Back from Kansas City | Dinner Plus Drinks #70

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Hello everybody, new episode of Dare Bus Drinks, and I am back in Wisconsin with Well, welcome home, man. Thanks. Thanks very much. Um, we're gonna talk about that later, but first, a very special message.

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Very important announcement.

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Bridget.

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Happy birthday, Brittany, to one of our very first and most loyal listeners. And first guest. Yes, and our first guest. Oh, yeah, my sister Brittany. It's her birthday as we're recording. So happy birthday, Boo. That is her nickname. It's not because she's my girlfriend, but we've called her Boo our whole life. So happy day.

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I will say that was a little strange when you kept talking about Boo. I know, I forget. I was like, you're talking about Tyler. Yeah. But this is not. But that's your sister. This is weird.

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That's not allowed, Bridget. Yeah, I don't know where it came from. I feel like there's a story with a one of my grandpas who like I never knew they passed away when I was two, but um, but yeah, I don't know the story. But we've called Britney Boo, and I don't call Tyler Boo ever.

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So I've never used the phrase boo to refer to a significant other in my life. I'm that old.

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Maybe when I'm rapping a Nelly song, but other than that, that's it. So happy birthday, Britney. But we have a lot to talk about this week. And by we, I mean Nick has a lot to talk about.

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All right. So I just gotta Well, welcome home. Let's tell everybody where you are. So I'm fresh off the plane from Kansas City, Missouri. Uh KCMO, as they call it, which I thought was kind of cool. All their sewer covers. I almost took a picture of this and sent it to Breget. All their sewer covers. Well, they have like a cool CCMO thing on them.

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Yeah, you know what's cool? This is gonna get off topic, but I'm gonna say it. There's a company that does screen printing of shirts with um sewer covers. Like so you paint on them and print a shirt. Like, yeah, it's awesome. Love it.

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So I'm back from Casey Mo. Uh, not Casey Casey, because Casey Casey is, you know, trashier. Um, but I have a lot to say about traveling in times of COVID, about Kansas City, all the things I need to know all about it. First of all, wearing a mask all day while you're traveling around doing tourist things is annoying. Yeah. And it's funny how on the flight down, the people are like, please just keep it over your nose. Then in the airport on the way back, they're like, militant. Like, oh really? If we see you with a gator, we're gonna be clear about this. If you have a bandana, you're out. Yeah, but are they doing that? Were they kicking people out? This kid, this gate agent guy was like, I don't know, maybe I hope not, but maybe someone he knows died from COVID or something where he was like good for him.

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I am I'm annoyed by the like, we're gonna we're gonna police it, and then they don't. Well, come on.

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Southwest was pretty aggressive on the policing. Okay. I was, you know. It's good to know. We did the cattle call boarding thing where you're right next to each other. You really, yeah, we did all of that.

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They didn't space it out at all. Nope.

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Oh, come on, but they made you wear your damn mask. Which I'm like Oh, that's funny. And this is to my next point of view, it's just so weird because you're like, you know, we're all in these cognitive dissonances with okay, there's a pandemic, but I'm vaccinated, so I need GAF. Yeah. Um are you vaccinated, bro? Yeah, so there's like all these cognitive dissonances about like, okay, the CDC has been extraordinarily clear about stop sanitizing stuff. All you're doing is creating MERSA. People were like, oh, we need to sanitize that. You know, I went to this art gallery, which was awesome, and I went into the gift shop to see if I could find something for Simona, my darling little baby girl who I missed dearly. And I got yelled at about, oh, you need to put hand sanitizer on. And I was like, okay, sorry, but I want to be like, read the CDC guidelines. This is stupid. It's like the reusable grocery bag thing. Um making me angry. But it was weird traveling with COVID just because of everybody's different. You know, I tried to go to the downtown library in Kansas City, which is this gorgeous building. They have these cool bookshelf things. I sent a selfie to Emily, our local librarian. The libraries have these cool bookshelves. She was well, no, it's like this massive thing. It's a public art thing.

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I love, I mean, I love a good, well-designed library.

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It was so they took the um outside of the parking garage and made it into books.

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Yes, that's cool. It was cool. We should do that.

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We should do that. Yeah. So like you have to ask people at doors, like, hey, can I come in? Or is this all closed? Oh, yeah. Oh, really? And people are like unfriendly, and you're like, if you don't understand why someone clearly not from your town needs to ask what the deal is. Yeah, and remember, we're from Lake Geneva that opened up to all of Chicago like right away. Yeah, it's it's just weird. And like people's hours are shortened, people are doing different things, the sanitizing stuff, it's just so weird.

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We did find the weird hours thing, which like I hope is because people don't have staff, not because they're taking advantage of COVID. Like things were randomly closed. Yeah, I mean, yesterday Pop Belly in town was closed. Just like Tyler went there for lunch and it and there was nothing, it just like said we're closed.

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Yep.

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Yeah, and it must be staffing anyway. Sorry about that.

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KCMO, though. KCMO. Super cool town. Okay. I'm sure really awesome when there's stuff happening. That whole power and light district thing, the KC Live thing, super cool. I stayed right downtown, walkable, nice streetcar, awesome like public market area. Oh, really? I didn't know that. Really cool. World War One Museum, top five museum I've ever been to. Super awesome. Huh.

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Wow, that's substantial.

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Sorry, guys.

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Did you get sick on the plane?

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No, I just have this allergy thing, which is another part of the weird thing where I have allergies right now. And I'm like, I swear I'm not dying. I'm vaccinated. It's just allergies. Bridget didn't give me COVID sitting right next to me, so uh the gallery, Nelson Akin Gallery, amazing. Okay. Uh National Negro League Museum and National Jazz Museum. Okay. Pretty nice. I think it'd be cooler if you went there to see a jazz thing. Yep. But uh cool town, lots to do, very beautiful, very nice, very walkable. Great, highly recommend it.

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Great. I haven't been there ever. I think once. A long time ago. Maybe when I worked for Marcus.

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Guys, I'm just gonna open this beer because I need something.

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Because Nick, Nick can't stop coughing and we're not responsible enough to have water. No. Yeah, how do we not have any water today?

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I don't know.

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Oh, anyway. Okay, so it was great. I remember um when I worked, I used to work for a hotel company, and we had a hotel in Kansas City, and it was beautiful. Don't remember which one. I feel like it was a Sheridan, maybe.

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Well, that was one of the cool things about Kansas City, is they had a lot of street art. I sent you some of it. I know. I was like, leave Bridget alone, leave Bridget alone. This is a vacation for her as much as me. Leave Nick alone. We're on detox from each other. But I left, I drove past this one piece of street art that was about coffee and love and like street art. I'm like, oh my god, I cannot not send this to Bridget.

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Why doesn't it talk about wine? Coffee, wine. All Bridget's things. I will gladly take any photos of any street art from anywhere any of you are traveling. I love it.

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They also had a lot of, so I stayed at a Lowe's corporate, beautiful, modern. I loved it. But they also had a lot of like really cool retro hotels where the name of the hotels up on you know the roof, and they had all these beautiful old buildings that they didn't knock down, great architecture. Yeah, it's um it was awesome. Like, highly recommend. Uh we're drinking some Boulevard beer today, which is from there? Yeah, from Kansas City. I went there. Their breweries were part of the annoying hours where people are like, oh, we're open Thursday, Friday, Saturday from four to seven. I'm like, but and he was there during the week. If you I'm not, oh dang. I'm not going. Sorry.

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I will be on a plane. It doesn't work. I said to Nick before this started, I said, Oh man, this looks like a meal.

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So this was the only thing I could find in like Geneva from them. It's their whiskey barrel stuff.

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I was like, did you fly home with this?

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No, so Boulevard, they're very well known for their take seven, their wheat. They're everywhere in Missouri. They're kind of like the spotted cow of Missouri. But um, tastes exactly holy cow, that's potent.

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Yeah, you'll be fine. He did warn me to have carbs, and I didn't listen. I chose I opted for the salad instead of the sandwich at lunch. You know, that was a mistake, I guess.

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So anyway, Boulevard, great place to visit if you're down there.

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So wait, was it closed or did you get to go to the city?

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Boulevard was open because they're a massive behemoth.

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Oh, okay. All right, great. But Lake Geneva only has this one? Well, is this their most well-known known one? No, okay, great.

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Their wheat and their tank seven are the most well known.

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Oh, those sound great. Yep. I don't know what tank seven is, but wheat sounds great. It's a Saison.

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This is hefty. It is hefty. It is. But Boulevard Brewing, if you're in Kansas City, go there. It's a great beer hall, huge beer hall thing. It's like they have like seven buildings and like a block radius that are all kind of interconnected, but not really. The two are supposedly really good, but they're not doing it because of COVID. Oh man.

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Also, um, I completely lost what I was gonna say. It had something to do with okay, I don't know everybody. That was really good.

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Sorry. I also ate a lot of barbecue, but we're gonna talk about that later. So I went there for the museums, which were excellent. Nelson Atkins, World War One Museum, highly recommended. Uh Jazz and Niger League Museums, recommended. The zoo supposedly is really good. I wasn't able to get out there as a little bit of a hike. Okay. I love a good zoo. Um it looks very spacious. I was very interested, but wasn't able to get out there. Their hours, too, were also also it snowed. Yeah.

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His pictures from day one had some snow on the ground.

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Uh shout out to Clearwater Outdoor and Patagonia and their um gear. You know, no bad weather, only bad gear thing mantra. So the last thing I threw in my bag was one of my Patagonia vests. Thank God I did. Did you not bring like a coat?

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What is with men? You didn't bring a coat? No. I don't understand this. Men listening. Why don't you bring coats, places? Like, why didn't you bring a coat? Tell me. Nick is dying today. You talk about your thing. I'm gonna go grab some. Uh sure, man. Yeah. You just a bubbly water right over there works. Okay. While Nick is dying, I want to do two other shout-outs that have nothing to do with traveling, but there are things happening in my life, and I know you like to hear about that. My cousin is also about to have her first baby. She was due yesterday, and so I'm super excited. Tick tock tick tock. Okay, that was one shout-out. And Wisconsin volleyball, everybody. There's Nick, he's coming back. Thanks for this. Um, the softball team? This is about the volleyball team.

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No, did you see the softball team with the volleyball team?

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No.

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Okay.

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Okay. Um if you don't follow uh UW Madison, their Wisconsin volleyball team watched the Final Four. Uh, they were there. So they played Texas and unfortunately did not win. Um, but then UW out in Washington, where my sister lives, um, whose birthday it is, they were also playing, I think they played Kentucky, right? So uh Texas and Kentucky won. So neither of the UWs won, but pretty cool, awesome, fun shout out. They did a um, I wish I'll try and find it and put it in the show notes, but uh the UW Wisconsin volleyball team did like a sh, hey Texas, are we doing it right? And they did some like line dance thing and called them out. And I'm sure they were trying to get them to go back and forth and make it a fun little banter, but I didn't see if Texas ever responded.

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The softball team was traveling to somewhere else in Nebraska and stopped in Omaha and cheered for the volleyball team.

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Oh, that's awesome.

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So they had like this huge Wisconsin cheering section.

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It's nice to have sports happening. Anyway, sports. I know some ladies that played on the UW Madison volleyball team that I played club with a million and a half years ago. So I know they were really um cheering them on, I'm sure. So I just thought it was cool. So anyway, those that is not my news story, but it is something exciting and notable.

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So that's a lot about Nick things. Yeah, I have some water. Hopefully, I don't continue dying.

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I'm sniffling. We're a disaster. We're a disaster. I'm not sick at all. Um, okay, we're gonna talk about food. I have a feeling you're gonna tell me about your food.

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And again, Bridget, I care about your life too. I tried to look great today. I meant to tell you, I love this. I love this shirt thing you got.

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This is so funny. You're actually the second person to compliment this shirt that I obviously got to go.

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Was the first one Tyler? No, maybe, but it was come on, man.

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It was someone at the place I got my lunch. Um, but I don't like do flannel shirts, but it's we're in this weird temperature where it's like freaking 35 degrees in the morning and then 60 in the afternoon. So what do you wear? And this is thin and comfy and easy to do. Yeah, so you know, thanks. Also, it's Friday, so I'm like putting my hair in a ponytail and putting out a flannel. Anyway, this is a weird time of year. So um, okay, I tried to pick something that I ate that wasn't dessert, but I'm in this, we're in this cleaning out our freezer situation still. So, like, we haven't been meal planning, we haven't been doing things. I did make a really awesome like Greek um salad thing, but it was vegetarian, so who cares, right? Who cares? Is it even food?

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It's food for rabbits.

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This dessert was vegetarian. Okay. Have you ever heard of a dump cake? And maybe I'm late to the game. Am I late to the game?

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No.

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Okay. Um, I told my mom and she was like, Well, yeah, obviously. Um, so I followed, sorry, that was my bubbly water. Um, I followed some blogger. I saw this, and I didn't believe it. I'm like, no way this is gonna be great, but I was like, I'm gonna do it. Why not? You take literally just like any fruit canned fruit um pie filling, and you take a cake mix, just the powdered cake mix. So you dump the the um fruit pie filling on the bottom of a like a cake pan, nine by 13, then you just put the powdered cake mix on top, and then you cut up one stick of butter and lay the pieces all over the top and bake it for however long the cake says to bake, 25 minutes or whatever. So the combination I did was what the Instagram person I saw suggested, which was blueberry pie filling with yellow cake mix, and it is freaking amazing. And it took zero time. Okay, it took 25 minutes in the oven and about one minute to prepare and cost me three dollars. Happy birthday, Boo! I mean, I I was like, I am going to visit Boo um soon. You'll hear all about that next week. And I was like, can I bring this to her? No, we're just gonna make one when I'm out there. So, anyway, super delicious. It was a dessert again, because it's me. But try it, it's so great. And oh, I heard cherry and pineapple with like white cake is apparently very southern and popular. Sounds disgusting to me, but the blueberry and yellow cake was good.

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Nick's gonna clear his throat and then tell us about barbecue. I don't know what's happening. Um, okay, so went to Kansas City for the barbecue. There's you know a number of major styles of barbecue in America. There's uh Carolina, there's Memphis, there's Texas, and then you look at your Kansas City. Some people now are big on the Alabama style. It's emerging to me. So Kansas City, well known for burnt ends, which are tips of brisket that then get caramelized. Uh sauced ribs, pulled pork, sauced. So their thing is the sauce, not the dry rub, like Memphis, if you remember, our just north of Memphis interview. They do the dry rub.

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Yep.

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So uh went there to do the um the barbecue thing. And I went to three restaurants that were kind of the historic ones.

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Oh, I was like, how'd you pick? Okay. They were like well-known ones.

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Um, so Arthur Bryant's was the first one I went to, and this is very historic. They are like the OG. Arthur Bryant was a guy that kind of invented having a barbecue restaurant in Kansas City. His sauce is really good. His original one is kind of a thin mop. The sweet and spicy one was one I like. Um I gotta tell you, the neighborhood that this place was in was kind of industrial, kind of low rent residence. Um I don't think they've renovated the place or cleaned it in 30 or 40 years. Uh your shoes stick to the floor. Yeah. It's porcelain tiles or ceramic tiles. You know, I got called Sunny by everybody there. That's awesome.

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It is a cultural experience. Yeah, yeah, that. Sonny.

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We might just need to take a break. Anyway, I don't understand why my throat's so anyway. Uh President Truman ate there, President Carter ate there, and uh, of course, the OG, Barry. Barry. Barack Obama ate there. Barry. Because when you go to Kansas City as a president, you gotta eat barbecue. Uh and I sat at the table that Barry had all this stuff at.

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Oh, so we must have sat there. I mean And maybe it's never been cleaned by the sounds of it.

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It was very good. I got burnt ends, pulled apart. It was very good, but nothing I couldn't do at home. And halfway through the meal, the power in the entire place shut off. Yeah, it was. This was on the snow day. So I think I texted you on this day. Or I saw it on your story for sure. Um so it was snowing, and at my first meal, they managed to somehow blow up the transformer at their place. They were doing some weird ad hoc repairs. As I go outside, their power transformer is literally blown up. The like pole is half off the thing, got kicked out because sorry folks, we blew up our power. Y'all gotta leave. Don't want to start you on fire. It's also very southern down there. It was more southern than I thought it would be.

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Yeah, in a city. Well, I mean, you were kind of on the outskirts, it sounds like right now.

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No, that was kind of downtown. Oh, really? Oh, sorry. I put that in second in my rankings. Next, I went to Joe's, Kansas City Joe's, which was very good. A little bit more, mmm, mmm. What's the way to put this? Established or less? White person. Oh. A little bit more white person. So it was in a gas station. Oh, and uh scared. Well, a lot of barbecue places, yep.

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Yeah.

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And very refined, a little bit more scientific, a little bit more barbecue circuity white person. Casual Joe's.

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Oh, that is Whitewater. That's a different place.

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And it was very good. Kansas City Joe's barbecue. Okay. It was very good. The ribs were perfectly cooked. Their sauce was excellent.

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So it feels like a little more updated.

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Yep. I mean, look at their logo, look at everything. Yeah. And um, you know, I gotta say, like, good work, Joe's. Yeah, it looks clean. Your biggest thing was your sauce, and I can buy your sauce and put it on my own pulled park. Then I went to Gates, which was where Clinton and W went on uh campaign stops, and I gotta tell you. Not great. Gates. It you know, it was a little more assembly line. Uh kind of on uh if you knew them, you were in good. Oh, were they not friendly? Uh, you know, again, I was kind of called Sunny a few times. I mean, and I was given some crap about not knowing their ordering system when I just did what the person in front of me did, who they talked to for five minutes. Okay, that's annoying. Yeah. So I'm like I wasn't in the in-crowd, so I got a little crap there. It was very smoky, which I thought was more of a flaw than a thing. But still worth going to for the historicalness. Um you know, that would be my third one. So Because of the treatment. Yeah, okay. Well, and just like the style of food was like, eh, you know, it's good. But like when I think of what just north of Memphis and a lot of these competition people do, it's a better quality of food. I get running a restaurant 365 days a year is different. Right. But it's all stuff I could do at home.

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Bryant's looks the most like classic to me.

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Yeah, Arthur Bryant's is like Yeah, I was googling all of these things.

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This is like foreign to me.

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But very good. Go there for the barbecue, you know.

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And the breweries if they're open.

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Yeah.

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So that's my but I ate a lot of barbecue. Do did you run into probably not because it was midweek? If I was there, I would own a brewery, and then I would ask a barbecue food truck to come to my brewery all the time and feed my people. Yeah, not a lot of food trucks. Yeah. Maybe that's a COVID thing. I have no idea. I don't know. I don't know. Okay, great. You're just not cool enough. Here we are. All right, guys. So I've already shared some news about, you know, the volleyball update, but I've had this on here. Um, I've had this update about this New York Times article that I saw. I actually saw it. Um I follow New York Times articles. I have um New York Times subscription. I follow them everywhere. So I see these things all the time. And then I saw my cousin Jessica share it as well and was glad to see that we're all kind of feeling this. So this article title is There's a Name for that Blah Feeling. It's called languishing. So if you follow the New York Times at all, I'm sure this has shown up in your algorithm somehow. Um, we Nick and I have talked about like the COVID cloud a lot and all of those things. And this article helps like really explain it. And it's talking about what we're all feeling here, like in 2021, not just 2020. So you should check out the article. We'll of course put it in the show notes, but it's talking about languishing being the neglected middle child of mental health. And it says it's that void between depression and flourishing. So, like you're not depressed, you're fine, but you're like not living your best life and flourishing and feeling the joy as deeply as you should be. So you you're not feeling symptoms of mental health, but you're also not like the picture of mental health. So you're just stuck in the middle, and this feeling is called languishing. And I think as we've talked about the cloud a lot, um, this I remember an article early on in COVID talking about the COVID cloud or the haze or whatever of you can't just like you're like looking through a foggy wingshield. And that's what this article is saying again. So it's always nice to like see that someone's assigning a term to it because us control freaks like that. I like that too. Yeah, it was a really cool article. So check it out.

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Uh I want to talk about the European Super League. What is that? Oh, you don't know what that is? You didn't hear about that? No. So basically, a bunch of soccer teams decided they were gonna quit their league and make a new league. League out the loser teams. This is terrible. So think about like if the Yankees, the Dodgers, the Red Sox, and I don't know.

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Just left out the Cubs and the Brewers.

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And screw playing the race. No one cares about those White Sox. Which, I mean, is kind of correct. No, I care about those teams. So anyway, um, the owners decided to do that. And it went really south really fast. Good. Arsenal Football Club, my beloved team, was one of the teams that said, screw you guys, we're doing our own thing. Oh, assholes. And it was quite the kerfuffle.

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Okay, you being an owner of Arsenal, how do you feel about that? I'm not an owner, I'm a club member. I'm sorry. I don't know what that is.

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Uh it's not like the Green Bay Packers. Oh, bummer. Um, part of me was like, we get to play Barcelona more often? Cool. Part of me was like, we get 400 million pounds guaranteed a year, cool. But also, we're assholes. Well, yeah, that was morally, I do not support this. I mean, that was, you know.

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That was morally uncor incorrect. I mean unjust.

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So Okay, cool. Anyway, that was that happened, but it was weird because I was on vacation and I was like not looking at my phone, like very hard. Yeah, my phone far, far away from me, had an airplane mode.

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Nick. Like, I know I am shocked at the small amount of emails that came, which I think was one, and that was because I like needed an answer.

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Um, so like it all kind of happened, and people were texting me about it because I'm the soccer friend. I'm like, I I don't know. I'm on vacation.

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Isn't that funny?

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I only like checked my Google Voice number because that was like Urgent? Yeah. I um it's about a mortgage thing.

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Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Boring, but urgent. Um, I remember going on vacation as like in high school, probably when like missing one day of news was like the worst thing in the world. And it was like some perfect vacation that my parents took us on. And I remember coming back and like probably when my anxiety issues started. I don't know. And I was like, I just feel so behind. Like, I feel behind, but instead I just had this amazing week, but now I don't know what the current events are. Like, who the hell cares?

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You know, there's a lot of great think pieces out about the European Super League. I'll link to one. The New York Times did a lot of the reporting. Um, it's hilarious because it's gone. Okay, everybody backed out. It's like a great instance of billionaires not getting what they want and being pissed off. Did it last a week? No, less like two days. Okay. So less than the time you were gone. So it was like cool because a bunch of fans united and said, screw you, billionaires. Yeah, that's great. But uh the other one I had was about um also about soccer, but it was a like jungle soccer league. But it didn't happen because there's too many cheetahs. Cheetahs. Let's take a break. I'm gonna go cough some more.

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Okay, we're back. Nick's done coughing forever. Just kidding. He's probably still gonna cough. Sorry about that. But we I'm sorry too. I'm sorry. I have a product recommendation that I'm super pumped about. Also, I just rolled that into one word. Product recommendation. Um, Anthony Mordain's book is out. RIP. I know, but this book looks bomb. Have you looked at it at all?

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No, I actually I was like deeply emotionally scarred by this.

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I know. This is why I thought you were gonna have this as your product direct.

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And um, I'm aware of this, and I just You can't? I can't.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

I see, I think the opposite because his death didn't bother me at first as much, but then it started to more over time as I saw all my chef friends and other people like you be very upset about it. And then I got it. I understood it more. And so anyway, his book, World Travel, is out, and I mean it's basically all about his travels. But what I'm loving about it is he you if you don't know, but he he went to the places that like you wouldn't go. He didn't go to the one place in Paris that everyone talks about. He goes to like weird places, weird countries, recommendations from locals, and that's always what I would like. I want to see the tourist things, but then I want to spend a couple days of my trip like finding the weird shit, but also like not getting sick from it. So I can take Anthony Bourdain's recommendations. You know, I want like just a little bit of knowledge of someone being like, eat the guinea pig from this street vendor, not this one. So also don't tell me it's guinea pigs, then I won't eat it. Shout out to Shannon because she had guinea pig from street vendor. Gross. So anyway, um, the book is out, looks awesome. Um, I've got the audiobook, of course, um earmarked. So I'm all in on audiobooks right now because I don't have time to read real books, and I can do this one in the car. So check it out.

SPEAKER_00 27:27

In the words of Dave Chappelle. Pause. Good people of Atlanta. We must never forget that Anthony Bourdain killed himself. Yes, he did. Anthony Bourdain had the greatest job that Showbiz has ever produced. This man flew around the world and ate delicious meals with outstanding people. That man with that job hung himself in a luxury suite in France. People forget that that is comedy and it's funny, and as part of his entire show, made a lot of sense, but that gets a lot of things. Well, well, what? But um I'm not sure. Sticks and stones, watch it on Netflix. That's my product recommendation. No, it's not. But you should watch that one. Um I'm so confused. Actually, maybe that is my product recommendation. No, it's not. Um anyway, Sticks and Stones by Dave Chappelle. He starts the show talking about Bourdain, and it's uh stuck with me. And the whole thing stuck with me. So yeah, that's why. But yes, it's a good book. You should go, I'm sure you should go read it. Men and Dave Chappelle, that's another thing. Um, my product recommendation actually piggybacks on what you just said. So thanks for the setup about the audiobook. I don't even know. I have a new Amazon Kindle that I used on this trip extensively. I asked Emily, our local resident librarian, Emily, I'm thinking about getting a Kindle. What do you think? And she said, I have one. You need it, get it. Um Did you know I have a Kindle? I did not. Yeah, I've had one like since they were OG, like before they had a backlight. So oh, I have the backlight, or it's actually a front light.

SPEAKER_01 28:51

Yeah. I'm sorry, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:52

So you can uh read it at night and not screw with your eye vision. I'm reading so much more because it's you can't go on the internet. Yep. All you can do is read a damn book. Yep. So uh read two books while on vacation. Oh nice. I haven't read two books in like oh, what a dream. Forever. Forever. I used to read like a book a week.

SPEAKER_01 29:12

Yeah, then you had a kid.

SPEAKER_00 29:14

Yeah. So anyway, Kindle. I'm gonna put a link. Don't get the Kindle fire. Okay, this is the important thing. I don't know, I don't know the difference. If you want one, recommended by our librarian, recommended by me, you can get free books like crazy from the library from it. You can buy books. It's a great reading experience, light, easy to use. You buy it using our link. We'll make some money. We appreciate that. Microphones aren't cheap. Thanks so much. Thanks, guys. That's my product recommendation. I used it all over on this trip. It's great. You can use it on the beach even because it's like waterproof.

SPEAKER_01 29:50

I will say, I that like because I've had mine for a million years again, before the lights even came out, and I would use it by the pool all the time. You don't have to pack 25 books because vacation is the only time we can read. So I'm on board with the Kindle. All right, guys.

SPEAKER_00 30:03

I'm gonna go cough some more.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

We'll be right back. All right, we are back, and there's a mystery segment I know nothing about that's happening right now.

SPEAKER_00 30:31

So we promised we're gonna switch things up a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 30:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:34

So Nick's surprising me. Yay! So it's April 25th as we released this. And so we're doing a Today in History, and we're gonna get a I give a F or I don't give an F from Bridget on each of these events.

SPEAKER_01 30:46

Oh, okay, okay. So There are that many events that happen in history on this?

SPEAKER_00 30:50

I mean, look at this list.

SPEAKER_01 30:51

Oh my God. We're not gonna read them all to you because it's quite lengthy, actually. Oh Jesus.

SPEAKER_00 30:58

Let's see. 1792. Highwayman Nicholas J. Pelleterier becomes a first person executed by a guillotine.

SPEAKER_01 31:08

Oh my god, I was just listening to a podcast about this, so yeah, I care. There's an episode of Morbid Podcast talking about like all the historical ways that we used to like publicly execute people.

SPEAKER_00 31:18

Bridget cares about execution. Also in 1792, Les Marseilles is composed by Claude Yosef Rouget Deli. Oh, I wish I cared about that, but I don't. I do. I know it's true. One of the great scenes in Casablanca is they start singing the Marseille. Also in Master and Commander, do you watch our children singing the Marseille?

SPEAKER_01 31:42

We watch different kinds of movies.

unknown 31:43

Great, great.

SPEAKER_01 31:44

Great, great, great. Great, great, great.

SPEAKER_00 31:47

Um, let's see. 1846, the Thurton Affair. Open conflict begins over the disputed border city of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.

SPEAKER_01 31:57

Oh, I mean, that is interesting. I didn't I don't know enough about history.

SPEAKER_00 32:01

Yeah, you don't care. To care when these things start. I D G A S.

SPEAKER_01 32:05

I mean, I get like a general idea, but do I really care that it happened on April 25th? No.

SPEAKER_00 32:08

Here's a timely one. In 1859, on today, British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal. Oh, yeah, that is timely, so I should care about that. But 1859, that's how long the Suez Canal's been around, and just now we broke it. Good job. It took this long. 1898 today. The United States declares war in Spain to start the Spanish-American War.

SPEAKER_01 32:31

So many wars starting right now.

SPEAKER_00 32:32

Okay. The Battle of Gallipoli begins 1915.

SPEAKER_01 32:35

No, I don't care about any of these things.

SPEAKER_00 32:37

Don't care.

SPEAKER_01 32:37

I should. Are you guys all gonna be mad at me right now?

SPEAKER_00 32:41

1944. The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.

SPEAKER_01 32:45

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 32:45

That's nice to know. 1945, Elba Day. The United States and Soviet troops meet in Tor Galo along the River Elba, cutting the wearmark of Nazi Germany in two.

SPEAKER_01 32:55

Okay, yeah, I care about that. That's cool. I thought these were like events, okay.

SPEAKER_00 33:00

1945, the United Nations Conference on International Organizations. The founding negotiations for the UN begins in San Francisco. That's cool.

SPEAKER_01 33:08

But like, hey, there's a massive Oktoberfest event.

SPEAKER_00 33:12

Here we go. 1954, the first practical solar cells publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Labs.

SPEAKER_01 33:18

Oh, 1954?

SPEAKER_00 33:21

Yeah.

unknown 33:22

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 33:22

Okay. The St. Louis Seaway was open in 1955 today.

SPEAKER_01 33:26

You know what this reminds me of? Have you ever played the game Timeline? Nope. I hate it, but love it. And we play it with like um like at the cottage a lot with Tyler's family, and they're much better at history. And you just like um it says like tape was invented, and you have to decide if it was before or after like some other event someone put down. Yeah, it's very, it's very fun.

SPEAKER_00 33:45

Let's see. In 1983, American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader, Yuri Andropov, after he let her letter, read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

SPEAKER_01 33:59

Oh, boy. She was she the only one to write a letter about that?

SPEAKER_00 34:03

Evidently I got to him.

SPEAKER_01 34:04

I mean, I yeah, I care because I think it's interesting that this one girl and that she was a girl. In what what year was that? 1983. I won't give away what year that what else happened that year?

SPEAKER_00 34:18

1990, Violetta Cham Happy birthday, boo. 1990, Violetta Chamarro takes office as the president of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold a position. Interesting.

SPEAKER_01 34:31

Okay, these are fascinating things, Nick.

SPEAKER_00 34:33

I got two more. Okay. 2004, the March for Women's Lives begins, and it brings 500,000 to 800,000 protesters to Washington, DC to protest I care about that. Partial birth abortion ban.

SPEAKER_01 34:50

Oh, okay. I do care about that.

SPEAKER_00 34:52

And finally, as we forgot, 2015, 9100 people are killed after an earthquake in Nepal.

unknown 34:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:59

I remember that. I remember that. Let's look at some big birthdays too.

SPEAKER_01 35:03

Okay, I have a follow-up on a a segment or a podcast that I recommended. I don't know how long ago. Can I do that or do we need to wait a moment? Okay. So, oh, also, wow, I'm so sorry because we're recording on the 23rd. On the 25th, it's my brother-in-law's birthday. So happy birthday, Steven. Holy cow, all the birthdays. So when this releases, it'll be Steven's birthday.

unknown 35:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 35:24

Anyway. Um, oh, I don't know, a month ago maybe I were I talked about a podcast called Under the Influence. Did I talk about that on here? You did. Okay, so I got way behind on it. And it's only eight. It's only eight.

SPEAKER_00 35:36

Steve Duncan was born today.

SPEAKER_01 35:37

Right. Renee Zellweger. Ooh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 35:40

Joe Buck. Boo.

SPEAKER_01 35:43

Um, okay. So I was ygging the other day. I was going for a run and I was listening to Under the Influence. I had to like go back a little bit and refresh myself. So I did not realize, but they were um, the host of this podcast was going back in history a little bit, talking about um how Lucille Ball, so in I Love Lucy, also my daughter's name is Lucille. So it's Lucy, but it's a family name. So Lucille, so we were talking about Lucille Ball and I Love Lucy and how she was the first person that um we were talking about the podcast, we're talking about like the history of female influencers and how far back women have actually been influencing one another, and it goes like way, way back, right? So um like to Nefertiti. I mean, we're talking about like how women saw a mummy in Kansas State.

SPEAKER_00 36:27

Kind of weird. It's like a dead person right in front of you, but they're in stuff. It was an odd departure from what we're talking about. Well, we're talking about Nefertiti. Women influence each other. Don't you think that's weird that like if you're dead for 6,000 years and wrapped up in bandages, you're art, not like a dead person? I mean, there's no person in there anymore.

SPEAKER_01 36:51

Still kind of weird. Anyway, Lucille Ball. So Lucille Ball was the first person in um television to be, the first woman to be pregnant on television. So thought that was fascinating. So she um timed her her um show, I Love Lucy C-section, on the same day as her real life c-section. And then when she came back from having her baby, she started getting paid to use products for her baby. So that was like the first kind of history memory of being paid for products, um, you know, partnering with an influencer really was back when I Love Lucy was popular. And so, you know, as I'm running, here's what I'm thinking. I'm like, I think that this is the segue into my Lucy becoming an influencer. Okay, everybody. Anyway, I just it was a, it was, you need to listen to that podcast. I think it's fascinating. So I just was refreshing it and I thought it was a really, I don't know, it was a really interesting look back into history from someone who doesn't particularly love history in the same way Nick does. I do when you're examining a certain topic, like how long ago were like influencers. I mean, that's it, that's very much connecting to modern day, and I think it's fascinating to look back at. So if you think it's fascinating like me, you can listen to the Under the Influence podcast.

SPEAKER_00 37:59

Well, maybe we could, you know, look at how in 1982 the Israelis complained their withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David equipment.

SPEAKER_01 38:06

That is not as interesting because it just doesn't equate as much to my everyday life right now.

SPEAKER_00 38:12

Well, what does equate to your everyday week life is what you're cooking this week and what is that?

SPEAKER_01 38:18

Okay, so this week on the meal plan, guys.

SPEAKER_00 38:21

I was actually looking at this one as like I haven't made this in a long time. I know, because we haven't talked about this recipe.

SPEAKER_01 38:26

Like great recipe. Sometimes I just like to pick recipes to piss Nick off because I know he's gonna pick them. So this is one of those. So anyway, um, this upcoming meal plan has a whole bunch of awesome Mexican recipes because we're prepping for Cinco de Mayo. Because I know it feels like that's a long way away, but really or it's the same Barcelona, Cinco de Mayo.

SPEAKER_00 38:46

Cinco de Mayo is coming up.

SPEAKER_01 38:48

So next week we've got a lot of really fun recipes. And don't forget about chorizo. That was we talk about this a lot. Nick and I were like, I feel like people forget about chorizo. So good. So anyway, the recipe I chose is the truth, it's a chorizo bite recipe. And really, I chose it because I feel like it's like small plates and I love a good appetizer for dinner. So chorizo, basically, it's like a stuffed potato, but with chorizo instead of bacon, is what I'm gonna call it. It's like a loaded baked potato, but Mexican style. And it looks awesome, and they're little red potatoes so it's like mini little bites of it. So um, you should make it for an appetizer, a snack, a dinner. I don't know. If you're having a Cinco de Mayo party, all of the above, make it, have it with a marg. I'm going rogue. What?

SPEAKER_00 39:33

I'm making barbecue.

SPEAKER_01 39:34

Not allowed to prove that you could do it better or what?

SPEAKER_00 39:37

So the day before I left, we had barbecue ribs, and um I mean, I'm not gonna say mine were better. Nick! But I'm gonna say like pretty gosh darn close. But I'm gonna say they were better. Now I need to go to Franklin Barbecue, try his brisket. Uh, Hattie B's still have not made chicken anywhere near that good. No, never. But I think I'm gonna make some pulled pork and try this thing that I had at um, you know, the Joe's that I think he chopped he chopped part of it and pulled part of it, and I liked that. So I'm gonna try that. I'm gonna try that. It might be a new recipe that might be in a future meal plan. But um, yeah, I'm gonna come at you a little bit, Kansas City. Your barbecue is good, but it's not like chef quality. Like any idiot can put a pork shoulder on a smoker, pull it, and put some delicious sauce on it. You make really good sauce. I can't believe you're doing this right now.

SPEAKER_01 40:38

But Kansas City. I hope there's a listener or 10 from Kansas City that are ready to get after this. That Nakin Lake Geneva can do it better.

SPEAKER_00 40:51

I'm not saying that. I'm just saying like the level of like competence required for it is not high.

SPEAKER_01 40:57

Oh, I have nothing to say because I don't care about barbecue.

SPEAKER_00 41:00

So anyway.

SPEAKER_01 41:02

That's not true. I'm learning more about barbecue.

SPEAKER_00 41:04

I think Memphis and the dry rub takes more skill because you can cover up a lot of flaws by putting some delicious, delicious barbecue sauce on something.

SPEAKER_01 41:11

But wait, Kansas City barbecue is known for its sauce. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:13

So that's not Joe's fault. Or not saying that. I'm just saying, like, as a barbecue destination, you you moved down my list. Damn. So anyway, I'm making barbecue. And uh we're making Lake Geneva a barbecue destination. Let's do it. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_01 41:28

I mean Okay, yeah. Let's do it. That's what we're doing, everybody.

SPEAKER_00 41:36

I do think you had a thing on your pulled pork that I think I'm gonna try and rip off. So So thank you for the inspiration. I think the technical term is leverage. I think I'm gonna leverage your expertise and learning curve to my own um also benefit.

SPEAKER_01 41:53

I don't know that just like anybody could shove a pork shoulder on whatever.

SPEAKER_00 41:57

Everybody can do that.

SPEAKER_01 41:58

I don't think I can.

SPEAKER_00 41:59

We have people I don't have a smoker. Everybody gets the oh, you could do an assault cooker. Oh everybody that gets a new uh smoker comes in a Lake June country and go, I want a brisket. I'm gonna go, I'm a smoker. I'm like, hey man. Um you don't want a brisket. I'm gonna tell you right away, you're gonna screw this up. Like, you don't know how to use this thing. Everything cooks a little differently. And a whole brisket's kind of expensive. Pork butt is cheap, and you can put a lot of barbecue sauce on it, it'll be fine. Start with that. So start with that. Pro tip right there.

SPEAKER_01 42:30

Oh boy. Complimentive. Like country means.

SPEAKER_00 42:33

You're gonna screw up your first cook. It's okay. Failure is good. Just learn from it, move on, and don't do better. Screw up on a brisket.

SPEAKER_01 42:42

Okay, everybody. You know what it's time for. Kid Corner. Thought it would have been better if you coughed your way through that. It's kid corner. I tried not to. Okay, um, I'm not gonna talk about my kids this week because I have something more disturbing to deal with. I know, it just says the birds. Disturbing movie. I mean, also like my Nick, my Nick, my week was a little a little like too thrilling.

SPEAKER_00 43:12

Oh, he has to get a thring. I I have a I have a visual thing for people watching on YouTube. I'm gonna be right back. Keep talking.

SPEAKER_01 43:18

You guys, I think Nick has left the room more during the recording of this podcast than he has ever during your podcast. Um, I was gonna share it with you about Lucy and her unbelievable sass, but I know we've talked about that a lot. Let's just say that I'm not incredibly thrilled to be hopping on an airplane for four hours and 20 minutes with her next week because she is like straight up yelling at me these days. Like, no, mama, no. So, anyway, stay tuned for the report of how four hours on a plane go with me and Lucy. But um, I'm gonna talk about my children, my problem children of the day, which are the birds at my house. Um, I know that sounds ridiculous and it makes me sound 80 years old, but we have these awesome picture. Windows. So our living room is wall is like basically windows. So it's beautiful. Um, when there are no leaves on the trees, we have a lake view, so it's really lovely, and that makes us sound fancier than we are. It's not that. Um, but the picture windows uh tend to attract birds, apparently. So um we've lived in the house. This will be our going into our third summer, I think. Nine too, yeah, our third summer. And we haven't really had this problem, but I'm sitting in my office, which is not far from the living room. Um, door closed, and I just keep hearing like thuds, just thuds, thuds. And so I was this started yesterday actually, and then today yell at Elliot, I'm back. No, the Nick's back. No, the kids were gone. So it was silent. It should have been silent in my house. And um, I was on a call, and I just like I kept like being distracted. So there's a one bird in particular. We have the picture windows, and then there's a porch. So this bird would stand on the porch like railing and then just dive bomb into our window. Time, I'm not kidding. I mean, for three hours, this bird just did it until I left my house. I was like, I cannot be in my house anymore. I went and I got my kids' construction paper and I cut out three black construction paper birds and taped them to the window of like, don't fly in here. This is a window. And yesterday, I think I took a picture of five birds, like all in the area. I'm like, bro, stop telling your bird friends to do this, but I don't know how to make this stop. So someone please tell me because I'm gonna just don't clean your windows. They're filthy. My kids are up on these windows, there's stickers on the windows. Like my kids put stickers on my window. I've they put handprints all over them. They're disgusting.

SPEAKER_00 45:40

Like, but maybe get a fake uh falcon or something.

SPEAKER_01 45:43

I mean, is there bugs in the screen? Is there something that has made these birds congregate in this area? Is there a dead bird somewhere that they're that I can't see? Like, what is attracting these birds currently this summer to that window? Okay, I need to know bird people that are listening. Please tell me.

SPEAKER_00 46:03

That's all. Those are my children. Uh well, my story is about my actual child, Simona, my dear darling Simona, whom I love so much because she's an only child. Um barf, man. I was a little sad leaving her. And I got to the hotel. I was so proud of myself. I actually like unpacked, put things in drawers, and what did I find? I had some artwork. Oh boy. Um, Simona made me an original Simona artwork that says, Have a good trip, da-da. Love Simona.

SPEAKER_01 46:36

Yeah, she wrote that too.

SPEAKER_00 46:37

And then it also says, hi. Hi. Because her favorite thing to do is run around a corridor and go, hi.

SPEAKER_01 46:43

That's very cute.

SPEAKER_00 46:45

So if you're watching, you can see this beautiful. Oh, it also has some Mickey Mouse sticker.

SPEAKER_01 46:49

I was like, did she put that sticker on?

SPEAKER_00 46:50

Um, you can see this beautiful artwork she made with her paint daubers um on construction paper. And I started crying. Oh my god. When I opened it because it's so beautiful and I love her so much. You're a feeler, man. And um, you know what? You're a feeler. Some people in the world need to feel emotion.

SPEAKER_01 47:11

Before, while you were gone, I was telling everyone what a sass Lucy was. Like, so you know, it's the same.

SPEAKER_00 47:16

Well, it's okay. So anyway.

SPEAKER_01 47:18

Um, can I have a complaint about children's art? Because I'm not a feeler in the same way. I love children's art. I'm being a brat. I made, I love children's art. We made art for Britney and sent it to her. Okay, I love it. But this shit, when they put a Mickey Mouse sticker on the beautiful, like this could be cool, like abstract art, and you could frame it and like make it cool.

SPEAKER_00 47:39

Well, maybe that's part of her statement about who she is as an artist.

SPEAKER_01 47:42

My kids do this too. Like, take these stickers and guess. Okay, she's not even two. I understand I'm being a brat, but this is a safe space. I hate when they put stickers in the middle of this shit.

SPEAKER_00 47:51

She also had this half of this because there's a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse pack.

SPEAKER_02 47:56

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:57

That's uh goofy thing that says, hi up. And it was falling off, so I put it on my phone because when I was traveling in Kansas City and I looked at my phone, saying, Oh, don't you have a picture of her face on your phone? Yeah, I do.

SPEAKER_01 48:10

You guys look at this lock screen. I am not this heartless. I just think it's funny to talk about how much I hate Mickey Mouse stickers on my beautiful artwork. Because I do actually have some like this random fingerprint art when you're like, what is this crap when you're one?

SPEAKER_00 48:23

Isn't that funny? That is funny. That's cute. I have a really crop, perfectly crop shot of her going, eh.

SPEAKER_01 48:29

I like um, I was just saying that I like kids.

SPEAKER_00 48:33

So I don't have to pick which one to be on my phone.

SPEAKER_01 48:36

You don't think you can take a picture of the two of them? I have a picture of all four of us on our phone. It's a miracle.

SPEAKER_00 48:43

I mean, let's be clear.

SPEAKER_01 48:44

If you had to pick one, I know who you'd pick. I don't know. It's a tough call. I know. Um we were saying, so next week, I'm just gonna tell you, it's not really that important. Tyler is going on a trip with Elliot, and I'm going on a trip with Lucy separately. So I'm visiting my sister and he's visiting his brother, um, who we miss very much. So we're it's boys' trip, girls' trip, but historically, Lucy is very much all over Tyler, and Elliot is all very much a mama's boy. And so we're like, sorry, kids, you're stuck with the parent you don't like on a plane. So I'm sorry, but Tyler definitely has the easier end of this with Elliot trip. Oh, yeah. I don't know. Lucy's terrible. Lucy's gonna be a nightmare. If you're listening and you happen to be next to me on the plane, you say sorry.

SPEAKER_00 49:26

Well, guys, um, sorry for all the coughing. Yeah, thanks for sticking it out this long if you did. You know, go to Kansas City. It's a great place. Barbecue. It's okay. It's good. Um, supposedly there's more like chef-driven restaurants that I was told to go to, but I didn't because I want to go to the, you know, where Bourdain would have gone. For sure. I mean, Bourdain would have gone to one of the chef places and be like.

SPEAKER_01 49:47

Do you think?

SPEAKER_00 49:48

Oh, yeah, because he always does. He would have.

SPEAKER_01 49:49

But then they would have made fun of him.

SPEAKER_00 49:50

Well, he's dead, so he always did. Um, so he'd be like, you know, this was blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But if you want to be of the people, you gotta go be with the people. Yeah. Uh drink some Boulevard beer. Yep. Uh delicious beer. Yep. The wheat beer everywhere. Uh, you know. The museums. It sounds like maybe that was the best part. Send uh your tips to Bridget on how to not have birds kill themselves on your windows.

SPEAKER_01 50:14

I'm gonna go home and take a picture if there's dead birds on my porch, because there will be. I'm sorry. It's very sad.

SPEAKER_00 50:20

If you like dump cakes, let us know.

SPEAKER_01 50:22

I know. Tell me more flavor combinations because I can't understand the cherry pineapple.

SPEAKER_00 50:27

Raspberry chocolate.

SPEAKER_01 50:28

Oh, yeah, that sounds great. Oh, I'm gonna make that one.

SPEAKER_00 50:31

Good job. Bring me some.

SPEAKER_01 50:33

Okay, yeah. I will bring that next week, maybe. Thanks.

SPEAKER_00 50:35

No, just kidding. We're gonna get it. Maybe a little powdered sugar on top.

SPEAKER_01 50:37

Okay, man. Now you're getting fancy. The whole point is it's so easy. Okay, chocolate raspberry is what I'm gonna try next. We'll report back.

SPEAKER_00 50:44

Thanks for listening. Thanks for listening. YouTube, we're on there. Facebook, we're on there. Instagram, we're on there. Dinnerplostdrinks.com, we are there.

SPEAKER_01 50:53

We have been promising announcements of exciting things, and they are coming. Next vacation was the okay, it was the calm before the storm, if you will.

SPEAKER_00 51:01

So it was a vacation for Bridget. Let's be clear. Let's be honest, you guys. You gotta like work on stuff because I wasn't throwing you new ideas.

SPEAKER_01 51:09

It was like uh, hey, I got an odd amount of work done this week. Because, you know, sometimes we just like get together and talk about a lot of ideas, but we don't, it takes time to accomplish those ideas then. But we will accomplish them because Monday is another planning moment. So um, exciting stuff coming, we promise you will get to learn about it soon. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 51:28

Everybody, thanks for listening. Have a great week, guys. Cheers, guys. Bye. Bye bye.