Chicken McNuggets - Dinner Plus Drinks #77

SPEAKER_01 0:14

Hello everybody. Hello. We're here for a new episode of Dinner Plus Drinks and Did you like my accent real quick here? Okay. Sorry, go on. So we record on Fridays, as you guys know, and release on Sundays, which is always a little weird, you know, thing. And Bridget and I, if you don't know, we work off of outlines and planning and things. And we love a plan. We have uh a little bit of a nuclear arms race sometimes of who can start an outline for the next week's episode first.

SPEAKER_00 0:39

And we start it when like we get an idea and we're like, oh my god, I need this on the outline.

SPEAKER_01 0:43

This week's episode, we started the outline before we even released last week's. And it starts with angst. Is that what it was? I was like, what did we put on here? Because we're like, man, we had this like very serious discussion of are we just more self-aware as a generation than previous generations because we talk to our friends. Yeah. We go to T ball, we get to Which is like social hour. Literally, we go to all these things. And it's just like people are like, I'm done.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

Yeah. I'm you know, if you've been listening this whole time, like we we use this as therapy a bit. We talk a lot about we went through the pandemic, but yeah, now we're like, okay, life is quote back to normal. We don't have to wear masks, places, if you got your vaccine.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

Um get your vaccine, June 15th, open arms free clinic, Elkorn, Wisconsin, Johnson and Johnson, you don't have to be a Wisconsin resident. Oh you don't have to be anything. Just come and be a human and done. It's not the mRNA. So if you're scared about new technology, and I mean, who isn't? Let's be real. Jeff Bezos and those drones. But uh anyway, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

We are going off topic real quick. Because did you see the article about the I think she was Ohio, the Ohio nurse that tried to prove that she was magnetic from the vaccine and it totally bombed? That was great. It was funny. Okay. Because also it started on TikTok because TikTokers were making shit up like people on TikTok do, and we're trying to show that their arms were magnetic. Okay, that was off topic. Anyway, we were just kind of saying, like, d this is gonna sound dumb, but I don't know how else to say it. So my apologies for people who think I'm smarter than what I'm about to sound like. Um did this pandemic just completely change us? Like, I went out to dinner with more than two people the other day and was like, I don't know how to do this. I what do I don't know what to do? Do we split the check? Do we and I was and I am like the most social person you know. Well, Nick and I, I guess I would say both are, but like in my group of friends, I'm pretty social. And so I was like, these things.

SPEAKER_01 2:35

Yeah, it was weird. Is this I always think of my grandma who was born in what 1932? Oh, it's impressive that you lived on 1932, 1933, lived on a farm in Moston, Wisconsin, 13 kids, and she would go to McDonald's, get a senior Coke, a small fry, and a plain cheeseburger, and she would not eat all the fries, not drink all the Coke, and she would keep it in a refrigerator. This is like $2.84 worth of stuff. To like to say later. Yep. Oh and she always said, I live through Great Depression. You never know where next like owned a very well-established, successful butcher shop where you know, like right, and she lives literally right across the street from the store. So your next meal is right there, grandma. You could just go right there. But oh wow, like that put this deep scar on her of living through the depression.

SPEAKER_00 3:25

Are we this scarred? I know. This is like we we say this every episode, but we would like to know. So please tell us, like, what are you feeling as you're coming out of this?

SPEAKER_01 3:35

Are we just precious little snowflakes?

SPEAKER_00 3:37

Are we being like millennial, which is annoying because I try hard not to be, even though I am?

SPEAKER_01 3:44

Um, yeah, I don't know. So for this episode, we have about 72 different news topics and things we wanted to talk through. So we figured this first part of it, we just kind of like meander through life and all the things.

SPEAKER_00 3:55

We're gonna veer off topic a little because that's what our brains look like this week.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

But we have to start with this delicious cocktail in a highball Tom Collins glass thing, tall thing with uh lime. And I didn't even have to mix because we have our pre-made Chicago distilling gin and tonic with Finn's gin. Finn's gin? Is that from Chicago? It is Chicago distilling. They're super awesome people finally owned. Finn's gin is made. Chicago distilling, duh. Sorry. And it's in this little convenient single serve, 200 ml container.

SPEAKER_00 4:30

Perfect for t-ball games. Yeah, so normally, you guys, if you're not watching us on YouTube, usually we have these like just in whatever solo cup we can find down here in the recording studio. But these are like, I walked in and these glad, these are fancy. There's ice.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

Real fancy. I have found that, and this is something actually therapists talk about a lot, is when things are going outside of your control and you can't do things, focus on the things you control. I think Admiral McMaster was the one that has that famous make your bed at the start of every day.

SPEAKER_00 5:00

I love that book.

SPEAKER_01 5:01

Um, so like focus on the things you can control. And today what I can control was I know Bridget likes a fancy cocktail and a proper glassware. Bridget likes gin. So I'm gonna do this because I can control that. And no matter what else happens today and how much else I get yelled at by anybody, I can make Bridget happy.

SPEAKER_00 5:19

And he did. He did say, like, we're gonna have a canned cocktail, but it's gonna be gin and you're gonna like it. It's gonna be in the right glass, which I blame Shannon for. She's she's a correct glassware person. She is. Um, and it's rubbed off on me.

SPEAKER_01 5:30

One of these days, we should do a pinkies up. I hope uh we actually had huge download numbers on the boxed wine one. Oh, dang, okay. Uh, we're thinking Rose because tomorrow is Rose Day as we record, but the boxed wine one we just released, we had huge download numbers. People are Googling that.

SPEAKER_00 5:46

Okay, I need to know if other people were I was surprised by that result. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 5:51

But I think we should do a does does proper glassware matter, pinkies up.

SPEAKER_00 5:55

You know this, so I don't have to explain it, but I'm going to. It does matter for bubbly, at least.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

We'll see.

SPEAKER_00 6:01

We'll see. The shape and where the bubbles go. Okay, anyway. Proper glassware matters. I think you guys could see what was happening. We'll tickle. Um, I need to say this is not an important or lengthy news story, but there's a new, I'm gonna say royal mon baby, royal non-royal baby that was born. I don't know, this is news. I love Prince Harry. I loved Prince Harry. He's gone off the rails a little, but I think I really want to like what they're supporting.

SPEAKER_01 6:30

I feel like everybody has a significant other like that, where you're like, hey, bro, I get it. She's hot, she's fun, she's exciting, she is beautiful. Um, you know, this ain't you, bro.

SPEAKER_00 6:44

I mean, they're millennials, right? So they're making a stance.

SPEAKER_01 6:48

If Harry and I were bros, I would be like, hey, bro, I don't think she's you, bro.

SPEAKER_00 6:53

Well, I love their baby's name. What is the name? I actually don't even know. Lilibet, and they'll call her Lily, L-I-L-I, which I don't support. We've had this discussion. We don't support this garbage. We do not support the L-I-L-I. I I don't support like people thought I should name Lucy L-U-C-I, and I was like, that sounds like a stripper.

SPEAKER_01 7:10

So well, to be fair, I saw a news article recently where some big famous strip clubs are even having hard. This is not a dad joke. This is for real. This is not an early dad joke. I was I was talking to our good friend Leanne at Candlemerck and uh in New Orleans, where they have some fine gentlemen's institutions. They're institutions for gentlemen. Uh-huh. Um choose us into a radio station down there. And they are having to offer sign-on bonuses for strippers. No, they're not.

SPEAKER_00 7:41

Yes, they are. Yeah, because no one wants to work. And let's be honest, how hard is it to take clothes off? Dude, it's a terrible job. I would never want that job. So yeah, but I've passed Sugar Shack in the daylight, and I'm like, how do people go here?

SPEAKER_01 7:55

So if Lucy wanted to, you know, work it, she would have a little bit of a chance.

SPEAKER_00 8:00

She could change her name to L U C I and put a heart over the eye. Yeah, that's the way to do it. There's fonts that have like that.

SPEAKER_01 8:05

Yeah, it's terrible. It's on Canva. I hate it.

SPEAKER_00 8:07

Anyway, Lili Bet, Lily, Diana for Princess Die, Mountbatten, Windsor. I'm like, God, you are royal. But first baby to be uh, first royal baby to be born stateside. So raised in LA or somewhere in Southern California.

SPEAKER_01 8:21

So let me ask you a question. You're a modern woman, you're liberated. Yeah. You loved being a Gallagher. You are on record. Have you considered the hullaher leech?

SPEAKER_00 8:30

So this was a topic.

SPEAKER_01 8:32

A double-barreled surname, as they say in England?

SPEAKER_00 8:34

This was a a topic in our house. So um I love my husband very much. Um, he He's fabulous. He does not ask for much. He's a wonderful father. It was important to him that I changed my name. There's a butt coming. It was important to him that I changed my name. Um, and that's fine. It wasn't really, you know, it wasn't a deal breaker. It wasn't something we discussed, like, hey, we can't get married if you don't change your name. Like, you know, you talk about kids before you get married. It it wasn't that. So I was like, okay, I didn't want hyphenated because I didn't want the.

SPEAKER_01 9:04

They call it double barreled in England. I like that more.

SPEAKER_00 9:06

Double barrel. It sounds edgier. I know, doesn't it? I didn't want the kids to have to deal with it, but um, I kept my name for as long as I could. And I switched jobs at at one point before I um before we had kids, and that and that's when I switched my name. I was like, well, I'll switch it before we have kids.

SPEAKER_01 9:23

So I'm the type of person that never changes your name once you're in my phone. So, you know, my sister has her neighbor name. You are Leech, Shannon is Gallagher.

SPEAKER_02 9:31

What?

unknown 9:32

Whatever.

SPEAKER_00 9:34

I also don't change names in my phone, or when I do, or if some creepy robot changes them for me, I'm like, who is this person? I don't know who this is. Anyway, yeah, that was a no, I'm not gonna hyphenate it.

SPEAKER_01 9:46

So you have like Tom one night in Vegas, don't call.

SPEAKER_00 9:49

I legit have people in my phone that are like guy at hogs and kisses, do not answer. And I've like laughed about I mean, I've sh- I imagine they're gone. I've had the same phone number since I was like 16. So uh anyway, if you are a guy from Hogs and Kisses, don't call me. Don't call. Do you not have those numbers in your phone? Oh, I do. Oh, I was like, come on, they're so funny. I should like, I always say when I'm gonna go on a plane that I'm gonna sit there and do the mindless work of like cleaning up my phone, but I don't.

SPEAKER_01 10:16

I just buy a phone with more storage. So I, as part of the outline, I one of the reasons I want to start early this week. Oh, can we talk about how good?

SPEAKER_00 10:25

I'm gonna just keep drinking this while you while you talk. I'm gonna really great.

SPEAKER_01 10:29

So Chicago distillery, we have their canned cocktails in the store. They are lovely people. I gotta tell you, um, the people that own this the distillery are really nice, really kind people, hardworking. Um and they just do a great job. They do some really cool different um, if you like brown liquor, they do some really cool different barrel finishes and things where they have a whiskey that's aged in a this or a this or mixed with a this. And they do these canned cocktails that are really good, very reasonably priced. It says it's family made's. It is, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 10:57

Yeah, I normally with canned cocktails, uh Nick has me try them and he says, How is it? And I say, It tastes like a canned cocktail. Like it's good, it's fine, but it would be better if it was the real cocktail. This is not bad. It's perfect. Like there's no weird aftertaste in my body.

SPEAKER_01 11:10

It's only 10% alcohol, which I think is a problem.

SPEAKER_00 11:13

I like which is good for midday Friday.

SPEAKER_01 11:15

A little bit more alcohol in my cocktails. And I don't know. I'm from Wisconsin. We might still have to work after this. But oh yeah, you gotta catch a we gotta do a rose day thing. I got some things to do. You got to be ambidextrous, as they say. So I saw so one of the reasons I started the outline earlier was I got a news story that I knew you would use and I wanted to use it. Jerk. Um says ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha. I got it first. So the housing market in Milwaukee is hot, hot, hot everywhere. Uh, especially in the hipster paradise of Bayview. Oh man, Bayview. I read an article recently that said hipster was a word that nobody used after 2013. And I'm like, that's because you're a hipster and don't want to be denigrated in anymore. That's I feel like that's when I started using that word. I just think hipsters, you guys are dirty and we're gonna make fun of you, but you own a lot of the press. And so you're like, You can't use this word about us. So Bayview, home of the hipsters, which is a shithole. Um I mean, there's some cool things, but I I don't wouldn't want to live there as we discussed. A lot of really crappy old houses. Yes, there's Lindsay lives there. Lindsay, um, I've told you this to your face.

SPEAKER_00 12:17

So we did actually look at houses there and found one for like 400k, like with a view of Lake Michigan. We're like, oh, maybe we'll move. But then we ultimately were like, it's not worth living in.

SPEAKER_01 12:26

Bad schools there.

SPEAKER_00 12:26

Bad schools. They do have some challenging schools. They have a Montessori school, though. They do have a Montessori school. So we debated that.

SPEAKER_01 12:33

So in Bail View, where the housing market is hot, hot, hot, you can buy a house, a very big three-bedroom, two-bedroom, two-batroom house for $230,000, reduced from $240, or was it $220 to $240? I don't know. I was just gonna go. One of those two. There's a catch though. What is it, Nick? There is a bar attached to it. In the most Wisconsin thing, it is a U-shaped bar for 30 people with a full commercial kitchen, liquor license, all other things, some gambling machines. Oh my god, and it looks like a Milwaukee bar. It looks like this is I love when you bring people to Milwaukee and they're like, What? That's a house? Yes, but also. Yeah, it's a bar. It's a house bar. It's a bar, it's a house.

SPEAKER_00 13:13

Which is like every freaking bar. What's the um Wolski's? Wolski's. When I first went to Wolski's, I was like, wait, where is it?

SPEAKER_01 13:19

It's just like in this neighborhood? It's just a house. There's like literally people live here? Yeah. Weird. People live next door. So it got some attention on onmilwaukee.com, which I think is Bridget's favorite website. Okay, I didn't post it. And I just it's 260, Nick. Ooh, I think the media attention drove the price. But it's above 3,000 square feet. So buy it. Buy it, someone. I'm really tempted at that price. I feel like we could go into business. It was built in 1942. Wow. We could do something super kitsch, something super fun. We could. Think about how you could Airbnb that out. Yeah, actually, I am surprised that someone hasn't. There must be a catch. There must be.

SPEAKER_00 13:59

There's like the neighbors, or like the mouse keep from Nutcracker lives there. Oh, I was like, no, they could deal with a mouse. I just feel like there must be like a like a neighbor issue.

SPEAKER_01 14:08

Maybe a neighbor that have you seen deliverance? No, no, but I know about deliverance. Maybe there's a neighbor sitting next door with a shotgun on his driveway saying, huh. Hey there, Sonny. Wouldn't buy it. You're looking to buy.

SPEAKER_00 14:25

You know what's extra creepy? I mean, also, I am listening to Morbid Podcast. So it's called a morbid podcast. They're awesome. It took me a little bit to warm up to them, and now I feel like they're my best friends. They don't know me. Hello. But they're currently for their hundredth episode, because I'm way behind, so I'm just like catching up on all of them. For their 100th episode, they did Jeffrey Dahmer. And it's a three-parter. So I'm on the final part, but they're talking about all these places that like I'm like, I have been there.

SPEAKER_01 14:54

So speaking of hundredth episodes, um, if you look at the number of episodes released, because we're on number 98 with this, so we're coming up on sequentially 100. It's not number 100 of dinner plus drinks because we have other things. Sorry. But within the feed, it's number 100, so we should do something special coming up.

SPEAKER_00 15:12

Feels like we were drinking champagne. Woo woo! Um, I'm sorry, I have to go backwards again. We're a disaster, as we mentioned. If you don't know Jeffrey Dahmer, he he ate people and he was in Milwaukee. So this is what this is why this bar reminded me of this. He like ate people. Picked people up at bars that look like this, except he was he stalked gay men. So anyway, okay, moving on. That's for the morbid podcast. If you want to read the or hear the whole story, listen to them. Okay, what else this week?

SPEAKER_01 15:41

So I can tell you about something I'm really proud of. That this is a little insane, but it's kind of like what this podcast was about. So insane things? Yes. So this has just been this week of things going wrong. Yeah, I was just gonna actually talk about this week.

SPEAKER_00 15:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:55

Um people not showing up, people showing up. We had inner we had a lot of interviews this week, and you and I had the discussion of when is an appropriate amount of earliness to show up. But just a lot of things have gone wrong, and it seems like the theme of month 18 of 2020. Like schedule changes, is what I would say. Yep. And but I have still gotten dinner on the table every night for my wife and daughter, and I'm so proud of it.

SPEAKER_00 16:20

That's a thing I cannot relate to.

SPEAKER_01 16:21

We were still like able to sit down for 10 minutes as a family and watch Simona throw food on the floor.

SPEAKER_00 16:28

Yeah, I mean, good for you. You are a saint. I don't know, man. That is honestly a sound secretary. That's why like number one for me.

SPEAKER_01 16:36

Is just to like God get that done. Like, I'm gonna like take everything else in my life, let it just be a dumpster fire so we can get those 10 minutes.

SPEAKER_00 16:47

God bless us.

SPEAKER_01 16:48

And the best thing that we did, and I have to give you props. What? We fed her corn on the cob for the first time ever, and she ate it like a complete monster. I mean, my god.

SPEAKER_00 17:00

It is so funny. We're so it's National Corn on the Cob Day or something. Happy day. And I was like, you know what, we need a cute picture of a baby eating corn on a cob. I'm like, this is on you, Nick. And yeah, he's like, I don't know, man, like, why? Why? Just let eat eat it out of a eat it frozen, whatever. It is so funny. The first time Elliot ate it, it was just like you have this like little human being being like a monster trying to like gnaw on this giant cob, and it's always the most hilarious photo.

SPEAKER_01 17:26

So we were trying to let it cool down a little bit, but we were in a hurry because we were going to watch uh Elliot play T-ball. Yep. Uh great job, Elliot. Honestly, he did do pretty well last night, okay? And um, so I ate mine first, and so I had the little skewer things on the end so you can hold it without biting your fingers off or scalding yourself. Yes. And Simona lost it. Like, give me my card! I want that, I want that, I want that. So I gave it to her. So she wasn't sure if she ate the plastic holder things on the end. Oh, yeah, that's convenient. She ate it like from top to bottom. She ate it. We took the things out, she didn't like that. She wanted the plastic things back in. Yeah. That was so fun. Like, we're in Wisconsin, we have corn on the cob, it's summer. Baby girls just eating it like a complete idiot.

SPEAKER_00 18:15

Watermelon big pieces of watermelon and cobs of corn are like my favorite thing to photograph my kids doing in the summer.

SPEAKER_01 18:22

What about sausages? Nope.

SPEAKER_00 18:24

Sausages were not really part of my life till a year and a half ago. Um, I will say, since we're on the food train and we're just blowing up our outline this week, um, we gave our school system, I think, a lot of crap throughout the year because honestly, it's been a little bit of a whirlwind. And I don't mean to say it's not amazing that we were able to be open. I'm so happy we were. The teachers did a great job, as well as all of the other human beings that endured this year. Well, the teachers have how about the janitors?

SPEAKER_01 18:50

The janitors, the grocery store 14-year-old boy that's where you know the high school janitor that has to deal with all of the like high school crap usually, and then this whole thing.

SPEAKER_00 19:01

We in my grade school, we had like a really awesome janitor, and I distinctly remember every time someone threw up on the floor, he had to come put that sawdust down on it. And I was like, man, you are a saint. Anyway, what I have to say is I gotta do a little shout out to the school system right now because they do free lunches um for kids that you know don't have access to food that when they're not in school. And so I ignore it, right? Because I think it's really great that we're doing it, but I don't need to take advantage of that, and I would prefer to make sure there's food available for people who need it. So um, Elliot's in safety town in the mornings, and so in the afternoons, we're right by where they give away the free lunches. And someone came up to me and was like, You should go get a free lunch after this. I'm like, I don't need that, thank you. And but it's not about me. Duh. I didn't think of this, and this is stupid. They need to give away more lunches to prove that they're helping enough people in the community to be able to continue to be funded. So they want people to come. They're like, please, anyone come so it looks like we're serving enough people, and like it's whatever, it's keeping it.

SPEAKER_01 19:57

It normalizes the behavior so it doesn't shame people. I just like it. Fellow political science grad Brittany knows how this goes with entitlements.

SPEAKER_00 20:05

Just had this conversation with my father-in-law. But yeah, so we now the last two days have gone and picked up. Oh, Tom understands. Yeah, Tom and I were talking about normal. Tom's a communist. Okay. I just want to say the lunches are awesome. Like, so then today, it's Friday. They said, Do you need a lunch? And I just pick up one because I have Elliot with me. Lucy was not with me. They were like, You have another kid, don't. And I'm like, Yeah, I have another kid, but like she's not, you know, she doesn't need it. We're not here. And they're like, We're gonna give you meals for the weekend. They're frozen, so you can just unfreeze what you need when you need it, and you have another kid at home. She's in the school district, right? I said, Yes. You know, so we got, I like videotaped how much food it was. It was insane. And it's all honestly, it's helpful to me to get a little creative because I get boring with lunches. And it's like they made they have zucchini bread, for example. Oh, cool. And I told Ellie it was banana bread, and both the kids loved it. Um, you know, whatever. Anyway, shout out. It's it's great. I really hope the people that need it are getting access to it. I I just am blown away by it. And the people that were doing it were really nice. I feel like by this time of year, school's out, it's the week after school got out. Some of the teachers are jaded AF and are just like, get away from me. Whoever these people are who are doing it, I love them.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

You know the most popular entitlement program in America?

SPEAKER_00 21:16

Entitlement? Um, no.

SPEAKER_01 21:19

Social Security. Oh, that means it's welfare. Social security is welfare. But everybody pays taxes for it and everybody gets it, so everybody loves it.

SPEAKER_00 21:27

I I just free lunch.

SPEAKER_01 21:29

If everybody gets it and everybody understands, like, hey, this is cool, and I want people to be able to eat food, yeah. Which seems like an insane thing to be in favor of, why do we have to say, I don't think kids should starve? Anyway.

SPEAKER_00 21:40

But but I I'm a you know, quote, responsible parent.

SPEAKER_01 21:45

You know, it costs like a dollar eighty, right?

SPEAKER_00 21:47

Right. And I'm very well aware of that because Tyler knows all the costs from daycare, and but the it's h it's a healthy lunch. It's a better lunch than I would have packed my kids, okay? Because listen, I'm busy and sometimes I get my kids fruit snack. Fruit snacks. There was hummus. There was fresh cucumbers sliced up yesterday, and there was cherries today, but Elliot was scared of the pit.

SPEAKER_01 22:07

Can I tell a little Lucy story early since we're off? Sure, man. Why not? Lucy is a kind, nourishing human being. Is that right? And she was at T-ball handing out veggie straws for all the game. It was basically like the story of the fishes and loaves, and she was Jesus taking this bag of veggie straws and making it to feed a multitude.

SPEAKER_00 22:27

Yeah, that's kind of what it was like.

SPEAKER_01 22:28

The best part was when she'd chew one and then put it in Simona's mouth and they would eat it together.

SPEAKER_00 22:32

I was like, someone would lick one. She had like gown-sized Ziploc full of these, right? And they were on a beach volleyball court, so there's sand. So like she'd drop one in the sand, pick it up, give it to a kid, lick one, put it back in the bag, hand it to the kids. And I was like, I'm sorry. You know, there was a couple other parents which we knew, and I was like, I'm sorry. And everyone was like, doesn't matter, man.

SPEAKER_01 22:48

Like as a follow-up from last week's Kid Corner where she ate food and fed it to me. I just thought as sweet justice that she ate food that Lucy chewed up and gave to her.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

See, isn't that sweet? We eat like birds. I'm just feeling a whole bunch of like, I think last week I told you how this week was going to be a tornado in my life. And um, I'm feeling a whole bunch of gratitude for certain segments of people that like can pull this off, like t-ball coaches. Bless the souls of the people that can do that crap. Um, t ball coaches, you know, these couple of the instructors at Safety Town, like there's like 10-year-old kids that actually get put. I did that.

SPEAKER_01 23:23

You did? Yeah, I did that. I'm like very big on Safety Town. I was an instructor for like four years.

SPEAKER_00 23:28

Like Elliot asked me today if when he grew up he could be a safety ticket. He can. You know what?

SPEAKER_01 23:32

Next time I see him, I'll tell him about how I did it.

SPEAKER_00 23:33

Yes, he's so excited. He got no tickets in Safety Town today. His like kid teacher, the 10-year-old, was like, as soon as I saw him, he came up to me. He was like, Elliot got no tickets today. You see all these stickers? Those are all awards that he got. I was like, it's so cute how proud you are of him.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

Anyway, it's been a week. Well, do you got anything else to talk about this part of it? Let's take a break. All right, let's take a break.

SPEAKER_00 24:15

All right, guys, we're back. If you're watching today, you will see. I guess God, back in. Nick can't go a whole episode on teeny. If you're watching on YouTube, you'll see I'm in a very bright and summary tie-dye shirt. I tie-dyed this actually. I tie-dyed this myself when I was breastfeeding. So I was like, oh, it's a breastfeeding friendly shirt. So I saw some hilarious breastfeeding shirt that I should speak of, Tyler had to learn about breastfeeding mothers today for part of his new job and like um wick programs and things like that. And it was really funny. That's all I have to say. So, okay, so I'm super feeling summary. Okay, I'm all about it today. It's 900 degrees out. I want to do nothing but swim. Um, and I feel like I'm just being influenced everywhere I turn because I know what a job is. I like I know everything about that industry. I understand it all. So Grace Atwood, who is an OG blogger, she had the stripe is the name of her blog. I really love her. I watch all of her stories. I she's like a little snarky, or that maybe is not the right word, but I feel like I love her because she's just kind of like, yeah, listen, I don't I do partnerships with companies like bigger companies because they have the budget, but smaller companies I spend my own money on and I like to support them that way. And then I talk about them and people listen because you know, a million people follow me. Anyway, I'm listening. One of the people she talks about all and all the time is a company called Holst and Lee, and they make these adorable dang earrings that if you're weird like me, you'll like them. They're popsicles, they're like these, they look they're super lightweight. So, this is an issue I have with my earrings. I hate heavy earrings. So super lightweight, super summery. She also has a line of dragon earrings that are so fun. So she has all kinds of fun jewelry, bright summer colors. Those are T-Rex ones. Like, yes, and they're, you know, it's a small business. I think she's in Charleston, which is seems to be like the influencer mecca of the world right now. Um, but check out Holston Lee. We'll put a link to it. They have some really fun summer earrings that you can get, and I think they would make a great gift as well. That's what I got for you today.

SPEAKER_01 26:12

I was originally gonna recommend that you check out all the Chicago distilling uh cane cocktails. They have Bees Knees, which is a honey lemon um vodka or gin thing. They have Greyhound, which is a grapefruit greyhound thing. The gin and tonic Chicago mule, which is um a mascot mule. Yeah, effectively. Um actually in Wisconsin it's called a Wisconsin mule. Yeah. Uh they have Bramble, which is a blackberry thing with vodka, and then I really like this or gin. Blackberry with gin. Yeah. And then they have the transfusion, which is I really like this. It's grape, like Welch's grape juice almost. Whoa. Uh with ginger and then vodka.

SPEAKER_00 26:51

Whoa. Wait, are these all clear liquors? What is that a thing? Like, why aren't cand liquor? I don't know. I mean, I'm here for it. I'm a clear liquor drinker.

SPEAKER_01 27:00

We got some of them at the store. You should check them out. But check them out if you see them. My other one is OxyClean. I'm gonna get two kid corners in because we have a fire one later. Uh, but this, so this is like a couple product recommendations in one. We went to Tarjay, my darling sweet Simona and myself, and I saw this rainbow dress. And I was like, this was right after we recorded. So I was like, yeah, pride, girl. I need this. We we have some some people in our lives that we want to support. And uh, I was like, girl, you're gonna look so pretty in this dress. You're gonna support Pride, it's gonna be great. You don't know what the skins, and uh we we we washed it because you know we we're responsible parents and washed, she actually has a little she's got my skin where like she burns and she's a little suspicious. Well, Elliot had a huge breakout when we didn't wash clothes, so we gotta wash clothes first, and so we got her in like basically right away, and uh I made spaghetti meatballs that night. Mistake. Uh, and she uh got the spaghetti meatballs over it, and then to top it off, girlfriend went while I was drinking some red wine and spilled the red wine all over herself. But did she drink any? No, she's doing great. So the two worst stains of all, and I like lamented to Bridget, Bridge. Bridge. I bought this cute dress for my daughter. She got the two worst stains on it, and boom, OxyClean. Totally. OxyClean takes it out. Her rainbow dress is beautiful, white, red, purple, roy G biv, all of the colors.

SPEAKER_00 28:26

This could be like a great infomercial.

SPEAKER_01 28:28

OxyClean, kiss up, yeah. OxyClean gets out the worst stains. It really does. I will put up the dress if I can find it. I will put up the OxyClean. If you got a little girl in your life, put her in a rainbow dress because there's nothing so adorable as a girl in a rainbow dress. Or if you got a little boy in your life, put him in some rainbow pants. Yep. Do it. On that note, we'll be back. Guys, we are back. No. I learned this week that Bridget has never had chicken McNuggets.

SPEAKER_00 29:27

I haven't, because they look like the most artificial piece of chicken in your world.

SPEAKER_01 29:32

So I was 25 minutes late to do this episode. Because I was in line at McDonald's.

SPEAKER_00 29:38

Dude, the lunch line is bonkers there.

SPEAKER_01 29:40

Oh my god. Chicken McNuggets. I got a happy meal, of course.

SPEAKER_00 29:46

Is this actually a happy meal? Dude, okay, can we talk about this though? This these miniature fries are the funniest thing in the world. And Okay, I just like chicken McNuggets. I think this is disgusting. So I love chicken. I'm not above fast food. I love me some McDonald's fries, okay? Like, thanks for having apples now, McDonald's. But here's a fish. Dude, Lucy will love this because she'll think it's from Dory. Give it to someone. Barbecue sauce. Wait, okay, here's the question. I thought you were a honey mustard person.

SPEAKER_01 30:18

I'm a barbecue sauce. I like both. I don't like barbecue sauce.

SPEAKER_00 30:21

I like okay. Well then. I'm a ketchup person. Jamie, get some chicken. I don't like freaking chicken McNuggets. Okay, also I do know that you haven't had them. I'm sure they're delicious. That's not why I haven't had them. I just like also I don't, I'm not like trying to sit on my high horse. I feed my kids fast food. We just usually choose colors.

SPEAKER_01 30:41

But this will be the most delicious thing.

SPEAKER_00 30:43

My kids have had this. Tyler gave it to them and I yelled at them the first time. There's all girls looking. I can't get past it. Okay, but also, guys, I grew up eating their cheeseburgers, which is a freaking joke. So I'm I am telling you right now, I'm sure this tastes delicious. I'm you listen. This is the gross part. Look at this. I just can't. It's so rubbery.

SPEAKER_01 31:10

It's formed white breast meat chicken. It's delicious. It is really delicious.

SPEAKER_00 31:16

I mean, it has a nice flavor. A nice deep fried oil flavor. It is delicious, but it's a weird, I know it's a weird thing, but it they're a little rubbery. I can't believe you've never had a chicken McNugget. I had to fix that. Oh man, dude. He's like, don't eat anything. I got a really exciting segment. But Nick, let's make sure we split these four fries.

SPEAKER_01 31:37

I love how a proper serving size for a small child is four chicken McNuggets and ten fries. Basically.

SPEAKER_00 31:44

But you know you can double the fries. I'm like, that is such an American thing. I bet you can't do that in other countries. Thanks for this, Nick. You're welcome. I'm here for you. I mean, the McDonald's I grew up with, like, Tyler used to have birthday parties there. I remember my mom used to love their Diet Coke. And then I think.

SPEAKER_01 32:00

I had to get Sarah a Diet Coke from McDonald's. Do you know they do their Coke differently?

SPEAKER_00 32:05

I know. Um, their Coke is like my when I was in college, one of my hangover cures. It's so good.

SPEAKER_01 32:10

Not anymore, folks. They like chill it differently or put water in it differently than everybody else so it tastes better.

SPEAKER_00 32:18

Here's my verdict on this. I'm never they're good, but I'm never gonna order them again because I just like I don't I'm old now and I just want to.

SPEAKER_01 32:27

You've never ordered them. Somebody just brought them to you.

SPEAKER_00 32:30

So you can say I've tried them, but I've never ordered them. I'm not trying to be a bitch about it. I eat their freaking disgusting burger. Well, I don't anymore, but I used to. I now only eat fries and ice cream from McDonald's.

SPEAKER_01 32:44

Have you seen that website that's is the McDonald's ice cream machine working? No. So you know how it's like a running joke of oh yeah, sorry, ice cream machine's down. Yeah, all the time. There's a website that literally tracks that of which McDonald's has their ice cream machine running and which don't.

SPEAKER_00 32:58

You know what's BS when they got rid of twist cones. I agree. God, let's go on and on about this, okay?

SPEAKER_01 33:04

Get off my lawn. Get off my lawn. As a kid, you could get a 49 cent twist cone for McDonald's, and for Halloween, you got a coupon for a free one. Shit. So when I was at McDonald's today, yeah. Um, first of all, it took 25 minutes to get this damn happy meal.

SPEAKER_00 33:19

So that is a thing that is that changed in the pandemic. People just won't get out of their cars and go inside. Like our call versus in McDonald's?

SPEAKER_01 33:25

No, no, I was inside.

SPEAKER_00 33:26

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_01 33:27

Yeah, I went inside. Oh my god. Because I figured I'm gonna circumvent the system.

SPEAKER_00 33:30

Oh no. It is. I mean, no one has staff, so I'm trying to be patient.

SPEAKER_01 33:34

Um, one of the staff members got yelled at about a coupon that she'd never seen before. I was like, no, let me figure this out. I just haven't seen it. And she like literally asked the guy, like, so you think this says you get a free this, I can do that. And he's like, No, that's not the free thing I get. I'm like, dude, dude. Cost you two dollars. She's literally trying to give you whatever free thing you want, and you are yelling at her that she doesn't understand.

SPEAKER_00 33:58

Yeah. This happened when I was at Culver's. This lady fucking laid into this poor kid, and then I was next, and the kid was like, I'm so sorry about the weight. And I was like, You're doing a great job. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 34:10

But we're recording this after 5% inflation numbers came out, and the feds are like, oh no, there's no inflation. It's temporary. It's only things like machinery that's driving it, or it's only food and gas that's driving it. Real important things like machinery aren't going up in price. And we'd be like, hey guys, get out of your ivory towers, come to McDonald's in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where everything is. The price of a happy meal is like seven dollars, and there's no one working, not because they don't want to work, but because there's so much money in the economy. Yeah, I don't know what this is the type of. You decide if if the economy is too hot or not.

SPEAKER_00 34:46

We're going back to the beginning here of this is the type of stuff like, is this ever gonna go? When is lumber gonna go down? Also, when are people gonna work again? Or is this just like our world now? Also, this has to be nationwide, right? This isn't just in Wisconsin. This is what I'm hearing. Okay, this is what I'm wondering. Brittany, we know you don't live in Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_01 35:04

David, you live in a Bay Area, it's been like this forever. Is it even worse? Oh man, okay.

SPEAKER_00 35:10

We we're gonna continue with happy, fun things like happy meals and these French fries.

SPEAKER_01 35:16

So, did you collect the happy meal toys like when a new Disney movie came out and there were five different ones? Did you go and try and collect them all?

SPEAKER_00 35:22

Do you mean like teeny beanie babies that we like literally stocked? Then yes. Do you mean that we just found a box of them in my parents' garage? Also, yes. Are they valued at nothing? Yes.

SPEAKER_01 35:33

I was all over the hook toys when those came out because there were some really good ones. I bagged and bagged and bagged to go get those.

SPEAKER_00 35:40

Well, I don't know, maybe I'm wrong.

SPEAKER_01 35:42

Because they were like bath toys, and there's like a set that was really good.

SPEAKER_00 35:44

Is this a bath toy? It's squirt's water in theory.

SPEAKER_01 35:47

Lucy is gonna love that. You can give it to you, put it in the pool. No, no, you can have it.

SPEAKER_00 35:53

Oh, thank you. More plastic toys.

SPEAKER_01 35:55

I don't need more things shooting water at me.

SPEAKER_00 35:57

Oh, I don't mind those. It's too hot out. Okay, guys. Are we ready for this? Do we have more we need to discuss? I think we're ready for this. Also, breaking news while we were on break, Floatus is visiting the other actual royals that stayed in England. Well, that's cool. It just felt like I needed to mention.

SPEAKER_01 36:15

Do you mean Doctor Jill Biden? I do. But I put some respect on her name.

SPEAKER_00 36:20

I mean, Floatus is respectful. It's a pretty cool thing.

SPEAKER_01 36:24

I know, I agree. I just think, like, you know, mom that she's a doctor.

SPEAKER_00 36:27

You're right. All right, man. It's time for Kid Gonic! Did you like my deep breath? Okay, so I'm here to tell all of you parents. I feel like this is my role here because I have older kids than Nick. All of you parents that say you're not gonna do X, Y, or Z, you're gonna do it.

SPEAKER_01 36:46

I You should have said X, Y, or Z to honor the royal theme of this.

SPEAKER_00 36:50

You're right. And double barrel, is that what it is? Yep. Okay, I'm doing great. Um, there are so many things I said I wouldn't do as a parent, and some of them I hold true. You know, only neutral toys. I want the wooden thing, not the one that is bright colors. Uh, I don't know what else.

SPEAKER_01 37:08

But like is a lime green or what is this? Mint green, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 37:11

Yeah, but that's a good neutral color. That's better than like a primary, whatever. You're gonna do all of the crap because it makes your kid happy and it keeps them busy, and also colors are good for them to learn. So you're gonna do it. Here's the latest thing I did, which is horrifying.

SPEAKER_01 37:25

Shocking news from Bridget. Colors are good for your kid to learn.

SPEAKER_00 37:28

Shocking news. I'm just here, I'm here to tell you that you're probably gonna do it. And get off that Instagram page that tells you you're shitty parent for giving them bright colors or whatever. Okay. Your nug or my nug. Your nug, man. Also, get real. You're also probably gonna feed your kid a chicken nugget sometime in their life. If you're not, then that's great. But I did a thing and I bought my kids crocs. Okay, I bought them generic crocs, let me be clear, because I'm not spending $60 on a pair of plastic form shoes, but they're so practical.

SPEAKER_01 38:00

Like I know who you got this tip from, too.

SPEAKER_00 38:03

No, I literally was wanting to-sun a Ron and Josie shoutout? No. Oh, they probably gave me some crocs. No, I was literally at Aldi and they had them like in their $5. I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna try them. The kids might hate them, but I'm sick of putting socks and shoes and socks and shoes and kids have to wear clothes.

SPEAKER_01 38:19

And then they smell terrible.

SPEAKER_00 38:20

Do you know what my children did? They love them. So Lucy wanted to wear it to bed, wear them to bed last night. So I think we probably like let her pretend whatever. She didn't sleep with them, but she came directly into my bed this morning with her crack, her fake cracks in her hand. Shoes, mommy, shoes, pretty shoes. Elliot's are bright blue, and he put them on with his like safety town outfit today. And I was like, uh, I feel like you have to wear gym shoes today because they're they're going in the smokehouse.

SPEAKER_01 38:47

And like those are rubbery, and you know, and by smokehouse, we don't mean the Lake Geneva smokehouse, like you catch your meat smokehouse where you put hams in there. We mean the simulating your house is on fire, suffocate and kill you smokehouse.

SPEAKER_00 39:00

It was horrifying.

SPEAKER_01 39:01

It was terrifying brave, but he said there wasn't that much smoke.

SPEAKER_00 39:05

I'm like, okay, good.

SPEAKER_01 39:06

Maybe they like modulate it for little kids.

SPEAKER_00 39:08

I hope so.

SPEAKER_01 39:09

But then does that make fire not so terrifying? Maybe he's gonna light your house on fire and make it. Oh, it's okay.

SPEAKER_00 39:14

He learned how to climb out of a window today. He learned he learned how many um fire smoke detectors we have in our house and our meeting point, our emergency like meeting point. So we're gonna call it a win, okay? He's only five.

SPEAKER_01 39:24

Give him a minute. The not the crawling out of the window thing might be problematic.

SPEAKER_00 39:29

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_01 39:29

She's a mobile term.

SPEAKER_00 39:30

It's problematic. Well, anyway, I'm just here to tell you. So Elliot's theory was he would wear him a safety towel because we're putting out a fire today, so we need a hose. He's like, So I'm gonna get wet in these shoes. And I was like, man, that is good logic. So he's a thinker. He packed them. But anyway, they're really smart for kids in the summer, especially. You can get them wet, they dry in two seconds. They're a little slippery, probably, I guess. I don't know. One of my kids hasn't fallen yet, but they will. So that's all. I'm just here to tell you to prepare for cracks for your children.

SPEAKER_01 40:01

My story comes from my wife, Sarah.

SPEAKER_00 40:03

Hello, Sarah.

SPEAKER_01 40:04

Who is more talented and great and patient of being a parent than I am. Good job. So, Simona's of the age where you start being like, I don't know, when do you potty train? Doesn't daycare do that for you? Oh no. So, yeah, we're thinking about this, and one of the things they say is when your kids want to pull up their own pants when you change their diaper, that's like a sign, and she's kind of doing that, so we're like, oh, I don't know. Sarah's don't want to research. Oh, like I didn't know that. So she's pretty young. I mean, she's yeah, for this, yep. For this. Yep. So Sarah, as you parents know, kids gonna follow you everywhere, all the time. No breaks. So Sarah was going potty.

SPEAKER_00 40:46

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:47

And Simona followed her in, and you know, whatever. Whatever decided to take her own diaper off and pee on the floor.

SPEAKER_00 40:54

Oh, girl.

SPEAKER_01 40:55

Squat down and pee on the floor.

SPEAKER_00 40:57

Yeah, that is not the same as potty training. And but it's a sign of being interested in that.

SPEAKER_01 41:02

And it was gross and disgusting. I'm so happy it happened to Sarah and not me. This is not the last time she's gonna pee on the floor. And then last night. Yeah, I was like, come on. Without Sarah even pottying herself as we were getting her ready for bath time. Sarah went to the bathroom. Simona took off her diaper and pooped on the floor. What? Okay.

SPEAKER_00 41:27

She had already pooped twice that day, too. You have two problems here that she knows how to take her diaper off. So is she in two-piece?

SPEAKER_01 41:34

Oh, I wonder where she learned that from.

SPEAKER_00 41:37

No, no. Lucy does not take her own diaper off. Knock on wood. Um, does she wear two-piece pajamas or one?

SPEAKER_01 41:44

Two-piece. That's because we watch out, man.

SPEAKER_00 41:47

Alio used to take his diaper off and like pee all over his crib at night.

SPEAKER_01 41:51

Well, he's got a little better aim, I think, than Simona does.

SPEAKER_00 41:53

Oh, this is hilarious because uh unsurprisingly, this just happened in my house because Lucy is also like very interested in going to the bathroom and makes us sit her on the toilet, and then she she goes, Ugh, and then goes, all done, which she does nothing. She proceeds to get off the toilet and pee on the floor. So she does it all the time.

SPEAKER_01 42:13

So the argument about why you should have a baby, not a pet, is because at least they won't pee all over the floor.

SPEAKER_00 42:18

Wrong. Wrong. Lucy does it a lot, a lot, but you know, she's our second kid, so we let her run around without a diaper more than we should. So gross. Yeah, man, get used to it. But you know, this is just the beginning. I love this that I have children older than you, so I can say but also I'm still dealing with kids peeing on the floor.

SPEAKER_01 42:39

So that's what we got. Who knows? Maybe this is a precursor to early potty training and just being done with everything. Maybe.

SPEAKER_00 42:48

Maybe that's like that's that's good, man. Two, like I went to her two-year-old checkup, and my doctor was like, is she like interested in potty training? So it's okay if she's not, and you know, and I was like, Oh yeah, like she's interested, but Elliot didn't potty train until he was three and two months.

SPEAKER_01 43:02

But boys also do it later. I know, man. Because we're, you know, we're on potty watch people. Potty watch 2020. Can I just throw in one uh you know, we're talking about how to bring Reddit into this podcast more because I read this amazing post thread on Reddit about it was um a data is beautiful post where it's beautiful data visualizations, and it was amount of people that admit to binge drinking per county.

SPEAKER_00 43:29

This is funny.

SPEAKER_01 43:30

And Wisconsin was literally off the scale. They literally had to make a new color of the scale because everyone in Wisconsin was like, Yeah, I binge drink.

SPEAKER_00 43:39

Yeah, it's summer, right?

SPEAKER_01 43:40

Literally like a hundred percent. And everybody else is like a little bit of orange, a little bit of yellow, maybe some reds around college campuses mostly. And the whole thread was people being like, Oh my god, are Wisconsin's that honest or that drunk? And Wisconsin's like, Hater uh. We're all nice. We're all we're nice, we're honest, and uh yeah, we binge drink.

SPEAKER_00 44:00

Do you think it's just Wisconsin, not like Illinois?

SPEAKER_01 44:02

Sarah and I had this discussion. She's been to Jersey a number of times, and they drink too there, but I think it might just be a segment of bros.

SPEAKER_00 44:09

I mean, um Midwestern. So so obviously it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_01 44:13

I'm not as good as us. Minnesota's pretty darn good. North Dakota is hardcore.

SPEAKER_00 44:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 44:19

This is uh haven't been to South Dakota, can't speak. I think Illinois, you guys are a bunch of watch out, lots of my family lives there.

SPEAKER_00 44:25

Patsys, and do they have good listeners? Uh they drink. I don't know. They're my younger. But do they scans and drink? I can't confirm nor deny that they're younger than me, so they're cooler than me. I don't know. So yeah, they drink freaking trulys or whatever, like which basically is water. I don't know. I don't know. I tried again to drink a seltzer the other day to just oh well one of them was with you. One was with um some friends of ours that just had a baby and we were visiting, and I was like, I just don't understand this. I'd much rather drink this canned cocktail. Okay, that's for another time, guys.

SPEAKER_01 45:00

If you want to see a Reddit thread discussed on the podcast every week, we promised you we promised you something exciting coming up, too.

SPEAKER_00 45:09

And we know we said it was gonna be May, but it's June. I think we'd safe to say maybe next week there's a big announcement coming or a new announcement. What do you think, Nick?

SPEAKER_01 45:19

Here's the thing. Oh, I was like, what is this? We've had some difficulties getting things.

SPEAKER_00 45:25

This is a looks like a Puma lunchbox. Puma. But we'll mean nothing to you until I think we can say next week we'll announce some things that we finally we've been talking about for a long time, and thanks for sticking there, being like, you guys are lying, you're not gonna talk about it. I think we'll do it next week.

SPEAKER_01 45:41

I think we'll do it next week. I agree.

SPEAKER_00 45:43

Countdown is on, get excited.

SPEAKER_01 45:45

We gotta make sure it doesn't suck first. I don't know though. Maybe it will. But I think it's mostly gonna be amazing.

SPEAKER_00 45:52

Amazing. Thanks for sticking with us, guys.

SPEAKER_01 45:55

Very amusing.

SPEAKER_00 45:56

I would say it would be amusing.

SPEAKER_01 45:59

Faux shizzle. All right, guys, you know how to follow us. Um YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, hello at TinderPlusDrinks.com, iTunes, Spotify, whatever weird Android app you use. You can say, hey Alexa, play Dinner Plus Drinks Podcast. We're on Alexa.

SPEAKER_00 46:19

Oh, hey Alexa. We're also going to be so much better and getting a lot more information out on our social media. So keep an eye out for that. Did you just go on a no? Sure didn't. All right, guys. Thanks for listening. Have an awful video.