Mitchell
Welcome back. Episode 19. That’s right. A little hiatus there, but we’re back. We’re back.

If you’re our son, you sing along. Yeah, he loves this song. If you know the word. Yeah. Barely begin. Oh. And barely end. Oh, yeah. Doing the most. All right. So as we move in, I don’t know if we have to make everyone sit through the whole song, but hey, it’s a catchy little AI number. I think we’re supposed to tell people when we have AI.

Scarlet
Oh.

Mitchell
I don’t know. Whenever. This is episode 19. We took last week off. Well, no, last episode two weeks. It’s been like a month. Really, yeah. It has been a month.

Scarlet
Sorry, guys. Yeah, I mean. Just life gets in the way, you know?

Mitchell
I actually kind of blame you. Doctor’s appointments. I mean, no, I’m not saying, but last time I did concede and said, if you’re not feeling it today.

Scarlet
You had a doctor’s appointment.

Mitchell
Yeah. What was that?

Scarlet
And we had watched The Matrix.

Mitchell
Okay. I mean, there was stuff going on. Fair enough. So we decided to take a two week off. But this is Doing the Most with Scarlet and Mitchell.

Scarlet
We had planned to do it the following week, but I don’t know.

Mitchell
I don’t know.

Scarlet
You were like, oh, let’s do it Tuesday night. But yeah.

Mitchell
Anyway, so this is Doing the Most with Scarlet and Mitchell. or bi-weekly podcast that you can get. Obviously, you got here somehow if you’re listening.

Scarlet
You guys, if I can make enough money to make Mitchell part-time, we’ll try to do this weekly.

Mitchell
Yeah, so can you hurry up on that? And I wanted to say, I told you already, you got a new microphone. The folks, if you watch on YouTube, which if you’re not, you can go watch on YouTube. If you watch on YouTube, you can. Sorry, I’m turning my headphones up. You can watch along if you’re just listening. There is a video version of this. And you can see what wonderful people we really are. Oh, I didn’t even check to see if my mouth was still blue.

Scarlet
No, you’re good.

Mitchell
Okay. I mean, okay. It looked like I had been eating a bunch of poppy seeds or something from that smoothie. Smoothie. We’ll get there. Okay. We’ve talked about Revive before, but this podcast, and everyone’s like, well, what’s your podcast about? It’s just entertainment. Sorry, it does sound aggressive. It’s just entertainment. It’s just entertainment. It’s just, I mean, I’m saying. How dare you ask? If you made it this far. We are just a couple of nurses, and we have kids and cats and two tons of stuff, and we just do a podcast. It’s my creative outlet. It’s your, I don’t know. It’s your chore. I’m kidding. It’s your biweekly chore that you get a chance to complain about something. Not about the podcast, but you get the chance to complain about something, and that’s that.

Scarlet
And maybe we’ll share some grievances with people.

Mitchell
Yeah. And if you, oh, and by the way, I forgot to mention, I should, I never, okay. Someone left a comment on the scarletmitchell.com on last week’s episode. I should have had that up.

Scarlet
A month ago.

Mitchell
Yeah, a month ago. I can pull that up at some point when you’re talking and I’m ignoring you.

Scarlet
Okay.

Mitchell
But this week.

Scarlet
Well, I am having a cup of good earth tea.

Mitchell
I didn’t go with tea today. I’ll tell you why. Because I am already sweating in here.

Scarlet
Okay.

Mitchell
Because this takes a lot of work to get this studio together. Usually, I told you, it depresses me.

Scarlet
Look, you know how the teas come with a little saying?

Mitchell
Oh.

Scarlet
Some of them.

Mitchell
Are they doing that? Because yogi teas always had like a little like.

Scarlet
Have they not always done that? Maybe not. But mine says today, life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here, we should dance.

Mitchell
Okay.

Scarlet
And guess what I did today?

Mitchell
You danced.

Scarlet
I saw you. I did. I did a little 20-minute Apple workout thing. And you know what they say. That was dancing. Just because it, I don’t know, I’m just kind of into the dancing right now. We all go in phases, and right now I’m into the dancing workouts because they’re fun. What was funny was… I’m terrible at it, but it’s fun.

Mitchell
There was a lot more, the guy was doing a lot of talking, and the music was low during that, which I thought is probably true, because, or can you adjust that on Apple Fitness? I don’t think so.

Scarlet
But yeah, you’re right.

Mitchell
I just listened, and I could hear like, and four, and three, we’re going to step it back, and two, and one, two, step it back. I don’t know, pounding out. I don’t know if that’s what he said. But there was a variety of things that were getting mentioned there. So, anyway.

Scarlet
Is that bad? Like, do you enjoy that?

Mitchell
No, no. It was like, it made sense. At first, I was like, can you hear the music? And then I was like, well, technically, can people at home hear the rain?

Scarlet
The Oregon weather is really weathering today. Like, it is all over the place.

Mitchell
Which, you know, good or bad.

Scarlet
We’ve had some sunshine. We’ve had wind gusts. Now we’re having…

Mitchell
The wind is usually what takes care of the leaves.

Scarlet
I was about to say existential downpour, but I don’t think… Torrential.

Mitchell
Torrential. Could be existential, depending on where you’re at. Oh, man.

Scarlet
Today, all of today has been existential for me. What a good day. I woke up feeling so positive because yesterday was election day, and I’ll just leave it at that. I woke up feeling very hopeful.

Mitchell
Okay, that’s good. Which makes this now a politically apolitical podcast. Well, I almost want to said, sorry, we could say this guy. Because when people hear this, it will have been a week after. But I was when you said, oh, something about this party there. I was like, well, ain’t no party. You never killed nobody or something like that. The Great Gatsby party. Oh, my gosh. Gag me. Don’t get. Okay. No, we’re not going that route. No. Steve Houston commented. And he just said, hey, I’m reading it. Because people can put comments.

Scarlet
Wait, do I know this guy?

Mitchell
No, I don’t think so. Scarlet at Mitchell.com. You don’t. Hey, Mitchell. Just discovered your new podcast from a random Instagram notification. Because I pumped those out. Great to see you. We are back in front of the microphone again. I have great memories of your previous podcast. Looking forward to getting caught up and following you and Scarlet in real time. I see you have posted 18 episodes, so it must be going well. I have a few comments about some of your topics, But I want to hear more of your discussions before I jump in. You may remember Katie and I as longtime listeners of the Mitch cast. Be well, Steve. So it’s like a former listener has now made it to this one.

Scarlet
I feel a lot of pressure now. I’m just doing this for fun.

Mitchell
And I believe Steve’s actually an RN, as I recall. If I get that wrong, sorry, Steve. I swear he’s an RN. And his wife is, I don’t want to use the term undertaker, But she works in, I think she runs a funeral home. Or she did. And she’s one of those, whatever that person is. Anyway, so look, a little comment there. Just a little wind in your sail today. Oh, my goodness. Thank you. So, but let me just tell you what. I am so tired of this week. Well, many weeks. I am so tired of proving that I am not a robot to the internet. And I know people talk. I was at work the other day. And I was just trying to search and Google insisted on over and over. I did.

Scarlet
You need to show me the stoplights.

Mitchell
I did like 16 of those tests. And I’m not even exaggerating. Maybe more. And I was like, what is going on? I mean, all I thought was one. I think I know what a fire hydrant looks like. Actually, here’s a struggle I have. And maybe I’ve never talked to anyone about this. When it says identify the motorcycles, sometimes I’m like, I get frustrated because I look at them. First, I’m like, well, that’s actually a moped. It’s not a motorcycle. That’s one of the thoughts I have.

Scarlet
I was going to say, does the little corner of that tire actually matter?

Mitchell
Right. No, no. Am I overthinking it? That’s what I thought. The mirror is like, I was like, the mirror is in this square. I was like, I mean, that’s still part of it. But then I get it wrong. And I’m like, oh, am I overthinking it?

Scarlet
I feel like you don’t have to get it perfect. You have to get like just enough of them for it to be like, okay.

Mitchell
But like, sometimes I feel like I’ve done them all and I exclude the person. and I’m like, I’m still a robot and I just get so angry because then I’m over and over. And then it’s like, find a bicycle. Or like, I don’t know. I just get tired.

Scarlet
I feel like those are better though than the…

Mitchell
Oh, the repeating squares ones? Or is it like pick all the crosswalks and then they fade and a new one…

Scarlet
No, I was going to say the letters and numbers that are all like blurry and lowercase capital and like for people who just don’t have good vision acuity. some of those were like i was like this is impossible i’m just logging out well and then

Mitchell
it’s like listen to it and you’re like i’m not at a place where i can listen right now and there’s like four it’s literally if you ever listen it’s like a ghost hunter episode with they’re like you’re like what the heck and then they give me a new one give me a new one you know this one’s no better give me the old i hate those and here is my biggest problem aside from one yeah am i overthinking it oh man those bicycles yeah oh wrong like ah man i get overthinking it maybe maybe i mean i would love to know someone to say yeah actually we want it to be technically every square because i’m in my head i’m imagining a dumb person or a robot going like oh that’s that’s tires barely touching that square that is definitely not part of the motorcycle and i’m like yes it is but here’s my problem if a robot can drive a car by itself and we’ve been in those in arizona or fly a plane you think a robot can’t pick a fire hydrant out of a a cup of a lineup like they’re like yeah like that’s where i don’t understand i would love to know the idea behind this technology this has anyone ever stopped and really questioned it because we all just do it but you ever go like

Scarlet
Or like, why aren’t we evolving to something, I don’t know, different? Well, I guess this is a new thing because before it was the weird, like, blurry numbers and letters and exclamation points.

Mitchell
It’s so stupid, though. It doesn’t make sense. And I used to be in computers, but it just doesn’t make sense to be like, oh, yeah, you know, you’re, you know, who cares if I’m a robot either? Why does that matter? Why are they going to be offended if I’m a robot? Beep, beep, beep. Like, who cares? anyway i just feel like i’m tired i’m so tired of those and at work where we work for some reason some days i don’t know what’s going on but um chrome i can’t even do a google search and i just do that constantly and i’m just sitting there like okay yeah crosswalks buses uh stoplights bridges hills i feel like there’s i feel like the repertoire is pretty small like why don’t they do something more technical like i don’t know um how about uh pick out funny people and then they’ll have like comedians mixed in with other people like i don’t get a robot do that

Scarlet
too hard i feel like not everybody is culturally like i don’t know up to date so but it feels more

Mitchell
like an intelligent okay you’re saying that’s more of an intelligence test which i feel like

Scarlet
Well, it’s more of a, do you even know who these people are?

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
Because not everybody watches comedians or has TVs. Sorry, everybody.

Mitchell
I don’t know. I’m enjoying a clearly Canadian original Mountain Blackberry because I’m not brought to you by clearly Canadian. Clearly, I’m not Canadian, eh? But these were expiring in a day or two. Or Best Buy or whatever that means. Anyway. So, I’ve got another thing. Okay. Do you have an axe? You need to grind. An axe?

Scarlet
I thought of it, and then it totally left me. So, I’m sitting over here kind of freaking out because I can’t remember it now.

Mitchell
I’ve got four weeks of problems. Is this recording over here?

Scarlet
Yeah.

Mitchell
Okay. Sorry. Sorry. Okay. I am going to send you a picture, and hopefully this just works while we’re talking, right? This is going to be a picture I took at work. and then we’re gonna and then i’m gonna tell you my next extra and i will put this for youtube watchers um you can see this on youtube i’ll put it up there but i will have scarlet if you could just describe what you’re seeing how about you paint a picture for the audio uh listener well

Scarlet
i guess that’s what a listener is an audio picture okay it’s a picture of a toilet the the um the seat is up and then there’s a um poster on the wall a printout somebody printed out and typed out please put the toilet seat down because it makes me frown okay and then you have a picture

Mitchell
of the toilet seat up okay well that was okay fair enough now that i took the picture it didn’t the toilet seat ever down didn’t matter oh okay i mean but no so it is like you just said this is a commercial bathroom at a place where I work. And this is a toilet. It’s just your classic. How would you describe this toilet seat? It’s your classic horseshoe industrial toilet seat, right? Nothing special about it. Not an oval, but it has the brake, right? Toilet seat. And then above someone put in a page protector, that sign, which read it one more time. Please put the

Scarlet
toilet seat down because it makes me frown. Okay. I have put way more time and energy and thought

Mitchell
into this whole situation. This restroom, by the way, is what I like to call the number two bathroom at work, right? And it happens as it, right, by management’s offices. I don’t know if that’s why it’s the number two. It’s just out of the way.

Scarlet
It’s not labeled as staff,

Mitchell
but it’s not patient because there’s no call light thing in there, right? But it’s just a little bit off the beaten path, right? But I see that this has been in there for months, and I am so outraged because, one, I have so many questions like, Who is the speaker of the sign?

Scarlet
Who is the speaker?

Mitchell
Yeah, and who is the voice or the speaker? Because they use the term me. They use the term because it makes me frown. So therefore we know it’s a person. It’s not a third person. This is a first person. So who is the speaker supposed to be?

Scarlet
Anybody.

Mitchell
It could be anybody. Well, and the actual grammar says, put the toilet seat down because it makes me frown. And every time I read this, I’m like, I am not going to play part of your sadistic. Like, you want me to make you frown. That’s what they’re saying. That’s their grammar. It literally says, please put the toilet seat down because it makes me frown. So I’m like, this is weird. It’s like someone saying, hey, why don’t you strangle me a little bit? Because it makes me sad. Yeah, like it’s like this is where your ear tastes me. Because it lacks correct. Well, if the message, that’s again, if the speaker is just someone who’s like, hey, Put it down. It makes me frown. I’m like, I’m sorry. I don’t want to make anyone frown. As you recall, I said when I started nursing, one of the only goals I ever had was I want to make someone smile every day as a nurse since a nursing school. And now someone’s telling me, put the toilet seat down because it makes me frown. And I like frowning. Ooh, frowning makes me goo. And I just want to be like, I’m not being a part of making you frown. So you leave it up? So I specifically, here’s the deal. I normally always put the toilet seat down. I always do. Even if I’ve lifted up, if I’m a male urinating. Well, I mean, it doesn’t matter. I lift it up if I’m standing and I put it down when I’m done and I flush. I do that at home. I do that at work, except in that bathroom. No matter what I do, that seat goes back up because I am not participating in somebody. What do you read? Is that my, yes, I’ve overthought this. I kid you not, I put hours into this every time I go in the bathroom. I get angry because I’m like, do they want to say, otherwise it makes me frown? Because it literally says, please put the toilet seat down because it makes me frown. Is it otherwise it makes me frown? Or are they trying to do something stupid where they’re like, oh, the toilet seat shapes kind of like a smile when it’s up. But when you put it down, it makes a frowny face, which is also stupid. But that, I mean, that’s why I’m like, no, I don’t think they went that far. I have thought about this so many times.

Scarlet
Just take the sign down and put your own sign in there.

Mitchell
Which is just, well, here’s, okay, but here’s the bigger picture here. The bigger picture on this is, aside from the fact that I wasted so many hours of my life thinking about this because I hate it. So I just want to find the person and say, what’s your goal? I’m not making you frown.

Scarlet
What if it was like a boss or something?

Mitchell
I would just be like, why don’t you write it correctly? Write it in a way that makes your intent clear. Because I am not going to make you frown. That’s not my goal. I’m going to leave it up every time. Which, I don’t know. Does it inversely make you happy? I don’t know. But I’m not going to participate in this sadism or masochism. I don’t know which one it is. I’m not going to be a part of this whole thing. Okay. But here’s the bigger thought is this. Because I’ve seen similar, not this sign. And another place I worked, it had a sign put on the door of the men’s restroom, on the back of the door. So when you were exiting the men’s restroom, there was a sign that just said something like, please wash your hands before returning to work. And in this same situation, I thought, who is this sign really for? Because I hate to tell you this, nobody started exiting that restroom after leaving a fecal matter and getting done and walking to the door and saw that sign wash your hands and went oh yeah shoo totally forgot thank you sign didn’t wash my hands i’m gonna walk all the way back in and wash my hands who is the sign for is what i’m getting at because the people who put the toilet seat down already because they’re just i don’t want to make this there’s because that’s what they do that sign is not for them they already do it and if the people who don’t put the toilet seat down And guess what? That sign didn’t do anything. It just was like, there’s so many things in life that are like this. The sign is the people who need the sign are already checked out to that thing. Does that make sense? And I, this irritates me in life. I can tell. It’s the no smoking sign. The people who get it aren’t actually smoking. And the people who ignore it, they actually don’t see it. Or they’re not, they’re so inconsiderate that they don’t. That’s why I’m saying like, what was the poster of this sign? What was their goal? To suddenly change someone’s behavior? To suddenly, I went in there and I was a seat lever upper, but thanks to this sign, I have now changed my whole life. It’s like going to Facebook and getting a whole new political opinion. It hasn’t happened. It’s never going to happen. Stop it, people. So these stupid signs, stop it. If you know who posted this, anyone, I would love to talk to this person. Point them to this episode because it doesn’t make sense. Sorry. Pretty hot about this sign.

Scarlet
I definitely can’t remember my thing now.

Mitchell
Seeing that sign again made me so angry because I just want to scream. It’s not like I’m, but you know what? It’s now elicited me. I have to remind myself to put it up. I will go flush and put it down. And I started in my voice right now, not in this bathroom. Put that thing up. And I’m always hoping someone will be like, I saw that guy going there. That’s the guy that’s leaving it up. And I’m going to be like, I’m the guy not putting frowns on people’s faces. That’s who I am.

Scarlet
Okay.

Mitchell
Oh, how did you get that out? Do you feel better? I poop you not. I have been thinking about that for a long, long, long time.

Scarlet
Talking about toilets.

Mitchell
Well, okay, because one more sign. I didn’t take a picture of it. I might have a picture of a sign in that same bathroom. There’s a sign in that bathroom, laminated, and it says, please do not flush the following items. And it has like tape, gauze, band-aids, dental floss, just a few other items, right? And there’s one of these in another bathroom. And someone wrote on the other one, and gloves, duh. Now, all I think about is when I see a sign like that, I’m like, well, shouldn’t it also include auto parts? Should we not? I mean, we shouldn’t be flushing auto parts. Am I correct? Auto parts. So, well, I actually probably shouldn’t flush.

Scarlet
I mean, I think you should just say, please flush only toilet paper.

Mitchell
Oh, wait a minute. So you are, that’s so smart. You’ve decided that instead of making an exhaustive list of everything we shouldn’t flush, if it’s signed, just said, please only flush toilet paper, liquid, and solid human waste. I think that’s those three. I’m just saying. Yeah. If you said those two. Only flush those items. And then you don’t have to make a sign that says, and gloves, duh. And auto parts. And pianos.

Scarlet
And groceries.

Mitchell
And grocery bags. So what I wanted to do, because I have so much time in my life, is I wanted to make a sign that I want to take. You know, I’m really good at recreating exact replicas of things, like printed stuff. Like I’ve wanted to recreate the sign, but add in just one extra line and put auto parts on it.

Scarlet
Oh, I remembered my thing now.

Mitchell
Okay.

Scarlet
Go ahead.

Mitchell
And then laminate it and just replace it and see how long before. And then over a course of weeks, just keep re-putting up the new sign with one more new item. You know, mugs. you know coffee makers just like making it really absurd to where someone is like because you’re sitting there going like why do we need a reminder yeah and then someone’s like well fair enough probably should right now so that’s just another dumb sign elephant that is like so or i wanted to take an auto part and leave it in the bathroom with the lid up and just leave the auto part sitting in the toilet that will never flush and then someone i could make the joke when they’re Did you hear about that? Like, well, is there a sign that says no auto parts? Anyway, you remembered your thing.

Scarlet
Yeah.

Mitchell
Or did I make you forget?

Scarlet
No, I’m so tired of daylight savings time.

Mitchell
Oh.

Scarlet
Every year, it comes around twice. And this year, I totally forgot.

Mitchell
Well.

Scarlet
Woke up to go to work. Got an extra hour of sleep, thank goodness, because I remember I didn’t sleep so great. Right. Come downstairs and I look at the clocks and I’m like, that’s so weird. Why did Mitchell, like, did Mitchell accidentally bump the clocks last night on both the stove and the microwave?

Mitchell
I mean, that would be pretty.

Scarlet
But the Alexa clock is right. My phone’s right. Well. And I just totally forgot. And then for me in Oregon, it’s especially bad because when I go to work, it’s dark. And when I come home from work, it’s dark.

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
When I’m going to work at 4.30, I was waiting for you to be like.

Mitchell
No, I know. Even though you start working.

Scarlet
4.50, 5.

Mitchell
4.55 for your work that starts at 5.

Scarlet
It’s dark.

Mitchell
25.

Scarlet
When I drive home around between 5 and 5.30, it’s dark. And I just feel like we don’t need this anymore. We’re not farmers. we’re not we’re not like a farming people and i think that’s why it exists if i’m not mistaken

Mitchell
it’s i’ve heard different arguments now had i known you were going to do this i might have

Scarlet
researched it however but we’re going to do some research and get back to you right right but so

Mitchell
daylight saving times actually is between march and november that’s when we’re in daylight say

Scarlet
they were we’re saving daylight at that point well in the pacific northwest it is just the worst So it’s the most depressing period months of the year because thanks to daylight savings time, it is dark all the time.

Mitchell
There ain’t no.

Scarlet
If I’m at work, like I barely see daylight at work. But like, you know, it’s like to me, it’s dark. And then even then, like right now, it’s 320. Yeah. And like, you know, I’m looking up there. And on a summer day, this would be 830.

Mitchell
Yeah. You know? It’s, I don’t know. I’ve heard different theories. Someone’s probably listening. I know. So I won’t belabor it. But I once heard, yeah, the idea was like, oh, is it an energy savings thing? Because they’re like, oh, people consume less energy. This is one theory that I’ve never checked. I thought that at some point in like the 60s or some dumb point in time, someone’s like, oh, we should, if we do it, people, which doesn’t make sense because it’s like, well, Well, just because I got up, am I not turning the lights on? I don’t understand the theory. If it has anything to do with…

Scarlet
Okay.

Mitchell
Oh.

Scarlet
Just a quick little Google AI overview. The purpose of daylight saving time is to make better use of natural daylight historically to conserve energy by shifting daylight to the evening hours. Well, we’re not doing that here. and you’re assuming that every place gets the same amount of light. You know, we’re higher up north. This is so stupid. I’m so tired of this. It doesn’t make sense either. The practice originated during World War I to save fuel and power for light. We’re still living in the days of the 1920s? Are you kidding me? This is how much we suck sometimes as a lack of progressive society that we can’t even get rid of this. Because it’s like we’re so set in our ways about, well, we’ve always had daylight savings time. So why get rid of it now? No, just get rid of it. We don’t need it. You’re giving me less sunlight in the wintertime in the Pacific Northwest.

Mitchell
I did not know there was a World War I. That’s news to me. how did we do well yeah it doesn’t because so here and if you’re in the pacific northwest you or even higher alaska right but because now when it was getting dark here at 5 30 p.m now it’s getting dark at 4 30 p.m which doesn’t make sense because now we’re we didn’t it didn’t matter i’m still turning the lights on when i came home whether it was 4 30 or 5 30 right it was already dark so it doesn’t really it doesn’t pan out it doesn’t something smells and by the way arizona doesn’t do it i think there’s another place in the u.s good for them arizona why are the rest of us not catching up i don’t know it’s the dumbest yeah so there’s been no they’ve tried many times they whoever they is they them yeah not you but who’s they uh they have attempted to get rid of it or like roll it back or something it makes no sense now so now in okay but here’s the deal though but i would want to be on the summertime time forever yeah like even though that’s yeah you

Scarlet
didn’t need you didn’t need to spring me forward i didn’t i or i didn’t need to fall back right

Mitchell
yeah i didn’t need that summer getting light at you know sunrise at 5 15 a.m yeah if it was four that would be horrible so i think we need whatever that is just stick in that zone and then we get to this time of year and it’s like yeah so what if the sun don’t come up till 8 45 in the morning i don’t care at least it’s not dark at 3 p.m like it’s just yeah it doesn’t pan out i don’t and and then the further down you go anyways there’s my axe to grind i mean most of the united states hawaii but they don’t and they don’t list arizona yeah arizona does not With the exception of the Navajo Nation. Now, why are they doing that? Anyways, that doesn’t make sense. Well, I’m sorry. Yeah. No, this… Yeah. And what they don’t think about, this is also… I think it’s a valid complaint. They do not think about how this affects children. Our four-year-old…

Scarlet
Oh, my goodness.

Mitchell
He is caught between both worlds because he’s still getting up. His body’s getting up at his old daylight savings time.

Scarlet
We just had him programmed to get up at 8 o’clock. unless he needed to go to the bathroom or something before. We just had him programmed to get up at 8 o’clock with that alarm clock that I got him. He would just sit there and lay in bed and wait for it to turn on, but now he’s just like, it’s 6.30 and I’m awake.

Mitchell
Which is 7.30 old time.

Scarlet
So I get out of bed at 7 now, so thanks a lot of daylight savings.

Mitchell
Yeah, so I don’t think they think how it affects kids. Because we’re keeping him up later thinking this will work out, but he’s still getting up at his olden time. So maybe we should be putting him to bed at 7 p.m. I don’t know the answer. I just know it’s unpleasant.

Scarlet
We talk about this every time.

Mitchell
What?

Scarlet
See, we have to have this conversation every time. Maybe we should be putting him to bed early. Like eventually he just gets used to it.

Mitchell
Well, it’s hard also on us because like, oh, no, we’re going to eat dinner at 3 p.m. I don’t know. What am I? My parents? Oh, I’m sorry, mom and dad. It’s not true. I grew up, we probably ate around 5.30 p.m. And we kind of ate around 6, 6.30, give or take. Because one of us might be coming home from work, and the other one of us might be going, I don’t feel like cooking. Where should we go for dinner? Really guilty. I told you today. That’s only you. I love going out. I love going out.

Scarlet
I know.

Mitchell
It’s a guilty terrible. I love going out, too. It’s bad. It’s what I do.

Scarlet
Even tonight, I was like, oh, Olive Garden has their never-ending pasta.

Mitchell
What?

Scarlet
I’m like, I just had pasta last night.

Mitchell
Yeah, we have a two-ton of salad and spinach. And bread. I just made bread. I just made bread. I haven’t had a chance.

Scarlet
I know. I’m cooking soup tonight.

Mitchell
It is soup. Bread and soup season, not a bad thing. I do love soup season. Someone at work was chatting. I hate to get caught into bread making discussions at work, but sometimes I’ll hear enough and I’m like, oh, I’ve got to just step in here and maybe give a little advice. I’m not saying I’m an expert. I’m not, but I’ve been doing it for off and on 25 years maybe with bread. I always tell people my bread. Have I talked about bread on this show before? Who knows? Oh, probably, yeah.

Scarlet
I’m just saying probably.

Mitchell
Well, was I making bread earlier this year? By the way, we’re coming up if we get, because we started in January of last year. If we were bi-weekly, we’d have 26 episodes. A little behind because we’ve had a few little, you know, hey, we’re working class people here. So what I was going to say is, oh, that I enjoy making bread, but I am very strictly, mostly strictly just flour, water, salt, right? That’s like my jam.

Scarlet
Yeah.

Mitchell
Well, starter. I get you. But you think about that starter that I use is over, I looked at it, it’s like almost a year and a half, more than that old. And it’s been sitting in our fridge. Man, that baby, she’s still giving good. Her name’s Beth.

Scarlet
That was the last one you baked, right?

Mitchell
Yeah. The one we haven’t tried, that’s Beth. That’s the name of the starter.

Scarlet
Usually you name a starter. That’s a year and a half old?

Mitchell
Yeah. Or more.

Scarlet
Wow. Okay.

Mitchell
Some people will hunt down and get one. This is a hundred-year-old starter. And it’s like, that’s fine. I’ve actually cultivated it into a little more of a true sourdough flavor, I think. But that’s that long brewing over time. Anyways, I like the soup and bread season.

Scarlet
Yeah. It’s just like one pot, you know.

Mitchell
It’s easy, easy cleanup. Hot, warm.

Scarlet
Good leftovers.

Mitchell
The bread, hopefully good. Although that darn bread I got the other day was pretty good from the store.

Scarlet
It was good, yeah.

Mitchell
Grand Central.

Scarlet
It’s really soft.

Mitchell
I don’t know how you get to that level. And I don’t know if they’re using conditioners in it, because there’s different things you add to bread. It doesn’t really matter. I’m not going to talk that much about bread, people. Okay. You had some other topics.

Scarlet
Yeah, there were a few firsts for me and Maxi Bear the last couple weeks, And that included our first time trick-or-treating.

Mitchell
Okay.

Scarlet
And our first kid’s birthday party experience.

Mitchell
Did he not go trick-or-treating at three? Probably not.

Scarlet
No.

Mitchell
Probably just dressed him up and took him to grandma’s for a photo op.

Scarlet
Yeah, it was something like that. So this year was the first official. Yeah, because when he was three, he was still, I don’t know. He’s just like so grown up now. When he was three, he was still just a little wobbler toddler.

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
So not really getting it. So, and we went to that neighborhood in Westland that you recommended and it was good. And I just, a lot of respect for the people who just put their candy out on the porch and say, please just take two.

Mitchell
Oh, they’re doing the two.

Scarlet
Yeah.

Mitchell
Because I used to just put an empty bowl out.

Scarlet
Well, one guy had a cannon. He was up on the second floor of his house, and he was using a leaf blower at the top to blow the candy through this tube system he created.

Mitchell
Oh, wow. Yeah.

Scarlet
And then I was like, oh, I’ll hold it. And then Max got mad because he didn’t get to hold the bucket while he was blowing it down the tube.

Mitchell
It was wild. Intricate.

Scarlet
But yeah, I’m an introvert. I don’t need to have social interactions. I don’t crave that. So for me, I was like, Mitchell is definitely coming with me next year, and we are bringing adult beverages. Because I am not loving this. Especially when people want to chit-chat.

Mitchell
So that neighborhood.

Scarlet
You love this? You love it.

Mitchell
Well, I know. That neighborhood, and there’s many of these. That neighborhood is one that’s been cultivated, and it’s slowly changed. But sometimes they have a spook alley, which is like a little simple, scary haunted house. And someone will set it up in the garage. sometimes they’ve done that one there was one house that always had like mold uh wine sometimes they didn’t find that one i know that lady she’d be like oh a little hot chocolate for a little one something for dad uh right you’ve got that group but it’s the idea is that you want to pick a neighborhood that is affluent enough to do these things but yet the houses are still close together i know this sounds really petty or like but it’s just particular because there’s some real nice

Scarlet
areas the trick-or-treat and there are so many options in westline but you’re gonna walk you know

Mitchell
six miles to go to four houses but they’re gonna give you your own box of candy like a box of king size stickers a whole box right there’s that but like you want to hit just the right amount of like these are they’re affluent enough close enough it’s a good neighborhood they’re still got young kids and just pop it in you get it’s a loop i like that one because it’s a loop it’s just

Scarlet
i don’t know it’s just my cousins live there i usually run into my i grew up in the country where you had to drive to other houses to go trick-or-treating. Oh, wow. There was a few houses around where we lived that I could easily walk to, and they did trick. And looking back, I’m like, man, how much business did they get? Because there’s just not a lot of action going on. They were closing up shop. And then it really just turned into a social event for my parents because they’d be like, oh, get in the car, and we’ll go to so-and-so’s house. We drive to so-and-so’s house, and we’re there, And my parents are talking to them for like 20, 25 minutes.

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
And until we get in the car and drive to the next one. So we would get started at like four o’clock in the afternoon. Right. Because we had to like drive to different places. And some years I would go with my friends. And it was a lot of like in the mom and dad’s car, getting out, running up to the house with the porch, whatever house with the porch lights on. But, you know, these houses were not close together the way suburbia is. but no I mean so this was nice just to be able to like park the car get out and walk around but I just I don’t need to like have a human interaction you know for every time you know and Max wants to ring the doorbell and they’re like oh it’s Batman and I’m like okay yeah and not that like there were just a couple of like older people who you know wanted to like started following me down the sidewalk just asking questions and and i’m like okay yeah okay and like what kind of questions i don’t know she was like because max was like i live in oregon and she’s like oh he’s gonna be a smart one and she just like starts asking me questions and walking

Mitchell
where do you guys live what’s your income i know you have venmo i mean uh no it just sounds a little

Scarlet
which now and then like this social anxiety that i carry with me i don’t know i don’t know why i I think just because energy from people kind of sucks my energy dry. And it’s the same thing with the kid’s birthday party.

Mitchell
Oof. Yeah.

Scarlet
And going to this birthday party, I was already like, it didn’t say in the invitation if you needed to bring presents. So I was like, do I? And it was a joint birthday party with two of his classmates from daycare. Yeah. And it was like nothing about please bring a present or gift registry here Or I don’t know. So I was already having anxiety about that. And I’m like, you know what? What would I want? I would want people to bring nothing. Just bring your kids. Have fun with Max.

Mitchell
I thought you did canned goods.

Scarlet
No, I’m saying that is what.

Mitchell
I misunderstood your text. I was just like, oh.

Scarlet
I said.

Mitchell
The kid’s like, a can of corn. Thank you.

Scarlet
No, I said if I were to do this for Max.

Mitchell
Oh, he would do like.

Scarlet
Say like next year. Because we’ve never really had him like a birthday party yet.

Mitchell
It’s an anxiety problem for you.

Scarlet
I know. And then always like a work schedule problem for the both of us. So I’m like, if we, so next year, let’s say he’s five years old. Let’s have his first birthday party, right? And I would be like, please, no gifts. Just bring canned goods and I’ll donate them to the Westland Food Pantry. You know, I would do something like that. But the last thing I want is more crap in my house. I don’t need any more crap. I don’t.

Mitchell
We have a house full of crap.

Scarlet
We have more toys than he could possibly be able to play with. And he goes in phases. And we talked about even for Christmas, probably only getting him one thing. Yeah. I don’t know what it’s going to be. Because when you’re a kid growing up, you’re just bombarded with commercials on TV of the newest and best thing. And now it’s just kind of like they don’t have any exposure to that. So I’m like, I don’t know. I’ll just know when he says something like, oh, I wish I, I don’t know. Or Cameron has this or something like some sort of, you know, they have share toy day on Friday. He’ll come home and talk about some toy another kid had.

Mitchell
Yeah. Or just a book.

Scarlet
Right now, his most favorite thing is his Batman costume.

Mitchell
Yeah. Ooh, you’re going to dress up. slowly build up a dress-up supply. I like that.

Scarlet
We go to this kid’s birthday party, and it’s loud, and it’s busy, and there’s all these parents. I don’t know anybody, and I’m just like, I’m just gonna set Max loose and watch him run around and have fun. And then, of course, the mom knows who I am. She has to come up and talk to me, like small talk. I don’t like small talk. I know that’s what leads to big talk,

Mitchell
but I know it’s not gonna go anywhere.

Scarlet
we’re not gonna be hanging out out beyond like this moment so i’m i don’t know maybe there’s something wrong with me and that’s okay well maybe you’ve already arrived at the

Mitchell
point where you realize that it’s i don’t say pointless because i usually you know me i’m kind

Scarlet
of the opposite totally and i’m socializing so often i’m like i just wish mitchell were here to

Mitchell
like and then i’m like me and the guys and we’re talking we should do that sometime let’s get and do that and we’re all feeling good about it. And then when I’m driving home, I’m like, yeah, that’s probably never going to happen. Because now that I’m lying at the time and not that we’re lying to each other, we’re more hopeful about our lives and our time and things than we ought to be. And when we realize, yeah, I barely can shower some days, let alone go meet somebody and hang out and play board games, which I’d love to do. But I don’t have room in my schedule for anything. Apparently, I mean, I have room for this podcast, but we’re doing it. We’re doing the most with it.

Scarlet
We squeeze it in there.

Mitchell
So maybe kids party. This reminds me, though, of my first trick-or-treating experience that I recall. And I don’t know if I was four, almost five, or five, almost six. I want to say I was four, almost five. Because the reason I say this is because this is where we live in a trailer park. The one time in my life I lived in a trailer park, which I think we lived there for eight or nine months in Knob Noster, Missouri. Hey. So we were, and I remember it was cold. This is the Midwest. I was a, I guess I was a cowboy or a sheriff because this is a classic kid thing. Like I had a tank top that was just happened to have a tank top and it was red. And then like it had like kind of the yellow piping around like spots. And it had like a star on it, like a sheriff star, like I was a sheriff, right? And then I had that, and I might have had a cowboy hat that my mom got me for this. But then I was just all bundled up and like wearing, but I wanted to wear the tank top. But my mom’s like, no, you can’t wear a tank top. It’s, you know, 37 degrees here, and we’re in a tornado alley here. So, but I remember, so we’re trick-or-treating, and I, older siblings, two older siblings, we’re trick-or-treating. And I had, this is back when you would get like the plastic bag and they would have these classic ones that had like a witch and it was like, I don’t know, just like very classic purple, black, orange, yellow. And then the bag, I think it might even have like a plastic handle on the top. Anyways, I have my trick-or-treating bag. We go around all the trailers in our trailer park because that’s, you know, we live in a trailer park. And at some point we’re going and I look and I notice my bag. I was like, that is not much in here, even though my siblings have a ton. Because I’m short enough and the bag’s tall, I had been dragging the bottom on the ground most of the night. And I drug a hole in it and all the candy was slowly coming out. And so there was probably some trail, but it’s like pitch black. It’s a trailer park. Like, you know, you can’t even. They don’t have lights? Well, not until you get to a trailer, right? And even then, it’s just usually like the orange glow of a cigarette or something, right? And so I get back and I’m in tears, old, you know, Big Sheriff Mitchie, you know. I’m in tears because we would always go back and we’d dump our candy out. We all like, you know, would you like kind of organize it? And you’re like, oh, we’ll put all your Reese’s peanut butter cups together. The Biddle honeys go there for the last. I had barely anything. And my mom made my siblings give me begrudgingly some of their candy. And I think I just got like garbage candy from them, which is usually like Biddle honey, which are not bad as an adult.

Scarlet
Tootsie Rolls.

Mitchell
And then those orange and black wrapped, they’re like, it’s like taffy. Yeah. But it’s just like a peanut butter flavor.

Scarlet
Yeah, I know exactly what you’re talking about.

Mitchell
A wax wrapper. Yeah. Like, what was this?

Scarlet
I don’t even think they make them anymore.

Mitchell
They shouldn’t. But so I got like that from my siblings. But here I have a four-year-old just blubbering. But yeah, that was the first one I actually remember doing and the result of that. But you remember your first trick-or-treating other than your generalized, you had to take a car?

Scarlet
I was Tweety Bird. That’s all I remember.

Mitchell
Well, you know, not everyone can be a sheriff.

Scarlet
Yeah.

Mitchell
With their sheriff tank top.

Scarlet
I had like the plastic mask, the little bird costume, zip up bird costume.

Mitchell
See, in my mom, we didn’t do the, growing up to, okay. So, and I don’t think these are around anymore. Very common. I don’t want to make fun of anyone who had one of these growing up, but this is like, they were plastic. It was literally like a plastic outfit. You’ve ever seen this? And then the face would be a plastic molded thing with a white elastic thing. Kind of real cheap. But it could be anything from a Barbie, and then you’d have this plastic. a garbage bag that was white with a print of barbie or whatever it was like those were you get it in a bag i think at walmart never had one of those i know because my mom i don’t say she was above it but or she wasn’t gonna spend money on it i don’t know which one it is mom you have to tell me was it because you were anti-spending it was probably too much money or was it more like she’s

Scarlet
like listen we can do something that’s not a garbage well your mom seems she’s so she made crafty she showed a lot of my yeah exactly she was probably like i can i can make this oh she

Mitchell
will tell stories how i would this i think we’re both exaggerating but she’d be like oh you’d come what day before halloween and say i’m gonna be a robin hood and expect me to sew a robin hood costume and she would and i don’t think it was a day before i had this killer robin hood costume like she did the like it was green and had like uh i had like uh these like the boots were actually like kind of the like a thing that i wore over my leg or my you know in my shoes because we can do real boots it is green and it had the i wore this green cap that was my brother’s from germany but it was like classic like robin hood with a feather in it oh nice why robin hood i have no idea i was zorro one year she made a zorro thing so like i had like the whole mask with the eyes cut out and like a black shirt and one year i did uh she made a silk shirt that was like uh for being a pirate it was like a bright yellow billowy blousey shirt for being a pirate yeah she would sew all sorts of stuff i love that you know we go with that we go and we look at the patterns there oh yes it was like oh we’ll get it oh what are the brands like butterick i think butterick mccall’s boy i wish i remember my pattern brands butterick was one i’m pretty sure it was butterick not beaut and i think anyways and we pick out her pattern when you want to be for halloween this year i could probably think of a few more but yeah she would always make cool and then i would wear the crud out of that costume till i outgrew it not even just for halloween just for dress up playing around the neighborhood from yeah however this does remind me aside no i probably told this story to this podcast once but one time we had in our family probably my brothers essentially it was like a jumpsuit and i want to think it was red corduroy jumpsuit and it was a zip up and it was a dog like clifford the big red dog and it had a you know hood and then floppy ears and it looked like a red i had a tail it was like a red dog though and i feel like my mom wanted me to wear that one year for halloween and i was embarrassed by this costume because it was i don’t know where it came i just embarrassed by it because i don’t know why maybe this because it stupid that it was a hand-me-down and yet though i remember later just wearing it around the neighborhood right so but i was anti-wearing it because i think i felt like it was already used by my brother it was just kind of like you know but i it was embarrassing or something about a one-piece onesie i don’t know the things you as a child interpret is like embarrassing or not but so there you go okay what else you got that’s all i got i saw you got for the well i mean we can wrap it up you know i want to always remind our listeners if you made it this far thank you thank you uh you can follow us on all the socials at less cats please youtube less cats please the channel is actually called doing the most with Scarlet and mitchell on youtube but if you search for the handle less cats please there less cats please instagram tiktok blue sky i never post anything on their ex who cares about that um where else anyways but yeah if you again but youtube and then i post little shorts on instagram clips of videos you don’t have to if you’re not watching this on youtube you get little weirdo clips that i make that i enjoy doing um i want to just mention things that we’ve mentioned before that i’m trying or that we’re on revive superfoods right these are

Scarlet
these this is not a plug but we’re in a smoothie phase you know where it’s like because it’s cold

Mitchell
out and why not right yeah it really was born because i was like man i want something to drink but I was just like, I want it to be healthy. Like, what healthy thing could I drink? And then you contemplate like making a smoothie, and you’re like, I’m not going to keep this number of fruits and vegetables and crud around the house to make a smoothie. Like, that’s not me. So Revive, maybe I’m doing the thing where I ordered the first one, it was half off, and I created a new account. So month two, I got a half off. I think if someone wanted it, they could email or DM us, and I could send them a code that gets them some sort of discount. And a kickback. But that’s not why I’m saying it. I’m just like, I approve. I think normally, though, they’re probably close to seven or eight bucks a smoothie, which we were talking like, is that worth it? In a certain rate, and you just add coconut water, almond milk, whatever. There’s recommended things. I would say I’ve enjoyed most all of them. They’re nice. There’s different kinds. There’s protein ones. There’s ones closer to 300 calories.

Scarlet
And there’s things in smoothies that I would never put in a smoothie because I wouldn’t think about it, like cauliflower.

Mitchell
yeah the one i had today had avocado in it um so uh but like revived superfoods i haven’t tried any other ones but i think so far decent we might have to pause it only because i don’t know how many i don’t i like them as a way too because here’s what i’m getting at doing the most sometimes i’m just tired of you know making food for myself that sounds really no i mean it’s lazy but it’s

Scarlet
just like during the day you’re like i need to make something for lunch yeah i don’t have this

Mitchell
kind of time i got 300 items of garbage to sort through that i’ve only can’t seem to do living in this uh what i’m lately calling i have stuffitis just lots of stuff it’s swelling and this is a theme that’s always ongoing with antibiotics isn’t it yeah it’s redness but haven’t we always talked about that here that we are doing the most and that’s like yeah we haven’t added any vacuum or floor products since the last time we did get another litter robot since the last time which the three but we haven’t opened it i think it’s going back to costco because it was a good deal even though one of our other litter robots that’s a general mess the cats general mess five cats general mess everyone but wonderful cats okay and the last thing was mud water this is strictly your thing this is my thing but it’s a it’s a uh mushroom what do they call it oh functional mushrooms yeah or like you know mushrooms and cacao cacao cacao don’t yawn sorry you’re making me think i’m boring myself probably true um it’s like a mix you do it’s a replace it’s a coffee alternative not a replacement i mean i’ve been drinking it so i haven’t had any coffee for over a month now i and i’ve bought into the mud water thing i actually i’m like it’s Actually, I look forward to it every day after I, if I’m working and I row in the morning, I look forward to mud water. I like, for a while it felt like it was working in a good way with my cortisol levels because that’s, caffeine can be helpful, but can also jack you up. I think I was in a space where I was drinking way too much caffeine. And not because I wanted caffeine, I just like drinking something hot.

Scarlet
I just love the taste of coffee. I’m never giving it up. Don’t you worry about me, listener.

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
I am never giving it up.

Mitchell
No mud water for her. What I’m saying is I… So I drink a lot of tea, too. I just like hot stuff. Which, by the way, that Costco… I’m going to grab that Costco mug.

Scarlet
Glad we’re on a smoothie kick.

Mitchell
Yeah. For all the hot stuff.

Scarlet
Yeah.

Mitchell
It’s a good alternative. The way of getting calories. All right. Well, we don’t have to belabor anymore. We will be back in two weeks.

Scarlet
We will.

Mitchell
Was that actually Thanksgiving week? No. I don’t even know what…

Scarlet
I don’t even know.

Mitchell
12 to 19. No. It’ll be the week before.

Scarlet
Week before, yeah.

Mitchell
It’ll come out on the week of Thanksgiving. It’ll be a turkey special.

Scarlet
And we’re off next week.

Mitchell
Maybe we’ll do a bonus episode to catch up. Catch up.

Scarlet
Mm-hmm.

Mitchell
All right. The Aleve episode. So I think, you know, without any further ado.

Scarlet
Thanks for listening. Yeah. Doing the most with Scarlet. And Mitchell. Bye. Bye.