Banquet Food - Dinner Plus Drinks #147

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Hey Bridget. Are you ever in the mood for just like some crappy mediocre chicken with some steamed vegetables and a just, you know, maybe a couple potatoes that are fine.

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Literally every day.

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I you know, I was in the mood for such a thing this Tuesday. I thought, you know what?

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Bridget would love this.

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Just a like mediocre meal would be great, but no. No. I got something totally different. Stay tuned to find out what disappointed me even more than mediocre chicken. Well, first of all, what won't disappoint me is this.

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This.

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Um it's National American Beer Day, but we're recording a day early and Early in the morning.

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Early in the morning. I mean earlier than normal.

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So we opted for cider from our friend Joseph at Mershon's. This is his snowed in cinnamon. So apples, honey, cinnamon, some other spices. It tastes like fall.

SPEAKER_01 1:07

Yes, it's so good.

SPEAKER_00 1:08

I love cider.

SPEAKER_01 1:10

It's so festive. I know, and we just haven't done a cider showcase in a long time.

SPEAKER_00 1:14

And interestingly enough, you should have seen the uh look on Bridget's face, as I just said, interestingly enough. Because usually when I say You've got all these like ominous things today. Uh, this is actually sizer because there's honey with it as a way to so technically if you add honey, it becomes sizer, and people will come up to him at tasting and be like, you know, it's not really, and he's like, Oh my god. Because he uses honey to help the fermentation.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

Okay. Uh don't get after me if I'm way off here. But what is the difference then between mead, sizer, and cider? So mead is all honey. All honey. Okay. Cider is all apples, and sizer is both. That's so interesting. I never realized that. Also, I think I don't love honey in my like I don't love mead. I I like it and I love cider, but I can taste the honey.

SPEAKER_00 2:05

It's yeah, a little sweeter.

SPEAKER_01 2:06

Yeah. Yep. Interesting.

SPEAKER_00 2:07

You know, it's Wisconsin, so people like that. It's thick with a Q. I like mead, but it's just so hard to get consistent quality mead because honey varies so seasonally. And um, it's very expensive because honey is very expensive.

SPEAKER_01 2:23

That's a lot of work. Yeah. I can like not untaste the mead in this now. Like the mead, you know, in my head, I know I can't I can't undo it. I did have some amazing mead at an event that I wish I could remember at the brewery's name, but they're not like a functioning brewery, they just like do it and go to the room. They hope to open, I think they said in West Dallas one day, and I'm like, oh well, that's happening, you know. But yeah, anyway, really nice guys, and they made some like mead that I actually would drink, which is you know crazy a feat in and of itself.

SPEAKER_00 2:54

I will circle back on the terrible banquet food.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

Yeah, could oh my god. Now I follow.

SPEAKER_00 3:01

Because I too was there. Um, we went to an event on Tuesday. Oh, it was so bad. And it was run by a hospitality organization, and my god, it was bad. First of all, on an invite you send out for these things, generally you kind of say, Is it a plated dinner? Is it a choice of? Is it a buffet?

SPEAKER_01 3:21

If there's not a choice, you assume it's a duet plate. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 3:24

So, like then you would think it's like some chicken and some beef.

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100%. I was also looking forward to a mediocre chicken breast and some mashed potatoes.

SPEAKER_00 3:35

They start bringing out So, first of all, I it was such a good try, and it came from such a kind place, and they tried to do something really nice and over-deliver. Yes. But sometimes it's better just to not fail than to swing for the fences.

SPEAKER_01 3:50

They tried on three course. The thing is, every course was an effort like an effort. You needed a safe salad or a safe entree, and then like that amoose boosh would have been so delightful. Yes. They served an amoose boosh, you guys, which was, I thought, such a nice treatment. It was such a nice treatment. But then just give me fucking chicken after that.

SPEAKER_00 4:08

The salad was a disaster.

SPEAKER_01 4:11

I mean, I ate it all, but it was very weird for an October, a late October event.

SPEAKER_00 4:16

And it was they also controlled cost by limiting the portion sizes to an absurd degree.

SPEAKER_01 4:22

Okay, can we please tell people what the salad was?

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It was a thing of watermelon.

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Like a cube.

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A large, one large cube. One sprig of arugula. I'm pretty sure it was arugula, right? It was some bitter green.

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Because mine was purple, so.

SPEAKER_00 4:34

Arugula can be purple, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

It didn't taste bitter to me. I thought it was That's because it was doused in balsamic and cheddar cheese.

SPEAKER_00 4:41

Doused in balsamic and cheddar cheese. So it's the like arugula fata watermelon balsamic thing that is great in summer.

SPEAKER_01 4:47

Yes, when watermelon's in season.

SPEAKER_00 4:50

When all of those things hurt season.

SPEAKER_01 4:51

Well, right, but otherwise watermelon just tastes like water.

SPEAKER_00 4:53

Luckily, if it's not in season. We were with a cheese expert to confirm it was indeed cheddar cheese, because basically we all said, you know, nameless, faceless cheese number seven.

SPEAKER_01 5:02

I mean.

SPEAKER_00 5:02

Uh, but our cheese expert Ron early, another early Ron mentioned.

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Oh, Ron. Ronnie. Ronnie.

SPEAKER_00 5:08

Uh confirmed it was cheddar cheese.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

Yeah, yeah. So that was like, uh, this is it was a weird mixture, and it the event was on a pouring rain cold Tuesday, which I know you cannot control the weather, but like autumn salads are so good. Yes. Give me some berries and apples and nuts. No shoes, yeah. Like that so berries, I get it. Give me some dried cranberries, some apples, and some kind of nut. So easy. So easy. I love fall salads. Yeah, the the salad thing started off being like, what is happening here? So, like a get that you tried to make it different and be like better than a garden salad. But I also was like, I could go for just a shitty garden salad.

SPEAKER_00 5:45

Honestly, like it was it was reason, it's a reasonably priced event. I think it's like 50 bucks a ticket or something. I don't remember. Like, which is reasonable for these things. Yeah, and because it came with our open bar, a pour of wine. Uh it was totally reasonable. Uh-huh. And so you're like, you know what? 50 bucks, it's a corporate expense thing. I get a fine dinner, go out, see some people, fine. But no, they tried so hard. But so the amous boosh.

SPEAKER_01 6:14

Okay, so salad, great. The amouse bouche was lovely.

SPEAKER_00 6:16

Like, I still can't figure out what the crunchy thing was.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

It was definitely like, you know what it felt like? Fruity pebbles. It does feel like fruity pebbles.

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They were like weirdly purple and staining the sorbang.

SPEAKER_01 6:26

That was weird too. Like, it was it trying to be Halloween-y? That was weird.

SPEAKER_00 6:31

But and one of my complaints, as someone with a food allergy, you have to have a menu. Or your servers have to be better about saying what it is.

SPEAKER_01 6:38

Well, when fish arrives, you just say, I can't eat this. So, okay, so I left. I ate the amouse bouche. I left to go to the bathroom and came back in the ballroom and I was like, oh my god, it smells like fish. I'm like, no way.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

They start cleaning the sorbet, and I start, I'm like, no way. Is that fish?

SPEAKER_01 6:56

Sure as shit. A huge piece of cod.

SPEAKER_00 6:59

It was cod, right? It was cod. And a fillet? It was the weirdest dish I've ever seen. So it was a no bullshit, real tenderloin fillet. So it wasn't a piece. That's true, but it wasn't a piece together fillet. It wasn't a sirloin fillet. It wasn't somebody making a fillet out of something that's not tenderloin. It was a real legit one. Now it came from an old dairy cow. Like Kim and I are, oh, and Jake uh are experts on what comes from old dairy cows. And Ron! Uh we have a lot of beef uh cow people. A lot of experts. We all know what tastes from an old dairy cow and it was from an old dairy cow. But it was fine, you know. Uh it was poorly seasoned, I will say that.

SPEAKER_01 7:41

I did not think it was fine for beef. It was, yeah. I did not have a knife to cut it with, first of all. That was a which would be fine if it was like high quality and you could cut it with a butter knife, but it wasn't. And me, like, I needed mine cooked a little bit more. It was pretty medium.

SPEAKER_00 7:58

It was pretty medium rare. Yeah, it was pretty medium rare. So, you know. Uh a huge piece of cod. Huge piece of mod. A tiny serving of risotto.

SPEAKER_01 8:06

Oh that was it was a schmear.

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That was buried underneath the cod.

SPEAKER_01 8:10

So it just That was so weird to me. Like risotto is it's not expensive. Oh, I mean, I guess it has some expensive ingredients, but it was just like literally like you take your spoon, you know, you do a sauce and smear it. Like, it's a carb. Give me a spoonful.

SPEAKER_00 8:24

A one piece of wilted. Oh, that, that one half of a baby back trolley. So they took baby back trolley, cut it in half, and wilted it, served that.

SPEAKER_01 8:34

And then Which I also couldn't cut.

SPEAKER_00 8:36

Yes. So you had to eat it in one big giant thing, you know, like take your fork and uh spaghetti it, you know, to get it. And then a cauliflower medallion that looked like a scallop.

SPEAKER_01 8:47

I could not figure out what that was. I ate it because it was crunchy.

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So I had to ask a dining companion to confirm it wasn't a scallop.

SPEAKER_01 8:53

Oh, yeah, so he wouldn't die. Um it was so bad.

SPEAKER_00 8:56

It was just poor, the cod was terrible. Like pretty much. Again, I don't like seafood.

SPEAKER_01 9:01

But I'll eat seafood.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

I always try seafood to like make sure I'm up on what stuff tastes like. I cook it, I do, you know, it's my job. And it was terrible. It was all of the bad things that people don't like about seafood. It was fishy, it was like that weird, irony aftertaste. It was slimy. Yeah, it flaked apart way too big.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

So that didn't bother me. And I was like, oh, actually, this looks good. I wasn't eating parts that I could tell looked like a bloodline. Um, but you know, Tyler will be very polite and eat anything. He was like, I cannot eat that. He's like, just try it. It's so good.

SPEAKER_00 9:40

It was such a bold move. It was like such a bold move.

SPEAKER_01 9:43

And then the dessert too was so weird.

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So weird.

SPEAKER_01 9:48

It was like a square of some chocolate cake. Some frozen chocolate cake. And it was good. It was fine.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

Yeah.

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Very clearly a bot for which again is fine. But like serve a chocolate mousse. It that's cheap and it looks, you know. And then like a hot yellow and hot pink slice of, I think like a raspberry lemon pie cake cake thing, which again, it's October, everybody.

SPEAKER_00 10:12

It was so weird. And then like a chocolate lace thing that was difficult to eat.

SPEAKER_01 10:18

I mean, I ate all of it.

SPEAKER_00 10:19

I did too. And I just was like, I was pretty hungry. So I just took it with my hands and put it in my mouth. So did I, and it melted on my finger. Yep. I was just like, I don't care. Other weird thing about this whole situation was uh the bars there. So this is a corporate event, okay?

SPEAKER_01 10:37

Where people are drinking.

SPEAKER_00 10:38

An owner of a business is taking their employees, a manager is taking their, you know, team. The business is going to be paying for those drinks.

SPEAKER_01 10:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:49

How do businesses pay for things?

SPEAKER_01 10:51

Credit cards.

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On credit cards. Their bar didn't take credit cards.

SPEAKER_01 10:54

Oh no?

SPEAKER_00 10:55

Nope. So we had to go downstairs to the other bar.

SPEAKER_01 10:58

My boss bought me my drinks. So, like Oh, I didn't realize.

SPEAKER_00 11:02

I'm just like, guys, are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_01 11:05

There was just stuff that like should have been thought through.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

The seating arrangements were done right. The before thing cocktail hour was in an entirely too small of a room. They didn't have enough uh name tag holders for everybody.

SPEAKER_01 11:18

And then they gave me because we showed up a little late because it's when Tyler could get off work and get there. And so they're like, There's no dress code on the invite. It said somewhere formal. So there were straight up people in ball gowns, like three, and then like people in black pants and a blouse, like a work, you know, business casual.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

It was very weird. There was Tristan Christ in a leather jacket and black jeans.

SPEAKER_01 11:40

Did he have jeans on? Black jeans, heck yeah. Well, that's dressy enough.

SPEAKER_00 11:44

I mean, Tristan handed like rock to Tristan persona.

SPEAKER_01 11:46

Yeah, he did, man. He does. Uh yeah. It oh, yeah, we arrived the name tag. It's a piece of paper name tag, right? Then it slides in a plastic holder and they clip it on, which I appreciate is a clip, not a pin or a sticker. But yeah, we get there and they just kind of like looked at us like we were funny, like, oh, I don't, I don't think we have any more. And I'm like, okay, well, we're part of this table. Like, I know we're invited. You know, like it felt very like you're uninvited. And I'm like, okay, well, I'm not scared of this. You know, I said, we're with Lake Geneva Country Meets. She hands us the paper that says Lake Geneva Country Meets. Oh, but we don't have any more plastic name tags, which by the way, I went out to the table when I went to the bathroom. There's 20 name tags out there. So she hands us the paper anyway. It's like, well, but could you guys fill this out? Like put your name on it. And I'm like, would you like me to stick it in my belt? Like, it's not a sticker. What am I supposed to do with it? And it was just like this uncomfortable arrival experience. So I just like took them and shoved them in my purse and was like, I don't care.

SPEAKER_00 12:43

So three weeks before the event, they sent an urgent email asking for everybody's names at her channel. I'm like, three weeks. I don't know. Are you kidding me? I don't know. Also, it doesn't take that long. So I got it in on Sunday. This was on a Tuesday. I thought, like, you're not gonna print these until Tuesday anyway. Evidently, they much earlier.

SPEAKER_01 13:00

I fully knew. I'm like, you're not gonna have our names printed.

SPEAKER_00 13:02

Um I thought that was I thought Sunday afternoon was like plenty of time. Because like, why would they do it the week beforehand? Anyway, these are all small minor things. Anyway, it was a weird thing. The whole event was annoying.

SPEAKER_01 13:13

Like there was a to me, in my opinion, two of the award winners I thought were really cool, a little different, unexpected, that I I thought was cool and I've told people about. That was my positive.

SPEAKER_00 13:24

Um marketing materials coming out are incredible, unbelievably incredible, epic, epic. Um but uh I was like trying to go in with a I'm like, Nick, you're gonna want to shit talk this thing. It's like going to a wedding, you know? It's too easy to just be like, they screwed this up, they screwed this up. Uh yeah. Be kind, be nice about it. And it just was like kind of like, oh my god. Just like rookie mistakes. Like if I always like to like turnabouts, turnabout. Um if like if this organization took someone to this property like as a tour and this happened, they would light the property up about how they embarrassed the organization.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

I don't think that other people see it that way.

SPEAKER_00 14:08

I think people would see it that way. I think they I think they would never treat a real paying customer. I think a real paying customer would have problems with all of this. I mean the food choice.

SPEAKER_01 14:20

I to me, I know that I'm a bitch at these events because I could plan these in my sleep. That's the thing.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

There's people like all over that room that could plan these in sleep.

SPEAKER_01 14:29

100%. And so the name tag thing that put me over the edge right away. And then I was like, all right, fine. The food's gonna be shitty. It's ballroom banquet food. Yes, but then that even went beyond Max.

SPEAKER_00 14:39

Yeah. And it's like you look at uh you were talking to Monica from Maxwell Mansion at the end of the night, and like what they did with this whiskey club thing and how that was our Halloween party. And that's done on, I don't want to say a shoestring budget, but but yeah, they they aren't huge. It's just those people. And they put these very thoughtful, very classy events together, albeit smaller scale, which scale always, but less resources.

SPEAKER_01 15:02

And it's like people can figure this out. It was weird, but you know what? We haven't had one of those events in three years. Yep. Uh, the last time I attended that event, I was an award winner, guys.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

Or a rising star. I have risen. I I was called out at that event for not being present.

SPEAKER_01 15:20

Oh, yes, yes. Wait, who called you out? Stephanie. Oh, did she? Oh, um, his daughter was birthed in the hospital, was in the hospital still. No, you weren't in the hospital. We were still in the hospital.

SPEAKER_00 15:30

It was two days after Simona was born. Oh, good times because it was on a Thursday. She was born on a Tuesday. Sarah was almost dead. Simona went to sleep.

SPEAKER_01 15:37

And Sarah was alive at that point.

SPEAKER_00 15:40

Uh, I got called out for not being there.

SPEAKER_01 15:43

Also, it was weird that it was on a Tuesday. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:45

Should not have been on a Tuesday.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

Okay. We're done complaining about this event.

SPEAKER_00 15:48

So, my positive from this though was like it was a really fun group of people at our table. I gotta see some people I had seen for a while that were nice to see.

SPEAKER_01 15:55

Yeah, I actually had a really nice time seeing people.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

I had a lovely chat with Bill Gage, uh, of all people. I think uh his mom was one of the award winners. So I think he was in like a very good mood because of that. It was adorable. He presented her award. But it was uh all of the best parts of Bill Gage, and it was just very fun to see a happy, fun Bill Gage.

SPEAKER_01 16:15

Yeah, I um have thrown up in a workout uh personal training session with Bill Gage, so I am humbled. He and I have a different respect for each other now. Uh, we've seen each other outside of work, and he said too, he's like, I also threw up when I started working out. I was like, okay, cool, man. Like, you you're a human. And literally, like, I respect him in a whole different way now.

SPEAKER_00 16:33

So that was fun. It was good to see some other people. Congratulations to all the award winners. Beth of the bottle shop, our friend, hospitality award winner. Uh, she gave us a new t-shirt slogan.

SPEAKER_01 16:44

Oh, yeah. I was like, what? I thought you were saying she gave me a new shirt.

SPEAKER_00 16:47

Geneva is hospitality.

SPEAKER_01 16:49

Um I can't remember the fourth winner. Expect a miracle, Maggie Gage, Beth. And I cannot Geneva Tap House. Oh yes! Oh, okay, okay, rising stars.

SPEAKER_00 17:01

You know, yes, back in the day to win the Bridget Leach Award, you had to be in the field for the full five years of the five-year minimum, not open for two months.

SPEAKER_01 17:10

But, you know, I mean, that is they hath risen.

SPEAKER_00 17:15

Much like Jesus, they hath risen.

SPEAKER_01 17:17

This damn number, potential spam from Janesville, Wisconsin, have called has called me like every day for Have you noticed how the your car's extended warranty thing is now over? I I haven't. Because you know what other call I keep getting? It's a voicemail, and it's any time of day. Hey, uh, it's Bob from the lawyer's office, and I just stepped out on lunch and blah, blah, blah. I'm like, what? The first time, of course, I was like, what lawyer's office? And now I'm like, oh, it's a scam.

SPEAKER_00 17:44

Uh the one I constantly get is your vacation package has expired, but we're renewing it. Do you see yourself traveling soon? No, I have no time. Thank you. And I've tried all of the like ways to get because they spoof numbers that look like numbers I have to answer.

SPEAKER_01 17:59

Oh, yeah. Oh, always. Yeah. So good for you. So you answer.

SPEAKER_00 18:02

So I'm like, hello. So I've done all of the things of like uh politely asking to be off, giving them legitimate excuses why I couldn't travel, giving them not legitimate excuses like I'm a Muslim and I'm on the no-fly list.

SPEAKER_01 18:16

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 18:17

Um, insulting them. None of it works? None of it works. They keep calling. I block the numbers. Um none of it works. No, blocking numbers doesn't do anything anymore. You know I'm convinced. Uh the, you know, when you get a call from India and you say I kill cows for a living, that's always a really fun one because it could be taken as a statement fact or it could be taken as a horrible racist insult.

SPEAKER_01 18:42

Oh my God.

SPEAKER_00 18:43

Um, so you get some like very interesting ones. Uh I tried explaining economic theory to this girl that called me the other day. Uh she said, you know, you have this vacation package that you paid for. So I didn't pay for it. Well, have you ever taken an economics course?

unknown 18:57

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 18:57

She said, No, I have. I said, Well, so you're unaware of the sunk cost theory. She goes, No. So I educated her on sunk cost. Wow. Wow. So I felt like I did a mitzvah there, you know? Did you? Yeah, this poor girl. She just took this job being a scammer in a call center. And I'm giving her an economics lesson in what sunk cost is.

SPEAKER_01 19:15

Yeah, certainly she has changed her career based on that.

SPEAKER_00 19:18

I mean, she should view the hours spent in the call center as a sunk cost and get a job that actually contributes to society. This is one of the things I think about. Um, I got these, you know, we do different zip recruiter indeed, and they all have account specialists that call me to say, like, hey, are you finding people? Um, let me see if I can uh click on some things and help you find some more people. So yeah, I hear from a lot of people that there's not a lot of people working. I just want to scream at these people. You're not working. You are literally contributing nothing to society. Your job is bullshit.

SPEAKER_01 19:50

They your account manager. They they your account manager.

SPEAKER_00 19:54

They're checking on their accounts. Looking uh looking at uh looking at the reports, it seems like uh not getting a lot of applicants.

SPEAKER_01 20:01

I mean, literally their job is to check on their accounts. Have you never been an account manager? What are they doing? Checking on their accounts. What does that accomplish? I don't know. Maybe someone dumber than you is like, yeah, I could use some help. Here is $100 to post an ad, whatever. Someone has to pay attention to the account. Otherwise, you'd be like, no one talked to me. They don't care about my business.

SPEAKER_00 20:28

Well, I don't think you expect that with like a self-service online thing. But you're paying for it. No, it's free. You're paying for it. Well, yeah, because it's asked you if you wanna um it asks you if you want to like boost your job or not.

SPEAKER_01 20:43

But you have to pay. Sorry, my headphones one year just went out of my headphone. Yes, it's simple for you. Okay, we're moving on. We're nowhere, we have not even started our outline, you guys.

SPEAKER_00 20:53

Oh, that's my B. My 2B. I just talked about it.

SPEAKER_01 20:57

Oh, good, good. I just want to tell you all that I conquered a fear I didn't realize I had this year, this year. Spiders this week. I don't like spiders, but I'm not like scared of them. But I had to go up in our attic. I didn't have to. I was proving a point to the lovely men that were working on the electricity in my house, uh, which is my husband and my dad. Um, but my dad was like talking about this thing, and I'm like, no, dad, when the it's a long story. There was some issue with our windows, and we needed a new header, etc. So I'm like, dad, when they did this, they pulled this wire here. He's like, no, there's no wire. Well, and I was like, well, there is. I know this wire exists. I saw it. So anyway, I had to go up in my attic, which means I have to take down my entire closet organizer because that's how you get in there, is my master closet. So I literally have to take down half of my closet organizer to get a couple of things. Wow. Don't put a closet organizer up. Um, so I did that for the third time this month, have undone that closet thing, climbed up in the attic, and we have what people say is the nice insulation. Whatever the fuck that means. It's like the blown, it looks like a foot of snow. Yes, yes, that is a nice insulation. Well, we have that. Well, congratulations. Yes, thank you. I did not do it.

SPEAKER_00 22:09

Adult things. Early product recommendation. The nice insulation.

SPEAKER_01 22:13

No insulation. So Tyler's like, okay, you can't step on, you know, there's terms, beam, truss, other things. I vaguely know what they mean, but he's like, do not step between these two things. Also, do not step on this one at the same time. Spread your weight. And I'm like, ah, okay. I where I have to get up and where I have to go is a very far distance in my house. So I panicked. And it's fucking hot up there. Like, so it was this week and it was like 75 degrees out, and it is 95 in the attic. So I get over there and my house is at a peak, you know, and I'm in the center of it where it's not tall enough for me to stand, but tall enough for me to crouch at least. With there was luckily a board like put across. So I had a plank, if you will. I'm like, how does anyone bigger than you do? You walked the plank? I walked the plank. But also, yeah, really, I was like, how does anyone bigger than me do this? Which is every person that's been up there in this process. Anyway, I see the cord and it's like very far away. And then the house steeply slopes down. And so I had to, then there was no more plank. So then I had to like get on these skinny two by fours and get this cord. And it was horrifying at one point. My dad's yelling at me through the ceiling. He's like reaching his arm up. And I almost was like, Dad, I'm freaking out. I need to pause. But he would have lost his mind on me. So I was, I just was like, all right, Bridget, it's fine. But yeah, I panicked a little because I think I got a little claustrophobic.

SPEAKER_02 23:33

I don't like that.

SPEAKER_01 23:33

And which I didn't really realize I was. But as that roof steeply narrows, you're like trying not to fall through your ceiling, but also not have a panic attack in the foot of uh insulation. So I got down and was covered in just like itchy rashy. So but I did it and I'm so proud. I hung a pendant light all by myself. I am in the middle of hanging one in my bathroom now by myself because I'm just like a damn electrician now. Congratulations. I can't run a wire anywhere, but I can hook up a pendant light.

SPEAKER_00 24:02

Well, and remember, you know an electrician or some quick advice. I know many electricians. If you ever need to just call a neighbor, Phil.

SPEAKER_01 24:11

State farm is there. Uh Phil will do my like large wiring project in the basement.

SPEAKER_00 24:16

I am trying to hang this pendant light and I have insulation on me. Am I doing it right?

SPEAKER_01 24:22

I know how to do pendant lights, which as I'm doing this, I'm like, oh God, I bet electricians hate this. Because for sure, people pay electricians to come change a pendant light, which I would have done. I would have been like, here, take my money, and it would have cost me a thousand dollars to change a few lights. Anyway, that's my week. Uh otherwise it's been pretty bullshit. I've had a disorganized week and that makes me chaotic. So moving on. Moving on. Um, you want me to dive right in with a kind of happening?

SPEAKER_00 24:49

Let me do this one. Let me do this. So this is not a current news story, but I found it probably because we've been talking about nostalgic McDonald's things so much. So much that I got targeted by it. And this is an article from 2020 on the drive entitled The McTrain: The Rise and Fall of McDonald's ambitious plan to conquer the railroads. The railroads? It sounded like a great idea until it wasn't. And basically, McDonald's, so you know, trains are more popular in Europe than they are in America. McDonald's started putting restaurant trail uh train cars on German railways. So your commuter train, instead of some random restaurant car, your restaurant car is a McDonald's. That failed? It failed. That's a problem. It started in 1992 when the Deutsche Bundesbahn, the German Federal Railway, agreed to outsourcing catering on certain long-distance routes. They allowed McDonald's to refit to the dining cars with deep fryers, coffee machines, soda fountains, water heaters, and multiple walk-ins in a 269 square foot kitchen. After a test period in Switzerland, it started into service in winter in 1993, going from the Humburg to Birkishgarden line.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

Hamburg Birkishgarden.

SPEAKER_00 26:22

According to German rail history forums, passengers in second class or better seats could place orders with roving wait staff or trek to the dining car itself. Seats for 27 and standing places for eight.

SPEAKER_01 26:33

Someone straight up like serving me McDonald's on a platter.

SPEAKER_00 26:37

It did very poorly. McDonald's reputation for cheapness made it a hard sell to German travelers, especially the wealthy, who were accustomed to better meals on other routes.

SPEAKER_01 26:47

Oh, okay, I could see that.

SPEAKER_00 26:49

Anyway, it's a weird article. But uh, these pictures are incredible. It's hilarious, and I'm kind of here for it.

SPEAKER_01 26:59

I mean, I thought it was just like uh you're commuting 30 minutes and don't you want a breakfast sandwich? I'd be like, hell yeah. I mean, give me my breakfast sandwich while I'm commuting.

SPEAKER_00 27:08

Yes, I feel it'd be a very successful thing in America.

SPEAKER_01 27:11

Yeah, no shit. That's the problem, isn't it? I thought you were gonna like update on how the happy meals are doing.

SPEAKER_00 27:17

I have no updates other than that. I know Curter burgers are sold out a lot of places. I know that people are going crazy about the happy meals.

SPEAKER_01 27:24

It's funny, I've barely seen Curter Burger stuff, but I've seen a hundred things about the Happy Meals. Now I'm gonna see Curter Burger. These pictures are cool. Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 27:32

I think the problem with the Curter Burger is it's not very good.

SPEAKER_01 27:35

Yeah, I mean it sounds terrible. But people are buying it. Weirdos. Okay, so I am seeing as always, because I'm targeted because the internet, um, a lot of my mom friends, like, you know, we're into the school year now. Now we're getting into the holidays where like you are not required, but like bring a treat to the classroom, put on a costume, you have this extracurricular Halloween party, and then oh, you, you know, blah, blah, blah, conferences, et cetera. So I'm seeing a lot of um parent friends, particularly moms, posting things about like this extreme overwhelm, you know, and same. I just don't post about it, but I feel it. So anyway, there's an article from The Atlantic, uh just from a couple days ago, and it's talking about uh the title is Babies Don't Need Fancy Things. And it's, you know, it's we're being pushed on all these products $1,700 snoo, baby whatever bassinet thing. And like all these products that we're being told will make your life easier. And like this is advertising 101. I get it. I listened to a podcast called Inf, I think it was called Influenced, I know, listened to it a long time ago. And it said the original influencer was actually Lucille Ball. She used Huggies in an episode, and it was like product placement, really, but they were referring back to like influencer culture. So you're watching all this stuff now. Like, if you buy this amazingly soft stuffed animal with a pacifier on the end, your kid will sleep all night. And desperate tired moms are buying it. 100%. Every mom I know, myself included, my very educated older sister, my you know, all of my friends have done this. And it's because you're like up at four in the morning crying, and you're just like, oh, these diapers will help my baby sleep. I will buy them. So interesting article, kind of sad, but the but the best part of it all, I learned about this article from an account called an Instagram account called Official Sad Beige, which is the fucking funniest account on the internet right now. Because what it is is making fun of all of us, parents, myself included, who said, My kid will not have plastic toys. They're gonna have the wooden Montessori toys, everything, you know, and it's it's like talking about there's this brand called Werner Herzog. Like, there's a whatever. They make fun of a whole bunch of beige things for children. Like, oh, your kids are so happy in this brown sweatshirt with a rainbow on it that's beige, blah, blah, blah. Check out official sad beige. You'll see this article, but then when you feel sad about how depressing the world is, you can look at their funny videos on their Instagram account.

SPEAKER_00 30:08

Since you're talking about influencer culture, I got targeted by a news story. I was just gonna share with you. Mr. Beast got is valuing himself at $1.5 billion. I don't know who Mr. Beast is. He's the biggest guy on YouTube. Oh, I hate YouTube. And he has the Mr. Beast burgers, he does all these like really dumb stunts. Oh, yeah. The YouTube shit is cray. So he is doing, he's like incorporated himself and he's seeking $1.5 billion from like hedge funds as a series B funding, which honestly, I don't think any sane investor would put that much money into a person. Because guess what? A lot of people put $1 billion into a certain yay. And how did that work out? Yeah man, yeah. So I just say one person is a big, big bet for $1.5 billion, especially something as volatile as this guy does jackass style stunts. Which is working. Yeah, but how long? Ten years? Sure. But you're not gonna get your $1.5 billion back.

SPEAKER_01 31:08

He has a net worth of $56 million, is what it some some website says. Anyway, guys, just deep dive into influencer culture if you want to feel like your college degree is worth nothing.

SPEAKER_00 31:19

So, do you know why ghosts go on uh diets? No, why? So they can keep their ghoulish figures. Do you know where ghosts go on vacation? No. Maliboo. Maliboo! Um, what's in a ghost's nose? Boogers. Boogers! Why do demons and ghouls hang out together? Why, Nick? Because demons are a ghoul's bed. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 31:46

Okay, guys, we're taking a quick break. We're back. Nick picked Nick fixed a very technologically advanced problem by jiggling the plug a little. Just jiggle it a little bit. Did you restart the computer? Okay. I have a weird product recommendation, but it is actually a piece or many pieces of art. Um, it's a melting disco ball series, and it is so cool. It's exactly what you'd think, like disco balls in weird, like they look like a Salvador Dolly, like it, like it's uh melting over the edge of something.

SPEAKER_00 32:33

Looks like the bean in Chicago.

SPEAKER_01 32:35

Like the bean in Chicago. I can't stop looking at them. It's um they're in a there's a pop art and radical design gallery in the Netherlands. And of course, I just like came across this via Instagram somehow, but we'll link to the images. You can look at them. I'm probably not gonna purchase them as a product, but I am gonna recommend them to any of my friendly art collectors that might want to purchase a $2,000 melting disco ball. I think maybe $1,700. I saw one for, which, you know, is affordable for art, I think. I don't know. I don't collect art.

SPEAKER_00 33:07

I don't know. I'm kind of interested. There's uh some people that are trying to like commoditize art collection because returns on art collection are so good into like an EFT. I mean because I would definitely buy an art collection EFT because returns are just bonkers and rich people keep getting rich. And when you have a billion dollars, how do you show off how rich you are? Buy a couple monets.

SPEAKER_01 33:27

Oh, here it's 1600 euro for like the classic one.

SPEAKER_00 33:31

Where are we at on the euro?

unknown 33:32

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 33:32

I know we're we're doing well on the pound. Uh R.I.P. Liz Truss.

SPEAKER_01 33:38

Um speaking of the pound, I also got breaking news right before we started the podcast. Prince Harry's memoir has a release date now. Oh wow. January 2023, everybody. I think January. Now I'm gonna mess it up because I feel on it is January 10th, 2023. Watch out.

SPEAKER_00 33:57

Short of spilling all the tea, this book is gonna be a massive disappointment.

SPEAKER_01 34:01

Do you think so? So I think Well, everyone likes to listen to Megan, not him.

SPEAKER_00 34:06

So unless it's like, I hate my grandma, I'm glad she's dead, my dad's a massive dick who cheated on my mom. Like, if he doesn't, and there's so much that people already know that like he has to burn it down. Otherwise, it's gonna be boring. And then it's just gonna be like, okay, you can't be a whiny little bitch then that your family doesn't like you.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

He says, I'm writing this not as the prince I was born, but as the man I have become.

SPEAKER_00 34:32

This is my problem with them, is they clearly didn't want to be a part of the family, and they're mad the family doesn't want them to be a part of the family.

SPEAKER_01 34:38

I agree with you. I used to like be obsessed with him, and I don't care about Meghan Markle, but I don't really want to I want to read this, but like I do feel like they're just like they're not begging us to come back. Yes. But I do feel bad for the brother relationship.

SPEAKER_00 34:54

I feel bad for the brother relationship. He chose his wife over his brother, which you should do.

SPEAKER_01 34:58

Yeah. Um But I still feel bad about it.

SPEAKER_00 35:00

I do too, because it sucks, but like they're my friends. You have to he made he really is like the have your cake and eat it too type of where I can understand why you'd want to leave the royal family. I can understand why you wouldn't want that. And it's not your fault you were born into it. But then it just like Yeah. Yeah. Just stop.

SPEAKER_01 35:21

It's a lot. So anyway, breaking news, it has a published date. Can't wait to review it.

SPEAKER_00 35:26

I don't have this is a selfish product recommendation. Excellent. I haven't tried it yet. I'm getting endlessly targeted by it and would like it for Christmas.

SPEAKER_01 35:34

I have not purchased my melting disc opal yet either.

SPEAKER_00 35:36

Uh this one is a more affordable $49.99. It is slightly uh a website called Moby Fox, and they have smart watch bands because you know they're easy to like swap in and out. And these are some baller arsenal design.

SPEAKER_01 35:51

Oh, I was like, why is it so expensive?

SPEAKER_00 35:54

Uh officially licensed watch bands.

SPEAKER_01 35:57

Sarah, hear it now. Whoa, whoa. There will be a link.

SPEAKER_00 36:01

Bro. No, this is only 20 bucks. Oh, sweet. There's some Star Wars ones.

SPEAKER_01 36:07

It's low in stock, Sarah.

SPEAKER_00 36:08

There's Harry Potter ones.

SPEAKER_01 36:10

This is um bright. Hell yeah, it's bright. It is hot yellow.

SPEAKER_00 36:15

Um, all of our best kits are these colors.

SPEAKER_01 36:18

I mean, that won't match anything that you're wearing.

SPEAKER_00 36:21

Well, I want people to know I'm a weirdo that's into English Premier League. You do, don't you?

SPEAKER_01 36:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:26

So if you look at the whole collection, there's some even better ones.

SPEAKER_01 36:30

There's some pretty cool, like this uh Boba Fett one's cool.

SPEAKER_00 36:34

Because it's not offensive. I wish there was a stealthy the Star Wars ones. I wish there was a stealthy X-Wing one because that's my favorite stuff. That's like a little homage.

SPEAKER_01 36:45

The like Hogwarts gold, the Harry Potter Hogwarts gold one is cool because it looks bougie. Wonder Woman. Lucy would just be so excited. Oh, look at this pink Arsenal, this blue and pink one.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

Yeah, that one's cool. I might get that one. That's our third kit this year. It's pretty baller.

SPEAKER_01 37:00

I like that one better than the yellow one.

SPEAKER_00 37:01

The yellow one is like every Arsenal fan's like wet dream.

SPEAKER_01 37:06

Just we're so offensive. We have won so much.

SPEAKER_00 37:11

Like, that is the kit that we all just like idolize and want because it's so beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 37:16

I can't believe we just referred to a watch ban as a wet dream.

SPEAKER_00 37:18

Well, it's just so beautiful. We want it.

SPEAKER_01 37:22

But on that note, you think about that wet dream for a minute. We'll be right back.

SPEAKER_00 37:40

Hey y'all. Um you may have expected a Halloween mystery edition. It's gonna be next week.

SPEAKER_01 37:45

Yeah, because my life's a disaster and I'm behind on researching it. It's a lot of work to research, though.

SPEAKER_00 37:50

It is a lot of work to be honest. That's why I had all of the Halloween jokes for you. Oh, thank you. Because they're just as good.

SPEAKER_01 37:56

I like blocked off time yesterday to do it, and not only did that time continually get pushed, but I was like, oh, I need far more than this.

SPEAKER_00 38:04

I'm excited. I always this is always a highlight of my year.

SPEAKER_01 38:07

I'm sorry. Um, these are jokes. Did you just say Halloween jokes?

SPEAKER_00 38:11

No, and that's why I the ones after the Oh, that's why you did it.

SPEAKER_01 38:14

I was like, okay.

SPEAKER_00 38:15

So I do have something that I thought was hilarious. I got targeted by on some social media platform, and it's 31 life hacks from the 90s that sound pretty hilarious now. Number one, if you want to download a song, start downloading it before bed. It should be at like 99% by the time you wake up. Oh my god. If you're in a dink get disconnected. Oh, this is so funny.

unknown 38:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 38:41

Number two, if your mouse is lagging, take out the ball and clean it. It's probably just dusty.

SPEAKER_01 38:46

Oh my god. Use sites like MapQuest to print directions for where you're heading and never get lost again. I remember doing that. So I don't remember when it changed from not doing that, but I remember doing that.

SPEAKER_00 38:57

Our delivery driver Howie still wants us to print out directions for you. Oh what? Howie. Number four, never shut down your computer unless you see the it's now okay to shut down your computer sign.

SPEAKER_01 39:07

But you know what we haven't evolved from? Like external hard drives. You still have to like wait until it's properly ejected. Kind of irrationally makes me mad.

SPEAKER_00 39:16

Number five, I love it.

SPEAKER_01 39:17

Have you ever done this? Number five, uh, I haven't fully read this if I'm being honest. If you have a quick message for someone and you are near a payphone, but don't have 20, oh yeah, but don't have 25 cents, dial 1-800 collect. And when it asks to say your name, say the message real fast. Ring ring, hello. You have a collect call from my practice is over, come pick me up. Will you accept the charges? Does 1-800 collect still work?

SPEAKER_00 39:43

I don't think so. Let's try it. Number six, when burning your next rip, smash mouth, nirvana, or lanismores at CD, make sure you close all programs to avoid buffer underrun. I remember that too.

SPEAKER_01 39:56

Oh my god, these are all so number seven. If the game isn't working, just take it out and blow on it. I did this yesterday with something. It didn't work.

SPEAKER_00 40:06

Number nine, keep a disposable camera in your glove compartment. If you get into a car accident, you can use it to take photos for insurance purposes. Okay, I don't remember doing that. Do you? No, I don't, but that's a good tip.

SPEAKER_01 40:17

I I mean, was a good tip. Okay. Um number 12. When leaving your car, hide your radio. Especially if you're in Milwaukee. Guys, let me tell you the number of times my cars got cars, multiple different cars got broken into because they came with cassettes, and then my parents bought me a gift of a CD player for my car, which was like the nicest thing, but it has a removable faceplate, and I would leave it in. Three times has happened. And finally I said to my parents, I'm like, please stop buying me that as a gift. Like it's just gonna get stolen, but constantly they would get stolen.

SPEAKER_00 40:51

Milwaukee Reddit right now is just like a horror story of how bad people are at driving and road raging and stealing things. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 40:58

Um, that's how I feel on Highway 50 right now, because it's a disaster.

SPEAKER_00 41:02

You skipped number 11, which is one of my favorites, which is grab the free AOL floppy disks at a comp USA checkout stand or you know, wherever, put a piece of tape over the lock hole, reformat the disc and use them for your own personal files.

SPEAKER_01 41:18

I never did that.

SPEAKER_00 41:19

Oh, I did.

SPEAKER_01 41:20

That like that's why I skipped it up. Oh, free floppy discs. Floppy. I found a bag of floppy discs when like cleaning something out and was like, oh, I wish I could like see what's on these things.

SPEAKER_00 41:29

I still had floppies until like I actually had like five and a quarter inch floppies for until like four or five years ago. I'm like, dad, we're gonna throw these out. They had like old logos and stuff from like Shine McCountry Meets and like some of them.

SPEAKER_01 41:41

I would love to know what's on mine. It's probably safety plans, like homework assignments, you know. Um loved this. Number 15. If you get a prank call, just dial star 69 to call those bastards back and confront them. I remember like that was our Friday night entertainment sometimes.

SPEAKER_00 41:57

Speaking of Friday night entertainment, this one's still valuable. I didn't think of this, but I like it. Number 16, when playing Simon, assign each color a number, count them out as they light up. It's easier to remember a number sequence than colors.

SPEAKER_01 42:09

Oh, that is interesting.

SPEAKER_00 42:10

It's like, I think a really good tip. It's like one, three, three, one, two, seven. That's easier to remember than green, blue, yellow, yellow, red, green. One, three, three, yeah, sure is. And you can just do like one, two around the Whoa bros.

SPEAKER_01 42:23

That's a lot for a board game night. All right. If you winged if a winged Tamagotchi appears on your screen, it means that your Tamagotchi decided to go back to its home planet. But don't despair. Simply press the A and C buttons at the same time, and your new egg is ready for hatching. I remember when my Tamagotchi flew away, it was very sad.

SPEAKER_00 42:46

Number 17. Another one that's still valuable today. You again wouldn't know about this.

SPEAKER_01 42:53

I skipped it.

SPEAKER_00 42:54

If you don't have any more room in your packed bags before flying somewhere, wear cargo pants and cram a bunch of stuff in the pockets. To avoid getting gouged on drinks at the airport, stuff a couple bottles of soda in those pockets and a plastic flask. I'm gonna add a couple additional tips on this. There is one of this also works well at movie theaters, and buy the cargo pads that zip off at the knee. So if it gets warm outside, you have shorts in addition to pants.

SPEAKER_01 43:17

You can just take them off. If you're a woman, you just carry a purse. Um waiting for a phone call is hilarious. And don't want your parents to hear it ring. Call the movie theater and listen to today's listings until call waiting beeps. The best part about this is remember when we had to call and listen to the movie theater listings or look them up in the newspaper?

SPEAKER_00 43:37

I actually thought the best part of this is the picture that accompanies it. Oh, yeah. The stock picture of a girl in a like ridiculous 1990s bedroom with caked on makeup.

SPEAKER_01 43:46

Yeah, a little mini skirt, yep. With her legs crossed, laying on her stomach on her bed. Oh yeah. Yep. Yep. Yep. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 43:55

Yep. Yep, yep, yep. Number 25. Use a safety. To securely attach the tie tag to your beanie baby and ensure it won't lose value.

SPEAKER_01 44:05

Oh man, I remember all of that. Uh okay, but you skipped a good one. Pogs, man. Did you ever play pogs? Oh my god. Hold your slammer between two fingers and throw it down hard while spinning it. This will cause most of the pogs to flip. If you're playing for keeps, jackpot. Uh I never did this because I also was just like playing for fun with my sister, but I loved pogs.

SPEAKER_00 44:30

And the last one from me, number 27, frost your tips for 100% success with the ladies.

SPEAKER_01 44:38

Oh boy. Okay, okay, I gotta find one, guys. Sorry, stand by. I remember doing this. You're not gonna get this. Fool friends into thinking you're wearing a global hyper hyper color shirt. Do you know what hypercolor shirts are? Okay. Trick your friends into thinking you're wearing a global hyper colour shirt by dipping your hands in bleach and touching your clothes, which totally I didn't do, but people I know did. I also remember the first time I called it. I remember David Zerngable wearing a hyper color shirt. It was like the first time I saw someone wearing it, that it was real cool. Like my very good friend's older brother, who I'm sure I had a crush on at some point.

SPEAKER_00 45:16

That's always how it goes. Oh, those were great. I mean all of Lucy's friends are gonna just be crushing hard on Elliot.

SPEAKER_01 45:21

Oh my god. Actually, we see it now. We're like, oh crap. Like there are certain friends of Elliot's that think Lucy is like the best. And I'm like, oh shit. Like, I see my future. Yes, I know it's early to think this, but I'm not wrong. Hey, so 90s kid culture. 90s kid culture. It's the best. We should do that every week. I love reminiscing on my younger years.

SPEAKER_00 45:44

Crap about the 90s that was great.

SPEAKER_01 45:46

Crap about the 90s that we laugh at now. Anyway, oh, I have something in my eye, Nick, as you can see, and it's driving me crazy.

SPEAKER_00 45:55

Well, let me talk about the food that was good. I talked about the food that was bad. I wasn't sure if I should talk about the food that was bad here or earlier, and I opted for earlier.

SPEAKER_01 46:04

I thought you were gonna save it for here, but I'm glad you're talking about this because I'm jealous I didn't get to try it.

SPEAKER_00 46:08

Uh, I have two things that I want to talk about as delicious food today. One is mac and cheese.

SPEAKER_01 46:15

Just in general mac and cheese.

SPEAKER_00 46:16

Oh no, I saw your Instagram story. I am a mac and cheese god. I'm gonna say it. I I just say I make great mac and cheese. Um, mac and cheese out of the machine. It was so good. There's nothing wrong with that. I don't personally like it, but there's nothing wrong with that.

SPEAKER_01 46:32

Or annies. I make annies.

SPEAKER_00 46:34

Yeah, I there's nothing wrong with that. But uh, you know, if you want to share a little love, make your own mac and cheese. It's not the easiest thing, but it's pretty straightforward, take some time, and I'm really good at it, and I love it. And it was so good, and I love mac and cheese. I make good mac and cheese. The secret is a combination of cheeses that's two-thirds Velvita, which is like just a good vessel to get the texture you want and the color you want, and like a general cheesy thing. And then you grate in Ron Cheese gouda, and it brings the gouda tang and the flavor, and you're like, oh, this is a this is a bold cheese sauce. It is so good. So, yes, that's how you do it. I also would like to talk about the shepherd's pie bratwurst. It is delicious. Who would know that pudding uh peas and carrots and gravy and broth and other things in a bratwurst would taste good?

SPEAKER_01 47:31

That's the thing.

SPEAKER_00 47:32

The students from Badger High School Pro Start.

SPEAKER_01 47:34

Yeah. I know that looked so good. I need to get one. Okay, I tried, which I've been waiting because they've put it on their social media multiple times. So I finally just bought one for myself. Simple has orange velvet cupcakes for Halloween. And I know it doesn't taste much different, but they were lovely and delicious and spooky and lovely and great. That's all I have to say. Go get an orange velvet cupcake. Good work, Simple Bakery. And have you seen what they're doing for um, is it for Dia de los Muertos? It's like a sweet bread with um, like they described it as almost like a cookie tap that cracks open. It looks so good. Uh sorry guys, standby. It's called like conca. Here, what better day? Okay, so it's in honor of Dia de los Muertos, which falls on November 1st. The bakery's offering conca. It's a sweetbread that is topped with a cookie crust scored to make it look like a shell. I'm sorry, bread with a cookie crust. Yes, please. I'm here for it. I will report back once I eat it. Tomorrow, hopefully. Here for it. All right, guys, you know what? We've made it. It's time for. Kid Coder! Still ripping at my eye, if you're wondering.

SPEAKER_00 48:44

Simona is a good sleeper, thank God. Finally. Um, good work again, Sarah, on the sleep trading, because you did it very proud of you. Um, and that said, not at all sarcastically. I know sometimes my statements can come across that way, but I mean it sincerely, so I just need to clarify that. Good work, Sarah. Um she has a pillow that she doesn't rest her head on. No, no. She uses it as a blanket.

SPEAKER_01 49:13

A pillow as a blanket?

SPEAKER_00 49:15

Let me show you a photo of my child sleeping. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 49:22

I mean, that looks comfy.

SPEAKER_00 49:24

So what she does is she's still in her crib because she finds it comfortable and safe. We all need our safe space. She goes into the corner, puts her blankets over one side, puts the pillow over her head, and doesn't move.

SPEAKER_01 49:38

Oh, I mean, that's terrifying, actually.

SPEAKER_00 49:41

It's super terrifying.

SPEAKER_01 49:42

I was like, I don't like that.

SPEAKER_00 49:44

She just likes the pillow over her head, she finds it comfortable, she finds it safe, and she sleeps. So don't mess with that. So we don't mess with it even though it's terrified. You're like, you want to like touch the baby camera and be like, move.

SPEAKER_01 49:58

I forever go went in my kids' rooms to make sure they were still breathing. I still, every night before bed, open their doors and peek on them.

SPEAKER_00 50:05

Oh, you know what else was really good? Can I add one more food thing now and look at my pictures? Yes.

SPEAKER_01 50:10

Where mine is a cupcake and then otherwise broccoli and noodles, which is what I eat every night.

SPEAKER_00 50:15

Oh. I had an incredible butterboard at the best part of the dinner at the event thing was the butterboard made by Ronnie.

SPEAKER_01 50:24

It was exceptional for the materials he had, which include the floral on the centerpiece. It was a delicious butterboard. Take shitty banquet butter, put some salt and pepper on it, and voila. And don't forget the garnish.

SPEAKER_00 50:37

That one was edible.

SPEAKER_01 50:38

Yeah, you're right. That was delicious. I wish I would have had 10 of them, then I would have been full.

SPEAKER_00 50:44

Their rolls were like particularly like you didn't try it.

SPEAKER_01 50:48

Oh, well, whatever. The roll was the best part of what I ate. No, the amoose boosh was the best part. Um, okay. So I have decided, like, I am generally a move-on parent with like, oh, that was really cute, but I'm excited for the next phase. I'm not like a mourner of like, oh, I'm so sad, you know, my kids are out of my crib, or oh, I'm so sad, I'm done breastfeeding. I'm no, that's not generally how I am. I think the thing I'm gonna miss the most is kids' like funny words for things and how they speak. So right now I found at my mom's church rummage sale these earmuffs, like winter earmuffs, but they have a unicorn horn and like little sequin ears. So it's like unicorn earmuffs and they're adorable. Well, I was washing them and then had to like let them air dry and Lucy discovered them. And so she cannot, she calls them earpuffs, and it's the fucking cutest thing because they're these giant puffs. She wore them to school today because she got to dress up. So today she went as a unicorn and she calls them earpuffs, and it's so damn cute. And I just, that's all. I'm being sappy today, saying I think I'm gonna miss like the funny words. Like I keep in my notes um funny things Elliot said, and funny words like that Lucy thinks are real words, and it's great. That's all I'm sad about that one thing. Otherwise, keep growing, kids.

SPEAKER_00 52:06

Breaking Milwaukee news. Five serve has finally officially consented to move their headquarters to downtown Milwaukee from Brookfield.

SPEAKER_01 52:16

Good.

SPEAKER_00 52:16

It's gonna be at the old Bonton headquarters.

SPEAKER_01 52:18

I knew it. I was like, it's gonna be in Grand Ave.

SPEAKER_00 52:21

And the Hub 640 building is what they call it. Sure. And it's contingent upon incentives currently being considered by the Wisconsin Act and Development Corporation in the city of Milwaukee.

SPEAKER_01 52:32

That'll be fine.

SPEAKER_00 52:33

Just coal, just hold people hostage.

SPEAKER_01 52:37

Um, they took over the other half of Grand or the other third, I guess, of um Grand Avenue Mall. So, I mean, good job. That's a lot of space. I mean, there's the food hall. Why can't I think of what it's called now?

SPEAKER_00 52:48

So who knows? Maybe Sarah will go work for Five Surf again.

SPEAKER_01 52:51

What's the food hall called? Why the hell can't I in the old Grand Ave? Third Street Market Hall. Okay, sorry. That was all. All right. Well, we're now getting distracted by all of our news alerts, everybody. We will not make you listen to us any longer.

SPEAKER_00 53:08

I hope you all have a lovely day. Thank you again for listening.

SPEAKER_01 53:12

If you're listening to us while you're chasing your kids around trick-or-treating, bless you. Blessings, blessings. You'll be yelling a lot of just take one. Did you say thank you?

SPEAKER_00 53:21

So have a happy Halloween. If you're listening on event day, or not event day, release day, there's free pumpkin carving all day Sunday at Low Daily.

SPEAKER_01 53:29

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 53:30

So maybe go over there. And if they run out of pumpkins, don't be mad at them because they tried.

SPEAKER_01 53:35

It's also trick-or-treating like everywhere on release day.