Financial Planning with Nick | Dinner Plus Drinks #55

SPEAKER_02 0:15

Hello, everybody, welcome to Dinner Plus Drinks America Survives edition. Are we surviving? I still stand. I'm still here. So we're surviving, but not thriving. I am proud to be an American, because at least I know I'm free. I was like, are you? Are you proud?

SPEAKER_00 0:38

You have a great joke here. Yeah, this is great because you know, we're all getting through this by reading all the funny memes everywhere, obviously. I feel like this is a repeat to every episode we've had this year. So, or I'm sorry, last year. So I saw this morning. I haven't seen this one yet. And it just said, well, that escalated steadily for four years.

SPEAKER_02 0:57

We are obviously talking about the attempted insurrection at the urging of President Trump. That minor news story. Uh that occurred this week, I believe is Wednesday. Who even knows? Wednesday. What day is today? Still, you know, we thought 2020 would be the end of, I don't know, it's just someday. But still, 2021 still sucks.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

Someone, okay, because I'm all in on the good quotes. On Good Morning America, they did say, What a year this week has been. And I was like, yes. We all thought, like, we'll wake up. This goes back to why I hate New Year's, everybody. No one woke up and was like, yeah, 2021's my year. Like, don't worry. I think some people did, but Donald Trump didn't.

SPEAKER_02 1:36

I'm sorry, many people did, which is why I was making fun of New Year. I really um it the whole thing really affected me very deeply. Um, I actually paged in Congress for in the House of Representatives, my junior year of high school. So I spent a lot of time on the floor of the House of Representatives. I spent a lot of time in those tunnels that were used as evacuations, ferrying packages and letters and things back and forth. I met um some of the people that were involved with this whose lives were threatened. I um made all the memories that you think are very important to you, your junior of high school, all the things you do. I did it in the Capitol. Uh I was very fortunate. I made many of my best friendships there, many of my most and I think we all know that picture of a desk barricading the entryway to the House of Representatives and people pointing guns through there. Uh that desk was the Republican page desk where I spent hours um behind that desk, in front of that desk, um talking with friends, um pranking people, as doing work.

SPEAKER_00 2:50

I think most notable here as a Republican page.

SPEAKER_02 2:53

And to talk about how the times have changed. To see that desk used for that broke my heart and broke a lot of me. Um I I put an Instagram story that this these four years have taken a lot from a lot of people, and mine's probably pretty trivial. But seeing that really just took some part of me and ripped it out and curb-stomped it. And um, you know, the Hitler comparison is always, I think, the the nuclear option, but you always do think of like, what if I was in, you know, Nazi Germany? What if I said, hey, maybe we should stop? And we were close. We were close. And I think this just makes it important to make sure we say stop. And hopefully this is the closest we come and we never repeat the mistakes of these last four years. Oh my god. Hopefully. And I'm sure for people like Britney, who spends a lot of time in the Capitol, it's a special place. And to see people do this to the thing that makes us Americans and makes us believe that this is a country where anything can happen and we can work together. To see that happen is just it's heartbreaking.

SPEAKER_00 4:00

I think it we've, I know, talked about this before, especially with coronavirus and a million other Black Lives Matter, all the tragic things that have happened. Uh, everyone has so Nick has a very personal way that it affected him. I've been to the Capitol building once a few years ago. You know, I of course thought of like, oh, I sat in this chair right here, you know. Um, so I thought of that. However, the way it's affecting us the most, I would say, or me, I shouldn't speak for Tyler, is that we have a four-year-old that's incredibly inquisitive and he wants to know. And so we're not, we're not of the camp that just avoids telling him anything scary. Like he's gonna hear about it or see it somewhere. Um, we have made it, you know, we've tried not to have the TV on at all when he's been around and awake, but we still talk to him about it. So we and he asks a million questions. He's very smart. Yes, I'm gonna mom brag right there, but he is. And he is very smart. Thank you. So he, you know, we got down to talking about what's going on. There you go. That that's what that's how we will politely put it. So I've seen, of course, all of the mom bloggers and Instagrammers and things that are sharing a little bit of that. Like, how do you tell your kids about this? And, you know, the first thing is like tell them they're safe, of course, and then go into talking about all of these, but you don't realize, maybe you do, I don't know. Uh, when I started explaining it to him, like, hey, this thing happened today. I had to go down to like how important this building was and what democracy is and what is Congress. And so, anyway, it's been an um, I don't know the word, uh, tragic or confusing.

SPEAKER_02 5:30

We actually have made some like great progress on things we're working on. Yeah, we we had a great day of productivity, and then just this happened and it's 2021 over.

SPEAKER_00 5:40

It just literally feels like so I just stepped on my headphones, everybody. Okay, I'm okay. Um, so let's drink. We are going to move on. We just wanted to start out that way because it we we are not going to be, we're not gonna sit silent.

SPEAKER_02 5:54

I dealt, I dealt with this whole situation by drinking and drinking happily. Um, I don't think I'm the only person. Um, but a lot of people, new year, new you, are interested in healthy, but they still want to drink because it's still 2021. And so we got this new product at the store called Nova Easy Kombucha, and it is hard kombucha. So it's healthy, but it's alcohol.

SPEAKER_01 6:21

Hard seltzer.

SPEAKER_02 6:22

6% alcohol, so more than hard seltzer. Um it is gluten-free, vegan, probiotic, and naturally fermented. But you must keep it cold, otherwise, it will explode. So all right sounds disgusting. So the first one is there, uh, and this comes from Ote Lakes Brewery in Chula Vista, California.

SPEAKER_00 6:41

Oh, I expected it to be from a different state.

SPEAKER_02 6:43

So really like Oregon. Peach passion fruit is the flavor of this fruit.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

Google what we're talking about because the cans are beautiful. I will say that.

SPEAKER_02 6:55

They look like Lucy's jacket.

SPEAKER_00 6:57

Why Lucy's jacket's also beautiful. Why are we drinking kombucha today, Nick?

SPEAKER_02 7:01

Well, so we put it out. We want to, you know, a lot of people do the dry January thing. A lot of people want to do the healthy thing. So we we were like, okay, let's try this healthy thing and let's put it out on our Facebook page, our Instagram. Uh, do you do dry January? Do you have any tips? Uh, you know, we want to try and incorporate some more of your feedback into this one. And we got some good responses.

SPEAKER_00 7:21

I would say, so we will dive into those responses before I can start. Oh my god, this is terrible. I smelled it if you guys heard the uh in the background. I smelled it and I have not sipped it yet.

SPEAKER_02 7:30

I like kombucha. Like I like kombucha. Oh, well. I like tea, I like kombucha. This is like tea. The worst parts of tea, kombucha and peach and passion fruit.

SPEAKER_00 7:40

I love peach. Um, what here's my theory on this before I drink it. I love seltzer without alcohol.

SPEAKER_02 7:45

It kind of tastes like stale barf.

SPEAKER_00 7:47

Oh, can't wait to drink it. Um, I love seltzer without alcohol and don't like seltzer with. So I don't like kombucha without alcohol, so maybe I'll like it with alcohol.

SPEAKER_02 7:56

I'm scared to drink it. Well, give it a try. Let's see if you think it tastes like stale barf. Oh, um, it gets worse. Yeah, it gets a lot worse. It's like stale.

SPEAKER_00 8:08

Oh my god. Okay, I wish you wouldn't have said the stale barf, but now it 100% like the very, very last flavor note is like bile. Yeah. Okay, it's not that bad. No, it is. It's not. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 8:21

It's a like weird, you know, like passion fruit gets to be a weird flavor. I think that's what it is. All right, slam that. We have the next flavor. Slamming this, slam it, you can do it. I'm just gonna put it in this cup right here. Um, the next flavor is supposedly the most popular one. Actually, I did sample this one and brought it into the store. So, you know, maybe I shouldn't. I'd like to sell these. Maybe I shouldn't slam them so much.

SPEAKER_00 8:41

And really, I will say, like, they are not as bad as the reaction next to the bad. Um, it was a little refreshing for like a minute, but the flavor developed in a weird way.

SPEAKER_02 8:52

This is orange brunch, so this is like supposed to be a mimosa. All right, so some of my favorite comments. Lori Helmer. I had never heard of dry January until yesterday. Laugh out loud, but I'm pretty dry all year long. Okay, so that you know, that makes it easy. A lot of people like to do the dry January to decleanse or cleanse detox from the holidays. I actually like to decleanse because I still feel stressed. I just need all of that.

SPEAKER_00 9:19

Uh I took a deep dive about dry January because, like, obviously, I don't care about dry January. I think it's a it's like all New Year's things, like, hey guys, do you just want to better yourself in January? Or like, what about July? So I think it's a it's goes along with my like New Year's resolution thing. Like, why? Don't you want to be better more than just the month of January?

SPEAKER_02 9:39

I think it's a stacking stones thing. You know, you put that first January stone there, and then you do the February one. David Grunwald says he does a dry 12 months. Uh Scott Poole. Okay, so David, that makes sense. No, no, no. I like that. I love that. Our friend Chris Malka. I like this. Dry January is for amateurs. I thought this was gonna be an alcoholism joke, but he made an even better one. Dry February is where it's at because it's the shortest month of the year.

SPEAKER_00 10:05

Oh, smart man and this is what I'm saying. So, in my deep dive, I was reading this article about like, you know, we all talk about how media makes everything worse, right? Like, oh, the media did this, the fake news did this, whatever. This article I was reading was like, the media has made dry January insufferable because now it's like hip and trendy to do dry January instead of doing it for real reasons.

SPEAKER_02 10:28

Beer, alcohol, wine sales last year. Like it's been getting worse. All my sales reps, you are taking money out of their children's mouths. Okay, this is what it says food out of their mouths.

SPEAKER_00 10:38

Dry you are, which is one of the terms that is dumb, is not for people wishing to better their lives. It's for people who wish to publicly better their lives. And I okay, you guys, first of all, let's say I have some of my very best friends are doing dry January. Good job. It it is not for me right now at this moment in my life. Um, but it is just a funny thing. Like it it says, and you're inadvertently shaming those people who continue to indulge in semi-frequent glasses of wine.

SPEAKER_02 11:03

So, my favorite comment though, I wonder how many people fell off the wagon, like Jane Miles, who said, Not after the storming of the Capitol building. I'm not trying to make light of this movement because I know it's important. I mean it's we all we all Sarah and I have this conversation, and I choose to believe that having a glass of wine or two or three, not four though, you're drinking a whole bottle yourself, maybe. But three is fine. If you have three glasses of wine after work to deal with if you have a very stressful life, you know, you have an important, stressful job, you have your kids, maybe you have a spouse that uh says things like, Sarah, I don't know if I can clean up the basement because I would like to drink a beer. You know, maybe if you have stress like that, uh you should treat yourself to some wine. There's worst habits you could do. Okay, so this was heroin, for instance. Yeah, it's totally the same. This was gonna be my question to you. Well, that's what they said in there. If you have alcohol, you'll have marijuana, I won't do it. You'll have heroin and then you'll be dead.

SPEAKER_00 12:06

I I mean, it's a it's a frank look at reality. Um, here's my question. Do you think people that are doing dry January, or if you're doing dry January, let us know. Are you replacing one vice with another?

SPEAKER_02 12:16

So are you like Are you just pounding chocolate instead of wine?

SPEAKER_00 12:19

Like I am giving up my wine, and so now instead I'm going to sleep at midnight, or I'm chugging, I don't know, 10 cups of coffee instead of one. Whatever. I'm just curious. Like I am too. And again, I am jealous I will never be able to do it. Not never, that's not true. That makes me sound like an alcoholic. I probably could do it. I just like maybe I'll try and better myself in a different month of the year because this month is honestly challenging for me as it is.

SPEAKER_02 12:43

I like it. So there we are. So thanks to everybody who commented. We're gonna keep trying to throw some questions out to you guys to talk about at the start of the podcast. So thanks for everybody who participated. Keep an eye out for that, and uh follow us on Facebook, Instagram. Second kombucha. Yeah, it's better. It's better.

SPEAKER_00 12:59

Okay, I don't feel like we can pass this one by because we hated on that first one.

SPEAKER_02 13:02

I mean, it's it's okay. I would still rather have a mimosa. I mean, same, but this one didn't make either of us gag. So I think this is for a specific type of person because these are like $10 a four-pack.

SPEAKER_00 13:13

I don't think that's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 13:14

But but like, okay, no, they're $12 a four-pack.

SPEAKER_00 13:16

You like kombucha, so how does this come? I don't like kombucha.

SPEAKER_02 13:19

It's not at all like kombucha.

SPEAKER_00 13:21

Oh, okay. So I was like, I was never gonna like this.

SPEAKER_02 13:23

I mean, it's low sugar, which is good. There's only uh six well, this is So I don't drink this one. There's only nine grams of carbs in the entire package, but there's like a hundred percent of the vitamin C you need to have. Oh, yeah, this one I would drink. One can of it. So this is funny because it says on the ingredients beer, but then it says ingredients raw kombucha, orange juice, yeast. What I think that's a fermented malt beverage, not beer. I don't know, man. Whatever. This one's way better. All right, Bridge. What is the best thing you ate this week? Because I know the best thing you drank was not.

SPEAKER_00 13:59

What's this? Do you just shit your pants when you saw my note here? Um It says Jiffy pop. I I We all know that Jiffy choppy is so normally we're a popcorn household that um heats the oil, puts the uh kernels in, and like that's it. We put some sea salt on it. We don't add 10 pounds of butter, we don't do any of that. Yes, I grew up having microwave popcorn in a bag, but I haven't done that in a million years. So, anyway, um on like day 907 of having my children home for nonstop, um, my mom dropped off a fun thing of Jiffy Pop, a whole fun little kit of like activities for the kids. And she's like, you know what, Elliot would really love this. And maybe Lucy, but probably not. So um, it took a while, we just like didn't get to it. And so the other day we were like nearing the end of Christmas break and we're finally like, oh my God, we can go back to a routine and like the kids will go back to school. Um, we thought, you know what, let's have a movie night and popcorn and like makes things exciting and whatever. Tyler put together, Tyler made like a whole fun little fort in our living room.

SPEAKER_02 14:58

Tyler's very good at fortune.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

Oh my gosh, and it's dark at you know, like four o'clock. So by the time I got home, it it had like he strung up little shiny lights, and we talk all the time on here about food and memories. And since my meals are boring, mostly I eat the same thing. Like literally this week, I think I had the same dinner three or four nights. I heard that because I went to bed late or I had dinner after my kids, which I don't usually do, but I wasn't prepared. So, anyway, Jiffy Pop was great because one, it was like straight up movie theater butter, like disgusting coats your mouth. That's so good though. And it was so fun to make. I like the reaction of Elliot when it popped on the stove, and then also when we opened it in our little fort tent movie night thing was amazing. So, as always, I'm sharing a food memory, which is why I love the food so much. And it was Jiffy Pop. It was so fun. Yeah, it was great. So talking about it. Did Lucy enjoy getting in the action? Lucy enjoyed eating the popcorn so much.

SPEAKER_02 15:48

I always think Lucy is just the one like kind of standing in the corner watching and like maybe setting things in motions for Elliot to, I don't know, have an unfortunate accident.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

She's the psychopath. Yep. She um she goes by the stove and goes hot, hot, hot, and like puts her hand over it to feel the steam. So like we just quickly pull her away. Yes, it's hot. Don't touch the flame.

SPEAKER_02 16:09

I actually had a really great food week. I made a number of really delicious things. I mean, I'm gonna just pat myself on that back because I am killing it. Uh, in the words of Beyoncé, slay Nick. Oh boy. Um, but it's been a so it's a tough one to decide, but I'm gonna go with I made a chimichuri flank steak Argentinian uh with the roasted potatoes and roasted asparagus, made a fresh uh chimichurri sauce. I actually blended it this time because it's a little short on time.

SPEAKER_00 16:41

So uh opposed to chopping it.

SPEAKER_02 16:43

Yep. Oh so blended everything, so it was a little different consistency, but really delicious. Uh I just love that like smoky flank steak sliced and I do love chimichurries. You put that chimichurri, and it's just like so fresh in the middle of winter, you're still like, ah, in Argentina, it's the middle of summer. And uh we had little little brother-in-law's girlfriend over. Shout out to Sam, Samantha. I love Samantha. And uh Samantha evidently really enjoyed it because I got a text of let us know when you do that again.

SPEAKER_00 17:11

Oh is that is that the like 21-year-old way of saying, hey, thanks so much, it was good.

SPEAKER_02 17:16

I think that is the 21 year 23-year-old way of doing uh thanks. That was good.

SPEAKER_00 17:21

Um did smoke. I'll take it chimachry.

SPEAKER_02 17:23

Oh, yeah, she eats it all. She's a monster. That girl, she's in a good stage that'll just eat it all and then it goes on the floor. Awesome. That was good because you know, we enjoyed it. It was just nice, it was fun.

SPEAKER_00 17:33

Sounds delish. I'm a little jealous. Not that my noodles and broccoli weren't delicious.

SPEAKER_02 17:36

Noodles and broccoli are great.

SPEAKER_00 17:38

Um, you know, whatever. So I feel like there's about 10,000 news stories we could share.

SPEAKER_02 17:42

72,000 to be exact.

SPEAKER_00 17:44

So we're gonna not probably share one about the excitement of this week, and instead something maybe that was buried more in the news.

SPEAKER_02 17:50

Yeah. Um, this one's unfortunate that you have because it deserves more attention and it just got as you said, buried.

SPEAKER_00 17:57

Okay, thank you. I'm like, did have I been under living under a rock? All right, so for those of you that don't know, Alex Trebek passed away this year, um, last year, I guess. And his final airing of Jeopardy is tonight. And he didn't know, so tonight when we're recording. So by the time you listen, you're gonna have to look this up on your favorite streaming system that will let you watch Jeopardy, whatever that is. Um, but he didn't know it was his last filming. So obviously he passed away without knowing. And so he um Jeopardy was a favorite of my family's. We all watched it very much. It reminds me of my grandma, not as much of not as much as Wheel of Fortune, but I kind of lumped those two together uh because they play right after one another. So anyway, go back and look at his final airing of Jeopardy. He um made a comment they had the executive producer on um quoted in this article that I was reading. And Alex Traback had a little speech that I thought was quite fitting for this time that we're living in.

SPEAKER_02 18:52

I mean, he nailed this speech for the case. Yeah, the COVID for yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:55

He says, open up your hands and open up your heart to those who are still suffering from COVID-19. We're trying to build a gentler, kinder society, and if we can all just pitch in a little bit, we're going to get there. Obviously, I mean, this is great. R.I.P. man. We all agree with him. So anyway, we love him. I love him. I'm saying we, like the greater people should all love him.

SPEAKER_02 19:14

It's the royal we the royal we.

SPEAKER_00 19:16

So check out uh Jeopardy's final episode, um, wherever you can find it, playing on the internet.

SPEAKER_02 19:23

My article comes to us from the New York Times, and the title is His Job is Counting Steph Curry's three-pointers. You've retired too. Um, and it's about a man named Fred Cast who is retiring as the Golden State Warriors official scorekeeper after 57 years. Wow. Good friend. So we have all these stats in America and NBA. I think I've talked before about how much I love stats and analytics and things like that in in sports. Uh, but this guy, Fred Cast, who is 80, 81, I thought 82, 81, um, he still keeps a paper scorebook of every game, sends it in the NBA, and that is the official score for the game. Um, so he's done this for 57 years. He, after Steph Curry stored 62 points, he um decided to retire. That was a busy game. I'm exhausted. Um, but he's lived through 20 coaching changes, 23 playoff appearances, four championships, six arenas. Wow. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:27

So wait, I'm actually really surprised that the NBA allows like handwritten.

SPEAKER_02 20:31

Well, I mean still gotta but it's like it's the same, I guess, human input error. Yeah. So um you know, he makes sure to stop the steal. Nobody can manipulate the electronic ballots or score, you know, it's paper. I hear where you're going. I hear where you're going. Anyway, so it was a really cool story. I'm gonna share the link. It's actually really one of the things that stopped him is um with the NBA's COVID protocols, he has to get two negative tests before every game, and like the way he needs to drive to do it was hard for him. Oh what a world, man. But it's actually a really interesting article talking about how he, you know, he gets to watch every game for free, but obviously he's working at it. But it so it's a really interesting pass. Yeah, it's a really interesting article. Um, he seems like a really interesting person.

SPEAKER_00 21:17

Yeah, I want to be his friend.

SPEAKER_02 21:19

It's cool to see like gratitude from the organization. That's obviously a pretty big deal and you know, worth billions of dollars.

SPEAKER_00 21:25

Okay, I'm doing this without any permission. Okay. I'm interrupting before there's a dad joke because we're talking about the NBA. Did you hear about the Jazz? Like who I don't pay attention to the Jazz, but now I will. Have you heard about this? This is not a joke. That that sounds like a joke. Um, so the Jazz, I think their head coach, um, who honestly I think his name is Steve, maybe. I'm not sure. Um, for every game one this year, they're offering a four year scholarship to an underrepresented, underrepresented or minority kid to go to college. So they he said, We plan to use the team and NBA as a platform to strive. For change. So the jazz is playing the Milwaukee Bucks tonight. Again, I hope nobody gets a scholarship. The day we're recording. So I'm a little conflicted here because I like the box. But isn't that cool? Like I've never paid attention. Apparently, they've already won seven games because they're including preseason games. So that is seven kids that they totally don't count, but you know, good, good, good. No, it's counting for the scholarship. I don't care about the NBA record. I'm talking about the scholarship. So anyway, this is awesome. More good news from the NBA. Great.

SPEAKER_02 22:28

Do you know Santa Claus's favorite NBA team?

unknown 22:32

No.

SPEAKER_02 22:33

The New York Old Saint Knicks.

SPEAKER_00 22:34

Oh, I was like, dashing. Okay, dad joke.

SPEAKER_02 22:39

All right. Let's take a quick break.

SPEAKER_00 23:03

We're back. Okay, we're here with product recommendations and Bridget's favorite part of the podcast. Like any good marketing person, I have mine strategically placed right here in the screen. This product placement. So this Yeti Tumblr, if you're watching on YouTube, um, is so amazing. I got it for a Christmas gift. I've known about it for so long because every influencer in the world talks about it. But also, um, Shannon has had one, my sister, and I'm always so jealous of it. So finally she was like, I'm just gonna get you one. Like, don't buy yourself one. So, anyway, it's 30 ounces, and I'm talking about this product today because, you know, healthy people, dry January. All that goes in here is water. I only put water in here, although it would hold a lot of wine. It's only water. It is my little way of trying to like do a little thing. Yes, I'm still drinking alcohol in January, but I'm also drinking way more water. So, and that is literally because of the cup. As dumb as that sounds, a giant cup that keeps my beverage cold and has a straw will always make me drink more water. So, Yeti Tumblr, we will link to it. You can get it a whole bunch of places, but we will put our favorite Amazon link for you.

SPEAKER_02 24:08

Mine is called Acorns. You may have heard of Acorns. It is a service online that helps you save money. It does things like rounds up your credit card purchases, and then when you have uh hit five dollars, shoots it to this Acorns account and it invests it for you in a savings account, a uh moderately risky investment account, a very risky investment account. I'm all in on the risk. Um but anyway, so I started doing this last year, nine 2019. Um just five bucks at a time, automatically rounds up. And uh I now have $1,700 $1,780.97 in this account. Wow. Painlessly. That's crazy. Um and they're having a really great thing right now where if so I really like it because it's just a couple extra I've heard of it, I've read about it a little bit. You don't even notice it happens. Um, it'll just be a nice little extra money. You know, we all know the power of compound interest. Um next week, finance with Nick Borpegle. So uh I really like it. I just like that I now have $1,800 that I honestly like you hate to say it's pocket change, but it was pocket change. There was things as you're going through and they're like, hey, will you round up for charity? Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, but whatever.

SPEAKER_00 25:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:22

Um but instead I'm rounding up for the Nick fund.

SPEAKER_00 25:25

For my own self.

SPEAKER_02 25:27

Or maybe the Simona fund. I don't know. Um, but I I really recommend it. You can take the money out whenever it's not some sort of like tax-advantaged account where it's locked up for your retirement. So if you then need that money, you can take it out. And right now, if you use the link that I'm gonna share, I could get a really great referral bonus. Like I, Nick Vorpagel, will make some money off of you. So thank you for using that link. It's super easy. I like it, and I also like money. If you all want to sign up for Robinhood, I'll give you a link for that too. Oh my god, Nick. Selfish edition of product recommendations, Nick Vorpagel style. That's right, guys. Bridget's here to help you drink more water. I'm here to help you save money, but also make me.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

I've lost track, okay, everybody.

SPEAKER_02 26:10

All right, let's take it back.

SPEAKER_00 26:31

Okay, we're back from product recommendations. I hope you loved all of that financial information.

SPEAKER_02 26:36

Um, I am not a I think I need to say this. I'm not a financial advisor. I don't know anything about anything. Uh I don't day trade. That would not be good. Uh none of that stuff.

SPEAKER_00 26:48

But acorns. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 26:49

Acorns. And if you want a sign-up link for that or Robinhood, let me know. I'll hook you up. We can both get free stuff.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

Wow, great. Okay, we're done with product's recommendations, and we're moving on to trip you up on interesting questions. Oh, Bridget, you're supposed to queue me up. I did it. Maybe. Okay, you got it. Nope, you gotta do it now. I don't feel it anymore. But it's your week. It's your week. What do you got? I just thought you guys heard enough of Nick's voice.

unknown 27:12

Probably.

SPEAKER_00 27:13

Just kidding. All right, here we go. So I tried to stay in the beverage realm. I like it. Um, it was harder than I thought. I'm like, why aren't there more like would you rather alcohol questions? But I made one up that I can't even say without like wanting to gag. So that'll be the last one. I like that. Okay, so we're gonna start with an easy non-alcoholic one. And I actually don't know. Do you like orange juice? I do. Okay. Would you rather drink orange juice expecting it to be milk or milk expecting it to be orange juice?

SPEAKER_02 27:43

Oh, that's a great question.

SPEAKER_00 27:44

Yeah, because like all the expenses, the snack.

SPEAKER_02 27:47

And like I do not like milk.

SPEAKER_00 27:48

I don't like the like I I know you didn't love like a glass of milk, but um, I think I would rather drink orange juice expecting it to be milk, because it'd be pleasant.

SPEAKER_02 27:58

I'd be like, oh, it's lighter and fruitier and more delicious than I think it depends what percentage. And like if you're whole milk. So I actually don't like any of them because whole milk is just so gross, and then skim milk is water with like some flavoring that tastes disgusting.

SPEAKER_00 28:15

I mean, at least it's not creamy.

SPEAKER_02 28:17

That's true.

SPEAKER_00 28:18

It's not creamy at all. That's true.

SPEAKER_02 28:20

So yeah, I would I would definitely rather just be surprised with orange juice. Are you a pulp orange juice or a pulp-free?

SPEAKER_00 28:26

I hate pulp in my life. I love it. I know, and Tyler does, and I'm sorry, but I do the grocery shopping, so it's pulp-free, man.

SPEAKER_02 28:32

Are you a jiff or skippy person? A gif.

SPEAKER_00 28:36

Big time jiff.

SPEAKER_02 28:37

A gif creamy. Gif creamy. Uh I'm a skippy chunky person.

SPEAKER_00 28:41

But here's the thing. If I'm gonna have chunky, which why would you put chunks on a smooth sandwich, then I would have skippy chunky jiff creamy.

SPEAKER_02 28:48

So Sarah's a like militant gif creamy, and I'm a militant skippy. So dealing crunchy. No, because I'm not allowed to have it in the house.

SPEAKER_00 28:57

This is like uh my refrigerator has like eight things of milk. Like, here's some almond milk, then here's the whole milk for Lucy, and then here's like 1% or 2% for Tyler and Elliot. And like, yeah, it's a joke. Oh, okay. Beverages. Um, if you could only have one for the rest of your life, would you choose cheese, chocolate, or alcohol? Okay. Oh, yeah. Come on, man. I know it's not chocolate, but cheese, chocolate, or alcohol.

SPEAKER_01 29:22

Tuffy. Wait for the final question. Oh, Bridget.

SPEAKER_00 29:27

Yeah. These are these are stressing. Uh do you want me to help you? Yeah, yeah, because cheese, you might get plugged up.

SPEAKER_02 29:42

No, cheese I can eat. I and what about our good friend Ron? How will you manage your stress? Half of his business will go away. Well, I eat cheese. Because Nick is gonna buy all the cheese.

SPEAKER_01 29:53

Half of his business will disappear because I don't eat, I eat so many cheese curds. We'll eat more cheese in our house.

SPEAKER_02 29:58

Uh yeah, sorry, Ron, but uh, I'm gonna have to go with not giving up alcohol.

SPEAKER_00 30:02

Yeah, so dry January is going great over here. It's going great. On that note. What about you? Oh, I oh uh cheese. Wait, it was what was the question? Which one won't you give up? Oh, yeah, I won't give up cheese because my kids eat it. So I won't give it up in our household. It's a source of protein. I'm anemic. That's helpful. Um I would give up.

SPEAKER_02 30:22

So no more alcohol for you.

SPEAKER_00 30:23

I would like to give up, I'd like to be able to give up chocolate and alcohol because it's healthier. I mean, not that cheese is healthy, but you know, then I'm being forced. I don't believe you. Okay. I'm being forced to be healthy. You're lying by the way of this question.

SPEAKER_02 30:34

If this actually happened and somebody had a gun to your head and said, if you come anywhere near this, we will shoot.

SPEAKER_00 30:40

You could I mean, well, I work near it, so I'd be dead.

SPEAKER_02 30:43

Champagne.

SPEAKER_00 30:44

I know. I'll just have seltzer and hey, I've been pregnant twice, man. I'm not allowed to have alcohol for a long time.

SPEAKER_02 30:49

Do you remember the end of the Lucy pregnancy? Yeah, and I was like, can I just drink something? I think you literally like threw something at me when I opened a bottle of champagne in front of you. Uh, you wasn't the best pregnant person for anybody listening. I think we were doing a wine walk, and I was like, Yeah, let's be let's have a and I think you literally threw something at me.

SPEAKER_00 31:09

Yeah, it was a wine walk that I organized with my blood set, sweat, and tears, and then I was two weeks away from giving birth. Whatever though. I mean, whatever. It's fine.

unknown 31:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 31:19

Would you rather get drunk from one drink or never get drunk no matter how much you drink? Never get drunk. Okay, I thought so, because it's part of your job to have to be able to drink.

SPEAKER_02 31:29

Also, like, um, I really so like I really enjoy tequila. Oh, like really enjoy tequila, the flavor of it and everything. So I really like sipping tequila. Like, some people really enjoy sipping bourbon, but you can get really drunk really fast. So if I can just like drink tequila like it's water, woo! Sign me up.

SPEAKER_00 31:49

Yeah, actually, that's true. And you have to taste things for your job, so that's helpful. I like that was an easy one. Yeah, I actually really like uh I that's what I like.

SPEAKER_02 31:56

I actually really like the flavors.

SPEAKER_00 31:57

Yeah, I I'm good. You're not a 21-year-old.

SPEAKER_02 31:59

I'm not a 20 year old.

SPEAKER_00 32:00

I'm not here bounding UV. Smeared off the new V. Okay, we're all growing up here. Last one, so gross. Yeah, I made four this week. Um, this one I made up. And for those of you that maybe are new or don't know, Nick does not like hot beverages. So you need to know that for this question. Ready? Would you rather drink a smoothie made of meat or only hot beverages for one week?

SPEAKER_01 32:29

It's so gross. I can't even think of it. How hot's hot? As hot as you hate. The hottest. Bridget hot.

SPEAKER_00 32:38

I like my beverages very hot.

SPEAKER_01 32:42

This is so easy for any normal person would say, I want hot beverages, not a smoothie of meat. How big's a smoothie?

SPEAKER_02 32:50

Um64 ounce yield size. It is 20 ounces. Is it all meat or can I add other things?

SPEAKER_00 32:58

Oh no, someone else made it for you, and they just said this is a meat smoothie, so you don't know what's in it. I made it. There's probably milk in it because it's a smoothie.

SPEAKER_02 33:10

I'm gonna go with only warm beverages. I'm gonna cheat the system by just drinking warm lemon water and glue wine.

SPEAKER_01 33:19

Oh, I'm sorry. But that was the best. Would you rather we've had on the podcast yet? Maybe hot toddy's. Maybe. Hot lemon water. I hate you. That was so great. I'm so proud of myself.

SPEAKER_00 33:34

Obviously, that one I made up from this very lovely brain of my own. Google did not tell me that one. That was fun. God.

SPEAKER_02 33:41

We're all done with interesting questions. Nick is still crying over here. I can't imagine if I had I would be deh I would be in the house. You know what? Here's my solution. No. None of them and just get go to the hospital, get the IV to rehydrate myself. Boom, solve.

SPEAKER_01 33:56

Well, is the IV heated? Well, you're not drinking it, I suppose. So you've worked since saline solution going into your veins.

SPEAKER_00 34:03

Oh, piercing right in. If you ever have had potassium put into you, it burns that way. So, okay, we're getting off topic here.

SPEAKER_02 34:10

All right, so it's meal plan time. It's slow cooker week. We all like slow cookers. They're easy, they're convenient.

SPEAKER_00 34:16

I'm pumped about this one. Yeah. Because you're welcome. I was gonna do, you know, so every week we have two options. I was just gonna do one slow cooker and one regular, and I was like, no, it's slow cooker week. All slow cooker meal plans or all slow cooker recipes. All the time. Um, I don't have fish ones picked out. Ooh, that sounds gross. So, so gross. Anyway, I chose um an Italian stuffed pork meatball sample.

SPEAKER_02 34:37

These are really good.

SPEAKER_00 34:38

And really, I chose it because I, you know, I I go through the recipes on our website very regularly, and I haven't like I haven't used this one, I don't think, maybe once before. And it just honestly looked like homey and great. And I put it on a Sunday. It's like a perfect, I don't know, is there football? It's a good project. There is wildcard weekend. So it's a good football sandwich thing. And yeah, so it's a good project, you said.

SPEAKER_02 34:59

Yeah, like with kids and stuff, because you meatballs are so you know, like, yeah, it's but like it's a good mess. It's a put an apron on a kitchen mess.

SPEAKER_00 35:06

Yeah, so it it just looks like warm, comforting, perfect for slow cooker week.

SPEAKER_02 35:10

Fun note, Elliot helped me make broccoli the other day.

SPEAKER_00 35:13

Oh, yeah, true.

SPEAKER_02 35:14

She's a really good, really good cook.

SPEAKER_00 35:15

Yeah, what did he do?

SPEAKER_02 35:17

Well, he dumped, he opened the bags. Oh, good. He dumped the broccoli into the bowl. Oh he poured oil on top of it. Oh. He seasoned it. Good job, man. Did you like the broccoli? I love broccoli. All broccoli.

SPEAKER_00 35:30

Thanks, Elliot. Elliot can now cook our broccoli.

SPEAKER_02 35:32

Spread it on the on the on the sheet pan to go in the oven. So you did a good job. Okay, man, cool. So, you know, he probably liked to make these meatballs. He loves cooking. Uh, mine is gonna be a little controversial in the Vorpagel household. Excellent. Uh, last week we did uh a one that was a great for Sarah one that she loves, the chorizo queso dip. Yep. This one she does not like, which is unfortunate because it's one of my favorite things. It's a slow cooker beef also buco. You take beef shanks, cook them down to get them nice and tender. They're super flavorful. They do taste a little very beefy.

SPEAKER_00 36:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:08

They do have a good amount of fat. This one is not my fave. I love it though. I just I love it, I love it, I love it. Uh, and then you get a pan sauce or a sauce in there that you blend up uh from tomatoes and stuff and put it on top, and it's so good over like potatoes or rice or whatever. Lots of comfort food. I love this recipe so much. Sarah hates it. We're not gonna be making it because I love my wife more than I love food.

SPEAKER_00 36:32

But does Simona like it? You have a third in the house that can vote now. Yeah, I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_02 36:36

Simona likes everything, so so you could make it. It's probably not super great for her. Probably not. Actually, it would be because we can shred it. So if you want to do like something super affordable, beef shinks are cheap, yeah. Um, super flavorful, something a little different. Um, the still cooker beef asobuco recipe is really good. There you go.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

The meal pet, I'm so excited about it. It's a good one. I mean, look at that. I I know we're looking at the picture of it, guys. So good. All right. Well, it's time for Kid Corner. I let you sing that one. Aren't you happy? I am.

SPEAKER_02 37:08

There was not that much singing on this episode. Maybe it's because we were depressed about shoot, I'm sorry. The insurrection that occurred.

SPEAKER_00 37:14

Are you guys happy that we're depressed and not singing? Because I would be. Drop us a note in the comments. Let us know if you never want us to sing again. We won't listen to it. Okay, Kid Corner. I'm gonna take a little twist on Kid Corner, as usual, extending the rules a little. And I'm a kid of my dad, and I have kids, and so this story includes all of us. We all are children, really, then. We are all children. Yeah, see, so we can tell embarrassing stories about ourselves. Um, someday, I don't know, that it snowed a lot. I think it was around New Year's somewhere. I don't know. It's like the second. Was it what day is today? So maybe I should have said this on last whatever. It snowed a lot.

unknown 37:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 37:54

Um, and I I love playing in the snow. So the kids can run off their energy. Um, we went to my parents' house and they have like, we don't, neither of our homes, mine nor my parents, have a big hill. But there's like enough of a hill to like entertain my four-year-old and us adults for a little while. So my we have like our plastic sleds that every kid has. But my dad busted out his toboggan from his childhood. Whoa.

SPEAKER_02 38:18

And I'm like, okay, that thing should be in those Smithsonians.

SPEAKER_00 38:22

And it so it was it's a wooden toboggan, like and it's it's classic. I don't know. I don't know a lot about toboggans, but it's like old school classic toboggan. I'm like, does this thing like actually work? Yeah, you know, so yes, it does, is the answer. Me and Tyler went for a ride. Elliot went. We may have gone down the road in my parents' neighborhood. It's a private neighborhood, don't worry. Um, I also it had a string on it, and I tried to uh snowboard with it. Tyler and I both had a race of who could go further. I didn't fall. Elliot tried it and fell a little, but he did not cry. Good work, Elliot. Yeah, so yes, my kids were there, and this is Kid Corner, but more it was really cool. My dad is not a very emotional man, and he was telling stories about generations of doing this with his dad, and then being able to give it to, you know, let his grandson use it. So really awesome, lovely, touching, great. Good job.

SPEAKER_02 39:12

Yeah, it was really fun. Uh, mine's about Simona starting to grow up and having these like things, even though she's only one, uh daycare. She had to go out of her original classroom because probably she's too big for it and was smashing all the babies in her attempts to love them. You know, she's growing. Um, but uh we had a really, really awesome teacher that really loved her. Simona really loved her back, Miss Edith, and um we had to transition away from Miss Edith. And it was very sad and very upsetting for us.

SPEAKER_00 39:43

And we feel for Simona or just you?

SPEAKER_02 39:45

Well, for Simona, too. We feel really bad for Simona because she always, especially now that she walks, she'll just like run up to Miss Edith and give her a big hug. And um, so it was just like very sad to have that like transition. It's like, oh my god, we're gonna have this every great night.

SPEAKER_00 39:58

We're gonna have this a lot. Yeah, it's very sad. It is a lot when it's your like first transition.

SPEAKER_02 40:02

Like, oh it was it was sad, and uh you know, Miss Edith still follows her on Instagram. Yes, you know, so we got that. It's we got that. It's very nice. Yeah, it's very nice. Very, very nice. Um, but yeah, it was just it was sad. And now, like, I'm like, man, well, maybe some of the other teachers will suck and we won't care about it, but probably not. It's just sad. Transition's hard. Do you like what downers we are? Sad. Hey, do we uh do or we could do, you know, if we were allowed to tweet on Twitter, unlike some people, boom. We could do sad exclamation point.

SPEAKER_00 40:39

Okay, we did okay, wait, I'm putting you on the spot. Do you have a positive happy thing to say? Uh about Simona? Nope, just in general.

SPEAKER_02 40:46

Or in the general, I rearranged my office and it made me feel so good.

SPEAKER_00 40:51

It's so great. I'm really proud of it too, because I spend a lot of time in there. Okay, I will say a tweet uh from our from our gal pal, Stacy. My pal Stacy. Um we do have positive things to say that the Jewish son of an immigrant, the first black senator in Georgia, Catholic. First elected black senator. First elected black senator, first woman, black, and Indian vice president. So these are all very positive things. You've all seen that tweet put uh floating around.

SPEAKER_02 41:19

I love Kamala just like sitting there at these press conferences, like manspreading. She's like just straight up manspreading, like, what? Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:27

I mean, what these are positive things we will teach our kids about.

SPEAKER_02 41:32

I think it's funny. I just yeah, I think regardless of where you are, you should be like, it's kind of funny that she's just like, What?

SPEAKER_00 41:38

Did we talk on here offline, online, about her getting her COVID shot? Was that on here? No. When I watched, I just happened to like log on to Facebook what as it was going live that she was getting her first COVID vaccine. And she was just like, I I just text my sister uh in Washington, and I was like, um, the I said, what did I say? Like, God, she's just like the most normal person in the world. She was acting exactly how what I would have when like getting a shot on camera, like so awkward. We're like, hi. And then she's she like put her arm up and never put it down because it was just like awkward. She put it up for some reason to like roll up her sleeve and then never. So it was like floating in the air while she got her shot. Whatever. It was, it was the most like, you are a normal, approachable human being, which was so great. So anyway, I love her.

SPEAKER_02 42:22

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SPEAKER_00 42:30

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SPEAKER_02 42:37

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SPEAKER_00 42:38

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SPEAKER_02 42:43

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