Give Me The Cheese & Noodles - Dinner Plus Drinks #133

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It's Bastille Day, guys. It's always a good episode when we start with a song. I'm very uh I get very excited about uh the national days. Uh ridiculous holidays. July 14th is a good one because it's National Grand Marnier Day. Oh my god! Happy Tyler Day! Tyler Day! I gotta call him up and be like, shots, shots, shots, shots, shot. Yeah, that's a great idea. Uh and it's National Mac and Cheese Day. Oh, to me. But most importantly, to me, Bastille Day, vive La France, drink the champagne, MF hers. Give me the cheese and noodles. Uh, since it's Bastille Day, we opened a bottle of champagne. And you know, it's morning time when we're recording, so. I asked Bridget French 75, which would have been another appropriate Bastille Day.

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But I reined it in because it's early in the day.

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Well, I thought, you know, there's is there less booze in a French 75 because of the lime juice and the simple syrup, or is there more booze because of the GM?

SPEAKER_00 1:05

Because of the liquor, the hard alcohol. I can handle bottles, bottles of wine or champagne.

SPEAKER_02 1:13

I don't know. Yesterday it was the wine that maybe got you a little sideways.

SPEAKER_00 1:16

Oh, it was the German dancing spinning and spinning and spinning.

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Speaking of yesterday, what a day. What a day. I really do feel like if we got, you know, it's uh it's like a boot camp or something where you're like, oh, if I can do this. I mean, I'm definitely comparing what we did yesterday to army training.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

Yeah, that's the same. I I mean, I train, I compare, like, I got home and was like, I have not looked at my computer screen since 9 a.m., maybe 9 30. And I got home at 8 p.m. So that's a long time for me to not look at my computer.

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I had uh 37 emails, like not spam emails, not marketing emails, like need some type of attention. Oh man. Uh I also forgot, I don't know if you noticed, I forgot to send our weekly sale email that we uh came through this morning and said today's National French Friday, uh, which was a day late. I did change the, I remember to change the last part of it that said, join us tonight for our beer garden. Oh shit. So I remembered to change that part, but I forgot the first part said it was National French Friday. Well, no one's gonna check it out. So I'm just gonna blame Mailchimp if anybody's mad about it. Sorry, Mailchimp. Sorry and thank you. That's how that's how my week's gone. It's been a little cray cry. Yeah, we've it's been nuts. I've got an even more cray week.

SPEAKER_00 2:28

Well, I was I started typing all the things, and I I it has just been nonstop. And I knew July was gonna be nonstop, but damn, I am living it right now and I'm in the middle of it.

SPEAKER_02 2:38

Yeah, we tried to keep uh the outline to bullet points, you know, like we should. And Bridget wrote a freaking paragraph about her week.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

It just was like we I was at my family cottage over 4th of July, my in-laws. Then we came home and we had to work an event, which is a super fun event, but you know, early in the morning.

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Can we talk about the marathon, the half marathon, and the guy that cut the course to start drinking early?

SPEAKER_00 3:02

He was the guy that like closed it down last year. I was like, no, and I'm I judged, but I was like, no way was this guy finishing a half marathon in an hour and 15 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 3:11

There was no way. And he's like, Yeah, I cut the course. I didn't know that. I didn't know that until hours later. He's like, Yeah, I cut the course. I wanted the beer. He and he was not kidding, man. He just stood there and drank the beer. And uh we were with Justin, who's the brewer from Topsy Turvy, who's awesome. Shout out, and uh wears some awesome shirts all the time. He's a great guy to hang out with. And so this guy cut the course to hang out with Justin and drink beers because he had so much fun doing it last year.

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And he yeah, he I remembered him from we all were like, it was that guy.

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One of our uh friends, acquaintances uh finished first in the like 30 to 35 year old uh Raby did for Oh, I didn't realize that. Yep, and uh so he shared it on his Facebook and everything, and I messed it up and was like, Hey, good job, Raby. Did you see that uh did you see the guy that cuts the question? She's like, I saw that time and I thought, no way. Is that what he did? He got DQ'd. Yep, and there was some other guy that thought he was who I think followed that guy.

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I know, I feel bad because that kid had a running tattoo. Like he was serious. I'm like, oh, I feel bad. He's probably real. He just he said he missed a turn, and I know exactly Carly explained the race director explained what turn, and I was like, Oh, I could see that. Oh, especially if you're out front. Yeah, you're not paying attention. Yep, yep. Anyway, that was not us, but yeah, we served up some brats and beer at the post-race party, moved right from that to a birthday party. Woo-hoo! Then uh had a day at the beach. Man, I was a tourist in Lake Geneva on Sunday last week.

SPEAKER_02 4:35

Uh Molini Bikini.

SPEAKER_00 4:36

Oh, so good. I was gonna make it a product rec, but I've already done that, I believe. But I'm gonna early shout out Molini Bikini. Uh go try it out. It's uh the American Legion food stand down by the lake, um, run by some friends of ours and a young woman who put together a great business plan, pitched an idea, got a um a grant, if you will, and um yeah, is running a fun Hawaiian shave ice stand. So I know we've talked about it, but if you're in the area for sure, she has great hours. Like she's open at all of the right times. She opens early if she knows she needs it. And yeah, so beach day, super fun. Then we've had more events, more events, more events. We have events every week because it's a good one. Bridget learned how to do German dancing. We had we did a promo shoot for something, and yeah, it was lots of German things. Uh, and I spun in many circles after having a glass of wine, and I was like, I'm gonna die. Like, I was sweating and it wasn't that hot on it.

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It was not, it was one of those days where like the combination of uh like the wet bulb temperature, which is cutting for humidity and sunshine and like all those things.

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And no sitting still.

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Yeah, it was just like one of those days where we both were like, we smell bad.

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Yeah, I went, I got home and just like wanted to scrape the disgusting off of me.

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It was beautiful. I did the uh splash my face with water thing. Yes, yeah and I was like, oh, this does work. Oh I always I love watching uh reviews of like traveling in first class on airplanes and stuff because it's like I'll never do that. Actually, I have done that, but like uh Emirates or something like that, one of the ultra luxurious ones, and they give you all these things and you know you shaving kit.

SPEAKER_00 6:07

I'm like, who the f shaved on an airplane? I remember getting shaving kits on planes. I was like, what a lifetime ago. Now you can't barely get pretzels.

SPEAKER_02 6:14

I know. Like, I don't why would you do all of those things on a plane? And also I'm always confused. Like, you get the socks of the can I take them with me? Is it like mine? Do I gonna keep it?

SPEAKER_00 6:22

Yeah, man, you paid for that.

SPEAKER_02 6:23

No, I mean I know, but I'm always like, I don't and you know, they like always try to one up each other with their luxurious fragrances and stuff. I'm like, I don't need more cologne.

SPEAKER_00 6:32

That was a lifetime ago. That world doesn't exist, yeah, except on Emriths. Um, I'm also just like I'm having a minor major heart attack as I am now writing checks for the house. Yeah, that's exciting. So like exciting, but these are big checks. I'm like, oh my God. I suddenly like think about every single thing I spend one dollar on. I'm like, oh no, I don't need this, as I placed Amazon Prime sales yesterday. But you know, I was like, oh shit. So anyway, that's exciting. But I'm like uh I'm having a heart attack over here, sitting over here drinking my champagne, having a heart attack. It'll help. It'll help. So anyway, it's been a crazy week. Moral of the story.

SPEAKER_02 7:13

Yeah, here we are. I don't really know what I've done in the last week. It's been a blur. It's been a blur. I just uh events. We've done events. I've been cooking on the Blackstone thing, trying to figure that out. Oh yeah. I've been uh doing events.

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Blackstone is a grill in case you're a flat top.

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A flat top, yeah, flat top grill. And uh doing some gardening, doing some gardening.

SPEAKER_00 7:36

Doing some garden. Who in the fuck has time for gardening? Sorry for my language.

SPEAKER_02 7:40

I uh working on, you know, dialing in the plant plan for next year. So I'm God, plant plan for next year. I just think, you know, last week I said control what I can control, make my lists, and uh that's one of the things I can I can very much so like I go, I water my flowers, I deadhead things that need to come off, I uh see how they're doing, and then I sit there and I look at them and I say, Oh, so pretty. Oh, it's just not a world I live in, Nick. I like my flowers.

SPEAKER_00 8:10

Well, okay. Anything else about your week?

SPEAKER_02 8:13

I don't know. Is there something I forgot?

SPEAKER_00 8:15

No, I'm just you know, double checking before I move right on to my riveting news story.

SPEAKER_02 8:19

Uh no, but I am I want to be riveted by your news story.

SPEAKER_00 8:23

It's not riveting, but it's very bridget to talk about. If you are an avid listener, you know I'm obsessed with the influencer culture and influencers in general, influencers as a business. And you know, we just passed Amazon Prime Day, which is this is not my news story, but I know influencers that I follow at least struggle with like the ethics of it, right? Uh we all want to hate Amazon, but we all know that people buy things on Amazon.

SPEAKER_02 8:48

So this influencer I mean, we have all the affiliate links because again, like small, we're like, you know what? Somebody's gonna get money off of them, may as well be us.

SPEAKER_00 8:57

It's true. And and guys, we're talking pennies here, okay? However, if you are an influencer with a huge following, this one of my favorites, she made in one day on the 12th of July $8,700 in affiliate sales from Amazon. So the way she handles her guilt, I'm sure, from all the Amazon pimping is she donates half of it to a charity of choice. So every Amazon Prime Day, every time she does a big sale or every time there's a big sale like this at a potentially unethical company, she um donates half of it. So this year she donated to every town, which is hooray! Thank you. So anyway, that's not my article, but my article is about the influencer culture because I know on here I've talked about the coastal grandma and coastal grandpa style. I haven't heard of this actually. What?

SPEAKER_02 9:45

No, you haven't talked about it.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

Oh, I swear I have. Well, this is gonna be real weird. Tell this, tell me what this is. I'm like super confused. I uh oh, maybe I talked about it on in my other role of sharing weird news stories. Okay, so coastal grandma style. Think like Diane Keaton, uh, like linen khaki pants and like a button-down white this very inn right now. Oh, is it so and they call it coastal grandparents, grandfather, grandmother, whatever. And that's like the style. Let me tell you, I packed linen khaki shorts and a button-down white shirt for my little get my little girl's trip getaway I'm going on. So in the words of Samoa, so cute! So cute, so cute. So, yes, this like coastal grandparent thing is is a thing right now, and it's definitely like all over the influencer world. So I apologize. I thought I had talked about that on here. Google it if you don't know what I'm talking about. Because now we're sharing an article from the top-notch news source, BuzzFeed News, and it's the title is Nantucket is courting the coastal granddaughter generation, and it's working. So this is all about so coastal granddaughter, you can figure this out, right? This is about like the younger influencers, and when I say younger, I mean in their 20s. So this article goes on to talk about like this 27-year-old content creator, and she was doing a baby moon. And where did she, where did she decide to go? Nantucket. She, this girl lives in Tennessee. Why'd you decide Nantucket? Basically, the influencer was influenced, and so she was influenced by quote, older influencers, which are those in their 30s and up. Um, sorry to call us older, but um basically it's just like a silly, ridiculous article about these younger influencers being influenced by themselves. Literally, right now, like Nantucket type areas, Cape Cod, that's all popular because it's being talked about on Instagram. So I don't care if you think influencers don't work. People are planning vacations to the East Coast because people are talking about it being hip to wear linen pants and white button-down shirts on a beach. You also could just go to Milwaukee on Lake Michigan and wear it, and it looks just as beautiful, but whatever.

SPEAKER_02 11:53

I have three comments about this. I can't wait to hear them all. One, I hate all these poses that they're all the same pose and they're so forced, and like everybody knows they're just it's like an emperor's new clothes situation, I feel like, with all this, where it's like the like hold your thing and like smile at your friend, be like, it's like the sorority hand sorority squat or a hand on hip.

SPEAKER_00 12:14

I hate that. I hate that.

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It looks terrible, it's fake, it's posed, everybody knows it's like trying to be like, oh look, still life's real like candids never work, okay? So it's all posed, everybody knows it's posed, but like people still consume it kind of sort of, it's bullshit. Um two, the husbands or boyfriends or whatever that have to like do all the pictures. I mean, there's been a lot of satire about this, but like, God bless. I'm trying to get Sarah, you know, to take a look at the she makes it very clear to me that I she is doing me a massive favor, which she is. Yeah, she is, you know, she doesn't get paid for this. Neither do they.

SPEAKER_00 12:50

Uh well, they do, they usually work for the influencer.

SPEAKER_02 12:52

Well, no, this is my point. They don't, but it's like bullshit. Like, I mean why so anyway, but these guys, God bless. They get to go on a lot of trips. Yeah, and finally, why is it Visit Lake Geneva doing this?

SPEAKER_00 13:04

Dude, visit Lake Geneva, you want to hire me to tell you all about the influencer culture?

SPEAKER_02 13:08

I will, because I know all of it. Fourth, these pictures suck. They're not Jeff Anderson photography. I'm gonna hire Jeff Anderson to make me pose all throughout Lake Geneva. Honestly, I don't understand why Instagram influencers, because like one of the things in this article she's talking about, like, oh, for the best pictures, go and do this. It does feel like everybody now, I think he shared an article once about like, don't videotape your kids' basketball game, watch your kids' basketball game. You know, everybody's like, oh, I need to take the picture and show that I was there. Yeah. On my last vacation, actually, I tried very hard not to do that. Like, I wanted to do this Instagram story thing in the National Gallery. That would have been hilarious.

SPEAKER_00 13:43

But you uh but you're not an influencer.

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But I didn't do it. Oh no, it would have been on a story, and it would have been hilarious for like a certain group of my friends. Oh god. And it would have been a way to share the experience, but it's like, no, I'm gonna like be here. Be here, be present. Um I don't understand like why it's so easy to take your mirrorless camera that's infinitely better than your iPhone camera, even the way it is now, and then just zoop it over. So, like, if you're all about like, look at how good of a picture I took, why don't you do it on a good camera?

SPEAKER_00 14:12

Well, because they'd have to carry that. And also all of these photos are just edited, they all have a filter. So if you go to any of these influencers' page, all their photos look the same because they all have the same filter on them. I trust me.

SPEAKER_02 14:26

I do, it's just like it drives me nuts.

SPEAKER_00 14:28

I just think it's fascinating.

SPEAKER_02 14:29

A lot of low quality work is what I say.

SPEAKER_00 14:31

I have two things to say. Uh one, I want to start a page that's me doing real people poses, like just standing here looking like a fatty or slumped over. Because like I promise you. I just got done spinning from German dancing. Yeah, like a little bit sweaty. My hair's a mess. And I just want that to be, but I want to do it in these beautiful locations. Like people of New York. Yes. Or Do you follow people of New York? Yes. Yeah. Humans of New York isn't. Yeah, humans of New York. And there's a um, yes, I follow Humans of New York. Also, there's a page called Influencers in the Wild. If you don't follow it, you must.

SPEAKER_02 15:04

Oh, yeah. Uh that one is great.

SPEAKER_00 15:06

It is the best. Um, and lastly, I just want to call this other thing out from the article because like this is what a big this is what a big deal this is. There is a brand called Hill House, and it was created by an influencer, business owner as well. Uh, she grew up like summering on the in Nantucket, but this brand sells what they call nap dresses, which are just like dresses so comfy you can nap in them, you know? And there are these like smocked frock dresses that influencers wear everywhere. So just look at this. Like, this culture is such a big deal that a woman has created an entire clothing line off of it, opened a pop-up shop off of it. These dresses are like, I want to say $170. I'm like, what the hell? I think I bought one for $20 from Target. Anyway, it's fascinating. Check out the article if you want to like die a little on the inside and also laugh and be fascinated by a new type of business that we live in.

SPEAKER_02 15:57

Uh, so I wanted to share a Milwaukee article with you about Palomino Bar, which I think you've probably been to. Oh, yeah, I've been to it, but it wasn't like a frequent place of mine. But it's a cool place, they do some cool events. And uh Milwaukee wrote an article about it. Lori Friedrich, who is their uh dining editor and is a very kind food critic. Um, very supportive. Yeah. Um, her criticisms are always very kind, and sometimes she gets accused of being a cheerleader instead of a critic, but you know, there's a place for everything.

SPEAKER_00 16:25

Um Sean Carey did a concert here when he first. Yeah, we went and saw it.

SPEAKER_02 16:29

Um, so she wrote a very kind article about how Palomino Bar is temporarily closing, making changes due to staffing shortage. Starts out by saying, You've probably heard that it's a tough game for restaurants out there right now. Staffing shortages brought on by the pandemic are impacting restaurants throughout the city, resulting in abbreviated hours, adjustments to operations, and sometimes even temporary pauses in business. So Palomino is not doing dinner service or bar service. They are just doing special events and said, like, we hope we'll open next year. Yeah. And my question to you, what I actually really want to talk about with you is do you think it's possible that they can reopen or do you think it's just done now?

SPEAKER_00 17:01

I think it's possible they can reopen. I don't know that they're gonna want to. Special events are are solid, and I don't say easy money because it's not, but people are always having special events, and like weddings are never gonna stop, funerals are never gonna stop. This is the like kind of joke we always had in the industry is like people are always gonna die and people are always gonna get married. They may spend less money or more money, and I'm not saying like Palomino's not a wedding venue, but there's gonna be birthdays, there's gonna be whatever. I think they fully could reopen. I just think as a business model, they might realize oh, we could just make as much money with a different kind of work and less days a week.

SPEAKER_02 17:36

I always wondered though, I have two things. So, first is like, how do you keep staff when you say, like, hey, we have this one thing all the time? They have two jobs, and and that's yeah, you know, um, like how do you keep that tether on people? Yeah, uh, that it's frequent enough that they stay in the loop, they stay with things, but it's infrequent enough that they can have that second job, and like having a big enough pool, that always like blows my mind.

SPEAKER_00 18:00

But in Milwaukee, I think especially the servers that's very normal. Like, you know, you're gonna go be a server Monday through Friday somewhere else at a brunch place, and then you're gonna work these events at Palomino.

SPEAKER_02 18:09

And then from a consumer, like personally, I always like if I see this, I just write the place off. Like they have their peach social coming up, which they do these really cool whiskey socials that are all like themed dinners and stuff. But like it's so easy when you hear like, oh, they're closed, or like you know, our friends at Simple like have yeah and some challenges with that, and it's very easy then just to be like, oh, they're always closed. And like I personally, you know, pat on the back to try not to do that, but I have a lot of friends that oh the place is always closed.

SPEAKER_00 18:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:40

And it's just like that stigma.

SPEAKER_00 18:42

So I just like I'm very curious because I think with if they come off of like um so they were very forward, like, we're not going to open, and we hope we can again. So I think when they if they decide to reopen again, they had such a loyal following. I think if it's a year, it'll be like a really exciting thing, like we're open again. But then once they open, they need to be consistently open. They can't go back and forth. I think once they decide to consistently reopen, it's an exciting thing. And I think they'll gain their like regulars because this is a very loyal type of a location.

SPEAKER_02 19:15

I mean, they got a front page article on On Milwaukee, it's notable enough.

SPEAKER_00 19:18

And it's kind of like I don't want to say a shithole, but it's not like it's not like a trendy, beautiful place. It's just like it's a Bayviewed shithole. And Bayview people are loyal, like so. I think they'll come back um in a year if they stay consistently open after that.

SPEAKER_02 19:33

It's just one of the things that I think will I think I kick this around all the time too, is like at what point with limited resources do a lot of businesses start have to start saying, No, we're not doing that.

SPEAKER_00 19:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:47

And be open with customers of no, I understand you want it. I understand we used to do it. We're not gonna do it anymore. And no matter how much you're mad at us, we're not going to do it because we don't have the people. Yeah. You know, whether that's shorter hours, closing a day. Uh, my friend Rick that owns a butcher shop in Hudson, uh, coming off of COVID, he said, we're not doing Sundays anymore. Like, just shut it down. Like we had to like reorient staff and everything, so that means I'm giving everybody Sunday off. Um we just said we're not taking orders for brat patties because we have fewer people and it takes too much time to make them.

SPEAKER_00 20:26

So I think people get mad initially, and then because you know, they're righteous.

SPEAKER_02 20:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:32

And then they're like, oh well, okay, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_02 20:34

I still like your other food. The attitude of the customer's always right, and if I pay you, do what I want, bitch, in America, is so I mean, especially as of late. Yeah. So it's like I I'm really interested if we will be able to find this society-wide pivot of people, enough businesses. I mean, Walmart has done it. They've shortened their hours. Have they? I haven't even noticed. Yeah, I mean, but that's because I'm old. And they've dropped like how they do some of the pickup stuff. They've changed all that. So it's like, at what point do enough businesses just step up and say, like, no?

SPEAKER_00 21:05

Yeah, like calm. It's funny, I was having this discussion with somebody yesterday about how much I, you know, I miss being in a city. And she is from she lives in Milwaukee, and I was talking about how I'd love to be in, you know, whatever, I miss being in a city. And she's like, Really? I daydream about like living in a country. And I'm like, well, for example, here on Sunday mornings, I'm up at 6 a.m. at the latest, and I want to maybe go run some errands before the day gets going. And places don't even open until 11 a.m. And she's like, Well, you'd be surprised. Like in Milwaukee, a lot of places are are doing the same thing because they never recovered after the pandemic.

SPEAKER_02 21:40

So Walmart's 6 a.m. to 11 now. It used to be 24 hours a day.

SPEAKER_00 21:44

Yeah. I was I, you know, I was not speaking about like a brunch place, which I think is what she's talking about, but like uh TJ Maxx one day I wanted to run into pick up a gift or something. Just not enough people sleep. Fucking 11 a.m. My day is half over. Yeah. So it, but you know, it was like that before COVID in Lake J. Geneva most cities and things now is changing after COVID. So I was I was speaking about a world before 2020. Anybody remember that time? It was great. Everything was it was great.

SPEAKER_02 22:09

Everything was beautiful. Um anyway, yeah. So I was just more like, I'm very Yeah. I just think it's something that I'm curious if it's gonna happen more, if more people are gonna feel confident to do that. If I think so. Yeah, so it's just interesting, I think.

SPEAKER_00 22:23

We'll see what happens in this lovely little town of ours.

SPEAKER_02 22:26

Stay tuned.

SPEAKER_00 22:44

All right, I'm back to Bore Nick with a boring product recommendation.

SPEAKER_02 22:49

So you keep saying that I'm bored by it and not interested in it, but you forget the amounts of lengths I go to on haircuts.

SPEAKER_00 22:54

Actually, yeah, you do you do care about your hair more than I do. So um I have told anyone that will listen to me about this, and no one has cared. So I'm telling all of you.

SPEAKER_02 23:04

See, you keep under I'm very interested in this. I asked you like a follow-up question.

SPEAKER_00 23:11

What do you mean? What do you mean? So um I am very low maintenance. I don't buy fancy shampoos. I don't like, I don't, it's not where I choose to spend my money. Yes. You choose to spend your money on windows. I choose to spend my money on windows. So much money. Um, so anyway, since moving into our home, we've been there like four years or so. Um, it's well water, which is not, you know there's a lot of everyone I know has well water. Nick has well water, my sister does, my parents do, a lot of our friends do. So it's never really like been something I thought much about. However, we have had to like do a few things with our well. We've effed around with our water softener. And I when when I dye my hair, first of all, I loathe it because it's so expensive and I hate sitting at the salon for like a hundred hours. But it's always, it's always lighter. I do a balayage, which is like the lazy girls' highlights, is what I like to say. And it's, I have like a well, you you guys have all seen my picture and or know me. You know what color my hair is. So it's brown, it's boring brown, and I usually go a little lighter. Well, over the past few years, I would look at photos and I'm like, my hair is orange. Why is my hair orange? And then finally it took this person at school pickup to be like, oh my God, did you dye your hair? I love it. It's kind of like red and brassy. And I was like, ew. I think I said to her, ew, it's so trashy. But she liked it. So I didn't mean, and then I was like, that was probably offensive, but I hated it. It was like this horrible orange color, right?

SPEAKER_02 24:38

But what did Tyler think? Because remember, you only exist as serious man.

SPEAKER_00 24:43

Tyler would never, he knows how much it makes me mad. He would never say anything. So anyway, uh, the salon people, you know, they always try and up you upsell you, which like pisses me off, but it's part of their job. Oh, you should get this Malibu treatment. Do a Malibu treatment. And all I could think is like, I am not a goddamn Barbie. I'm not a Barbie baby.

SPEAKER_02 24:59

When you said I got a Malibu, I'm like, Oh, isn't that funny?

SPEAKER_00 25:02

All I could think of is Malibu Barbie. Oh no, I thought of rum. I was like, Because I'm like, oh, my blonde hair, you want me to get this like Barbie? I was like, sounds expensive and I don't have time for this, right? It does sound expensive. Yes. So I'm sure it would have been had I done it at a salon. So I went to our Sally Beauty, where I where I do now buy special shampoo for hard water, and they have this Malibu treatment in a packet and it's like $5. I'm like, ah, well, we'll try it. It's been sitting in my bathroom forever. The other day I'm like, I'm just gonna give it a shot. It looks like cocaine, I imagine, and you pour it in the palm of your hand. So I'm like, oh, you know, who has time to sit around and like put a hair mask on and sit there for 30 minutes and rinse it out? Well, my friends, I'm here to tell you Malibu treatment. You just get in a shower, shampoo your hair like normal, then you put your uh Malibu treatment cocaine pile in your hand, rinse it with water, put it in your hair. I use two packets because I have long thick hair. So 10 bucks, and five minutes later, it stripped almost all of the orange out of my hair. Mind blowing, you guys. I need to do it probably one more time, but I think it said you can do it once a week. So on Amazon Prime Days, I bought a bulk box of it for like 20 bucks. I bought a whole bunch of packets. And if you have hard water and it's discoloring your hair, I am here to tell you my hair feels nicer. Um, it takes out all the orange color. It's back to like just being a beautiful brassy brown blonde. And I could not be more pleased, everybody go buy Malibu treatment if you have weird colored hair like mine.

SPEAKER_02 26:30

I'm gonna change up what I had on here.

SPEAKER_00 26:32

But I was so curious what this was.

SPEAKER_02 26:33

Uh, because I want to give it one more week. Okay, fine. I want to give it one more week of testing in the wild before I talk about it. All right. And I don't think it'd be a recommendation yet. Well, mine would be mine is tested in the wild. It it would be uh, you know, I think I should take a little bit more time. So instead, I'm gonna switch it up. Indeed Brewing Company. Oh yeah. Uh more on them later. But I would just like to give you all a very quick uh they were our beer brewery of choice yesterday. Um, and they brought ice cream floats. Oh my god. That were not ice cream floats with soda. Well, they were ice cream. Beer floats. They were so good. So uh they were quite yummy. Uh basically it's uh an ice cream float, but with beer instead of soda. Did you catch that? So uh they have this cream ale, it's called an ice cream social, ice cream ale social variety pack. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 27:23

I think it's called ice cream social variety pack.

SPEAKER_02 27:25

Yeah, there's a lot of words on it. Cream ale, yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of words, but they did some really fun flavors. They are in Milwaukee and Minnesota, Minneapolis. Please list the flavors that people must know. And they I'll tell you if you don't know. You do them. Uh Italian Ice, Snow Cone, uh Dreamstakle, and Pistachio. There you go. Uh and they're just really nice people, and they do some really fun flavored stuff, and uh more on that later. But if you like beer, I really do think indeed quietly doing one of the better jobs, better better jobs in the area.

SPEAKER_00 27:59

And they're beautifully branded. We learned a little more about that yesterday, which was fun to talk to our rep about that. But yeah, it's beautiful branding and delicious beer.

SPEAKER_02 28:08

We had uh one of the ridiculous discussions that we have about how much should a beer artist get paid. Oh, yeah. Should it be, you know, like what's reasonable considering that like, you know, technically they could charge per piece, so you have to buy out the per piece part. No, but like you only did the work once. What's part is valuable, but like how much can you really get away with charging, bro? It's a very interesting discussion. It it it is, yes. That was nicely put. Anyway, indeed brewing, check them out. Uh, they're delicious. You can find it on shelves, like Cheech and Country Meets, other fine liquor stores, and uh also at their chap room.

SPEAKER_03 28:44

We'll be like that.

SPEAKER_02 29:03

Welcome back, everybody. We're back. Inspired by Bridget's reading of hilarious product reviews, I thought we could read this list of kids humbling their parents. There are tweets from people about kids humbling their parents. Uh, I'll start. This is a good one. Child or uh parent, you won't know how to ride a bike right away. It takes practice. Seven-year-old. Okay. Parent. Took me many tries. Seven-year-old. Can I try now? Parent. Be patient. Seven-year-old, mama, can I please try? Parent. Okay, just be prepared to eat it. Seven-year-old gets on bike, rides away. Parent. Uh seven-year-old yells, you are not as smart as me, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 29:47

I mean, seven, I feel like that's a that's a time kids know how to ride bikes, right? I think. This one is terrible, and I could totally see this happening. Are you ready? Oh my god, I'm I yes. Okay. It's titled Not Prepared for That One. Nowhere in parenting books did it say that my four-year-old was going to exclaim, quote, your front butt has too much hair on it in a public bathroom. I for sure am at the age, my kids are at the age where like, what if I change in front of them? They're like asking weird questions. I mean, I don't change in front of Elliot anymore. Or they're staring. The other day, the first time I decided to stop changing in front of Elliot because he just stared at my boobs. And I was like, oh no, it I gotta stop this. So anyway, good times.

SPEAKER_02 30:39

Uh Simona very much so likes to come say good morning while I'm in the shower and stare, and it's very uncomfortable. No, it's so bad. And uh it's not quite to the point of I mean lock the doors. Yeah, it is. She's almost three. It's you know, you need to go over there, Simona. No. Uh I like this one. It comes from B. At don't worry about B. B. I told my daughter, come here, chunky monkey, and she said, Okay, fat rat. I'm so offended.

SPEAKER_00 31:12

Oh, okay, okay. I'm skipping down one or a couple because I want to. And this comes from Carrie Malago, and it's called Can't Afford It. This is all too real right now. I like it. Um, my seven-year-old clinging to his belief in Santa. Quote, you can't afford all those presents. I did the math. And we're very much in that like phase of big house. Like, do we have a big house or a small house? And we're like, it doesn't matter. Like, that isn't, you know, so I feel that.

SPEAKER_02 31:42

I really enjoyed one of the ones you skipped from Andy Wall, spelled A N D E Andy. She says, My three-year-old found the photo album from her dad's and my wedding and finds a pick of his kissing. Aw, and then you guys lived happily ever after? Pause. But daddy lives with Miss Krista now and you live alone.

SPEAKER_00 32:04

How would you kids have a way of just driving a knife into you and spinning it around?

SPEAKER_02 32:10

It's too bad.

SPEAKER_00 32:11

Oh, okay. Um this is from Mary Fairy Bobbery. She saw the opportunity and took it. And this is 100% Lucy. This is why I'm reading all these ones. My toddler held my hand all the way to the bathroom, gave me a kiss when I sat down, then stole my toilet paper roll and ran out of the bathroom laughing, in case you were wondering what it's like to be a parent. All of the, I'm sure there's a Reddit thread up in case you're wondering what it's like to be a parent. And those are all my favorite. Where I'm like, oh, you're not sure you want to have kids? And then you share all these great loving stories.

SPEAKER_02 32:46

Hen pecked hail at henpecked hail says. I asked my disobedient, he smelled spelled it wrong, son to respect my wishes, and he clapped back with, I'm not a genie. If this is four, I'm afraid to see 14. Dude. Seriously though.

SPEAKER_00 33:03

Do they get worse? Okay, I gotta find, I gotta find a good one. Hold on. Okay. This is awesome. Okay. Falling. I I don't want to read the title, it kind of ruins it. All right. When I've done things like this, my daughter looks at me and mutters, bang, clippity clap. I asked her what that meant, and she replied, That's the sound of you falling off your high horse and it leaving without you. I want to know how old that kid is.

SPEAKER_02 33:32

I like this one. Mom on the rocks. My toddler ran out of waffles in her pretend restaurant this morning, right after she served everyone besides me, and that's about the biggest F you she's ever given. I mean, can you imagine you're at your child's pretend restaurant, you're taking the time to play with them and like indulging this fantasy world. Oh, waffles for you? Well, oh, sorry, sorry we ran out.

SPEAKER_00 33:54

Dude, I mean Lucy's very respectful in her play kitchen. She always makes me this morning. She gave me a saucepan full of coffee, actually. And I was like, yes, girls, I need that.

SPEAKER_02 34:05

I would love to see you drink a saucepan of coffee.

SPEAKER_00 34:07

I mean, it's fake coffee, so I did drink it. I had my real coffee in my hand, but she just wanted desperately to play with me this morning, and I was like really trying to get a whole bunch of stuff ready. I'm like, yeah. So I sit in a room drinking my real coffee, and she she makes, she has a little Keurig, it makes a real coffee sound, and she gave me a saucepan full. And I said, Lucy, do you want to know where your coffee cup is? Got it for her. Continued to serve me coffee in a saucepan. Okay. You know, we know it's good to talk to your parents about or talk to your kids about real life things. So uh this woman and her wife sat down to talk to their four-year-old and said, You know, mommy and mama are gay, right? And the four-year-old says, Yes, I know. And and the moms said, Okay, what does gay mean? And she goes, very, very old, which is just really the truth these days, right? Dear does someone think you're old yet? Does she like understand that? Yep. Okay, yeah, it's really insulting.

SPEAKER_02 35:01

Here's another one about uh homosexual people. I am a gay dad, and what has happened is my four-year-old out of nowhere just asked me how many minutes there are in a year. Oh, damn. She probably knows the answer is the thing. Uh the answer is 525,600 minutes. Do oh, 500.

SPEAKER_00 35:20

Yes, okay, okay. If you sang that, your kids would call you old because they would be like, What's a musical? Is that something that you watch on Disney Plus? Oh man. My kids, this is not a uh tweet or quote. My kids, the first time Lucy had to see a commercial, broke down sobbing. Like it was maybe on Hulu or something that had three commercials, you know, and she was sobbing. Like her jaw went away. I'm like, girl, we didn't used to be able to fast forward through commercials. That's when you got up and like did your dishes. Duh. I kind of miss commercial breaks, if I'm being honest.

SPEAKER_02 35:54

Uh well, I have a great news for you. Amazon Prime is bringing that feature back for you for the low, low price of uh two extra dollars a month. They're gonna let you have more time in your life by giving you commercial breaks to get stuff done.

SPEAKER_00 36:06

Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_02 36:07

It's a feature, not a drawback. Seriously? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 36:11

Oh, I was like, I thought you meant they were selling it like that. But you know that's how they're gonna do it. Hell yeah. And I'll be like, yes, I need my commercials to be productive. One more each, maybe? Okay, one more each. Uh okay. Uh nope, that's just a mommy versus daddy. This is this is not, okay. As your kid starts, um, when Swana starts going to school and coming home with things they have to draw every day, you really get humbled because you're like, oh, I'm so proud of my kid. He wrote, What did you do all weekend every Monday? And they'd have to write, I played video games all weekend. I'm like, come on, you went to the zoo, you went to this, you and you wrote down that you played video games all weekend. So this kid shared um two things about their mom and dad, and he had to draw a picture of each. And one of them looks like a bloody person in a bed, but it is in fact, I just think, a mom and a child laying down with a red comforter, I hope. And it just says, Mommy is really nice when she tucks me in. The picture for the dad is a picture of a stone fire pizza oven and or a table with a pizza to go box on it, and the dad and the son sitting at the table. My daddy loves to eat pizza at dinner, and I do too. Which is just accurate, right? That's what the dad says.

SPEAKER_02 37:25

Accurate, but uh, my last one. This is what they showed as the thumbnail that really got me onto this art. Love that. Uh, last night, my three-year-old kicked me during a tantrum. As I tucked him in bed later, he apologized. I'll never kick you again, he said, pulling me in closer and kissing my cheek. Just do exactly what I tell you to do, and I'll never have to kick you again. Dude, my son is a mobster.

SPEAKER_00 37:50

I am telling you kids have connections with ghosts and evil spirits, and that's an example, okay? I mean, this is Lucy, right? I'm sure. If you give me this, and Lucy clenches her teeth and gets and she goes, No, mom, I'm just asking for a popsicle. I'm like, okay, Lucy.

SPEAKER_02 38:10

Oh, can we have some follow-up on popsicles? Sure. Versus ice pops. Oh my God.

SPEAKER_00 38:16

Okay, not ice pops. I see. Isn't it icy? I don't remember what the solution is, but the answer is Nick was right, okay? I don't remember even the argument. Oh, I remember, yes.

SPEAKER_02 38:27

We called in about seven people into the cramped dolly kitchen at Lake Geneva country. And I was wrong. And uh it was incredible. It was incredible.

SPEAKER_00 38:35

But I still think they're popsicles. So what what if you're lost here? I don't blame you. The discussion was are those plastic tubes with frozen ice in them. Flavored frozen ice. Flavored frozen ice, exactly like what's on a wooden stick, are they both considered popsicles? And I was like, yeah, they're the same goddamn thing, frozen flavored ice. Well, apparently everyone in the world except me thinks popsicles are on a stick and the other things are called something else. I don't even know what people call them. Ice pop, pushy ice pops. I don't fucking know. Not push, not push-ups, because that's the toilet paper tube with the orange cream in it. Yes. But what did they call them? Ice pops? Ice pops, yeah. Whatever. I don't know. They're all popsicles in my house, so a popsicle doesn't have to have a stick, okay, people. Wow, you are progressive when it comes to you are inclusive. Look at that. We don't need that stick. Whoa. You're like really, really glad you brought that up to get me all fired up about my popsicles again.

SPEAKER_02 39:36

Uh I made this chicken skillety thing this past week. I do like that. It actually says skillity thing on the outline. That was like right up Bridget's alley. On your girl thing, right? On your flat top. And I was like, hmm, I'm gonna make, you know, a quick dinner. It's gonna be yummy. We I wanted to grill some halloumi cheese. Oh yeah. Uh, which is just incredible on this thing. Oh, yeah. It's like all of the best parts of a cheese curd without it's like a cheese curd without the breading. So it's like crunchy.

SPEAKER_00 40:04

Give me the breading.

SPEAKER_02 40:05

Oh no, I think you like this. So it's like squeaky, crunchy everything.

SPEAKER_00 40:08

Yeah, I just want the crunch.

SPEAKER_02 40:10

But uh, you know, cubed up some chicken, tossed an Italian dressing, marinade some vegetables in the same thing. Quick.

SPEAKER_00 40:17

Could you put the recipe on the website and call it chicken skillity thing, please? Uh I'm sure that's Googleable.

SPEAKER_02 40:25

And I still don't think it was good. Like no matter what they came up with. Not a great it's a chicken skillety thing.

SPEAKER_00 40:30

Yep, and that's what we're gonna call it. Make sure you Google that.

SPEAKER_02 40:33

Uh but it was very delicious. And it was like, oh, corn and tomatoes and you know, like summery vegetable-y things.

SPEAKER_01 40:39

Summary vegetably chicken y skillity. It was quite yummy. It looked great. Felt healthy. It was healthy, I think. While also being delicious.

SPEAKER_02 40:48

Yeah, it was good. You know, you could do it on salad, on rice, like we did it. You could do it on couscous. Um, you could spread like a thing of hummus on the bottom, and then like, you know, scoop it up like that for if you really wanted to do like a lot of protein, no carbs. Yeah. There's a lot of things you could do.

SPEAKER_00 41:03

I want some homemade pita, is what I want from Nick in the kitchen. Okay, mine is like um a weird, but you know, we talk a lot about food.

SPEAKER_02 41:12

C cilantro on top. I could have also put dill on top.

SPEAKER_00 41:14

Who what do we call that?

SPEAKER_02 41:15

Useless useless fucking garnish. There you go. UFG. The uh cilantro was useful because it brought a acidic bite that was nice with the dish, but uh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:27

But yeah. Um, okay, so sorry. I'm placing a coffee order right now because I'm about to go on a three and a half hour drive.

SPEAKER_02 41:37

A three hour cruise.

SPEAKER_00 41:40

Uh three hour. Okay. Um, so what am I talking about here? Okay, my food. I'm I'm back, everybody. Um, this is silly, but my mother-in-law, when we go to the cottage in Michigan, there's fresh blueberries, it's great. She would let herself have a bowl of blueberries and cream as like this as a treat, right? And it always sticks in my mind, and we use this beautiful like pottery dishes that are are from this local Michigan pottery place, whatever. So I buy a pottery dish every time I'm up there. So I had the delicious peaches from our peach truck and um had some fresh blueberries. And so I was like, you know what? I need to use these. The peaches were going bad, sliced them all up, just had like, oh, I'll just eat some peaches and blueberries in a bowl. But I put it in my adorable like Michigan pottery bowl. And I was like, you know what? I don't have cream and also I don't want a bowl of cream. So I put in some Greek yogurt, vanilla, you know, vanilla Greek yogurt. I know, I know. Plain is healthier, whatever. And and it was such a silly little dish. But like I'm used to eating very unhealthy in the morning because I love to have GD children's cereal. Like, I want my cinnamon toast crunch in a bowl, okay, everybody? I know, but I love it. So it was just like beautiful fresh peaches and beautiful fresh blueberries with yogurt mixed in with like a in a beautiful little dish, which makes everything better. And it reminded me of like our time at the cottage, and it was just like the best summery breakfast. I have it's so dumb, but like I took a photo of it. That's how much I loved it. I know it was so weird, but I'm doing nothing with the photo except reminding me to tell you guys about my wonderful adult dish that I made. Sounds good. It was it was great. Sounds great. Yogurt's great. That was all. I like yogurt. I like yogurt.

SPEAKER_02 43:19

Um I guess that means it's time for kidnapper. Um I have nothing of note that's a good one. Yeah, what? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 43:28

It was just the very like normal, like What about the copious amounts of screaming yesterday at the beer event? Were you not around for that? Oh, I mean that was just because she fell and hit her. No, no, no, no, not that. The fun screaming, not the sad screaming. Oh, yeah. When all the kids were in the back of the thing going, well, they were going, cheese.

SPEAKER_02 43:48

Because Aaron was taking pictures, and so they all had to walk away.

SPEAKER_00 43:52

Every other good parent was like, This is so cute. And I was like, why are these parents screaming?

SPEAKER_02 43:56

Seven children under five all yelling cheese at the same time. It was too much. Um, goes from like, oh, you said cheese, to uh what you explained, which was screaming. Yeah. Then Simona like bonked her head and she was sad, and so I had to take her on a special adventure.

SPEAKER_00 44:14

And how was that? Oh, it was great. It was great. So no no great stories.

SPEAKER_02 44:18

I don't really. I mean, she's been pretty like we got uh some McDonald's. She uh, you know, we did uh Sunday morning Mickey D's breakfast run, like adults. Uh they didn't have soda, which was Oh yeah, BS. Uh wait, was it just broken or were they were like out of the bag? Just broken, it seemed like. Um, but she ate my sausage biscuit in addition to my hash brown and her hash brown. Yeah. Um she's a monster. But she's a monster. You know, she's a growing gal. You know, she's uh she actually did a good job eating a biscuit. She's usually not like very into the sausage biscuit, but this time she ate all of it. Well, uh yeah. Great, good one. Normal week. Normal week, normal week.

SPEAKER_00 45:05

I felt that we needed to get back to um embarrassing stories about my children. So I'm gonna tell you about pooping in an alley. Whoa. So Sunday we had a beach day. It was great, it was fun, but like we were out in the blazing sun, it was crowded for hours, and like it was time to go, right? Uh we sounds like literally it was time to go. Uh so Elliot is a boy, and it's much easier for him to like pee wherever he needs to. And no, yes, like of course we know it's illegal to pee in public, so I'm not saying that we did that, but if we did, is it? It was in an alley near a place of note in our life. So, like, whatever. It was that or he peed his pants. So sorry, everybody. Um, so you know, we let Elliot go. And then of course, Lucy had to go. And Lucy is, you know, or very early on in her potty train, you know, she's she's just potty trained like a month ago. So uh we we really gotta like listen to her when it's time to go. So she's like, while Elliot's going, I gotta go. We're like, Lucy, could you just like could you hang on? Because we know you're just doing it to be fun. No, no. She squatted down in the alley, and then as she's squatting, but I gotta poop. And we're like, Lucy, you can't poop here. Like, we are in a public, very public, very close in a very busy downtown Lake Geneva right now. But sure as shit. When Lucy has to poop, she just mostly means it's like a little fart and a tiny little turd, but she gets so excited and she pooped in an alley in the middle of the weekend in downtown Lake Geneva, and it was glorious. So proud of my little Lou. So beautiful. Whatever, she didn't shit in her pants, okay, everybody?

SPEAKER_02 46:49

And with that, with that, Nick is Nick is speechless. Thank you all for listening. It's been great. Bridget has to go.

SPEAKER_00 46:57

Yeah, I gotta go on another road trip.

SPEAKER_02 46:59

On a road trip. Yeah. And uh, I hope you have a great weekend. Thanks.

SPEAKER_00 47:03

I'm so excited. Uh I'm spending the weekend with some childhood friends, everybody. Don't fall off the boat. I won't. I'm pretty good on boats. Don't uh, I don't know. I'm the driver, in fact. So blessings to everybody else.

SPEAKER_02 47:17

Yeah, just have fun.

SPEAKER_00 47:18

Hopefully, I'll be back on Monday in one piece and not too hungover, Nick.

SPEAKER_02 47:23

Should I cancel that meeting now?

SPEAKER_00 47:25

Yeah, cancel the 10 a.m. Move it to Just kidding, I'll be fine. All right, guys, thanks for listening.

SPEAKER_03 47:30

Till bye bye.