A Lot About Tyler - Dinner Plus Drinks #90

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Bridget, I really got screwed by Burnley in my fantasy league. I didn't even know you were in a fantasy league. Uh, my football team, I have two defenders from Burnley, because Burnley doesn't give up a lot of goals, so I figured that if I had them, like I saved money on my defenders to spend more money on my attackers, and I thought, like, well, they're not gonna get a lot of points necessarily, but like they'll not give up a lot of goals, so I'll get points that way. It's not working out well. I'm getting my butt kicked by my little brother-in-law's girlfriend. Awesome. And uh, I'm gonna start needing to switch up my fantasy strategy just to have people that other people don't and try to make up like a lot of points real fast.

SPEAKER_02 0:40

Got excited because I thought you were in American football fantasy like the rest of the world.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

Well, actually, yeah. Most of the world is in English Premier League. And I'm in uh Arsenal League, I'm in American Fans League, I'm on the and uh Premier League on NBC League, and I'm on uh Arsblog League. So I'm in with a lot of Americans. That's excessive. Well, you get automatically entered into them. It's the same team.

SPEAKER_02 1:03

I need to know if any of our listeners are which one they support American football or soccer.

SPEAKER_00 1:08

How's your fantasy team going?

SPEAKER_02 1:09

I'm currently winning. Woo! It's been one game. I'm projected to lose, and my brother-in-law saved my butt by uh noting an injured player that I could quickly replace with someone better.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

Which which brother-in-law? You have a bunch.

SPEAKER_02 1:22

Travis. Travis saved my day was like the weeds of kid pickup time, and he was like, wait, you gotta do this really important fantasy thing. And he was right. Thanks, Trav.

SPEAKER_00 1:30

Well, welcome everybody. It's time for another episode of Dinner Plus Drinks. We're starting with a little fantasy talk and gonna open some drinks, talk about all the things that you know friends talk about.

SPEAKER_02 1:39

So welcome to our little worlds. We love having you here. We all need a place that we can kind of hash things out and talk through it all, and that's what we're here for you.

SPEAKER_00 2:02

Okay, what are we drinking today? Well, I think you can't talk right today, and I can't talk right today either. You guys I'd still have coffee. We can't cut off your little uh not talk right, but we can cut out mine that I made early, so people don't have to hear that one. You can cut mine out. Um so anyway, we have um on the episode that we didn't release properly because I didn't record it properly. Um We're doing great, guys. We we reviewed this these uh canned cocktails from Green Bar Distillery in Los Angeles, or as they say, Los Angeles. Or Los Angeles. Um anyway, they didn't fare so well. It's maybe a good thing it didn't get released. They weren't good. You know, we generally aren't fans of canned cocktails. There's been some that have been better than others, but generally we prefer real cocktails. But these are non-alcoholic, and since it's early in the morning, I figured maybe it's a good week to try these.

SPEAKER_02 2:54

Yeah, I thought we were coming and having mimosas, which is what I requested. Uh, but then I showed up and saw these canned cocktails that I knew weren't as good as.

SPEAKER_00 3:03

Well, this is basically a mimosa. This is burnt orange, bitters and soda. You know what would be basically a mimosa?

SPEAKER_02 3:09

Bitters is not the same.

SPEAKER_00 3:11

All the flavor, none of the buzz. Enjoy a craft take on the classic bitters and soda. Excellent. Yeah, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 3:17

I this isn't gonna be good. This is just gonna taste bitter. Is my guess. Oh, yep, it smells exactly how I think it will taste. Also, it's gonna be great after my coffee. I mean it doesn't make me want to go uh because there's no alcohol in it, but it's too bitter for me. I don't love it already.

SPEAKER_00 3:40

It tastes like tea. It tastes like herbal tea.

SPEAKER_02 3:43

I think there's a place for this, actually. Like some people whoever like that flavor.

SPEAKER_00 3:48

Tea has caffeine. This doesn't have caffeine.

SPEAKER_02 3:51

It tastes um like uh spicy in that in by like I mean like cardamom spice, not like spicy hot. But you know, like at the holidays when everything has spice things in it, that's what it reminds me of. I don't know why anybody would drink this. It doesn't taste like a mimosa, Nick.

SPEAKER_00 4:09

It has why does it say orange and is in an orange thing and it doesn't taste like orange?

SPEAKER_02 4:16

Because, man, bitter's overpowered. Do you want me to dump this? No, I finished it.

SPEAKER_00 4:19

I mean it's very watery. It is, it is. It's very watery.

SPEAKER_02 4:22

That's totally drinkable. It's just not our flavor profile.

SPEAKER_00 4:25

Drink tea instead.

SPEAKER_02 4:27

What if people don't want the caffeine, buddy? This one I'm fascinated about because lavender is such a hip thing. I always want to love lavender.

SPEAKER_00 4:38

Yeah, so this one is lavender bitters and soda. I don't mind this one. It's pretty flavorless. It tastes floral to me. Yeah, I mean I like it aroma. I mean, they aren't like sweet or sugary, which is nice.

SPEAKER_02 5:00

I mean if you like my own. They taste like water. Yeah, it tastes like a bubbly, but actually with more flavor. To me, this has flavor. I that's on the back end, actually. On the back of my palate, I taste the lavender.

SPEAKER_00 5:15

Yeah, I do too, yeah. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 5:18

Okay. Well, I mean, this is not something I feel like I have.

SPEAKER_00 5:21

Now, this is the one I I know you're excited for. Well, the unrum. Unrum and cola, warm and spicy.

SPEAKER_02 5:26

So, like these things, here's my issue with this. Why would I have this instead of a bubbly water?

SPEAKER_00 5:31

I know. Okay, so this has get what this is and what the ingredient they put up they put the ingredients on this, which is nice. Water. Organic de-alcoholized molasses rum.

SPEAKER_02 5:41

Sounds great.

SPEAKER_00 5:41

Organic botanicals, cola, nut lime, tamarind, nutmeg.

SPEAKER_02 5:45

Oh, we should have read this because so the first one, the bitters, the burnt orange, it has organic botanicals. Orange, tea, jasmine, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, clove, staranus, which is what I was tasting. Cinnamon, all spice, ginger. See, look at that. It was basically all the holiday spices.

SPEAKER_00 6:04

Save me your organic nonsense.

SPEAKER_02 6:08

Warm and spicy, huh? Oh my god. I just spit that back in the cup, you guys.

SPEAKER_00 6:17

This is disgusting.

SPEAKER_02 6:18

That one's pretty bad. Like, I'm gonna drink the lavender one.

SPEAKER_00 6:22

Oh my god, this is disgusting.

SPEAKER_02 6:24

I just had to wash it down with another one. Whew! That one wasn't good.

SPEAKER_00 6:28

This is this is like a really truly watered-down rum and cola where it's like 5% alcohol, and so it's just like watery, gross rum. Dirty. I don't like sorry, green bar.

SPEAKER_02 6:42

I like your branding. And I like the lavender one, actually. That's all I have to say.

SPEAKER_00 6:50

I'm gonna grab a paper towel real fast. Oh, we have a wow. I spilled a little bit. Okay, so green bar, non-alcoholic cocktails, don't do them. Don't don't do them.

SPEAKER_01 7:04

Ot for a bubble. Well, again. Don't no the lavender one's okay. I like the lavender one, actually.

SPEAKER_00 7:08

Just get a bubbly.

SPEAKER_01 7:09

Well, I mean, right, I don't understand can or a different type of bubbly mineral water. Sorry, green bar.

SPEAKER_00 7:17

That might be discussed later on this podcast.

SPEAKER_01 7:19

There will.

SPEAKER_00 7:20

Well, guys. Okay. I I I've been checking my email because one of the most exciting things in my life is going on right now. What's that, Nick? The car process. The new car process.

SPEAKER_02 7:32

When I saw this on the outline, I said, I think you've done this three times since I've known you. Most people hate buying cars. I hate buying cars. I love my car, so.

SPEAKER_00 7:40

There are people that professionally help people buy cars, and I want to be one of those people. That's what I want to be when I grow up. I love the process. I hate it. Uh we lease because we we we don't have to drive very much, uh, given where we are and things and stuff. I have about a 1,000-foot commute and Sarah works remotely. So um I do walk oftentimes, unless the field's too muddy, then I don't walk. But uh so I was we had a one of my friends does um financing, car financing for a dealership in Milwaukee, and she was in the store yesterday, and we're talking a little bit, and we have uh an upcoming event that she thinks she's gonna be able to go to. Usually she can't because she works late for um Could you guys hear that? Uh usually she works late because of car dealership hours, but she said, I think I'm gonna be able to get off because there's no cars available anywhere in the world. I'm like, oh yeah, I got a lease coming up on June, next June. And then I was I was I was thinking about that. Like, I'm glad it wasn't this June when the car storage was so much. She goes, you might want to consider that. She's like, Are you on good terms with your guy? And I am. Justin Zanto, Boucher, uh, Franklin Volkswagen. Check him out. Real nice guy, does us good work. This will be the seventh car we get from him.

SPEAKER_02 8:58

Because every two years you guys get new cars? Every three years. Three years.

SPEAKER_00 9:01

Uh so and Sarah and I drive matching cars. They do. It's adorable. Well, it's a good car for our lifestyle. So uh so I emailed Justin. I'm like, hey, bro, um, you know, no there's a used car s know there's a car shortage. Uh with people turning in leases, there's a lot of buyouts because the used cars are so valuable right now. How they calculate what your car is going to be worth at the end of the lease. Mine's worth a lot more, so I could actually get some equity to buy down my next lease. Wow. So I'm just buying a car. No, I I like I don't like dealing with the maintenance. I've had too many problems with maintenance. I just want a new car.

SPEAKER_02 9:36

It's because you buy cars that need a lot of maintenance.

SPEAKER_00 9:38

And I no, no, no. This is when I like bought cars back in the day. Like Pontiac, my grandam, Buick. I had a dodge with a dodge caliber. That was the worst dodge. Terrible cars. Anyway, um, so I'm very excited about this process. I'm looking at another Tiguan, possibly. Uh, they have this new one called a Taos. Taos? Taos?

unknown 9:59

Something.

SPEAKER_01 9:59

I always say the same word three times.

SPEAKER_00 10:01

I don't know. Uh I'm looking at that. And I most importantly, I'm very interested in their electric car. It's called an ID4. That might be a possibility. I believe in the electric car future. I would like to get an electric car at some point. I'm very interested in this. So uh I'm very excited. You know, when you walk into a dealership, you need to be committed to buying a car if the deal's right. And if the deal isn't right, you need to be committed to walking out the damn door.

SPEAKER_02 10:28

Wait, so do you buy it early? Because when you said soon, I didn't think it was eight months away.

SPEAKER_00 10:33

Well, with the usually it isn't. Usually we don't talk until like two weeks ahead of time. But with the current use with the current car shortage, it makes sense to check base.

SPEAKER_02 10:45

But like what if he finds a car right now?

SPEAKER_00 10:47

Then I'll get it, then I'll turn in my new my current lease, get a buyout, and start a new lease.

SPEAKER_02 10:52

Oh, I don't understand. I love my car.

SPEAKER_00 10:54

Uh just, you know.

SPEAKER_02 10:57

It's But like do you just get the same exact car every three years if you like it?

SPEAKER_00 11:02

Yeah, I have. Yeah. This is my Tiguan.

SPEAKER_02 11:06

Okay. I am not on car leasing.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

And you don't have to do any maintenance on it. That's good, because Volkswagens are expensive to fix.

SPEAKER_02 11:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:13

They're made in America these days, so not as much. Every car is expensive to fix.

SPEAKER_02 11:18

Yeah, cars are expensive to fix.

SPEAKER_00 11:20

Jeeps. They're very expensive to fix.

SPEAKER_02 11:21

I haven't had to fix mine. Because that's the thing about Jeeps. Yeah. I actually had this discussion with my uh one of my best friends when we were both buying our mom cars, which was the hey, we're only having two kids. We need an SUV big enough for two kids, but don't you dare give me a third row. I think she actually has a third row. But um, they ended up with a Ford Explorer, and I ended up uh with the car I wanted, and I'm sure I pay more for it.

SPEAKER_00 11:45

I almost got ran off the road by a Ford Explorer leaving soccer.

SPEAKER_02 11:49

Oh, yeah, that's a that's a mean time. You gotta stick after and play on the playground. Beat the tra get the traffic out. Well, we left early.

SPEAKER_00 11:56

We thought we thought we were doing that, and didn't work, didn't we?

SPEAKER_02 11:59

A rowdy uh part of town. Um, yeah, well, I hate buying cars, so I hope I don't have to do it for a while. We'll have to get Tyler a new one soon, but hopefully not me.

SPEAKER_00 12:08

Um Tyler's so nice. He'd probably just be like Tyler does not deal with those things in our house. Who do you think does? We'll get the nice man pay whatever he wants.

SPEAKER_02 12:18

What I love about Tyler, one of the many things, he doesn't give a crap. Like, he does not need a car that has heated seats and a heated steering wheel and all those things. He just doesn't care. He like is perfectly happy just having a car that drives safely.

SPEAKER_00 12:30

I will say heated steering wheel is very nice.

unknown 12:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:34

My car doesn't have it, but my dad's truck that we use to plow does have it. And I will say when you're plowing and you have to have the windows open because it's so hot in the car, because you have to turn the heat all the way up to take heat away from the engine. Did you know that?

SPEAKER_03 12:49

Oh, I've never plowed.

SPEAKER_00 12:50

So you have to so because the plow blocks airflow to the engine, you need to turn the heat all the way up to take all the heat out of the engine as you can. So you have to drive with your windows open.

SPEAKER_02 12:57

Oh, that's fascinating.

SPEAKER_00 12:59

Yeah, so like you're it's it's a weird, it's a weird thing, especially when it's snowing. Uh so the heated steering wheel is very nice, or like you know, you have to go brush something off or get move something out of the way. So here it's steering wheels very nice.

SPEAKER_02 13:12

It's very nice. But he doesn't care about that stuff.

SPEAKER_00 13:14

New Tiguan might have remote start, which uh your current car my car has that? Nope, doesn't it's not?

SPEAKER_02 13:20

Well, good thing you're getting a new car in eight months. I would I would be I do love my remote start. I have all the stupid frills, and that was simply because this was the car that was available when we were looking for a car, and we're like, yeah, sure, okay. I did not need any of those things.

SPEAKER_00 13:35

I'm gonna email Justin back. Uh he disinformed me. They don't have an ID4 I can drive. There's a touse I could drive, uh, possibly. And uh he's doing some math on some leases for me. Should I tell Justin that we're talking about him on the podcast right now, giving him a shout out? Sure, man. Live. I think that's gonna count for a lot.

SPEAKER_02 13:51

I um have friends that are look we're looking at electric vehicles as well, and that is even more in demand.

SPEAKER_00 13:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:58

So there's like Pelotons.

SPEAKER_00 14:00

Everybody got their stimulus checks and just bought Pelotons. Now no one cares about Pelotons. Well, I do. I did a scenic ride through the beautiful Burgundy vineyards with a cook d'or. I was like, oh, I know that that vineyard. I've only read about that on or seen it on a map, and then I read my rode my fake bike through it.

SPEAKER_02 14:19

I hope you've enjoyed listening to all of Nick's transportation talk this morning. Great. Um, we are, I don't know, a week into a week and a half into school and already sick kids everywhere.

SPEAKER_00 14:32

Sick kids everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 14:33

Um, I mean, daycare, so you know, Nick's daughter is in daycare with my daughter, and then I have a kid in the public school system.

SPEAKER_00 14:40

We share all the germs.

SPEAKER_02 14:41

Yes, but daycare, what people are like, well, your kid's been in daycare this whole time. Yes, but there's a whole bunch of new germs at daycare because there's kids that are going from the public schools to before and after school care at daycare. So a whole bunch of new germs. So actually, Elliot, I'm sure will be getting sick in about two weeks, but currently it's Lucy.

SPEAKER_00 14:58

So poor Lou.

SPEAKER_02 15:00

Oof. I mean, we've both had our bouts with sickness, which you'll hear about a little later from Nick. No puking, thank God. But Lucy's got what's we're gonna call it RSV, um, which is like, I'm not the mom that's like, well, she has this thing and I will do it. I don't know, it's a fucking cold, some kind of virus. She has this disgusting cough. It keeps her up all night, it makes her gag. It's awful. Bless my husband for taking the day off today because I had to do it yesterday to stay home with our kid. And so we're back in that moment of, I'm sorry, I think it's the moment we never left of how the hell do people do this all? How are we all going to manage our full-time jobs and our sick kids and COVID when it comes back? But we don't try to talk about negative things anymore. But that's where I am this week is well, school started, it's only a matter of time before Elliot's out. Lucy's been out for a couple days. Here we are. Just been a shit show, I would say. Labor Day, Labor Day weekend, big shit show. Kind of just kicked off things. How was the fair?

SPEAKER_00 15:58

You guys went how many times?

SPEAKER_02 16:00

Oh, I don't know, three. The fair was not as enjoyable as ever. I I have found that I'm selfish with the fair and like there are things I like to do. And it turns out with a five and a two-year-old, they don't care what I want to do. So I mean it was, you know, it was okay. Elliot um and I had season passes, and he had the time of his life. So I ate some good food, saw some friends, it was great. Uh, you know, that's that.

SPEAKER_00 16:25

We actually didn't go at all this year. Is that normal? No, we usually go like two times, and we just I don't know, we had other things going on. It was nice out this year.

SPEAKER_02 16:33

It like wasn't oppressively hot, which was great.

SPEAKER_00 16:35

I that was very nice. The weather in Wisconsin has turned to that beautiful fall.

unknown 16:39

Beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 16:40

It's gonna be warm again this week, but anyway, yeah. So uh the fair was good. It kind of went by too quickly. I did not get to do a couple things, but my mom, you know, um she participates, she has projects, and Elliot helps her, helps her with that.

SPEAKER_00 16:54

He's a good helper, I will say.

SPEAKER_02 16:56

He gets to keep one of the ribbons.

SPEAKER_00 16:58

He was very excited. Oh my gosh, Elliot, congratulations.

SPEAKER_02 17:02

Got a couple blue ribbons. So anyway, it was fun. But I just uh I feel like we're in the down. Don't you feel like once Labor Day happens, it's just like a slide of like madness until January.

SPEAKER_00 17:13

You're like, oh, it's a little break in like the middle of October, little break the first week of November. Kind of.

SPEAKER_02 17:20

Elliot made me list all the holidays that were coming up in what order. Well, what comes next? Then what? What's after that?

SPEAKER_00 17:26

What type of presents do I get for each one?

SPEAKER_02 17:28

I know, I mean, oh, I almost just ruined Kid Corner. I'll tell you more about presents later. Oh, we have our nug. Did you see our nug? I did. I saw the box, so I snuck in and just peeked at it a little.

SPEAKER_00 17:38

It's very comfortable.

SPEAKER_02 17:40

I highly recommend the nugget. Mind hiding at my parents' house, so we don't use it currently.

SPEAKER_00 17:44

So I read this story about something that I think should change your mind a little bit, Bridget. Should it? It's entitled, It's from Tanks Good News, Dad Jokes Posted Outside help motivate neighbors walk to recovery. Dad jokes? Yep. Uh Neva Fett has her neighbors to thank her for helping her get back on her feet. This is uh a Madison lady that had back surgery and was instructed by her doctor to go for walks every day, even just small walks down the street. And she credits her neighbors, Tom and Jennifer Hanser, for helping her stay positive and keep going. Um so the these neighbors put up a sign that had a dad joke on it, and they changed it every day. And so every day she would go take a walk and see the new joke and laugh about it. That's adorable. So I thought that's really cool that these neighbors did this nice thing. Like, first of all, knew that she had this, you know, surgery, needed to walk, and thought of like, what's a way we could just give her a little like chuckle chuckle to you know help walk. God, what if I want neighbors like that? I mean, you could. You might have some new neighbors.

SPEAKER_02 18:47

We might have new neighbors. Got a house for sale up by us.

SPEAKER_00 18:50

Who knows? You could be Bridget's neighbor.

SPEAKER_02 18:51

If anyone's looking.

SPEAKER_00 18:53

Or 25.

SPEAKER_02 18:55

Oh, I haven't checked recently. I don't know if the price has changed. Um that's a good question. So, you know, as mentioned previously, I'm feeling that like 2020 crap that we all felt. So I, you know, uh social media knows what I'm thinking and targets me with the correct articles. And I follow a page called Tiny Buddha, Simple Wisdom for Complex Lives. And it always just gets me the right articles at the right time. Thank you for listening, Zuck. Um Way to go, Zuck. This one, the title of the article was Why We Need to Stop Chasing Success and Start Enjoying the Little Things in Life. So it intrigued me of like, interesting, because I am the person that is always like, What's next? What can I do better? How can I do this? You know, like I've always said this a trait of Tyler's that I admire is that he is the the word is gonna sound negative, but he's always he's complacent, which is a negative connotation. I understand that. I understand that. But what I mean is he's very happy in his current situation, and he doesn't need to be like, well, what's what what's better? What's better out there? He's just he does what he needs to do. He's very happy at it. And I have never had that kind of like contentment.

SPEAKER_00 20:03

There's a way you could put it that calm. He's present in his moment.

SPEAKER_02 20:06

Yes, which is exactly what everyone says all the time.

SPEAKER_00 20:10

So Tyler is very good at that.

SPEAKER_02 20:12

I admire that in Tyler, and I it is not a strength of mine.

SPEAKER_00 20:17

You know what's a weakness of it though, when you you're very present in your moment, responding to your friend's texts, you know, but but okay, yes, he's not great at that.

SPEAKER_02 20:26

But also, great. Like, I feel this anxiety of like, oh, well, I have seven unread text messages on my phone. I need to do that. He doesn't. And so, like, yes, we all joke and give him crap about that. But this is true. That is a strength. And so this article is, you know, somewhat about that, and is like, hey, the no mat the point is no matter how hard you work or what you're doing, you're always gonna want to be at the next level. And that's always how I am. I'm always like, well, okay, you know, I can never, so I'll never be pleased. So I need to practice this. I just like the article pulls out some quotes because it's a it's a lengthy article. So if you're, you know, you're like bullet point list like me, the article pulls out bold, bold, large quotes. Existence is meant to be fun. It doesn't go anywhere, it just is. The whole point of dancing is the dance.

SPEAKER_00 21:14

You know, all these motivational quotes, right? I thought the point of dancing was to get uh some ladies interested in you like peacocks.

SPEAKER_02 21:19

End result, end result.

SPEAKER_00 21:20

How peacocks, you know, shake a feather to attract the the pee women.

SPEAKER_02 21:26

The pea women?

SPEAKER_00 21:27

No, what is it?

SPEAKER_02 21:29

Not a peacock.

SPEAKER_00 21:30

No, it's not. Peacocks are specifically male peaf.

SPEAKER_02 21:34

That's hilarious. So, anyway, this article's really great. We'll of course put it in the show notes, and it's just you've all heard these reminders, but it's always nice to be.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

Yeah, they're pee hens.

SPEAKER_02 21:43

P hen. I never knew that. So I just thought I thought this was a timely article for this like, hey, maybe you're just meant to like like Nick said this on a kid's corner a couple weeks ago. I don't know if it was the episode that didn't record. When you had a sick day with Simona, and instead of trying to work, you just were like. Like, I'm home sick, and I'm always yesterday with Lucy, I'm like, I have to work, but also like I am home with my sick kid. What do I do? And instead of doing that, just be home with your sick kid and have fun, and it'll be much more, much more enjoyable for everybody.

SPEAKER_00 22:12

I actually read an article about the road to success this week that I thought was pretty good. Turns out it's a road in Wisconsin. It's always under construction. Ooh, dad joke.

SPEAKER_02 22:21

We will take a quick break and be right back.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

Okay, we're ready.

SPEAKER_02 22:45

We're back.

SPEAKER_01 22:46

We're back.

SPEAKER_02 22:48

Um, you guys, you know how much we love bubbly. We were talking about these NA talking. I I'm a I'm a devouty bubbly brand water drinker at Drink Mall. You know, we've we've been through a lot of bubbly waters.

SPEAKER_00 23:03

Well, yesterday, Nick and I had like Bridget, this relates back to what you're just talking about. We keep trying to find a better bubbly. And maybe we should just live in the moment, be complacent, and drink our bubbly. Okay. I do usually.

SPEAKER_02 23:16

Damn, everything we do now is gonna get judged. Um, so Nick and I had planning sesh yesterday. Uh I haven't been sleeping.

SPEAKER_00 23:24

We adopted a new motto, be complacent.

SPEAKER_02 23:27

Be complacent. Um so that's what our shirt's gonna say. Um, but we're at the store. We didn't have any, we don't sell bubbly at the store, but we do have San Pellegrino. And man, I haven't Nick drinks them all the time, but I haven't had one. We grabbed one for our planning meeting, each had one, and man, it's just in a different category. It's different category than bubbly water.

SPEAKER_00 23:51

Water with gas. You know, you go to Europe. It makes it sound terrible. No, you just you go to Europe and you know, you you order, you say, because you have to pay for water, which is egregious in my opinion. But they ask you if you'd like still or with gas. Still or sparkling? No, they say with gas, they call it with gas. I've literally never had them ask me that in Europe. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 24:09

Okay. Telling you. I hope someone in your house. I like the water with the gas. So I just need to say I think it's the glass bottle that was helpful. It's the small bubbles. I'm just returned on to San Pellegrino, and I needed to share that with all of you. So good. You can get it with a little lemon or lime or just by itself, and I need to go buy some.

SPEAKER_00 24:27

Some people are really huge on the San Pellegrino essencias, I think they're called, that are like flavored ones. There's a ton of sugar in them. Like I don't like them because it's like 22 grams of sugar.

SPEAKER_02 24:38

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The one the cakes. Yeah. Oh, Tom loves them.

SPEAKER_00 24:41

There's like so much sugar in the bottom.

SPEAKER_02 24:42

I do love them too, but they're I discovered that one day and I was like, oh.

SPEAKER_00 24:46

One time when I was doing like, let's cut out the carbs, let's watch this type of stuff.

SPEAKER_02 24:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:50

I like got these because I'm like, oh, this we get. And there's like, no, oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 24:53

They're so bad. Well, that's resonating.

SPEAKER_00 24:55

I don't even think like if you're just cutting carbs, I just think in general, it's like they're very sugary, but that's not what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_02 25:01

I'm talking about the green glass bottles.

SPEAKER_00 25:03

Green glass bottles. You can get full liter bottles, and if you drink one of those in your day, first of all, if you're anything like me, you're gonna be peeing all afternoon. Yes, but you will be hydrated.

SPEAKER_02 25:13

And they're delicious. Oh my god, I was gonna save this article for something different, but it feels like the time to share it. We have had this discussion about if sparkling water is actually good for you and if it's highlight high so Runner's World says, Well, you're probably not hydrating with sparkling water during a long run, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, basically, yes, it hydrates you. Yes. The long and the short of it is it it hydrates you. So yeah, all of my problems are solved. Okay, that's all.

SPEAKER_00 25:44

We talked a little bit about the beautiful changing weather, the fall, it's not fall leaf season yet, but we're starting to get into the like beautiful 70s, cools down a little bit, and that means it's time for pollovers. Uh-uh. And my number one recommendation for you is what Bridget derisively calls the dad uniform. It totally is. The Patagonia better sweater. Dadagonia. It is comfy, it is long-lasting, it is warm, but not too warm. You can roll up the sleeves if need be. Tyler wears one every time. They're environmentally consciously made. Uh, they have a slogan of vote the assholes out. I mean, I love Patagonia. I love them. The sweaters are great. You know, there's other pullovers available on the market. Uh, you know, you can get I like the Nike has a dry fit thinner one than I like for um when it's about this weather.

SPEAKER_02 26:32

Which Tyler also wears.

SPEAKER_00 26:33

I like that one. Uh, but really, as we get into fall, I think you all should invest. There's a number of colors available.

SPEAKER_02 26:40

So you won't all match on the same day, Dan?

SPEAKER_00 26:42

They last forever. It is embarrassing when you and your dad friend roll up to a brewery in the same trucker hat and Patagonia swears.

SPEAKER_02 26:49

Every guy in my life wears the same thing. Well, it's great. It's a great thing to wear.

SPEAKER_00 26:54

They last forever. They're they're just great. So, yes, Patagonia better sweaters. Uh, go talk to my boy Sean down at Clearwater Outdoor. My boy. Uh go go in there and say, hey, Nick says I should talk to his boy Sean, see what happens. And uh he'll hook you up. It's great. They have they have great selection, they're so comfy. How to go in your better sweater. You can also find them in Delafield. Oh, they're yes, thank you, Bridget. Also in Delafield.

SPEAKER_02 27:20

You are not local to our corner of the state.

SPEAKER_00 27:22

Or they ship, so clearwateroutdoor.com. We'll be right back, guys. We're back! We're back. Okay, guys, I saved so this is the great thing about uh our rotating Reddit segment right here. Is Nick to look at Reddit. Yeah, it gives me a work excuse to uh to look at Reddit. And I saved this thread. I thought it was hilarious, and it's in ask Reddit, so anybody can comment. Okay. And it's not tagged serious. If it's tagged serious, you have to be serious or you get like banned. So this one is not tagged serious. It's anybody can say it.

SPEAKER_02 28:15

So anybody can say anything? Yep. Okay. So a lot of like everybody.

SPEAKER_00 28:19

Uh what is it easier to do if you're a woman?

SPEAKER_02 28:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 28:23

So I want to share some of the answers with you.

SPEAKER_02 28:25

I can tell you what it's harder to do.

SPEAKER_00 28:28

And that's usually that's usually what you know, this is phrase death. So I thought it was interesting we're empowering women about.

unknown 28:34

Are we?

SPEAKER_00 28:35

Here's one. From Turquoise Boho, and she appears to be a female based on her avatar. And she comments, hiding sexual arousal.

SPEAKER_02 28:44

Oh, yeah. Good one.

SPEAKER_00 28:47

This one really made me think. This is from another female, gone up horic. Gone euphoric.

SPEAKER_02 28:52

Wait, can we go back to the hiding sexual arousal for one quick second? I did not realize how hard this was for boys and how literally, and how often and how young this happens. And Tyler's like, uh yeah. Yeah. You're gonna have to walk with a backpack in front of your phone. Elliot's gonna have to walk with a backpack in front of his pants before you know it. I'm like, oh my god. So hard. Anyway, I'm not prepared for this.

SPEAKER_00 29:17

Uh carry anything on your hip. And I'm like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 29:21

Wait, that it's easier for a woman to carry things on her hips?

SPEAKER_00 29:24

Because women have hips and men, you know, so like not all women have hips. Well, a number of women have hips and like the carry the kid on the hip thing.

SPEAKER_02 29:32

They're like That's interesting to me. Because there were a lot of comments.

SPEAKER_00 29:36

Uh Yukik Suzumi says, can confirm. Use hips to carry bags, children, pets.

SPEAKER_02 29:41

Uh yeah. I mean, I will tell you.

SPEAKER_00 29:43

Die Hard Rennie says, I use mine to support cases of beer when I'm at work.

SPEAKER_02 29:47

When I before I had any children, I had no hips.

SPEAKER_00 29:50

So Fettuccini and Arikata. Fettuccini and Ricotta. There we go. Is her name? Yep, this is her username. Anytime I carry heavy something heavy and place it on my hip, it's like a part of my female instinct awakens.

SPEAKER_02 30:04

This is not how I feel about carrying things on my hips. I try and carry my kids in the center because it really messes up your balance and your whole body.

SPEAKER_00 30:13

Big blueberry boobies. Okay. Getting my hand into a Pringle Can.

SPEAKER_02 30:18

Is easier? Yep. Okay. I don't have things to say about that.

SPEAKER_00 30:22

We foss, small thing, but telling what a lotion deodorant body wash shampoo smells like by the label. Women's is just labeled like vanilla or lavender, but men's get dumbass names like Wolfhawk or Champion.

SPEAKER_02 30:33

Wolfhawk! Wolf something is exactly what I was thinking of. Oh, that's funny.

SPEAKER_00 30:39

I liked this one. This is a dad joke I occasionally make. End loss. Knowing for certain that the baby is yours. Oh, is this your daughter? To the best of my knowledge.

SPEAKER_02 30:50

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 30:51

She doesn't look like you. Here's a fun one. Women are generally better at conserving air while scuba diving.

SPEAKER_02 30:58

Is that really? I mean, I guess. I don't know if that feels scientific. I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00 31:04

She has some linked uh things. Let's see. Here's one that I this is actually, I think, why I saved it. This was higher up in the Caucasian delegation comments work with children. And this is a man. He says, as someone who works in early childhood education, I've had the cops call to me three times when I took my kids to the park. Adult man interacting with children must be a violent predator.

SPEAKER_02 31:25

Oh, let me tell you the times we've experienced this at my house with Tyler. I'm like, this is the person, the person you want with your children, trust me. But when he first started working in childcare, all the time. He got it.

SPEAKER_00 31:36

And then one last one. Shout out to the ladies. Apparently, women fighter pilots handle G-forces better than men, mainly due to being shorter and their heart not having to work so hard to pump blood to their brains. Damn right. But short men also handle G Forces better.

SPEAKER_02 31:51

We did learn about Tyler had to have some heart stress tests done when he was younger because he was passing out. And it's really just it takes longer to get through his body. Wow, a lot about Tyler on this episode, everybody.

SPEAKER_00 32:04

A lot about Tyler. That's gonna be the episode at title right there.

SPEAKER_02 32:07

Well, a lot about Tyler.

SPEAKER_00 32:09

I am now told I need to talk about my food first.

SPEAKER_02 32:12

I'm making Nikko food.

SPEAKER_00 32:13

Which now makes for a little bit of an awkward transition, but I wanted to talk about Fakasha.

SPEAKER_03 32:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:18

Uh I have been going through a facasha phase. I think it kind of goes with I talked about my tomato phase and how much I'm loving tomatoes. Tomatoes. And facasha just goes so well with the tomatoes, right? Because it's just like nom nom nom nom nom nom.

SPEAKER_02 32:31

Yes, but keep going.

SPEAKER_00 32:33

You can bake a oh, I know where you're going with this. You can bake an egg on top of a facasha, or you can put a tomato on top of facasha. Simple bakery. We were just there. I got a uh cinnamon roll for my wife and my father, and a croissant for myself, and um cookie for Simona. And the facasha was staring at me. And I was literally trying to come up with dinners that I could justify eating that facasha. And we did uh we did a dinner. I lost the memory card that I took the photos on, so now I've lost this whole photograph thing. We're doing great. I had it in my pocket, it fell out. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 33:10

Uh we do photo or video pretty much every day, and here we are.

SPEAKER_00 33:14

And uh it's too bad, but I did this thing where it's like flank steak. Oh, yeah, and with uh red peppers and onions, and you put it on top of facacha. It's so good as like a kind of open-faced steak sandwichy type of thing. Anything I just love facasha, it's so good faccia pizza, facaccia pie, facasha facacha. Facasha, facaccia to mop up your spaghetti sauce. I just I love facasha, guys. So we've been doing a lot of meals with it. Uh trying to come up with a way to justify it tonight, but then I'd have to drive back into town. I don't want to drive back into town.

SPEAKER_02 33:47

I mean, I just eat it like for lunch. I'm like, yeah, this has a vegetable. It does. It's a lot of bread. You could eat it for breakfast. Oh, Nick, what a great transition. Wow. I made Nick go first because so I I'm a sweet breakfast person with my coffee. So like 6 30 in the morning, I want like a muffin and my coffee or something. But then I'm usually hungry by 10 a.m. So that usually, because I am typically at home working, 10, 10.30, I make an egg. Um, but if I'm not, I haven't been sitting at home working like in two weeks.

SPEAKER_00 34:15

I've just or you've been disturbed by a sick child.

SPEAKER_02 34:18

Or that. Um, so I've just been running around and simple is doing breakfast facas now. So they're they're, I don't know, this big. How many inches is that, Nick?

SPEAKER_00 34:29

I'd say it's about the size of McDonald's hamburger patty.

SPEAKER_02 34:32

It's definitely bigger than a McDonald's hamburger patty. Uh McDonald's. They're a little smaller than the regular Facasha. So whatever. They are many inches wide. Um, but they um have two different ones a meat and a vegetarian option, and they have an egg cracked, like a um fried egg in the middle, not fried hard, over hard. I don't know, whatever. Over easy? No, because it's not it's not runny. Oh, yeah. Like they buy it in the breadcase. So, but it has egg in it and vegetables, and so it's a breakfast sandwich, essentially. It is so good, and I feel like I've eaten a real meal. I've had it probably three times this week as like my breakfast lunch, because then I don't eat again until like dinner sometimes because who has time to eat? Um, yeah, so anyway, I'm all about breakfast Pakasha.

SPEAKER_00 35:14

I went nut so on making breakfast this holiday weekend. I did uh cinnamon rolls and eggs and bacon one day. I did biscuits and gravy one day, I did waffles and eggs. Wow. Look at you, man.

SPEAKER_02 35:27

Like breakfast for dinner or just breakfast every day.

SPEAKER_00 35:29

Just breakfast every day. Like I tried very hard to like on weekends, I try very hard to make breakfast for my family. We try to sit down before I go to work and that's so nice. Eat a nice family breakfast.

SPEAKER_02 35:38

That's so lovely.

SPEAKER_00 35:39

And then I go to work and don't see him for a while on every weekend.

SPEAKER_02 35:42

On every day. So uh anyway, on that note, it's time for Kid Corner. I almost thought I had nothing to say today. But then I went back and looked at my photos. And you guys, Elliot lost his first tooth this week. I don't know if it's a good thing. We when we were at the dentist, they were like, Yeah, usually like around six. And he's like, No, I have a loose tooth. And he's like, eh, shaking it. And I was like, it's not actually loose, you guys. It didn't look loose. But then a week later, it really looked loose, and then ta-da, he lost it on the bottom. So cute because picture week or picture day is like next week. Oh, yeah. I know I'm so excited. But school does this cute little thing, and they like they have it, it's a necklace, it's like a plastic tooth on a necklace, and then they put his tooth inside that plastic tooth and staple it, like, put it in a Ziploc bag and put it in his folder. And then the teacher wrote a note, like, Elliot had an exciting day today, lost his first tooth, you know. So I'm like, Elliot, tell me all about it. Did you lose it in your sandwich? He's like, I was just out in the hall by my backpack and I wiggled it and it fell out right in my hand.

SPEAKER_00 36:44

Just a little wiggle.

SPEAKER_02 36:45

But he was so excited, it was adorable. And I especially love when he like you have those little kid moments with him because he feels like he's eight years old already, you know. So it's nice to remind me, like, he's only five, and um, it's so cute. And so we, you know, he was very curious what the tooth fairy was gonna do, and like, shit, I don't know what's the going rate. And I can't start at like five dollars a tooth, guys. I used to get a quarter, okay? Yeah, I think I got a quarter, and then I think I probably worked my way up to maybe like sucker dollars. Yeah, so so at the Walworth County Fair, the corn stand was giving 50 cent pieces. So this tooth fairy, what an arbitrary amount. We gave him two dollars and a 50 cent piece because we thought he'd be really excited about the 50 cent piece, which he was. I know, but what a weird price. He wanted six dollars, and we're like, no. Um, so anyway, it was a big discussion about how much, and then he said he woke up three times in the night to see if the tooth fairy came, and they hadn't yet until the morning, and he ran into our room like Christmas morning. Oh no. You guys okay, yeah. It was really cute, and I it was just a really fun little moment.

SPEAKER_00 37:51

So, were you someone that like wanted the teeth out, or were you like just let it happen?

SPEAKER_02 37:56

Or I'm sure I wanted them out. I don't really remember to be honest.

SPEAKER_00 37:58

If I I enjoyed the like process of yanking the tooth out, so like if it like was a little, I would just like pull it, I would go at it until it was out.

SPEAKER_02 38:07

My dad like always wanted to all like you're pulling stuff out, you're like, yeah, I probably should have done that.

SPEAKER_00 38:14

So there's blood and stuff, but you're like, I got it out. That sounds like a man thing to do.

SPEAKER_02 38:19

It um it was it was really fun, it was very cute.

SPEAKER_00 38:23

My story isn't as cute until the end, and then I'm probably gonna cry. Uh Samoa had some exposure to COVID in a very direct way, and we found out about it on 7:40 on Labor Day Monday. So actually Labor Day, and she was sick. We thought it was just like a cold or allergies or something. Uh, you know, British talked about all the kids getting sick. We're like, meh, whatever. And then we're like, oh no. What if? So it she was like very symptomatic, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, directly exposed. It kept getting worse on like the day that if you have COVID, your symptoms get bad. So we're like, okay, so we had to be responsible people, get her tested, keep her out of daycare, all these things. And so it took us a little bit to get a test for her because we had to go through the pediatrician and everything. And um I had to uh do stuff. So I was able to get a rapid test before her, and I was negative, which was awesome. Awesome. But then I was like, oh, like we thought she had it. Like we do like 60% chance she had it due to all the things. So it's like I should like not be around her except with like a mask on and everything, and like try and if she has it, like I should make sure I'm not COVID so I can go do things to have a parent that's you know not anyway. Turns out she didn't have COVID, she doesn't have RSV. No one has COVID. All of that. She acted, it was great, it was a relief.

SPEAKER_02 39:52

And she doesn't have RSV. She does you said her cough was dry.

SPEAKER_00 39:55

Yeah, they checked her, they like looked in her lungs, or like because we're like, is it RSV? Yeah, and she does not. Um, so that's great. That is great, and uh, because that one can have some like long-term low probabilities.

SPEAKER_02 40:08

COVID or RSV.

SPEAKER_00 40:09

Both. It was like both. But uh, so we're like, okay, good. She's just got a cold or whatever. And uh she came home the day that I didn't have to have a mask on with her, and she goes, Daddy, and gives me the biggest hug she's ever given me, and just like kind of fell asleep on me at like 4:30, which she never does, and just goes, Daddy, cook. Get in the kitchen, bitch. And and uh continued to hug me and wouldn't let go and cooked dinner with me, which was hard as shit.

SPEAKER_03 40:39

Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_00 40:39

With this 35 pounds. Because you can't put her on your hips. Yes, exactly. No, I was tried it. I tried it after I read this. I was like, I don't know, I don't got hips like that. Put her in her kitchen stand. We did, and she didn't like that as much as daddy hold.

SPEAKER_02 40:53

Oh, yeah. Clingy, sick kids.

SPEAKER_00 40:56

So she she just was very sweet. Uh it was like such a relief of like being able to actually hold her. It's really horrible. Love her, and oh I just love my little baby girl.

SPEAKER_02 41:08

Did you guys know that?

SPEAKER_00 41:09

Awesome.

SPEAKER_02 41:10

So anyway, she's good. No one has COVID. Everyone's COVID. I would not say everyone's fine.

SPEAKER_00 41:17

I very recently got tested for COVID and I don't have it, so I'm okay with no mask.

SPEAKER_02 41:21

Oh man, I don't know. I I have a like mom friend date tonight, and I'm like, hey, we've got we've got a croopy cough. Like, this is up to you. I don't know if your kids, you know, are you is your kid in daycare? It's 'tis the season, man.

SPEAKER_00 41:33

Tis the season. Everybody's gonna die.

SPEAKER_02 41:36

Any other year everyone would just say this is colds because everyone's going back to school. So I don't know, man. I don't know. I called, we talked to our doctor. I was like, what are we supposed to do? And she's like, it's probably not COVID, but like, I don't know. So Lucy hasn't had to get tested because she's out anyway. So good times.

SPEAKER_00 41:55

Hug your children.

SPEAKER_02 41:56

Don't get COVID.

SPEAKER_00 41:57

Don't get COVID. Hug your boring spouses. I'm sorry, your complacent spouses.

SPEAKER_02 42:01

Get vaccinated.

SPEAKER_00 42:02

Get vaccinated. If you're in a company of over a hundred people, you're gonna have to do it.

SPEAKER_02 42:07

That is not us. Don't get mad at us. We're just reading the news. Reading the news.

SPEAKER_00 42:13

Well, guys, have a great week. Have a great week. Thanks for listening. Thanks for watching. If you're watching us on the YouTubes, we appreciate it. Yeah, it's always funny. We make lots of hand gestures. So uh tune in next week. We're gonna have more fun and just yeah, have a great, great week, everybody.

SPEAKER_02 42:27

All right, guys. Thanks for joining in. You can always treat us a note at hello at dinnerplusprints.com and find us on social media.