A Slightly Uneventful Week | Dinner Plus Drinks #35

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Hello, friends.

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That was such a somber start.

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Well, it's we're getting so Hello friends! The golf has been good, and I think we're having no the Masters just got canceled.

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Oh.

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So we have to do the Jim Nance. Hello, friends. Hello. Welcome from Augusta National.

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That does actually, that's pretty on key.

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Jim Nance, man. He's Dom Brenneman, another long time. Did you see that?

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I don't like golf as much as you.

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Well, no, he's a baseball and football announcer. You would have heard him doing NFL. No. He's not gonna be doing NFL this year. He's no Joe Buck. He's not gonna be doing NFL this year. He said something really bad on a hot mic. Oh what did he say? It was a slur about people that are into people of their own gender.

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Not good. So is he fired completely?

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We're not sure. It was not good. Well, he should be. It was not good. So we'll see. We'll see.

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So golf. What else did you do this week? Um, we have fajitas.

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Shh.

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We're talking about that later.

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Spoiler alert.

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Shh.

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Um, I don't know. This is kind of just like a meh. I know. We were talking before the show, like, I don't know what what how was your week? I mean, I had one highlight. Um, a good friend of mine came and visited. She lives, she used to live in California. Do you know Aaron Murphy? I know Aaron. Shout out, Erin. She came up and visited. She's really good at just like, hey, are you guys around? I'm just gonna drive up from Chicago because I'm bored. And she plays in the driveway with my kids. Like, she's so it's so great. So it was really nice to see her.

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I gotta see my friend Ron.

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Oh, well, we see Ron a lot.

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We see Ron. That was nice. Um, I gotta see my friend Tyler.

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Yeah, I like Tyler a lot. I like Tyler. Um, okay. I just bring up Erin because she's a new friend, okay? We haven't talked about Erin. We have more friends than the three people we talk about.

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I'm gonna try and see my friend Kyle, probably.

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You know, we'll see. Big week, guys. So we're pretty boring this week. It's been kind of a boring week. A lot of work. But next week, next week. I'm stressing a little. I gotta say, next week, we finally have an event. Nick's showing you the wine for the event. So we have, it'll happen the night before next week's release, Gaze and Graze. I think we've talked about it like once on here, but we are finally doing an event that's um a dinner under the stars. Socially distant dinner under the stars. Yeah, so you gaze at the stars and graze on your delicious food. So yeah, we have this great land next to the store, and we're able to socially distance set tables, and you are only at a table with people that you know. So, anyway, we're very excited, and it's next week, and I, you know, I'm a little nervous because I always get nervous before my events. Um, my darling daughter woke up at 4 50 this morning. So I pulled her into my bed hoping she'll go back to sleep, but instead, she laid there awake and I laid there thinking of all the things I needed to like complete for the event. It was really great.

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I'm not worried at all. You got this covered.

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I do. I do have it covered. It's just always the week before an event. There's always things to do.

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There's always things to do.

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So we're gonna forget about that.

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It's uh a snout to tail type of dinner with a bunch of pork. Yeah, and we are going to have some wine pairings with them.

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So our friends at Simple are cooking.

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The people that come can have some wine pairings. Uh, all wines imported by our friends at wine cellars. This is uh Tarantes. Tarantas from Salta in Argentina. Have you ever had a Tarantes? No. I don't know.

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Well, if I would, it would be with you. So can you just keep track of all the wine I've drank?

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So uh smell it. What do you think?

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Smells like summer.

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It's very floral. Yep. Very fresh.

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It's nice and cold, which I appreciate for a white wine.

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These wines are very summery, very fresh. Tarantas doesn't really grow very many places out of Argentina. It's very high elevation, which means you get all these like beautiful floral things.

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Okay. And which course do you remember what we're pairing this with?

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We're doing this with, I don't know.

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I don't remember. I guess you'll have to stay tuned.

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Yeah, nice, crisp, light, refreshing.

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I feel like it'd actually be really great with the meal, the menu that we have. I mean, obviously it will be a good one.

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I think this is what it was paired for the menu.

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Yeah. Yeah. Salad course.

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Because we wanted something that like brought out because there's like some flowers in the salad, and we wanted something that brings that out and something that has enough acidity to cut through the head cheese portion of it.

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Yeah, which sounds weird, but can you explain head cheese a little or you boil.

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Feels like some crap out of a pig head. Boil the crap is the proper term. You get the fat and you make a loaf out of it that you can slice and eat.

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Cheese. So I learned that because it doesn't sound like necessarily the most appealing thing for people that don't know.

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It's you know, some people call it a terrine. Yes, a terrine, I think. That's a different thing. That's a different thing. That's a jelly loaf.

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So we don't normally like tell you about all of the work things so much, but this is just such a cool event. And the idea is to like stretch the boundaries a little about what you've maybe what you're what you normally eat. So like try all these things. It's a four course, four courses, right? Plus dessert. Man, the dessert. Well, I'm here. I'm coming for the dessert, you guys, which features peaches. Lots of peaches. So and salted caramel. So I don't need to say anything else, do I?

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No, I don't think so. So yeah, just you know, fun, light summer wine. If you guys have never tried a Trantes, try Trones. It's it's uh, you know, Amalia, Amalaya, A-M-A-L-A-Y-A, depends on how you will pronounce it. It's um, it's uh one you can find in a lot of places. Oh, that's the brand. Um, this is from Zuccardi, you can find it. Um, but yeah, it's generally pretty affordable. Pretty nice.

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Easy drinking. So here we are.

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Summer's over, but okay.

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Next week though. Like it's not yet Labor Day, so stay tuned till next week when we're celebrating the end of summer.

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Over soon. All right, Bridget. What was the best thing you ate?

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You already talked about the fajitas. So on our outline, it says fajitas times two. So we had um technically, I ate one of these. Yeah, it was a week. So I ate it last Saturday. I had my first round of fajitas. So we went um, our friends at Gray Spot. We got to meet the lovely wives of Gray Spot. So really the Leah's. Yeah, why don't I love you guys?

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Why doesn't Gray Spot have like a separate division?

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That is Could you start another Instagram account, guys?

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Leah and Leah and not Jeff and Colin, because really they're the best.

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So I used to think Jeff and Colin were the best, but I got to meet their wives and families this weekend. We both did. So lovely children as well. Nick has met a couple of them anyway. It was so great, and we all kind of brought some things to the party and we had fajitas. So that was delicious. Um, and I thought that was enough of a treat. But then they were good fajitas. Nick had us over on Tuesday for National Fajita Day, which we didn't know. I didn't know.

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We didn't know until we were on the radio. It was like, oh, it's National Fajita Day.

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We should do fajitas. Usually we are on top of our food holidays, but we just when we met. It was also National Pinot Noir Day. There was a lot going on. So we had fajitas in Pinot Noir, but we came over here, the kids ran around, and Nick made a bomb rub for the skirt steak. Skirt steak, right?

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Flank steak.

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Dang it, flank steak. I knew I was gonna go.

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It was gonna be skirt steak, but we were out of skirt steak, so flank stick, whatever. It was a little meatier, you know.

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I don't know, but I'm learning.

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I'm trying to thicker, skirt steak's a little thinner.

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Yeah, okay.

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A little more tender, a little more chew to it, because it's you know, this instead of that.

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The chew. Well, my kids, like we've mentioned, are carnival. So, man.

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Yeah, he did a good job.

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We had pork last night. Same, man. He likes it. Oh, how'd you cook that pork? I made it in the oven with the spice rub thing you told me. Like the buttons. Buttery garlic? Yes, the butter.

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Oh, that stuff is like pure delicious.

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I usually like buy the frozen buttery garlic already marinated, but I bought the fresh pork tenderloin, put the little rub all over it. It felt very fancy for me. Pork tenderloin with a rub.

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I'd say pork tenderloin, seasoned it with something right out of the can and baked it. It was very fancy.

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And I roasted broccoli because when I roast the crap out of broccoli, my kids love it.

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Oh, it's so good though. Did you put the buttery garlic on the broccoli?

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No, just salt and pepper.

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You should do the buttery garlic on that. Whatever.

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It was so good.

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And then and then microwave a little bit of butter to melt it and just drizzle it.

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I don't have microwave, Nick. I mean, I do. It's just in my garage. We don't have it hooked up. Okay. So anyway, I had fajitas times too, and I love them so much I would eat them every day. Okay. But also tell me about what you ate because I almost talked about it already.

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So I'm I think the highlight of my week was our friends at the farmstead, Bath. She put up this picture of And VJ. Well, Beth did it. VJ. Let's be real here. VJ, Vijay did not do this. Uh he put up this picture of this. They they got uh through their farmer network, they got some peaches from Washington that are off the heasy. So good. It's a perfect so good. And we love our Georgia peaches, but uh these Washington ones, they're a little sweeter, like perfectly ripe. You know, I don't think people know about Washington peaches yet, so there's not quite the pressure. You know, they made me think of Britney. Shut up.

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Hey boo. Uh we like your peaches.

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But uh I'm glad you said that and not me. Yes, me too. Um they were real so simple. She took this picture where they made a croissant sandwich with basically all of my favorite things. Yes. Croissants, a raspberry cream sauce. Raspberries are my favorite for fruit, and I love cream. Like who does it? White dude, cream, come on. Uh, white Midwestern German dude, come on.

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Cream in my croissant.

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Uh raspberries and then peaches. Yeah. And so we bought one yesterday and thinking we were gonna like split it up.

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Nick said that, and I didn't want to call him out. I was like, am I gonna be the fatty that's like you're gonna want a full one, but oh my god, we're getting we we're getting more today.

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I was hoping they'd be ready so I could like show it to the camera. I was actually gonna like walk around super uncomfortable close-up and be like, hey, everybody, look at what we are doing with this this fatty thing. But I I've so I've never had anything so good in my life.

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Instead, we're just rushing through this recording because after this, we're headed to Simple to get more.

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They're so good. If you're in the area and they still have this thing, go get it. Well, we're gonna buy them also. I think I don't think I've sent you so many angry texts in my life as well as like I was like, they don't have any.

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I was there this morning picking up our meal kits, and I'm like, they don't have them yet, but they'll be out at noon. He was very angry.

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But they also I think I told you to take a stool and throw it through the throw things, burn it down.

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But I love them very much. Um, they do this in the fall with apples and stuff.

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I mean, I love my wife very much, but if she went and dropped a nuclear bomb on my store, I would probably be angry at her too. So there's things that can happen that change love.

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So, anyway, they're really good. Um, they do these stuffed croissants when the time is right, and man, it would be like the best things I've ever had.

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They're so good. Go get it.

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So maybe we'll post a picture.

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If you have peaches and cream cheese and other fruits and well, I don't know what the raspberry cream sauce is. Croissants. Just do it at home. I mean, good lord, make a sandwich.

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Like there's fruit on it.

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So good. So good.

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So anyway, we both really loved that. I was gonna talk about it in the how was my week, but I we see that it was crap until I had this croissant.

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And then I was gonna talk about this is the only good thing in my week, and then Nick stole it, so my week's crap again.

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Until I ate my feelings.

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My feelings were bright and sunshiny, but also creamy. Okay, so we really liked it is all. Oh, it's really good. And everybody, you should if you can get it from simple, get it. If you can't make your own, it's if you can't, sorry. I mean, good lord, it's so good.

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Well, so we ate a lot of food this week.

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Yeah, Bridget, you got some uh some something about AOC. Alex Oxlade Chamberlain.

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I d yes, that's who you guys. This article. Yeah, I mean, I we I moved right past that because no one knows who that is except you. Um, so I was so excited when I was. Get out of here. So you all, if you've been listening, thank you, first of all. But you may know, because I believe I've talked about it at least twice, how much I love thrift shopping, okay? Definitely this shirt is from a thrift store. Goodwill. Shout out to Goodwill. But um AOC, lover, hater, I'm not here to have a political discussion, but she got slammed by the New York Post for wearing a designer dress on the view. And I'm you're I'm sorry, I should take that back. The post wrote the article about this discussion. And um, Erica Nurnberg wrote about AOC, quote, don't you love it when an avowed socialist wears $580 dresses from Ricky Freeman? I mean, who doesn't need a sequin leopard dress to be an effective congresswoman? Okay, calm down. So AOC, of course, got on Twitter where all the good news happens. You don't come at her. And she says, Yep, I rent, borrow, and thrift my clothes. It's also environmentally sustainable. So obviously, her talking about thrifting made me really excited, but it gets better. The post being so AOC is referring to the article. The post is just mad that you can look good fighting for working families. Sequins are a great accessory to universal healthcare, don't you agree? So, anyway, it's a funny article. Like, if if you like her, otherwise I'm sure you'll find a reason to hate the article. But it's very funny. And so, yes, she was wearing a designer dress that she rented. So uh, yay, you can rent your clothes. Also, go to a thrift store, it's a great way to like recycle and love the environment.

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So, there you go. I Googled it. Alex Oxide Chamberlain has 4.9 million followers on his Instagram, and uh Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez has 6.2 million followers. So I guess she's a little bit bigger than that. Yes, she's uh weird. But I mean, look at this gear that a the ox has.

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Okay. That better not be your news story, Nick.

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Wow, that is uh look at this picture though. Uh all right. Um no, my news story is a little different.

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Not about thrifting thrifting.

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Uh your first problem is you're reading the New York Post. Mine is from the New York Times, and uh, I'm actually a big art person. I love art history, I love learning about art, I love art, I just love art. And um this was the 500th, 600th, 500th anniversary of the artist Raphael. Some people know him as a teenage mutant ninja turtle. Some people know him as an artist, some people love him. Same person. Um he it's uh 500th anniversary of his death. He died at 38. So when you consider his output, pretty great. Yeah. Um, but they were supposed to have this huge exhibit of his um in uh his hometown in Italy, Urbino. And uh it got canceled because of um the COVID all the things 2020, uh-huh. Hashtag and uh turns out you can actually uh now do it virtually. They made a really cool video where you can with some like commentary and stuff and explanations, yeah. Uh so it's not like the full you can just walk through 3D, but it's a video tour. And so if you like Renaissance art and you like Raphael, um, or you're just looking for something to do, pull this up on your big screen and you can do a really cool tour of Raphael's stuff. So um I did it, it was really neat. Uh I thought they did a really nice job. The it the English version is very good. It's not like just a crappy Italian translation.

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Just a D plus version.

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Uh it's really good. Um, so there's some really nice stuff. And if you like art, I thought it was cool.

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And it's again the you know I have two questions, follow-up questions. Very important. One, what's your favorite? Like, is Renaissance art your favorite?

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Um I'm a big impressionist person.

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Okay.

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Great. Monet. I know it's very basic, but super basic.

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I'm a modern art person, so uh, does that surprise you? Secondly, when you go to museums, are you the person that like gets the headphones and like listens to all the things?

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Uh sometimes. It depends on my level of uh knowledge of the museum and the how much time I have and how I'm feeling that day. Okay. Sometimes I am, sometimes I like the commentary, sometimes I know what I want to see, sometimes I just want to wander, sometimes I kind of want to get a tour.

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Okay.

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So if I'm in the like, I have four to six hours, don't know the museum, and don't have something I'm particularly feeling, yeah, I'm gonna do their tour. If I know the museum, I know I want to see, I have a short time or a long time, I'm either gonna like go see what I see. Like every time I'm in DC, I go to the National Gallery, I go straight to the uh Robert Shaw. Um right to that one, which is uh the the movie Glory, the 54th, yeah. The um it's that thing.

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I feel like you'd love that movie.

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Um, yes, and uh Robert Shaw Gold. And um I sit in front of that and just it's kind of like a hello, my old friend type of situation. So like if I have 30 minutes in DC, that's like my I sit there and look at that.

SPEAKER_01 17:04

Okay, follow-up to my follow-up, really, how long has it been since you've been in a museum? Like, I haven't thought about that, but we used to go pretty regularly with the kids and in Milwaukee.

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We went last year to where did we go? Somewhere in Chicago.

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Yeah, just like I feel like our museum museum, yeah. Yeah, so do we.

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I just Milwaukee Public Museum opens Saturday, so the day before this releases, and I need to go because they're closing it and doing a move in a new building. And I know they like the whole upper floor with like the dioramas and stuff, they're like, oh, they can't do like this anymore.

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I'm like, stupid kids. I mean, it's not as cool as the streets of old Milwaukee.

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First of all, that's gonna be preserved, but yeah, so I want to go do it. And I want to take like all the pictures and like their ads are great.

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The dinosaur with the mask on it. I know.

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So like they're gonna take all that down though.

SPEAKER_01 17:49

Oh, oh, really? Yeah, I like that. Like the rainforest thing is so cool. I do love that museum. I did take Elliot there. Um Tether and I took him there. Like, uh Shannon gonna come? Sure, man. Let's go. All of the children. Um, we went to the zoo and then we went to the museum in the afternoon, which was like a big mistake because he did not understand why like the animals at the zoo were alive and then the animals at the museum were not alive. He was too young. So that's just uh um some parenting advice from yours, truly.

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I saw um another news article. I was actually, it was an art one. I didn't end up picking up it. It was uh it was about this crab that they taught to paint. His name was Leonardo da Pinci.

SPEAKER_01 18:30

Oh, Leonardo da Pinche.

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All right, let's let's take a look at it.

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We're gonna take a minute. All right, we're back with our favorite product recommendations and also a really important update. We forgot the light, but don't worry, it's on now. It was really bothering me.

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So I'm really bothered, Bridget. I didn't it didn't bother me so much.

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We fixed it, you guys. Thanks for bearing with us.

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We're sorry if it caused you emotional distress. Like it did to me. I think I'll record something at the start of this with a trigger warning of the light isn't on until halfway through, everybody.

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So if that bothers you, don't watch the first half on YouTube. So, product recommendation this week is a very organized uh item. And I was telling Nick about it, and he said, Oh my god, I bought the same thing till we discovered the same thing it wasn't the same thing. So I bought this handy magnetic calendar. Not a dry erase calendar that you can stick magnets on, but a calendar that I can stick to my free board. So I have one of those. I have like a thousand and a half dry erase boards because I love them. But we're really struggling with like the right place to have our family calendar and like Elliot starts school and it's a lot of struggles.

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We're struggling with where to put all of our to-do lists, where to put your family calendar, where to put my family calendar.

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There's a lot of things to organize. So this, I'm like, our water thing on our fridge takes forever. So I'm always like looking at whatever's on our fridge, which has been the same photos for like four months. So I got a calendar to put put there. So like we can easily add things, we can look at it. Well, I'm sorry, coronavirus. Yeah, man, take care of artwork. So anyway, magnetic calendars.

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If you're listening, get out of here.

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Mine has the whole month on the top, and then it has notes on the bottom where you can put like your meals for the day, which I fully intend to do. Very basic, just like spaghetti, tacos. So, anyway, super excited about it. We just got it yesterday, so I've not done anything with it yet. But magnetic calendar that sticks right on the fridge. So, if you have like a really slow water thing like me, this is perfect for you.

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That reminds me of the other really good thing I was gonna eat that I ate. I was gonna talk about until the simple. Um, this avocado tomato corn salad that Bridget made to go with the fajitas. I'm a quick guy. I'm a chef now. It was so good. I've made that like four times this week. So good. Well, I mean, it's tastes like summer.

SPEAKER_01 21:02

Yeah, it is. It goes with everything. I was talking to Shannon about um what was I talking about? Oh, bananas and how our kids love bananas. And I was like, I haven't bought bananas in weeks because in the summer, when there's all the fresh things, I just like buy any fresh produce that is available, and I can't possibly eat it all. So we've been off the banana train for a little while.

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Bridget's on Venmo. My product recommendation is Venmo her some money, she'll deliver you this avocado.

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It takes like an hour because it's just a lot of cutting. Like it's very easy, it's just a lot of chopping.

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I do like coming home and chopping. It's a good way to Yeah.

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I don't I don't mind it. It's just hard with my my chillins.

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Um, my recommendation is uh three fur. Oh, three, what? Uh it's Mang Chi. I think that's how you say it. This is interesting. Her name is I don't know. What's her name? What does her name say? She goes by Mang Chi. I don't know if that's really her name.

SPEAKER_01 21:50

I have no idea, man. About. Shall I read about her? Yeah. Oh, this is a funny looking blog.

SPEAKER_00 21:55

Welcome to my website. Yeah, Mang Chi. So she's a Korean lady, um, and she does. Uh she started doing YouTube videos in 2007. This is, you know, like early internet, uh, all about Korean food. Nice. Uh so if you like Korean food, which I'm on a huge Korean food kick right now, uh, Chef Young, simple, shout out. He really hooked me up with some stuff. Did I tell you I made my own samjang the other day? No. Yeah, I made my own samjang. We did like uh little uh rice or not uh rice lettuce barbecue pork wraps. Oh my gosh. Oh Elliot, what she called Elliot.

SPEAKER_01 22:26

Yeah, come on, man. Can't you just cook dinner for us every night now?

SPEAKER_00 22:29

Um she called Elliot. Just Elliot now. Um so if you like Korean food, if you she does like a really nice job, she's like a super nice, super fun, super positive, upbeat person. You should watch her movies because she's just like she makes fun of herself a little bit and is like also like very earnest and upbeat. Her videos are great. So her YouTube is just Mang Chi M-A-A-N-G-C-H-I. I'm sure someone here's Korean is I'm screwing this up terribly. I'm sorry. Uh her website has all the recipes, and then her cookbook, which I actually got from the library, um, she has a number of cookbooks now, but she has a new one out um called uh Meng Chi's Essential Korean, I think it is. Yeah, big book. Big book of Korean recipes. Super easy. She does a great job of um explaining like when you go to an Asian grocery store, you want to buy online, like what you should buy for these things because it's in Korean.

SPEAKER_01 23:22

Yes, I've done it. I've gone once to the one down in somewhere in Illinois.

SPEAKER_00 23:26

Korean, Japanese, Chinese, whatever, Vietnamese, you're like buying. And it's like it's very hard to know what you're buying. And usually the staff there is very nice and helpful, but again, do you really want to be the white dude that's like every ingredient? Hey, could you tell me, you know.

SPEAKER_01 23:41

Which noodle is this?

SPEAKER_00 23:42

So um, great, great recipe book. If if you like Korean food, if you want to try some new things, or if you just want to watch a recipe video and laugh that takes you about 10-15 minutes um and feel better about yourself and feel better about humanity. Mang Chi, she's my nice, she looks joyful, she's super, and it's like kind of some of the fun. She just did one, she has one up on our YouTube now as like her featured video. That was something in the Contagion movie. Yeah. And she's like, she's like, I haven't seen this, and she's very Korean. She was born in Korea, so she has, you know, the accent, she's like, I haven't seen this, but everybody comes up to me and says, You're Korean. Do you know about the movie Contagion? And we wanted Oscar for it, so yay, Korea. I'm like, okay.

SPEAKER_01 24:23

Have you seen it?

SPEAKER_00 24:23

No, I haven't seen it. I'm I would get so freaked out. Yeah. I watched, I read the book Um World War Z. I really like the book. Then I watched the movie. The movie and the book are totally different. And that's what they say. It's they give me nightmares. Fast zombies. If there are fast zombies, we're just screwed. I was fighting zombies this morning with Elliot. Slow zombies.

SPEAKER_01 24:45

Okay, zombies aren't real, so let's move on.

SPEAKER_00 24:47

We're gonna have an episode about zombies. All right, so that's my product recommendation for the day.

SPEAKER_01 24:51

Tyler's gonna be substituting, so I'm not gonna sit here for 45 minutes and talk about zombies. Okay, moving on. What's happening this week?

SPEAKER_00 25:18

Well, it is time for interesting questions with Bridget and Nick. It's Nick's turn. All right, yep, my turn. I have some questions for you, Bridget. I always get a little sweaty and a little nervous, you guys. My my first one, I was I was looking up some ideas, and one was would you want to have a six out of ten personality or a ten out of ten looks as your spouse? I was like, well, she's already got a ten out of ten in both.

SPEAKER_01 25:45

Oh, Nick, look how kind you are.

SPEAKER_00 25:47

Tyler, if you're listening, if this is one of the one in six you listen to. Sorry. Um all right. This one I'm actually interested in, given your proclivity to water, love of travel, and need for space. Oh god. Would you rather live in a houseboat forever or an RV forever?

SPEAKER_01 26:11

Oh. Um, okay, so I'm gonna tell you my initial gut was houseboat, obviously, but I'm changing it. RV.

SPEAKER_00 26:18

I think it's easier to try if you're in a houseboat, there's only so many places you can go. And anytime you're Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:24

When you're in an RV, you can I mean, like, so how is it?

SPEAKER_00 26:26

You can at least go to a store in your RV. You can't like just pull up to Walmart and there's buttons.

SPEAKER_01 26:33

I'm rewatching a really dumb show that's basically snakes in the water. Right. Yes, it's based in Alabama and it's like marshy and gross. Plus, like you could get seasick. I don't really like that's not something I'm prone to, but unless there's corona involved. If I have guests over, they could feel seasick. So RV. You could like put up one of those cool little canopies and have like a great little patio. I want an RV.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

Okay. Good one. I think I would like an RV as well. Yeah, I I I wouldn't love either one. I I do like a little more space. I mean, yeah. The tiny house thing freaks me out. I know. I always want to like it, but I would like one instead of a couch. An RV instead of a couch? No, no, a tiny house. Like I have five acres, so we could put a tiny house in the back corner instead of the house. And when I'm sent to the couch, you know, I could go to my tiny house.

SPEAKER_01 27:19

So it's like the dog house.

SPEAKER_00 27:21

But it's my tiny house.

SPEAKER_01 27:22

Okay, great. I don't think that's what the trend is meant for. Are you sure? Maybe not. Are you sure it wasn't made by scoring men? It actually might be. That'd be like the best secret trend. Like she she sheds were a thing, so why can't my Tyler's aunt, whatever that makes me as an in-law, whatever. Love her. She has an awesome she shed. Does she? Yeah, it's so great.

SPEAKER_00 27:42

Would you rather have every stoplight you come up to be green for the rest of your life or never have to wait in line at a store again?

SPEAKER_01 27:52

Oh, I don't actually mind either of these things. Like, I don't mind red lights or waiting in line. Um, because I really like to people watch. Um, I think I would never want to wait in a line at a store because I on the road sometimes you like need a break, in my opinion. I don't know. Can you imagine never stopping on the road ever? Like downtown Lake Geneva, you just cruise right through. I think it's easier to speed. And sometimes I just like need a break to be like, whoa.

SPEAKER_00 28:17

Oh my god, I'm driving 105 down downtown Lake Geneva.

SPEAKER_01 28:20

I think that I'd rather never wait in a line because sometimes when I'm at the store, I am in a I'm in a hurry and I'm like, I get a little annoyed. That's that's a tricky one.

SPEAKER_00 28:29

I I would rather never wait in lines. I hate lines, I hate people, I hate I hate everything.

SPEAKER_01 28:33

I I mean like you have to like.

SPEAKER_00 28:41

I know it said a dollar each, but I thought it was four for 95 cents. Okay, but how often does that really happen? Oh, it happens to me all the time. How much time have you spent with me where like ridiculous things happen to me?

SPEAKER_01 28:55

Like they sell out of the last peach croissant? What if that happens today? Um, I just have a side.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

Walmart's County Scanner. Listen up. Upset man at Simple Bakery.

SPEAKER_01 29:08

Um, this is gonna make me sound like I'm a really good person. Uh, trust me, I'm not, but I do try. I do try. Like, there was a country song somewhere about like you never know what people are going through. And I happen to be going through a hard time where I was driving to Chicago a lot to a hospital. So I would like to be crying when I was driving or like not paying attention, so I'm like speeding or going too slow or whatever. And I was like, oh yeah, I wish people just like gave me a little grace. So I do try when I get frustrated to like take a step back.

SPEAKER_00 29:35

That's good of you.

SPEAKER_01 29:35

Yeah, so I don't do it all the time. Please don't, you know, like think I'm preaching here, but you know, great. That's how I feel about lines.

SPEAKER_00 29:42

My last question for you would you rather appear to everywhere you appear riding on a lion or a rhino?

SPEAKER_01 29:52

A lion! Why not a lion? That is like fierce and strong and a rhino?

SPEAKER_00 30:00

Also fierce and strong with a horn.

SPEAKER_01 30:04

No, would you hold on to the horn?

SPEAKER_00 30:07

No, because you're behind it. But the rhino, you could just- Oh, wait, you're not riding on it. It is no, you're you're riding on it. You're riding behind the horn. Yeah, but so the rhino, it could be like the Kool-Aid guy, and you bust through the wall. You know? Um, there's a really bust through your walls. I mean The Lion might eat you.

SPEAKER_01 30:26

A lion. No, we're friends. If he's giving me a ride places, he's on my team, and I want a lion on my team, not a rhino. That is an easy question, Nikki.

SPEAKER_00 30:34

I generally like lions too, but like the idea of a rhino cool.

SPEAKER_01 30:39

Like, when you said lion, my mind went to Katy Perry. Was there like, is there a movie? Oh, yes. Okay. I'm like, I'm picturing a Super Bowl show. Tiger. Lion. Okay, so now you know where my mind is going.

SPEAKER_00 30:53

But if they love each other very much and have a baby, it's called a Liger.

SPEAKER_01 30:57

Oh, I do want a Liger. If I'm gonna have a pet, it's gonna be a Liger. You heard it.

SPEAKER_00 31:03

And then you're gonna be on a Netflix reality show, Liger King.

SPEAKER_01 31:06

All of my dreams will be shirts about me. Okay, guys.

SPEAKER_00 31:12

Well, it's time to talk about more food.

SPEAKER_01 31:15

More food.

SPEAKER_00 31:16

Um, and shockingly, Bridget, shockingly, shockingly, you made this pick.

SPEAKER_01 31:20

I wasn't going to because Nick always makes fun of me, but I chose Monday's. But it's like all of your favorite things. I know. It's Thai chicken satay. So, yes, you'd think it's because it's chicken or because it's got a delicious dipping sauce, but I chose it because I like to eat uh like things on a stick? Not things on a stick. I don't care about things. Actually, it kind of annoys me because you're just the stick is just like for cooking. It's stupid. And then you're like getting messy. I agree with that.

SPEAKER_00 31:43

People that like kebabs, I'm like, I don't actually. You're not eating it off the stick. Like you're just moving. So Congratulations, you shoved a shark party object in your mouth. You're an idiot. So don't eat off a kebab.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

So I chose the satay because um the peanuts, I could like just eat it. The peanut sauce is really good. Spoonfuls. Um, but I like to eat like tapas. So I feel like I would eat this either as an appetizer or with many different things.

SPEAKER_00 32:07

The picture I plated it with some slaw that was really good too.

SPEAKER_01 32:10

The slaw. Is that like that Asian slaw salad that's the bomb? Yep. I'm gonna start bringing that to parties. It's easier to make. Anyway, Thai chicken setay, Monday's meal is my pick of the week. What about you?

SPEAKER_00 32:21

My pick is uh Tuesday is National Babyback Rib Day. Yeah, so whatever I have to move my taco recipe this week. Uh or is it Thursday? It's one of the days.

SPEAKER_01 32:29

I don't remember.

SPEAKER_00 32:30

No, Tuesday's Euro Day.

SPEAKER_01 32:31

Oh, yeah, it's Thursday.

SPEAKER_00 32:32

Which is a Greek taco. And Thursday's babyback rib day. A Greek taco. So um, we're gonna have a bunch of babyback rib recipes up. The one I'm picking is a Hoysen babyback rib, which have you had Hoysen sauce? Not a lot of people have. No, I have. It's a Chinese thing that's like garlicky, savory, spicy, and sweet all in one.

SPEAKER_01 32:52

I'm sure I've had it with chicken.

SPEAKER_00 32:54

A lot of Asian foods manage to be. And uh, it's really great with pork, and it's a really great recipe, and it's really fresh. And um, we always think of our American barbecue sauce, but if you do this, it's really good.

SPEAKER_01 33:06

On ribs. So I'm not like historically a rib person. Do you think you can change my mind?

SPEAKER_00 33:11

Stay tuned.

SPEAKER_01 33:12

Maybe on ribs. I sense a challenge.

SPEAKER_00 33:17

Challenge. So yeah, that's my pick. You should you should make it next time we do ribs. All right, now that is enough food talk. It is time for Kid Corner.

SPEAKER_01 33:27

You guys, shockingly, I couldn't decide, so I put a whole bunch of notes down.

SPEAKER_00 33:30

There's like seven pages of notes about it.

SPEAKER_01 33:32

I know because honestly, I wasn't like feeling any of them. That's how this whole week is like, I don't know. Did I do anything? Okay, but I'm going with the last one because it's about Lucy, and then you know, she's the forgotten child. So I'm here to talk about Lucy. So she is uh 14 months, 14 and a half, whatever. Um, so she's like babbling and talking, lots of hi and bye, and no no no, which is exactly what she does. And then she'll just go, hi, bye. So lately, I've talked about I think like her obsession with shoes and purses, where like we didn't teach that, but like she she was at Nick's one time and like found the one pair of baby shoes.

SPEAKER_00 34:09

I don't know how she got to where she got them. I don't know how she put it.

SPEAKER_01 34:13

She's buried in a corner, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:15

It was like, hey, where's Lou?

SPEAKER_01 34:16

And then she's just putting on shoes.

SPEAKER_00 34:18

Boom, she's yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:19

So the other morning, she was also up absurdly early.

SPEAKER_00 34:23

So we were definitely watching her very closely. We're all good parents.

SPEAKER_01 34:25

We were watching her very closely. She was not digging somewhere in a corner that we didn't know where she was. She's safe and fine, everybody. So she'll take anything.

SPEAKER_00 34:33

She's not a delicate father.

SPEAKER_01 34:34

Nope. She'll take anything that has a handle and think it's a purse. So we have this like basket. I don't know. I'm sure it was an Easter basket that I never put away or something. And it's like in our toy area. So she takes that and like fills it with things. Then she went and got a pair of shoes and brought them to me to put them on. So she's got shoes on, she's got her purse, she takes it, and she walks over to the top of our stairs, like we have like a split level where the baby gate is, and she stands there, she turns to me and she goes, Bye. I'm like, Oh, okay, bye. Your dad and your brother aren't leaving yet, but you can leave. So she's been doing this every day now. Like, or Tyler will like, yeah, be just walking out the door. I haven't even come down for my like goodbye hug from them. And she's like, Bye. I'm like, oh, okay, you don't care about me.

SPEAKER_00 35:16

It's gonna be a long 17 years.

SPEAKER_01 35:19

So it's pretty funny.

SPEAKER_00 35:20

That is pretty funny.

SPEAKER_01 35:21

I caught it on video, of course. Good job. Thanks.

SPEAKER_00 35:24

What's going on, Simona? Uh, so I need some advice on this. I don't know. I felt a little weird about this one. Uh-oh. So she's she's crawling and um she's very steadily like doing the standing and being able to pulling up like crazy. And uh she was always good at that. Like Sarah walked before she crawled. Yeah, that's crazy. And we thought Simona might be on that level. Okay, because she just has we have like a walker that she really likes to do, and um, so she gets up on behind like walkers and does she when she stands, she stands at her tiptoes all the time. Do kids do that? Is that a kid thing?

SPEAKER_01 36:00

Uh one of my kids did it. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 36:02

So she like very slowly on her walker will put one foot in front of the other. Yeah. So like she's technically walking, but as she's doing it, I'm like, you're not walking, you're just moving your feet. Well, this is how they learn. I was like, should I tell Sarah? Like, have you? No. So we had this conversation of like, have she have you seen her do this? And it's like, and yes. And we're like, is that walking? We decided it's not, and we both decided we didn't feel bad for not telling the other one.

SPEAKER_01 36:28

Oh, come in here and watch this about us walking. Yeah, oh, I get that guilt though.

SPEAKER_00 36:34

But that was a weird, so that's I was like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 36:35

Are this starting, huh? To learn from the walker.

SPEAKER_00 36:39

She likes that.

SPEAKER_01 36:39

She has the same walker as Lucy.

SPEAKER_00 36:41

She likes that. She she likes especially that she can go. On the floor? Just bang on the walker.

SPEAKER_01 36:48

Oh, yeah. The banging. Oh, so she's wait. Um, are you gonna have a big birthday party for her? Yeah, so we uh I've been thinking about this for you.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

Thank you. We are we're gonna need some assistance. Can't wait. Um we're not sure exactly. Well, so daycare has cake every day these days. So Yeah, I mean it's 2020, so she loves cake, so we're gonna celebrate every day. Have cake, obviously. And um We eat peach croissants every day. Who are we to judge? We're not sure. We have a couple ideas. Um her favorite thing when she was in her mom's belly was uh cheeseburgers. We had cheeseburgers the other night. She devoured some cheeseburgers. So we were thinking about like sliders. Oh, fun. We were thinking about a nacho bar. She also really likes nachos when she's in really this is about Sarah.

SPEAKER_01 37:34

Let's be clear.

SPEAKER_00 37:35

Let's be clear.

SPEAKER_01 37:35

I mean, you guys made it a year. That's good.

SPEAKER_00 37:37

This is a year of a traumatic experience in Sarah's life.

SPEAKER_01 37:41

It's a traumatic experience.

SPEAKER_00 37:42

I mean, a great experience in Sarah's life. Yeah. Um we were thinking about tacos.

SPEAKER_01 37:47

Uh, what day of the week does her birthday fall on?

SPEAKER_00 37:49

Oh, that's a good question. What day was she born? I don't remember.

SPEAKER_01 37:52

Don't say that on air.

SPEAKER_00 37:54

It's October 15th. It's my parents' anniversary.

SPEAKER_01 37:56

Oh yeah, I forgot that. Slash I remember now that you say it.

SPEAKER_00 37:59

It's a Tuesday! Is it really a Tuesday? No, that's September. Oh man. Then it's not a Tuesday. It's a Thursday.

SPEAKER_01 38:06

Bummer. Thirsty Thursday.

SPEAKER_00 38:08

Just like I have a note I need to check with the Lake Geneva FFA on that day about uh their holiday snackstick orders. My calendar. Oh, okay. I need to check with the FFA. I need to get uh a mead order in, and Simona turns one.

SPEAKER_01 38:23

Oh, you also have our radios. Okay, anyway. So Simona's birthday party. I feel like you guys should start sending ideas in now because clearly Nick is struggling. Well, we have a lot of ideas.

SPEAKER_00 38:34

I mean, right. So I think I think it's probably gonna be like slider burger themed. I love that. It'll be fun. So she loves burgers.

SPEAKER_01 38:42

Can we get a burger pinata? She can step on it. We had a pinata this year for Elliot. It was so fun for us.

SPEAKER_00 38:51

Is Ellie gonna show her how to do it? Elliot's a good big brother.

SPEAKER_01 38:54

Yeah, I mean, slash he just wants to do it himself and guise it as helping. I can't wait for the birthday party. I'm gonna be inviting myself.

SPEAKER_00 39:01

It's gonna be great. I mean, you're invited, obviously.

SPEAKER_01 39:04

He's not talking to all of you.

SPEAKER_00 39:07

Hey, if you guys want to come, I mean come on over, everybody. You're gonna bring a gift? You can come to our recording. Don't give us some bullshit savings bond, though, because it's negative interest rates. Just give us the cash. We're gonna put it in a market fund and make a lot more money. We appreciate all your gifts, but don't give us a bad gift. That's what I'm saying. If you want to come, come with a good gift.

SPEAKER_01 39:25

No pressure, please join us.

SPEAKER_00 39:28

Cash is a great gift.

SPEAKER_01 39:29

Well, guys, have a great week. Don't forget your cash, okay? But also don't forget to find us.

SPEAKER_00 39:34

We have a link on Venmo.

SPEAKER_01 39:36

Yeah. Dinner plus drinks. Okay, you can find us for real on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube at Dinner Plus Drinks Podcast, and DinnerPlusDrinks.com. The internet. Find us on your the internet. You can find us on Google. The internet.

SPEAKER_00 39:51

You can find us on your favorite podcast player. Well, if you're listening, you're listening. Not if you're on YouTube. I really like Overcast to everybody that's uh not try to not uh native, you know, like the iPhone.

SPEAKER_01 40:03

Yeah, I always just use the Apple one.

SPEAKER_00 40:04

I should use I would honestly the Overcast one's a little bit better. Like the controls are a little bit better, the way it downloads episodes and orders them.

SPEAKER_01 40:11

It's the orders on the Apple Podcast bothers me. Yeah, it's terrible.

SPEAKER_00 40:14

So I would check out Overcast if you haven't. Good wreck, Nick.

SPEAKER_01 40:17

Good wreck.

SPEAKER_00 40:18

Uh yeah. So thanks everybody for listening. You all have a great week.

SPEAKER_01 40:23

Don't forget to like our pages and send us a note, especially about Simona's burger birthday, okay? We would love to hear your friends. A month and a half from now. Two months from now? Okay. Thanks, guys.