Bridget Can't Choose | Dinner Plus Drinks #25

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Welcome everybody to the newest episode of Dinforce Drinks. Returning to a more normal fa format. I think so.

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How was how was your week? Um, I mean, in comparison, it was a good week. Yeah. So that's the best we can ask for, I think. I'm very excited because I got a haircut. He looks like a different person, doesn't he, guys? I got to go and see Rebecca. To your dear Rebecca. My best person, my hair cutter. Next to his wife and his daughter. I'm not so sure. But Sarah, I got you.

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If you were in the market for a haircut and you have picking standards, picky standards, and want somebody that can not only cut a mean hair, but knows how to have that sacred relationship of the person you can just dish to.

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Wait, so men care about this the same? I care. I I have had some some hairstylists that like one, it felt like an interview. Two, it was like silence. These are all bad ones that obviously haven't gone back to. One time it was like an hour and a half of silence. I'm like, I uh I just like have to awkwardly asking questions. Anyway, I don't know Becca, but she sounds great.

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Becca is great. She's at the well spa at Grand Geneva Resort and Spa. Well spa is a spa part of Grand Geneva Resort and Spa if you didn't. It's the well part? Yeah, it's uh that's where you go. And I did something we talked about on the podcast, which was the tip was like the three haircuts I missed were the tip.

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Oh yeah, we talked about that. Oh my god, forever ago now. No, forever ago. When we thought coronavirus might go away sometime.

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So, but you can get your hair cut now.

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Um, Elliot got his hair cut. I saw he looks like 10. He looks so handsome. Yeah, every time Elliot gets his hair cut, he does not like getting his hair cut. So every time it's like down to here, he's constantly doing this.

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And he's a sweaty kid.

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And he is a sweaty kid.

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So it's like his whole head is just like. Wait, buddy, would you want to like maybe a rag?

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Trim some of that off. And it was like, it was down almost covering his whole ear. It was bad. So my husband somehow talked him into it. By somehow, I mean he bribed him with toys. Um it's always good. It worked. It was a bravery toy. He got his hair cut and he looks like he's 10 years old. So I have yet to do that.

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I forgot to ask him when I saw him if he got in a fight with a lawnmower. My grandfather would always, ah, looks like he got in a fight with a lawnmower today.

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I don't think he would have understood your dad jokes. That's a good one, though. Um, another happy thing, we got a really awesome piece of mail in the mailbag. We did.

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Yes, we did.

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I was so happy to see this. So, big, big shout out to Dan Locke, who wrote us a message from Iowa. Sioux City. Sioux City.

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So all the way across the state of Iowa from Wisconsin.

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So, seven-hour drive, he told us. Um, and it's he used to live here, I believe. Um, yeah, he grew up coming to Lake Geneva every summer with his parents that are originally from Chicago and told us some really great stories, and then just touched on some of the stuff he loves about the podcast. So we love hearing from you guys. I'm not kidding. I I probably reread this email like five times. I just thought it was so sweet. He took time out of his day to do that. So, Dan, thanks for listening and taking the time to write to us. Really did mean a lot.

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Yeah, it was really nice to hear. So, thank you. Thank you.

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Yeah. Um, all right.

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It's time to drink.

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Today, we have an unpronounceable rose. Um, I'm gonna try and pronounce this. So better you than me. Usually I know what the thing is. So this is Domain Vitrici. So, okay, so here's your problem. So this comes from Corsica, okay, which is an island in the middle of the Mediterranean. Yep. And it's a lot of people. Where all rose should come from. Uh but uh, you know, it's really only 80 miles from Italy and like 10 miles from Sardinia, which is Italian. So it's like Italian grapes, Italian things. But a French name, right? Vitricci, so like do you pronounce it? So it's Domain, which is French. Yeah, I think it's sounds Italian.

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Yeah, it's like sounds Italian. So unpronounceable rose because it is summer officially, I would say, or there's actually an official summer.

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So, you know, rose, it's all I shouldn't say this. I'm giving away trade secrets. They're all the same. But so this, I've never heard of these grapes. This is 40% Neo Lucio. Oh, yeah. 30% schier relcio, 15% Grenache. I don't know what Grenache is. Uh, I'm surprised they don't call it Canonow.

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We're gonna have to post a picture of the back of the label, because when Nick was telling me about this, I'm like, are you just like saying the grapes wrong? No, there's something I've never seen either.

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But this was recommended to me by a rep that I respect. Cheers, Bridget. Cheers! And uh it's rose season.

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Yeah, I mean, I'm not the one. I love rose, but I will only drink it in the summer because.

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It's got a lot of like grapefruitiness. It's a good summer wine. It's got a little like kind of grapefruit pith. It's very zesty.

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Oh, zesty is a good word for it.

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I don't know.

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Needs to be ice cold. I think I say that a lot, but um, I mentioned that about milkshake beers when we had them. And huge again shout out to an avid listener, Sam Burchette. She um sorry for giving away your last name there, Sam. She um brought up some awesome milkshake beers when she came to stock up on brats. So she is listening from the Chicago area. She brought up some milkshake beers from Short Fuse Brewing in Rosemont. So there's a pineapple milkshake beer.

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Like a pina colada.

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I'm really excited about it. And a cream second coladas and peach. Um, so rose, I am not gonna be able to tell you differences on many of the roses.

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What do you think of this?

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I like it.

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About it honestly available at Legend of Country Meats, and Bridget likes it.

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And I like it, guys, but I'm not that picky. But rose, I can always only like maybe have two glasses of. Um, I don't know why. It's just like that's just a thing.

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I would say if you like Sauvignon Blanc, you will really like this. Which I love Sauvignon Blanc. If you don't like Savillon Blanc, you will hate this.

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It is not sweet. Do you think people are confused and think all roses are sweet?

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Yeah, that's definitely uh because they're pink? Yeah, because of the white Zinfandel curse.

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The curse. So yeah, good rose summertime.

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Like you mean country meats, other places.

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Got a whole great rose shelf, actually. Yeah. I picked mine by the label.

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Would you pick it by this label? Let's grade this label.

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Oh, okay. Actually, this label's nicer than I thought. But I saw the other labels end. It's not the number one label I would have picked.

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But also a lot of alcohol in this for rose. It's 14.2%.

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What is a rose usually?

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Like 13, 12 and a half, 13 and a half. Must be those grapes Nick can't pronounce. I think so.

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Alright, well, you guys, let's talk about something that I know more about. Food. Food? So, what did you eat this week that you loved?

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Alright, so I have been on this podcast extoling the virtuos of Carnitas tacos frequently. Um, I am not gonna back off of the fact that Carnitas tacos are the most superior taco in the world, but coming in a close second, Alpastore.

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Okay. And you had them this week?

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From El Tacario Gaio Oro. Shout out to El Tacario Gaio Oro.

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Tyler has been asking me like all week to order from there.

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Really good Al Pastor tacos that have the pineapple and the red onion in. And everybody that is against the Hawaiian pizza and against the pork kebab with the grilled pineapple. Y'all are fascists. No, I like pork with pineapple, but no, I don't want it on my pizza. Well, then how can you? It's the same thing. It's the same thing. I could make you a kebab of some pork, a pineapple, and an oven-roasted tomato, and you'd be like, oh my god, this is the best thing. Don't put the tomato on it.

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The tomato is the problem.

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I don't get it, Bridget. I don't get it.

SPEAKER_01 7:42

Okay, so tacos.

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So you do you like Alpha Store tacos?

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No.

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So you don't like Well, so I don't eat them.

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We are white people tacos at our house. Well, that's not true. Tyler loves different ones, but I have children, and when your daughter starts eating tacos, I don't think that's the taco she's gonna eat.

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I don't know, there's pineapple in it.

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So I was gonna say pineapple. I was wondering if every week I could tell you that tacos are my favorite food because we eat them legitimately every week.

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Nope.

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We eat a lot of the same. Sometimes there's chicken, sometimes it's ground beef, sometimes it's ground turkey.

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Anyway, turkey tacos are the worst.

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I know. Once we tried to trick my dad, it's just like what we had. And he walked to the pan. It's just like what we had. He walked to the pan and he's like, What is this?

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I'm like, how did you know? Okay, boomer.

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Okay.

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Would you have those goods?

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Um, I mean tacos. Tacos. Um, I'm giving you two things here. Uh, because one of them I cooked.

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I think the theme of this podcast is maybe Bridget can't choose.

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Bridget can't decide. And anyone listening that knows me knows that. Like, I used to buy two dresses. Okay, I bought multiple wedding dresses, if that gives anyone an idea about how indecisive I am.

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You had like a party dress, didn't you?

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Is this including the party dress? Well, I always knew the party dress was gonna be part of the thing, so I'm not counting that one. Okay. I bought a new wedding dress one month before my wedding. Okay. Anyway, that's for a different day. Um, so one of my favorite restaurants, simple. Simple, is back open for in-person dining, and they've done a really great job. And um I love their hash. So they have a hash, like a turkey hash, every season, and it changes seasonally. And this one I overlooked for many years because I always loved the fall one. Oh, the fall one's really good. Yeah, so good. I always thought it was the best one. It had brown butter. Anyway, this one is pesto and some kind of delicious tomato. I don't know what they did to their tomatoes.

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I don't remember what it is either, but it's really good.

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It's so good, and it's two meals, so I still have some in my fridge.

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They also have a rotating avocado toast.

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Oh, yeah, they do. I only had one of those during their like friends and family test out of the recipes. I don't remember. It was a vegetarian version. It was very millennial and very delicious. Avocado toast. Right now they've got a salmon one, but that changes every week. So, well, Nick didn't eat that. Um, but also, guys, it was Tyler's birthday last week, and I just couldn't fit it all in on his birthday. So we made a Yodic birthday cake, and it was really cool. Amazing, but I'm not gonna count that as homemade, like it was legit a cake out of a box. But I did make a peach and blueberry pie. That's really cool. And it looked domestic AF, and it was pretty decent.

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Guys, we're using AF because it's like. I don't know if I'm allowed to swear. Uh that is the word that takes you into the adult category of the podcast library and YouTube. We're not here for that. Because reminder, if you're listening, you can also watch us on YouTube. Even better.

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Okay, so that's all about my.

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What type of crust did you use? Do you do like a crumble on top? Oh, it should have been clear. Did you lace it?

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I didn't homemake the crust, but I did do a lattice.

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Who would do that? Okay, thank you.

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I thought you were gonna judge me. So I had two frozen pie crusts, and I did a lattice, and then I sprinkled it with cinnamon sugar because it's what the recipe told me to do. And yeah, and then the peaches and blueberries inside just had like flour, sugar, cinnamon, and allspice. It was delicious.

SPEAKER_01 11:05

That sounds great. That's all. I like pie.

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Eat it with ice cream, drown it in ice cream. That's good. That's how I feel about pie, but Tyler likes it, and it was a bladed birthday gift. We had it for dessert after our tacos, actually.

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Aww. A little sugar to go with the tacos. Did you make spicy tacos?

SPEAKER_00 11:20

I always make them, but again, the children, so I keep all the spicy things on the side.

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I was told that I could give my children spicy food. Becca and I had a conversation about this. Okay, and she said she fed her children spicy food. Now they eat everything. I mean, I just like don't put it on my kids' food. You know, he's also a boy. The first one's a boy, so you know, I hear boys are more difficult. Um, but you know, she said the first one they did like all the plain baby foods. The let the next two, she said they just gave them all the stuff and they are over it. All over it.

SPEAKER_00 11:51

Yeah, I could try it. I just haven't. So I'll listen to Becca because I trust you.

SPEAKER_01 11:55

Don't know Becca, but her kids are good.

SPEAKER_02 11:57

So all right. So what's going on in the world that you're all excited about? You said like seven stories that you wanted to share today.

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I have four.

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Four? Okay.

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Um, I'll be brief. The first two are serious, but great. And I'm gonna warm right up into some really great news stories, okay? First, in case you've missed this, amongst all of the other things happening in the world, West Virginia elected its first out transgender official. Oh, that's cool. So this is great. Like, and and it easily got pushed down in the news cycle, like it's one state. But um, Rosemary Ketchum, she is wheeling city counsel for the city's third ward. And um, she'll assume her role on July 1st, and she will be one of just four out LGBTQ transgender officials in the state to hold public office. So there are just 26 in the United States, so that's a big deal. That's a big deal. Yeah.

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I think the T part of the LGBTQ is the one that most people have the hardest time understanding or like knowing what to say, I guess.

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And so it's so this feel that way.

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You have to be happy for these people that they're able to live their lives and do things that are important to them, right?

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And honestly, I the reason it's notable to me is because it's West Virginia. I know. Like this is it's not Washington, it's West Virginia. Yeah. So that was awesome. So great job, Rosemary Ketchum.

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So your sister Brittany lives in Seattle, right? Yes. I think this is the longest we've taken to get to Britney in the podcast.

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I didn't bring it up, okay. Um, okay, other news happening. Uh, Trayvon Martin, you remember him? Also in the news a few years ago. Very similar situation. Um, so Trayvon Martin's mom is qualified to run for public office now, and she's a candidate for Miami Dade County Commissioner for District One. And she is, of course, focusing on gun reform. So I thought that was really awesome. Yeah, that's interesting.

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Good luck to her. It's hard to do it countywide.

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Yeah, and Miami's not an easy place to do it.

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Um I've seen Scarface.

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So so those are two things that I think are notable, and I feel like got buried in the news cycle. Um, but moving on. Moving on. For all of you that are listening, I suggest you go to YouTube and watch what I'm about to do here. So there is a fun little thing going around on the internet that is someone had the brilliant idea to replace all the monuments that are coming down right now. What if we replaced them with the inflatable air dancers? Do you know what that is? It's like the only way to describe them. I'm like, I don't know, the things that go like that.

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Family guy does a really good thing about it.

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So it is funny. I am gonna make sure we put up the image. You you have to see it. I mean, you could Google it, but check it out on the blog notes, um, on the show notes. Come on, okay. I think it's funny too.

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I love this because America is a nation of winners, right? Like, we're about winning. America is a nation of winners, and we have a bunch of these statues, statues of races.

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Well, yes. Oh, and losers, okay. Lost a war.

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And we're like, you know, like, oh, cool, Stonewall Jackson, lost cause, racist. But you know, weapon air dancer.

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So cool, great, goods come down. You know what, like underlying what I loved about this story is like it's a serious thing, right? These statues coming down, but we finally are like, okay, we as a society can can have a little shed a little light on this. Um, so instead of you know talking about removing paw patrol from the air, so ridiculous.

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So lastly, and unrelated with removing paw patrol from the air because I spent like $120 on a stupid paw patrol fire truck for my godson nephew last Christmas because it was the only thing he wanted. We have it. And it was like I had to get it on eBay and I love you.

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We have that Marshall's fire truck, okay? We have like eight giant fire trucks. Anyway, okay, guys.

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So paw patrol, you can hear too much money merchandise away.

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But don't go away because we like your educational show. Um, all of those news stories, unrelated to anything going on in anything else in the world, Amsterdam. We talked about Amsterdam when they were doing those little greenhouse restaurants for social distancing. They're doing another thing that's way cooler. So they just submitted, someone just submitted plans for a Willy Wonka style chocolate factory. It has a roller coaster. Okay. And so it's Tony's Chocolate Company, I think. Yeah, Tony's Chocoloni Chocolate Circus is what it's gonna be called. And it's actually in a place called Zandam, which is a small city on the outskirts of Amsterdam. So they um Dutch architects, thank you, ma'am. Dude, whatever, I'm gonna go just for this. There's been a million reasons I want to go, but now I'm gonna wait until this Willy Wonka factory, and you don't need a golden ticket to go, guys.

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I think it'd be cooler if they made you get a golden ticket.

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I mean, I bet your ticket is like gold or something.

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They have a Willy Wonka themed hallway to come in. They play, they have it's like purple and they play the you know, currency imagination. What do you think? It's so cool. Yes, I'd highly recommend it. They sold out to Heineken, which makes it a little less cool, but uh still place, and uh recommend it.

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Maybe someday when I go to Amsterdam, I will report back here.

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So could my turn yet?

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I guess okay.

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That's all the news I have. Football, soccer, as we uncultured Americans call it, is uh is back in various parts around the world. Oh yeah, especially Germany. Uh the Bundesliga is back. Um Bundesliga? Yeah, Bundesliga. Bundesliga 1 and then Bundesliga 2. What is boom? What does that mean? It's football league. Oh, okay. Um but there's no fans. The players are players, yeah, you know, and there's no fans because of the unfortunateness. Um the world. But they're piping in crowd noise using like EA Sports FIFA 20 technology, which is cool, but this is not my story. So if you watch working, I don't know, did you watch the K-League uh baseball games where they put a bunch of stuffed animals behind the plate? No. So how you don't want it to look empty. So the Bundesliga, Borussia Mochingladbach, I'm sorry, Munchengladbach. I'm sorry. Munching Gladbach, they're in fourth place, they're a huge team. Uh Germany, all the teams are owned by the fans, at least 51 people. That's cool. Uh like very affordable teams that you can stand. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's really cool how they do it in the Bundesliga.

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Bundesliga.

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They got 4,500 life-size cutouts of fans in the stands where you pay like 35 pounds euro. I'm sorry, euro. Like 20 pounds, 20 euro of it goes to some charity that the club has, and then you know, like five pounds pays for it, and the club gets 10 pounds. Uh that's great. So, like you see, there's all these people that are sitting in selfies. Some of them are like really like dude, you could do a better job with this, some are cool. Um, but so a lot of places we can do this. Is Arsenal does this, I will definitely pay the 35 pounds, which is like $50. But totally.

SPEAKER_00 18:54

Is it gonna be you or Simona's face?

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Oh, it's gonna be me and Simona.

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Family pick?

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Yeah, she has already been indoctrinated into the craziness because you know soccer is like a religion, right?

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Uh in Europe.

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Yeah, you got the father, son, and holy goalie.

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Holy oh, jeez. Time to take a break.

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All right, we're back with our favorite product real quick. Wow. I was getting excited because guess what? I have two things to recommend.

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I was only gonna recommend one, but it usually takes me a while to come up with a title of a podcast. This one's gonna be called Bridget Can't Choose. That's fair.

SPEAKER_00 19:36

I can't. And I don't care because I am spreading knowledge about really helpful things like jelly sandals. Do you guys do you know what that is? I'm actually curious. Like, you had a sister, but do you know what a jelly sandal is? I don't. Dude, I have two sisters, in case you didn't know. No brothers. I mean, until I married into them. Jelly sandals were the rage. So they're pretty much what they sound like like plastic, horrible strawberries, not smokers. They're like plastic sandals. They usually have glitter in them. Oh, yes, these things. I'm aware of them. Okay, obviously. Brittany had a pair, of course, like what I feel like she was like starting to get too cool, and they had like a plastic heel.

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Figure that, Brittany, you're too cool.

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And they were glow in the dark. Do you remember these, Brittany? Because I wanted to steal them. So those were like grown-up ones. But anyway, I was Insta-targeted, of course, with little baby jellies.

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Oh.

SPEAKER_00 20:28

Yes. So obviously I ordered Lucy a pair, but I think I need a matching pair.

SPEAKER_02 20:33

I think you need a matching pair.

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It'll be like one of our first mommy and me matching outfits. So I'm here to be matching outfits. I actually have done it way less than anyone in my life would think. I feel like most people are like, yeah, Bridget's gonna match her kid every day, but honestly, I haven't. Although her clothes are pretty cute, I wish I had some of them. Like the onesies. Okay, guys, jelly sandals. Baby jelly sandals, I don't actually recommend them for adults because they're really horrible. Like they they're gonna give you blisters. Um, but kids don't, you know, their feet don't sweat like adults, I imagine. So little baby jelly sandals. I know the ones I got were from Old Navy. So we'll put a link up so your daughter can be beautiful with her jelly sandals. Or your son. Or your son, actually. I don't care. Or buy them for Nick. I think he needs a pair. Next adult realistic recommendation that I use every day. Um, I've been trying for I'm a straw person. Like I like to drink out of a straw. It's good for your teeth. It is, and I've been trying to use- Did Laura tell you to do this? No, what I don't know, everyone's told me to do this. I I've been drinking out of straws forever. I just I drink more water when I use a straw. So I've been trying to use various reusable straws. I've bought many different kinds, I've gotten them as gifts, and I haven't been good at doing it, to be honest. But I just got some silicone ones and I sent them to each of my sisters like in a little gift basket thing. But these are great if you're a are you a straw chewer?

SPEAKER_02 21:54

No.

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Okay, I'm a straw chewer. So like that's horrible. But these are perfect for that because they're Like they don't get ruined. I know. This these um this particular pack that I bought comes in four bright colors and it comes with a cleaner because that's the issue to me with your reusable straws, is like this has some patented like certain cleaning thing to make sure you get all the gunk out of the strips. So, anyway, so I will put a link up to my favorite silicone straws, the only ones that have really worked for me that I love dearly and use every day now.

SPEAKER_02 22:21

They remind me of uh trumpet cleaners, trumpet mouthpiece cleaners, where you know you just I imagine it's the same thing. There's a bunch of gunk that comes out.

SPEAKER_00 22:30

Ew, really? Well, yeah. I mean, I don't play any musical instruments besides the recording.

SPEAKER_02 22:34

You know, the stuff you ew you know, so eventually. That's gross, man.

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All right.

SPEAKER_02 22:39

All right, my recommendation, I'm gonna show you if you're watching on YouTube, the ring doorbell. All right, so for Christmas, we knew we're gonna be in this house here that we're at now. It's not flipping. Anyway, um, this is the ring doorbell. You can see out my front door right now. We live in the country, and you know, there's some miscreants sometimes. There's also raccoons and mice. And um Nick needs a cat. Cranes. I need a cat. Cranes. Oh, we have this pair of cranes. There's turkeys. We have lots of wildlife. Uh, but the ring doorbell, we got the the the one for Christmas, and it's really great. I get all these you know alerts of when there's people there. It's cool because when Sarah comes home, I can talk to her. Oh, funny.

SPEAKER_00 23:24

So it's like a baby monitor for your front door.

SPEAKER_02 23:26

It's exactly what it is. It records it. Um, if you're into security, like it shares it with other neighbors, which is a little like, you know, kind of that is interesting. Kind of a little like overzealous neighborhood watch thing, but it's kind of cool. Uh, you know, you can track things. Um, it saves all the recordings. So, like, I made a video of me and Simona going waving hi to Sarah to send to her.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_02 23:49

Uh you know, first time dad.

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I love my daughter.

SPEAKER_02 23:53

Okay. The installation was so easy. Legitimately took me about 20 minutes to install.

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Um, is this related to the thermostat that's like magical in your house?

SPEAKER_02 24:04

They have a smart thermostat. I don't think it's related to Nest. It works with Nest, okay. Uh, the Amazon ecosystem. It's part of Amazon bought it. Oh, it is, I guess. Yeah, it works all with the stuff, but really impressed with it. If you want the smart doorbell thing where you can record everybody and see what's happening and um you know, it's nice for like knowing if packages come, stuff like that. Ring. So easy to install, great, highly recommended. Awesome.

SPEAKER_00 24:28

Ring doorbell, everybody. All right, what are we talking about today?

SPEAKER_02 24:38

Uh so time for some random facts. Uh, this is releasing on June 14th, which is flag day. So I have a few flag-themed facts.

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We forgot the name of this segment, which is the my second favorite. The more you know.

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The more you know. Okay. So the flag resolution of June 14th in the year of our Lord 1777, resolved that the flag of the United States should be made of 13 stripes, alternate red and white, that the Union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. So as they started adding new states, they added a new star and a new stripe. So eventually it got to 15 stripes, 15 stars. As you can imagine, that was a pretty tight pinstripe. Too many. So, and 1818, they said, uh, guys, this isn't working. We'll just add new stars and keep with 13 stripes.

SPEAKER_00 25:32

I would like to see a rendition of that flag.

SPEAKER_02 25:34

Oh my god, it would be the worst.

SPEAKER_00 25:36

Thin pinstripe.

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It would be the worst. So lovely. It would just look pink. Yeah, it'd look terrible. It'd look really terrible. Okay. Two. In fact, two. The current flag with 50 stars and 13 stripes was designed in 1958 by a 17-year-old high school student, Robert G. Haft of Lancaster, Ohio.

SPEAKER_00 25:59

That seems way later than I would have thought.

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1958. Hawaii was really late. That's like why the tiki, you know, like the tiki thing was so huge in the 60s. Oh. Because like Hawaii was becoming state, so everyone would learn about like Lennai culture and all this stuff. That's why the Tiki thing took off.

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So Alright, man. The more you know.

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Bonus fact. Mind-blowing. So there was a nationwide contest, and President Dwight Eisenhower chose this dude, this seven-year-old dude, his design out of 1,500 entries. Wow. Could you imagine if that happened in the era of the internet where like any idiot could send in? There's 15 million.

SPEAKER_00 26:32

That's great.

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You mean like when the British Oceanographer Society sent in, had their new boat and they had the name the boat thing and Bodie McBoat face? Yes. Oh yeah. Vodie McBoat face. Could you imagine if we had to vote for a new flag design now, how badly that would go?

SPEAKER_00 26:48

When I lived in Milwaukee, they voted for a new flag. Oh yeah, and that great. I mean, it did. I like the new flag.

SPEAKER_02 26:54

Finally, finally, we all know Apollo 11 had a flag on the moon. There's an American flag on the moon. How many additional ones were there after Apollo 11?

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How many additional flags? Yes. Either like really low or really high? It's five more. I was gonna say four. Okay. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. Why did they stop?

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Because we didn't have any more Apollo's. And Apollo 13.

SPEAKER_01 27:22

And only Apollo's can take the flag. Apollo 13 didn't. Yeah, Apollo 13 didn't make it. I don't know if you watched the movie. Maybe there was a flag. Spoiler alert. Spoiler alert. Didn't make it.

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Get it to the moon. Watch that flick. Highly recommend it. Tom Hanks. I don't know if you've heard of him. No, I don't think he's. He's a really great actor. I love him actually. He's married to Rita Wilson. But uh she recently they had uh COVID-19.

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I love his classes. I know. I think it's him as of recent. I believe he has little like circular spectacles, kind of like my clear ones, obviously. He obviously modeled his classes after mine. Um, okay, I'm talking about peonies, guys. So my sister Shannon knows me well and sent me this lovely email about fun facts about peonies. So she gets really mad when I do spoiler alerts about the podcast, but I replied to the email immediately and said, spoiler alert, this is gonna be my fun facts on the podcast. So, Shannon, I added some so you're not too disappointed. Don't worry. Oh my god. Oh, it just looks like a lot. Calm down. It's five. Okay, guys, I love peonies. They were one of the flowers in my wedding. Um, that and tulips, my two favorite flowers, both good springtime flowers. There are more than there are 6,500 breeds of peonies. 600? That surprised me. Maybe it doesn't like surprise flower people, but like the majority of them. Shocks me. Are you a peony flower person? So majority of these peonies fall into three different families. So I don't know. They're classified by petal, shape, and color. Okay. I don't know. We live in Wisconsin, so I feel like we see the same kind of three or four peonies, but I do follow an Instagram account that is all like French peonies.

SPEAKER_02 29:02

You're gonna talk about diversifying your feed.

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Peony Instagram accounts. So some peonies can be up to 10 inches in diameter. Okay? For those of you that are like, I can't picture 10 inches. That's a dinner plate. That's a huge flower. And it's beautiful. What? Do you know? Like, that's bigger than a sunflower. It's about the same size as a sunflower. Anyway. No, sunflowers are bigger. Not all of them. Many of them. Okay, everybody. I have never seen a 10-inch peony. I don't think they exist in Wisconsin. Don't think so either. I will see if I can order one. Um, a peony represents wealth and honor. It also embodies romance and love.

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So they are also represents fidelity. Also, it represents true Nick. Companion. If something represents seven things, it doesn't represent anything.

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It represents four things. Romance, love, wealth, and honor. All relatable. So they are regarded as the omen of good fortune and a happy marriage. Oh. Which is obviously why Tyler and I are happily married because we had peonies. Obviously. At our wedding. I'm gonna tell Tyler. He can hear me, Tyler. Tyler. Um, okay, a peony plant. So if you have a plant in your yard, which we were lucky enough to inherit when we bought our house, that plant can last up to a hundred years, which is awesome because the peony surprising. Yeah, I was super surprised because the fact you find mostly about peonies is that their growing season is super short. So, like in Wisconsin, it's after the last freeze. So, like, I don't know, yesterday. Yesterday. But like usually the end of April, if we're lucky um through June. So you get like a month, maybe a month and a half of peonies. I feel like mine lasted like a day in my backyard, I think. So an ants actually help them open. That was not a fact I had to Google. I just know that. So ants like crawling on them actually is what helps them open up. So I got really mad at ants yesterday, Tyler can attest to, but then I remember how much I love peonies. And lastly, the white peony is one of the oldest remedies in traditional Chinese medicine. So peony root is the part of um valued in Chinese medicine because it treats conditions like convulsion. So like I'm not, I don't know Chinese medicine, but if you're treating me with anything to do with peonies, I'm on board.

SPEAKER_02 31:17

Are you convulsing?

SPEAKER_00 31:18

Not currently. But if I do, go get a peony. They're in my backyard, they're light pink. You can see the bush, but you have one month to treat me with it because then they're dead. So thank you for those fun facts, Shannon.

SPEAKER_01 31:31

Thanks, Shannon. That was great. Really appreciate it. Could you send her more fun facts next week? Nick is so excited about all my flower fun facts.

SPEAKER_02 31:38

They're excited about flowers. I love flowers. I'm a little behind in my flower planting this year.

SPEAKER_00 31:42

I'm actually Well, you did just get a new house. I know. You don't even have a driveway yet, okay?

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Priorities.

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All right, so what are you eating this week? Uh I've been surprised at how good of a job you've been doing with keeping up with making stuff off the meal plan. Thanks. You've been doing a like really great job of cooking.

SPEAKER_00 31:58

I mean, I wish I like to do this.

SPEAKER_02 32:00

This isn't trying to be condescending.

SPEAKER_01 32:02

I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_00 32:03

You've really like I've blossomed, you guys. I made a pie. Like a chest.

SPEAKER_01 32:07

Just like a pee.

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I made a dang pie last week, you guys. Um, so you're gonna be disappointed this week that I simply chose queso dip.

SPEAKER_02 32:17

Do you know why I'm disappointed in this? Because Sarah's gonna listen to this on Sunday afternoon while she's driving and say, mmm.

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I know that because we've had this on the meal plan. So listen, there's only so many recipes, but like you can't go wrong with this one. So I'm going to include it in meal plans often. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 32:33

It's very easy.

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Uh it has chorizo in it, so it's a meal.

SPEAKER_02 32:37

Everybody that knows me knows I love cheese, but also I will fight you on Velveeta. Like, Velveeta is delicious. Velveeta has this amazing place in cuisine because it's like Cuisine? Specifically engineered to perfectly melt.

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Now, if you're putting it on your grilled cheese, go And to never expire on the shelf.

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If you're you know, if you put it on your grilled cheese, that's lame AF uh to steal Brigittism. But if you're making a melted cheese product, oh, it's perfect. It doesn't scorch. Yeah. It's great. So for this dip, Velveeta. And I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 33:17

You can judge us, but it's so good. So good. It's like when we have football season, it I like have happy memories of going to my parents' house, and my dad always makes this certain Velveeta cheese dip that like I just don't make because I don't have Velveeta usually at my house, so I don't think of it. It lasts forever. I will just like this. I just don't think to stock my pantry with it. So this week, guys, Velveeta cheese dip. You're welcome. See, I'm blossoming into a great culinary.

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Um, my recipe is our sheet pan lemon chicken thigh recipe. Yeah, these look good. I love this one. Uh, I love sheet pan recipes because you just put them in the oven, bake them. Uh, I know it's summer, no one turned the oven on, but you're still turning the oven on. Turn on your air conditioner. Like, it's it's fine. It's fine. Um, so it's shocking how slicing some lemons and putting them on top of the chicken thighs as you bake, like it brings this nice bright lemony flavor.

SPEAKER_00 34:08

So are you a lemon chicken person?

SPEAKER_02 34:10

Oh, I love lemon chicken.

SPEAKER_00 34:11

I think that's like a I feel like you like it or you don't.

SPEAKER_02 34:13

Yep. I don't know. So this is the it's very easy. You just put some chicken thighs and some vegetables and some seasoning and some lemons.

SPEAKER_00 34:19

I love the sheet pan dinners that we have on our website for this exact reason. I hate doing the dishes.

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Check it out. It's delicious. You should make it. It takes what, 35, 45 minutes? It takes like 35 minutes to cook and maybe 30 minutes. Throw it in, go play outside, come back and your house is hot because your ovens are turn on your air conditioning. You're like, oh well, who who cooks on the oven in this in the summer?

SPEAKER_00 34:42

But like, what do you eat in the summer if you don't turn on your oven? Just stovetop things? Slow cooker or grilled. Oh, we don't do that. Yeah, we don't do that. It's realistic, man. All right. It's time for Kid Corney. Okay, guys. I'm sorry if I've talked about Lucy's transition already from formula to milk, but we are of the um thought process that when our kid turns one, like bye bye bottles, bye-bye formula. We're just gonna, you're gonna figure out how to drink whole milk out of a sippy cup because we are done with bottles and we are. Or breast milk or whatever you're doing. It's dairy month, so I'm telling you about Lucy's transition to whole milk.

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There we go, let's tie it all together.

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It's a little grosser than that, but so she had a little bit of a rough transition for like three days, okay? Now she's fine. She chugs whole milk out of her sippy cup. It's great. Good job, Lucy. But you know what I forgot about? Because I have, you know, she's my second, so the memories are coming back. The smell of the poop. So I'm sorry, everybody. Stop eating if you're eating while you're listening to this. But like it just drink over here. This is your fair warning, Nick. It makes the smell of poop change, and it is like repulsive. It I remember when she started having food, same thing.

SPEAKER_02 35:53

Like these people always told me, like, I couldn't believe how fast we started feeding on real food, like how fast the collar changed. Yes.

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Well, it happens again with whole milk. And and you know, people are like, you forget things from your first kid. Like, I promise you, I remember every minute of childbirth with my first kid, but I clearly forgot these type of things for a reason. So Lucy's poop stinks, everybody.

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What's that first poop that's like the worst poop? My conoscence issued me like seven warnings about that one as well.

SPEAKER_00 36:22

The black tar. And actually, Tyler got it.

SPEAKER_02 36:25

I've seen some things.

SPEAKER_00 36:26

Yeah. I the dads usually I feel like get most of that because like Tyler, I don't I didn't do much of that.

SPEAKER_02 36:31

I own a butcher shop. I've seen some things.

SPEAKER_00 36:34

But not that.

SPEAKER_02 36:35

Oh god.

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So that's my lovely Lucy story for you.

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Alright, my Simona story is also about food. Um not poop. I would suggest watching this one because I'm gonna use some visual aids. Oh. So she likes these num nom things that are like dehydrated, crispy, like wafer, right?

SPEAKER_00 36:52

Wafer, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:53

They're long and she chews on them with her gums.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

She gnaws on them.

SPEAKER_02 36:57

She gnaws on them. And they're very long and very thin. So the smart person thing to do is put it in your mouth. This is fun, huh? With you know, like what do you do? You have things like this and you chew on the one end. Like if it's a baguette, you don't just sh take it and put it vertically and shove it in your mouth, you chew it horizontally. I hope you're watching on YouTube. Simona goes like this. Ah, ah, ah! Yes. Like trying to get away. I watched her do this once.

SPEAKER_01 37:28

Girlfriend's hungry, Nick.

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Her hands are sweaty because she's a disaster. So the thing starts breaking down, and eventually it breaks because she's hit her gums hard enough. Oh. And so she has just this like kind of melted purple thing in her hand. And of course, then the kid shoves her whole fist in her mouth. Got it. And this was the truly gross part. So there's half of the I'm sorry, two-fifths of the thing on the ground, two fifths on the ground over here, and one fifth in her fist. Oh, and it's you know, kind of like broken down due to her sweaty palm voice. I have sweaty palms, my sister has sweaty palms. Sorry, I'm gonna rat you out. But it's a genetic thing, right? So this girl, oh yes, this girl has no chance. Sorry, girlfriend. She shoves it in her mouth, licks out what she wants, takes it back out, and looks at me like, I am smarter than the I did it. Is she like at avocado eating yet? Yeah, she's you know, at that kind of like that. You think Congratulations, baby girl. I love you. You are smarter than the nom nom. You couldn't figure out how to get in your mouth, but eventually she's gonna be great at getting things in your mouth, Nick. It's terrible. I was just thought.

SPEAKER_01 38:41

Sorry, Smona.

SPEAKER_02 38:44

And then she kept taking her fist in and out and the scooping a little bit more out each time. It's like, what are you doing? Oh god. What are you doing?

SPEAKER_00 38:51

All right, fair enough. I mean, we didn't even talk about Elliot. Well, we talked about his haircut.

SPEAKER_02 38:55

We talked about Elliot's haircut.

SPEAKER_00 38:56

Good thing. All right, guys, as always. Thanks for uh watching.

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