The End of an Era

(upbeat music) Hi again everybody, welcome back to the MilesPap cast, the flagship podcast of "Brushing Your Teeth" with soap. This is my biannual pitch. I just went to the dentist. And, what, what, three when the clock? Growing up, I always had, I had so many cavities. I don't know that's 'cause I could go deep grooves in my teeth, but like I could say things the next person and I would walk out of the dentist's office having like seven or eight cavities. Fast forward to when I went to a different dentist to guy up and spoke hand, shout out Dr. Harkin. And he's like, hey, this is something I don't tell everybody 'cause a lot people think I'm crazy, but you seem like someone who'd go for it, which nailed that. He's like, I had this friend and he was like this researcher and he did a bunch of research and he learned like, hey, there's something, some things that toothpaste can't get a hold of and things can cause cavities. And one of these things is called Stryctococcus Mucosa. And he was part of this research group where they swabbed a whole bunch of people's mouths who, you know, rushed their teeth like anyone normally would and then there was him and they swabbed him and like they had to come back and like, hey, I think we messed up our sample. Like yours is completely clean and they swabbed him again and it's completely clean again. They're like, what do you do? And he's like, well, I brushed my teeth with antibacterial soap. And that right there is what made all the difference. So the dentist told me this, I go home and now every time before I brush my teeth, I have just what that clear antibacterial soap. And I put like a little bit of like on the toothbrush and I brush and I kind of hit everything for like 10 seconds. Just cover all the surfaces, stop it, put on normal toothpaste and then brush with no more toothpaste after that. And it is made all the difference in the world. The dentist said that he's like, you could use the hand soap, you could use bar soap. He's like, I've even had somebody who used like powdered soap like at a truck stop and he's like, as long as it's antibacterial, that's what you want. And again, it's all made all the difference for me. I've learned, I keep it as simple as possible with the soap. Like the clear, oh man, what is it? Like the soft soap brand like the little fish on the front. These are the best because it's just straight antibacterial soap. It doesn't taste great, but it is a lot better than, I've tried like the Bath & Body works where it's like warm brown sugar butter. Sounds delicious, it is not. Like stay away from that. But if you could get like a clear stuff, I would swear by it. It is completely changed by my success of the dentist. And that's why I'm saying this, it's got the dentist. No cavities, we're still on a roll, knock on wood, got the street going still, but it's made all the difference. Also at the dentist, one of the best experiences I've had because my dental hygienist was simply not interested in talking, which was amazing. I feel like all the time I go there and they're wanting to ask you questions and you got your mouth open and, oh, just everything you could do just to try and like, eek out an answer and then you got to listen and, like, oh, guys, I just want to lay here while you work on my mouth. This one today had zero interest in talking to me or on Monday, it had zero interest, which was awesome. And it reminded me, it's like, I wish there was, I say this, I would never do this because I'd feel too guilty. But like some sort of like box you could check where it's like, I just want to lay here and not talk. Like an Uber or Lyft where you can check the box and it's actually a thing, I've heard this is a Grooverd feature. Check the box that you're not interested in talking. And that's what I would do with the dentist, like for the hygienist. I love talking to the actual dentist, but the hygienist, like, when they're working on your mouth, just let me be in peace, please. The one thing she did ask me, she's like, what did you eat that was blue? And I'm like, is 750 in the morning? I've ate nothing that was blue. And then I realized it's because I rinsed my mouth out with like their mouth rinse in the bathroom and hadn't clearly rinsed as spitted out as well as I needed to. So that was that was the one thing she asked me and I got to lay there and peace and it was wonderful. All right, anyways, brush a soap, antibacterial, soft soap, the little fish on the front, it's the way to go. Today on the show, tell me something good, I owe you one, all these little stuff, Sean's what are you into? It'll be great. To kick it off though, tell me something good. Tell me something good. Father's Day was good. Father's Day was awesome. I had a really, really good Father's Day. We worked the lake with everybody. Chandler's family was there, Garrett's family was there, Alexa and her family were there. Ken and Karen were up there on Saturday. It was just a really, really good day. Got to hang out the lake, the weather was good. Girls got to swim and play in the sand. Gabby absolutely loves playing the sand right now, which is really fun. But a really good day. I got a grill on the blackstone, cook burgers. I feel like something you got to check off the Father's Day list, something that I got to do. The Mariners one, another thing that was checked off the list, that was great. They really needed it. Come on guys, beat the bad teams, please. The girls were great. They colored me these cards and the wrapping for one of the presents and came out of it with a Starbucks gift card and some new running shorts that I've been wanting and needing and loving. It was awesome. And then another thing that actually Audible also came through for me. I've been working my way through the, so I listened to all the Harry Potter books last year. And I've been working my way through the full cast editions this year. It's a completely different experience. Highly recommended. I've talked about it before. I won't talk about it again at Nazim here. But the best thing, Audible is one of those things. It's kind of a subway thing. You never pay full price for a sandwich at subway and never pay full price for Audible. 'Cause what I've done through all seven the books that I listened to last year and all the books this year, like you sign up further, like they're free one month trial and then right at the end, like with two days left, you cancel it and you say it's too expensive. And give it a week or two up tops and they will send you an email saying, "Hey, how about three months for 99 cents each?" And, oh, here's a $20 credit that you can use if you want as well. That's what I've been doing. I did it for all seven books last time. I did it for all the books at this time. And I think I've got the entire series now, which I mean, if you think it's probably 30 bucks of the book to buy outright, that's what, 30 times seven books times two, that's like over 400 bucks. I think at the end of this all I will have paid probably 20 bucks if that. And it's been easy and this was it yesterday. The era on, I keep saying yesterday. On Sunday, on Father's Day, they came through, they got the email, "Hey, three bucks or three months for a dollar each." I'm not the type that'll let that go, which I know that's what they're after because after that it goes to full price, but cancel it and it'll be awesome. So now on the fourth book, The Goblet of Fire, I gotta start listening to him again and they're just so good. The full cast editions are fantastic. Although in this book, you go from young voice Harry to old voice Harry and boy, does that hit you hard the first time around. But really great. Ah, I owe you one. ♪ You know who you are ♪ ♪ Yeah, who you want ♪ We are at the end of another era. The girls last fall, we started a new daycare and it's been awesome. Absolutely fantastic. Dana, I've talked about her before. She is a miracle worker. Like the girls have been so lucky. They were there from September last year. I lined up with the starting of a school year perfectly. And now it's had to come to an end. She's had to close for different reasons and it's so sad, man. She was great. We kind of had her for a whole school year. And when they were there, like, Emmy's always like showing interest in learning. So as opposed to like what you expected at an event home daycare where they'd just they'd go in the hangout and they'd play, she's been helping Emmy learn how to read basic words, like letter sounds and writing the alphabet and doing basic math. Like she's been so, so helpful in so many ways. For teaching Emmy's, Emmy comes home with stuff and it's like you did this. It's amazing. And stuff that I never could have taught her. I'm sure, kind of would say the same thing. But man, Dan is out there and she taught her that stuff. And they had like this beautiful little oasis in their backyard where they've had, they had like the sandbox, like with a gazebo kind of over the top of it. And there's this like giant galvanized tub of water. And she's attached like this old fashioned like pump to it. So you can like pump water with one of those like pumps you'd find in the 1920s. And like they'd fill their little buckets up and they'd take them over to these workstations. And they would have like, they could mix it with mud or glitter or whatever it may be. And like make these different, you know, as what kids do like make different like mud pies and such. And it was so cool. I mean, that whole play structure back there, it was just awesome. And she went so above and beyond. And man, anytime when someone does that for your kid, it's so special. We were so lucky to have her. She went so above and beyond. I mean, to the point where it's like she set this bar unreachably high. So we're trying to find like somewhere else that the girls can go. We found somewhere for the summer. But like we had to bear in mind like there's, we're not going to find a place like that again. Like it's, we've had the best of the best. And we had to like, read just as expectations because like it's just like she would always send daily reports at lunch and all these pictures and it was super close to her house. Like it's just, it was everything you could possibly want. We landed and we hit the lottery. And we, we got it for like a school year. And Emmy took as much as she could have possibly out of it. It was just, it was awesome. And as the cliche goes, you got to smile because it happened and you can't be sad because it's over and I get the backwards. Can't be sad, don't be sad because it's over, smile because it happened. And at the end of the day, that's what you have to do in this situation because hey, we were lucky. We had it. We were going to just, you know, kind of go back to what we otherwise probably should have expected a year ago that, you know, we then kind of stepped into the lottery for. And it was awesome. So so sad to have to say goodbye and to have lost that amazing resource and to have, you know, the perfect child care for the kids for the last year. But hey, but we had it. I think that's the important thing. Emmy had it at a very pivotal stage of her life and Dana helped her and helped her grow and learn in so many different ways. And just incredibly grateful, so grateful that she did, all that she did and that the kids had that spot that they could go to for the last year. And it's been cool. But we had to, so then we had to, so we had to find a new place. So we were kind of lucky enough to find one near her house. And I think it's one of those situations Whereas the parent, I was probably no nervous for the drop-off. and the girls were, I was very proud of Emmy. But the night before, and this is what I did, actually when they started at the Dana's place, McEmi, we gotta be brave, we gotta be extra brave 'cause Gab is gonna be nervous and she's gonna be scared, she's going somewhere new and you have to be a really good big sister and you have to take care of her and watch out for her because I don't want to go there and have Emmy freak out 'cause Gabby's gonna freak out, but man, oh man, it made me pull through. I gave her the Thor speech at the end of Leaven Thunder. Thor gives his spoiler alert like daughter of this excellent speech where it's like, you know, watch out for kids who need help and have fun and work hard and don't be afraid to fail all this stuff. I gave her the speech though and hopes that she could take ownership and be brave for Gab's and oh man, dropping him off. I was so worried how that was gonna go 'cause I gotta drop him off and I gotta get to work and it's a very fast paced thing and Emmy pulled through, she did great, she was brave, she held Gabby's hand, they walked back and I was able to leave. Now two days in a row and it's man, childcare, if you've got kids, childcare is the single most stressful thing as a parent, like finding a good spot and finding a relatively close spot and finding a spot that the girls are happy about and they wanna go to. And I think we've crossed that bridge. It's gonna be hard to top Dana's impossibly high bar, but at the very least we've got something for the summer and I'm grateful, grateful for that once again. And again, Gab and Emmy did so good, so good to go into a new spot and Gabby's pulled through. It's been great. All right, last but not least, 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. Buckle up, it's time for Sean's, what are you into? - I hinted this last week, but as of today, I'm recording this on Wednesday, January 24th. I didn't record it a little bit early, but I think it was miss him last year, last, probably March sometime. They announced the slate pickup. The slate pickup is this old fashioned, like smaller pickup, kind of like what they used to have with the S10s and how it was like the Ford Ranger, anyways, the Chevy S10s, like the little pickups that Garrett and I grew up drive in and Travis had one and I think Carly had one. And obviously since then, pickups has gotten much bigger and obviously there's so much that's happened. But the slate pickup takes it all the way back and it's like this small little pickup. It's like a two-seater, you can get bigger sizes if you need, but there's like no technology in it. It's like old fashioned crank windows. There's no radio in it, it's just bare bones. And it's the idea is it's like meant to be ultra customizable. So if you go on their website, anyways, I'll get to that for a second. You can customize anything you want. It's meant to be have things like 3D printed for it and instead of paint they use like these, you can get different, oh man, like skins for lack of a better word, like what you use in video games. To just to give it different colors. Anyways, it looked awesome. And it's an electric pickup, it's got about 200 miles of range, which is perfect because like the times that I drive over 200 miles in a day is very slim. So theoretically, I could drive down to my parents' and back or I could drive out to the late cabin and back and that's the max. So when they announced this last year, it's like, oh, this is perfect. Like my pickups getting out there in mileage, I need something else, but at the same time, in a perfect world, I would love to never have to sell my pickup. Like I want the silver out of that I've got and this would be a perfect little of denim to like take the miles off, be a daily driver and all that stuff. They came with pricing for it today. And it's not what they, so when this is all announced, there was still the EV tax credit, which would have taken like 7,500 off of it or at the very least like 3,500 off. The price is like 25, 24,950. So just below 25,000 for an electric pickup. If that tax credit would have been on there, it'd have been awesome because it would have been dropped at below 20,000. But the thing is, like I drive the girls, like when I go to work every day, like I drive the girls and drop off a daycare. So they do like a two-seater pickup, just isn't super functional right now. And while this would have been really cool to get below like 20,000 and if I would have been a different world, why didn't have kids right now, I would have been so excited about this thing. Like it looks awesome. It's just kind of throwing it back to how things used to be and like the level of customizability you can get in it, you can obviously add speakers and such because there's no radio and it's just, it looks cool, it looks like a little fun thing to play with and they're like print 3D print things for and to get different, you know, whatever maybe there's, there's tons and tons and tons of things you can do as I could do it yourself kind of thing to like change it. And again, they announced it all, you can like look it up online. I put in a reservation for it last year. So I paid this 50 bucks ultra, like I could refund it if I wanted to right now and it saved me a spot in line. So the email today said, if I wanted to, I could reserve my spot. So now it'd be like a $300 payment. That's not refundable, but I'd get it locked in and I would get delivery of this and slate pickup next year between January and March, which is early because I think the first ones go out like in October, November, December. So I'm probably like in that second wave, depending on how many people actually follow through with this thing. 'Cause I think a lot of people do what I did and they probably paid the 50 bucks and like, hey, let's just see what happens. I can refund it if I want. I don't, I'm curious how many people actually follow through with this. Like it wouldn't surprise me if I wanted to follow through when I could get it this year or at the end of this year sometime and jump the line a little bit. But again, it looks really cool. There's options if you want, hey, I'm just gonna pull this up right now. Um, so because I got kids, you can change it. Like there's this really cool like open air option. So it becomes like a Jeep and you get like a bench seat in the back that could accommodate car seats if you wanted or they have like a, what amounts to basically like a canopy. And you get like a five, three seats in the back and again, I could throw car seats in the back for the curls if I wanted. Problem is that comes with an extra $5,000 price tag. So all of a sudden you're like knocking on the door of like a $30,000 vehicle and it's like, oh, man, that's all sent a lot and I could turn my pickup in and just get something else, obviously a little bit better. And then you would have like double insurance coverage happening like I wouldn't have to like ensure this pickup as well as my other pickup. I don't know. I think I'm excited about it, but I think I'd be much more excited about it like in a different life. Like if I was, you know, if I didn't have kids, which obviously I don't regret in the slightest, but this was meant for a different person and it looks so cool. I just, I love the look of it. Like looking at it right now, this like looks like an old fashioned 90s pickup. Like a small little Chevy S10 and looks so cool and just like the level of customizability and stuff and you can just like plug it in every night and you never have to go to the gas station, you never change the oil in the thing. Obviously you probably have to deal with some other things, you know, in accordance to that, but it's still just the level of customizability and the colors and they've got like different like starter packs you can do. Ah, it just looks, it looks so cool. And I just, I feel like it's slightly out of range. I'll still think about it. I gotta consider it, but it's giving me something to be excited about. Like just to look at these different things and all the options and the price tags, like all that was announced today and, oh, I think it looks cool, I just don't know if it's the right move from here right now. But something to be interested in, something to be excited about. And I'm excited to see how it goes and all the stuff that comes out for it. All right, that's it. That's all I got. Thank y'all for listening. I appreciate it so, so much. Emmy Gabby's sound bite on the way out and we'll talk to y'all next week. Bye. (upbeat music) - Can you read the story? - Yeah. - Okay, first speech. - A speech. - But kids, it's just love the love inside. It's just like glue.