Too Many Layers, Not Enough Hooks

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Nightly (Feb 26, 2026) Episode: Too Many Layers, Not Enough Hooks
Hosts: Josh (A) & kp (B)

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Episode Overview

This cozy late-night episode of The Nightly centers on the small but persistent inconveniences of daily life—particularly, how to manage winter layers in cramped restaurants and the perils of hard water on your hair. Josh and kp swap stories, share hacks, and keep the conversation light, warm, and relatable, making for the perfect pop culture wind-down.

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Major Discussion Points & Insights

1. Homecomings, Small Town Changes, and Restaurant Nostalgia

00:48–04:50

• Family Visits & Changing Hometowns: Both hosts share recent experiences returning home. Josh reminisces about opening for a friend’s band at a reunion show; kp is heading home for their mom’s birthday and is curious about her old workplace—recently converted from a sports bar into a speakeasy.

• Small-Town Grievances: Nostalgic frustration over beloved local spots (restaurants, bowling alleys) getting replaced by less fun businesses, e.g., bowling alley becomes tractor supply store.

  "If you wanted to go somewhere to secretly drink, you would go to, like, someone's personal basement or the woods." – Josh (01:53)

• Ambivalence About Change: kp observes changes often result in "worse things" for the town:

  “All of the changes are worse things.” – kp (02:27)

2. The Coat, Scarf, and Hat Dilemma: “Hack Me If You Can”

05:02–14:31

• Winter Wear Woes: kp’s main gripe is what to do with a bulky puffer, hat, gloves, scarves, etc., in tiny restaurant booths—leading to losing items or sitting on a mound of outerwear.

  "I'm often...losing a hat, we're losing a glove, because they're just willy nilly. They're everywhere." – kp (06:19)

• Booth vs. Stool vs. Chair: Both bemoan the trend away from comfy booths toward hard stools and awkward, unsupportive seating in restaurants (08:00).

  "I do have the posture of a croissant, so absolutely. It is not ideal for me to not have any back support." – Josh (08:35)

• Where Do You Put Your Coat? Discussion of “coat hook scouting,” purse hooks, and restaurant features that make a visit comfortable or unbearable.

• DIY & Social Hacks:

  • Carry a purse hook or mini suction cup hook for emergencies (12:27).
  • "Purse chair"— commandeering an extra seat for outward items during group dinners (13:56).

  “This is now a communal coat chair. Everyone relax.” – kp (14:05)

• Comfort over Everything: Both agree they’ll prioritize venues with creature comforts, sometimes over food quality or price.

3. Hard Water Hair Woes & Impractical Solutions

14:45–22:52

• kp’s Hair Saga: kp laments how hard water in their current location has rendered their hair limp, flat, and unmanageable.

  "It's as if I got like an anti perm...I'm now exiting the shower with what feels like four hairs left in my head." – kp (15:11)

• DIY Water Softening: Brainstorming solutions:

  • Using a Brita filter for hair washing (17:01)
  • Wondering if a Brita can actually help (19:13)

  "I'm gonna try the Brita. I'm going to bring a Brita into the shower with me." – kp (19:13)

• Environmental and Practical Barriers: The impracticality of buying or installing a water softener or filter for short-term stays.

• Shampoo Confessions: Josh admits to using expensive shampoo despite having little hair (21:15).

  "For someone with, as you can visibly see, basically no hair, I do use expensive shampoo." – Josh (21:15)

• Tips & Final Thoughts: Suggestions of trying tabs that break down minerals or using a different shower head—though both hosts agree these are rare solutions for travelers.

4. Nightcap—Listener Shout-Out & Sleepy Sendoff

24:15–24:41

• Shout-out to listener's cat, Aloe, for their 13th birthday (24:15).

  "Good night, Aloe the Cat. I hope you, like your namesake, are soothing." – Josh (24:28) "13. It's your Kat Mitzvah. So congratulations." – kp (24:33)

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Notable Quotes & Banter

• On Bar Decor:
  "Why are the bartenders dressed like Dick Tracy villains?" – Josh (01:34)
• On Urban Bar Trends:
  "There's an epidemic of seating that's not booths being the least comfortable chairs that you could possibly assemble." – Josh (07:55)
• On Venue Selection:
  "I'll go to a place that's, like, expensive bad food...if I'm like, the chairs are nice, though." – Josh (10:04)
• On Managing Group Coats:
  "That's why trios are...It's good to go out as a trio. It's a clean number." – kp (14:16)
• On Committing to Comfort:
  "I just want...half massager, half shower." – Josh (17:57)
• On Bagel Water vs. Hair:
  "I guess what I'm learning is hair and bagels don't need the same things." – Josh (22:42)

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Important Timestamps

| Segment | Time | Brief Description | |---------------------------|-------------|-----------------------------------------------------| | Hometown changes & nostalgia | 00:42–04:50 | Sharing home visits, old jobs, and small-town shifts | | "Hack Me If You Can"—Winter clothing hacks | 05:02–14:31 | Winter layers, coat management, comfort hacks | | Hard Water Hair Problems | 14:45–22:52 | Living with (and hacking) hard water | | Listener Cat Shout-Out | 24:15–24:41 | Wishing Aloe the Cat a happy birthday |

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Tone & Style

Josh and kp’s rapport is playful and relaxed, weaving self-aware humor with practical life tips. The episode is gently comedic, full of nostalgic musings and genuinely useful (if sometimes tongue-in-cheek) life hacks for the daily annoyances that keep us awake at night.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

The hosts of The Nightly commiserate over the universal struggles of cold-weather dressing and small-town nostalgia, swap creative and sometimes silly hacks, and cap it off with an affectionate shout-out to a listener's pet cat. It’s an episode designed to make you feel seen, heard, and ready for sleep—whatever winter (or your water pressure) throws your way.

Transcript

[A]

Hello. You're about to drift into an episode of the Nightly, a podcast designed to help you unwind and relax. For the full phone free immersive light experience. Visit Hatch Co. Enjoy. Hello and good evening, everyone. Hi, everyone. I am Josh.

[B]

And I'm kp. Welcome to the Nightly from Hatch, a slumber party for pop culture lovers.

[A]

Hi, kp. How are you?

[B]

Hi, Josh. I'm quite well.

[A]

Excellent. I'm so glad to hear.

[B]

How are you?

[A]

I'm doing all right. I just had some nice time with family. Oh, yeah. I went home to Massachusetts and got to stay an extra day more than I thought I was going to. But I opened for my Friends but band's like, reunion show. Yeah.

[B]

I'm just about to go home for some family time, so I hope mine is as fun as yours.

[A]

Oh, that's exciting.

[B]

Yeah, it's my mom's birthday.

[A]

Happy birthday to your mom.

[B]

Absolutely.

[A]

That's excellent.

[B]

I'm looking forward to seeing the old restaurant that I used to work at. Apparently the bar just closed and it was turned into a speakeasy.

[A]

Oh, interesting.

[B]

This restaurant is kind of near and dear to my heart as my first job that I had. And so I'm trying to go scope out what the new changes are, see if I approve.

[A]

I feel like a speakeasy can go either way, too, because sometimes I'm like, oh, this actually does have a cool vibe. And sometimes it's like, why are the bartenders dressed like Dick Tracy villains?

[B]

I know. I really don't know what I mean. Truly, this is. I'm from a small town. I can't imagine what we think we're doing with a speak.

[A]

If you wanted to go somewhere to secretly drink, you would go to, like, someone's personal basement or the woods.

[B]

Yeah, I'm quite shocked at the choice, but there was, like, a news video about it where it's like, we're closing down this beloved sports bar. And I was like, oh, no. But they're just turning it into a different bar. I usually don't get sad about anything in my hometown changing because I'm like, you know, my hometown, it's always gonna change, and I'm not. So the past must remain the same. That's not my vibe. But lately I go, listen, I wouldn't mind if you changed it to cooler stuff. But it feels as if all the changes are worse things.

[A]

That's how I felt when a reptile store opened up down the street from my parents as, like, bad influence.

[B]

I know. I go, well, just replace it with A cooler version, that's fine, I suppose. But all of those. They shut down our perfect, delightful bowling alley, the only thing to do in this town, and they replaced it with a tractor supply company. And I go, well, that's, I guess, semi cool, but it's not as cool as a bowling alley.

[A]

Yeah, you can't go there on like, a Saturday night and buy tractor supplies. That's no fun.

[B]

No, that's not the day for tractor supplies.

[A]

That's right.

[B]

This is always. I mean, this is always. The big issue is, as a kid growing up in a small town, there's nothing to do already. And so you would just go into, like, Walmart and just to, like, walk around and kill time, for sure. But it's annoying that the only places to hang out are, like, stores. That's no fun.

[A]

Right. We would do. There was like a. An IHOP that became like a more regional pancake place. And we would just go for, like, four hours.

[B]

Totally. I mean. Yeah. Where are the places where. And bowling was like, 12 bucks.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And that is how much bowling should be, quite frankly.

[A]

Yeah. When bowling is expensive, it's like, what are the costs? You already. It's all built into the building.

[B]

I know. And you're only going once every, like, eight minutes. It's your turn. So I'm like, come on, this can't be this much. But I don't know. This is. I'm gonna go back and scope it out. Maybe it'll be just fine. To be so honest, the bar part was not where I. It hung out. It was the restaurant part.

[A]

Anyway, is the restaurant part staying the way it is, or is that also

[B]

a speakeasy restaurant part is staying. And it's one of those where, like, every square inch has a knickknack on the wall. So it is a really important restaurant to me because I go, this is like Americana. We can't. We need to keep this. It's a really interesting place.

[A]

A speakeasy restaurant would be really funny, too, where it's like, you need to know a password to get, like, a pork chop or something.

[B]

There's one speakeasy here in New York where it's in a hot dog place. You know this one?

[A]

I've heard of it.

[B]

I've never been. Yeah, it's so interesting. Cause it's like an expensive, expensive bar in a very inexpensive hot dog place. So it's kind of fascinating. No middle class for this one.

[A]

Yep. That's really funny. Well, kp, tonight we are going to help each other Fix some small life problems. Life problems. Like they've turned my beloved restaurant into a speakeasy.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Then this segment is called Hack Me if youf can. Kp. What's a small problem in your life that you could use a life hack for?

[B]

Well, let's keep on the restaurant theme here.

[A]

Sure.

[B]

An issue I'm having, and this is an issue that's tale as old as time. So if we could fix this, I mean, we'd be fixing a thousand years of an issue, I think.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

The issue is I must wear a coat, a scarf, a hat and gloves and sometimes, you know, long johns to exist in the outside world at this time.

[A]

It's a bad time for dressing.

[B]

You know, it is what it is. You just. You really gotta put some layers on. You have to wear a lot. And I have a big puffer because I'm like, I just. We can't. We have to be able to walk, so I have to wear a puffer. My issue is you get into a restaurant, small booth, where the heck am I putting all this stuff? Because currently I have to sit on top of my puffer, my scarf, my hat, my gloves. I'm often. I mean, it's so common that we're losing a hat, we're losing a glove because they're just willy nilly. They're everywhere.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

There's got to be some sort of hack where all of this can turn into a bag. All of this can. Oh, that would be somewhere. I don't know. This is where you help. So this is just my starting point here.

[A]

Yes. This is the jumping off point.

[B]

The issue I need hacking is I don't want to sit on my crumpled up coat and hat and scarf and take off 18 layers and not know where to put them.

[A]

I know this feeling so well.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay. Because I have. I really have this problem with, you know, garments. But also if it's an umbrella, forget about it. That's getting left behind.

[B]

Absolutely.

[A]

Eight times out of ten.

[B]

I know, I know. And it's not cut out for that. I mean, some places, especially in Rainier parts of the world here do have like a little umbrella bin in the front of that. And I try my best to remember.

[A]

And I'll leave an umbrella there.

[B]

That one's sort of a take one leave one.

[A]

That umbrella is. Yeah, that's for the streets now. That's not my umbrella any longer.

[B]

This isn't the original hack, but my hack would be for that situation. Mine is like a Cirque du Soleil umbrella. That's quite hard to miss.

[A]

Very nice. That's what travel duffel bag for. If I have to put it on the baggage carousel, then it's like, oh, I know that one from afar. Yes, that's helpful. So, okay. This is really tricky, especially because I love a booth.

[B]

I love a booth. Oh, my gosh.

[A]

And maybe this is happening all over the country, but in Brooklyn, there's an epidemic of the seating. That's not booths being the least comfortable chairs that you could possibly assemble. The least comfortable seating arrangements in American history.

[B]

And don't get me on a stool. Don't even start me on a stool.

[A]

On a stool.

[B]

I've had it up to here with the stools.

[A]

Right. I'm not sitting at a bar. I'm at a table, and there's a stool.

[B]

My back needs support. I mean, I'm gabbing with my friend when I'm out to eat or drink.

[A]

Mm.

[B]

I'm. I'm planning to gab with my gal pals for two hours.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Two hours. I'm just crunched up on a top of a stool and perched.

[A]

I mean, and this isn't the stool's fault, but I do have the posture of a croissant, so absolutely. It is not ideal for me to not have any back support.

[B]

No, it's really bad. And then that is even worse with finding a spot for your coat. I mean, the stools, your coat, and your purse are floating.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

There's nowhere.

[A]

So I think some of it is having your winter going out places scouted for hooks.

[B]

Absolutely.

[A]

Because there's some places have coat hooks kind of on the stanchions that support

[B]

the booths, which I like.

[A]

Love that some places have those under the bar hooks, too, which is also so nice for a. Especially a purse. I think sometimes a jacket kind of drags.

[B]

That's what I'm saying. Yeah. I don't mind. If you're gonna give me something, I'm happier than nothing.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

But with those under the bar hooks, everybody's wet shoes are down there.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

It's just not. It's not. And it's, like, kind of in my way. If you put the hook right in front of my legs, I can't stretch out. I don't know. That one's not my favorite, but it's better than nothing.

[A]

Yep. I agree. I think scouting for hooks is helpful. Like, going places, you know, that you'll be comfortable, because that does. I'm such a comfort first person. Like, I'll go to a place with. That's, like, expensive Bad food. If I'm like, the chairs are nice, though.

[B]

Yes, yes. I like a vibe, and the vibe must be comfy. I like a bright, brighter bar, too. I think we're getting too dark. This is all in my comfort. Thing is, and my probably old age here is every bar is a little too loud. Every bar's a little too dark.

[A]

Loud and dark is a bad combination.

[B]

They're just everywhere.

[A]

Oh, you're in the vampire nightclub from

[B]

Blade, and it makes everything feel like a date. I've noticed because I was inviting just some platonic friends out, and I was like, oh, yeah, here, you can meet me here. I go in, and it looks like I'm trying to seduce them.

[A]

Yeah, totally.

[B]

It's just red light.

[A]

I had that with a friend recently, and all the. Even, like, the drinks had romantic names.

[B]

Exactly.

[A]

But I was just like, oh, man. Yeah, that's no good. I do think choosing for comfort is really helpful because there's only so much you can do, Right. Like, with hat. Gloves. Hat and gloves. I can manage because it's like, okay,

[B]

put them in the pockets.

[A]

Tuck them in the sleeve. Tuck them in the pockets. Gloves go inside. Hats sometimes even.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But jacket is a problem, and I really think about that because I've been. I've been flying a lot lately, and I tried to be amenable about, like, hey, if you need this bin space for a bag.

[B]

Oh, yes, that's.

[A]

Obviously, that's a priority. And I'll. I'll squeeze my jacket and squish it up on top of someone else's bag, too, in a way that doesn't, you know, doesn't squish their stuff, just squishes my jacket, and that's fine. But, like, I hate a long flight jacket on the lap.

[B]

I've been doing the same thing. I'm often like, listen, people with big bags need it more than me. You guys feel free. But winter is tougher. It's like eight. It's coats, it's neck pillows. It's too much that I'm shifting.

[A]

I may be wearing, like, a sweatshirt in addition to my jacket.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And then if I have to take that off, then it's just like, lap full of cloth.

[B]

I do think what we need, and I'm sure this already exists, but I just haven't found one across my desk. But I really do think we need to go with the first hack here, which is like, if my outer coat can just fold in half like a bag and have some handles.

[A]

Oh, that's nice.

[B]

Then I can Shove everything in there and just find one hook for all of it that can hold it. I don't know.

[A]

You know what? I think so, like, this might not be a workable hack, but, like, in the spirit of kind of dream casting what we want as a solution. Traveling from place to place with one of those little suction cup hooks and just going right onto the wall and then being like, oh, you didn't provide a coat hook. Inconsiderate. But I came fully equipped.

[B]

They have these two that are called, like, purse hooks, where it's like, it's as big as a keychain, but it is like an L shape or more like a C shape, I guess. So you just put it on the edge of the table.

[A]

Oh, interesting.

[B]

Yeah. So you can really just put it on your keychain and then it just hooks onto a table and then hooks your purse. I think that's nice. I mean, we still are gonna have an issue where your coat is dragging on the floor sometimes.

[A]

That's just gonna happen, I think. And again, if you got chair, you go back of the chair. It's like, not perfect. But I think we should be. We should feel we should be allowed to be empowered to put hooks places. Especially when there's no hook situation and no coat check.

[B]

Totally. I'm. I'm a fan of. Well, I mean, we'd love to bring coat check back, but I don't think that's. Yeah, that's just Everywhere is not doing stick. Yep.

[A]

I'm bringing coat check back.

[B]

But I also. I'm a big fan of purse. Chair, purse.

[A]

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

[B]

If there's an extra chair, everyone throw your jackets and purse and scarf on this chair. This is purse chair.

[A]

Kind of the going out version of coats on the bed.

[B]

Yes, yes. This is. I'm always like, this is now a communal coat chair. Everyone relax.

[A]

I love that when there's one more chair than there are people.

[B]

Yeah. That's why trios are. It's good to go out as a trio. It's a clean number.

[A]

It's important.

[B]

You're going to want that. I feel. I feel good about this. I think there's obviously. This is such an old problem that it's never going to be perfect.

[A]

Tale is oldest time song is all this rhyme, as they say.

[B]

Is there time for, like, the quickest little last one that you can also. Okay. Because there's just a few more tiny ones. My other small problem is the hard water that I currently have going on has rendered me fully useless in the Hair department. Something so evil has occurred where it's as if I got like an anti perm. There's a small bit of wave in my hair usually. I'm now exiting the shower with what feels like four hairs left in my head because the water pressure is insane in the shower, which I like.

[A]

I love a heavy water pressure.

[B]

I know. But I feel as if I'm like getting blasted back. Like I think there's an outline at the back wall of the shower of me, just like a chalk outline of my body. Cause it is so hard, this water filter. And my hair is just so straight and so flat. And so I'm giving myself like a trim almost every day because my hair keeps getting in my eyes. Cause I'm like, is my hair really this long with how flat it is?

[A]

Oh my gosh.

[B]

And I worry that I'm gonna get to good water again and I will have cut off 4 inches of hair when my hair reaches.

[A]

When you have volume again.

[B]

Yeah. So I guess this is just a hard water issue and I don't know if you have some thoughts on this.

[A]

Yeah. What do you do for hard Cause? Okay, I'm gonna be honest. Cards on the table. I don't have a lot of solutions to hair based problems.

[B]

As I was coming out of my mouth, I go, well, maybe this might be the creativity I need though. Other people are gonna be coming in with their own biases of their hair.

[A]

I have one solution to, to having problems with your hair, which is to not have hair. But I don't know if that solution works for every person.

[B]

I'm not against it. I'm getting, I'm getting closer to a point where I go, ah, my goodness, what a headache.

[A]

I'm looking up in our hatch Almanac solutions to hard water. And it seems like there's water softening and filtration capabilities. Maybe there's another shower head you could get even just for the, for the month. That would do it.

[B]

Yep. I was also thinking, I mean, I have. Where I'm staying. There is a Brita. I was like, now would it be insane to bring the Brita into the.

[A]

Oh, and then Brita, the hair, Brita,

[B]

your hair, would that be just wacky? Would it even help? Does a Brita even deal with hard water?

[A]

Good question. So a lot of these solutions are like, once it's out of the tap. I'm not, I'm not seeing in the encyclopedia a lot of solutions for being blasted with rock hard water.

[B]

That's just my own thing. I have to Deal with. Because I'm just truly. I have to like, cover some of the nozzle or something. Which I never thought I'd say because I love a lot of pressure.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

When it's in the hotel or you get something and it's just trickling out, I go, ugh. I'm in the shower for an hour trying to figure this out.

[A]

I just had. I. This, you know, I would never bother them about it, but my. The shower that I use when I visit my parents is like a little gentle in its water pressure and like, nothing to be done about it. But I'm like, gosh, I gotta get back to where there's a shower that feels like a bunch of tiny fists punching me all over.

[B]

You just want like. Yeah. Half massager, half shower.

[A]

That's right. Is it something where you could do a more frequent, like, dry shampoo?

[B]

So I'm trying some of that. Here's an issue too, is, you know, it's been hopeless. The hair is like, I can't even recognize what's going on today. I finally got it somewhere, but I think it's. I'm trying to create humid humidity where there is none. Humidity does very good for my hair. Humidity brings out a wave.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

And so I am trying to just now stay in the steam of the bathroom a little longer.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's like what I do with shirts when they're a little wrinkly.

[B]

Yes, yes. This is what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to like wet my hands every so often and like just put it around my head. Just sort of like get like a misting fan. I'm just trying just to keep it wet.

[A]

It sounds like you've got a lot of problem solving techniques at your disposal.

[B]

None of them, like, quite smart. But, you know, I. I'm doing the best I can over here. But I did just get my photos taken. I was like, oh, my photographer friend was having a nice deal.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Got my photos taken. I come back, I go completely unusable.

[A]

Oh, no hair wise, unusable.

[B]

I go, well, if I'm, you know, we're just. That's not me. I don't know that girl.

[A]

Yeah. I'm so sorry.

[B]

I'm gonna try the Brita. I'm going to bring a Britta into the shower with me.

[A]

Okay. I'm picturing this. I like this solution and I think it's really fascinating and I can't wait to hear a report back for how it goes.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. Because I can't use I mean, obviously, environmentally, I'm not going to be using bottled water. That's just not what's going to happen.

[A]

Well, I was thinking sink water, but that's your way. Makes so much more sense.

[B]

But it's the same hard water, you would imagine.

[A]

Right, right, right, right, right. I do think it's probably the same, but I was just picturing, like, you fill the Brita and then you bring it to the. I was like, well, that probably won't be the right temperature.

[B]

Yeah, no, I think I'm gonna do in the beginning of the shower, fill it up to hold my Brita above my head for a whole.

[A]

Or you Wait, hold on. I do have a hack for this. Please do it from the bath thing.

[B]

Do. Oh, the faucet at the bottom. Perfect. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

[A]

Okay. So I do feel like I've been a little helpful.

[B]

Yes, you have. Otherwise, I'm going to, you know, Connecticut, and they have less hard water. So maybe I'll stock up on water on showers. Yeah, yeah. Just like four shows, like 10 Mason jars of water in my bag as I'm clinking back on the Peter Pan bus.

[A]

So heavy. Weighs like 50 pounds.

[B]

The good stuff. I need that good, good water.

[A]

It's like the opposite of what they make bagels from.

[B]

Well, I know. Well, this is the thing. Cause the hard water does make the bagels very good, but makes my hair very good.

[A]

It's bad for hair. I guess what I'm learning is hair and bagels don't need the same things.

[B]

No. Oh, no. This will be the last time I put chive cream cheese on my head.

[A]

I bet that would give a nice thickness.

[B]

Oh, God. I know. I'm really. I'm. Because I did also try. I was like, maybe I'll try a cheaper shampoo. Because I'm like, maybe the good shampoo I use is, like, slickening it up too much.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So I tried a really cheap two in one shampoo.

[A]

Okay. That didn't work either.

[B]

No. So it's the water. We gotta get creative.

[A]

I will embarrassingly say, and this is like a real confession for me, for someone with, as you can visibly see, basically no hair, I do use expensive shampoo.

[B]

I think that's great.

[A]

It lasts forever.

[B]

Yes. Well, do you now. So do you wash your. If you have facial hair with a shampoo or with a face wash?

[A]

With a shampoo.

[B]

Okay, okay. Okay. Okay.

[A]

And sometimes double. I don't, like, avoid it with a

[B]

face wash. Yeah, yeah. What will be. Will be.

[A]

Especially in the shower. Yeah.

[B]

I do think that's good practice because facial hair can be quite sharp. If not, you know, you gotta. You gotta condition. You gotta use the good stuff.

[A]

I'm trying to soften it.

[B]

Mm. Okay. Well, I'm gonna keep with the good shampoo. I'm really good at Brita. I'm sorry. That's all I can think of.

[A]

I cannot wait to hear how this goes.

[B]

I don't even think it, like, does that, by the way. I think hard water is like, minerals, and it's not. The Brita is not even removing minerals. It's removing, like, impurities.

[A]

I think there are, like, Tab tablets you can get to put in the. I do. I think so. Like, that. Break down the minerals so that the water is usable. But I don't. You know, that's. Once it's out of the faucet, you can't, like, jam it up the faucets.

[B]

It's true.

[A]

Spout hole. I don't think.

[B]

Well, there. Except for that thing you mentioned at the front, which is like a water softener.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Filter that you put on the shower.

[A]

Yeah. I wonder if that exists.

[B]

I think it does. I think. But I'm not. I'm not in the market for anything that costs more than a free Brita.

[A]

That's what I'm thinking is, like, I do always get, like, when I'm staying a place for four days, you know, if I'm in a hotel for four days or if I'm in an Airbnb or, you know, staying with friends, it's like, am I going to invest in something to make this place nice that is not useful at home? Where even if it's like 40 bucks, I'm still like, yeah, is it worth it? I know when my wife and I went on our honeymoon, we were in Greece. We were on the island of Santorini, and there's no air conditioning, really, at the hotel. And so it was so hot when we went, we bought a box fan to put in the hotel room.

[B]

And of course, you can't bring that back.

[A]

$10 back.

[B]

So you just left it.

[A]

There's tariffs and everything.

[B]

Yeah. Wow. I mean, with that, you go, it's going to be miserable if not, we

[A]

need to do it. And I think we. You know, we walked by a hardware store and it was like $25, and we were staying there for a week. And we're like, okay, for only three to four dollars a day, we can feel a lot. Sleep. Yeah.

[B]

Yes. Speaking of sleep.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Gosh. I'd say now that my problems are solved. I am feeling ready to hit the hay.

[A]

I also am. And maybe I'll fall asleep to the sounds of a running shower, like a recording, not leaving the water running on me.

[B]

Yes, that's a great idea. And as we head to bed, I'd also love to say goodnight to a listener. Or rather, a listener's cat. Goodnight to Aloe the cat, who turns 13 this month.

[A]

Good night, Aloe the Cat. I hope you, like your namesake, are soothing.

[B]

13. It's your Kat Mitzvah. So congratulations.

[A]

Congratulations and good night, Gaype.

[B]

Good night, Sam.

[A]

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