Grab Bags and Blackstones

(upbeat music) Hi again everybody, welcome back to the MilesPathcast, the flagship podcast of Release Day Drops. I've talked about it before, three of my favorite words in the English language are out for delivery when given in that order. Another one that was like release days. I love a good release day, especially if it's like a really popular like kind of anticipated product. A couple weeks ago, I, what couple of weeks ago, probably a couple months ago, Nike came out with these like new shoes. That's really excited about these Nike Mind OO2 shoes. And the idea is like they're meant for like, a ton of sensory feedbacks. Like it's these shoes, like with these little like nodes on the bottom and like you really get a ton of feedback from the ground when you walk. Like it's almost like walking barefoot essentially. I was really excited about this one, tried to get them and they sold out almost, though they did sell it. It was immediately like I was right there. I was, I had it all planned out and had no luck. I had like in these things in the past though. And I feel like I've gotten really good at like the process of it like knowing like which browsers are fasts or use the app or use your phone. Like when the switch two came out, like that was a lot of work. Got one of those. Fones in the past kind of the same deal. But today it was a shirt that I talked about, probably about a month ago. It's the Nike Radical Air Flow shirt. It's like a running shirt. And I compared to a shirt like being drug over barbed wire, which is something to do with it is. They're tagline is holy shirt because it's a shirt full of holes. And it's knitted in a way where it's got like the whole start bigger and then they kind of funnel down and get smaller as they get closer to your skin over like the course of, you know, fractions and fractions of an inch. And the idea is like when you start big and you make small, that creates acceleration in terms of physics and makes the air flow quicker by your skin. So it's meant for like hot running long race days, which I'm going to do the grand canyon in October. Like this is the kind of the perfect thing. And the idea is it kind of cools your body down naturally, much more efficiently than even like being shirtless essentially because it's accelerating air flow in your body. And that's at the heart of cooling. I'm still, so what I did, I decided I wanted to order it. I was kind of back and forth on it because it's an expensive shirt, but I wanted to give it a shot at the very least. And today was a release day. So I was all ready for it. I was worried about what happened the last time, especially with Nike. I was right there when it started. It's supposed to be seven o'clock. I had the app ready. I had all the payment stuff already programmed in. Obviously we were ready to go. Seven o'clock rolls around. I'm like, I'm doing the thing where like you're constantly refreshing it, but Nike's refresh is weird. Like you can't like drag up or drag down to refresh. You have to click back and then click back into like the, to the item over and over and over. You want to probably did 40, 50 times. Well, it had been more than that because seven of one rolls around, still nothing. Seven of two. All right, I'm sort of panic. Did I search this the wrong way? Like is there a different page where like you could actually order this because like the little notify thing went away, but it still says like coming soon in certain spots, panic starts to set in. Below and behold, seven o' three rolls around. It finally pops up like all the little sizes. Like that was the indicator that it'd come into stock. Like all the sizes came up. And I was able to click through that, rush through the payment process, had it all go all the way through, which is where I realized last second, last time that the shoes didn't go through. But then it said like order placed. And I got the email and I was like, oh, sweet relief. And then I went back and I'm like, oh, hey, well, let's see what we can do. And I had time to actually order, so I initially ordered a small and I ordered an X small just in case like the sizing doesn't work out. So I've heard like reviews like people think the shirt bounces on you and that doesn't sound fun. Anyways, I was able to go back and order a second one, super, super quick. And the third time I went back just to see like, is this something where like there's a whole bunch and this isn't actually going to be in short supply. This wasn't a big deal. I didn't need to be ready for it. I go back at third time and everything is sold out, which made me so, so happy. Like it was just, a sweet relief that I was able to get these things. And now I've got one that I can try and I can return the other one if I don't like the size or I can return both, whatever. But I got that opportunity. And just to know like I did it before they sold out, just made it all a sweeter. So I'm really excited. The Nike Radical Airflow shirts. We're gonna see if it like, it's all about the fit and how it feels. And like they're long sleeves, which is a weird running shirt style, but they say that again, it accelerates the airflow around your arms. It's supposed to make them cooler. So we'll see, but I'm excited about it. It could be a perfect shirt, especially given what I want to do in the grain. Can you, where it's probably gonna be 85 to 100 degrees? Like when you're in the base of it for the bulk of it? This thing could be a life saver as hard as that goes. So I'm excited. It's supposed to ship. So let's be here next Thursday, June 11th. Yeah, so next Thursday. I'm hoping that's this information that it's actually sooner, but we shall see when they ship. And we'll wait for the words out for delivery. All right, today on the show, tell me something good. We got a grab bag of things. There was just one thing I've got several that I want to talk about as far as it. Tell me something goods. The IOU1, got to cover that. And then Sean's, what do you into it is actually, I had this one probably about a year ago and we're jumping back into it, which I'm really excited about. First though, tell me something good. Tell me something good. One of them, two days ago, on Tuesday was Lou Gehrig Day. And I, I'm curious how many people in the nowadays know who Lou Gehrig is. If you're in the baseball, you definitely do. And if you've heard of the disease, you probably definitely do. But two days ago, as Lou Gehrig Day, a guy who before Cal Ripkin broke his record, had played well over 2,000 games straight in baseball. And he was like 14 or 15 straight seasons of never missing a day, never missing a game, which even nowadays, that just, it does not happen. Like there are always breaks, you know, it seems like at least once a month, players are getting breaks here and there. And Lou Gehrig though, never missed a day. For like 15 straight years. And up until he was diagnosed with ALS, kept playing through it and still would hit home runs, still had a crazy good average while I had it. But it's so funny. It's like in superhero movies, where like you have the superhero and usually the villain is like a mirrored negative image of the superhero, kind of like they're facing out of themselves. And that's kind of what happened to Lou Gehrig. Like the guy who just never sat down, who never took a break, played every single game, was eventually overtaken by the something that he had zero control over, that just weakened him to the point of being no longer able to play. Because that's what ALS does to you. And it was less than two years later than that he died at age 37, which is crazy, 'cause I'll be 37 next year, which is crazy. But the best part was, like his famous speech, I think it was on like July 4th a long time ago, where he stood up in front of the world 'cause his broadcast upper TV, and it's like I consider myself the lucky man on the face of the earth, which I think is so cool. Like I've got my Lou Gehrig shirt, and I love it 'cause it's like him being so grateful in the gratitude behind it. And he was faced with something he zero control over, something that ended his career, his life ultimately, but he did it through gratitude. And that's like what his foundation is still all about, is like just being grateful. Like my shirt says, "Live like Lou," and his number there, and it's awesome. I think it's cool. I love Lou Gehrig Day. He's one of my, I love watching that speech. It's just, it's perfect. 'Cause I feel like I try and embody gratitude with a lot of things, and grateful for a lot of stuff, but Lou Gehrig is kind of the heart of that. And Lou Gehrig Day was two days ago. So happy Lou Gehrig Day, couple days late. Other things, other tell me something good. Every year around this time, I get a student for what they call like field work. It's like an internship. I had to do what I was in school. Like you graduate, and then you have two internships, 12 week stints, and you basically kind of like learn on the job, or you learn like in the job. It's well because not an internship, 'cause you're paying for it, but you slow things, you help out the therapist, and you kind of take over their job. And I got a new student, thank goodness she's fantastic. She's one of the ones that she, I didn't have to tell her, she just shows up early. She's here every day before me, which is just a gift, 'cause that does not always happen, especially for whatever reason like recently. And she's, she's always looking for something to do, there's always like jumping in, like I don't have to tell her what to do, which is just such a godsend. It's like, I feel like it's like that farm mentality of like there's probably always gonna be something to do, just go find it. Like you don't need to be told what to do, just go do it, and she embodies that, and I'm so grateful for that, because it's awesome. It's always a lot more work the first several weeks, and I think we're in week three. And where I feel like we're getting closer to the tipping point where it's been more and more work. For me, just like that teacher and help her understand all these different things, and it's a lot more like being on all the time, and it's even more so when you have someone following you around. But I think the scales are gonna hopefully start to tip soon where she starts to take over, at least a little bit here and there, and does more and more, which is great for me, 'cause it kind of lifts that load a little bit, and it's fun seeing her learn and work with the kids that I've worked with for so long. So it's awesome. Tell me something good that student, it's been fantastic. The pickles, Emmys T-Balkatine, the pickles had their last game last night, finished the season with another tie, never failed, but they got ice cream, and they got a little prize bag, and Emmys was happy. I think it came at a good time the end of the season, and Emmys, she did a good job, but she started to get a little tired of it. She wasn't a fan of their uniforms. It used to have something other than gray pants, it had been a game changer. But it was a good season, she did great. It was fun to see them get better and better and better, and understand the game. Emmys still needs to work. There's sometimes when she gets distracted on the field, and the third base coach of their team, she was just entrenched with, or just, kind of what's the word, she just fixated by. There would be a ball that would just bounce right by, and she's not paying the size of the attention. But we got better with that even through the season as well. But the other last game is great, go pickles. I'm convinced we had the best team name out of everybody. The last team came close, like they were the polar bears, they had white jerseys, but they had the pickles. It's just a perfect team name. Their coaches were fantastic. It was just exactly what you hoped for out of a four to six year old T-ball team. Just let's go have fun and just do our best and have a great time. I know tell me something good. I've been waiting and waiting and waiting. And I check in the price of the. collection of the series of Chuck on TV. It's a show that aired forever ago. And it's like to buy the entire collection of it. It's usually like 70 bucks. And every now and then, they drop the prices for a week at a time. And it finally dropped it down to about 30 bucks. Oh, that was worth it. So I can finally finish that. Very happy about that. I got lost for early cheap two. I think I mentioned a couple weeks ago. And then last but not least, it actually, for most of all this, we've got new nephew. I've got new nephew, Emmy and Gavier. I'm super excited to have a new cousin. Watson has joined the path clan, which I think is an awesome name. I mean, there's been a lot of girls in our family, but now we've got Watson or Watson and Griffey. Just two excellent, excellent boy names. But we start the process of, again, of Emmy and Gavby, they love babies. And like they are other cousins, they're other cousin, Colson has been a baby, but now he's one. So he's not a baby anymore. So now we get another baby in the family, which they're always jacked about, but congrats to Garrett Morgan, growing family. It's gonna be fun, especially the summer, where they'll get a C-Watts a whole bunch. Wats, just a cool name, Watson Wats. (laughs) All right, moving on, I owe you one. ♪ You know who you are, yeah, who you want ♪ This is gonna be very minor. This is very niche, and this is gonna probably interest not a whole lot of people, but now that I'm doing more running for this just training thing, I've always used this app called the Nike Run app, which has been awesome. I've used it almost for the longest time. They came out with a fuel band, the Nike Fuel Band, a very long time ago. It was the very, very first Fitbit type device. It would track your steps, you could get fuel points. But from then on, I'd use this app, so it would always attract all of my runs, even when I really wasn't running for purpose. I feel like it was 2019 when I had my first race, and that's really kind of kicked off. But even before that, there was runs here and there. So everything I've always done has been on that app. Problem is, they're not great about updating it. It's not getting a bunch of new features. It still works. People still use it quite a bit. But I love it because it has all the history in there. All my runs, you can go back and you can look at the data and the maps and the times and the splits, and it does a really good job of sorting the data in different ways, so I can see, oh, well, for example, last month was the second most miles of every and a single month. And for me, I think that's cool. You can see these different records and what months those were. Problem is, though, again, it's not getting a whole bunch of updates, so I like using different apps. And you can use both at the same time, which is just a pain. So I found it in the deep confines of Reddit. There is this group of people and there's this app called RunGap. And what it does is it takes information from one app and it feeds it into another. It's basically a bridge. And it's like 10 bucks to pay for a year's subscription for it. And the Nike Run app, the old fashioned one, doesn't talk to a whole lot of apps. It talks to two. And I think one of them's Garmin. So I needed a bridge from the native Apple Workouts app to Garmin. And then Garmin then sends it to Nike Run, which is just absurd. But this app does that. It creates the bridge. It takes all the data. It pushes it through and it converts it automatically, which is awesome. Because another thing I love about the Nike Run app is you can you track how many miles are on your shoes, which you don't realize how helpful that is until you really need it. Because there's a point where shoes, like they run out of mileage. They're like tires. After several hundred miles, you can't run on those things anymore because they're either egging to hurt your ankles or your knees or your hips or they've run out of traction. So for me, I love being able to track the miles. And again, I need this app that's just not getting updated. So RunGap has been fantastic. I really appreciate it now because I use it every time I go for run. It's just it quickly and immediately without it being like me knowing about it, transfers everything straight through. So I don't for run two apps at the same time, just uselessly. I honestly like all the updated features, all the nice things about bold apps. But I can still track the miles on my shoes. And I can still track and I can look at historical data. And say, oh, all of this year was my average pace was this. And this year my average pace is this. And I'm doing better and running more. It's again, very, very niche, very, very small. But I really appreciate it. And clearly it was creative for like this very small group of people, but man, they've been a really good job with it. So I owe you one RunGap creators. Thank you. I don't know if I said it was my Sean's what he into because it wasn't. It was my I owe you one. On the other hand, though, the Sean's what are you into? All right, listeners, it's time for hidden passions, wild hobbies and that one thing they didn't know miles was obsessed with. Like a love it's time for Sean's what are you into? Is a bad a year ago. I wish I looked at the date. It was early summer when we got a blackstone up the lake cabin. And I fell in love with it and I had to get my own. A ton of research later finally got it. I went with the medium sized, like the iron forged edition. I think it's, oh, man, I should know this. What was the medium size? Like 24 inches, that seems too small. Blackstone. Hang on, if I'm going to talk about this, I have to get the right one. Oh, 28 inch. No, hang on. Yeah, 28 inch grills. I got the medium one, 28 inch. Didn't need the 36, a little bit too big for our little family. So with the 28 inch, I got the iron forged edition, which is really cool. It's got a couple extra things built into it. And I think it looks pretty sweet. But man, I was excited about it. And I used it all summer long. Like every time I'd normally cook on the stove top, which was more or less every other day, if not every other day, was, it was awesome to cook outside. The grill is fantastic. Just the way that's all set up. And you can cook a ton of food all at once. And the cleaning's easy and it's set up easy. It's awesome. I loved it all last summer. I think I used it into like November. And then it just got too cold, too snowy. And just the food doesn't cook sufficiently when there's, you know, it's super cold outside. And it's a pain going in and out of the house at that point. So stop using it. Used it once a couple months ago to do a whole bunch of bake-in and pancakes, which was awesome when the fam came over. It haven't released it since. And I've finally, I've been meaning to, and I finally did it last night, or two minutes ago, I guess it was. And it was awesome. It was a day that it was a long day and I was exhausted, and tired, and I'm like, I don't want to do it, but I just, I've got to do it. I've got like break into it. And I'm so glad that I did. 'Cause just like throwing the food on there, just the idea of like cooking on the blackstone, there's something about it that like just made everything so much better. Again, it cooks so well. I can cook multiple things at the same time, and it's just fun. That's I think the biggest part about it. It's just a fun thing to cook on. Barbecues are great, but my deal is I love blackstones and it's been so fun to get into that. And it's now got me really motivated. Even this week, I planned to use it, and it was able to follow through with it. But I really want to get more into their recipes. Like a lot of the recipes that I usually do already fall into the blackstones, like wheelhouse, but if you go to the website, they do such a good job at like they post new recipes every single day. And it looks like some days, they'll just re-on June 1st and two on June 2nd. I'm not a June 3rd. So, oh, no, that's not true. There's two June 3rds and a June 4th. I just needed to scroll up a little bit. But they post recipes all the time. And my favorite thing is like it's creative stuff. Like here I'm looking at June 2nd, bacon wrapped Oreos, which I don't know if I'm ever gonna do that, but I love the creativity. Like it's so much more fun to get beyond just the normal like the steaks and the burgers, which are cool. And they have creativity built into those as well. But when you got like bacon wrapped Oreos, or oh, another one, June 1st, coconut, keel-in french toast, it's awesome. I love that. I want to try these things. And they do such a good job too. Like taking really nice pictures of each of the food items. Like it'd be one thing if they just like did a quick picture of the things on the grill, but like they play them and they look really nice and they take high quality pictures and they post them on here at a pretty high resolution. It's cool. It makes me want to go through all these and like find really fun things to make. I love a lot of the taco things that toasts. Dottas look really, really good. There's just, there's so much stuff. Mexican street corn dip just from this first page. Another creative one. Biscoph quesadillas with the Biscoph like airplane cookies. Like they've got those. I'm intrigued by the desserts, but even just like the everyday meals look so good. And it makes me want to come in and it's like, find a bunch of cool stuff. Wheat night chicken street tacos look delicious. Again, so many fun things. And it's on the blackstone. We're at the time of year where it's nice outside and the girls are a little bit older, so require a little bit less direct watching each night. So it kind of opens up a little bit more time to make dinner. I'm excited about it. I'm back into blackstone. I want to try some new stuff and just go to the store and like get these ingredients and try it. Try and make some of the desserts, the different foods. Like the breakfast items are really cool. I know. I'm excited. Back into blackstone. It felt good doing it. What I made the other night was, it was something we make quite a bit. It's a chicken and corn and rice dish. Like it's a, man, what's the best way to put it? Like a southwestern dish where you cook chicken, you dice the chicken, cook the chicken with a chipotle sauce or chipotle seasoning on it. You cook a thing of rice and you cook, you get some corn and you cook the corn directly in the blackstone as well. And side by side with the chicken, it's great. You can do all of that, everything at the same time. And then you take the corn and you put it into this bowl where you've already mixed some mayo and lime juice and more chipotle seasoning. You whisk that together and you put the corn in there and you mix it all together and you throw in some strategies and you top the rice with the chicken and then this corn lime mix. It's so good. And again, the blackstone did an excellent job with it. We needed some sour cream. We had a sour cream where it got old. But it's been awesome. Excited about the blackstone. Back into that. Excited for a summer full of trying to make new things and trying to make them look as pretty as they do on this website. 'Cause man, oh man, do these things look pretty and well done and it just looks like a fun, fun night. All right, thank you all for listening. I appreciate it. A little bit shorter pod today, we'll do the last couple weeks with some happy about. Get you an ad here a little bit quicker. But again, thank you always for listening. It means so much to me. It really does. Emmy Gabby Soundby on the way out. And have a good weekend and we'll talk to you on the website. Bye. (upbeat music) Gabby, what is your favorite color? - Bubble. - Bubble. What's your favorite animal? Lion. Lion. What is your sister's name? Emily Paph. What is your name? Abby. What do you like to eat? Chasing noodles. Chasing noodles. What do you like to do outside? Dana. You like to go to Dana's house? Yeah. Yeah, that's so fun. No need. And no need's house? Did you like? Yeah. Timmies. Timmies. Timmies. Timmies. Timmies. Timmies. Timmies. What do you like to eat?