Bridget's Laptop is Back | Dinner Plus Drinks #68

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Hello, everybody! Welcome to a new edition of the Dinner Plus Drinks podcast. Now with Bridget's laptop safely back home, returned to her, near and dear to her heart, never to be parted again.

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I'm never going to send this away to Apple to be fixed again, I'll tell you that.

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Apple.

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I am not going to rant as long as I originally intended to in the beginning of this video.

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There's like two pages of notes of ranting.

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It just says Apple. I am an Apple product person. I love their products for so many reasons. Um, mostly they all talk to each other. Uh the line of work I do makes sense that I have an Apple product. And what is that line of work, Bridget?

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Who knows?

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I deal with a lot of graphics and things of that nature.

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I deal with people. I deal with people and I tell people what they should think.

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There's dust on here. Do you think it's from the repair team? Probably. That did nothing. Um, anyway, I upgraded as Apple makes you do. I upgraded to their latest iOS. And when I did that, it said, like, all right, your battery needs some help. Whatever. I'm like, I'm gonna do the responsible thing and actually take care of that instead of like ignore the warning, whatever. So I go to the store. I didn't even go, like, I thought about going to a third-party place. I went to the Apple store in Mayfair. So, like, had to take time out of a day to drive an hour there. I did that. It was weird. Long story short, they had to ship it out to get the battery fixed, thought it was gonna be back within three to five days, but instead they found a new problem that needed to be fixed for the bargain price of $578. Name you, this computer is a 2015, so it's perfectly functional. Like it's just the battery dies faster than I would like for it to, because it's almost six years old. So they said, Oh, there's a what did they call it? Main oh it's a logic board. Main logic board. And sort of like, oh, that sounds important. I'll pay the $600, except I'm smarter than that. So I didn't, and I spent hours. Well, it is important, but it's important, but I was weird. If you don't have one, you don't have a computer. Well, all it says is there's a a main logic board error, which like when I sent my computer and it was functioning completely fine, it just was a battery. So I paid the $200 for the battery. That's a responsible adult assistant. I agree. Anyway, all that was wrong is the SD card reader on the side of my computer isn't working, which it hasn't been working for about three years. I don't care. I have a um USB card reader that cost me like $25. So I didn't, I declined the fix. And then they said, Oh, well, if you're declining fixing the SD card reader, we will not fix the battery either. We won't fix partial things, we'll only fix it all. So anyway, I'm sure there's a reason for that, and I'm sure some people like that, but it makes me really mad.

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So But you forgot the bright shining lining to bright silver shiny lining to going to Mayfair. Uh, I did.

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Oh, did I stop at Goodwill?

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Yeah. I was like, what are what are we talking about?

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You got a bonus goodwill trip out of it. That goodwill in Tosa, if you guys are listening and was like, I don't know if you should be telling people about this. I I did tell people about this when I lived in Milwaukee that the Goodwill on 124th in Capitol, it's actually on a street called Furix Street, is my favorite Goodwill.

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That is so hood. I had to drive by that every day. It is not hood when I lived in Milwaukee.

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124th in Capital is not hood. That that is it sounds hood by the Walmart? No, it's next door to a Target. I don't even know where a Walmart is around there. Okay.

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Anyway, guys. Oh, different one. We're thinking of different goods.

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124th in Capital does sound hood. Yeah, just up the road from the REI. I know what Apple is. Yep. So anyway, this was like a really calm rendition of my hatred for Apple. Um, my hate, it's a love-hate relationship because I still have.

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That's how our good relationships are. I mean, right? Yeah. Strong love, strong hate.

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But I had I did have some choice words for everyone that would listen for the last couple days. But I got my computer back yesterday, just in the nick of time before it started pouring rain as they left it on my front porch. So here we are. I have it back. How was your Easter? My Easter was so today Was it hoppy? I'm gonna hit you. You're doing a lot of hoppy jokes, I feel like, this year, and that's usually something I would do. Well, because I'm just hopping into the new month. I will say. Wait, is that not something everybody does? Today it's pouring rain and gloomy, and it's my favorite weather. It was the opposite on Easter. It was so nice out.

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It was so nice. It was perfect for all the egg hunts. We did a great, great job, Simona did. She was very good. She didn't want to hold the basket and pick up the eggs, but she was happy to have me hold her basket, run, get an egg, put it in. Yeah, bitch. Carry my basket. So um I feel like she has the yeah, bitch, do this bitch work for me thing down pretty, pretty, pretty strongly.

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I am confident that Lucy is teaching Simona all of the bad things she knows, and all of her other friends are teaching her nice things, but Lucy's teaching her the bad things. You're welcome. It's okay. Um, yeah, it was good. We mar it was an Easter miracle. Um, all of the Jesus rising from the grave. That too. But more importantly, um, Shannon's two kids and Lucy all napped like at the same time for a good chunk of time. That's amazing. And then so we gave Elliot quiet time like to watch the iPad for a while, and it was a freaking dream. We like sat outside, got a little sunburnt. It's gone now because you know, sunburnt. You did look a little tan. Well, yeah, it's because I'm wearing orange. Um, yeah, we me and my mom and Shannon just got to talk. The boys all watched golf and fell asleep like they do on any good holiday. Yeah, it was really awesome. So it was good Easter. I'm glad to hear it. Yeah, but you know your food spread looked awesome. Uh yeah, my mom really killed it, actually. She did a really good, like nostalgic, you know, we walked in and it just felt like home. It was really awesome. Um, she made some great things. We had deviled eggs. She she did little bunny cupcakes, like made them herself, made cupcakes like Easter eggs. We had tons of bacon and sausage. She was really impressed by the amount of bacon we ate. Egg bakes, fruit, whatever. It was fun. Um, and then this weekend it's my brother-in-law's birthday. So it's Michael's birthday.

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Oh, happy birthday, Michael.

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So lots to do.

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Lots to do. I hope we're not opening up pools. I hope you I hope it rains so you can, you know. So you can celebrate your birthday. So you can enjoy your birthday and not open other people's pools. Well, given the rainy water weather, I thought a glass of rose would be delicious.

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With raindrops on the label.

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Yeah, with raindrops. Summer water. It's not quite summer, but it's spring. A little refreshing rose. Welcome spring. We talked about, we released our pinkies up uh earlier this week, as you're listening, uh, doing the math of when I'm not very good at that, but it was what wine to drink on a rainy day. There were some suggestions there, and this is maybe another wine you could drink on a rainy day because it's all about water and you know.

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Is this what you would call a moist wine?

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I would call this a moist wine. I would call this moist for sure.

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I would call this moist. Yeah, that one was fun. Um, because what do you talk about in April? We're like, uh, Easter was really early this year. Mother's Day's in May. So we're like, it rains a lot in April, and like today's a perfect day. It's 60 or something. 60. So it's like a little chilly, not hot, but it's raining. It'd be fun to just like sit on the porch and have a glass of wine.

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If you didn't listen, we'll give you the executive summary. You can either lean into the rain or try and drag yourself out of the rainy mood. Shockingly, Bridget chose to try and drag herself out of the rainy mood with the wine. I couldn't believe it, given it's your favorite weather. It was a surprising turn of events. So you're gonna have to listen to see her thoughts on all of it and the recommendations.

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Yeah, you guys should. Um, I don't want to spoil anything, but it was weird. It was weird. If you know me at all, you're gonna be very surprised.

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And that's a good one to watch on YouTube too, because there's a great montage of me sped up, moving like a fast bunny rabbit up and around for wine. Yeah, you should. It's good on the listening. Definitely listen if you're not a YouTuber type of person, but if you can uh have the YouTube, just check out a little bit of Nick. It's in the beginning, so you can, you know, shake my tail feather.

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If you don't want to see Nick's tail feather.

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I guess you can fast forward through it too. This is refreshing. Yeah, summer water, it's nice. It's good. I like it. It's good. It's from the South of France.

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This is one of those wines that's like too easy to drink.

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So I don't think there's that much alcohol in it. Yeah, it's 12.5% alcohol. So just, you know. Just drink it, Bridget.

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Yeah.

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Shut up and suck it up. Anyway, that's what we got today. Okay, man, great. Um, as usual, as we talk about the best things we ate, I've chosen a dessert because I don't eat real food.

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Desserts are delicious. What's wrong with choosing a delert?

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Every time I'm doing this, I'm like, can I choose a side dish? Or I don't want to talk about an entree because I'm not sure.

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I would like to talk about the French fries I had from Five Guys. They were great. Oh, I haven't been to a Five Guys in a long time. Neither have I. I just made that up.

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Actually, my in-laws got sick at a Five Guys and I've never since been back. Can't shake it. Um, okay, so I don't know if we've talked about my love for French macarons on here. Um, but I love them. I do. They're delicious. I love especially love things that like I can never recreate. I've tried once to make sure they're so hard to do. Yeah. And well, an almond flour is so expensive. Does it have to be made with almond flour? I don't even know. Yeah. Yeah, you dummy. Okay, well, anyway, this is why I'm not making them, and I will gladly pay for them. Um, so Simple does like, I don't know if they periodically have them. So Simple Bakery and Market, which we have talked about in town here. They have one right now that is oh my god, I'm gonna mess it up. Lemon honey, lavender or something with to no, no, no, there's no lavender. Lemon honey with toasted marshmallow, like that's the filling. It's toasted marshmallow and there's like lemon curd in the case. It sounds like a peep. It is so much better than a peep. Don't ever put it on the same. It is so good, you guys. I'm gonna post a picture um because it was that delicious, and you should go get them before I get them all.

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So just reading from Wikipedia. Macaron or French macaron is a sweet meringue-based confection made with egg white, icing sugar, granulated sugar, almond meal, and food coloring. Okay, fine.

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I'm not making that myself, you guys.

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I so I have some people that have decided to be gluten-free in my life now. That's not fair. One of them is the other two, I don't know, they all claim they're something. But everyone's got a thing, right? They've decided to be. So I'm like, I don't know. I use flour as a thickening agent a lot. Maybe I'll get some almond flour. There's actually some things like some breading that people think almond flour works better. So I don't know. I go to the store, it's like 12 bucks for a tiny bag of it. F that. I don't care about your gluten-free lifestyle that much. I mean, eat some flour, it's good for you.

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I don't know. I have some weird flowers in my pantry. I don't know why. I'm sure one recipe called for it, and I listen to recipes exactly as they are. Yes, I need an exact recipe. So I ate dessert as usual.

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What do you eat? So this is kind of a funny story. On uh Monday, tomorrow, if you listen to this on release day, it's National Grilled Cheese Day. Woo woo, woo, woo, woo. And uh I got some text in the middle of a weekday from Bridget Hey, National Grilled Cheese Day is coming up. Got any good recipes? Could you retake some photographs? We needed some pictures. I'm like, yeah, sure. I can do that. So of course we wanted to put a little meaty spin on them. And uh I made a barbecue pulled pork grilled cheese sandwich that was de freaking licious. De freaking licious. So I uh assembled a sandwich. I started at Simple Bakery with a loaf of country white. We all love sourdough, not necessarily the best for grilled cheese. This cheese can ooze out, doesn't always toast it most easily. Oh white bread is, I think, faboo for grilled cheese because it toasts up so well. Um we had some Ron cheese gouda, uh, shredded that. I learned this from Ron. I like to shred cheese for grilled cheese. It melts more evenly and creates a little bit more kind of pull. You can do more cheese on it because it uh more surface area, so it melts more easily.

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Do you know what I learned from Ron about grilled cheese? Am I jumping the gun? The first time we really like hung out with them, we had a grilled cheese night. And to use, I always butter my bread. They use mayo.

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A lot of people use mayo because it spreads more easily. Oh, did you use mayo or butter? I did not. I melted the butter and used it that way, so it spreads very easily.

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I just keep my butter at room temperature.

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I just put it in the microwave for 30 seconds and you brushed it on.

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Okay, what do you do with your butter, people?

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Then uh I had some smoked pulled pork left over. Everybody's gonna have pulled pork. If you make pulled pork, you're gonna have leftovers. Yeah. So this is a great way to use it up as like a sandwich instead of just the same thing. Sprinkled that on, a little bit of red onion. I know I lost you there. But you can you can skip that. Schmeer of barbecue sauce. Oh grill that up. It was so good. That seemed like the perfect lunch for today. It was so good.

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And we could fall asleep at three o'clock.

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Especially with that red onion. Had some pickles on the side, some salt and vinegar uh chippies? Chips, kettle chips? Chippies? Yep, kettle chips, that's what you call it.

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Then get rid of the onion for it.

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There you go. You could do that too. Yum. So that was very good. It was just like, mm-hmm. I totally did not expect it. I didn't have it planned. I usually have my meals planned in advance. But Agent Chaos over here.

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Um, excuse me. I text him on a Tuesday, maybe it was Wednesday, I was like, could you just get this done before Monday sometime? And he's like, Yeah, in an hour I had it. So come on. Well, you know. So it was delicious. So coming soon to a meal plan towards you. Towards you, pulled pork, whatever you guys. It's been a weird time.

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I keep wanting to say barbecue grilled pork, mac and cheese, because I have mac and cheese on the mine still because of the April Fool's Day mac and cheese brought, but oh man, those are so good.

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In case you haven't heard. Okay, so that's what we ate. We ate some weird things. Actually, not weird at all. These are completely normal things. Anyway. Um, there's lots going on in the news. Just kidding. There's nothing exciting really going on. Oh, have you seen mine though?

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Pull mine up. Okay. Okay, you want to go first? Yeah, I want to go first. Go ahead. Look at this. Oh. So this is from the BBC News. Weird. Egypt mummies passed through Cairo in ancient rulers parade. So watch the video, watch the video. Well, okay, man. I'll describe it to the people listening. I think you'll think this is cool. So uh they're opening a new museum in Cairo called the uh the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, and they had to move all the mummies from the old place, the Egyptian museum that maybe you saw in uh the mummy movie, that museum. Uh they had to move them there to the new place, which is about three miles away. And these are obviously priceless, they're antiques, they could fall apart. So they did a multi-million dollar parade complete with um special cars that had all these special shock absorbers. They like lighted the lights, they had people dressed up as like ancient Egyptians doing kind of the ceremonies, rituals you would do when the pharaohs are uh they had 18 kings and four queens, 22 mummies. Uh, they did all the ceremonies to kind of honor them as they would have been honored. Whoa. And moved everything. It's super cool. Some people are pissed because they spent so much money, but I think it's really cool. They repaved the road for this event. Well, the roads probably need to be repaved anyway.

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Hey guys, sorry that your car shocks and tires are getting constantly ruined in this road, but like we'll just repave it if we move some mummies.

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Well, think about the tourism revenue that the mummies bring to Egypt. I hope so. Oh, they do. I know, that's true. I am super I I really want to go to Egypt. Like, I've always wanted to go to this museum. Um, hopefully one day I can. I'm scared I'd get like kidnapped.

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Yeah, you're not supposed to like definitely I've been told as a woman not to go alone. Um, I would imagine as an American, period.

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But it's really cool. This is cool. There's like some longer clips on YouTube of this whole thing. The pictures are stunning. Uh, I'd really recommend checking it up. Wait, does it say in here how much money they spent? Just lots of millions. Multi-millions.

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That's all I can think. Like, it's very cool, but it looks like a movie. I mean, I can't believe how much money they've spent.

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It does look like a movie.

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Okay.

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This is cool. They've also had this plan for like 10 years.

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Oh, really?

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Yeah, because the museum's taking forever to build.

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I guess I'd hope that they're saved up their pennies.

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I hope so too. There's a lot of like private public partnerships with the whole thing. I don't have to be taxing their people for this. So yeah. Uh, you know, and also it probably was kind of a cool thing. Like, but there's no spectators. The good thing is none of the mummies blocked the Suez Canal. Like, dude, should have saved that for your dad, Judge. Anyway.

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Well, while Nick is uh sharing his worldly news. I mean I'm here to share more good news. I feel like every week I should share something that's a little more, you know, educated. But instead, I like to share the things that are like, oh, there there are good people in humanity. I'm really worried about our youth growing up. I am too. I'm I'm just this is about William Cannabis. Sound old.

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About what? Oh, cannabis. It the it looks like his name looks like cannabis. Oh, it does, but it's not. Okay, I was very confused.

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So I think during uh the pandemic, a lot of people, you know, started sourdough bread starters and things. You know, there's lots of jokes about people and what they started cooking and whatever. Well, this child, he's 15 years old. Um William Cabanist. You can see why I thought it was William Cannabis. Cabanus. He took up baking as a hobby to start passing his time. So, first of all, good on you, man, for doing this. And he made, he started making vanilla, like his own vanilla, which is awesome because that's an interesting, like, if you're taking up baking and you're 15, I guess I'd think you're like making cupcakes for your friends. But um, but instead, he started making and selling his own vanilla extract and he raised a hundred thousand dollars. Uh, he's from Tennessee and he donated the money to a Tennessee food bank. So simple story, but I love hearing. Um, I think we've talked on here about the happy newspaper. Like, there's lots of bad, stressful things still happening all the time. So instead of sharing that, I'm sharing about this kid who, like, I hope will, I don't know, influence the rest of our youthful society to not be terrible human beings. So this kid is adorable. He has a little um his like business, I said, but I don't know. I don't want to call it a business because well it is, it's a business. It's a business. It's called vanilla vanilla feeds tomorrow. Every purchase fights hunger. So he's using real vanilla bean. You can see it in the picture. Um, he said he it just kind of became his thing. He didn't go in doing that. He wanted to, he was baking and he wanted to improve the recipes instead of using like store-bought vanilla. So he started making his own. So he's like, I just um he started adding vanilla extract into his brownies, which sounds delish. I was really like impressed when Tyler started adding vanilla into our pancake mix.

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That sounds good.

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I realize it's a thing I guess people do. But anyway, so apparently it's been uh it's gone over very well, and whatever. That was it. He said it kind of just hit him that he could make his own vanilla, sold it, and here we are. So I should check out. Let's see, I wonder if I can go on vanilla feeds tomorrow and buy some vanilla. Sure can. So check out vanillafeedomorrow.com and get some vanilla. Support hunger local hunger efforts.

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That uh actually reminds me of something else I saw on the news. Oh, yeah. Uh Vanilla Ice started a business teaching Microsoft Office to uh older people. It's called Word to Your Mother. Dude, that's a great business name. We're gonna take a break right now. Bye. Bye.

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All right, we're back. We're back, everybody. So, you guys, we just had Easter, okay? And I'm here to talk to you about something very important for my product recommendation. We were at our neighbor's house, and uh we were at one neighbor's house, and another neighbor came over. We were having a glass of wine on the patio, and we were talking about Easter because it was before Easter, and my one neighbor was like, Oh my god, you guys, I did this jelly bean like taste off with my coworkers, whatever. And we're like, Yeah, okay, like jelly beans are jelly beans, you know. I've always been a Starburst jelly bean fan, and she was like, No, I have the best one. And she went home to get it, and I was like, Oh, we're like actually wrapping up our night. Don't worry, I have we have to get home, whatever. And she's like, No, I'll be right back. She's like, jogged over, came back with nerds jelly beans. Have you ever heard of these?

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I have not. Okay. Well, I mean, I have because you told me about them like two seconds after Jamie brought them over.

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So, Jamie, thank you for the recommendation. First of all, so when you look them up, they're called nerds bumpy jelly beans, which sounds freaking disgusting. And so I know there's like a lot of rave, like people rave about these nerds' ropes and stuff. And I don't eat any of those. I don't really care about nerds, I think they're fine. So I was like, okay, these jelly beans will be fine. But let me tell you, they have quickly skyrocketed to my number one jelly bean. They are bumpy on the outside, which is super weird, but it's like a hard candy, thick, like candy shell with then a whole jelly bean on the inside. So not only is the jelly bean super flavorful in my opinion, but the outside is like, it's a great ratio of crunchy exterior to gel gelatinous interior. So anyway, nerds jelly beans. And Jamie gave us the pro tip, thanks, Jamie, that you can buy these year-round. They just take off bumpy jelly beans and they're just called like, I don't know what they're called. Nerds. Wow, I don't know what they're called. I can't find them because I have no idea what they are, but you can buy them year round. They're just not called nerds jelly beans, and they're just like this jelly bean shaped candy with like it looks literally, it looks like it has like warts on the outside. It looks so disgusting, but they're delicious. I promise you, we're gonna have. Jamie on next Easter to give us all of the rankings about the best jelly beans, but for now, get yourself some nerds' jelly beans.

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Uh, mine, uh, Franklin Barbecue Cookbook. Uh, it's barbecue season. I was working on a few photographs, I was working on a few recipes, uh, hopefully getting a little bit more outdoor kitchen space, thinking about a few different things. And Aaron Franklin, who wrote this, owner, proprietor of chef of Franklin Barbecue, is the first person in the world to win a beard award for cooking barbecue, which when you think of how many barbecue restaurants are in America, that no one and the beard awards are pretty equitable compared to uh Michelin Stars, for intro for instance, uh, that no one until him in like 2015 won a beard award for um barbecue is pretty outstanding. Also sad. But um, he's got really good tips in this book. If you like grilling, if you like smoking, barbecuing, whatever you want to call it. Um, he writes in a really relatable, easy to follow way. Uh, I love the book. I use it often. A lot of the things he does are things that I put together from like Five Years of Failure, which he put together from Five Years of Failure too, um, and a lot of different sources. I wish I would just read his damn book from the beginning because it's that good. To save some time. Um But yeah, if you are looking for a Father's Day gift coming up, um, a late Easter gift, uh, hey, please stop making crappy brisket gift for someone. Uh, you know, we all have a neighbor that loves to grill or barbecue and makes a big brisket and says, hey, you want to have some? And you're like, eh, no, it's kind of dry and not that good. Um, you know, this might be a thoughtful gift to thank them for their next brisket. This is a passive aggressive gift if you want to give it to you. I really appreciate this. I know you like it. Here you go. I thought you might enjoy reading this book. Aaron Franklin, Beard Award winner. So um, I have this, we usually have it in the bookshelf behind me as we film uh slash record, but um I pulled it up to look at some stuff and I was just like, man, I think I maybe recommended this before, but I should again. Um you can get it at the public library in Link Geneva if you want to rent it. You're gonna want to own it uh because you're gonna go back and forth to it. So check out the link to buy it on Amazon. If you buy it using our link, we get a little extra kaching kaching that helps us, you know, pay for things like microphones and stuff. So we do appreciate it.

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And in breaking news, if you want to buy the nerds jelly beans year-round, they're just called big chewy nerds. So big chewy nerds will link to both the jelly beans and the big chewy nerds. And with that, we're gonna take a break again.

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All right. Hey Nick, we're back. We're back. All right, everybody. Uh, we have said, you know, we're gonna rotate through some ideas where interesting questions typically go. And we have a new one that we've done before a little bit sometimes, but this one we're gonna rotate it and out. We uh both were excited about some things we've been listening to, so it's time for podcast recommendations. This is why you need to take a look at it. That's why I need to do it. So we're gonna do some podcast recs. Um, I have a one I'm gonna go with first that I've been listening to some of the episodes um, actually for a long time, never really talked about it. Uh, kind of a lurker. Um, film some black and white. It's not about black and white films. It's um some people I went to college with know um they do a film review podcast. Um, Marcus, one of the hosts, is black. Doug and Brian, the other two are white. They so it's kind of a joke about that a little bit. And they're different perspectives. That's why they named it that way.

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It's not about why are we acknowledging that?

SPEAKER_01 25:42

It's not about old films. That's why it's called Films in Black and White. Um But they uh their their overview is Welcome to Films in Black and White, the weekly podcast that provides hilarious take on news and reviews from the world movies, comics, and pop culture. So there's a lot of pop culture podcasts out there. Um a lot of them do daily if that's something you like. But if you're kind of more of how we do like food and wine and happenings for normal people that aren't like influencers, um if you like this podcast and you want to do some stuff about film and pop culture and you're kind of a nerd, um, check out films in black and white. They do a really great job. Um, they do new films, old films, comics, all sorts of stuff. To be a nerd. It helps if you're a little bit of a nerd. Um you don't have to be like a super nerd, but if you're into nerdy things, perhaps, maybe if you have a laptop that has a D20 on it, you might be into it. Um but they do a really great job. And uh they have, you know, for instance, a snacks that go with anything. Oh they have snacks guides on their website, uh films in blackandwhite.com. So check them out if you like films, uh pop culture, nerdy things. They do a really great job. They have a Patreon if you want to support them. So um, they do some really cool content for that. They are rocketing up the listenership stuff, so get in on it on the I'm in on this snack episode.

SPEAKER_00 27:00

Kind of want to listen to that.

SPEAKER_01 27:01

Yeah. So, you know, good work, Marcus and Doug and Brian.

SPEAKER_00 27:04

I like that, and I definitely thought it was about black and white films, and you lost me immediately.

SPEAKER_01 27:08

So I'm glad you corrected that. Yes, that's I'm not trying to like point out that they're friends that are ringing yet, but it's yeah.

unknown 27:15

Huh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 27:16

So they do a good job.

SPEAKER_00 27:17

I really recommend that one. Yeah, this segment we we will bring back every couple weeks because I I'm thinking if you're listening, it's because you're a regular podcast listener, and I am a podcast binger, so I like to find one and listen to all of them from the beginning. Um, and then if I catch up, I like find a new one because it's kind of like my background music. Like I hate sitting in silence, so I always just kind of have something on. So I hammer right through podcasts, so I'm always looking for more. So my recommendation will not surprise you if you know me or have listened every to our podcast. It is a crime podcast. Oh my goodness, Bridget. Everyone knows Crime Junkie. I imagine. Like if you're a crime person, you know crime junkie. So obviously, I hammered through all those episodes and now I'm up to real time. So like I'll listen to the one episode a week, but I'm saying like I probably listen to, I don't know, 10. That's a bit excessive, maybe seven episodes, podcast episodes a day, because it's just, like I said, kind of background for me. So I'm currently listening to one called Morbid. And they all um, I found that a lot of these, you know, uh crime podcasts are using each other as resources and they talk about some of the same murders and you know, some of the like major cases obviously you can't ignore. So um Morbid was recommending some other podcasts that are about crime, and then I always go and like those podcasts and you know put them in my library so I can go back to them. So what Morbid uh started in 2018 was two girls, um, two ladies. Uh, one of them at the time is she's 22, the other's 32 at the time, I believe, something like that. Um, one in their 20s, one in their 30s, and um, the one in their 30s is a autopsy. She's an autopsy tech. Is that what it's called? Um, so she does autopsies. So it she has a fascinating take on. Dead people checker outer. What? A dead people checker outer. She cuts up dead people. Um, so I will be completely honest, the first couple episodes like takes a moment. You're like, ugh, probably like this one. You were like, I don't know, do I like these people or are they annoying? Um, but I stuck with it and I'm glad I did. Um, they've upgraded, you know, they recently, I'm to the point in their podcast. Like, I think I'm on episode 24 or something, and they've um added a Patreon now, and people are donating to it. And so they were able to upgrade their audio equipment. And you can, you know, being someone who podcasts, you can see a huge change from their first episode to their 24th as they were able to upgrade their equipment and get better at editing and et cetera, et cetera. So it's a great crime podcast, it's a really good kind of background one. They just go in depth of all these crazy, like I'm listening to one from the 1920s right now. So it's probably ones you've never heard of. They do them all over the world. Um, it's another fun one to kind of just if you're if you're weird and want to know all about how people are dying, um, Morbid Podcast is a good one. So check them out. Nice. Yeah, nice. Is that gonna add to your list right there?

SPEAKER_01 29:59

It's not gonna be added to my list. I listen to podcasts for fun, not for scaring the crap out of me.

SPEAKER_00 30:04

You know what's funny? I've seen so I don't know what it is, but like I don't know if it was COVID, if it's a COVID joke, or if it's just like women my age, but like there are tons of memes and things out there that are like women in their 30s sit down to relax by listening to a crime podcast or a murder show. And like, I know Sarah does it. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:22

I do like why when men hit 35 yet get either really into barbecue or World War II history. You know, we made that joke.

SPEAKER_00 30:29

I don't, I don't know, like, I don't know why. It all scares me. Like, I get terrified. I don't like blood and guts. I don't, I don't know, but I love me good crime podcasts.

SPEAKER_01 30:38

You know what else you love you? What? Some good honey chibotle pork kebabs.

SPEAKER_00 30:43

Some kebabs. That was a weird transition, Nick. I don't know. I was just trying it out. In this latest podcast, they were just talking about a body that they saw taid up and made into a meal, actually. So that's it about Hannibal Lecter. It was not. It was this like literally from the 20s. Okay. That was a gross uh transition. You're welcome. Be great on a kebab. Oh okay. Sorry I did that to you guys. Guys. Uh ignore what I just said. Guys, ignore that. Because this honey chipotle pork kebab recipe actually sounds so good. Uh, we're on to the meal plan for the week. Um, you know, we gave you a sneak peek that there's gonna be some grilled cheese on it, okay? So we couldn't both pick those again because those look delicious. Um, but I picked kebab because at the time when I was doing the outline, it was beautiful and sunny, and I thought about grilling and was like, ooh, this would be delish. Um, Elliot, shockingly, I brought home butterfly pork chops the other night to make, and he's requested them since every day. Um, so we're gonna try some kebabs if it is not raining. Love it. Um, I have no idea. I suppose I could do them not on a grill, but I don't really want to. Um, I like kebabs because you can use, I know there's certain things in the recipe you should be using, but like you can throw whatever veggies you have on a kebab stick. I'm sure, does it change the recipe, Nick? He's shaking his head again.

SPEAKER_01 31:59

You literally earlier in this episode said, I want to follow the recipe directly. That's why I have all these weird flowers. Now you're like, I like kebabs because you can just free-flow it. Okay. I'm gonna improv this.

SPEAKER_00 32:08

I don't know how to explain this.

SPEAKER_01 32:09

Just call me Bridget Coltrane.

SPEAKER_00 32:12

You're right. I would love to follow this directly, but like if my yellow pepper isn't good, I will put a red pepper on it, okay? I'm gonna get real crazy and put a red pepper instead of a yellow. Extraordinarily crazy, Bridget. Okay, that was bad of me, but sorry about it. So the sauce sounds good on here, really. I'm all I'm hearing for the sauce, okay? A little sweet, a little savory, a little spicy, a little spicy.

SPEAKER_01 32:35

So if you were a rapper, would you go buy a little spicy?

SPEAKER_00 32:39

Little spicy. Little sweet and spicy, so I could be like S and S. I have no idea why I got a weird accent. But I love best that you can drink this with a blonde ale. Nothing says summer to me, like a blonde ale and grilled pork. Anyway, this is getting weird. Eat a kebab. It's got a delicious sauce. You could follow the recipe and put whatever veggies on that you like, or put whatever veggies on that you like and get real crazy. Send us a picture if you put on weird veggies.

SPEAKER_01 33:04

Get real crazy.

SPEAKER_00 33:05

Real crazy.

SPEAKER_01 33:06

Um, mine is uh something you should follow the recipe. It is a smoked chimichurri tri-tip steak. You guys know I love Argentinian things. I love tri-tip. I think I'm on record with saying this is my death row meal. Chimichurri. Uh, all of it, it's just so good. Uh, I'm gonna leave it there. Yeah. Get this recipe in your life. It is delicious. It'll feed a crowd. It's fun to cook. Uh, this is actually a good kid one because it's a lot like dump the sauce stuff in a blender and hit the blender. Kids are great at that.

SPEAKER_00 33:34

Blenders are so loud.

SPEAKER_01 33:36

Yeah, it's a fun noise if you're a kid.

SPEAKER_00 33:38

It really bothers me. I'm like, why can't we make a quieter blender? I make smoothies and I have like plug my ears. Like crunching up ice and frozen fruit is okay. Anyway, it's getting weird. Next week's product recommendations, the quietest blenders. I'm telling you, it is. I don't know if your ears get more sensitive when you get older or something, but I legit plug my ears.

unknown 34:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 34:01

Okay, guys. Just me then? This this episode's falling apart a little bit here, but it's gonna be saved because it's time for Kid Carter. I don't think that saves the episode. I don't know either, but go ahead and give it your best shot.

SPEAKER_00 34:13

Um it's about rat poop. I could go on and on and on and talk about all the weird Easter things, but we were still finding Easter eggs the day after. There's still one in the yard that I saw that I'm just gonna wait and see how long it takes the kids to find. Um, but anyway, I must have been Monday. I don't know, something around Easter, Monday or Tuesday, and I had my hands full of shit because I don't want to take too many trips to the car, and I have like 900 things, which included the end of a bag of jelly beans that like I had.

SPEAKER_01 34:42

Were they sour patched kids?

SPEAKER_00 34:45

They were Starburst jelly beans. Actually, they were jelly beans with little mini Starburst, like unwrapped Starburst. Have you seen those? No, I haven't, but it sounds great. They sell like a combo bag. So it's Starburst jelly beans and like mini unwrapped Starburst. That sounds great. So the Easter bunny put those in the eggs this year, and the Easter bunny left the open bag at home. So there was just like a little bit left, and I wanted it on my car ride to country meets all 10 minutes or something. So just like a little sugar, a little boost. Yeah, man. Everybody does a boost. So I I had that, whatever. Clearly, I dumped the whole bag of jelly beans all over my driveway, which was really sad. And I and it was like one of those days where you're like, of course that would happen. So I just left them all there because I was like, F this day. Left them all there. Lucy, I don't know, everyone comes home, whatever. Next morning, like Tyler's walking the kids out, they're getting in the car, and I see Lucy, he Tyler was like buckling Elliot in, and I see Lucy pick stuff up off the driveway, and I'm like, Tyler, she's eating jelly beans off the driveway, and like it's been a day. So now I'm sure I've run them over with my car, stepped on them. Animals have shit on them. I don't know. Misted and doed on them. So, anyway, if you spill jelly beans all over your driveway, PSA, you know, sweep them up. Also, like, then the ants won't get them. Now it's raining, they're probably like, I don't even know where they are anymore. You're gonna have a multicolored uh driveway now. I know, you guys. So, really, that was more embarrassing about me, but my child tried to eat them, so that was fun.

SPEAKER_01 36:07

I was gonna talk about Samoa picking up eggs. That's not that interesting. Um, instead, I actually am gonna share what I just learned a parent pro tip from our friend Beth at the bottle shop in Lake Geneva. So, you know, children get scared of monsters under bed. This happens, it's a natural thing. It's not like you're a you know, scaredy cat, Elliot. It's okay. Um everybody does it, man. But this pro-parent tip that I am now gonna have ready to rock and roll when Simona gets scared of monsters on the bed, get a squirt bottle, fill it with water, maybe some essential oils or something that smells good. Get crazy. Make sure you have it on the mistine, not the squirt, squirt, squirt, squirt, squirt, and say, Well, when you think there's a monster there, this is monster spray. Or you could do it as a prophylactic monster spray, which means preventative. I like using prophylactic in that way because it makes people uncomfortable. It does. You could use it as a prophylactic spray and spritz under the bed as part of the bedtime ritual, and that way everybody knows there's no monsters.

SPEAKER_00 37:06

Yeah, that was a really good tip. I don't know, we don't generally lean into it. We're like, okay, there's monsters, let's like quickly ignore this and hope it goes away, but it has not been going away in our household. So that was a great tip. I'm gonna give it a try.

SPEAKER_01 37:18

And you know, at Lake Sneaming Country Meets, we have Fancy Pants Industrial Label Printing Machine, so we can make this thing look super legit.

SPEAKER_00 37:24

That is genius, guys. We're gonna go do that.

SPEAKER_01 37:26

Really important because you are a friend of the pod by listening. If you email the pod, we can print a special label for your prophylactic monster spray.

SPEAKER_00 37:37

Yeah, we need to come up with a great name for it. Um we'll work on that. Monster out, monster gone, monster be gone. Oh, I like it.

SPEAKER_01 37:44

And we can put like the ingredients on it, you know, like use some big fancy words. Because Elliot's very good at reading. He is, I I can't tell if he's just like we were playing Minecraft and he was reading the damn words on the screen. I'm like, oh, that's kind of scary that you know all that.

SPEAKER_00 37:57

I know. It's really hard to like not, I don't know, say things or let him, yeah, like as he's starting to be able to read, I'm like, crap.

SPEAKER_01 38:04

He knew all the words. So I mean, either he plays too much Minecraft or is very good at reading. Either one. He hasn't memorized, let's be honest. He did a good job with that. So yeah, uh Monster Sprite. That's what I got. That's what we got for you this week. Wow, if you made it to this point this week, we're really proud of you. And because you're a loyal listener, we have a bonus episode we're gonna record after this for you. I'm very excited for it.

SPEAKER_00 38:25

This is a surprise to me. Oh, JK, no, it's not. It's in this box.

SPEAKER_01 38:30

We're gonna unbox it. If you're a loyal listener, a longtime listener, you're gonna understand this. And this is gonna be quite the payoff for your year of listening. Um, quite the payoff. I think you're gonna enjoy it. I hope you enjoy it.

SPEAKER_00 38:44

We're very excited about this.

SPEAKER_01 38:46

This is DHL Express Worldwide from Osaka Shisimune, Japan.

SPEAKER_00 38:53

Why'd you say it?

SPEAKER_01 38:55

Well, I didn't say exactly what I did. That's your only hint, loyal listeners. So we're gonna record this. We'll have it out next week in the middle of the week. It'll be a shorty little bonus. We hope you listen.

SPEAKER_00 39:05

Please do. And even if you're not a loyal listener, you should listen, and it will be really weird like this month, like this week's episode.

SPEAKER_01 39:11

We hope you enjoy. If you like the podcast, share with your friends. Um, it's gonna be a great year. We have more plans. We've been hinting at them, they're gonna come soon. And uh, we just really appreciate you guys listening. So like, follow us, all the things.

SPEAKER_00 39:28

Tell your friends. Leave us a note. You can find us on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube at Dinner Plus Drinks Podcast.

SPEAKER_01 39:34

I was actually listening to another one I think I've recommended, uh, The Buzz Sprout, which is our host. They talk about stuff. And um you know, every podcast has a struggle about how we can get more people. It's usually a slow hill to climb. Uh, and you're just talking to a microphone, so it sometimes feels like you're talking to yourself. And their point was always um podcasts grow by word of mouth, and having someone write in and give that feedback is what always keeps us going. We love hearing from listeners, and having you tell a friend, hey, I listened to Bridget and Nick and the Deer Plus Strings podcast, and it just really makes my Monday or makes my Tuesday, you know. Sometimes you're making cheese on Tuesday, it's just what you need to get through. So um listen, share with your friends, we really appreciate it. Thanks so much, Paul.