Take two. Oh, you’re already chiming in. You’re saying, hey. Welcome back, everybody, to Doing the most. With Scarlet and Mitchell.
I am Episode five. Episode five. Cue some cheesy clappy hand type of thing, which is fine. Episode five indeed, which means we’ve had there’s there’s four others that the listeners could catch up on if you haven’t listened to them. Right?
Okay. Yeah. I don’t think you need to listen to them in order, but Yeah. It doesn’t matter. Are the lives doing the most, this podcast case you’re just joining us, is not, about politics.
That’s why I think really that’s my sales pitch. And then people because it’s like, oh, it’s about it’s about us. Well, it’s about our lives, which are really wonderful that we need the podcast, but we are just doing the most, right, with lots of stuff. That’s why there’s cats and vacuums and stuff. Right?
Yeah. You know what I know? Oh, well, we’ll get there. Sorry. Actually, today is kind of what a it’s a I wouldn’t call it a lazy rainy day.
It’s kind of a torrential downpour if you look outside right now. It is and we live in the Pacific Northwest. We live in Oregon. I mean, yay. Not But I was just looking at the weather and was like, ugh.
You know, looking out one window. At the street where here in the wonderful studio here, Broadway Studios, part of Iron Mill Productions, by the way. The street has got that cascade of water. It’s like that I call it when it’s kinda peeing rain, like it’s so heavy. It’s just like, you know, there’s nowhere for it to go.
But so what do you like what do you like to do on lazy, rainy days? Like Well, I would say read a book, but I haven’t done that today. Do you know what I have done though? I watched a true crime documentary, Dateline, while walking on the treadmill in the garage. And it was great.
How was the temperature out there? I put a jacket on. And then when I started getting a little toasty, I had a long sleeve shirt on, took the jacket off. That was fine. So weather’s not too bad for doing the treadmill in the garage.
Yeah. Okay. If you wanna get to it after this. I I know I should. No.
And late for a while, you sometimes say, oh, when it’s cold and rainy, it makes me wanna just snuggle up and do nothing or, like, you know I could do that no matter what the weather is what I’ve come to realize. I’ve come to realize you can sleep all the time if allowed if permitted to. You you would. It runs in the family. Your family.
Yeah. Until my father got his CPAP, he could sleep at any time standing, talking, eating. He still kinda does. Not as bad, though. You don’t know when I was growing up.
He he he would just be, like, doing that like that, that eye thing. And you’d just be you’re like, oh, hey. Sorry if we were you were in the middle of a sentence and, you know, was I asleep? You know? And I love him.
But, yeah. We love him Yes. So much. So on these kind of days, you know what? Well, what I don’t feel like doing is going outside this might and I’m not a true Oregonian.
I was not born here. Okay? I’ve lived here since middle school for the most part. But, like, I don’t look out there and go, yeah. I’d love to go out and do some hiking, throw on my rain gear.
That’s not me. Like, I literally look outside and the only thing I’m thinking is, like, when are we gonna move? That’s how much I don’t care for this. Like, it just it’s not I don’t even wanna go to the car. Like, it’s, like, the ghost in the lake is so rainy.
I grow tired of it. And I know what you’re thinking, people. Well, you probably have a garage. Why don’t you park your car in the garage? Nobody in this state parks their car in their garage.
That I am aware of. Well, maybe the neighbors all the way down the street with a fancy red Bronco, but nobody else on this street parks their cars in the garage. Across the street. There’s a one car there. There’s a Mini Cooper across the way.
No. We don’t do it. I mean, because your garage has to put all your Northwestern, adventure gear you’ve had. Oh, yeah. Boy, do we have it.
Your paddle boards, your snowboards. Three mountain ebikes. Ebikes. You gotta put those in your garage. Maybe a couple kayaks or canoe.
Like, they got canoe. Oh, they put it outside their garage under their deck. Well, they’re gonna need a canoe Yeah. To get out into this weather. I know.
So you got kinda that. So, I mean, I don’t know if that’s why. Because, like, your where you your neck of the woods, everyone has don’t nobody has a garage. You have a carport from the local mafia or whatever that’s all about. A shout out to Mount Airy, North Carolina.
Woo. Yay. Mount Airy. What a k Mayberry for the people who are any familiar with the Andy Griffith Show. Yeah.
Probably not. But I’m doubting it. It was once a thing. It was. So, lazy rainy days.
Hey, listeners, you can share what you like to do on lazy rainy days. We have, you can write it into feedback at scarlet and mitchell dot com. You can go to scarletandmitchell.com and leave your feedback, which someone did. We’ll get to that. That’s on my list here.
Oh, do you know what I did enjoy doing this morning? No. Sipping my coffee while on the porch swing. Yeah. I’m That is Yeah.
Tell me more. Currently located in our kitchen. It is on my list here. I literally have so let’s because I wrote doing I have make I make little thoughtful notes. They’re oh, excuse me.
They’re not thoughtful. They’re just notes. And it’s like doing most because that’s the title of the show. And for some people who have played along this far, we have lots, you know, five cats, a bunch of little robots, a million vacuums, and I was like Three mountain bikes. And two freezers in the garage.
I don’t think we’ve ever brought them my goodness. Two freezers. And we already have a freezer that’s in a part of the refrigerator in the kitchen. And now, most recently, we have a porch swing sitting inside of our home in the She’s gonna make her way outside. Okay?
Monday and Tuesday, it’s supposed to be some sunshine. And then You get a movie in and out with the weather. No. No. No.
No. No. No. No. It’s just I’ve just been looking for an opportune moment to move it outside.
It’s just gonna become another moss covered item that we own. Because to get rid of to make room for it, we had to get rid of another item. That was not covered in moss. You did not look closely. That cooler it was like a upright cooler, like a Yeah.
Worst Father’s Day present ever that I bought three years ago. I like conceptually, it’s so I’ll tell it’s like a cooler that is on wheels. It’s the height of a grill, has a couple fold out panels on the end so you can have things and you flip it up as it sits like you can put ice in beverages and it had like a little shelf that folded it up. It was a very cool cooler and then we stored some. And I use it for, like, when I was grilling, you know, two years ago.
I would put stuff it acted as more counter space on the deck, and then we stored some, bird seed in a bucket inside of there. And at some point, a squirrel, I’m pretty sure, decided Yeah. It was a squirrel. They were gonna try to chew through the composite plastic of the lid and get into that thing. So one corner, it was like it looks Totally.
Literally like some animal chewed his way into the corner. So I’m having to make space on the back porch for this porch swing because I was like, this porch swing is gonna make my life better. I just I just know it. I just know it’s gonna make my life better. So in order to Tetris this porch wing onto our small back deck Yeah.
I had to get rid of two items, and that was that cooler. And then I need to move Max’s water table toy somewhere, probably just into the backyard. Okay. Or under the porch where it will rot. Well, it’s correct.
Until the end of time. I look at it when I look at it, it I think, oh, this is exactly the water in it is exactly the kind that I got in microbiology class in a test tube to look for, like, amoebas and parasites. It’s that kind of filthy water that just sits in there. No. It’s very I’m sure it’s sanitary.
It’s probably healthy for him. Maybe we get him a microscope. I know. And then he could use that thing a little more. So okay.
Fair enough. The well, currently though, the porch swing has been very popular with one of the cats. He loves it. So Kennedy, the the whitish, cinnamon dusted rag doll. Also, our TV watching buddy, my TV watching buddy, he Yeah.
He jumps on it and it’ll swing and then he jumps off of it and it’s Yeah. It is it is doing the most because I did not we and we’re talking in previous episodes about how when you buy something, you’re like, this is gonna make my life complete after this, and then you’re like and are you still feeling like you’re like like you’re like, the next step will be when I move it to the deck, I’ll be even more complete. Yes. Okay. I know what you’re because then I’m gonna have my flowers out there growing by that time.
The hummingbirds are gonna come back to visit because we got some good hummingbird action. Okay? Yeah. And I just picture myself sitting on the swing, reading my book, meditating, enjoying the cool spring breeze, summer breeze, whatever. Because it also has, like, a canopy for shade.
Yeah. So and our porch has zero shade. In the morning? Yeah. Oh, thank you, suckle water guy driving by.
I love being outside, and I just don’t have a very good place to sit. Okay. Besides those chairs, which are, like, not very comfortable. I did not buy them. We’ve had them for, like, six years.
I know. But see, that’s for me, I feel like yeah. That’s they’re just getting broken in is how I feel when I see something for six years. Because, you know, I have a garage full of stuff that I’ve had for, in some cases, fifty years. You do.
I know. I I’m looking at it right now. It’s terrifying. It’s a it’s a wooden I mean, that’s forty nine years. It’s four it’s terrified?
It’s it’s kinda like a, you know, wooden toy soldier. I forgot I moved it in here, but you were like, it could be a Christmas decoration. Yeah. That’s like a original kinda toy, like a wooden soldier, like, thing guy. Okay.
Well, speaking of the garage. Okay. I’m glad that you’re gonna be living your, best life. And I’m I’m always like, the only goal is to get rid of stuff. And you’re like, hey.
I ordered a porch swing on it. But I got rid of stuff. But fair enough. It’s alright. Wait.
That cooler, I was like, I’m gonna move this to the street. I’m gonna put a free sign on it. And with all the action we get with all these high school doofuses driving up and down the street, I’m like, one of these kids is gonna see this thing and be like, this is gonna be great for my you know, I picture him having a bed in the basement and, you know, a patio door, like, yeah, hanging out with my friends, and now I got a cooler. And Well, I imagine it Well, what will you know if some high school doofuses who were related to me, one of them Came and took that cooler away. Thank you.
To get to another it’s got a new light. Well, I was imagining homestead now. Because it had, like, casters on the bottom. That’s wheels, you know, for people that don’t know. The roll it rolled.
I was more imagining, like, someone’s because we live on a very mild grade. Like, it’s not even a hill, but where it’s at, I thought I was waiting to find it that someone was gonna ride it or tow it behind a vehicle and go down a little bit down the street. And I thought it might make its way to another lawn, which I would have been like, that’s not mine anymore. Right? But, okay, it’s gone.
Good deal. That excuse me. We recently, it this comes back to we recently had our, and one of our weeks of annual leave, AL, annual leave if you’re into the program that calls it annual leave. Right? And do we talk like the last podcast was actually, I almost said filmed, recorded during our annual leave.
Mhmm. And then part of it was like, oh, I don’t know if we even talked about it. We were gonna be like, let’s get the we’re gonna get I I was all, I’m gonna clean this week. I’m gonna get the garage cleaned out. I I was all really hopeful myself.
Like, I was like, yeah. And I did okay. Not I mean, I here’s how it was. I knew I was like, I’m gonna get rid of all the stuff. I’m gonna go to the dump.
I’m gonna just fill up garbage loads of crud and Yeah. And then I also knew at the same time, I’m like, yeah, that never happens. Like, I was having a excited yet, realistic moment. So I did go to, like, I did take some stuff to the free geek locally, which is a, like, a donation for computer stuff. And that was I here’s I feel so kinda weirdly guilty because I went and they don’t require you to give a cash donate any donation.
I mean, you can donate your stuff. But then I was like, oh, well, I can, I’ll just, how about, well, you take, can I donate some cash? I was, it was the classic. The guy wasn’t saying anything. I was doing all the talking.
I gave him like two old computers and he’s like, I was like, you take these? Like, if it’s a computer, yeah. And like anything computers. And I was like, okay. And I was kinda like, oh, I don’t feel guilty because I’m just loading you up with a bunch of old garbage out of my garage that looks like computers.
Even though I looked in their little den of stuff and they had some real, like, boat anchors in there for some stuff. And then I kinda talked myself and I donated $40 to the cause because what they do, they do get computers to give them to lower income or schools. I don’t know. That’s what they say they do. I know the guy I gave him What did they really do?
I gave him cash. And then I was like, he didn’t even offer a receipt or anything. And I was like, that guy probably was just like, $40 richer today. Like, nobody’s around to watch this. It’s okay.
Thank you, free geek. I hope that I my contribution does something. We I went to Goodwill. We not made it to the dump yet. So talking about some of that, this dovetails in nicely too.
Hey, we got our first comment on the website. Yeah. Thank you, Kathy. Yes. It’s, now I don’t know.
We didn’t get her permission, but that’s okay. She put it on the website. It’s the website is freegamescarletnmitchell.com, anything. So I don’t know. I mean, she one of the things I’ll read some of it if you or you could read some of it.
Never got it. You don’t have it. Well, so much of my voice on the show. Maybe that’s why our listenership is not as good because it’s me too much. Anyway, maybe they don’t like my melodious voice.
Kathy does leave a thing. So first off, I because I mentioned the we’ll get to this too, the AI recap. I I take our show Mhmm. And I have a audio version done and then I you know, like, audio transcript generated and I plug that into AI. I’m like, hey, make this into, like, some bullet points.
And then every time I do a different, AI generator and I do a different thing, and I just get different results. And the last one was, like, if you read the do we did we talk about this last time? I don’t recall. Not on the show, but you showed me afterwards. It made up some it actually made up stuff that felt real, like, real stuff that we’ve maybe talked about.
We were like, did we talk about this on a different episode? And it’s getting and then I’m like, why would that even matter? Because Yeah. It made up stuff about this about the episode we recorded that didn’t exist based off a transcript that did exist that I it was so weird. Anyways, Kathy was like, yeah, that was so out of left field.
She says, I’m gonna, like, I’m not gonna paraphrase, but I’m not you can I wanna encourage people to go read the comment and make their own? But she just said, she wanted to pop in and say, I have listened to all the episodes now and they are so much fun and relatable. It’s like sitting around listening to a great chat. Like when we are at work and things are slow and random topics come up. So, like, I don’t I was actually I was like, oh, like, it’s like slow.
Like, things are boring. This is I’m kidding. We did Cathy, but I was like, oh. She said, I listened to episode four yesterday. And today, while I was just driving or cleaning, and it was so good.
I even teared up a little at the end when Scarlet was talking about the book she’s reading and not wanting to mess up with parenting. I relate to that big time. It’s impossible to get it right all the time. We just do our best. And and she goes on about that, but I wanted to just say, first off, thank you again, Kathy.
And I’m glad that was the whole part of the point of this was like, hey, we’re just people swimming in this big ocean. We’re just sharing. Have this something fun to do. We don’t know what we’re doing. And it makes it fun to share.
Listens whatever. But if people listen and they get something from it, even better. And in this case, Cassie was like well, she was probably I imagine her being like, oh, these guys don’t get it. I better give them a little bit of encouragement on their their feedback. Oh, and then she’s like, okay.
She she does I mean, Kathy, now I’m like, what if I don’t read it all? Well because she she makes this comment, made me laugh laugh. She says, I don’t know how many characters I get to type here, but maybe I will find out. So then she says, you asked about alternative dates, and I thought of a funny thing we do. My husband, Scott, likes to DoorDash.
It gives him something to do to get out of the house when he is restless. He likes to use his little DoorDash debit card with the money he earns to get lunch or other random things without me judging him. I do the budget. Sometimes we go on DoorDash dates where I ride along with him and we just talk and hang out. It’s almost like a game figuring out how much or how to get the best orders and make the most money.
It’s surprisingly kind of fun And instead of spending money, we are earning a little. Not much after gas and taxes and all that. But at least it’s a cheap date. So that’s a weird idea maybe. Then so I mean, I was like, oh, hey.
I love that idea. And I was like, oh, we should try this and then report back. I don’t know how we get into DoorDash. I mean, I’m not so dumb as to not like go to the website and figure it out. I get you.
I could figure that out. But, oh, I’m kinda curious now. Like, yeah, it would be kind of fun. Which reminds me, Little I wish I had, like, a harp sound, like, side story, which is my life. Right?
This reminded me when I was a kid in Warrensburg, Missouri shout out Warrensburg. Go mules. That’s the local college there. Cute. It was CMSU, and now it’s renamed, like, something else.
Central Missouri State. Anyways, my mother would volunteer, as a kid, I don’t know if it was weekly or monthly, for Meals on Wheels. Have you heard of Meals on Wheels? Who hasn’t? Oh, I don’t know.
Does it still exist? Yes. So I was, well, I mean, I was a kid I mean, I don’t know how old I was. I’m probably six or seven, but we would do the Meals on Wheels, right? And she would go and she’d get a whole bunch of those, like, white styrofoam clamshells from Mhmm.
I wanna think it was a local hospital that prepared these. The cafeteria remember it kind of. I don’t know if that’s who did, but, like, we got a whole bunch of these clamshells and they were each, like, had, like, people’s names. Right? And then we drive around.
This is funny too because you this is before Google phones and, like, she had to just I don’t know. Just know where to drive. It was a small town. But so we drive around and I’d go in with her with the delivery and it was always elderly people, like old people probably. Yeah.
You know? And they were sometimes, oh, and they were always so grateful and they would say nice things about this young little man about me. Like, oh, so sweet. Right? And then if the person if somebody wasn’t home, that meant my mother, we would she would let us take home that clamshell, and I would get to eat eat some old person’s lunch or something if they weren’t home, which I was always hoping for.
I was just along for the free meal, which I kinda laugh probably in retrospect because it was usually, like, some mushy potatoes and some over softened carrots and But sometimes that’s, like, the best kind of Yeah. Like, the crappy cafeteria style. A sauce berry steak with some gravy. So that was exciting for me to do meals on wheels mainly because I hope for that. And the way it smelled, every now and then I’ll smell that, like, smell of, like, food in cartons that has a certain smell, and it reminds me of the Meals on Wheels because I feel like the lady who was part of this program would pull up in a, like, I know I said we faked it up from a hospital.
I don’t even know if that’s true. I felt like we also met a lady who had a big van and, like, a Volkswagen van back in the day, and she’d open the door and be stacks of these. I don’t know if she’s given us a re up. I’m not really sure. I should ask my mom.
Was it I don’t think she’ll remember either. I don’t think yeah. Anyway, so that remind so, Cathy, that was a little you sparked a wonderful memory. Not the same. Actually, maybe Meals on Wheels was the predecessor because to, Grubhub to, DoorDash and Grubhub.
Like, you know, or not. Okay. I don’t know. I think I’m just saying It’s been there for a while, but COVID really, like Brought the GrubHub the the delivery. Yeah.
So that’s an a good idea. And now Kathy has gone to mention, because we were not talking about places like having struggles getting rid of stuff on Facebook and Craigslist. Mhmm. Because she was like, she was like, I don’t She says, Kathy says, I don’t know your beef with Goodwill, but there’s other places like DI or other thrift stores. And then she says, I get to struggle with stuff and wanting to pare down and it’s so hard to do.
I’m definitely closer to Mitchell’s number than Scarlet’s on the hoarder scale. And then she says that she was talking with you, and that’s how this whole thing came up. Anyways, she said thanks for the laughs and the food for thought. And she didn’t run out of characters on her writing. So the beef well, the goodwill beside it.
So you could tell this. I mean, I don’t think you read this part, but she was like Oh, no. No. No. She said, I’d love to hear about your beef with Goodwill.
And, actually, it reminded me, we have a beef with many things. Yeah. We have tried Facebook Marketplace. We have tried, we we’ve done OfferUp, which is now Let go. Listed or let go or something.
Let go became more of the They’re like partners or whatever. Yeah. We have done that, and we have gotten rid of stuff that way. However and then but, yes, your beef with goodwill. Let’s first talk about that.
Well, that was because there is each Goodwill apparently has their own, like, criteria about donations, at least or the guy running the donations at the moment does. And we there was one close to a diner. We used to go to a lot, the diner, and there’s a Goodwill there. And so one day we had a bunch of stuff and we pull into the little donation thing and one of those items was a perfectly great, fantastic, it was not a life preserver or life jacket. I mean, it’s the kind like a water ski neoprene Zip up.
Zip up life Yeah. Vest. I mean, it’s not it’s the kind the reason I’m just making it clear, it’s not like a good kind you’d wear if you fell over a boat. It’s for water skiing. It’s a sports Mhmm.
Life preserver. I you know, I feel like the someone from the coast guard’s back. No. It’s not life preserver. Anyways, it was that.
Good shape. Nothing wrong with it. It was in the mess of stuff we give, but he, like, pulls it out and say, uh-uh. We we don’t do that. I was like, oh, oh, okay.
But then it’s just like he’s like, no. You know what I mean? He was just shutting it down. So I was like, that’s fine. So I took it, and there was a garbage can arranged not too far from this towards the entrance of the goodwill.
And I was just like, that’s fine. And I just started walking over there. And because I was like, I’m just throwing this away now. And he’s like, oh, no. No.
No. No. He’s coming after us. No. No.
No. No. You can’t do that. I was like, it was just a garbage now. No.
No. No. You can’t put that in there. So I was just like so jaded by that because it’s like, first you won’t take it and I’m just gonna throw it in a garbage can because I don’t want it, but he’s like, oh, you can’t use our garbage can. I was so What did we end up doing with that?
I’m trying to remember. I may be either put it in our garbage. Okay. I don’t think I ever I was gonna go back and put it goodwill is the goodwill that back, I guess, at the height of COVID or something, I was trying to give them a Dyson vacuum cleaner and, like, a couple of throw pillows. And they wouldn’t take either any of that because they were like, oh, no.
We can’t take vacuums COVID. Oh, we can’t take their throw pillows because of COVID. And I was like, what? So now I’m just having, you know, I don’t know. I guess everybody goes through a throw pillow phase where it’s like, this is gonna make my house prettier.
And now they’re just going directly in the garbage because I’m assuming nobody takes throw pillows anymore. Yeah. Which I guess when you think about it, if you’re actually using these pillows for what a pillow is supposed to be used for, I guess it can be kinda gross. Right? Like Well I wouldn’t give my current pillow to I probably wouldn’t even let you sleep on it.
Oh, because you wouldn’t want me to touch it or you wouldn’t want me to touch it? Wait. Did I just say this twice? Yeah. Because I meant like Snot, saliva, make I need to wash my pillowcase.
Well okay. So that’s me opening one of your Pepsis, by the way. Okay. So the throat well, maybe the the litmus test would be or the acid test would be you ask yourself, would I buy a throw pillow from a secondhand store? Or or what insert item that you’re curious about.
Okay. Would I buy a vacuum from a secondhand? Well Could I test it out first? A vacuum. I mean A throw pillow, probably not.
A life vest for sure. Oh, yeah. All yeah. I mean, hell that would be probably if I saw them, like, what? $4?
This is like a $60 life vest. Yeah. I don’t need it, but I’m buying it now. Yeah. But they’ll take, like, throw blankets and clothing.
And and by the way, I had to work at one of these places one time. I had to okay. I had to volunteer. It was for something similar to Goodwill. It’s called Habitat for Humanity home store.
And I got a reckless driving ticket when I was 16. Oh. And part of the deal of getting that dropped was doing, like, thirty hours of community service. So I did my thirty hours of community service at this Habitat for Humanity home store. And let me tell you, some of the stuff that people brought and this store did not care.
It they would take anything. And then the people, you know, people like me, criminals, would sort through That’s true. Would sort through it. And, I mean, vile underwear full of stool. Oh.
Like, just and I don’t even think I was wearing gloves. Sounds like laundry deter. I don’t even like, sorry. Max has been yeah. No.
So, I mean, I get it, I guess, in a way, because these people are doing some very thankless work. And some of the things that people bring in you know, you bring in bags of clothes, they’re not going through the clothes before you pull out of the their driveway. You know? Oh, that’s fine. You’re not even very fast.
I’m usually like There’s all Max’s underwear from day care. See? They’re like, what? No life vest. I’m waiting for him to point to a sign.
No life vest. Sorry. Anyways, so it is very gross and thankless work. So that I would like know to know if anyone who’s worked for Goodwill or anything, like, you know, what is like, they won’t I don’t think they take couches anymore. I feel like couches, years ago, they were all like, there’s too many couches all over the place.
Couches kinda fell. Maybe that’s how all those couches end up outside of the Goodwill on that little empty plot of land. Yeah. That’s true. Oh, I hadn’t thought of that, but that’s true.
Which and then there’s that couches of Portland, Instagram account. I mean, but I think they take decorative chairs. Because, you know, you’ll go in there and you’ll see some, like, interesting chairs with cushions. And, you know, some people are like, oh, I’ll take this and reupholster it. Right.
But, yeah, couches, probably a little different. I feel like there’s a mental thing that we do. We, as in humans or me, where you go, like, we don’t wanna throw it away, but you you say to yourself, oh, this is a perfectly good, like, throw pill. Like, this throw pill is perfectly good. Like, it’s not, you know, I didn’t we didn’t really it just sat on the couch for four years.
Right? Maybe occasionally someone put their, you know, foot on it or something. But, like, you’re like, someone certainly could use this or sometimes you’re like, oh, someone who can’t afford a Dyson, well, maybe would love to buy a Dyson for $25 at their Goodwill. It might not be in the best shape, but maybe just, like Yeah. Take it, tune it up.
It’s a $300 vacuum. I don’t know. That one was actually $550. Okay. But we did sell it to someone.
But I guess there’s a kind that you mentally think, like, I there’s I don’t wanna come across the wrong way where you say, like, well, someone else who’s not as fortunate, we could get use out of this. Right? That’s what you at least you tell yourself. Right? Which is kinda, I don’t know.
But there’s or you say, oh, someone else has the time might reupholster this. I guess, sometimes I do those things and that’s why I justify giving it, but I think I sound now I say that loud, like, well, sorry that you’re so fortunate. I’m not implying that. You just sometimes you’re like, it’s not junk to me or it’s not useful to me, but it’s still useful Mhmm. To someone and you kinda that’s what you tell yourself.
But I would like to know the clothing part because every time here’s how I am. If I’m gonna give someone to Goodwill, I I go, like, well, after I wear it and I decide that’s I’m not wearing this again, I still launder it one more time because I wanna give them clean clothes. But I always wonder, does Goodwill do, like, just a big giant cleaning on the clothes or do they just No. They just put them out and Straight on the rack. Responsible for washing them after buying them.
Okay. Well, that’s fair enough, this statement. You know, buyer beware. But I always feel guilty, like, I just got done working on this shirt. I’m just donating it to Goodwill.
Seems kinda, interesting. And then by and okay. This brings up a quick side. It’s not a side story. Cue sound of, harpy.
You know what I’m talking about? Yes. I Okay. Stop saying it. Just what is that smell of clothing that’s, like, kinda old?
Oh, yeah. And your your own my own clothes will sometimes have I haven’t worn a shirt for a while. Know the smell. You walk into a thrift store, and they all smell the same. But sometimes you pull a shirt out of your drawer, we haven’t worn for a while, and you smell it, it has the same smell.
Oh, great. You don’t have that experience. No. I I’m just like, I don’t know what you call that smell. I always call it thrift store smell.
Oh, I’m like, is it just old textiles? I don’t know. But it’s kinda interesting, like, that we know what it is. All have the same smell. If you had a bunch of clothes and you put them in a plastic box for a while and you open you could just crack the lid and smell it.
You’d be like, yeah. That’s easy. You you close your eyes and say what’s in here to anyone and they’d be like, oh, some clothes. Bunch of old t shirts. Guaranteed.
Right? Anyway, I don’t know what that smell is. It’s not like a bad smell. It’s just distinctive. Like but why?
I don’t know. Okay. Well Yeah. So we got rid of some stuff from Goodwill. Yep.
We’ve gotten rid of some stuff from OfferUp. Like, we got rid of that beanbag Mhmm. Or corduroy. Yeah. Corduroy.
Yeah. So it’s a beanbag that turned into, like, a queen bed or something. And a lovely lady from Lake Oswego came and got it. However, sometimes people on OfferUp, you’ll put something, and they will message you’ll be at work, and they’ll message you, like, I’m interested in this. I’m gonna come by it today.
I’ll be there at 03:00. And then and then you’re like, I haven’t even given you my address. Yeah. Very aggressive and very And or they just won’t respond to you. And you’ll be like, okay.
Well, like, here’s my address. So Oh, you could give the address. I would say No. I’m just I’m like Hey. Just coordinate a better time.
Let’s coordinate and then they just will never respond to you. They ghost you. Yeah. Oh, I’m not. With Facebook Marketplace.
Yeah. Yeah. And I just kinda got over, like I’m like, no. I don’t wanna be on other people’s schedule. Yeah.
If I’m too, like, I’m too busy, and I’m too selfish for that. And another way we’ve tried getting sorry. Were you just gonna sign? No. No.
The yard sale. Oh, why didn’t we ever mention this before? We never talked about the yard sale. Oh, hey. If you want to waste hours of your time, then you host a yard sale.
Because let me tell you, I could have worked one overtime shift for four times the amount that we made Before at the yard sale that took us how long to set up? Well, we started the day before and then the day of. And I made all those signs, and I was posting them every which way and then putting announcements out on different platforms about the sale and then just making I did the dot and then Sue called it the dot sale because we had colored coded dots just to make it easier for pricing. And, yeah, it was it was a joke. It was laughable, but It was hard work.
And it was And it was, yeah. And this Such a waste of time. And the first guy that showed up, like, he literally was just, like, he just, like, grabbed a whole ton of stuff and was, like, yeah. Like He was our best customer. Yeah.
He was, like, how about these old saws? Like, I had stuff that was just given away too. He’s like, these old saws, and I was like, take them. Like, he said, oh, like, anything that was free, he would take too. That was kinda he had an interesting vibe, but I was all I thought was like, hey.
Thank you. This is the goal to us of the yard sale was someone else hauls away your garbage, your excuse me, your un your useless stuff to you, they haul it away and you make a few bucks. That’s the whole point. But we ended up with the about 95% of the same amount of stuff we started with and about $95 if we were lucky. And I think I think Sue brought brought all these dollars and coins to make change And Oh, yeah.
Yeah. And, like, you know, there so there were at least three adults working on setting up The store. This yard sale. And let me just tell you, I just feel like my mom would have a yard sale every summer, and we did not even live off of a Your main thoroughfare. Right?
No. But she would I think they would list it in the paper when back in the day when people read the local newspaper. And then they would put signs up on all the main, you know, I don’t know, the ends of the the big Intersections. You know where we lived out in the middle of nowhere. Yeah.
And my mom would make, like, $700 on you know? And then she’d be like, oh, and here’s, like, a hundred for your brother and you to go buy some new clothes. And somehow, we always it never seemed like we got we we always had just as much crap afterwards Right. As, like, because How is she getting this stuff? Oh my goodness.
Well, I’ve seen the house. Never mind. Goodwill. Oh, yeah. That’s true.
Habitat HomeStore. Yeah. She would go shopping and resell. God forbid my meemaw gets involved because she is still convinced to this day that my my dad’s like me. Like, we just throw stuff away after it’s been we’re like, this this is no good to anybody, and we’ll throw it away.
And two days later, they’re like, where is that thing? Oh. So my meemaw is, like, convinced that my dad is, like, going and raiding her Oh. Hoard Oh. And donating it to Habitat.
And I think this might be partially true, but it’s really just an excuse for her to go to Habitat because she is, quote, looking for the stuff my dad stole from her and took to Habitat, and she just ends up acquiring more crap. Oh, while she’s looking for her old stuff. So yeah. The I where was I going with this? I don’t know, but the yard sales are different in the South.
Like, they are serious business. Well, some people do well up here, maybe. I don’t know. I had collectibles out there for, like, nickels on the dollar. Like, I was I wasn’t even doing that thing trying to get a lot of I like those collectible cars.
I still have them. And they’re they are it’s what’s funny. It’s like, I think I went all the way down, like, $5 a car or just, like, take them or make an offer. And the and and these are cars, if you go to eBay, the exact same thing because they’re all in their original boxes. These are kinda each one goes $60.70, 80, a hundred dollars on eBay.
That’s usually what you hope for is the guy who’s like, I’m looking to do eBay. I don’t have the time in my life to do eBay. Again, it’s another one of those, alright. I’m gonna make a listing, put up take some great pictures, and I gotta package it, weigh it, double check the thing, do the shipping. Dollars to ship it.
Yeah. And then they pay me and all this and wait and then it doesn’t pan out when I’m just like, yeah, I should’ve just picked up a overtime ship and throw this in the garbage, right? Because my time is valuable. Yeah. So I’m not downing on all that.
What I’m saying so if you listeners are if you’re doing yard sales or garage sales or, you know, well, not estate sales, we can do that too. Hey, tell us how that’s working. We are, by the way, on we’re on Blue Sky social. Yeah. Yeah.
We’re And we’re probably about to be on Instagram. Yeah. You know, whatever. But And what is wow. Oh, okay.
So here’s what I went with. On, Blue Sky, it’s scaremitch. You can follow us at scaremitch. Doing the most, doing the most, all that. And if you do like I was like, oh, we could do, doing the most with s and m.
And then I was like, well, that’s not really appropriate. So I just did scare Mitch. So which is just like it sounds, scare Mitch, which comes from scar e and Mitch. The scare well, you’re you’re like, that’s not clever. It is not clever.
It is what our Gmail is is all about. Joint email. Because Scar Mitch was taken, apparently. Yeah. Well, it was.
Well, now I am. So Scar Mitch on Blue Sky. We’ll see about the other platforms. And I know okay. So last time I was like, oh, I talked about I never put up the AI generated photo, cover art, which you may or may not notice.
That cover art has changed for the podcast slightly. Right? But I meant to do that. But I wanted to talk briefly about AI while I’m itching my eye. So, boy, there’s more to go through, but that’s okay.
So we talked about how the AI makes crappy summaries. Excuse me. It’s that bad. I apologize. Try and make this family friendly.
Should I be bleeping that out? Some crummy stuff. I just wanna make Crumpy. Crumpy. If you’re listening with your kids, sorry.
I you can explain to them what’s the IP address. Crumpy. So it’s crumpy. I have a crumpy nail. We’ll keep it family friendly in the future.
Sorry about that. So crummy stuff like AI. So I was like, you know, we’re everyone’s like, we should be concerned that machines will be taking over, or should we be concerned? The show summaries for AI have me not concerned at all about the future of AI. I’m just being a % honest.
The stuff I put up, especially the cover art with, you know, vacuums coming out of throats and weird stuff on the cats like that. Also, very, like, not concerned about AI. So my question really is this, how do you use AI or how do you expect it to get used? Now we’re not a future technology predicting podcast, but there’s you know, people like, well, AI is gonna this, AI is that, and AI. And I feel like my experience, it’s fun and it can do some things okay, but I don’t feel I’m not, like, concerned that AI is gonna be I don’t know.
I I don’t be I don’t know. I I don’t have concerns currently. What about you? Well, I know what you use it for, but what do you tell the listeners. No.
I mean, I I use chat GPT, which is what you use. Mhmm. I call mine goddess Celine, and I feel like she knows me pretty well Okay. Because I’ve asked her various questions or whatever, and she gives me you know, sometimes I feel like I can even have almost like a therapeutic conversation and have this completely unbiased thing just I don’t use the talk feed, and it costs money. Oh.
But, I use the free version where you have to read it. Oh. But, yeah, I mean, I get pretty good responses back. I mean, that’s the only thing I use it for. I don’t really use it for anything fancy.
I just use it for, like, I don’t know. Like, hey. What’s the best thing to eat for this? Or Right. I I don’t know.
Well and I don’t if we talked about any of this last time, I’m sorry. Now I’m I’m confused in general. But because, yeah, I don’t trust it for some things that gave me bad answers. And when I was thinking about this the other day, I thought, what is AI? I mean, it’s there’s a lot of it’s so it’s artificial intelligence.
I know what it is. I’m sorry. I just mean, like but it’s kinda like anything on the Internet is what it’s consuming and using for reference. And it has all sorts of I mean, it’s more complicated than than saying it’s just referencing that. Right?
This is not Google search. It’s using some inference and artificial intelligence. That’s true, but I thought, oh, but it’s only things that are on available on the Internet or that are digitized, I think. Someone might correct me. Meaning, like, it can’t tell me about the inside of my house here yet because it hasn’t there’s no picture.
Well, okay. There’s some pictures, but you know what I mean? Like, it needs access. So I guess that’s what made me think, like, you know, it doesn’t know everything and and because not everything is all digitized in a consumable yet. Again, of course, there’s, you know, plenty of science fiction things about AI.
I I probably use more of the and there’s a little bit intelligence involved with it when I text it. I speak to text a lot now because I I’m tired of typing. And I was like, I’ll just speak it in. It’s gotten better to where it can recognize things, but sometimes it does generate some incorrect things. Like, do you not know what the word amiss is?
It’s like a mess. And I was like no. Or is it my pronunciation? So I use it more probably for dictation, but it it becomes grammatically it that becomes more intelligent. Right?
If you know what I mean. It doesn’t screw up the words. So you can watch it. It’ll actually go, oh, once it understands the context, it might change some of the spelling. Yeah.
It does things right. I probably use it. I don’t really I don’t know. I saw they’re using it for some diagnostic stuff in medicine, which I’m like, hey, that makes sense. If you can take like all research, if you can take a lot of stuff and get a better answer, it was, you know, it was an article, but I’m not as concerned about some of the maybe immediate things about AI.
But I wish it was actually better because I my faith is still kinda low in the tools I’m using. Now neither of us are paying for whatever because I’m not ready to pay for in other words, I’m not nothing’s been presented to me that I’m like, yeah, I pay $6 a month, $9 a month. I haven’t found something that’s so, indispensable yet. So okay. Well and we talked the AI.
Would you have something else? No. I mean, we’re we I got a whole way more, but I guess we’ll have to push this out because, you know oh, dear. I don’t even know what to talk about. I mean, I have more stuff on here on my list.
But, you know, we I wanna make sure the listener gets a chance to chime in with their feedback on the, website or once they find the BlueSky account, if you don’t have BlueSky. Anyways, I well, the other day I mean, maybe you want that you last time you presold possibly talking about something. I don’t know if that’s your plan. But I was gonna say, I have a little thing that says in the way. That’s the headline.
And in my head, my list is taking showers. And then I I don’t know why I wrote and other forms of time wasting or unnecessary. Well, then I thought, well, okay. I’m not saying showers are unnecessary, but you’ve made we’ve both made this comment. Okay.
Now this makes it sound really bad. I was gonna just start a segment called I’m so tired. Okay. So You can do that anytime. This is this segment is, like, things that I am growing so tired of doing.
And one of those things is I’m so tired of showering. I’m just tired of it. I am so tired of having to wake up and being, like, where am I gonna fit this into my day? Right. And then and then I’m in the shower.
And then I’m like, do I shave my legs today? Do I not shave my legs today? Do I wash my hair today? Do I not wash my hair today? Well, I work the day after tomorrow, so I’m probably just gonna wash my hair tomorrow so I don’t have to wash my hair the day that I work.
Because then that’ll save me time. And I’m just so tired of showering and having to work that in and be be like, okay. I’m and then some days, I’m just like, I haven’t worked out. I haven’t really done anything besides Caltro, and I’m just not gonna shower today. But then on days where, say, I’ve, like, you know, done a workout or something, I can’t, like, put everybody at risk of, like well, number one, I just feel gross.
Okay. Yeah. And I don’t wanna be, like, the smelly person walking around the house. Well But And then, like, Max has no sense. Is already taken by me.
Oh, sure. And then Max has no filter, so he’ll, like, come up and hug me, and he’ll be like, you smell weird. Yeah. And I’m like, great. Called old clothes, buddy.
Or the other day, he actually hugged me, and he was like, you smell disgusting. Oh, wow. I was like, wow. And I had showered that day. Wow.
So I don’t know what that was about. Well, I mean, okay. So I’ve because I said that the other day. It is is it a sign of by the way, people, we’re not gross discussing people. I mean No, you don’t have to justify.
I feel like everybody can relate to Maybe not this. Maybe some people enjoy showers. There are some people on TikTok who take, like, forty five minute showers, and they’re doing, like, the full body scrub. They’re doing this on TikTok. Body oil.
Yeah. There’s, like, a whole ASMR segment on, like I was like, I’d watch somebody shower. People do when they shower. And all I can think is, I don’t wanna put that much work into showering. I wanna, like, move on with the next thing.
Now maybe if I had a magical shower A larger shower. Full body, maybe double shower so we can shower at the same time. Oh, my gosh. Yes. We’re married.
We used to do that Mhmm. Before we had a single person shower in this 30 year old house. Yeah. So maybe maybe I would enjoy it more. I don’t know.
So you’re saying we if the you might the shower might change how you feel about it. I mean Maybe, but probably not. So I also have had that where I’m like, dang it. I got so shower. Like, today, I was like, man, I have to shower because I’m going to the eye doctor and and I don’t wanna be the guy I mean, look, and you made a comment.
Yeah. Sometimes you’re like, oh, I need a shower, like and it might not even be because you feel whatever. Sometimes you well, or because you smell. You just might have a feeling like, I just feel greasy or grimy or gross or my skin’s crawling or my I just haven’t, you know, there’s those moments. But then, like, today I was like, I don’t know if I need a shower, but I was gonna shower for me for and this happens for I think maybe many men or people with shorter hairs.
Like, I need the shower to reset my hair because it’s short enough that it’ll just be in a weird wonky position and like that’s it. It’s not like not like the movies where I just take a a comb and run it under the water and just comb my hair one way and it stays. Like that’s not how my hair works. It’s like it needs to be heated with water and reset so I can actually style it. Otherwise, just put a cap on, which I do that too.
Sometimes I take Max to daycare and I look in the mirror and I’m like, yeah, it’s a cap day because And some days I’m like, yeah, I’m just going in with a weird looking hair, greasy head, and they and they can just be like, oh, it’s a dad drop off day. And I’m I own it. And I’ll go back in that same outfit sometimes. And they’ll probably be like, oh, did he even shower? And the answer is no because I didn’t have time in my day.
Don’t worry. There are some mornings where I feel also I’m probably being judged. Probably not. They don’t care. No.
I’m sure. Seen all types. But, I mean, yeah. I’m like, yeah, guys. I’m not my best self this morning.
So It’s not that it’s unnecessary, but it is or maybe it’s just like I don’t know. Yeah. There was a time, like, ugh. Can’t wait to get a shower and unwind. But even when I’m really tired, I’m like, oh, man.
Like, Like, if it’s been a day at work where you feel like, yeah, I need a shower. This is, it was one of those days. Mhmm. It was c diff day. C diff day.
Active c diff. Yeah. And you’re like, I just just feel like I need to shower. But sometimes you’re just like, I’m so tired, like, I I’m gonna risk getting the c diff and I’m gonna go to bed. Because I don’t wanna like it’s just there’s time I don’t have.
Even if you can get it down to fifteen minutes. And I mean, shower, post shower, everything. Because that’s I feel like it’s one of those things. You shower. Well, it’s like, well, it’ll be gotta dry off.
And then you gotta, like, apply some lotions, moisturizer. Oh, I better get deodorant. I I gotta put clothes on now. Oh, and I gotta do some of my hair. I’m gonna dry it.
This I mean, it becomes a production. Mhmm. And that’s not where I’m at in life. I don’t want a production. I wanna probably watch a TV show or I don’t know.
A %. So okay. Well, what’s your what what what’s your new segment called? I’m so tired. I’m so tired.
Okay. Because I don’t have a what am I looking at, the honey what am I looking at segment. I feel like it’s a come and go segment. Otherwise, I’m just searching for things like that box of seeds that’s been on the counter for three weeks. Oh, those are gone.
Oh, I am. However, my honey thing Oh, what was gonna be the basil plant again. I because it’s still there. It’s coming back. Oh my Have you not noticed?
The it it’s got little tiny leaves sprouting on it. I was like, it’s coming back. I did prune it. Okay. Darn it.
I just feel like it’s so close to me. I mean, basil leaves. Okay. Fine. Well I’m so tired.
Okay. You’re tired. So now I would I don’t we don’t we don’t have a ton of time. But here’s all I’m gonna say is this. We finished Severance.
We were watching Severance. Whew. And people some of you are listening and watching it. Well, not at the same time. Maybe.
Maybe you aren’t. But I’m saying maybe you’re Severance people. Maybe you’re not. I find more and more people at work like, oh, yeah. Severance.
They’re like down with Severance. So, that’s done season two. The question is, do we wait three more years for the next season? Did you enjoy the ride? Yeah.
So good. So good. Well, I think because at the same time, we were watching Dark Matter, and then we kind of started easing into Severance. And Dark Matter was about these, like, multiple timelines and Schrodinger’s Bach or Schrodinger’s cat. And then we started watching Severance, which is just this really interesting of having this innie and this outie.
And, like, when you go to work, you’re a completely different person. You don’t remember anything about your outside person’s world. But then that inside person being like, but I have a life and my life met, like Right. So many layers, just so good. And we watched season one, and it took them three years.
Now before we watched season two, we went back and watched the finale of season one. And I’m like, wow. If I had known when watching this finale that they were gonna make make us wait three years for the new season, I probably would have been, like, outraged because it was quite a cliffhanger. You would have spitefully not tuned into season two. Well, I kind of You’d be like, no.
Not not anymore now. I did not tune into season two soon enough for you. But we we’re not binge watchers anymore because we can’t do that anymore. Like, we yeah. We just can’t mentally do that anymore.
But we have pretty We’re responsibilities. Yes. But we came pretty close to, like, binge watching that because we would watch, like, an episode or or two a night or an episode and a half and, you know, and we would try to have a fast, but The body would not, give. Yeah. I mean, sleep would settle in.
Yeah. Because sometimes we’d be like, oh, one of us had worked 13, and then we’re like, okay. And we’re like, we’re gonna Yeah. And you’re looking you fall asleep, aren’t you? I’m like, no.
Yeah. You’re and then you wake up and say the last three words they said, and I’m like, how does he do that? And then, well, and then the next I’m like, no. Let’s just shut it off. And then the next day, like, we’ll finally start it back up.
And I’m like, okay. Where where this is where we left off. What do you remember? And you’re like, I go back. Keep going back.
Let’s just start it over. Yeah. You’re serious. Yeah. It’ll be like, oh, we were twenty five minutes in.
How far oh, yeah. We’re just starting from the beginning. You can wake up and tell me the last three words they said. Like like somehow proving to you that I’ve seen it, but even it’s really I’m the one who’s punishing myself. Yeah.
I’m the suffering because of my lie. Well, my ability to catch those words, it’s a it’s kind of a yeah. It’s a it’s a thing you do when you have obstructive sleep apnea. Anyways, for anybody looking for a show out there, really good show. I think Ben Stiller is the executive producer, creator along with that other guy and, Eric?
I don’t know. But it’s Ben Davis. No. Such an interesting story that I’ve never seen anything like it done before. No.
And I had to look it up because I was like, who create and the the creator is the guy. It’s not, as far as I know, based off of a book or short story or something. You know, it’s it’s great. Anyway, so we’re done with that. Oh, Apple TV plus.
Yep. That’s where you get it. Yep. We still maintain that subscription. Worth worth every penny.
And then so next, we’re gonna finish off The Pit, which we’ve talked about. We’ve mentioned The Pit before. That’ll be ending we have one or two episodes left, I think. Yeah. And then what’s up next?
They keep pushing that White Lotus. Oh, White Lotus. Season three. Okay. Or four.
Season three, I think. Three? Okay. Well, I was gonna say, what about that dope thief they keep showing? Yeah.
There’s some good Apple TV stuff. Maybe we can do a little sample teaser. We’ll try the first episode out, but okay. I mean, we got plenty in our backlog, but to do. So I don’t know.
Well, okay. We’re kinda at the well, we’re at that point where it’s like, oh, actually, we’re at the point where we’re in the show so we can still have some of our, free time together or free time apart. And maybe watch an episode or something. Yeah. I was thinking actually The Pit because it’s still dark and gloomy here.
Okay. Alright. Well We’ll get to it then. Thank you for joining me. Thanks for listening, guys.
Until Great review and follow. Mhmm. I forgot the name of her podcast. Doing the Most. Doing the Most with Scarlet and Mitchell.
Yep. Thank you. That’s funny. I don’t know what happened. We were walking around the beach.
I don’t know why we did it. I don’t know why I didn’t. She thinks she’s with me, but she never knows. Stop doing the self loathing thing. Nobody nobody listens.
Nobody cares. Okay. Well alright. Shall we watch The Pitt? Yeah.
I’m gonna wait. I know. Yeah. Okay.
You guys! I feel so special being mentioned in your episode. 😁 I think being the first commenter makes me your number one fan so that is kind of cool. So here’s such a weird coincidence. I also lived in Warrensburg, Missouri! I don’t know if I have ever heard anyone outside of my family talk about that place, so that’s crazy! I was very young. We were there in the late 70s. My dad taught at the university you mentioned. Small world!