Welcome back. Episode Okay. I thought we I thought we kinda rehearsed it. Oh. It’ll be like welcome back.

Scarlet. And I’m Mitchell, and we are doing the most. Or is I and this is our podcast. Okay. Now Is it a podcast?

Yeah. Episode eight. No. It’s our it’s our biweekly, fortnightly, chance to talk to each other. Oh, no.

Talk to each other. So, anyway, my hearing thing went out. That’s fine. So welcome back, everybody. We are episode eight.

We got an exciting episode planned for you if you guys are just joining us. This is, I’d like to call the pod we call it doing the most. I feel like it’s just, like, doing the same thing over and over again. Is it For this podcast? In general.

Or life. My like, I’m like every time we start a podcast and if this is your first podcast you’re listening, hey. We are we’re two nurses, but this is not a pod this is not a nursing podcast. We’re just happen to be two nurses who are doing a podcast as a way of connecting to all our each other. Whatever.

Right? And each other. Yeah. So we’re two nurses. We got, like, a crap ton oh oh, sorry.

Pardon my language. A poop ton of vacuums and cats and, we have a blended family, I think they call it. Right? We have our child, three and a half, going on four, and then we have I have four other children, one of which lives with us, a 15 year old boy. So we are a blended family.

Why are you laughing? And what was I even saying? It was like, oh, so doing the same thing over and over over, you were at you’re like, oh, you’re in such a bad mood. You know, okay. Here’s maybe You’ve just had a vibe for, like, three days now.

Yeah. Here is today, here’s how I felt. I was trying to set up. So really quick, I I wish it was plug and play. I wish we just rolled into a, quote, studio and sat down and did this.

And every week, every two weeks, I don’t have to shimmy shuffle two ton of garbage around in the office here, the den, the office, my room, the studio, whatever we’re calling it. Today, it’s a studio, and I have to move everything around. But I’m having one of those those afternoons where everything is it’s not going wrong, but it’s like it’s like you remember those days when you’re, like, trying to text something and, like Nothing’s easy. Yeah. Nothing’s easy.

Everything is hard. Like, when you’re trying to text sometimes and you’re, like, everything you try to text is wrong and you spend all your time recorrecting it, is how I felt. I can’t get everything set up the way I want it to go. I can’t the the computer’s not working today. I’m trying I can’t I can’t read anything.

I’m wearing contacts, and I’m putting my regular glasses on top because I can’t read anything because the contacts aren’t working the way. And I don’t wear contacts enough in there. I’m sorry. I’m angry that these contacts I spent money on this set of contacts, and I never tried them out. We tried a pair out that was right before, and then she was like, the next pair will be even better.

And the pair that I tried out was really good. I bought the next ones, got them, and I’m like, man, these suck. So I have $360 worth of contacts that I don’t use because I don’t like them because I can’t do anything with them. Anyway and then I’m tripping over crap, this yoga block, like, everything is just hard. Do we need to pause?

No. Oh. Why is this I’m sorry. Hey. But now, we’re gonna take the we got we got an exciting episode planned for everybody today.

Do and I say that Around. We’re probably gonna fight at some point. Yeah. And I say exciting because there is no plan to these episodes. It’s as if I already have a crystal ball to know how exciting this episode is, but I do not.

I think that’s just what you’re supposed to say, though. Yeah. You know? Like, oh, because we have our special guest today, nobody. Celebrities visiting our show, none.

We’re too good for special guests right now. So, yeah, we’re not accepting. We are turning down a lot of offers from the same people at work. I wanna be on your show. You don’t even listen.

Yeah. You have to listen. Yeah. You have to listen. And I didn’t even look to hear if that weird sound was there, but, anyways No.

It’s fine. We’re just gonna roll with it. You know what? Just let go. We’re gonna pull an Elsa here of the old Frozen.

Let it go. Let it go. Let it go. Let it go. So lots of exciting stuff today.

I didn’t even look to see if I’m super fan Cathy. I’m not saying she did or didn’t write on that. Have you looked at You know we have a website. Yeah. What is it?

Scarletandmitchell.com. Okay. Whew. And you can anyone can leave comments on any show. Right?

Yes. Okay. And super fan Kathy, always leaving comments. Not always, but frequently, not putting pressure. Thank you.

I just wanna acknowledge her. And if she put a comment there reading the best. Recently, then I’m sorry, Kathy. Too much pressure. Moving on.

Yeah. We’re really busy. So, like, I just yeah. We’re just and then I feel like I’m doing the same thing. I’m complaining about the same stuff.

So I’m trying to start fresh with this episode. Yeah. Turning it around. Turn this afternoon around Okay. Right now, baby.

Starting with real quick. I often think of improvements for things. Right? You know, I’m like, hey. I can make this better.

My iPhone improvement tips for Apple, because I know Tim Cook probably listens to this show, and or somebody at Apple. Two quick things. One, I would like the space bar on the iPhone when I am texting, I am tired of every letter b or becoming a space. Like, and the phone’s not smart enough to know I don’t want a space. There’s a whole bunch of space below the space bar.

Just move the space bar down into that space, put a space between the space bar and the rest of the keyboard, problem solve, genius America, groundbreaking news. You’re not gonna hit the space bar at the wrong time anymore because I’m tired of it. Do you do that? It’s just me. I I don’t think not enough to, like, be angry about it.

But Really? I mean, I literally I’m pulling on my iPhone now because I wanna, like I have tiny fingers. Well, I have sausage long fingers. I have sausagey fingers. I just feel like when I go to type, like, the the letter b, I don’t know why I’m using b so much in my language, but, like, I often will hit a b or I’m gonna I or here’s the other thing.

You you’re typing in you’re trying to do spaces, and it keeps putting dots or whatever. I’m just tired. The spruce bar, just move it down. There is space to move it down. Tim Cook, get on this.

Easy win. Okay. Second improvement. Oh, I’m still I’m turning this around. When you’re listening to a podcast, this just came to me today.

What if you while you were listening, you could hit a thing and you could pause it and literally speak a feedback or an audio comment. You could do it right into the podcast app. You could speak it and say something or whatever and respond to the host and then unpause it. Like, just a little quick feedback because you know what? Nobody wants to take time to write feedback except for one person.

Nobody wants to send in an email. Nobody’s gonna do anything. But if you’re listening and you could talk right back to it, you know, you’re like, oh, hold on. You guys got this all wrong. Like, they’re listening.

They’re like, you guys got this all wrong. The space bar needs to move up higher. And then it would come in and send that into us. Boom. You don’t like the idea?

I guess I just wouldn’t really use it. What? You don’t ever listen to podcasts? Anyone else’s? I know Yeah.

I know I’m the only one that listens to hours over. I relive it because it’s always, like, it makes me happy. Well, and you have to edit it. Yeah. So anyways, there you go.

That really wasn’t the point of today’s today’s episode brought to you by improvements to the iPhone. Okay. Do you have an axe to grind? Axe or anything to grind this week? You look so forlorn because you’re looking at me like you’re like my husband is coming unraveled.

Well, I’ve been feeling that for, like, three days now. I’m sorry. I don’t know what’s going on. What is the stars in alignment tell us? There was a full moon.

Yeah. Wow. That was last Saturday ish. Or I mean, that’s and today is Oh, that’s right. Because that’s when you Well, no.

Okay. Yeah. No. Probably not. We can talk about that later if you want to.

Where’s time? Really, what was on my mind is this. Well, you have any yeah. Like, I was thinking recently, we thought we were talking about dentists. Right?

And we you’re, like, still don’t know. Yeah. And the world’s crappiest dental insurance. Well GEHA I call it not sponsored by I call it GEHA. I’ve always called it GEHA.

But then at the dentist, they were like, oh, you have GEHA because it’s something employees It’s government employees Oh, government employees. Health alliance or health Something. Health something. Yeah. Because they but I call it GEHA.

I think that’s much more fun than GEHA. You know, like GEHA. Anyways, I we have ghee hall. But here’s what I’m saying. Like, we know we know that, if you don’t go to the dentist, you don’t actually have dental problems generally.

And the moment you go to the dentist, you find out you’ve got a mouthful of holes or or worse. Like, is this I mean, when’s the last time you okay. Prior you recently went to the dentist. Before that, do you even know the last time? Oh my gosh.

Ever during our relationship? Yeah. So Gee Hawley. Twenty sixteen. Mhmm.

So oh my gosh. Nine years? Was it wait. No. ’27 we graduated nursing school 2017.

Yeah. It had to be 2016. I’m feeling like it was 2016. So it would have been almost ten years. And Yeah.

American Dental Association recommends something. And I don’t know why I’m complaining because, first of all, I did this to myself. Fair enough. Second of all, my dad was self employed. I felt like growing up, I was at the dentist, like, once a month.

Oh. It I mean, I wasn’t, but it felt that way. Maybe he was paying for insurance, and he was like, we’re getting every penny out of it. I don’t think so. I think it was all out of pocket.

Oh. Because Yeah. I don’t know. And he did a lot of like, work for the dentist to Well, he has He still is. I know he’s still building his new kitchen or whatever.

I don’t know. So because we grew up with well water, We didn’t have Florida in our water. I don’t know why my parents were so religious about getting us to the dentist, but my mom was very, I don’t know. I had to have a retainer for my lower teeth because they were all crowded. So I think I had to go back a lot for that.

And Yeah. I don’t know. I just I felt like I was at the dentist a lot. I got very good dental care growing up. My mom made sure of that.

And then and then you get out and you get, like, you’re on your own and you’re just like, I don’t know. You’re just like, oh, I’m it’s probably fine. Like, I’m not having any current problems. Yeah. And then I’m starting I’m not having any problems right now, but I was like, okay, it’s been eight or nine years.

It’s time to go. Yeah. And I don’t even know, like What sparked it or Right. You were just like, you know what? I’m My husband is I’ve been the insurance carrier for our family.

Yeah. And we’ve been paying for it, and we haven’t been using it for years, ever since we started working. Never used it. So It’s we I pay it for a peace of mind. I know.

I don’t know what So and and until your daughter had her accident, and then I was like, we oh, shoot. We have to establish care somewhere. Luckily, we had insurance, so it knocked the cost down to $900. Yeah. So I went to the dentist for the first time in eight or nine years, had my teeth checked.

I have a small mouth. It’s all uncomfortable. My jaw gets tired from being open for so long. I really hate it. Mhmm.

Which I’m not like that. I’m not like, I don’t wanna go to the doctor needles and this and that. I’m in health care. Like, no. I just but I really hate it.

I hate the sound of the scraping. I hate the sound of the drilling. I hate the aggressive flossing. I hate Oh, I got a story about that. All of it.

Oh, sorry. All of it. And one time when I was growing up a dental hygienist, like, was so aggressive with my teeth that, like, my gums were so red and inflamed for, like, two days. And she ended up losing her job because my mom went back and she was like, this lady is piece of crap. And Woah.

Yeah. My mom was that mom. So Well Yeah. She was but so I don’t know. Like, maybe I’m a little traumatized, but I just really am not a fan of the dentist.

So long story short, I have eight cavities. Mhmm. Nice work. Nice work. We’re gonna get the in short we’re gonna get the out of the box.

More times. Yeah. Well, I feel like for me, it’s like this. I just got my haircut recently. And you know what?

And I we talked about maybe. It doesn’t matter if we did, but, like, it was it’s a thirty minute appointment now. It’s not the old one where I got forty five minutes. But now, even getting my haircut and it’s close. It is a nine minute drive, and I am still like like, oh, man.

It’s taking all the time out of my day. I gotta go get my haircut. That’s how I feel about all appointments now. Like I’m I’m not like an old person. You know, we’re not like retired people where it’s like, all I have to do is go to the doctor and the dentist like your parents.

Like, no That’s like a day off of my time and I’m super introverted and going and having that much Personal contact with another person even if you don’t talk to them They’re still getting pretty up close and intimate with you. Like, they’ve seen more of my mouth than you have. I know. Which I’ve I’ve never And I’m like, I gotta go come home and take a nap. I didn’t even know you had teeth.

That’s why I was like, she doesn’t go to the dentist. I don’t I’ve never seen the inside here. Even brushing? Why she have two why does she have seven tubes of toothpaste? Why does she have two electric toothbrushes?

The term was nine or 10 tubes. But, yeah, three toothbrushes. But yeah. So well, okay. I grew up too with my mother worked for dentist, oh, when I was in middle school and through high school.

She worked as a receptionist at dental offices. So I’ve been through a lot of dentists. I always got good dental care and never really worried. I remember my very first time at the dentist as a little kid. And I went it’s like, this is the eighties wood paneling in the dental office?

You know, like, the dark walnut wood stuff? That was the style then. And I remember I had a cavity, and it was really, you know, with that baby tooth. I don’t know. Primary tooth, excuse me.

Not the greatest, thing, but I didn’t have I’ve not had a lot of cavities over time. Like, maybe. Well, we’ll see how your visit goes in June. Well, if I make it because I might have to cancel. It’s gonna cut into my day.

You know? So anyways, so I had good dental care, and I’ve had some, you know, whatever. I’ve been I went to I didn’t have a cavity, did I not, recently when I was at Kaiser? Anyways, that doesn’t matter. If you did, you lied to me about it.

Oh, probably. I didn’t wanna admit to anyone. However, because there’s that hold on. I never had a cavity in my life. Well, growing up, pretty pretty rigorous dental care, personal hygiene as a kid, like Yeah.

Why don’t parents we’re so good at, like, getting out of his dental care. Morning, brushing at night. I would have the Waterpik, floss not as much, but I always had the Waterpik, you know, like, well, and then you’re like, oh, I keep my breath minty fresh for the ladies at school. Just in general, really, into that. And then some point as an adult, you’re just like, yeah, I brush them before I go to bed, sometimes.

And I brush them before I go to work. That’s I for sure brush them before work. I for sure brush them before I go to work. At night, you’re, like, lazy and you’re tired, and you’re like, I don’t have the two minutes to go let an electric toothbrush do all the work. I used to be like before the I didn’t have electric toothbrush growing up.

I would brush my hand, and I would walk around because I would brush for so long, like five, six minutes, like hand manual brushing. What do we call it now? Just normal toothbrushing. Like, With your hand. Yeah.

Now, if I have to hold if I have to do that, my arm gets tired. I’m, like, trying to support it with the other arm. I’m just like, man, this is the worst. Like, they have to actually move your hand to brush your teeth. It’s terrible.

Have I know you every now I know you mix it up. You got a little manual or automatic? It depends on how much time I have. If I’m just, like, looking for a quick Mhmm. Little swizzle, then I’ll just go with the manual and just be like, you know what?

This is better than nothing. I call it a knockdown. Sometimes I’ll do a manual and it’s just dry, but it’s just like, I’m just gonna do a quick knockdown, kinda, water wrench rinse if I because sometimes you’re gonna eat something like, I don’t need, you know, like, I don’t need classic, you know, orange juice after brushing your teeth when you’re in school if you ever did that. You’re like, oh. Oh, yeah.

Because I here’s a good question. Some people were growing up. It was like, I would brush my teeth, then you go down and you eat and get ready for school. And then I don’t think I did that. Usually, it was, like, one of the last things I did before I left is I’d have whatever.

But I don’t like to brush my teeth, like, right after you eat because I feel like the tooth brushing is just not as good. Like, you haven’t had a chance your mouth hasn’t had a chance for the enzymes to start breaking it down, the food to get out. So when you’re brushing them fresh after you ate something, it just doesn’t feel as clean to me. And then but the other thing is, like, we admit, I mean, don’t people don’t look down on us. Oh, brush my teeth, and I’ll go down and start drinking my coffee.

But it’s like, I gotta get the film off from the night before Yeah. And then start reapplying new film, right, with the coffee. But Or sometimes I’ll wait till after I have my coffee. But Oh, but okay. So you remind me I don’t have to talk we’re not here to talk about dentals, but that’s it’s on my list.

It’s the only thing on my list. But you mentioned so one time I was in, I’m gonna say, eighth grade freshman year. And I had gone to the dentist where my mother worked. And she and it was the the hygienist was doing the cleaning, and I remember she was like, oh, she’s really thorough. And I’d had her before.

I think it was her name was Amy? Doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. But she I just remember she had really large pores, which probably where my pores are now. But I remember that.

Right? And she did a pretty good job. And then that evening, I was at my friend’s house. Doesn’t matter the names, but I know all the names first and last. And we had ordered round table pizza, and it was delivered.

And I could not bite the pizza. Like, I couldn’t bite my mouth, not my gum, like, my teeth were so sore and tender. I couldn’t bite the pizza. Your teeth or your gums? Well, it was like not the the gum well, the teeth sit on, like, almost shock absorbers as they sit in your mouth.

Well, whatever it was when I but it wasn’t my gums hurting. It was my whole mouth just hurt when I bit. Does that make sense? So applying pressure on my teeth hurt. Like, it hurt in a way that probably, you know, dramatic, you know Mhmm.

13 year old me. But I, I I was in tears. I was literally crying because I was so hungry. And I I loved this round table pizza pepperoni. I was so excited about it.

Yeah. I couldn’t bite it. And my friends were all laughing at me, making fun of me. Same group of friends that when I was choking on a apple, they all laughed at me when I was slowly fading out. Gotta love those teenage boys.

But I was so angry. And I was ever I was like, always, always, like, never again. I was gun shy for getting that cleaning after that because I thought I can’t afford to have Yeah. They can be so traumatizing if you have a bad hygienist. So anyway, any hygienist out there, hey, you know, and you know, I get it, you know, that, that, you know, forty minutes of oral hygiene that I do to make up for years of abuse right before you go to the dentist probably isn’t how I my teeth like three I brushed my teeth in the shower that morning.

I brushed my teeth after I had my coffee, and then I think I did, like, a little manual brushing, like, right So the trauma is probably from me. And let me tell you, it did not get rid of those cavities. Yeah. You were probably traumatizing your own mouth if you had any issues. Like, that’s what happened.

So I don’t know. Anyway I do appreciate that they did not go in with the manual floss because they had that really aggressive Waterpik, like, really aggressive. No, it’s like water pick. Some of them that they have will have a little bit of a grit in it that it’s like a sandblaster. Yeah, it must have been but like nothing would make me angrier than when you’re at the end of a dental cleaning.

And then the hygienist is like, oh, one more thing and we gotta floss. And she takes out the stupid box with the string of floss. A string of floss. A string of floss and then, like, aggressively, like, wraps it around her fingers, and then she just goes in there. And they’re like And I’m just like Yeah.

Oof. You know they have little floss picks, right? The plasters. You like them. This is so not necessary.

Wow. This I know. Sorry. I’m because you use them. Wow.

You’re who’s in a bad mood now? But you like the little placards. That does. Okay. You like the placards.

I like a I have a bunch of floss I don’t like, so I’ve been using it a lot. So that Glide floss. I don’t know. It’s like Teflon. It’s something about it.

Anyway Come at me with a freaking box of floss. Don’t ever do that. The the AirPods case of floss. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Well, so that’s really I mean, the oh, so we got dental, like, my daughter. Now maybe she’s gonna Olivia might need to be getting a second opinion because she fell, chipped her tooth pretty good, more than we thought. Chipped the molar. Chipped the molar.

Yeah. That sucks. They’re looking at a crown, maybe a root canal, if they can’t. I don’t know. I feel bad for her.

That stinks. And that’s all because she gave blood, which, so brought you Blood and passed out. American Red Cross. Yeah. Go give blood.

You know, I haven’t given blood, and you know why? They can they call me daily more than once. I will get a call from American Red Cross. And every time they you’re blood. So we are blood.

We I don’t really care. You know why? I haven’t called them back. Because the last time I went to give blood, on my day off, on my cherished Monday day off, I scheduled to give blood. I and you know it’s a big ordeal for me to give blood, like Yeah.

Because you pass out every time. Right. So I was hydrated. I did all the work. I go up there and they’re training someone and she inadvertently enters into the prescreen irregular heart rate.

I don’t know. Like what? Because 58 Like, you have an issue with this? And then the trainer’s like, oh, shoot. No.

And then the other one listens. They’re like, oh, no. And it’s okay. I’m like, okay. I’ve never had an issue before with my heart.

Mhmm. It’s a while ago. Just please bear with me. And then she was like, oh, woah, shoot. We can’t undo this.

And I’m all I remember thinking was like, what kind of software can can you not undo it? And then they literally like, you’re gonna have to hold on. You can’t, you know, like, whatever. So then they’re on the horn with their national security Oh, security Oh, jeez. Their IT trying to undo this.

Right? And I’m just sitting And, again, nothing can be easy. Yeah. And I like that. What?

I feel like the universe that day was, like Nope. Hard stop. This is not a good plan. You’re gonna pass out driving home. You’re gonna like They were like, okay.

We can’t do this. Can you come back? We can tell you where some places are scheduled tomorrow. And I was like, no. I I literally made a day This is part of my day off and like you’re pushing like I mean, it sounds mean because every time I used to hang a bag of blood, I’d be like, hey, this If it’s O positive, I always thought, this could be my blood.

Now I’m like, this will never be my blood because they won’t like, because of that. And I’m irritated. And I you know, the time before that that I had given was at OHSU when I worked there. And I had given double red. Are you familiar with are you I’ve never given blood, have you?

Once or twice? Well, I usually get turned away because they’re like, you’re too anemic. Yeah. They just look at you like, oh. They can tell.

They do like their little point of care Right. Whatever. And it’s like, oh, your h and h is low. Like, you’re a little on the anemic side. And I’m like, that that’s my biggest.

Okay. Whatever. So I was doing the OHSU, and I signed up. And when I went there, they’re like, hey, you wanna do double red? And we’ve you know about this.

But, like, the double red so normally by the way, I encourage everyone to donate blood. If you can and if they’re if you’re available and you’re healthy and blah blah blah, do it. It’s good. They’re in short supply all the time for some reason, at least according to my blood. So double red is like, hey, I’m gonna get this all wrong.

I should’ve researched it. They they hook you up to a machine and they pull your blood out, and I think they centrifuge and take the red blood cells, and then they reinject serum. You put your serum back and saline. Oh, okay. And they do that for two rounds, so you’re giving twice as much PRBCs, I believe.

Uh-huh. Red blood cells. You’re giving twice as much. It’s a double red. But you’re getting volume back?

They’re giving you volume back and saline, and they’re like, some people feel even better when they’re all done, right? And they were So you feel like, not me? So and I warned them and say, I often pass out. And I prepped that morning. I had not drink a lot of coffee.

I was drinking so much fluid. I was like, I’m gonna be peeing all the time. I had done all I tried to eat. I was just trying to be ready because I hate it that I have to pass out every flipping time. Right?

But so there I go. So in this case, it was wonderful because I got to pass out not once because it’s it’s double. I got to pass out twice because there’s a pause as they switch over the bed. Oh my gosh. And then they and I warned them.

They ran the second one and they got the second unit out, but I was already iced out black, you know, back then. And they were like, let’s just keep it going. They were they, you know He’s been he’s been ignoring our phone calls for years. We need to get a unit of blood on this guy’s stat. So they ended up not putting much saline back in.

I don’t know why they’re I think they’re worried about my ability to maintain anything because I do. And I was like, you know, I’m ready for you and your family learn. But I was ready. I was like, you know what? I’m okay because it’s for a good cause.

So there’s a lot of anxiety when I go to Good Blood. There should be. And this wasn’t always the way. I’m one of these, like, you know, 10 court donors or whatever, like, used to do this. Never had an issue growing up, growing up.

But I was doing it as a little baby. I gave baby blood. The hymn, never but it wasn’t until, like, 2016. I gave blood in Durham. I passed out.

I had the craziest dreams. I still remember them, like, crazy dreams. Like and it was only, like, two minutes of, like, being subconscious. I lived a lifetime. It it was like your classic, like, out of body lifetime.

And I remember coming to and I was not sure where I was. I was, like, very disoriented. That was the first time I ever passed out like that, and I was, like, a little freaked out. And I had ice around me and they’re, like, you know, my legs were up, and they’re like, oh, you’re back with us. And I was like, I I had this dream when I was in, like, Vietnam.

It was really intense in a war zone. Oh, yeah. It was very surreal. What if that was a past life for you? I don’t know, but it was very frightening.

Well but it was like the dream you know what I mean? Like, the dream, the time that I was out believe it was a dream. Sorry. Okay. Well, the time that I was out, again, measured in minutes, if that, according to them.

Mhmm. I for me, my experience, it was days. It was unfathomable amount of time. Like, that’s why I was so disoriented coming back to my whatever. So that was the first time.

And then since then, I’ve always passed out, and I warn them, and they’re always, you’ll be fine. And I’m like, no. You don’t understand. This is part of the process. Anyways, so this is brought to you by the American Red Cross Cross.

So they call me constantly. I always wanna call them back and say, look. I feel like I need to go donate. No. Oh my god.

I’m not doing the double red. Just one unit. A little just a little it’s a little tiny unit. Just give it out. I will go donate on your behalf because You’re too anemic.

I can tell. This is I think I’m now. I’m like Okay. There. I got that.

I don’t know if I feel better about this, but there you go. What else? What else is new? I did you you don’t have anything on your axe grinding list? Axe.

I feel like I’m saying am I saying that right? Axe? Yes. Like, acts grinding list. Yeah.

Not currently other than just the hatred of, like, owning a home and all the problems that accompany that and Which is how I just feel like this house is just an oppressive Well, but is every house that way? I don’t know. Well Is it? I hate yard work as I look at it. So Yeah.

Yes. I hate it all. And I’ll What’s the answer? To live in, like, a warehouse. So I’d have space for and I could have a podcasting.

And all the pipes are exposed, so you know when they’re leaking. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That We got a We have a strangeness room. Maybe other people can relate.

Okay. No. No. No. No.

No. No. No. No. No.

No. No. No. No. No.

No. No. No. No. No.

What are you saying here? Because one morning you wake up and there is water on our kitchen counter Mhmm. That has come from the cabinet Well, initially above the counter. But initially, I was like, what is this? I had to I do the thing where I put my hand through it and I smell my hand because I think it’s cat urine, which I know doesn’t make sense.

Like, who if you thought it was cat urine, why would you run your hands through it and sniff it? But that’s what I did. I was like, why is it is it cat urine? We’ve been in Arizona, you know, so And then You you looked up at the shelf. You could tell it had like trickled from the very top of the cabinet.

Kitchen cabinets. Right. Yeah. And I was like, man. And then you were just like, well, this is weird.

And then you never really Right. Well And you like, we kinda It didn’t come back. It didn’t come back. But I’m thinking the whole time, like, this didn’t just resolve itself. Well, but I was the I literally was trying to think of every explain.

I literally concocted in my mind that someone had drawn up a 60 cc syringe of water. Are you And, like, no, I’m just Be so for real. Right? I was I was like, did somebody did Max, our son, did I not seem to be come over here and squirt it right at the ceiling, right into the crack, and it dribbled. I mean, I that’s because it never reappeared.

Well, it shouldn’t say that. It didn’t reappear for days or was it another week? And then suddenly But you know what? It’s appeared now? A new spot.

A stain On the ceiling. On the ceiling, which is never a good sign. No. So now our master bathtub has been leaking Well and has not been in use for almost four years. It leaked in yeah.

And it leaked in the basement down the down the drainage pipe, but it was enough to get me a little like, oh, oh, we better not use this. And for some reason, my husband will not even entertain the idea of hiring a plumber to come troubleshoot the issue. Instead, we’re looking at plumbing cameras on Amazon Yeah. Which we don’t even have Prime anymore. Yeah.

I know. And by the way, that is like going in That is like buying an endoscope Buying a scope and being like, I’m just gonna go out there and look around to see if anything’s wrong. And it’s like, you don’t even know what you’re looking for. I know. And then you’re like With an endoscopy scope?

Yes. I’m just saying. I worked in an endoscopy outpatient clinic. I might actually do better with an endoscopy scope. It’s like doing a self endoscopy, and then you’re just like, I don’t know what I don’t need to go to a doctor.

I’m just gonna do this myself. Well And Fair enough. I’ll know when something looks amiss. Yeah. And it’s like, no.

Because it’s dark and cavernous in there. You’re very adamant about this. I didn’t buy the camera. The I didn’t it’s called Or hire a plumber. A borescope, by the way.

You know? So I hired a gastroenterologist. Oh, okay. Well, I know, but I’m That sounds like the more expensive route to go. Well, if you’re looking up your hoo Yeah.

Or your And your friend at work. Her Her dad is a plumber, and we have his number. And her husband. And you’re just like, I’ll reach out to Joe another day. I just don’t want him to come over and judge us for all the cat smelly garbage house.

Are you serious? Yes. I’m embarrassed by that. They live on a farm. Yeah.

Well, so do we. We live in a farm. We live in a so I know, but what he’s I mean, here’s what I’m imagining. He comes over and he’s like, yeah. Looks up at the ceiling and kinda taps around.

Like, yeah. You got a leak. Definitely have to tear this wall out, probably most of this other wall. Probably have to tear that tub out, maybe take out a window or two. You’re looking at, I don’t know, 16 to $20,000.

That’s just what I’m imagining. Like Well, the longer you wait. As opposed to I want a guy that comes along and say, oh, I can fix this in about twenty minutes. It’ll be $60. Like, oh.

Where is that guy? Are you out there, guy? Are you listening? He has that x-ray vision that see through the walls. The the worst kind of leak is the leak you can’t see.

Okay? You can quote me on that. Because if it’s if you can see it dripping, you’re like, yeah, I know where their problem is, but this is mysterious. I don’t know if it’s drainage water. I don’t think it’s fresh water.

I can’t decide. But then the water I sniff and find is usually pretty decent. Nothing weird about it. It does make you think about peeing in the shower though if it’s dripping into the kitchen. I’m just throwing that out there.

I mean, have you not thought about that? I thought about it, but I still had to go. My silly It’s always hot water just, like, initiates things. Well, if it’s ever yellow, I’ll know when the staining or well, staining Staining’s yellow. Oh, it’s It’s kinda yellow.

Maybe I could we test You gotta take a picture. A PHD. We’ll post it on the website. Okay? So that nobody goes to.

So here’s what I’m saying, scarletmitchell.com. Or we have a Blue Sky account that I don’t use. I don’t even know what it is anymore. I think it’s Scarlet and Michelle. Remember.

It doesn’t matter. Okay. We’re not good with the social media. Well, nobody else is following or going along. So they’re because they’re listening in Apple or Spotify.

And not really Spotify. Nobody uses that. No. So what was I gonna say is this though, the, regarding the plumbing. Oh, oh, so what my solution is currently, I straddle the drain in our not to use it.

Not not for urination. I I straddle the drain in our shower because my theory is putting pressure on the middle of the drain Where it’s kinda cracked. Is causing the leak to happen. So if you’re so I’ve been straddling it, which is why if you heard me, I almost fall over today. It’s cause when you lift up one leg to, like I like to wash the bottom of my feet.

So when I lift up one, I almost fell out of the shower because I’m putting one leg on one side. I have to figure out how not to how to stand. Or I was thinking maybe I could build a support system that goes up over the drain so you can stand in the middle without standing on the drain until I just want a functioning bathroom. Yeah. I would love to take a bath.

So there you go. We’re gonna have to tackle that. So this is but this is It’s just like adulting. It’s just so Which speaks to these It’s just so like, what like, what’s even the greater purpose of it? These are just things we have to do for maintenance of the things that we need, but I don’t know.

Well, it kinda speaks to the the doing the most element, which is like, I feel like isn’t it well, this is true. You’ve lived long enough. I’ve lived long enough to know that there’s it always feels like there’s just one more thing. There’s just one more thing. Like, oh, one more thing.

Every time life, you’re just like, hey, okay. We gotta pause, man. Nothing’s going on. It’s like, oh, well, you got a leak to deal with. Or, the kitchen sink’s falling out, but you’ve got a car jack Yeah.

And a, you know, eight pack of icies under there holding it up. Like, like, but, you know what I mean? Like, oh, everything’s good. And then Olivia falls and cracks her head open. Everything’s good.

And then I have an event. That’s stupid. Or everything just Everything’s good. And all of a sudden, your stepson has a concussion, and it’s at the top of the mountain, and has to take a ambulance down to the hospital. Right.

And, oh, everything is good. But you have eight cavities, and that’s gonna be $800. Oh, everything is good. But Mhmm. It’s never ending.

Mhmm. I think it call it life, but it’s It just feels so soul crushing sometimes. It does. Maybe that’s why lately, I don’t have that reason. But, yeah, it’s just never and all I think of my day to day is I just wanna clean all clean the garage out, which I’ve been talking about for years.

Let’s face it. It’s been years. I’ve been talking about the garage. I’m just I I really just think it’s a man thing. Like, you guys just love being in the garage and having an excuse to be in the garage.

Like, I look up at Ron, our neighbor Well who was in the garage using the world’s loudest tool yesterday. He we do think he’s a saw tester. I mean, that’s a working theory that he tested. On sawsman. Yeah.

Sawsman. He has a YouTube channel, like, you know, cutting it up or something like that, and you can go and he will do reviews on I think he reviews long that garage door is open, and he Is sawing. Doing something with a saw, whether it’s working on his fence, building a new fancy bird feeder for their porch or I don’t see a lot of new stuff appearing in wood around there, to be honest. And I’ve been up, and it’s not like the inside’s remodel. It’s a lovely home, Ron, if you’re listening, by the way.

We love looking at it. Because your your porch is inspiring, and it’s got pots and plants, and you sadly have a view of our house. Oh, maybe that’s why he’s trying to build us. We still haven’t painted the trim. I went on the windows that we had installed two years ago.

It’s it looks so Oh, wonderful. He is probably trying to build a taller, porch thing to block out his retrellis. I don’t know. Maybe I’m sorry, Ron. We’re not giving anything to look at.

Well, you know, could be worse. It’s he looks at us. Well, he likes to stand in Mary’s house too. That was But he has to look across to see the Toyota pickup that’s sitting. Although, however, I noticed I know.

He’s the American well, he has the American car version of us. Yeah. He has the red Ford truck. I have the Toyota Camry. And we have the Japanese version.

Yeah. And we talked one day. He’s like, yeah, you gotta keep a truck around because you never know when you gotta You never know. And then we talked about the same problem of having to jump start every time you wanna use it, and he told me about this little battery thing, and I told him about the Gulu. And I’m like, I should sell my truck and just borrow his, but I don’t know if we’re that close yet.

Where I go, hey, Ron. Can I borrow actually, I don’t know that I’ve used my truck for anything useful in years? Truly. Sorry. And I keep saying, that’s okay.

I’m gonna take you some stuff to the dump. I’m gonna pick up some barcodes for the yard. Drive that truck right on in that dump. Just and then I walk out and avoid the $35 minimum charge. Mhmm.

Perfect. Okay. Moving along now. So we have the actual really, the part you’re excited about or you were is coming up. Right?

Yeah. I’m still excited. Do you wanna presale it? Because we gotta go grab some stuff. But Yeah.

Oh, you’re not presale? No. I am presaleing. Okay. So I guess it was a last week was nurses’ week.

Yeah. It was. Yeah. And one of our doctors, our attendings for the ICU really spoils us. And every year she brings, I guess, for the last couple years, I shouldn’t say every year, but the last couple years, she has gotten us pies from Lauretta Jean’s in Portland.

Yes. I guess I was not here last year. I guess I was not present for nurses week. I don’t remember the pies last year. I don’t know if we had the week off or what.

I don’t know. I couldn’t tell you. Or if I was just all those couple days and I missed the pies. Because they were there they were there for a couple days, and then they were completely gone. So I tried the one of one of the pies I tried, I tried the day after she’d brought them all in.

So there were still like a few couple slices of this, couple slices of that left. And the one pie that I tried was the short strawberry shortcake pie. I’m making It had it had another name in the store. No, but, essentially, it is just a strawberry shortcake pie. Right.

And since then, I am not a sweets person. Like Yeah. Well, no. You’re not you’re generally like, my mother is is a we have dessert every time in your Oh my gosh. Like, I am not I need a dessert after a meal, and that is not me.

I need to go for an ice cream, not me. Like, I would you know, I’m a savory person. Right. So but I was like, I’m just gonna try a piece of this pie, because somebody was in there raving about it. And I took a bite of it, and that pie has lived rent free in my head ever since that moment.

And I was like, oh my gosh, I have to take Mitchell there. We have to and I was like, why don’t we just do a pie tasting? So we went there this morning for, like, a brunch, a snack. Just kind of because you had a piece of quiche and I had I had, like, a Yeah. Coffee and a treat.

And you A savory treat. Right. So you had a piece of their quiche, which you thought was Good. Very good. They warmed it up for me too, which I like because some places don’t or I don’t know.

Rude. Yeah. And then I had a tomato jammer, which is essentially like a savory scone with like this tomato jam that had almost this like little curry flavor. Yeah. It’s crazy.

It was so good. And then we, like, got four pieces of pie that we’re gonna try and a piece of cake. Mhmm. So and I think And we’re gonna try them live. Yes.

So We got a well, I see the seasonal pie is listed. We got a banana excuse me. We got a coconut cream for sure. Mhmm. Yeah.

The strawberry short pie. I think this is what it’s called. Yeah. A Blueberry Victorian. Okay.

And then a banana cream. Okay. Okay. So So we got two pretty classic pies, which is your banana cream coconut cream, and then two of their We call it I would say their, staple I mean, it’s kind of like what they’re known for is a strawberry shortcake and their blueberry Victorian. Right.

So and a piece of their strawberry white cake, which is exactly what it is. White cake with strawberry frosting. Okay. So we’re gonna take a we’re you, listener, won’t tell, but we’re gonna go grab our stuff, and we’re gonna dive in. And I milk because I’m weird, and I like some milk with my dessert.

And I had suggested maybe we’ll do, like, revisit in a month or so. We could do, like, maybe pick our favorites and kind of do just a I wanna call the round robin NCAA final four of pies, but, like, you know, go back and get some because they had a lot of flavors. Yeah. They had so many that we they had, like, a banana chocolate cream and a Boston cream and Yeah. Yeah.

Ones that we I was very tempted just to get Every single one. But so alright. We got our setup here. We got the four pieces of pie each on its own separate thing. We got some milk, which in I don’t know if you wanna try one and then pass it to me, and then I can talk a little bit.

What does this first one look like? Okay. So do you wanna start with the banana cream? Sure. I mean, over there, but you Well, why don’t you try a piece, and I can talk and then you can This one doesn’t look like anything special.

I can see real bananas because there’s, like, a little bit of browning. Just browning. Sweeter bananas. Slow it down a little bit. Oh.

Oh. It’s a really beefy looking crust, like, thick. I hope it’s flake well, why you can have a piece and I’ll talk a little bit. I mean Okay. Or a lot.

Because my friend, Sean, who used to run a podcast with me, he used to always be like, cake or pie people? You know, like, he always feel like some people are like, rather than birthday cake, he’d have rather birthday pie. So one of the things that comes to mind, like, what makes a good pie? Is there a criteria? Is it like is it the crust have to be a certain way?

Because some people will actually like a chewy crust versus a flaky crust, or is it both chewy and flaky? And can it be that way? So alright. You’re I’ll once you’re done, once you’re tasting, I’ll have a chance. And we’ll try not to a s m a m s r ASMR?

ASMR. ASMR people with Mhmm. Too much. I’m not doing that. I’m holding my head away from the microphone.

Okay. Okay. And is this top meringue or is it whipped cream? Do you know? Whipped cream.

Okay. I think. You might know pies better than me because your mom was Oh, yeah. That’s not a meringue. I mean, yeah.

It’s obvious. It is or not? It is not. Okay. Oh, no.

Okay. Dead air. Okay. That’s okay. I just added You said you might have to edit it.

You’re watching me slowly. It’s just funny. You’re like, oh, dear. He’s like I’m just wait I’m just waiting because I wanna hear your think I have my opinion. I would say it’s I it’s good.

It made me think of something which is this. I might like it colder, because these have been they’re room temperature, and they keep me in a pie case. I kinda thought, oh, actually, I might like a colder banana cream. The crust we haven’t hit the the, what are you gonna call the rind, the rear crust, only the bottom crust. I thought it was good.

The crust was good. It didn’t it was it was actually chewy, flaky, tasty. So far, I like it. I mean, with one bite oh. Go ahead.

One bite, though, I’m feeling like, oh, I want more, but we have more cakes or pies to go, so it’s okay. Mhmm. What’s your side? I guess I’m not I’m not, like, wowed by it. I’m not like, oh, man.

Okay. Yeah. I would say that just Because I feel like I’d rather have a banana. I was expecting more of, like, a banana pudding style. Right.

A little more yeah. I guess a little yeah. And it’s good, but I’m not like, oh, man, I gotta have another. Okay. Fair enough.

The second bite was better than the first because I think the first was mostly the whipped cream. Oh, yes. So, I can are you gonna pick another piece of pie? Maybe I should Okay. Oh, is the goal not to eat all the pies?

So this is the blueberry Victorian, and we have a nice thick layer. I already got it. So it’s like it looks like some whipped cream with some lemon, shavings. Yeah. Am I saying what is that?

Lemon? A little Zest? Yeah. Lemon zest. Yeah.

And then some pudding. And then is this like a cake? I see, like, a little cake in the middle. Oh. And then below that is some blueberry, I guess you call, I don’t know, blueberry goodness with what looks you know, you can see the shape of the blueberries.

High filling, maybe. And then another layer of pudding and then the crust. So Okay. I do not know what I’m expecting. I’m gonna try to not get all of this whipped cream like I got the first time.

Alright. Get off my pork. It’s already oh, okay. Alright. Yeah.

I wanna just make sure I get, like, a really good little bit of everything here. K. Oh, she’s had to leave the studio temporarily. As they say. I was not expecting that.

Oh, okay. Oh. I can’t tell which one you’re selling. Oh, okay. I wanna know what you think.

Okay. Well, I mean I mean, you talking to me isn’t gonna taint or change. Just we’re not a I’m sorry. I’m chasing it with my milk. Oh, dear.

I kinda So I may have the the integrity of the pie. I don’t wanna I’m concerned because I had to I should have forked it down instead of chop forked it. Oh. That’s okay. Okay.

Alright. Got a little bit of everything there. Mhmm. Yeah. Mhmm.

Yeah. Okay. So yeah. What I what hit me and what I like, that lemon. Yeah.

It has, like it works so well against the other stuff in there. I wasn’t expecting that. I was expecting more like a blueberry shortcake, but then it hit me with the tart. Mhmm. And I was like, okay.

Wasn’t expecting that with my blueberry. And maybe I like it a lot. Because of my stab method, I don’t know if I got crust on there, which is okay. I just had went back for a little flake of crust. Uh-huh.

Buttery, tasty crust. So this one, quite memorable from the first bite. Blueberry Victorian. Okay. Is blueberry Victorian Victoria?

I don’t want I don’t remember which one, but it is delightful. Yes. Okay. Delightful. Delightful.

Alright. I think we should go back to another cream. So we’ll do the coconut cream, which just looks like your, you know, traditional whipped cream layer with toasted coconut shavings on top, some filling, like a pudding type of filling, and the nice buttery flaky crust that they use. And if you go to Lauretta Jean’s, the pies are about I think each pie is $47 for a full pie or 7 or $8 for a slice of pie. And they will send you a they will give you a pie.

They do it in a glass Pyrex, and then you pay, like, a $5 deposit for that Pyrex, and then you bring that Pyrex back to get your deposit back. So they do it right. They do it in a glass, pie thing. I’m not a pie person. I don’t really know what I’m talking about.

Yeah. That’s okay. I’m trying to get a picture of this. Why don’t you take the first bite of this one? Because you love coconut cream.

Which is funny because I actually don’t like coconut nor oily. But, like, there’s just something about a coconut cream that Is, yeah, is quite important. So, alright, here I go. But okay. So I’m Alright.

I don’t wanna I’m gonna tell you what Mhmm. I was I was actually I mean, here’s the here. I’m I was disappointed because Mhmm. Of the pie I had before, the the Yeah. Blueberry wonder magic thing, whatever that is.

So I guess it was kind of, it’s good, but it wasn’t I I wasn’t just like floored. So I mean, it’s a solid it’s a solid coconut cream. I’m not sure I’m not it makes me wonder about other coconut creams that I had. And here’s the deal. I don’t know if that’s, I’m not this I’m not an expert.

It’s like, I don’t know that is I don’t know if it’s someone having meringue. It’s a little I don’t know. Sometimes meringue will be a little toasted. They’ll do it. Yeah.

So anyway so it’s okay. I wasn’t like, yeehaw. I was like I really don’t like strands of coconut. Oh, is that Is that in is that traditional over most coconut cream pies, the strands? Oh, like the shaved coconut pieces?

Yeah. I don’t know. Well, not the shaved. I don’t mind the shaved on top. I mean, like shredded coconut.

Shredded. Yeah. I don’t know. This one wasn’t I’ve had others that were maybe more memorable. Okay.

But Yeah. I mean, you know, I’ve you know, all is fair in love and war. I don’t know what that means, but Yeah. So so far, the cream pies I don’t know. Well, this is my favorite, or at least was my we’ll see we’ll see if I remember it.

The you gotta tell the listener. Hold on what it is. So this is the strawberry shortcake pie. So what you have is a thick layer of whipped cream on top, some shortcake, then you have a layer of that strawberry filling with real strawberries, another layer of the pudding, and then I think there’s another layer of shortcake on the bottom. I don’t know.

Or maybe it’s just pie crust. But Okay. I’ll let you man a woman handle that person. Here, why don’t I send it your way? It’s just I still got a piece of something caught in my throat, so I’ll try not to be the the guy.

Speaking of which, oh, one of my guys that we didn’t ever quite send to the ICU, he was the most with he’s a patient, by the way, for you with the throat clearing business. Like, you thought he was passing away. Okay. Back. No more.

Okay. You’re holding it in or you’re just passing it along. Okay. I’ll wait for you. I do see, like, there’s a some sort of cream layer.

I followed is that a shortcake layer? I already described it. Yeah. I’m looking more closely at it with my crappy contacts and no glasses on. Okay?

So Mhmm. I have forked down appropriately. I hope I’m crusting the crust. Okay? ASMR.

ASMR. Oh, sorry. No. I’m kidding. I mean One bite in it, I’m already contemplating I wanna eat this whole thing right now.

Mhmm. I mean, that’s where I’m like, oh, give it that whole thing to me. It’s light. It’s not too sweet. It’s buttery.

It’s, like, kind of fluffy in your mouth. It’s like having shortcake but having a pie. Yeah. I mean, which So is really redundant because it’s a shortcake pie. Really good.

So so far The berry pies are winning. Do you so, I mean, if so and we have the cake, but we don’t have to have the cake now. That’s it’s a cake. What’s your feeling on that? I don’t know.

I’ll take a bite. Okay. So and I’ll talk about the pie. So now that we have the have a consensus, but I think we do, which is the shortcake and the what is this? Blueberry magic berry?

Blueberry Victorian win over the banana and the coconut cream. And we’re not and this is just purely we’re not doing, like, breaking things down by cream and not, but because this isn’t about what’s their pest pie, it’s about the pie that we like on doing the most. So that’s kinda where we’re at with this. So does that mean we like more complicated flavor palette or is it just that they’re is it because they’re pay the creams are peeling with these? You know, I don’t know what’s fair but hey, it’s okay.

It’s not it’s just a thing. I would still if someone I don’t know. This just had more flavor profile. If someone gave me the coconut cream, I would probably eat the whole pie still. I’m not saying they are solid pies.

It’s just when you go like, oh, do I wanna have more? I wanna have more of those two. Yeah. But okay. I’m gonna try that cake too.

So but tell me, out of those two though, if you had to pick between the strawberry and the other one. That is really hard because they both bring something completely different. Like, if I’m craving something like tart, then I’m gonna have the blueberry. If I’m craving something just light and a little sweet, I’m gonna get the strawberry. And the cake, when I was a kid sorry.

I didn’t mean to smack in your mouth. I mean, I mean, smack in your ear. But when I was a kid, one of my favorite cakes was strawberry. Like, was just white yellow cake with strawberry frosting. And so my Meemaw would make it, and she would make the icing homemade.

So that is so close. That icing is so close to what she used to make. Like, that icing is so nostalgic for me. I could eat the whole cake. So wonderful.

Okay. It’s very nostalgic. That’s the only way this strawberry white cake is just nostalgia for me. No. That is like no.

I this is gonna be offensive to some. This is like if a, like white or yellow cake with the strawberry frosting if it was all boxed and bought in the store, this is like what you always what I would hope it would taste like, but it doesn’t. This is like more I wanna say dense. The cake is just more it’s not like a made up, you know, it’s not like a box cake. Yeah.

It’s not a it’s not a fluffy cake. A box cake’s good. But it’s not a dense cake. It’s very in between. No.

It just hits the right spot and this frosting is good. I mean, I’m a frosting guy. I’m a corner cake guy if I have an option. I like the frosting. I like to bite into frosting.

I like my teeth to hurt. You know what I’m talking about? And that’s why we go so well together because you never come at me with a corner and three inches of frosting. Oh. I love that feeling your teeth hurt when you actually hit the frosting.

I’ll eat all the frosting. This one, the frosting is I could see if you’re not a frosting person, this is still awesome frosting because it’s not overly sweet. Mhmm. It’s not It’s not a thick layer of frosting. No.

It’s pretty And and it’s not that poofy kinda I don’t some people are like, it’s called a cream cheese frosting or a whipped cream fry. And then it’s is it a buttercream? I don’t know, but it’s a good frosting and it’s not Yeah. Ungritty. Mhmm.

They’ve blended the, you know, the confectioner’s sugar very well, assuming that’s with you. I like that cake. They had a lot of cakes. They had a cake there that looked like sprinkles. It was coated with sprinkles, rainbow sprinkles.

The birthday cake. All it It was just a birthday cake. I looked at that, and I was like, I don’t even like sprinkles, but I want some of that thing. I hate And there were little round sprinkles too. Oh, yeah.

So So if you’re ever in Portland or if you just wanna go somewhere, it’s at really reasonably priced. I feel like $7 for a piece of pie these days and for the amount of pie that you’re getting is very reasonable. And We’re not sure. Environment, indoor seating outdoor seating, like On the if there’s a deal I don’t wanna We got, like, four pieces for the price of three. So I’m not sure if that was a goof up somewhere or if that’s probably like, oh, that’s the podcast people.

Oh, yeah. They’re like, oh, doing the most. We want them to be like, oh, give us a good review. So and I know a lot of people depend on this doing the most for, their reviews of stuff. Now here’s the question.

Before we wrap up, because I added a lot here, if what are we gonna do with all these pies? We got four pieces of pie and a piece of cake. I know they’ll keep for a day or so, but at some point, I don’t know. I think this can go pretty quickly. Like, you mean right after the podcast?

I mean, probably. Oh, that’s how you’re like, yeah. I haven’t even thought about dinner. Okay. Well, so Lauretta Jean’s out there on I don’t even have the address.

It’s on Division, folks. Yeah. On the East Side. Put it in your Google app. Yeah.

Whatever you need to be around. Was it? I didn’t notice. Twentieth, Thirtieth? It’s closer to downtown than not.

Right. So So yeah. It was thirty minutes. But wait, and a little cool right by Alpenrausch, like a whole little pocket of nice stuff that we don’t get out there. Like just it seems to be an area of division that is what’s the word?

Is it gentrified? I don’t know. Is that did I make that no. I didn’t make that word up. That means like It’s a word.

It’s renewed. It’s like Yeah. What and this may have been renewed ten years ago, and I just haven’t visited. But it’s like, oh, like, lots of little it’s it’s the when I think of Portland, this is what I think of. Mhmm.

A street with cool stuff, tattoo parlors, lots of good little cafes, restaurants, maybe a record store, that kind of that area. So we’re kinda like, oh, shoot. What if we lived here? Anyways, so that’s Lauretta jeans. Anybody, any last thoughts?

Because we I don’t have the music. It’ll just put the music in. Yeah. It’ll come pretty imagine the music is coming up right now. Dude, I don’t know.

If you’re a pie person, if you’re a cake person, they’ve been around since 2011. They have other pastries. What about those chocolate, Oh, pistachio chocolate dipped pistachio cream puffs. Oh, those are huge. We have so much.

And then they have giant what happened? Caramel brownie like Oh, yeah. Looks like the size of a muffin, but not a muffin. Other very good looking pastries and sundries. She’s with me by the shoes.

She never listens when I say she has the latest. Thank you, and until next time. To the next time. Scarlet. And Metro.

And we’re doing the most. Talking all of me, talking all of me. She’s always spreading birds. She never lets me say a word. She congregates with herself, Oh my gosh.

That was pretty excessive. I gotta get a little milk on me in me somewhere. Thank you. Oh, no. Pie down.

Pie down. That’s alright. You’ll have to eat it. Okay. That’s all you can do.

Oh, is that a crust? Maybe I was mistaking a crust. Oh. Oh, man. I mean, I could probably eat that if you can’t.