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#7: Snorking, AirBnB, and Body Hair

Posted by Mitchell Milliron

Back at it, after our vacation to Arizona! Too much to catch up on and too little time.

Do you, or someone you know, struggle with thick mucus residing in the nasopharyngeal region, exacerbated by seasonal allergies, and requiring obnoxious snorting-like noises to clear the aforementioned mucus? Then we have no solutions for you, rather, just harsh criticism from Scarlet. But at least you will know, you are not alone.

And if you want to know the difference between dirty and filthy, then you most certainly want to listen in and find out. We probably get there… but not without a discussion about AirBnBs, because, hey, are they not sometimes dirty and filthy?!

And lastly, we dive into the exciting and ever relevant topic of body hair, like when eyebrows go rogue, or when ear hair won’t listen to the rest of the gang! What can we say, with such exciting lives it is always hard to jam a podcast in, especially when you are… Doing the Most!

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🎧 Transcript Summary: DTM Episode 007

🔹 Episode Theme: How to Handle Growth as a Solo Designer


1. Opening Thoughts

  • You reflect on feeling burned out after a previous episode.
  • The episode is framed as a self-reflective monologue on your journey as a solo designer navigating growth and new challenges.

2. Shifting Gears from Projects to Processes

  • You’re moving from doing “the work” (design and delivery) to building systems and infrastructure.
  • There’s a sense of resistance to this change, stemming from a love of hands-on design.

3. Tensions Between Vision and Execution

  • You talk about being stuck in the weeds while trying to scale and grow.
  • A key struggle is balancing high-level thinking with execution and managing everything yourself.

4. Letting Go of Control

  • You recognize the need to delegate and shift your mindset from “doing” to “directing.”
  • You describe this as mentally uncomfortable but necessary.

5. Navigating Leadership and Clarity

  • There’s a need to bring people into your vision while ensuring clarity around roles and goals.
  • You’re learning how to communicate vision and direction clearly, even while figuring it out yourself.

6. Reclaiming Focus and Structure

  • You reflect on getting pulled into side quests and distractions.
  • Emphasis on the need to return to foundational clarity: who you are, what you’re doing, and why.

7. Closing Reflection

  • The episode ends on an honest, unfinished note.
  • You share that you’re still working through the messiness of this transition, aiming to find stability and confidence as you grow beyond solo work.

🔑 Key Themes:

  • The emotional and mental shift from creator to leader
  • Burnout and creative fatigue
  • Delegation, systems, and team building
  • Vision vs. execution
  • Self-awareness and growth as a designer

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Oh, it’s sound effects provided by you. Okay. Oh, dear. Welcome back, everybody. It’s been a while.

It has it has been, unfortunately, four weeks since the last release the last episode. Right? This is by the way, I always oh, sorry. It looks like there. I always forget to just say, hey.

Welcome to Doing the Most with Scarlet and Mitchell. This is episode seven. Like, I just assume everybody knows who’s listening. Yeah. But, really, you should introduce the show.

You think by the seventh one, we’d have that down. Where would I’d be like, hey. Well, we’re still in the infancy stage of developing this. Yeah. So don’t worry about using the microphone.

Oh. You can just talk as far away as you like, whichever makes you happy. Yeah. So episode seven. It’s been four weeks.

We were gone and the last and two so We took a family vacation. We did, and that’s on my list. There’s not a lot on my list, but it’s on my list over here. What? Okay.

So we did take a family vacation to Arizona. We can talk about that. That’s why we actually so here’s the truth though. Episode seven was supposed to get, taped on Friday, and I was all jazzed, and then you were like, hell with anxiety. Because we were supposed to fly out the next day, Saturday.

And I was looking forward to actually editing, releasing it by the Monday, because I thought I’ll be on vacation. Nothing’s gonna hold me back from getting this episode out on time. So you’re blaming me? No. I’m just saying then you were like, oh, and I agreed and I took it.

Did I how did I do? You were like, I don’t wanna do it. You were like, I guess we’re never doing a podcast again. I don’t think I said that. You said it once or twice.

Probably. Well And I was just like, I’m really stressed about flying. And Max, with flying and getting through the airport with your father. Like, there were there was just a lot. And I needed a pack and I was just like, I felt like I could not get it all in.

There just wasn’t enough time. I had another more important topic, but let’s just talk about this then. I mean, like, doing the most and, like, packing. And so we let’s just throw it out there. By the way, thank you, superfan Kathy.

Just wanna shout out to her. Love you. Yeah. She wouldn’t work. She always has good comments.

We might come back today. I now I feel like if I don’t say anything to Kathy and read her comment, but I need to just, like, address that. But so thank you Superfan Kathy. She how does she do a comment? Well, she goes to scarlet n mitchell dot com, and then she goes to the podcast episode, and then she leaves a comment right there, real simple.

And I approve them, and I should write a comment back to her. But what I’m saying is, anyone can do that? Or you can send feedback into feedback @scarletnmitchell.com. Real straightforward. You can do that.

We are on we’re on blue sky. Why are you laughing? Because I never remember to post anything over there. So I one of these days We’re there, just not we’re there in spirit. Infancy.

Infancy people. We’re just growing this thing from the ground up. We are one listener at a time. So thank you, Kathy, for being the one listener. Okay.

We I have to apologize if I’m a little sniffly because these this pollen is, like, killing me. We are. The great Pacific Northwest to some of our worldwide listeners. I know you’re out there. Hey.

Thanks for tuning in. Pacific Northwest, we’re actually having a spell of pretty decent weather, but it’s early season. That one tree down the road is gonna soon, like, vomit, you know, cotton everywhere. Oh. Is it dogwood?

I don’t know. I don’t know. But it’s that season where when you see the pines, like, you know, blow in the wind, you see all that yellow dust coming off of them. Yeah. And oh, and we got a cat joining us.

Sorry. That was Kennedy. Yeah. I I didn’t close the door all the way. Yes.

The the, pine dust, the yellow dust everywhere all over the cars if they’re outside. So so you’re fine. You don’t sound, like, stuffed up. You’re just sniffly. Yeah.

I’m a little sniffly. And I’m yawning because I’m tired of everything. Okay. Going on a vacation, we did this is our second year in a row. We did a one, one week stay.

Okay. What was a Saturday to Friday? Whatever. K. Almost a week there.

To Phoenix, Arizona. We went Phoenix, Arizona last year. We’ve been I don’t even know how this really started. I mean, you were was it We wanted to go somewhere warm with water, but we didn’t want to spend the money on like a cruise or I don’t know. Because once you like look at cruises and then you factor in like the flight to your port and then the hotel costs or the Airbnb costs.

Then it’s like, okay, now this $2,500 cruise for all of us, all of a sudden we’re paying $6,000 for everything. So we wanted somewhere warm. And I was like, why don’t we go to sunny Arizona and rent an Airbnb with a pool? And that’s why we did. That was a little over a year.

Well, more than a year ago the first time. And we that And we had a great time. Great time. And and that was me, you, and my two sons and your one son, which is still just Okay. Well, Max is our son, and Danger is my son.

That’s what we did the first time. And then this last time, we said, hey, let’s take my parents, or we invited them, and then we also brought along my third oldest daughter, Olivia, who is in she’s 18. So we had a bigger group and stayed in the Airbnb. Different Airbnb because the first one we decided would not be conducive to my parents. My parents are older, but They’re in their eighties.

Yeah. They’re well, no. Sue’s not come on. Give Sue a break. She’s not quite in her eighties.

She’s 79. Jim’s in his eighties. And they are, for their age, Souspry. Sue Souspry. Jim is my dad, dad, I love you if you ever listen to this.

He’s a little he he openly is a little bit just slow. You know, he’s like, I don’t know. I don’t even know what it is. It’s just like kinda aches and pain, or he’s just stubborn about using a walker. He doesn’t use a walker.

He still just walks with his legs most well. As opposed to dragging himself around Right. With his arms. I’m just saying, like, he’s still doing that, and that’s good doing the leg thing, but sometimes it’s a little slow, so it causes probably him anxiety, maybe, because we’re all like, you know? It causes oh, I think It’s okay.

We’re not going Well, I mean, yes. So what what I’m saying is we took him the wine here. Yeah. We took him this year. And it was a good time.

We had a good time. He I think they hated it. I don’t know why. He it was probably too hot. Is it do you think oh, here’s a question.

Just a general question. Was it too hot for you? And No. And and for the listeners, it was literally like the hour the daily high was 88, maybe 91 day, maybe. Yeah.

And then Dry heat. Low was like, what, sixty, sixty two at night? I don’t know. It was so pleasant. It’s just like And I know, before you jump in there, before you, listener, are driving in your car screaming, Yeah, but you’ve never been there in August, going into 01/2015.

And now, listen. So what? That that year that it was a 15 in Oregon, Mitchell was living his best life. Yeah. So you do not know him.

Yeah. I love it. And he loves it. And I can survive it. I like that feeling.

I can survive it for the year round sunshine. Yeah. Oh, I mean, when you open a front door and it feels like an oven, like you’re opening an oven door, oh, I love that. It’s just like, oh, it’s just wafting over you and you’re like, that heat. And the beauty is, I mean, there, it’s air air conditioning’s pretty standard.

I mean, that’s not abnormal like it is here. I mean, here, Oregon, we’re getting there. I mean, we have AC, but it’s not cranked on year long. So we got some sunshine. We liked that.

We had a good time. We stayed in different Airbnb. We have not This is actually on my thing is the Airbnb review. Like, what’s that all about? Like Excuse me.

Now I have some crud in my nose that I wanna do what I I don’t know what you call it when you’re like that snork it through. That’s disgusting. Well You know what he’s at. It’s gonna sit in the top of my that little Just pause and go blow your nose. No.

This is not this is so deep. It has to be Oh my god. No. It has to go the other way. Okay.

Never mind. Do you know what I’m talking about? How come you act like By the way, you act like there’s only one kind of nose mucus and it’s just real light and it’s just blowing out the end of your nose. Like, you’ve never had the kind that’s like deep in your sinus and the only way to do is do a Britney. I will never.

Do a Britney. I’ll only do it in the shower. I have to do it. No. And then it goes down the throat.

Wasn’t like your son. Well Okay. Listen, Linda. Where you can hear him, like, audibly maneuver it in the back of his throat. It’s almost like where a loogie comes from.

It starts there. You know what it is. You bring it down and then you throw it out your mouth. It. There’s nothing wrong with swallowing.

Spit it in the shower. Well, okay. I’m wow. But you admit that you do have those, like, because Of course I do. I’m a human.

I know. But when I But it’s the same reason I don’t walk around farting in public. Okay. That’s not true. I mean, entirely.

I’m saying you have tooted in the public places. Yeah. Come on. No? Okay.

Well, wow. Don’t don’t look at me like you would you don’t know what I’m talking about. Because I don’t even think you witnessed me doing that. What? And I couldn’t even tell you an instance unless it was an emergency.

Oh, an emergency toot? There are such things. You’re like, this is not going back in. Well, I can’t take this back. You can’t.

You’re really kissing. Okay. I’m gonna have to turn a corner. I’m saying the snorkeying or whatever. What do you call that?

Is there a name for that when you’re like Hawking. Hawking. I feel like a hawk, by the way. Hawking hoogy. Hawking comes from lower.

It comes from below. The hawking is the That’s the I’m sorry. The hawking comes from lower. This is the one that’s, like, in the back of the nasal cavity, the nasopharyngeal area, and it’s, like, right there, and you need to Snorking. That’s I was calling it snorking, but, like, yeah.

It’s like Snorking? But I mean It works. Whatever. I don’t know. I’m just I all I’m saying is that that we call it Britney, was it Britney Knight b k?

Wasn’t that our cohort friend? We won’t give a last name, but it was Britney Kardashian. It wasn’t Knight. Spoiler alert. But I’m not gonna connect you.

I’m not gonna correct you. Spoiler alert. Well, no. Be okay. Some We’ve all known people like this.

But like that class that had I knew it is not okay. But I knew a dude that had to do that. Like, a lot of that were all the time. You don’t ever have No. No.

I’m saying you’ve you’ve known somebody. Take an allergy pill. But we’ve known one person. But you have you known anyone else in your life that had to do the lot of the that, like, I can’t even do it now. Honestly, no.

Honestly, no. A lot of the lot of work. The one person right now is your son. But he’s he’s not a habitual snorkeler yet. Apparently, sometimes your dad.

Mhmm. But it’s not Not a noticing. It’s not habitual yet. Like, the our friend BK was, like, habitual The classroom would be so quiet. Sixteen months You’d be taking the test, and all of a sudden, it would happen.

Right. And I knew And I was just like, is that really necessary? Is that really necessary? Okay. And and were you’re calling it a snark a snorky?

I’m calling it snorking. Right? That’s I mean, that was a fake one. That was a demonstration. Yeah.

As opposed to Hawking, a loo do concur on the loogie comes from lower. So let us know if you know people who are chronic snorkers. Yeah. And if And how it makes you feel. Does it breed you like it does me?

I wonder if the neti pot is actually the remedy for the snore for the How could it not be? I don’t know. That I almost bought that nivage at Walmart the other day. I was shopping for something, and I saw the nivage for $99, and I was so close. But we’re on a financial diet right now.

Mhmm. We’re on a lot of diets. The diet didn’t really take hold yesterday. Nonetheless, so Okay. So the Airbnb thing, what’s that all about?

The review part, because you’re like, I’m a review for Jeremy. And our Airbnb well, this brings up two points. One, you’re like, well, I don’t feel so bad about our house after that Airbnb. You said that today. Our floors are immaculate.

But you see, this is Because of me. I think this is the difference or a difference. I like there’s the difference between dirty and filthy, at least to me. What is is there if I say that, what does that mean to you? I’m not gonna tell you what I think it means.

Dirty is it could it it’s cleaned, but it could have been better. Well, I mean, in general, not the Airbnb. I guess I’m just saying when I say dirty versus filthy. And dirty is like, oh, the, you know, the counters have some dirty plates and stuff on them. The garbage needs to be taken out.

It’s getting a little bit smelly. Like dirty is I could fix this in like ten minutes. Filthy is like a hoarder situation, I guess. Well, now we’re branching into what I would call cluttered. Okay.

So but cluttered is not well, here’s what I’m saying. Clutter is not necessarily dirty or filthy. Like, this room we’re in is pretty cluttered. It’s mine. But clean.

Right. Right. Like, the carpet’s generally clean. Probably the cleanest room in the house because the cats are not allowed in here. And it’s also probably the clutter declutteriest, clutteredist.

Have you seen the garage? Okay. But that’s not clean. The garage is Filthy. Oh, you’re filthy.

No. It’s not. It’s not. Here’s what I’m getting at. Because today, I was a little like, oh, I find our house I was I said, I was like, man, our house is pretty I think can be filthy.

And here’s my difference. I don’t know if you’re shaking off a burp or shaking off what I said. Okay. A burp. Not a snork.

Okay. Filthy is like gross stuff like cat hair, cat vomit, sneeze, unusual films and things that are gross. To me that’s filthy. Dirty, the Airbnb was dirty, the floor was dirty. It’s a dusty place.

Arizona’s dusty and dry. It was dirty like if you took a a wet towel and wiped across the floor, it’d probably be brown. Like, what you’re saying here It was. Our floor is, like, not like that. However It’s true.

It’s not. It’s true. However, our counter has cat hair in little nooks and crevices and crannies. And this morning, there was a big pile of cat doo doo on the kitchen floor. And some days, I’ll ask two days before that, I’ve been cleaning cat vomit piles.

Like the chewed up food, not the that the gross vomit, but the kind where you’re like Laura said she cleaned up a couple of those while we were gone. Thank you, Laura. Yeah. Our cat She doesn’t listen, but Oh. And she’s only my best friend at work.

So well, I guess what I’m saying is, to me, that’s filthy, and I don’t like that. And that’s doing the most with all these cats, all the cat Filthy is also cat litter everywhere. Filthy is it being there and not cleaning it up within, say, twelve hours. Mean, that’s like an ethical or a, Because I just refuse to believe that we are filthy peep this is just not a true statement. Okay.

Well, I I’m not saying we’re filthy people, but our whole We have five cats. This is a fact. We have a toddler who has all manner of, he’s doing all manner of, like you saw that kid last night after playing in the dog run by the food carts. Yeah. It kept bringing us quote unquote treasures to the table.

That which included an old lemon that had two hairs on it. One was very long. Two different colors. A bottle cap. And I’m just kinda like, I’m just not that parent who’s like, don’t touch that.

That’s the I’m like, he’s a kid. Like he is going to be a boy and he is going to find weird crap and he’s going to bring it to you like a cat who’s so proud of, you know, the thing that he found for you. So anyways, and then he comes home and he’s touching everything. There’s pasta sauce on the walls, and I try to get those things when I see it and I think about it. Yeah.

And you know, there’s pasta sauce on the cabinet and he has little greasy ham Oh, I see. But you know what? This is all my milk splatters all over the house. Yeah. But you know what?

We’re not filthy people. And you know what would solve all of this? A catio. Okay. Now we’re gonna take a break to our first sponsor, Portland Catios.

It’s a real thing. You know what would solve that? No catios. That’s not gonna happen. No cats.

It’s never gonna happen. Because you love cats and I love cats. I don’t love cats that much anymore. I’m starting to unlock. I’m saying they I am this is your dad caught you smoking a cat, and now he’s like, you gotta have a whole pack of cats.

You gotta smoke a whole pack of even know what that means. It’s that old stupid, like, when they the olden days, they told you if they you know, my dad caught me smoking a cigarette. So you’re trying to punish me by that doesn’t even it’s not a punishment for me. I’m like, give me give me a pack of cats. Okay.

I’m saying if someone I’ll smoke them all. I’m saying this is that, oh, man, the first cigarette, wonderful, and then your dad or mom is making you smoke a whole pack, and now I’m and this number of cats, I’m like, yeah, I’m not really enjoying it anymore. This I’m not alive with pleasure anymore with cats. I’m literally the other way. I’m like, yeah, I’ve I’ve I’ve got cancer.

Sorry. That was Bleh. That was a reach. I’m not so so what I’m saying is the opposite. It’s the I’ve had we have too many cats on it and you’re because you’re like, oh, you love cats.

Like, I’m like, I hate I love two cats right now. And and they’re both problematic. I’m not denying that. Like, Kennedy, although I feel like while we’re on vacation, all the tinfoil and cat barbed wire all over the counters, he may have trained him. I haven’t seen him up on the counter as much.

I feel like when we took some of it down, he hopped up there, but not like where he’s living on the stove. We had quite a setup. Right. So he hops on the counters. But that’s is that the worst of Kennedy’s problems?

Well, except for when Hammy scares the pee out of him. But Hammy, the other cat, his worst problem didn’t start up until we brought home beans, and that whole mess started where he’s pooping on the floor on a rare occasion for reasons unknown to me. At least there at least the poop is, like, kinda dried out, well formed, like, I don’t know. Like, it’s like a handful of rocks on the floor. Yeah.

But it’s still She’s just very severely dehydrated. Dehydrated. It’s the kind of thing where you’re like, okay. So for me so this is why I’m like, it seems a little filthy at times. I’m not saying we’re filthy people.

I’m just saying that cats bring a layer of grime and, like, really, there’s there’s cat litter everywhere all the time. There’s not a spot you can’t I mean, I’ve seen it in our bed. Okay. All I’m saying. No.

I hear you. And all you know what I was thinking about was, like, the pile of sunflower seeds in my bed the other day. Yeah. Because you thought it would be a great yeah, Max. You can get on mommy’s side, and here’s a bucket of sunflower seeds for you to eat.

They were already shelled at least. Right? So they’re Which was worse? I don’t know. Well, that was just a management technique because I need to shower.

Do you ever have those in the morning? It’s like, I just gotta do something, and I gotta keep him in the room because Oh, yeah. Yeah. People not hesitate to open the front door when somebody rings it or just open a garage. Like, that’s my biggest fear while I’m in the shower is suddenly I’ll be like, where is he in the door?

We need one of those things on our front door that you’re, you know, one of those Yeah. At the Airbnb. They had the nice version of those. Oh, that was nice. Dilly to Dolla.

Yeah. You got the cheapo, like Put that I don’t even know. That other thing? I don’t know. Well, put that in your, in your review for Jeremy, the Airbnb.

We’re kinda talking about the Airbnb. So you felt it was dirty, but not filthy? I or did you think I thought it was dirty. Not dirty, like, I felt gross, but it was like the floors but we were all wearing our shoes. Like, I was not unplanned.

I was His choice of a light colored couch, not a great choice Mhmm. For Airbnb. Never have a white couch. You had some leaky problem with the master shower. And man, the couch was like, you sat down and practically laid down kind of like depths to it and like your dad was trying to like deal with it.

And I’m like, there’s a there’s a chair in the corner that would work perfectly for you, Jim, if you just pull that chair, the one you sat in every morning. Oh, I think I was the other chairs, which had the, you know, the, 30 degree lean back to them where they’re just, like, looking at the ceiling. No. Yeah. The most impractical furniture for an Airbnb and Yeah.

But Oh, so I’m saying it wasn’t a terrible Airbnb, but there was a little Here’s what I’m getting at. Sorry, folks. We’re getting at it. I was also fooled by the wide angle lens. They all use that.

I will say that. They all use it. They all have that. Now, those In the pictures, everything looks monstrous. You’re like, wow.

That pool is huge. And you get there and you’re like, it is not Huge. That wasn’t even a pool. Oh, no. That pool was work.

It was fine. It’s not as cool as the first one. Oh, that’s the first one. Yeah. That was nice, the year before.

But I had snork here. Must be my allergies are affecting the snork gland. Mhmm. So Well, what I was trying to get, like, to the Airbnb review, because you said, oh, he’s reviewed us and we gotta review him, although, I had review I wouldn’t give him a bad review, but I have feedback that I give him directly. And here’s what we talked a little bit about.

Maybe other people think about this. I don’t know. I do. I feel like here’s a good I’m just gonna give you the good Airbnb should have the following elements for sure. One, it should have functional shower.

Well, all this stuff should function. It shouldn’t be like that shower that we had created a lake For some reason, the Yeah. Those those like those, splash guards were too short. Just because it’s a spa. Just kept splashing out.

And I tried the first couple days, and then I was like, yeah, I’m on vacation. My goal isn’t because then we were angling the shower head away from it, and then you’d be taking a shower, but not really because you’re like the wall? You’re like, yeah. You’re like, I’m laying against the wall to try to get wet. You’re like, okay.

So I was like, gave up hope. I was like, you know what? He should that’s a that’s a whole maintenance thing he needs to address. Mhmm. Oh, but it should have functional everything.

Right? Everything should function without those kind of weird oddities, whether it’s a light switch that’s wonky or shower or water, something that’s not right. We should have had access to the hot tub. I expect to be able to control the hot tub, not have to text message him. Oh, I that was a tough one.

I had to message him on Airbnb, guys, every time we wanted to use the hot tub. Just to turn it out. Was just like, and he was like, don’t worry. I’m really responsive. I’ll, you know, I’ll do it within whatever.

And he was. He was. He was a man of his word. It just seemed a little It was it felt a little control y. And he was like, I’m sorry.

It’s a new system. And it’s just easy if I easiest if I activate it from my phone. And I’m just, like, thinking of future Airbnbers, and I’m just like, man, this really kinda sucks. So I expect to have control over the stuff like the hot tub, I’m saying in general, and the light in the pool, which wasn’t turned on till the very last day when he was like, oh, did you want the light in the pool? I was like, oh, geez, no.

We love swimming in either pitch black or with your patio lights, which are literally spotlights that he must have gotten from, like a penitentiary sale where they were like, oh, god. You need overhead light to light up a field, you know, a football field with one light. We got two of them. So which I guess was nice because I got still got suntan in the middle of the night while we’re at the pool. But so I expect that those items just to kinda work, and I don’t have to work hard.

But here’s what they all all that should be contained in a binder or a frame that says The binder. The binder. No. The binder is a necessity. Everywhere we’ve been, this first place, I think, that I recall didn’t have the binder.

Yeah. The binder holds all the keys, all the codes. The air, mind, and baby. And then it’s like, oh, and here are some local restaurants and here are some local babysitting options. Love it.

Yes. It should have all that kind of little recommendations. Yeah. All that. And if there is a quirk, like, oh, sometimes the garage x y z, all you gotta do, like, you sometimes that’s so if there’s a quirk, oh, hey, if that master shower sometimes leaks, here’s what you do.

I don’t know. But like that, the binder is key to everything because then you come in and it’s like, welcome. We’re so glad you’re here. Here’s the WiFi password. Although I like it when they do the WiFi password in the cross stitch looking frame.

Yes. That’s nice. Frame the password. Right. But then he’s like, oh, so he didn’t do the binder.

And that was like and and some places it goes step beyond. It’s like, is the binder in a basket with some new coffee and a couple water bottles. Oh, yeah. Because that last one gave us like a bottle of wine. Yeah.

And I there was probably some like cheapo wine or whatever, and then some like local chocolates or something. Yeah. Jeremy gave us some mini can of Fringle. Was that was that for us? Or We had two sweetened nutty bars.

Some Fringles. One one little thing of fruit juice. I’m I feel like they’re leftover Yeah. Somebody was there. And have just basic condiments in the refrigerator.

Yeah. And it’s Because we had to go buy everything. They had some, you know, seasonings and spices and cabbage. Every season and spice, actually. Which was great, but like when you have to go and you have to buy mayo and mustard and ketchup and, you know, like, I don’t know.

It just kinda, like, limits you because I feel like most places will have a little bottle of olive oil, vinegar. Do and are you uncomfortable as a user there to be like, oh, I don’t know who used this mustard last? No. I don’t do that when I go to a restaurant. Exactly.

I was just thinking that. My head is like, I well, you know, if someone feels that way, you shouldn’t because you go to a restaurant and use the thing that’s Alcohol swab it. I don’t care. Yeah. I see that.

Yeah. Like, think of all the restaurants you go to and you use those nasty red ketchup bottles and you’re just like They’re greasy. And you can’t even tell. And they just sit in the sun all day. Yeah.

No. I’m just so so I would expect oh, yeah. The binder would have been nice. That, I think, is very important. Towels.

The here we go. The towels. Not enough towels. You should have Two towels per person with a few extra. Yeah.

Towels. Right. I feel like you should have a full set of, like, you’re like if your if your house says seats nine guests, you need 18 towels. Minimum. Minimum.

And pool towels if you don’t want people using your regular towels. Now he had barely a set of towels, I think, that cover us all, and we were seven. And so we ended up doing a lot of towels. Now he had the washer and dryer and he had the soap, which is always good because sometimes, you know, my mother had a time. He was like, I’ll take a bunch of Tide Pods.

And I was like, no. If he do this right, there will already be soap there. So beach towels or pool towels should also have a full, like, I like a ton of those. No one wants Yeah. A ton of beach towels.

Well, yeah. I mean, there was probably eight or nine, but But because your I guess it seemed that way because your parents weren’t really swimming, so it just seemed that way. Except for that one time. Well, let’s see who was nearly drowning. And but that was his pool pool noodles.

But then Jeremy had a bunch of pool stuff, inflatable good, but the other part was no shade. There was one functional umbrella for the whole pool, patio, barbecue area. It was a very unshaded area. And the other Like pretty much from morning until 4PM. Yeah.

Not a lot of trees and stuff, which is nice, but you that, umbrella holder was not functional the other one. So he had a second one, so I would say he needs to have you need to have multiple ones of those. That’s a staple, especially you expect people to come from outside of Arizona who are like light sensitive or don’t have their base coat yet. So that would have been nice to have, like, ah, I’d expect that. Yeah.

And and sort of in my head when I as I make this list, I think that kinda I’m trying to think if there’s anything else that I would wanna cover. The, yeah, the lights. Oh, oh, window shades. You need like, our room. Yeah.

We couldn’t block out the sunlight on that whole area. Some of them had the wooden shutters, which was nice. Right. But then there was that giant window in the office slash laundry room. Yeah.

Which was the foyer to the bathroom. Yeah. It wasn’t it must have been an addition, I’m guessing. But, yeah, giant window when you’re trying to keep a sleeping toddler sleeping, who I feel is very sensitive to sunlight, sees, you know, that sunlight, and he’s like, oh, hello. I’m awake now.

It is 05:45 in the morning. So what are we doing today? Like, I wish. Yeah. I just that last night, I ended up putting a sheet finally over those French doors, which kind of helped.

Yeah. That knocked the light down. It was pretty much black in there. It helped. It helped.

Yes. So I mean, that would be another thing. You need to have window coverings because they didn’t have Black house. Treatments. Sorry.

Didn’t even have any treatments on those one was. You couldn’t even, like, put a mild translucent, you know, whatever. They didn’t even have, like, a a a sheer I don’t know if that’s what they’re called, but a sheer It did have a sheer curtain. Not not on on on one of them, not the other desk window. No.

That one had nothing. So I would just be changing with the bathroom door open, and I’m like, oh, nobody comes around that corner. They really did. But No. So but there was some possibility with that outdoor patio side.

Casita that was nice for, like, the older kids. So except there, the door when you opened it, man, hit that other door real easy, and you just spent all your time. And the kids they were saying in our kids in the casita, the alarm system you it wasn’t muted. So every time someone opened the casita door, if it was one in the morning, it would say, the front door is open. You know?

And they’re like, oh. Like, they couldn’t mute that, which was annoying for them, I guess. Well, not they obviously slept okay, but so that poor casino bathroom was kinda funny though that, you know, it was a little bonus. I never saw it. Oh, I took a picture.

The sink was probably the size of my iPad. That’s literally that’s why they were making fun of it. Like That’s why they had, like, all their toiletries around that that, like, kitchenette sink or whatever. Yeah. So which I don’t fault them.

You me and make do. I mean, when we came from the first place we stayed at, this the the bar was high. Yeah. Because that place, no notes. It was perfect.

Yeah. I mean Pool cover, giant hot tub. Mhmm. The pool was so big, it even had a little waiting area for, like, the kitties, you know, which was perfect for Max. Would have been even more perfect for him this time with him being, bigger.

Right. So much shade, so many umbrellas. They didn’t have the terrible terracotta Oh, the heat up. The Yeah. Because this place had, like, a terracotta, outdoor flooring.

What am I trying to say? The Yeah. Just Around the pool. Pavers. And it got so hot during the day, even though like it wouldn’t be that hot outside, but it would be so hot or we would get out an hour.

Feet. Feet would be on fire and have to run to the white portion, that outline. So no terracotta. That other place had, like, white limestone. Yeah.

Then, no, the terracotta was A giant fire pit with plenty of seating. Remember that? That was nice. Oh, yeah. That place was nice.

Which makes me think this next time, that place in Tucson is Hopefully. Either gonna be equal, if not better. Unless they’re using, the wide angle lenses to to fool us, which is fine too. It looks really cool. Okay.

So the Airbnb review, but we’re probably not gonna do a bad review for him. That’s why I said, is there a way to send him send him some like, hey, here’s we loved it. Not, again, separate from the feedback for him versus on the Public. Side. No.

There is. Like, when you review people on Airbnb, it’s like, you know, this is the review that will be public. And then there’s another part that’s like, and here’s another part where you can make any suggestions or something. Probably never gonna do it though. If I know us.

Okay. No. I I mean, if I know us, you know? It’s like, I have a bunch of, like, I have a folder of, like, I don’t put a lot of time into it, but I do it. In the mail that I never return.

Yeah. But I’m going to. Time, you know. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. Well, that’s why we’re doing the mostest. Okay. I mean, we can go out about the trip, etcetera, but we’re gonna try out Tucson next year, and we’re contemplating moving there in many years. We contemplate a lot of things.

We talked about our RV life. For those of you who are like, oh, I thought you guys were getting an RV. That’s fine. What am I actually saying here? I feel like the RV would be the transition period.

But just to drive there? No. Like we sell this house. Oh. Maybe we do the RV thing for like a year so we don’t have to pay, like, rent and move into another place.

And I feel like that would be a transition period. Mhmm. It’s a lot of stuff to transition out of here. But You put it in storage. My YouTube’s coming along real good.

So my original topic from weeks ago was this, and maybe it’s not as fun anymore. I don’t know. Yeah. We had a good little chat there. Lots of stuff.

It was this, body hairs. Well, it’s hair. Okay? Just hair in general. Nice segue.

Yeah. Segue. There’s no segue. It’s body hairs originally. So here’s and let me just there’s so much to kinda throw out there, but not really that.

Like many things, a lot of words, not a lot of content here. The and I’m talking about as I’m getting older, and I’m 50, like, along the way, somewhere along the way, like, certain eyebrow hairs, they go, they’re like, hey, man. I’m not as cool as I was being the regular length. I’m gonna grow super duper long. And then a couple other eyebrow hairs are like, hey, do you see Larry over there?

He’s an inch and a half long. We’re gonna join him. And then all of a sudden, like, you got these eyebrow hairs. And you if you start looking then as a male, once you start getting the longer eyebrow hairs, then you start looking at other guys, and you notice they’re, like everywhere. You’re like and you’re like and then some people even like they there’s that famous actor guy who well, many of them who like embrace the big tufts that kinda come off, couple British parliamentarians.

I do not appreciate that. I’m saying, so then I start plucking them because they’re really giant or I start like to trim them. I’ve tried different things. But it’s not just so the eyebrows have decided they’re not gonna obey the rules. Then many years ago, they start up the nose hair tentacles.

Do you get like and maybe as a female, you don’t have this, but you’ll get like as a guy, you’re like, there’s a nose hair and you’re like, wow. You get a hold of it and you pull it and it’s like, why is there a two inch long tentacle in my nose that’s coming out and it’s black and coarse and you’re like, and you pull it and then of course your eye waters, but you’re like, why the nose hairs? Why are they out of control? Why have they decided to break the rules? They’re like, we’re not gonna follow the the growth requirements anymore.

We’re gonna grow really crazy. Moving along, the ear hair ones. This is The ear hair Okay. First off, we got two stories. Well, not stories.

One was on There’s this one hair. One day, I kept thinking I had like a regular hair on my head that, like, just was tickling my ear, and I kept kinda whatever. And this went out for a couple days. Like, I just like, man, what is this? Where is this?

And then I go look in the mirror, and I literally have, like, an a one inch long, and that’s like like this long, brown, but not dark, just like a brownish bristly hair on my the edge of my ear growing just away from the ear. And at first, I’m like, how has no one seen this? Like and maybe you’re laughing because you’re shocked. No. I’m kidding.

I didn’t. I didn’t. I probably just think it’s part of your hair. Giant ear hair that’s not even growing out the inside of the ear, just on the edge of the ear. So I pluck it.

And now that hair I look for every now and then, I swear it’ll go from you can barely see it, to an inch and a half in like two days. Like, in and I pluck it. I pull it off. Right? And I’m like, why?

Why do I have to manage this one spot on the ear? And then there’s now there’s one higher up I gotta manage. And then there’s the ones inside the ear that I will use like tweezers or I can pinch. If I use the cross hand, so if I use my right hand and my left ear, I can usually get a good pinch and pull a few hairs. Same with the left or the right ear.

You get Oh, you have a left one too? Yeah. The right both ears? Well, no. Inside the ear.

I’m not talking about the ear lobe hair. I’m talking about the in the ear hair where they could start growing. Like, you’ve seen this old man have, like, lots of hair growing out of the which it’s natural. It happens, but, like, I’m fighting it where I’m like, oh. And I spent a lot of time in the mirror.

And because of the lighting in our bathroom, I can only work the left ear more because the lighting and I can’t work the right ear as much because I can’t see, but I’ll use tweezers. And now I got a bristle hair growing on the little that little triangular, whatever the Turgus? What is that thing? Tragus? Tragus, yeah.

Not the smoker, but the the, barbecue machine, but the thing in your ear. Right? And like a bristly ear, and I can, like, scratch my finger, and I can hear it right in my ears like that sound of, like, a record needle, like, like, in my ear, and I’ll pull that one with a pair of tweezers. No. I can barely it takes me a while to find it, because this is where I wish I had a machine or if you know those mirrors?

There was at the Airbnb, I had one of those parabolic mirrors, the kind where you get it from and your pores look like the size of nickels, and you’re like, oh. But then you’re like, oh, I could sit in front of this mirror and just look at all the weird stuff. Right? No. So the ear hairs, the ones that grow out, the ones that are on the lobe, now the, very initial time now, body hair, like, so I was, I don’t know, I’m gonna say 16 or 17, right?

And I was wandering around this very house without a shirt on, and my sister or something like, she’s like, oh, hold on. And she’s like, you got a hair on you. And it was and on my right shoulder, like, right below she went to pull what looked like it was a white hair. Like, just a really thin and she went to pull and it was attached to me. And I kid you, that thing was probably maybe three inches.

It was huge, huge old white hair, like a body hair that had decided to go rogue. So she pulled it, and I think it happened maybe that one came back maybe twice. This big old but it’s like white. You couldn’t really see it unless you’re, like, looking at the right spot. Oh, my favorite is when I get to pull those beard hairs of yours that just, like, clump up in this little, like, sebum capsule.

Yeah. And And it if it’s done right feel it, and I’m like, oh, let me let me pull for you. Yeah. That’s the beard hair, which has been happening. Now that’s a common thing.

I talked to a patient once about this because that was the guy that had the stitch in his neck that came out, but it was Uh-huh. Yeah. Suture material. But then I was like, oh, you eat the I thought, oh, you get those beard hairs? And he’s like, yes, yes.

He goes, it’s like a whole bunch of hairs. I’m like, yes. If you get them wet, that thick I call them pencil leads. My brother-in-law calls them tree trunks, the big hair and the you could feel it. And and if sorry, ladies, but it’s like you can feel it.

The very first time okay. My first experience with the pencil lead hair, by the way, was on it’s on the left side of my face. And I don’t know what makes this, but I had grown a goatee. I was in my early twenties. We had goatees back then, and we’d invented them.

And it’s the nineties. Okay? And I remember I had grown a goatee out for a while, and one day, I don’t know, I was just like rubbing my hand in my goatee or, you know, how you just kinda, you know, whatever. And I remember feeling I thought it felt like a a cactus needle. I remember I was like, what in the heck is stuck in my chin?

I thought something was stuck in my chin. And I’m driving home, and I’m like, I can’t wait to get home to see, like, what is this thing that’s why how did I get this piece of metal or whatever sticking in my chin? I get home, and I barely and you barely have to grab them. I pull it comes right out. It is a big old massive, like, giant black pencil lead looking, hair.

And I was like, woah. And then if you kind of rub it gently, or kind of pinch it, and roll it in your fingernails, it will break up. Or if you put it in a little water, it will break up into lots of fine small hairs. So it’s actually We are so disgusting. Filthy.

It’s a lot of hairs come together. And I’ve looked under a microscope at them since then, and I’m like, yes I have. Because it’s so fascinating because when you have it, it pulls right out. Yeah. It’s not a painful.

That’s how you know. Sometimes I’m like, oh, here’s one. And I start to tug on it. I’m like, oh, that’s not one. That’s just a thick hair.

It’s not the big old weirdo clumper. So, moving along. And the last bit, so the body hair thing, like, is irritating to me. So I have a nose hair trimmer, and I kinda hid it from you, not because it was like, oh, I just was like, why didn’t why didn’t I be the guy with the nose hair trimmer? But it’s like that birdie Korean style Every man has a nose hair trimmer.

Well, not every well, I don’t know. But I do. And Every man needs a nose hair trimmer. And now the ears and it’s just, I don’t know. I don’t under and the eyebrows, all of it becomes so frustrating.

Like, I I don’t know why you’re surprised. I shave my upper lip every day. I’ve seen you do it. You have that you have a a shaver? Yeah.

One of those little I don’t even know what you call it. It’s a It looks like a Little Bill Phillips Norelco three head, but it’s just a single head. Yeah. And it’s wonderful because I have three thick black hairs that grow in the corner of my left lip. So please don’t look closely at me people.

I do. Sometimes sometimes they’ll trim, but sometimes I have to let the I have to give it a day or two so they get long enough that I can just pluck them and start all over again. And then I have two chin hairs. That again, sometimes one get one one is thicker than the other and I feel that one coming in. Like, oh, no.

But then the other one is fine. But then and, yeah, now I can’t stop looking. I’ll look at other women’s chins. Just I’m not judging. I’ll just I’ll just, like, notice, and I’ll be like, oh, man.

She really needs to Tweeze that. She’s a shaver. That goatee? But I was actually talking to Laura about this. Mhmm.

And because she’s The one who doesn’t listen to the show, but she’s your best friend. Yeah. I know. And she she was talking about how she has to wax or something. I just think that that stuff is so bad for your skin.

Waxing? Waxing or using the hair. Electrolysis. Like Epilady? Using like the Nair type of chemicals, stuff, or the bleaching agents.

Some like, my mom bleached her upper lip so much. She now has, like, permanent damage. Like, sun damage or it looks like sun damage, but it’s not. Oh, look. Oh, because it I’m No offense.

Do you know what I’m talking about? Your mother’s a wonderful lady. I thought she had that really old woman wrinkle lip going early. No. But maybe No.

Because I was always like, she’s she’s not old enough to have the you know what I’m talking about? But, yeah, she’s, like, damaged it so much. And then and then and then gotten out in the sun. She has spent a lot of time in the sun. She has that like melasma hyperpigmentation there now that I have here and here on my cheeks from having sun damage.

When we went to Puerto Rico, I got burnt so bad. Now I have like permanent For me and you? Yeah. Now I have like permanent sun damage. So I have to do you know, I try to do my red light therapy and, my you know, all my skincare stuff to try to minimize that.

I think you’re beautiful. I just block out those parts. Have hairs too. I’m not trying to claim the thing. That’s why I was gonna say you could probably get in on this because you’ll talk about you know, sometimes you’re like, what are you looking at?

Are you looking at my chin hair? I’m like, no. I’m just sometimes I’m just looking at you. Yeah. I get my allotted to you.

Feel vulnerable. Right. I’m like, what are you staring at? Like, just don’t just stare at me. Well, I have a friend who had woah.

Woah. Easy. Sorry. I’m knocking over stuff. A friend he’s pretty excited about this.

He had the, in the thirties, the hairs on the top of the nose I would have that He wasn’t doing anything about it. He was married. I would have that, like, laser removed laser. And here’s the other thing I’ll say. There’s nothing wrong with people having these kind of hairs.

We all have them. And if you don’t, you’re lying. I’m saying like if somebody doesn’t wanna care for them, then I’m like, hey, that’s you. You should enjoy whatever it is. I mean, because I could see someone be like, I don’t got the time anymore to pluck these eyebrow hairs or to cut them or I haven’t even come up with a good plan yet on my eyebrows.

I just know that Just take out take them all out. I will touch them and I will stroke them, and I can feel they always feel a little more coarser. Yeah. They have a certain feel and I hate it. I think you do a good job of taking care of your eyebrows though.

Well, ever since it’s I feel like sometimes because then I’ll I’ll brush them up with your little brush and then sometimes I’ll cut them. What brush? You have like a little miniature eyebrow brush thing. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

I think. I don’t know if that’s for something else. And I don’t wanna know. Don’t tell me. Yeah.

Let’s just keep that. So the hair stuff, a little irritating. And then the hairs, like, on the front of my legs is, like, worn off and gone from something. Probably a low t. I don’t know.

I’m saying I got high. You also hear sometimes that’s heart failure. Really? Possible. I guess cholesterol problems that I won’t address.

Or people with diabetes or peripheral vascular disease, like their blood flow is so poor down there. You are not this case, but, like, their blood flow is so poor down there that they have no hair. Think of, like, your patients you’ve had come in with, like, swollen legs or cellulitis and yeah. There’s a point where there’s just No. I have hair.

It’s like it’s almost like it’s worn off in a strange pattern. It used to be when I wore jeans a lot, it would wear a lot of shirts. Why. Compression socks. Oh, you think so?

You wear compression socks multiple times a week. Yeah. I can’t get enough of those. Yeah. So you’re saying if I went compression sockless for a while, I might see a change in my hair growth on my legs.

Yeah. Maybe. But would you wanna do that? I’ve never been able to tell a difference. Mhmm.

I don’t I don’t generally feel like, well, my legs feel do a little swollen feedback. I don’t ever after twelve hours, I just feel ready to be done. I don’t ever feel like, I don’t know, like extra You’ll never know until you try. So I’m gonna Gillette will be the I just like the compression socks because it’s tighter on, like Yeah. In the in the shoe, and I have hot feet.

Oh. Okay. I am very prone to dependent edema. So, like, if I’m on an airplane for an extended period of time, I can feel my skin start getting tighter because, yeah, because my legs have been sitting at this angle and they haven’t been getting exercised, and I get off the plane with cankles. Well, nothing wrong with that.

It’s, you know, the compression. Did you wear them? No. That was a two hour flight. Okay.

Fair enough. But usually, like, anything more than four hours, I should probably be Right. Wearing them. So okay. So body hair, everybody has it.

How you deal with it? I don’t know. I just can’t stand having to devote time to it. But moving along, okay. Now, real quick, because we got two things usually we do.

What are you watching? Recently we took up reading again, or we’re trying to. And I’m just shout out to I’m reading Boys Adrift. I don’t have it with me. I couldn’t tell you the who wrote it.

Oh, oh, Doctor something Sax or Saxon. Yeah. This was recommended Yeah. By my friend Sydney. So I’m working my way through that, which is kind of, I’m gonna overdo it, but it’s kind of encapsulates the lack of motivation in the young men and boys today and why they seem to be adrift or whatever.

So I’m working my way through that, enjoying that. It’s nice to read. What are you I know you got a couple of books like Me and the Fire, but what you got going on? You don’t have to use the mic as funny. Vulnerable because I’m so Then don’t share.

In my spiritual Journey. Journey phase right now. So I was Today you were reading about the raising kid though. I’m like Oh, well, I just started that today. Okay.

Fine. Raising good humans. Uh-huh. I just finished I forgot what the book’s called, but it’s like healing your chakras. Mhmm.

So for anybody, I won’t get too into it. But you know, your body has Yeah. Okay. And you know, it talks about using essential oils, yoga, meditations to do, crystals, if you’re into that, which I am. And it’s just other ways of healing your body other than, you know, dietary changes and medicine.

So I find that very helpful as I’ve been trying to meditate daily. Yeah. Which is been amazing. Yeah. It’s been great.

And but I won’t get too much into that. And then I was, what else I’ve I’ve been reading. I did not start the book signs. Oh, okay. Signs from the Universe or whatever.

But that was recommended to me by a friend Meegan, who read that after her dad passed away. Okay. And she recommended that I read that. So and of course, I got a lot of books on my list to read Yeah. As my bookshelf shows and my Yeah.

Nightstand drawers. We really watched any shows lately. We still haven’t finished the pit off. Because we went on vacation, and we didn’t watch anything. So which is it was nice to read while spending time reading in the morning.

You I would wake up in the sun. It’d be nice out and just sit, and it’d be warm, and I wouldn’t be, like, here in Oregon where I go, it’s gray and cold. Oh. Anyway, so I did enjoy that. Okay.

So we’re we’re wrapping up soon on this episode. However, you saw I brought in a box. It’s time for everybody’s favorite. Honey, what am I looking at? So I will go ahead and hand you this box, and you can describe, remember to listen Oh.

What we are looking at. I thought this was gonna be about the box itself. Oh, because because it’s been sitting on the garbage can for, now I will tell before you say what it is, I’ll just say this is the contents of a drawer in our bathroom, a drawer in our bathroom, some of the contents. What are we looking at? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Eight tubes of toothpaste. Okay. So our top drawer is our dental drawer, and there are eight now eight tubes of toothpaste in there. Mhmm. And and we’re not talking about these are not none of them are unused, brand new, in a box backups.

These are in rotation toothpaste. Eight tubes. All completely, uniquely different. Any any thoughts? Yeah.

Okay. So this is Crest. Okay. Yeah. Okay.

No. You think I’m crazy, but there’s a purpose for each of these. Lay it on me. I’m Okay. This is your your teeth is the purpose of each of these.

This is Spoiler alert. Crest classic Cavity Protection Coolment Gel. And this is just for when I need a quick little rinse or offer. You know? I’m not going to use my, I’m not going to use my, electric toothbrush.

I’m just going to use my manual toothbrush. And I’m just gonna get my mouse feeling a little gamey. I just need a little reset. Okay. I can see that because it’s not a powerful mint.

It’s kind of a Correct. You can be like, hey, I’m gonna still go grab a cup of coffee afterwards. AquaFresh. I like this one a lot. Aqua Fresh extreme clean with microactive foaming action.

This is I forgot to brush my teeth last night. Mhmm. So my teeth haven’t been brushed in probably twenty four hours. And I need to I need, like, we need to do some damage. We we Like, we need to chisel.

Right. Okay. That’s what but can you go ahead and I don’t know if you’re familiar with the instructions. You want to read the instructions real quick because there’s something interesting about this particular toothpaste when you can find it. Brush teeth thoroughly, preferably after each meal or at least twice a day and not more than three times a day.

Yeah. Not more than three times a day. Wow. What is in this stuff? That’s what I was like.

That’s that was the only of all these toothpaste. That’s the only one that had a not more than. I was like, oh, I I don’t know how I feel about that. Wait. Do they all say that?

No. Oh, interesting. That’s the only one that says not more than. They all have, like And, yes, we use fluoride toothpaste because we do not have fluoride in our water. So AquaFresh, not more than three times a day, which Okay.

Not a problem around it. This is the Arm and Hammer Complete Care. Mhmm. This is your kinda classic I hate how my mouth and gums feel okay right now, so I wanna listen to it now. Use every morning before work.

Oof. I find it so aggressive. Because that’s why. The baking soda, I can’t stand it. Okay.

It’s a baking soda. So I use this before work because I kind of like the same thing with AquaFresh. I just like a real good mouth cleaning because I’m about to go have some coffee and It’s that one is too much for me. Okay. I’m just saying it’s like that.

I’ve never liked a baking soda toothpaste. Always been a little bit Colgate optic white purple. Mhmm. I don’t use this very often, but this is like we’re going on a date night, and I just want a little extra sparkle. Okay.

Which is why it’s still full because I don’t use it. It’s a purple toothpaste. We could go on date nights. Yeah. It’s What’s that?

This one I love, but I haven’t been able to find it. Oh. Colgate by the way, Colgate is superior to Crest. And I will get to that in just a second. Colgate plaque pro release.

This is just okay. So I’ve I’ve actually had a lot of I’ve always had trouble with like a lot of plaque. Even when I was like a kid, I would get huge plaque buildups, especially like my lower back teeth would have huge plaque buildup. So I when that starts feeling like rough down there, I’ll start you I’ll use this one, and I’ll really go at it with the electric toothbrush. That’s a smaller tube or what’s what’s the volume on that tube?

Three ounces. K. Compared to the AquaFresh, which is more of a larger. 5.6. Okay.

Now look at the back of the plaque and tell me what those instructions tell you because I find it a little appalling. Adults and children 12 years of age or a plate at least one inch strip of palm. I’m sorry. Can you read the pink? One inch strip.

Who who has a toothbrush that pick anymore? That is they are trying to I bet that stuff’s expensive, and they’re trying to make you use a bunch of it. One inch. Everyone else says, like Hey. Where’s my little measuring thing?

Everyone says pea size. Where’s my little measuring Yeah. Like the diclofenac. On the One gram of that. I just noticed that.

I was like, one inch. It’s got three uses in it. Crust three d white charcoal meant I bought this thinking that it was the Colgate charcoal that we had Costco, you know, we had three or four of them. And I liked it because it felt but Crest White leaves this disgusting film in my mouth that I end up having to, like, pick it off my lip, like, the inside of my lip. It’s like, almost like like a white dried up saliva.

Or, I mean, there’s something I’m like, I can’t. I can’t. Like, this one should probably just go into garbage. The Crest has, I’ve noticed this if you brush with Crest before you go to bed, you wake up with a lot of that weird stuff. Yes.

Okay. Okay. So this I got influenced. Oh. Boca nano hydroxyapatite toothpaste.

So it’s essentially a fluoride replacer. NHA is a mineral that helps fortify enamel to support a healthy smile and it’s fine. It’s, it’s like a light minty is it kind of a gel? I really I’ve never opened it. Yeah.

It’s like a gel. It’s been a while since I’ve used it. Like a gel toothpaste with whitening, and it’s fine. It also has one extra little thing for its instructions. Apply a pea sized amount.

That’s what I mean. To wet the bristles, which I don’t, which I learned from you. Correct. Thank you. Brush for two minutes, two times per day.

Do not rinse after use. That’s right. I don’t rinse after use. That was an interesting where they’re like, don’t rinse. Because I did read the instructions on this one because it was a different I know.

I did. I read the instructions on all of them. And I have an idea This one is just a straight Lumino, straight up whitening toothpaste that came in a pack of two. I used the whole last one, I think. So this is the second that I’m like about halfway through, I would say.

Yeah. Nothing. Just nothing special. Just a little whitening toothpaste with do not eat or drink thirty minutes after. Yeah.

That’s pretty standard for your whitening toothpastes. Yeah. Okay. Well, I’m not So there you have it. There’s the eight tubes of toothpaste.

And and strangely And because of this, I’m gonna throw away the Well, I’ll use that Crest one. I can’t see it. Are you serious? I reached for the Arm and Hammer not the Arm and Hammer. Sorry.

Woah. Woah. Woah. I reached for the AquaFresh, which is funny. AquaFresh is like this.

Growing up, you’re like, AquaFresh because it had three colors. It was real. Like, yeah. Oh, I did love that. For a while, AquaFresh was like in the cheapo stuff for a while.

Like, it was like you could get a tube for a dollar. It was that and Ultra Bright and Gleam. Wait. These were all used to love the one. They sell it at dollar no.

They sell it at Dollar Tree, and it’s just straight up cinnamon. Oh, yeah. Close-up. Love love it. Love it.

Close-up was awesome. And then AIM was really awesome. AIM was like a bright it was like a clear green. You ever have AIM when you were a kid? Okay.

I think so. Probably. AIM had that or was it blue? You had the blue and a green. The and for a while, those all kind of fell in this really cheapo section, including the AquaFresh.

But now AquaFresh is rebranded and back to the they’re in the back of the big I’m glad you enjoyed this. Yeah. What I like about it is it’s really weird. After I use it and then I do the, I, do the neti pot Mhmm. For whatever reason, it gives like this licorice anise flavor when I’m doing the neti pot.

No idea why. Maybe because the snorkeling or whatever is all that. So I’ll use up that that Crest one. I agree. Why don’t we throw this away and go buy some close-up?

No. We don’t why don’t we just make it even 10 tubes in our drawer? So thank you, honey, for explaining what I was looking at, in the drawer. This was a good talk. Because she used to be like one or two, and then the other day, I’m like, there is a lot of tubes of toothpaste in here.

I don’t know about you people out there, but I don’t know how those live their lives using one shampoo and conditioner all the time, one body wash all the time. I need options. I use the skin. My skin gets used to like what my skin or hair face, whatever, gets used to one thing and I gotta change it up. I know.

It’s fine. I’m not being mad. I was just, like, trying to understand. I feel like we’ve got some more tubes of, like, optic white hidden somewhere as well in the closet. There’s probably something upstairs in the closet.

I mean, I know and I was like, is there one in the shower that I don’t know about? Mm-mm. All I know is I put toothpaste on before the shower and then brush my teeth in the shower. I don’t have my glasses on while I shower, but I thought if I ever were gonna try to brush my teeth in the shower, I would couldn’t read any of the tubes. And there’s a lot of tubes in our shower, so I’m glad to know there’s no toothpaste in there.

So, alright. Thank you for playing along. I think, that was a good episode seven. Yeah. I mean, I know.

You’re excited. I don’t know if there’s any time for me to do what I wanna do, but that’s okay. Sure. Very nice. I wanna thank all the listeners who for tuning in, especially Super Fan Cathy.

I’m gonna make a little thank you or a respond to her response to my response to my response to her response. You don’t have to say it. You can just do it. Oh, well, if I say it, then I know I won’t do it. So okay.

But And let us know about your Airbnb experiences. What did you like? What did you not like? Are there things you appreciated? Or Yeah.

Or what do you is it what did we miss? What’s the requirement for you on your Airbnb? And last but not least Do you Airbnb? Because I thought I haven’t I’ve said that after the night. I said to you, I just wanna have an Airbnb so I can show people how to do it right.

Yeah. That’s just how I’d be. I’m like, look, you text me whenever you want me to turn the lights on because the lights are all on our app, and when you wanna turn them off. And then anytime you wanna just open a door, text me, or text me just anytime. So, alright, I guess that’s about it.

Normally, and then the music swells, and then we talk, and then the show ends. I’m not getting the music ready. Well, talk to you next time, guys. Until then, stop. Doing the most.

Doing oh, okay. I was like, stop doing it. Your little friend, she’s acting like me. Are you doing the last word? What happened?

We didn’t even talk about Max. Next episode. What? With his current phase of life. Yeah.

That’s hot. There’s plenty. See, if we had time, if we were running the water we could just do this all the time. Yeah. Sound like a twenty four hour news?

Yeah.

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