Oh, man. Are we back or what? My coffee. Yeah. It is.

I know. It feels like it’s been forever. I don’t know. Well, welcome back to the Doing the most. With Scarlet.

And Mitchell. Yes. It is your entertainment. Mitchell. And I’m Scarlet.

This is your entertainment your your fortnightly, give or take a few days, fortnightly entertainment called Doing the Most. It’s a podcast. We do this, and this is what we do. It’s for your entertainment. I like to say new month.

Purposes only. New month, same old garbage. You know? That’s kinda or new fortnight. Unless the weather’s getting nicer.

Yeah. You’ve got that going forward. It to be a little warmer. Yeah. I mean, we after that Arizona week, kinda miss all I like it.

We are not talking about the weather. I know. No. We’re well, this is we oh, dear. I know I started, but We we live in Oregon.

That’s all people talk about is Oregon. So Mhmm. We won’t talk about the weather. We’re just saying, Coop, I like my ultimate weather I mean, I like eighty eight ninety four, right in that zone. I know for you, that’s a little hot.

I’m just saying, like, if I could have a one temperature range all year long, 88, 90 four drops down to 72 at night. I’m like 78 to 84 with a nice little breeze. Oh, okay. Like last night walking with Max when he was driving his car, and it was probably 75 degrees because the sun had gone down behind the hills. And it was a little bit breezy, and I was like, oh my gosh.

This is just amazing. Mhmm. I was in such a happy place. Also, I was having some wine Okay. On my walk too.

So A walk in wine. Okay. Well, yeah. And that sounds like pleasant. I just I like to just crank it up just a little hotter for me.

That’s just how I am. So okay. So then you can freeze, complain about how cold it is in the house all the time when the AC is on. It was freezing last night. I literally I was dying of a heatstroke.

No. I meant, like, when you’re watching our show, I felt like someone had opened a freezer and turned a fan on. I didn’t tell you this, but when I rearranged the living room yesterday, you know, that little Yeah. I know what you you did. You put a little I was like, well, I can’t just have this blowing up into the cords and stuff.

The little hood thing that goes over the vent. Right? Yeah. And so it blows straight to the couch where we sit. And I was I’m sorry.

No. I was just thinking we should close the vent off altogether because I was like, this is just I don’t know. I’m see this is, like, interesting. I feel like my whole life I had to fight, like, danger. Like, he’s got his personal AC cranked, and then he’s got a blanket on like you do.

You got a hot, but you got a electric blanket at night. I don’t get it. Me, I’m just like, make it so hot that I’m melting on top of the sheets and it’s uncomfortable, and then open a window, and it’s just like warm air, but that’s have you ever gone out of our room in the middle of night and then come back in and you’re like, wow. It’s like our room because there’s two bodies in there. It’s like it never it’s just hotter than everywhere else in the house.

Even a little balmy sometimes. Anyways, okay. Wow. Let’s just beat this horse. I don’t really I didn’t you asked me.

I I don’t have a lot to say. I mean, I always have a lot to say, but Oh, wow. Well, I mean okay. Well, I can tell my story real quick. Oh, you really do have a story.

I really do have a story that just happened. Practicing. Oh, okay. Oh, dear. Apparently, I’m in the middle of reorganizing my life and our house.

Thanks. So I re like, move stuff in the living room, which by the way, I think it is so much better. I guess. I mean, yes. It is.

Thank you. Well, it it is better, but is it the best? All this to do with one person? And I did that all by myself. Yeah.

All I thought was I hope that TV doesn’t fall over or I don’t know. So Nobody needs an 85 inch TV. It’s selling 75. I wish we had 80 or 88. Anything bigger than a 55 inch.

Maybe it’s an unpopular opinion, but I wanna feel like I’m at the movie theater. That’s important to me. Then get a projector. Well, I’ve been looking at it, but right now, we’re on a budget we’re in a budgetary a no spending budgetary hold in our household. So Anyways, moving along with your story.

I was reorganizing the kitchen. I’m sorry. I’m gonna try not to sigh a lot. Okay? I need to sigh Why?

I’m because that’s my reaction. So I need to get a few little breaths oxygen in and then restart the organizing the kitchen. No. No. No.

Why don’t you just sigh and do it where you naturally would do it? So I was reorganizing the kitchen. Okay. Sigh. Continue.

And I hear this like, you know, like tapping. Mhmm. And I you don’t think anything about it. It’s windy outside. The cats are looking on the porch.

And then I see this little like this little I looked up what it was. It was a baby sparrow. Mhmm. Was flying into our sliding glass door. Mhmm.

And then it landed on, like, the grill cover. Yeah. So I opened the door and I I didn’t know if it was wounded or what. And then it flew and, like, grabbed onto the screen on the window. Mhmm.

And then from there and went to, like, the railing of the porch, and I’m sitting here kind of following it down. And then it flies from the railing of the porch to the screen in the living room window and holds on to that. And I’m like, what is wrong with this poor little bird like that? It’s I don’t know that it’s not flying. It seems to be having trouble flying.

Yeah. Then it flies and grabs onto a branch of a tree, and the branch is low enough that I can lower the branch and grab it. And I was like The branch or the bird? The the branch and the bird. Oh.

So I didn’t know what was wrong with this bird. I I put gloves on because I was fully prepared to become this bird’s mother. Okay. Because I was literally just thinking about all the surfaces in our house, but continue. Yeah.

I was fully I was like, I had him named. And I was like, you know, I don’t know what’s wrong with him, but I will take him to a wildlife rescue, you know, like Terry. Whatever it takes. The birds had a excuse me. The cats had a name for me.

And then it was like, I was lowering the branch, and we just kind of looked at each other. And then he just, like, flitters off over the fence into the neighbor’s yard. And I was like Did it look like a wounded flitter or like And then I put it together. I think he just fledged. And that’s how birds like like one of the eagles just fledged.

Mhmm. And that’s how they don’t they don’t immediately start flying and they’re like, oh, and now I’m flying to, you know, the top of the highest mountain. And, you know, they start out little baby steps. So I feel like he probably just fledged his little nest. And he was like, okay.

Now I’m gonna stop here and fly a little. And then I’m gonna jump here and fly a little. And then I’m gonna fly over here. And, like, he was scared Oh. Because I think he just flew the nest.

So Okay. But let me tell you, I was, like, fully he was so cute. Okay. Did you get a I have a picture. No.

But I have a picture of, like, pretty much what he looks like. Oh, okay. I feel like you, yeah. You were, And I was just like, has the universe chosen me to be this bird’s mother? Oh my goodness.

And then the universe was like cat’s mother. No. Yeah. Not today. The universe Snow White.

Was looking at you and then it, like, leaned its head and looked over towards me. And then I looked back, I was like, no. You’re not doing this to him. Not another cow. I don’t even know what I would do with a bird and five cats and, like, I just hello.

That’s I also was not ready for this. The cats named him dinner. It was it was beautiful to see because he was so cute and he was just trying to find his way and he I don’t think he was wounded. Like, if he was wounded, he would have fallen in the on the ground or something. But Well, that’s interesting.

No. So this you I know recently I know you’re recently tuned in at this because one of the the birds from, the friendsof Big Bear Valley, Com had, one of the birds, the eagles, the famous eagles. One of them Sunny? Sunny just recently fledged. Correct?

Yes. Or fledged thinnest or he’s a fledgling. So I too one day, I was sitting here in the office. Oh. Right?

Oh, in the studio. And I was like, oh, yes. And then I heard that thunk sound against the glass window. And I already knew exactly what I was going to find when I went and peered out the window, and that’s when I saw that woodpecker. And he was on the ground and I knew it was too late.

I mean, he was still kinda twitching, just a smidge, but the twitching decreased in frequency. Be. And I wasn’t gonna glove up and go help him finish his fludging. I was more thoughtfully wishing it was the one that’s been pecking at the chimney that wakes us up, but it was not. But I did get a good picture of him.

I think it was sad. I’m not saying it’s What did you do with him? I buried him because you’re like, oh, he buried him. Well, because I knew you were gonna be mad if he was just laying there, so I just I dug a quick hole and buried him in the front. Oh, okay.

But yeah. That’s happened more than once on that window. You know they say it’s a bad omen. What? Like when birds Windows?

Go into your window and die. Well, I I guess I got a bad omen. Multiples. What you gonna do? I mean I don’t know what’s happened all the other times.

Well, they usually some of them you look out and they’re like kinda flopping around a smidge and then they like it’s like they get reorganized and then they like get up and fly away, or at least go down to somewhere else. But then every now and then you get the one where you look down, and it’s like, yeah. I was at working downtown many, many years ago, and a a hummingbird actually flew into the window. We’re right. And we were up on the Third Floor of that building.

I was going, I used to work there. And then we could see it down below flapping around, so, one of the guys went out and, went to try to check on it. I can’t remember what happened to that bird, but it’s always kinda sad when the birds hit the windows. So, okay. I mean, there you go.

I think that one may have got Well, at least I had kind of a happy story. Yeah. Kind of. Oh, I didn’t mean to no. And then week today, we went to the the the Biscuits Cafe, not brought to you by the Biscuits Cafe right here in our little hometown.

And we were talking about the the Eagles and fledgling because we were I was, you know, I was trying to theorize, do they just kinda like this kinda suddenly they just flop out of the nest and that’s that? I mean, they have to learn to fly or not? I mean, because I was comparing it to a human, which is totally unfair because we don’t have wings. But but, you know, like, kids don’t learn to the kids aren’t like, you just kinda push them and they either walk or they fall off a dock or something. Like, it’s we get some time to work on it, but I feel like with flying, there’s not a lot of time.

You just kinda I guess, if you can glide, step one, I guess. Right? And you were saying they kinda practice in the nest, like jumping Yeah. Yeah. Doing expanding the wings, getting those muscles.

Their boundaries until they and then one day, they just feel comfortable enough to just Right. They just fledge off. And even then, Sunny was kinda doing that thing that that little sparrow was doing. She was flying to a nearby tree, and then she was trying to figure out how to get back to the nest, but she landed on top of the tree above the nest. And so she had to fly back to another tree and then make a different like, she’s still, you know, trying to figure it out.

Right. Interesting. Because apparently, it just doesn’t come natural the way that, you know, shadow just, like, shoots in there and Right. Like I mean, that makes sense. Their skills are not refined.

They’re just kinda putting it together. And then they still come back for food because they don’t leave the nest and immediately know how to go fishing. Yeah. I mean, so well and that’s how old are they? Probably three months for me?

One months? That’s crazy. And we take, what, eighteen years to get ours to fledge? Little bitty eggs to there’s 14 pound that’s actually all they weigh. They don’t weigh very much, but they’re mostly hunters.

But Or they have to be light to fly? Yeah. I mean, technically. I’m saying. Big birds.

My sisters. Poor Gizmo. She just looked so, like, lost because they they, Shadow and Jackie slept in the tree where Gizmo was sleeping, so she wasn’t alone. Or sorry, where Sunny was sleeping, so she wasn’t alone. And then Gizmo, the one who hasn’t left the nest yet, was just kinda like, okay.

I’m all alone. Am I gonna get food? Or Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, it’s funny how then we use the same terms, like empty nesters, like, in our, you know, in the in human culture. In our culture, we refer like, oh, a fledgling or, oh, a child leaves the nest and then you got an empty nester.

The parents when, all the kids are gone kind of a thing. So it’s kind of, you know, interesting the parallels. I don’t know how far they go. We have one of those well, not we, but okay. I but well, we have 18 year old graduating today.

It’s my 18 year old, but she’s still you know, you know her. And I do know of her. You’ve met her. I’m saying, like so that’s kinda it made me, you know, that’s graduation. And it made me I told you that was on my passport.

I was just contemplating not that we have talked about graduation, but it made me kinda contemplate just momentarily. I was like, what was my graduation like? Were my parents were there? Do I care? Did I care?

You know, we’re actually, I’m just was trying to find a way to not have to go. Not really. I’m excited for her. But here’s the thing. If she doesn’t go, she still gets her diploma.

Like, you don’t have to walk to get your like, technically, she’s done. It’s all ceremonial. Yeah. Hence, graduation ceremony. And I think it’s for the kids, you know.

So I want my graduation, though. They used they did in the same place indoors at the local University of Portland have a thing called the Child’s Center, and it’s their indoor thing. And that’s where they used to do, like, for me, I think my sister as well, who’s older than me, and then all the way up through, Annika, who graduated a few years ago. She was there, and then this year, they’re doing it at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum, which is the original well, maybe not, but is the Coliseum. It’s where the Trailblazers that was their first stadium was the Coliseum, which is next to the real time.

Andre’s was in a completely different place too. Hers was at the child’s center. Oh. That’s what that thing was. Okay.

But anyways, I’m just saying they finally switched it up. All the same high school, by the way. They all they switched it up. So we’ll see how this coliseum thing goes. I think what’s weird to me is it’s like, okay.

We’re having you know, we live a block away from the high school, and they’re like, okay, but you’re gonna have to drive forty five minutes and rush hour traffic. So it’s probably gonna be even longer to go to the Sarah. That’s weird to me because mine was just at my high school. Yeah. I I don’t know when that switched because, you know, you think of that.

Usually, I think my parents probably graduated from their high school at their high school. Like, I don’t know at what point is it you know, it’s obviously driven by their, like, logistically, we just can’t have all the families and extended families show up at a high school. Yeah. You can. I’m just saying that something Have it on the have it on the football field after the sun’s kinda gone down and people can line up on the you got football games there.

You can do it. No. I agree with you. I’m just like, that’s why I’m like, I don’t understand. It may be even easier to say, look.

And then be it Shuttle shuttle. Could actually go. Right. But They could shuttle people from local larger parking lots. It’d still probably be a better deal than this, and I don’t know.

It is weird. I don’t Yeah. But whatever. I think looking back, I probably just wouldn’t have gone to mine. I think I did it for my parents, which, again, looking back, why did I do that?

I don’t know. I mine was I had a good time. I went because they so ours, they were very, like so you couldn’t put anything on your on your, cap Yeah. I know. This story.

I’m not telling the story. You couldn’t put anything on there. They checked everyone’s hats. That was not allowed. And the reason I had the idea for putting something on my hat was because my mother, when she graduated from college, when I was, so, seven or eight, because she went back, they took to college, and they had stuff on their caps.

It was a college. I thought that was cool. At our my high school, they’re, like, yeah, they’re not allowing any of that. Couldn’t have anything on your cap. No.

They were actually, like, frisking us down ahead of time. They want didn’t want any silly string. They didn’t want any tennis balls. They didn’t want anything thrown around. No celebration whatsoever.

And I and then they had but they had the practice ahead of time. Right? We could go in and everyone had to practice sitting in alphabetical order and all that kind of stuff. They they did that today. I know.

I’m like, what are we practicing walking in the line? Yeah. Did we not Go to Florida. Learn that in kindergarten? Not anymore.

So I had told everyone, look. If you wanna do any solo string, I’ve because I was not a dumb person. I was like, take it they didn’t frisk us down during the rehearsal, so I made sure everyone was able to tape anything they needed up under their seats because they didn’t check seats. So I didn’t need any of that, but, like, I had told everyone, prepped them. I was like, hello.

So we still had some of that, and then I snuck some crap and I glued it on my I had gotten a second cap by telling him, I love mine at home. I acted like I had. So they gave me, like, this little instead of the the ones that you gave were, like, fitted for your head when I was like, you got, like, a seven and a quarter or whatever your hat size was. But then if you needed a, like, one you forgot one, it had the elastic in it, which is why I think we had a Duke. Right?

The elastic ones was kinda cheap for Duke. Come on. But so I they give me, like, the fitter, the the, temporary, whatever you wanna call it. The one size fits all or most elastic one, and I wore that one. I had the other one hidden, and I spent my time.

Fit your head? Yeah. No. It fits most. Right?

And then all I had to do is I swapped them because they still were checking us when we walked back pine and right I had to do this little swapper rue, throw out the old one, throw on the new one. So I was the only one who decorated their, cap and Yeah. And what did it say? I don’t remember. So No.

What did it say? Why? Why do we why do you have to it said why why do we it had a 93. There’s a picture of it in the paper, actually. There’s a paper clipping because Oh my gosh.

I can’t believe I haven’t seen that picture in the paper from 1993. Oh, yeah. It said, I love you, Moe. Mhmm. And then ’93.

And then my mom was like, oh, you forgot the other m. Oh, yeah. Anyway I just heard this story on Sunday. You did? Yeah.

But did Sue tell it? Yep. I wasn’t there. No. See, why are you making me retell these stories?

Anyways, so grad well, I enjoyed my graduation. Anyway, the grad got away. The graduation party afterwards, which Olivia has, and then, yeah. I don’t know what else to say. Whatever.

That’s really graduation. Woo hoo. Dads and grads. Isn’t that this time of year? Max, he better be, like, valedictorian or something to make me go to My school one of these.

They my year was 1993. It’s I don’t I don’t know what to tell you. I think they we had I’ve told you this. We had 14 valedictorians. 14.

And they all went to speak. And one salutatorian Mhmm. And that poor girl, because she got a c. One c in all or excuse me, one b. One b in all four years.

And because in our time, the valedictorian was like whoever had the highest GPA and 14 people had the highest state. Was the highest still like a four point o? Did you know all this? AP honors. Yeah.

They didn’t invent they didn’t invent the new system yet. So, yeah, all these people had four point o’s and then yeah. I was like, I would rather been the salutatorian because they got you know, there’s only one of them. Anyways, so we have 14 speeches. Oh my goodness.

Are you serious? Yes. I mean, they tried to curb them and limit them to something, but yeah. No. That’s why it’s like, oh, man.

And they switched that since then. They’ve gone more traditional again, which is, I guess, there’s only really one. That’s the whole point. Right? Yeah.

So, yeah, what else to say? But, yeah, graduation. That’s really boring. It’s really boring. I don’t know.

It’s not when you are graduating, it wasn’t exciting. It was exciting for me, and then there’s, like, the moments after, like, well, okay, not the part like the moments, but you’re like, oh, man. I’m done with high school. Like, okay, what’s up? But then there’s kind of a strange, like, shift because a lot of people everyone starts going their separate directions.

This little microcosm of people you’ve been stuck together with for four years now, everyone, some of you are still might go to the same college or not. You might hang out a little bit in the summer, but that’s when I think that you start to break away. Although, see, and I’m not one of these people, but then there’s those people who are like best friends in since third grade, and they stayed best friends. They went to the same college, and they’re still best friends. That is wild to me.

They’re hanging out, and their families hang out together. I don’t have any of those, but it’s sort of sort of jealous sometimes because that’s a lot of continuity. It’s a lot of continuity, but on another hand, to me, it might show like a lack of growth. Fair enough. Okay.

Fair enough. I would love to let, anyone who wants to chime in, they can send feedback to feedback at scarlet and mitchell dot com. Right? Or you can like Feedback about yeah. Let us know if you’ve had the same best friend since third grade.

And I’m really sorry if I offended you. But I all I mean, I just, like, don’t know how that can when I look back at people who are I was friends with in, like, elementary school, you you you get to a point in middle school, you see your friend group change, it seems like. Right. Middle school, it changes. Then And then you’re like, we’re gonna go to high school together.

Yay. High school and all of a sudden now schools are merging. Right. And you’re you’re like, oh, okay. Well, I guess we’re not hanging out.

Because now because now these girls are doing cheerleading, and these girls are doing softball, and these girls are doing tech you know, is it kind of seem dependent on what And then that one friend who you’re like, oh, suddenly they’re off smoking cigarettes with somebody. Or you might have been that person, but like, oh, now they’re doing bad things in high school and the changes and the shifts. I grew up in the South in a very small town, so there was a lot of Drama? We had six pregnant girls in my graduating class. We only had one that I know of.

Yeah. And we had, I don’t know, 400 people graduating. You had Yeah. You had, what, 12 people graduating? Small town, I guess, there was.

Close to 400, I think. It was Oh, wow. I guess small, but not that small. Okay. Wow.

Six. Okay. Nice. Yeah. Nice job, the South.

Getting it getting it started early. Getting it out of the way. Yeah. I in fact, I didn’t know They’re gonna be, like, 38 years old and being, like, my life’s just getting started. And something about that makes me a little jealous.

Oh, you mean because they’re yes. Well, the I didn’t know about that pregnant girl. Might there could have been more. So if someone graduated with me, but all I know is I turned around and looked one row behind me during graduation, and I saw this one gal who I knew was pregnant. And I remember thinking, I haven’t seen her for a while at school.

So I don’t know if she, like, came to walk but was out of school for being not because they’re like, oh, you’re pregnant. You’re gonna have to, excuse yourself. But if she was doing something from home, I don’t know. But that was the only one I saw and knew about. There could have been, you know, others.

But Like, just think about what it would be like to be a parent at 18, 19 years old. My mom had me at 19. Like Yeah. That is wild. It is, no.

I feel I feel like I was wildly irresponsible at 19. I I would have been a terrible parent. Yeah. Like Well, but if you are listening to the show and you were a teenage mother, we’d love to know how to Oh, no judgment. No.

You’re saying no. You’re saying for you, Scarlet. No. I don’t It it just kind of amazes me because I’m I’m not really I feel so inadequate in my thirties. Like Yeah.

I could Would you have just persevere? You were like, I’m just surviving. I have to do it. I know. It’s kind of living in that teenage brain you still have where you’re just day to day instead of now being in your thirties and you’re like Yeah.

Always thinking about future. I don’t know. I mean, I can’t speak because I’ve I’ll be straight up. I’m not trying to if you think I’m if I was a father at that age, I probably would just be, yeah, sorry. Like, I don’t feel like many guys stick it out.

No. And I’m not saying that that I just don’t think we’re already developmentally behind with mentally. So at 18 or 19, if you were a father, I, yeah, I probably would have been like, yeah, sorry. This anyway to a tough conversation. Okay.

I’m like, should the dad be involved? Oh. I mean, because the I don’t wanna step on any toes here, but there the girl had a choice. Right. Mistakes were made as mistakes are made by teenagers.

Right. Now the girl and parents have a choice and you take your fork in the road. I’m only laughing because how do we go from, hey, we got cats in vacuums to okay, teenage moms. Here’s a new no. I’m sorry.

I don’t know. It’s called the Weave. Okay? Mhmm. We’re just kinda all over the place, and then we’re gonna get back to our experience at the the diner today.

Right. But, the well And then what? Like, you’re like, now this kid this boy kid, this man child not even a man child, just a boy. Like, you’re, you know, brains aren’t even fully developed and you’re just like, I don’t know. Well, now you have to be a dad.

Well, he didn’t choose that. Well, he chose to sleep with her. Okay. Yeah. But that was let’s let’s say it was consensual.

Right. Let’s assume it was, then I don’t know. I just feel like Max, I would not want him to have to, like Yeah. He would make his own choice. So I’d be like, whatever you choose to do, I’m gonna be fully supportive.

Sorry. I couldn’t I just couldn’t imagine. It’s just it’s tough. Having a teenager who is now a parent. Sorry.

I’m, like, totally going through this whole mind game now of, like Well, nonetheless, it raises lots of as they fledged the nest, it raises lots of interesting at least thoughts because it is like well, because I think you were kinda skating and I’m just making I’m doing the more not concise, but I’m never concise. But it’s like, yeah. You have a girl, a woman who’s not pregnant, and should the dad be involved? Should he have a choice in whether or not, like, the And let’s not even call him the dad. Let’s call him the Donor.

Sperm donor. Right? Well, and should he have a choice? Should he be required to? Because at some point, you might be like, if you required him to be involved, now you just got a deadbeat dad as opposed to, do I miss him?

He probably, like, doesn’t really wanna be involved. Like, why would you want that? And doesn’t actually understand parent order to life. I don’t know. It’s kinda interesting.

Because like, I think of danger having a kid in two years. Yeah. And you’re like, holy hell. This kid can’t even, like, get himself out of bed in the mornings at school. Like Yeah.

Can you oh, I couldn’t even imagine, like, caring for a child as a young 18 or 19 year old. I mean, you know, all the response of I suppose women kind of are elevated somewhat. Yes. Women are like They that responsibility And then it really does become a village. I feel, hopefully, they have a really good social, like, support system.

I don’t think they always do, but hopefully, they let’s assume that they do. I’m sure the mom is very much involved. Right. So well, I mean Like, you think of some of our own family members. Have you well, yeah.

Who no. I think I don’t I don’t really have a lot of thoughts on this, but You seem like moving on. I’m in I’m comfortable because I have a bag of stuff. Yeah. Well But by the way, all all I’m gonna say is have you reached out to those six girls and six guys or one guy?

I don’t I can’t actually tell. I don’t even know if they know. Oh, okay. That they were pregnant. I don’t know.

I think two of them died from, like, an overdose. Oof. Okay. Thank you, the South. Yeah.

Okeydokey. Well, hold on. You have some stuff. I was just I had okay. I have more I actually did write a few things.

Well, we can get back to the diner and Oh. I don’t understand why people feel like it’s okay to just blow their noses at the table. Yeah. There was a well, there was a booth next to us. And we’re in booths that have, like, a glass like that ripply ripple glass.

I feel like since COVID, they all have some sort of Partition. They they’ve just left up the partitions, which great. Thank you. And this is that ripply glass. You can’t see you could see silhouettes and stuff.

But I literally thought there were two people in the booth over there from all the respiratory noises, the the nose blowing, the coughing, and the throat clearing. And I was like, oh, now I I really was at one point. I was like, now they’re both doing it over there. And then when it was all said and done, one guy gets up and leaves. And I was like, wait.

I asked you, like, did the other person already leave? And you’re like, no. It was just him. It was just him. It was a lot.

Like, just spreading his respiratory virus. And then Oh my goodness. Yes. They clear the table. Do not ever see anyone wipe the table.

That table goes unwiped. Yeah. And then And then the next then the lady is like, oh, you guys can sit in that back booth. I just cleared it. People go and sit down, and you and I were, like, on the exact same wavelength where we were like, they didn’t even wipe that table.

Because, yeah, all I thought was like And the guy sits at the table and starts coughing. Which we don’t know if he picked it up from god. There is an age that men reach, especially men, where there’s just this constant need to cough about every three to five minutes. And I don’t mean just like a I mean, like, a full blown you know what I mean. Yeah.

I’m I’m now I’m fighting a cough off because I feel like I need to You’re exasperated? Yeah. The water. This is not a plant. Great.

Has it been three minutes? Well And I got to the car, and I felt the need to sanitize my hands. And the guy’s blown his nose at the table we talked about. That I don’t if you It is never okay. Send us a feedback.

If you think it’s okay or not okay to blow your nose at the table. Quiz on the little what what do you call it? What are those quizlets or, monkey survey monkey. Is it sprout monkey? No.

Survey monkey. It’s just survey monkey. Well, I know what you’re talking about. Yeah. Yeah.

Because should you is it okay to blow your nose? I don’t think it’s okay to blow your nose at the table. Oh my god. Never. Never.

That guy was honking his nose. Now now, actually, so coming back though, he was by himself, so maybe I’d be like, okay. I can see him being like, I don’t need to excuse myself no one’s at this table. I just thought there were two people at the table. So I don’t know.

We work with, people in the hospital, and the men patients, they all, at a certain age, I how to cover their mouth. They all want a cup or something to spit into, like, aura and missus bake all the time. And then you’re just like The Yonkers. Oh, yeah. The suction device.

And then that tube is like all orange or brownish nasty, and it’s getting clogged up. And you’re like I I what I do is I wonder is like, what do they do the rest of their life? And then they’re like, here, can you clean my dentures? They’re just I think They’re like, I would I can, but, sir, I am unhappy about this. Oh, the dentures.

All the debris that’s in the denture water after the Efferdent does its business. I think that’s my one Like, you know how people always ask nurses, like, oh, what’s your deal? Some people are like, oh, I can’t deal with vomit or this or that or bloody this or bloody stool or, you know, all this stuff, I none of that bothers me. Denture debris. Denture debris water, oh, oh, they’re like me when I gag.

Oh. Especially when you’re like, oh, can you drain that off? And I am just like thinking in my head, no, I cannot. Oh. Sorry.

Yeah. And it’s because it’s never you’re like, oh, it’s just gonna be some nope. There is a lot of debris in here. Yeah. Ugh.

This sorry. Makes me now I feel gross about it. Do you have to floss dentures? Or are they just, like, naturally I think there’s no gaps in there. I think I don’t know.

I don’t wanna know. I mean, I don’t know. Could you just put some one of those little Efferdent things in your own mouth, fill it with water? Yeah. Just normal toothbrush.

Swish it around. Just let it bubble up and then Swallow preferably. Yeah. Ugh. Well, I think you can’t Probably can’t be good for your insides.

Efferdent. So, yeah. The, although there’s something else. Oh, one of them suction tubes, I was switching the other day. Right?

Uh-huh. For someone, and then when listener, if you don’t imagine imagine a tube that’s hooked up to a suction device. It’s just a canister, and there’s a long tube, and there’s a thing sort of like the dentist has that you can put in your mouth and suction crud out. I was switching the attachment at the end, pulling it off, and then that tube the the suction tube started to drop, and I tried to grab it really quick, and it slung out like a a stream of whatever salivary stuff across a few areas and it hit me on a arm. Yeah.

I went and did full, OR scrubbed out on my arm. I was like I was like, ugh. But note to self, like, don’t try to catch it. Just let it go to the ground. Anyways, which room I know you got a bag of stuff.

We’re getting there. Right? Mhmm. Real quick. We’re watching a show.

Or do you wanna do your bag of stuff? I we can talk about the show a bit. Real quick. It’s the show we’ve been currently watching is Your Friends and Neighbors on Apple Plus starring Jon Hamm, Olivia Munn, Amanda Peete. Yeah.

That’s it. I feel like there’s I don’t recognize that. There’s some other another names. People who you’re like, oh, I’ve seen Shoot. Is there any other big ones that I should anyways, well, where are we at?

Episode nine ish? Somewhere in there? Yeah. Season one? Compelling.

It’s compelling. I’m enjoying it. It’s, Yeah. We’ve kind of been, for our standards, binging it Yeah. A little bit.

We’ve been watching an episode, half an episode every night. Yeah. I mean, I’m enjoying it. It’s compelling. It’s it’s gone in a different direction, which is good because originally, I was like, oh, you know, the idea and I don’t it’s not a spoiler alert because they tell you in the premise, it’s like a guy loses his job and he starts to steal because he lost his job.

I’ll leave it at that. I mean, so Yeah. But it kinda takes him a different direction. Well, a very wealthy guy This is where I’m going. Oh.

Oh, sorry. No. Go ahead. Go ahead. No.

No. You were saying it. Oh, I was I was gonna summarize it a little more thoroughly, but go ahead. Go ahead. No.

No. Well, I I didn’t really get it’s a wealthy guy, but here’s where I’m going at. Ham. Who doesn’t who doesn’t love Jon Ham? He’s so likable.

Yeah. So what it is is I was talking about it’s like a different the class and they’re in New York. Right? Yeah. Or, like, you know, suburb New Jersey or something.

But this rich neighborhood. It is a it’s a different class of rich than I think most people think of or I don’t know, not that I’m familiar with. In other words, it’s like I was thinking like this. These are not like millionaires because we live amongst a lot of millionaires where we’re at. I’m I’m not trying to say people who are like doctors and dentists who are pulling in, you know, six, seven hundred, eight hundred thousand a year, a million a year, those kind of people, wealthy.

This is that next level up where I where people are, like, in the multimillionaires, like, lots of millions. And I’m not but not quite succession billionaire. I don’t think they’re, like, quite one percenters, but they’re definitely multimillionaires. Right. At least the way it’s presented.

Are working. Like, working class multimillion? Like hedge fund managers, people who deal with a lot of wealth so they make a lot of money and they they have a like, it’s the level of, you know, they can they can buy a $30,000 handbag or 10. Yeah. Or they are okay paying 200,000.

In other words I think I could have millions of dollars, and I don’t think I would be like, man, I really need that hundred thousand dollar Hermes bag. Right. That is just, like, not my deal. Well, anyway, but it makes but so I was thinking about that level of greater richness because it is a interesting little tier. Right?

Because at least I say that in someone. If you’re really wealthy, go ahead and ride into the ship home. Have a nice car. Yeah. For sure.

I would have the car the of my dreams. Right. So it’s kinda like as opposed to and I’m only comparing it to, like, succession where you’re talking about billionaires, and now you’re in even a whole new class where it’s like you’re not even doing anything. You have a driver and all that. Like, there’s that You have a chef.

You have That new level. So this is like that, like, above and I’m not putting doctors in I mean, a surgeon could be in this level. Like someone who’s making multimillion a year could maybe be here, but these are like a lot of it’s like finance and hedge fund and like these people who are managing and they’ve have their own multimillion. Anyways, it just made me kinda think like that’s kind of an interesting level of rich and what do I think of that? I don’t know.

You were like, oh, I couldn’t I don’t know. The the stuff, we’re surrounded by lots of garbage. We’re not we’re by the way, I just want people to realize, we are a thousand dares. So and I’m not trying to rub that in your face. Multi thousand dares.

Living paycheck to paycheck. Listen. But yeah. I don’t know. It’s money can’t buy love, but I I would love to try.

I think I would prioritize a car, maybe a couple cars, the house of my dreams, help keeping up the house, maybe a nanny Yeah. So Max wouldn’t have to go to daycare. Do you wonder, like A garden a gardener? You tell your neighbor. Oh, yeah.

You know, there’s things where it’s just like, what do I hate doing? Well, everything for me. Maintaining anything. So I would have somebody to maintain everything. Yeah.

So I’m gonna well, I mean, but that’s a whole new thing because you’re like, I don’t need to worry about vacuuming. That’s someone else’s job, and their job is also gonna be maintaining vacuums or just throwing them away and buying new ones. I don’t care. Yeah. Just I don’t wanna know about it.

I don’t wanna have to deal with any vacuum filter ever again. A filter, I’m never gonna rinse every month. Do I need fancy jewelry? I would probably be like, I would have very minimalist jewelry, and I would get quality jewelry. But it would be very minimal.

It’s not my thing. Right. I don’t even carry a handbag. I carry a fanny pack. Belt yeah.

Belt satchel. I was gonna say well, but they kinda bring up in this series though is that we forget is there is a social component, which is hanging out with all these other people like that. And I sometimes think, oh, how much of that is important to their wealth in this regard? Oh, you know, you gotta keep your appearances up with your wealth from your manager. A chef.

And you wanna keep that guy. He’s gonna once he invites you and you wanna stay as his client, he wants your money. So, like, there seems to be this appearances component where they’re all And I don’t know I could do that. Club, the expensive country club with this. Tennis pro yeah.

Anyway, so No. I’m introvert. I don’t need anything. But I do enjoy watching it because I do imagine, like, what would that be like, you know? That middle league or whatever.

I will never know at the current rate. After the podcast takes off, talk to me then. Send your money too. Anyway, no. I just but it’s a good show.

I don’t is even is there a second season coming? I don’t know. We haven’t even finished the first season. These these episodes, I think last one was, like, April 2025. So I think we’re kind of actually this is it.

I mean, in other words, there might be another season headed out, but I like it. So good. I recommend it is what I’m saying. If someone wants compelling TV and if you don’t like it, that’s fine. Whatever.

Okay. Moving along. You have a bag. Yeah. Which is funny because I have a comment about Speaking of this bag.

Maybe. That was given to me by your mom who Marlene gave it to your mom with a bunch of toys for Max. So that’s how I ended up with this bag. And it’s a cloth bag. Yeah.

I can’t see it. It’s like a cloth tote bag Mhmm. That Marlene probably made. Is that Hermes? Yeah.

They’re cloth. They’re cloth wide. It’s Hermes. Oh, it’s Hermes. Okay.

So, again, back to the decluttering, trying to clean and throw away, and I decided to clean off that shelf in our room. Mhmm. But I took those books and I moved them to Max’s room because I was like, we don’t need these books. But if I get rid of these books, Mitchell is gonna feel some type of way about it. You’re talking about the Sweet Pickles collection?

Weekly reader, by the way? Probably. Okay. I I didn’t look at them very thoroughly. That’s okay.

I just moved them to a shelf in Max’s room that was empty. Available. Okay. So and then as I was I was going through, like, your stuff, I was like, what? Are you having a stroke?

Why? Like, I’m really trying to declutter my life. With using my stuff. No. No.

Because I’m not I’m not throwing away your stuff. That’s not what I’m doing. But I was more just like, I need him to tell me why. And then to me, this also comes to your ADHD. Mhmm.

This is this is all gonna come back to The diner. That he’s in denial about, by the way. So I’m just gonna hand you this bag, and I want you to Tell you. Tell me and the reader the listener. Right?

The reader. Well, if they’re if they’re reading the transcript, which is available on scarletandmichel.com. Okay. Oh, what could it be? Well, I know kinda what it could be.

And here’s the challenge. I want you to get rid of at least two of these things. How many are there? I think five. Okay.

Two things. Alright. I’m just gonna No. Are we gonna shake on it? Well, no.

I don’t think it’s I already know what some of them are because I actually had this question for you. Here’s the deal. I went in the room. Yeah. Yeah.

I know. And I saw this pile on my side of the bed, and I always thought, oh, this is a little passive aggressive. And I just glanced at the pile, and then I glanced at the shelf, and then I had my own questions, but we’ll get there. I will Uh-huh. Two items?

There was there was a lot more stuff, by the way. I know. Two is a lot. There was a skull ring. There was a watch.

Where’s the skull ring? Did you put it in the little jewelry box thing? It’s still in the jewelry box. Oh, you went through that thing? Is it a secret?

No. Well, that you went through it or Well, is whatever is in there a secret? I can’t commit it to. Are you I can’t. Okay.

Guys, pissing this over. Okay. Let me give me a second. Already knows what and this is the Let’s just work through Okay. One.

Why am I negotiating down? One, preferably two. One for sure. Preferably two. Okay.

Just give me a moment. I mean, I’m not shaking on it, but let’s work through it. K. The first item, I know what it is. This came out of Danger’s room.

This came out of Danger’s room. And this is a it’s one of those poster prints, and it says salt works. And it’s like that kind of art, and it’s it’s from It’s art? It’s from well, I mean, it’s the this is from the beach. He got this when we were at the beach, and I believe it was my mother’s 70 or eightieth birthday celebration at the beach.

And this is because they used to distill they used to take the ocean water and put these kettles, and they would boil it all. This is in, Cannon Beach, I think. And You don’t need No. No. Actually, not Cannon Beach.

Oh, no. This might be but so the so this is cool. I thought it’d be cool to put it on some foam core and put it on the wall. What wall? Like Max’s or something.

No. I don’t want that. It’s all bent up. Because somebody rolled it up, sat on it or something. Fine.

Recycled. Thank you. But I’m not happy about it. Mitchell, hey. Are you okay?

It’s just like it’s a cool thing. I got my mother or something, probably. K. Do you wanna ask your mom if she wants it? She I don’t care.

Next up. You’re getting emotional, Mitchell. It’s like an episode of Hoarders. Mitchell. Okay.

Now this is this is the shooting script, if you’re in the screenplays, of The Birdcage. I love The Birdcage. I love that. From Robin starring Robin Williams and Nathaniel Lane Yeah. And Hank Azaria.

Now and Gene Hackman, the late Gene Hackman riff. Oh, yeah. This is just a it’s a good, it’s just a screenplay. Okay. But There were a couple screenplays in there.

Which is this we’ll get to this. I’m gonna put the little pin in this. Okay. I already got rid of one item. Alright.

K. I don’t know. Okay. Dear listener, okay. Learning to climb indoors.

It’s a rock climbing book on how to climb indoors. Okay. For me, when I see that cover, it looks a little bit more than rock climbing. Well, okay. What I’m looking at It looks like a Playboy.

Well, we could take a picture and put it on the site because it does it has a woman on the front who appears it looks like she’s only wearing shorts, but she has a top, and she’s doing the splits and, like, and then a couple and she’s blonde, and she’s on a rock wall, but okay. Do you not know how to climb indoors? You know what? Fair enough. We can put in the lending library or send it to Goodwill.

Alright. That’s two things. Oops. I don’t wanna ruin it, though. Someone could get some use out of it.

Moving along. Sailing Fundamentals. This was my brother’s book. Okay. So so that’s why you probably understand.

Wait. Spoiler alert, he’s dead. Oh. So so is it really important for me to keep sailing fundamentals? No.

If I wanna take a Did he sail? Yeah. Him and my dad did sailing school and they got their certificates. I have his certificate. I’m really interested in sailing, but not so interested.

I mean, I’d love to learn to sail. It’s something I contemplated doing this this summer. I was like, maybe I’ll get danger and we’ll go down to the sailing school on the Willamette. And then I looked at the price, and I was like, or maybe not Or just not. Okay.

Seemed like it’d be a good adventure or just him. Here’s what I’m gonna say. Goodbye. Goodbye to the book. I’m done.

No. It’s it’s Well, I also feel like most of these things are a YouTube video, these days. It’s it’s a good book. I’ve not read it. But sailing is pretty fascinating.

People don’t realize that a sail operates more like a airplane wing. People think it’s like, oh, the wind blowing the sail. It’s not about that. It’s about high and low pressure. It’s very fascinating.

But if I ever take up sailing, I bet they’ll have books, and I’ll bet they’ll be even better. And guess what? Michael, I’m glad you learned to sail. Did he read it? Yeah.

He had it for his school. Oh, okay. But I’m okay letting you go for real. Okay. There you go.

This is great. I mean Was that it? No. There’s more. Oh, okay.

I mean and I’m okay with that one. Because it’s like my brother. Hey. Yeah. Keeping the book does not keep him alive or make him alive again.

Right. Wow. I’m feeling a few more weird items in here. Okay. This is Romorano, which is this is a, Italian Wait.

Let me oh, okay. Never mind. What were you gonna guess? Portuguese. It’s, it is Italian hard copy of a, graphic novel, a Spiderman one.

But And Mitchell is the only one who can read Italian in this house. Yeah. So it’s it’s not that it’s important. I just have collector’s items like this, but is it That’s fine. I have some maybe what I should do though is get all the these kind of stuff and just take them to the comic.

Somewhere where someone who might get more value out of them than me. It’s okay. Let’s I’ll just put it in the pile. To go where? The I don’t know.

Goodwill or wherever. Well, let’s circle back to this Saltworks poster because you really It’s okay. Seem to get emotional about that one. It’s just a dumb thing that nobody wanted to take care of but me. There’s more stuff in here.

Okay. No. There’s not. Okay. Oh.

This is a black it’s a utensil from our accident. Oh my goodness. Is that one of our knives? Yeah. You you I I am constantly saying, hey.

Do you have any more of our silverware that you took to work hidden anywhere? You’re like, no. No. That was from my picnic. And I’m like, oh, that’s interesting.

No. We have two forks out of 12, but okay. I wanna actually circle I don’t care about the salt works anymore. You’ve done this to me now. I’m not gonna be the hoarder.

What? Here’s what I find interesting. Going back to The Birdcage, this shooting script. There was I have many, script screenplays that are, like, shooting screenplays. It’s I don’t wanna die I don’t wanna, tell you all about the differences.

Right? But these it doesn’t matter. The screenplays I like to read screenplays. Right? And these are things I like.

What I found was interesting is I looked and I was like, oh, The Birdcage. I mean, this is a fantastic I mean, it’s based off of a French, I believe it’s a novel or a play. Sorry, somebody. Akashahual, which is the name of the anyway, it doesn’t matter. So we have this.

And I was like, this is a really good one. It’s kinda cool. It’s about, you know, gay and coming out and acceptance. That’s like a really good thing. It’s like, that’s interesting.

But on the shelf, I see another one, which is American Beauty. Yeah. Which is also an interesting movie, Academy Award winning movie, but starring Kevin Spacey. And I was like, boy, she was like, yeah, I’ll keep the Kevin Spacey one, but we’re gonna get rid of the Robin Williams one. That was interesting to me.

You maybe didn’t make a choice. I think because I I could have brought them both down. But this wasn’t exactly supposed to be like, a getting rid of thing. That’s just kinda like what this evolved into. But it was just more like I was picking the most random items I could find.

And so it was that Italian Spiderman book. So this is a keeper. The bird cage. The sailing book. Yeah.

I already forgot the other one. Oh, learning to climb. Learning to climb. It was just all of, like, a plethora of and then a bent up poster that you seem to be very emotionally attached to. Just don’t worry about it.

It’s recycling. Not even that nice of a poster. It’s just some sometimes things are I don’t know. But this that’s part of my problem. That’s my sickness.

So let’s just give it up. So I’ll keep the one birdcage and the others can find their new homes. Okay. Okay. Hey.

You know what? This was great because you told me just one thing, and you got rid of four. Yeah. Well, I was empowered. So you’re like, we get in a podcast every morning now Yeah.

For thirty minutes, but we’ll do it in the garage without microphones. So okay. Well, thank and that was it was this kind of your honey, what am I looking at moment? Yeah. Yeah.

Which is fine. We can, you know, we can start to round this out. Yeah. But here’s my I had some thoughts because I had saw this, and then I was just hanging some clothes and whatnot in the closet. And then I was like, man, do you do you know, approximately our closet has two sides, left and a right.

Yeah. Do you know how approximately long each of the closet oh, call it a rod. I don’t know. The closet the thing that you put hangers on. What is that called?

A closet pole? I think just a hanging rod. Hanging rod? Six feet long. K.

There you go. How many are though are there in our closet? Four. Correct. How many are in use for hanging?

Two. Two. Okay. Now so two, that’s that’s 12 feet. We agree on that?

Yeah. How many of those 12 feet do you think you have? Nine. Oh, you know? Wow.

And I have three. And that’s how I dictate when I’m giving clothes away is I can no longer fit anything in my three feet of closet space. And so but today, I was like, I was struggling, and I was like, it’s time to get rid of clothes because I was having to compress them so hard against the wall to and that’s and my scrubs are included in that three feet. Like, it’s everything. I’m not being accusatory.

I’m just like but then that’s when I was like, you know, we have a second tier of hangers Yeah. That we don’t use because there’s all sorts of other crap including a bunch of comic books. Guilty over here on the one side, all those boxes of comics. Your side, shoes. A shoe rack.

Yeah. A weird drawer systems that are filled with things that are like And then I think I also kind of diverted from putting stuff because the cats go in there and they get not not often. I try to keep that door shut. And, like, you’re and then if anything’s hanging on that lower rack, you’ll be like, why is there all this transfer everywhere? Well, that’s I feel like we could reclaim it.

I close the door Yeah. All the time. And then every now and then I open it and a cat will shoot out of there. I’m like, well, it’s been five hours. Of course, you wanna get out.

Closet’s a mess, ultimately, from top to bottom. It’s just And there’s shelving. Mostly my mess. Yes. We have a collection of old comforters or things that I’m like, I don’t know, comforter comforters or, like, there’s a mattress that used to live next to your bed.

This is our classic ticket. Our we both do it. Just move it from one place to the next. I know. I need to get rid of this The, like, stupidest purchase I ever made.

The dumbest purchase I ever made. Best of intentions. It goes on a list of them, but yeah. Because my mom and brother were visiting. We don’t have a spare room.

So one of them was gonna have to take this couch that I’m next to, which is a comfortable couch. It’s a good size when you get the back. It’s a good sleeping couch. Yeah. And so I got I knew my mom or my brother was gonna have sleep on the couch.

And so I got this little egg mat egg egg crate style trifold mattress to sit in the floor. My mom ended up just folding it up and either sleeping on it or sleeping on the floor next to it. So all together, it was, like, the most pointless purchase I’ve ever made. So Yeah. And then it became A waste of $50 at least, I’m sure.

It was more than that. I think it hit triple digits or just close to it. Hey. Who cares? It’s done.

And then it became like a cat scratching thing because it has a delicate surface, and then it got all, like, these cat scratched, peeled up, you know, snags in it, and then it lived in the yeah. No. It was nice of you, but, there’s yeah. We all do it. Yours just lives with us forever.

And not unlike my salt works poster, which I am now giving away, you still got that. Wait. I thought you were recycling it. Well, I’m recycling. Maybe I could sell it.

I’m just kidding. I’ll recycle it. I’m just irritate don’t get me started on it again. Alright. I mean, that’s kinda so people should like, follow, subscribe.

We’re on we’re on Blue Sky, but we don’t use it. I mean what? What’d you do? Well, nothing. I was getting ready to bring in some music, but I’m not, if you’re not ready.

No. I’m just saying, like, we we might need to get our social media up and running as anti Mark Zuckerberg as I am. And I think you said that much before. I know. But I’m like, at least in Instagram.

I’m very anti Facebook. I think Facebook is disgusting. I almost I stuttered because, like, I get so angry talking about Facebook. It’s a disgusting place. So I don’t have Facebook.

Wow. And I refuse to get Facebook, but we will probably start up an Instagram here where we can post pictures of the stuff that we’re talking about. And if the Zuck was listening, well, he’s out now. Yeah. Sorry, Mark.

We don’t like your platform. We are Facebook. It’s dated. It’s dated. It’s dated.

And, like, I feel like in college, it was cool. And then all of a sudden, a bunch of, like, older people started getting on there like your aunt Marlene who feels like she needs to get on there and talk garbage about other family members. And I’m like, to what goal? What is your goal? It’s not even your sickness, you weird woman.

What if she’s listening? By the way, aunt Marlene, those are those that’s that’s, they call that tough love. So or, you know, they they overshare. They get political. Like, get over yourself.

Guess what? People don’t care about your life as much as you think they care about it. My mom’s the same way. It’s a dopamine hit. Right?

You post something, you get a bunch of likes, and you get that little boost of dopamine. I’m like, no. No. Yeah. It’s a No.

I don’t I haven’t canceled mine or deleted it or whatever. Whatever. I just don’t use it, but like the little badge will show, like, you know, 7,000,000,000,000 notifications. And I’m sorry I’ve missed all those birthdays, folks, by the way. But what I find irritating when I do hop on there on a rare occasion because I’m just like, what is all this?

It’s like there is so many, I’m gonna guess, ads, paid for content. It’s like a garbage Russian propaganda. It’s a garbage heap of stuff. It’s garbage. It’s not like I go and I can see what my friends are doing.

I can go and I can see what load of crap I should be buying and this and that. And then it’s just like I don’t know. Prolong this, but maybe next show we should talk about social media. Oh, yeah. Because I could go on about this forever.

And get everything launched up. Nobody cares about your life, people. Okay? Like, you know, closest friends and family. That’s all that matters.

Alright? Otherwise, you’re just giving people, you know, gossip ammunition. So I mean, that’s how many people listen to the podcast is closest friends and family. That’s really why we do this. Not for the dopamine hit.

It’s, it’s actually depressing. No. We got actually, no. The, the, Spotify version of the show, which is just the same version, it is, initially, like, nobody was finding it there and then now, lately, I’m getting, like, people have found it there too. I don’t know how.

Thank you. Don’t know what’s going on. You grow these things little by little, you know? Yeah. I say you add It’s called persistence.

Okay? We’re really good at that. You add one listener every four to five weeks is what I’ve noticed. So for the years up, we might be in double digits. I kid.

We’re doing better than that, I hope. I don’t know. I do know. Until next time, I’m Scarlet. Hold on.

Oh. Well, I mean, now, see, there’s the music. We’re bringing it in. We’re bringing it back now. Oh, yeah.

Oh, and someone wanted to hear all the lyrics to this, I could put it after I could put the whole thing at the end. Do you know what I mean? After it all? She’s not my girl. Does that make sense?

Yeah. Like, I could put the whole song. Days I’ll, like, mix our own intro. Well, I’ve done that before. This is an actual person, but they’re not I know it’s an actual person.

Well, I mean, it’s not She never listens. Oh, it’s not AI? No. Well, it was not a bad idea. But I’m saying Fucking, walking all over me, walking all over me.

She’s just talking, talking all over me. I feel like this has a whole new meaning. Oh, that’s why I’m like, if I play the whole it’s called walkie talkie. Okay. I’ll put it up maybe at the very end, but, like, that’s it.

Until next time. Bye. She lets me say a word. She congregates with herself, so I am never heard. This is madness.

Why doesn’t she get away from me? I’m so tired of this. Somebody set me free. She’s just walking, walking all over Talk more? Talk more?

Yeah. A little echoey? Not that I hear crackly. Keep talking. I don’t hear crackly.

Maybe keep going. Talk just talk. Do the pledge of nothing. I don’t know. I pledge allegiance to nothing, God’s holy word.

I will make it a lamp unto my feet, a light unto my path. It’ll be echoey for now. So I’m just I don’t know. Whatever. And I will hide its words in my heart that I might not sin against God.