90's Summer Bucket List

(upbeat music) - Hey everybody, welcome back to the Miles Palfcast, the flagship podcast of In Advertained Holiday Avoidance and Subsequent Sadness. Last Easter, we were gonna go meet my family and do a Denom My Sister's house and we were all ready to go and be really excited about it and then Gabby came down with RSV, which totally put a through a wrench into those plans and she added on her birthday as well. So just to kinda add to it. And now here for the Fourth of July, everyone's excited, we're gonna go to the lake cabin. We always do a ton of, like all of our childhood friends come up and they bring their kids and it's awesome. It's a great time. Turns out that's not gonna be the case this year because the girls started a new daycare, like I mentioned last week and it's great. Only problem is when you move to new daycare, you get the fresh batch and it's just fresh germs. There's just germs that they're not used to, that are all over the place and man, oh man, we hit that hard and both girls now have a hand foot mouth, which is just wonderful if I'm being as sarcastic as possible. I mean, the silver lining here is that they're both fine. Like we go to the park, we can play, like they're still happy and energetic. There's a little bit of pain with the dots, but it could be much, much worse. Like it could be RSV quite frankly. This is world's worst butter than that. But it's super contagious so we will, we're not gonna make it to the cabins weekend because we would just be then passing this along to all the kids up there and that would just be a disaster. So why are these things happen right around a holiday is beyond me. It's brutal. Again, the fact that the girls are doing good is the silver lining of it, but oh man. So my favorite days of the year, if not the favorite because it's so fun. Like everyone comes up there, Carly and her kids and Travis and his kids and Tony and Kenzie obviously. And then there's always a bunch about this, where there's Brandon and Trevor or other friends and family that make it out. It's so fun because everyone's just out there and it's hot and it's nice. We boat over to Harrison, get ice cream and we do fireworks. It's so much fun. Like everyone's just out there having a great time. We do a bunch of yard games. There's always Dock Pong. There's like the one where you throw the frisbee, if Disc Golf, not Disc Golf, what is it? Can Jam. There's Can Jam. There's the, oh, what's the one where everyone is hitting it off the trampoline in the middle? People are just shouting at their radios right now. Oh, I can't think of it. It's the volleyball game with the trampoline in the center of it. I don't know, it's awesome. It's an awesome game though, whatever it is. And it's just not gonna happen this year, which is such a bummer. The saddest thing is, Emmy's also at that age where she's like, "Dad, remember when Blank, remember when this." Remember when it snowed and we went down to Papa and known as he went slowing down that hill. Just these random memories now pop up in her head. And she's like, "Remember, when we go up to the lake, when we shoot off fireworks, when we get to stay up late, it's not gonna happen this year." Such a bummer. It sucks when it happens. But again, silver lining is the girls are doing good. It's like chicken pox. It's one of those things where it's contagious and you just gotta go through it. And it could be a lot worse and a lot more painful. Fortunately, everybody's in relatively good spirits and it's not too bad, but it's blocking all day plans, which is a massive bummer. So we'll make it out there. We're gonna come up with some other fun stuff. Like I think we've got an inflatable pool a lot to blow up and get some water in there, get the slide put in so I can slide into the water, maybe do some other fun stuff that kind of makes a day fun. I mean, there are also an age where, obviously it means excited about it, but they didn't, this could be worse. Like this could be like Christmas canceled. That'd be a big deal. This is a little bit easier to make it through because there'll be other like weekends that we're out there for and we've already been to the lake several times, which is great. It's just not what it was gonna be. And it's probably more of a bummer for me than anybody else, but it's the way that it goes sometimes. All right, on the show, to make it a little bit more happy and positive, that was a bummer. Tell me something good. Got to talk about something that I've been loving, the IOU1 for a bunch of free content that I've been loving and then last but not least, Sean's what are you into? It's like, it's a 90s bucket list. And I gotta go through it because it hits the nail on the head so, so well. We've been giving it out to patients because it gets these days on or through their summertime. All right, anyways, tell me something good. (upbeat music) Tell me something good. I several weeks ago talked about like the new Nike running shirt that I got. It's the radical airflow shirt. It's like full of holes. It's meant to be super scientifically advanced. And I'm here to say that it actually works. Like there's a lot of things, a lot of products out there that'll like lay on science and hide behind it essentially. This though is awesome and it works. I've explained it before. It's like, it's knitted in a way where it's like bigger holes that go into smaller holes so it creates acceleration because when you have a big space into a small space, it accelerates particles and the idea is it accelerates the movement of the air against your skin and then cools it off because the movement of air creates evaporation and that's the cooling effect that you get. It's a lot of science, but man, it actually works. The first time I put it on, I felt great because obviously it's a shirt full of holes essentially so you can feel the air kind of against your skin. And that's nice. You really don't understand the benefit of it though until I was on a run and I pulled up one of the sleeves. It's a long sleeve shirt. I never understood that until now 'cause it now makes perfect sense that you want more of this effect. But I rolled up one of the sleeves. I just ran for a quarter of the mile with that and holy smokes. You could really, really tell a difference when that's the case. Like when you have one arm that's amidst this sleeve of accelerated air flow against your skin as opposed to the one that's just in open air, like theoretically it should be a lot cooler, massive, massive difference. Like when you pull the sleeve back down, it's like, "Oh, it's like your arm's being air conditioned." Just like the wildest, wildest effect. I also then would try it. You also do a big difference when you're wearing it one day and then you put on a normal running shirt the next, massive difference. And just in terms of sweat, normally if I go running in a shirt in the middle of the day and it's 85 degrees, like you come back and your shirt's soaked with sweat. This thing, it's wild because I've been able to wear it several times in a row because it doesn't get sweaty and wet because it's always cooling your skin. The sweat's always evaporating and it's just not staying on the shirt. It's really amazing. Like it has been worth every penny. Like it's expensive, it's 150 bucks. I mentioned that I got two I was able to sell one for $50/fourth of profit, which was awesome. They've since re-released a shirt and it sold out immediately again. So I'm really happy I kept the one that I did. But it's been awesome. Like it will definitely be worth having it for when I do the rim to rim in the Grand Canyon. Like it's just a cool shirt. Like if you run out in the summertime, like it's worth considering because it really, it's shocking. Like some of these things don't make a difference. This one really, really does and it's really cool. They're coming out with more colors. Like they're gonna have blacks and pinks and other colors and they're gonna do like a short sleeve version and then a tank top version. But I'm now a firm believer in the long sleeve. Like it, it seems counterintuitive that you wanna wear a long sleeve shirt when running in the summertime, but man, it truly makes a difference. I mean, not only with the airflow, but you're keeping it, set off your skin a little bit better. It's cool. Highly recommended, the Nike Radical Airflow running shirt. It's, it's, it actually stands up for what it says that it's gonna do and really does a good job with it. Highly recommend, five stars. I owe you one. (upbeat music) ♪ You know who you are ♪ ♪ Yeah, who you are ♪ This is in part to the fact that he inspired this podcast, Sean Widmer. Like this podcast really emulates what he does with his. Like it's meant to be just kind of like a journal about things about my life and things I experience. And just talking about it, hoping that others find it interesting and it gives you a break from the rest of your day and gives you a little bit of enjoyment. But he's done something really cool with his podcast right now. He's, he's set a goal. He's trying to do a streak of 100 straight days, which is really impressive. I mean, like I've, this is episode 100 and something. Like I've barely done 100 and he's trying to do 100 days in a row, which is so much harder than it sounds. Because like even when I do this podcast, I, there are weeks where I feel like I have tons of talk about. I almost have to narrow it down a little bit. There are other weeks where like you're scrounging just trying to think of something. But one reason why I love doing this podcast and one reason why I'm sure that, you know, the 100 days in a row is going to kind of bring up too is it, you kind of look at life a little bit different. Like you're trying to find the unique and the, the special out of the ordinary every day. I mean, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not like embellishing like little things and making them fantastical and interesting to listen to. It's more of just like trying to find like little things that are interesting that you could talk to people about and that you could talk, you know, on this podcast about. And it kind of highlights those little moments. I love the one second every day app because it kind of does the same thing. Like when you watch back your month or you watch back your entire year, it's just these like these little moments that are that seem ordinary, but it's like, oh wow, that was, that was really cool. And I think podcasts, at least in the way that, he does it, Sean Wimmer and the way that I do it, it kind of does the same thing. Like it helps you highlight these little everyday things that kind of takes your life from, you know, the grind of the everyday to, oh, like that's kind of cool. I wanna talk about that or that was unique and that's special. I wanna talk about that. And I think, man, if you're gonna do 100 days in a row, you're putting that on HyperDrive because that takes so much creativity. And you can't, like there are sometimes that I repeat talking about certain things. I mean, the radical airfollow shirt is time example of that. But if you're doing 100 days in a row, yeah, you can repeat a little bit, but that's a ton of unique content for over three straight months. And it's, it's impressive. And I love it because he's put this out. It obviously no cost to anybody. And it's free content to listen to and it's enjoyable. You know, content's the wrong word. I feel like content gets thrown around a lot and it diminishes a little bit. It's just fun, something, it's great. It's fun things, it's a fun thing to listen to. And I love it and he's done a great job with it. And I've considered it. It's like holy smokes. 100 days. in a row is just an amazing challenge. I mean, not only for the fact that you're that creativity behind it, but the time commitment that's to it is impressive. So I'm not there yet, but I'm loving that he's doing it. And it also kind of gets you, like I said, narrowed down to like more of the nitty gritty and you get to learn more about the person and they talk about things that are more unique to them and I love that, especially when you're, you know, you're trying to get 100 days in a row, that's what it really comes down to, which is cool. Okay, last but not least, the Sean's what you into. All right, listeners, it's time for hidden passions, wild hobbies and that one thing that you didn't know miles was obsessed with. Buckle up, it's time for Sean's, what are you into? - Here at work, we, like our job is obviously to help families and help parents and help kids. So sometimes what we'll do is like, we'll give handouts, like for the summertime, like when we have parents come in and like, oh, my kid just sits around their board all day and they have nothing to do. It's like, well, here, here's this handout that's got all these different things your kid could do. Like just to ideally keep him out of trouble or to keep him busy or to keep him out of your hair. And one of them, it's a fantastic list. It's this 90s bucket list, 90s summer bucket list for kids. Now I was reading through it and something that we'd give out to families and it does such a good job at hitting the nail on the head for so many of these things. Got to look at it and I'm like, oh, here's a memory here and we did this and there's a memory there when we did this because it just does an awesome job of it. So for example, it breaks into different categories. There's like outdoor fun, classic games, arts and crafts, 90s snacks, rainy day fun, all these different like little things and I read through the list. So let's start with outdoor fun. Run through a sprinkler, classic night. Like I can think of the number of times that we did that, the different sprinklers we'd run through, the different games we'd make out of it. It just, that's, I mean, for me, 100% 90s summer. Water balloon flight, flight, slip and slide, did that ride bikes, going to scavenger hunt. We did all these things. Whether it was me and my brother or with Chandler was there or we were out with Carly and Travis. Like I have so many memories around all these different things. Climbing trees, did that, a lot of tree ones, didn't break anything, not gonna wood, but lucky there. Flying a kite, never, flying a kite, never as fun as it looks on like TV or movies. Just, I remember doing that, I could down with the ocean on the Oregon coast. Not necessarily the most fun thing and not the most easy thing in the world either. Playing flashlight tag. We did that both in the basement as well as outside of the Carly and Travis. All these different things. Keeping out in the backyard, making mud pies, playing kickball. My favorite, favorite backyard, or my favorite school game by the way, kickball. Classic games, this is another one. Four square, hopscotch, red rover, caps of the flag, freeze tag, duck duck goose, red leg green light, jump rope challenges, hula hoop contests. We did all those things. Whether that was at school or at home. And that, I talked to kids nowadays. Do you know what caps of the flag is? And no one does. It's just something that schools don't tend to do all that often, which is so sad. Red rover, that was lost at the same time. I remember, I love that game. Loved it. I remember playing it like in the elementary gym at a school before it was carpeted and the hard concrete of it. 90 snacks. Making homemade popsicles, 100% did that. Having a pizza picnic. We did this like with lunchables. Like we get the lunchable pizzas. And that was, I feel like quintessential 90s. Making ants on a log. I remember this being like advertised on PBS kids like during Zoom or something once. I don't know if we ever had it. 'Cause I don't think we really had it's like celery in the house or raisins for that matter. But I always think about it. I guess it's like the perfect snack. Yeah, your protein, you got your fiber. It's awesome. And it's fun. Making dirt pudding cups. Something I always wanted to do. And every now and then we get like the dirt pudding with the little worm in it. Didn't happen enough though. What else? Building candy necklaces. Fun to do. They don't last very long though. 'Cause you just eat them all. Randy day fun. Building the ultimate blanket for it. Definitely did that. Board game marathon. Putting on a talent show. Learning a magic trick. Writing a summer newspaper. Never did that. Creating comic books. Definitely did that. Paper airplanes obviously. I remember like we would go to Carly and Travis's and Travis like knew all these paper airplanes that you could do. And we would make different ones. We'd fly it in the yard. And we even got to the point of like you tape coins to it. Like wait a minute or different ways where there's a quarter or a penny or a dime. And just getting super super into that. And loving it. And nowadays like again, like all do paper airplanes with kids are all work with kids who are even like nine or 10. Have you made a paper airplane? No. It's like how? And the saddest thing is, then they don't like, you know how to throw it. Like you have to teach a kid out of throw paper airplanes. Like oh. And it's just sad. And again, it's just like a 90's thing I guess that man we love that stuff. It was so, so much fun. Playing trades did that. Just, hey, hey, get it. It's just this awesome like collection of lists of suggestions to kids to go out and to do because there's a world beyond YouTube, which I feel like I have kids all the time. What are you doing for the summer? Oh, just watch YouTube all day. Oh, great. Go outside. Play Red Rover and build a blanket for it and eat ants and a lock. So many fun things. The other one that I love, the movies, the 90's movies nights. Watch the Sandlot, the Mighty Ducks. We watched that a little bit. Honey is from the kids. The ones that I feel like aren't on here is Home Alone. Like even though Home Alone's kind of like a Christmas movie or like at least it is nowadays, I remember watching Home Alone over and over again. The Goonies should be on that list. Oh, maybe that's more of like an 80's movie. We watch the Goonies a lot. I don't know. It's a great list. And it reminds me and it takes me back of like all these different things we would do during the summer. Like when I think of summer, I think about a, like we have like this big, we call it like a patio. Like this big cement slab across from our house that there used to be a big shed on. There's also a couple of giant sheds over there. So we do hide and seek. We run our bikes. We would play different games we'd make up. We'd play in the creek. I think about like do we go into the pool and swim team playing in the backyard at our house, going to Carly and Travis's house and playing different games and making stuff up there. And just so much fun stuff. And just the idea that summer would stretch on forever. And then obviously like there's harvest. So think about that and go into the lake cabin. But I just, I remember the days of just thinking that, you know, summer's never gonna end. And you wake up and you can do whatever you want to do. And it's just, man, it was great. Just a magical time. And, and so much fun. I feel like this list just brings back all those memories. All right, that's it. Thanks for diving in a nostalgia for me. Trip back in time. I appreciate you always listening. Have a happy Fourth of July. Eat tons of hot dogs and burgers. Make some smores, watch some fireworks. I don't know how it's gonna work for us. Hopefully we can find some ways of making that work for the girls at least so they can have some cool memories of it. And maybe it'll be one of those times like where this actually turns out to be a pretty cool thing. But happy Fourth of July. Thank you all for listening. And we'll talk to you all next week. Any Gabby sound bite on the way out. Talk to you later. Bye. Any where we going? To the hair and then the pot. You excited, Gabby? Yeah. What we just said goodbye to? My mom. My mom.