmm. And then sometimes I forget and rinse my mouth and I get upset. That’s not what we Yeah.

By the way, if you’re watching on YouTube, Olivia’s got the dinky goofy mic, right? I’m sorry. Mic. The tiny mic. So you can talk amongst yourself.

All I was doing, can you confirm that this one still has a, the camera’s still rolling? Yeah. I don’t mean to do that to people. Okay. Why would it accidentally turn off?

Well, stranger things have happened. Yeah. So lightning source is good. So the back to school special, boy, everyone is just so glum in here because I didn’t I mean, we got on our list today. By the way Well, it’s like three degrees in here.

Three it’s cold? Kind of. That’s what I’m saying. I’m not gonna lie to you. All the phones are in use, and I can’t control the thermostat.

So, really? I’m sweating. It’s really just my left leg at this point. Okay. Well, what I can make it I can bring up the temperature.

I can bring No. I can’t keep it. Light. The light will make it warmer, maybe. It is fine.

Wow. Okay. So because I can feel the vent. I meant to turn off the lights behind you because they’re conflicting in color. I’m sorry.

Everyone, the audio portion of this is where you’re listening. Should we ask that to turn off the lights? No. Alexa’s useless. So the back to school edition.

Back to school is happening here in Oregon. I don’t actually know what week. August 20 Well, if you go to an Oregon state school, it starts in September. Oh. Really?

But what about public school? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Like, twenty fifth maybe? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Twenty sixth. Twenty sixth. Okay.

Tuesday. Yeah. Yeah. Is that a Tuesday? Okay.

But teachers go back on the twenty fifth. So in August, some places have already, I think, started. There’s some places and then there’s other places that start in September. Yeah. And you’re going to the middle college in Minnesota in between.

Minnesota middle college. Yeah. Go Mavericks, the middle Mavericks. So that is gonna be you started on the twenty fifth, I think. Right?

I thought it was the twenty sixth. Okay. Okay. I don’t know. Why is nobody starting school on a Monday anymore?

Is that, like, taboo, bad luck? We’ll do Monday school. Just in case people it just gives people an extra day. Like, oh, we’re not because Mondays are bad. You got a case of the Mondays.

But, if you got yourself into a middle college, as they say okay. Back to school. Let’s well, first, I wanna get talk to you, Louelle and Olivia. I mean, this is I mean, you’re excited to be here. You’re the first guest.

You are the first guest on Doing the Most, with Scarlet Mitchell, the podcast. The first time we’ve had a guest. We were gonna do celebrities, but then it was like, oh, you know, we weren’t gonna go that route. We did because I don’t know any celebrities. Yeah.

I was just gonna ask. Well, I mean, I do know one. So well, a couple of Oh my gosh. I’m not bringing that up. Okay.

You did bring it up. Would they be Celebrities if I knew them though? No. Would they be counted as celebrities? No.

I don’t know. But what I’m saying is this, you are the first guest. So I hope you feel honored, but if you don’t, that’s okay too. Yeah. By your how many viewers?

Listeners? Yes. Oh, a lot of listeners. There’s a lot. At least there’s, what, two people on my unit and I think Oh, wow.

What? One or two on your unit? Yeah. Actually, the night shift on my unit the other day, I there are a bunch of them who are like, oh, keep making them. We love this.

I was like, oh, okay. Yeah. So first time listener, Scarlet and I are both, registered nurses. So that’s part of our little deal here. But we are doing the most the honors, I didn’t even dress it up.

It probably has a bunch of crap in the background of Olivia’s shot, but, well, believe that. That’s alright. We roll. But the good news is the audio is working and recording. I hope.

What I was gonna say is this. I had to what? This is just not we need to move along. Like, we’re gonna talk about college and going to college and our Okay. Like, know more about the sound and this and that.

I have been sitting over here filling up space because you guys are looking at things like really know how to do this. We’re gonna cut so much of this out. So, like, That’s fine. There’s so much okay. So So Let’s you take it off.

That’s my son. You prepared. Go ahead. Okay. I just wanna know.

I yield the floor to you, madam speaker. K. This takes me back to when I first started college. When you first started college, I wanna hear, how are you feeling, Olivia? Are you excited?

Are you scared? Just tell us a little bit of what you know about your roommate. You know? Just kinda give us the rundown of, like, how you’re feeling. And then maybe we can circle back and talk about your experience at BYU.

Mhmm. Go Mormons. It’s I think they’re the Cougars, which is kind of a fun The Mormon Cougars. Is that what they all are in all BYU? Is that I don’t know.

I feel like they have a different one. Or is that BYU? I don’t know. So you’re headed to be a maverick. How are you feeling right now?

Scared because I leave in, like, five days. So and I haven’t finished, like, packing up my room yet, but that’s okay. I have pretty much what I need except for, like, a couple things. But Are you more concerned about packing up to like not have stuff left behind in package or more like making sure you have everything? Yeah.

Oh, like making sure I have what I need and then like deciding if I wanna get rid of something that I know that I don’t, like, ever need. Because I’m not trying to start my, lovely hoarding pile early on in my You can never start hoarding soon enough, in my opinion. Mhmm. So okay. I feel like college was kinda like vacation.

You’re go I know you’re going to Minnesota. Like, in this no. Vacation like this. There are places to buy stuff there. Like, if you get there and you’re like, oh, crud.

I don’t know. Like, ultimately, you just need some clothes, warm clothes in Minnesota. I have a lot of those. Okay. Warm clothes, a pencil, some paper, you got you got yourself a new, Lenovo what do they what do they call these?

Yoga. A yoga? Yeah. Mhmm. Okay.

Well, I just it was like, is it a tablet? It’s a padlet. Two in one. They called it I’m calling it a padlet, trademark me. I like that.

It’s a padlet. Right? So okay. And you can what else do you need? Some toiletries.

Yeah. But they actually start you off. They just provide that at my school. Woah. Woah.

Nice. Not like not like shampoo and condition, but like the essentials for like a bathroom. Like toilet paper. Yeah. Well, this is a If I remember correctly, like, they have peep I don’t think I ever had to buy toilet paper.

They have, like, janitorial stuff that comes in, like, replaces all that. Right. And then they start us off with, like, a little cleaning basket of, like, Clorox wipes or, like, you know, all that kind of stuff. Oh. So Where and so where are you getting this information?

Like, is there a site a community site just for you or is it you’re getting it on a what I call a third party site meaning like forums or something? Like they have a Facebook page or Yeah. Well, I was looking through my packet that I got in the mail that had all this stuff last night. And I was looking through, like, the housing stuff because it’s like things that you need to bring in. It’s like, don’t worry about the toilet paper, or we’re bringing the cleaning supplies when you’re moving in, like that kind of stuff.

Mhmm. But there’s tons of emails and tons of like info that and like a lot of apps too that like give information about that all the time. Oh, is there a student app? Yeah. They have Maverick three sixty, I think is what it’s called.

Mav three I don’t know. A lot of Mav trademark stuff. Well, because you’re going at a time when, okay, when it’s apps and phones and a lot and more proliferate whatever. There’s a lot more Internet stuff for you. When I went, it was not, you know, it was all paper and Yeah.

Word-of-mouth bulletin boards and that kinda stuff, but continue. So you’re feeling like you’re not as worried about some of that stuff, but are you anxious? Are you excited to get going? Like, I’m not going into me, but, like, one of the things I remember being like, oh, I’m gonna be on my own. Like, it was this idea that there’s no adult there gonna be like, oh, so what do you where are you headed tonight?

Like, none of that. You’re gonna just be that was exciting to me, that idea of, like, I’m doing my own thing. How are you feeling Or No. Well, I’m kinda in that now. Like, I don’t really have to tell people where I’m going.

Okay. Doing it because my current living situation doesn’t Required. Yeah. Exactly. So it’s fine.

But I mean like, I’m not more I’m like okay to go, like, live on my own. It’s more of just like the schooling part of it because it’s like, it’s a different feeling than when you’re like in high school and you’re like, okay, now I’m gonna go back to high school the next year because it’s like totally different and I’m going to like learn the stuff that I wanna learn. Right. And like pre reqs and stuff like that. Okay.

Yeah. And what is it that, I mean, share with our listeners what you’re head what you wanna do or what you’re thinking about. Biochemistry for my undergrad and then the potential of going to pharmacy school. Okay. Very nice.

Yes. Very nice. Everyone can use a pharmacist in the family. I mean, so, okay. Yeah.

Yeah. What else? You’re taking your car. I mean, we’re driving it there, obviously. We hope it makes it there.

It should. Yeah. No. It’s not happening. Could makers.

Yeah. Well, you have to go twice as far, but sure. Anne? Yeah. I went to what was like a called a suitcase school where it was like peep most of the people who went there lived locally.

So every weekend, it would just clear out. Oh, okay. Like, what kind of school I mean, since it’s like Minnesota Mankato, so it’s like a smaller satellite camp? Or what is it? Is it is it its own thing?

Is there or is it just a branch of, like, University of Minnesota? Or I think that’s just what it’s called. Like there are, I think they have like other schools that are like partners or whatever with each other and like do like deals with certain like, I think like that, apps and stuff like they come together but I think it’s its own like separate school. Okay. Not as opposed I think you’re like comparing it to like people might be familiar with UNC, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, UNC Asheville.

Oh, like campuses and stuff like that. Right. Okay. You’re right. And those aren’t all UNC.

UNC is its own thing. Right. They’re all well, they’re all like, this is Minnesota State? University of Maine. I am.

I’m sorry. I still do this with your sister, Annika, because I’m always like, it’s Utah. Is it Utah State? University? I think it’s Utah State.

Yeah. That’s my guess. Yeah? See? I can never tell because it’s just a different level in the no.

There is university no. There’s Minnesota State University Twin Cities and University or Minnesota State University Mankato. So They’re not the same schools. They’re totally different schools, but it’s just the city that they add on to the end. Uh-huh.

Because I don’t know who came first. I don’t know. So, okay. Minnesota State. But, yeah, there are a lot of people that Are local.

Yeah. Yeah. Because Minnesota, like, a lot of people that are in Minnesota state for schooling in Minnesota, kinda like Oregon a little bit. But I feel like that’s how most states are as well. Yeah.

No. I mean, you’re getting out of here. And I know you, like, so your roommates when I went, you were just like, you just rolled in and whoever was in that room was your roommate. You are in, like, a little double, like, two and two. Double suite.

Yeah. But you you didn’t fill out, like, a preference card? Or, like, what Yeah. Are are you a late are you a late sleeper or A late bloomer? Early riser?

Early to read, early to write. Do you like to study or you never study? I will do. Do you like to quit? Dropping out or Like, so You didn’t you didn’t have to do that?

We we kind of intermingling. I I went to BYU. This is in the early nineties. And when I went there, yeah, I had filled out a card and it was like, do you want study hours? And, like, do you yeah.

It had all those things. It was paper. Right? And I filled out, like, I was like, no. Nope.

Don’t care. Late, early, like, it just everything was just kinda yeah. Who cares? On in the dorm I got, where was oh, I should know how many floors there were. There might have been eight, seven or eight floors to the whole dorm.

And a whole bunch of these dorms. Our dorm and our floor was the Fourth Floor. And there was no there was not enough we were the last dorm, like, when people filled out everything, we’re the last floor of the last dorm for, like, nobody cares, right? The Fourth Floor. There was no one on the Third or the Second or the First, right?

Because they didn’t fill anymore in. Our Fourth Floor was everyone who did not care. And in so much as I’ve already told you this, we had a police officer from the campus police assigned to just our floor, who every Friday and Saturday night, he would roll in and hang out and befriend us. And his name was officer Wayne, and he that was his job because our floor was a little Was he like a real police officer? He really Then was this is one of those places where they are an extension of the Provo Police Department.

So he they were real deal police. In fact, I got to ride in the back of his police car. That was the first time I ever rode in the back of a police car, but with officer Wayne. But he yeah. He and he was nice, but our floor was, like, the reason they put, like, fencing up around the top of the the very top of the buildings is because there was a a couch that was lit on fire and thrown off.

The basketball courts were, like, down below our area. There was some maltov cocktails. Never have to worry about girls doing. Right. So there was a lot of rambunctious activities.

I used to, late at night, do these things where this is back in the old days when we had, like, room telephones. You know? People had a regular telephone, cell phone. What is that? So I used to kinda host these things where I do it in another guy’s room, but whole you know, we’d fill in the room with maybe, I don’t know, eight, twelve guys, and I would do prank calls.

Right? And we had a little, like, microphone that we could put on the phone so everyone could hear the other side and I would be doing my thing. And I would I would constantly do the, the adopt a whale, and then I’d be asking more about, you know, hey, what wind do I, like, can I ride the whale? I just would do, like, and I keep calling and doing this, and I do all different ones. And I have my little shticks, and we would just be dying laughing because it was funny stuff, right?

And then eventually, they switched for an operator, and over a series of nights, you know, they whatever they did, they called back and then they deployed the police. Officer Wayne showed up and he was like, okay. We’re getting some reports of some crank calls, you know, like and we’re like, what are you talking about? You know? Oh, it was because there was that one.

Sorry. The the the adopt a whales. Pretty sure it was whales. So you were calling the adopt a whales Yeah. The one in here.

That sounds like, is he pretending to be back? I know. No. I am calling other people, like I would call the one in another charities. And yeah.

And I would start down the path of, like, oh, but hold on. They’re like, can we get your like, hold on. Tell me a little more about my whale. Like, like, do I get to pick him, or is it just assigned to me? Well, sir, it’s just I was like, why yeah.

I mean, I’m adopting a whale. Like, do I have to feed it? I would just add all my, like, questions and being that guy like and then I feel like you could do the stars as well, but then there was the other one. I don’t remember what it was called. There was like the there was one of these exercise equipment machines back in the day.

I think it was called the Strider and you, like, would like it would like it’s hard to demonstrate. But it’s like your seated position, but then you would, like, pull up. It was like that. I literally can see it. My head It’s like a kind of a part.

Abs or for your I think so. It’s essentially you’re doing, like, hips rest on a machine that you’re kinda elevating. Like a reverse squat. We’ll have to put it on the but, like, essentially, the motions up being like, you know, like that. Right?

So then I would always be like, okay. Well, tell me more. Like, is this gonna, you know, make me, you know, a better performer in the in the bedroom? Oh my god. It has it was a total hip thrust maneuver.

If you saw the ads, you would be offended to be like, what am I watching? Okay. I gotta look this up. The sex rider. Oh, I’m sorry.

It was a PG show. But I think that’s I would call it that, but it was called the Strider or something like that, Strider 6,000. So I’d call that one a bunch. So we had a variety of ones in there. But sorry.

So my so they answer long winded answer. I don’t even remember what we were talking about. The when you filled out filling out a card about and I filled I was on the floor guys who said, yeah. I don’t really really wanna don’t really care. Yeah.

Like, there was these two guys that would do things like they would go to there’s a lot of Deseret there’s a lot of thrift stores in Yeah. Utah. Mhmm. And these guys would go, and they would always come back with the funniest stuff. Right?

And it was like they got a set of old timey skis and then one of those like belly machines, you know, like that has the like Oh, yeah. You know what I’m talking about? Like, it goes around your waist and it vibrates. Yeah. But it’s like you stand up Like belly dancing.

From the fifties. In fact, grandma Jean had one of those in her basement. One of those you know what I’m talking about? It’s like, there’s probably a name. It’s like a stand up.

It has a thing Supposed to be like an edge or anything like It it looks like And it jiggles you? Yeah. And then the material is kinda made out of that same material that those paper those old those reusable paper towels, something kind of a linen thing. It would jiggle you. Well, they had that.

It is yesterday’s, what is that vibration platform that they’re, like, marketing to people now? Yeah. Well, this thing so these guys had in their room, they had one of those, and they had this old timey set of skis. And then they would have contests to see who could tolerate because you get on the skis in a very specific way. And the way they backed into that machine, you would lean forward really far, and it would jiggle you.

And you would see how long you could jiggle, like, being On the skis. It was like almost like you were in a ski jump position, and that thing would be all going like and then that was kinda thing. But, yeah, those guys yeah. I mean sorry. Lots of fun on that floor.

I don’t think it was called a Strider. The Strider? I mean because I keep coming up with this gazelle looking thing. Oh, no. No.

It’s not the gazelle, but, like, think of, like, a seated hip thrust machine. I mean, it might okay. Everyone’s not on one side. Find it now. Now I get a fill with one.

Okay. She actually has her phone, so it’s gonna be easier than so old officer Wayne eventually became the, like, the chief of BYU police. He well, I mean, I got lots of stories from BYU. Like, you’re not sure Ultimately, how’d you get on with your roommates? Oh, yeah.

Yeah. We’re talking about it. So, you know, my roommate, his name was Jason. Still I think we’re still friends on Facebook. And, now we gotta get a better table on here.

And he’s still everyone’s we will find this, and I’ll send it to you later, whatever this thing’s called. No. I’m listening. I don’t know. His name was Jason, Hardiet.

Oh, oof. I’ll send him his name. We don’t have to know their names. And Jason and I he was cool. Like, he was a cool dude.

And did you find it? No. Okay. Oh. So Oh, because okay.

Because of these lovely cats. Oh, you can always we can just do like this. Wait. Wait. Pause and I can edit later.

You gotta sneeze? Okay. No. Not sneeze. I think I just have catch up my note.

Oh, I’m stuck. Okay. You wanna bring Kleenex in here? There’s a box over there. You can get pretty new.

Well, this is dead here. I can remember. I can edit this out. Yeah. You can finish telling your Dumb story.

Story. Well, I was gonna say his name, but I’m like, we have to know his name. Oh, he was a good he was a good roommate. Like, he played basketball. Like, ultimately though, at the very first semester, like, near the end, close to Christmas, there was a guy named James.

And his roommates no. No. No. No. Is James gonna leave?

Well, anyways, here it doesn’t matter. I switched roommates, Dan and James. Dan wanted to be with Jason, and I was like, I don’t know. I’ll be with James. They both like basketball.

They were a little more basketball y. Okay. And James, he liked he really liked Guns N’ Roses. In fact, he liked them so much sometimes I would lay in bed and I’d just be like, oh, man, I hate Guns N’ Roses. And he’d be like, don’t even say that.

I’d be like, no, I just can’t stand him. He’s like, don’t you know, like, he would it was fun, but not fun, you know, because he, like, was serious, but, like, you know, so we would wrestle around walking out. It sounds a little weird. Oh my gosh. But Jane but this is, like, you know, close to the end of the first semester.

And then James told me, he’s like, I’m not coming back next semester. I was like, okay. And he’s like, I’m not telling anyone. I was like, wait. Even better.

So he left and during Christmas time, and then when we came back Uh-huh. I had my whole room to myself. Nice. Like, he had left. And then they came and they were kinda like, oh, you can’t have your own room.

I was like, well, I guess you need to find a roommate. And they’re like, well, so and so on the other side needs a roommate. And I was like, well, send him over. He’s like, well, he doesn’t wanna move out of that room. You’ll have to go over there.

And I was just like, no. I’m not moving this room again. They’re like, I remember they were just very like, I was like, so if he wants to move in with me, that’s fine. And we just both ended up being like, oh, so I had my own room. He had his own room across the way, and then, like, I took the bed.

Because the beds were like had like a little head like a side it was not a headboard, but like a side headboard, like down the one side of the bed. Okay. And then you would it had like storage in it. Did the beds pull out a little bit? I can’t remember now.

But anyways, I turned it sideways because it was kinda like a couch, the bed. Oh, no. I gotcha. You could lean against it. So I would just turn one of them sideways in the room as a couch.

Somebody donated a PlayStation or something, I had a TV in there, because normally you didn’t have TVs. I had a TV, I had a mini fridge, and then people would come and we’d hang out in there. But it’s only dudes, right? Because it’s BYU. You can’t have it’s only every Wednesday night for like two hours, you could have visitors of the opposite gender come over.

And you had to keep all feet on the floor. And the doors had to remain open, right, during this visiting time. So outside of this visiting Could you sit in the floor together? They no. I think you had to be seated on the on the beds because On the mat.

On the beds. That’s the only place you could sit, and then you had to, have your feet on the floor. But then I had the idea of, like, taking yeah. You picturing a bunch of couples. I took the mattress off.

This Tuesday night. Oh. And they’re just, like, sitting on the bed. Yeah. Hands in their lap, feet on the floor, just kind of awkwardly talking to each other.

Like Well, I had the idea of putting the mattress on the floor because you could still have your feet on the floor and being kinda laying on that mattress, and that got shut down by the RA. Oh. That’s I was like The RA. I was like, that’s still where the feet on the floor and were on the mattress, and it was just like, yeah, that’s not gonna fly, right? So that was kinda the deal.

My room then welcome back, Olivia. Thank you. Are you okay? My room then, would be rented out is the wrong way to say it. Woah.

But it would be traded for different things. Right? Mhmm. So if somebody was like, hey. I would like to sneak a friend up here tonight for a few hours, and I’d be like, sweet.

What can we and usually it was in exchange for their car. Yeah. And I would drive their car around, and I’d go to Taco Bell. Did you not have a car? No.

I didn’t have a car. That’s not very I don’t know. I didn’t have a car. And so I would trade them for, like, something. And it usually was a car.

Every now and then, it’d be like, oh, I go to their room if they have, like, a cool video game or something Mhmm. Or a computer. We could How would they sneak people up there with, like, such stairs? They’d have to go through the stairwells. And we’re since we’re the Fourth Floor and nobody was in the betweens, you were pretty good at the back exit, like the emergency stairwell thing.

Like, you weren’t gonna run into a lot of traffic on those first three floors. Like, you know what I’m saying? Because nobody’s on those those floors before you get to the Fourth Floor. It was safe. Like, you weren’t gonna run into somebody.

So there was that. But Yeah. Anyway, so, yeah, that was the Fourth Floor. I mean, a lot more stories there, but, you know, Fourth Floor. Oh, Stu decided to live in the commons area.

You know, we had, like, a little commons room in the middle of the dorm. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And had those Murphy beds in there, like, four of them.

Oh. Because there was out of town people or something. I don’t know. It was just kind of a Is this the one that didn’t like his roommate? Yeah.

So Stu moved in there, and then, like, Stu had some hygiene challenges. So that room got a little stinky. And sometimes I had a projector. Yeah. Sometimes we’d watch a movie in there, and Stu’s bed would be folded down.

It’s a little just like I don’t know. But Stu was a fantastic piano player. So Oh, okay. So he artist. He could play, like, Flight of the Bumble.

But, yeah, actually, he did paint as well up there in that room. So had a lot of interesting smells. Okay. But Stu was okay by me, and just because I didn’t care about that room. I mean, that’s where the police were there one time waiting for us after we had a little rollerblading thing, because we weren’t allowed to rollerblading on BYU campus.

So, anyways So my first go around with college, it was a Southern Baptist College, and we had to go to, oh my gosh, what was it called, chapel Mhmm. Like, every Monday morning. Okay. And it was, like, an hour. We got, like, a credit for it or something.

Oh. But did you guys have to do that? Chapel? No. We were required to take religion classes, though.

A certain one every semester or something. And then Were they specifically tailored to the LDS religion. Yes. So Is seminary just a high school thing then? Yeah.

That’s just a thing you don’t wanna do. Yeah. They extended it into college and found a way to give you a class you don’t wanna go to. At least it’s not, you know. Campbell had a seminary program.

Mhmm. And I took a lot of religion classes because I had a crush on one of the teachers. Oh, hey. Why not? Alright.

I’m sure I will walk. But, anyways, like, these the, the religion professors were some of the most lovely, liberal, all inclusive individuals, like, on campus. It was just so refreshing. Oh. Because then I would, like, hike over to the business school because I was majoring in economics, and it would be, like, a whole different world over there, you know?

Right. But, yeah, it was, like, kinda nice that way. They they really kind of opened my eyes up to how closed minded They opened your eyes. Yeah. Through, like, I don’t know, this little sheltered world of, religion that I grew up in.

And you had a roommate. You lived in the dorm your first year? I did. It was like you would go walk open the door, walk in, and then there were four rooms and then one bathroom that had two showers and two stalls. So it was, like, kind of a suite.

But then, like, the next year, I had, like, a Jack and Jill style. Mhmm. And I finally had a roommate. My first roommate, we did I it’s my fault. I can’t really blame it on her because I filled out my little preference sheet of, like, oh, I’m gonna go to bed early.

Oh, I’m gonna study. I’m gonna do it was like the ideal of like, what I should do. And she was exactly that. And I found that I was like, kind of drawn to a group of friends where we liked staying up all hours of the night, and we liked being loud and hanging out. And, and I study wee hours into the night.

So because I mean, even into even when I was going to Duke, I was still like, what are you doing? Nothing. I’m listening to you. I was still, like, up in the middle of the night. I know.

I was still up in the middle of the night studying, so that, like, never changed in me. I was always a procrastinator writing a 20 page paper twelve hours before it was due. Oh, you man, you gave yourself that much time. Yeah. I know.

That’s a that’s a long time to write that paper. Yeah. Gotta wait a little longer. Yeah. Give yourself a sleep on it.

So it didn’t it didn’t work out ultimately with me and Britney because she would make me study in the hallway. Because I don’t know I don’t know if she would make me, but I’m such, like, a considerate person that I was just like, oh, okay. Yeah. You can go to bed at 08:00 at night. And, she had a blind she got an eye mask.

But then I would be studying by my lamp, but she would wake up and be like, can you turn that lamp off? It’s too bright in here. Oh, wow. And then I would have to go study in the hallway. But and I don’t know.

I ended up blowing up on her right before Christmas break. Oh. I don’t remember if it was in the form of a letter or it wasn’t a text message. It’s sternly worded letter. What was it?

It might have been a letter. Or on a In an email. You’re like And I remember she always called we had a Swiffer. Oh. And she always called it a Swifter.

And I hated that. The way that I hated that is just it’s kind of stupid, like, honestly. But, like, and I remember at the end of whatever it was I wrote her, and it’s called a sweeper. Oh, okay. Wow.

And that’s how it ended. And then I came back after, oh, I don’t know, Christmas break, Easter break, one of the breaks, and she had packed up and moved out. Wow. And so I had my whole room to myself. And you were able to swifter it clean.

That’s what I’m saying. The swifter probably was the last piece, last straw. It was Yeah. She was like, this is it. I’m done.

Yeah. And then we still had classes together, you know, throughout because we were both like a business e type majors and so, you know, we would just kind of avoid each other. But Yeah. And and look, these are the things you have to look forward to. Aren’t three of your cellmates or whatever the suite I’m going to a prison now?

Well, it is a middle gauntlet. Wait. It really is a I don’t know what these dorms look like. Oh, they’re nice. Because At least the ones that I saw when I went.

I don’t know if that’s actually where I’m going. Mine is like this. You go up the elevator and there’s like a, you know, rectangular doesn’t matter. The the the dorms are all around the edge and the RAs are at the end or the single rooms are at the end of this long building, rectangular. But each room, like, you open the door and it’s like, you open it and there it is.

Like, there’s a bed on each side and then right before the bed is there’s like to your extreme right and left are like the closets. One on each side. It’s totally symmetrical. One on each side closet. I think there was like a little drawer dresser thing.

I think Probably a built in thing. Yeah. Built in. Yeah. Built in.

And then the bed built ins. And then the the desk with some storage space above and then, like, a window that opened up. I think he got maybe four inches. I know it opened enough to get a paintball gun out to shoot some buildings across the way because Jason, my first roommate, had a paintball gun, and he sorry. He one day, he’s like, I’m gonna shoot that other the other floor over there.

He shoots a couple paintballs because we see some dudes in their room. Right? And within, I don’t know, half an hour, we get a volley of shots back, and we thought that was the funniest thing. We were just like, someone over there has a paintball then too. It was like I mean, because we weren’t mad, but then it was, like, very obvious that there was, like, you know, streaks of the paintballs across.

You could kinda tell maybe who was getting shot at, which meant maybe they’re the one with the paintballs. Which quick side note. Sorry. I got so many stories from this time period. Side note.

So I have my own room, right? And it doesn’t really matter. The police at some point, this is after the roller riding incident, and they’re, like, walking me back to my room. And the paintball things already happened this semester earlier. They’re walking me back to my room because they’re, like, they just wanna chat with me in private.

Right? But they’re not, like, roughing me up too bad, but they’re being stern. And I’m, like, oh, great. Because in the room, I literally have a butterfly knife that I’ve stuck into the wall on onto the cork board above my bed, and and that knife is holding up a bag of paintballs. And I just remember thinking, this is not gonna go well.

We go in there and the guy’s like, oh, it probably and I remember there’s something like he kinda overlooked Contraband. He kinda overlooked the knife though and he’s like, oh, you into paintball? And I was like, oh, yeah. A little bit. And then and I thought this is it.

They’re gonna put two and two together because it’s so obvious, like, the paintball thing. And then he tells me about how them, BYU police, and Utah State or whichever one, they they go out and their forces go out to a paintball place and they get it all like, so he just went he was all excited about the paintballs and all. I just kept thinking it was like, man, you are I’m glad you’re ex you were, like, distracted by that because the the writing was literally on the wall when you looked out at the two buildings. Anyway, yeah. More fun.

So What did I do? So no. Okay. So you grew up LDS. Yes.

You would probably say you never really bought into the LDS No. Mission or Well or just religion in general. Kind of like It was it never vibed with me. It was never my thing, and I kinda did it okay. You know, out of I don’t wanna say expectations.

I didn’t get that either. My parents weren’t like, you will or you, I didn’t get that. I just, but I’m a people pleaser and I fell into that kinda like, that feedback that you get when you please people. I mean, it’s, I’ll be straight up, that’s there’s, I am openly admit that as a people pleaser, there’s a feedback loop that I enjoy, right? Which sounds weird, but I think I’m willing to admit that’s true.

Like I don’t just please people because I’m naturally altruistic. There’s a feedback loop, whether it’s explicit or not, I’m like, yeah. I enjoy that. Right? So I think I did a lot of things because I was a people pleaser.

I’m sorry. What were you? That was the question. No. I I was just gonna say, so what tell us why you chose to continue on two of all of all the places in the world and the whole wide world to go to school, why did you go from that to that?

To BYU? Yeah. When you had a chance to escape other things. Get where she do you pick up what you put down here? Yes.

Well, you oh, so you I went to BYU. In fact, I went and applied in a rush because my high school girlfriend at the time was going LDS as well was going to go to BYU, and I was kinda suckered not suckered in. That’s by my own self, I was like, oh, I can’t. I gotta stay with this girl. You know?

This is the reality. Was your plan before when you because it sound you must have had a plan because now you’re rushing this to make this happen. So what was your backup? Or, like, what was your original plan? Was to move to Los Angeles and try to start an acting career.

Like, that was my dream. I he’d even at one point, I wanted to I wanted to audition for Juilliard, but I was too lazy to and my mother probably wouldn’t have paid for the thing because it was down in at that point, you would have gone to I think it was San Francisco or LA. It was I was like, oh, I wanted to try to get into an actual acting or conservatory school conservatory program or actually go to, LA and just start doing the thing. That was my original, like, idea and plan. And then yeah.

I don’t know. Do you think you’re drawn to acting because of that positive feedback? Oh, that you get from performance? Similar to Yeah. I mean, I like the live audience.

I like that. I do enjoy stage acting more than, film. Not that I’ve got a lot of film. Yeah. But like, I’ve done some web series.

Hello, Big Ed. But like there’s something about that. But I mean, it’s all fun. But yeah, that live audience is good. Maybe.

That’s probably part of the people pleasing. Or just a, egotistical maniac with an inferiority complex as someone once told me I might have. I don’t think that person probably knew what half those words mean. But Yeah. Well well, anyway.

So But so BYU. And then how long did that last? Because I don’t think you completed a degree. Right? No.

Not there. I that went in fact, I did theater and film. That’s when I was enrolled in there, though. So I was like, I’ll do the theater and film, which their program a few years later would produce the people that made Napoleon Dynamite. So made it there a year and then and then I and then another half year when I went back for yet another, girl who was gonna go there.

So Wait. So you made it a year and you dropped out? No. I just did a year and then that was oh, and then I left and served an LDS mission. Oh, okay.

Yeah. Where was this on? Where was that? Is this all news to you? This is I was like But I’m pretending to do that.

Well, I thought it was show that it was news to the listeners. This is back to school for Olivia. I’m not dissecting Mitchell’s, there. That was Brazil. Right?

Brazil. Yeah. Yeah. It was Brazil. And that was short lived.

That was lasted a year. And then I was like, yeah. Supposed to be two years. Two years. And then that gal who I went to BYU for I should say Who you went on this mission for.

Right? Yeah. But I like because she wanted to marry a missionary. Right. Right?

Okay. But let’s I mean, you know how I like to be like, these are the things she said, these are the requirements I placed on myself. In other words, I don’t fault or have any issue with this person because I decided, oh, I need to do this for her. I need to do this for her. I need to do this for her.

I just wanna be sure faulting her. Right. No. No. No.

I’m kind of faulting Me. Oh, the religion. I don’t know. I’m afraid to say it. Your parents.

Who is letting this 18 year old dummy Mother, I’m afraid to say it. Without a developed like like without a Hey, mom. I’ll see you when I get home. Without a fully developed frontal cortex, make these huge life decisions. Because I cannot say I would have the same trust in my own son.

And I’m speaking specifically to the male Well population. Because I I do think females are different in this way. I mean, I don’t so I don’t fault them. I actually feel like they gave me a certain amount of, like, independence. And And maybe she was ready to be rid of you.

And this is also where I’ve spoken before. I sometimes wonder, and you may or may not, Olivia, be able to speak to this, but did they actually tell me and advise me otherwise? Because I don’t and I didn’t listen. This is where I think sometimes when I call that disconnect of for all I know they spend a bunch of time being like, are you sure with it? You know, but my memory is gonna be mine and is biased towards what I wanted to do and feeling like that was whatever, I don’t wanna say the right thing.

But, yeah, so mission, and then that same girl, like, writes me a letter, a dear John, as they like to call him, saying, hey, I need more time and space. We should, you know, call this off. And I’m in Brazil. I’m like, oh, screw this. I only came here for her.

I’m leaving now for me. Right? And I was all you know, my parents were that bothered them on certain levels. Mainly and partly, I can’t speak for them. I think they were kinda like, well, you made this commitment to do this thing, and now you’re just jumping out.

Like, you know? And I I think that it’s a valid thing for them to feel a little bit frustrated because that’s that’s somebody quitting a sport. That is, you know, and granted that’s a big thing to go. I got about two years to a foreign country at that age. Because right now I’d be like, hey, you know, send me somewhere for two years, I’ll go.

But I guess what I’m saying is maybe I didn’t listen. Maybe I wasn’t. Maybe they had given up hope and were like this this son of ours is, like he’s gonna do what he’s gonna do. So we’re gonna support him in his decision making. Now all I would be interested to hear your parents’ side of the story.

After this episode, I’d be interested if they’ll still invite us over. No. I’m sorry. I I wasn’t, like, blaming No. I see it.

Because I’m I understand now. I’m sure there was that you like, on one hand, you wanna support what your kid wants to do, and you want them to get out of the house and grow and become independent. But then on the other hand, we’re we kind of experienced some of this with some of your older kids as well. Right. Where So It’s like they’re gonna I guess, you have to let them fail.

Right. Because that is such as life. Great. Alright. Lydia.

Well Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So now you you haven’t you’ve gotten stories, but not maybe maybe some advice in some way. I guess what I would ask is or, like, do you feel like there’s things that you’ve heard people tell you and then you’re like, yeah.

That’s really not for me. Although, I’m gonna say See, this is I always have to tread carefully because if your sisters listen and they’re like, oh, no, what’s going on? No. Every child, every person makes their decisions that they’re gonna make, and they have strengths and weaknesses. You have Some of the things that you do, you’re a good money saver.

And I think that some people are just inherently good at that. I’m not. I have to work at it. But you’re like, you’re a good money saver. Like, you’ve done a lot of good things and you’ve made your choices to school.

But do you ever feel like there’s things people told you you ought to do that you didn’t? Or you’re I don’t think you’re old enough to have big regrets, but I don’t know. I don’t know. I just feel like, I mean, from all the stuff that we learn in school, especially when it comes to money, you’re just like because like for even economics or like math classes, they’re like, oh, like start your Roth now, start investing, stop buying stocks, start doing all this stuff because they’re like, you need to do it now, like, right now. And I’m like, I don’t know if I know enough about it to do it right now, but I’m like, am I gonna regret it because I haven’t started listening to my credit.

You’ve already got a retirement account? I know. That’s what people are saying though. Well, but that speaks to something you’re already but that’s you know, I’m saying like you’re listening because I they may or may not have said that to me. I don’t think so.

Yeah. I mean, you you probably I didn’t know that. That’s You were probably more like me where it’s like money in money out, money in money out. You’re not thinking about your future. So I guess I’m Well, I’m just so scared of making the wrong mistake that I, like, overstimulate myself with a bunch of, like, people’s opinions and, like, research about what I should really do because I don’t wanna make a mistake.

But, like, that’s just how life goes. So Yeah. Well, I mean and, you know, mistakes are how you learn. The question is how big of a lesson do you wanna learn? But it’s hard to you know, parents always want kids to learn from their, like, their own mistakes.

That’s something you have to make on your own. But, I mean so it sounds like you’ve spent or are you spending too much time researching? Like me. Like, you know, I I’m gonna buy a $30 item on Amazon, but I’m gonna spend, like, nine hours researching it, you know, where it’s like, Scarlet’s like, I just find the first one and click. Well, yeah.

No. Good reviews. Okay. Amazon Choice recommended. But I feel like I I don’t know.

I’m the type of person where it’s like where if there’s only there’s there’s a couple bad ones, they sometimes outweigh most of the good ones and then it’s like, well, is this the right one because someone had a bad experience with this thing or like this choice? Because it took me months to figure out what computer I was gonna buy. Oh, I know. And you didn’t even buy the one I was gonna tell you to buy. An iPad.

Yeah. I’m proud of you because I because my choice is not the right choice. I don’t feel that way. I don’t go, like, oh, Olivia’s gonna regret her choice. I was like, hey, she did the work.

She did like she decided. I think that’s I don’t know. I said so I’m if and I always worry, like, maybe I come across like, oh, if you don’t do it my way, it’s the highway, which is possible, but I think, I don’t know. It’s No. It’s more like well, if you don’t do what I say, you’re gonna be hearing about it for the next five to ten years.

What was you talking about? You or me? Probably both of us. Okay. Yeah.

Well, I just know that when it came to the computer that you’re Apple biased. So, like Yeah. And that’s it’s fair to say, and I will admit that. Right? Yeah.

But I think, you know, I know I played with your computer very briefly. I was like, this seems pretty slick. I liked how it worked and, you know, it’s the kind of thing where I go, I wish Apple would one day kinda come up with something that’s a one more step towards your Padlet, trademark Mitchell milliner. But how how why Padlet? It’s not a it’s not a tablet in a pad, iPad in a tablet?

How does that make sense together? Okay. Because okay. How about a a toplet? Because it’s either a Mac A MacBook.

A computer. And a pad. A a drawing. It’s a touch screen. Because it’s like a I don’t think anybody’s gonna be hiring you to come up with any names anytime soon.

Listen. If you well, well, I can come up with some names if you’re looking for pharmaceutical names. Schizorizelizidube. Oh. Oh, you want the friendly name for that?

Fleuroma. Thank you. I just made that up. I don’t know what the product is. Okay.

But I’ll go find out. Anyone who’s googling it, they’re probably like, well, I heard the map, so it’s a monoclonal antibody. Anyway, so Okay. Well, I don’t wanna get too long. We didn’t Taka, you have three roommates and you’re just wonderful, sweet and they’re all hockey players.

Yeah. Is this true? Mhmm. Early risers from what I know. I mean, just for hockey.

And then my personal roommate is a early sleeper. Right. And you’re getting to learn all this through the app or other means because I like I said, I just rolled in, and I was like, hey. What’s your name? I’m Jason.

Okay. Is that your bed or my bed? Like, you know, that real like, that’s how it was in the old days, that postcard thing. You did this all digitally and now No. Yeah.

Like, we did the roommate, like, profile things, but since I didn’t apply early enough, I didn’t get to actually pick my roommate and they try to match the preferences as best as they can. But is it the computer doing it or people? Because somehow I got put the exact opposite of my preferences. So But did you like I know she was like, let’s match color scheme. Yeah.

What color should our duvets be? And you were like she’s like, I like What color should our duvets be? And you were like She’s like, I like I don’t think I’m gonna do pink. And then she always it’s like the passive aggressive, like, like, that’s okay. I’m fine with whatever.

I don’t even dare. Well, and as you say with a pink shirt I’m like, I’m gonna I know. But I don’t need, like, a picture perfect dorm. I’m not showing it off to anyone. It’s my piece of home and I bring them.

Oh, okay. Nice. I was just gonna say it’s a place where I sleep, you know, or where I slept. Yeah. Well, and entertained.

Okay. And took a spoon every time I went to the, cafeteria place, the Morrison Center. I took one spoon every meal I went there. And I put it I kept it in my pocket and put it in my room. And then at the end, I had a giant garbage bag of spoons, and I didn’t know what to do.

Just why? So you know what I did? I the drawers, if you could figure out the drawers in the desk, desk was bolted into the room, but there was a little lever to undo the desk drawer. You could pull it out. So I pulled it out, and I threw a bunch of spoons in there, and I went around all the different rooms to fill in the little area underneath to get rid of these spoons.

Anyways, that’s what I’m saying is if you take a spoon every day I don’t know why. I wanna know how many times that ate you. Because Yeah. Why would you need so many spoons? What are you gonna do with that?

My interior is about me. My dorm room, cinder blocks that were, like, painted on the walls. That kind of a building, like School? Yeah. Yeah.

That was my Maybe not all. And then they had those old, not marble, but not cement, but it’s like what you would picture in an old school. It’s like brown speckled Right. Right. Tile thingies.

Not even tile. It’s like marble, but not marble. It’s that’s called cinder blocks that are that are painted white. Yeah. It’s almost painted white.

Over them, so they’re not too cinder blocky. And it was damp, like it just felt I don’t know. Does your suite have a study area? Like a desk? Yeah.

A desk or like, you know, is it like a different separate like when you say suite, I’m imagining multiple rooms. No. It’s just what they call it because there’s a shared bathroom in the middle. Oh, I see. It’s like it’s basically the same as you said except for there’s the lofted beds.

There’s space underneath there’s and then there’s the desks at the end of the bed between the bed and the mat the closet. Right. So but it’s like a really tiny desk. Yeah. So because I guess I want you to be in there for We had shared bathrooms.

It was just shared amongst all of us. Yeah. In the middle. I could three is okay. The whole floor.

Yeah. And you find out the girl who doesn’t clean the drain of her hair when she’s finished showering. We had these I’ve told these stories sorry. I’ve told the last story. We had this thing and it wasn’t quite a urinal.

It wasn’t a toilet. I gave it a A good day? No. I have to show you a picture. It I I gave it a special name.

I’m not gonna say it on the air just because I don’t think it’s appropriate for a g rated show. Okay. But it Oh, you’re a PG. PG. But it had so it didn’t have like a seat or anything, but it had a very long front.

So it was almost like it was like it looked like a urinal that you could maybe straddle. It was very interesting. It was totally interesting. Right? A doubler urinal.

I have to show you a picture. Two pictures. It’s still like bolted to the wall. Bolted to the wall in its own stall, right? How long is it though?

Like, I’m trying to add the front. Like, it’s kind of like a bowl with Lego like I have to trim Did you ever figure out what it’s for? Well, we everyone just peed in it because I have a seat. Well, I shouldn’t say everyone peed in it because I was just At the same time, was it low enough? Oh, let me guess.

You I was the bandit of this particular thing that had a name, okay? There was a name for this thing and I was the bandit who would use it for other things besides urinating. I’m ashamed that you were even that guy. But because it was hilarious. Somebody has to clean that.

No. It goes down. It still flashes. It’s it’s I have to drop It’s a level that dropped? No.

That’s what I’m saying. It’s just a urinal with the tape on. It’s like a flat urinal. I have to show you. So you would just and leave it.

Because it had such a long front segment. That you Like Shit, though. Like, that was just perfect for holding a long log like object. Like, I have to show you a picture. Okay.

But where did this potty humor fall? Facing when you did it? I end up on potty humor. It’s all time. Why do we always get here?

It’s not potty humor but you you would hear someone go, no, no. And then because they would see this and then but no one knew that I was the bandit. It’s called the the weird journal bandit. Again, there was a name for it but it’s a little colorful, right? Okay.

And that was just like, well, I didn’t because because they have a seat, I would hang on with my hands on the sides of the stalls because I didn’t want There was You wouldn’t be able to touch the ground? Well, no. I have to find a picture of this thing. It is so weird that it’s not about what I I’m picturing you just like holding yourself up in the air Yeah. With your legs up.

Well, no. I never your legs up. The easiest thing was Sorry. You don’t have to put your legs up. You could straddle this thing.

You had such a long Are your feet dangling because it’s a little too tall? Well, no. No. No. Or you just prefer to sit on it.

Imagine okay. Imagine a toilet that but then, like, no seat. Right? An industrial toilet. No seat.

Just flat. You know? It doesn’t have a tank. And then take the very front of it where, like, it comes around and I’ll elongate it with a u shaped thing that comes out like maybe this far. Yeah.

I can I can see it but it’s So you get a normal height of your And it was like, do it Yeah? That’s why I was like, do you straddle it? Is it to keep men from peeing on the floor by having this thing that can go between your legs? I don’t know. It’s the weirdest porcelain thing I’ve ever seen.

Never seen this like. Had a name. And it’s at a Mormon school. Well and the other thing that I invented too was Like a was it an accessible friendly thing? I don’t know.

Oh my goodness. Could have been, but it like, I mean, a handicap, handicapable. I don’t know. I mean I’m not sure how that would make any more sense. I don’t either.

You can roll into it and then I don’t know. What? I mean, we weren’t thinking that way. But I mean so I invented I was always inventing supports on the floor. And one of them was not on this thing because there was no toilet paper in that thing.

Right? In that whole stall because of the device. Is this technically a urinal? In fact, I don’t even know if it had a door on it because it was more it was a urinal design. That’s why I think the bandit when he struck took some very high level skill.

But if you got the next stall over, I invented this game where you get the toilet paper and you would start it into the toilet. And there was the industrial toilet that you could hold your foot on the flusher. Right? And it would just flush nonstop. Like, it would never quit.

And if you take your hands and cradle the toilet paper from the toilet paper dispenser, and God, it started holding your foot down there, that maelstrom of water, you could blast a whole roll of toilet paper if you were careful enough as it was shooting through it would go fast shooting through your hands into the toilet. You know what I’m saying? Like sucking it down. Yeah. Or it would break.

But we’d have contests to see I mean, you only got so many shots because there was only two rolls in each stall, and they would go down. And if you broke, you’re you’re out, and it was someone would time it to see who was the fastest. But I invented that. I invented the ironing board surfing, which ruined all the ironing boards on the floor, but I was always kind of Oh, they provided you guys with ironing boards? Not anymore.

But originally on the Fourth Floor, yeah, there was a ironing room. That’s where the one guys would always be making their grilled cheese sandwiches in there with the irons, but I invented the ironing board surfing which involved running and paddling out and then yeah. But sorry. I would yeah. I’ll tell you guys all the time.

Ruin everything on that floor. Yeah. But so I’m excited for you to have some of these experiences where you can do different things. Hopefully, you have a normal toilet in your shared thing. I think so.

Okay. Well, what are you most looking forward to? What are you most excited about? Like, anything. Could be a class.

Could be the freedom. It could be who knows? Probably just like activities and sports. Okay. Like going to sporting events but at a college level.

Okay. And you’re Especially hockey. The rugby. Oh, going to events attending them. That could be pretty fun.

Like the college crowds, there’s no like to that. So what are you most afraid of or worried about? School, like the classes, like the hardness, the difficulty of it. Okay. I think though you all do well.

Yeah. And that challenge is fun. And I think a lot of schools, most they set you up for success. Like, there’s a lot of resources. That’s why I would say there’s sometimes and maybe nowadays, there’s so many resources you don’t realize or people don’t explore everything from And now you have, like, AI where you can be like, I can’t figure out this chemistry problem.

Can you break it down for me and explain to me why it is the way you know? Like And then she’s like, oh, here. I’ve done it in a way that looks like yours and I put some errors in here. I’m not saying that. Right.

Yeah. But it’s really just calculus though because I they’ve skipped me from precalc all the way to calculus, and I only took financial algebra and math and society last year. And I gotta lie. I hated calculus. Me too.

Yeah. And my computer science program was six calculus courses. You just gotta get through it. Yeah. And then it’s and then it’s over.

Well, I’m like, how many calc classes do I have to take? I don’t know. I think just one. Oh. I did like I said, six for computer science.

Well, I’m not doing computer science. Six? Six for calculus and six physics classes. Yeah. Well, I switched majors after a certain point in that career path because I was like Well, I mean, I think it’s reasonable if you, like, start out in calculus.

Don’t you have a period of time where you can change you can go and say this class is missing. You have the week. You have the week. One the week. I mean, maybe you’ll get a feel for it in that first class.

You could probably go back to your academic advisor and say, hey. Can you well, I’m gonna need to go back to pre calc. So make that happen. I felt like now mine calculus was, like, the one day a week or two days a week, the big monster room where some guy jammers on, and you’re like, I don’t know what’s going on. And then every Friday, there was like a lab, which was like six people.

And I don’t know if they’re all sometimes they’ll do that. Sometimes there’s like a a lab component, and I never attended the lab component. So what I’m saying is I did poorly and didn’t enjoy it because I didn’t apply myself. Well, yeah. Just like I’m probably planning on trying to go to, like, the office hours and stuff because there’s a lot of, yeah, like you said, help and support and, like, a lot of group study things that happen.

So No. And I had to expect that at a middle middle college. So Yeah. I’m gonna beat that one. Okay.

Anything else? I mean, I know this episode’s gone long. I’m sorry. Special back to school. How are you gonna be?

You’re taking your this is your first daughter. You’re taking a story. Alright. We’re already getting into the emotions for the last year. But I remember, you know, being excited and being like, yes.

I’m gonna be on my own. But then you have that moment where, like, your your parents are helping you move in, and it’s not quite real yet. And, you’re go making trips to Walmart because you need this and you need that, and you’re realizing what you, you know, need and didn’t bring. And then you’re having dinner one last time, and you’re just and then and then they leave. And you’re like and you kinda have this moment of, like, that’s it.

Yeah. Like, this this is adulthood now. It’ll never be the same too when you come back. And my dad my dad, who is not a crier or he’s not an emotional person, I he called me on the way or I called them. I don’t remember.

And he was, like, full on kind of blubbering. Like yeah. It would, like, it, like, tore me up. And then I was crying and he was crying. And it’s, like, we’re all having this realization of, like and maybe it’s because I was the first one.

And they only have two kids. And my brother probably Middle college. Yeah. No. No clear.

No sense, Clay. But, like, you’re doing great now. No. He went a trade route and that’s No. But, yeah, I think How am I doing?

Maybe you didn’t have that one, but I feel like girls kind of have these moments. Yeah. I went my I went with the girlfriend’s family to school. My parents didn’t even take me. I just Oh.

I just went with them. That’s okay. And then I got to go out to dinner with them and that was it. And I don’t know. So I had a little different one for me getting dropped off as I was just a dude getting ready to go.

Yeah. I’ll go to do do some stuff, you know, on my own. I was I was ill prepared personally. I was immature and Mhmm. While I may have been decent in school, I yeah, I was at the I’ve done a I’ve done a lot of things for the wrong reasons in my life, so.

Now as far as saying goodbye to her, you know normally I get very tearful when I think about taking her, and it’s been a problem. But today I’m pretty good. My emotions are in check. We’ll save it. Our board game buddy.

Yeah. Our but we didn’t get to talk about, like, our board games, but we’ve been well, we talked about Wingspan on our other episode, and Olivia’s our primary, wing our board game player, board game. I know you two are the ones who, like, read it so I don’t have to figure it out. I know. I know.

You teach me. So I’m kinda You’re on your own, Mitchell? Oh, that’s the hardest part. I’m a little not disappointed. I’ll be sad.

I’m I’m gonna miss you all for lots of reasons, but I will miss you for board games especially because well, it usually takes at least three people and Scarlet will just have to play the two player board games. Yeah. Or you have your new one player Yeah. The versions. Yeah.

Yeah. That’s true. So Yeah. Sky team, that’s a good board game. They’re hirn off to see if Scarlet likes that.

We we have to land a plane. So Yeah. Yeah. I don’t know. That makes I really am excited for you, Olivia.

It’s like this time Yeah. It’s like Are you nostalgic? I loved high school. For me, high school was awesome. I really loved it.

But I’m not like, oh, I didn’t stay stuck in loving high school to me. But I This is like, it’s just such a cool adventure. To me, it’s like, oh, now you’re going, you’re getting like through the real deal, you’re doing it right, you’re going to another town, another state. Not that there’s anything wrong. I’m just saying like Yeah.

You’re like doing like just, you know, I don’t know. You’re not taking a gap year, which I never I hate it when the people say that. Sorry. Quick, I just quit soapbox. I don’t like the term gap year because, like, it implies the expectation is everyone’s going to college or must go to college and and you have to explain why you’re not going directly into college.

I find that offensive for me personally when I hear that that when I hear kids say that because I know that’s the acceptable term, but I feel like it’s, like, their way of explaining, like, oh, well, I mean, I’m not dumb. I’m gonna go to college. I’m just taking a gap year. And I’m just like, yeah, you’re just getting experience. Like, that’s invaluable as well.

Not not that I not that you didn’t take a gap year. Oh, if I took a gap year, I would not go to school. Well, okay. So I have to. We know what she’s gonna be doing.

We’ve talked about it. Okay. Yachting. Oh. Oh.

Yeah. That’s seasonally. That’s not gap year type of stuff. That’s seasonally. That’s below deck.

Yeah. Catch me down under. Well, you guys. Yeah. What you can do, you can still check, catch up with her on you won’t you won’t have time to watch below deck, Olivia.

I’m sorry. No. She will. That’s it. Oh, I’m caught up.

I didn’t actually know that they’re still releasing episodes for that one. I know. I was like, we’re nowhere near the end. Yeah. Well, I’m on the last charter.

So Well, okay. Yeah. Another one that I don’t watch. So sorry. Yeah.

You’re losing someone to talk. You know? I’m still alive. I know. I’m just saying okay.

You can do that Well, it’s like Apple share thing. No one’s ever done that. Like the party where you watch at the same time? Yeah. No one’s ever done it because it really doesn’t make sense.

Yeah. Why do we have to watch the exact same second? I’d almost rather just, like, send voice memos back and forth or something. I don’t feel like I don’t need to I had that one segment on what I wanted Tim Cook to do for my iPhone and my glasses in the bigger font. Remember?

Maybe we started a new segment called Apple try again or something. Because that whole, like, oh, you can watch a show and then pops up on someone else’s Apple TV. You go watch together. And when one of you pauses and I’m like I hate that. Initially, like, that’s cool.

And you’re like, I can barely watch a show with someone in my own home, let alone someone in another time zone. Like, oh, hey, I’ll call my sister, hey, I’m gonna watch a show. It’s eleven. I know it’s 3AM. Turn on your Apple TV.

Turn on your Apple TV. We’ll watch it together. I get to see her be like, I’m sorry. What is going on? Like, yeah.

I know. It’s really fun. So that one sounds cool. It’s a nice feature, but it’s not a selling feature. But I feel like they’re all all, oh, but it’s like, yeah.

Okay. If you’re ever again never done it, we’re gonna do it, Olivia. One time, we’re gonna do this dumb whatever. Alright. You’re gonna put it on your phone, I guess.

I don’t know. I’ll bring my Apple TV. Okay. Oh, yeah. Plug it into who knows?

Is it is there a TV in your dorm room? No. We’ll have to, like, figure that out when I see my roommate. Just hold your Apple TV there. I’m watching with my dad.

Well, I’ll plug it in. She can use it. Honestly, you’ll probably just end up using your tablet. Yeah. Your My padlet.

Your trademark. Your padlet to watch. Your padlet to pad. Or your phone or your phone, honestly. Like Your toplit.

Top Yeah. Your note toplit. Okay. Well, I’ll work on that. I mean, we’re gonna workshop it later, not on it.

Okay. Okay. We’ll circle that. We’ll circle that. We’ll circle that.

It’s been a good show. Thanks for joining us, Olivia. Sorry. Thanks for having me, folks. I’m excited for we’ll be reporting on your school fun.

Probably not. We say a lot of things that we never do. I mean, I do. Follow-up on? So yeah.

Okay. And by the way, that new opening song we never talked about is okay. That’s a AI generated piece of whatever. So Piece of whatever. Yeah.

I love it. We went through so many, and I was like, that one. Okay. Well Alright. Is that the outro as well?

Well, it will be. But, usually, I have to say, you know, we have to be like, hey. Hit it. Oh. Oh, okay.

Well, you could do that because she goes bye, and I’m just like, oh, this Scarlet and Mitchell. Okay. Well, this has been Doing the Most with Scarlet And Mitchell. And Olivia. And thanks for having us.

Thanks for listening. Bye. Hit it.