Mitchell
Back at it. Doing the most forty-two. Episode forty-two

Scarlet
right

Mitchell
Doing the Most with Scarlet Ann Mitchell. You know, I have never come up with a tagline for this show, but it is a podcast, and we strive to make you feel better about your life by telling you about ours I mean not that our life is

Scarlet
telling you how bad it is?

Mitchell
Well no, not that our life is that bad though.

Scarlet
We’re not whining. We are very

Mitchell
Fortunate.

Scarlet
Yeah.

Mitchell
I don’t want anyone to think we’re like I’m just saying really the goal what I’m getting at is when you listen to this pod when you anyone Not you, because I know you, lovely wife, never listen to our podcast. But when someone listens to this, I hope that they go, Oh, I’m not the only one. Or oh my partner does that too.

Or Holy smokes, I can’t believe they do that. I don’t know, just see you know sometimes, you know. You can r relate, relate to somebody.

We’re both nurses. Maybe you’re not a nurse. You don’t have to be a nurse to listen to this show You could be a party.

Scarlet
No, we hardly talk about nursing.

Mitchell
Yeah. Although a lot a lot of people really like the DNI DNR episode. Okay. Um so maybe we should pick a nursing topic like once a month or something that, you know, I don’t know Uh there’s that, um yeah, so but you don’t have to be nurse. You just have to be a partner or a parent or a step parent Or

Scarlet
a human.

Mitchell
A human. Yeah. To listen to this show.

That our requirement is human with a heartbeat. So welcome. Welcome to forty two.

Um and I have a thing for numbers. It doesn’t really matter and but for me this means I call this this is the Jackie Robinson episode for no other reason than that’s what forty -two is Right? Some people like h wonder in in our line of work, I can tell you sometimes people’s birth dates and different Data if it’s numbers, because numbers have a way of just appearing to me.

And sometimes certain numbers like twenty-three is Michael Jordan, forty-two Jackie Robinson. So that’s what I see when I hear forty-two You do even know who that is. He had a big old thing back in Durham, North Carolina.

All right.

Scarlet
Oh he did?

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
Okay.

Mitchell
So here we go. Flockwatch 2026. That’s on the top of my list. And the list is arbitrary, however. Those who do follow along know that we have a we have a backyard flock, backyard Yeah.

Scarlet
Yeah.

Mitchell
I don’t know. Of chickens. Five chickens to be.

Scarlet
Five chickens. Yeah.

Mitchell
I was gonna say a brood, but I don’t know if that’s I think I’m misusing the word brood. A witch’s brood? I don’t know.

Let’s just skip the part where I struggle with words. Words are hard sometimes. Um we have five chickens.

And People and we got them in June? So long? May.

May. There you go. May we got these chickens and we were been waiting and so they were little chicks and we’ve been waiting and waiting for them to grow up And on November 1st of this year we

Scarlet
got some big news.

Mitchell
Yeah, brrrrrr drum roll. I don’t have sound effects. This is not a morning radio show, folks, but I could make it that way. What happened

Scarlet
We have our first egg.

Mitchell
Our first egg, yeah.

Scarlet
That I didn’t find, even though they’re my chickens.

Mitchell
I know. I w I would just I always check for eggs I don’t know why. I mean now I know why. But I when it was back there, I opened it up and I was like, whoa, it took me I was it’s funny

Scarlet
No, you thought I put a fake one in there. Yeah. To mess with you. I mean like I’m a funny person, but I’m not that F like I don’t do pranks.

Mitchell
Right. And what’s funny is I was literally checking for an egg and I was surprised when I actually found what I was checking for, like almost like jumped back like surprise. Like whoa, I was like, okay But then I like close it and then I let Max and then I videotaped Max finding the egg ’cause I thought he would get a kick out of it.

Scarlet
That was a cute video.

Mitchell
Yeah. So now we got one and then the next day

Scarlet
Another egg appeared.

Mitchell
Another egg. Identical to the first egg. in color, weight, and shape.

Scarlet
Yeah, they were actually identical.

Mitchell
Pretty much. And then we skip a day.

Scarlet
Yeah.

Mitchell
And then today. Another egg.

Scarlet
So we’re up to three eggs. Calm down, people were not ready to start selling them just yet.

Mitchell
Slightly larger egg. And it is slightly shinier. So we’re not we d we don’t know who’s laying them. We have narrowed it down to two chickens.

Scarlet
Four of the five will be brown egg layers for sure.

Mitchell
Right.

Scarlet
One of them may lay colored eggs. Which Mitchell’s really hoping for. We’re both really hoping for. I’m hoping for pink eggs, you’re hoping for green eggs, whatever egg she lays whatever color

Mitchell
we will love her this

Scarlet
whatever color you know they don’t lay different colors just whatever color she lays will be the color she lays forever.

Mitchell
But we just don’t know. Unless that is her. In which case she’s just a brown egg layer.

Which fine. Well we we we accept her. If that’s all her cloica can produce is brown eggs, then so be it.

But you know, and so we’re not about we feel strongly that it’s not her. That would be Kiwi the Easter Egg, or we feel pretty strongly that it’s actually The Bard Plymouth. Ladyhawk.

Scarlet
Yeah. Or

Mitchell
Mama Duck.

Scarlet
She’s the most adult looking. Always has been. She was an adult when I bought her, practically.

Mitchell
Right. Which is funny now. I feel like she’s probably the the smallest of them all. Or

Scarlet
muscular.

Mitchell
Slenderist. Maybe. She isn’t a big feathers. Not like uh Buffy. Or Poofy.

Scarlet
Buffy, let me pick her up

Mitchell
Oh. Did she is she doing that thing?

Scarlet
She’s doing the thing.

Mitchell
Oh. She did it.

Scarlet
Because I was putting them back. I went to pet her and she did the squat thing.

Mitchell
The squat is that your stomach I just heard? No. Okay. They squat wing out kinda little bit of brrrrr.

Okay. Hmm. That’s three of them going into uh submissive I don’t know what submission.

I don’t know. Uh I get the cloakel kiss from a rooster.

Scarlet
Yeah.

Mitchell
That’s what it’s called.

Scarlet
It’s weird.

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
That they do that when we go to pet them. It’s like

Mitchell
You’re like, oh they love us. It’s like no, they’re waiting. I don’t know.

I’m not their rooster. But hey. So there’s our uh Flockwatch 2026 update.

For those of you who were wondering, I know a people coup a couple people that were kept asking me so and I haven’t had a chance to update them.

Scarlet
No, we gotta figure it out though. So we’ll let you know if we figure it out. I don’t know how we’re gonna figure it out. Could be one, could be two

Mitchell
Yeah. Chickens at this point. I could put another camera in there and I might do that.

I just have to figure out how to keep it protected from the other thing that comes out of their cloacas, the uh poop But all in good time, folks. Alright, so oh there’s so so much to talk about, so little time. And getting ready today, this is actually so this is something that irritates me And and this I’m not the spam text.

I got one today for uh did you get the same one?

Scarlet
No, but I can tell you how many I have right now. I got one too because some days my inbox will be

Mitchell
up to twenty. There’s an HVAC one today. So someone they’re in and they are in our neighborhood.

Even though I looked up and down the street doing like uh you know home heater and air conditioning. They’re working on that What I there’s a couple things I don’t know. Here’s what this irritates me, the text.

Cause I get tired of it the whole like, hey, we’re on your street. One, where have they got our numbers? Is it ’cause sometimes we’ll both get the same identical one.

So it makes me think it’s that thing where they can go through home loans, you know, ’cause I get a bunch of like offers for that have that whole attention. It’s about your home loan and it and it fools I’m sure many people think, oh my goodness, this is about our home loan, but it’s like just some dumb offer. I don’t know if there’s a list like that that they’re getting.

I don’t know it but what What I don’t get is this. Are there people who literally see that and go, oh, well, we could use an HVAC person here? Like Uh obviously there are because they’re still doing this, they’re still spamming people, but I personally never in my life will I think that I’m gonna respond to a text about some tree trimmer down the way who’s in our neighborhood.

who like I just don’t get it and I block and delete I delete and block all of them and they still keep appearing. So I don’t know how to get off that list. It just irritates me because I’m still flabbergasid to think this is a actual method of air of advertising of marketing that’s working for somebody.

So and it’s generally tree care H track roofing or gutters.

Scarlet
Mm-hmm.

Mitchell
Try to think of anything else. Tree trimming. I don’t know if there’s anything beyond those.

Scarlet
Yeah, that’s pretty much it.

Mitchell
I don’t think maybe a landscaping one now and again, but it’s always this thing Which now, on the other side of that, I just recently got our car serviced, our one of our Toyotas, and the whole time I asked them when I went in there, I said, Hey, I’m always getting text messages from this person, Alma Olberg And I said, I can’t find them. Did they exist? And they’re like, oh yeah, yeah, Alma, she works here.

And I was like, oh. So she’s always sending me these text messages. Come in, you got all this, we’ll do all this free stuff If you come on in and get your uh your Highlander um whatever the recalls taken care of.

She’d been doing that for a while, even leaving voicemails and I get an email It felt spammy because it felt too good to be true. Like, hey, we’ll give you a free oil change, which you know normally costs like $180 or something. A free oil change and a few other things if you just bring in your vehicle So I was upset that I find out that she did exist, but now I know.

But they said yes, she contacts people who haven’t been in for like a year or more. So now I was like, Well, you can bet I’m not coming back in for a year. I’m waiting for Alma to text me and say hey come get a free whatever and I’ll be yeah we’ll get that oil change that every year so so in that case it wasn’t the same like if she didn’t say hey yeah we’re on your street doing oil changes but anyway So, but that’s how I feel like we’ve become like what PTSD a little bit gun shy about these texts.

So Anyway, I’m just so

Scarlet
Yeah, I don’t know. I mean what’s with the cookies? Every website you go to is like Like accept all reject. Reject.

Mitchell
Only necessary.

Scarlet
I’ve just started saying reject.

Mitchell
Yeah, it’s actually all

Scarlet
And I don’t even I’m not even convinced that the reject button works. I think it still is just taking one whatever the cookies are. I still don’t know what they are. Oh they’re But stop taking my cookies.

Mitchell
Yeah. They want to leave little bits of data in your browser And then that’s how partially how you get that cross-browsing, like there’s a little tracking or wherever, so another one can go, oh, I see that she was it this site. Like that’s how they start getting some that’s why I think I don’t know this.

Someone can call me out. I think a lot changed because this whole cookie thing Seems like it came out of nowhere and it’s been consistent since then. I don’t know if been a year.

Like I’m wondering if there was a law that said you have to let people opt out of this or something because All of a sudden every website was doing it at some point. And I was and we’ve all just gotten used to it. For a while I was just like, yeah, whatever, just get me to the website.

But now I’m more like, no, no, and yeah, I’m more like, reject them all Sometimes I will give me only the necessary. And then you open the thing and it’s like have you ever opened it? Like pick which ones you want And they’ll be like marketing and then it’ll be like strictly necessary and then like but it’s also confusing because I can’t tell if the checkbox is a little slider, if it’s off or on.

And I’m like, this is horrible. This is a classic, like they’re just Tricking you into just you know, and it’s all for the same thing.

Scarlet
I know. I hate living in a world where you just feel like everybody is just trying to steal Your data.

Mitchell
Yeah. Well everyone’s trying to market it to you so everyone else can steal it. So I don’t know, that’s irritating.

Yeah, the cookies. Everything yeah, it’s phenomenal. Okay.

I’m yawning. In fairness, I did get up at three forty five AM today to go do a little bit of overtime for my job. So I’m a little tired.

Not totally, just like yawning. But I wanna now we’re moving into the next part. Which I I labeled the reason I write the by the way, I write hard copy stuff down is because I don’t have access to my phone is tied up here, my other phone I don’t have any way of looking at a digital thing Well sharing with you what I’m gonna talk about.

But this next one’s called Stuffa Palooza. That’s what I’m calling it. What?

Scarlet
Again.

Mitchell
Again? I’ve never said stuff a paloza.

Scarlet
No, but it’s

Mitchell
okay. It’s the

Scarlet
What’s it about?

Mitchell
It’s the it’s about our ongoing like so Dewey we we our ongoing acquisition of more Crap.

Scarlet
I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Mitchell
When we are in the goal has been uh we’re almost going on two years with this whole thing, and our whole goal for me has been to clean the garage out for two well ten years and then like get rid of stuff yet I am acquiring more stuff as are you. So I’m like, hey, let’s just let’s celebrate it. Stuff of Palooza. What’s the newest toy that we got?

Scarlet
Oh. Okay, this is a fun one.

Mitchell
What’s the newest stuff?

Scarlet
A Terra Cafe.

Mitchell
A Terra Cafe. Coffee maker. A TKO2.

Or as my one daughter said, you guys got a Starbucks. in your house because you know it’s uh for those of you don’t know what it is and you don’t have to this is it what they call a super automatic coffee maker because it has a grinder. You fill a thing on the top has a grinder, has a water reservoir, a little small And then you and then you can hook up a milk thing and then you push a button that says latte and you it pulls a shot, puts in your milk, steams it, foams it, and then you pull it out and you or you know you drink your mug, right?

Then I don’t even know how we landed on

Scarlet
Well, I was getting so tired. So I love coffee. But I was getting so tired of drip coffee every morning. ‘Cause I would ha I would get about cup and a half in, twelve ounces, and then I would just be like, Ugh.

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
Like I’m just sick of this.

Mitchell
And it it’s not and it was a good it’s not even technically drip. That machine is l drip like I’ll give you that. But that machine is closer to pourover.

It’s a Mocha Master. But nonetheless, what I’m saying is it is some pourover drip style coffee, which is just, you know For those of you who are not into that, that’s just grounds that are hot water gets poured through and you know it’s your classic coffee. That’s just your classic coffee.

Scarlet
How does a regular coffee make? Doesn’t that work the same way?

Mitchell
Well A regular coffee does do drip, right? But drip really is like if you watch just drip, drip, drip. This has a a bar with perforations so it provides more of a pour over, which You can argue pour over versus drip.

I’m just saying it’s slightly better than drip, but let’s not split hairs. It’s we’ll call it drip. I’m just wanted to be clear I don’t want people to think we’re using one a a Mr. Coffee Maker or whatever.

I don’t even know what we were using a mocha mastery. But yes. Even though I love coffee and I like it black or with a little heavy cream, but it was getting to where I was like, man, I just I was just yeah.

Scarlet
But I don’t wanna go out and get coffee.

Mitchell
Right.

Scarlet
But to make a special trip just to go get a latte. I’m not gonna be doing that in the morning.

Mitchell
Yeah, we’re not which surprisingly, there’s a lot of people that we know and work with who are like They get their Dutch brothers on the way to work. They get their Starbucks. They get their well, they get their coffee on the way to work. On their day off, they gotta go get their coffee. We have never lived in that world that I know of Like where we’re like, gotta go get my daily brew. I mean we’ve I’ve gone to phases where I’ve gotten I have yes, I have eaten it or drinking it black rock and everything I’ll treat myself

Scarlet
they now fa I just now feel like they are all Overpriced, over-sugared, underwhelming.

Mitchell
Yes. No, no, this is agreeable because it’s just like, oh yeah,

Scarlet
Dutch Brothers always taste the same to me.

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
And gives me upset tummy because it is so sugared.

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
Like it is probably the sugar sugaryest coffee you can get in Oregon Um in the Pacific Northwest.

Mitchell
Yeah, even over a Starbucks.

Scarlet
Y yes. And then Starbucks always tastes burnt and bitter.

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
And then it’s then you have the problem of like e either either it’s like not enough syrup or they put too much syrup or all the syrup’s sitting on the bottom and

Mitchell
Right. It’s just like the the quality control, at least in ours. And ours closed down, the one near us. Starbucks.

Scarlet
By marketer choice?

Mitchell
Yeah. I don’t know if it has yet, but it’s on the list.

Scarlet
Oh, good.

Mitchell
So um

Scarlet
they need to start Shutting some down because

Mitchell
Starbucks had a I feel like Starbucks I mean, okay, sorry. Starbucks when it initially came out And the first one up in Seattle, there was just a Starbucks and it was a real coffee shop. They like pulled a shot like it was your classic real coffee shop where they knew how to make coffee. And then over the years and decades uh franchising, etc. It became the Mc McDonald’s.

Scarlet
It’s become

Mitchell
and they have a machine where you just push a button.

Scarlet
Wait a minute.

Mitchell
It makes the coffee.

Scarlet
But even the coffee beans themselves, if you just buy them at Starbucks or the store and then you brew them at home, I’m like, this still tastes like crap.

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
And then you go to Costco and a lot of the Costco brand, you know, Kirkland brand beans are actually Starbucks beans and I’m like, this tastes like garbage.

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
It’s garbage coffee.

Mitchell
So they somehow lost their way. is how I feel about Starbucks. Like I like what they st and I haven’t checked in, like how they s what they stand for is a company, ’cause aren’t they I don’t they’re a co op, but they’re like I don’t think they’re employee owned but nothing. So they’ve kind of

Scarlet
changed after like twenty ten.

Mitchell
Yeah. So Starbucks lost their way. And then I feel like with them it’s always some new thing. It’s like, oh, it’s the clover machine. It’s it’s a lot of marketing machines like They’re always at least that’s how I feel like oh it’s this thing called a a Volcanano, a veric a volcanamo, volcano. There’s some weird drink that

Scarlet
A drink?

Mitchell
Yeah, when I looked at the app the other day Vol it’s it was like Americano but it had like volcano in it and it looked like I can’t but here’s what I’m saying

Scarlet
so right

Mitchell
they’re all

Scarlet
they had that unicorn one for a couple weeks. This

Mitchell
one ‘s it’s all about marketing with Starbucks now. It’s like They have it’s like, oh, we’re using nitro to make coffee. We’re using the clover machine. Oh, you want a flat white on the clover with nitro like the very market heavy on the gadgets and the and the way the coffee’s made But at the end of the day, which I hate that phrase, their coffee is just not great. Like if you go in there and say

Scarlet
But your breakfast sandwiches slap and you don’t even make ’em. You get ’em from another place.

Mitchell
From an airline or something. And so if you go in and ask Starbucks, well I can’t vouch for this today, but five years ago, if I went and said, hey, could you just pull me a shot, maybe ristretto, the person will just look at you And there would be just kind of a glazed look because there’s no button on the machine says ristretto and that should be served in a very small cup and it should be like a sweet short shot like And so in other words, they cannot. They’re incapable of pulling a good shot.

Now you go to a a good coffee shop, I would say barista, I don’t know if they’re around anymore, but let’s just say a bur uh a shot a a shop in Portland which is like Yeah. There’s a dude with a cool mustache, suspenders, uh flannel shirt, some tattoos. Wait a second.

Yeah. Well and he’s gonna do and it’s gonna take you twelve minutes. Twelve minutes for that shot But it’s gonna like you’re gonna say, is how can this be so silky, wonderful and it’s just pure coffee, like because they understand the process.

Like so I respect the art of that. I just don’t live near one that could do that. Otherwise I’d be in a enormous amount of debt, paying for awesome coffee.

So which Starbucks is not. So w I know I got a little bit off on a tangent, but I too love coffee.

Scarlet
But the coffee place by the tram at OHSU that is not Starbucks?

Mitchell
Right.

Scarlet
Is legit.

Mitchell
Yeah, no, some no, there’s a just not closely one of the things that we’re going to do.

Scarlet
Like for people who are more like coffee snobs, they will go to that one and never go to the Starbucks.

Mitchell
Right.

Scarlet
But like At work, people will be like, Oh, I’m going to Starbucks. Do you want anything? And I’m like, you always ask me this question and the answer is always no.

Mitchell
Yeah. And I’m admin. I get sucked into it I know. I get the Frappuccino

Scarlet
right now.

Mitchell
It’s just a milkshake.

Scarlet
See and I was about to say, like, who needs a lactative when you can have a Frappuccino?

Mitchell
But that’s exactly. So that’s what I’m saying. And I usually get it and then everyone ooze and awes at this monstrosity that that arrives. On the unit and like who’s getting that.

Scarlet
I think instead of bowel care we should be giving our patients a frappuccino with a McChicken sandwich and a cigarette.

Mitchell
Wow I mean that’s uh

Scarlet
problem solved.

Mitchell
I see you did uh oh I’m sorry, it’s been only it’s only been four hours. I can’t get you another McChicken sandwich, but I do see I can give you a Q2 hour cigarette. Oh yeah.

Well so there you go. We now we have it so what we did is bought a machine that does all this. Oh, one other note.

See But

Scarlet
wha how do you feel about the quality?

Mitchell
Of our machine?

Scarlet
Yeah. Or like the c of the of the coffee that it puts out.

Mitchell
It’s it’s good. I’m enjoying it. I feel like I’ve said and this is I’m not the only one.

I wish it came out, I wish it was a little hotter, and they’re aware of that. So there’s some things I can do on my end to make it hotter. I mean it’s not that it’s cold, it’s just like I like to have to wait for my coffee to cool down.

I like the I like to get a sleeve on my coffee at uh at Black Rock ’cause I want it to be so hot that it’s gonna be a while. In this case it’s perfectly good coming out. I can drink the mug.

That’s fine too. I think they’re good. I really enjoy the cappuccinos it’s making.

So far and the beans that are in there now I think are really good Take the good beans. I’m enjoying it. I like it.

I haven’t even played around with all of the different options. I’ve pulled a shot off it and I’ve been fine with that. It doesn’t uh do ristretto, which is okay You know, I actually wanted a Meraki Tech machine, but that was gonna be too much work for you.

That’s what more of a true like barista type of thing. But Uh yeah. So far I mean

Scarlet
could you ever picture me doing that kind of work

Mitchell
at

Scarlet
the end of 435 in the morning when I have to be at work at You know, 437.

Mitchell
And suddenly you’re stopping in a Starbucks.

Scarlet
Because there’s five on the way to work.

Mitchell
And then a restroom.

Scarlet
Now one closed, so.

Mitchell
So well what about you? What do you feel about the Terra Cafe so far?

Scarlet
No, I’m very impressed.

Mitchell
What’s your favorite part? I mean like

Scarlet
the touch screen.

Mitchell
Okay. I mean

Scarlet
And Max loves to you know, pretend like he’s A barista doing it.

Mitchell
I think one of the things I’m still acclimating to, and this is is no commentary on them, it’s on me, is I usually go to work with uh, you know, sixteen or twenty ounce mug of drip coffee with, you know, heavy cream in it. And then usually by the bottom I’m just like over it, right? So now I’m not taking because but this does more of your classic style, which is like, you know uh four, five, six ounces, you know, coffees, you know, smaller volumes.

W you mean you can do it multiple times. But I’m saying like now I haven’t decided what I’m gonna do for work. So far I’ve just been having two wonderful coffees before I leave and I don’t take one to work.

I just go to work. Um so that’s one although someone at work has the same machine, they just go, oh I just do an Americano or a couple of those in my mug And put a little cream in there and you’re back to uh a higher quality quote drip. It’s not drip, I know, but I’m saying like so I haven’t done that yet.

I thought I gotta try just the Americano because I actually like black coffee. So I haven’t that’s what I’m saying. I haven’t explored all the options.

I just haven’t figured out how it fits in my life. Other than I’ve had four drinks today and I I mean I like it because it is pretty simple. And as we talked about the maintenance We’ll have to get into a rhythm, because the water thing does because it flushes and does certain cleaning, the water reservoir runs out a little quicker than I’d like.

But I’m like, I’ll just make it a habit to prep it every night. We did that before on the other machines, not that hard. And then emptying out the pucks, which Also had to do nothing’s new I should say.

I shouldn’t be disappointed that I still have to empty out coffee grounds like big deal. It’s not that automatic, but uh has the app It does update, so no, I’m excited. I enjoy it.

Like in fact, sometimes I thought wonder because you can also put grounds in it. We have a grinder. I thought we should get some naturally decaffeinated beans I can still use our grinder and put ’em in the ground part and make a coffee later in the evening if you want it.

Scarlet
Oh interesting. Okay.

Mitchell
That’s a way to make it. I was wondering about that.

Scarlet
I was like, what if you just want like a decaf But you don’t want to fill up the whole you don’t want to you can’t empty the bean thing and then fill up the whole thing with

Mitchell
I would you’d f just do fourteen grams and put it in the little hole for grounds.

Scarlet
Okay.

Mitchell
There you go. So

Scarlet
Yeah.

Mitchell
Of Stuffa Palooza in the Terra Cafe 2. So also in Stuffa Palooza is I noticed that you have some uh what would normally be shower caddies on the mirror to be able to hold even more beauty products

Scarlet
Same amount, better organized.

Mitchell
Okay. But but isn’t this the classic see like I’m always like we should get rid of stuff and yet what I’ve done is to make more space in the studio that we’re in is now I’ve stacked my I’ve stacked my um travel my uh I c they’re toolboxes but I use them for stuff. Now I’ve just stacked them all one corner. So there’s like an eight foot.

Scarlet
Do I need to get you a ladder?

Mitchell
Obviously. I’ll just borrow Max’s.

Scarlet
Okay.

Mitchell
Well this is gonna try to free up that corner because I got another part for my printer. No, I just have that other part for this printer 3D printer. Or we like to call it a pressure.

Scarlet
Do you mean another printer?

Mitchell
Well no, not yet. But just no, it’s just it’s not another printer. It just holds more of the the plastic that turns into crap around the house Don’t ask, don’t tell.

It’s just uh I’m just saying the direction. We are I am sometimes feel like I am going full bore in reverse of getting rid of stuff. However, we got we did clean the coat closet.

Yeah. Okay. Oh yeah.

Scarlet
Yeah, we did.

Mitchell
Look at that.

Scarlet
And it’s in the garage. Right.

Mitchell
The garage, the staging area for all crap.

Scarlet
It will eventually end up in the car where we will drive it around for about three months Before even though we drive by a goodwill drop-off probably every other day on our way to work to and from.

Mitchell
And we will unload and load the stuff in if we need a little space in the car If we’re like, oh we’re gonna we go grocery I better unload this box it could be

Scarlet
it will eventually find its way to a donation center center.

Mitchell
It will just take time.

Scarlet
Usually by me.

Mitchell
Yeah. Well, because you usually drive the Highlander, which usually is where it is. In the summer we put the dump stuff in the back of my pickup truck.

So there’s, you know, we got options, okay? Stuff a palooza. Any other stuff a paloza?

Paloozing you

Scarlet
Oh yeah. I also have now

Mitchell
taken up perfume collecting. Oh is that what you were thinking? Yes. I know. I was like, Yeah, what about this?

Scarlet
Quite a collection just within the last week, I would say. Yeah. Because in the last episode, my talk was like, I’m trying to find my signature scent. Well, sense.

Mitchell
Okay.

Scarlet
I think I now am up to like twenty.

Mitchell
Yeah, and I’m, you know, I’m not complaining, but yeah ‘Cause I have my own things going on. I know.

Scarlet
I’ve never been a collector of anything and I think there’s a worse thing there are worse things to be collecting.

Mitchell
Yeah. I mean I could

Scarlet
But I’m kind of obsessed with perfume lately. What it’s like my brother in weed. I love to look at it. I love to smell it.

Mitchell
Like the container comes in.

Scarlet
The containers, the bottles, so pretty.

Mitchell
Yeah. Okay. And were you ever like this in your past?

Scarlet
Nope.

Mitchell
Okay. And and for the rest

Scarlet
I usually had one or two perfumes and I would like you know you know this. What like and I would rotate them depending on my mood or where We were going whatever. Or most of the time not wear anything because you were like, oh I like I like not I like the way you smell naturally. But then I’m like, I’m like over that Oh ’cause I don’t.

Mitchell
Okay, no, but I think you because you in fairness, in total honesty, some of the scents you were using back then, I were like it wasn’t I didn’t like ’em, I just felt like they weren’t you But the vein that you’ve been in recently, I like. So like you I I feel like maybe you hadn’t paired up with something that was working for you. Hm Vim.

And it wasn’t complaining. I don’t it’s just I’ve never been like into and I we don’t have to I’m not into my own I’m not a cologne guy. I don’t it’s just not my jam.

I just and it’s not because I don’t like the way things smell. I Uh can I say it one time? I don’t like the way it feels on my skin, the way the the oils and stuff.

So I just when people are like, oh, why don’t you I just it’s a thing for me.

Scarlet
Fine, I don’t care.

Mitchell
But y what you’re working with now I’m enjoying. A lot of them kinda smell similar, which but I think that speaks to where you’re like, yes. Because you’re kind of You’re triangulating in on a on a on your signature scent. My signature scent is Old Spice and B. O. Um, so that’s

Scarlet
mostly B. O.

Mitchell
That’s when the old smice s fades after the first hour of my work day. Wow.

Scarlet
And then all the synthetics start w working their magic.

Mitchell
The synthetics

Scarlet
Of your scrubs.

Mitchell
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Nothing like sweating and polyester, right? I mean that’s uh who Which yeah, we uh we already mentioned that once. So yes, your perfume thing, which is nice because now it’s a marriage of your thing and now you’re having you’re making requests for mean to 3D print perfume holding devices. See?

Scarlet
I I know. I know.

Mitchell
I don’t know if that’s cause you’re like you have so many or you want to include me or you’re like, hey this is a way to keep them from falling off the shape.

Scarlet
I need I need them to sit upright. Yeah, I can do it. So I can take them out of boxes.

Mitchell
I love 3D printing. I mean

Scarlet
I know.

Mitchell
Yeah. Well, so. Okay.

Man, we were getting close to the end of this because here’s my final like my final item I think ’cause I have to oh, I can read it better if I move my arm farther up. Uh I have haircuts. Maybe I’ve complained about it.

You have a haircut? No, no, I don’t have one.

Scarlet
Oh.

Mitchell
My hair is gotten on it’s not unwieldy because it’s I can still work with it, but Here’s what I’m like, I realized I’ve been in maybe sort of a denial, right? I like to think that I’m like, oh, I I got I ‘ve I changed my style up with my hair But I’m just in denial. I r essentially probably only have three hairstyles and it’s all just one haircut based off of how long it’s been since I got it cut, right? There’s the shorter me with cropped on the sides and then kind of like maybe a little messy or tossled on top, right? And then that moves into when it gets a little longer to the oh now I’ve kind of got like a swoop back on the the one side because it’s a little lengthier.

Scarlet
That’s usually my favorite.

Mitchell
I can’t tussle anymore.

Scarlet
But then it grows out fast.

Mitchell
And now we’ve moved into the final The third haircut, which is the kinda what I apologize but this I’m not gonna use a bad word, but this is my friend used to call it a butt head because it’s kind of a middle part. I don’t hard part it. It just falls in the middle And but it’s not like a

Scarlet
two waves on the like trusting on the front.

Mitchell
Because I don’t have like a natural I don’t know. In other words, this is this is the final like w n where I’m gonna be driven to get a haircut. Right? Despite the fact that I’m like, oh I’m I I do different Hairstyles and stuff. Even though in reality, no you don’t. You just do the same one over and over and over again. Which which as a

Scarlet
dad. And so does your dad

Mitchell
Is it is but I would rather try to do something different. And I’ve tried that before and then usually I’m kinda like, yeah, is that a comfort thing or uh I don’t know. But I guess what I’m saying is I feel like most men generally are like me.

Where you’re just like, yeah, I got something that works. My barber just does the same thing. Pretty much we almost all get the same thing which is short on the sides and back a little length in the top.

But we’re all doing it. We’ve all been doing it for quite a while. Yeah.

In fact, I don’t know if the barbers know anything different. You’re like, oh you should try to do some layered thing, maybe get the back I don’t thinned down or like shaped up and work with this. I don’t know.

But this is why I’m like, ah, I would like to go to a stylist just to try something different, but I’m afraid of like going to a stylist and I don’t know

Scarlet
I know it’s hard to find it.

Mitchell
Yeah, it’ll be like they’ll be like, oh we’re gonna l we’re gonna kinda fade it up into the top. We’re gonna c cut the size and make sure, but do the top a little bit shorter but you can kinda must it up. And I might be like, okay, this is what I’ve been doing for most of my life.

Not entirely. I’ve had really long hair and this and that. But but whereas I feel like women do you now here’s my question for you.

Do you feel like You usually just have the same hairstyle or have you or do you and I’ve been around you, I can answer that, but I’m saying how do you personally feel? Are you like, oh, I don’t like to change it up. There’s a way I like it.

How do tell me about your hair as we wrap this? Episode forty two about.

Scarlet
Well, I had a really traumatic experience back in like twenty twelve. Was

Mitchell
this the short hair one? Yes.

Scarlet
Okay. when I was like, oh, I want it like Chen Link, the little like inverted bob and like it was gonna be super cute and the style then and I ended up with a pixie cut which for a round faced person like myself is very unflattering. And it took me years to grow that out.

So ever since then I was like I don’t think I’m ever getting my hair cut. Okay, that’s a lie. Cause actually about a year ago I did get it cut short.

Mitchell
But it was not pixie cut. It was

Scarlet
No. But it was it was like a like a bob. Yeah.

Mitchell
Yeah.

Scarlet
And it was cute, but I just kind of go for about what it is now.

Mitchell
And do you feel like you’ve settled in a cell I mean you have a woman okay, I don’t sorry, I don’t make it men-woman. Let me take that back People with very long hair have often can have a few more options because with long hair you can curl. You have a little more to work with. I’m so I’m saying like you can still have a kind of a same haircut, but you can do your hair differently. You can because you have curly hair, you can straighten it. Or you can leave it sort of curly, more curly, like you have options to work with even if you get the quote same haircut each time

Scarlet
Yeah. I mean it’s better if I see like a curly haired specialist because if I want to wear my hair curly, it needs to be able to lay a certain way.

Mitchell
Right.

Scarlet
Then Like when I didn’t get my hair cut for like eighteen months, it my hair was just like almost one length and it didn’t have like a lot of shape going on.

Mitchell
Right.

Scarlet
So Now I have layers, because the last girl I went and saw, I had put some layers in my hair based off of my curl pattern. So

Mitchell
That’s why you ‘re going to be able to do that.

Scarlet
I kinda like where it’s at now, which like even when I wear it straight, it still has more bot well, I put some waves in it, but it holds more body than it did when it was just all one layer and like heavy, even My hair’s not heavy. I have like pretty thin hair. I just have like a lot of it. With the amount of hair that keeps falling out in the shower, I’m surprised I have any hair.

Mitchell
Yeah, and I’m surprised our shower even works, but Well, that’s another thing. Sometimes.

Scarlet
I’m very considerate like that.

Mitchell
Sometimes.

Scarlet
Most of the time.

Mitchell
Exactly. Sorry, and then I realize oh wait she’s at work. Um so have you ever had bangs?

Scarlet
Yeah.

Mitchell
I feel like I remember you having bangs. Yes, I do. I just didn’t know because with curly hair I feel like bangs could be It’s a very delicate cutting matter because if they don’t cut ’em right, they’ll be too short if they’re not straightened.

That’s all. No, I remember what you had, because you had kind of a Sh I think a sh thing going on. That’s my I’m doing a hand sign for those who are not watching on YouTube.

Yes, that’s what I was thinking of. Those who aren’t watching on YouTube, I’m doing a sh sign

Scarlet
Things.

Mitchell
YouTube at Les Cats, please. Shameless plug for the YouTube channel. So no, that’s a very pretty picture. You have kind of a little bit of a Okay. Like a kissy smolder, like a mm.

Scarlet
No, I’m just that’s just my face. I’m not

Mitchell
Well I know, but it just has a mm, but the way this the okay. I love that picture.

Scarlet
But I mean bangs are hard for me though.

Mitchell
Yeah, I’m not normally a bang fan. I mean, you know, I came to the case. Because of my curls.

Right. Where the 80s, the bangs we have shh way up and like a big wave. The feather bangs.

Yeah. Lots of cool stuff going on in the eighties. Proud time for all of us.

Um so okay. Ooh, now I’m the one banging on the table. I think that about covers up for this episode forty two.

Scarlet
Okay.

Mitchell
But I mean You know. Okay, you’re proud of everything you’ve done today.

Scarlet
I’m not done with the date.

Mitchell
Well, I know.

Scarlet
I got more to do.

Mitchell
Well so again I hope uh listener, thanks for joining us on this journey for this episode. We’re gonna we’re back in our normal rhythm. I know we’ve kinda had a little bit of this and of that. Because what usually happens is We’ve made it no record because I’m tired or we’ve had a little schedule changes and things, so everything’s not always how we plan it to be.

Scarlet
v this is our new schedule.

Mitchell
So yeah. So get used to it. But just remember, you know, come along.

We make sure that you feel better about your life by telling you a little bit about ours. Go ahead and share your own thoughts and feelings if you like. You can DM us on Instagram.

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I don’t even know where Blue Sky. I don’t even use the X Really just Instagram. Or you can send in feedback.

Although the one of our fans wrote in on Instagram a few things. He was sharing some nice things I should uh I’ll pull that up for next time.

Scarlet
Oh nice.

Mitchell
But yeah, no, we were having kind of a little conversation. He’s out and about And he said I I’m paraphrasing because he just said, yeah, there’s never enough time for any. Maybe I said that last time too, though. It doesn’t matter. I appreciate you, Steve. Okay, outside of that

Scarlet
I’m Scarlet.

Mitchell
And I’m Mitchell.

Scarlet
And we’re

Mitchell
doing the most.

Scarlet
Bye.