$47 Melatonin Milk | Dinner Plus Drinks #38

SPEAKER_00 0:14

Hello everybody, welcome to the newest edition of Dinner Plus Drinks Podcast. I think I said it every week. You just sounded so excited. But I am very excited. First of all, we put out a special episode midweek this week that we've had some amazing feedback on from Bridget's mom. That's right. Thanks, Mom. Thank you very much, Beth. We appreciate your feedback, but also not just Bridget's mom. Other people as well have really seemed to enjoy it. Thanks, other people. Sarah, my beautiful wife, said uh she enjoyed it as well. She just was annoyed by the way we did the reveal.

SPEAKER_01 0:48

I love I rewatched it and I like the way we did the reveal.

SPEAKER_00 0:50

So I'm very sorry, honey. I love you dearly. Next time we do the reveal, I will do it in the way you asked because I'm doing this for you and Simona. I'm not doing this for me.

SPEAKER_01 1:01

Excuse me. I love you too, Sarah, but I agree with the way we did the reveal. Okay, anyway, it's Pinkies Up, you guys. If you missed it, check it out. I wear a fun festive hat.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

Yeah, next time I'm gonna have a fun festive hat too. I think we got something planned that I'm gonna have a really cool hat.

SPEAKER_01 1:17

I also will have a hat, but that's not gonna be a surprise because I'm gonna do it every month. But next week includes an or next month includes a costume change.

SPEAKER_00 1:25

If you didn't listen to that, uh we talked about if the difference between a $15 and a $50 bottle of wine is something someone like Bridget, normal person who likes wine, can pick up and if it's worth it. I also give uh some tips on things you can do when looking to save some money when you're buying wine, but still get a really good bottle of wine. So practical, fun, and it was awesome.

SPEAKER_01 1:45

I learned some things. And you know, I sound surprised because like we talk about wine a lot here, and I must just tune Nick out sometimes. I'm not sure, but I learned a couple like really valuable things, and now I know where my taste is in the lineup of wine.

SPEAKER_00 1:58

So that's that. How's your week going, Bridget?

SPEAKER_01 2:00

Um uh it's okay. Uh it's been like dark and gloomy weather, which is my fave actually.

SPEAKER_00 2:05

It's like Seattle weather.

SPEAKER_01 2:06

Oh, I this is a pretty early Britney match. I thought this is an early one. I thought about Britney actually, and like, where should I live? Because Tuesday, so short week, right? Yeah, screwing everything up. But Tuesday, I was like in such a good mood. And it was like pouring rain all day and gloomy, but my kids slept in. I was really productive. I'm like, man, I really should live somewhere that it rains all the time. So anyway, I'm not gonna move, guys, but I wish it rained more. I gotta tell you.

SPEAKER_00 2:33

Maybe Maine.

SPEAKER_01 2:34

Maybe I've never been to Maine.

SPEAKER_00 2:36

British Columbia?

SPEAKER_01 2:37

I'm probably not gonna move.

SPEAKER_00 2:38

Which is Seattle North.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

But um, I like that weather. Um, I do uh well, I'll wait to share this. Tell me about your week first.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

It's good. I have been so productive. I have been uh, in the words of Beyonce, slaying. Wow, Nick S-L E I G H I N G slayan. So also Christmas. Um I've just been getting stuff done. Like I feel good. I have this thing where because summer grilling season, at least you need a country meets at work. It's like this sprint basically from Cinco de Mayo to Christmas with a little bit, it's like we're running the 800 meters, right? So we can just breathe a couple months of it. It's the worst, it's the worst of all the races. Like, you know, you you have to sprint like it's the 400 meter or 100 meter, but you have to pace yourself. They gotta take two laps. So it's it's the worst. It's the worst race, and we have this like incredible sprint from cinco day mile to Christmas, New Year's Eve, with a little bit of a break in October. And it used to be we had a little bit of break in September. So all summer I'm like, hey guys, um, you know, I really appreciate you. Let's put this off a week because I'm a little busy. And then, you know, all the like, let's put this off a week eventually piles up, and you're like, hey, yeah. And so everything has to get done the week of Labor Day. So all the things you had to get done in summer get done the week of Labor Day. And then in September, in August, you're like, ah, you know, it's that's gonna be a busy week. I can see it on my calendar now. So how about uh we meet that first week of September, and then suddenly you have 50 appointments in four days. Yeah, in four days, because it's a short week. Yeah. So it's like uh, you know, Parks and Rec where April books all of Ron's appointments on April 30th because she doesn't think April 30th is a real thing.

SPEAKER_01 4:18

I love parks and rec references.

SPEAKER_00 4:19

So that's yeah, so I've been like super productive. Uh, you know, I'm a big to-do list person and just like nailing things off the to-do list. It's been great. It's been a great week. There's no better mood booster than checking off to-do lists. It's you know, another thing Sarah likes to do is she likes the like physical get something done, like crumple up the paper, throw it away, type of thing. Like the satisfaction of that like physical So she's like a crosser off, not a checkbox person. Yep, she so it's like having that physical satisfaction is just such a But you're not you're not you're a checkbox person. I'm a checkbox person, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:53

Is it the same satisfaction?

SPEAKER_00 4:54

I get great satisfaction from the checkbox. I get little tingles in the inside when I check off that box.

SPEAKER_01 4:59

Oh boy, okay. Well, I'm gonna take it down a notch. Okay, I'm so sorry, but I have to like you know, social media, all up in our face, all uh all the time. All the time. Saw a thing today. So we are recording on Friday, right, which is 9-11. September 11th. Happy birthday, Laura Cuckoo. Um, first of all.

SPEAKER_00 5:17

Happy birthday, Nancy Douglas.

SPEAKER_01 5:19

Yes, happy birthday, Nancy. So, but also it's 9-11. So um, you know, so it doesn't matter anymore. We don't need to rehash about this day, but um, I remember exactly where I was. Like it was, you know, it's Sculavos' honors biology class, third period.

SPEAKER_00 5:35

I was in food science. Tuesday, a block day.

SPEAKER_01 5:38

Yeah, yeah, isn't that funny? I was in food science and I got a call from the main office, and they're like, uh, is Bridget there? You know, so I had to go to the classroom and like take this call, and like, what is happening? My dad was actually supposed to be on a plane um and in a meeting at one of the side, not the two towers, but one of the smaller buildings at the trade centers. So they just wanted to call, tell, let us know that our dad was okay. And we didn't know he traveled all the time, but um, his flight got canceled or delayed that day. So, like, yay, by the grace of God, great. So, but that's not where I was actually trying to head. What I wanted to do is like got slapped in the face by all the things on social media. But this one I thought was really cool considering like the state of our nation these days. Let me read you a little thing. I would never ever want 9-11 again, but I miss the America of 9-12. So of September 12th. Stores ran out of flags to sell because they were being flown everywhere. People were Americans before they were upper or lower class, Jewish or Christian, Republican or Democrat. We hugged people without caring if they ate at a Chick-fil-a or wore Nikes. So it's a little tongue-in-cheek, but um, the the post was titled I missed 9-12. And I'm like, what is this? And like the state of the world is depressing right now. It is just such a I've been feeling that weight again this week. Like, you know, we've talked about this a lot. We bring it up in episodes every once in a while, and it's just one of those weeks for me again. I don't know, like Elliot's back in school and and the world is burning on the West Coast, and you know, so it's just there's a lot again. So I'm feeling heavy this week. So I just thought this was really interesting, and that's what I have to say about that, and we can move on.

SPEAKER_00 7:08

Well, Bridget, I have an idea to make you feel better.

SPEAKER_01 7:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 7:12

Oktoberfest beer.

SPEAKER_01 7:14

What's the reading mean of this? Let's let's have a beer. I know Nick usually picks our drinks, and I was hoping this is what he'd pick this week. Cheers, Bridget. Cheers! I've maybe you've heard me say this. Oktoberfest is my absolute favorite beer. I will like hoard it in my card.

SPEAKER_00 7:26

It's a delicious beer style for a year. It's a delicious beer style.

SPEAKER_01 7:30

I don't know. Have we had this one before on here?

SPEAKER_00 7:32

Revolution? I don't know. I don't know. Uh Revolution does a great thing. I sorry to my friends at Revolution, but the first time you guys came out with this, I was a little skeptical because Revolution is very well known for making delicious hop forward beers, and they kind of have their little revolution spin on a lot of stuff. They did this, I was like, are you gonna do a Revolution October fest? It's gonna be like a hoppy, disastrous mess because some people did this type of stuff, and uh it was like but this is delicious. I love it. It's a traditional one, but it is a little bit more hop forward, so it's got some bitterness on the end, but just goes perfectly with the caramel malt.

SPEAKER_01 8:09

So perfectly. I um every year I try to like try a new Oktoberfest. Um, so I haven't had Mobcraft yet, so it's called like Mobtoberfest. Mobtober, yeah. So I've got um some cans in my fridge, so maybe I'll try it this weekend. But I always get like a variety because I know I've I love, love, love Oktoberfest. So anyway, there's that.

SPEAKER_00 8:29

People, let us know what your favorite Oktoberfest beers are. Yeah. If you say you don't like Oktoberfest beers, you're lying.

SPEAKER_01 8:35

Um also I won't be your friend, as if we are friends in real life. But anyway, whatever. It's great. Um, I will tell you how my Oktoberfest is maybe next week. Should we just drink different Oktoberfest beers? Maybe that's a good idea for the whole month. We can just do that.

SPEAKER_00 8:47

September and October while supplies last. All right, so best thing you ate this week. Uh, I see on our planning document, I really want to know how this turned out because this was the subject of some intense discussion next year.

SPEAKER_01 9:00

So it's been gloomy. We need like warm, comforting meals. Hub's recommended that we have Shepherd's Pie yesterday. Sock. He didn't ask for duck because he knows better than Shopper. I had some ground beef that I had to make, so he's like, Oh, I would really love Shepherd's Pie. We're like, Great, I can get all those things at Lake Shimon Country Meats. I don't even have to stop at the store, a different store, yay. So it was so good. Um, Tyler did some of the cooking and took some liberties. Um, so here's what we ended up doing. We I already had the ground beef browned, which was, I know, a mistake because I didn't know what I was making with it. I just knew I had to make it. So it was done. So we ended up putting some onion in a pan and mushrooms. He put mushrooms in it. Mushrooms. Interesting, that works. We had them and he loves them. Um then we put the ground beef in, like onion salt, garlic. We had minced garlic, salt, pepper, and then we had frozen veggies. So I did like whatever delicious that bag of mixed frozen organic frozen vegetables. Or my organic veggies in my shepherd's pie.

SPEAKER_00 10:01

Um well, it gets better with what's on top because of my organic vegetables.

SPEAKER_01 10:06

It's not a low-calorie meal. Um so we we used organic frozen vegetables. Then um, he didn't know we had chicken stock, but we did. Oh, that's great. So we did put some stock in there. Stock, yeah. A little flour to stick it up a little. Um, yeah, we're getting really fancy now. So that was our delicious, like beefy mixture. But then, you know, you're supposed to put mashed potatoes on top. And I was like, I'm not making mashed potatoes. And we don't have instant ones, and I don't want to stop at a store that's not like Shiva Country meats. So what did I buy? Twice-baked potatoes. So smart. Smartest thing I've ever seen for this whole thing. Was the best. I don't think I'll ever have a shepherd's pie a different way. So our twice-baked potatoes have bacon, cheese, green onion, probably eight pounds of cream. I don't know. Eight pounds, probably more or less.

SPEAKER_00 10:53

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 10:53

So they're delicious if you've ever had them. They're uh they're definitely a customer favorite. Um, so we scraped out two of those and put it on top of our shepherd's pie. And it was dang good. Like we didn't have it till after Lucy went to bed. She would have devoured it, but Alexander. Thank God, I would have loved to see it. Yes, because Lucy could have just like bear paw on it and just like all over her face. It was awesome. Um, I have nothing else to say besides it was definitely my favorite thing. I'm gonna make that. Samuel would love it. Yes, and it was stupid easy. So, pro tip get a twice-baked potato from country. That's a great idea. And put it on top of your shepherd's pie.

SPEAKER_00 11:28

I uh I actually uh I know you've had a rough week, so I didn't send this to you, but I had this thing. The butter reminded me, I wanted to trigger you. Like I just had this thing. I wanted to piss you off. It was gonna just totally trigger you. And it was this Facebook meme video of somebody taking uh they had a beautiful cup of coffee and some butter next to it, and they took a spoon and started putting butter in their coffee and melting the butter into the coffee and saying, you know, some people are putting butter in their coffee now, and here's the reason why. I was like, oh my gosh, this is gonna be legit. Maybe does Bridget know about it. Does Bridget want butter? You know, Bridget's a black coffee person, but has she tried butter? Uh it turns out they said they try it because they're stupid. Oh yeah. I was like, why are they trying it? I want to send you the video just because I was like, oh, Bridget's had a rough week.

SPEAKER_01 12:10

We're not gonna so much for not putting butter in your coffee. We're not gonna trigger her. Um, I will say though, one of my like most soothing favorite things is to watch people put cream in their coffee. Because I don't do that. Just don't no, don't judge me.

SPEAKER_00 12:23

When when somebody asks Bridget at the restaurant we go to the most, where they know her, and they know they know me. Would you like cream or sugar? She's like I rate. That they ask such a screen. I am not question.

SPEAKER_01 12:39

I what it is funny if you know my husband, he's from the exterior, a tall, manly man, you know, got a beard, and I'll go like if we order a we'll go to a coffee place. I'll get a black coffee and like a caramel latte, and that is for my husband, and I'm the black coffee.

SPEAKER_00 13:00

I'd like to make it very clear. This is my husband is the one with the girl drink.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

Anyway, love you, Tyler.

SPEAKER_00 13:07

What do you eat? Tell me what you made. I made some really delicious hamburgers, cheeseburgers, in fact. Um I'm very particular about my cheeseburgers. We've had this debate on social media on Lake Shimmy Country Meets before. And I don't know if you've chimed in. So do you so we do bacon cheeseburgers, we love them. Uh, I think the first key is to undercook your bacon just a touch because when you put it on the burger, it cooks cooks more. So if you cook it to crispy and then you put it on the burger, okay, it's overly crisp.

SPEAKER_01 13:38

I hear you, but I like crisp bacon. Don't judge me. Judge me, actually, that's a terrible thing.

SPEAKER_00 13:43

And then I put the cheese over the bacon and melt the cheese onto the bacon so you you tuck your bacon in with the cheese blanket and it melts on top and everything holds together. And so if you put the if you put the bacon on top of the cheese, which seems to be the thing to do, also if you want to photograph it, you have to but uh the common thing seems to be put the bacon on top, it falls right off. I know, it slips away. But if you if you put the cheese blanket on top, you get evenly distributed things. Cheese blanket. Are you a cheddar and bacon personal? Yeah, we did cheddar. We did normal cheddar. Uh our big favorite is to do Hill Valley Dairy uh whiskey cheddar. Oh. Because you get kind of a little smokiness. Whoa. It's it's also white cheddar, which tastes better than yellow cheddar. Why, Nick? It's the same damn thing. There's a little bit of coloring, a nato, and the yellow one, a very small amount. But as Ron knows, Ron, if you're listening to this, you know white cheddar is more better.

SPEAKER_01 14:37

Oh, cheddar.

SPEAKER_00 14:38

I don't know. Because it's cheddar. The white cheddar. You know, like the Vermont chedddas. We do have some people come to so they change cheesecart colors every week at Hill Valley Dairy. Oh, yeah. And we have a certain set of people that'll only buy and it doesn't matter if you're like, hey, I it's the same cheese. It's legitimately no, it tastes different, which just proves you eat with your eyes first.

SPEAKER_01 14:59

Oh boy, Nick, what a great fact here. Yep, yep, yep. Um, I heard some breaking news on the way over that was not originally on my plan. All right, share it. Okay, obviously, I can't decide, so I'm sharing two stories. Both are candy themed, though. First, are you guys peeps lovers? Do you like peeps? Hate them. Hate them. Great. You'll be you'll be thrilled to hear. Peeps, because of coronavirus. You guys, this is. They were out last year, too. They are not producing Halloween, Christmas, or Valentine's Day peeps. So they will only be producing, I assume it means they're only producing Easter peeps. Um, because I don't know, coronavirus has caused production to halt. So, guys, don't be looking for your, I don't know, Santa shape. What shape do they make at Christmas? I don't even know. Like literally, oh, Christmas tree. They make Christmas tree ones. Anyway, they're not making them this year, so don't go looking for them for us. Don't tell Santa to put them in the stockings. So anyway, no peeps. But that wasn't really my news story. Thank God. Why? It's a great story. Peeps are gross. Okay. Have you heard about the Jelly Belly factory thing? Yes. Okay. Yes. So I'm guessing by now you guys have heard, but like this is the story that made me start the outline for the podcast really early this week. I was like, oh my God. I talked about a Willy Wonka like type factory in Amsterdam, I think. I talked about it months ago. Well, Jelly Belly, right here in Kenosha. Pleasant Prairie. Um, shout out Pleasant Prairie. They the they did, they're doing some kind of like, you have to buy in $50 to be well, it's too late now. It's already closed. But I read the article like two hours before the end of the deadline. You have to buy in $50 and you become part of like a scavenger hunt, and you're essentially looking for a golden ticket and you could win keys. You could become an owner to of one of the Jelly Belly Factory tours if you win like the scavenger hunt. So I didn't buy in, so there wasn't a lot of information besides that. So if you've bought in and you're playing the scavenger hunt, we want you to be a guest.

SPEAKER_00 16:50

Please let us know. We'd love to hear.

SPEAKER_01 16:52

I am dying excited about it, so I want to know. Okay, that's what I heard. Tell me more.

SPEAKER_00 16:57

I have an old news story. It's from 2008, but it's too good not to share. Okay, great. Um, are you stressed, Bridget? What? No! Do you love milk? Uh if it's ice cold. How about a $43 bottle of stress-relieving milk straight from the Lone Lone Ranch? What? Tokyo-based Nakazawa Foods will launch the adult milk line of products in October. This is in 2008, targeting adults who live in a stressful society. So every adult. The milk is taken from cows once a week at the break of dawn as they discharge a lot of stress-relieving hormones called melatonin. We know what melatonin is. Discharge is a gross word. And it's said to contain three to four times as much melatonin as the usual milk. So would you pay $43 for a gallon of milk? Never. That makes all of your stress melatonin.

SPEAKER_01 17:50

It wouldn't make all my that's a bunch of boo hooky.

SPEAKER_00 17:54

Well, it actually is cow hooky. Not ball.

SPEAKER_01 17:58

Bulls don't have udders. Okay, no. Would you? Hell no. Milk is disgusting. This is marketing, people, right here. This is marketing. Although, again, if you have bought a $43 gallon of milk, let us know. We also want to hear.

SPEAKER_00 18:12

I'm sure this place is out of business. I haven't been able to find it yet. Uh again, this happened in 2008, but I thought this would be podcast-worthy. Would you pay $43 for melatonin milk? Also, does this company still exist? And it's like if you're selling it, let us know. It's you know, so these are the cows that have been um, you know, what not milked for a while, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's like how the cows that just give birth are uh decaffeinated cows. What decaffeinated. I wasn't paying close enough attention.

SPEAKER_01 18:46

Your dad joke. I thought you were gonna dad joke me earlier. I thought you like moved it around. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 18:51

All right, let's go take a break, guys.

SPEAKER_01 19:13

Okay, we're back with We're back. What? We're back. Okay, I got a little mad. I'm I'm back now. Um, product recommendation. I was really excited about this one. Again, I changed it because decisions, but I read an article just two days ago. A new um, so I'm a big fan of voting. Everybody, vote. Okay. I used to just like be a fan of vote, I don't care who you vote for. I don't really feel that way anymore. I, you know, it's vitally important to vote, but we have children now.

SPEAKER_00 19:43

Vote for our children's future.

SPEAKER_01 19:45

There you go. That's a kind way to put it without getting too political here, but vote. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 19:49

Vote for the world you want your children to grow up in.

SPEAKER_01 19:52

So um, on September 9th, um, a collection launched, and it is only September 11th, two days later, that we are recording this, and some of the stuff is already sold out. So it's a it's like the Nordstrom rack sale or whatever. Oh my god. It just goes so fast. Except this is way better because it's not for profit. So it's sold out because this is uh championed by Michelle Obama. So whatever you feel politically, Michelle Obama has this great um, so it's vote forever forever. Um so you can go check out their merch. They've partnered with um, I am gonna screw this up, Revolve. And they have some really cool, like she was first seen with a necklace. So there's these necklaces growing going around. If you're a new mom, I have one. I feel like everyone has one. They're like a dainty gold chain with little letters on them.

SPEAKER_00 20:37

And you put the teeth of your children on them as they fall out. That's what that necklace looks like.

SPEAKER_01 20:40

Right. So this necklace just has four letters. Those are like teeth. Okay, I hear you, but it's not. It's gross. So it's a little dainty gold chain, V-O-T-E. There's a really cool um coffee mug that's handmade in Brooklyn. So um, really cool mug. There's some t-shirts and things. So this is all you can go to revolve.com or you know, I can put this article up that I'm reading. I'll leave it.

SPEAKER_00 21:01

You'll have it in the show notes.

SPEAKER_01 21:02

But yeah, of course. But um, this is voting looks good on you. And so it's just merch to like, you know, get people to vote. Like, I understand that merch doesn't necessarily make everybody vote, but it is targeted at the right crowd of people who are not voting enough, which is younger people. Um, younger people who listen to podcasts. Okay, anyway, so it's supporting small businesses, black-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, sustainability, et cetera, et cetera. So it's doing all the things that um Nick and I care about, and I think I hope a lot of you care about. So take a look. We'll put all the links in the show notes and maybe get some merch. I'm waiting for two things to come back in stock that are already sold out.

SPEAKER_00 21:39

I literally saw a video once about moms that harvested the teeth from their children. And like, if you wash them in like sprites or something, wash them in sprites. Yeah, it like does something to them, and then you can bake them and they save them and they make necklaces. I'm like, this is the weirdest thing I've seen in my life. But you know, moms moms be cray cray and you. Deserve it. You you carried a little child. But you go put their teeth in a necklace? Well, if that's important to you, you want to preserve your child's teeth because that's a memento of your child. That's not the product I'm recommending. I do not recommend that. I am recommending. I sold my condo. We sold our condo. I paid for it. Love you, Sarah. But I paid for it. My money. And I think I should be able to treat myself with something. Treat yourself. Treat myself. Another Parks and Rick. Shut up. My favorite. So I watched the Netflix series, Chef's Table. Yes. The barbecue edition. It's amazing. Highly recommend it. Love that show. And I'm like, man, I like I'm doing some good barbecue, but like I'm not doing great. I could do better. Like these people are cooking with real wood. And um so I'm a little like I'm feeling a little inadequate. And you know what men do when they feel a little inadequate? They spend too much money on dumb stuff.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

You did not buy this.

SPEAKER_00 22:51

So did you Google this? Oh, I showed you this already. Yeah, you showed me. This is called the Nuke. It's spelled Nuke. Yeah. It's pronounced Nuke. Delta Argentinian Argentinian gaucho grill. It's a wood-fired grill. So on one side, you burn your logs into embers, and then there's a cast iron skillet grill thing that you move up and down to control your heat, and you move the ashes over to the to underneath them and you cook it. And I need it.

SPEAKER_01 23:19

So what's the most appealing thing about this? Tell our uh listeners.

SPEAKER_00 23:23

Cooking over wood.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

Yes, but didn't you say like multiple temperatures or something? Like you can cook this hot here.

SPEAKER_00 23:29

Well, so the only way cooking over wood you can really control the temperature is how close the stuff is to the fire.

SPEAKER_01 23:35

So less embers.

SPEAKER_00 23:36

No, like you have more embers and you go you go up and down for hotter or less. Whatever. Cooking over wood's just very, very special.

SPEAKER_01 23:44

Very manly.

SPEAKER_00 23:45

Uh I'm gonna make you some like fine, fine ribeye steak cook over.

SPEAKER_01 23:50

I hope one of you buy this grill and tell us all about it.

SPEAKER_00 23:53

So anyway, nuke Delta Argentinian Gaucho Grill. Um we're gonna have a link up on Amazon. We'd really appreciate the affiliate commission if you're gonna buy it, because uh it's $1,400. And uh Great Christmas gift. That would be that would be a great commission for us. So thank you. So that's what I'm recommending. Um maybe I'll buy it. Maybe Sarah's not gonna let me buy it. Try to send the link to Sarah content Christmas gift. You know, we'll see. We'll see.

SPEAKER_01 24:19

Okay, that's it for Product Rec. Yep, right. We'll be back.

SPEAKER_00 24:42

All right, we're back, and I'm gonna clarify it's called a gaucho grill because it's the Argentinian cowboys with the funny pants out on the Pamplonas cooking with wood. Yeah, no, we get it.

SPEAKER_01 24:53

Gaucho pants also used to be a hot thing. Like, I don't know how old I was. Whatever. Anyway, it's my week for breaking news.

SPEAKER_00 25:01

The new downtown location for the Milwaukee Public Museum and Betty Brin Children's Museum is gonna be on a high-profile site, one block north of Pfizer Forum.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

Pfizer Forum changing the landscape of Milwaukee.

SPEAKER_00 25:10

Very exciting. Love them.

SPEAKER_01 25:11

Thanks for that breaking news. Like, we're news anchors here for you.

unknown 25:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 25:17

That was my breaking news. I thought this was your new intro to interesting questions. No, no.

SPEAKER_00 25:21

All right, it's time for interesting questions with Bridget and Nick.

SPEAKER_01 25:26

I love that he has to do that intro and I can sit over here and laugh. Um what you got? I added an extra one because I know how much you hate hot drinks. Oh. Nick hates them. Oh, they're the worst. So if I'm gonna force you, this should be a really easy one. If I'm gonna force you to drink a hot drink here in the fall, is it gonna be a disgusting ass pumpkin spice latte or hot caramel apple cider? I know. Don't they just sound gross to you? I couldn't wait to make you decide.

SPEAKER_00 25:55

The caramel apple cider. I mean, yeah. God, that's so gross. Why? But like Why would you add like so apple cider's so freaking sugary already? Okay, so yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:08

Okay, fine. Take the caramel. Oh my gosh. Okay, anyway, that was just a warm-up because I knew it would make Nick disgusted. We had our first fire in our fireplace of the season, and it was so delightful. I did not have any hot beverages with it, but I wish I would have had some apple cider. Okay, ready? This one made me laugh when I read it out loud. Would you rather have to shout hooray every time that you hear your name or do five jumping jacks whenever you see a baby? I don't know. I don't care. I already hey Nick, hooray! That's awesome. Hey Nick, Nick, Nick. Hooray! You're already on. Okay, I just love that one.

SPEAKER_00 26:43

It made me happy. I thought we could use it. Also, I could train Simona to do it.

unknown 26:47

Daddy, hooray!

SPEAKER_00 26:48

I mean, how would you do it? Would it be dad or Nick?

SPEAKER_01 26:50

Or daddy or dada? Complicated question. We're diving real deep now.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

Probably Nick, but you know, like she could be my hype squad. She could be like, yo, Nick. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:59

Hooray! I know, isn't that one fun?

SPEAKER_00 27:02

I think that'd be a lot of fun. I know. Okay. Don't you want people like even if it's you, like I mean, but if you had to do five jumping. You'd be your own hype person.

SPEAKER_01 27:10

When you see a baby, you'd be like getting in shape and inspiring people around you. You'd be like an idiot.

SPEAKER_00 27:15

Shouting hooray? Well, you'd be like, no, I I'm I'm a hype man. Like I'm a hype man for myself. Yeah, it'd be like a thing. Like you could probably monetize it. You could be like a face trick. I'm trying to monetize it. You know, self-health good. You don't think jumping jacks could be. And be like, hey, my name's Nick, and I hooray! I shout hooray every time someone says my name. Because if you don't believe in yourself and cheerlead for yourself, no one will. And I bet people would pay you money to do that. I mean, people pay money if you follow all sorts of idiot self-help cards.

SPEAKER_01 27:43

Maybe that'll be our our next special podcast. Nick's self-help, Nick's TED Talk. Hooray. Okay, moving on. Would you rather have a rap battle with someone or a dance battle? And this just makes me think of DDR. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. This is an easy one for me, obviously.

SPEAKER_00 28:04

I'm bad at both. I'm really bad at both.

SPEAKER_01 28:06

I don't think it's asking if you're good. I mean, you might lose both battles. I hate losing, that's a thing. Yeah, this is tough even. I obviously, while he's contemplating, would have a rap battle.

SPEAKER_00 28:17

I would do a dance battle because I could at least like pretend? Pretend, yeah. I mean, now if it's against and also I guess it depends on if it's Josie Henningfeld, like I'm screwed regardless. Honestly, yeah. Like she can rap and dance. She can rap and dance. If it's if it's Ron Henningfeld, Ron can dance, but he can't rap. So I'll I'll take Ron at the rap.

SPEAKER_01 28:36

Interesting. Well, unfortunately, you don't get to pick your opponent. You have to pick your battle, and then you learn who your opponent is.

SPEAKER_00 28:42

Well, that's not in the you know Sunzo's thing of war.

SPEAKER_01 28:46

So uh But I'm making the rules up this week.

SPEAKER_00 28:49

Yeah, I'm gonna go with uh dance.

SPEAKER_01 28:51

Dancing, hmm, bummer. I would be rapping because I want to live in eight miles. First of all, you keep it in here.

SPEAKER_00 28:58

Nick's gonna dance the rest of the episode. I don't know what's going on with him today, but it's been a really productive week, and I'm just coming off to like checking stuff off the list. This is coming up next.

SPEAKER_01 29:08

Would you rather have bananas for toes or fingers? This is a toughie. How ripe are the bananas? Um perfectly ripe to eat.

SPEAKER_00 29:21

Fingers, and because they're soft. Yes, and so if you had soft banana toes, you wouldn't be able to walk. This is a really valid point.

SPEAKER_01 29:32

I guess, obviously. But toes, you could hide your banana toes. Hands, you'd have to be like yelling hooray, and in your dance battle with banana hands. It's a tough group of questions this week. You guys, these would you rather questions really good, yeah? The light of my life.

SPEAKER_00 29:49

I think fingers. Yeah. Do they grow back if you eat them? Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_01 29:54

So then, I mean, you you don't have to spend any money on food anymore. High potassium diet, right? Is that potassium? Yeah, that's stats.

SPEAKER_00 30:00

Good for stuff.

SPEAKER_01 30:01

Uh, great questions. Good job, Bridget. That was that was impressive. They were fun ones that made me giggle out loud.

SPEAKER_00 30:07

All right, so what are we doing this week? Yep, meal plan.

SPEAKER_01 30:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 30:11

Uh, I like how you did it this week.

SPEAKER_01 30:13

Thanks. You sound surprised. Last week we started doing two options. He's like, yeah, I don't know about you. Wow. Rude. Last week we thought, well, if people are in as indecisive as I am, maybe they don't like only having a lot of people.

SPEAKER_00 30:32

If you were a superhero, you would your power would be not be able to make up your mind.

SPEAKER_01 30:37

I don't know. Shannon and I are both like that. Anyway. Okay, the meal plan. We now have two meal options a day because we did a little study last week, and it turns out you all, if you are looking at our meal plan, our followers at Lake Change of Country Meats, all like the option. Because, like, I like chicken, but I don't like every chicken recipe that we have. So it's nice to have two options. There's like one you don't like. Yeah, like one. Um, so last week we did kind of like inside outside. It's it's sometimes it's cold, but next week it's gonna be warm. Like, so you could get outside and grill, or it could be a freaking 50 degrees and pouring rain. So who knows? So this week I simplified it even a little bit more and just did the same protein each day. Um, and I included a special Sunday one because football is back. I wish we had it. I wish we had like the NFL theme music. So already drama last night's game. Okay. Packers don't play till this weekend, which I will be watching, and I will be planning my Sundays around football games now. Judge me if you'd like. So um anyway. Got your fantasy team picked? Got a little, yeah, I do have my fantasy team picked. I am projected to win by like two points this week.

SPEAKER_00 31:44

Maybe we should add a weekly segment of How Did Bridget's fantasy go?

SPEAKER_01 31:47

You guys, I won the league last year. Maybe got second. I don't remember. But for all all you guys know, I won. So yeah, we I haven't changed my team name. Like I play with my um my in-laws, so it's a whole bunch of dudes. And some of the girl cousins have joined now, which is great. Um, but I was really proud when I did well because fantasy football is the thing I care about. I care about football.

SPEAKER_00 32:08

Uteruses before deuterists.

SPEAKER_01 32:09

I should change it to that, but we decided like so many of us have players. My team name is straight out of Cobbton. Randall Cobb not even in the league anymore, so it's funny. Don't judge me. And my little my little icon is you mad, bro? Because ESPN only lets you choose like stupid little icons. Anyway, very funny. Um, we've been playing in this league for years, and I've gotten significantly better. So I've learned a lot. We drafted on um Labor Day, and yeah, I'm proud of my team. I picked in a much smarter way this year. So TBD, I will update you every week, maybe if I win or lose. So, what are you eating with your football? This week, I actually only chose these recipes because it's football Sunday. So these are silly little simple recipes, but we have a recipe for green and gold brats, which is our delicious cheddar pepper brats, which I love. But with more stuff on top. With all the funcy things on top. Ooh, funcy. Fun and fancy. I like it. It's a new word. So yeah, green and gold brats. Our podcast is funcy. We are funcy. Pinkies up is funcy. Anyway, so green and gold brats is on the menu, and then also taco brat dips.

SPEAKER_00 33:14

This is one of the best things in the history of the earth, the taco brat dip.

SPEAKER_01 33:16

History of the earth?

SPEAKER_00 33:17

Yeah, it's so good.

SPEAKER_01 33:18

I made it game day snacks. Yeah, I haven't had it yet. So it's a taco dip.

SPEAKER_00 33:24

So check out the football recipes. Bridget, it's it's all the things you like. I actually maybe make it with a chicken brat, so it includes chicken. But it's it's sausage outside the casey. It's spicy, it's dips, it's football, it's Mexican, it's taco. Like it's all of the things you like. I love both of these recipes.

SPEAKER_01 33:41

They're easy, they're fun. I miss this kind of game day food. Like, I will eat dip all day on Sundays. I don't need a meal, I just need a whole bunch of cheesy dips. So that's what my Sundays look like for the next foreseeable future.

SPEAKER_00 33:54

I like your things for chicken thighs. Oh, yeah. I love chicken thighs. They're such a great, affordable, yummy, delicious meal source. I actually made uh chicken parm with them the other day because they're easier to pound. They're a better size for chicken parm than chicken breasts. You don't have to mess around with them too much. Um, and there's two really good ones. One's um a one-pot chicken thighs and veggies, which is a great, super easy inside thing. Uh just lay them all on a sheet pan, roast them, they roast the same temperature, all things. They're so good. Yeah. But this is this is this is the one where I'm sure your eyes are like when you put this up. Grilled peri chicken thighs. It's a uh spicy, spicy pepper, peri peri chicken. Um comes from Brazil, Mozambique, Portuguese places. It's a weird food history. But if you like spicy stuff that's not just like one note hot, like this is very hot. Yeah, it has a lot of Scoville units, but it also is like fruity and got some aromatic notes. So peri peri is a great thing to look into. I love this grilled periper chicken.

SPEAKER_01 34:55

I remember my first experience with Peri Perry was like you had Peri Perry marinated chicken breast, and I didn't work here yet. I was just buying my chicken, and you're like, yeah, try this one. I'm like, I don't know, I don't know. Love it.

SPEAKER_00 35:06

So good because it's it's hot. Yeah, and it's got like some fruit notes and some jam, some oral stuff in it. It's delicious.

SPEAKER_01 35:12

The meal plan's really great this week, you guys. I know we say that a lot, but I really love this one.

SPEAKER_00 35:17

So you gave me crap that I was surprised you did a good job, but you also are like, Man, I did a good week today.

SPEAKER_01 35:23

Damn, Bridget. You know what? I mean, I do I do the meal plan every week, so it's like, okay, is it exciting? But I think it's really just these football recipes that have me amps. And I'm a week off. Like, I mean, I should have done that so you could have enjoyed some meal plans this week. Sorry. Whatever. It's okay. Football's a long season.

SPEAKER_00 35:41

But you know what time it is. It's time for Kid Corner.

SPEAKER_01 35:46

Oh, Kid Corner. I'm really having a hard time right now. I feel like I need to sit here with like my therapy lesson. Lucy's shoes, man. We've talked about Lucy's love for shoes. Okay. She loves them shoes. But here's our problem. And we had this problem with Elliot. Elliot's feet were like tall, like chunky. And so we could not get shoes to fit the right way. But we thought with Lucy it was gonna be fine. Um, so it was for like a minute, but now suddenly, like, oh my god, it's cold. So, like, we don't have enough socks for our kids. We don't have enough pants that fit Elliot. We don't have enough sold shoes. Like, we have soft sold shoes for Lucy, but like it's wet outside and she walks. So we need shoes. So anyway, I'm really struggling. I like ran to the store to buy any kind of shoe I could find in her size. I measured her foot on a receipt. Like, I made her stand on a receipt because it was the closest thing. Smart.

SPEAKER_00 36:34

That's a pro mom tip. That's a second kid tip.

SPEAKER_01 36:36

They're right there. Just like draw it on a piece of paper. I went, brought that receipt to and like measured the shoes, could not get them. So I was so proud. I got these ones. We cannot like get her foot in the right angle. So like they're like um like vans is what they kind of look like. And they velcro. So I'm like, this was fine, cannot get them on. But like lengthwise, they're the right size. So we're just really struggling in the shoe department. So if any of you have kids with like, I don't know, feet that are hard to shove into shoes, which is I think every child, let me know what shoes you wear. I think she wears a size five. I don't really know, but that's what shoe fits her currently. The one pair. That's all.

SPEAKER_00 37:11

Sabella's getting very, very good at the crawling. Oh, good, great. And uh where we used to have our studio in the basement is now just open basement now. Yeah. So uh she loves crawling upstairs. Don't judge us. Okay. She's practicing. That's a good thing to learn. We're, you know, right behind her. She doesn't get to go down them. All the things, all the stuff. Shut up, mom shamers. Um yeah, I will get at you if you are doing that. She we put her in the far corner, and it's basically the length of her house, it's a long thing, and she just tears off crawling towards the stairs to climb up them. It's a very exciting thing for babies. Yep, it takes a lot of energy out of her, it takes time, it's wonderful. She doesn't destroy things because there's nothing in the basement. A couch. That's great. So now the game we play is I'll start crawling next to her, get in front of her, lay down, and block off her path. Well block. Originally, she just thought it was the easiest way to get through would be to crawl over dad. Yeah, for sure. Uh, just crawl, hands, whatever, all over and never quite work, and then get really pissed off and start screaming. And it's like, haha, idiot kid. I'm still smarter than you. Uh now she's figured out how to go around dad. So it's a whole new ballgame. Yeah. So now, no, it takes her a while to crawl. So now I have to then dodge. Oh man, fake her out, fake out, fake out. And then eventually she's like, oh, well, if you're just gonna keep getting in front of me, I'm gonna crawl over you. And then she crawls over me and then she gets mad. So she's smarter than you. It's a new favorite game I have with Simona is uh, you know, block you off, try to not let you crawl where you want to crawl. Football?

SPEAKER_01 38:49

So it's football? Yeah, it's like uh tag. And jury's still out on the birthday party theme?

SPEAKER_00 38:55

Jury's still out. We're getting close, Nick. We're getting close. Probably gonna be sliders. I think we're gonna have to do it the weekend after her birthday because of um it's gonna be Oktoberfest weekend in Lake Geneva, the weekend before her birthday.

SPEAKER_01 39:11

And um We don't have a lot of things to say about that right now.

SPEAKER_00 39:15

We don't have a lot of things to say about that right now, but it's gonna be um It's gonna be a weekend. Yeah. So I'm gonna probably be doing things uh that weekend against my will. Lake Geneva.

SPEAKER_01 39:28

Um well on that note, guys. Hey, guess what's coming? It's gonna be Christmas soon. Christmas? And I'm already thinking about Christmas cards, okay? It's gonna be your birthday next week. Oh, yeah, right. It's also my birthday.

SPEAKER_00 39:40

It's gonna be Lake Geneva Country Meets' birthday.

SPEAKER_01 39:42

It is, it's a big weekend. Big weekend my birthday, and the next day is Lake Geneva Country Meets. You guys, don't worry, I've already planned next week's podcast, like half of it, because it's obviously gonna be all about me.

SPEAKER_00 39:52

What about Shannon? It's also Shannon's birthday. Should we invite her? We should invite Shannon.

SPEAKER_01 39:56

Shannon, this is your invitation. Podcast recording next Friday. Thursday. Just kidding, because we're gonna be out of town Friday.

SPEAKER_00 40:02

We could do interesting questions twin edition.

SPEAKER_01 40:05

Okay, guys, look forward to it. Next week is twin edition podcast, and Nick will be there. We've already planned it.

SPEAKER_00 40:10

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SPEAKER_01 40:19

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SPEAKER_00 40:20

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SPEAKER_01 40:24

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