All of the Eggs - Dinner Plus Drinks #122

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Something happened to me this week that I was like, my god, I need to tell Bridget. No, I need to save it for the podcast. No, I can't not tell her. And now he's forgotten. Oh no, it's gonna happen right now. If people know anything about you from listening to this podcast, you love beautiful branding. You should know many things. You love beautiful branding. Yes. And hate can cocktails.

SPEAKER_01 0:32

Definitely. No, hate is a strong word. I just think they're inferior to the real cocktail. I'm gonna drink a cocktail, I'm gonna drink cocktail.

SPEAKER_00 0:41

Just make the real cocktail. However, we are now at the Venn diagram of things. Here we are. Maplewood Brewing, which is also historically one of my favorite branded beers. Uh and they make incredible, incredible, incredible beer. Also have now released, well, they haven't released the plebs of the world, don't get them, but I the plebs. I got them.

SPEAKER_01 1:08

We mean all of you wonderful listeners.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

You know, people always think it's plebeian, you know, it's a Roman lower class. And actually the plebeians aren't even a lower class. Uh everybody's like, you know, it's plebeian. No, it's plebeian. Reel it in, Nick. Anyway, um, so they had some. I was like, oh my god, Bridget needs to try these. Bridget will hate. Where can I get more of these? And evidently there was only samples available, and I got all of them because we're a good Maplewood customer at Lake Geneva Country.

SPEAKER_01 1:34

Their beer is great. But I am I'm listening.

SPEAKER_00 1:37

We have four canned cocktails from Maplewood Distillery to try.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

Did we what else does the distillery make? Didn't we try something else?

SPEAKER_00 1:47

No, we tried Chicago distilling up.

SPEAKER_01 1:49

Yes, yes, yes. You're right. Okay. So not to be mistaken. Well, here's what can I just just just say something? Turn that can towards me real quick. The branding on these is not my favorite as much as I love their beer cans.

SPEAKER_00 2:04

Well, they're a 12-ounce tiny can, not a 16-ounce of the full.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

But what I like about their other cans is the whole thing as a graphic. Like the the whole, I don't know what I'm trying to say. The full label is one graphic image that turns into a background. This is just like a stripe of an image. I can't even tell what's on it, and I'm two feet away from you. What is it? A lime. Yeah, no. So this is called Palmer Square. It looks like a lime on one side and weed plants. That's what it looks like from here.

SPEAKER_00 2:34

That's uh spruce chips. Close enough. So this is Palmer Square. It made me think of Laura. It's like you would like this. Yes, Laura. And uh it says, Enjoy this cocktail over ice or not. It is uh spruce gin with orange bitters, lemon, iced tea, natural flavors, and caramel colors. So it's like a hard Arnie Palmer kind of.

SPEAKER_01 2:55

Oh, interesting. I mean, you had me in the beginning and you kind of lost me after orange bitters. Slide it over. Our new podcast setup isn't quite ready for the drinking element as easily.

SPEAKER_00 3:11

But it's way more cozy. So I made the people that were sampling it not drink all of it and have the cans open since yesterday. Well, they were covered. I had the cover back there. Do they remain fizzy? They're not fizzy. I suppose. This looks like pea. Well, it looks like an Ernie Palmer. Lemonade and iced tea.

SPEAKER_01 3:34

Uh I know what an Ernie Palmer is. Because no one except you likes plain iced tea. Just kidding, everybody does. I like it mixed with lemonade. There's a lot of people in the south. Yeah, here we are in Wisconsin. In the south of Wisconsin. That's the same. This is pretty good. I said it. Yeah. Palmer Square. Yeah, I mean it's pretty good. I don't know what else to say. Like it tastes like an Arnie Palmer with some liquor in it. Like it's got a little bit of a kick at the end. But it it doesn't taste as fake as a lot of the canned cocktails. Like, I think we've discussed that on here before that some of these canned cocktails just taste like let me see how many fake things I can put in a can to make it as good as a French 75 not in a can. This is decent.

SPEAKER_00 4:21

This is decent.

SPEAKER_01 4:22

I can't, I'm I'm having a hard time comparing it because I've never had an alcoholic Arnie Palmer.

SPEAKER_00 4:26

They call it a John Daly, actually.

SPEAKER_01 4:28

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've never, I don't think I've ever had that. I've made one or two when I was a buffard curl, but I didn't like that's not the drink I would make.

SPEAKER_00 4:36

I think people add vodka, not gin.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

Yeah, that's what I was trying to think of. Is that what a John Daly is?

SPEAKER_00 4:41

Yeah, because vodka's cheap and flavorless. Except the really bad stuff that you're probably putting into your Don Daly because it's a golf course.

SPEAKER_01 4:49

We carried Smyrnoff products. Oh wow.

SPEAKER_00 4:52

I was driving by Grand Geneva's Rort and Spa's uh little barn for their golf carts the other day. Oh yeah. And people have really stepped up the Bevcart game. They have like the full wraps that like are sponsored and branded. Oh, really? They because Grand Geneva Resort and Spa has their own beer now that they're doing with Mobcraft. It's a you know custom Lynx beer for Grand Geneva Resort and Spa. Oh, that's a full name every time. They have the full, it just makes me chuckle. I need something in my life. They have the full wrap on the back of the cart. Wow. That's their beer and says buy a Lynx beer. And you know, I think they have some like quantity deal or something. Yeah, it's new. I was like, this is interesting. They're also doing their own brandy. They're doing a special brandy with Wallersheim for you know old fashions and things. Wallersheim. Beautiful, but not the best way.

SPEAKER_01 5:46

Their brandy, it's um I loved that job as a BEV car girl. I was like, if I could just do this year-round, that would be great. Also, I don't have the patience for it now. I think I would like yell at all of the pervy people. Oh, that is a hefty porn, Nick. I see a lemon or is that a flower? I can't tell where your pinky is. It's a lemon. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 6:10

So this is a whiskey highball. Oh, not gonna nope. Wheat whiskey, lemon, and orange bitters.

SPEAKER_01 6:17

Oh, no. I can tell by smelling it. It's gonna taste exactly how I want it to not taste. It looked thick when you poured it out of the can. It's like Well, I hate whiskey, so whiskey in a can. I've made you whiskey lemonade. You like that. I don't like it. It just probably wasn't as bad as other whiskey. I would never voluntarily drink whiskey.

SPEAKER_00 6:37

It's like a very small component of whiskey lemonade. I'm just telling you. I mean, I know it's the first word in it, but I tried. Do you remember we made that at Anderson's and Colin? Oh, was that whiskey?

SPEAKER_01 6:47

I actually unsurprisingly, many of the women were chasing the children around while the men were drinking. So I didn't drink that much of it.

SPEAKER_00 6:58

I've never met such a lightweight in my life. We love you, Colin. Colin. That was incredible.

SPEAKER_01 7:05

You said that just lingers. Oh, I think it's good. Well, it's all yours, man. I had to chug some water after that one, you guys.

SPEAKER_00 7:18

Next, we have whiskey sour.

SPEAKER_01 7:21

Oh, I don't want it, man.

SPEAKER_00 7:23

As you throw the glass at me.

unknown 7:25

That's plenty.

SPEAKER_00 7:27

This one is whiskey sour made with whiskey, lemon, orange, ginger, grapefruit, bitters, and natural flavors.

SPEAKER_01 7:34

Is there a reason so many canned cocktails are whiskey based? Or is that just me hating it?

SPEAKER_00 7:39

That's just because a lot of cocktails are whiskey-based.

SPEAKER_01 7:42

I guess in my life they're not.

SPEAKER_00 7:45

In my life they're not.

SPEAKER_01 7:46

Give me a canned French 75. This is better than the last whiskey drink, but. Oh, it's sweet and delicious. I wouldn't say it's sweet and it's a little tangy.

SPEAKER_00 7:59

Well, yeah, because it's sour, so there's like some lemon juice and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 8:05

This one's fine. This one's significantly better than the last one, but that's because I don't like whiskey. The last one just tasted like whiskey. Well, I'm excited for the last one for you. Oh, tell me it's not whiskey.

SPEAKER_00 8:15

It's rum punch.

SPEAKER_01 8:16

Oh god. That sounds like Jimmy Buffett in a can. Why is there no vodka one?

SPEAKER_00 8:24

Any idiot can make a vodka one. These guys are hardcore. You're not selling me on canned cocktails. Look at the color. Look at the color.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

Oh my god, that makes me feel like I've thrown it up once or twice. On a beach somewhere.

SPEAKER_00 8:42

It is kind of that color. It is a so it's hibiscus.

SPEAKER_01 8:45

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 8:46

You gotta read it off because I gave you the number one.

SPEAKER_01 8:48

Oh sorry, that's because I'm rum punch made with rum. Hibiscus, pineapple, orange, cinnamon, bitters, and natural flavors. You lost me at cinnamon, but I'm sure this is the amount I need in my cup neck. It tastes like high sea. Mixed with Captain Morgan. Is that what the cinnamon is?

SPEAKER_00 9:11

It's a white rum. That's what I would think, but what about cinnamon? Because it you need a little something to balance off the sweetness. Oh, come on. That's so sweet. You're lying. I mean, it is sweet, but it's delicious. I might be good over ice. Like copious amounts of ice to water it down. Blend it. You know the other thing, yes. The other delicious thing I had this week? Bodaritas.

SPEAKER_01 9:32

Oh yeah, that I wish we could try. That I'm on board with.

SPEAKER_00 9:35

I can go get them.

SPEAKER_01 9:36

It's downpouring in 40 degrees.

SPEAKER_00 9:38

Can you run across the field and go grab them? I can go get them. I have them open. We bought a lot. We're gonna have a display. Lake Geneva Country Meats, your summer drinking with Freedom Lemonade. And cocktails, Freedom Lemonade, and Botoritas. And the strawberry Botorita is the clearest use case for this. Is actually a funny story that people that listen to the podcast regularly would appreciate. The people that are in charge of the company came to sample these things out. And how nice. They were like, Yeah, so have you ever had wine-based cocktails before? I'm like, yeah, they all suck. And the sales rep's like, Ryan is like, oh god, I told you not to do this. I'm like, ha! But I did it anyway. And uh the the Bodarita I said, you know, but I I really like what Boda Box does. You know, they won the taste off on our podcast. And they're like, Oh, you have a podcast. I'm like, yes, we do. Yes, we do. Uh they're you know that you know, I like what you guys do, and I was very excited for these. I'm really glad you brought a sample because I think they could do really well. Like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And the the margarita, the plain lime one I thought was good. I would be happy to have it in the fridge. It's just like, you know, you can have a margarita. I would add a little triple sec to it because that's just kind of what I like.

SPEAKER_01 10:48

Yeah. Um because you like bougie margaritas. I just like put a little triple sack of some grammar.

SPEAKER_00 10:53

Well, like, also because I like a little more alcohol in my drinks. Jesus. Like, if I'm having a drink, I want a drink. If I don't want a lot of alcohol and something, I'm gonna drink a Budweiser.

SPEAKER_01 11:02

Yes, but then you could drink it all day if there's not hit you on the floor with alcohol.

SPEAKER_00 11:06

That's not why I drink mixed drinks. I drink efficiently to get wasted. Uh so then we get to the strawberry ones, and I'm like, oh my god, this needs to be put into a blender with a bunch of ice and made into a slushie. Yeah. And Brian's like, did TR tell you to say that? Oh, did TR suggest that? TR suggests that. I mean good job, TR. So they at Topsy Turvy are getting slushy machines and are gonna have alcoholic slushies this summer.

SPEAKER_01 11:31

Bro, I'm on board with that. Hell yeah. I I will so I'm a blended margarita person. Like you, I've had your on the rocks margaritas like with all the bougie other things, and those are delicious. But otherwise I want it blended.

SPEAKER_00 11:43

Thank you. Because from you, they are delicious. Delicious means they actually are an exceptional cocktail.

SPEAKER_01 11:48

Bridget's a real bitch about her liquor. Well, listen, I'm an adult, I don't drink a lot of hard liquor. You know, there's a lot of booze in them. I will say, like, I am at the point where I'm just drinking beer and wine. But if I go out, like when we go out, Tyler and I, uh, for the rare date night, I I want a nice cock, like, I want a French 75. You know, I want a cocktail that like took someone a little time to make. Girl, I'll make your French 75.

SPEAKER_00 12:13

I don't just want a gin and tonic. I'm just gonna start stocking splits of champagne and gin here. This is the thing. Every time Bridget's here, guess what? Here you go, ma'am. Have you seen Here you are, ma'am? Uh, what's the rapey weird movie with Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence? Uh arrival there on the ship that and it's weird. Anyway, but there's like this robot bartender on this ship, and he's like the only person drinking there. It's hilarious. But the the robot's like this, or not this French, like English dude, very proper bartender, you know, like very old school. It's got like the bartender uniform on. I'll get an apron that's a bartender apron. Anytime you're here, I'll say, ma'am. Good afternoon, ma'am. Good afternoon. Here's your friend 75. Welcome, Mrs. Leach. Here's William. Mrs. Leach or Ms. Leach?

SPEAKER_01 12:57

I'm Mrs. Otherwise, I'm Ms. Gallagher, Mrs.

SPEAKER_00 13:01

Leech. Well, no, Ms., not Miss. I don't know, man. Madame? I don't care.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

Don't call me ma'am. Um, what oh, where you're gonna falter, Nick? Proper glassware. Well, I'll buy some proper glassware. Could you? Could you please stock? I am looking forward to the one day that our house has its shit together. And like, yeah, I just want to have like a martini party, which is ridiculous because like we could all probably handle one and then have to go to bed.

SPEAKER_00 13:28

Do you know the origin of the name for a French 75?

SPEAKER_01 13:32

I do not.

SPEAKER_00 13:33

So in World War I, there's a tremendous change in field artillery. Oh. So before World War I, your cannon was like what you see in a Civil War battlefield where it's pointing right at you and you shoot right at the people. Okay. In World War I, we came up with all this math and stuff where your cannon goes up in the air, flies, and hits people. Yes. You're f you're firing to someplace in the distance, not someplace you can see. That takes when a gun fires, it recoils, right? You're like, hits your shoulder, cannon does bigger. The French people figured out how to have a pneumatic recoil device that made the gun stay in the same place so you could fire it faster, more accurately. It was a 75mm gun. It won a lot of battles for the French at the start of the war, became famous as the French 75 that saved France. Shut up. And so the cocktail was named after the cannon, the French 75.

SPEAKER_01 14:23

Yep. Look at me. I can now have bar trivia.

SPEAKER_00 14:27

You are not into World War I.

SPEAKER_01 14:30

I wouldn't say that. The other thing cocktail I really want to try, please note, bartender friend, is the aviation. Looks like I'd really like it.

SPEAKER_00 14:40

I almost made them for something recently.

SPEAKER_01 14:43

Mother's Day Wine Walk? Okay, good, good call. No wine at all. Don't start with gin. We'll be right back.

SPEAKER_00 14:49

Sarah and I were discussing the Mother's Day wine walk and our mitigation strategies.

SPEAKER_01 14:54

Mitigation strategies?

SPEAKER_00 14:56

Because we were out of control last year. So my mitigation strategy last year was try and make so much wine out there that you people couldn't possibly drink all of it that you wouldn't drink all of it. And guess what happened?

SPEAKER_01 15:08

You were giving us time without our children out in the beautiful sunny weather. We were like, yes.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

And you each drink like a bottle of half of wine in three hours.

SPEAKER_01 15:15

Listen, I actually think that I was fairly in control.

SPEAKER_00 15:19

So I need to figure out some other mitigation strategies. Less options? Because we're gonna drink whatever's out there. Yeah, so I'm thinking I might do like high tops in a couple different places, more stops, a red and a white at each place. Maybe one has a French 75. Maybe it's a make your own French 75.

SPEAKER_01 15:34

I would not advise adding liquor to this. You just said you want aviation. I know. Okay. It was um, it was just a beautiful day. You guys, if you haven't noticed, uh, we're gonna be a little off our rockers today. We have a lot of news topics to cover, so we're just gonna be chit-chatting. It's pouring rain and 40 degrees. I brought a blanket down to record. We've had events seemingly every night this week. And we've been in the pod lab. Like we've been in the pod lab every day this week doing stuff. The pod lab, I like that. I think I stole that on accident from Morbid Podcast. Didn't we? Yeah, the pod lab. We should call it something funnier to do with a basement. Anyway, it's cold down here, so I brought a blanket because we should gross out. We should call it something. I actually love this weather so much.

SPEAKER_00 16:16

Yeah, last night you were like, oh, this is great. I'm like, you what I love this like rainy.

SPEAKER_01 16:20

It's like very cold.

SPEAKER_00 16:21

You've done nothing but complain that it's cold.

SPEAKER_01 16:24

I know, because I'm always cold. And I'll never learn. I'll never learn. I just would like it to be like 10 degrees warmer. Anyway, so I just feel like we haven't recapped Easter even. No, we haven't. Right? Because our last release was on Easter. I loved Easter. I told Nick he was a dick on Easter, but he was really proud of it. You know, I did the millennial thing.

SPEAKER_00 16:48

I I drew boundaries.

SPEAKER_01 16:50

There's a way to do it healthy and not being a dick. Just to do it.

SPEAKER_00 16:54

I don't think I was a dick.

SPEAKER_01 16:56

I do.

SPEAKER_00 16:57

So both of our families decided, both Sarah and my family decided they're gonna have brunch at 11.

SPEAKER_02 17:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:04

It's kind of a take it or leave it type of situation. So we said, okay, that's cool. Um, we like, I don't get days off. Holidays, like Sunday holidays are like the days I get off, you know? So I was like, we're just like, you know, we're gonna wake up and we're gonna have breakfast and make too much food. And then we're gonna do like an outdoor egg hunt for Simona. She's gonna find her Easter basket here. We're gonna hang out as a family of three and do like our family thing that we don't do enough and just like see how the day goes. We'll go see you guys at some point. Don't know when, don't plan on us. And um, you know, we'll be there at some point. I'm stressed out for your families. It was great, it was great. We saw everybody whenever you wanted, leisured our way through the day. Oh, that's true. It was great out. It was lovely. We had no deadlines, and we I'm usually a very deadline-oriented person, very schedule-oriented person. Gave it up for a day, drew some boundaries, said, No, we're gonna prioritize ourselves.

SPEAKER_01 18:02

It's great. Simona found all of her eggs, except for the person that's planning and trying to plan for three more people or not. We said don't plan for us. We didn't need anything. We didn't need anything. Oh Shannon's sitting here saying, I told you so, Bridget.

SPEAKER_00 18:17

It was great. I was, you know. I'm so glad. We told people they could come have breakfast with us. Nobody showed up.

SPEAKER_01 18:24

Well, because they had already claimed that they were doing an event at 11 that they were preparing for. Yeah, so show up at 7 breakfast.

SPEAKER_00 18:31

Well, yeah, we said breakfast around 7. Breakfast sometime between 7 and 11. No, it's it's you know, started cooking at 7.

SPEAKER_01 18:39

You know, if you want come over, we we had started cooking at 7 is not breakfast at 7. Well, we had French 75s in the morning. Oh, you're such a man. Breakfast cook, yeah. Yeah, sometime around 7. I'm gonna start cooking, be ready at 8.

SPEAKER_00 18:50

We had some people over on uh Saturday night, and I said, hey, I'm gonna start cooking at at 5 o'clock. If you want to come hang out and cook with me, I could use an extra hands. We can have a cocktail. If you want to come when dinner's done, you can come at six. Doesn't matter. Like whichever you prefer. If you want to hang out more, if you want to just eat the food, doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_01 19:09

Doesn't matter. Boundaries. I wouldn't we're gonna not we're gonna talk in circles about this. This is not a way of uh support. This is not something I support. I, on the other hand, um went to your mom's at 8 45. I properly I went everywhere I was supposed to be when I was supposed to be there, because it is respectful to show up on time somewhere to everyone else that has things going on. Not two and a half hours late, but whatever. No one in my family did that. Um for all the podcast listeners, it was not my beautiful sister Shannon or Britney. It was perhaps the other side of my family. Um yeah, we Saturday actually, because like we when we go to my parents for holidays, it's like all day hangs and we love it. But doing that on a Sunday sucks because then you have to like get up and like get your shit together for the week and the Sunday scaries hit. And so we did it on Saturday because we were trying to make sure everyone could do their in-law stuff on Sunday. And then Sunday, we still like our days begin much earlier than people with older kids or people without kids. So we're like, hey, mom and dad, I didn't want them to be alone on Easter and we were gonna cook way too much food, which I did. I cooked a ton of food. Um, more on that later. So my mom and dad came over for breakfast, and the kids did two rounds of egg hunts because they like did all the eggs, forgot about a million of them outside. So we ate breakfast in between. Then my parents got to see a little egg hunt, and then we went to my in-laws exactly on time, and nothing started exactly on time. So, but it did start two and a half hours later. So that was great.

SPEAKER_00 20:43

Here's my question to you. So you said your parents did all day hang all day hang. My grandma used to be that way, and part of the all-day hang was she understood that you're not gonna be there all day, you're gonna come, you're gonna go, you have other family commitments. So do what you need. I'll be here. There'll be food. If you come, great. If you don't come, great. Isn't so like your family's all-day hang is like a strong commitment from nine in the morning to five p.m.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

Well, it was our choice, but we chose to do it not on Easter, so we could all day hang and not have to go somewhere else. Because we like to do that, and we didn't have anywhere else to go. Like, I remember it's only two families, me and Shannon. See, I like the I like I like Tapas. Also, like I part of the reason I'm going is to see my sister and my parents, but like, so I want to be there at the same time as my sister and her kids so the kids can play. So, like, yeah, if I plan to be there from 10 to 1 and Shannon doesn't come till one, like you like your family. Yeah, like my family. I like to hang out with them. She is keen.

SPEAKER_00 21:41

I like my family.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

My maybe favorite part of Easter.

SPEAKER_00 21:44

Mitchell comes here all the time.

SPEAKER_01 21:45

This one person. Um, Monday, I was driving out the driveway to take Elliot to school, and it it snowed on Monday. Everybody who doesn't look here. Snowed a significant like I walked out and said, What? Because I usually am very on top of the weather and had no idea it was supposed to be. Snow.

SPEAKER_00 22:00

To be fair, April 17th, you're not really thinking, oh, I better check the forecast for snow. Yeah, to like cover the trees and grass.

SPEAKER_01 22:09

But I was pulling out of the driveway and I'm like, gosh, there's a weird blue-colored thing in the driveway. There was an Easter egg in the driveway with like an inch of snow on it. Because, like, did you see it on my? I put it on my Instagram. I did.

SPEAKER_00 22:21

Also, there was one shoved up your tailpipe or something.

SPEAKER_01 22:23

Sure was, yeah. And Elliot and Tyler got it out by chewing gum, putting gum on the end of a stick, and getting it out that way. Impressive. Silly Easter bunny. Silly Easter bunny trickster for kids. Anyway, it was very funny. Um, Easter. So yeah, more on what I made for Easter later. Because you might be impressed. Maybe not. I don't know. I'm doing all kinds of cooking. Another favorite holiday of mine comes the day after Easter. Patriots Day. Patriots Day. The Boston Marathon. Do you ever watch the Boston Marathon? I do. It's like such a weird thing. I'm like, who watches marathons on TV? How boring. I always forget it's Patriots Day.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

And like, you know, Paul Revere and all those people.

SPEAKER_01 23:01

Like Boston Marathon Day or the day after Easter or all of the above. Oh, the bell. You just forget they coincide with it.

SPEAKER_00 23:06

Yeah, and then I'm like, oh yeah, you know, like and then I can't remember which was like Lexington Concord. Like, I can't remember all that stuff.

SPEAKER_01 23:12

Not ever the feelings I have about that day.

SPEAKER_00 23:13

And then people are running. Mine's all about the marathon. And then the Red Sox play the Yankees, and like it gets oh yeah, it's like a tradition for you know the Red Sox to play the Yankees.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

Did that happen this year?

SPEAKER_00 23:25

Yeah, it's the worst part. Well, and because they didn't for a couple years with fans because of COVID.

SPEAKER_01 23:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:29

So it's basically the worst part of Boston sports fans. And it's very entertaining. Yeah, they oh, Boston sports fans are like the worst. Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean, they're not actually they're like very, yeah, they're very passionate. They're not like booing Santa Claus bad like Philadelphia fans.

SPEAKER_01 23:47

Yeah, they're different.

SPEAKER_00 23:48

They're different. Yeah. But they're very intense. And so it's a bunch of Boston dudes that have been drinking since six in the morning because Patriots Day!

SPEAKER_01 23:54

Patriots Day!

SPEAKER_00 23:55

I mean, so it's like a normal Packers game. See, here's the thing. They only do it once a year. We do it every day. So we have tolerance. We're practiced at it. These guys, and so it's just them yelling at Yankees, and it's very, you know, I mean, very machismo.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

My feeling about it is different because I am not talking about the baseball game, but only the Boston Marathon. Because as I've expressed on here, I think the running community is fascinating. Like I just there were some incredible stories. It literally, yes, made me cry. I was gonna say when I was watching the um wheelchair marathon winner, I like I cried. I was like, I just like had it on um because I often work at home. So I was working at the dining room table and had uh the TV on in the living room, just like as my background noise. And I'm like, oh, and like they there's the whole city gets in on it. Being in a city who doesn't support shit for creative ideas, like we try and do a run and it's like the end of the world. Oh my God. This whole city, like they ring bells at the church when the um when they have their first Boston Marathon winner. So like when the first winner comes through for whichever category, they ring the bells. Like all of that pride. Obviously, all of the stories that come after the bombing, there's people running, you know, that have lost their legs. They were um running with Sinee Flanagan, uh, what's her first Flanagan's first Sinee? Whatever. She, um, an Olympic runner, uh, was running with someone who had lost her legs in the marathon um in the bombing year. Like the there was a story about a woman who was one of the first women to be allowed to run the Boston Marathon, was running it this year with her daughters, 50 years later. All of those stories. I could just like stare at watching a marathon all day, which I never thought would be a thing.

SPEAKER_00 25:32

I think it's hilarious that women weren't allowed to run to like the 70s.

SPEAKER_01 25:35

It's rid I mean, let me go off about that. I won't. I won't. I recent recently, like my phone must have known I was gonna talk about this, saw on um, it was a Facebook page called the Boston Calendar. They posted this video of how spectators are allowed to cross the street during the Boston Marathon. And there's a guy that stands like with an arrow, and the runners have to like move which side of the street they run on, and then there's like a corral in the middle of the road that the people wait in. And so like then the runners switch, and then there are people, it was really funny to watch. Go to the Boston calendar page and you can check it out. So, anyway, Boston Marathon page, um, it was referred to uh Molly Seidel, who was one of the um American runners. She ended up dropping out between like somewhere between the 15th and 18th mile. Um, but she called it um in 2018 when it was just like fog and rain and just crap, she referred to it as the blue collar run, which I thought was so cool. It was just like this, like um Des Linden had, I think, won the race that year. And she was talking about how Des ran that race with like such ease, and she just like comes out on the course and like learns the course, you know. And so listening to runners talk about these this like feat that I think is bonkers, I can't imagine ever running a full marathon. So I just like it, it's all fascinating to me. And you can find like heartwarming stories after story, and that's all I have to say. Boston Marathon, so fun.

SPEAKER_00 26:59

The first woman who ran the Boston Marathon and completed it, because they'd get like tackled off course. Yeah, her name was Gibb. Something Gibb here, let me see. Bobby Gibb. And the governor shook her hand, people thought it was really cool. And the newspaper and story asked the um Boston Athletic Association that puts this on. They asked her, asked for comment about Bobby Gibb running in 1967 the Boston Marathon. They issued a press release that said, Mrs. Bingay did not run, because that was her married name, did not run in yesterday's marathon. There's no such thing as a marathon for women. She may have run in a road race, but she did not race in a marathon. Oh 1967. What is it? Boston. And we think Boston is this liberal bastion. 1967. Because you know when women run, they're like things can fall out, right? That's right. That's why they can't run marathons.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

Speaking of that, I had a pap smear by like a 15-year-old kid this morning, I feel like. That's exciting. Just so everyone's aware. I supported the medical system and let the student come in and oh, by the way, the student is a male, and oh, by the way, you're having a pap smear today. Cool, cool. He was so cute, and he goes, Thank you for letting me do it. Like he thanked me. It was adorable, hilarious way to start the day. Speaking of things falling out of women.

SPEAKER_00 28:19

I would like to talk about the ridiculous judicial ruling to end the wearing of masks on plane. Now I think it's the right decision. I think we're past that. I honestly might possibly still wear a mask on a plane because as I think about it, I'm like, uh, you know what? Every time I fly on planes, I'm like, there's so many germs.

SPEAKER_01 28:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:38

So I might do it.

SPEAKER_01 28:39

I had this discussion with my dad actually.

SPEAKER_00 28:40

Like, honestly, I don't know. Like, but I might be like, or I might just take one in case there's like some snivelly kid next to me. Like some coughing adult. So, but this judicial decision is insane. It said the federal government doesn't have the right to regulate interstate commerce, more or less, which is the one thing in the Constitution the federal government has the right to do. Like, it is literally the one thing. The Interstate Commerce Clause is how we like ended all the racism, all of the like sexism. It's like, well, you can only not let black people eat at your restaurant if everybody that eats there is not from a different state. All of the materials are from your state. You don't go across the state. It's like, so it's impossible. So the federal government, like from 60 years of case law, if not longer, has the right, anything tangentially related to going across state lines, the federal government has the right to do it. Not to mention mandate, regulate health and safety. And this dumb bee of a judge who is 33 years old, never tried a trial in her life, was appointed by Trump, who was married to his uh head of some other agency, was rated as not qualified by the American Bar Association because they didn't meet the guidelines of you have to do eight years of being a lawyer before you can be a judge, just issued this BS made-up ruling that is now precedent because the Biden administration isn't gonna repeal it because they're like it's not gonna work to to appeal it because we weren't gonna extend it anyway, and like we don't want to get in a fight. We don't want to get in a fight. But this is why there's this arms race to nominate because judges are lifetime appointments. Yeah. So you want to nominate the youngest person you possibly can, and this is bullshit. So anyway, I'm mad about it, not because I don't want to. Yeah, I was like, wait, what are you mad about? I'm mad that a bad judicial decision was made that's gonna affect things, and I'm mad that it just creates an incentive for presidents of both parties to nominate idiots that don't know what they're doing, and this lady might be very nice, I don't know, but this was a terrible ruling that was clearly made to just say, like, MAGA.

SPEAKER_01 30:57

I guess I don't feel that way about it.

SPEAKER_00 30:59

When you're a judge, you have to keep in mind that what you do has real world consequences. So if you just say, like, I'm issuing this, and as of the moment I issue it, nobody has to wear a mask on a plane.

SPEAKER_01 31:11

Yeah, that was the issue.

SPEAKER_00 31:12

Think of how that cascades down to the airline pilots, the flight attendants, you know.

SPEAKER_01 31:16

Well, you've seen those videos of everything. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:18

Like, think about how that cascades down.

SPEAKER_01 31:20

I I You're an idiot. I do disagree with like someone who bought a ticket for a flight knowing they'd be maybe they felt more comfortable with masks, having people allowed to rip them off in the middle of the flight was not the right answer. Like, wait until that. I mean, or the airline maybe could have.

SPEAKER_00 31:37

No, the airline couldn't. The airline would have had to say, like, I mean, I hear you, they could have not announced it. They had well, they had no clue.

SPEAKER_01 31:43

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_00 31:44

They have noy no clue this ruling would happen like that.

SPEAKER_01 31:46

You don't have to announce it mid-flight.

SPEAKER_00 31:48

All you need is one person on a phone to see the ruling.

SPEAKER_01 31:50

True, I know. But you generally, like, yes, you can get internet mid-air, but like I don't think I would have said, hooray, everyone, take your masks off.

SPEAKER_00 31:57

Like the people that are excited for that, they would definitely scream, hooray, take your mask off.

SPEAKER_01 32:03

They didn't. The airline crew did. Yeah. Like, not a passenger. If a passenger did, then you then it's easy. You say, Oh, I didn't see that news. I was delivering your Coca-Cola. Let me check. And then sure, you can deal with it. But like to announce it, I I thought about this because I like, yeah, it's kind of comforting, actually. Yes, it's annoying, but it is kind of comforting having masks on because I'm like, oh, you're just in this cesspool of germs. But filtering. My dad was like, well, the air is probably incredibly clean. Not whatever. I'm like, yeah, it it's weird because I went to the doctor this morning and you still have to wear a mask.

SPEAKER_00 32:34

I know that's really weird. It's like, when are you guys gonna stop this?

SPEAKER_01 32:36

Yes. So then I ran into a quick trip after and I like grabbed my mask. Because I, you know, I'm we're still in that. Like, wait, where am I supposed to wear this? I don't know anymore.

SPEAKER_00 32:45

I was on uh the Milwaukee Transit system, did a like, we're not requiring it anymore, and then four hours later said, actually, we still are requiring it. Because people like people lost their affine minds over like my wife's immunocompromised, and how dare you? And I I'm sorry, like I get it, people are have cancer, people have but stand by You weren't worried about pneumonia, right? You weren't worried about flu.

SPEAKER_01 33:09

I just people die the waffling of decisions is is uh infiltrating all parts of my life. I feel like make a decision based on your business or your life, and then stick like this MPS shit, yeah. Where like they went to school for one day and then they're like, no, no, no, just kidding. We need to have masks now.

SPEAKER_00 33:27

I bagged on Trump a little bit. I'm gonna bag on the left now. This this small group of loud people that have a whatever condition, or they have a someone that has a whatever condition, and I could possibly get COVID, I could possibly give it to someone, they could possibly die from it. You're doing a bunch of 1% chances. Yeah. This is the real world. People die. I'm sorry. You could be in Ukraine, you could be in Rwanda, you could be wherever, you could be in Myanmar, people die. Like, at some point grow up, take the risk, and don't complain about it. The rest of the world can't just like Or just make your choice. Yeah, you know. The rest of the world can't just do everything to accommodate some people that might die from an illness that they would have died from at age 20, 50 years ago. Like, sorry. When women couldn't run in the Boston marriage. Exactly. The good old days. But it's just I'm just like sick and tired of people being I'm glad you don't have to wear masks. It was a bad decision. And also people that are like so scared to do anything because you might get COVID and die. Life is a risk.

SPEAKER_01 34:41

Whoa. Dial back to like a year ago when we were like, put on your masks.

SPEAKER_00 34:46

The risk has changed.

SPEAKER_01 34:48

Um, I recently, and you probably have heard any human being that has Netflix in their house has heard. What's going on?

SPEAKER_00 34:55

Seven emails.

SPEAKER_01 34:57

I know.

SPEAKER_00 34:57

I like I signed in my friend's account, I signed into Mitchell's account, Sandy's account.

SPEAKER_01 35:01

But you don't have your own account? No, I password share. Oh, you loser. I'm kidding, I have my own account. I pay for my own account, so I don't care.

SPEAKER_00 35:09

Um, but I'm a Netflix DVD subscriber, and you know what I do with those DVDs? Wait, is that still a thing? It is actually, but not for most people. I copied them all.

SPEAKER_01 35:19

Yeah, that's illegal.

SPEAKER_00 35:21

And then I uh so I have the movies.

SPEAKER_01 35:23

Yes, I remember many people doing that. And then I, you know, we were like cleaning out our garage and definitely still found like Netflix DVDs. I was like, oh, remember when this was a thing? Tyler used to love doing that. Um, okay, but all of those things, as you copied every DVD and kept it in a binder. How did you know? Uh-huh. So that is not what I found interesting. What I wanted to discuss was like, as you know, anybody in my life, we've been trying for literally two years to the date, actually, to the date, um, to do a renovation on our house. And it has been a more than a nightmare. Um, but the prices have been bonkers. And this is everywhere, right? This is at country meets. This this is across the world country.

SPEAKER_00 36:07

This is simple. Um, this is at this is everywhere.

SPEAKER_01 36:10

Ron Cheese, so this is at this is lumber, this is metal, this is electrical wire, this is food, this is everything. So when is that bubble gonna pop, right? Like there has to be a time where right now businesses like some businesses are doing it to keep margins, some are just gouging you because they can.

SPEAKER_00 36:26

And so public companies are doing it because they can't. Because you can. And so on earnings calls, it's public knowledge. They're like, people are paying it. Yeah, so we can. And so that needs to Well, and they have a duty to literally like this is a thing about public companies in America. They have a duty to charge the maximum possible amount of price, otherwise, shareholders can sue them, which is aft up.

SPEAKER_01 36:47

So I that is so after. But so I think that's a good idea. I'm looking at you. This is like Netflix is down 25%. They've lost over 200,000 subscribers, and they were expected to have a bad quarter in terms of subscriber growth, but nothing like this. So I was like, could this finally be the beginning of the bubble pop? Like, are people, you know, people are hearing all about this password? People are saying middle finger to Netflix, right? Like, I'm not, because I actually think Netflix originals are some of the best things on TV.

SPEAKER_00 37:15

But also, like, hey, I've been stealing your service. I don't want to not steal your service.

SPEAKER_01 37:22

So I'm like, But I I don't think it's just that the password sharing crackdown. Like, there it's a saturated market. There's a million more. It used to just be Netflix, and then it was just Netflix and Hulu, and now it's 900 different options. So I think Netflix, you know, got a little big for its britches, if you will. And I hope this is the beginning of like, okay, we've raised the prices as much as we can. We need to start being a regular company.

SPEAKER_00 37:45

I also think it speaks to broader trends in American society and economics, which is Disney Plus does something very specific and very well. Star Wars. Oh, they do some really shitty things too. Apple TV does a thing really well. Everybody's bagging on them. I don't know. That's my phrase of the day. Uh Apple Plus, Apple TV Plus, but like they've started doing like really overly produced, high-quality shows that critics like, and then you get people suckered into it. HBO has their thing. Like Netflix, because they were the first, had a first mover advantage. But now they're like, we just gotta do everything. We just kind of like spend a bunch of money and something will stick. Tiger King, Squid Game, whatever. And guess what's not working anymore? Just eh, here's a hundred kind of decent shows. One of them will be good.

SPEAKER_02 38:30

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 38:30

They gotta more narrowly focus because they don't have like a good content strategy.

SPEAKER_01 38:34

I am staying for the Netflix originals.

SPEAKER_00 38:36

There's so many of them. Like, but that's great. I want more than that. You're an unusual person. Most people will be like, I want Netflix because I want this type of show.

SPEAKER_01 38:44

Oh. I want Netflix.

SPEAKER_00 38:45

HBO works because you know what? You're gonna get nudity in your show.

SPEAKER_01 38:48

I could get rid of my other subscriber because Netflix has an array, you know? So like I don't have Apple, I don't have HBO, I have Hulu, that's unusual and Disney. You're unusual. I just am like, by the time I pay for all these, I can just pay for cable.

SPEAKER_00 39:02

You're a beautiful unicorn, Bridget. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 39:05

So anyway, most people are just paying for the cable now. I know, that's what it's like. Just go back to cable. So anyway, I just hopefully the bubble's gonna pop everybody.

SPEAKER_00 39:13

And my house won't cost me $800,000 to make. One of the things I think is interesting about this is because public companies have to screw customers. Like 100% they have to screw customers unless you do something that Lakefront Brewery did two years ago today, which is achieve certified B corporation status. Oh. Which means that you change your corporate bylaws to explicitly state shareholder value is not your number one priority. You change it to say that uh you must provide consideration for the impact on workers, customers, suppliers, community, and the environment in addition to your shareholders. Interesting. Because the SEC, like starting the 80s, people, Carl Aichen, other people started suing activist investors, saying, if you're a public corporation, you've done the deal that if you haven't done everything possible to give a shareholder every possible money, you are not doing your duty to the shareholders.

SPEAKER_01 40:08

That is very interesting to me.

SPEAKER_00 40:10

So the certified B Corporation is a movement, you know, think companies like Patagonia.

SPEAKER_01 40:14

I mean, that's a smart move.

SPEAKER_00 40:15

Where it's like, hey, no, screw this. Like, it's not just about shareholders, which I have a respect for someone like Mark Zuckerberg who put up his own money, his own time. Like, okay, but someone you owned uh Disney stock or whatever. Yeah. Coca-Cola stock.

SPEAKER_01 40:30

Coca-Cola, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:30

What have you done to help Coca-Cola? Right. You bought some money that, you know, like you've done nothing. You know what I mean? So it's like value to some guy that like had money, put it in there as like, now that I gave you $100 million that I got from my dad, you owe it to me to fire these 10 people. Okay. How's that good for anybody? Yeah. I mean, I I'm going full like radical Nick on this podcast, aren't I?

SPEAKER_01 40:54

Yeah, you guys, we're just going completely off topic, off track here, because we had a lot of like life to talk about. I mean, I did. I had like 900 news stories. I already deleted one, debating if I should put it back in.

SPEAKER_00 41:05

I just think we should all, you know, life's a balance. Life's a balance. Without boundaries, like not going to your mom's brunch at 11 o'clock on Easter. Brunch is the best. You should have had my breakfast. Did you see the picture? Did I show you the picture? I'm sure you showed me the picture. It's earth at Clearwater Outdoor.

SPEAKER_01 41:22

I know. I've gotten three texts about it, I think, as we've sat here. This is why I'm terrified of text marketing. No, but their text marketing works. Every time I'm like, oh, that's a good deal. I should pop in and get 20% off my sale item. Do you not? Don't you think their text market works? Yes, I saw it. You put it on Instagram, didn't you? It's a bunny. Did you buy a bunny shaped maker for this? Hell yeah. It was like $3. I know, but that surprises me because that's just shit to clutter up your house. And that does not strike me as something you guys would do. But look at her. I mean, is she eating it in your office?

SPEAKER_00 41:52

Yeah. Because it's part of our like leisurely day. She wanted to go to work. So guess what we did? Oh. We went to work and she sat in my office and typed on my keyboard and said, I work like dada. Oh, blessings to you. It's not my kid corner. Also, look at her. She's just running down the corner. You know, look at her. She was such a happy little girl. And that's what life's all about, right? Your children's happiness. That's right. Because you're not happy, you'll never be happy, but maybe they'll be happy.

SPEAKER_01 42:18

Okay. Great transition into an interesting thing I found. I see, are are you not sharing a product today, Nick? I have no products to share. Great, because I'm sharing a product I actually don't use, but if you are interested in this product, I support what this company is doing.

SPEAKER_00 42:35

So this is our POS company.

SPEAKER_01 42:38

Yeah. I mean, this is definitely an MLM. So this is not something I support. No, like literally, this is. Oh yeah, Revel. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:44

I was very confused. It's like, did you have to call support because our cash registers weren't working and you had a good experience with them?

SPEAKER_01 42:51

Um Revel Nail. So R-E-V-E-L. I'm quite sure it's an M L M. I don't know. I don't buy from it because I don't do my nails, but it's um it's a nailed it powder. Not the point.

SPEAKER_00 43:02

So I'm part of um I don't know how there's a Reddit that's anti-MLM Reddit, and there's a thread asking if Revel Nails is an MLM, and it's not.

SPEAKER_01 43:11

Oh, it's not. Okay, well, whatever. Sorry about that then. Revel seems like a lovely company. I don't know. Here's the thing someone shared this and they said, Hey, like, I'm not a customer, but this is awesome. So Revel sent out a text. So whoever's signed up for their text, they sent out Revel Nail. We know Mother's Day can be a tough time for some. So if you'd like to pause our text related to Mother's Day, reply, pause. Don't worry, we'll still keep you updated on everything else. Which I think is amazing. Because like I have been lucky to not struggle with infertility or multiple miscarriages, anything like that. But a lot of people have. Everyone I know has had some kind of struggle, you know. So I forget how triggering Mother's Day can be for people. And so I just thought that was awesome. So, like, if you are, if you like to get your nails done, check out Revel because they're being really respectful of people who have experienced something like that.

SPEAKER_00 44:00

I'll recommend Revel Systems point of sale. Not the nail company. We use it at Lake Geneva Country Meets. It's great. They have one of the things I really like about them. We're actually looking at switching for reasons. And one of the reasons I want to stay is because their support team is incredible. Something doesn't go right. You call them 24 hours a day. And they have um California in Eastern Europe to cover the clock. I talk to Eastern Europe a lot, um, and they're in the Baltics now. And I gotta say, the last couple weeks, months have been very interesting talking to these people. Oh, have they said things? So there's I now know some of them because I call frequently enough.

SPEAKER_01 44:38

Who are buddies?

SPEAKER_00 44:39

And say, hey, how's it going? You know, because like there's some things just like, hey, it's gonna take five minutes to do this refresh. So you know, you're just like, do you just like put them on hold and be like, you're not a real person, you're just my slave? You know, fixing my computer, or do you like, hey, so tell me, where are you today? I'm in Europe. Okay, I know. Look, I'm not mad, like I support. Yeah, like could you just like just I'd like to learn about you as a human being because we're gonna be here for five minutes. Uh so they're in Lithuania like that. Oh, that's nice of you. See, my buddy Manny's from uh Vilnius are you, you know, like, and so we talk about it, and so I don't ever ask about Putin, but I'm like, oh, how's it going there? Like, how's it going there? They're like, it's very weird. It's literal literal hell on earth. Like, we're scared.

SPEAKER_01 45:18

Yeah. Dude, was it you and I watching Putin on TV the other day? Yeah. Or it was just like on and he was just like sitting like a drunk frat boy, and we're like, what the hell?

SPEAKER_00 45:25

Any other like Donald Trump didn't even sit like that. Donald Trump, the guy's like, F it, I'm here, had the good grace to sit like a normal human being. Putin is just sit like a drunk frat boy, is like oh Putin. I mean, Joe Biden, like, he's a little more slouchy, but he's sleeping.

SPEAKER_01 45:47

I mean, yeah, I was like, I think he's trying to sit up straight. It just doesn't work for him.

SPEAKER_00 45:52

Life is just hard. But let's talk about Kamala Harris.

SPEAKER_01 45:56

She sits perfectly postured. I I have some PTSD. My dad and I got in a heated debate about this other day.

SPEAKER_00 46:04

Robot. Anyway, um, I want to talk about some of the food I made for my brunch. Oh, okay. That was breakfast because people could have come to my breakfast, then go for brunch.

SPEAKER_01 46:15

You're never gonna win this argument with me. Also, you guys may have noticed we're not making you take a break today. We're not. Just wanted to tell you. Awesome. Okay, that's all. I made the ham. And I made- Wait, is this this is Easter we're talking about? We're both only sharing food from Easter because we haven't had time for meals the rest of the week.

SPEAKER_00 46:34

Uh made the ham, the pancakes in bunny shape with a special bunny-shaped maker machine. Bacon, hash, sausage, fruit, eggs. Eggs that Nick doesn't eat. I ate all of the ham. I'm still eating ham. I love it. I love it so much. I don't know why I don't take the ham ends, because I took the ham ends and just like use those. Why don't I take all the ham ends and just have like big chunks of ham for me to eat all the time? I don't know why. I tried to make pasta from scratch again. For Easter? For Easter Saturday night. Because we're starting a new tradition in our family where we're gonna do pasta from scratch, Easter Saturday. All right, man. Like, you know, the meatballs from scratch, spaghetti from scratch, sauce from scratch, because it's like it's a good family thing. Or like large Italian families, yes. Well, but like Simona can help with it and we can do a thing and like you know, maybe it's a nice tradition.

SPEAKER_01 47:22

Maybe, I don't know. I'm trying to find this.

SPEAKER_00 47:25

She'll have a boyfriend someday, and you know, maybe that wants to make pasta with you. I don't know. But see, Saturday can be your Easter day too. Or a girlfriend, that's fine, you know, whichever way, or a them friend. I don't know. I don't want to put pronouns on anybody. Um stop, stop. But uh I'm I so Nick in Our Kitchen is like the dough master. And oh, I was like, you? His thing is 300 grams, flour, three eggs. And I was like, okay, I'm gonna do this. I got a pasta roller thing. My previous attempt as detailed on this podcast to not go well. Um spoiler alert, still not going well. Start reading on the internet, just to like double check this. There was like, no, it's three eggs plus two egg yolks.

unknown 48:04

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 48:04

So I added the yolks.

SPEAKER_01 48:06

So many eggs.

SPEAKER_00 48:06

And it was too sticky. But we did get play-doh out of it.

SPEAKER_01 48:11

I used to make play-doh using a care bears recipe. There used to be like whatever the pink and blue care bears were. I don't know if they were twins. I like to think they were twins.

SPEAKER_00 48:21

Yeah, maybe instead of like recipe roundups, so you have care bear countdowns.

SPEAKER_01 48:24

I don't remember. Like this, like I'm like in my head right now being like, whoa, whoa, care bears. But they used to have a rain, it was a rainy day, and what are we gonna do inside? And they made play-doh. I like it. I remember it being very salty and getting in cuts on my hand. Anyway, fond memories. Fond memories. So I made a hella lot of food for brunch. Um also it was breakfast, you're right. You made Danish? I made a shortcut Danish. Um, so I'm just gonna publicly announce the crossover that I may or may never have talked about on here. I work for a food blogger on the side. I've done it for years before I ever worked at Lake Chinima Country Meats. And it's funny because I don't really cook. So look at me working in all the food companies. But as you have heard, I cook now, guys. So I use some of her recipes that I've already tested because I've made them with her. Um, vanilla scones with orange glaze, yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy. And I just finished my final one like this morning. So they make, they don't like really get old very quickly, you know. So um, I love lemon blueberry scones, and Shannon always makes them and's like, they're so easy. But I wanted to make something different. So vanilla with orange glaze. I made a French toast bake that was stupid easy. Like you just buy the cinnamon bread and pour some eggs and milk over it and put some cinnamon and sugar, brown sugar on top. So, so good. Shortcut Danish, a little sweet for me, but Tyler loves Danishes, so it was a fun little thing. Danai, I believe. Dan eye. Sure. Um, and an over a slow cooker like breakfast casserole. So it was perfect because I just put it on overnight, like before I went to bed, and then we had it ready when the kids woke up.

SPEAKER_00 49:57

Ready and for veggies. Well, I thought about it at one wake up and I did it on low for eight hours.

SPEAKER_01 50:03

So, anyways.

SPEAKER_00 50:04

That one cut a little too close to the truth.

SPEAKER_01 50:05

I that's about how much I slept on Easter because Easter bunny. Um, but lastly, I also have to share something I didn't make. We love deviled eggs in our family, like any form. But my mother-in-law is really good at like taking whatever magazine she gets and actually like using it for useful things like recipes. So I don't know. She was looking, oh, it was Southern Living, and she made no stuffed deviled eggs, and they were so good. It was a Ritz cracker with like just a slice of a hard-boiled egg, some kind of like Dijon-y mustard. So Ritz cracker, some kind of like mustardy thing, and a slice of a double deviled egg. Yeah, and dill and paprika. Paprika.

SPEAKER_00 50:44

It was How do you say paprika?

SPEAKER_01 50:46

Oh, it was it was Dijon mustard with hot sauce, was the spread. Paprika?

unknown 50:51

Oh man.

SPEAKER_00 50:52

You say it this crazy You go paprika.

SPEAKER_01 50:56

I don't say paprika. Paprika. You're the worst. Anyway, unstuffed, no stuffed doubled eggs were like a super delicious highlight.

SPEAKER_00 51:04

Did you get your water from bubblers?

SPEAKER_01 51:05

No, that's a Milwaukee thing. That's not a Wisconsin thing. In Milwaukee, everyone says it's a Milwaukee thing. Because I am not from Milwaukee. I grew up here, spent a lot of time in Milwaukee, and I fought with Milwaukee people about it all the time. Like only Milwaukee County people call it bubbler. I'm like, oh. Did you call it bubbler growing up? Hell no, it's a water fountain. It's a water fountain. Which is so gross, actually. People who put their mouths on water fountain, like, I do not understand. That's the most disgusting thing to do.

SPEAKER_00 51:32

It is one of the things that I think is good about public education, like private schools, but but like going to school with other people, someone sucked on that water fountain, you got some water from it, you're inoculated against COVID. Everything or something all of the things, Ebola, whatever. Somebody had it that sucked on that water fountain at some point. Oh, gross. Speaking of gross, it's time for Kid Corner.

SPEAKER_01 51:56

That's funny. I do miss my gross kid corners. I need to go back to like the Clone Poop.

SPEAKER_00 52:01

Quite the poopy diaper last this morning.

SPEAKER_01 52:04

Oh, from Lucy, yes, yes. We don't know. We didn't just leave it here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:07

We had to explain Tyler. No, no, you can literally just put it on our floor and we'll throw it out.

SPEAKER_01 52:10

Tyler's like, what? He's like, yes, just throw it on the garage floor. What? It's fine. It's fine. Yeah, update Lucy's pooping relatively regularly. Very exciting.

SPEAKER_00 52:19

Happy. Simona was very make sure she woke up. Simona woke up. This is not my kid corner, but she Simona woke up. She's like, Daddy, Louise, Louise poop outside.

SPEAKER_01 52:28

Louise poop. Oh, that's hilarious. She's Louise poop, Louise Poop.

SPEAKER_00 52:31

Louis poop out there.

SPEAKER_01 52:32

Oh yeah, man. Good for her. She always poops here. You're welcome.

SPEAKER_00 52:35

It's fine. You know, this is this is a house that is a safe zone for pooping.

SPEAKER_01 52:39

Oh, we're so happy.

SPEAKER_00 52:40

It's natural. It's fine. We're we're there.

SPEAKER_01 52:42

Only she'd poop in the toilet.

SPEAKER_00 52:44

My story is about uh the Monday you mentioned of too much snow. Oh. We have the swing set thing, play center thing, whatever. Simona calls it her playground. To be fair, it's a mini playground.

SPEAKER_01 52:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:58

So she calls it her playground. And Oh, I was like, I can't understand what he typed here. So she's gotten very upset now when there's snow on it because she would like to play on it. And so she wakes up, stomps her way out of her bedroom, changes, you know, wants to throw her diaper out because, you know, like she dunks it into the garbage and we give her a high five and like good work, girlfriend. Yep, exactly. Looks outside, sees the snow, loses her shit. Yeah. And goes, Ma playground dirty. She calls it dirty. When there's snow on it, she calls it dirty. And she's just screaming her playground. Well, can we talk about how Nick typed dirty?

SPEAKER_01 53:39

D-I-R-T-U-H.

SPEAKER_00 53:41

Well, because she says Ma. Ma Ma Playground Data And and then she starts screaming, Papa come clean it. Papa come clean it. Because my dad plows.

SPEAKER_01 53:50

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 53:50

So she thinks he can like plow off the play sack.

SPEAKER_01 53:53

I mean, that's good logic right there.

SPEAKER_00 53:55

So she started screaming, Papa, come clean it.

SPEAKER_01 53:58

Did you send it to him like dad? I did.

SPEAKER_00 54:01

So I have a video here of a half-naked Simona screaming, come clean my playground off. That I sent to my dad, and he had some words.

SPEAKER_01 54:12

She does look like she's being a boss right there. She's like pointing, like, come on.

SPEAKER_00 54:18

Cleaned her playground. It was hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 54:20

Don't blame you.

SPEAKER_00 54:21

She had great fun with the Easter egg hunt. She did a really good job. Proud of her. You're my girl, Lou.

SPEAKER_01 54:26

You're my girl, Blue.

SPEAKER_00 54:28

Simona. I was doing that.

SPEAKER_01 54:29

Nope, I get you. All of them. You tried. Thank you.

unknown 54:32

You my boy.

SPEAKER_01 54:33

Wow, I want to see that movie. I haven't seen it in so long. I know. Um, okay, so I just added a second one because I have to. Um this morning, Lucy was so cute. She uh my my kid corner is actually about Elliot, but I'm doing both. Um the kids I did too. Like, yeah, you know, why not one kid? We're out of control today. Um my kids like to drink stuff out of coffee cups. So they like each have a plastic mug with their whatever. Whatever. They it's coffee. I want one of them.

SPEAKER_00 55:03

A mug with your mug.

SPEAKER_01 55:04

I want one. This is a Care Bears one. Um and she had chocolate milk in it.

SPEAKER_00 55:09

We need to do a Care Bears episode.

SPEAKER_01 55:10

Oh, yeah. Didn't even cross. Whoa. Care Bears is on my mind. Um, Lucy just like kind of always looks a mask because she hates when we brush her hair and she refuses to put it up. And so it was pouring rain and you know, it's a gray gloomy Friday. She had like a she has a crew neck sweatshirt on that's like a little too big, but super fly. Um HMs manure like Instagram or something.

SPEAKER_00 55:30

Is there a picture?

SPEAKER_01 55:31

I did, I put it up today. I haven't put one up in so long. So, and then she's standing like two feet away from the TV. She's got her coffee cup in her hand, and it was just so cute because she looked like a disaster. And so I was trying to sneak a picture. She saw me, she turns, gives me a like she turns, sips her coffee cup, gives me a thumbs up. It was so funny. I'm like, girl, you're like 35 at at heart and soul. I I'll show you the whole series, Nick. I didn't post them all. Um, so anyway, I'll show you the whole series. It was really funny. But back a week ago on Easter.

SPEAKER_00 56:02

I love the strand of hair, like just casually down on the shoulder.

SPEAKER_01 56:05

Like this was her like sipping it and then giving me the thumbs up. Like, yeah, yeah, mom.

SPEAKER_00 56:10

You should have gifted this.

SPEAKER_01 56:11

I know. I just, and here's her yeah, it was just so funny. Anyway, um, Nick. This is incredible. I just called Elliot Nick. I'm a disaster. So Elliot, um, my Britney sent Elliot this adorable seersucker like blazer jacket um for Christmas. And I was like, oh, little do you know Elliot wants to wear nothing but workout clothes all the time now, because that's his age, right?

SPEAKER_00 56:31

Um but he But no seersucker.

SPEAKER_01 56:34

Uh yes. So Elliot loves looking at like the um Amazon photos from a year ago or you know, all the photo memories. And we were like laying in bed one night looking at Easter memories, and he had a jacket on last year, a blazer, and he's like, that's my tuxedo. And he literally called it his tuxedo, and he's like, Oh my gosh, you know, got really excited. I'm gonna wear my tuxedo again this year. I'm like, well, it's not gonna fit you, definitely. But I remembered we had that coat from Christmas. So he he's usually like takes two hours to get out of his pajamas and get dressed in the morning. Like he likes to be in his pajamas. Can't blame him. He woke up at like 6 a.m., 5 55, whatever, on Easter. No joke. I had his I had his coat. Oh, I had just washed it or something. So he knew it was like by the washer and dryer. So he ripped off his pajamas like in the hallway as he was walking towards the washer and dryer, ripped off his pajamas. He was like, I need to put on my tuxedo. And I was like, Elliot, it is six in the morning. Like, you definitely don't need it yet. And he was like, Mom, I only get fancy on the holidays. And I was like, Yes, I didn't even force you. You know, a lot of parents force their kids to wear stupid shit. I'm past that because like my kids will just be assholes the whole day. So yeah, it was really cute. I wear I get fancy on the holidays.

SPEAKER_00 57:42

Earlier on Monday, I was like, can we just talk about Elliot? Like how crazy good he looked. Uh he honestly was like channeling some like Gregory Packen to kill a mockingbird.

SPEAKER_01 57:51

Oh man, like some like that earsucker.

SPEAKER_00 57:54

Like he was like looking classy, looking funny. Classy, classic, flat. Like he looked good. I was proud of my gentleman. They like posed Uncle Trav would be proud of it.

SPEAKER_01 58:03

Uncle Trav, he and all he wants to do is impress Uncle Travis, let me tell you. He's always talking about him. He they posed for pictures politely, and I'm like, I didn't make them do any of this. They just like had a field day. It was so fun. Anyway, good times.

SPEAKER_00 58:16

Thanks for listening to this slightly disjointed episode, everybody. We hope you enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_01 58:19

Sometimes we're not perfect, guys.

SPEAKER_00 58:21

I I had a thought Wednesday night, Thursday night, one of the nights. Some night. Wednesday night, I think it was, whereas like, is everybody's life this big of a shit show where you have no clue what's happening and you're just running between one priority to another? I don't know. And I don't know. I could control this, I could make boundaries, but it is what it is. We're here, we're disasters.

SPEAKER_01 58:43

And we're glad you're with us. Hopefully, you stick with us for another week after this.

SPEAKER_00 58:47

We'll be back next week with more things. It's I don't know what's gonna happen next week.

SPEAKER_01 58:51

Maybe we'll be more organized.

SPEAKER_00 58:55

Because I feel like every we're like, oh, it's been a crazy week. Yeah, because it's like maybe if we start on Monday, we'd be like, oh, it's gonna be a great week and speak down into existence. You talked about speaking things to existence. Maybe we'll record our or change our recording day. Have a great week, everybody. Talk to you soon.