Welcome back to Here we are again. Yes. Doing the most with Scarlet and Mitchell. We made it to episode two. And Thank you for the three of you who listened to episode one.

That was that was me who listened to it three times, which I did wanna ask you. Did you even listen to the last episode? Nope. Are you aware that we made one? Yes.

Okay. You remember this is, like, audio. So you can if you look at me and nod I know. That’s that’s wonderful. I just like, I just really don’t like hearing my voice.

Okay. Well, it makes two of us. So what this is doing the most with Scarlet and Mitchell. We gotta I mean, so we can we got a lot of stuff to get through. Yeah.

I’m a little under the weather, so I’m gonna sound kind of, I don’t know, congested, but I’m you know what? Mitchell was like, suck it up, buttercup. We’re doing it anyways. So Well, actually, this morning, I was like, so what do you wanna do today? And you go, well, I think you wanna do that podcast thing.

You were like, Which is when I knew you were really into this, that you were sold on it. Oh my goodness. Okay. So today, we got a few things to do. We’re gonna do a couple, like, I don’t wanna say follow ups on the last episode, but we’re gonna have a little, like, you know, some things we gotta call back to or wrap up on the last episode, episode one that we introduced.

And then a couple of things coming up today. I mean, I got a few things on the list we might be talking about, well, this the show format, how we should move forward. Some of the cover art, which sucks right now, I got that. And then I got a little list here about the medical stuff, like medical trips. We might get into that.

So okay. The the title, doing the most with Scarlet and Mitchell. I actually I don’t have this up. Do you don’t have it. On iTunes, there’s a description.

I just loaded a description up in the iTunes podcast thing. I love your I love your engagement in all of this. This is what’s so wonderful. Look, a truck went by. I know.

This is I’m here. Well, so did you even read Did you even go to iTunes and then, look up the show? I made it to iTunes. Okay. Excuse me.

ITunes. That’s not even that’s not even right. Do You went and looked at this show on Apple Podcast. So They made it to iTunes. Okay.

Apple Podcast has Doing the Most with Scarlet Mitchell. Instead of I don’t wanna call it a hokey we I hold it home back and forth about cover art, podcast cover art. So it’s not great. It’s this little jabber here. Yeah.

That thing, which then everyone’s like, oh, I hear it’s a little. And then the kids had all submitted different artwork ideas, and we were all using AI, and this is not AI. And I was like, oh, hoingy homie. I’m trying to come up with that. But what I’m saying is if you look and I just put in, like, I was had kind of filler text.

But if you actually if anyone, which might be just you, Glenn, out there, goes and reads the thing, it says, doing the most, introductions. Well, it’s out now, I think. First episodes are always the hardest. Oh, and I don’t wanna read that part. Never mind.

That’s that’s just some dumb I put that in there. Actually, here’s what I want. The show description. I’m sorry, everybody. I already blew this.

The show description says one toddler, two nurses, three couches, four stepchildren, five cats, and seven vacuums. Recipe for fun? Oh, yes. So much fun that we decided to podcast about it so you might know you are not alone in doing the most. And I just can’t oh, wow.

We do not have seven vacuums. We do. We have let me I will in fact, I even chopped it down. Okay. Let’s I’m gonna just start with the vacuums for the robot vacuums.

We have a, like, a Roomba Hold on. Let me name them. Let me name them. We have of the robot vacuums, yes. The Narwhal.

Okay. The shark upstairs. Yeah. The Roomba that doesn’t hardly work. Yeah.

Okay. Then we have the mop vacuum, the Tineco. Oh, yes. Yes. Okay.

Wait. No. The the mop vacuum Tineco. Oh, yes. Yeah.

Okay. And then we have the Tineco handheld vacuum. Right. And then we have the Shark Upright. Regular upright plug in vacuum.

Oh. We got a handheld So we have like three shops out of it. We have a handheld upstairs, which is seven, which is, like, the old Dyson. We do not use. Yeah.

Right. And we have, like, three ShopVacs. Okay. In the last six months, you sold the Dyson. I am doing the most with the vacuums.

You sold the Dyson, and then there’s two ShopVacs. I mean, it’s more than seven, but, like, I was, like, I was discounting that the ShopVacs weren’t gonna count, so it was really nine if you throw those in there. Anyways, so yes. And we still have cat hair everywhere. I know.

It’s it’s that and that’s the so okay. Man, I’m we’re already we’re already after a roar and start. So, yes. That’s what it says in iTunes podcast. And and we’ll come back.

I mean, we’ll come back to some of this sort of. So what it made me think, though, was, like, what yeah. What is actually by the way, there is a companion website, scarletandmitchell.com. Scarlet with one t. I can change that in the future.

Not your name, but the website. It’s the the website’s influx as well. This is all part of my bigger difficulty of just doing anything. There is a website. You can go there.

You can, listen to the episode. That’s probably how you got there. I don’t even know. No nobody’s listening. I mean, maybe.

I don’t know. It doesn’t matter. Yet. Yet. So when this catches on, watch out, mister Rogan and mister Huberman.

Sure. You can release a podcast every six hours. That’s four hours long. But wait till you we catch up because we’re doing it every two weeks maybe. So the title, Doing the Most, I was like, what does that actually mean?

Why do you make me nervous? Okay. Because Hammy was chasing Kenny, and that makes me nervous. Okay. Those are two of the cats, which which okay.

Not important, but I will tell you this story really quick. I mean, the listener that Hammy and and Kennedy or Kenny are both rag dolls. Hammy’s a couple years older than Kennedy, somewhere. But they’re both from the same breeder. And, the other day, yes, what, yesterday morning, I was just rounding this we have a two story house.

I was rounding by the stairs, and I saw Kennedy who’s, like, kinda white and creamy colored. Just he was from the second, give or take, the second top stair flopping down the stairs in like a ball in such a manner that I literally thought he was dead because he was like a limp body just flopping down the stairs. He’s a rag doll. Came all the way and then I was like, oh my goodness. Zero instincts to save himself.

So I caught him at the bottom, and then he kinda, like, just kinda, like, got up and then, like, you know, and just ran off. But then Hammy started chasing him instantly. So I had to go, like, trying to break up that fight. And they were, like, going at each other, and I kept chasing Hammy. And I’m trying to get off to work because I got work to pay for all this cat hair removal service of vacuums and all the stuff.

Thank you for all you do. Yeah. Well, so that was alarming, but he seems to be okay. But I I literally thought Yeah. He’s fine.

He had had some I thought he had, like, a instant well, instant like cardiac arrest. He was on the top thing and just fell off the railing, landed on the stairs, and started tumbling. No. That’s literally what it looked like. It could not have looked more like a dead cat body coming down.

So which okay. So what does doing the most mean? Like, well, okay. We just talked about, like, doing the most. Like, we used we often say, like, oh, these cats are doing the most.

Right? Like, when the cats are just the idea, I guess, is, like, could they do any more? No. They are doing the most. Right?

Like cats. But I was like, you know, we and we talk about patients. We’re both nurses. If you didn’t listen to episode one, spoiler alert, we’re both nurses. We often talk about patients who are doing the most.

Like, I mean, I don’t know if that You know, like, it’s just like, oh, they Could they do any It’s called the Olympics. Oh, yeah. I had a gold medal the other day, by the way. That guy. It had nothing going on.

Anyways, so patients do the most. But I was like, you know, cats, patients, I thought, well, you already called it. I said, maybe it’s really about we are doing the most because we’re not okay. You got like that, Steve Martin show. Oh, I just did that.

We call that tisking. You know? Mhmm. The Steve Martin show. The the they’re dirtier by the dozen?

No. The dirt no. Cheaper by the dozen. Yeah. Yikes.

Dirtier by the dozen. Don’t forget about that. Not at work at least. Steve Martin, like yeah. And that’s based off a book.

And the book is actually, if I my understanding, never read the book. My understanding, according to a college, economics professor, it’s really about efficiency, the book, the Cheaper by the Dozen. Anyways, my point is this. I wonder if Doge has read that. We I don’t know.

They’re waiting for them. Oh, they already use a movie. Mhmm. So we’re not like that. It’s not like we’re highly efficient and have a lot of stuff, but we just have a lot of stuff.

I mean and I don’t think we have more stuff than your average folk, but No. I think the part a problem is, like, the layout of this house. It was built in ’91. It has, like, waste space, like, a formal dining room that literally nobody has anymore, and the laundry room is the size of a shoe box. And then there’s this other wasted space in our kitchen that I don’t know what it’s for.

It’s supposed to be another living room. It’s called a dishwasher. Okay. That you don’t know what it’s for. I’m sorry.

I okay. Anyway So I don’t know what that space is for. It’s currently your yoga studio, or at least it was those two days. Three days, by the way. It’s well, the third day, I just watched the yoga people and sat on the floor.

Thank you, Apple Fitness. So well, so you’re so we’re doing those. I’m just saying we got a lot of stuff, and it is you know, we’re doing the most in the house, but we’re not trying to. It’s not I don’t know. And I think most people probably are like, yeah, this comes back to this is not the topic, but, like, the minimalism that I often talk about or that I wanna angle to, which is like less is more.

You know, it’s the fight fight club versus if you have to cough, you could, like, cough that way. Turn your It was a it was a burp. Turn your head and cough, and I’ll edit that out later. Okay. Fight club, you know, if you don’t own your stuff, your stuff owns you or something saying like that or you the stuff you thought you wanted no longer want you.

All these things. Right? The stuff owning you. But I do feel like we we’re doing the most. Like, some of the amount of time we spend is maintaining the stuff that we have, and I hate that.

Like, I look at all the coffee devices, and they’re not maintained like they ought to be. And I look at all the vacuums. Right. No. Change a filter, rinse it, rate twenty four hours.

Who has time for that? Yeah. Because I got a vacuum right now. Yeah. So All day every day.

I use sometimes I use a vacuum to clean out another vacuum. And I know you’re thinking, but, Scarlet, you have six other vacuums. No. I have a system. It doesn’t work like that.

Yeah. When you figure out the system, let me know. Because it I whatever it is, I don’t feel like it’s working at all. I wake up every morning to tufts of cat hair everywhere. Do we and we need, like, a counter vacuum.

Speaking of which, doing the mosquito, and this is an example. Well, it’s five cats. It’s is that there’s people who have more. You know, we’re not I’m not claiming we’re doing the most, like, cats, but My brother has six. Okay.

And he had, like, seven, I thought. Oh, maybe. Well, so my point is did you tell your brother about the podcast, by the way? No. But I will.

Okay. So, you know, doing the most so we have, like, like, for so we have all these cats. Five I mean, five, okay. It’s not, like, 25, but it’s still to me, it’s excessive. And now I’m gonna burp.

It becomes like, you know, we have this we we call it cat barbed wire, which is the crap the these sheets of, like, pokey stuff that we would put on the countertops at night to keep the cat from getting all over the counters. But the one kid, you know, dead floppy cat would just walk on it and lay on it. And, like and it’s like, he’s laying on a bed and nails, but he’s just like he would just make his way. I think it’s because he has so much fur he isn’t even aware. Yeah.

Like, he doesn’t even feel the pain because he’s so cushioned. He probably thought, this is great. No. The other cats are bugging me. That’s why I’ll sit on the stove all night.

There’s way I have thought about curing him of that, but, I I mean, it wouldn’t Rude. Because I don’t think he would notice the heat. He would probably just be there till he’s like, you guys smell that? Smells like burnt hair and poop. So, okay.

So so maybe I was like, I mean, we’re doing the most okay, doggy. We gotta kinda wrap up a few things we talked about last time. We’ll keep it mostly quick. I know, but, like so last time we talked about the t’s. I just wanna do the good earth real quick.

You can talk too. Some when I’m not when I’m moving around this space to get stuff. I will fill the void by talking. I think last time we mentioned Good Earth. Right?

Okay. Sorry. I need to stop tisking. No. It’s I need to get you I have a pop filter.

It’s in a box in our garage, which is filled with Junk. Tons of boxes. Yeah. And those are junk. So we talked about Good Earth and at that point in time last time, it was just their sweet and spicy original.

Mhmm. And then I I went on a thing, and I ordered a bunch. And so I don’t know which ones you had. I thought I’d do quick we’re just doing quick Good Earth. I mean, I haven’t decided.

They’re based out of California, but all these tee boxes say it’s from, like, New Jersey. So I’m kinda like I thought did I just get bamboozled? It says even worse, it’s manufactured in The United Kingdom for Tata Consumer Products of the US out of Woodlake, New Jersey. I don’t know. Okay.

I gotta look that up. Their whole thing is like, good Earth, California nineteen twenty. Consumer? Yeah. Well, I don’t have my glasses on, and my contacts are never is it?

So you can double check my reading. But I went on a or is it TATA? Tighten, New Tighten, New Jersey? We’ll find out. So while you’re checking that out, I’m just gonna real you can I’m gonna tell the listener.

So I went and bought a variety. So we love the sweet and spicy. It’s just their original sweet and spicy. It’s like a cinnamon, but it’s got some other notes. So I went and bought the sweet and spicy peppermint, the sweet and spicy chai, the sweet and spicy matcha, and then in their herbal line, I bought passion fruit and orange, ginger, turmeric, and lemon, hibiscus rose and sweet berries, and then, oh, and then the black, tea Earl Earl Cream Earl Grey.

I’m not gonna go through all the, like, the descriptions. However, did you oh, you’re looking up Tata, New Jersey. Yeah. Should I be concerned that 08:00 coffee is on their website? From from the same does it also have good terms?

Tata consumer products, passionately growing and innovating every day. So as it turned brand portfolio. Yeah. We got a lot of brands. So wait.

Does it say EU? So now I’m a little I’m sorry. Now I feel like I’ve told everyone, hey, we love Good Earth. It’s California and it’s all great and it’s made in The UK and imported through New Jersey. I think they sold out.

Okay. Well, then let’s talk about what we think. Now I’ll be really quick. Did you have the sweet and spicy I don’t like it as much anymore. Do you did you like the sweet did you try sweet and spicy chai?

No. I did. It’s not as I like my chai to be I thought it would be like the original real cinnamon forward. I like my chai. It’s it’s the it’s got like mango in there or something.

It’s it’s not a bad flavor. It’s just not enough chai for me personally. I like a a very cinnamon, cardamom, all that stuff. Did you try sweet spicy peppermint? I do like the sweet and spicy peppermint.

I think it’s a good mix because it’s not too pepperminty, but it’s got a little bit of that. It’s a nice I like yeah. Sweet spicy peppermint, check. Did you have the sweet and spicy matcha? I did.

And? And it is good, but it freaks me out a little bit because it’s, tastes like an orange creamsicle. Yeah. And I can taste the stevia in it. Oh, does it have you checked?

Is it not? It must have stevia in it because it Read the box. I would agree. So for a matcha, is it like, oh, it’s it’s not matcha matcha y, match esque, macho. But it is It has It does have the orange It’s a pleasant flavor.

It’s a pleasant tea. I just don’t know if it what if I would compete with it in a, matcha. I mean, matcha green tea is the second to last Wow. Ingredient. And then what Orange Julius mix is the first?

Green oh, green tea. Oh, oops. Okay. So it has green tea and matcha green tea, which are different, but matcha is second to last. Licorice root, orange peel, chamomile, flower, natural flavor ginger root, orange oil, natural lime flavor, citric acid, Steve vial Oh.

Lycosides. There it is. Ouch. Is that stevia? It’s it’s close enough to sound like it’s like it’s like stevia’s brother.

Yeah. It’s fine. You know? I don’t know. But I mean, so but it’s not yeah.

I’m kinda I feel bad. Like okay. So moving along. That’s right. They’re Good Earth herbal tea, ginger, turmeric, and lemon.

So here’s why I like the herbals. Okay. I feel like we can’t talk about this too long because probably people don’t care Right. About tea. I was just getting your opinion.

But those I can put in my infuser. So I put, like, two bags in my infuser, and I boil it in the pot. And Do you get a thumbs up? Yeah. You like them?

Did you have passion fruit and orange? No. I did, and I liked it. It’s a good fruity one, herbal. Passion fruit generally kind of regard as a sleepy or loved one.

Cream Earl Grey? Have not had that. I’ve almost single handedly had the whole thing. I’ve never Is it that good? Well, I don’t know.

I don’t have any other Earl Grey’s to compare it to, but I enjoy it. I mean, I don’t know. It’s just something it’s my morning tea. That’s the one I’ve had a lot of. Hibiscus rose and sweet berries.

Mhmm. And you like it? I do. Okay. So, ultimately, we’re not sure if there is the they’re, environmentally as great as we hoped, or not environmentally, but, you know, all organic y.

However, there’s some bad ones and some good ones. So I think, ultimately, if you’re gonna buy some tea, the Sweet and Spicy original is the way to go. Okay. Moving on. Yeah.

I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Sorry. The underwear thing. Right?

The tighty whities? Yeah. Last time we talked about tighty whities, and then skid marks and it was the question was, where do they come from? Right? So you and you had happened to have Hanes.

You had some Hanes because you bought them. This isn’t the last episode. Do you know? I thought they would be, like, comfortable to sleep in. I went in your drawer.

Do they come in, like, a 12 pack? Because there’s a lot of them. I think they come in like an eight pack. Okay. Yeah.

I because I was gonna say they might just be disposable, at that point. However And they are not comfortable to sleep in. Okay. So, the plan was like, where do they come from? So I wore, the first day I wore some.

Right? And, actually, I wrote my first impression of them really quick, because I haven’t worn tighty white since I was a kid. So Mhmm. Here’s what I wrote, and I’m just reading this straight off what I put in. Very first impression when putting them on is a cool and naked feeling on the thighs.

Does seem like the crotch feels high and tight because it is my because my scrubs felt very cold on my legs at first. I eventually got used to them. The fly is not as easily accessible because it’s just off to the side more so than the standard boxer brief for reasons unknown to me. Could be just the design of the hands. I don’t know what that means.

As opposed to a weakness. Design of the Hanes? Of the Hanes. As opposed to a weakness of the tighty whities. The day was not the most ideal conditions as I had a, oh, okay.

Sorry. I’m gonna not get I had a a bowel movement, and this is at work. And so we’re kinda I did not have access to wet wipes. I was at work for twelve hours, and this was early on in the shift when I used the restroom. Okay.

I this is I’m looking off to the side shaking my head. I did not notice any itching or other issues. I would say that the white does show more things like hair and well, and I guess that’s really hair. Mhmm. Mhmm.

At home, at night, examination and photos revealed no stripes in the underwear. I was concerned that there could be some light shadowing or strikethrough, but I found none. Now, however now this was done at when I got home. So I put them on around 6AM, got home at, what, 8PM. Mhmm.

So 12:13, fourteen hours where we’re solid. Then you and I sat on the couch. Right? And we watched a show. And I I hadn’t changed yet.

I was wearing I don’t know if I was wearing my scrubs. I was wearing watched a show. Now if you could pull up your photos, I have a shared photo in there of of this same pair of underwear. You’ll it should be obvious in the shared library, of this same pair of underwear. Now while you’re pulling that up for so so which I will call the final two hours.

So hours fifteen and hour sixteen of the Oh my god. Burn them. No. This is the concerning part is all your other underwear are black. I I’m So Lamont.

You are walking why is it green? What do you mean? Why don’t you Let me see the color. Green. It could be the it could be the lighting.

Listen, for the this is not appropriate for a is it a it’s not a it’s not your classic double stripe. It’s not like a strong double burnt sienna crayon double stripe. It is some light. I don’t know. It’s concerning.

But but this is nothing compared to what we grew up with. Am I right? I mean, yeah. Because those were, like, you know, the kind you grow up with is, like, scratch marks, you know. You’re like, yeah.

So hold on. But that was day one. And then day two, I I didn’t do this was I didn’t do another, like, journaling about my tighty whities. But day two, I wore them, had no restroom issues. I had a bowel movement.

No restroom issues. Came home, clean as a whistle. Like, nothing. Nothing. Okay?

Did you have your wet wipes? No. No. I did the same I kept the same conditions. I mean, you know, so but I’m saying this I don’t wanna be like, but I had a much more healthy sort of movement, if you will.

Like a like a movement that was, like, had a beginning, middle, and an end. Okay? As opposed to the day before was kinda like, oh, I don’t know if it’s never mind. I’m gonna try and keep it, you know, this is not potty talk, but it’s what it is. We’re nurses.

That’s the other problem, people. We are nurses. We like this is what we do. I’ve seen more behinds in, you know, other areas than most people just by the nature of my work, so nothing’s like sacred. But third so I was like, okay.

Now I got one for the skin mark column and one for the whitey tighty whitey column. So I was like, I gotta do a third day. Yesterday, day three, I did the same thing. In fact, I wore them all the way up until this morning. Mhmm.

You saw them. I noticed you were eyeballing me before my shower. Those upon exam, clean. And that’s almost that was more than twenty four hours of use. Nothing.

Okay. So I can attest to, one, I can tell where it comes from is gonna be I don’t wanna say a hygiene, but it comes from We need to talk to our dads about implementing more fiber in our diet. I don’t know if their wet wipes existed when we were growing up. But I don’t know. Okay.

So there we go. There’s the roundup. So so the next level of this test would actually be if I were to take and buy the expensive Saxx underwear in white. Mhmm. So I’m wearing a lot we talked about those briefly, but I mean, briefly.

No pun intended. Okay. Oh, the Saxx underwear. I could get them in white. I thought about that.

Anyways, there you go. That’s I think that’s our there’s other stuff. So when we’re talking about doing the MOS and stuff in the house, I had a quick little thing, about we do a laundry service brought to you by Mhmm. Brax. Yeah.

Brax Laundry, Oregon City. I feel like some folks at work, some coworkers are some of them are like, oh, wow. Really? And some of them are like, oh, that’s all bougie or, you know, different people have different opinions. Oh.

My mother is like, oh, I could do your laundry if you need. And this was born out of well, this was born out of, like, you know, doing the doing the most was I personally, maybe you can talk attribute or whatever. You can talk about I feel like when I do some laundry, it takes hours. I mean, okay, it takes hours. The machine work, I’m talking about the folding, the sorting Yeah.

I think my dream before I found this laundry service, which we will not always live by this laundry service. However, my dream was like, I need to have two washers and two dryers. Like, that is the only way I know doing the most. Here we go. Yeah.

But Why not seven? I cannot stand when you’re, like, doing bedding and it’s, like, two hours and twenty eight minutes, and you’re, like, okay. Well, there goes the rest of my day. And hopefully, they’re dry by the time I get in bed tonight. Oh, yeah.

Because with these eco settings on the dry now here’s okay. So we have a pretty high end, I would say, middle to high end washer and dryer. Like, we got the upgrades, like, our washer will steam and sanitize and, you know, incinerate stuff. Such a waste. We only use one setting.

Yeah. Normal. Normal. Yeah. And then one setting on the dryer timed.

Yeah. So but the dryer will steam stuff. It’ll derinkle stuff. It will dry stuff occasionally. So, like, yeah, we have so I thought I was thinking back.

I’m like, man, if I’d known about this laundry search no. Let’s really quick break it down. We tried a, I don’t remember what, some app, like some people pick your laundry up, they take it, they take it home. And we did that one time and here’s and I knew this was gonna be the crux for me, which was the folding. I do enjoy folding.

I I enjoy and appreciate a good and well folded article of clothing. And that one that we did on the service came back, and I remember telling you, I was like, this look like my 15 year old son and, quote, folded. Yeah. Some of them were just kinda flopped and, like, very disappointed for what I paid. And I was like, and because we had had a housekeeper, and I was like, no.

I didn’t feel like that was worth it. Hundred and 50 every two weeks. Our shower says differently. Well, that’s a different discussion. But I said, you know what?

I said, I don’t mind doing a little housework, which I don’t. Okay. Nope. That lasted a week. Well, okay.

You get mad at me if I do it on our time. Okay. So what I’m saying is I was like, hey. The laundry thing was kinda hatched and we liked it, but then you discovered Brax. How?

I don’t remember. Did Mhmm. I thought you anyways, it doesn’t matter. It’s a laundromat. I think I was just looking for a place to take oh, I remember.

I was looking for a place to take our comforter because the cat had peed on it. Oh, there’s those cats again. And he didn’t treat it and it is a weighted king-size comforter that weighs 30 pounds. So that can not be washed an hour. I found this place took it there.

It was super clean. And like, you could pay like Apple Pay and the people were super nice and friendly, not like most laundry mats you go to where you’re like afraid for your safety. I felt and then they had I saw that they had a wash, dry, fold service, and I was like, wow. This is, like, less than a five minute drive from our house. So maybe Tell me more.

This is the answer to our Right. Needs. So and then break it down. It is a dollar 90 a pound for a two day service. You drop it off.

Two days later, they text you, and you come and you pick it up. It’s all folded in nice neat stacks inside of bags, like plastic bags that are kinda sealed, and then those are in these totes that they gave us. And That’s a Brax Laundry. And And then we keep them. And then they, like, do the socks or bound up with, like, a cardboard, like or like a paper, you know, like a thing.

Like, if you bought socks and had a paper thing, they bind the socks up and not all of them, not just individual, but they get all the socks, they bind them up. The underwear, sometimes they fold them, and sometimes, I think it’s with the day we drop it off. Some one of the people does the underwear envelopes where they fold the underwear into, like, a little compact envelope. Sock. And that was when the first time you brought them home, I was, like, sold.

I don’t care. They they they knew how to fold. That’s all I cared about. The other little thing that they do there is they use ozone in their cold water, which they claim that ozone ozoneified water is I don’t know if that’s Antimicrobial or Yeah. It’s better than regular water.

I guess, I don’t know. But so we’ve been pleased with that. So we do that laundry service. That’s pretty, like, cool. And I then it comes down to, like, hours a week.

It’s almost I I did laundry the other day. We still wash, like, our scrubs at home because that’s easy. Yeah. And we just hang them. And then we do our little three year old stuff at home Mhmm.

Because I don’t know. I don’t know why we do that. Because Sue gets my mother gets to fold them, and she likes to be helpful. She’s always like, oh, I can help. So sometimes so we leave that.

She folds those. Gives her something to do on the Mondays when she comes and helps us out. So but so but the other day, I did laundry. I really I remember burning a few hours of folding. Not I don’t just sit and watch the magic washer.

It’s just I sat and I was like, man, I have been folding clothes. And I realized I hate this this was the greatest thing because my time is worth and more. And we’ve spent roughly, I will say, 50 to $70 in that range every week. Mhmm. And we don’t sometimes we’ll miss a week and then it’ll be like 70 because we have a few more.

We have a lot of clothes. We have more clothes than we realize, but it’s worth it every day of the week. So if you are thinking about that, explore those options. I really think you’d find out it saves you a lot of time, personally. Yeah.

Definitely. Happy with it. It’s we don’t even think about it anymore. It’s just yeah. In fact, when you have to do laundry and a bunch of it, you’re like, man, I hate this.

So so I thought if I could go back in time, I would get, I wouldn’t have bought the magical machines for washing and drying. I would have got, like, the base model, just real industrial. That would be my opinion. That would be my advice to myself. It’s like, you’re not gonna use the bells and whistles.

In fact, you prior in fact, we maybe could have got away with, like, let’s not even have a washer or dryer if you have a cool laundromat. I know. But or a smaller stackable and have more space in the laundry room. I’m not sure. I’m just saying, folks, there are options.

Maybe we should sell them. If they’re worth anything at this point. Hey. I don’t know. Oh, yeah.

So, and then recently we still got time. Recently, I have developed, as you know, a I was sick a few weeks ago, but just a little bit of congestion. And we have a neti pot. And if you don’t know what a neti pot is, Google it. It’s like, imagine a teapot that you fill with water, add a little saline packet, and then you pour it in one nostril and it comes out the other nostril.

And it’s not really that hard. It’s very satisfying. And when I was sick, I started doing that. And one of the early times, I was getting a lot of, like, just colorful crud coming out the other nostril. Like, I was like, yeah.

And then since then, I’ve been doing it. I do two packets in the morning and then, like, two and then two at night. And I have never I’m still trying to get that original high when I had all that stuff coming out, and I can’t get there. But I love it because just like I feel like my nose is always clean. I was worried I was overdoing it.

You just recently upgraded yourself, and you got a like, it’s a Netty I don’t know what you Spout? Yeah. Yeah. A Netty Spout. Okay.

Walmart’s really upgraded there. And it’s still $5 or whatever. Right? Because we’ll talk real quick about the other option that I wanted to do. But, what I like is, for me personally, I like it because it reminds me of, like, when you get chlorinated water in your nose at the pool and it burned for a second.

Mhmm. I actually like the burn. I like it when it’s a little bit like, oh. It just feels good to me, and that’s maybe why I like to do it. I was worried I was doing it too much.

The packet you just got said on the side, I didn’t grab it, but it says do one to two packets every, I think, two hours or as often as needed or something. I was like, all I thought was game on. I have thought I might have been over food. Calm down, sir. I think twice a day is enough.

Well, I thought I was like, what if it’s, like, after? And they’re like, if you gotta do this for more than three days, you better talk to a doctor. I’m just like I was thinking, can I get, like, a colonic spout, spout, you know, like a enema bucket system like we have over there? Basically what the new one I have is. But I want one that I could do, like, a couple liters through there.

Just like just really blast just okay. You give me a look. But I’m just saying that’s I would do that if I could. I mean, I know where we can find a bag of saline Yeah. And some IV tubing.

Yeah. We won’t be doing that by the way. But So anyways, that’s the neti pot nice thing. Now, oh, I forgot. I was gonna you know, speaking of laundry and washing laundry, recently, you had the good idea of throwing Max’s our three year old, you had the good idea of, like, hey.

Let’s throw all his clothes in here, and then his school sent home two bags with contaminated, poop in underwear, and let’s throw those in there too, which then gave us a whole batch of clothes that smelled like BM. And then I was the one who was, like, literally, literally finding pieces of corn in the washing machine, as well as the corn outer husk kernels, like, all in the washing machine in his clothes. And I asked you I’ve never seen this kid eat corn. Except for a daycare. Apparently, it’s all yeet.

Well, you threw corn poop in there, and that that little washer add in made everything have that, like, subtle poop smell. As well as and then I re and I was, like, I tried to be not angry. They were wet in the bag, so I assumed the teacher had, like, rinsed them out. And I was like, oh, I don’t wanna I was gonna open this bag and, like, push it in. Don’t really examine it because you had left it in his backpack for three days.

Which you also threw in there in it. And now everything smells like BM, and he’s the BM kid at school. They’re probably like, oh, they’re probably checking his underwear all the time thinking he smelled. Today, he’s the head wound kid. Because we got our first stitches yesterday.

Oh, yeah. Well, how did was that on my watch? Oh, no. I’m sorry. Was it work?

Nobody was watching. That is the problem. Oh my goodness. You can’t prevent every accident. We were at Raindrops Playhouse in Clackamas.

And okay. Have my eyes on him. Also, I brought a book. So I was like, this is my time to open my and as soon as I open my book, he runs over crying. And I see this giant gaping hole in his forehead.

But I could see his skull. Well, I it’s probably not his skull. But, I mean, the whole, like, you know, the whole layer of skin was completely open and there was something, like, I was looking at. Right. Subcutaneous fat.

On the forehead, not on the left side. Not smooth. Well, okay. Maybe it was skull. So There’s no muscles in my forehead.

We went and got Just wrinkles. Closest urgent care and got stitches. And the kind doctor who did his stitches was, funny enough, an ER doctor, a retired ER doc that Mitchell used to work with at Kaiser. So So he was in such good hands and he did amazing. So and Max He actually fell asleep.

Wow. Yes. And Max did amazing. That’s alright. I thought your lights up.

And Max actually fell asleep while getting his stitches. So, man, I am blessed. Yeah. No. I mean, did it ever actually start bleeding a bunch?

Usually, head wounds okay. Initially. Ear wounds bleed a lot. Like, I was holding pressure And but it wasn’t bleeding as much as it felt like it should have been bleeding, you know, and then after holding pressure, Max was like, okay, I feel better. And I’m like, what?

Like, he was like ready to get back out there. And I was like, I can I can see your bone, I think? And yeah. Anyways, I was I was more shaken up than he was. Were you some did it have a dent or was it you know what I’m saying?

Because you sent me a picture, but I assumed it had already been, like, irrigated or something. No. Nothing had been Oh. Nothing had been done. Because the weird ones are when you see a dent in someone’s head.

I’ve seen this. Like, the it’ll there’s enough tissue that is, like, dented, and you’re like, why is there a dent in your head? But it wasn’t dented. It was just gaping open. Yeah.

It it looked like somebody had taken something and just, like, like, showered out that area of skin down to the bone. Okay. Like, did you have were you able sometimes, were you able to have your, like, medical nurse hat on, or were you, like, freaking out inside? Initially, I was freaking out, like, oh my gosh. I have to take him to emergency room.

Where’s the closest emergency room? Should I be taking him to a pediatric emergency room? And then my like, rational brain kicked in and was like, Scarlet, look at him. Look at how he’s acting. Just take him to an urgent care because you can see all he needs is stitches.

It looks scarier than what it actually is. Right. You were able to step back and do a quick assessment. Yes. Okay.

Good. Good. No. I mean, because, I mean, like, in the past, we’ve had a few situations where I think you were, you you were unable you had your mom hat on, which is fine. You’re a mom.

And then you were not able to be the nurse y, and you were getting very worried about him. And some when he was been sick. This is a while ago. Well, and that was when he wasn’t really able to vocalize what was wrong. That’s hard.

That’s hard to, like but now that he’s three and a half and he can say what he’s feeling, then that’s Right. Makes me feel more confident and Yeah. No. I mean, I feel like I was a skill that I have is able to keep my nurse hat on and just focus on and then do an assessment and be like, hold on. You know, time out.

It’s all good. I’m glad I’m glad it panned out well. I was a little worried at work at first because, like, oh, no. All I was imagining is you trying to drive with your hand on his forehead to keep pressure. That’s why I was like, do you need me to send someone over over?

Sweet little buddy. He held his he held pressure on his head the entire way to the urgent care. He was so good. So good at that. He knew.

It made me think because, like so well, okay. We’re kinda whatever. Yeah. We’re not it made me think about medical expenses. Right?

And, like, I told you that person at work showed me a picture of a medical bill of one of their family members who got t boned, and it literally was like $839,000 on the total. And I was just like so, you know, there is a and maybe I’m alone. That’s okay. But this is where I’m telling, this comes back to I originally was like, this is this podcast is about community. So you feel like you’re not alone, and now people are like, I don’t know what that’s all about.

What I’m saying is, may I haven’t even talked to you about this. When you’re like, oh, like, even when danger, the 15 year old a few weeks ago had to go got a concussion and had to go to a hospital as well from Mount Hood, which is like a two hour plus drive in an ambulance, even though it wasn’t emergent, All originally, I’m like, I’m glad he’s okay, but in the back of my head, what am I thinking? In front of my head, like Wait. How are we No. Well, tell me what what are you thinking?

What what’s the next thought in your head? How much is this gonna be? Exactly. But but I’m saying front of my head. Oh, the front.

How much is this gonna be? Because I don’t know. I have I have friends I work with who work in, like, critical care transport and stuff, and they tell me how much these things are. And I am still a little nervous. Right.

But well, even so when you said max and you’re like, oh, man, I thought I mean, I’m like, I’m glad he’s okay. And then in then well, you said front. And then in the back of my head, I’m like, oh, great. Well, we’re probably full up on our deductible midway through February, but it’s I So what this, to me, really speaks to you and it’s very sad is that I’m guessing many people feel the same as us. Like, when you’re out of the danger zone and you’re like, oh, this person is like And maybe even in the danger zone, maybe if you have someone who’s like in really bad shape in an ICU, it probably creeps in.

At the same time, I’ve not been through that, where you’re like, I don’t think my I don’t know what this is gonna cost me. And that’s a stress that’s horrible because why should we be making decisions or thinking about decisions like this? Like how much does this cost? And that stinks, and that probably speaks to a broken or crappy system. I’m not gonna go into that per se, but I don’t like the fact that that’s how my reaction is.

Free Luigi. I was thinking Luigi the other day. I but, I’m just gonna say it because Yeah. The system is broken. It is so broken.

Yeah. It is so broken. I don’t even know how else to explain it. It’s so broken, it’s practically unfixable. Right.

And and and the testament of that is when someone gets injured or acutely injured and you or has cancer or cancer treatment, there’s that party is like that’s dreading finding out what it costs. And that’s we shouldn’t that should never be a question. I mean, it should you should feel like good. Like, oh, they’re gonna be well cared for, and it’s not gonna break me financially. Am I gonna be burned?

Like, I don’t know. I just I just feel like that’s too bad that things happen, but, like, I mean, I I guess some people make poor choices. That’s that too. But I guess I just I don’t know. It just irritates me that that is the thought that it comes like, oh, what’s this gonna cost?

So we don’t even know if we’re gonna keep danger at this point if we’re gonna have to farm him out as a to replace Oh, that boy’s getting a job. I think he’s gonna replace some of the local help if, if he needs to. If they’re short on pickers this season, he can get a job doing something. I don’t know. But I guess, you know, it’s all whatever it is, but I’m just commenting on that.

So the medical part. Now we we’re getting close to the end. Sorry. Sorry. I I know you’re like, please, please get to the end of this thing.

We work in the business of compassion. We or as nurses, that’s what we do. I was thinking about really quick. I don’t know if you have a comment on this. I work in the emergency department in Salem, and I used to, like, see things in the emergency department, whatever it is.

Let’s say you see a kid, an eight year old who’s been bitten by a dog and they’re then they’ve kinda torn through their nose and their mouth and all sorts of stuff, and it’s horrible. And the kid’s in bad shape, and then the doctor’s like, hey, can you get them numbed up for me? And you’re doing this thing on them and then for me, it was like, I can just focus on Like, to me, it’s like this is just tissue, this is stuff. Oh, you’re getting emotional. I know.

Because I think this is tissue and this is stuff and this is what I’m doing. This is like my job in this moment. And then it would be like later originally, I started working there. It would be like in a I might go to the locker room and I would cry because it would it would bug me. I’d be it disturbed me because it’s like you’re seeing things that are, like, people and they’re humans.

But in the moment, I was I was always able to just, like, do what I had to do. Oh, this guy’s thumb got cut off. Oh, you know, whatever it is, especially with kids. But I just did that. And then later, I got I got to where I didn’t feel like I had to cry at work, but then I’d just cry on my drive home.

I had thirty five minutes to cry, not every day, but that was, like, my mechanism was, like, I can deal with it. That’s why sometimes when a kid gets hurt like one of our kids or Max, I can look at it like there’s a forehead, this is some tissue, this needs to be sutured, x y z. And then later, I can stand back and go, oh my goodness. This is a three year old boy. How terrible.

But that idea that this is, like, how I deal with it. I’m not saying that because I because I used to think, man, these some of these nurses seem like cold as ice, you know, but maybe they had their own deal. Like, but you I mean, in the moment, you’re like, oh, this guy’s brain is coming out the side of his head. There’s all this burnt gun matter around his mouth, and, oh, jeez, he’s got a mother crying. And, like, you can be heartbroken, but in the moment, you’re like, okay, this we need to contain this tissue and this material and get them into CT.

Right? Oh, this bonus to get I guess what I’m saying is it’s a strange thing. So but it also introduced some poor coping mechanisms for me in my life during that time. And I think that is, I remember they used to say, like, in this of course, they say this, but down there, they were like, being an emergency department nurse, emergency room, whatever suits you, is this they say I haven’t looked this up. They say it’s the same level of PTSD that, like, a combat veteran has after a time because of just what you’re dealing with.

And I’m not saying that’s the only group. But I guess I think, like, what about you? You care for people. You see things. Does it ever bother you?

Because I’m also a little sensitive. I’m I probably probably wasn’t cut out for emergency medicine. To feel like something’s wrong with me. I guess because being in an ICU that is primarily male geriatric population. I see a lot of things happen that I think is inhumane because we are prolonging suffering.

So and then as a nurse, you get a, I can sometimes get in kind of moral distress because I feel like, what are we doing? Why are we prolonging this? But that is not my place to say that. I can voice that to my colleagues. And I can kind of voice that to like the doctors.

But ultimately, they’re the ones making the decisions on behalf of what the patients like advanced directive or POLST or what their family or if they haven’t done either of those, which please, please do an advanced directive or a POLST and do not have your family making these decisions for you. Like, I cannot emphasize that enough. It is never too early to do that. But, yeah, I will see these family members make these decisions. Out of like selfishness, it’s like, okay, sure, like your parent can recover from this, but, like, what is that quality of life gonna look like?

If they do recover, it’s not gonna be like what you think it is, or, you know, the patient has, like, already has, like, dementia. They already don’t really know what’s going on. And you see yeah. Just as I described it as, like, prolonged suffering. And I have a hard time with that.

I don’t really I can’t remember the last time I cried at work, which does that sound terrible? No. There’s I mean I tear up when we do like the little processions. I get like a little teary because that is a human was it was a human who has family who, you know, probably touched a lot of lives. Right.

Hopefully for the better. Yeah. Sometimes you’ve met them and you’re like, well, it’s not really better. Yeah. So yeah.

But I mean, I I’ve never worked with kids. Okay. I’ve only ever been an adult, you know, ICU. So it’s hard. What you said made me think of two things, and I probably already forgot one of them.

One, the show oh, that was one of the possible podcast names you were like, what are we doing here? Right? You were like before we did Doing the Most, you were like, what are we doing here? Little side thing there. And then the other was when we watched the show The Pit, which we mentioned last time, really good show, there was an episode that talks about this or did it span?

It spanned more than one episode. Talks about this very thing and family, and it is kind of like, and it made you it actually made you tear up because it reminded you of how many times you’ve been in this situation where family is, you know, that where the doctor’s like, we should let the natural course of things run out or go versus doing all these things. Love and which doctors would actually do that more. Right. Which so that was a good episode in the It was.

Example. Maybe that does happen more in EDs where they cannot find beds. I just remember watching that thinking, like, this would never happen at our particular places of work and not Ed ever, ever only ever happened in the ICU. Yeah, but regardless is a very accurate show for those out there who are health care people and are looking for something like that. It’s about it’s probably the most accurate show I’ve ever seen.

So far. Yeah. Yeah. The one thing I thought of the other day though was this, and I don’t know. I was like, are they wearing masks regularly in the rooms?

I don’t think they’re wearing masks. Which the only reason I thought of that because I thought the other day, I was like, oh, I remember the old days when we didn’t wear masks at all. We just roll like, in the EDs, I mean, you just roll into a room. Like, hey. What’s up?

You might throw a mask on if you’re gonna do something that might squirt in your face or eyes, or you knew they had a sickness that could be spread. But now we went full the other way. Now we’re kinda relaxed to where you wear them in the room, but not outside the room. And I thought, are they wearing them in the pit? I didn’t notice, and I don’t know if I would because I’m so used to it.

So I’m gonna look for that next time. And then the other show actually tackled the same subject, but it was Saint Denis in a humorous fashion, but it was the same concept. Oh, yeah. You’re right. We did just watch that one, and it was, yeah, the family members fighting over.

I don’t know. Not not their dad dying per se, but more All the stuff. Yeah. Yeah. The family drama that, you know, comes along with it.

Man, you really do see some crazy family drama. Yeah. At work. We wanted to create our own, show about this, about the actual characters that we deal with because you can’t make them. Doing the most.

They are doing the most. Okay. There’s one last little segment, and then we can maybe wrap it up. And I’ve been meaning to get, like, a little music y intro for this, but that’s okay. It’s time for, honey, what am I looking at?

So and this this will hopefully get better, but that’s okay. The item I wasn’t gonna grab, it’s okay. Oh my god. Wait. So what I’m holding in my hand right now is a because the I’ll put a picture up on the website.

It is a white I call it like a giant ramekin. It’s like a white bowl, like a bowl you might put in the oven, you know, that size bowl. And inside of it is like, I call like a tomato soup colored wax of some sort. And in that wax, it looks like a dead tarantula, but tiny or tiny spider in the wax and some other black stuff. And this thing, this bowl of with, like, whatever this is has sat on our stovetop for at least a year, maybe more.

And I I’m just like, I don’t know what this is for and why is it there every time I cook. Okay. So it is a holiday thing. And what you are looking at is scented wax, star anise, cloves, and I think there’s maybe sentiment in there. So I put it on the keep warm element.

It molds the wax and it smells like Christmassy in there. I should be putting it away probably with the Christmas stuff Yeah. Because it still has a smell. Like, it still works. It’s it’s February.

Yeah. And this has been out at least for Christmas. I know for, like, two Christmases. Maybe more. So I just I’ve grown used to it.

It’s just like, yeah, that’s just a thing we It’s the thing you move out of the way? Yeah. Just on the stove. Yeah. It’s just there.

Like I have to wipe spaghettis off off the side every now and then. It’s it’s just what it is. Okay. And that’s just where Do you have a name for this? Holiday wax Ball mill.

Sure. I don’t know. Okay. I do not have so no. I don’t have a name for it.

Okay. Well, excellent. Thank you for informing me about this. I’ll put a picture up on the site that’s A tarantula. Well, it’s got like now that you say star ant, but it’s like I was like, I don’t know.

It looked like pieces of carpet. I couldn’t tell. So That’s okay. I mean Well, I didn’t bring anything. I thought you were gonna remember, but, you know.

So that’s okay. I mean, we’ve hit I don’t know. Are we firing off our cylinders yet? We don’t this is gonna the show is gonna develop. Right?

Because I didn’t have on here. We don’t have time. Because I was gonna say, like, what’s the show format we should have? Should we have a primary topic like a John Oliver show and we both kinda ruminate, not ruminate. We think about it ahead of time and then that’ll be the core or is it just really miscellaneous stuff?

Do we plan and prepare and prepare? Segments. Do you like the honey, what am I looking at segment? We could talk about movies and shows maybe regularly or not. It doesn’t have to follow Maybe our listeners can like, subscribe, and comment Oh, great.

What they would like to hear about, Glenn. Yes. And you there’s I got I finally added a comment button on the website and the subscribe. Those will be coming along by the time you hear this. So well, yeah.

Like, subscribe, comment. I’ll let you you can say whatever you wanna say. Like, you can do like that. Out we have you been working on an outro? No.

Should I have been? What’s an outro? That’s like the, like, hey. So you just said, hey. Like, script scribe and Like ScriptScribe and just comment.

Okay. And you can find us on iTunes, Spotify soon, or at the website. I don’t know. Is anyone else listening on some other thing? Maybe go to the website.

Substack? That that’s a thing. Reddit thing? I don’t know. Like, oh, I’m thinking of Stack Overflow.

That’s a nerdy thing. Never mind. Substack. I don’t know. I gotta find out.

I know Apple’s the number one there, but and we’re not quite yet the number one podcast, but that means there’s only room to go up from here. There is only room to go up. Well Until next time. Are you still recording? Well, yeah.

But I can edit all or whatever. Because some you did you you didn’t even listen to the last one. Oh my gosh. Never mind. Because, like, you oh, until next time.

Need to pee? It’s doing we’re doing the most. Until next time. Stop doing the most. Hey.

Until next time. Until until we see you next time. We’re doing the most. Until next time. She’s just walking.

Walking all of the face. Walking all of the face. She’s just talking, talking all over me, talking all over me. She’s always burning birds. She never lets me say a word.

She congregates for herself, so I am never heard.